Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 24, 1900, Page 6

THE ©OMAHA Dany BEE. . E. ROSEWATER, Editor. GRY MORNING. TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. afly Bee (without Sunday), ( 1y Bee and funday, One ¥ llustrated Bes, One {\'IY unday Bee. O l'lu'l ay Bee, One Ye eekly Bee, One Year OFFICHS reets, 5 10 Pearl Street, hicago: 1ok New York: T urt, Washington “ourteenth Street. Bloux Clty: ‘611 Park Btreet CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- torfal matter shouid be nddressed: Omaba Bee, Editorial Departmen BUSINESS LETTERS. “iness letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha, REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order, avable to The ftee Pubilshing Company nut stamps accepted in payment ccounts. Personal checks, except cn Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepted THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. ska, Douglas County, s, orge 13 lick, secretary of Tl Publishing Company, bewg duly #avs that the actual number of full and fomplote coples of The Dally, Morning vening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of October, 1900, was as follow: 27,010 28,600 27,000 27,110 L 27,480 . 27,620 27,480 ..%7,620 27,370 LENTHO 28,700 L. 21,050 L10,0u80 L. 80,650 S2uRYIRIEEEE Total . fess s ossasy NN2,T10 Less unsold and returned coples 11,841 Net totai sales NTONT Net daily average Bubscribed 1r fore me b 1900, UNGAT (Beal Sotury Publj Mr. Bryan is to have a consolation prize in the way of a banquet. Dollar dinners are a thing of the past. The fatherin-law of the young duke of Manchester is more fortunate than many whose daughters have married tnto foreign titles. The young duke owes only $125,000, When the legislature meets we will bave a line-up between the osteopaths and the homeopaths, and then both will turn around to defend themselves against the patent medicine men. The mayors of geveral Nebraska towns bave Issued Thanksgiving proclamations to supplement those of the president and governor. Mayor Moores must be overlooking one of the prerogatives of his office. It will be Private Secretary Lindsay when Governor Dietrich takes posses- slon of the executive office. The new private secretary will have no trouble in’ beating the record of his fusion predecessors. From the number of liquor dealers who are filing their applications for license in time to be In business the first of the year it 1s evident they have no fear of an excessive crop of swear- offs on that date. The Chilian government, instead of buying guns, as reported, Is buyin ralls to fmprove the government rail- road lines. The South Awmerican coun- tries might all of them adopt the same course with advantage. A Halt Lake man has been sentenced to three months In jall for stéaling an empty dinner pail. A man who will steal an empty dinner pail during these prosperous times when he might just as easily take a full one is a fit can- didate for the insane asylum. The prospect is good for the election of a new school board president by unanimous vote us soon as the new members take their seats, without even the reproach of combination dictator- ship. Fewer combinatious and more Business In the school board would meet the approval of the public. [ Sy The secretaries of the State Board of Transportation hope to prolong their efticial snap by asklug a rehearing of their case In the supreme court. After that the question will not interest them to any great extent, as they had an- ticipated walking the plank with the exit of the fusion state officers. The powers are demanding that China punish the commander-in-chlef of the army for participation in the Boxer out- rages. As he decliues to be punished and has the army at his back the task resembles the attempt of a five-foot father attempting to appty the'strap to & six-foot son, China might call In the Belghbors, Democrats polut out that the repub- Ncan party will have full coutrol of all departments of the government and therefore will be responsible for legisla- tion and its enforcement. The party is ready to accept the responsibility and the country has said that it is willing. What the people feared was democratic legislation and democratic irresponsi- bllity, The German press is indignant that the United States should not fall in iwith the radical suggestions of European powers regarding China. The powers bave already burned their fingers with fires of their own lighting in China and in refusing to participate in the kindling of another blaze the United States is following the dlctates of experlence, It 1s announced that the mewbers of the mob which recently burned the negro In Colorado are to be prosecuted. No objection can be ralsed to the prose- cutlon of any violator of the law, but while about it why not commence with the officers, from governor down, who deliberately allowed the prisoner to be taken without suffictent guard to a place where It was known such a brutal fate awaited m? THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, N OVEMBER 24, 1900, PITFALLS TO BE AVOIDED. The removal of the headquarters of the republican state committee from Omaha to Lincoln has been followed by the report that the committee proposes to keep open house at the capital throughout the leglslative session. While certain work which properly be- longs to the state committee should not be entirely interrupted between cani- paigns, the committee will do well to steer clear of various pitfalls which have proved disastrous In the past. It is not the duty of the state com- mittec or its officers to constitute them- selves either the guardians or the 4lh~-‘ tators of the party representatives in the legislature, The task set before the committee by the last state conven tion was to elect the nominees upon | the national and state tickets and re- | deem Nebraska from fusion control. That task has been accomplish The incoming state officers and legislative members have thelr credentlals direct from the people, and they are fully com- petent to deal, without interference, with matters whose determination prop erly belongs with them, If the proposed opening of the state committee headquarters at Lincoln s Intended to form a foothold for the use of the committee’'s machinery in inter- meddling in legislation and in the sena- torial contest, it would be a grievous mistake. In past years no lttle dis- credit, to say nothing of positive scan- dal, hns been brought upon the party by | the unauthorized use of the committee’s | name in the interest of lobbying schemes und boodle jobs pushed by men misus- ing thelr positions in the party organiza- I8 testiniony on file in one ent leglslative investigations in which one of the attaches of the state commitiee admitted under oath that he was attending the legislature as a pald lobbyist while clonking his work behind the pretense of looking after the inter- ests of the party orgauization in his official capacity. No repetition of such scandals 1s de- sired. The party is entering upon a new era, and should not only start out with a clean score, but should keep it cleun by constant vigilance and an ab- solute refusal to let its machinery be prostituted to any questionable or un- authorized end. ANOIHER NO1E TU THE POWERS. The United States government, it appears, is making a strenuous effort to Induce the powers to mitigate the de- mands on China. Another note has been sent to the several governments, which Is understood to relate to the extreme pronosals of gome of the powers In re- gard to punishment and indemnity and suggesting a modification. It also, it is sald, points out how such objects as are common to the powers can best be secured, Responses that have been re- celved are favorable and the State de- partment 1s reported to be well satisfled with the progress so far made. It Is gratifying to know that our gov- ernment is active and persistent in urging upon the other powers the adop- tlon of a course which Is clearly dictated by reason, justice and humanity. It is the only course which contains the promise of early and permanent peace, the preservation of the territorial integ- rity and administrative entity of China, and the payment of a fair Indemnity to the powers. The demand of some of the powers In regard to the punishment of offenders Is a reproach to civilization and American concurrence in It s simply Impossible. As to Indemnity it should be placed at a sum that China can pay within a reasonable period, without having to sacrifice any territory or ruin her people In order to meet the obliga- tion. There Is no benefit or advantage to be derived by any power from bank- rupting China. This is the sane and just view of the matter taken by the United States and it would seem that it must event- ually commend itself to all the powers. THE THANKSGIVING BEE. The Sunday Bee will be a speclal Thanksgiving number replete with not- able features peculiarly appropriate to the season. This Thanksglving flavor permentes particularly The Illustrated Bee, which Is served to each subscriber in addition to all the news of the day and the various Sunday departments, The frontisplece of The Illustrated Bee reproduces a characteristic photo- graph made by our own speclal staff artist for the purpose, illustrating “I'he First Thanksgiving Day.” It is related that the first Thanksgiving proclama- tton, issued by Governor Bradford to the pligrim fathers 'way back in 1621, in- cluded the appointment of four men “to go fowling that they might after more special manner rejoice together.” The original Thanksgiving day expedition of the pligrim fathers is therefore por- trayed in a pleture that is a real work hof art. Other timely reading 1s to be found in an up-to-date sermon on Thunksgiving | day—"The Leguacy of the Pligrims,” by Rev. Edwin Hart Jenks, the popular pastor of the First Presbyterian church, set off by the portrait of the author, and an illustrated article on the “Strange Thauksgiving Customs of the Indians.” Mrs. Hemans' famous poem on Thanks- glving day 18 also reprinted. Carpenter's letter this week tells about the new railroad enterprises on foot In the Chinese empire, with snapshots at scenes and incidents of railroad building in the Orlent. The cornerstone laylng of our new High school building, which took place a week ago, has provided a group of photographs descriptive of the event— one deplicting the Masonic ceremony, an- other the Knights Tewmplar in full re- galla and a third the lneup of the crowd in frout of the platform—all strikingly clear, so that the participants can Le easily recognized. What will appeal more directly to local patrons is an illustrated article explaining what 1s belng done for chil- dren in the poorer quarters in Omaha, The pictures are typieal of the work of the visiting philanthiopists and the subjects upon which they are devoting thelr time. The classes in kitchen Jouonomy. made up of little tots from view through the camera. All these lllustrated features and mwany more are in addition to the reg- ular current news of the day and make The Thanksgiving Bee stand high above all other papers published in this sectlon. Insist on having The Dee from your | newsdéaler or newsbo; THE FILIPINO JUNTA. The Filipino junta at Hong Kong appears not to be alarmed by the rep- resentations regarding it made by the United States to the British government, and which the latter promised to inquire into. On the contrary the Filipinos who lave been supplying the Tagal In- surgents with Information and with arms and ammunition from Hong Kong propose to take the chances of deportu- tion and meantime, it is announced, are endeavoring to make arrangements to ship more arms and ammunition to the rebels in Luzon. It Is quite within the power of the British government to order this junta to leave its territory, but whether or not it will decide to do so0 is a question, to be determined by what its fnvestigation of the operations of the junta shall disclose, There is no rule or principle of international law that we are aware of which applies to the case. If the Filipino insurgents had a standing as belligerents the Hong Kong junta could be deported as violating British neuteality, but this is not the situation. It would secm that the only plausible ground upon which the British govern- ment can order the junta away is that its presence at Hong Kong is inimical to the friendly relations between Great Britain and the United States, a govern- ment having an undoubted right to rid itself of people who may involve it in trouble with another governwent. Republicans never lack for advice from the enemy as to what they should do in the distribution of honors. As a rule, it is a safe plan to find out what the enemy most fears and to be guided by that Information. The great and all- absorbing desire of the fusionists in Nebraska 18 to get back Into power, and nothing would suit them better than to have the republicans make mistakes by clevating to leadership wen incompetent to maintain the position of supremacy won by the party after such a long and costly struggle. The on to keep Nebraska redeemed 1s to look ahead and {nsure continued success by strengthen- ing the party organization from top to bottom. The fusionists have decided not to ob- struct the adwmission of Senator-elect Oleson of Cuming county to the senate by refusing him a certificate of election on the ground of constitutional ineligi- bility. The constitution provides that the senate shall be the sole judge of the election of its own memwbers, and having a cleur and decisive majority of the votes cast Mr. Oleson i entitled to his certificate. The objection urged against Lim rests purely upon a technicality. There is no question but that the people of his district wanf him to represent them in the senate; they knew his qual- {tications and were satisfied with them, and the popular verdict should be re- spected. The plan for cattle trails through the Indlan reservations of South Dakota is again being pushed. While primarily the object 1s to give one of the railroads access to business which Is now almost cut off from it, the opening of these trails would mean the opening of a large cattle country to the South Omaha market, and in that way redound to the benetit of the great packing institutions at this polnt. Anything that would build up the cattle market of South Omaha will find favor with our people, and if the rallronds get any incidental benetit they will be welcome to it. The Bee's criticlsm of the go-as-you- please policy pursued by Omaha's char- itable institutions has elicited no little favorable comment. Many of our pub- lic-spirited people would be more gen- erous In their assistance If they were satisfied that thelr contributions to the various charities were being applied more systematically without covering the same fleld two or three times. Omaha's charitable institutions should get together. e—— A Man Without & Party. Boston Transcript. The new member of congress trom Hawal) 1s a white man, but a dark horse. Great Snap Overlooke Philadelphla Ledger. It is elther singular or significant, ac- cording as you look at it, that no Amert can syndicate has come forward with an offer tb purchase those Dahish islands. bl ing On to His Rations, Globe-Democrat. The American Indlan, who has been “dying out” for the last ten years, turns up in the late census to the number of nearly 800,000, As this means “rations,” the number Is probably correct, Rainbow Chasing. ‘Washington Post. The Omaha World-Herald says Nebraska was carried by fraud. How about Hauna's speeches, which, according to this fume newspaper, were making so many thousands of votes for the popullsts? Tall Goes with the Hide, Salt Lake Tribune. There was a pretty clean sweep in Ne- braska. The electoral votes were for Me- Kinley and Roosevelt; the republican can- didates for state officers were elected; In the new legislature the republicans will have a majority on joint ballot and will elect two senators. We do not believe that Mr. Bryan will ever again be any directing force in polities in America ex- cept, perhaps, as a popullst, The Shadow of a Party, Philadelphia Record. It was high time for the silver repub- lleans to disband thelr organization. In 1896 the silver states of the Roeky moun- tains—Colorado, Montana, Utah, Idaho and Nevada—gave Bryan a total plurality of 241,265 votes. In 1900 Utah has gone over 10 the republicans and the remaining states have given Bryan a total plurality of a little over £0,000 votes. It was for this handful of impotent silverite suffrages that the democrats were twice induced to aban- don the principles of Jefferson, Jackson, Beaton and Tilden to follow the jack-o'- lantern of 16 to 1 into the morass of defeat. » _] the lower walks of life, are held up 10 | @eesessssscsssssssssssssssd THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED. Tilden Citizen. There I8 no danger of a dearth of candidates when the Nebraska legislature {s called to select two of Its citizens for senatorial hon- ors, but it s highly improbable that a more thoroughly equipped maq for the position can be found than Edward Rosewater. @eosscccccoccoscoces —_— OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, According to Dr. von Rosthorn, who was charge d'affaires in the Austria-Hungarian legation in Pekin during the siege, there was not much to bo feared even from regular Chinese troops armed with modern weapons. Their fear of Europeans, he points out, was manifested clearly enough In their failure to make any attempt to capture any position held by them by open attack. All that they could be depended upon to do was to maiu- tain & fusillade of rifle and gun fire by day and night, the object of which was to pre- vent the Europeans from making sorties, very much in the way they used to beat gongs and discharge firecrackers in the olden days. If the Europeans were firing the Chinese soldiers bluntly refused to advance at all or to expose any part of their pre- clous persons to flying bullets. Their posi- tlon was indicated by the muzzles of their rifles protruding above the walls and bar- ricades. Thelr firing, consequently, was all in the air and comparatively harmless. Dr. von Rosthorn writes: Notwithstanding an expenditure of ammunition which may be estimated at 2,000,000 rounds, the Chinese rifle fire produced no effect to speak of, even at a distance of twenty meters, The so- called attacks and the alarm signals, which in the beginning were sounded almost hourly, necessitating very fatiguing guard service, proved so harmless that at last no attention was pald to them, and they did not even lead to a reinforcement of the out- posts. The same thing happened with the EUnS as with the rifies. As they wero never exposed, but always placed behind barri- cades, they could only be fired at a high angle, demolishing more or less the roofs of our houses, but falling to drive us from our positions.” A Russian journal indicates one of the obstacles to the success of the Stberian rail- way and incidentally accounts for the iu- efficlency of Russia’s civil and military services. The case of an Irkutsk merchant Is described. Ho had a carload of fruit to ship to Chita over the Siberian railway. He paid, to begin with, $85 for freight Next he paid $60 to “lubricate” the road, this sum going into the hands of various railroad men who had it fn their power to delay a shipment. When he had pald his freight and loadod the car in Irkutsk an official told him the was out of order and must be sent to the shops and would be gone at least a week, but when the ship- per slipped a good-sized banknote into hls hands the Inspector concluded that the car might pass. But at the next station the same complalnt was made and the same method of silencing it employed, and g0 on to the end of the route. Corruption af- tects the bullding of rallways in Russia well as thelr operation. Contracts are loaded with commissions, the cost of the finished road is inordinately swollen, and, after all the work s not well done and bas soon to bo remade with fresh contracts, fresh commissions; and so on. e There are many i#atistactory features in the report of the DRitish Local Government board for 1809-1900; which has just been published. Pauperism is at the lowest point which it has ever touched. The as- sossed yalue of real property increased vastly, more sanitary works were under- taken than in any previous year, there was no widespread epidemic of Infectious disease, the death-rate was low, bread cheap and work ‘plentiful. On January 1, 1900, there were (mot counting lunatics) about 74,000 fewer paupers than at the beglnning of 1580, although the population has Increased by about 6,500,000, The pro- portion of pauperism, which in the pros- perous days of agricuiture during the early "708 was nearly 60 per 1,000, has fallen to 25, and the reduction has scarcely been retarded by the operation of Sir Henry Fowler's act of 1804, which practically placed the control of the election of guar- dians, and therefore that of the dlstribu- tion of rellef, entirely in the hands of the working classes themsclves. It is notlce- able that more than a third of the persons relleved wero over 65 years of age, while of able-bodied adults the number was com- paratively insignificant. Pauperism is very unequally distributed in different parts of the kingdom. There is most in agricultural and least In manufacturing districts. The countles which figure as the worst are Dorset, Hereford and Norfolk, all of which have over 40 paupers per 1,000, while in Lancashire and Northumberland the pro- portion is 18, in the West Riding 17 and in extra-metropolitan Middlesex (mainly com- posed of a well-to-do suburban popuiation) only 16 per 1,000, o The semi-official North German Gazette tries to prove that the complaints in the liberal press about the increase In the number of trials In Germany for lese- majeste are unjustified. It bases its argu- ment upon statistics which show that dur- ing the three years 1882-84, 1,290 persons were condemned for crimes of lese-majesto and that during the similar period, 1804-06, the number of sentences reached 1,782, but declined, during 1867-99 to 1,311 This, it says, indicates that a considerable improve- ment has taken place during the last few years. When the great Increase of popula- tion Is taken into account the figures for the years 1897-99, though they exhibit a small absolute Increase over those for 1852- 84, yet represent a relative improvement of more than 21 per cent. The statistics of convictions for all crimes of the group in which lese-majeste is included—I. e., for offenses agalnst the state, against re- ligion and agalnst public order, show that the number of such offenses has steadily increased since 1882, In the opinion of the North German Gazette these figures prove how one-sided are the complaints which are.constantly made by the press in com- menting upon particular trials. This state- ment of the case is not accepted as con- clusive by the press. The Vossiche Zel- tung, for instance, says that it would like to know the number of prosecutions, as well as of convictions, and also the figures for the separate German states. It points out that it would be perfectly possible for the number of lese-majeste cases to de- crease In Germany generally, while in- creasing in Prussia . The Russlan government has postponed for another year the introduction of the new law forbldding forclgners to fish in the basin and at the mouth of the Amur, along the coast of Kamschatka, and gen- ally in Russia’s far castern waters, with the exception of the southern coast of the island of Saghallen, where, however, Russian sub- Jects receive the preference in all cireum- stances. This further postpouement has been conceded at the request of the Japanese government {n arder to glve more time for the Japanese (o liquidate their enormous fshing Interests in those waters. The Rus. slans complain of the Japanese, exploitation of these fisheries, the entire product of which goes over to Japan, and as the many thousands of Japanese engaged in the trade bring all pecessaries with them from cheir own country no advantage whatever ace lerues to Russia from the bus [RELATIONS ARE HARMONIOUS United States and Germany Not Estranged by Ohinese Complication. WHITE CONFERS WITH VON RICHTHOJEN Acting Upon Instructions, Am! dor Interviews Secretary for For- elgn Aflairs with the Most Satistactory Result. BERLIN, Nov. 23.—United States Ambi sador White had an important interview yesterday with Baron von Richthofen, the secretary for forelgn affairs, at the foreign office. It fs understood tho Interview took place as the result of instructions cabled from Washington, and that a somewhat lengthy discussion between the ambassador and secretary had reference entirely to the tdeas of the United States government re- garding the prosecution of the war in China and the co-operation of the United States and Germany and the other European pow- ers regarding the conditions for peace, es- pecially the penalties to be exacted and the indemuity to be secured. It is also un- deratood that the most satistactory and most friendly result was reached, and that it 18 calculated to put at rest the disqulet ipg rumors recently circulated regarding exhibitions of {ll feellng toward Germany in the American press, which it has been pretendell here was inspired from Washing- ton. CARTER COMES IN AMBULANCE Warden McClaughrey Bring Prisoner to the Court House in luvalids' Conveyance, LEAVENWORTH, Kan, Nov. 23.—The habeas corpus proceedings brought by the attorneys of Oberlin M. Carter, late cap- taln of engineers, United States army, to show cause why Warden McClaughrey of the federal prison should not release the prisoner, were opened in the United States district conrt here today. Judge Amos Thayer of St. Louls sat with Judge Hook of this city In the case. Carter was brought from prison to the court room In an ambulance, unattended save by Warden McClaughrey. He appeared self-porsessed as he took his seat and avolded the glances of the spectators who crowded the room. The ex-captain was at- tired in a new black suit, which the warden bad, at the prisoner’s earnest soliciation, permitted him (o substitute for his prison garb, His hair and heavy mustache were much grayer than before ho began serving his term, and his face was wan. Frank P. Blair of Chicago and Congress- man Grosvenor of Ohlo appeared for Carter, while Colonel J. W. Clous, deputy judge advocate general of the army, and District Attorney E. I. Lambert and his assistant, H. E. Bone, represented the government. D. 8. Carter of Illinois, an unclé of the prisoner, was in the audlence, Judge Thayer limited Carter's attorneys to three hours and the government to two and one-half hours' argument. Attorney Blair opened for Carter, whose conviction, ho alleged, was lllegal, inasmuch as it should have been secured under the sixtieth article of war Instead of the sixty-second, and that when the president disapproved several findings in a court-martial the full sentence pronounced by the court-martlal ceased to exist and its execution was illegal and vold. He also argued that when Carter pald a fine and was dismissed from the army and degraded, the power of the court- martial was exhausted and bore no right to cause imprisonment. ] ‘arter showed slight nervousness as the hearing proceeded. His eyes went quickly from his attorney to the judges and occa- slonally he took notes on the argument. When court convened at 2 o'clock Colonel Clous began tho argument in behalf of the government, In reply to Mr. Blalr Colonel Clous con- tended that the court-martial was compe- tent to decide under which charge the prisoner should be tried and that its de- clelon was not subject to review by any other court. He further argued that the conviction on four charges for the same act wis not four convictions for one offense. In his opinion Carter {s now held a public prisoner of the United States as an offender agalnst its laws, the court- martial retalning jurisdiction for all pur- poses of trial, judgment and expectation. The matter of the sentence standing un- changed, In spite of the disapproval of several of the specifications on which Car- ter was found guilty, Colonel Clous held, was In accordance with custom. Argument In the case closed at 5:30 o'clock. Judge Thayer announced that the case would be taken under advisement and will notify the attorneys when he is ready to hand down a decision. Attorney Blair asked that In case Carter Is discharged he may be permitted to go without guard to Savannah, Ga., to surrender himself for trial under the indictment found against him there by a grand jury a few months rter was remanded to the federai prison. A decision is looked for in about & month. Judge Thayer will go home to- morrow. FOUR-MILLION-DOLLAR Discrepancy of that Amount Accounts of the City New York. STEAL Water of NEW YORK, Nov. 23.—The board ot directors of the Merchants' association has accepted and made public a report pre- pared by Frederick B. De Berard, which is a summary to an inquiry made into the revenues of the water department incidental to a collateral inquiry into the Ramapo water contract and the question of the city's water supply. The (nquiry was in progress from Octo- ber, 1899, to August of this year and the report finds a discrepancy in the water ac- counts of $4,107,302. Of this Mr. De Berard says: ““The value of the metered water durlng the period from 1879 to 1890, on the basls of the reports made by the chief englueer, was $11,246,162. During the same period the water register accounted for but $7,137,709, which sum includes not only the amount actually collected by him, but the amount due the city and returned by him as arrears, ‘It is not alleged that these figures are absolutely accurate. The computations are based on averages and give only an ap- proximation of the actual facts, but, as my deductions are made from the oficial data, elther that data is worthless or the city has lost over $4,000,000 and that in either case the system Is rotten becwuse it con- ceals either misinformation or corruption.” In the acceptance of the report the directors passed resolutions looking to the appointment of a ways and means committee to carry the inquiry furthes CHICAGO, Nov. The poverty-stricken condition of Mrs. Adella Burton, who claims to have been a confidentlal servant in the family of Jefferson Davis during the civil war, wais br t to the atteation of the police here today and her wants at- tended to. Mrs, Burton, who was discovered In ¢ lone'y hovel on the south side, declared that when the president of the confederate states fled (o escape captare she was en trusted with the private effects of the furtuve. She was born In slavery elghty- oven years TLCA N Ty Nov, oA petition “in bankruptey has been filed by Barrows & Ladow, door and blind manufacturers of Mechanieville, N. Y. The lLabllities, Bate 62,99, assets, $41,080, ONE POPULAR REFORM, Nearly a Break Down. Humboldt Standard. The Standard, s not particularly “stuck” on Mr. Rosewater, but he stands steadfastly for one reform with which this paper is in hearty accord—the election of senators by popular vote, It is one of the coming lssues and is favored today by a majority of the voters of the country, @reccscccccocoossosooccce POLITICAL DRIFT, Mr. Addicks continues to give the sena. torfal pot in Dela strenuous politics The Chicago Inter Ocean Secretary Lyman J. What fs & democrat? Those who have been rudely routed from the ple counter at Lincoln may be pardoned for “‘chewing the rag." The expense roll of St. Peul for the en- suing year foots up $1820,700, of which $1,636,100 18 to be ralsed by city taxes, insists that Gage Is a democrat All opposition to the return of Senator Morgan of Alabama has vanished. The senator Is a pronounced expansionist. With a budget of $98,000,000 with which to run Greater New York for 1901, it Is evi- dent the Tammany braves will not let go without a desperate fight. Annexation of adjoining towns is proving an expensive luxury to New York and Chi- cago taxpayers. Expenses far exceed the ratio prevailing before corsolidation. Charles A. Towne dutifully reeommends that the funeral of the silver republican party proceed to the cemetery without further ceremony. Mr. Towne is the chief mourner. When the newly elected governors of states have all been inaugurated there will be twenty-six republican, eighteen demo- cratlc and one silverite, the last being Rein- hold Sadler of Nevada. The people of Rensselaer county, N. Y., decided a momentous internal fssue at the election, that Is, by 5,762 votes to 6,687 they voted that the county should take pos- sesssion of the toll gates. The defeated candidate in the last mayor- alty clection o Elmira, N. Y., is serving a sentence in the penitentlary for embezzle- ment and his successful rival has just been arrested on the charge of forery, Elmira is the home town of Hill and Stanchfield. “I don't belleve much in wire-pulling,” Democratic Governor-elect James B. Or- man of Colorado I8 reported to have said a few days ago. And he added: “I don't care much about politics as politics. 1 want to give the state an honest, square, intelligent, business administration, that's all. A thrifty housewife in Fort Wayne, Ind., sent Mark Hanna a bill for $1.80 “for thirty-six pigsfeet at § cents each” spolled in the cooking during Hanna's visit 10 the Indiana town. Accompanying the bill was the statement that the woman's husband, who was detailed to watch the cooking of the dellcacy, was lured away from his duty by Hacna's spelibinding qualities, and the Hoosleress rightly in- slsted that Mark was responsible for the loss. Hanna cheerfully assented and sent her a ckeck for $2. SMILING SUGGESTIONS. Detrolt Journal: Love the window that way has naturally a ten- dency to get poverty to be regarded as something of a knocker. flying out of Chicago Record: earthly thing, does he? “Yes; he makes everybody that knows him talk about how lazy he is." kitts doesn't do an Chicago Tribune: Rivers—I wish I could remember what I tled that knot™in this handkerchlef for. Brooks—Perhaps to conceal the initials in the corner. I lost one like It the other ay. Pittsburg Chronicle: “It's odd how things run_in groups” remarked Mr. Bellefield to, Mr. Hloomfield. “What do you mean?" “Well, at the present time there are in- teresting shows in the stock market and at the stock vards. Washington Star: “I am proud to say that 1 did not spend a hundred dollars to y y electlon,” sald Lie statesman, returned’ Senator Sorghum, *I meant’ to congratulate you before this, You certainly got a bargain.” Philadelphia Press: Foreman—Gee whiza! but Mr. Good, the candidate for county treasurer, 18 mad at you. 2ditor—"What? Why. we gave him a great send-off in this week's paper. Foreman—Ycs, hie 5ay8 you've ruined him. You reterred t0 him s a “trusted em- ploye, ‘Washington Btar “How {s your son gettin' on now?" asked the nelghbor. “I reckon he's doin’ purty swered Farmer Corntos “He's ‘gettin’ right polished. He doesn't say ‘b'gosh’ an re frequent examples of | Mrn. Olbers, m Prominent Minnesota Lady Telln a Remarkable Story, ALBERT LEA, Minn., Nov. 23—(8pecial) There are few men and women in this State or indeed in the whole northwest, who have not heard, or do not know per- sonally Mrs. Henrlette C. Olberg of this eity. Mre. Olberg was Judge of Linen and Linen Fabrics at the World's Falr, at Chicago, and Superintendent of Flax Ex- hibit at the International Exposition at Omaba, Nebraska, o 1898, Mrs. Olberg is Secretary of the National Flax, Hemp and Ramie Assoclation, and Asslstant Editor of the “Distaff Her official dutles are naturally very onerous, and involve a great deal of travel- ling and liviog away from home. Sho says: “During the World's Fair in Chlcago, my official dutles so taxed my strength, that 1 thought 1 would bave to give them up. Through the continual change of food and frregular meal hours, and a poor quality of water, 1 lost my appetite, and became wakeful and nervous in the extreme. My Kidneys refused to perform their usual duties. One of my assistants advised me to try Dodd's Kidney Pills, and sent for box. I am pleased to say that I derived immediate and permanent benefit. I used threo boxes, and feel ten years younger “I have great confidence in the efficacy of Dodd's Kidney Pills, and am always glad to speak a good word In their favor. “Dodd’s Kidney Pills are weak women's best friend.” All Dealers, 0 cents a box. B e — swear-words, same as pec stag Ly do on the of the theayter we w nt to." Detrolt Journal: The Peasant mortified ‘t0 discover that e Gonse hen lafd a gold brick ol don't befong to the Bricklnyers unton!” he exclaimed, sternly, wnd the fow! without mote ado. ' *'9 Killed This ~Inctdent illusirates the strong 1 clination of the proleturiats to stand Gether. HOPB FOR T BA Pittsburg Chronicle, There's hope for men with shining pates, For o'er the as sped The tidings that X rays will make Halr grow on bildest head, The famous Austrian M. D Who cartfed on the test Just turned the lght on barren spots And nature aid the rest "Twas Bismarck said the greatest man The world has ever known Is one who makes two blades of grass Spring up where one had grown But greater far than any man Whom we can now recall Is one who makes hair grow on heads Where there was none at all *Tis glorious news to all the men _Who, when they doff their (lles, Exposé their polished cranfums And thus give cause for smiles, *Twill also save embarrass jent On going to a show, For usters won't be hustling them Down to the “baldhead” row 8oon joy will relgn in barber shops Where business has been slack, For customers of former years Wil all be rushing back. Bach barber's feet around Will make a well-worn rut, For.every mother's kon wlil have A crop of hair to cut. s chalr There'll be refoicing loud and long, Where'er men congregate, When halr again is growing on The former barren pate. 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