Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 11, 1894, Page 12

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What a shocking disregard for the de- mands of senatorial courtesy is manifested in Senator Peffer’s resolution calling for an in- quiry into those senatorial sugar deals! It is to be hoped that the visiting city school superintendents will take home with them a favorable impression both of Omaha’s schools and of Omaha's hospitality. Omaha takes no little pride in both. Read the announcement of the Century war book in this issue of The Bee. It will tell you how to secure the best series of war papers that has yet appeared in any language and in any country. It 18 now proposed that in future issues o postage stamps the size of the stamp be made to vary proportionately to the denoms ination. People who lick one 10-cent stamp instead of ten 1-cent stamps would not coms plaln of falling to get their money’s worth. The city s still paying rent for the quar- tors of the public library, while at the same time It is paying interest on the money in- vested In the new library building. Moving day fs fast approaching, but the signs of moving are not yet visible at the public library. Admiral Benham'’s persistency in remain- ing within the harbor of Rio Janeiro in spite of the danger threatening from the yellow fever outbreak cannot but redound to his credit. The United States has good reason to place confidence in its naval com- mander’s devotion to duty. Don't neglect the opportunity offered by The Bee to secure the great Century war book in portfolio form. The illustrations in this book are unequaled, even in the most expensive historles of the civil war. It is a rare chance to be allowed to obtain them in connection with The Bee coupons. The people of England have not yet begun to appreciate the significance of the epochs making events which they have witnessed during the past ten days. When they read about the retirement of Gladstone in the historles of the future they will wonder that they were so little disturbed by it at the time. —_——— ‘We notice that our friend Allen Root has gone Into court to seek a little judicial as- sistanco In straightening out a transaction in which he and his partner in a stock com- mission business have been Involved. Is this the same Allen Root who has been pos- ing as an unsophisticated farmer these many years? How can a devoted populist con- sistently sell other people’s live stock on a margin? According to the latest estimates the amended tarift bill will produce $484,000,000 annually, as against $454,000,000 annually pro- duced by the McKinley bill. The platform of the democracy In the senate seems to have been amended so as to read: We favor a tarift for surplus only. This Is about as far grom the “for revenue only standard as Is the for deficiency only platform of the house democrats. Isn't that bill for the loan of $1,000,000 by the United States to be applied to the support of a college for the education of the daughters of the war of the rebellion veter- ans a trifle late in making its appearance? The veterans' daughters ol school age were much more plentiful a decade or 50 ago than they now are, although a census of thelr agos might fail to reveal a single one who is not still in her teens. Young men who wish to rise in politics are admonished by the New York Sun to avold the journalist’s business, because very few editors ever gofselected or appointed to any great office in this country. The young man who wants to rise in politics wants to be- come a lawyer. There are mulitudes of offices to which the lawyers have secured a vested right, and they come in for a falr share of the others to which a layman is eligible but seldom chosen. Kditors, per- haps, do better than aspirants of some other ocoupations, but a scant law practice offers the greatest leisure to dabble in politi Governor Flower of New York is cortainly to bo recommended for his prompt order that no pains should be spared to bring the gullty ones In the Troy affair speedily to Justice. The governor has steadfastly re- tused to interfere In behalf of any of the Influential prisoners who have recently been sonvioted of practicing election frauds in New York City and In Brooklyn. His motive for so dolng s to most people im- material. The exemple set by these Instances, where pdlitical pull has been unavailing to the offender, must have a wholesome effect upon overzealous partisans in many eloctions 1o comer TO PERPETUATE THE The American Bell Telephone company Is asking the of Massachusetts to increase its capital stock from $£20,000,000 to $50,000,000. T MONOPOL Y. legislature my In presenting the the le ex-Governor g ment designed to show Inere: of capital stock asked for, palating it with an adroit appeal to self-interest. He sald the business of the corporation was con stantly increasing and this growth benefited Massachusetts, The corporation I8 now pay- ing $150,000 a yoar to the state In taxes and this would largely increased it it allowed the additional capital stock asked for. Figures showing what th pany had expended in extending its busi- » to a very 16 enablo the ¢ ny to extend its business to a committee of ol tor plausible gisiature the o th argu for the made a the necossity be wa were presented 8, amounting in the aggrega large sum, but the amount of the company’s profits was not stated In this way. Tt was merely remarked that it has been paying in the neighborhood of 16 per cent dividends, which would be about $3,000,000 annually, while as a matter of fact the profits are un- doubtedly not less than double this amount yoarly and probably e to half the capital ek vernor Long said that the stock of the corporation is now worth 170, it it were allowed to its capital stock as req s that the public would feel certain of its , the stock would be worth on the market 300 per cent What a splendid thing this would be for the already wealthy stockholders in the com- pany, who as soon as the legislature author- ized the increase would have 130 per cent added to the market value of their stock. Could there be a cooler or bolder scheme for making money by legislative enactment. The company’s counsel concluded his statement, which had of course been very carefully pre- pared, with the threat that if the legislature refused the petition the company would not stop, but would leave Massachusetts and go to a state where it could se Its cap- ital stock to an unlimited extent. The legis- lature, it is pretty safe to say, will decide to let the company remain in Massachusetts, whero it has been able thus far to secure everything it asked. The real object of the American Bell Telephone company in asking that its capital stock be increased 150 per cent Is to be pre- pared to crush out any competition that may arise. The company was incorporated in 1880 with a capltal stock of $10,000,000, and being secure in its patents against com- petition it went on for nine years with that capital. Then it asked to have its capital stock doubled and this was allowed by the legislature, the company being still safe under its patents against competition. With this capital it has established tele- phone service wherever there is demand for it. Why should it now, only five years since 1t received permission to Increase its capital $10,000,000, come forward with a petition asking for an increase of three times that amount, when the field still to be cov- ered is far less than that occupled? The shrowd attorney of the company says it is because it would be idle to ask for this sum in installments, one-third now and the other two-thirds four and elght years hence, and that the wise thing to do 1s to give it in a lump at once. This argument will not de- ceive anybody. The Bell Telephone com- pany does not need any such increase of capital stock at this time as it asks for to enable it to extend ‘its business, but it may need it, or at any rate it would be very con- venient to have It, for the purpose of strengthening the telephone monopoly. With all the advantages it possesses an increase of capital stock to $50,000,000 would render it absolutely impregnable, and it would be assured control of the telephone business of the country for an indefinite time. This is what the shrewd and ablo managers of the corporation are alming to achieve in asking for this extraordinary increase of capital stock, and it 1s to be apprehended that thelr scheme will carry, for they exert a most potentfal Influence in Massachusetts. It they arc successful the American people will continue to pay exorbitant charges for telephone service for years to come. DECLINE OF THE 4. B. DEGREE. So much has been sald and written con- cerning that portion of President 'TFliot's recent report to the overseers of Harvard university relating to the abuses of college athletics that one of the inost important subjects treated by President Eliot has almost entirely escaped the public notice. This s tho rapid decline in popular faver that has in the last’ few years cvertaken the A. B. degreo granted by the different Amerlcan colleges. The facts In the mat- ter are concisely stated by President Eliot. The number of students applying for the A. B. degree has fallen oft most alarmingly, while the number applying for scicutific and literary degrees has increassl at more than a compensatory rate. These latter degrees are therefore galning both absolutely and relatively at the expense of tha degree in arts. To substantiate his statcments President Eliot glves u table showing the number of students studying for different bachelor's degrees and the number of such degrees granted at six of the leading in- stitutions for higher education for eight years just passed. With two or three ex- ceptions the figures show a stealy decline of tho A. B. degree relative to the other dogrees. As If this were not sufficlent to make the case plain, the report adds that In order to get a complete view of the position of the A. B. degree In the United States it is fur- ther necessary to observe that the numerous schools of applied sclence or technology which are not connected with universities have thriven during the past twenty-five years and that none of them give the de- greo of A. B. Two principal reasons suggest themsolves to President Eliott why the degrees in ap- plied science are being the more sought after. First, becauso both in universitios and In technical schools the requirements for admission to candidacy for degrees in science are decidedly lower than the re- quirements for admission to candidacy for the A. B. degree. Secondly, because the student who has completed a course leading to a degree in applied sclenco finds himself ready to commence work in his chosen field, while the average bachelor of arts, unless he wishes to embark in mercantile business, must spend several years at a professional school before he s ready to earn his own Mving. Add to this the fact that as a rule there is more of the spirit of hard work in the scientific courses than in the college departments, while waste of time In sports, social enjoyments and desultory reading Is by custom tolerated more In colleges than in technical schools. In other words the sclentific degrees represent the bread and butter side of a college career, while the A. B. degree has come to be chiefly an orna- title signitylng that the recipient has spent a prescribed number of yoars in a literary and educational atmosphere. The A. B. de thus eclipsed by Its rivals is also being hard pressed from two other directions—by that s supposed to lead up to it and by the are whereas Increase psted, SuCeoss inere mental the secondary school tensible reason for this is | company, | | | | four professional school to- which it 1s supposed to of these 18 amplifying and improving Its course in a way that tends lead up. Each t6 elimnate the college course as the con nocting link between them. The secondary hold their puplls longer and give education that is to a considerable ote fn itsolf. The professional have lengthoned their courses 80 as to discourage students from spending years in collegiate work. One can without diffieulty secondary school to the professio schools them a extent con schools, too pass from the school, despite the increasing requirements for admission to the latter. It Is plain then that the A. B. de- gree cannot long hold ite own on the basis upon it Is now granted In American universities. President Eliot seems to favor curtailing the course required for that de- but it is doubtful which gree to one of three ye it even this step would check the decline that is plainly visible. The old A. B. de- gree is being crowded out by the recent ex pansion of the secondary school and the Im- pending improvements in the professional sehool. UNDER THE N Late advices state of has possession of the Mosquito territory and that the flag of that over Biueflelds, the British naval commander was reported to ha ed a force of men either for the protection of the Mosquito chief or for the purpose of assuming a protectorate over that reglon. If the latest report should be con- firmed there will probably no further necessity for the government of the United States giving any attention to the situation down there, sfnce it could have no objection to the assumption of authority over the territory by the republic of Nicaragua. Only in the event of the action of that government encountering British interference would the United States have any reason to Interpose, and no such thing is to be expected. It Is said that Premier Rosebery is somewhat i ed toward jingolsm and belleves in the policy of extending the British empire by col- onization, but it is hardly concelvable that he would risk the disturbance of friendly rela- tions with this country by adopting a course in respect to this matter hostile to well known American policy. Doubtless Great Britain would like to have control of the Mosquito coast for stragetic reasons, but she must clearly see that this would not be tolerated by the United States and that any effort she might make with this end in view would be a very costly failure. This country would be compelled to assert the Monroe doctrine against any such pretension on the part of the British government and It could do this with all the more reason since American interests in that region have been largely increased by reason of the projected Nicaragua canal— an enterprise which, although it now lan- gulshes, the American people have not al- together given up the hope of seeing com- pleted at some time in the future. It can be predicted, therefore, with absolute certainty that if the government of Nicaragua has ex- tended its authority over the Mosquito coast the government of the United States will sustain that action in the event of it en- countering British opposition. The territory will be of value to Nicaragua, being well supplied with timber and possessing re- sources which the ignorant and indolent people occupying It, a mixture of Indian and negro largely, have made no attempt to de- velop, and besides it will be protected against the incursions of marauders from Jamaica and elsewhere, who have given British and American traders great troubls and annoyance. It seems likely that it will not be necessary for the State department to give itself any further serious concern over the report of the landing of a British force at Bluefields. ICARAGUA that taken FLAG. the government gua now where country waves » lang be WORK FOR INTERSTATE COMMISSION. In an Interview shortly after the docision of Judge Grosscup denying the authority of congress to so amend the interstate com- merce act as to compel witnesses to testify upon matters which might, in thelr opinion, tend to incriminate themselves, Mr. Morrison of the Interstate Commerce com- mission was very careful to state that this ruling would not materially lessen the use- fulness of the commission. He went on to say that prosecutions for violation of the in- torstate law could be Instituted now as be- fore, the only Inconvenience being that the evidence would have to be secured from voluntary testimony. Yet, although the commission has since its very Inauguration had this opportunity for gathering evidence at hand, the law has continued to be vio- lated by every railroad in the country with impunity, if not with encouragement. In no fleld have these violations been so frequent and so undisguised as n the issue of free passes to influence traffic. The free pass offers a substitute for rate cutting and rebates and has been utilized also for the purpose of evading adherence to the regular passenger tariffs. The recent pass agreement 13 Itselt Indisputable evidence that the law has all along been violated by the roads whose officials concurred in it. Why draw up an agreement in writing by which each road s pledged not to Issue passes to attract business if it had not been the custom to Issue such passes? What is the sense of adopting a resolution declar- ing that the agreement is at an end and that the obligations of all parties thereto have terminated if it is not to make a formal announcement that the practice of violating the law is to be remewed, if it was ever discontinued? But the railway managers evidently went a step too far when in the same resolution they ventured to take the recelvers of the Atchison company to task because upon them was placed the responsibility of break- ing up the “eminently wise and beneficen agreement not to issue passes already for- bidden by law. Without pretending to deny the accusation hurled in their faces the Atchison officlals have been quietly gather- ing evidence to show that the agreement was never more than nominally in effect and that all the roads have been issuing the pro- scribed passes without interruption. If we are to belleve the counter charges of the Atchison managers, not a road party to the wonderful pass agreement had paid the slightest attention to it. It was broken both in letter and spirit by every road, by some more than others, thousands of passes be- ing issued, to recall which no attempt had been made, One list of names procured by the Atchisoi to which one road issued passes under the pretense that the owners stood in the relation of land agents to it included the names of over sixty bankers, Jobbers, merchants, traveling men, farmers, live stock men and men of every occupation who could In any way control or influence traflc. And this was merely one example in many, If the Atchison officlals can get evidence such as this to justity its own vidlation ot the law, what Is to hinder the Interstate com- mission from getting the same evidence In the same way? A case under the Interstato law can be worked up just as cases under any other criminal law It the commission will only exert the effort required. This dis- graceful pass epiid# offers a good place for the commission begin. There ought to be no difficulty Ipgprocuring the evidence Let the commissighiinake a few oxperiments whether Bfnot the law can by o forced low en THE CEM The Century A published a Y WAL BOOK aing & few t articles war of the rebellion years every ago serle upon to ) any other one fedture that place in which were phase of the: great which more than magazine he commanding the front rank of American monthlies it holds today. These articles written by the most prominent leaders upon both sides of that memorable contest. They include accounts of all the decisive battles, sketches ot all the conspicuous participants in the of famous men trying of places events by eye-witnesses, who write personal experience and not from Most valuable In these celebrated war stories are the innumerable pictures which accom- pany them drawn by eminent artists from photographs or detailed data and gotten out in the Century's best style. So popular were these papers that to satisfy the great de- mand they we republis] by the Century company, together with many additional illust ed articles, in a serial called “Battles and Leaders of the Civil War,” which bound together formed four large and volumes. Wishing war papers and give everybody of an accurate history of the firsg hand, with the best fllustrations attainable anywhere, th now being slightls abrigded and condensed and published in portfolio form to be distributed through rep- utable journals at prices within the re of all. The Bee has made arrangements for the benefit of its subscribers for the exclusive right to these portfolios within its territory. Our readers will learn from page just how they can secure this invaluable work. Remember that it is published by the Century company. Get the first number and you will not fail to get them all. INNOVATION IN LIQUOR LEGISLATION. A year ago the governor of Massachusetts appointed a commission to make a thorough Investigation of the Swedish and Norwegian system of regulating the liquor trafiic, one of its members visiting those countries for that purpose. The commission has just sub- mitted its report and with it a bill adapting the essential features of the system to Ma: chusetts, That state now has a local option law and it is not proposed to do away with this, but to supplement It with the Norweglan system, 5o that when the towns vote on the liquor question they will decide whether they want that system of licensing or the one now fn ‘vogue or desire prohibi- tion. The bill provides that the question shall, on petition of a certain number of voters, be submitted by the town selectmen, as follows: “If ljcenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors are granted in this town, shall they be granted under the Norweglan system?” Accompanying the petition there must be a bond i which not less than five citizens obligate themselves to form a cor- poration to receive’the licenses which may be granted under the act and to carry on the liquor busineésjfor three years from a specified date, the question of license or no license not to be ‘submitted to popular vote during this period. Five per cent only of the profits of the corposation is allowed to be divided among 'shareholders. . These liquor corporations must be organ- ized under the state law, just as other corporations are, and subject to the super- vision of istate officers. The number of places where liquor may be sold by such a corporation is restricted to one for every 2,000 inhabitants, but a town having less than that number of inhabitants may have one licensed place. A license fee of not less than §1,000, nor more than $2,000, is required from each house where liquors are to be drank on the premises and all laws now iIn force for- bidding the furnishing of liquors to minors, otc., are made applicable to the new system. The commission was impressed with the advantages of the Norwegian system. ‘“The theory of the system,” says the Philadelphia Ledger, “Is that inasmuch as the profits of the liquor business are restricted to a fixed percentage, there is less temptation to push the business. In Norway and Sweden, we are informed by other authority than the Massachusetts commission, the liquor trade has not grown to the great proportions which 1t has reached in some other coun- tries.” Tt appears, however, that the testi- mony to this effect is not unanimous, a re- port of the English consul general in Norway being referred to, in which it is stated that the system had not diminished the use of in- toxicants to any notable extent, and further- more that the disposal of the surplus profits for public purposes was seized upon as an opportunity to secure political and social influence. These statements, 1t should be added, were officially denied by the Nor- weglan government, and it seems fair to as- sume that if well founded the fact would have been discovered by the Massachusetts commissioner who visited Sweden and Nor- way. Should the proposed law be enacted, as 1s thought to be probable, since the people would be free to choose between the system it provides for and that now in vogue, its operation would be regarded with curious interest generally, It is not apparent, how- ever, notwithstanding the favorable view taken of It by the Massachusetts commis- sion, that It would be any improvement on our most approved systems of high license and local option. owes war ane at and from hearsay. war, tes times, descriptions expensive to still further popularize these the benefit war at another A FAINILHOPE LEF Probably the last hope for a change of the Towa policy of dealing with the liquor traffic as a thing &holly beyond regulation 1s not yet gone. Thestone of the debate dur- ing the last three days in the legislature at Des Moines Is {idicative of a disposition to repudiate the ! wonstrosity put forward under the appellation of ‘‘mulct.”” As the legislators come face to face with the respon- sibility of voting fbr a proposition o utterly repugnant to all sapse of fairness they show a disinclination to put the thing on the statute book. Thenesare many among them who, while they weuld rejoice to see the present prohibitory Yaw enforced in spirit and letter, feel the utter futility of encun bering the statute bdok with further dead-le ter laws. They realize that a moral failure can never be vivified by the addition of a “law'" that is itselt immoral. The mulct law s immoral from the prohibitionists' standpoint, because It aims at a cowardly compromise with what the honest prohibitionist holds to be a mortal sin. It is dishonest from the standpoint of the conscientious legislator, because It In no way looks to a redemption of the promise on which the republican party was returned to power in the state. It can only suit the purpose of the political tricksters who contend that the platform of last sum- mer meant nothing, and who hope by a sort of legislative legerdemain to put through a measure that will be void before it i3 signed, and then to face both ways in the hext cam- palgn as they have in campalgus gone by, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDA N‘lAR(‘H 11, I894-'!‘WENTY l‘AGES Before the end of the present debate “mulet’ will be buried deep In Towa. Again, lleans, thousands of conservative repube by the party whose allegiance to from extremists who have stood and thin, it has the organization undor struggles of the both sides, are golng before the legislature with petitions, asking that the prosent law bo repealed, and that the right to make wine wnd beer be restored to the citizens of the Thelr recl men ugh thick held the collapse on state. ically prevailed petition and all the conditions before and since the of the law, which is described as “an lute curse” to the dispassionately dis ses the obligation of the present legis- lature to tho people as well to the party, and foreibly argues in favor of the request it make gard calmly categor- that have actment abso- state; lTowa's pecullar situation in re- commerce and manufactures Is set forth, and with it statistics that ought to carry much welght with them. On the matter of the making of beer it Is set forth that while millions of gallons are consumed In the state annually the farce of prohibition, and much more would probably be under any modification of the law, there is none made, and no bill contem- plating the permission of manufacture pending. The utter failure of as it stands is presented conclusively, and the fallacy of further standing In their own light is plainly put to the indi- viduals who are obstinate in opposl- |!(vl| Lo the change There is so much of force in this move ment which Is backed by the business men of the state that it almost to en- courage the that good will yet come from the present sitting of the general assembly. The desperation with which the prohibitionists are fighting for their peculiar theorles that they feel and fear the logic of events, under present is the law obdurate their seems hope some now indicates 1t Is noticed that in the spring campalgns all over Nebraska there is a lively demand for municipal reform. Corruption in city government seems to be as common in the smaller cities of the state as in the larger ones. The problem of good city government is mot hard to solve, but it is difficult to demonstrate, The best city government is the one in which the expenditures are kept within the receipts, where contracts for sup- plies and public works are let upon an honest competitive basis, where the fire and police departments are effective, where the street cleaning department actually Keeps the streets clean, where the water, gas and light companies are kept In subjugation to the municipal authorities, and where the laws on the ordinance book are scrupulously observed. And yet where is the Nebraska city, large or small, that can claim the dis- tinction of fillicg this ideal? Extravagance seems to be the rule, public contracts are simply veblcles for jobbery, franchised cor- porations exert a controlling influence in the deliberations of city councils and laws seem to be made only to be ignored or evaded. Such conditions will prevail as long as busi- ness men continue to permit the dishonest clements to exert a contralling power in city politics. And now it is Lancaster county that will bo involved in a law suit over the funds deposited in the defynct Capital National bank. The Lincoln papers, which have been o severe in their criticism of the state for attempting to recover its money lost in the same failure, will now protest against a similar- effort on the part of the county officials. Or do they draw a fine distinction between state and county money? Nothing more tritely illustrates the sub- serviency of the weekly press of Nebraska than the almost unanimous silence of the newspapers over the efforts of the governor to recover the amount lost to the perma- nent school fund by the failure of the Capi- tal National bank. The permanent school fund is short to the extent of $236,000 and the men who are endeavoring to collect it meet with but little sympathy. A man convicted of menacing the queen’s life was the other day adjudged a criminal lunatic by a British court of justice. It might not be a bad idea to.import the crim. inal lunacy sentence into the United States. The crank might not be so anxious to ex- pose himself to the possible penaltics of the law wero such the case. hero the Line is Drawn. Washington Post. The Nebraska people don’t mind an occa- sional lynching, but they draw the line on hanging in efligy. LA 2 S ‘What is Left of It. New York World, The courts have whittled away at the Tn- terstate Commerce commission” until there is nothing left but the salaries of the com- missioners, 0 Times. The advice of the Times to Its subscribers and friends is to avoid speculating in Sugar trust certificates’ unless they have trust- worthy connections In the United States senate. nditions, publican it is reported, Unchanged € Springfield R The rallroads at Chicago, have decided to pay no more attention to the interstate commerce law. As they never have pald much attention to it, the situation is not changed. e Reform as is Reform. New York Tribune, Josiah Quincy as a reformer becomes more and more renowned as each new ex- ample of his reforms comes to light. With the ex-assisstant secretary it has un- doubtedly heen, to paraphrase the remark of a democratic “What is a litttle thing like reform between friends?” Vindieating the Administration. Indianapolis Journal. It affords sev democratic organs no little gratification that a jury has fined a man in Nebraska for hanging’ the secretary of agriculture In effigy. It is the neares an indorsement a member of the adminis- tration has got. e Yos, Away Off. Boston the qued fore the obe. st cases recently ourts I8 that involvini 1ond her lover One of brought t the Omaha girl who pawned her dia nent Ting to get money o p life insurance premium. - He arned what she had done and promptiy replevined the ring. Meanwhile the en- gagement Is oft—in all probability forever. ork Sun. An Omaha youth has determined to shin up the tree of fame in a new way, He avers that he will walk all the way to San “ancisco with & dozen Leghorn chickens walking in front of him. ~We don't know What service to the state It will be to demonstrate the capabilities of chickens as long-distance pedestrians, but the Omaha youth might have chosen a less useful c Yeer. 1t Is better to lead a pilgrimage of pullets than to be a populist or a cuckoo. n tion. Kansas City The Commercial club of Omaha has pre- pared for an important meeting of the In- Yerstate Irvigation assoctation at that place on and 2, to which no county, mercial body Interested i fail to send representatives great ge I8 taking place in A sentiment throughout the arid it is precisely the change that ’the cotton planters the south less cotton and more corn and oken up the fmmense cattle pa Texas into thrifty and fertile tracts for the farme sentiment now is for each man to £ slowly and start for himself, and, al- thoukh not so attractive as the theoreiical system by which the aridity of years s Aladipated at one blow, It s of speedier eftect and infinitely more profitable. March A tio PEOPLE AND THINGS. Henry Labouchere has no rival as a po | Tess radical The riot of blood and booze at the election ought to create a lively demand for prison stripes. Courtlandt in New eminence | to baldh, Palmer Jersey, but are sadly adednoss The name of the is a blooming pianist his hopes of rising to marred by a tendency reporters’ tug which greeted Cleveland's return from the Dis mal Swamp was a delicate rejoinder to the “epldemic of mendacity. | James Barr ot Chester, P the position of disbursing public bullding in that city compensation of $150 a yes ive a hond of $20,000, George C. Platt, who, athletic, was presont at state Grand Army of th ment, s the last survi daring headquarters scouts, | A Kansas City paper app | anthropists for a donation of land suf | clent for a library buflding. Land may be had for a song in that section, but the diffi- culty Is to secure enough ready cash to pay for drawing and recording the deed Cold weather makes the Kentucky justicos | merciful, even to colored coal thieves. “Thirty days and a pair of shoes,” was th sentence pronounced on Lige Withers and Matt Hawkins by Justice Caldwell of Dan- ville. The magistrate pald for the shoes himsel, Mrs. U. S who holds agent for the at the munificent r, 18 required to still halo and Pennsylvanin encamjp Sheridan’s of ls to local phil Grant has decided not lish her ‘memoirs of her husband her wish that this book shall not be pub- lished until after her death. Several pub- lishers have had the opportunity to look ft over, and it is said that one has offered $50,- 000 for the work. The possibilities of future statesmanship in the senate may be judged by the etate. ment that definitions fn dictionaries unde the letter A have Increase from 2,836 in 1840 to 19,621 in 1804 A corresponding in- in the remainder of the alphabet shows how futile even today fs the task of sitting out a muscul; talker in the senate, When the brave army of Massilion, com- manded by the Cyclonic Coxey, camps on the east front of the national capitol on May 1 patriots may confidently look for a prolonged hemorrh of the lungs. The whirlwinds that toy with odors of Foggy Bottom or the congellating zephyrs that frisk about the white house will fle affrighted when the Massillon cyclone settle down to business. Coxey, old boy, here’ looking at you. General Early, who achieved distinction in marching up Cedar creck and then down again, and subsequently acquired notoriety as a lottery supervisor, was a southerner of Irish descent. The original family nam was McGuicl , which means “‘early rising. “I presume it was given our people,” he once sald, “from the fact that they were alwa among the first to rise in any of the out- breaks which were so frequent when Ire- land was an independent nation. The Barlys lived in Donegal, where they are very to pub- as it is crease numerous to this day." e il - SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Galveston News: cast out of some pe like walking ske Cineinnati Enquirer: Lord Chief Justice ridge of England refuses to accept clergymen for jurors in criminal cas. He should make nother trip over he and hurst. Paul Globe: Mrs, rofessional ‘evangelist, Chicago with the avowed ting up a revival there. She has tried it b re, but Chicago remains as w ed as Her perseverance in the ce of adverse circumstances is, however, worthy of all commendation. St. Louls Republic: ~Parson Talmage has had’ a’ revelation which commands him to withdraw his resignation as pastor of tne Tabernacle congregation in Brooklyn. It may have been a colncidence that Russell Sage had a rev tion about the same time commanding him to withdraw his claim for 3! 000 against the Tabernacle. sas City Star: of New York, who ori the “size of the drinks” the members of the church take at the communion, I8 imperti- nent, irreverent, meddlesome and unhistori- cal, ‘What would he have had to say in the early days of the church, when Ch tians gathered at a family table to eat and drink the bread and wine, and give the remainder to the poor? lcago Herald: Dr. Henson says that the prophet Daniel should be the model for young men on account of his bravery, but the young men of Chicago could give Daniel cards and spades and then beat him. Daniel has a reputation because he once got into a lion's den and came out alive. Plenty of young Chicagoans walk into the tiger's den every night of their lives and sometimes— but not often—pull the beast’s tail out by the roots. New York Sun: The unbridled priest, McGlynn, has the full right, as a citizen, to preach in Protestant churches every Sun- day of the ye: and take up collec If all the devils were le they would look rived at purpose of get- his benefit after the sermon. many Protest a priest who, oing disobedience, has solemnly vows of alléglance to the church of Rome and its laws, can go about preaching in Methodist, Unitarian, Congregationalist and other churches, and 'at revival camp meet- ings. McGlynn must be a very shifty kind of a chap. He cannot have two tongues, for the church of Rome does not permit fts priests to have two. e Incidental Comment, Chicago 'Times. ©Omaha does not recognize the aristocracy of Boston. A doctor of the western city I not forgive his daughter for having bas bleu 400. As Brummel asked Sheridan of a_certain George 1V., “Who I8 your fat friend? MEASURE FOR MEASURN, That the Test Ia Always the Cheapest It oven by Fi has made a compllation of the mattor printed the past weok by the three leading papors of Nebraska—The Beo, the Wo<d-j{orald and tho Lincoln Journai—exclusive of com- merelal news advertisoments. Bven were the columns of these papers of the samo width and length, and were tho mat. ter printed in the same type, the patrons of The Bee would have a great advantage. In the table below fs given the actual measurement of the matter In the threa papers by columns, and in the last lino Iy prosented a statement of how the papers compared when measured by the standard columns of The Bee. It is easy to sce that the best Is the cheapest. Tho figures are as follows: The amount Beo of and oK DAYS OF WEEK ~9og 31 Hoa 3w Monday, M Tuesdiy. Ma Wednesday Thursday. M Friday. Mare Saturday, Mareli 10 01081 Ouie |11 5 - TRITE THOUGHTS, Elmira facts In ot heated You seldom cold wrgument sot Vogue: In Lawyer's Office—Senfor Part- ner: Shall we go out and take something? Junior Partn ‘rom whom? Buffalo Courier: Jills ticed that some men great d rivers, When their heads are swelled realize it from their mouth: m says he I Truth: Low Comedian—-Why introduce a cyelone in. the third act What for? Low Comed To bring down the house. Tndianapolis Journal: Tomm: Mr. Figgs—What do you want? meets and horse flesh the same thin nd Me' “The Girl T left T le Built for Two. wag THE SADDEST THOUGHT. Atlanta Constitution, rom school, 1 stranger mule. “Happy ch Full of joy- Just Tike T was When a boy! Wipes his wet eyes With his cont; “They ain't old Bnough to vote!” ————— ROM RAM LS HORN. We folks. Indecision is a robber with a dagger undor its cloak. Washing a plg will liking mud. In most cases the man who has riches has a master. Starting for risky business. The biggest coward afraid to do right. No wound can be so deep as the one in- flicted by a friend. It is hard to understand how a grateful” man can be a stingy one. The man who succeeds as a hypocrite has to devote his whole time to it. No religlon can do us any good that does not make us try to do good to others. A warm-hearted preacher will generally find a way to warm up a cold church. A feather from the dove's wing somo- times guides the arrow that plerces her breast. The devll is not throwing any stones at the church that raises its pastor's salary by public entertalnmentn: LRI SUMMER SUGGESTIONS. punish oursclves when we hate other not make it stop heaven on a gravestone is is the one who is Journal of Education. That he In that self-same light canoe Afloat on o mountain lake, And a mad idea shot wildly through The brain of her lover (Who sat there too), That he in that selfsame light canoe A stolen Kkiss would take, Now the maiden sat there unaware Of the plot that he had hatched, And the mountain breezes played with her hair fanned her cheeks and her brow so fair, As she sat there still, quite unaware Of the kiss soon to'be snatched. Then the lover awaited a real good chance To capture the longed-for kiss, When, watching the wimpling wavelets dance, She turned her head with a quick, glance, And, ‘féuning back, gave him a_chance That was really t00 good to miss. So he bent to meet her and tried to steal The kiss that he burned to get jut he bent so quick in his ardent zeal That the craft upset like a whirling wheel, And he missed the Kiss that he tried to steal, And shy, And they both got very wet. 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