Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 16, 1901, Page 6

THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Editor PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ally Bee (without Sunday), One Year..$6.00 Iy Bee and Sunday, One Year. . llustrated Hee, One Year vad-{ Bee, One Year e saturday Bee, One Year . ‘wentleth Centyry Farmer, One Yea OFFICES Omaha: The Bee Bailding South Omaha: City Ha!l Bullding, Twen- ty-Afth and M Streets Coun A) Bluffe: 10 Pearl Street. Chicago. 1640 Unity Buflding. New York: Temple Court Washington: 801 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to news and edi- forini mutter should be addressed: Omaha ee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS Pusiness fetters and remittances s be addressed: The Bee Publishing pany, Omaha RIMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company, Jnily 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Umaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY uld om- STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, su | George B. Tzschiick, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, bemng duly #worn, #ave that the actual number of full and ymplete coples of The Dally, Morning, Svening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of January, 191, was as follows: 40 £.26,800 20,620 ...20,720 26,060 20,410 20,820 20,180 26,410 20,120 20,815 26,180 42,770 2N, 840 26,180 ...840,085 10017 20,210 26,410 20,850 26,410 26,380 ..26,240 ..26,440 .. 20,240 26,420 26,700 L...29,650 ..26,450 A 20,320 Total ..., Less unsold and 30.... 8., “returned coples Net total sales. 068 Net dally average w7768 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK, Sabscribed fn my presence and sworn to before me this dist day of January, A. D. 1901 M. B. HUNGATE, (Seal) Jotary Publie. —_— e Perhaps that groundhog was not such & bad guesser after all. _— Congress 18 just commencing to come down the homestreteh, with the wire set at March 4. The Gila dam seems to be more con- ducive to profanity than most subjects | of congressional disagreement. From the standpoint of hindsight, the republican caucus should have estab- lished a quarantine on the caucus room | Just before the secession took place. 'he legislative troupe 1s now giving two exhibitions in the senatorial ring daily instead of only one, Pretty soon we may have continuous performances, 1t double-barreled senatorial contests were on the program for every winter, the line between Omaha and Lincoln would be double-tracked at an early day. ¢ This country has trouble enough with its own pri fighters and their endless talk, but an added affliction is threat- ened--Charlie Mitchell has landed in New York. Omaha s not so particular as to which counties it may be linked to for n congressional district, provided only the district is kept with a normal re- publican majority. Omaha will be pleased to guide the Oregon Short Line from this point. In tact, Omaha would be pleased to nc- commodate the headquarters of all the railroads in the count Legal Tender Coxey, son of the states- man of Commonweal fame, has died at the early age of 6 years. The affliction of his name and scarlet fever combined seem to have been too much for him., Just wait till Nebraska's governor ap- pears in line in the inaugural proces- sion at Washington with his newly-uni- formed staff and see the sister states cast envious glances in that direction. e General Weyler has been placed in command at Madrid to preserve ovder. Weyler? Ob, yes! That is the man who saved Washington by not marching the ., Spanish army up from Havana to the ' eapital. S———— A man who held up a St. Joseph alderman of a small sum was recently sentenced to forty years in the peniten- tlary. It certainly appears as though this were adopting striugent measures to shut off competition, Omaha club women are discussing the raco problem. For a complete pre- sentation of both sides representatives of the proscribed race should be given a hearing. But the proposition to invite a few negro women to stand up for thelr own race would doubtless precipitate the race question in earnest instead of in theory only. When confidentlal letters are read in congress which in any mauner reflect upoun republicans it is all right from a democratic standpoint, but when the dewocratic mule is flayed they are “private correspondenc and should mot be disclosed to the public gaze. Your democratic reformer is queerly constituted, The annual report of the League of Awmerican Wheelmen shows conclusively that the fad 18 passing, in fact has ubout passed. The bi e has ceased 10 be a toy or used principally for wmusement, but has taken its place with the practical vehicles. Those who use wheels for practical purposes will continue to do so, but the bicycle “erank” I8 a thing of the past. ——————— Fires were started by incendiuvies In four of Ohicago's leading hotels in one night, the motive evidently being elther robbery or revenge. How any human being can deliberately start fires which endanger thelives of hun- dreds of people s difficult to conceive, but such things are of comparatively common occurrence. The world con- talng many flends close to the border- tal depravity, THE WORK IN THE PHILIPPINES, The Philippine commission is prose cuting its work with zeal and no little sticcess, The latest advices show that stendy progress 18 being made in the pacification of the islands. Outside of | Luzon there is practically today no seri ous resistance to the authority of the United States, while in that island | there is a gradual subsidence of the hos- | tility to Ameriean control. Step by step | American authority i being extended and the natives are accepting it as they come to better understand that it means al fndependence and the promotion of the common welfare, | The commission, according to advices, | i« pushing its work in the most practi- cal and systematic way, with the vel proper purpose of teaching the people, by a gradual process, to what American government There is an obvious necessity for the Filipinos to understand that the United | States means with reference to them | a wholly different policy from that which was pursued_by Spain, and in order {o properly fmpress them with thig we must give them such positive and unquestionable evidence of our good faith as to remove from their minds any doubt as to our purpose to accord to them such freedom in the management of their domestic affairs | as will give them the largest measure of autonomy or self-goyernment con sistent with thelr capacity for self-gov- ernment and our interests, This is the work in which the Philip pine commission 18 now engaged. It is endeavoring to show the people of the islands that it is the policy of the United States to give them a govern- ment that will enable them to enjoy the highest privileges enjoyed by the terri- torial inhabitants of the United States, | which means self-government only less than that which is given to the states of the union, The commission fs working most in- dustriously to this end and apparently with good results. Kyery report from the Philippines shows that some progress is being made, The people of the islands are coming more and more to realize that the sovereignty and the policy of the United States is in their interest and welfare and there is no question that this fecling is steadily extending. Au important requirement secms to be an enactment by congress of some such measure as the Spooner bill which | will give the president authority to es- tablish civil government in the Philip pines and permit action that will pro- mote the industrial and commereial de velopment of the islands. A QUESTION OF RIGHTS The government of the United States and the government of Great Britain are still engaged in discussion of the proposition as to the boundary of the Alaska division. So far as appears now there is no great prospect of an early solution of the problem. On the con- trary the prospects are that the dis- cussion will continue for a number of years and that the settlement is very remote. The premier of Canada, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, in his reply to opposition querles in the Dominion parliament, did not hold out any promise that the difficulties between the United States and Canada would be of early settle- ment. On the contrary he said that the chances were that all of the ques- tions in controversy would continue to divide the two countries and to engross the difficulties between them that now exist. It I8 a very important matter that engrosses the question of our duty and | obligations not only to a neighboring country, but to a government that is absolutely on intimate relations. We have something to think of in regard to Canada and also to the empire of which that colony is only a small part. The Canadian premier in his reply to opposition queries in the Parliament did not seem to take a specially hepe- ful view of the completion of the work of the joint high commission for set- tling disputes between this country and Canada. He was very reserved in his statements, explaining that proceedings have been in abeyance during the elec- toral contests in both countries and now await the adjournment of the Par- liament and of congress in order that the statesmen inay have leisure and composure for renewing # their negotiations. The mind of the Canadian premier seemed 1o be es- pecially worried by the Alaska boundary question, upon which bLe sees no better prospect of settlement than when the efforts of the commis- sloners were interrupted. He ap- parently deprecates the efforts on hoth sides, which make it, in his opinion, almost lmpossible to reconcile the two opposite views. Meanwhile the action of the Canadian government in sending to England and Russia a commissioner to secure facts as to the Alaska boundary has been protested against by our governwment and undoubtedly the protest will be heeded. In this matter it is absolutely certain that the United States will make no further concessions. Attorney General Prout asserts that the position of state weighmaster no longer exists, because it is to be filled by the State Board of Transportation, which has been knocked out by a deci- slon of the supreme court. But the popocratic members of the do-nothing bourd still claim to be connected with the pay roll, because the money for their salaries has been appropriated up to April 1. The attorney general will have an opportunity to reinforce his opinfon on the welghmastership when the salary warrants for the rvallway commissioners are presented to the auditor, The actlon of the house in dealing with Delegate Wilcox of Hawali is an indication there is a disposition to deal liberally with the island portions of this country. Had a home territory sent a delegate against whom the same charges were made and in measure ad- | fluence. mitted to be true, he would not have been seated. It is realized that some THE OMAH allowance must be mac In Hawail and the other the people become more our ways of dolng things for conditions islands until | amiliar with | DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, clated with cougestion, is in Itself an active predisposing cause of apoplexy. This condition is apt to continue during a more | or less troubled sleep, and with an over tired nervous system there I8 less re | sistance to overstretching of the cerebral THE OMAHA CHARTER For the first time in many years the | legislature finds itself free from a noisy | wrangle over the Omala ¢l sov eral bills are before the lawmakers pro- | posing amendments to the statute pro- | viding a government for cities of the metropolitan class, but of them effects any radienl change in the form of municipal government or the lmit tions upon municipal officers, One of them is, the compromise measure fix- | ing the procedure for ting special | improvement districts gnd - levying | spectal assessments, another modifies | slightly the salary schedule, another | glves the park board and fire and police | board a charter status instead of leav- | ing them to rest on ordinan o repeal able by the council, While difre |'l'l|l‘vs! none of opinion may exist upon some of these | there is no criminal intent shall, instead of | y points, they are not seriou: | Two years ngo the charter revision bill was Kkilled by a veto by Governor Poynter, in reality for political rensons, although explained as grounded on the | increase in offices and consequent in crease of tax burdens The charter | bill of two years ago undertook to re- store the couneil to its former propor tions, making it consist of eighteen members, half of them ward council men and the others rofating in thr year terms, with three going out each ¥ The experiment with a per manent body such as this contemplated might have been successful, but there is no urgent demand for it now. The bill also provided for the establishment an eleetive street commissioner and a rearrangement of the membership of the Board of PPublic Works, for the issuance of certificates ot indebtedness | in anticipation of taxes and of time checks for the payment of street labor, and raising the limits of various city funds, It further embodies a plan for con solidating the cities of Omaha and | South Omaha, with special view to the then impending national census. So far as Omaha is concerned, the census having been already taken and mulgated, the incentlve for amalgama tion is by no means so pressing, since the benefits now would all be on the other side, What the present legisliture should do is to take all the several charter amend- ments before it and, after selecting those that arve meritorious, consolidate them all into a single bill which can be enacted without waste of time. Such a bill endorsed by the Douglas delegs tion should meet with practically no op- position und secure a prompt approval by the governor. The promoters of the tight which it was intended to bring off at Clncinnati are complaining that they are out of pocket many thousand dollars by refi- son of the stopping of the affair. If they have lost money they have no one to blame but themselves. They started ont to engage in an illegal en- terprise, were warned in advance that it would not be permitted, but per- sisted in going ahead with the arrang ments. They deserve no sympathy and little will be wasted on them. If, as a distinguished diplomat once said, language is employed by diplomats to conceal, not to express ideas, Eng- land’s new king is a prince of diplo- mat Unfortunately every utterance of Kings and premiers is distorted and magnitied and given meanings that no rensonable construction of language could attach to them. On this account people in authority are afraid to speak frankly and to the point and many mis- understandings oceur which open declarations would pr ory Predicted. Globe-Democrat Correspondent Creelman, who predicted Bryan's election in 1896 and again in 1900, says that Senator Hanoa is losing his in- This may be taken to mean an- other Bryan victory in 1904 Defenne Comminssioner Evans. Atlanta Journal. A rumor is still afloat to the effect that H. C. Evans, the United States commis- sioner of pensions, is to resign and be ap- pointed to a foreign position. This would be a case of hauling down the flag of de- cency and honesty in the face of a horde of greedy and unprincipled pension attorneys. Before Taking: After Globe-Democrat This country was compelled by disturbed conditions to intervene in Cuba when the islagd belonged to Spain. In forming their republic the Cubans should be careful not to ignore the rights of this country as well | as the claims of common gratitude. Our interest in Cuba is not less than it was be- fore the war with Spain. Vacciuation in the Public Schog Philadelphta Inquirer. It was no more than was to be expected that the Board of Health would adopt, as it Qid yesterday, resolutions protesting against the attempt which is belng made to repeal the wise provision of the law which requires that no child shall be ad-| mitted to a public school without the presentation of a certificate from a physician declaring the vaccination of the applicant. Vaccination as a preventive of smallpox is one of the greatest boons ever conferred upon suffering humanity. During the less than a century which has elapsed since its discovery its effect in eliminating ona of the most dreaded and loathsome diseases of the many which afMict mankind has been something wonder- ful. 'aking. Apo xy During Sleep. New York Herald The frequent occurrence of apoplexy dur- fog sleep is illustrated in the of Colonel Albert D. Shaw. He had made a patriotic speech during the evening, and had retired in apparently good health. in his ingtance there was a combination of causes to bring about the result—a banquet, mental excitement, probable indigestion und a coincident lowering of vital tone. In some respects the circumstances were similar td these atttending the demise of Mr. Heery George, who was lkewise stricken after forced efforts on the plat- torm Why the accident in question should occur at @ time when all the bodily functions are seemingly at rest fs at first thought some- what dificult to explain. When, however, the arieries of the brain become brittle by age the slightest change of blood pressure is often enough to precipitate a rupture of these vessels and cause the escape of a clot either upon the surface or into the substance of the brain High mental tenston, being always asso- case | arteries | comfortably | clothes undisturbed and with countenances than during the waking hours instead of rebounding, simply suc- cumbe. The fullness of the vessels iu creases until the final break occurs Generally the effusion of blood is suf clently large (o be followed by instan taneous death, causing one sleep to pass quietly into the other penceful ending it is often noticed that the patients are found as If in natural slumber, Iying on the side, with hed Nature, perfectly calm St. Louts Senator Tandy has introduced in the state senate a bill designed to separate youthtul offenders against the law from criminals and thus avold that culture of crime which necessarily results from such | contact It also provides children gullty of minor machinery whereby offenses where belng arrested, be summoned before the court of criminal correction that their cases may be examined into. Probation officers are appointed whose duty it s to look futo the child’s environ ments and if adv quent from evil surroundings. In case of a second offense the child Is then brought up before the court and a punishment suitable to the circumstances of the case inflicted. It seems that a law of this kind properly safeguarded would work for the public good. It would prevent many children from drift- ing hopelessly into the criminal classes Baltimore Sun. Naval Constructor Richmond P. Hobson receives as the reward for his gallant con- duct at Santiago advancement from place N to No. & on the list of naval con- structors. This glves him the relative rank of captain instead of that of lieutenant. At an extremely early stage in his carcer Mr, Hobson has only four men between him and the chief constructor, who has the rela- tive rank of admiral. All will admit that the hero of the Merrimac richly deserves the reward he thus receives, but all must regret that the law provides no method ot reward except by what is in effect the pun- ishment of innocent men. By advancing Mr. Hobson to the fifth place he is put ahead of men who have been as much as eight years longer in the service. The men he jumps over are all, by his advancement, reduced in rank. That is the effect of the transaction, for each one of them is one place lower and that much further from promotion to the higher rank. Thus they are punished by a practical reduction in standing through mo fault of their own The law should provide some means for the reward of merit which does not involve an act of injustice, NEW ARTILLERY CORPS, Important Changes Have uted in Th ranch o Globe Demacrat. In the bill just passed enlarging and reorganizing the army important changes are made in the artillery branch. The old regimental organizatfon is discontinued. Hereafter there will be an artillery corps comprising two branches—the coast ar- tillery, charged with the care and use of land and coast fortifications, submarine mines and torpedo defenses, and the field artillery, accompanying armies in the field and divided into horse, siege and mountain artillery and machine gun batteries. There will be a chief of the artillery corps to be designated: bylothe president, fourteen colonels and 195 captains. The armament authorized 1s thirty batteries of field artil- lery and 126 batteries of coast artillery. The maximum number of enlisted men in the corps is to be 18,620 One-fifth of the in- crease is to be made before July 1 next and one-fifth annually thereafter. Gvery one who keeps abreast of what goes on in the war departments of the world is aware that important changes are frequent in the artillery arm. The cannon of twenty years ago would be of little more service now than popguns against a thoroughly modern army. Men who have passed through the South African war speak especially of the effectiveness of the pompon, a field gun so new that its name is not in the dictionary. Siege artillery is of greater range and field artillery is under- going reconstruction. Artillerists are men of sclence and the gunners in the ranks must pass through a special training. The coast artillery is purely defensive and an increase in its numbers should have been provided for long ago. A total artillery corps of 20,000 men is a moderate total for a country like the United States, with %o many harbors and coast cities to pro- tect. It s imperative also that our field artillery should be kept thoroughly mod- ernized. CORNERED THE OFFICES. Southern States Have Large Propor- tlon of Chronic OMceholders, Philadelphia Ledger. A Washington dispatch contains some de- tails concerning the number of employes in the government service at Washington, their compensation and the states from which they were appointed that are lkely to be of general interest. It has always been realized that an army of officeholders made Washington their residence, but their exact number has been a matter of estimate. It seems that the pay rolls of the govern- ment show that there are 19,446 resident officeholders. They are employed in the Qifferent departments and bureaus and do not include the employes about congre Those 19,446 employes are paid $19,628,5 annually. The distribution of these federal officeholders among the different states and territories is given as follows Aggregate Number. Annual Pay. District of Columbia 13 New York Maryland . Pennsylvania Virginia Ohlo Tllinots Massachusetts Indiana Michigan New Jersey Towa ... Missour! North Carolina Tennessee West Virginia Georgla Kentueky Kansas Wisconsin Connecticut Minnesota Texas South Carolina... Alabama Maine California Nebraska Mississipp! Vermont New Hampshire Loulsiana Arkansas . Colorado Delaware Florida Rhode Island South Dakota Oregon North Dakota Wyoming Washington Montana New Mexico . Alaska . idaho Utah . Indlan Teri Arizona 8 There is an officeholding class among the reaidents of the District of Columbla who bave secured more than one-quarter of appointments, FEBRUARY As evidence of this | hardened | able remove the delin- | -3 | determined to entrap them. 16, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, | Ex-King Milan of became | relgning prince of that then @ tributary state of the sultan of Turkey, In 1808, when he was a mere lad. 1t was hig ‘mlflnnunu perhaps, to be elevated to a position, the responsibilities of which he did not fully understand, at & time & ben his character was yet unformed The moral atmosphere of Belgrade was little calculated encourage the development of manly virtues in the voung prince. who had al ready imbibed at the Lycee Louis le Grand |t Paris (where he received his educa tion), the frivolons spirit rampant in the French capital under the second empire Milan made war twice against Turkey and | once against Roumania, his armies having been each time disastrously defeated and the King having been conspicous on each | occaslon for his cowardice. He proclaimed himself king in 1878 at the instigation of | his Russian chief of staff, and was re- warded for the unimportant aid rendered by him to Russia in the war for the libera- | tion of Bulgaria by independence from the porte. He married unhappily and his queén cecured a divorce ndals which attended his married life ne was forced to abdicate and was banished from Servia, but he was permitted (o re turn by the indulgence of his son, King Alexander, much to the regret of people whom he had misruled. By dying | he conferred his first real benefit on his country and he will be borne to his tomb rvin country the to The affairs of Crete are agaln approach- ing a crisis. Prince George, apparently, has effected Iittle by his recent visits to the various Europcan courts. Ile declares that he will not consent to fill the post of high commissioner under present condition longer than next November, and the powers cannot be brought to agree upon the union of the island with Greece. Nefther will they approve of his proposition to substi- tute Greek troops for the international force mow In occupation, with the agree- ment that they should be wholly tnder | the direction of the high commissioner. The sultan, it is said, is disposed to favor | the creation of a principality similar to Bulgaria, but the idea is highly unpopular | in Athens. In reality the establishment of a principality would, it is thought, bs a step towards eventual union and would 8o be understood by the Cretans, but the Greeks are too impatient to favor a slow | process of this sort. In principle, union is desired by the Cretans, but they are equally anxlous to preserve their local autonomy and to retain the prince at the head of affairs, and comparatively few of thes wish for a complete absorption fnto the Greek kingdom. The Cretan assembly meets in April and it {s expected that the opposition party, which is strong numeri- cally, will make the question of union a prominent subject of discussion. e &ypt depends on irrigation for the suc- cess of her crops of grain. Up to the present time the irrigation has been by na ture. Each year when the Nile has risen with the floods the waters, which are rich with fertilizing properties, have been spread over the flelds on either bank of the river, and wheat, corn and cotton, which the country is famous for, have ro- ceived their proper moisture. But these floods have been irregular. Some years the Nile would yield plenty of water, and then the harvests would be good, while at an- other time the floods would be scanty and partial famine would ensue. Now comes news of the completion of the dam at Assouan, which will control the floods of | the river and enable scientific irrigation to be conducted, Insuring the country against the danger of lack of water at all seasone. The dam is splendidly located and will hold back the water in a natural lake 144 miles in lepgth. Jts immediate effect will be to bring under cultivation over 600,000 acres of land that have hitherto been un- available. This huge volume of water will be llberated at proper intervals for the benefyt of the land below the dam, and thus the crops will be assured of nourishment when most needed. Briefly, the Nile will be under control, and the grower will no | longer be dependent on nature for his har- vest. More than 5,000,000 acres will come under constant cultivation. o To a Frenchman the changes of the cen- tury are especlally startling. France, with contracted limits, has but 38,000,000 of peo- ple. Even within these limits the popula- tion of 1801 was 26,000,000, s0 that the in- crease, at best, has been but 12,000,000, Instead of numbering the fifth part of Eu- rope, the French are now but a tent England has 41,000,000 people, the new Ger- man empire has 56,000,000, Austria has 45,000,000, Russia perhaps 135,000,000, even Italy has 2,000,000 and is inéreasing, while France is stationary. It Is unnecessary to refer to the changes that have taken place in the Americas. A hundred years ago “active humanity" numbered less than 200,- 000,000, of whom the French were one- sixth, and in every way powerful and pre- eminent. Now the progressive peoples num- ber 800,000,000, and it is not only in num- bers that the French are surpassed. o One of the most significant consequences of Queen Victorla's death has been the re- markable demonstration of personal grief by the natives of India. While she was yet alive all classes of natives were eager to get the latest information concerning her con- dition, and prayers for her recovery were oftered not only in the large cities where such supplications might be regarded as more or less conventional, but in mosques and temples in remoto country districts. Evidence to this effect s coming in from all sides. Mohammedans, Hindus and other sects displayed as much zeal in this respect as the official Christian congregations. This feeling was more noticeable in the large centers of Mohammedan population, because great masses of the people had assembled to take part in the cercmonies on the festi- Owing to the | the | unlamented and unsung. | | cannot DEATH PENALTY i . | and 1iinols Discussing pnctment of New Laws Chicago Times-} ald The senate of the Missouri legislature has given partial effect to the agitation of the | lagt year by passing a bill which permits the death penalty for kidvaping and fixes | the minimum penaliy at ten years' im prisonment, Generally speaking, it is not wise to multiply th for capital punishment. The history of criminal Jaw ehows that where it is meted in discriminately for great and smull offenses the yemedy defeats its own purpose. But it ‘kidnaping is given a bad eminence by the side of murder it will soon become a crime shunned criminale, and it certain that it deserves as severe a treat- | ment as murder itselt | The bill s directed those operations in which ransom s de manded, which make a money speculation out of the agony of parents or other relatives. In such instances the limit of | human crueliy and insensibility Is reached and it may be doubted if the majority of homicides cause anything like the same degree of human suffering. Assuredly the | death of & child like Charley Ross would | have been less fearful to the parents than | the long vears of harassing uncertainty as to his fate. While that uncertainty lasts death s imagined in many different forms and if the hope of life is cherished it is | clouded by visions of criminul surround ings and a criminal career The difficulty is not in finding sufcient reasons for the bill, but in procuring uni form laws on the subject. It yet remains to be scen whether the Missourl measure will become a statute and whether the agitation will be carrled forward as it hould be in other states. Unfortunately { capital punishment fs barred in some of them which have carried the reaction against the death penalty to a foolish ex treme, and legislators are too apt to be moved by inspi fons which are as fleet- g as the, particular public sensations which cause them. What Delaware has done and what Missouri proposes o do be accomplished throughout the unfon unless earnest, energetic and per- sistent men who are full of the faith themselves keep up the fight with un- abated zeal. Nlinofs, which has a special reason for remembering one of the re- cent kldnaping cases, should surely take the lead in the good work FOR KIDNAPING, cuses specifically against POINTED PERSONALS, Governor Yates of Illinois and his thirty- two colonels will appear at the presidential inauguration in suits costing Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews says five min- utes {s & long enough time to devote to the perusal of any newspaper. The editor of the Commoner need not become excited over this, He is not publishing a newspaper. The present heir to Qucen Wilhelmina's crown is a German, the rich and young grand duke of Saxe-Weimar, considered the best royal match in the world. His grandmother, the late Grand Duchess Sophia, was the aunt of the present queen of Holland. The Colorado Springs (Colo.) pleads that when the time for Captain B. Coghlan's retirement comes the Na department ought to continue him on the rolls as lecturer on naval subjects to the American people. It says he talks too well to be shelved. When Sara Bernhardt was about fo leave Paris for America her friends and ad- mirers gathered around her and asked “Why do you go?" The answer appears to come from far-away San Francisco, where the advance sale of seats for “L'Aiglon” amounted to $21,000. Congressman ‘‘Joe"” Cannon called at the adfutant general's office the other morning and found a crowd of senators waiting to see Secretary Root about army commissions for their constituents. “Uncle Joe" looked about him for a minute and said: ‘‘The senate will please come to order." 1da Husted Harper makes this pungent remark: “When those thirty-three men in Indiana were convicted of selling their votes the judge took away their suffrage for from ten to twenty years, but he had not the heart to degrade them to the political level of a woman by distranchisement for life." United States Senator John W. Daniel of Virginia s looked upon as certain to be clected a member of the state constitu- tional convention. “While it may be true that the convention may be a political graveyard,” he lately wrote to a member of the Virigina legislature, “a man can never die but once, and I can do no better than die doing my duty."” Frederick Holbrook of Brattleboro, the war governor of Vermont, will be 88 years old on February 15. “I am happy and contented,” he says. “I try to make myself useful; walk several miles every pleasant day; attend to my correspondence, and do my own writing. 1 read aloud several hours daily, largely from the poets and works of imagination. This tends to pre- vent introspection when one is old. I try to be a young old man.” Gazette 1 | ominous citizen WITH THE ribune Natly Forelgier- have Wy wonde Y tainly wa (hart hisgton fiar ful civilizer answered' appreciate | first settled we couldr't ettin’ his toes fouc mannee wntil the up A ot o' poles Glasgow Times asylum, working upon i attempt at . opportunity when th they aprronch “Noo, bend doon 111 clim 1l “and and they Sandy mounting wall, and, dropping shouted, ae he ‘U'm (hinking, Sar bide anither fortnig richt yet gle ¥ srding Indianapolis Press frite a book on "ol e—ilow Iy that? Rrooklyn Life: will be to some whom | Her Friend millior Sl Give Washington Star fell Of course “That's where R aceept Haltimere Amaeric were vez whippin' th marnin'? 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CORONATION, At the king's Wove Imy yellow Into tl drowsy s Through the King's g nets it the subtle noon f wun; t re too soon The guards fell one by one. te, unauestioned then, A beggar went, anil Mo chance at last The King sat bowe Propping his face Watc ghed, “This brings if men “are better, belng kings.' 1 beneath his er with lstless hand g the hour-glass eifting dowi wi, Too slow ity shining sand. “Poor man, e The beggar turnod Replied ke one § Nothing what wouldst thou have of aud, plivine, dream. I want the king "Of thee, Up rose the king, and from his head Rhook off the 0 man, thou must h “A greater king the uve an T rown and threw it by known,” he said, Through all the gates, unquestioned then, We W hisp. t king and beg d the King, The beggar laughed Wera wiping from t The crimson lines th “This 1s His pres At ‘the King's gate Unwov " I and in hand hall T know when Before His throne 1 stand? IPree winds fn haste h King's hot brow Wi 1 now." had tr the crafty noon its yellow nets of sun: Out of thelr &leep in terror woon The guards waked one by one Mo there! The or o here! "he King? Beggar Has no man emen ran to and fro: and king, they laughed, 1 ween, The laugh that free men know On the king's gate th The king came not 1o They % ew gray alled him dead; s Amd made his eldest gon one day Slave In his father's stead. “lske Jackson (* —Melen 1 H.") GOLDEN ROD OIL COMPANY Producers Owners One vestm of this compar low_price, subje of Well feet down and going The character and bukiness s its five Omaha and fo tors assure wise and with names of officers and dire will be gent and full particulars, the usking. f V'uel OIl in Callforni 0il Lands. nd most promising in- our 1 lifornia oll busir RRED which is offered now at a to advance on comp'etion This well 18 now over 200 STOCK, day nding of 4 Angeles direc- ever arefiil management. UR PROSPI maps ou for ' JOHN G. CORTELYOU, Pres. 1011 Davenport St. Omnha, Neb, Sale val of 1d, and in every case, apparently, the Mullahs recited prayers for the queen in the presence of thousands of worshipers. The orthodox Hindu leaders directed special worship to be held In the most sacred temples and shrines, and further exhibited their sympathy by the distribution of large quantities of food to the poor in accordance with their own mourning precepts. The latest reports convey a lively im- pression of the political condition of the European provinces of Turkey. The mem- bers of the Macedonian committee seem to be in evidence everywhere. ix or seven of them met recently at Novoeselo, a suburb of Istib, and proposed calling a meeting of the Bulgarian inhabltants. The Kaimakam An officer and some gendarmes were sent to the house | where they were known to be hiding, osten- sibly in order to look for smuggled tobacco. Barely were the gendarmes within the door when they were met with a volley, which killed the oMicer and two men and wounded some of the others, who beat a precipitate retreat. Reinforcements soon arrived and desultory firing was exchanged between the troops and the agitators, who succeeded in wounding several of thelr opponents. The Turks ultimately set fire to the building, but the conspirators escaped through back door, apd the troops only found the burned bodies of their own mpanions. At Gabrovo, Macedonian emfssaries de- manded 50 pounds Turkish from the Bul- garian pope of the village, and, when he refused, burned his house and killed his family. In many of the southern parts of Macedonia a relgn of terror prevalls’ In the district of Vodena it is said that no less than 700 persons have been killed within the last twelve month The Turkish military authorities are under- #tood to have taken all necessary precau- | tlons against an uprising. 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