Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 17, 1894, Page 4

OMAHA DAILY BEE S e B. ROSEWATER, Editor. PUDLISHED EVERY MORNING. S TERMS OF SUDSCRIPTION. E-lly Bee (Without Sunday), One Year. I ily Bee and Sunday, One Year. X Monthe woreid hree Months L.l Bunday Bee, One Year Saturday Bee, One Year Weekly Bec, One Year OFFICES. uilding. Omaha, The Tee er N and Twenty-fourth Sta. Bouth Omaha, Co Council Dluffs, 12 Pearl Street Chicago Office, 317 Chamber of qew York ms 13, 14 and 15 shington, 07 F Street, N, W CORRESPC NCE. All_communications rel to news and edi- torial matter should be a To the Kditor. DUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and remit addressed to The Tee Publishing Omaha. Drafts, be made_payab) ‘ommorce. Tribune Bldg. T OF CIRCULATION. George 1. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pub. Uishing company, being duly sworn. saya U the mctual number of full and complete copies of the Daily Mor Evening and Sunday Bee onth of November, 188, was 1 1 18 19 Total Less dedi coples Total ol Daily avera Bworn to bofore me and subscribed in my pres- ence this 34 d. 1594, al.) Notary Publ If the pugilists keep on killing each other off at the rate they ve been do Ing for the last twelve months the noble art of self-defense will soon be reckoned among the lost arts, Phe legislature will begin its session two weeks from tomorrcw at high noon, and a high old time may be ex- peeted at the state capitol from that time on till the day of adjournment., South Omaha could be governed at one-half the expense to taxpayers if an- nexed to Omaha. Annexation must not be deferred too long, lest the tax of Omaha decline to assume the gi public debt of le owing thumping suburb. The young republicans of Nebraska will find the Beatrice speech, which is published in this issue, very interest- ing and instructive reading. It is a con- tribution to the political history of N braska that should not be lost upon the rising generation of republicans. We hope to see a Nebraska statute providing for rapid counting of votes on election day in cities of 10,000 popula- tion and over. There is no reason why election results should not be known in population centers by 8. p. m. of election day. Adberents of all parties demand it. Why rot provide for it? The terrible tragedy enacted in Coun- cil Bluffs yesterday will fall like a pall over the social life of that staid old city. The year just drawing to a close has been fraught with many extraordina: and direful events, and it is perhaps ex- pecting too much that this vicinity shall be spared a share of adverse fate. If John Burns, the great English labor leader, in his address this evening leaves but the one impression upon the minds of our people—that laboring men must address themselves to the of munic- ipal reform—his visit will prove of vast Denefit to this city. It is true of Omaha working men, as it is of those in other cities, that they seek to bring about re- forms at long range, while neglecting to strike at abuses in their own environ- ment. mperor William has contributed $500 toward the purchase of Thomas - lyle's house with a view to its conver- sion into a museum. All this because the hard-headed Scotchman had been a hero worshipper, and his hero was the chum of Voltaire and the conqueror of Marin Theresa in the wars against the Hapsburgs, The German emperor ‘would have done a much more sensible thing if he had contributed the $500 toward the relief of poor working men at the Prussian capital. The Canadian premier is said to be a vietim of court etiquette which required him to stand motionless for hours on his legs waiting for Queen Vietoria to put in an appearance. Such a strain might be too much for a Canadian premier, but it would be child's play for the average American office seeker, who will stand like a stork on one leg for half a day in the ante-room of the white house wait- ing to got a chance to put in his appli- cation for a consulship to Loochoo, Dahomey or Patagonia without a mur- mur or complaint. The days and hours of the year slowly ebbing away, and no democrat has yet been appointed to the Omaha postoflice. The suspense attending the long hours of weary waiting which an fous candidates are now undergoing recalls o shmilar fustance followin Cleveland's fi accession to the throue, when a certain local demoerat, whose patience had been exhausted, gave vent to his enraged feelings at the memora- ble Mulvaney banquet. It is quite time for another feast for the benefit of dis- consolate candidate: The chief reason stated for the fusal of Governor Jackson of lowa to stand for re-election is the monumental blunder he committed upon the invasion of the so-called Kelly army of cominon- wealers. The people of that state knew that there was no need of the militia to meet the army, whose march eastward fully demonstrated that fact. Had the Iowa railroads hauled the 'wealers to the Mississippl river and dumped them onto Hlinois soil all trouble might have been obviated. But they chose another eourse and entrapped Jackson into mak- Ing a conspicuous spectacle of Limself by parading his state soldiery before an Inoffensive and defenseless body of men. The railvoads are credited” with haviag elevated Jackson o the Ligly office whick be bolds, and to them wust also be at- tributed his downfall SHALL WE TAKE A STATE CENSUS? Under our constitution the legislature 18 directed to provide by law for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the state In the year 1885 and every ten years thereafter. Now ten years there- after means in the year 1805, and the question I8 whether or not this provision of the constitution should or must be carried out? On general principles it is fnenmbent upon the legislature to com- ply with the constitution in spirit as well as in letter. There are occasion however, when compliance would not promote the yublie we'fare. This, in our Jjudgment, would be the case in regard to the taking of a state census during the coming year. Nebraska, in all her history, has never seen such hard times as are before her during the coming ten months, No mat- ter what enterprises we may project or undertake our people eannot hope for rellef from the prevailing depression be- fore the next grain crop is harvested and marketed. At the very lowest esti- mate it would cost at least $50,000 to take the state census. At the present time there is no surplus in the treasury to cover this expense, and there is not likely to be during the next two years. It will take every dollar that can pos- sibly be raised by taxation to meet the demands of existing brancles of state goverument and pay the running ex- penses of the various state institutions. There is, morcover, a crying demand for relief from the drouth-stricken sections of the state that must be met in some way. If the state can raise $50,000 be- sides the current funds to cover neces- sary appropriations it should devote that sum for the relief of the settlers rather than squander it on census supervisors and enumera ors, ‘Lhis might be a hard- ship for politicians who have set their hearts upon bossing and taking the state census, but this class of people are used to disappointments. The taxpayers of Nebraska will, we feel sure, prefer to forego whatever ben- efits might be derived from the statis- tical fnformation which the cen erers would be able to impart. For our part, we doubt very much whether the information would be worth the expense even if the state treasury was full to overflowing. IRLT ON IN NEBRA The convention to be held at Kear- tomorrow and Wednesday, in the intere fon in Neb ought to be largely attended. There is no sub- ject of greater importance to our people than that of irrigating the semi-arid lands of the state, which constitute about one-third of our area. These lands possess all the qualities necessary to render them abundantly productive if they were supplied with sufficient molsture. It is believed that this ean be done without any ditficulty. There is competent engineering authority for the statement that the supply of water in our rivers and streams is ample for irrigating the entire region requir- ing it and giving it 1 the mois- ture needed. If tbis can be done its accomplishment will mean an immense gain to the prosperity of the state. Put ting the extensive semi-arid area in a condition to produce crops regularly every year, regardless of the rainfall, would increase the productive power of the state at least one-third. There is room in that region for a large popula- tion, which would materially increase the general prosperity. Within the past year Nebraska has been losing popula- tion, chiefly from the region that needs irrigation. It is very likely to continue to do so if something is not done to in- duce people to remain in that section of the state. he object of the State Irrigation as- sociation s to stimulate interest in the subject and to promote action on the part of local associations for advancing the cause. It is a purely practical, bus- iness question, and as such it pos: an interest for every citizen of Neb) who desires to see the state grow and prosper. The farmer, the merchant and the manufacturer are equally concerned in having the great semi-arid area re- claimed, and all these intevests should unite in furthering its attainment. A SOCIALIST VICTORY. It was abad political mistake on the part of Emperor William in proposing the prosecution of the socialists who re- fused to cheer him on the occasion of his opening the Reichstag, and the ac- tion of that body in approving, by a most cec'sive vote, {he repcrt of the com- mittee adverse to prosecution was a victory for the socialists of a very posi- tive kind. Whatever may be said re- garding the propriety of the refusal of the socialist members of Parliament to cheer the emperor, a custom of long standing, there was no question us to their right to do so, and this should have been recognized by the emperor. If the socialists chose to take this mediod of manifesting their dissatisfaction with ¢isting political conditions it was their privilege to do, and Emperor William should not have desired an expression of deference that would have been in- gincere, Knowing the sentiments of the socialists he should not have expected or desired from them a courtesy incon- sistent with their well known attitude towards the government. And when they had in the most pronounced man- ner possible shown their feeling it was a plece of folly, derogatory to the Im- perial eharacter and dignity, to propose to prosecute them, 1t was evidence of a weakness in the character of the emperor that had not been suspected, and it is not surpris- ing to find it stated that he has lost in popular respect for his wisdom, while the old chancellor, who seems to be merely a factotum to the emperor, is also said to have fallen in public esteem, The Relehstag having refused to author- ize the prosecution of the soclalist mem- bers, thus declaring that they acted upon their rights, what will the emperor now do? IHe cannot abandon the matter | without making himself ridiculous, and yet this would be wiser than to appeal to the courts, as the chancellor threat- | ened to do, because it is highly proba- ble that the government would be beaten there aud thus the emperor be doubly rebuked, for the action of the Reichstag is in the nature of a rebuke. The chances are that Ewmperor William had wade up his mind to take the mat- ter to the courts before the action of THE_OMAHA DALY MONDAY, DECEMBER 17 Parllament. This is to be inferred from the remark of the chancellor. If such is the case he will take that course re- gardless of any opinfon, public or pri- vate. His imperial pride has been hurt and he will not be content until he has exhausted every effort to punish those who did the fojury. Socialism is mak ing steady progress in Germany and the government will not check its ad- vance by pursuing the men who ar guilty of having simply refused to show the emperor the usual respect on a pub- lic occasion STATE FAIR LOCATION. Local sentiment favorable to the proposition to convert Millor park into exposition grounds is growing from day to day. There are three propositions pending before the Cominercial club committee for the sale or lease of cer- tain tracts of ground for state fair and driving park purposes. Men who liave money to invest in state fair build- ings hesitate to do so upon leased ground and doubt is expressed whether enough money can be raised for the purchase of an adequate tract of ground and for the construction of suitable buildings ther on for the purpose contemplated. The casy and rational way out of the mat- ter is for all Interests to combine upon Miller park. There is absolutely no valid objection thereto and the reasons for locating a state fair at Miller park are so patent and convincing that there should be no further delay in reaching # conclusion. This city has paid for the Miller park tract and its title therein cannot be disturbed. The money which might otherwise be spent in the pur- of ground could be applicd to the construction of substantial exposition buildings, which within themselvi could be made architecturally an at- traction to the people. No one 0 deny the accessibility of the Miller park tract. There should be no rurther de- lay in the settlement of this matter. News percolates all the way from Jincoln that the private owners of a so- called normal school building and of a tract of ground known as Lincoln park re hatching a scheme to get an appr priation out of the forthcoming legisla- ture for the purchase thereof. When that is done the people of Lincoln will graciously tender the tract for perma- nent state fair grounds and buildings and also for the annual reunion of the Graud Army veterans, It must be ad- mitted that this plan promises a far better assurance of a state fair site at Lincoln than the oviginal plan of pri- vate subscriptions not long ago adopted by the citizens of that city. Should Omaha get the state fair our people, of course, would be expected to raise a fund to cover the cost of permanent buildings for state fair purposes, and could not hope to secure and probably would not ask a legislative appropria- tion. It is a fact, however, that the railroads have combined with the Lin- coln people to secure the location of both the Grand Army reunion and the state fair at Lincoln for their next re- spective terms of five years. Whether or not the business men of Omaha will be able to cope with this combination remains to be seen. OVERZEALOUS SILVERITES. Senator Voorhees and Representative Bland have announced their intention to make an effort to have passed at this session of congress a bill for the free cofnage of silver. The Indiana senator informed the country of his purpose through the medium of an interview, and-the Missouri congressman, who was defeated at the last election, gave notice in the house last week of his intention to bring forward a Dill if the coinage committee could be induced to stand by him. The membership of this commit- tee consists of seventeen, nine of whom are in favor of the free coinage of silver, but a few of them do not seem disposed to have anything done looking to that policy, doubtless for the suffi- clent reason that they know it would be futile. It is noted as a singular fact that during the last session whenever it was known free silver was marked for consideration one or more of the sil- ver men on the committee failed to ap- pear, and it is said that the same expe- rience is likely to attend the meetings of the committee at this session. Still Mr. Bland is reported to be determined to persist in the effort to get a free coin- age bill before the house. “I shall con- tinue in my efforts to secure action by the committee,” he is quoted as saying, “and shall not cease until the 4th of March. I believe we will be able to re- port a bill, and when it is before the house there will be no trouble about passing it. I think the chances of put- ting a free coinage bill through the house are better than they have been heretofore during the congress.’ There is reason to believe, however, that the zenl of Mr. Bland warps his Judgment. I'ree coinage doubtless has a8 strong a support now as it has ever had in this congress, but it by no means follows that the chances of passing a free coinage bill are better now than they have heretofore been. Many of the advoeates of free coinage in congress recognize the fact that there Is hardly a possibility of enacting a measure for the free and unlimited coinage of silver during the brief life of this congress, and, therefore, they will not support Mr. itland in his wholly protitiess effort to secure such legislation, Besides, these men understand that if a bill could be got through congress it would en- counter an executive veto, and nobody will pretend that a bill could be passed over the objections of the president. It is utter folly, therefore, for Voorhees and Bland to keep up the silver agita- tion. Not only is there no good purpose to be served by it, but it tends to keep alive a feeling of distrust, particularly awmong foreign investors in American securities, who are sensitive to every financial movement here which seems to threaten, however remotely, the deg- radation of the currency. It is note- worthy that the president made no reference to silver in his message, thus implying that the subjeet had been dis- missed from his mind. It can be confi- dently said that he has not changed his opinion regarding silver, and this gives assurance that no free coinage bill can become law. The most interesting plece of news received In Omaha for some time past s the announcement from Sioux City that the Tllinols Central has finally eon- : cluded to extend one of its lines into Omaha. Theonly thing we hope is that the report ¥ W1l founded. The exten- ston of therHMnols Central would open for Omaha § vevy large section of coun- try which Qlwlnd e annexed by our merchants, The AmetfcAn Federation of Labor voted down-the proposition in favor of postal savihgk Dbanks, while the adopted resglutions in favor of schemes that would benefit them much less and are impracticable. There are something like fifteen hundred millions of wage worker money in Amer- fean savings' Dbanks on which the depositors (o not draw more than 3 per cent, while they take the risk of losing every penny of their savings in case of the collapse of the fustitutions. The governuient pays & per cent to bond holders on loans. Why could not the government pay 8 per cent to the wage worker? The postal savings banks of other countries have been a source of strength to the governments, and at the game time have made savings deposits absolutely safe. ON, These Cruel Snoers. Courler-Journal. Since it has been learned that a good many “democratic” senators will oppose Secretary Carlisle’s currency plan, the num- bir of people who belleve that the secre ary is ‘on the right track has greatly | reased. —_——— New York Sun. An Interesting tale from Indiana tells of a hoy of 4 that lifts with the greatest ease his father who welghs 175 pounds. ‘This is nothing. There is a boy of 2 In' Missouri that carries his great-grandfather, who weighs 200 pounds. The power to carry a dead welght should not be judged from the break-down of the democratic party. L kil The Lcnd Job in Chicag) Times. Tlhe month of December is less than half over and the withdrawals of gold y since its beginning already ahc time will soon be ripe for another John A, Stewart to patriotically ome to the uelp of the governnient, get his cration. picture in all the papers as that of a self- sacrifieing patriot, and withal make §$1,600,- 000 profit on the deal. Pofier's Sensibln Remark, Chicago Tribune. Senator Peffer cught to be credited with having made one ble remark. reported to have said that “there is no crit- icism which the bankers mad: to the sub- treasury plan of the popuiists which is not applicable a hundredfold” to the state bank- ing scheme of Secretary Carlisle. The pop- ulists proposed to issue money on a certain percentage of the value of actual products in warehouse, while Carl propo issue money on the capital stock bankers, or rather gn thelt supposed capital stock, the reality of which could not ba as- certained so closely as that of wheat or cotton stored in a_government warehouse, Carlisle’s plan is the more objectionable of the two. —_—————— A Much-Ne: Reform. New York Tribune, A reform which has long been desired will be introdtived by ‘the final enactment of a bill in relation to public printing and the distributian of public documents.” The reform will not he 5o far-reaching as goge of the advocates of sweeping changes have desired, but such’ legislation as now see attainable will'pyave an important step 'in the direction of rational progress. It Is ex- pected that the bill will not only do awhy with a variety of abuses, but secure a sav- ing of hundrfds of thousands of doliars. Among other' thirigs, it provides for the placing of govérament publications in de- positories throughout the country, where they will be ageessible to the people. Public 50 tp be supplied with coples in o mcre complete' and satisfactory manner than heretofore. 1Tl e The Rights of Newspapers. “Chicago Herald. A bill prepared by the attorney general of the province of Quebec has been introduckd in the legislatute defining the rights lf newspapers in libel suits. A person bring- ing a suit for libel shall give security for costs. A newspaper publisher shall have five days' notice of the commencement of a sult, giving time to_make and print a satisfactory apology. No verdict shall be rendered in any sult for more than actual damages, In accordance with the proof. Where more than one newspaper is sued for the same libel one judgment only shall be given in all the sults, which shall be shared by the various defendant newspapers. This is far in advance of legislation in the United States for the protection of \he press from speculators in libel suits, and as it is & government bill it is sure fo become a law. — s Seandal in Tndla Indianapolls News. The movement to secure some leglslation this winter which shall put an end to the scandalous railroad pass business ought to meet with success. These passes are fre- quently asked for and even demanded by the men who recelve them, and even when this {s not so, they are not often refused when gent. It would seem that a man of the most ordinary delicacy would know that these favors are not extended to him as a matter of compliment, but simply for the purpose of establishing friendly” relations between him and the railroad. To be sure, there are a. great many cases where no ef: fect is_produced upon the recipient of the pass. But that is not the point. The inten- tion is to vroduce an effect, and therefore the sending of the pass is an insult to the man who receives it. The theory s that he is a man who can be influenced by this cheap form of bribery. —_— Unlon Labor and Municipal Reform. Chicago Times. The suggestion of John Burns that Amerl- cans irades unionists strive for the better- ment of municipal governments is wise. The municipality touches the workingman at a dozen points where the national gov- ernment affects him in one. With better administration of municipal affairs there would be greater willingness on the part of heavy taxpayers to permit the extension of the functions of the municipality and the appropriation of money for public works. The trades union vote {n Chicago, if solidly welded and intelligently cast, could secure an honest council and county board, could compel, what the trades unionists so' loudly demand, the abolition of the contract sys- tem in public work, could secure such a treatment of public franchises as should bring a proper revenue to the public while reducing the price of service, There could be no more intelligent advice offered work- ingmen than this of John Burns. —————— THE EXECUTIVE SENTRY BOX. The P New York Sun. Oh, grim and silent sentry box, That stands silent all night and day Before the house where Grover lives, To warn the folks away; Oh, grim and silent sentry box, Have you come ther: to stay? ‘What right 1s hid within your walls? ‘What foree do you express. That you should stand a menace there, To threaten with duress The free-born eitizen who comes To see his mightiness? Do vou enclosé & tyrant's sword, The patriot’s blood to spill? Do you enclose b clanking chain To bind the people’s will? Or have you, corked and primed, within, A loaded tarift bill? Perhaps you have inside of you A living demotrat, Who, notwithstanding politics, With Grover §till stands pat; or, If you bave, grim sentry box, Please show us where he's at. Do you enclose’a Or populistic swell Or Is it that same one's a clam Of which You are the shell? What are you there for, sentry box? Bay, can you really tell? koo's nest? !'born a slave (S 894, PEOPLE AND THINGS. They call him T. Calamity Platt, but he heeds not. Ten cities liea; In Massachusetts went last Tuesday Queen Lil's sympathies Grover. She has the govt Senator Morrill of Vermon: makes a speech about once a year, This explains his pop- ularity. With a few blows Mr. Lavigne places him- self in the Fitzsimmons class. He has made a killing. Judge Holman proposes to omulate Glad stone by writing a book after retiring from congre According to repub- are still with the testimony, Now “finest” were so called on acoount penalties they imposed and collccted. Kentucky boasts of a citizen who has been struck by lightning four times and still lives. Copper tanks are reliable conductors. In the haleyon and vociferous days of fron- tier life toughs notched their gunstocks after every killing. Now the modern pug notches the chin before ordering the hearse Mss Susan B. Anthcny is sald to be one of the best bread makers in the United States. Think of the number of dyspeptic mortals Susan might have made happy had she cultivated that rare and kneady talent New York fs so determined to club_the police that one wae convicted for the \rifling offense of hitting a frait peddler for four baskets of peaches. If fnese ancient rights and privileges are dispensed with life on the force will not be worth the buttons. The conversion of Chinamen by means of young wemen Sunday school teachers does not appear to be a blooming success. Among the catch of a raid of an opium den in New York wera the daughters of three clergymen, who had married pupils in thelr Sunday scheols. Mrs. Minnie Jefferzon, or “‘Granny" Jeffer- son, as she is familiarly called, is dying in New York at tho age of 100 years, She was on the plantation owned by Thomns Jefferson, the third president of the United States, at Shadwell, Albemarle county, Va, on March 1785, and has been exhibited in different parts of the country on several cccasions as the oldest colored woman in the world. She has nine children, fifty-seven grandchildren and twenty-six great grandchildren. 1t Is sald that Bmperor William s a great admirer of what is called in Germany the ‘Reichester officer” style of curling the moustache, with points toward the corners of the eyes. Having been told that a Berlin lairdresser had a special treatment for this sort of ornament, he sent for him, and ordered him to dress the imperial moutache dally in the desired style. The event is the talk of Berlin, and the artist, Haby, who gets 5 marks for each visit, is delighted with the effect of h's treatment. Whatever hope the country cherished with regard to the maintenance of Chicago and London on a peace footing has been dashed into the mire and trailed in the gutter. Conan Doyle snubbed the Lake City and complimented Philadelphia. Bri that in itself would not constitute a casus belll. Now it 1s supplemented with a reported expression of John Burns, towit: *Chicago is a pocket edition of hell!” A declaration of war will follow if it can be shown that Burns really said it. Already the decks of the press are being cleared for action and preliminary hot shot is in evidence. The Tribune's hailing gun signifies blood or retraction. No attempt is made to refute Burns' assertion, unless the statement that Burns spent only thirteen hours in the city—three of them in tlie slums “bo classed as such. The Tribune forgets that an active man can see a great deal of Chicago life in thres hours, if he goes out for 1t York's of the — LABOR NOTES. Convict contract labor has been abolished in New York state. The Ohio State Trade and Labor assembly will hold its annual meeting Janvary 1. Last year trades unions in England spent about $2,000,000 for out of work benefits. The next natlonal convention of the Knights of Labor will be held in Washington, D. C. Piece work has been abolished in the gov- ernment printing office and eight hours is the rule. The garment workers of Baltimoro are going to wage a fierce battle against the sweating system. Carpenters’ union No. 12, St. cigarmakers of Holyoke, Mas plank 10, A. F. of L. platform. A referendum vote will be taken by the International Typographical union on the question of annual conventions. E. J. Daly, general secretary of the Last- ers’ Protective union, recently visitad Dalti- more and other cities in that vicinity. Nearly one-half of the mombers of the Knee Pants Makers' union of New York are on strike against a reduction of wages. Through the exertinns of the allied trades council in that city all the newspapers in Utica, N. Y., are floating at their masthead the union label. President Sellers of the Reteil Clerks' Na- tional Protective association has issued a cir- cular to state organizers, urging them on with their work. Aceccrding to the consis of 1890 there were in this country 4,771,819 wage workers, 1,600,- 000 unemployed, 1,700,000 farm laborert, 1,400,000 tenant farmer: ———— JEST FOR FUN. Louis, and , have adopted Syracuse Post: McSwatters—I hear Hogo, the humorist, has broken his neck. McSwit- ters—Well, that's a funny snap. St. Louis Republic: Aldershot—How _did Cameron lose all his money? Bagley—Why, hoe invented a machine and tried to protect his patent. Indianapolis Journal: T would you say that a man lie easily? Tommy—It depends on the man, Plain Dealer: Tt will be a sad experience for the unreturned congressman to look back over the past two years and see neg- lected opportunities for doing worse, Chicago Tribune: Uppen A. Cumming— The fast is, sir, women need more exercige, I'm going to give my wife a Christmas pres- ent of & foot ball Tellus Y. Knott—I'm not. My wife does enough kicking already, " Buffalo Courier: Juniorus—The governor writes, in reply to my last letter asking for money, that he is on the verge of giyv- ing up in despair. Sophomorocus—That's en- couraging, My dad curtly informs me that he doesn’t propose to give up at all, Life: “I'vo been pondering over a very singular thing." “What is it?" “How putting a ring on a woman's third finger xhould place you under that woman's Lumb, Atlanta Constitutio ‘an you sing the old songs, Miss Smith?" *“Oh, no! I wasn't born then!" 8he—This 1s a dread- fully close room. I shall suffocate, 1 am sure, 1 feel my breath golng now. He—Don't worry, my dear, It had much better go than stop. Detroit Free Press: Atlanta Constituti ne to work fc “You don't tell me. poet?” ““Well, that is what fitted hix compa meLers. * THE MUSICIAN'S WOOING, Indianapolis Journal It_was a music teacher bold Who loved a falr young maid, And when to her his love he told Bomething like this he sayed: Laght of my soul! My I love you near or fa The malden turned her hy And gently murmured * “I see Penny Liner the gas company.” I thought he was a for the gas You see he was well versed in 's bright ret a4 away, Lal “Buch flighty nonsense doesn't go, You're not the man for mi; I want a man who has the do, B0 you're not in jt. BI?" Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking Powder THE POOLING RILL. Chicago Ierald: The supervicion of the Interstate Commerce commission over pools, for which the bill provides, amply protocts the peaple. The commission will become a body wilh something to do. 1t will be Uothed with power which it can exercise. It will be able to accomplish at least some of the | beneficent objects of its creation and to repay in part its cost to the overtaxed public. St. Paul Globe: The measure climinates competition as a factor in determining rates and leaves it to the companies to settla it for themselves, subject only to the judicial re- striction of their reasonabfeness, It is here that the decision of Judge Brewer in the Nebraska state case becomes of the utmost Importance. In that cass the state legls lacnre had fixed the maximum rate of freight age within the limits of the state. Judge Brewer held thet, while the act was constitu- | tional, the limit fixed was not a reasonable | one, and set aside the act of the legislature. 1f this remarkable decision Is sustained it robs the state of all power over the corpora- Bee: cellor Canfleld befor tion of Omana on “Higher Educatio ing the last quarter of a century, which is the opinion of the writer does great injustice to the character of the Institutions of learning of that day, and also to reflect strongly on the Integrity and moral honesty of those hav. ing_control of such institutions, Tha chapcellor must have been excoedingly unfortuna the col- leges of the past quarter of a century, It the report of his address, as given, is not greatly at variance with the facts in the case. ‘very true that there has been a great advance in majly respects in higher as well as in the more there was a principle of integrity and moral honesty whole educational | raKes 1ssvr wrrn rue enaxercron OMAHA, Dee. 5.—To the Rditor of Thi In your issue of the 19th ult. there Is & synopsis of an address delivered by Chan. the Ministerial Associas in his msscclation with common branches of education, underlying the " dur It tlons engaged in transportation within fts limits, unless the initial and terminal poin are within the state. It transfers to federal judiciary the power to sa freight rates are or are not reasonable Chicago Tribune will be very pleasing to railroad and eastern stockholders. The owners see that paid for paying dividends which never hands: the will congratulate themselves provement in business’ which caused by stopping competition ing pooling. But the people uneasy feeling that someho are growing intolerably hea notics the additions of a few ounces at the times when they were made, but suddenly it will occur o them that they are now over- welghted. The farmer will perceive that it is becauss of the heavy railrond charges he has been getting so little for all his products, The city consumers will see that they paying too much for all the articles they consume, compared with the home cost, be- cause the enhanced railroad rates are too nigh and because producers and consumers ~ra being forced under Judge Brewer's dect sion to pay dividends on billions of stock which represents nominal, not actual, paid in capital. mely. on “‘the will have an — MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. A new comic opera on an Indian subject is to b2 produced in Washington next month, and its name is “Si-Lootah.” “The New Woman" is In its last week at Palmer’s, New York, where ‘“‘Esmeralda” will be revived next Monday. Rev. George Walters of Austral'a is writ- ing a dramatized version of “Joseph and His Brethren” for George Regnold. “Old Hoss” Bill Hoey at the Bijuo and “Young Hoss” Bill Gillette at the Standard, New York, appzar to be doing a fine bus- iness. “An Unofficial Patriot” James A. Horne's new play. due:d simultaneously In London York. This is the worst theatrical season ever known. Hundreds of unemployed actors and actresses are walking Bradway, New York, looking for a job. Virginia Harned is the latest actress to ob- tain an “ad” founded on the moth-eaten story of 1'st jewels. Virginia I8 to star next season, and there you are. Calve, at the Paris Grand opera house, will criginate the prima donna role in Boito's “Mefistofele,”” a new opera that Saint-Saens has promised the management. “The Bostonlans” are doing well at the Broadway, New York, where they are to be followed on January 14 by Augustus Pitou's big production of “Mme. Sans Gene.” Mary Anderson-Navarro says that for seven years she loved her work on the stage. Then the excitement and publicity became distaste- ful to her, and the last year of her life be- hind the fiotlights was almost unbearable. Quite a sensation has been made in New York recently by the boy violinist Juanito Manen, a Mexican prodigy, whose wonderful preformances have given him the name of the young ‘“‘Sarasate.”” It is said that Manen’s success in New York on the viclin has been as great as was young Hollmann's on the piano. Next year it Is propossd to have an equal number of American and forelgn voices in the Abbey & Grau Opera company, and Mr. Abbey hopes in the following season to have a native chorus throughout. All the prima donnas of importance this year in Italian opera are Amerlcans, with tbe single excep- tion of Melba, who is an Australian. e SAD SUGGESTIONS. the title of It will be pro- and New is The New York Truth soliloquizes: That Adam Christmas loved with cause, We cannot but believe; For while he had no Santa Claus, He had his Christmas Eve. The Kansas City Journ: tures the local stringency: See the maiden Christmas shopping— Rushing, pushing, scarcely stopping; Hither, thither, flitting, flying, Looking much and Ifftle buying; Weeks of labor, strain intense; Sum expended, sixty cents. A shadow of future events haunts Chi- cago. Hear the Inter Oc Full soon we'll gee the Christmas tree, With lovely gifts down bent; And in our pocketbooks we'll find There's not a single cent. incautionsly ple- the whether for all railroads engaged in interstate commerce. The new state of affairs managers of watered stock will be delighted when they | was | The selling value of the speculative | third and fourth mortgage bonds will advancs The stock market, especially of ater,” will be lively, and the brokers | im- | congress has and legaliz- their burdens They did not are work In the colleges of a quarter of & century ago that will not be put to the blush when brought in contrast with the management and curriculum of those grand (institutions of learning of which we as Americans and a Christian people are today so proud. The chancellor must have been born in a very unlucky time, or it must have supervened very soon thereafter. Kor he says, it his observation of the modus operandi of those colloges was not very superficial, that in his college days boys usually went to colloge because they were sent, not from any desire on their part to get an education, and the faculty therefcre proceeded on the theory that their duty was to pack up a few parcels of knowledge and insert them into the pockets and under the hats of the boys without their knowledge or consent, and ‘‘that everything was machine-like and the student was com- pelled to believe that the more knowledge he left behind when leaving his alma mater the more succesiful he has been in his col- lege life." And then In verification of this fact he refers to the s room exercise, when by lot a certain student would be called upon to stand up when his name was drawn, but such a thing as discussion or planation by a professor was unheard of. And then adds that if a student shculd have dared to ask a question of a professor he would have been sent to coventry for trying to curry favor with the faculty Now, Mr. Editor, this rehearsal of the practice and character of college professors and of that which constitutes a college is completely at variance with college customs a quarter of a century ago, as well as of those long anterfor to that date. In con- firmation of this assertion let a case in poiut be cifed, showing that there was no machinelike work in the colleges of the earller part of this century, nor any pack- ing of parcels of knowledge in the pockets or hats of the studentsof those times, nor any effort “made to compel the student to belfeve when leaving his alma mater that the more knowledge he left behind the more success- ful his colllege life had be In the fall of 1830, at commencement of the winter term (there being then a winter term and a summer term of college), a class of twelve or fourteen boys enrolled as students of Jefterson college, Canonsburg, Pa., and com- study of the Latin grammar . The undersigned was one of that number. One of this class had already been for two scasons engaged in the study of the Latin grammar, but the faculty said he was not sufficiently accurate in his knowledge of the fundamental principles of the gram- mar to proceed with his former class, there- fore he was placed in our class to again apply his mind to the rudiments of that language. Now this case shows that a college faculty sixty-four years ago believed the fundamental principles stored in the brain, instead of a few parcels of knowledge packed into pockets or hats of the students, was their “theory” of a_ college education. Now, it was the writer’s privilege to be a regular student at college from 1830 to September 1836, excepting an absence of three sessions when cngaged in teaching school, and during those years never knew of a student who was at college unwillingly.. No teacher or professor of any science could have been more genial, polite or ready to give instructions or answer any questions than were the professors of those days. And why not? They stood on the same platform of Christian integrity that now gives moral worth to the faculties of Yals, Harvard or Princeton. In those days they studied Alexander's evidence of Christianity, and practiced the principles of Wayland moral scfence, and therein stood their cquality with those grand men of today. Who can think for a moment of such men as Rev. Matthew Brown, D.D., L.L.D. so long the distinguished scholar and able pres- ident of Jefferson college, condescending to such practices as charged to college facultles a quarter of a century ago. 1f such were the educational institutions of years gone by the inquiry comes, from whence then has come those men of literary renown and that deep research have gilded the intellectual firmament of our age, and crowded the Qifferent learned professions with so many men of renown? : J. M. KUHN, A, M, N onest Home Itule. Phitadelphia Times. The more such conventions as the Minne- apolis gathering the better. Those who en= gage In them are not practical politiclans in the common acceptation of the term, but they are pointing out the evils of the' d to those who in the near future will find a way to organize for successful reform. 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