Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 13, 1891, Page 4

THE DAII BEE. ¥ F. POSEWATER, Emron. % TN PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION Trily Pee iwithout o Yeur Duily nnd Sunday, O % Sonths Thiree Months y e, Ono Year, gty e, Ong W eokly Hoe, Ono Y OFFICF Tee Bulldin +8 Eund ar AT z‘v'-mh(‘)n gl corner N and 26th Streets. Counell Blufrs, 12 Pearl strect . Chienzo Ofee. 3.7 ¢ hamber of Commerce. Rew York, ko Wand [ Tribune Bullding Washington, 51 F nih Strect CORRESPONDENCE communientions relating to news Jal mutter should be addressed ul Dep.rtment. and A the edit Edi BUSINESS LETTERS, A1l business lotters and rerittane Ve nddressed (o The Bee Pablish nz Couipany, Omaha. Drafts, checks and postoffice ordery 10 bo made payable to the order of the com- puny The Bee Publishing Compaay, Proprictors THE BEE BUILDING. shonld - EWORN STATEMENT tute of Nebraska County of Douzlas. B, Tzschue OF CIRCULATIO! tes o. ary of Tne Ber Fublishing conpn does solomnly swear that the setuil elrenlation of Tik DALY BER Sorthe week ending December (2, 101, Was a8 follown: Ay, Doc. 6 ondiy, Dec. 7 ieaday, Dev. § Wednesday. Dee. 0 Thursdn io Friduy, Doc. 11, .. Baturdiy. Dec. 17 Ge 28,908 GEO. B TZRCITUCK Sworn to tefore me and_subseribed in my presence th s 12th day of December, A, D. 181, SEAL N. PR Notary Public. The growth of the ave dnily elreulntion of Tuk Bk for six years Is shown inhe fol- lowinz : 8| 208 Jnnuary, | 14,198 15, February . Mareh April M 18,00 19701 | A1 June July Augtist ember 13080/ of ajob. Fle has been elected presi of the Atchison Chamber of Commerce. SpeAker Crise will leave Washing- ton for a few days to take a rest. The eminent Georgian weakons early in his - new care Jupee WAaKELBY'S decision will have a tendency to discourage the cut- throat chattel mortgage business which has hitherto been especially flourishing. JAMES 1. BoyD’s remark that he was governor of Nebraska for four months when the state needed a ygovernor is about as cutting a sarcasm as that gen- tleman ever uttered. MicHAEL DAVITT refuses to stand as the McCarthyite candidate for the com- mons from Waterford. Michael does not care to be the vicuim of the knights of the black thorn shillalah even if his election be reasonably certain. THE Omaha guards maae a eallant fight to secure the national drill for Omahag, and now it is the duty of our citizens to help the boys make the occa- sion memorable. This requires enter- prise, money and co-operation. CusTOMS receipts at New York for the first ten days of December have fallen off nearly $1,000,000 as compared with the corresponding period last year. It is very ovident Mr. McKinley is mak- ing his influence felt beyond the At- lantic. Poor comfort the late ‘‘Land Bill Allen” took in the Ohio poor house over the fact that he had made many a fel- low citizen independent through the homestead law and carved a name for himself on the enduring marble of the country’s history. Ir 100K J. Sterling Morten’s con- science almost six months to get action; but a tardy conscience is botter than none. However, a conscienco that re- volts at un appropriation for an ex- hibit at the World’s fair must be ex- tremely scnsitive. TrE chief dvawback to the enjoyment of what the signal service promises shall be a delightful day is the fact that the Union Depot company is apparently dead and the railway companies con- tinue to huddle their hundreds of pas- sengers in a miserably crowded hut under the Tenth street viaduet. Wirn Willinm M. Springer at the head of the ways and means committee aad Objector Holman as chairman of that on appropriations, it is safo to pre- dict that theve will be a heavy deficit in all the departments during the coming year. These famous economisers. will whittle down appropriations to a stary- ing point. A veERY interesting debate on the silvor quostion took place in New York city a weekago ataclub dinner, between Mr. Horace White, editor of the New York Evening Post, and Sen- ator Stewart of Nevada. Mr, White's clear-cut and forcible argument aguinst the free and uniimited coinage is prosented in another column of yh1s issue of Tnr Bee It embodies an historic review of the coinage of the sllver dollar in this country, and of the relations be- twoen the twomoney motals, that carries with it convineing proof of the soundness of the position Mr, White has taken on this great question. — LINCOLN i8 making an effort to secure the National prohibition convention of 1892 No city in the union can make a stronger fight for the place if the merits of location, hotel facllities and local temperance sentiment are por- mitted to have any weight in settling the question. Lincoln is a benutiful city of 55,000 people and the capital of Ne- braska. Her roilways rench out in every direction, making the city eusily acces ble from all sections of the union. Ample hotel facilities exist and the city is acoustomed to entertaining large po- litical conventions. It should be aaded, 100, that in entertaining bandsomely the + eity is unsurpassed. Lincoln is admir- ahly adapted for a meeting place for the convention, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, . DECEMBER 13, 1891 —TWENTY POPULAR ELECTION OF Congressman Bryan's joint resolution proposing an amendment to the consti- tution of the United States that will permit the election of United States senators by a vote of the people can searcoly by d an original idon. ‘The proposed reform has been talked on the stump, discussed in po- litical conventions and agitated by news- papers for many years, The framers of our state constitution carried this idea of popular selection into effect, as far as they ware able to do, by inserting a pro- into the constitution that the voters shull ab overy election proveding the election of United States senator xpress their profocence by ballot. Phis was sixteen yoars ago, but the ave o Nebraska legislator does not care a picayune abont the expressed prefercnce of the prople after he has re- eeived his installment of annual passes from the railroad magnates and taken anoath that he would not nccopt any valuablo thing from any pavson ov cor- poration for uny vote he might cast or withhold or for any influsnce he might exort as a lawmnker, Mbyn who delib- erately violate their oaths of oftice on the vory threshold of the legislative cham b little for the preforence expressed by tho neople on the senatorial issue. Cong man Bryan is trying to trans- fer the power of electing United States senutors from the legislature to the peo- ple. There is precisely where he will striko o snag, as othor reformers have before him. His joint resolution must receive two-thirds of the votes of the house of rapresentutives and an equal proportion of votes in the United States senate, and finally must be ratified by three-fourths of the legislatures of the states, Does senate as now vote for a constitutional that will compel membersof that august hody to submit to the vrdeal of election by the people? Such u thing is not within the range of probabilities. We would sooner expect that our American house of lords would amend the constitv- tion so as to abolish th entirel and remand all itsimpe; e t to the popuiar branch of tho national legislature. Mr. Bryan’s proposed reform will af- ford him a very fine opportunity for spreud eagle speech on popular sover- eignty and senatorial discourtesy. That speach, duly franked to the robust and credulous farmars of the First district, will be more effoctive than so many puckages of Unels Jerry Rusk’s Dutch cabbage and Irish rutabaga seeds. This is doubtless all Mr. Bryan was aiming at whon he introduced the constitutional amendment resolution. conside as vision care precious expect the nstituted to amendment any sane man WHAT EVERYBODY KNOWS, Everbody in Nevraska expected Brvan would give his ardent support to Mills, But lo and behold, our incipient tariff reformer turned his back on Mills and voted from first to last for tho flexible Mr. Bill Springer. This was carcying frea trade pigs to the wrong market. Why did Bryan vote for S.ringer! Simply because Springer had promised to jump tho precocious youth from Nebraska over tho heads of older democratic members into the ways and means commit- tee.—Oxamy B On the contrary, everybody in Nebraska with enough energy to keep up with the times and enough intelligence to read the newspapers knew that Mr. Biyan would vote for his old friend, Congressman Springer, from start to finish. Everybody in Nebraska who was a supporter of Mr. Bryan at the election rejoiced that he ro- mained true to an old family friend.—Wor d- Hera d. So Mr. Bryan has mors vegard for family attachments than he has for party principles. Thav isa confession which we did not expect his organ to make at the outset of his reer as i tariff reformer. A man of convictions and lofty moral courage never sucrifices his principles for personal friendship. Think of John Bright, Richard Cob- den, Thomas JefTerson, Charle Sumner, or Ailen G. Thurman sacrific ing their individual convictions on a great political principle to family friendship. What may the Nebraska democracy expect of Mr. Bryan if he cannot detuch himself from his leading strings as an apprentice to Biil Springer and give vitality to the faith that is within him when the crucial test comes and he has to choose hetween an ambitious family friend who straddles the issue on which he was elocted, and the man who is recognized as the embodiment of that issue? — THE BURLAU OF EDUCATION. One of the smallest of the numerous bur Harvison calls *‘that complex and dim- cult department,” presided over by the secratary of the interior, is the Burenu of Fducation. The commissioner, Hon. William T, Harris, is one of the leading educators of the country, and is probably the best equipped school man in America for the duties of this office. The clerical force is small, and the work of the bureau is chiefly stutistical, though it has published several books and pumn- phlets of exceptional value to the teachers of the country, and those interested educational mat- ters, The eficiency of the bureau has been seriously impaired for wunt of funds, Being so entirvely theoretical in its in- vestigntions and the charactor of its publications largely technical, it is difii- cult to interest congress in tho really important work which this bureau should perform. The present commi sioner hus compiled with great care val- uable information regarding Ameriean eaucational history, but the lack of ap- propriations has prevented its publica- tion Tne request for $20,000 for use in publishing educational documents seems 80 modest that ivis hoped congress will not refuse the approprintion Tho buresu has threo very practical departments, however, and Secretar) Noble's report briefly refers to them. The first is the direction of a specinlist who is investigating the educational methods of other coun- tries; the the distribution of the funds specially appropriated for the endowment and support of agricalture and the mechanic arts. third Is perhaps the most branch of work allotted to the buroau, and that is education of the natives in Aluska. This fnvolves not ouly training in second is colleges of The interesting them how to speak, read and write and furth- of worl in the arts civilization, In industeinl features this branch of educational a herd of reindeer has been transported from Siberia to Ounainska, from which it is proposed to propagate these useful animals to be distributed among the na- tives for food, to take the place of the whale and walrus, driven out to the sen by w rs. In the Alaska about 2,000 children are being and the commissioner asks for #60,000 tor furthering the school work in the torvitory, and a further approprintion for introducing reindeer as a means of subsistence for the natives. As we are beginning to appreciate Alaska it is to be hoped the educational and human- itavian efforts undertaken thers may not be obstructed for want of funds. Inglish, but industries of ering the schools taught REDUCED LETTER POSTAGE, The people of the United States will atno very distant day enjoy the cheap: est, if not the most perfect, postal facili- ties in the world. It may not be ox- pedient to make a 1-cent rate for letters for several years, but the penny letter rate of postage can be made by the end of the present déenda at the farthest. The revenues of the postoftice depurt- ment are steadily 1ncreasing, the gain for lnst year amounting to over $5,000,- 000, while the postmuster general osti- mutes 4 deficiency for the year 1892 of less than $4,000,000, and for the year 1893 a surplus of receipts over expendi tuces. If this estimate should be realized the question of redueing letter postage may then be seriously considered. Of course a l-cent rate would result in again bringing about a defic for a number of years, but this would not bo an important objection to the plan when the groat benefit to the people is con- iency sic :d. The Postoffice department has never been self-sustiining, with the ex- ception of a single year, and it is not in- tended to be a source of revenuo to the The fact that it has uni- formly expended move money than it enrned has never caused any complaint, and will not in the future if such excess or expeuditure represonts advantages secured to the people from cheaper postage and more eflicient service. Phere is undoubtedly a widespread popular sentiment in favor of a veduc- tion of lotter postage, and it is protty certain to grow with the discussion of the question. but a change from the present rate will depend chiefly upon the future revenues of the service. If these should be brought up to bal- ance the expenditures two years hence, and as already observed the postmaster general estimates a surplus in 1893, and the receipts should continue for a few yearsto equal or oxceed the expendi- tures, the demand for a l-cent rate un- doubtedly would become so universal and urgent that congross would bo com- pelled to regard it. "I'he promise is that such will be the case. It is a matter of history, not to be lost sight of in consid ering this question that every de- crease in the postage rate hus been followed by & noteworthy increase in the use of postal facilities and conse- quently in the postal receipts Fhis is true of Great Britain Wa‘u as of this country. The styemont is made that mn the Unitedf gingdom, with a more illiterate populgion than that of the United States, aa itk 1ags postal car- riages, the lower rate of letter postage has resulted in a very Nutte in the postal receipts, far more than enough to compensate for the first reduction of revenues after the change in the rate. ‘The lowering of letter post- ago in this counivy from 3 to 2 cents was followed by a very large increase in the postal business. A l-cent rate for treasury, us which wmake up what President | lotters is certain to come, and probably before the close of the centur; PROGRESS OF RECIPROCITY., Perhaps the most important reciproc- ity arrangement yet effected, next to that with Spain relating to trade with Cuba and Porto Rico, is the one with Germany. Under this arrangement, vhen it shall be ratified, the beet sugar of Germany will continue to come into the United States free of duty, in consideration of which Germany will admit American grain and meats and som» other articles at a material reduction of duties. What the German government agrees to do is to plice the United States on an equal foot- ing with Austro-Hung®¥y, a member of the zollverein just formed, so far as the duties on grain are concerned, and this must be regarded as an entirve son- able as well as advantageous concession, It puts this country on the best attuina- ble commercial relations with Germany, and it would seem thut it must have the effect to bring the French government to a recognition of the expediency of re- Queing duties on American cereals. That government wust see that, having already been placed in a position of isolution so far as uropean commerce is concerned, it cannot afford to main- tain an attitude of hostility to the commerce of the United States. France has shown a friendly dis- position in removing the prohibi- tion against American pork, and she will make a great cconomic mistake if ghe does not show at least as much con- sideration for the United States as Ger many hus done. The president stated in his messnge that it wns exp: d a number of re- ciprocity arrangements now being con- sidered would be concluded be- fove the close of the goar. Since the message was completed an i ment has been effected with Costa Rico, and recently the secrotir of state has received reprosentatives of the British West Indies who are com- missioned to negotinte reciprocity vangements. There is manifest anxioty on the puart of countries whose products are affected by the reciprocity clause of the tariff law to at least enter into negotiations before Junuary 1. The law provides that “on and aftor the first day of January, 1802, whenever nd often as the president shall be satisfied that the government of ang country producing and exporting sugurs, molasses, coffee, tou, and hides, ruw or uncured, or any of such articlo imposes duti exactions products of the United States, which, in view of the fres introduction molasses, | cotteo, teu und hides into the United 50 s or othe upon the agricultural or othe of such sugar, { States, ho may doem to be recipro- cally unequal gnd unreasonable, he shall have he power, and it shall be his dRt§ to suspend, by procla- mation to that effect, the free introduc tion of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides, the produetion of such coun- try, for such tfife as ho shall deem just,” ote. When 1t7s stated that over forty countrios whoso best market is the United States Agh interested in this pro- vision of ldw® its importance can bo understopd, There has beon no intimation as to whether the president intends to act imme- diately on the opening of the new year, as the law empowers him to do. The opinion has beon oxpressed that he has no discretion in the matter, and it would seem to have necessarily heen the inten- tion of congress that countries which had not taken nd vantage of the oppor- tunity to socure reciprocity before Jan- uary 1, 1802, were to be shown no favor after that date. Otherwise the intended offect of the law would be lost, and be- sides an injustice would be done to coun- tries which have accepted reciprocity. Efforts have baen made to depreciate the value of what has been accomplished 1 this direction, bacause as yet the in- crense of trade has not been very greal with the reciprocity countries, but, how- ever small the gain, it is worth having, and no reasonable person expected re- ciprocity to immediately revolutionize the commerce of other countries. TEACHING THE LANGUAGES, John Stuart Blackie, perhaps tho ablest educator of Scotland and lately professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh, in a well written article in the New York /udopendent takes the very sensible - ground that French and German should be given the precedence in our college and university courses of study. After gcquiring French and German he advises the student to seek acquaintance with TLatin, Greek and Italian. The day has gone by when a knowledge of Latin and Greek was es- sontial, or rather indispensable, to a Liberal education. Two hundred years ago these mother tongues contained the storehouses of the knowlodgo of Euro- pean civilization. One hundred years ago without them no man could claim to be scholarly. Today, however, the lit- erature of many is perhaps equal to that of Romo anl Athens, and the viva- cious French have made their language the international vehicle of polite and diplomatic conversation. The Englishman studies French becnuse it i3 the most usefal of foreign tongues and is rich in imginative lit- erature. He studies German for the same reason thal the educated Roman of the first c:atdry studied Greek. Ger- many has prodaced the most profound thinkers of modgrn times, and the Ger man lungud perpetuates their thoughts. These masters of encylo- pedic learning'ana far-reaching specu- ion are entitlad tothe homage of the cultured people-of today, as were the ancient Greeks to thit of the Latins, Gorman and Frepch touch us so closely in these Tatterjdays ns to be well nigh indispensable. 10nly-bacause fhie living world depends upon the past ave the dead languages in any sonse essential to a liberal education. But the step from these modern tongues to the writ- ton ideas of the ancients is a short one, and the discipline of mind which comes of mustering German and French makes that of requiring Latin and Greek comparatively easy. At least the scholar who writes, speaks and thinks in three distinet but largely devivative languiges can readily con- nect the streams with the fountainhead. The average man of basiness and even of letters can use the living speech to some purpose while the dead languages ave merely a luxury. Latin may bo in- dispensable to the student of records and valuable to the lawyer; Greek is os- sentinl to the theologian and im portant to the physician and philos- opher, but Germin and French ars uso ful to all and essential to thcse who would profit by the stores of modern knowledge and enjoy the culturo which comes from travel. The venerable professor of Greek. speaking from his forty years of ripened experience, suggests to in- structors that they are disposed to use books too much in teuching languages, and ly reflects upon what he calls *‘thi e, proceeding as it does from laziness, incapacity ov ped- antry.” Prof. Binckie would make the car and the tongue instead of the eye the organs by which the brain shall comprehend the language the pupil seoks to acquive. The colloquial ele- ment must take precedenco of the gram- mar and lesson book. The cumbersome element of grammar and syntax, as in- culeated by books, should be left out of sight while facility of expression is ne- quired by bearing and talking. In five months by this natural method the pro- fessor suys a more intimate familinrity with a strange langunge can be acquired than is now acquired in five years by the methods so freqiiently employed in the schools —— ENCOURAGING 101N TALENT. The National Consevvatory of Music New York, of wHich Mvs. Jounnetto M. Thurber is président, is doing a great work for the degelopment of American musical talente,/This admirable institu- tion, in order towive an additional im- pulse to the sd¥ancement of music in the United Stytes, proposes to award prizes for the best grand or comic opera, words and musie, for the best libretto for o grand ‘ék comic opera, for the best pianepr violin concerto, and for the best symphony, suite, oratorio and cantata, en®lf und ull of these wor to bo composed or wrilten by composers and librottists born in the United States and not above 85 years of age. This is 0 most commendable plece of onterprise, and it may reasonably by ox od to demonstrate that theve veat deal of talent for sical composition this try which only neels vroper courngemen® and stimulus to duce works of the higher order t refloct credit upoa the country. not very that the often heard thut Amorica had no dram- woerthy the title, but Am managars bagan coura e writers by is mu- is coun en- pro- towill It s mg ago et wils atist of ws s00n to en ns i ne | ing their pluys wnd gonorously pay- | ing for them, the peared, and a number uchioved fame and fortune. body questions now that Americans huve a talent for dramatic writing, and theve s a chavacteristic individuality about the productions of our best pl wrights which render them peculiarly attractive and interesting. Cortainly it is not an unreasonable expectation that we shall bo able to develop a high order of ability for musical composition if the talent of our poople is ndequately encouraged and stimulated. This will be dono by such judic’ous enterpriso s that of the National Conservatory of Music, and it is thereforo a pleasure to commond its efforts in this direction, PROPOSITION FOR A SU IR FACTORY, John Koenigstein, mayor of Norfolk and a man whom persons in this city haye known favorably for fifteen years, proposes to erect a boet sugar factory of more than double the working capacity of the Oxnard plant at Norfork upon conditions which scem to be reasonable. A well known capitalist in Omaha who knows Mayor Koenigstein endovses him as reliable and able to perform any agreement into which he may enter, Assuming, therefore,that the proposition is bona fide it is well to give iv consid- eration. The proposition 15 open for competi- tion to any town ov city in Nebraska, nd it is promised that the factory shall be superior to any thus far erccted in this country. The process which is to be used will save all the saccharine matter in the beets, and therefore Mayor Koenigstein says he can guar- antee to pay $4.50 per ton for beets and also offer a premium to farmers who deliver 100 tons or move. The proposed factory will be in operation by October I, 1892, if a satisfactory bid is made for it by January 1, 1892, and if beets enough are provided he will agree to make a run of at least five mouths. One of the conditions which must bo met is a guarantee of at least 5,000 acres of beets, but the fictory will take as many more asshall be raised in its vicinity. Mr. Koenigstein says he means busi- ness, and he should be met with busi nesslike propositions. There is no ren- son why the beet sugar industry should be solely in the hands of one company If the Oxnards can profitably manufac ture sugar from Nebraska grown beets, there is every reason to balieve others cun do likewise. In view of the sur- pussing promise for the future of th important industry, any city in Ne- braska can afford to offer inducements to any person or corporation to locate i factor within its tributary territo The gentlemen who are leading the way to its development will no doubt profit by their enterprise, but the communities they select for their factories will like wise grow in wealth and will increase in population as a result of generous bo- nuses. It will be worth imillions to Ne- braska to concentrate the beet sugar business of America within her limits, dramatists ap- of them have WHEN the citizens of Omaha, through the charter committee of 1890, decided to raise the sal of the treasurer to $6,000 a year ? decreed that all the city funds shR®l be deposited in the banks on competitive bids, it was ex- pected that the various banks would bid against each other and give the city the benefit of their rivalry. But the banks have organized a pool and agreed to divide the city funds pro rata with their banking capital. They furthev agreed that no member of the pool should bid more than 2 per cent intevest for city funds. Now while the law does not prohibit such a banking pool it is manifestly an illegal combination, Omaha banfers have a right to establish a standard interest rate on running accounts, but they have no right to nutlify the law that contem- lates competition. Tho council vory properly rejected all their propositions and invited new bids. No award can be legally made for the public funds until the banking combine is dissolved. AMERICANS will never be able to ap- preciate the ofticial flummery of Great Britain, It will always appear absurd. Because a daughter of the duke of Teck has consented to marry a son of the prince of Wales the queen has concluded to ra‘se the dulte and his children to the dignity of *royal highr " They ace now simply “highn 508, B Goop illuminating oil and oil room politicians are strangers to each other. Let'Em Get Together. Cloveland Leade The New York Sun's office cat has an un- doubted right to siton Grover Cloveland's back fence and meaw all night. A Scarcity of Information. Albany Journal, We have yet to learn of a Cleveland demo- crat who s pieasod over the outcomo of yesterday's speakership contest, B t Boom. News Somo enthustastic triends of General Nolson A. Miles are uzain booming thut gallunt soldier and estimabic citizen for the presi- dency of the United States. The Miles boom 15 BOL Large but it Is pleturesque, A Pleasing Prospect, Chicagy Dter-t2+an, It does 100k ns if the bald-headed b governor ot Ta Jum of the father of “little Ruth.” Nothi plouse republicans of the Unitel Statc thun to boat David B, HILL in 1802 sholor rond would more Keep Your kiye on the Ads, Chorus « f Newspaners Chrlstruas shoppors witl do well to keep an 6y0 01 tho AULPAOLIVS adVeriisements appour- ing in our columns frow day to day. Our ad vertisors belong to the cluss of morchants who glve the groatest values for the loust amount of noney. LA Promises Will vot Burn, New ¥York Advertwer, Aluskn promlses to lay down coal faSun Francisco at o vost to the consumer of # a ton, Also steonied Polish Inventor assurcs us that he cun maaufacture » superior articio of smokeloss nnd odoriess coal at the same roa- price. These certalnly are plowsant Promises to ¢ AL UWIS Lo of y ears but, un- tortunately. promises do not Warum tho poor. executions by electrivity The strous seandal. No elvilizod community ean permit such droadful work to go on. It the Do mde swift and cortaln it locent and humane to kill our King sl wre & mon- Process cannot would b condemnod murderers by the head with ke o on New York Trinne Five exocutions by eleotricity have dewmons PAGE stratod boyond poradventure the eMolency and quickness of the new mothod of putting eriminals to deatn. and the wisdom of the au- thora of the luw of 188, which has provoked a noedless amount of unroasonable criticlsm Flectrloal oxeeution has already o a matter of course, and, as thaton Monday proves. axcites no marked dogreo of publie in- torest. Whon the law Is amended in a single particular—is it {8 Hkoly to be this winter—it wili Teave little to be desired, so lonz clety denms the execution of murderers the best method of preventing murder as 80 NABBATH TICKLERS. Harper's Bazar: “A famous that to wehiove ominence (n thit ¥ounz man <hould That's cood advice rlch man's will:" lawyor says profession a to work with u will." espeelally (C1U's & vory Dotrolt F'roe Pross FOU WOT [0 iy ahios Chicueo girl of her St “Change them consoling reply What would you do if “askod the perplexed Louis friend tor asmalier pafr,” was the Now York Horald: It getting color blind, Jess=What mukes you think so? “He pointed out alntance with a very red nose this mo; sadd ho was a greenhorn,” George must ho Philadelp) you sponk to you know hin MeCracklo—Yes: I know him. Pross: MeCorklo—Why didn't Aysmith whon we passed? Don't UNCLE JOR'S Detroit Fr Don't weigh de crap tell In do barn, AN’ frostan’ winter's come Nor don't you count yo' money toll You's got It at yo' thumb, HILOSOPH X :Uress. Don't put rolefo [0 swanpin ot u hos Nor don't you whissel at de croek Untel you gits neross, in as hoot Dow't trus' ae talky tongua too fur WId folks you dovsn’t knows Nordon't you go an. spile do | In makin' ob de douh. Don't rob Des Now in any work By promisin® tomorrow; Foret you soll what ain't'y You's got to steal or horrow Puck: “Well, congr T amafather! wGood L Boy or girl By Tove! "So exeited I forgot to ask."” own tulato me, old fellow, exas Siftinza: quite evening Maud ( Papa (soborly) monstrosity you had in the p That was riar last tuled) hat must dopend lerstundiy o the term m apa (thoughtfully)=Well, two hewgls 01 one palrof shoulders, for example. i) A CHURCHLY SCHEME %l N York Herald, A churchiy sehome has come to Which makes the worldly sta. The deacons all have jnst woke L And found no peopld the They see the opora draws woll, heater pays, to, z with the man ¥ nd just w Now. it they havi a st d ehoir T:lr ) acher th lll they prize, ey re goingz to boom these drawing oa And roundiy ndvertise. i oars .*Qvullt‘,rlhil. those wicked sheets, o godiess Sunday papers, By givinz space to reverend ids WILL burn as votive tapers, Tribulutions of W questions of precedence ar ing. ] don't inow who should go fn to (i first, Mrs. Genoral Port-Wiarden Robinson or Mrs. Deputy Fish Commissioner Jones. What onearth shall T do? T shall oven the folding r four abreust up, wshing life, very emi ven't you seen moro than one angry n do hinself?” She alwnys used to shake my hand With touch lzh as a fether; Last ntzht [ said T loved her, and She shook me altogether. New Orle: 10086 some its propell ns Pleayung here when nowor. There isa screw nship has lost Pittsburs Dispateh: [t s a great deal easfor to secure an_indorscment fora man's char- acter than for his note. e MENT TELEGRAPHS, i v > Electriffity: After the lecture the subject was warmly discussed, the genoral tenor of the remarks of the spoakers being that although zovernment control 0f telozraphs might be an excoilent thing for Euarope: countries, it was an experiment the success of which in this country would he very doubtrul, ow York Malland Express: Tuls always asure to hear the caroful 1o public tric club, Go, a8 a spoclal n- ) this city. Dr. he country as the eno and Ciicn and pro- of Tnr OMAIA wave his for believing in government tele- Mr, Rosewater hus just completod a tour of Europe. durin which he areful examimation of tho govern- mental teiesraph systems of Eugtund, Fran, Austria and Gernany. The facts and figures ho zave Iast night minde the strongest wrgu- ment In behalf of government teivzraphs we have ever heard, though Eristus Winan, of the Western Union Teiegriuph compiny, in h.s spirited discussion of the topie. cle showea that thero were two stdes to th troversy. Now Vork editor of th vaper bofc containinz ade prolonze made a vouing Post: Mr. weil known Oy ;i stric elub of this eity 1ts of N investigatio rking s in Aisi for Wr s we know, fi < e siys B imself, an purchise of the telo: by the zovernment and t 10 i branch of the post sequently, he would have be h ir nad examined the lce with perfectly fmpa In only one particuiar did ‘he admit 1t in- feriority to our own, and that was the work- inz power of the opcrators. which ho says i only half as great us that of Americuns. i tusk, thit he has 1oyes. ATCHISON GLOBULLS, Tell any man that you have a good doal to do. and he wil Lau sh at you, This lito is a joke, and the only happy onos aro those who do not earry it too far, It mukes no difforonco it amm loses his ]u-;r.’l. if e does not 10se his head, he is all right The man who can win being able to liek lots of fizhts, Every girl of 16 believes thut she has had warnii s and sins that bor lifo will be unhappy one.; Cho man who s aever fallon down holds his head so high that some day the smullest pobble fn the toad will trip hini, When a girl who 18 engugel to be married tells of ner engugement, it 1s a ory good sign thut she never wus engagod befors When o huugry lion beoomes onamored with the ehirms of a fat lamb, ho bezins to regard all othor Hons s hunzry thievos; there is 0 suggostion i this of tho Way a. mau in love feels, tho roputation of everybody, saves himse(t —_———— RAM'S HORNETS, Tmitation virtues never woar woll Life Is thrown away when it 1s not a life of love, If you set up for a growler you can always be busy. Those who have a worid full of teachers. ‘There is no munsion in heaven for the man who Is mean to his wif God Is novnlways the best known ch 1 that has the highest steepie. The only reason why children hate sormons 15 beeause they do not undorstand thom, People who blow their own horns do not al- wuys turnish good musio for ovher people. The dovil s proud of the man who nover tries to lot anybody know thut he I3 religious outside of church, 1t we only knew that we were being watohed every moment from heaven, how the {mport- ance of our lives would be maguified, will to learn find the o the HERE AND The political traditions of New England tel of a long line of stald ola charactors who wore successively elocted to places of pubiio trust uso of thele eminent rospectability and personal diznity. Later gonerations are sald o have Inheritod those starling qualitios, ana 1t has como to bo a_genora lly acceptod trath that only tho wonlthy, sodate, retirod mor- hantor the erudite and profound scholnr ean ever attaln the distinetion of & place on the board of aldermen of a woll-rogulated Now England city. This s a pretty sen- tiniont to pervado the of school toxt books, economio nowspa- pers, but it has recently been into smithervons. Councilmanto Api are not the solo product of the wild The Now York Sun may publish In editorial typo a graphic account of the Blumer-Spocht miil o Omahs, but not a word can it devoto to a recont fnel e sting of th of al- dormen THERE, vory page raviows, ote, knocke se wooly west Sutlivanosque tata m Boston toard Mayor-elect Goorzo I be fn Boston at the time meoting of boan-eating ount of tho affale state vory much enjoyod the tUnues: ho trouble between Aldermen Farmer and Loe was il wbout a smail pioce o fand whish Aldermian Farmior was fn fvor of purchas ng for park purposes. - Alderman Leo rofused to vOuo for i purchaso. saying that (t was “plece of roobery.” Alderman Farmer hotly ovjectod to this and. Fising to o quostion of o know what Alderman Bons happened ta wnd ateended the statesen. A loout that Mr Bemls on scrap. The roport ed 1o ta e i G was tho lust ard of “nldermen Al thit it wits not withdrawn he would hoid Alderman Lee to a ount. Alderman Leo suld thit he would i Alderman Fari on the floor of the cham be Injoint debatoor in any other way, The chulr- man thought there was nothing to b ained by further debate, und so it cloxed. Then Ui order which callod for the purchuse of u ploco ot land on_ Humboldt avenue passed by o vots of 10 to I, Alderman Lee voting alono. 1t was an oxelting sot-to. Mayor Alger of ¢ v back Ll word ho Iderman bridge and Mayor Bemis of Omihia, Neb., woro prosent. during part of tho sexsion. Mayor Bonils sat on the rizht of Alderman” Carruth, with Mayor Alger on the oft A woulthy physician catled yoon Tre ks yestorday to present an fdea. It was with roforence to the new city inli building. 1 Goddess of Liborty,” ne sald nding upon the apex of a fron Is dwarfc into utter insig by tho groat high towor at the Why not put the goddess on the pinnacle of tho tower wnd lot her torel Humine the whole city? 1f the cono is not of sufficiont strongth to bear the addition welght, lev it bo reconstructed. Thins of this abit. and print something about it. [ tn the ulea is worth discussing, northbound Sixteenth street motor yesterday. By her sido was child of 4 and sho carried a babo in her arms. Evidently ler pith- wiay had not been strewn with roses; lier dress was plaln, not to say shabby. Th short cloak she woro was faded and toen. 1or fice bore the furrows of caro and she could not have been a stranger tohard work. Upon finding v seat for her bright-faced littlo onvs and herself sho put her hand in the shatlow pocket of her cloak. The pocket was cupty. The other pocket was quickly examinod. Tt contained only a handkerchief. Ilor faco flushed, then turned pale. The search was repeated but avatled nothing. Conflicting emotions played thick and fast upon the poor woman's faec, but she sald nothing. Sho put A lady boarded a her hand up to hor heart and leanod against the car window, hor eves filling with toars Tho conductor entored but did not ask for her fare. o had been watching hor men- tul discomfiture B O AR 0K LOVE, Aristocratic Miss Harrls of Rutland, Ve, Marries Her Pa's Conchman. ReTrAND, Vi, Doo. 12.—Joel Benedict Harris, ozo of the rich and influential citi- z0ns of Rutland, died recently,loaving a larga property to his enildren. After s doath it was made public that his youngost daughter, Mary Garduer Harris, had mavried sccrotly her father's conchman, Jamos I, Sweenoy. Thoy were married at Sandy Hill, N. Y., by Rey. . R. Armstrong, and their marriugo had boon concealed from the relatives, in- cluding Mr. Harris. Mrs, Sweeney inherits £1060,000 from her father's estate. AS 5000 _as the marriago bocamo public tho Harris family endeavored to separato tho husband and” wife against the protests of Mrs, Sweeney. v is said_tnat an elder brothor of Mrs. Sweeney offored to pay her husband a sum of money if ke would go west and seoure a divorce. ‘To this offer, it is said, Swoeney repiied that he did not'marry Miss Harris for monoy, and that money coutd not hire im to do” such a_thing, but that if his wifo desired a separation and re quested him to get a divorce he would do so. Sweenoy has now boen accopted by his wife's famiiy, Who seom disposod 1o make tho best of the marriage, Mrs. Sweoney is a charming woman, years old, well educated and a social favor ite. Tho Harrises ure aristocratic and ox clusive, A sister of Mrs. Swoeney is mar- ried to a son of the late Samuol Bowles of Speicghicld, Mass. M. Sweenoy f3 24 years old. Demands Made by the Southern Pacific Couse the Trouble Br Paso, Tex., Doc. 12.—Tuesday ovening tho train telegraphors on the Pacific systom of the Southern Pacific road went out on a striko because the ofiicers of that system do- manded that thoy go before a notary public and subseribe to the following oath : I heraby corti onth thut T aum not now a wemberof the Orderof Raliway Telvsruphor, or of uny other telesraphic orcanizition of any Kind; nor wll 1 jo ny s order whily n the eniploy of the Southern fecombuny without the written consent of tho gonoral superintendent of the company. 'he Pacific system of the road extends from kI Paso to San Fraucisco and Ogaen. Yestorday tho road requested the Western Union Telegraph oftice nore o handlo its train dispatches, but the Westers Uniou op- orators refused to take or send any Soutuern Pacific train dispatches. The mon wero notified they would bo discharged and blac listed for such refusal, and last night most of the operators in the Westorn Union offico here walked out and touay Manaver Steolo is eudoavoring to do the work with eight men. Trainmen hero threatened to back the South- ern Pacitlc oporators in their strike, which tureatens to extend to the Santa e road, o OTHER KEVOLUTION, Salvador is Now T cine Strei New Yonk, Dec. 12.—A San Salvador dis pateh says: Tho latest news from Houduras is quite alarming. It is reported that Gen- eral Kerrencio Sierra is at the head of a rov olution against Domingo Vasoquez, governor of the province of Choluteea, Goneral Sierra hus organized an army of 1,400 men and a battlo is now reported o bo in progress between the rovolution'sts and the forces ot Governor Vasequez, Policarpo Donila has been oroclaimed pros- idont by the revolutionists. There is grout opposition in Choluteca against DProsident Leiva. who was lately clected, and of tnis op- position Donila has veon a leader. The oppo- sition claim that Leiva is a mere automaton in the hands of ex-Presidents Bograu and Barillas. aud they profess a foar that Bogran may attempt to be dictator. Prosident Ezota of San Salvador is maln- taining strict neutrality between the ocon- tonding forces, n by Interncs Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S, Gov't Report. ol Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE