Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 22, 1901, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY Bgr-: E. ROSEWATER, Editor | PUBLIMHED EVERY MORNING | TERME OF KUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bes (without Sunday), One Year.36.00 | Daifly Bee and Sunday, One Year | Hiustrated Bee, One Year | Bunday Bee, One Year Saturday Bee, One Year Weekly Bec, One Year OFFICES, Omaha: The Bes Bulldl South Omaha: City Hall Afth and N Streets Ottt "Biats, 1 Pear! Street. Chicago. 180 Unity Bullding. | New York: Temple Court. Washington: 51 Fourteenth Stree Bloux City. 611 Park Street CORRESPONDED Communications relating t torial matter sk be addressed Bee, Editorial Departm BUSINESS 1 etters and The Bee Futiding, Twen- | ews and edi Omaha | TERS | remittances should ) adires Publishing Com- be addressed pany, Omaha REMITTANCES Remit by draft, express or postal order, pavable 1o The Bee Publishing Company, Only 3-cent stamps accepted It payment fo ! mail accounts. Personal checks, except o | Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepted THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION braska, Douglas County Tzschuck, secretary of Th Company. being duly sworn, | « (hat the actual number of full and | Thplota coples of The Daily. Morning, | ling and Bunday Bee printed during the month of December, 1900, was a8 follows: #TT80 17 27,510 ar238 18 27,780 | 27,810 | 28,210 27,370 L37,440 27,080 ..37,310 25,040 L.27,530 27,170 | Publishing 27,420 27,160 27,420 20,505 27,310 27,27/ 27,140 27,280 27,723 27,050 26,063 Total Less unsold and returned cople Not total salos Net dally average GEORGE 18 bed in my presence me this 318t ¢ M nd_sworn to mber, A. D. HUNGATE Notary Public. Siubac hefore 100, Seal ) B Mr. Editor. 1f you ‘s coming to you, kick. | Good morning don't get all t It s two days now since any prom- fnent democrat has suggested a means to revive the corpse If the West Point investigation results In the abolition of hazing it will not have been held in vain, —_— Congress 15 hastening to redeem the | promise of the platform and lower the | bordens of the war taxes. Auditorium bricks will soon be on the market. These should be the popular | style for lapel decorations for some thne. Both branches of the legislature are making efforts to build up a general tile which will be the delight of the sifting | committees in about six weeks. — Jersey justice doesn't falter. There is a lesson in the Paterson trial for the fmpetuous people who form mobs and burn prisons. Give the law a chance. There are still many names missing from the auditorium subseription which #hould there, followed by amounts which require from four to five figures to express, Burning fsolution hospitals does not tmpede the spread of contagionus disease, but really increases the burden of the taxpayers, who have to provide new ac- commodations for the zficted. Paper pipes” will be out of the reach of children at least if the senate adopts the Bill that wus passed by the Ne braska house yesterday. A similar law In Towa has been pronounced good. While Omaha did not suc ing the vext vention of the National Live Btock association, the delegat from bere made a mokt creditable show- ing and greatly advanced the city's n- teres 1 in secur- ‘The holding of children for ransom is becoming altogether too common and threats of kiduaping still more so, Some of these people will blossom on a tree unless it Is stopped and then the busingss will not be so popular. Another rate war is on, the packing house products being the cause. These perlodical conflicts enable the people of the south to get thelr meat almost as cheap as though they were located in the belt instend of the cotton belt. corn Two hundred suits to invalidate spe clal improvement taxes is a formidable legncy from boom times. These should point as nothing else can the need of eare in preparation of petitions and ordi- nances for paving or other public im- provements at the expense of property owners. “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin ™ In the presence of the dying sovereign of Great Britain all the clamor of natioval jealousies und ruclal hatreds Is hushed and the world stands In respectful silence to pay tribute to one of its greatest figures and voblest of women, A few of the original starters iu the senatorial race have dropped out, but strung along on the back stretch there is still a good-sized bunch. the pace has not been hot enough up to the present to kil off any of the real aspirants for the houors. The spectators should not get impatient, however, as the brush at the wire is likely to be hot enough to please the most exacting. The Commercial club is to have a ban. quet at which the things which Omaha needs and toe best methods of procuring them are to be talked over., There ave mauy things which Omaha veeds and which united effort on the part of the commerelal interest would procure, It 18 a good plan to get together and talk matters over, but the question should not be dropped as soon as the meal s | instituting | te digested. THE OMAHA DAILY BI TUESDAY. JANUARY 22, 1901, CONSTRUCTIVE CONTEMPT. Before the present legislature com pletes its work it should see to It with out fail that some limits be placed by law to th to punish for alleged constructive con empt While every court should have ample anthority to preserse order and protect its diguity from assauits made upon it 1 its presence while cases are pending, the power to conjiire up pretended ex amples of contempt out acts of com | mitted or comment passed outside of the court room and punishment without th to mete out summary form of a trial | s positively dangerous to the liberties of the people. The meanest criminal accused of the most petty offense is en titled jury of unprejudiced men. In contempt proceedings, as now conducted by our courts, the judge constitutes himself prosecutor and jury as well, and, after the complaint, hears |It, passes judgment and imposes sentence by bhimself, leaving practically no re- urse whatever for the supposed of der. To require in cases of constructive contempt that the accused person have t of the same protection of the law as persons accused of more griev- ous offenses would not be detracting from the dignity of the judiciary. To insist that no man be punished for con structive contempt unless first convicted by a jury of his peers and before a Judge not personally interested agalust him would be asking only that unbiased justice be made accessible to all. So far as the courts themselves are con rned, they would o reality be the gainers by such a change, since experi ence has shown that nothing is so apt to bring the courts Into public conterpt as their own overreaching efforts to in flict penalties for Imaginary pugs against their own dignity. Because Judicial outrages are the exception vuther than che rule is wo reason why the individual should be left at the werey of judges who take advantage of the benety w thelr position on the bench to use the | court machinery sonal vengeance sceution for or purposes of unwarranted per- fe——— LIBERAL BRITISH VIEWS. While it is not possible to predict with any degree of certalnty what position the British governmeut will take on the amended Hay-Pauncefote treaty, it noteworthy that soma of the leading London papers have adopted very 1it views In regard to it, One of th Journals looks upon the canal question as a matter of business and not of mun ners. “We hold that it is to the iuterest of the British empire that the canal should be made,” says of th pa ovided, of course, it is u ca- nal which shall be used on equal terms by all hips, We are the greatest wari time nation. Any and every increase in the waterways of the world must be to our profit. Whenever and wherever you facllitate olean carrlage you confer u benefit upon British carrying trade,” This same journal argues that when once the Niearagua caunal is made Great Britain will get a considerable part of the benefit, It regards as pretty cer tain that the caval will never be made on a commercial basis, because the cost would be too great, It ury that the United States should be per witted to have military control of the waterway, on the ground that neutrality could not be enforced in war unless there was some one in effective military control. In support of this view refer ence Is made to the prevention of the Spanish fleet going to Manila by way of the Suez canal, Another leading English paper has ex pressed the opinion that there is not the smallest reason to belleve that the United States senate intended, in amend lng the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, to af frout or slight the British government. That paper says: “Happily, there is but very slight ground to complain of the attitude of the respective governments toward each other. Evidently it is a case for further negotiation. British ministers do not wish to hinder the con- struction of the canal and they recog- nize the natural desire of the United States to be the custodian of the canal They cannot, however, assent to the es- tablishment of the dangerous precedent of the abrogation of a treaty by a stroke of the pen.” The position of a majority of the senate shows that there is no dis- position to establish such a precedent, but, on the coutrary, that the desire is to proceed In a perfectly legitimate and straightforward way. As already remarked, there is no cer talnty as to what position the British government will take on this very im- portant watter. It has been reported that It will perhaps propose further awendwents to the treaty, while it has also been suggested that it way assent to the treaty as it stands. Existing po- litleal conditions In England will possi bly bave a decided influence upon the question, But it is certainly reassuring to find the leading newspaper expo- nents of British opinion tuking a very liberal view of the subject and urging the government to treat it as a matter of business rather than of manuers in other words, to regard it wholly from the practical point of view. A contract was let the other day which Indicates that the United States I8 lnvading another fleld which has heretofore been mouopolized by Euro- pean manufacturers. Previously all the wire used in the construction of suspen slon briiges has been made in Sweden, it being supposed that the quality neces- sary could not be manufactured ln this country. An Awerican firm has under taken to deliver 6,000 tons for the new Jast river bridge in New York, which it guarantees will stand all the tests of the Swedish wire. When the Amer- fican workman really sets himself about it he Is always able to produce anything which any other workman can. one While congressmen, the press and pub- lic bave each and all been taking a shot at the West Point cadets for their in- dulgence in the practice of bazing. s rbitrary power of our courts under our constitution to a fair | trial before an impartial teibunal and a | there 18 one thing which would seem to | indicate that the work was the result | of misconception and tradition rather | than any intention to be brutal or un Without exception the cadets when placed on the stand, have told the | truth about thelr own conduct, without | any attempt to equivocate or shirk the In the face of public clamor this requires considerable moral courage aud demonstrates that the young men are made of the right kind of material and all that Is to tashion it correctly. wi just consequences is necessary PROTECT THE PUBLIt Before the county comumissioner grant a franchise for the oceupation of the county roads by an interurban line of electric ears they should give the mat °r wost careful consideration. It is not enough that there is a public demand or the construction of a line of electric raflrond. That much will be conceded. Nor 1 It enough that the franchise shall express in certain ters the compensa- tion to be paid the county for the use of the highways to be occupied. At the very outset there should be some assurance that the road will be bullt. 1t would be a misfortune to allow a franchise for a valuable privilege to fall Into the hands of speculators who would use it werely as a bit of mer chandise and who might not for y to come succeed in disposing of it at their price aud yet who could all the! time use It as a club to prevent others | from entering the tield. Instead of de manding a guavanty that the county will at the end of a long period of | yenrs be given a percentage of the in sme of the line, it should be the aim of | the commissioners to secure a guaranty | that the rond will be built, that the | work of construction will be commenced | within a certain definite time, aud that | the cars will be running over the line! in a reasonable time after the work Las | been commenced. The duration of the franchise should | be limited. Perpetual franchises are a menace. That the county be given the privilege of takiug over the road and its appurtenauces at the expiration | of u term of years does not amouut to sufficient protection for the vights. The life of the franchise should he definitely ixed and not for a longer time than would act as a stimulus oo the promoters to operate the lne with all| vigor, in order that they might secure | return on their investment during the | lifetime of their speclal privilege. Other points, such us the regulation of freight and passenger tariffs, the hours and general conditions for the | 0 ration of trains and similar matters | sliould be carefully provided for in the franchise in order that the rights of the public shall be fully conserved. There should no disposition hamper the project with onerous ditions, In fact, the people can afford to be generous in order to secure the | establishment of a line of suburban | electric roads. Omaba people have | never hung back when it came to the | point of extending reasonable ald to enterprises intended to assist in the de velopment of the country surrounding | thelr city and they are not disposed to lag now. But they are entitled to have all the protection that prudence de mands or the result of careful investi- | gation SUZEEStSs 08 Necessary. 1 The franchise at present before the | Board of County Commissioners is de ficlent in many respects. It must be amply amended betore it will be ac ceptable to the people. It is the pub- lic's Interest rather than the promoters’ that is to be considered, 8 people’s | to! con | The legislature is simply in training | at present. When the time for iu-| troduction of bills expires it is lkely to surprise the people with the maoner in which it disposes of the accnmulation. After all, the number of measures which it is really necessary to pass is limited. | The great wajority of bills introduced would be worse than useless If enacted | into law. Buffulo is now about to undergo much the same experience as did Omaha in | regard to the Sunday opening of the ex- position. Omaha proved conclusively that the open gates were a good thing | and that the Sunday crowds were as orderly as any. Buffalo will doubtless profit by Omaha's experience. | Alabama kidnapers seem to lack the | essential elements of lonor as mani-| fested by the Omaha branch of the ilk. In the Alabama case the father paid the ransom demanded, but has not yet | received his son in return Thus does | the “honor among thie theory get another rude jolt. Dyspeptic Breathings. Washington Post ““Headloug national heedlessness” indi cates that Mr. Cleveland has been sitting up late at night | Merits of King Corn, Globe-Democrat American_exports of corn have averaged 178,000,000 bushels a year since 1895, an increase of 254 per cent over the preceding five years. The attempt to educate Europe on the merits of maize has met with con- siderable succes: sider the Mustard Pot. Philadelphia Press. The salt and pepper experts who discern in these seasonings the elixir of life and who are having their day undisturbed will shortly be compelled to move up front and give place to the claimants of vinegar and mustard as the only true promoters of longevity. Co Lurge Enoush for Ordinary Purpos Philadelphia Record. ‘ew changes were made in the army bill by the senate and the measure will not be long delayed in conference committee. The federal army of the future, under the pro- vistons of (his bill, will be large enough and stropg enough to render volunteers unnecessary save in the gravest of national emergencies. Substite for Ma Philadelphia Ledger. 1t you wish to break a man of a bad habit give him & good one to replace it. That is the principle on which a committee of tem- perance workers is operating in St. Peters- burg and it seems to be meeting with much success. To deorease the comsumption of intoxicating lquors in that &nd otber cliies this association has opened a number of | cussing | not | ent worth of the ola bonds. | investment, | enue and expenditures close together, | catile men are on the run. | great fortune. places of amusement, where, besides seeing | the play, the guests way have food and re freshments, but nothing intoxicatipg. The 1dea it to give the people a temptation to be sober as an offset to the temptation to drink and there Is reason to expect that it will prove a great ageut of reform. It Is a scheme that |s at least worth trying in | other countries | Pay, Reasonable ra. | Portland Oregonian | ibly some of the women who are dis- | the servant girl problem know that the reason they cannot get sculllons is because housewives dou't like to do the work themselves, In fact, this may be the indeterminable factor of the whole domest ic problem. If these estimable women have | thought of {¢ the hint may be made [ that there uever yet has been a service in the world that could not be purchased it & price were paid for it Blunder enrned, Chicago New | Three more (makiog five in all) Stantord university professors have resigned as a consequence of ecomomic criticisms dis agreeable to Mrs. Stanford. The nrofessors tnstead of bothering their heads about street-car problems of San Francisco and other matters in which Mrs. Stanford s financlally foterested should have com- pared her, a la Triggs, to the Sappho of the Leucadian steep, Mrs. Browning or Florence Nightingale. Then they could have retained their professorships at in- creosed salaries expressive of their dise crimination and appreciation A PROPHECY BY NAPOLEON. T | | | Hetter " Pe An Incldent of the Lounisiana Pure Becomes a Reality. Chicago Chronfcle nization in France of the Lafayette Scclety of Sons of the American Revolution recalls & timely fllustration of the prophetic | mind of Napoleon When thinking of ceding Louisiana to the United States he sald: “To deliver he na- tions from the commercial tyranny of Eng- | land we must balance her by a maritime power which will one day become her rival; this is the United States.” The perlod of rivalry has passed. The primacy of the commercial world is now ours. The uniform selfishness which char- terized England’s dealings with her Amer- fcan colonies, her rtlessn in sweeping our merchant marine off the seas during the civil war to preserve her supremacy | through her coal and our cotton, has caught up at last with its deserts. Both the cotton and the coal of the world are ours and the cotton manufacture in which she has so long led without question will not he of paramount importance to her foreign trade after her couls are exhausted. The genius of Napoleon was often pro- phetic, never more clearly or consclously than in helping to build up American power He lost to England in war. Time has won for his purpose with the agencies of peace. RECENT DEBT REDUCTION, Fentares of the nancial Operation Louls € -Democrat Cutting down the rate of interest on the public debt of the United States is scarcely wecond in importance to reduction of the principal. Less than ten months ago, on | March 14 Jast, the gold standard law was passed, and its provisions Included author- | ity to refund certain classes of outstanding government honds into new gold 2 per cents The treasurer of the United ates estl- mated that $400,000,000 would be the extent of the refunding, though others in the Treasury department thought him opti- mistic. But he was under the mark, for the refunding closed at the end of last month with total exchanges amounting to $443,000,- 000. The result is that nearly 45 per cent of the bonded debt is now in 2 per cent bonds, which weqns an annual saving of $8.500,000 in fyture interest payments. In this operation, Secretary Gage disposed of $44,000,000 of tRo surplus by the payment of differences bétween the par value and pres- It 1s & splendid a, notable feat in economic finance, A saving of $8,00,000 a year. in interest payments is & form of debt reduc- tion that all the people can appreciate, Perhaps the United States could not float a large loan at 2 per cent, but it can come nearer to it than any other nation, and con- sequently {ts credit is the best in the world In all, Secretary Gage last year used $68 000,000 of the surplus by redeeming contin- ued 2 per cents to the amount of $24,000,000 and by premium payments on the exchanges | under the refunding law. A surplus is still accumulating, but the prospective reduction | of war taxation by congress will bring rev An- other feature of the gold standard law of last March is the establishment of 252 n tional baoks, with a capital of between $25 000 and $50,000 each, whereas the old limit was $50,000. Few financial laws ever de- vised have proved o fruittul of good to the whole people as that framed and epacted by republicans less than a year SHEEP Notable Nation's AN AND CATTLE MAN, Phases of the Struggle for Western nk Lands, San Francisco Call The reports from the live stock conven- tion at Salt kake City seem to show that the sheep men are in the saddle and the 1t is @ curious illustration of the timidity of fixed Investments. Nearly every cattle man in the west, whether a large or small herdsman, is a land owner. He has ranch lands and headquarters buildings and is a taxpayer. The flock masters, on the other hand, are rarely land owners, They have the daring and independence of nomads. They drive their flocks at will where they please, fre quently in one year making from 500 to | 1,000 miles, feeding and fattening their sheep as they go, and leaving the range bebind them bare and dusty. Recently a flock master in Wyoming, who had just sold out his flock of 140,000 sheep, boasted that he had made a great fortune in sheep and yet had never owned nor paid taxes on more than fitteen acres of land! His pasture cost him nothing, for he grazed on the public domain and paid the government nothing for the feed that had made his These aggressive shepherds have dis- covered that they can drive the cattle off the range, for sheep will feed where cattle bave been, but cattle will not feed where sheep have been. So when a sheep man opposes leasing the range and talks highly about the need of a free range open to all he means a range from which he has the power to exclude cattle, monopolizing it for himself. These brave and enterprising nomads go further than this, for they pro- pose at Salt Lake to demand a higher tariff and compel a federal inspection of manu- factured goods, tagging every bolt of fabric to show of what it Is made. They demand also that all forest reserves be thrown open to sheep. We really hope that they win not demand an Inspecting officer to overhaul us all on the street and s(rip us to see if we have woolen underclothing, with th power to imprison us for failure to wear wool from sheep that never cost a dollar for their feed While these virile nomad what they want are asking for and getting It, the timid cattle men afe in disagreement themselves, and while (hey higgle the sheep men nre off the range. With free feed and a high wool tariff, and Qisappearance of range catile, the profits of sheep-growlng rise, and 5o does the price of clothing and the of meat. The cousumers of both are the people who own the public domain. Perhaps they may soon demand that the shepherds pay them some- thing for the use and destruction of their property. quarrel and crowding them rice | but AFFAIRS IN THE The View at Present OMcial Clreles at Manila. The New York Evening Post prints a letter from an unnamed correspondent, “an official who moves in high official circles at Manila,” glving the “ofclal view' of the present unsatistactory condition of affairs in the Philippines, This “ofcial view'" coincides with the opinion recently expressed in the United States senate Senator Sewell of New Jersey and Senator Hawley of Connecticut. The letter is dated Mantla, December 15, and reads in part s follows or the last fwo months the Philippine ommission and the military governor have been hard at work on thelr respective re- ports to the president of the United Stat These reports were mailed on the last transport and they will probably be in he hands of the president by January 1, 1901 In the meantime the utmost secrecy 1s belng maintained in Manila, both as to the {nformation and recommendations contained in these documents, ond the reason {s not far to seek: for messages be the same which have preceded them but time, a sort of official mutiny might be precipitated fn army circles. On the other hand, if it 1s reported in these documents that the situation in the islands {s unsatis- tactory from a military standpoint, and that the volunteers must be replaced with other troops and more troops, quite differ- ent considerations render secrecy desirable. 1t army officers in Manila today that American army is on the defensive in this archipelago and that it has been on the defensive for more than six months. It was on the defensive when General Otis went home to tell the poople of the United States that ‘the Philippine sltuation was well in hand.' Perhaps the official code of ethics forbade his successor's discrediting that statement, at least until after the election, the time is at hand when something radical will have to be done YA few weeks ago a number of staff officers went on a cruise among the south- ern islands of the archipelago. This num- ber included Colonel M. Barber, adjutaut general of the division ut that time; Colonel Greenleaf, the chief surgeon, and other prominent officials who had a thorough office knowledge of the conditions. Since thelr return several of these gentlomen have been heard to condemn vigorously a policy that Is largely responsible for the present situation, viz, a policy that at- tempts to reconcile the two directly op- posite forces of war and beneficenc “They report that the garrisons in two- thirds of the territory visited are in a state of actunl siege and that they dare not ko more than a few hundred yards outside their posts for fear of capture or of en- countering an overwhelming force of in surgents; (hat all of the garrisons are too «mall for the territory watched over and that not a day passes that several American soldiers are not picked off by the watchful and ireacherous natives PHI tertained in as that of those A short “‘A spirit of bitterness has crept into the rank and file of the army because of this policy, which permits American soldiers to be murdered in the most dastardly manner nd the murderers remain at large. From the south come frequent stories of our men baving been captured in twos and threes and buried alive. Tongues have been cut out and all manner of barbarous cruelties | practiced on ambushed and captured Ameri- | can soldiers. Offical reports to the con- trary, officers and men who know the situa- tlon and the natives are all agreed that the Filipino hates us as he never hated the Spaniard; that every Filipino fs an in- surrecto and that warfare will continue for years unless some strong policy be inaugurated. Fear is the only force that the Tagal savage recog- nizes and he is not as much afraid of the American as he was of the Spaniard. In plain language, the Filipino thinks the American a fool because he does not use his power or retaliate, and respects him ac- cordingly. eneral MacArthur has a good, cautlous man as an exccutive, but what the condi tons need is & bold, determined soldier who will make war ‘hell’ to the Filipinos until they are willing to lay down their arms and accept the only government that can rule them--power. And this cannot be done without an adequate army. It is the opin- fon of many expert soldiers here on the ground that 100,000 soldiers will be needed to cope with the situation in the near fu- ture, i. e., It present conditions are to be radically changed. “The country is pacified and ‘the situa- tion is well in hand,’ but there are towns within a few wiles of Manila where the authorities will not permit an American to 80 for fear that he will be massacred American soldiers daily fall prey to the bold treachery of the Malay, but these have ‘needlessly exposed themselves. Small wonder that the soldier s disgusted with a condltion that permits his comrade to be ambushed or foully murdered by ‘amigos,’ and does not permit him to avenge his death ‘from motives of policy.’ “The American authorities set up a local municipal government; presidente, clerk, etc., are elected, and everything seems to be working smoothly. A little later it is discovered that the presidente and clerk also represent the Insurgent government, and that where they collect 100 pesos tax for the ‘Americanos,’ they collect 400 pesos for the cause of the ‘Filipino nation.’ Yet they go comparatively unpunished. Small wonder that all manner of treachery stalks abroad in & land that offers a premium for duplicity and fails to punish the traitor. “Education can do & great deal, but edu- cation alone will never pacify the Philip- pine Islands. Force I required, and many American soldiers will spill their blood and much American treasure will be spent be- fore peace roigns in this archipelago, and the longer the present policy of conducting war on nursery principles is continued the greater will be the injustice dome to the soldier who has to serve in this cause.” GROVER'S TEARFUL MOAN, Will the Stuffed Prophet Again the Country " Cleveland Leader Grover Cleveland must be to run for president again declared that the republic is in danger, and when Mr. Cleveland feels that Ameri- can institutions are threatened he may be dependcd upon to assume the role of de- fender and savior In 1884 Mr. Cleveland thought the republic was threatened. He said the United States menaced by a “communism of pelf,’ and he gladly became the candidate of the democratic party for the presidency. Each of the other two times he ran for president he was sure that he had been called to de- fend the republic against great and im- pending danger. The people gave Lim two chances to save the republic, and now he may be trying to convince them that he should be called ngain “It has been my lot dress in New York on much on the sober side of life, and to feel the pressure of great responsibilities,” and that, after all, may explain why he tak such a gloomy view of the future of the republic But he would not be he tcok an optimistic view of anything The ex-president will g down into history as the one American all others, who never missed an opportunity to preach a gloomy sermon his fellow countrymen As & rumbler Mr. Cleveland stauds without & peer among public men in this country. Mr ready getting He has he said in his ad Thursday, *‘to be irover Cleveland if to should the tenor of these | Is openly and repeatedly asserted by | the | the present guerrilla | CROWE AS A 1t TER The general search that is gofng on for Pat Crowe, one of the alleged abductors the Cudahy bo: has o0 far been unsuccessful have been scen same time fn different parts of the countr The popular inquiry and failure find Mr. Crowe suggests that addition 1o | teing a augpected kidnaper he may > n it be long-sought indi who assaulted the celebrated William Fat terson Pittsburg Chronicl Fortunately h effort e¢n the part of a young criminal at Ashtabula, 0., to trom wealthy citizen, under il violence, was quickly nipped in the bud The imitative and contagiaus character of crime s being amply illustrated growing number of would-be Pat | Now that of them is in the | the la no time should be lost in giving 0 impressive object lesson of the extent and severity of the punishment that future lattempts of this character may be expected to evoke from the Chicago Tribune |Crowe, lately a citizen of Omaha | Philadelphia prest at a score of places at th 0 al mo! threat of p | ter in the Crowes han courts Mr elusive has number of men and women who, for one recson or another, have been moved to vanish utterly trom the knowledge of people whe once knew them. It is almost incredi- ble that such a disappearance should be possible in the face of the fact that $50,000 reward I8 offered for his capture, and that probably as many thousand men are anx fously looking for him. Yet there have |been enough Instances of the same kind to prove that the case of Crowe {s not a miraculous exception and to provide plenty {of company for him in the unknown country | where the mysteriously missing make their home. There are the men who stole “(‘harley” Ross. for instance, and “Willle"" | Tascott, for whom the world was searched |tn vain. Of more obscure people there are hundreds. on the “missing books tions and who have disappeared entirely |and. apparently, forever, from the world In spite of all the tmprovements in rapid ccmmunication between the far-off corners of the earth, in spite of the fact that the | discoverers are complaining because there is no more work for them to do, there still secms to be much, 30 long as it is possible for smart men to vanish out of slght and to remain undiscovered. at the police &ta FERSONAL NOTES, Napoleon always wanted to be told bad news at once. Good news could keep, he said The ramification of Mr. Cloveland's “Dutch Dikes and Dams’ extended from the Philippines to South Africa Major J. W. Warren w appoin‘ed the mecretary of the executive department of the'state of orgia twenty-nine years ago and he has held the position ever since When John G. Carlisle was in congress he was always comparatively a poor man. It 15 sald that the ex-secretary is now making $50,000 a year from his law practice in New York The bust of Rabbi Wise, the noted Hebrew scholar, which Max B. May has presented to the Hebrew Union college of Cincinnat! was unveiled at the Plumb Street temple in that city on Tuesday afternoon. There is to bo a notable celebration of Lincoln's birthday at Carnegie hall in New York City February 11. Mark Twaln is to fntroduce the speakers and the chief ad- dress will be delivered by Henry Watterson of Louisville. The Michigan presidential electors chose Joscph R. Bennett of Adrian messenger to carry the result of the balloting to Wash- | ington. Mr. Bennett has lived in Michigan cighty years, he cast his first presidential vote for William Henry Harrison and he has voted for every republican candidate for president from Fremont to McKinley The $5,000.000 estate of the late Dr | Thomas W. Evans, the famous American dentist of Paris, has at last been settlod the relatives who contested the will re ceiving $500,000 among them. In the will but $250,000 was left to relatives, the re- malnder going to the Thomas Evans Museum and Institute Society of Phila- delphia. It is said that Lord Roberts is the first man who has ever been entitled to wear both the Garter and the Victorla Cross. He is the first who has ever worn the cross and has been both a Knight of the Garter and of St. Patrick, and the unique distine- tion may fairly be taken as symbolical of the unique services which he has rendered the empire. Dr. Henry Foster, who founded the great sanatorium at Clifton Springs. . Y., died there on Tuesday. He would have 79 vears old within a week. Few men lived nobler lives. His deeds of kindness were countless. Hundreds of poor patients re- celved the benefit of his institution with all its skill for little or nothing. He was & man universally beloved and a Christian whose faith was exemplified In every word and act. Here are some excellent our Juvenile department. For the big boys and su colors and fancy stripes., $1.00 t sortment of patterns, anc values—now at 75c an A big line of fine warm I"ast black cotton stocki Heavy Hand medium we can be had-—re 4 for You always find here t the time.” We Keep Open Saturday He s alleged to parently gone to join the surprisingly large | whose storfes are told only been | boys’ furnishings in town JERSEY JUSTHO Sample of 1t Viewe Short Range Phtladelphia Record e, proverblal 1o quick work ors of A deed w All three men of murder necks will o years within midnigh areless or helpless and possibl ich moral monster g At large, es of the onclusion the entire | American public owe a debt of gratitude It has been demonstrated conspicuously a Paterson that ust after all not n-heeled nor torpid and inert it ishment should always follow after crime as speedily as in this Bosschieter case thera would be few complaints of the law's delay | Few criminal ofte involving the lo: of a single human have aroused more widespread and profound public interest in this section of the co ry than was In inapired by the story of poor Jennie Bosschie ter's undoing. The myriad-tongued press carried far and wide the main incidents of the tragedy; all Paterson rang end re verberated with the atrocious details, and |everywhere brooded a sentiment of vague apprehension, almost consternation -as | though hell's 1id had heen suddenly lifted for a public spectacle. 1If the enduring fmpulses of social and moral reform shall wax stronger in American communities hereafter because of this revelation of hu manity's darker side the hapless Paterson mill girl will not have died altogether vain The Ln nt New swiftness of ha perpetra va jus ' o the a name 0 are second unstret va walls rides and def remain will be prison Their their f legree hed where “knock-ou ration of or restrained fr To the offt that brought prompt and drops Kirls 1nkne when wn Society is or th carl and ages o 1« lea 1t Detroit Jo that ocean grayhound go! Merman-Yes, 1 wonder {f soma sea urcl hasn't tled a tin can to fts ta)l? Judge: Jay-Were there man, lghts at the Caroline Cajoler's ladfes’ da Mrs Jay—-0, some bright. Tuminone ray flitted by W and then. to si \thing of ex-rays, trying hard to intil Merperson—Just look at every the lelph Ph Pross: &hoppar 1 don't care t any wealskin. There's a nice looking coliarette over there. What is that fur? Clerk—Why, that's for to keep your neck warm, of course. ( 1 lumbus ry, the alarm clock just went Mr. Bloepyize—Thank goodness! the thing'll never come back Detrolt Free Press: He-Our relativ gave us an awfully ugly lot of bridal pres ents, Bhe—Yes, they did; mage sale it would come. ournal Mrs leepyize N 1 hope and It we had & rum- be just like them to Philadelphia Record: “‘How muech money has my husband in bank?' demanded the woman ST cannot tell you, madam.” replied man behind the grating “Why. they told me you were the teller, " snapped the woman the Cleveland Plain Dealer: “Yea. wha wouldn't speak ta the editor when she met him Had he oftgud ):N~ er 2 had ne His society last e porter called century's buds. Detroft Journal: In the theater business however, angels rush in where ordinary fools wouldnt put up u cent. 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His senses worn And he h Ing race Sena him forth in the world, about, And summon a boy to step into his place’ He has had all the chances he ever ma clatm ‘There is nothing for him that the fu can hold. He 18 forty, poor fossil, | name T t, lessly 1ags in the heart-bresk dulled and his r to be jo ture 0 cross out his He's old! For the Boys values we are offering in SWEATERS 1all boys, all wool, in plain o $1.25 SHIRTS Boys' stiff bosom colored shirts, a beautiful as- 1 regular $1.00 and $1.50 d $1.00 Gloves and Mittens gloves and mittens at 50_ cents. STOCKINGS ngs for boys and for girls, ight—the very best that ilar 3 for $1.00 value, for $1.00 he most complete lin “all the new thi of gs all Nights Only tili 9 O’Clock. rowning, King & Co., R. S. Wilcox, Manager. Omaha’s Only Exclusive Clothicrs for Mca ai Beye