Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 31, 1892, Page 4

G —————— B ———— . ROSEWATER, i iJHLlSlll‘lll JZVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dally Beo (without S ) One Year Duily and Sunduy, One Year. oo BixMonths ... ‘Thres Months. Fundny Hee, One Venr. Buturdny Bee. One Your wekly Bee, Ono Year. OF FICES The Bee Bullding. corner N nnd 20th Stroets. Ponri Stree hamber of Commerce. 2,14 and 15 Tribune Bullding teenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE All_communications reluting to news and editorinl ter should be wddressed tc the Fditorinl Department. BUSINESS LETTERS All business letters and remittances should Lo addressed to The Bee Publishing Company. Omahn. Drafts. checks and postoffice orders to be made piyable to the order of the com- pany. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors THE BER BEUILDING. o Connell By Chienso Office New York, Ro Wishington, SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Matgof Nebruskn = = %as ‘ounty of Douglas. Geo. R, Trschuck, seorotary of The BER Publishing compnny, does solemnly swear 1hat the nctual cireulation of THE DATLY Biw for the week ending Junuury 0, 1802, was as follows: Fridny, 2 aturday, Ju Avernge..... L& i, T ore me and subscrib )th day of Junuary. A. I R;!sEVA is in far more danger from famine and its resultant social evils than from foreign armies. THAT much abused Mississippi consti- tution contains one commendable sec- tion; it provides for quadriennial sessions of the legislature. WasE 'ON’S birthday has been se- lected by David Bennett Hill as the ap- propriate oceasion for trying nis little hatchet upon the Cleveland cherry tree. ThE park commission is not obliged to purchase the grounds incorporated in tho proposition voted upon by the peo- ple if public funds can be saved by buy- ing equally ns good p.operty for loss money. a CONGRESS has been in session since the first Monday in December and has not yet adopted its rules of order. This is oxplained by the fact that the Demo- crats have control of the house by an unwieldy majority. - CONGRESS probably has no constitu- tional right to legislate against the Pinkerton abuse, but public sentiment in America is with the alliance congress- men in their efforts to discover some means for its suppression. A NEW YOrRK judge has decided that a street car conductor need not change a $5 bill to collect fare. This will very materially ease the finsncial pressure on the individual who has hitherto offered a $10 bill DOUGLAS county can grow as good sugar boets as any county in Nebraska, and Omaha alone consumes as much sugar as the remainder of the state. These Lwo facts ought to weigh a good deal in working up the enterprise of beet sagar making in Omaha. A DEEP water canal from Lake Super- ior to tho Hudson river would not only cut off a long distance between Buffalo and the Atlantic ocean via the St. Luw- rence, but it would turn the whaleback vessel traffic through New York harbor. The idea is practicable, and with the Erie canal already constructed from Buffalo to the Hudson the project is ‘among the possibilities. GENERAL BeNJAMIN F. BUTLER’S autobiography hus been issued from the press and within a very fow days the persons who charged him with a certain spoon episode will wish they had never been born. General Butler kicks very hard and very effectively and the indi- viduals who have incurred his disploas- ure by misrepresentation will realize fully that ho is entirely uble to defend himself even at this late time of tife, SKCRETARY RUSK hits some organizu- tion in Nebraska a wicked blow between the eyes when he says, after raking the skin off Dr. Billings, the hog inoculator of our exveriment station: “If the state of Nebraska chooses to keep a man of this kind in such a conspicuous posi- tion, paying him $3,600 a year and callow him to expend the station’s fund, T suppose she has the power to do so, but her people cannot fail to see that this is o discredit and u disgrace which he brings upon her fair name,” — A CORRESPONDENT asks what persons in the south are under disability which would have to be removed by congress in order to enable such persons to entor the military or naval service of the gov- ernment. Section 1218 of the revised statutes provides that no person who was in the military or naval service of the confederate states shall be appointed to any position‘in the army or navy of the United States. A bill to repeal this section of the statutes is now in the house committee on military affairs. —_— DENVER has inaugurated a campaign for home patronuge, taking the Omaha plan as a basis. Council Bluffs has just organized a manufacturers’ associution devoted especially to the development of Council Bluffs manufactories. Lincoln wnd Fremont have likewise entered the deld with local associations, The good sense of the doctrine is taking root sverywhere, The home industry asso- ciation with headquarters in Omaha is & state organization. Its membership is « rapidly spreading and now includes manufacturers in Lincoln, Fremont, Be- atrice, Hastings, Kearney and Nebraska City as well as Omaha. It deserves the support of all the manufacturers in the _state. The growth of the home patron- age idea in other states makes it all the wmore essontial to the welfare of Ne- braska that we should develop our own dudustry. DEFENSE OF LAKE CITIES. There is almost as large an amount of wealth in the cities on our great lakes as there is in the seaport cities that would be objects of attack by a foreign fleet in the évent of war, and the lake cities are entirely defenseless. This matter has engaged the serious atten- tion of government officials, and a con- vention is soon to be held composed of persons interested in the better protec- Jection of the iake cities with a view 1o urging the government to take meas- ures for their defense, The Treasury dopartment is desirous of placing a num- ber of revenue cutters on the lakes, but the question is raised whether this can be done in view of the agreement with Great Britain made in 1817. This pro- vided that the Unitca States and Great Britain should each maintain on the lakes a naval force of nov more than four vessels, and it was agreed that six months’ notification from either party should be sufficient to abrogate the ar- rangement. This country has for a number of years had only one naval ves- sel on the lakes, constructed more than a third of a century ago and mounting old smooth-bore guns. Gieat Britain possesses over 100 warships able to penetrate into the upper lakes when the Canadian canals are open, and in addi- tion Canadian crafts in the lakes are prepared to be rapidly converted into warships. The solicitor of the treasuary has re- cently ruled that the treaty of 1817 with Great Britnin does not exist. He says that according to the revised statutes the treaty was abrogated by congress on February 9, 1835, and that the statutes do not show that the treaty was again onforced by act of congress. On the above date congress passed a resolution adopting and vatifying the notice which had beeh given by the president termin- ating the trenty. The State Department, however, holds that the treaty is still in force, and ina matter of vhis kind the opinion of that department must be ac- cepted as conclusive. The convention of lake men will ask congress to abro- gate the treaty, if congress shall decide that it is still in force, and to make pro- visions for the proper defense of the luke cities. Another object in view is to en- able the government to utilize the ex- tensive ship-building facilitics on the lakes for the coustruction of the new war vessels, which the sccretary of the navy is anxious todo. But the prime purpose is to secure u defensive force that wili insure ample protection for the citics which under present conditions would be at the mercy of the war ve sels thut Great Britain could without great dificulty putinto the upper lukes There is a very earnest feeling on this subjoct both in Washington and through- out the lake region, and a very strong pressuro will be brought to bear upon congress in behalf of the desired action. This feeling will be sure to be war- ranted when account is taken of the wealth of such cities as Chicago., Mil- waukee, Detroit, Toledo, Cieveland and Buffalo, and of the vast commerce of the lakes. The treaty made three- quarters of a century ago was doubtless a good arrangement for that period, and thus far the United States have ex- perienced no particular disadvantage from it, but existing conditions clenrly muke its abandonment desirable. The reasons for providing adequate protec- tion for the luke cities are hardly less cogent thun those which support the demand for the defense of the cities of the senboard, ARE RAILWAYS PUBLIC HIGHWAYS? Judges and courts make more laws than legislatures. The enactments of law-making bodies like state legislatures and congress must run the gauntlet of judicial approval before they are sure of their standing. The precedents ot the courts are more powerful than the legis: lative proceedings. Inno purticular is this more true than in the case of laws governing railroad corporations. The railway, standing midway botween pub- lic and private ownership and new to the law as well as to the world, has been a constant source of apprehension to the people and a cause of great differences of opinion to the courts. Between the two extremes of the public highway and the private conveyance, ¢ tion Jaw in these dnys has been seeking to make itself consistent and yet not hurt- ful to either party. Originally the idea provailed that railronds were public highways, Upon no other theory cun theiv right of emi- nent domain be excused. The right of eminent domain can only be asserted for the public good and in the public in- terest. The earlier decisions, therefore, held that a railroud was a public high- way and could be used by any and every person who pays toll just the same as if it were u turnpike constructed by the county for the convenience of travel- ers. The cases are rare, however, if they exist at all, where the owner of a locomotive has demunded the privilege of using a rallway track belonging to unother, The aifMiculties attendant upon the indiscriminate use of a railway track by locomotives or trains of cars be- longing to persons not connected with the corporation oporating the road have been so numerous that the literal idex of making a railyay a public highway is impracticable. Seizing upoo this fact and others involving questions of safety to the public, regularity of trains and the like, railroad companies have combatted the public highway principle immediately after exercising their privilege of eminent domain, and we regret to say the courts have baan slowly gravitating toward the doctrine insisted upon by the ratlways. Kxcept with reforence to wmaking rates, preventing discriminations, en- forcing orders for the safety of the pub- lic, and compelling rdads to provide proper facilities for transacting their business, the courts have como to deny in great measure the proposition that railways are public highways. The en- gines and cars of a counecting line ave not admitted to the use of the tracks and depot pilvileges of & given railway except under exceptional circumstances. ven & bridge across an interstate stream is held to ba the privaty p op- erty of the company constructing it, and the refusal toallow a conneciiny or rival line to use it has been upheld, In a case in Keutucky recently the OMAHA DAILY BE court went aven further toward tho pri- vate property iden, and held that though a railroad is in ome sense a public high- way it diffecs materially from a turn- pike or county road, and a demurrer to an indictment against the Nashville railroad as a publie nuisance for failing to koop its tracks in good repair was sustained by the superior court, The judge delivering the opinion, in the course of the aiscussion, held that ar one entering and traveling upon a rail- road without the. consont of the com- pany was a trespasser. One of the judges dissented, however, and held to the old ground that a railway and a turnpike or county road are alike public highways, upon which anyone has the right to travel by paying toll. The case has gone to the court of appeals, and as it involves a question of vital im- portance the opinion of the latter court will beawaited with especial interest. A HAWALL ABLE. The attempt was made by a syndicate to secure through the Fifty-first con- gress a supsidy for a cable from San Francisco to Honolulu. The effort failed of success. Funds were provided however for taking soundings and the Albatross has recently completed its survey. Fifteen years ago a line was surveyed about twenly miles south of the one selectad at this time. The new route presents many difficulties but escapes some of those encountered in the former surve Tho irregulavities discovered would have discouraged the first Atlantic cable builders, but in these days noth- ing is regarded as impossible, and hence a ravine 800 fathoms deeper than the banks on either'side, or 3,200 fathoms below the surface of the sea, is regarded merely as an inciden The shallowest point hetween California and the Sand- wich Islands is 1,200 fathoms. One mountain 1,400 fathoms and another 700 fathoms high were discovered and the mean depth is 2,000 f.thoms or more than twoand one-half miles. The cable may not be laid for years, but the pre- liminary surveys show that it is prac- ticable, though it will be enormously expensive. Honolulu is reasonably cer- tain some time to be the midway tolegraph station between. America, Australia and Asia. THE DUTY ON ART. Tt is stated that the committee on ways and means will pay no attention to the demand for a repeal of the duty on works of art. It will be remembered that the original McKinley bill, as passed by the house, put works of art on the free list, but the senate insisted upon retaining a duty, and it was finally decided to make the duty one-half the amount that was fixed by the tariff actof 1883. Those who had interested themselves in the cause of free art were vory greatly disap- pointed at the course of the senate, be- cause they had received every assurance that their cause was safe in that body. They were not _altogether discouraged, however, for something had been gained in the reduction of the duty, and they have since kept up the contest. But it seems that the cause is doomed to an- other defeat, and vhat for at least two years longer this enlightened country will continue to derive a partof its revenue, though a very insignificant part, from the ax on art. The remarkable fact about this matter is that no one advocates the duty who hasany genuine interest in art. Ameri- can artists do not ask for this sort of protection. On the contrary they are, with hardly a respectable exception, opposed to it. About the only thing to be said in bebalf of the duty is that it keeps out a flood of spurious paintings which would otherwise be offered for sale in this country. for importers will not pay duties on cheap paintings labeled with the names of celebrated artists, But obviously this argument is not a satisfactory justification of the tax. So far as the revenue derived from the duty is concerned, it is so small as not to be worth considering. It does not pay the ordinary expeases of the gov- ernment for one day. If, therefore, the duty is not necessary us u protection to American art and is of no consequence as a source of revenue, what is its de- fense or justification? The duty on art is a reproach to the country. The United States are alono among the enlightened and progressive nations in imposing such a tax, and as to none of them are there hetter reasons for encouraging the introduction of - art us & means of popular culture. The agi- tation for free art will be continued until that reform in the tariff shall have been attained. THE IN LOUISIANA. Probably no local election in the union hasawakened greater interest than the contest in Louisiana which is to de- termine the fate of the Louisiana lot- tery. The proposed constitutional amendment giving the lottery company an exclusive franchise to do business for uwenty-five years is the paramount issue of the campaign. Everything else sinks into insignificance. Party affiliations and principles have no weight whatever, because of this single question. A tempting bribe is held out to the voters ut large by the Lottery company. It agrees, if the amendment is carried to pay into the state treusury, $1,250,000 annually or 831,250,000 during the term of the proposed charter, In other words it offers practically to pay ths expenses of the state government for a quarter of a century if it can be given a monopoly of legulized gambling. The best element of the population of Louisinna spurns the bribe. The church influence of the stite, and to their honor let it be said, the labor urganizations, are unitedly arrayed against the amend- ment, The churches of the nation are also aroused upon the subject and are giving moral- assistance to the oppon- ents of the amendment. Cardinal Gib- bons for the Catholic church has pub- liely and officirlly condemned the lottery seheme and urges the faithful of his great denomination to crush the great ovil. But the lottery is backed by immensa wealth. [ts annual receipts arve $40,000,- | 000 and not over half of this imwmense sum is redistiibuted in prizes. It bas practically owned and tervorized Louis- inna hitherto and it recognizes the t that this is a life or death struggle All E the newspap: one and near are fighting fo dozing, briber, practice knov f New Orleans except I'the banks of that city the amendment. Bull- and every nefarious to unserupulons gamb- lers ave relicdfipon to y the day for the lottery. A7The negroes of the state will probably settle the question. If they are cofemd, purchased or bull- dozed into favoring it, the Louisinun lottery will ber{fastened upon America for another twegt AGAINST ANTIOPTIC GISLATION, The national Board of Trade, in ses- sion at Waoshington the past weel adopted a resolution against the anti- option bills that have been introduced in congross. The board is composed of delegates from some fourteen hundred commercial bodies, 8o that its action must be presumed to represent the consensus of intelligent opinion in those organizations. It is therefore likely to have a decided influence upon congress, The board admitted that there are evils resulting from excessive trading in agricultural and other products, and that something should be done to re- strict such trading within legitimate limits, but it offered no suggestion as to how this might be done. Itis very easy to deprecate proposed methods for remedying obyvious and admitted evils, but when this is done without offering anything else the objection carries far less force than it otherwise would. In- terference with legitimate commercial transactions or with established methods of business men is certainly not to be desired, but there is a class of trans- actions admittedly not legitimate which it is bolieved to be practicable to put a stop to by legislation, and if there is a better way of doing this than is proposed in the measures which the national Board of Trade deprecate it would ap- pear to be within the functions of that body to have presented it. A very large majority of the producers of this country believe that speculation in the products of agriculture ia inimi- cal to their interests. They are fully persuaded that dealings in ‘“‘options’ and “‘futures” are productive of evils which chiefly fall upon them. A great many other people are of the opinion that transactions of this character are demoralizing. The producers demand legislation that will do away with this sort of speculation, and it is not a sutis- factory answer to that demand to say that there must be no interferance with the freedom of commercial transactions and the established methods of business men. This is simply an evusion, and a practical body like the National Board of Trade ought tp have submittea some- thing more to the purpose on a subject of so much impattance. Having admit- ted the existence of evils, it should have pointed out a Wiy to remedy them. The house committee on agriculture will take up the™ anti-option bills that have been referred to it on Wodnesday next, aud it is pgpposed to heur all par- ties interested ifl \these measures for one week. This will give a fair opportunity to both sides tg present their views and ought to enablp the (committes to get a very thorough understanding of the OLD AGE AND POVERTY. Many people regard poverty as a sort of disense which shortens life. Others naturally enough think wealth with its comforts, luxuries, medical attendance and refined sanitary appliances would promote ~longevity. The facts are ugainst both these theories. The statis- tics gathered for the census of 1890 re- veal the contrary. There were 73,045 persons in the almshouses of the United States in 1890. Of this number 12,643 are from 60 to 69 years old; 11,148 from 70 to 79; 4,961 from 80 to 89; 271 from 90 to 99; and 156 are over 100 years of age. The number who have passed the age of G0 years is 29,679, or more than 40 per cent of the entire almshouse population of the country. The average age of the paupers of the United States is 51. years. It is probable, of course, that there are few centenarians, although those reported as such are persons of very advanced age. In most cases they are ignorant negroes who guess at their ages. These do not effect the general result,however. If they were thrown out ontirely or added to the totals for young paupers the average of very old paupers would still be remarkable. It is noted in this connection,too, that the majority of tho aged paupers are males. In fact, except from infancy to 30 years the females are in the minority. Between the ages of 50 and 40 the sexes are about equally represented in alms- houses and below the age of 30 the ex- cess is slightly on the feminine side of the record. This will strikoe the reader as rather remarkable when it 1s remem- bered that fow women have earned their own living until compuratively recent years, while men are generally expected to have laid by a store for old age. Whether this is due to the greater ten- derness of men for mothers and sisters or the greater skill of the women in meeting emergéicies and living upon small earningsiis not disclosed, The fact, however, Atsfues strongly for homes for the unfortwdite old people whose mental facultiesnee but slightly impaived where they may li.ml the comforts which age demands andavoid the humiliations of the almshousegwhere all ages und all conditions ure ‘iufdiseriminately herded together; and ghe sweelfaced, intelli- gent mother obaenerable father must eat, sit and slefip'in the midst of squalor, imbecility and wickedness. Tig Chilisn wir deprived nobody of sleep outside obthe vitrate beds. —_— Crey ATTORNEY CONNELL should in- stitute proceedings tocompel the World Publishing company, proprievor of the World-Harald, to disgorge the $2,363 overcharges which it has been paid out of the city treasury for official adver- tising. Under the contract of 1800 the { World Publishing company was bound to continue the city's advertising at a fixed rate for an indefinite period, By a most audacious conspiracy against the taxpayers the rate for 1801 was raised nearly #00 per cent. Although t swindle was perpetrated under legal | forms it was manifostly void becauso it was nothing more nor less than a down- right steal, and the courts would so de- cree, Stowr City Journal. When money is good there will generally be plenty of it. UL S BRREN He Doesn't Rosemble Grover. Stonr City Jowrnal. Benjamin Harrison is as big in mental capacity as he is small in stature. ot s The Chieago Tiger, Rather, Chicago Post. A Neuraska county treasurer has bocome a defauiter through the vagaries of Chicago cotn—corn in its solid state, too, not the liquid article, - The Collapsed Clan New York Sun, According to all the indications Boss Cleve- land is beaten, so badly that he will hardly peep again except in the wild gasoings of aaipose despair. ant. - Pouce With Philadelphia Ledg Tho presidout’s policy has apparently cleared tho wuy for an amicable, honorable sottlement of the controversy between this country and Chill, and the gencral hope will be that the way will be made smooth and easy 1o the end of such peaccful settioment of it. Hitting the the Head, Chicago Times. The far west will furnish the golden nail with whichh to complete the woman's build- ing, and Mrs, Potter Palmer has agreed to lot the woren of Nebraska furnish the ham- mer. But she yields nothing of her heroic purpose to supply herself the finger-nail to be sacrificed. Hns Been So a Long Time, Tekamah Buwrtonian. The report published by tho Omaha World- Herald ragarding the finding of Sloan frozen to death was a fake, Telegrams from the loculity where it was claimea Sloan was found say that there was nothing in it at all. The World-Herald 1s getting to be a no- torious fake factory. s ggiati Drew First ood, New York World. The disputed question of the ability of womau to solve dificult probloms of life and conduct is partly cieared up by the case of Mrs. Murphy of Omaha, who, finding a bur- glarin her room, promptly puttwo bullets into him. A testimonial of some kind in recognition of hor public service would be not improper. But Mrs, Murphy is probably satisfied with the consciousness that she did not lose her valuables, and that she is not ikely to be troubled by burglars in the fu- ture. —— Applauding Herolsm. - New York Tribune, It required courage of no ordinary kind to induce a man to leap into tho icy waters of the East rivor on such a day as vesterday 1 order to save thelife of a fellow creature, That was what John Carlin, the cook of the steamboat Muvicipal, did withouta moment’s thought for himself when he saw a woman on the polut of drowning. He madea gal lant effort to save her; and though he failea, tho same credit is due him as if he had suc- ceeded. It was an act of genuine heroism, such as is all Loo rare in _these prosaic times. We take off our hat to John Carlin, cook of tho steamboat Municipal. Freo Pass Abuses, Boston Advertiser, The question will bo asked, and rightly, why should members of the legislature be rofused the right to travel on froe passes, while judges of the courts, members of the goverror’s council, county commissioners, heads of state departments, etc., are allowed that privitege. Ihe answer is that the first thing to do, if this be an evil, is for the legislature fo correct itself, and then without much delay the rest will follow. ‘The evil of free passes lics in tho very essenco thata corporation enjoying a public franchise | ought not be allowed to favor any individual J over another. If this preliminary step is taken, almost surely a move will follow quickly against any free transportation for any public officials, and, then, for any indi- viduals. e AMONG THE FUN MAKERS. Motto for an undertaker: “You kick the bucket; wedo the rest.” Philado Department o ean bo grown in time under t Hu O, luttuce be joyful come. Experiments In th turs show that lett, sird less than tho asuui ace of the slectric (ght. for the salud days 10 er's Circular: Younz Jewoler—I've sted iy business. ran, wild and fafied. 'm guing w reform. Ul marey and set- tle dows Old Jeweier (a crediton—Don't you think you had botter settlo up first? Sonervill Journul: This I8 the only season of the year, the women think., when me should Do aliowed 0 sioke on the Uiree r Seats of the open cars. BTHUCK A LAY STREAK. Chicayo Times, The poet wrote tn lotty stratn Of earth’s ignobie strife— sinee nono would buy his vorse, bt win | and hope, ULtilat lust Datroit | Pl stoppe What d Who was shop- and inguired reduction' LT Custonieis are ex- U AUsE" Wita Lhe sy e roply coneindi well that She spontaneousiy ="t s only beginaing.' Oil City Blizzird: Ui nitiful 1o note the anner i which some people. with none of the spiric of wirth ingheir soul, indul foreed lnugh. A grinlieial spsi, a dry e | and e hollaw uiveiery s ov Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S, Gov't Report. ol Baking Powder ABSCLUTELY PURE New York 1 1: Penni 1% | S that wiil live e In o | HASLOSTITS DEATH-LIKE GRIP Desporate Struggle Made by the World- Herald to Hold the Oity Advertising. THREATENING AND CLUBBING COUNCILMEN Expose of the Reprehensible Methods Em- His ContractHow He The desperate efforts of the World-Herald to retain the contract for city advertising at 8 rato higher than that namod in the con- tract just made with Tk Bee is exoiting un- favorablo comment among all those who know the facts, Eacly in November Managor Berkley came to Tue Bre with a proposition to pool ssues. He offered to make a compact with Tur Bee to divide the city and county advertising without competition, so that the two papers might secure any rato agreed upon by them. This offer was very promptly and peremp- torily declined by the business manager of Tue Bre, ‘When Comptroller Goodrich was directod to advertise for proposals the notice was in- serted in the World-Herald with other ofi- cial advertising, and when the day came for, the pids to bo opened the World-Herald, it was found, had failed to bid. Thereupon tha old council daclined to open Tur B bid and ordered a readvertisement for proposals. The second notice was in- serted by Mr. Goodrich in the World-Herald with the same result. Only one bLid was re- ceived—that of Tire Ber, 1t was patent that the World-Herald had some schieme on hand to hold the city advertising at all hazards, by claiming that there wus no competition inasmuck as there aro but two papers that can bid legally anl when one withholds its bid competition would, the World-Herald figured, be proveuted. The old council was not very friendly to Tue Beg, nor was ex- City Attorney Poppleton, who gave an extra judicial opinion that the morning edition of Tue Bre was not eligible undor the law which provides that the oficial paper must have 2,000 circulation. On top of this the World-Herala péople at the last meeting of tho retiring council put upon the desk of euch councilman n typowritten letter, in which it was claimed that its contract for 1891 numed a rate only a trifle higher than that given in the bid of Tux Brk, and that Tur Bee's morning circulation was much loss than the evening circulution of the World-Herald. It will be remembered that when the char- ter fight was before the legislature three or four years ugo, when the present clause re- specting city advertising was iuserted, the World, the old Herald and the detunct Re- publican all three combined to exclude anv reference in the charter to city circulation of the ofticial organ. They railroaded a clause through, making it mandatory upon the ;mmcil to let the contract to the lowest bid- or. Three weeks of January elapsed bofore the new council took the matter in hand, and that of course gave the World-Herald that much of an extension. A week ago last Tuesday the council awarded the contract to Tre Beg, with a condition that made it op- tional to use either torning or evening edi- tion, or both, at the same rates. Then Mr. Hitcheock applied to Judge Keysor for an injunction. The judge had been his private attorney before his election and Hitchcock expected to have it all his own way. Bat the judge sustained bim only in part. He decided that T'ue MorNiNG Bee, which has had 13,000 sirculation during the year 1891, was eligible. Bnt be ruled that the optional feature must be stricken out of the contract. Thereupon the council last Tuesday passed the following resolution : Resolved. Tnat the bid of THE Bk Publish- ing comy for the official advertising for the year I8 reby accepted, and that the mayor be and is hereby directed to enter into a contract under the conditions of said bid. The contract was duly signed the next day and placed on file in the city clerk’s office, with the mayor's certificate therato, But likethe hungry do after a bone, Hitch- cock made another desperate effort to hold his grip upon the city advertising. With the sublime gall that has characterized him throughout he sent another communication to the council offering to reduce his contrace price to that at which the con:tract haa been But his communication was d on file. Then came a recu- lar razzle-dazzle all along the line. Hitch- cock bezan to wuse his club which everybody knows has been used at various times upon merchants who were not inclined to patronize the fake factory. He met one councilman and threatened him with due vengeance by publishing a rebash of an attack made upon the councilman fifteen years ago ana long ago exploded. Other councilmen were bulldozed and the whole force of the fake factory was turned loose unon democratic and republican councilmen, who were urged to reopen the whole matter and order mew proposals. This move, of course, was nothing more nor less than a ruse for further delay, notwithstunding the fact that the World-Herald bas had the advortis. ing one month boyond the term of its 181 contract, 5 Some members of the council are very in- dignant and disgusted by reason of Hitch cock,s importuning and bulldozing tactics. They say the churter makes their duty plain and that they have no option in the matter; thoy voted to accept the lowest bid and in 218 BROWN £, W, Corner 15th and Douglas Sts. They're all - Left Belhind-- | It is the absolute i i ¢ ;)(\ (VRN A are the recognized le daing so they saved monoy to the taxpavers by reducing the contract prive of 1801 from 15 to 25 por cent. he city attornoy holds that the contract having been signed and the official paper having been declared by the council through tho resolution cited above, directing the mayor to make the contract, all conditions have been complied with and all that is loft for tho council to do is to examine and ap prove the bond that accompsnics the con wract. - EDUCATION AL, At least 400 students at Yalo have been afilicted with tho grip during the past weok and attendance at recitations has been ex- tremely irroguiar. Prof. Aicks, assistant professor of political economy at the University of Michigan, has boen electod to a full professorship in the University of Missouri, ‘The alumni of Phillips Andover academy, who started six months ago to_raise a fund of £500,000 to re-endow the school, have al ready pledges for #6,000, The recent aevate botween the Harvard and Yalo debating unions has oxcitea great interest both in college and out and it is be- lieved will result in great good. The recent bequest of 300,000 from Mrs, Stuart of New York makes the Princeton Theological sominary the richest Presbyte- rian sominary in the country. The two most signiticunt departures of col- lege lifa mude during the past yoar were tho establishment of a course of domestic science at Wollesley and the investigations of and lectures on the same subject by Lucy Salmon of Vassar, ‘T'he annual report of the superintendent of public schools in Washington City shows & total enrollment of 83,88 ; 230 white and 14,147 colored. The average daily attendance i8 20,101, Thero are 530 white and 265 colored teachers. During tho year $540,513.09 was paid_1n salaries to teachers and supervisors, for janitor service, library in tho world is that at is, which contains upward of 2,000,000 printed books and 160,000 manuscripts. Be. | tween the imperial libeary at St. Petersburg and the British museum there is not much differcace, In the British museum thers are about 1,500,000 volumes. The royal library of Munich has now something over 900,000, but this includes many pamphiets. Miss Conway, principal of the Conway in- stituto in Memphis, has introduced the aally newspapor us a text book 1n her classes. All the leading journals are on file in_the schoot library, ana though at first Miss Conway cut all offensive matter from the papers, the young ladies now open the vaper in class just as it comes from the press, veing influ- onced by *he teachor's taste and judgment in their selection of matter. Miss Couway's idea is that the cultivation of a literary tasto should include papers as well as books. The size and importance of the student colony in Baltimore have become more no- ticeable this winter, as many of the students have taken to wearmg distinctive caps which denote the institutions they attend. With such head coverings and piles of books under their arms they form striking groups on the streots. The city is becoming more | and more of a university town every vear. At present it is the undisputed educattonal center of the south. Most of Johns Hopkins university students como from below Mason ana Dixon’s line, and the growing library of southern publications and manuscripts will surely attract moro of them in the future. Batween 90,000 und 100,000 students of all ages are in Baltimore schools. " 2 el ) SNAP SHOTS AT CHILL. Philadelphia Enquirer: Thero is a flavor of Chile sauce in that correspondence. Philadelphia Press: Presidont Hatrison continues to. be ‘‘persona grata’ to the Amer- ican nation. New York Advertiser: Letus bo strat- egic. We might continue the correspond- ence until the cable-tolls cripple the finances of Chili and leave her helpless at our feot. Now York Advertiser: After Chill has anologized to the American people, Prosident Harrison should remove his grandfather's batand confess to us that ne was a trifle pep- vory himself. Chicago Post: The low, moaning, sobbing sound which is sweeping ‘over the country just now is not a scismio disturbance—it is the relieved sigh of Secretary Blawe uttered when Chili accepted the ultimatum. Cincinnati Commorcial: It Is possible that the Chiliun authorities got some courago from comments by OUr MUEWUmP press, im- agming that they represented a considerablo sentiment in this country. Jf s0, it was & groat wistake. Somerville Journal. They sit before the open grate, Filied with its mass of glowing coal. The night is cold; the hour is late; Soon will the hour of midnight toll. | He shakes tho popper o'er tho firs, { __Unheeding how the hours pass, While in the dish she holds still higher He piles tho bursting milk-whito mass. The midnight bell rings out at last, Ho starts, and murmurs, **I must go.” She blushes, while her heart beats fast, Of course ‘she cannot tell him “No." At the hall door the pause awhilo, Talking the best of languages, Until at last, with a half smile, “What aro you thinking, Katef” he said. His question her face in flames. She stwrts to speak, then quickly stops. “Please Kate,” ho says: and sho exclaims, +1 do like snything that pops!” NG, KING satisfaction we give — with every transac- tion that has been as much the means of leaving all our competitors behind as the fact that we aders in high quality clothing at satisfactory prices. Our special Januaty sales have mensely as to bright during the month of February we propose to clear out the remainder of our winter goods, if prices will they will. down. Genuine barg Browning, Quen Saturlays till 19 p. m. Other eventugs till Suits, Overcoats, Underwear, ete, for men and boys will be cut right encouraged us im- prospects for '92, and do it, and we think ains all over the store, King & Co Cor. 15th and Douglas Sts'