Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 1, 1892, Page 4

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SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Etato of Nobraskn " County of Douglas. | B, chuck, secrotary of The BER Fublishine compiny, does solemnly swear that the actual cireulntion of THE DATLY Brg forthe week ending Junuury i, 1802, Wus us follows: Friday, | Buturday, L. 24,460 GEO. . TZSOMUCK, Sworn to tefore me and subscribed in my presence this 0th day of Jununry, A, D. 182, SEAL N, Average. A SALARY saved is ns good as a earned and a great deal better than a salary not earned. TAXEATERS must go. The people were especially emphatic upon this point last November. CONGRES:MAN HOLMAN was made chairman of the democratic congres- sional caucus to silence his objections. JouN M. THURSTON'S avowal of his candidacy for the republican nomination for the vice presidency is not accepted in Nebraska as evidence that the Union Pacific is out of politics. GOVERNOR THAYER declined to open and read Mr. Louis Heimrod’s report as oil inspectof. Perhaps before the week is over, Mr. Heimrod may be avenged for the discourtesy. OMAHA welcomes the delegates of the state assembly of the Knights of Labor. Omaha’s numerous labor organizations can be depended upon to make their visiting brethren feel at home. OMAHA'$ bank clearings for the past week show an increase of 32.4 per cent over the same week in 1891, Thus do the figures begin to vindicate the judg- ~ment of those who predicted a revival of business in 1892. () — A MEeMPHIS school teacher has intro- duced the daily newspdper into her reading classes as a text book. This school teacher is a practical person and it goes without saying that her pupils will be ready readers and well informed upon current top! UNCLE JERRY RUSK scalds the bris- tles off Dr. Billiags’ skin in the highest style of agricultural department art. Dr. Billings should have confined his an- imosity to the Bureau of Animal Indus- try. The agricultural department is entirely too much for him. “STAR Spangled Banner” sung by lusty voiced sailors from the forecastle of the Yorktown was enough to extin- guish the search light of Chili‘s staunch- est cruiser in Valparaiso harbor. The star spangled banner itself will inspire respect in that harbor henceforth. BrLount of Georgia is making more friends by patriotically sustaining the administration in the Chilian contro- versy than Breckenridge, Springer and others who are small minded enough to hope for some partisan advantage out of the circumstances connected with the sending of the ultimatum, Four years ago John M. Thurston publicly declared in Chicago that the nomination of Chauncey Depew for president would be disastrous to the party and Thurston was eminently cor- rect. But four years ago Nebraska, Michigan, Kavsas and Minnesota were not debutable states. Porhaps Mr, Thurston imagines that Jay Gould’s Union Pacific railroad attorney would be less offensive to granger republicans thun Vanderbilt's New York Central railroad president. PRINCE GEORGE will be forced into matrimony no matter how fondly he may cling to his bachelor hubits. The people of England can’t boar the thought of the duke of I'ife as prince consort. His blue blood has a strain of the stage in it, and therefore the good people of Englund are prejudiced against him. The mater- nal ancestor from whom he traces his royal lineage was a famous actress whom William IV, admired, There 15no help for it, Prince George must marry, —_— MATTA the Chilian, Gutschmidt the German and Thompson the Englishman are a trio of discomfited prevaricators. All their efforts to embroil America and Chili in warfare have failed. The un- consclonable impudence of the ex-minis- ter of war, the imprudence of the Ger- mun minister and the malicious fulse- hoods of the London 7%ies correspondent having all been exposed, these three companions in infamy arg despiseda throughout two hemispheres. —e THE chief proprietor of the World- Herald must be getting very desperate when he so far forgets all journalistic decency as to personally thraaten mem- bers of the council with the publication of alleged scandals which he cluims to have heretofore suporessed uuless they help him to vecover the official advertis- ing for this year, for which a contract has already been signed by the mayor under the resolutions of the council. This is on & par with the performances of the suppressed Kausas City scandal sheet, DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES, Nobraska learned in her recent years of misfortune that permanent prosperity cannot be expected by farmers who depend solely upon corn and wheat | Diversified crops are essential to su cessful farming and diversified indus- tries are the key to a steady income for the people of tho state at large. . There- fore it is that sugar beet growing is at- tracting wide attention among our farmers, They perceive in this a profit- able crop which may help them through a senson when corn or wheat isa failure. Likewise interest is manifested in the reports that come to us from the coun- ties where tobacco and hemp have been successfully grown. It is comparatively fow yenrs since flax was sowa extensively and even now the straw is permitted to go to waste. Tvery new crop which farmers loarn to make profitable adds to the security of their undertakings s | well as the vrofits of their labors and encouragement should be given to all associations and individuals who are in- telligently engaged in testing the rela- tive merits of crops or are aiding in the cure and prevention of diseases in farm animals, Not only so, but farmers and citizens generally owe it to themselves and the state at large to encourage the indus- tries which consume home grown raw material. This state should bs as inde- pendent as possible of all others. fvory factory established in Nebraskaemploys labor and furnishes a market, small or great, for food products. We should not despise the of small things. A manufacturer who employs two or threa men supports as many families, and if he is successful his force of employes will be incrensed as his business de- velops. The people, without expending one cent directly or indirectly for bonuses, can double the capacity of every factory in the stute within three months if they will. They can do it by pat- ronizing them. The best we can do in Nebraska we shall be forced to send away a great deal of money. We have no fuel beds, no oil regions, no timber lands and no iron mines. We must import our fire, our light, our iron and our timber. It therefore behooyes the people of the state to save for the home industi every dollar that can be expended here. The farmers,the local merchants, the me- chanics and all other classes of Nebraska izens must stand Ly each other if they expect to escape periods of distressing depression. Diversified crops on the farms and diversified industries in the towns and cities are acombination which occasional drouths cannot seriously dis- turb. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. The outlook for extensive, or even liberal, appropriations for public build- ings by the present congress is not favorable. This was clearly indicated by tife discussion in tho senate a few days ago of a'bill making an appropria- tion for a public building at Reno, Nev. In the course of the discussson Senator Allison, chairman of the committee on appropriations, remarked that if con- gress is to appropriate large sums for publfc buildings in each of the growing and prosperous cities in the western country he should have some fear that there might not be money enough in the treasury to erect all these public build- ings. and at the same time provide for other necessary expenditures in carry- ing on the great work of the govern- ment, The senator admonished the committee on public buildings and grounds that it is not wise to amplify and ealarge too rapidly the appropria~ tions for public buildings, and he prom- iserd that at some later day and ut some more opportune time, when the senate was interested in the subject, he would discuss the general question of appro- priations which can be made usefully, and some wnich he thought ought not to he made at all, showing at the same time the resources of the treasury. This is a task to which Senator Allison might, with great propriety. give his carly at- tention, in order that the country could be authoritatively informed regarding the resources of the treasury. The senate has almost uniformly been more liberal than the house in muking appropriations for public buildings, but the warning and admonition of the chairman of the senate committee on appropriations indicates that during the present congress that body will pursue n conservative course as to this line of ex- penditures. It is a sound general prop- osition that the government of tho United States should own the buildings necessary to carry on the business of every department of the government. It is probably true, as was said by a sen- ator in the discussion to which reference has been made, that of all the expendi- tures that are made by this goyernment the most defeusible are those for public buildings. Wise policy and good busi- ness management dictate that wherever the business of the government yields revenue that will wareant the ervection of a public building one should be provided. But this is a matter dependent upon the con- dition of the public treasury, and at present the resources: of the treasury demand prudence in expenditures of this class, and indeed of all classes. The outlook therefore is that congress will do little more than make provision for completing and carrying forward public buildings now in process of con- struction. Muny communities that are hoping to get something from the na- tional tremsury in this way, but which cannot show the very strongest claims, are certain to be disappointed. — TOO MANY TAX EXEMPTIONS, ‘With all the talk of economy and ve- trenchmant the new council finds it im- vossible to cut down the tax levy for the present year. And why cannot the tax levy be reduced? Simply because ut least one-tenth of the real estute iu Omaha is exempted from taxes and mil- lions of persounal property goes entirely untaxed. This wholesale exemption of lands and lots under pretense that they are church property and property of benevo- lent, charitable and educational insti- tutions, carnot be permitted much longer, The law exempts ouly the grounds and buildings actually used for religious purposes and for schools, hos- pitals, orphan asylums and other charis table institutions. Auy property not THE OMAHA DAI used for these purposes, and especially any property for which a revenue 1s de- rived, should he listed for taxation. Anything short of that is clearly a vio- lation of our revenue laws. Incidentally the council has it within its power to increase the assessment roll materially if it will enforce an honest compliance with the provisions of the charter regarding the taxation of railroad property outside of the right of way. —_— A DIRECT CHALLENGE, The action of a number of prominent Cleveland democrats of New York in publicly protesting against the call for the meeting in February of the demo- cratic state convention 1o select dele- gates to the national convention, is a di- rect challenge to the Hill-Tammany combine. The number of parsons who thus signified their revolt againsy Hill ism was not very lavge, but it was a select company and very earnest, as the resolutions attest, These declare that the action of the state committee is un- democratic and unprecedented, and that the convention cannot be fairly and truly representative of the democratic sentiment of the state. Democrats who sympathize with this vio ave therefore invited to meet and decide upon the nec- essary measures to secure the bast inter- ests of the democratic party. This meeting will be regarded with a groat deal of interest in political ircles throughout the country for the indicr tion it will give to the strength of the Cleveland forces in New York. It is to be remarked that while the democratic organs outside of that state have quite generally condemned the action of the state committee it has been approved or accepted by the most influential demo- cratic papers in New York. Thisisa pretty safe index to the situation, but still the friends of Mr. Cleveland may be able to rally in such strength s to show that he yet has aformidable fol- lowing. As to Hill and the men who obey his orders, it is not to bo doubted that they expected a revolt, and couse- quently are fully prepared to meet and overwhelm it, They knew exactly what they were doing when they called the -convention and they know equally well what will be done when the convention meets, and they are not to be turned from their plan by the chargo that their course 1s undemocratic and unprecedented. They do not acknowledge any other autherity than their own to decide what is and what 15 not democratic, and they have no vespect for precedents. Why, in- deed, have they not the same right as thoir predecessors to make a precedent? Why should Hill and Croker be ex- pected to regard any rule or practice of the past which may have been entirely expedient then but would endanger their present purpose? They have given over the state of New York to the democracy by methods that had little regurd for what is democratic or just, and they are not the men to hesitate at anything until they have played their game to the end. The revolt will amount to nothing except to intensify the antagonism and widen the breach between tha Cleveland and Hill factions in New York. It will not disturb the plans of the dominant element in the democratic party of New York. The convention called for Febru- ary 22 will meet at the appointed time and it will select a delegation to the national convention at Chieago which will be controlled by David Bennett Hill. THERE i8 a bill before the senate com- mittee on judiciary to amend the section of the revised statutes in regard to the obligations of witnesses to testify. It will be remembered that the supreme court, in its decision in the Counselman case, held that this section does nou afford adequate protection to n witness, for the reason that it is not as broad as the constitutional provision that no per- son shall be compelled in any criminal case to be witness against himself. The proposed amendment to the statute pro- vides that “*no person shull be excused from testifying in any criminal case or proceeding on the ground or for the rea- son that his testimony might tend to criminate or implicate himself; but such verson shall not be prosecuted or sub- jected to any penatty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he may thus testify: provided, that this section shall not exempt any party or witness from prosecution and punishment for- perjury commitizd in discovering or testifying as aforesaid.” This appours to be suf- ficiently comprehensive to afford the protection suggested by the supreme court as necessary to comply with the constitutional provision, and if so re- garded by congress the prompt passage of the bill is probable. Tt has been gen- erally recognized that the effect of the Counselman decision was to practically destroy the power of the interstate com- merce commission to enforce the law, and the supreme court pointed out the remedy, which the proposed amendment of the statute is intended to provide. It is therefore impo, tant that it be adopted with as little deluy as possible. — Tng World-Herald may continue to lie outrageously rogarding the ue, but the fact remains that no municipality or any other public corporation ¢an afford 10 accept u gift of real estite with a string tied 10 it. Before expending pub- lic money upon any real estate the na- tional governm :nt makes sure tho titie is either absolute in the United States or the conveyance making it absolute is executed and placed in escrow to be de- livered upon fulfilment of the required conditions on the part of the United States. This is reasonable; it is just. WHEREVER the well-auger is sunk on the federal building site, there water is fouund at the convenient depth of from thirteen to Lwenty feet. A local pump- ing station on block 86 would be u pre- caution ngainst possible injury to the machinery of the Floreuce plant of the Water Works company THE city council deserves the com- mendation of the commuuity for its act- ing administrative expensas. Capraiy JouN G. BOURKE is too brave a soldier to avoid danger coming in the line of dutv and too discrect an | whe Awericas people Wat “ they ion in wiping outsinecuresaad retrench- | | all'the nations of tho wester e | and now she is the first one 10 vek: thut | policy for the settlement of an international "I officer to violate any of the articles of war. His fi8nds in Omaha are there- fore loth to,gredit the rumor that he is to suffor theeindignity of a court-martial | at San Antap#. Sface Gonoral Crook's death Captdiff Bourke and some other gallant frontigr officers have been mili- tary orphaasobut this is their misfor- tune and not_ their crime, 1t affords no excuso for paily persecution. PLACING: av conveyance of their re- visionary intatest in the library lot in escrow to ‘B3, delivered upon the com- vletion of the library building ought certainly to entisfy the heirs of the late Byron Reed that ths city intends to keep faith with them absolutely. IT MAY bo bad manners to iook a gift horse in the mouth, but it is not bad manners to ask the donor to release the chattel mortgage against the horso ba- fore the donee takes him out of the county, Two lamps exploded in one hotel within two weaks in the city of Seward. Chief Oil Inspector Carns vesides in Seward, but it is not sarprising to learn that he never heard of the explosions. — THE Sixth ward is undoubtedly too large, but a suffering public cannot for- got that an increase of councilme means an increase of taxes without cor- responding benefits. —— DR. GAPEN is no longer commissioner of health and therefore it is entirely praciicable toadopt a set of rules for the governméent of the Board of Health. THE city council has of retrenchment and reform Board of Education should once to emulat, ot an example which the proceed at Short and Profitable, Globe-Democrat. The Chilian war was a short one, but the Washington correspondents fought nobly while it lasted. Slytiies er Out of Sight. Globé Democrat. A Cleveland paper says: *“(Give us Harri- son and Cleveland for the nominees next summer and we shall have a clean campaign on issues of policy and. principle.” We shall have Harrisun for one of the nominees, but we can’t guarantee that Clevelana shil be the other. ro New York Advertiser Mrs. Murphy 25 the type of women that is necded and a medal should by given to her, not only as a treward of merit in her own case, but as ab eBcouragement to others, Wo want more Mcs, Murphys, with thewr trusty revolver and thair determination to regulate their own movements, regardloss of the Kindly advice of burglans. e Walbol Bleeaing Kansas. i1 Atchison Globe. Jarry Simpsoni) the man I{ansas sent to Washington 19 represent her, says that “‘the people who aresp auxious to procure farm- ing lands on the,Cherokee strip have been ruined by fa¥ming in Kansas. The man compelled to let his worst enemy write his advertisements Would not be any worse off than Kansas i3, with Jerry Simpson in cox- gress. Lk o —— David and His Banquet. New York Recordsr. In spite of the molifying ahd annealing in- fluences of an admirable menu and wines fit to warm the cockles of the coldest heat there was an atmosphere of reserve, division and suspicion about the Manhatten’s much advertised eatertainment to Governor Hill. Great men of the democratic party were conspicuous by their absence and the spec- tacle of a senator of the Unitea States lobby- ing for a presidential nomination to the neglect of his sworn duties in a great crisis was not at all calcalated to float the peanut politician’s boom. —— Cowardice of a Great Party, Chicago News. Advices from Washington are to the effect that the democrats in congress will attempt to deal with the tanff guestion in a new manner. Instead of preparing a bill com- prising tariff sohedules and a free list which will show what the party desires and what it would do if i power, a resolution will be prepared and agreed upon in the democratic caucus. This resolution will be a declara- tion of certain general principles of tariff re- form rather than a definite and svecific aeclaration 1 regard to each class of manu- factured goods and raw materials, # . The plan bas the braud of cowardice and treachery on its face. Worth a Hu New York Su Chili has exercised her option, and she has chosen peuce. Our sister ropublic has tearned a lesson which she is not likely to forget for years, : The event justifies evory measura of prap. aration for war that has boen taken by the Navy department under Socrotary Tracy's energetic and far'seeing management. It is solely because we were ready for war that war was averted. Of the patriotism, wisdom and firmness of General Harrison's policy throughout the affair there is no more doubt than of the patriotic readiness of the democratic house 1o support the administration. The president, his gistinguished secretary of state and the democratic congressmen who have looked first to the honor of the flag, deservetho grat- itude of the nation. It is worth a bundred million dollars to this country to have the world understand that there is & {;g\mtrv. and a united country, behind the fla; L rt———— PEACE HALH HER VICTORY, An object lesson of 2t Senttle Telegrap) The respect for thisicountry is needed. chastisement of.Chuli would supply it. Kavsas City Journal: Uncle Sam is slow 10 fight, but witen be wakes up (o tho nceds of the occasion thé other fellow knows it. Chicago Herdld:) The incident1s not wath- out its lesson, atitd jts moral effect will bo felt in the future. T8 war is over. Let us have e £ Ciacinnati Commercial: Chili isn't quite as blusteringly watm as she was a week ago. Uncle Sam 1s° jolnething of a vaseburner imself. et Chicago Maly: sCbili's reply to the ulti- matum: I walkgenfess that I am sorry for what has occucnes, but I will add that if 1 were @ bigger wan than you I might foel differently about it,” New York Advertiser: We congratulate Chili upon her very complete, ample aud manly apology. We likewise congratulate the people of the United States upon the glorious pence whica is before us—peuce, with houor, all along the live, Chicago News: It is literally *‘peace with honor.’ The Chihan warcloud has vanisted under & sunburst of good tempoer and good sense on the little republic's part. It is double triumph—a viotory for Amecican diplomacy and a tribute to the modern detes 1a'ion of war. (Globe Demograt: Chi 1ry in the pan-Americau ¢ 10 aceept arbitration as the settled policy of isphore. disagrsement. Bosion Jouraal: This war scare has shown bave wro- i | BRUARY 1 spectabls morchant marine left and the bo- @inning of a marvellously officient navy. The prompt and comprehensive manner in which our nautical preparations have been mado reflects the utmost oredlt upon the ex- ecutivo avility of the gentlemen at the hesd of the Navy department. . NEW BOOKS. 18 List of R % to the Shelves of the Public Librarian Allen furnishes the following list of new books at the Omaha Public liorary : Arnold, ‘“Japonica,” “Seas and Lands: Ball, “My Three Score Yoars and Teu Birkmire, **Architectural Tron and Steel: Blouet (Max O'Rell), ‘A Frenchman in Ameriea:” Bolies, “Land of Lingering Suow:'' Boston Architectural Clnb, *‘Sketch Book;"" Bourget, “‘Pastels of Men;" Bourke, “On the Border with Crook:" Caine, HThe Ssapegoat:” Catherwood, “‘The Lady of Fort St. John;" Child, “The Svanish Ameri Iepublics,” “Art and _Criti [ " Clark, “Twelve Months in Peru;" “‘The Cone to the Lady and Other Poems;” Cunningham, “The Use and Abuso of Money :” Curtis “From the Kasy Chai Dante, “Divine Cemedy,” Ed. by Norton; Emily Dickensor *“Poews,” second series; Du_ Maurier, “Poter [bbotson;" Eggleston, *The Faith Doctor:” Edwards, “Pharaohs, Fellahs and Exl)lorol\‘ “Darkness and Dawn;" Fergusson, tory of Modern s of Architectur: Franzos, ‘Judith Trachtenberg;" Froude, **The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon:”’ Fullerton, “In Cairo;” Gould, *In Troubador Land;" Hardy, “‘Life and Letters of Joseph Neesmay' Henderson, ‘“‘Preludes und Studies;” Hervey, *Dark Days in Chile;" Howells, “Albany Depot,” “An Impera- tive Duty:" Hurst, “Indika, the Coun- fry and People of Indin ana Ceylon;" Imbert De Saintamand, “Mario Antoinette and The Downfall of Royalty;’ Jackson, *Life of Stonewall Jackson:' Jerome, “On the Stage and Off:” Jones, “‘Browning as a Phl phical and Religious Teachor;” Ken- nan, iberia und the Exile System:” Kip- ling, “*Beast and Man 1n India;" Kipling R., ‘'Life’s Handicape” Kirkman, “Railway Rates and Government Control;” Lafayette, ‘The Princess of Cleaves:” Loring, “A Year in Portugal:’ Lounsbury, “Studies of Chaucer;" Ludlow, A King of Tyre;" Lyon, +‘The O1d Colonial Furniture of New Kng- land;" Mackaye, “The Abbess of Port Royal and Other Studies;” McMasters, ‘‘History the Jeople of the United States MacVin 'Sixty-three Years of Anglin, Mason, ‘‘Women of the French Salon:" Mannering, “With Ax and Rope:” Merrill, +Stones for Building and Decoration;” Mil- ler, “The Woman’s Club:” Moltke, ‘“The Franco-German War;” Munro, “Homeric Grammar ;" Nornau, “The Real Japan:” Norman, M. M, L ‘A Girl in the Karpa- thians:” Oliphant, ‘‘Jerusalem, the Holy City” Ruskin, ‘‘Poems:” Schaff, Renaissance;” Shuchardt, “3chliem cavauons:” Shurz, “Life of Lincoln:"” Sidg- wick, “The Elements of Politics;” Sienkie- wicz, “The Deluge:" Stepheus, ‘‘The F'rench Revalution,” vol. II, “Story of Portugal;” Stevens, *“Through Russia on a Mustang:” W 'As We Were Saying;” Wendell, ton Mather:;”” Weyman, *“I'he Story of Francis Cludde:” Wilmot, “The Develop- ment of Navies:” Winchester, ‘‘The Swiss :'(epubllc;" Winsor, “Christopher Colum- us.” —— COMICAL SNAP SHOTS, Baltimore American: Tle backbone of the winter is more or less shaky, but the indiscreet skater only realizes how far gone it 1s when e breaks through. Ohio Btate Journal: They are spelling it Ohile instead of Caili just now. The last “i* has been knocked out by Uncle Sam. Was ‘The man who can sign o large check has writes that nre universally respecte hington Star: WHAT DID 17T? Unidentified. The Chilians give up and so We'lt not obliternte ‘em: Our own brave Benny did it with His littie uitimatum, thier and Furnisber: Ofice boy—There 1 outside who says he has @ play he on to read. anager—How is he dressod? Office boy—Oh. be Is “out of sight' hat. putent leathers and Lox-cont. Manuger—Tell him I'm not in; ho must be an amateur. sk Now York Press: “Hoisa very sick man." “Yes, but the fact that ho hangs on so long 18 fuvorable to nis recovery.” “Ithink the contrary.” He grows weaker every day and the longer he lives tho groater chintce there is of his dving,” Did Nir. ou re- rogue? fieks—You ¢ ull: but T showed down four acelets and u two speck. New York Sun: 00k stole the chumbazne Last night? “Bocause when she went to bed sho put three shovelfuls of ice in the furnuce and filled the refoigerator with coal.” hy do you think the IT'S ALL OVER. Atlanta Constitution. Now thut the war is over, All of the talk wus vain Ten thousund Georgin colonels Are marchiog home again. And the only living private Returns with looks of woe To join the living skeleton Within the 19 cent show. Chicago Tribuno: Wiille—What's a growler, i pra? PiFipa—A zrowler, sonny, s the means.of got- ting people drunk. Mother—Do be grammatical, x people drink, yon mean. the sume in the énd.” he Boston ! Gentd Well—it This worid would be Wips, if somebody would only in- ' possibly be neun us much <omervil happler, pe vent a new word that o calied profanity anc yet w as “damn.” Chicngo Tribunc: *I thonght you adver tised thnt you were selling out at cos zrowled the customer, throwing down the re- quired 25 cents for & small package of note paper. Ve, T roplied the stationer, briskly, s 1l We,_referred to our postage 8. Want any? w York Sun: “Your hotel 1s a rogular fire . 8" said u guest to the proprietor. “If that 15 U ls a vory poor irap, for 1t b never cuught fire yet,” was the reply. Dotroit Free Pres dear,” Lo sald, hust hurry. “Time ng wround in a groat ‘omo_oft.” she replied tartl o got plenty of time to ko down strect and buy i bonugt, but I don't get the bonnet jusv the sume.'" Washington Star: "1 say, Spoutlet,” said Billy Bliven, “please don't recite ‘quoth the raven nevermore’ ugain.” “Why ot “Becuuse you are gotting to e a raven manluc. Boston Courler: Remarked Ly the hands of the chronometor: “We haven't iny eyes, but we're wlways on the watch just the suine.” Blmghumton Republican: The morning is a time when most younz men forget their rising ambition. Atlanta Journal aker is busiest when heis loafing, ONLY - WOMAN, Christian Intelligencer, Ounly & womun shivering and old! “he prey of the winds aud the prey of the cold! Cheeks that are shrunken, Fyes that are sunken, Lips thut were nover o'er bold. Only i wo orsaken and poor, Asklug for aluis at the bronze ehuren door. Hark to the organ! roll upon roll! The waves of 1ts music g0 over the sou!! Siiks rustie past hor Fuster und fastor— The zrbat bell ceases Its toll. inin wou d she enter, but not for the poor, Swingeth wide open the bronze church door. ailing wlone, y 4 Muubiing a prayer for her— Giving not bread, but & stoue. Uunder rioh laces Lheir huuzhiy hearts beat, Mocking the woos of their kin'ln the street. O 0. Tatheold days 10 her the happlest lays; sw0d her; Only & won ¢ pralso: Somebody faced out the vanle of Lite Strong for her sake who wus mother and wife. Sowmebody lies with a tress of her halr Light on his heurt, where the desth shadows ares Somebody walts for her Ojpen ng the gates for ho vin it for d OHlY & WOIIAL—HOYermOr Bhe'ls doad in the snow 3t the brouze church door. 1s monoy, my ] FRANKFORT ON THE MAIN Graphio Pen Piotures of One of the Oldest Oities in Germany, BIRTHPLACE OF THE POET GOETHE Martin it ter—Exquisito Bulldings, The Home of King Charlemagne, Luther, Mayer Anselm Roth Great Rallway Ce Statues—Historie Itis diMcult to roslize that Frankfort is one of the oldest cities of Germany, for 1t is 80 assentially a modern one, with its wide, handsomo streets and buildings, its street oar service and its protty parks and gardens. It has, however, a groat age, for in the eighth century Charlemagne had a palace here, and one of the great councils thay usod to hold 1o those days took place within its walls, In tho twelfth century it becamo what was called a freo city, that is, one that held sovereign rights of its own, independont of any ruler, aud its was r jreseuted fn tho German confederation. Some of these free cities still retain many privileges - Hamburg, Lubec and Bremen, notably, but I'rankfort now belongs to the German empire. Tho first surprise at Frankfort is the superb railway station that is, with only one excaption, the bandsomest in the world, and is said to have cost §1,600,000. Frauvkfort is a groat railway ceuter, but compared with a number of the centers of rallway traffic in the United States, it strikes one us of little 1mportance, and_the wonder grows that so much money will be expepded where it is not absolutely necessary. It shows the importance that the Buropeans n&uwh to the railway service of their coun- tries. One of the first places to which one's eager curiosity takes us is the house where Goethe was born, and we see the little garden where be played us a child, and above it, the small window in the house, at which bis father used to sit and watch the boy. Frankfort has intense pride in claiming as its own this powerful genius, and one of the parks has a tino statue erected to him, while upon its grand new opera house he 1s again ropresented. Goethe spent fow of his after years in Frankfort, for his time was claimed by princes and nobles and all parts of Europe served as his home for successive vears. It will be remembered that he lived to the ripe age of 83, not dying till 1832, ot far from Goetne's home is the Roemer, the town hall roally, where the banquet used to take placo after the emperor was_elected and crowned. And, by the way, before we come to the Roemer, we stop & bIt atthe cathedral to see the chupel where all the early emperors were elocted, and to stand beforo the grand altar, on the spot where all these were crowned. At this great banquet the emperor was waitad upon by kings and princes, and in the sq:u‘e before the building an ox was roasted whole—for the peoble- and & fountain ran wine. The emperor crossed to the square upon a piece of curpet spread before him and ate a slice of the roast ox. The people were allowed to cut away the carpet ana keep the pieces as souvenirs, afterhe had walked over it, and it Is recorded that his imperial heels were in danger of being slicea off by the eager crowd. Near tho cathedral is the house formerly ocoupied by Luther, and as we-look upon its long steep roof and queer, odd little windows everywhere, the wonderful history of this man comes clearly before us as 1t never did before. We remember the young student of 22 years who by the sudden death of a fellow classmate—killed at Luther's side by a stroke of lightning—was so shocked and impressed that he sought the life in the bosom of the church, and at 24 years became a priest. We remember how his mind became unset- tled by the reuding of oneof the German philosophers, and about this time the pope at Rome offering to sell indulgences to defray the expense of builaing St. Peter's church, and this sale giving occasion to many for dis- honest and dishonorable action, Luther took this occasion to come out against the power of the pope. . How he went to Rome, it is smd, to his faith. and how he became more strongly opposed to the doctrines of the church, and fiually how he thraw off all the control of the popeand the church and married a nun who had also renounced her vows. We soe him the father of three sons, busily waging war agaiustthe powers at Rome, and occupied with s literary work—for he wrote over four tundred - books—tll his death came, He was only 63 years when he died, and the amount of work he crowded into those years is almost veyona conoeption. Ono of the other most interesting parts of Frankfort is thoold portion of the city form- * erly inhabited by the Jews. Wherever. wee fonnd city in Europo that bad pecome wealthy and crowded with the nobility and fashion, there also was to be found decline and deca; nd with all this there was suro to come the Jow, sent for in order to replenish the purses empiied by ex- travagance and idleness, Fvery advaniage was taken of the wealth he had” accumulated by ycars of frugality and purity of life, and in return he was for- bidden to own property within the city, to dwell 1o, and was obliged to live in a cer- tain section outside the walls, the gates of which section were locked at night. Thank God, those days of ignorance are gons, and today we find" all nations and all people Tree—except in one dark spot—hold- ing the places they wiuin the world with honor and distinction. Here i Frankfort, among the - mer- chaot princes, we find very many Jews, and here also we find the mag nificent home of one of the great Rothschild family, the founder of which family saved the credit of the landgrave of Hesse, and so became a power in the financial world, a power over since held by his descendants, 1o the furmer Jews quarter we visited the bumble home of Mayer Anselm IRothschiid tho founder of tho great house. 1t1s smail and obscure, but it is visited by every person that comes to Fraokfort. Young Rothschild was intendod for tho Jewish ministry, but his tastes rather in- clined to commerce, 50 his fathar placed him in a counting bho and from this he rose till the landgrave of Hesse appointed him his banker. At tho timo that Napoleou I. was sweeping all over Europe and swallowing up all the lesser powers, it came to pass that the whole fortune of the landgrave was threatened, And here we have the rare sight of loyalty and gratitude for confidence reposed in an other. By wonderful management, careful investment, and devoted laterest to his pa- trons’ affairs, the whole property and fortuue of the house wus saved and materially sug- mented. tive sons were 1eft to follow 1n th foot- steps of tneir faithful father, and the posi- tions they huve occupied in the financial world, the good they have accomplished and the uusullied name they have borne, has proved of what good stpck thoy came. The one solemn injunction their father left thom—always to work together—hes been rigialy obeyed; and when a crisis in flnan- cial affairs cos it has ever been found im- possible 1o affect the credit of the Koths- childs. Oune brother went to Londoa, one to Paris, one to Vicaua, one to Nuples, while the old strengthen sia to the Hessians who feil while defending Frankfurt when it was attacked by the French. We are on our way to a little sort of templo built by o Mr. Bethman to hold one of the finest ploces of modern statuary n the world, i This little tomple is_round, lighted froms « the tor, and ontering it we find, 10 plaster ’lnl:lhl\llefl of many of the gems of anclea a At one side hangs a heavy curtain, and a courteous attendant invites us to step inside the inclosure it screens, ‘The sight that moets our cyes almost takos away thebreath by reason of the exquisite boauty of the statue placed here. It ropre sents Ariadne upon the back of a panther. The connectien of the goddess with the panther is that the panther is ropresented as the beast upon which Baochus elected to ride, and Ariadue had been married to Bac- chus, when he found her abandoned on the 1sland Naxos. The statue is of tho most perfectly puro marble, und the figure of Ariadne is simp! exquisite. Tho whole thing turns upon a pivot, 8o that ono may enjoy it av evary anglo, And, to add to its charms, tho at tendant draws across tho window in the roof, through which the light falls upon the statue, a curtain of deep erimson, The wholo ststue 1s thus flooded with & soft, rosy light that gives to the femalo fiz ure a look uimost of life, and every daluty ourve and aelicate outline is brought out in renewed beauty. The zoological garden at Krankfort is one of the largest and finest in Europe. Among othor attractions in this garden Is the aquarium, in which are to be found, placed so that visitors can enjoy studyi them, fish of all sorts, and many specimens’ of aquatic plants, The most wonderful thing 10 see here is the jelly fish—as we call it on the coast—the lowest form of life, It is shuped something like a huge toad stool—without the stem—and it is clear and white and of the consistency of jelly. As we look at it hore in the aquarlum, we are able to distinguish tiny veins and lines aod various other marks that in no other po. we ever been able to find them. The garden has o large building devoted to the refreshmoent of the visitors, where beer, coffee and ices are served. Take it all in all, Prankfort is one of the handsomest and mostinterasting of Buropoaa cities. Mae D, Frazar, R e POSTOFFICE CLERKS. ul ixing of the Clerks in the Postoflice, Owauy, Jan. 28.-To the Editor of Tue Bre: I herewith hand you a copy of the postoftioe clorks’ classification bill lately in- troduced 1n the house by Hon. Rovert P, C. Wilson of Missour (house_bill 3,608), and tho seuate by Hon, J. F. Wilson of lowa. The postoNice clorks, the inside workors in tho postofiices, of the country aro the ouly class of government employes, in this branch of the government service whose salarios are not fixed by law. Lotter carriers and those employed in the the railway mail ser- vice havo long ago boen classified and_thoir salarics fixed by an act of congress, Lettcr carriers have also boou accorded a fifteen days’ yoarly vacation, and railway postal clorks, while their duties are very hazard ous, o not work over eight onths of tho year, leaving four months for rest and study. A postoftice clerk doos well, indeed, if he can manage to get twenty-six Stndays in tho A Congre: Salary ot est son stayed ut Frankfort We drive out past tho Friedberg gate and tho monument erected by the king of Prus year Lo hitmself. The last congress passed a bill giving us fifteen days’ yearly vacation, but failed to add tho necessary appropriation for ad ditional hep, and thus we aredeprived of a much needed rost. The civil service commission requires us to pass an examination to test our intelli- “g gence bofore entoriag tho servioe, and later, #*4 if we wish to retain our positions or be ad- vanced, we must prove our qualifications be- fore the local board of promotions. Now we ask of congress, through the inclosed bili, to arrange our salaries on a basis of equity and justice, A. M. O. The bill in question classifies .the saluries of the postoftice assistant clerks as follows: Assistant postmaster, 50 per cent of salary of postmaster; secretary 1o postmaster, where authorized, from $1,200 to $1,600 per- anoum; cashiers,§1,800 to $2,800,according to salary of postmaster; assistant cashiers, five classes, $1,200 to $1,600; . financs clerks bookkeepers and superintendents of stamp divisions, 85 per cent of postmaster’s salary ; superintendonts of mai), 45 per cent of post master's salary; assistant superintendent of mail, 80 per cent of postmaster’s salary superintendents of delivery and assistan! 45 per cent and 80 per cent respectively of posumaster’s salary; the superintendents of registry aivisions and superintendents of money order divisions to receive 40 per cent and their assistants 30 per cent of the amount of the postmaster's _salary; superintendent of carriers to receivo mot less than $,000 nor moro than $2,000, and clerks in ch arge of carrier stations $1,000 to $1,400; general foreman, $1,500:1 stampors and mail mes- sengers, three clussos, salary shall be graded in ~even hundreds of dollars from $000 to not oxcesding 8900 per annum; pressmen, messengers, watch- mon, laborers, janitors, portors, firemen, car- penters, waste paper examiners and general utility clerks, four classes, salary shail be graaed in even hundreds of dollars, from §600 o 8000 per anpum, These provisions apply to offices of the first class. In the second class ofMces tho il In‘ovhlm that assistaat postmasters shall receive 50 per cent of the salary of the post master; clerks in second class postofficos shall enter the service av $300 per annum, and shall receive an annual 1ncrease of until they attain an annual saiary of $900, except the chief clerk, who shall roceive $1,000 per annum. Thisclass shall include mailing clerks, letter distributers. disputch- ers, registry clerks, stamp clerks, money order clerks, separators, assorters, paper dis- tributers und general delivery clérks, Stamp- ors, messengers, porters, watchmen and laborers shall be graded in three classes, with salary of £500 $600 and $700 per annum. The bill provides that employes of each postoffico, except those hereinbefore namod shall be divided by the postmaster sabject to the approval of the posumaster general iuto two classes to be koown as first class clerks and second clerks. Fifty per cent of the numoer shall ba designated as lirst class 8nd 50 per cent as socoud class clorks, who shall ve rated according tothe length of ‘time in the service. First class clerks shall be aivided into five classes as follows: One- fifth shall veceive $1,400, one-fifth shall re- ceive §1,300, - one-fifth shail receive §1,200, onefifth shall receive $1,100 and one-fifth shall recelve $1,000 por aonum. All appointments 10 servico shall be made to the grade of second class clerks and no appolatment to the first closs grade shall bo made excopt by promo tion from thesecond class grade; such pro- motions to be governed by length of time in the service, No clerk shall receive a less salary after the passage of this act than ho was recelving prior thereto, No clerk shall be reduced from a higher to u lower grado alter his assignment thereto, unless unable to perform the duties conuocted with such higher grade, “The bill, if passed, will become u law July 1,92, e po for Keciprocity, MoxtaEAL, Jan, 3l.—A cablegram to the Star from the London correspondent saysi It is stated here that the negotiations for a restricled reciprocity treaty betwesn Canada and the United States are to be resumed in about a fortuieht. Newfoundland is urging upon the colonial oftice that it is very necessary that her treaty with the United States should pass the United States seuate before March 4, but the colouial office still objects to divide ‘the tra- ditional unity of its policy regarding the Auaatic fisheries. Some officials here still hope for a way out of the dificulty by a gen- eral rect treaty between the United States and all British North Ameriea. High Cuoadian suthorities here, however, do not disguise their belief that the negotlutions, if rosuwed, are bardiy lkely to succeed, Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Roal Baki Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE PEN N\ v b