Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 20, 1901, Page 6

THE ©MAHA DAILY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, Editor PUBLISH BEVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Year.$6 Daily Bee and Sunday, One Year ilustrated Bes, One Year Bunday Bee, One Year aturday Bee, One Year wentleth Century Farmer, One Year OFFICES Omaha: The Bee Ballding Houth Omaha: City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M Streets. Coun i) Bluffa: 10 Pearl Street. Chica 1640 Unity Bullding New York: Temple Court Washington: 51 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE, Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: . Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS Business lettern and remittances should dressed: The Bee Publishing Com- ¥, Omaha REMITTANCE . s draft, express or postal order, The Bee Publishing Compan. ‘ent stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts. Personnl checka, except on Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepted. THIE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY STATE 0 00 00 00 50 0 {ENT OF CIRCULATION 1o of Nel o County, 8 g 1. Tanchic . Aaeratary of The Hee Publishing company, bvemg duly sworn, 4 that the actual number of full and mplete coplen of The Daily, Morning, ening and Bunday Bee printed during the month of January, 1901, was as follows L 85,500 1 .2 26,820 18 26,330 19 20,210 20 20,410 2 26,850 42 20,410 8t 20,620 26,720 ...20,050 ..20,410 20,820 20,180 20,410 26,440 .20, 26,240 26,420 26,700 Total T LT, Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales Net dally average Habscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this St day of January, A. D. 1901 M. B, HUNGATE, (Seal.) otary Publle. e —————————————————— There wouldn't have been a deadlock 1f the fusionists had control of the leg- islature. Oh, dear, no. The Chieago man who has been con- victed of stealing water need expect no sympathy from his Milwaukee friends. Minneapolls has closed down on the “hoxing game.” Denver and Carson City are now the only oases in the pu- gllistic desert, —ee It is apparent that the Omaha reve- nue district is not to,be disturbed in the interest of the Towa collector. Mr. Peterson's ambition is all right, but his work is a trifle coarse. —————— Millard Fillmore Funkhouser's resolu- tion 18 like a great many other things done by his party. It Is drawn so that 1t means absolutely nothing. He should make his charges more definite and spe- cifie. When that resolution to revise the course of study comes up for final ac- tion school board members want to be wide awake. It is such innocent prop- ositions that have caused much trouble in the past. That Glla dam {s likely to become as famous a8 Yuba Dam, but if it will only lead to a solution of the irrigation ques- tlon western people will not care what sort of an expletive their eastern friends apply to it. ——— Where to put the market will always be a question before the council until a permanent market house fs established. Former fallures to agree on this point should not deter the council from tack- ling the subject anew. 8o it's Rosewater who has Induced City Treasurer Hennings to collect the delinquent taxe: Well, as loug as the rald continues to bring in §1,000 to $2,000 dally of overdue taxes from people who are able to pay, probably Rosewater will be able to bear up under the blame. The democratic press finds itself un- able to be satisfied with anything Theo- dore Roosevelt does. When the big huntiug storles were being sent out they made fun of him, and now that he de- nles them, the press Is disconsolate. There I8 one consolation—Roosevelt makes no particular effort to please the democratic press, Nebraska Clty at least shows the right #pirit. The authorities there have de- termined there shall be no lynching, if it 18 in their power to prevent. As shown in recent cases in Nebraska, the law s swift and sure enough, if en- forced, to deal with crime, without staining the record of the state by the acts of lawless mobs. Latest trade reports show that the United States has taken the lead in an- other great industry. For many years France has been the leading silk pro- ducer of the world, but latest statistics show that the United States is now the greatest consumer of raw silk, It 18 a poor year which does not bring some trade vietory to Uncle Sam. Cm——— Holdup bills are certainly entitled to no consideration in the legislature and should be strangled as-soon as they put in an appearanc That is no reason, however, why the cry of “Holdup” should he allowed to kill every meritori- ous measure which hits some favored Interest. Some careful discrimination |8 necessary in such matters. The appropriation for the St. Louls exposition has passed the louse and little if any opposition is expected in the senate. With $5,000,000 from the government, the people of St. Louis should be able to produce an expositipn that will be a credit to the eity and the nation, especially when this Is supple- mented by $10,000,000 of howme capital. Omaha had only a tithe of that amount and organized an exposition which cast into the shade all predecessors, except the ' Columblan World's fai It St Louis will only inject the energy into its enterprise which was exeried in Quaba it will have a great show, | was deemed necessary to maintain at | Omuha | of legitimate demand THE OMAHA DAILY BEE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY ‘20, 1901, THE NEW COMPLICATION IN CHINA The decision of the administration that | the Amerlcan troops In China shall not participate in the campalgn projected by | Count von Waldersee s what was to | have been expected from the attitude of this government since the beginning of the Chinese trouble. The efforts of the United States have been constantly di rected to securing peace in Ching It was necessary to send troops there to co-operate with the other powers when | the forelgn legations were fn danger. As soon as practicable after the danger | had passed the American tr were | withdrawn, except such number as it Pekin as a legation guard, As was sald by President McKinley | 10 his last annual meseage, our declared alms Involved no war against the Chi- nese nation. “We adhered to the legiti mate office of rescuing the imperiled le gatlon, obtaining redress for wron alrendy suffered, securing wherever pos- | sible the safety of American life and property in Chita ‘and preventing a spread of the disorders or thelr recur- rence These aim forth in the clreular to the powers last July, have been kept constantly i view. There has been no departure from them and it may be confidently assumed that the will be none. The United States will not engage in a war against China under existing conditions. The question whether our government should endeavor to dissuade Germany from undertaking the projected offen sive campalgn is regarded at Washing- ton, It appears, as a serious one. Mani festly It 1s, since anything like inter position on our part might be resented by the German government and in volve us in trouble with that power. But it would seem that Germany, hav ing the most friendly relations with the United States, would not refuse to conglder a statement of the views of this government In the Interest of peace. Not to do so wonld in effect be an avowal on the part of Germany to push China to war and the natural Judgment on this would be that it meant a purpose to selze Chinese ter- ritory. A dispatch from Minister Conger states that he had protested to the representatives of the powers against the proposed military expedition, but they declined to consider the protest on the ground that they lad no au- thority to In any way influence mill- tary operations. Their specific duty, of course, I8 to negotiate for a settlement with China of the conditions submit- ted by the powers, but it would seem that they should not be powerless to influence military operations which would certainl, interfere with the work they are authorized to do. The new complication in the Chinese situ- atlon is certainly grave. If Waldersee persists in the proposed campaign it is conceivable that it may have the most serlous consequences, But if it be true, as reported, that the imperial court has agreed to inflict the punish- ments demanded by the powers, thus removing the chief obstacle to negoti- ations, the German government ma induced to direct Waldersee to aban don the proposed campaign. s et NEBRASKA IS GROWI One cannot glance through the papers printed in Nebraska withont being im- pressed with te fact that the state is more prosperovs than it has ever been, The signs are ) ot confined to one town or even to a few, but are universal. During the past six months many of them have either made or contracted for public fmprovements, such as water- works, electric lights, new school build- ings or other publie structures, while the cry Is almost universal that the de- mand for dwelling houses Is in excess of the supply and school accommoda- tions are taxed to the utmost. Scarcely a paper but contains notices of business | buildings or residences contracted for or contemplated. These things cannot be accounted for, as in the early settlement of the state, as the work of the townsite hoomer. The country has passed that stage and present building is the result The bullding activity and the mood for improvement is not confined to the towns by any weans, as testitied by those In attendance at the late lumber- men's convention held in this city. When the town lot boowmer subsides the towns in the rural districts grow as the country grows and bring business op- portunities in' the wake, and no fast 1n fact, having been caught in the boom collapse, the merchants and other busi- ness men in the towns are more likely to be bebind than ahead of the country The seasons have been favorable, the soil has produced abundantly and prices have been good. The Nebraska farmer and business man have gotten out from under the incubus of debt and both are showlng thelr faith iu the land which has prospered them by improving the citles and the farms, opening up new avenues for business and making both more desirable places in which to live, Nor are those who remained steadfast to the state doring the darker days which have passed alone In the proces slon which is dally making Nebraska a greater and a better state, Railroad officials in other states again have oc- caslon to consult the emigrant tarift sheet to Nebraska polnts and the plat- forms of depots in couuntry towns are again strewn with the household effects of those who ave coming in to share the fortunes of Nebraskans, Lands which have been Idle are being bought up by the newcomers and will soon be drawing their tribute from the east and the nations beyond the sen. At no time since the first settlement. of the state have the skies of Nebraska looked brighter or the prospects béen better for a continuamce of growth in pop- ulation or in material advancement. Those of the old guard who remain are anchored and those who are coming are of a class seeking permanent homes and not the restless element which is always found on the frontier only to move on again when settled conditions overtake them. They arve uot path finders but home builders. Each has his place and use. The pathfinder has blazed the way and woved on, The | the home builders among them remained and those who are joining them at this ¢ will complete the of improving the country nnd making the tdle fiekls productive LEVEL UP INSTE wo D OF DOWN The Bee has been asked to express its views on the proposed legislation giving graduates of private and denominational colleges in Nebraska the same right to teachers’ certificates that is enjoyed by graduates of the State university The | ha ways stood for the highest fds of efficiency In the public schools. 1t believes that uniform ity should exist in the requirements (o | teach in the schools of the state, but it also believes that in establishing uni formity we should aim to level up in stead of to level down. Admission to the teaching corps of state should be through only one nd that a stringent examination ing the subjects defined among the ssary qualifications, The authority 1o lssue teacher rtificates should bhe vested in a central examining board on the same plan that bar admission is con trolled by a bar examining commission. Uniformity certainly eannot b om plished when the power to grant fi entes {1 vested in a hundred independent authorities, making it ensy for a teacher to pass muster in one county and dith cult in the next. When a uniform teachers’ examination Is provided the next step will be to cut off all other avenues of entrance, Put the graduates of all schools and colleges on the same footing by requiring them o measure up to the same test. The graduate of the state’s normal school or of the State university with all the ad vantages conferred by those institut certainly should be as well fitted to pass the examination as those who have pre- pared themselves by home study or se cured their nstruction in private normal schools or denominationnl colleges. ‘There Is no more reason why graduates of any college should have certificate: entitling them to teach in the public schools without examination than that graduates of Taw sclools should be priv ileged to practice before the courts with- out the usual bar examination. Whatever legislatlon is enacted with ference to public school teaching should be framed with a view to im ving the quality of instruction by ngthening the tests prerequisite to the issuance of certificates rather than to throw the gates open indiseriminately to everybody who manages to possess himsell of a college sheepski stan door i The bill for the gathering of industrial and agricultural statistics by the as- sessors has been favorably reported in the senate. Some measure of this kind, which will contaln provisions compell- ing the nssessors to comply with the law, will be of vast benefit to the state. Private statistics do not carry the welght, no matter how accurate or how much care is exercised in their compila- tion, that attaches to those gathered by the public. In addition to that, the gathering of such statistics 18 too large an enterprise for private individuals ¢ corporations, but the state, with the machine at its command, can collect them at comparatively little expense. Councilman Lobeck voted against the tax levy as fixed by the city council, but he is busy promising Sixth ward people another fire company. How would he ever carry out such a promise if his vote in the council had been endorsed? No one disputes the need of a fire station in the neighborhood of Twenty-fourth and Ames, but if the mayor and a ma- Jority of the council had listened to the Lobeck arguments the creation of new fire companies would have been put off much longer. — appears to foilow the an- wonderful discoveries by Nicola Tesla. Since he stated he had observed signals made by the in- habitants of Mars a leading theosophist has come forward with the statement that it is impossible, Because the in- habitants of that planet are of too low an order of Intelligence to perform such a feat. Ordinary mortals can now sleep peacefully at night without fear of wissing the next message the people of Mars send. 1l-luck nouncement of Russia will sooner or la discover that it must do as other nations have been forced to do before, either close the universitics and cense educating its people or liberalize its government. Education and absolutisin in govern ment ean have no co-existence, The great universities of the empire are the hotbeds of political agitation and will continue to be untll the people are ac- corded their rights. e———— The castern members of congress who persistently oppose easures for the reclamation of the arid lands of the west are taking a most provinclal view, In additlon to hindering the develop: ment of the country, they are cultivating a spirit of sectionalism which is deplor able and which may some time vise up to plague them, The west s growing and will some day be too strong to be denied. ————— North Cavolina's Legislature Charlotte Daily Obscrver. This is not a drinking legislature. It is one of the quietest and best dressed ever seen here. “het Others D e Work," Times-Herald The first thing a man does after he Is sately established in a public office is to call for help. My Empire. Times-Herald J. Plerpont Morgan has begun to operate {n London. King Bdward may as well pre- pare to give up the habit of talking about “‘my empire. Ten Press Detrolt does not need Mr. Carnegle’s money to erect a new library bullding; but the city is willing to do something to save him from the disgrace of dying rich. P Chicago Tribine It s not quite true that a recent issue of Mr. Bryan's Commoner appeared without a single editorial allusion to free silver. One | Mr. Hitt, who, after all, spea | should paragraph contained the assertion that when a newspaper editor becomes agitated at any reference to the common people the chances are “‘sixteen to one’’ he is against the com- mon people, Near-Sighted Economy. Philadelphia Press West Point has been refused by congress the tools needed to learn a soliter's trada Field artillery has been revolutionized the past decade and a still greater has tuken place {n tho armament of forts, but West Point Is still provided with the pieces of a generation ago. Congress has refuse the appropriation needed to give the young men who become our officers a knowledge of modern weapons. This is ossential | knowledge. It can only be learned at a school and it is denied even when the ap proprintions - are reaching thelr highest | figure in time of peace. Worse policy could not be proposed or more certain to, defeat the object for which West Polnt exists r Consul to Pretorin, Washington Post For our part, however, we have had tes- timeny much more important than that of ke from mere beirsay and not from persoual observation. | Two or three Boer officials of high rauk, who have only recently left South Africa and &ho previously had actual knowledge a8 to Mr. Hay's relations with the people of the Transvaal, have assured the Fost that bis behavior has been correct and satisfac- tory, scrupulously fair and dignified withal It gives us pleasure to make these facts putlic and to say, in addition, that we be. lieve the Boer assurances fn question were given to us in absolute sincerity. Consumy Not Mereditary, Times-Herald. The most encouraging feature of the dis- cussions at the Canadian congress was the preponderance of opinfon that tubereulosis not hereditary, A majority of ‘the members agreed with 8ir Willlam Kingston that man or woman could not transmit the germ of the discase to offspring. The dl tum will probably be combated by scores of people who can recall cases which seem to prove the inheritable quality beyond u doubt, but whether the opinion is absolutely | sound or not it {s well caleulated to relieve much mental distress, and that is a bless- ing. The whole doctrine of heredity as it has been preached of late years has been developed beyond all reason and has read like a stern decree of fate to thousands who should never have fashed their heads with the nousense. n o Why Not Wood. Public Ledger. General Wood may or may not be en- titled to the promotion given him by the prestdent, hot there does not seem to be much validity In the principal objection tha is being urged to his confirmation. It is said that, If promoted now, he may, vos- | sibly, be In command of the army for a period of fourteen years. Why not? He would still be under the control of the president as commander-in-chiet and be liable to degradation or removal for im- proner conduct; so that there does not ap- pear to be much danger threatened by this atstract possibility. Military nations, when | they find a good man for the head of the army, keep him there without regard to length of service, but then the armies of those nations are not usually managed on political principles. The Kansns Way. Minneapolis Journal The abandonment of legal methods by (he prohibitionists of Kansas and the employ- ment of the hatchet and the battering ram, instead of legally constituted means, to euppress the liquor traffic in Kansas is pro- dueing the legitimate results. The resort to violence ahd mob methods by so-called temperance people, following the example of Mrs. ‘Natibn, s producing a state of things 0’ some towns in that state little short of anarchy. The saloon men have re- taliated and it s now a test of strength between violence on onetside and violence on the other, to the shame and embarraes- | ment of all good citizens. The cause of temperance has nothing to gain by the Na- tion policy, but everything to lose, and it is losing it fast. The longer this reign of violence ccntinues in Kansas the more it emphasizes the fallure of state prohibition as a means of regulating men's appetites. And it is the appetite which puts the saloon into Kansas and nothing else. As long as the appetite exists it will be there. Corporation Franchises Taxable. Baltimore News A dispatch from Lansing states that the Michigan supreme court yésterday havided down an opinjon afirming the judgment of | the Wayne county circuit bench that fran- | chises received from the city are taxable. This action constitutes an approval of the act of the assessors of the city of wewroit in increasing the assessment of the Detroit United Railway company from $2,800,000 to $5,142,100, on the assumption that its fran- | chises were taxable. The affirmation of the validity of this assumption Is a matter of great interest in other cities than De- troit and in other states than Michigan In New York state the taxation of fran- chises has been for the last two years a subject of most interesting discussion, as well as of legislative action. In a clty like Baltimore, with a taxable basis small in comparison with the area covered and the population comprised within it, the need is evident of utilizing all proper and desira- ble subjects of taxation for the purpose of securing the revenue so sorely wanted for municipal improvements. The afrmation | by the Michigan supreme court of the legitimacy of the taxation of franchises s, therefore, of special intorest to this com- munity. Preposterous Notion Ahout Mars, Philadelphia Ledger. Most chimerical and preposterous of all the visionary things that have been sald about Mars' inhabitants are those that re- late to “signals’ between the two planets. The dark streaks, dubbed “canals” upon the Martian surface, invisible to all but a favored few observers, arc of an Average width of thirty miles, and the “oases” have no greater average diamcter than 130 miles, What, then, must be the stupendous scale of the “signals” to he successtully finshed earthward! It is true that swift-winged light, journeying more than 186,000 miles a second, eauld cross the spatial abyss dur- ing a perihelion opposition in a little more than three minutes, but what toleration would the “advanced civilization” of Mars exhibit toward the scientific Nero who cause the gigantlc conflagration necessary for communication with terres- triala—and that, too, In the absence of an intelligible celestial cipher! In moments of perfectly steady terres- trial atmoephere the Yerkes telescope, greatest of its clags, might glimpse, as meve speck upon the perpetually cloudless surtace of the moon. an extensive group of great structures liice those of the Chicago exposition, and might also recognize the absence of the tiny dot upon (heir removal and that s all. Yet the perigge distance of our satellite is only 221,000 miles, while that of Mars is 95,000,000 miles, or 160 times as great. Surely comment is unneces- sary. It 1s regrettable when gifted minds suc cumb to sensational temptations “Even the worthy Homer nods,” says Horace; but it s particularly deplorable when fuvestl- gators of creation are lurel from stable processes by wild visions of domination over nature. Babel is still potentlal as an object lesson and credulous readers will Ao well to ponder upon the famous “Moon Hoax'' cleverly foi#ted upon the public nearly (hree-quarters of a century ngo Whautever may be the celest'al develop- ments of future vears, It Is quite safe to assume that the period of inter-planetary “signal'ng” bas not yet dawned. | there | Hooster statesman, as its appropriateness HOW T BOT SENATOR (her Protest Amninat the Practice of Dendlocking Legislatures, Chicago Tribune The Wisconsin leglislature has asked con Gress to submit to the states a constitu tional amendment providing for the election of senators by popular vote. in Wisconsin. Under it men have been elected who have as a rule enfoyed the full respect and confidence of their constituents and who would-have found it as easy to get A nomination in a corvention as in a caucus Legislative deadlocks have not happened often Yet there is a rong sentiment | among the people of the state in favor of a change in the method of choosing sena- tors, This being the ca how much stronger should that sentiment be in Ore- gon, Montana, Nebraska and Delaware, whose legislatures have for weeks been vainly endeavoring to choose senators. It the last two legislatures do not arrive at a conclusion in a few weeks neither Delaware nor Nebraska will be represented in the senate when congress shall meet in special sesslon to consider the Cuban question That will not please the citizens of the states in question. They will regret that they were not permitted to select at the polls last November the men whom they wished to represent them in the senate. Two causes are working together to create in the public mind the belief that the pres- ent method of electing: senators must be abandoned. One of them is the greater fre- quency of leglislative snarls and tangles, which leave states unrepresented. The other and more potent cause is the growing convictlon that better men, who will not look on themselves as far removed from and not answerable to the people, will be sent to Washington when senators are chosen by the people at first hand and not, as now, at second hand CUBA'S INGRA Reference to the United Ita New Constitation. lobe-Democrat In the comstitution just framed is no reference whatever to the United States, According to the document Cuba expects its dealings with this coun- try to be just the same as with Spain or any distant nation. But in the order call ing the convention General Wood deelared that one of itw purposes was to provide for future relations between the United States and the Cuban republic. A& the constitution approved by the convention is " in Cuba entirely silent on this point it remains for | this government to define its former re- quirement. Some of the Cubans say the relations of their republic with the United States can be declared by resolution, Others are opposed to taking even this step. Some, perhaps, are waiting to hear what thi government wants. Upon this point they will not be kept in suspense. What 1s asked is something different from absolute | silence or a plece of blank paper | The Chattanooga Times remarks that | “Unless the relations of the two govern ments shall be fixed, and fixed right, there will be incurable trouble between them before the Cuban republic shall have reached the second year.” There are other democratic papers that think this the time to settle the relations between the United States and Cuba in a manner that will leave no room for misunderstanding. Cuba is almost contiguous territory, the gate- way to the Nicaragua canal, the Gulf of | Mexico, the Caribbean and the castern coast | of South Amerlca. Its former disturbed conditions involved us in war. This coun- try in entitled to firm assurances that the disorder of the past shall not be repeated. Cuba will get all the freedom it can sus taln. But this country has rights in the matter that must not be flung away or left to chance, PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Lord Nelson is the only member of the House of Lords who was a peer throughout the reign of Queen Victorla. He has been Lord Nelson under three British rulers Mayor Hait of Boston says that by a law which he drew up the city has ended the year with a surplus in every department and has not needed to borrow a cent during the year. Mrs. Mary Paschell, postmistress at Tren- ton, Ind., celebrated her elghty-fitth birth- day a few days ago. She was her prosent position by held it ever since Australian women are skillful horse- women, and it is proposed to organize a thousand of them as a bodyguard of the duchess of Cornwall and York at the open- ing of the commonwealth parliament. The nickname glven the other day by Senator Tillman of South Carolina to Sen- ator Beveridge of Indiana, “the wasp of the Wabash," seems likely to stick to the appointed to | Lincoln and has is almost universally conceded. Florence Carlyle, a grandnlece of Thomas Carlyle, fs exhibiting paintings from her own brush in Philadelphia. She is a pupil of Julian, it Is stated, and is at present Iiving In Woodstock, Canada. Her work 1s, on the whole, considered creditable. Rumor has it in Washington that the president will appoint P. C. Knox of Pltts- burg to succeed Mr. Griggs as attorney general. Mr. Knox Is favored by Senator Quay and on that account is regarded as having an excellent chance to enter the next cabinet Probably the smallest momarch in the world reigns over the Hindu vassal state of Bhopaul, and governs a people of more than 1,000,000 souls. This dwarf is a woman, Dythan-Begum by name, but although she | 1s about 50 years old, she does not appear | larger than a child of ten Mr. E. C. Madison, who represents New port News, Warwlck county, Willlamsburg, New Kent, Charles City, James City and York in the Virginia house of delegates, is a grandnephew of President James Madison, He served his political apprenticeship with Tammany hall in New York Sir George Willlams, who founded the Young Men's Christian association in Lon- don 1n 1844, may attend the jubilee couven- tion of the association in Boston in June next. Sir George Is now 80 years old. He is at present in southern Europe for his health. The press committee of the con- vention has recelved from London the earli- est portraits extant of 8ir George. Count Cassinl, the Russian minister to this country, has presented to President McKinley & magnificent photographic al- bum containing the scenes of the coronation of the czar in 1896, A medallion of gold, presenting embossed profiles of the czar and czarina, Is at the top of the front cover of the book. The album is a present and | souvenir from the czar to Mr. McKinley There are only 200 of these books in exist- ence Dr. Willlam Pole, the English authority on whist, who died a few days ago, was not @& physician but a successful eivil engineer and his doctorate was a degree for music conferred on him by Oxford university. It was a proof of his cleverness that he wrote an able treatise on the method by whick the eye discriminates color, although he himself was color blind. This treatise caused him (o he elected a fellow of the Royal soclety. An American woman who made the ac quaintance of Madame Sadi Carnot, widow of the late president of the French repub- lic, says that she is the most agreeable and cultured old lady on the continent. Her father was M. Dupont-White, a celebrated lawyer and general secretary at the ministry of justice in 1848, as well as a noted writer and political economist. Madame Carnot speaks and writes six languages, and it was The present | 1| method of election has not worked badly|of that commonwealth's states, Victoria { oping ANOTHER INDUSTRIAL TRIUMP Amerien Carrles O Prize Agninst Steel Hatl Makers of the World, Globe:Democrat | The Australian commonwealth is new | showing its business sense by sending to | | the United modities States for much of its com- The railway commissioner of one advertised a short time ago for bide for 17,400 tons of steel rails of the best quallty the bids being open to the world. The world participated in the bids. They came | from England, Germany, France, Russia, | Belgium, (he United States and every other { country in which steel ralls were made | Out ot the whole of this competition the | United States carrifd off the prize It 18 hardly necessary to point this is a big triumph for this country. { Victoria is snall fn area, compared with some of the other states of the common- wealth, but it leads them all in popula tion. It is ambitious to maintain ascendancy in the latter particular as long as possible, and is diversitying and extend ing Its Industries and its agencies of dis- tribution wth vigor and intelligence, means to this end. Victorla's system {8 under governmental control authoritles take an especially out that A Its active in- rolling stock angd in the world It was the rails which can be Tllinols Steel company Chicago and the Lorain Steel company Cleveland which got the bids for th of these 17400 tons of steel rafls, will have to be delivered in The calculation s that two elapse before the whole of the ralls are delivered or are needed. In that time thege American mills will have to work on #0 many outside orders that they may possibly have to neglect xome of their home customers, or would-be customers. Yet no American railroad is golng to suffer for steel rafls on that account. This country Melbourne years wili It can turn out far more rails in a year than can any other country. They hotter, too, as shown by the number which American manufacturers are gettiug from Europe, Asia, Africa and others parts of the world, aturally Victoria, a8 a province of the British empire, would rather give this order to England than it would to any other locality, but is business, and the United States is far ahead of Englund, which has Ted tho world until recently in this, in m other flelds of industry. are as ny AN ENXDOWED THEATER, Severnl Things At Needs Sre American People Ac Chicago Record In recommending the establishment of an endowed theater Richard Mansfield ad- vances a proposition that has been pre sented many times before, but which is at the present functure especially timely. Mr Mansfield’s theory is that the theater is an | educational influence. It should be, no doubt, and in some Instances it s appen 1. But the | forces which ut present control the theater are such that the opportunities for devel- it a8 an cducational factor are r duced to a minimum. It was ineviiable that sooner or later the management of how of amusement should have become pri- marily a business matter, and in all other lines of business the financial consid- erations control. Most ambitious manage would prefer to produce plays which should be successes of art as well as successes of the box office, but the combination of the two elements is not usual. As between art and money, art often has to take a back seat. The object of the mapagement In a great number of cases s to produce plays which shall insure the maximum of profit with the minimum of expense necessary to attract the public. in short, the manager “gives what the public wants” and he naturally feels that jt would be futile as well as costly to give it what it obviously doesn't want. At the same time (his condition of affairs consti- tutes an obstacle to improvement along original lines. The public, it has been found, Is satisfied with plays not of the highest quality and with plays made over by adaptation from French or German pro- ductions. There is no need for the native playwrights, and, what is quite as bad, there 18 no need for the original or un- conventlonal dramatist of any country, the | mapagers disliking to depart from lines in which they are sure of success. In recent vears the organization of a strong syndicate for the complete control of American plays, players and playhouses has added to the forces tending to discourage a drama which would be truly “educational.” An independent theater seems to-afford the one way out of the difficulty. Placed in the hands of men of high purpose and ability it would afford a testing place for the new dramas of the best sort, and It would tend to raise the standards through- out the theatrical calling. It would not be hampered by considerations of money, and though it might occasionally produce plays at a loss it seems not unlikely that it would often enlist popular interest and patronage to a remarkablo degree. One such success for a drame of the highest literary quality would have its obvious effect In stimulating public interest and forcing the production of stmilar works in other theaters. The in- dependent. theater is to be welcomed. INSIST THAT AL Monstrous Demaud of Foreiu: in China Roundly De North American. Three Chinese officials who incurred the alspleasure of the forelgn envoys by being patriots were requested by the emperor to commit sulcide by ome of a number of methods which he suggested as appropriate They meditated on the matter, found all the methods objectionable and respectfully declined to get off the earth. Seelng that sulclde was distasteful to them, the em- peror withdrew his request Whereat the envoys of (he enlightened nations which adopted The Hague conven- tion for the promotion of civilization fume and ‘rage. They spurn the emperor's sug- gestion that lighter punishment be in- flicted upon minor offenders and inslst that all must die. If any distinction is to be made, they say, let it be by subjecting the chief offenders to torture and killlng them by quartering or other ingenious Chi- nese methods. This scems incredible, yet reported from Pekin and not questioned. A year ago 1t would have been thought im- possible that the diplomatic representatives of Christian nations should tolerate any preventable crueity, vet here they are urg ing with cold ferocity the quartering of high officials of a nation with whom they aro negotiating for “peace Have all the white people in China been turned into ravening wolves by the orgy of murder, pillage and rapine that has beon surging around them? Let us hope that the American minister has not given | his sanction to the monstrous demands of the Pekin butchers L MUST DIE, is seriously PASSPO Naturalis Americans VMnst Vot De- pend Too Much on Uncle Sum, . Philadelphia Record The cheapness and facility of ocean trans- portation invite an annually increasing | throng of American touriats and visitors in Europe, and among these, nuturally enough, are many persons of foreign birth whose title to American citizenship is due to the possession of regularly issued naturalization papers. 1t has been the custom of the State department heretofore to grant passports to all American citizens, without rogard to thelr previous nationality, but it has been found that to pursue this course turther would occasion awkward complica she who translated “Stuart Mill" for her father, who published it. . tions and 4 new method of practice 1% to be its | as a | rallroad | terest in them, and are getting the best | had | supply | he rails | leads the world in this field of manufacture. | of orders [ man business | !I- to be warned officially in advance of the lrllk! he may run in the country of his natlvity, even though panoplied by a pass | port from the federal 8 o department | While the federal government has assented formally or offclally to the of Interference with naturalized American | eitizens pursued in European nations, thers has been manifested no disposition to enter [into any international quarrel on this ac count. The naturalized French man, Turk or Russian must look out for himself when visiting his native counte From the State department b obtain a passport accompanied by a cautionary | cular explaining the he runs in foreign travel, but the document g Is no guar anty of immunity such as would be de | manded as a matter of course by an Amer | ean-born citizen of republic. The | mutual duties and obligations of powers,” it would seem, include recognition | in some dogree of the ancient feudal system | under which every soul not of noble birth was a chaitel of the national feudatory estate never policy German air “world MOROUS JOTTINGS Statesman: «plefous marked old as he wiped his specticles his red bandann hat Massa Washin tor and Massa Lincoln would bofe have burf day dinrers so f; removed from de mellon senson Puck Yonkers rather Romusg, Pears e I'nels with istley (at think reatures | n_sury to Miss I graclous! 1 dumb the roun branding banrbarousiy T80} — Bt mark ‘em | withou brandin Miss Eastley colors, like the o o the cows’ hor Atian‘a wite is “Inde ’ “Yes: took a line from hi orlginal tatory and placed it on his tombstone “What was i7" “We are here to stay Constitution: ““I'he late cditor's mething of o humortst a alu- Philadclphia Record | has my husk | woman ST cannot tell nind the prat Why, they told me pped the woma Detroft Froc what shall b YOUF pet Milliner -1 rd reading much money i the How nd in bank?’ demu vor, madam, I You were replied (h the teller," Press: Assista done with th chewed v itoin the Advanee t—Madam, bonnet which window with Novelty Spure Moments vau bells ve Mr. Crim. sht over the Mra. Crimsonbeak that death ends ull, John nbeuk -Well, no. Ther will Khow Do s the Philadelphia tng from he reporter not (o mention my nectfon with the Glugores” r yet he's done ft. Ul just g newspaper office LomMOFrow this Mr. de Style—Oh, T wouldn't tention to ir, my dear! Mrs Siyle -1 wouldn't, but th my spelled wrong Mrs The 1de told thit name i cor eption, and own to (hat nd wee about pay any at- me ve got Life: Pater—My Loy, the philosopher tells us we must diligently pursue the ideal which personifies the ego. What do you understand by that? “That's easy, dad self.” It means chase your- ball tunate It happened at the b Mrs. Johnsor « as unfor he “Her hush reverses re yesterday she told me thi was aquestion of hav wear or something to eat He locked at the subject of this comment somewhat critieally before repiying ST would Infer from her costume,” N sald at last, “that she is not stinting aer self gastronomically isked d has snffe iy, whe financial Only at Opening of Parament S, 1. Kiser in Times-Tlerald, King Edward was the showicst OF all that gttered there King Hawara held the wondering gaze Ol the brave and fair Elaard V King Bdward stood the statellest In all that stately gcene. But was his heart” the happlest, His consclence most serene? the lordliest waw Kk down on him rd wa i spectal & King Fdv Of all the But did the With any vas the haughtlest Tnoail th nd affal But was he t, man jest, oOf all men hered there King Fdward The KIng w d In gorgeousness, And heads for him were bowed, But the bravest heart and the purest hea: Beat somewhere in the crowd | rt AVORITE BIT OF VERSE Jllowlng quaint verses appeared {1 an_obscure Scotch paper, And 1U1s said that of all the panegyrics and Eibutes i proke or verse ever written of her they pleased her most) S1113 NODDIT TO MBE. I'm but an auld body Livin' up in Deeside 14 twa-roomed bit Wi n toofa’ bestde; Wi my coo an’ my grumphy I'm s Happy's a bee, But I'm far prooder noo Since she noddit to me! VICTORIA'S (The anonymously hoosla ar past wi't— I'm gay trig an’ hale, Can plant twa-three tawties, An' look after my kale; Al when oor queen pa I rin oot to see Gin by luck she micht notice An' nod oot to me! I'm nae s But I've aye been unlucky, A’ the blinds were aye doon, Till last week the time ©' her veesit cam’ roun'; waved my bit_apron As brisk’s 1 could dee, AR’ the queen lauched f An' noddit to me! 1 Kkindly, My son sleeps it's nae ease to An' yet when I think I'm sair like to gree e may feel for my BOTTOW, Hhe's @ mither, ve'see; A’ may be she ként o When' she noddit to me! ——emee— A GOOD DEAL O NONSEN¢ About “Blood Purificrs” and “Tonics.” Every drop ofsblood, every bone, nerve and tissue in the body can be renewed in but one way, and that is, from wholesome food properly digested. There ls no other way and the idea that a mediclue in itselt can purify the blood or supply new tissues, and strong nerves Is rediculous and on & par vith the fol-de-rol that dyspepsia or indigestion is a germ disease or that other falacy, that o weak stomach which refuses to digest food can be made to do 8o, by ir- ritating and inflaming the bowgls by pills and cathartics Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets cure indiges- tlon, sour stomach, gas or bloating after moals, becauso they furnish the digestive principles which weak stomachs lack, and unless the deficlency of pepain and diastase 18 supplied it 1s useless to attempt to cure stomach trouble by the use of “tonies” “pills” and “cathartics” which have ab- solutely no digestive power, and their only effect is to give a temporary stimulation. One grain of the active principle In 8tu art's Dyspepsia Tablots will digest 3000 grains of meat, eggs and similar foods and experiments have shown that they will do (his in @ glass bottle at proper tempera- ture, but of course are much more effec: tive fn the stomach ‘There is probably no remedy so univer- sally used as Stuart's Tablets because it is not only the sick and ailing, but well peo- ple who use them at every meal to insure porfect digestion and assimilation of the foor People who enjoy fair health tako Stu- art's Tablets as regularly they take their meals, because they want to keep well, prevention is always better than cure and Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets do both; they prevent indigestion and they remove it where it exists, The regular use of one {or two of them atter meals will dewmon- strate their merit and efclency better adopted. The naturalized American citizen than any other argument.