Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 5, 1901, Page 6

T T e [} THE ©MAHA DAILY BEE B. ROSEWATER, Bditor. PUBLISHED BEVERY MORNING. " TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dauily Bee (without Sunday), One Year.$6.00 Dally Bee and Sunday One Year........ 8.00 Illustrated Bee, One oo 200 Bunday Bee, One Year 20 Baturday Bee, One Year... Weekly Be: one Year..... OFFICES, Ormrah: The Bee Bullding. South Omaha: City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and N streets, Council Bluffs: 10 Pearl Street. Chicago: 1640 Unity Building. New York: Temple Court New York: Temple Court Washington: 501 Fourteenth Street. Sloux Clty: 611 Park Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edl- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, expfess or postal order, ayable to The Dee Publishing Company nily 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mafl accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepted THE ¥ PUBLISHING COMPANY. STA T OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: George B, Tzschiick, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, belng duly #worn t the actual number of full o coples of The Daily, Mornin Fvening and Sunday Bee printed during th month of December, 1900, was as follows 1 27,780 17 27,510 2, 18 i 27,780 3 cn BT,800 10 v 4o 27,200 L 28,210 5 [ e 9 ‘ 25,040 10 s ... 27,5850 | e 12 . 8. L. 2T, 240 T L. 26,605 16 v 47,080 31 26,970 16 Total Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales Net daily average. GEORGE Subscribed In my pres before me this 3lst day ¢ 1900, M. B, eal.) 1 e and sworn to December, A HIU ary Publl Wonder how congross manag keep a-going without Dave Mercer in his seat. The house committee is now investi- gating Booz. Many members of that body are doubtless experienced judges. m—— Four governors who have warmed the executive chalr were present at the in- augural ceremonies at Lincoln. Four of a kind beats a full hand. Mayor Moores carrfed off a whole posy garden as the most striking figure of the gold-braided governor's staff. The mayor always stands up for Omaha. ¢ gold mines in the state have If ar not been worked out, Ransom, as chair- man of the senate committee on mines and mining, can be depended upon to locate thew. A French savant has discovered a method by which he asserts he can re- vitalize the body. As u supreme test of the efficacy of the process he might try it on the democratic party. Platte county has reduced its mort- gage Indebtedness $00,000 during the past year. If this thing keeps up even Platte county may be willing to aban- don Nebraska's calawmity party. In the mountain country of California the snow 18 reported to be seventy-two inches deep. The man who carried the news to the telegraph station must have been blessed with an unusually long pair of le The transparent design and intent of the warrants for the arrest of Edward Rosewater in South Omaha I8 to divert his attention from the senatorial con- test and keep him away from Lincoln, But the game won't work. The secretaries of the State Board of Transportation have been doing a little work, not to earn their salary, but to get it. Thsi action relieves them of the suspicion that they could not work, even had they wished to do so. The work of the executive depart- ments of the government will be ma terially lessened when Pettigrew retires from the senate. It requires a small army of clerks to keep the South Dakotan informed on current events, Senator Pettigrew thinks he has a grievance against Senator Hanna, If there I8 a man on carth, including Petti- grew himself, against whom the South Dakota member has no grievance, he should be brought out into the light at once, Governor Poynter pours hot shot into the lobby that infests the legislative halls each recurring ° session. The lobby could be abolished without appre- clable loss to the public, The only beneticiaries of the lobby are the lobby- 1sts in and out of the legislatui The eagerness of the World-Herald to back Ransom in his desperate efforts to hold on to a legislative seat fraudu- lently secured would indicate that some- body else expected to be in on the divvy if Ransom should work through | that compromise of‘the Bartley bond. The question of electrical wire sub- ways in Omaha, as in eveiy other city, They is chiefly a question of finance, can be constructed if the money 18 pro vided, but whether the returns will keep up interest would depend upon the rental traffic. Some citles can afford subways, while others cannot, —— Owmaha, during the past year, has the best fire record of any city of similar #lze 1n the country. During the year there was only one fire which could by any construction be called a large one, and even this was large only by com- parison. While the record of losses is the smallest, s the city having the benefit of insurance rates which this condition justifies? THE REINS IN NEW HANDS By the formal transfer of the govern ment from the outgoing to the incoming state officers the reins on public affairs In Nebraska pass into new hands. 1f any thing charact the per sonnel of the new administration it is that it coutains no remnants of what is known as the “Old Guard” From the governor down, every member of the executive staff comes. to the front with record to make, although severai of them have had previous esperience in public business to give them adequate preliminary training. The first essay of Governor Dietrich in the way of his inaugural message i« characteristic of the man. It is a ‘Ivlllln statement of his views on various subjects of public coneern, without dis- one rizes guise under confusing verblage, ex plaining his ideas, when a tople is touched, in unmistakable language. The suggestions made are, for the most part, practicable and to the point and will doubtless be acted upon by the legislature, which ¢ anxious to co operate harmoniously with the new ad winistration, When the election of the republican candidates was made certain The Bee called attention to the dual responsibil ity resting upon them, the responsibility to the people who elected them and to the republican party, which will be on trial in its restoration to power. We believe the governor and his associates fully realize this respousibility and will discharge it in a manner creditable to themselves and to the state. Entering upon their duties under the most au splelous,cirenmstances, they have oppor- tunities before them which they may be depended upon to meet. The people of Nebraska place great hopes in the state administration and contidently be lieve they will not be disappointed® THE WEST POINT INQUIRY. The military board having completed its Investigation of hazing at the W Point military academy, the sional committee has entered upon an inqui; The military board having made its investigation very thorough it is not expected that much additional information of Importance will be elicited by the committee, nor is any necessary to establish the fact that a great deal of brutality has been prac- ticed by the upper-class cadets in the hazing of freshmen and that unless a radieal remedy shall be applied the na tional military school must suffer in public esteem. Indeed, it is already evident that West Point’s reputation has been besmirched to an extent that will injure the standing of that institution for years to come. The authorities at West Point testi- fied that earnest efforts had been made to stamp out hazing, but the state- ments of the cadets showed that these have been futile, yet Colonel Mills, the superintendent of the aeademy, in an- swer to a question whether he had any measures to suggest for doing away with the practice of hazing, replied that ke had not, that he thought present conditions are all that can be desired and that the coutinuation of the efforts that have been ma will accomplish everything which can be expected. He believed that it would be unwise for congress to act, except far as to make the superintendent’s power abso- lute in a case of hazing, so that he can act summarily at all times, This may be a good suggestion, but much depends congres- 80 upon the character of the superin- tendent and it does not appear that Colonel Mills 18 the sort ‘of person to whom the duty of correcting the abuses which are shown to exist could be wholly entrusted. There is no evidence that he Lus any very strong desire to stamp out hazing, or that If given ab- solute- power he would use it ju- diciously. It may be admitted that it will not be an easy matter to do away entirely with a practice so long in vogue that it has come to be regarded by the cadets as part of the unwritten regula- tions and tacit discipline of the mili- tary academy. It cannot be conceded, however, that the task fs impossible of accomplishment. College hazing has y generally been done away with and surely what these civilian institu- tions were able to do can be done at a school under military authori At all events, it Is clear that more rigorou measures must be adopted at West Point to put a stop to the brutality which has been practiced there and the sooner such weasures are adopted and made effective the better it will be for the national military institution, which as the school from which graduated our greatest soldiers every American has been proud of. — ONE CANAL OR TWO1 It may be regarded as certain that congress will not give serious cousidera- tion to the Panama canal. There are a few members in elther house who look with favor upon that route, as having some very decided advantages over the Nicaragua route, but the large majority favor the latter., The president of the Panama Canal company, who is in Washington to look after the Interests of that enterprise, it is said does not expect that congress will do anything for the project, but is not without hope that his company will be benefited by the contention over the Nicaragua canal and the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, regard less of what be the decision of Great Britain, He professes to think that if the British government accepts the amended treaty Germany will unite with France to complete the Panama canal, while it Great Britain does not accept the treaty a combination will be made by the three great commercial powers of western Europe which will revive the financial eredit of the Pan ama mpany awd enable it to float a loan sufficient to complete the under- taking. This idea Is entertained in other quar- 1 1t has been suggested in British newspapers. Admitting the possibility of & combination of Europeaun powers to complete the Panama canal in the event of the United States carrying out the Nicaragua project as now proposed, Imm- are some considerations which THE OMAHA DAI able. Great Britain commercially in an isth mian canal is not so great as it is com monly supposed to be and it may well be doubted whether it Is sufficient to in duce her to take any action unfriendly to the United States, such uniting with other nations to construet a comn peting canal. Germany has less in terest in the matter than Great Britain and would hardly be disposed to assume any large financial responsibility in a project which might prove unprofitable. As to France, the fact that a large amount of French capital is represented in the enterprise might load that gov ernment make an effort to pany’s hope of securing foreign assist ance to complete its enterprise, in the of the United States going on with the Nicaragua project as provided for in the pending bill, event It is not questionable that the 1 na canal can be completed for one-half or less than it would cost to build the Nienragua caml. 1t could also be com pleted in less than half the time and it I8 admitted to possess some fmportant advantages over the Niearagua route The determination, however, to have a distinctively American canal, under the absolute control of the United States, I8 %0 general and strong that the con led advantages of tl ma will have little weight against it. oute Colorado is facing the inevitable re sult of doing things for Bryan's suke. Sinee 1802 the Centennial state has suffered from the silver delirium and now wakes to the unwelcome news that its treasury is empt its eredit ex hausted and that there is a floating in debtedness of more than $2,000,000 1o be provided for. More than a quarter of u million dollars a ar over and above the maximum tax levy is what Colorndo has pald for trying to “save silver.” 4 General Vifquain hardly needed to re- sort to sensational means to draw pub lic attentton. Many men who do not abate their patriotism one whit to his have marched with Fitzhugh Lee under the new life of Old Glory, and there is uo reason why he should not. It is too bad that a brave and gallant soldier like Victor Vifquain should dim his glory with a erauk blot. Queen Wilhelmina proposes to pro- vide o dowery for her prospective hus band, whose finances are not in the best of condition. If the queen has any money to spare she might even up the score with America for furnishing Buropean aristocracy — with wealthy brides by taking a run-down-at-the-beel American for a life s partne More Effective Than Poetry. 4 Baltimore American. By knighting Hiram Maxim Queen Vic- torin indicates that the fnventor of an au- tomatic gun is of more benefit to England than the inventor of automatic poetry. Discouraging Outlo ashington Post, The Chicago grand jury has indicted a state senator for keeping a gambling house It appears that there is to be no encour- agement for the politiclan who tries to make an honest living. k. Chicago Grover Cleveland, in sending a substan- tial check to Charles H. Conrad, the ossi fled man of Philadelphia, secems to have demonstrated the truth of the old adage, “a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind."” Warm Pace on the S New York Tribune. A sanguine inventor says he can build a torpedo boat which will run a mile a minute. He would not need to use an ex- plosiva with such a craft. At that speed it could send a battleship to the bottom by the mere shock of ramming. To be sure, both would go down together, but that's a detail Born with the Century, Philadelphia Record. A new and potentially great nation was born with the twentleth cencury, the fed- erated commonwealth of Australia having begun its official existence with the stroke of midnight which tolled the knell of the departed year, America sends its greeting to thd United States of the antipodes. May the future bring them a realization of the greatness anticipated for them by thelr most ardent well wisher: Chins Wants n Few P Chicago Chronicle, It the Chinese government has acceded to the demands of the allies it is just and reasonable that the allies should accede to the Chinese the request that the powers bind themselves In perpetuo to respect the autonomy of China. Compliance by China with the ultimatum presented by the for- elgn ministers means that the empire is to disarm. There will then be no protec- tion against possible foreign aggression save the good faith and honesty of the powers. The allies must protect Chinese autonomy, since they mean to dismantle China's defenses ecdges. and Diplomacy. adelphia Ledger Newspaper discussion of the Hay- Pauncefote treaty and the isthmian canal matter 18 going on, and the opinions ex- pressed are as various as the dispositions of the writers. Attempts are made, also, to give these expressions more welght than usually attaches to mere editorial utter- ances by intimating that they were “in- spired” by high government officlals. Espo- cially is this the case with German pub- | Meations. But they alarm nobody. The matter will be arranged by the govern- ments, not by the newspapers, and when it is settled by the governments of the United States and Great Britain, as it will be no other nation will interfere gresslonal Mileage, Cleveland Lea arawing of $1,000 mileage by (he Ha- wailan delegate to congress for his jour- ney to Washington is attracting a good deal of attention, as it well may. The fact is being made clear that 20 cents a mile for travel to and from the capital is a monstrously exaggerated allowance 1o these times of swift and cheap transporta- tion. It amounts to nothiug more or less than an uneven and roundabout addition to the net income of congressmen. 1f thelr salaries sre too small, which the American people are not likely to admit, then there should be an open and uni- versal {ncrease, It 18 unfair and cowardiy to get by stealth exi'a pay amounting 1o only @ few dollars for many congressmen and senators who live mear Washington and running up to $2,000 a year for the del- | cunte trom Hawall render such n movement very improb- | GES. In the first place the interest .-r| LY BEE: SATURDAY, ARRISON'S stracts fro n Notable Speech at | Indinnapolis. Former President Harrison responded to | the toast “Hail | tion of the Monday Columbia,” at the dedica Columbia club at Indianapolis night. His remarks were as usual felicitous, at times glowing with admiration for American institutions, and enlivened with humorous reflections on the question What Shall with We Do Our ex-Presidents?’ “Columbia,” sald Gen eral Harrison, ‘“should have been |the name of the western hem isphere, the republican half of the world, the hemisphere without a king on the ground, the reserved world, where God sent | the trodden spirits of men to be revived, to find, where all things were primitive, man's primitive rights ““Royal toy prerogatives are plants that re- carry it to completion, but It would | quire a walled garden and to be defended not assume the task of completing | from the wild, free growths that crowd and . climb upon them. Pomp and laced garments it alone. In view of these con- | ‘ulo incongruous in the brush. Danger and siderations, therefore, there seems 10| harships are commoners, The man in front be little basis for the Panama com-|is the captain—the royal commiesion to the contrary notwithstanding. The platoon and volley firing by the word would not do the open order, one man to a tree, firing at his own will, and at a particular savage, was better Out of this and like calls to do things upon his own initiative, the free American was born. He thought he might get along with kings and imperial parlia- ments, if they were benevolent, and did and allowed what he wished, but they were for- ever doing their own pleasure, as the way of absolutism always fs. And so he found it necessary first to remonstrate, and then to resist, General Harrison then referred the colonial charters, which, he sald, were irrevocable grants, but the kings and Parlta- ment held otherwise. He continued: I estimate the gift of the governing faculty o be God's greatest gift to the Anglo- axon and in the constitution of the United States? with its diversion of powers, its limitations upon the governing departments and its sublime reservations in the inter- to achievement of that most rare faculty “I have no argument to make, here or anywhere, against territorial expansion, but 1 do not, as some do, look to expansion as the safest or most attractive avenue of national development. By the advantuges of abundant and cheap coal and iron, of an enormous surplus of food products and of invention and economy in production we are now leading by a nose the criginal and the greatest of the colonizing nations. Aus- tralia and New Zealand loyilly send their contingents to South Africa, but Great Britain cannot hold the trade of its colonies against American offerings of a better or cheaper product “The Central and South Amerizan states, assured of our purpose, not oaly to respect, but to defend their autonomy, and finding the peace and social order which a closer and larger commercial intercouise with the world will bring, offer to our commerce a fleld the full development cf which will realize the Eldorado. Hail to Columbia, the home of the free, and from which only freedom can go out. The problem, “What shall we do with our ex-presidents?” was solved in this Chinese fashion “The decapitation of the ex- | president when the oath of office has been administered to his successor would greatly | vivity a somewhat tiresome ceremonial. And we may some time solve the news paper problem what to do with our ex- presidents in that conclusive way. Until then I hope an ex-president may be per- mitted to live somewhere midway between the house of gossip and the crypt of the mwummy. He will know perhaps in an es cial way how to show the highest honor to the presidential’ office, and the most cour teous deference to the president. Upon great questfons, however, espncially upon questions of constitutional law, you must give an ex-president his freedom or th axe, and it is too late to give me the axe. To those of the opposition in politics who imagine that because of his Ann Arbor address the general s inclined to break withwhis party, he tendered this cold chunk of advice “Any democratic friends who may share your hospitality tonight will pardon me for ing to any of them who have cast beguiling looks toward me, that the democratic party has never been less attractive than now. No plan of reorgani- fon suggests itself to me, axcept that | suggested by a waggish leutenant of my regiment to a captain whose platoons were inverted. He sald: ‘Captain, it I were in your place I would break ranks and have the orderly call the roll.' Perhaps even this hopeful program may fall ®or an ina- bility to agree as to the roll and as to the orderly.” PERSONA NOTES, As Sir Hiram §. Maxim he will be a bigger gun than ever. Prince Tuan {s the most arrested man o’ China. It's an uneventful day when he {sn't forcibly thrown into the deepest dun- geon in the empire. Congressman Brosius of Pennsylvania s sald to have the best carrying volce in the house. For this reason he Is called the “human megaphone.” Robert J. Gamble, the choice of the South Dakota republicans to succeed Senator Pet- tigrew, is a native of Wisconsin and studied law in Milwaukee under General Winkler. Willlam Waldorf Astor's buoiness office is the handsomest ip London, and is, In its rich apppointments, unique among those of London's rich men, who usually transact thelr business in offices rather shabby than otherwise. People who have heard Queen Wilhel- mina speak say that hers is a quite unfor- getable volce. It Is soft and silvery in tone and yet can, upon occasion, be firm and resolute. Two years ago everyone was enthusiastic about the way in which the girl queen delivered her coronation speech. Amos J. Cummings of New York, con- gressman, but best known as a newspaper man, 18 getting on In years like the rest of ue. Nevertheless he essayed a wheeling trip in Connecticut, fell from his wheel near New Haven Saturday and fractured his right leg at the ankle. The injured member was put in a cast and Mr. Cum- mings got back to New York, where he is housed for six weeks or 80 William Wallace Campbell, who has just been elected director of the Lick observa- tory, to succeed the late James B. Keel was born on a farm in Hancock county, Ohio, in 1802. He made a speclalty of astronomy at the University of Michigan under Prof. Schaeberle, took the chair of mathematics and astronomy at the Univer- sity of Colorado and later at Ann Arbor, and has written several text books. The postmaster in the United States, 1l Bardsley, who is 91 years old and has handled the mall at North Lansing, Tompkius county, N. Y. for seventy-two consecutive years, has been in- vited to attend the inauguration as a guest old Rosw of the department Mr. Bardsley was ap- pointed by John Quincy Adams and has served under nineteen presidents and thirty-three postmasters general Two of the physicians who attended Mr Goebel in his last sickness and the lawyers who represented him in his contest before for fees. The brothers, Arthur and Justus the legisiature are going (o sue his brothers Goebel, thought from the great sympathy expressed for their brother in Kentucky when he was killed that there would be no charges, for medical attention. They state this and seem surprised that they should now be called oa to pay. JANUARY 8, ests of individual liberty, I see the highest | 1901. @erescrsscsccscssssscsccsss g CANDIDATES FOR SENATOR ore the assembled legislature candidates for the United States senate will soon lay down their offerings. Bach one will catalogue the labors and achieve the common | ments in behalf of wenlth which he has efficiently ‘ and successfully accomplished, Not one will, of course, claim that he ghould be elected because of mere partisan service. No one will as pire to the senatorship except for the purpose of conferring lonor upon the best citizenship of the state through a conscientions and faithful devotion to the duties which a senatorship imposes, It is not really a question as to how much the state has done to honor the aspirant, It is truly a ques- tion as to what and how much the aspirant has achieved to develop the material, intellectual and so- clal condition of the state. Shall the state honor a4 wan or a man honor the st Shall the office he exalted by a strong and splen did character or an inferior and gross character be elevated to critical prominence by the office? 2 eesssssscsssesssssesttssttscssssseterssesese te? @reesesesscsessccccsccscec® oTH R LANDS Tho commonwealth of Australia became a fact at the beginning of the year through the proclamation of the union of New South AN OURS, Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Aus W, West Australia and Tasmania by arl Hopetoun at Sydney w Zealand | 8141 holds out and will not jo wealth and fs, to a certaln or less hostile to it, having an ambition to form an island federation of its own out of all Great Britain's scattered islets in Oceanica. This project, however, the new commonwealth has put its foot down on with great vigor, and New Zealand will doubtless be forced sooner or later to join its er states. As organized the Aus- tralian union has a nopulation of 3,750, 000, a little over half that of Pennsylvania, and its chijef cliies, Meibourne, with a popu- the common extent, more lation of 8,610, and Sydney, with 426, are each nearly equal to Pittsburg and Allegheny combined. The new commonwealth is patterned after the American rather than the Canadian model, and its ideals are more American than Brit- ish. The first federal elections take place next week, and it will not be long before the full machinery of the union will be in operation. Australia took to the federa- tion idea slowly, but there is now general recognition of its benefits and its tremen- dous significance for the future of all Aus- tralasia, as well as its bearing on the or- ganization ot other groups of British col- onles, such as those of South Africa. . A novel oatcome of the agitation in Great Britain over the discovery that some kinds lof beer contaln arsenic enough to poison drinkers is the offer of the Ocean Accident and Guaranty corporation (o insure brew- ers against any judgments for damages as a result of drinking their beverage, in the sum of £200 for each and every death “proved to be due to the presence of arsenic in beer bought at any hotel, inn or public house.” This is, of course, u perfectly legiti- mate insuravce enterprise, but the direc- tors of the company certainly disclose a lack of the sense of humor when they pro- pose further to provide illuminated show- cards for display in hotels, etc., announcing the fact that “beers supplied by brewers availlng themselves of this offer are so guaranteed.” The Economist observes that it scems an odd way of “restoring con- fidence In the public mind,” and suggests that the illuminated show-cards might very properly, by way of further inducement to conviviality and complacency of soul in would-be beer-consumers, be accompanied by the traditional undertaker's card, “Why live and be miserable when you can be de- cently buried for £2 1082 oo It is probable that England will soon be engaged in another little Indlan war, this time with the Mahsud Waziri tribe, inhab- iting the country to the west of the Indus, between the Gomul and Tochl valleys. Brit- ish outposts have been attacked. mail carts waylaid, escorts ambushed, travelers mur- dered, villages raided and flocks and herds carried off with impunity. For these various offences the civil authorities on the fron- tier have from time to time inflicted fines on the tribe. But this does not matter much, as the fines are never paid. A month or 0 ago, matters came to a climax in a raid in which Lieutenant Hennessy, a promising young officer, was killed. A jirga of the headmen of the tribe was sum- moned, and was informed by the froutier commissioner that a fine of a lakh of rupees would have to be paid at once, or a block- ade of the tribe, shutting them off from all intercourse with India, would be put in force. The jirga returned to the villages, to return again with its answer at the end of (he month. Should the headmen of the tribe profess their inability to pay it will be necessary to put the blockade into opera- tion. This the Waziris will certainly re- sent. There will be more raids, more am- bushes, more murders, more harrying of outposts. Many officers with frontler ex- perlence belleve that it would be the short- est course to move a force into the heart of the Wazirl country at once, although no one 1s anxious for a Wazirl expedition. There 1s little honor to be reaped In those inhospitable wilds, where the enemy never stands to fight, and where the native soldiers fall easy victims to pheumonia. The pres- ont outlook, however, is that it will have to be undertaken, . . M. do Lanessan, the French minister of marine, delivered a long speech in the Frencl sevate, in the debate on the naval bill, in defense of his plan for building line-of-battle ships as a main defense, In preference to a numerically larger fleet of swift cruisers, constructed to prey upon an enemy's commerce. He argued that line- of-battle ships, or ironclads, must be the most powerful instruments of offensive or defensive warfare. It would be thelr duty to keep the enemy's battleships from the coasts, to fight naval battles, or attack or blockade the enemy's arsenals or ports Moreover, they were necessary to keep open communications with Algeria and Tunis As for preying upon the enemy's commerce with fast cruisers, that was a g od scheme, but the cruisers themselves coulc not keep the sea unless they were supported by heavier ships. It France were not provided with the latter her cruisers, in the event of war with a great naval power, prob- ably would be shut up i thelr ports of refuge. Even if they did succeed in get ting out and In capturing cargo boats it | would not be ecsy to decide what to do | with them. Tt would be an extremely diffi- | eult matter to get them into port, and to sink them woull be to incur terrible re- | prisals. The government program, he added, provided for as great a technical and financial effort as, at the present time, France was capable of Paris has a municipal debt of nearly half that of all the cities of France, twice as great as that of Lon don and one-third of the local debts of all England. Every Parislan owes §100 000,000, more than every Londoner. In Paris gov- fes one of these days if it expects to meet Springfield Republican: Omaha's Charley Towa, Michigan, Wisconsin and the two Da ter than never. Stimulated by a $0,000 re ward, which the state of likely to raise to $75,000, the sleuths should make the twentieth century's first month memorable for a brilliant plece of work that | will glve the new enterprise of Kidnaping a | severe setback | Omaha asked Edward Cudahy to withdraw the reward he offered for the arrest and other child shot or stolen, and although he can now do so he refuses to yield to the | threat of the kidnapers. at once and forever the industry of child stealing. Children everywhere are helpless victims, if the cunning and violence of un- promptly disposing of them. This would be deplorable, but it is a possibility to be faced, both by the culprits and the authori- tles. It should warn Intending kidnaners that they stand in danger of the Infliction | of (errible vengeance If they venture to put their plots into execution As the laws of the various states stand now the penalty for | child stealing is not at all commensurate with the heinousness of the offens very fact would tend to Incite and exasper- ate the mob spirit. THIRTY-FOUR ¥ JARS AGO, Otoe County's Delegntion in the Leg- isiature of 18606, J. Sterling Morton's Conservative. January 3, 1806, the members of the ter- | ritorlal legislative ascembly from the county of Otos left Nebrasia City for Omaha to tend to their respective duties in the house of representatives and the council. The councilmen were Oliver P. Mason and John B. Dennet. The representatives wero Al- bert Tuxbury, James Thorn, John H. Maxon, James R. Gillmore and M. S. Campbell. The latter is the only one still living in Otoe county. Colonel Tuxbury and Mr. Gillmore died some years ago, as did also Hon. Oliver P, Mason, who had served the state of Ne- braska as its first chief justice. John H. Maxon now lives in St. Louls, John B. Benney in Denver and James Thorn 15 & citizen of Oregon. January 6, 1866, Hon. James G. Megeath— | who is still a resident of Omaha, and in fine condition physically and financlally was elected speaker of the house of rep- resentatives. His complexion and good na- ture remain the same as when they, com- bined with his ability, secured him that honorable office. vl tion” in C Springfield (Mass#.) Republican. “Civilization' is advancing in China with leaps and bounds. The Brtish army officers now enjoy their amateur theatricals and burlesques in the temple of heaven at Pe- Kin, the most sacred shrine in China. Un- less Chinese human nature is very differ- ent from other human nature, these little episodes will be remembered in China as an account to be pald off some day with com- pound interest. A country with a recorded history of 4,000 years has a long memory. | | ebraska scems | st you are Rince two sweet My playms But and this | T And when the soctal set shall rave o'er And For Margaret NEW ¢ INT RY SMILES, ernment costs $25 a head, the highest rate P 4 in any city in the world. As an oftset, It [ tinfvard Lampoon: —He'l asked your clalms to be tho best governed, and, While | She—\What was his answer. the contention may be disputed, it s cer- | HeHe suld, ©f don't know who you are tainly second to none, affording an ex- VUt IUsallwight ample of administrative efciency never | philadeiphia Press e here! oxe surpassed in the urban history of Any |claimed the shopper, excitedly, there's A perlod. But Berlin s not far behind and | Man fust dropped dend in that bargain government there only costs $6 a - head, | “How inopportunc! exclaimed the floor= while in St. Petersburg the job is done fn walker. We have not yet opened our tolefable fashion at $2.50 a head. Parls |Undertaking department will have to ise its system of econom-« “Do you have any your Pegasus g 1 always use the spur running expenses and pay back the Inter- | CNever o est on its huge and growing block of se- | i curities. New York Weekiy: Friend—Why do you = [dump all the dirt {nto your soap kettles REWARD ANDNPENA ; Hoap Manufacturer-1f folks don't find s the water dirty after washin' they think the soap I8 no good Ross episode has inspired a large amount of [ Chicago Record: “That mature Miny proposed anti-kidnaping legislation. Laws | Pogrs hus quit ncting so childish of late have been prepared in Nebraska, Iinois, | per." bel Do you see any kotae. In three of these states it is pro- | Washington Star: - u see any on- posed that the crime shall be punishable by | ORI R L o retiont matiticla death and in two others by imprisoument | “There fs one sign which | regard ws very for lite [ encouraging. My enemics Keop declaring > Nave me beaten i 4 way which eon New York World: The city of Omaha has « e that I have: them Rood and at last offered a reward of 000 for the | scared g arrest of the Cudahy kidnapers. This eml- | poo e U0 s com nently proper action is late in the taking, | plained the King of Beasts “dor't scom and {t may be a cage where late is not bet- [ 1o be properly fmpressed when I start o describe my adventures Know AN replied the diplomatic hyena fes are wonderful, but then we a lon.” Detroft J “Qu ! oy We laughed mockingly and sabered them rnal: implored tho ter Why didn't you take the ‘p'inter’ we of fered you?' we V\\HH\" M|||I|Al:l'l| " " Philadelphia Ledger: That was a very Jirse 11 was diffieult in spoken dis 0 mike clea s T oty o creditable act by which the city council of S o T e s thar dled without ppreciating the same dianapolis Progs ve given the conviction of the abductors of his son and [y Indianapoll Tress: 1 have siven, U took that burden on its own shoulders. | country.” sajd the statesman, leaning bae Strictly a8 the qUty. o e |1 his luxurfous chalr lctly speaking, It was the duty of the | In, gis MXNEON ed the visitor from tho old city government to do this, as it is hound to | porn ® Ae- SR ' Yhe folka dowi our afford protection to its citizens, but eity [ wiy says vou sold ‘em.” governments are not always so ready to Vi recognize and perform their duty. The kid- | L AL FRARE | napers' second letter warned Mr. Cudahy to Smart 8ot withdraw his ofter on penalty of having an- | gocfery fs all astir, and rightly so. no doubt huds of womanhood next yming out.’ Schuyler and Van Brunt make ook ar he Misse Owing to the cliy’s their debui af Brown's, action the miscreants will have to deal with | With timid, fluttering hearts, no doubt, ani & power that can be neither bullied nor [, 1oVl Burls gowns e one bribed into Inaction found its wiy (o me Minneapolls Tribune: Every community | “T¢q be presented = % 50 well, by Jove! should realize the necessity of stamping out | My tongue Wil frame the names they kuew in sirlhood's sw v Margaret was Mogg! erine wus Kute! ey estate, : then and Kath scrupulous villains s loosed against them. | No doubt Mise Kutherine Vugr Brunt pos For this reason we apprehend that if any | ppe“Soeial det will praise her gown- Il child kidnapers are ever caught it will be onl: e her halr. difficult to restrain Judge Lynch from |And Margaret Schuyler will, T hear, #o- clety surprise With wealth of gems magnificent—I'll oniy soe her eyes tes both in years agone, to Maz- yes 1I'd lcok olgl npathy: Kate's curls, as v used t ar with datses in the long ug) Ah, Fate! Margaret was Ma, erine was Kate fe then and Kath- the kind heir gowns wlill be, I'm sure, ety adores- re’ll come hiam pinafores! the of &l memory fures, wives and curls, 11 think of halr in long-hung bralds they used to wear as girls Sweet debutantes, they'll fill your ears with flattery, T know, you'll grow changed, names since that sweet ve clolstered in my memory beads to Fate as have your ng ngo and told its a5 Maggie then and Kath- = Kate, o W 1s the window of the soul, Then choose your glasses with care, That darkness be for aye dispelled, And light find entrance there.” Mild, corrective glasses may be ueeded now in your case. If 8o come to us, with our own factory, assistance and the of the most scientific opticlans we guarantee absolute corrcctness in both fit and price. J. C. HUTESON & CO. 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