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i i { THE ©OMAHA DAiLy BEE. BE. ROBEWATER, Editor, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING THE BOER PROCLAMATION, The proclamation of Steyn and Dewet 18 chiefly Interesting as an arraigument of British methods of warfare in South Afric wd it will be v us in the main true and just TERMS OF S8UBSCRIPTIO ac ally Bes (without Sunday), One Year 6.0 | It is unquestionable that there have oaily Heo and Sinday. Ore Year 8001 heen acts and practices on the part of Bunday Bee, O '“,.“ the British which outraged every rul Tvunday,Bee. One Year.. .. ... 198 | of civilited warfave. There is other OFFICE: Omaha: The Bee Bailding South Omaha: City Ha'l Bullding, Twen- y-Afth and M Streets Coun il Bluffs: 10 Pear] Street. Chicago 1640 Unity Bullding k mple Court 1 ton: 501 Fourteenth Street | CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Bditorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS Husiness letters and remittances should be addressed: The Hee Publishing Com vany, Omaha REMITTANCE:! Remit by draft, expross or postal orde payable to The jiee Publishing Compan nly 2-cent sted In payment of mal accoun u’ checks, except on Omaha or Eastern oxchanges, not accepted THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY M{ENT OF CIRCULATION, askn, Douglas ounty, 8. Tzechuck, n‘ retary of The Bee 1, company duly sworn, | ®ave that the ctual _number *of full and | complete copies of Daily, Morning, | Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the 1901, was as follows y 17 20 2 20,820 18 20 20, 19 26,020 20, 20 20,720 20,410 2 20,050 | 20,850 20,410 | 26,410 20, . 20,240 10,0 206,440 1 26,240 20,815 12... 26 420 20,180 13 42,770 | " 0. . 28 840 | 15 8 26,150 | " Fotal §40,088 Less unsold and returned coples s | 26,770 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK, Subscribed fn my presence and sworn to before me this 2ist day of January, A. D. 191 M. B, HUNGATE, (Seal.) otary Public. Net total sales Net dally average | | | T'he legislator with a bill is coming down the home stretch, e—— ‘Those redistricting bills must not be allowed to be lost in the shutfle. Real estate men of Omaha have just | held a banquet. Who says the real estate business is not picking up? It 18 to be hoped Mrs. Nation will not | work any greater execution with the | pen than she has with the hatchet, Omaha millionaires will do well to turn their valuables over to their wives before starting out from home, It is greatly to be feared that Omaha's plutocrats will soon have the reputation among professional gentry of being de cidedly ¢ A Washington birthds the Philippines is a little twentieth cen- tury novelty that would have been scouted a year or two ago. celebration in If the hatchet is the distinguiching emblem, perhaps Mrs, Nutfon has n right to pose as the modern George Wash- lugton without fear of contradiction, Champlon Jeffries insists that his bad kuee will not keep him out of the fight- fug game. His jaw s in perfect order and always in training for a match, The new president of the Burlington Is not a native of Nebraska, but he has been so Identified with the state that Lie can pass for a Nebraskan anywhe Another Indlan war has been started | on the Sioux reservation by the eastern papers. The same typewriter which started It can end it at the same price per column, With an increase of only a fraction less than 25 per cent in clearings over the correspouding period last year, Omaha is in a position to hold up its head with the best of citles. —_— 1t 1s reported that Theodore Roosevelt caught several juck rabbits during his ‘western trip. The report has not been verified, but he has certainly des onstrated that he is a good enough run- ‘ner to do it. e—— Only one more day remains in which bills may be Introduced in the legisla- ture. While the crop has been large it is not a record breaker up to date and the public would not suffer in the least if it had been materially less than it is. If the young duke of Westminster had been up on the firing line while he was in South Africa he would not now be called upon to appear in the divorce court, The Englishmen who w at the front were kept too busy to get into domestic trouble, David Nation, when questioned as to whether he approved of his wife's dolugs, replied that she insisted on hav- ing her own way and that settled it David is wise In his day and generation not to provoke a hatchet outbreak in his own household. Buying new furni- ture 18 expensive, A German agricultural expert is com- fug to this country to ascertain the cause of the supremacy of the United States in the agricultural lie, If he will go home and .report the truth of what he finds, that it is largely owlng to the marvelous richuess of the sofl und that there Is plenty of it which cun be purchased cheap, the regult would be satisfactory to this country, but decidedly disastrous to German agriculture, —_— ‘The authorities at Manila appear to have struck a lead which may be as potential In suppressing the troubles in the Phillppines as the operations in the field. If the gang which has been supplying the rebels with ammunition and provisions can be hunted out and the trafic stopped it will greatly slm- Pplify the problem. If anything, these men are deserving of more severe pun- ishment than the actual rebels, for they have not even the pretense of patriotism to excuse their acts, which are prompted | women solely by the desire of financial gain, ] \ trustworthy testimony than that of the Boer leaders to this effect. T conn try over which the British armies have passed has been to a large extent lald waste by the torch, thousands of non mbatauts—old men, women and chil dren—have been made home and destitute, and worst of all is the charge of outrages upon women. Ax to the latter there I perhaps some oxaggern tion and fair-minded men will not the British commanders responsible for such crime, but they should able to show that it has been st punished when coming to their knowledge. The Kk of devastation, produe of =0 much suffering to helpless and children, the commanders are responsible for and they will not easily justify their before the world The in the HBoer the \ s we tive however, acts also of makes that the conquered and Léndon ad proclamation is declaration it republics are not war is not fimished. s of a fow days ago stated that a spirit of optimism prevailed British officers and the end of was believed to be in sight The Be leaders manifest as great determing tlon as ever to continue the struggle. “The burgher forces of the two repub Hes™ they declare, “ave still led by re sponsible leaders, as from the mencement of th among the w vision of the governments of both re pubtes.” Thelr tone s fiot less de now than at any time since the . even though It be somewhat nfident. They say that Cape Colony will not only wage way, but will be in a position to ta Las already don Perhaps this is an oversanguine statement. There is less promise now than there was a month ago that Cape Colony will wage war, yet it is but o short time since Sir | Alfred Milner declared that such an event was not Impossible. However, the British preparations to avert an up- rising fn Cape Colony have been such that the danger has probably heen re dueed to the minimum, if not wholly re- moved, The appeal of the Boer leaders to the civilized world to assist “in putting an | tieal the | end to the barl enemy’s warfar arous manuer of s an appeal to which there will be no response, save that which may be made in the form of popular condemnation of such war- fare. No government will ass 10 pass judgment upon British conduet in South Africa. But the Boer arraign- ment of that conduct will not be with- out effect upon the public opinion of the world, which may be expressed in a way that ,will have some influence upon the British mind and consclence. s ANOTHER DIPLOMATIC VICTORY. hold | war, under the super- | generally | cal soil of the far east interest | | I | Gordon's | charter is unconstitutio more fit or accaptable appointment coul be i He will plant our laws and institutions, the principles of our con, stitution, well and deeply in the tropl His work done, and well it shall be done, history will declare him the paciicator of the Phil- ippines, the emancipator of the Orient Judge Taft has already shown that he fully comprehends the situntion and what Is requi A PUZZLING PROPOSITION + declsion of the Nel t that the <k supreme section of the Omahu 1l under which the removal of Police Judge Gordon was undertaken leaves the city in a e cultar ‘nee with his has proved that the reinstatement of Judg lon control of the police conrt would be a costly imposition on the tax n ay nothing of the renewed encouragement to crime by the notorl ons leniency of 1t official. The tax payers in fact would be money in pocket it they could by some sort of device keep Judg 1 on the retired list at full pay rather than to go back to his system of turning prisoners loose, with only occasional vesort to nominal fines or penaltics, The mere comparison of the police court revenues for corre nding periods hefore and after Judg incumbeney s the best and most conclusive proof that no mistake was made in fnstituting proceedings to stlecessor Gor Our government has won another diplomatie victory in securing from the powers acceptance of the principle that no further individual concessions of territory in China shall be sought by any one power without international assent, This agreement, it is sald, is not merely local in its applieation, but general, It appears that there has been rivalry among some of the powers to obtain concessions for foreigic settlements in Tien Tsin and there was every reason to think that if these efforts should be successful they would be extended to other parts of the empire and ulti- mately result in such of the powers as may be greedy for territory absorbing a large part of China, or that portion of it available for foreign settlement. It is highly creditable to the vigilance and foresight of our Department of State that this is rendered less possible, for under the agreement every power is honorably bound mnot to privatel seek concessions and If any of them should desire a concesslon very strong reasons for seeking it will have to be given in order to obtain International assent. No power, it is doubtless safe to assume, will venture to violate this agreement, This diplomatic snccess of our goy- ernment is manifestly of great fmpor- tance and it shonld fmpress on the American people the fact that the De- partment of State is carefully watching the course of events in China and is keeping In constant view American - terests there, PHILIPPINE CIVIL Judge Willlam H. Taft, who will be appointed civil governor of the Philip- pine Islands as soon as congress fers the necessary authority upon president, 1s thoroughly equipped the duties and responsibilities of such a position. He is a man of scholarly attainments aud a lawyer of first-rate abllity. Judge Taft was solicitor gen- eral of the Unpited States under the administration of President Marrison and in 1892 was appointed judge of the United States cireuit court for the Rixth district. On thie creation of the court of appeals he was assigned to that bench, where his work was vigorous and thorough and he was held in high OVERNMENT. con- for esteem by members of the bar. From 1806 until his appointment on the Phil ippine mission he was dean and professor in the law department of the University of Cincinnatl, He is a na- tive of Ohio. Judge Taft was an anti-expansionist, but when asked by the president to go to the Philippines he did not hesitate to resign his judicial position from a sense of duty. “I bhave nothing to do but g0, he said. I think 1t is the duty of every American to do all he can to help his country to meet this question squarely and solve it in the best way possible for us and for the Filipinos, and, thinking so, I cannot refuse my part.” Results bave justified the confl dence reposed in him by the president. The Cineinnatl Commerclal Tribune says: Tudge Taft 18 to be the first elvil governor of the Philippiues, No the | | refraining from forming a single trust | | afrord the proper solution. reprisals as it | - the financial gement of the pe the sehool bo standpoint, the d most dire Iy, 1 the proceeds of the fines go to swell the revenues city the school distriet, and the has no divect Interest whether the { the fines is heavy or light. It devolves therefore once more on the members of the school board (o geapple with the problem and to Inquive whether any means are at hand thas Having gon as it has in the case, the school d would not be justified in letting the police court get back into the old | rut, no matter who presides over it as police judge, City Treasurer Hennings calls atten- tion to the fact that the effect of the tax commissioner system in Omaha has been to increase still further the tax burdens resting on real estate, when exactly the oppesite result was prom Ised and anticipated. The injustice of our method of assessment is the prac exemption from taxation of the larger part of the personalty owned hy wenlthy people who could cusily pay. The inevitable tende of this is to discourage the improvement of prop- erty and the construction of new build- ings, because such investments are sub- Ject to a penalty not imposed on per- sonalty holdings. The crying need of tax revision is for a reform that will lighten the burden borne by real estate and home owners, The . Cubans have signed up their constitution and a copy of the document is in the hands of the completed angd United States authorities in Cuba, With the short time remuining hefore the end of the present session of congress it i not likely action can be taken on it he- fore March 4. As the president has announced that he will eall o special session it necessary to decide on the course this country shall now pursue | regarding Cuba, th is every reason to believe the whole problem will he settled so far as the United States is concerned before many months roll by. H riminal, 8t. Louls Globe-Democy at. Some of the hatchet women who are smashing doors and windows in merry hysterics would consider it & crime to split kindling at home. Hydrophobia. St, Louts Globe-Democrat. Colonel Bryan's European trip was aban- doned at New York. He balked when he reached the water, just as he did in Florida during the Cuban strife. And Microbe Chicago Tribun It is roughly estimated that the new trolley cars to be put in operation shortly will hold, when packed full, 100 passengers | and 100,000,000,000 microbes. Can't Lowe Nebraska. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. The man who is introducing Colouel | Bryan as “the next president of the United | States” could bLetter favor the public by in- troducing “the next semator from Ne- braska."” Power Argument. St Louls. Globe-Democrat. Four states out of forty-five are unable to elect United States senators on account of legislative deadlocks. It is a powerful argument in behalf of the direct election of senators by the people Observing Leat. Chicago Times-Herald J. Plerpont Morgan is an Episcopalian, and there {8 a report abroad to the effect that he will deny himself during Lent by The story is probably unfounded Revenl All the ¥ Baltimore American, Should the senate decide to name a com- mittee to fnvestigate the merits of the Sampson-Schley controversy, the action will be most heartily welcomed by the friends of the last-gamed officer. Such an investigation would ‘result in all the facts being brought to light. That is all Schley's friends have ever contended for—that the facts be made known and a decision ren- dered in accordance with them. If this is done, there will be no doubt of the position in which Schley will be placed Indianapolis Press, We do not believe the gentleman from Miami, Dr. Passage, accomplished much either for the medical profession or for him- selt by his astonishing treatment of the Christian Scientists In committes meeting: Many of them were sweet and gentle women, belleving that purity of heart and firmness of faith in Christ will cure the ills of the fles well as those of the spirit We believe this falth should he supple- mented with the skill of a good physician, but see no reason why these women should be taunted as “claiming partnership with God" or “baving a corner on God.” The tolerant courtesy of a gentleman is never out of place, even in a legislative commiitee. g0 Tribune, The Public Library board did well nol to make an appropriation offhand for the sterilization of the books in its care. If the report of the commissioner of health should show that disea is soread by \ THE OMAHA DAILY fee court affects | BE bacilli that find lodgment in the books, then | the appropriation should be made, for lifo I8 not to be weighed against money. But meanwhile there is reason to belleve that the danger of infection in this way fs ex- aggerated. There is no record of any death from this cause. President Frank made |some investigation and declared that so far as he had been able to learn no case of disease had resulted from persons read { Ing library books. If the books are in as | {bad condition as is asserted, then it would be reasonable to expect that the employes | |of the library would be constantly on the | ®lck Mst, while in fact they enjoy exceed ingly good health. Meanwhile it will be Interesting to learn the result of Commis- sioner Reynolds' investigation | | | The Kn cens Philadelphia jorth America According to a prominent German news- paper the kaiser has been greatly incensed |at the attitude of France, Russia and the | United States toward Count von Walder- | see’s position as commander-in-chief of the allled forces in China. These countries /s the German editof, had accepted | Count von Waldersce as commander-in- chief and had afterward made restrictions Which, as a matter of fact, rendered his chief command illusory | The United States never accepted Von Waldersee as commander-in-chief and the | polite refusal to be tied to the tail of the | kaiser's kite was one of the most level- headed acts of the State department during the exciting days preceding the march to | Pekin. The Kaiser was told that in opera- tions strictly along the line of the Amer- | | fean policy and for the specific purpe ues | | announced by the United States, the lead- ership of the exalted graft might be pta o part ble should he arrive in time to t in them. Dy Case, 8t Paul Dispatch | The jury iu the Hamilton case find him | guilty of manslaughter in the first degree, | the punishment for which is fixed at not { less than five nor more than twenty years' | tmprisonment. The verdict will surprise | those who followed 1t in the local papers, [ and even those who read the unbinsed r | port given by the Dispatch were justified | In feeling that the killing of Day resulted | from a drunken brawl in which several | were engaged. and In which any one of | several might be guilty. But the jury, who heard the testimony, who saw the wit- | nesses and their manner, had a better basis for judgment than could be given in any report. | The lesson of it all is one that any young | man treading the dangerous: path of dis- | slpation may well take to heart for his | own betterment. The participants were | a1l young men, who were putting their | future to risk, inviting disaster and ruin under the delusion that they were seeing | lite and tasting its pleasures. They were | taking the pace that kills. One of them, | Day, reached the emd quickly. Another, | Hamilton, it he survive his imprisonment, will, even if he abandon the path, have | | his 1ife clouded with the disgrace of con- viction for having taken a fellow being's | life. The other participants will have | | their lives ghadowed with the participation | In the debauch that ended so tragically. “The wages of sin is death;" the wages of dissipation iy ruin K AND CUBA. for President's Denire that nre Responsibility, Philadelphia Record Nearly all reports from Washington con- cur in the opinion that soon after March 4 President McKinley will convene an extra session of the Kifig-seventh congress. In interviews with leading administration sen- ators (who are for the most part repug- nant to an extra session) the president |dilates upon the urgency of congressional |action concerning the relations of the United States and Cuba. Something, he says, must be done; and he insists that ‘n whatever may be done congress shall share | the responsibility with the executive. Sin | congress passed the resolution guaranteelug the freedom and independence of Cuba it 18 | reasonable enough that congress, and not the president, should determine whethe the moral obligation of the law shall be maintained. What seems clear enough is that the ad- ministration desires to exert a strong pressure upon the Cuban constitutional con vention as a previous condition of inde- pendence, and for this purpose the execu tive needs the sanction of congress. The demands upon Cuba have assumed preity much the following form: Control by the United States of the foreign relations of the new republic; naval stations at Ha- vana, Santiago and Cienfuegos, with the right to maintain American garrisons ther the obligation of Cuba to make no con cession of territory and to mortgage none of her property to foreign powers, and, finally, the right to enforce the Monroe doctrine upon the Cubans themselyes when. ever necessary. 1t the convention shall not make these concessions the president wants congress to deal with the situation, HABITUAL ¢ INALS, Assistant Commissioners of London Police Suggest Thelr Suppression Chicago Tribune. Students of social conditions in England are tending toward the conclusion that th humane seatiment of modern soclety is pro ductive of harm in some of its phases. Tho Spectator recently showed that the com- fortable housing of paupers in London, with all fts great benefits, has had a bad effect in fucreasing pauperism. During the Boer war and the prosperity of the last year it was impossible to get enough men in Lon- don to do all the work offered, et the alms- house population showed no falling off There were thousands of new occupants. In the same way the too lenient treatment of habitual criminals scems to be having a bad effect, as shown by Robert Anderson, agsistant commissioner of police in Lon- don, in an article in the Nineteenth Cen- tury Mr. Anderson shows by official statistics that crimes by professional offenders have steadily inoreased in London since th transportation of such criminals was abol- ished in 1867. While the total number of telonies has shown a gratifying decrease, the number of offenses by professional criminals has grown each year. Within the last half century the burglaries in London have increased fifteenfold and pro- teesional offenses of other kinds have shown a similar increase. Mr. Anderson belleves this is due to the milder punish- ments ‘which the general decrease of crime bas made possible. Men who deliberately choose a life of crime are taking advantage of the humane sentiment which permits them to escape with short terms. They should be treated more strivgently than the ordinary lawbreaker The point Mr. Aunderson makes s valid He says the practice of sentencing a hu- bitual ariminal merely for his latest offense 18 unjust to the community, Such a crim- inal, after serving his sente at once returns to his ‘‘profession.” To set such a public enemy at liberty, says Mr. Ander- son, is as stupid and wicked as to allow a smallpox patient to go at large in the com- munity. He urges life imprisonment for such cases. His line of thought is closely akin to that which caused this state to pro- vide for longer sentences for habitual erim. inals. When a man is seen to belong ir- revocably to the c of incorrigibies e should 1o longer be released to prey upon the public. If all the well-known criminals of this kind were %o treated, says Sir Ja Stephen, an eminent English jarist, “the veally bad offenders might In a few vears be made as rare as wolves' 1 | by emigration during the last twenty y EBRUARY OTHER LANDS T The plan of a cltizen army for (he Australian commonwenlth is taking & very strong hold of a lagge section of the peo the Melbdurne correspondent of ple, says the London Express. The scheme which seems most likely to be adopted is that tormulated by Brigadier General Gordon, commandant of the South Australian forces under which every man who is physically it and between the ages of 18 and 21 will be taught to shoot, will undergo an army training for a certain number of weeks every year and will undertake to join the ranks of the federal volunteer army when- | ever necessity arises The federal government would, under this scheme, provide instruction, arms, ac coutrements, ammunition and uniform, and would pay each man who made himselt ef- flcfent a bonus of £10 to £30 a year for “non-coms” and regular army pay for of- flcers Each state would raise sufficient men to guarantee immunity agaiust attack by a foreign foo and would supply the needs of the empire in the event of any such emer- gency as that which In South Africa has found so loyal and enthusiastic response. Under this scheme it is calculated that it would not be difficult to ralse within five years a capable and efficient citizen army of 200,000 men 1t will be curious if the present session of the Austrian Reichsrath comes to an end without an explosion of some sort. The irreconcilable attitude of some of the sec- tions was shown clearly enough on the opening day when three groups, the Pan- germanians, the social democrats and the Czéch extremists, deliberately absented themselves to avold the necessity of join- ing in the conventional cheers for the em peror. These gentlemen, later on, relleved their feeling by cheering for the Boers, when a motion was made to sond a vote of sympathy to the British House of Com- mons on the death of the queen. In the course of the procdedings some of the mem- bers of the extreme Czech faction warned the prime minister in threatening against introducing a single word hostile to the Czech nation in the coming speech from (he throne. They also announced their intention of squaring accounts with him 8o soon as the speech from the throne | should be delivered aid not last an hour, was sufficient to show litieal cauldron point The whole sitting but what occurred how near the po- was to the boiling-over Last year's Italian census shows grati- fying increases in population and birth rate. Where the estimated population was 81,000,000, 35,000,000 turns out to be the actual figure, and this in spite of a loss ars of 5,000,000. The ratio of increase is high, approaching four-fifths of 1 per cent a year. The increase since the last census, that of 1881, is nearly 7,000,000, or 25 per cent. This increase is due to improvement in public sanitation and the consequent lessening of infant mortality. It may not be generally known that the Italian medical schools are among the best in the world and that the Itallans have developed a singular capacity for hospital organization and management. The government has also undertaken or sanctioned great movements for sanitary reform. By introducing a good water supply, closing the old wells and flushing the streets, Naples was raised in twenty years from the position of one of the world's unhealthiest cities to that of one of the healthiest. The case is typical, and when the present unfortunate confu- sion of politics and finance is cast up against the Ttallan kingdom, this positive betterment of vital conditions should be remembered to its credit. Among the many interests in England which have suffered by the Boer war i8 the proposed millennial celebration next year in honor of King Alfred. The lord mayor of London, in a recent letter to the mayor of Winchester, admits sorrowfully that the subscriptions have not been so large as was expected. He expresses the hope that ..ey may be more liberal by and by, but mean- while, he says, the Memorial association deems it wisest to modify the original plans These included, first, the erection of statue at Winchester of King Alfred, and, secondly, the erection of a museum of early English history. In connection with the lat- ter it was suggested that the ruins of Wolvesey castle and the grounds imme- diately adjolniug it within the exterlor walls of the castle should be acquired from the eccleslastical commissioners, placed un- der the guardianship of the corporation of Winchester and thrown open to the public, It was thought that a site might be found for the museum on some part of the grounds, It Is no longer thought expedient, says the lord mayor of London, to persevers with the scheme for a museum, as there is not ltkely to be money enough to pay for one. As a matter of fact, the subscrip- tions hitherto received or promised are not enough to pay for Mr. Thorneycroft's statue of the king. . 1t has already been noted that the re- sults of Prince George's visit to European capitals in the hope of galning some defl- aite Information as to whether the powers were prepared to act in regard to Crete were purely negative. Since then the sul- tan of Turkey has fntimated to the powers that he is disposed to favor the creation of a principality similar to Bulgaria, In Athens such a solution of the problem 1s eald to be highly unpopular, and the agl- tation for the absorption of Crete by Greece 18 constantly augmenting. Such a union 1s manifestly desired by all Cretans, but a determination to preserve thelr local autonomy and to retaln the prince at the | head of affairs is equally consplcuous. In short, the Cretans would like to bear the same relation to Greece that Samos does to Turkey, Greece assuming the payment of any tribute for release from Turkish Jurisdiction that the powers may deem proper. While It is conceded on all hands that the powers are not at present prepared to consent to a union with Greece, Prince George, who holds the warrant of high commissioner from the powers, has glven notice that, as Crete cannot be further benefited by him under present conditions, on the expiration of his mandate, next November, he will decline to fll the post of high commissioner under the conditions now prevalling. In the light of this dec- laration, accompanied with a modified de mand that the more serious obstruction to Cretan legislation be removed, it s lieved that the powers will take steps which will prevent from retiring, as it is everywhere admit ted that his administration has been great success. Among the more important suggestions of the high commissioner is that Greek troops be substituted for the International contingents, and the placing of the former under the orders of the prince. This step, it is declared, would give relief to the powers and at the same tlme be no infringement of the sultan's suzerainty. certaln — A Great Loss to the Army. New York Sun General Peter Smith Michie, who died at West Polnt on Saturday, was one of the very ablest men in our army, and of a character so high, so pure and so strong as to glve added digaity and distinction to the profession of the soldier. In his long wservice of & full generation at the military academy his influence on the successive classes was profound, and it reached to al- most the entire body of graduates now in the army. His elevation of character and his vigorous personality tended to raise the the tone of the academy and standurd of the whole serv honorable [ terms | be- | Prince George | PASSING OF THE VETERAN, Gran Army WM at Yenr th Largest | its N tory. Globe-Democrat | In the Grand Army the mortality in the 1900 was 10,899, decidedly the lnrges | year | aggregate since the order was formed total number of deaths in 1886 was 3,02 | In 1590 the total went beyond 5,000 and was between 7,000 and $,000 annually until The last year, when there was a heavy in crease. In 1890 the membershlp was 400 | 489, Last year it bad been reduced to 2. The annual mortality is approach Ing 4 per cent and by the year 1910 more | than balf the members will have passed | away It is early thirty-six | the war closed. Most ot the survivors are | near 60. The president, who entered the service as a minor, Is in his 58th year. As the average age of enlistment was 24, | there are many men who were 30 or ov when they jolned the army and are now verging on three score and ten 15 still more striking. Sheridan and Thomas dled under 60. Palmer, Prentiss and Cox are among recent losses. Few corps and division commanders remain. The next general reunion of the Grand Army, In September, has been changed from Denver | to Cleveland on account of the fatigue of travel. Much is sald of the great total of pensions, but it Is apparent that the main basis {s but a matter of a few vears, a consideration entitled to weight with those who oppose the policy of glving sometl to the old soldier who offered fo give o life included, to his country. But for th same veterans there would be no country as it now exists, and the glory and great | ness of the United States would have been extinguished a generation ago JRSONAL AND 0 Lord Kitchener when a boy was so lazy that his father sent him to a girl's school in the hope of arousing his pride The duke of Abruzzi, in honor of his own | expedition, was the other day declared by RWISE, | the local government a citizen of Rome upon the occasion of his lecture on the polar regions. enator Cockrell of Missouri orders every v In the senate restaurant “a steak done just as 1 like it.”" The other day he found |1t necessary to add, “And, Tom, remember | ot to have any of that darned grass on it."* Charles Oliver, the railway commissioner of New South Wales, has returned home after having spent a month in England and four months in this country getting new ideas in regard to the working of rail- ways. Queen Victoria once conducted a bible class. Long ago, when she was staying in London, she would call together the chil- dren of her married servants in one of the private rooms of Buckingham palace and read the bible to them. At the close of the | | | | children’s hymns were sung. Ex-Lieutenant Governor Henry C. Bates of St. Johnsbury has been appointed dis- trict judge in the Philippines, with a salary of from $5,000 to $5,600, according to the district, which will be assigned upon his arrival at Manila. He will leave Vermont about April 1. The appointment was made through Judge Ide of the Philippine com- mission. Helen Keller, the deaf and blind but no longer dumb student, who Is now in her freshman year at Radcliffe college, has been promoted in the English composition class on account of her extraordinary progress. In her class there were forty students, and above the work of all these that of the deaf, dumb and blind girl has stood pre- eminent. Another American woman has be covered who knew Queen Victoria in the person of Mme. Hoeringer. In 1840 she was employed In a Parisian dress- maker's shop, when the queen took a great fancy to her and took her to England as a companion. From 1840 to 1845, when she married, Mme. Boeringer was rarely sep- arated from her royal mistress. Mme Hoeringer possesses many valuable souve- nirs of the late queen Mrs. McKinley hay confided to her close friends that her gown for the inaugural ball is to be the richest which can be pur- chased and designed in this country, She detires to honor the fete given to mark hes husband's second inauguration by aj ing in a costly and appropriate toflet. This ball will be the first given In twenty-nina years to mark the second inauguration of an executive. General U. S, Grant was the recipient of the honor fn 187 The duke of Cambridge, who was present &L Queen Victoria's funeral, is the only member of the royal family now surviy. Ing who attended the last rites of William IV in July, 1837. To show how fashion In the pageantry of woe has changed in 1ho Intervening sixty-four years, it may be mentioned that "the duke—then = Ppince George of Cambridge—was enveloped “in 5 long black cloak, with the star of (he Order of the Garter embroldered thereop « and wore “the collar of that most nobje order, his train borne by two gentlemen. - n dis- Cwell” are, but “good" ulsters be found “Right and at this time of the duced prices, that are soft and warm, and look 1i e bags. but B and $22.50, and every on One of these ulsters would stand you a if you bought it now for next season | money earned, and you or hoys’ ulste years since | Among general officers the loss sustained | reading she would explain the chapter, and Ulsters for men and boys a lined, that are cut to fit, not like most ulsters w 1THE HUMORISTS Columbus Journ, Willie—1 ¢ could die listening to Miss Triller « Y Nick—Oh may feel Iike but e yugh, 1've beer it il the Judge night i Edith talk; 80 what's the difference” 80 Tribune: Literary Cele alling 1 an exciting naa tions itself, whi and ¢ children of y , are In your own hunds for v positic destinies | to wo t Young Ti Mr. Squibob' 1 b know just ve felt the ¥y sometimes hen 1 have bee mding a salad | Philadelphia Bullerin What think Clariee went out and sang riainment in a private insa 1 Did she s whether the L] Insanity much? ‘Oh! yes; they encored her (hre Times-Herald: 8o husband's new itbrary, Mrs 1 see he has Dickens and )h_\- side. Which do you cons! | | | | | | this, then, is Mucli of the two? “Oh, my, Dickens! for them 'Dickenses for Thackeray's house.” Joshua puid than he had books right at i Needer 11 neympatheti Philadelphia Press thix world fs cold and there 1 know a ni him 81 a w wh run errands |, Philadelphia_ Press: 1 A | Hello, hello! Why did you « | ephone Girl—Because you wer ing through the ‘phone, and that's iy Prof Annesty -1 wasn't swearing t 11t but at it Why have you al your club women winted t Times-Herald ladies’ nights’ at Oh, some of the 10 cents the limit Chlcago They have set t | the bar They are drawing out the used to draw the same | They have taken down the barri | had before the door And removed the he shameful picture frame the soaks are flocking & places whero they hid And lining up all eagerls polished rail, And the topers of Topeka are proceeding to ot rid e thirst that was consuming et w-Herald p tom-and-ferry bow me dail lager as ton of nton in A Jolly old landlord ¢ Without, the snc fenk wint wreak his hear 1d friends we meet fast the shadows of the nig | we lack ff from w corner ca a cup of wack!" It 1% no time & The for et tales there Sliggish Knlght friar jolly Not from Saint Dunstan’s well ¢ melanch drinks with rampling of feet—volc ming: Here a tired tr A trumpet sounds. T pach is coming! O for a coach, ye gods' 8 in hallways hun Care is a river, but w the bright i comes in with bury ; Room for the old man ve crossed the forr ds bloo ales of Cay He scarce hath told the tale, sy telling. Ere a glad eve discerns A gentler guest. A chorus gla is swelling: “"Fore God, here's Bobby Hurns!" cet in the Was ever yet so wonderful a party? Dush down, O wintry rain Chink glasses, O my masters, drink hearty | Until we meet again! GOLDEN ROD OIL I COMPANY Producers of Fuel Ol in Californiu. Owners ot 2000 Acres of Ol Lands. > of the sufest and most promising ir nts In the California ofl business is 'HE PREFERRED STOCK of this company. Our well No, 2 f now In the il and s nearly completed Tho charac nd business standing « 1ts five Omaha and four Los Ange tors assure wise and ca OUR PROSP with names of off) and full particulars, the asking. 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