Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1900, Page 6

[ THE ©MAHA DAILY BEE. WATER, Editor. ¥ MORNING . ROS PUBLISHED EV {8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. (without Sunday), One Year.$6.00 + and Sunday 8.00 Beo 200 One One 1'ust Bund: Baturday Bée 8| Weekly Bee 9 ¥ OFFIC Omaha: The Hee Building. South Oma City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and N streets Council Bluffs: 10 Pear] Street. Chicago: 180 Unity Hullding. Now York urt Fhurteenth Street. Park 8treet SPOND ANR t Washington: &l Bloux Clty: 61 CORR Communicat torfal m yuld be addressed Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS and remittances Bee Publishi news and edl- Omaha should Busine: c Com- be addre: pany, Om ters The L] REMITTANCES draft,_ express or | The Bee Publishir atamps ten in payment of mafl accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or Kastern exchanges, not accepted. | THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, 8s.: George 18 Taschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, Rays that the actual number of full and completa coples Daily, Morning, Evening and Su printed during the month of Novemb . was as follows L 28,350 28,200 28,100 Al order, mpany Remit payabl Only 2 by t .. 27070 L27,020 28 2N 410 27,000 020 27,740 27,770 27,505 28,080 28,550 26,450 12,088 Total Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales Net daily average, GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subseribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of December. A; D, 1200, M. B, HUNGATE, Notary Publie. ——————— A strange fatality appears to hover around the stat auditor's Christmas presents. ——— bragka's biggest Christmas present eame ahead of time and grew in the corn gnd wheat fields, A chance to rest is the most aceept able Christmas present which the mail carrier and the expressman received. The man with the legislative panacen for all human ills will soon be in active | evidence agaln at the Nebraska capital. | The ancient practice of New Year's ealls will be resumed next week at the varlous senatorlal headquarters in Lin- coln. If any of the Nebraska leglslators have not yet heard of the herd law they will have heard before the session ends. How lucky that the poor Indian does not have to wait for the Omaha Indian | supply depot to furnish him his winter's shoes and blankets. The state house crowd is preparing to gwear off on holding office as one of the good resolutions of the glad new year, which will be Tenst-Smasher Smyth has not yet moved on the combine of guaranty hond companies. It makes a hug difference whether they are squeezing republican or fusionist public officer; ———— David B. Hill will not scintillate beside Bryan at the annual Jacksonian feast. The ex-senator still' insists he Is a demo srat, but he prefers to plek the brand with which he is to associate, The recent silence of that great pe ltical general, J. H. Edmisten, is be- coming overpowering. Another bom- bastie manifesto or challenge to debate with Mark Hauna would relieve the op pressive atmoxphere, —e Mayor Harrison is charged by the ministers with being responsible for all the vice which exists in Chicago. It has long been known that Chicago's mayor was not a saint, but this is charging up entively too much against him. Great Britaln proposes to complete the task of taking the census in one Quy. The Transvanl is not to be in- cluded In the returns, however, as Kitchener has been unable to secure gervice of the requisite blanks on the Boers. Organized labor closes the century In better trim than ever befo The trades unlons have greater membership and more potent influence than at any previ- ous period in their history, while the wage schiedules have been ralsed along almost the entive line, The British cubinet hastens to declare that the London Times does not speak with authority regarding the amended Hay-Pauncefote treaty. The explana- ton Is needloss, for it is generally known that the British cablnet ministers are possessed with some diseretion, Senator Clark's troubles seem never to have an end. Just as the Montana legislature is about to assemble and he hopes to be elected senator in a man- ner which will stick a rald is made on his ammunition wagon In the shape of a suit for $1,000,000, ie cotton Santa Clans and the Fourtl of July firecracker have for years run a close race in the casualty columns of the newspapers. The census is not yet complete, but the indications are that the century will close without any decided advantage on either side, The wiseacre who Is so certain that the police have bungled the effort o capture the Cudahy kidnapers and that the wen could be located and ar- rested in twenty-four hours might make the effort himself. With M0 in it most men would be satistied with such 1200 to Induce 160 | | organization w return for a day's lnbor, VOLUNTEERS MUST REMAIN The declsion of the military authori- | tles of Washington thut no further actlon can be taken with regard to the | return of the volunteers from the Phil ippines uutil congress shall make pro vision for thelr replacement, ought | the senate to act promptly recess upon the army re-| LIl There is no matter | before congress so urgent as this and | to unduly delay action upon it u..uhw not only be an injustice to the mhnurs‘ | after the who are entitled to return to the United States, but might have a ten dency to impalr the morale of the army in the Philippines. The volun teers, its I8 s generally want to me home and if they must be kept in the Philippines because of cong slonal delay In making provision for replacing them, it will not be surpris ing if they complain, In his statement before the senate committee on military affairs at its last ting, thy etary war sald that ongress did not at once increase the ariy in g with the of rdance recom { mendations of the War department tae United States would be obliged 1o abandon a large part of the vn.nppm--[ islands where efvil erument - has | been established. Withdrawal of the present garrisons from certain parts of | Luzon would leave the municipal | officers, mostly Filipinos, defenseless | and In danger of losing their property | and perhaps their lives. At the | time, Secretary Root urged, th States would b for sume United disgraced having proved faithless to solemn obligations, | that the Cuban government s fairly | 7 It is not dificult to understand what | the result of this would be. Hostility | to Awerican authority would be stimu- | lated and the task of suppressing in surrection and establishing p and order in the Philippines ndered | harder and more difficult It is clearly unfortunate that senate did not pass the army organization bill before the holiday re- | cosg, but as it is no time should be lost | when the session i resumed in acting upon the measure. for a time, In t the re | It will be necessary | opinion of General | MacArthur, to maintain an army of | 60,000 men in the Philippines and in order to do so new men must be en listed, since comparative few of those now there, it is said, are likely to re-| enlist unless extraordinary inducements | are offe THE ENDLESS CLAIMS. Alrendy in the present session of con gress cluim Dbills aggregating $25,000, 000 have been favorably reported in the | senate. They are principally for prop- | alleged to have been taken or de- | stroyed by the union armies during the elvil war and while some of the claims may have merit the great majority of | them have been seeking congre: recognition for years and are pushed simply on account of the large con tingent fees which will go to lobbyists if they become laws, It is said that back of these bills are enough senators to hold np all business | in the senate unless the bills are passed | and force an extra session. The evi-| dent Intention of these senators to hold up the business of the session if | the bills are not allowed to come to o vote was the subject of a conference, a few days before the recess, between ie senate and house leaders. It was | decided by these leaders that the bills | should be opposed to the uttermost in | the senate, even if their supporters car ried out their threat to force an extra sesslon of congress, as the expense of an extra session and the Inconvenience it would impose on senators and repr sentatives would be preferable to al lowing a wholesale raid to be made upon the treasu This is the proper position. It is pre posterous that thirty-five years after the close of the civil war congress should be asked to recognize clalms for property alleged to have been taken or destroyed by the arwies of the union aggregating $25,000,000. At every session of congress new claims of this character are presented and 1t this sort of thing is encouraged it will go on in- definite It is the duty of every man in congress who would protect the national treasury to make a det stand against these attempted upon It and it is gratifying to know that this is the intention of the leaders. Just claims should of course be recognized and paid, but it is safe to say that not to exceed one in ten of those now hefore congress have any merit 80 STILL THE MILITARY HEAD- QUARTERS. There is no question that Kansas City has its eye still fastened on the head- quarters of the military Department of the Missouri, now located here, and will during the coming year make another grand effort to take it away from Omaha and transplant it within its own limits, It is an open secret that the engerness of Kansas City to entertain General Fitzhugh Lee combined a wish to do honor to the magnificent record he has made and high reputation he bears with a degire to cultlvate his favor and in- fluence for their headquarters removal project. So intent are our friends in Missouri upon thelr design that some of their newspapers have already Incau- tiously given hints of it iu public print that have called out from General Lee a denial that he has given any expres sion of views or consideration to the | question of department headquarters. To be forewarned Is to be forearmed and Omaba must see to it that its in terests in this important matter are not neglected, The conditions that have fitted Omaha pre-eminently for the mili tary headquarters furnish just as con cluslve arguments as ever against a change, yet constant vigilance must be exerted to offset the pressure sure to be called futo requisition by our compet- ftors, The work of*the Kansas City Commercial club can and must be offset by the Omaha Commerclal club, Omaha must stand up for Omaha all the time and protect its interests in the | race for commercial supremacy. The combined efforts of the Journal fakirs have centered the culpa bility for the Cudaby kiduaping between THE OMAHA DATLY Santa Claus and Jack Frost, both of whom have been manifesting sugpleions netivity of late. 1f efther of these suceeeds fn proving an alibi they m have to fall. ba more on those twin hobgoblins of im falism and mili tarism that threatened to much criminal mischief a few months ago. k once do so GERMAN CLAIMS INCUBA There has been filed In the State department at Washington, on behalf of German subjects, claims for dumnges to their iuterests In Cuba as a result of the Spanish-Ameriean war and the nsurrection which led up to the war, Our government has refused to nccept responsibility for these claims, but it is understood that they will not for that be abandoned and held in abeyance until Cuba shall have an independent government, when they will be presented directly to that gov- ernment. Other countries have simflar regating a large sum, reason claims ng This is 0 matter of vepy considerable | tmportance, for notwithstanding the fact that the Unite tes now refuses to aceept any responsibility as to these claims, our vernment may find it necessary to take an active part in conuection with the question of thefr settlement whenever it shall be y sented to a Cuban government, 1t safe to assume that German and other clnims will be pressed for settlement Just as xoon as an independent govern ment Is instituted in Cuba and in that case it will be the duty s well as the inte of the United States to is t see and Justly treated. apparent that the our government in regard to claims does 1ot necessarily med it will tuke no future interest in them. it present Is therefore position of With the expansion of the United States' possessions and the more inte ested purticipation of the United States in th of the world powe the fmportance of the American diplomatic service is being s heightened and the de mand perienced and well-trained representatives in the diplo matie branch of our government. More educated young men are now preparing themsely for this work In minor capacities of the service than ever be fore, while the disposition to stick to the work is also in good evidence. When the emergeney demands, each American generation ean be relied on to answer the call of the hour, S, successive That state house watchman who rescued the strong box of the state treasury from an imaginative burglars raid is complaining that his exhibition of valiant bravery is not eliciting the response expect He ought to have timed his bur visit for a more propitious d; At Emperor William has decorated Count von Buelow with the Order of the Black Eagle. Out of the loot sent home from China by neral Waldersee the Euro- pean monarchs should be able to deco rate some of their favorites with yel low shirts and three-eyed peacock feathers, Justice Lands Rightly, Cleveland Leader. The chief persecutor of Dreytus s living in abject poverty in London. That seems something like poetic justice. Reat for the Weary, Philadelphia Times. In this fight between the base ball mag- nates and the players more poignancy s added to the situation by their mot being able to blame it on the umpire. ¢ft to Stand On. New York Pross A scientist has now arisen who declares the Gulf stream 1s a myth. It science con- tinues its devastating way we shall soon have nothing left to cling to but esoteric Buddhism and the significance of cat tracks. Britain's Big Club Usele Kansas City Journal. The joke is on the British navy--the biggest and strongest aggregation of bat- tleships in the world. It {8 compelled to float idly on the seas and permit a hand- ful of African farmers to flail the day- lights out of the l!rl}llh military estab. lishment. Prosperity and Plety, Springfield Republican The plan of starting a great end-of-the- century religious revival Is otherwise poorly timed. The country is too prosper- ous. The' greatest revivals of the kind known in the United States have followed industrial panic and depression, as in 1837 and 1857 All of which, of course, speaks highly of the deep essential spirituality of human nature. San Francl Call During the campalgn few people attached much importance to Senator Stewart's re- turn to the republican party, but since the meeting of congress everybody has dls- covered that it means a good deal, for there s now a falr assurance the senate will not be bored by another of those long-winded free silver speeches he has been in the habit of making. Wit i A woman who was the last and strewed flowers Lafayette. It is thus within the memory of one lifetime that this nation has made its wonderful progress from o revolted colon Great Britaln to a position sec- ond to no nation in the world. It is a record for patriotic Americans to be proud of in One Lifetime, Ithmore Amertean, has just dled in New Jersey of the chorus that sang in the path of rinciples Go Together, Buffalo Bxpress. The supreme court of Illinols has clared unconstitutional a law which bade enployers to discharge men for longing te a labor unicn. The court argues that the law can no more forbld an em- ployer to discharge men than it could for- bid an employe to quit his job. The prin ciple of compulsory employment would involve the principle of compulsory labor, and no workingman can afiord to tolerate that. Two de- for- Greed of Asmen, Springtield Repub'fean axmen are likely to fight the plan to establish a park and timber preserve at the ters of the Mississippl. It Is feared that the consent which Secretary Hitch cock has given for the cutting of “dea: and-down' timber will mean the destruc tion of all the forests on the site of the proposed park, for it will be a hard task to prevent the firing of the woods. Mean- while the people of lows and Minnesota [} The hara against forest headwa . | water supply will be | internattonal negotiations | national | BEE: WEDNESDAY, | are petitioning congress to set aside 800,- [ 0o0 acres of forest land in Minnedota and Wisconsin, to preserve the timber and the of the Mississippi’s sources. Ger] we Second. Ledger. any n ( Philadelphia | The German merchants have been quick to seo that the Americans are taking away | their trade and that of England, and, Ger- man like, they are prompt to consider ways and means for recovering the lost ground It behooves their American competitors not | to trust too much to national enterprise for keeping the advantage already gained, but o exert themselves to avold being sur- prised in their own camp by their shrewd and presevering competitors. | Away with Tinhorn Lenader, | Loutsville Courfer-Journal Mr. Cleveland was not altogether happy In his illustration, but by intuition he hits the nail squarely on the head when ho says “Give the rank and file a chance.” He should have sald, ‘the boys in the trenches.” The rank and file means both offics and men. If the “boys in the | trenches” want a chance let them take tho ex-president's hint and sail in and win. There has been quite enough of tin- | horn leadership. What is needed are young men and fresh blood, less muscle and more brains, A SMALL FIGURE, | Showink of Small Parties in the Pres- | tdential Vote, Philadelphta Times | The figures showing the total vote for president and vice president at the late election demonstrate the tendency of small part to split up Into smaller fractions. They also indicate that the combined vote of all the minor parties constitute no factor atall in a great presidential contest. The total vote cast was 13,961.118, of which McKinley (republican) received 7 Bryan (democrat), 6,367,883; illey (prohibition), 207,368; Barker (peo- 50,188, Debs (social democrat), 52 Malloney (soctalist labor), 33,45 McKinley's plurality over Bryan was 85 and McKinley's majority over all 4680 | The total vote of all the minor parties, in- cluding 5,608 votes for the national union | | reform party and 518 for the United Chri | tian party, was 391,744, or less than McKin- ley's majority over all While it would be rash to predict that no one of these minor parties will ever super- | sede one of the great parties, their present | rate of growth does not indicate this as [ even a remote possivility. The two prinet | pal organized parties have the fleld, and it | is easler for the leaders of either to trim | sails to catch a popular breeze than it Is to organize a new party from the bottom to represent even a strong popular senti- ment. The late election figures furnish very little encouragement for new parties. SALARIES OF FEDERAL JUDGES, sntion Pronounced Penarloun” New York Tribune, A movement is on foot at Washington to increase the salaries of federal judge This appears to be a reasonable plan. The | country expects to obtain the services of men of exceptional capacity, culture and experience in the courts, but the system of | compensation is absurdly penurlous, DECEMBER 26, Mr. Rosewater’ Tilden While the political past of Edward Rose water requires no vindication at the hands of a country newspaper, it will not be amiss to indulge In a littlo plain talk in his be- | halt. In so dolng it 1s as well to recall that his republican enemies make no specific %o agalnst his candidacy for the United tates e and cheerfully admit his | abllity and capucity for the position. The | plain English of the matter fs that Mr. | Rosewater's republicanism is of that rug gedly honest character which finds no room for sacrificing republican principles to per. | sonal triendship or personal gain, and this leads to the general assertion on the part | of his enemies that he “can’t be trusted. Among a certain element of old goldlers, his retusal to support Tom Majors for gov- ernor in 1594 still rancors, but even theso acknowledge that his opposition to the ro publican nominee was justified by events which became generally apparent later on It s also charged in a promiscous way that Mr. Rosewater is responsible for the state government being turncd over to the rule of the populists. But it should be re- membered that The Bee warned the repub- lican party against nominating Joe Bartley for a second term, and that if this caution had been heeded it is certain that the party would have been spared the humiliation at- tendant upon the defalcation at the end of his last administration. Admitted that The Bee's tnfluence changed the political com plexion of the state, will any republican deny that, by so doing, Mr. Rosewater 1900, $ Republicanism v Citizon purged the republican party of corruption of nearly twenty years' standing? Can any republican honestly rogret that purification came at even this late date or con- sclentiously condemn the means which brought it about? We had drifted into a position of falsely assumed political se- curity and were controlled almost abso- lutely by a small ring of politicians wh only desire for place was the filching of state money, and n our ignorance and blindness supposed, like Tony Weller, that everything was “all very capital” with the party. It required just such an upheaval as was commenced by The Bee's attitud in 1894 to make us fully alive to the actual rotten condition of the head of the party. Mr. Rosewater's estimate of affairs was not guess work, actual knowledge. a change must state house but based on He made no secret that come and when convention deliberately decided of a continuance in power of coterle of rascally politiclans alternative, as an honorabie pudiating that part of its pro publicans are all agreed that the gratify ing result of the recent election in the state was due very materially to the yeo manry work accomplished by Mr. Rose water and his paper and, since no ques tion exists as to his pre-eminent qualif cations, it would seem that his defeat for the honorable place to which he would brand the republican party state with base ingratitude. in tavor the same he bad no n, to re edure. Re [t of the POINT, HAZING AT WEST Baltimore American: The testimony given by the West Point cadets of the practi nd amuscments at that fnstitution indi- cate a pressing need for an improvement in fts standard of intelligence. Indianapolis News: Cadet Hobson ac- kpowledges that he was almost strangled n being compelled by the West Point cadets to stund on his head in a bath tul, but he did not call that hazing. Perhaps it is not hazing unless the operation re sults fatally! \ Kansas Clty Star vealed the brutal extent to which hazing has been carried at West Polnt as the tes timony of Cadet Krumm of Ohio, who testi- | fied that he was compelled to eat elghty-five prunes at one sitting. Compared with that, the slicing of Whittaker's cars was a trifiing matter. Nobody but an Ohio boy would have lived to tell the story. Springfleld Republican: Al hazing can be abolished in our military schools with- out impairing the manhood of budding soldiers During the centuries past civil- ized war Itself has gradually thrown off its woist atrocities, its most coplous, unre- strained blood-letting, and the race today is as brave and strong as ever in histor: Cruelty is never the essence of courag and everything tbat stimulates its growth at the expense of the humanities in the early training of our professional soldiers cannot too soon be swept away. Minneapolis Times: The only deduction we can draw Is that West Point needs for its honor and credit a fresh intusion of | especially for the justices whose duties compel them to make their homes in citles | in which the expenses of living are ceedingly high. Great Britaln gives to its Judges salarles many times larger than those which are paid to the national bench | in the United States. The state of New | York does much more for the wearers of the ermine than our general government | ex- | | 18 in tho habit of doing | In this district the state supreme court justices receive $17,500 a year and the term | is fourteen years. Circuit and district Judges on the federal bench are paid less than half as much in this part of the country for faithful work. Many brilliant lawyers decline to accept nominations for the supreme court bench in this state be- cause thelr yearly incomes from their practice exceed $17,500 by a broad margin | and they that in consideration for thelr familles they cannot agree to don the gowns, | although the honor is highly prized. It is not equitable or considerate to ask lawyers of the foremost rank to take appointments as circuit and district judges in the federal courts when the salaries are not sufficient | to allow them to live in a manner befitting their stations. It is not treating them | fairly to urge them to consent to so serlous sacrifices, A bill which will be considered by the United States senate next month proposes a new scale of salaries in the federal courts It makes the salary of the chief justice of tho United States supreme court $ and that of each associate justice $15,000. To each circuit judge $9,000 is to be paid and to the district judges 0 each. Tt this measure errs at all It is on the side of economy. Would $20,000 a year be too much for %o lofty a chair as that of chief justice of the supreme court of this great | nation? The best men at the bar of any state in the union are not too good or too great for the federal bench. To stint Judicial salaries is not a wise policy for so wealthy and prosperous a people as ours, NS OF THE YEAR. Personal Dountions and Beqn gregating Sixty Milllon Dollar: Chicago Tribune, The benefactions of the year 1900 to educational institutions, libraries, art museums and galleries, charities and churches by personal donations and bequests amount to the large total of $60,264,030 to date, or between $19,000,000 and $20,000,000 less than last year. This total may be in- creased somewhat during the coming week, but approximately it represents what has been contributed to these varlous objects during the year. It 18 in no way discouraging that the record shows this year a falling off as com- pared with 1899, for last year was a record- breaker. Its total ($79,749,956) was a round 0,000,000 greater than the average of the preceding ten years, and that of the present year is fully $32,000,000 greater, showing that, while the wave has naturally | receded @ little, 1t {s still far in advance of the total reached in any years prior to 1899, ot A this great sum of $60,264.030 educa- tional institutions have received almost exactly one-half, or $30669,644, and more than half of this has been recelved by thirty- six of the larger colleges and universities. The smaller colleges, academies and semi- | | naries have been given $9,061,405, and the Methodist twentieth century thank offer- ing has enriched educational institutions with $3,142,032 more. Libraries and art museums and gallerles should be classified as educational The former have received $6,448.000. Nearly the entlre amount has been given for the building of new libraries | in sixty-four aifferent citles and towns, and venteen of these are to be credited to Mr. Andrew Carnegie, who has given $4,195,000 for this purpose during the year. For art galleries and museums there has been do- nated $556,000. Charities and generous proportion churches have received a of the total benefits, Charities have taken $13,390,178, which 1s about $150,000 more than last year, and the various churches and church enterprises which {8 nearly $6,000,000 more n last year. When it is considered that figures only represent gifts or be- s where the amount s over $1.000 in each case, and that private subscriptions or | collections, of which no record can be kept | are not included, there is every reason for the pessimist to take courage. “This such spirit as, years ago, was manifested by Cadet Buck of Texas. The country will remember that he refused to be “disciplined” according to West Point traditions, and consclous of his own dignity and good breeding, shot the ruffian who headed the hoodlum gang intent upon his persecution and humiliation. He was a far better rep- resentative of American manhood than the cowardly ruffians who sought to torture and disgrace a boy they thought to be defense- less. Philadelphia Press: At best the average cadet or college student {8 a wretched dis- ciplinarian. He is moved by whims in his likes and dislikes, and the exaggerated im- portance he attaches to the disciplinary value of humiliating “‘stunts” proves how warped his judgment is. A dose of tabasco | sauce as a factor in character building sug- gests the domain of the comic opera: the barroom. If these and all other forms of hazing were abolished at West Point there is little danger that there would be any falling off in manliness, for nothing could be more dishonorable, more unmanly than the persistent deflance of rules and regu- lations. Despite the effort to put a “fair face™ on it the revelations as to hazing at West Point are not exactly reassuring. And this the authorities should recognize. IRSONAL NOTES. Senator Lindsay of Kentucky describes bimselt and Senator Caffrey of Louisiana as “the only democrats remaining In the senate." f The shortest biography in (e gressional directory is that of Congress- man Allan Landon McDermott (dem.) Jersey City. It is three and a half lines long. The sketch of Senator Depew is the longest—ifty lines. M. V. Gillner is endeavoring to do for the elk in the west what certain public- spirited people are endeavoring to do for the moose in the east. Mr. Gillner hus established a large preservo In Wyoming, where he will endeavor to save the elk from extermination. Harry Vardon, the great British golf ex- pert, has decided to make his home in the United States. He will visit England this winter to close up his affairs preparatory to leaving the country for good. He there is more money to be made here at golf than in Great Britain Prince Ferdinand of Bulgarla two years ago ordered a crown designed by a prom- {nent artist at Munich. At that time tho prince hoped to be promoted to kingly rank, but since his ambition has been disap- pointed he refuses to pay for the design and the artist has been compelled to sue. It would appear from a recent Incident that the sultan of Turkey shares with his satanic majesty the distinction of not he- ing 80 black as he is painted. A theatrical troupe appeared In his private theater and “Othello.”” When the moment came for the murder of Desdemona the sultan was 50 affected and struck with pity for her that he called out and forbade that she should be smothered King Alexander of Servia sent his med- feal man to the representatives of a foretgn life tnsuranca company asking whether they would issue a polley of $200,000 on his life. The directors of the company replied re- gretting thelr inability to write the risk saying that since the assassination of the king of Italy, who had been insured for $600,000, they had decided not to enter nto any further engagements with relgning soverelgns When a Japancse carved wood group representing a triad of monkeys was offered at the Sprague sale in New York the other day Mr. Kirby, the auctioneer, glancel at it and remarked casually that it might be purchased for the reform club of the Tam- many vice committee. The spectators Aid not see the point of this suggestion until they examined the carving. Tt was sug- gestive of the advice, “Hear no evil, speak | no evil and sce no evil” Don C. Forbes came to Sioux City, Ta., and sold some wheat for § On his way home be was waylaid by masked men, who senrched him and only found 5 cents While the holdup was in progress a woman drove up and made it 1o the rescue. One of the highwaymen held her at bay with a revolver until Forbes' pock- ets were thoroughly explored and th new ve to come world’s not half bad & world as some would like to make it n the rascals made off. The woman was Forbes' wother, who bad the $70 on Ler person. Nothing has ever re- | fight as a maker of men, the ethics of the | con- | of ! #ays | PERILOUS PRECEDENT, Wil Congress Iunore the Connt in the New Apportionmen | Buffalo Express (rep.) In presenting his independent report on the reapportionment bill Representative Crumpacker of Indiana put the case very ution t well when he said: ‘“The question is Will congress make an apportionment of representatives according to the plain re quirements of the constitution, or will it | levore those requirements and act according |to its arbitrary will?” | The proposition involved in hoth the ma Jority and minority reports of the census committeo is to make an apportionment in disregard of the constitutional directions. That is a more serious matter than au incidental effect of gain or loss of repre- sentatives by different states or sections It will make a precedent fraught with the gravest danger. The constitution has pro- vided that representation shall be appor- tioned in a certain way. It has lald down positive rules. It has declared that repre- sentation shall be according to population, |except that, when any state denies or alridges the right of citizens to vote, its | representation shall be reduced in propor- |tion to the number of citizens whom it has | distranchised. It congress can ignore this mandate, It it can give to Louisiana, for example, full representation according to |its population regardless of the number of citizens who have been disfranchised by the laws of that state, then there is no part of the constitutional direction which congress cannot ignore or disobey. Suppose at some future time the con- tinuance in power of one party or another should require that some particular sec- tion of the country have representation in excess of its population? Such conditions have not been unknown in our history. It has more than once happened that it has been of vital concern to some vast prop- erty interest to keep the political control of the country in a particular section. That was the case when a large part of the cap- ital of Americans was invested in induse tries that depended on slavery. It eeemed at one time during the campaign of 1506 to be likely to happen again over the silver issue. The great amount of wealth cen- tered in the worthern and eastern states seemed menaced with appalling losses by the attempt to combine the poorer sections of the west and south. What would it not ave meant for the security of this wealth it the states by which It was represented in congress had been able to anticipate the election with an apportionment which could have counted the value of their property as well as the number of their in- habitants? What would it not have meant for the security of the slave power it con- gress could have made an apportionment which would have counted all the slaves, instead of three-fifths of them, or could have added theretv the value of the cotton produced ? The temptation to resort to such devices would certainly have been strong previous to 1850 and might have been equally strong for a much worthier cause in 1896, if it had |occurred to anybody as possible to make an apportionment in any other way than | by the rules laid down in the constitution imilar temptations must frequently occur. Remove the idea that the constitutional mandate must be followed in this matter and we remove the one safeguard against the use of apportlonments for partisan or sectional cdvantage and sow the seeds perhaps, of future civil wars. TRADE OF THE NATION, Expanding Power of the United State in the Markets of the World, Buffalo Express, The estimates which the Treasury de- partment has made of the extent of the over-sea trade of the United States for the current year again directs attention to the remarkable hold American manufac- turers are gettiug on foreign markets When it is understood that the exports this yoar will amount to more than $1,470, 000,000, or an increase of about $253,000,000 over those of 1549, there can be little won- der that European rivals are alarmed. In | contrast with other years the showing is even more impressive. The exports for | this year will be double those of 1885, three | times those of 1872 four times thoso of 1869 and five times those of 186 On the other side of the ledger are the imports, which will reach $825,000,000, or $15,000,000 less than the high-water mark touched in 1 This leaves a balance in favor of the United States of $645,000,000, which is $25,- | 000,000 greater than last year's balance. Practically all lines of industry contrib- uted to this great balance, so that labor- ers in nearly every field profited by the in creased transactions. Twenty-five per cent | more manutactured articles have been sold | this year than last and it is this special feature of the development that is arousing most comment abroad. The farmer has profited by an Increase approaching $100)- 000,000 in the #ale of agricultural products, a large part of which has been caused by the high price of cotton. While much less of this product has been sold than s cus- tomary, the shortage fn both the present crop and the supplies on hand from the preceding one have been sufficient to glve extraordinary returns The United States Is now far ahead of any other country in the size of its exports. The last obtainable figu for the United Kingdom, its nearest rival, which brought the record to November 1, showed that the value of its exports for the first ten months of the year was $125,000,000, or $40,000,000 less than the value of those of this coun- | try. The possibilities for the extension of American forelgn trade are practically lim- It In the old countries American goods are being sold in ever-increasing vol ume, while markets in new countries are | constantly being opened. Africa promises to be a great market for the manufacturers of the United States, and South Ameriea bas hardly more than begun to take our PAD WABITS 1IN SPEECH, Distinet and Snunctation a Tenining Washington Times With all the instruction in manual train Ing, art, music and lterature which is glv children in the schools of today, and with | a1l the anxtety which the modern parent has for their instruction in the refinements of life, thero fs one simple matier which | does not receive any attention at all in | many cases. It 1s the matter of enuncia- tion, No one thing more surely indlcates the educated and refined person than the man | ner of speech of that person. Even i ask | Ing the simplest question the tone and pro- nunciation betray good breeding or the ro verse. This matter is not one in which heredity is the determining factor. Train Ing has more to do with It than birth, | though a good volce and nccent do some the state | aspires | articles of trade. The island dependencles and China offer other flelds, °8 “run in a family.”" But people whoss ents are of the commonest can, i y choose, train themselves to spealk clearly and pleasantly and not to mispro- nounce common words, The average child speaks a sort of patois, which s not English nor any other lan guage, and {8 roproduced by some of the fictlon writers of the perfod with an accu racy which sets one to wondering i it 18 really necessary for a child to talk in brogue. Of course, it Is not desirable that a 10-year-old should be stilted and old fashioned in speech and use long words Itke a pedant, but where fs the harm of bis enunciating clearly, without shrieking or muttering ? The 5} quiring that It Is answ to hear a re they always or "l beg has to be a o 18 also the a sent a mmon trick of re- nea bo repeated befo Some people never seem ri the first time it fs made; respond to it with “What?" don?" and the whole thing 1 over again, which is annoy ing. Of course, deafness {8 sometimes re- spovsible for this, and so s the habit o speaking low and indistinetly; but in other ses it I8 simple carelessness and inatten tlon. These are small matters, but they make a great difference in the beauty of living. Every one that half the charm of the company of refined and in telligent people ltes in thelr quickness of perception and attention to the small amenities of life. Why, then, should the mere hook learning of these people re- ceive such assiduous attentfon and the question of manners and small soctal mor- als be neglectad? ¢ knows @eoessscccsseccscsssosecoosl { SENATORIAL FAKES . North Platte Telograph. It Is very noticeable that the pa- pers throughout the country which are opposing Hon. E. Rose- water for United States senator are not In the least particular about the statements they make about him. They may be false, th may be true, it is all the same to them o long as these re ports accomplish the end de stgned. The story published in the organ of the Lincoln fake fac. tory, that if not successful in his senatorial aspirations Mr. Rose water would establish a new party in Nebraska, s a base fabrica tlon, manufactured, reported and published without any regard to truth, for the sole purpose of In Juring the object of their venom, who never enjoy the success of any individual whose ability tran- scends thelr own. eesscscssccsscscccccssed LINES TO A LAUGH. Dotroft Free Py “ather—What does ng popinfuy hang around here for knows [ don’t want him to -r—Hecnuse, papa, he likes to be person who'does want him to. Tom-1 confess T'd A kiss, for {nstance, et, but it 1sn’t Worth anything. 1L, t's always worth its face lelphin Press: prefer riches to lov v bo #w Mek—W Detroit Journal: “Have you done any- thing to boom your town?" “Wal, T reckd Held tew {ndignation meeting tew pertest agin the smoke nul- ress: ““There fs not much wald the Cornfed Philos- opher, “between the woman that has mar- ried the first man that proposed and the womarn that has married what she thinks 15 the last one that will” to brag about, Cleveland Plain De that the British sing in on Dewet.” Then look out for another appalling disaster for the queen's fighting men." er: ““The reports all troops are steadily Philadelphia Record fond of poetry ns you the waste baskot replied the office’ goat pleious of it. I pleked up a poom that looked very sweet at first sight turned out to bit of satire, tasted anything so bitter." Post: “Promise to he mine," passtonately, “and T will fill your life with sunshine. At this she looked troubled and glanced at the only intly burning. “There are occasions,’” she sald, “when something In the nature f twilight s preferable, don't you think? ou don't seem as used to be,’ re- “I'm sus orday but it 1 never Philadelphia_Press: She—So May had just_rejected you when 1 saw v yester- day? You rtalnly a1d look cheap. Maybe [ did. I'm sure 1 felt cents She' Really? never feels quite as b Ike & Tsn't 1t a blessing that ono 1 as one looks? Cleveland Plain Deale up In New York are teyin A man wasn't fit to make kot outalde of forty drinks do you think o that, Weary ‘s th' wame old ‘story, here teetotal cranks ain't’ never Unless thew'ra pesterin' th' life ome harmless moderate drinker.” “Some lawyors to prove thet will ‘cause_ha A day. Wot Thesa satisfled out o' Ampy. AND Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Wise mien tell me, thou, O Fate, Art invincible and great Well, I _own thy prowess; still Dare T flout theo with my will, Thou_ ecanst shatter in All the earthly pride Outward But stand back n span of man things thou canst control, 1 rule my soul! "Tis such a little thing Scarcely worth the mentioning w has death Save to set my pirit fr Death? to do with mo, Bomething In me dwells, O Fate, That can rise and dominate, Loss and sorrow and disaste How, then, Fate, art thou my master? primeval morn In the great Wil was born My immortal t stupendous Cause il of th Barh ot tved the Bolar Laws. 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