Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 25, 1901, Page 4

’l‘r_m OMAHA DAILY Bmi K. ROSEWATER, Bditor PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION. ally Bee (without Sunday), One Year..$6.00 Jaily Bee and Sunday, One Year 8.00 llustrated Bee, One Year 4 Bunday Bee, One Year 2.00 Baturday Bee, One Year 1 Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year... 1.0 OFFICES Omaha: The Bee Buflding South Omaha: City Ha!l Bullding, Twen- y-fiith and M Streets Counf) Blufts: 10 Pear] Street. Chicago. 1640 Unity Bullding. New York: Temple Court Washington: 1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to news and edi- orial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department § BUSINESS LETTERS el Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bes Publishing Com- vany, Omaha, REMITTANCES Remit by draft, express or pos avable to The Bee Publishing Compa July 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of Bl accounts Borsonal checks except on Piha or Eastern exchanges, not accepte THEE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: orge B, Tzschick, tary of The Bee blishing company g July sworn, #ayu that the actual number of full and {Pmplete copies of The Daily, Morning, Livening and Sunday Hoee printed during the month of January, 191, was a8 follows: ....26,500 17 26,240 20,820 18, 20,590 20,1 19 620 20,210 2 L26,720 20,410 2 26,030 26,850 23 26,410 26,410 2. 26,920 26,380 2 20,180 20,240 2 20,410 26,440 26, 20,240 N 20,420 £ .. 26,700 £l .. 26,550 Wi 20,450 oo 20,320 10, 3. 12 13 M. 1. 16 Total . Less unsold and returned coples.... 10,017 30,068 26,770 TZSCHUCK, nd sworn to anuary, A Net total cales, Net dally average GEO, B, Sibscribed In my presence before me this st day of 101 M. B UNGATE (Seal.) tary Publl ——— ey hat senatorinl deadiock will resume activity tomorrow, It is plain Pat Crowe is not yet ready to yield bis laurels s u letter write There 1s no question that Hon. P. Crowe 1s in hiding, nor that his hiding place is pretty well hid Another enterprise that would fill a long felt want is a good, healthy rock pile for the amusement of city prison —— If Hon. Pat Crowe wants his letters answered he should be more careful to give his postotfice address and street number, —_— Omaba people visiting other cities are fast belng forced to the conclusion that the safest plan is to leave their valu ables at home, General Bar 'p his shoulder THE OFFICIAL BALLOT Nebraska has had a different form of official ballot nearly overy two yeurs since the Australian system has been put into effect. Whether the alterations liave been in the direction of fmprove ment or to meet altered the politi situation, the confusion arising from the frequent changes has marked and in instances ssary. At the same time it will be generally conceded that the official ballot as now preseribed presents sev- eral defects that requive remedy and that legislation correcting them is de- | manded without =~ regard to political affiliations, In the reconstruction of the ballot, however, legislators should bear in mind the principles that should goy rn and try if possible to secure a bal lot that will not have to be rearvanged again by the next legislature The ballot is simply a means to an end. It is a part of the election ma chinery and the object of every tion js to re a f and untram meled expression of the popular will and have it honestly recorded and ex ecuted. It is not for the law to mislead or trick the voter into registering his preference for a candidate he does not want or to make it a sort of lottery, whether he hits or misses with his cross mark the names he wishes to vote. 1t s not for the law to keep any ean didate off the ticket or make it sier or harder for one party to have a place on it than others, but rather to place all on an equal footing and leave the voter to choose betw them, Un- ordinary ‘mmstances the diti- culties now met with would not exist, because they arise out of fusion, which is an abnormal politieal condition. Tne fact of fusion wust, however, he rec ognized and the Jaw so framed that | the candidate nominated three times by w party salling under three different namu Las no improper advantage over his competitor nominated by a party Lonest enough with itself to fly its col ors boldly without a tripartite mas- uerade, If these cousiderations are Kept in mind when the proposed legislation for | a revised ofticial ballot is up for ac-| tion, something may be accomplished that will not have to be done all over agalu two years hence, * ONE MORE WEEK OF CONGRESS. There is but one more week of the Fifty-sixth congress, In that brief time there is much business to be done in order to clear the tables of everything absolutely essential to the support of the government. Several of the appro- priation bills are yet to be acted upon and the outlook is that some of them will not be passed until the very last hour of the session, though this would | not be an extraordinary experience lnrl the second or short session of congress. Proposed legislation which the major ity leaders contidently believed at the some ol se onditions in | HE OMAHA DAI for school purposes has risen, with no Immediate prospect of relief. If the law giviug the school bourd in dependent taxing powers has proved of any advantage to the taxpayers, it has not been pointed out even by its most avdent champlons, If there is any good 1 Why the law should not re. pealed and the responsibility for the tax rate concentrated again in a single au thority, it has not been advanced, The repeal bill is pending in the present leg- islature and should SIONS FROM CUBA There is some promise that congress Will inform the Cubans as to the con cessions desired by the United States The <enate committee on relations with Cuba has under consideration ul propositions to he embraced in a treaty with the new republic, instead of belng incorporated in the Cuban constitution These propositions provide for su pervision by the United States of treaties with foreign powers made by the Cuban republie, that Cuba shall not undertake to pay the debt incurred by Spain prior to the intervention of the United States, that Cuba shall lease sell to this country such coaling or naval stations the president of the Tnited States all think neces sary for the protection of the interests of this country, and that the United States shall exercise supervision of Cu ban laws velating to sanitation in order to protect this country from epldemics liable to originate there, These are not havd conditions. Un. doubtedly it would be to the advantage of Cuba to comply with them. But it IS to be apprehended that a majority of Cubans will object to them ns posing too great a limitation thelr independence, A dispateh Havann states that the members constitutional convention unanimously agreed that there should be some form of relations showing the gratitude of Cuba this country, but these rela tions must not endanger the sovereignty of the republic. There appears to,be a very pronounced opposition to allowing the United States to supervise treaties with foreign countries and to permit ting the United States to have naval | stations in Cuba, both being reg as dunge to Cuban soverelgnt, 1t quite probable, the that these propositions, should congress submit them, will mot be accepted by the Cubans, at least in tie fo sented by the senate committe others, relating to the debt and sanitation not be objected to, particularly the former, We have heretofore polnted out the importance of congress naking a plain and explicit statement of the concessic aud conditions desired by the United States from Cuba and it s gratfying to note that there I8 a prospect of this beiug doue, The Cuban people have upon from of the to seeins Spanish laws, will | proot more | themselves. | mittee im- LY BE MONDAY der in printed which the ofeial ticket shall Instead of making it dificult for the voter to “split” hls ticket, this bill | Is designed rather (o encourage the inde- [ pendent exercise of the ballot. 1t Is csti mated that the bill if passed would prac- tieally disfranchise 30,000 negroes and 18,000 whites vt ——— | Coercing Cuba, | New York Kvening Post | S0 those artless Cubans want General | Wood to write u formal and official letter | setting forth the “demands” which the United States makes upon Cuba! This s one that they are unfit to govern It s tantamount to the of n o diplomats as the mise en To General Wood. in particular, | this request of the Cliban delegates must | come as highly distasteful. - After those | delightful secret conferences with the com- | at Batabano, to have the blunder- | ing fellows express a wish that he should | publish on (he housetop what he had whis- | pered in their ears in the closet! There Is an end of all skilful and successtul diplomacy if such blunt and open methods come into vogue. Adjusting Our Relations w 1 Philadelphia Inquirer, There are some gratifying indications discernible that the Cuban politicians who have been runving the constitutional con- vention at Havana are being led to recog nize the necessity and the advisability of agreelng upon such a definition of the re- lations to exist hereafter between Cub and the United States as a decent appre clation of what due to this country and an intelligent regard for the mutual interests of all concerned imperatively de- mand. The statement made by the Havana Nacion of the minimum concessions that are due to the United States shows at least an intelligent understanding of the situa tion and might be acc 1 as a basis for the scheme of guaranties which will have to be adopted and embodied in the organic law of the republic whose organization Is under consideration. A MATRIMONIAL MEASURE, roposnis (o Fine Bachelors of Forty nud for Relief Sp Indfanapolis Press. A member of (he Connecticut bas introduced a curious bill to premote matrimeny, by enacting that a man re- | maining unmarried until he is 40 years old | may not marry thereafter without paying 10 the state the sum of $100. He declares that his bill is no joke, but that conditions in his own city are becoming alarming. Whether or not it be a matter for alarm, it is certainly no joke that modern condi- tlons rre making against matrimony in a very marked degree. France long axo took up the problem of a decreasing population and others of the highly-civilized nations seem destined to meet it soomer or later. Young men and young women are flocking from the farms to the cities. *Their con- tact with each other is no longer the in tmate friendship that grows up through childhood and ripens into matrimony. They do not know each other's characters well enough to feel sure about intrusting their happinees to each other. Social Intercourse is more general. Instead of having a half dozen ucquaintances of the opposite sex and of equal age the young person counts them by the dozen. And increased numbers, fnstead of leading to greater ease of choice, brings confusion, hesitation and doubt. Then the necessity for marriage is not felt by either sex in anything like the de- groe it formerly was in cities and still {s tn the rural districts. The bachelor Is not ferse kno demeure. legislature FREE ADVICE TO THE LEGISLATURE, City Eagle (rep.): Should the legislature conclude to pass a @ state purchasing board everything used in the shall purchased Dakota Nebraska law establishing through whom different institutions it would result In an enormous saving to the state, a saving of over $100,000. Here is where they can muke a memorable rec- ord, for it would be the means of inau- gurating some economical reforms in the management of the state Schuyler Sun (rep.): The Omaha Bee sizes up the situation right when it says that the bill creating a supreme court com- mission of nine members with salaries of $2,600 each and $1,000 for stenographlic as- sistance means to much of w burden upon the taxpayers and that the summoning to he assistance of the supreme court such of the district judges as could wpare the time would do fust as well and much more cconomical. A commission e members would certainly seem large enough to do the work Auburn Granger (pop.): It you want to see bedlam turned loose just watch the proceedings of the leglslature during the closing days. The last hours of legislative sessions in this state have evor heen char- acterized with disregard for taxpayers disregard for each and rything that should characterize a body of statesmen and loyal citizeos, and it is hurdly pos sible that the present session will be an improvement on the past. Then it will be that the bills which have been put to sleep to allay suspicfon will bob up crowded through. Extra pay grabs be made and the general grabbing everything loose will be carrfed on ' by pages, custodians, supernumeraries and first, second and third supernumeraries, and possibly some of the members will carry off the pencils and blotters that have been pald for by the state. It would be a God- send If Carrie Nation with a band of well trained Sioux Indlans would walk fn and prorogue tho darned things ten days be- fore the time Is up. Gr, If the worthy who used a whip of cords and upset the tables of the money changers in the temple at Jerusalem could re-enact the episode the people would say amen. York Republican: The bill of he will for before the i legislature to purchase at Lincoln a perma- nent gite for the state fair is ont that opens a wide range of possibility in the matter of providing public improvements at state ex- pense. York ought to have a good market square, and if it be proper for the state to buy Lincoln a fair ground there is no reason why we shouldn't bave a market square here, provided by the same ecasy and eco- nomical method. And when we get the square, what s the use of stopping con- tented with that? Let us go on and have o fine park. Tho other cities in the state will be delighted to contribute their sharg to the staie general fund for the payment of the bill. A great many people in the state could come to York to enjoy the fine park who could not get away from home long enough to go to Lincoln and enjoy the beauties of a state fair ground. There are other towns In the state similarly situated In fact, all of them are similarly situated. And there will be no danger that the county capital will ever be moved from most of them. If the Lincoln crowd keeps on the people of the state will be compelled, In self-defense, to move the capitol building to York, or Grang Island, or Kearney, in order to rescue the sites from the dis- aster of wholesale appropriation. PERSONALTIES, General Joe Wheeler has announced that TATE EDITO Pender Republican (rep.) Every day's delay in choosing senators at Lincoln is lessening the chance for the continuation of republican supremacy in Nebraska. We have heard remarks in the last week from as staunch republicans as are to be found anywhere that if this deadlock were not broken soon and two good republicans elected to the senate that they would not vote the republican ticket in the future. York Times (rep.): It is worth men tioning under the circumstances that Sec | retary of State Marsh s turning the fees recelved from the Marks and Brands com mission into the state treasury. It is noth Ing remarkable that a state officer should honest and obey the law, but Mr. Porter { went out of the office of secretary of state with nearly $1,000 of these fees sticking to his fingers. It is the diffcrence between the way republicans and populists do public business, that's all Stanton Pickec (rep.): It is to be hoped that, for the good «f the state and that Justice may follow, the supreme court in selecting the supreme court commissioners nder the new law about to be created will ascend ubove petty politics and personal preferences and select only lawyers of rec- okntzed ability and charac unassallable. There are plenty of siuch in the state and there is no necessity, there can be cuse, for the selecting of any other clas Dignity Is one of the considered virtues of the supreme tribunal of any state, and that Algnity should not be lowered In Nebraska by the appointing of assistants inferior to the court itself, either in point cf ability or moral character Wayne Republican: The Republican is pretty tired of the average politiclans and belleves it like a good many other party papers of its own and other brands of poli- ties has been a chump for about long enough. It seems to be expectod of a party paper that it must take up the burden of carrying the sing of almost anything that puts itself in a position to command a nomi nation of the party. It is our bumble opinion that in the future a good many of this class of fellows will meet some sur prises around this shop. We are not saying Just what course will be pursued, but can assure our readers it will be one con sistent with the best interests of the gen- eral public regardiess of the personal am- bitions of officeseekers Hastings Tribune (rep): The Chronic Insane asylum Is somewhat strong on butter as the fusion officials overatocked the fn- stitution a few weeks before they turned the asylum over to their republican suc- cessors. About ten thousand pounds of butter were uncovered on February 1, and most of It was 8o putrid that it fs unfit for any purpose. Besides, during the month of December the fusionists spent over $6,000 for men's clothing. The enormous amount of money expended for men's clothing and butter during the months of November and December shows quite plainly that politics played a very pretty part in the loading down of the Chronic Iusane asylum. As a result there is clothing galore for male vatients and, if the butter were good there would be enough of it to run the institution until July. And this is (he way the great “‘reformers” have been reforming the poli- tics of Nebraska since they stepped into office. Columbus Telegram (dem.): Nine out of ten popullsts and democrats in Nebraska have always been honest in thelr efforts to drive the rallroads .out of the governing business in Nebraska. This class of popu lists and democrats warned the people (hat it the republicans should win In Nebraska no ex- one desirous of avoiding conflict and preserving the integrity of the Chines ever plowed t ing machine he ever saw was 17 y with short sleeves, gaiter boots, that Kills, old chup. to this sort of thing, you know! to reform y Please. of liniment and mamma wants a bottle of china bowl. financlally e to eat breakfast foods fc 1IN CHINAL &e Dimen- in the Orlent. The form ministers at stances will posals regarding declaration Pekin that they pt of the foreign under no circum the Chinese punishment virtually Amounts to an ultimatum. The Chiness Rovernment is informed that it will have but elght days to consider the matter, and It it remains obstinate in it present posi tion diplomatic negotiations will be at u standstill. This fact, together with the threatened raid of Count von Waldersee in western China, brings the Chinese again to an acute stage. According to the reports, this expedition is designed to last elghty days and Infiict such crushing pun- Ishment that China will be glad to come to terms A similar raid directed against any civil fzed power for fallure to accept an ulti matum would be an act of war, and it it I8 not tectnically known as war fo this case it involves a dangerous menace of actual war. It is to be hoped that the United States, while reserving its right 1o secure its share of reparation in the final settlement, will exert every effort through the usual diplomatic channels to put a stoy to the exccution of Count von Walderses's project. 1t is not apparent that these raids In the past have had any other effect than that of influming the axti-foreign sentiment In China. 1t is quite certain, on the othe hand, that if the foreign troops in China pro are put to the task of enforcing compl ance with the powers' demands, they be kept busy in tutile operations so long as the empress dowager and Rer court choose o remain etubborn Above all s the obvious danger of pre VOKing a protracted war, in which Germany and its freshly confirmed ally, Great Britain, weuld take the lead a8 opposed to China. The “concert” of the powers may remain unbroken in the fac of such a complication, but it is not likely to do #o. In the interests of the world's peace and the open door the United States, more than ever now, should do Its utmost fo pre vent the Ineffective and perilous tactles proposed by the German commander. The raids into the Chinese interlor do not weaken the Chinese resistance. They tend to stimulate it The zeal which Count Waldersee shows In promoting them gives ground for the question whether at least of the interested powers is sincer 0 empire. CURRENT HUMOR. Gt as hum o said the star cting the hull of Noalv's ark, “ax ese waters.” Chicago Tribun fece of marine architecture,’ ish, Inspe tOh, T don't know,” replied the barnacle, “I'm & good deal stick on it myself. Dawson says the prettiest sow ars old, dress and It-Bits: low-neck Puck: Jerold-Ya oing There's only the pace one end W-whaushat? Some Rirl wi'l be marrving vou ou, old chap; depend Upon it! American: Little Freddic Drugglst, papa wants a hottle Harold Jerold Baltimore Mr. sment, right away Al right. Druggist Mamma hit Freddie- s wrong? pa with the sugar Philadelphia Record the barrassed 80, Why, he actually hus dinner.”" ‘S0 poot is I should sa | Indicated that they want to be officially informed as to what this government thinks it should be granted and con- gress is the preper source and authofty for such information. Although it has secured an agree- ment for reduced pisseng the Buffalo exposition is not yet out of the woods because of threatened dissen sion the roads as to the straps Just the same, although he will call himself u brigadier general instead of an adjutant general, last fall it would mean that the railroads would agaln be In contral. The prediction has been fulfilled to the letter. Rallroad fne flucnce 18 dictating every move made Ly republican officlals. Governor Dietrich's office 1s a raflroad oll room. Everyhody knows this fs true. No sensible republican | Smart Sot: Browne Sione. Sa will deny the charge. And the shame of it |1 haven't seen or heard anyt 1 that a few men posing as popullsts and [ Mfe I two or three weel mocrats are playing the part of door- [ Swellington— N i she's at keepers in the railroad ofl rooms. Demo- | Have vou looke: crats and popullsts should brand these rail- | Browne-Stone road cattle. ‘They breed confusion and Puck: “Here's your health, young man! Where did you léarn to play poker, any- how?" “At college. “AL college, other ‘Word ag long s i live opening of the session would be en acted will go over to the next congress, ‘e house has, as uspal, made the better record. It Lad transacted more business before the holidays than had been done by any previous house in the same length of time, It has since | the holiday recess done fairly well in forwarding legislation In the senate, on the contrary, business has -dragged he will be a candidate for congress in his old district, the Eighth Alabama. Charles 8. Francis, the new United States minister to Greece, is a splendid oarsman and in 1876, during his senior year at Cor- nell, won the single scull championship in the intercollegiate regatta. Dr. F. J. Furnival, the distinguished Eng- lish scholar, who celebrated his seventy- fifth birthday the other day, rows fifteen miles on the Thames every Sunday, and re- cently took part in u race and won it condemped to a dingy and comfortless boarding house, thore to make shift as best ho can with poor fare, an uncertain washer- woman and nobody but himself to darn socks and sew on buttons. For a moderate sum he can hate apartments luxuriously fitted up, with Nght, heat and bath. The steam laundry is reliable and reasonably cheap, and the apartment house has a woman to look after his clothing and mend- Ing. Excellent restaurants and clubs fecd him well. Single life for a bacheior with Well, I'll never say an a college eddieation as ne in Séuth Omaha is preparing for its an- nual spring municipal election, Omaha 1 take consolatjon that it has to go through this mill only once in three years, ‘ne-SU . old ma hing of w You haven't ' rates, S home. —— __ __ _ Jove! Never The outgoing fusion officials who over- by thought of 1t stocked the Hastings Insane asylum Wwith 12,000 pounds of butter must have been practicing a butter cure on the patients, Boss Croker Is keeping very his retreat over in England. He dis- covered what a mistake 1t is to talk too much during the late presidential cumpalgn, mum in We are anxiously walting for the re port of that committee on holdup lob- byists. It should make interesting reading it the ficld has been thor- oughly plowed. ——— Those inmates of the Nebraska pen- itentin will have to be a little more cautions if they hope to develop a plan that will produce a wholesale prison delivery for their Lenefit, —_— One set of fuslonists constituting the State Brands and Marks commission have actually resigned in anticipation of 4 new law reorganizing the commis- slon. They are entitled a brand uew marl to and there has been aggressive filibus- tering on the part of the opponents of republican measures, This has been conspieuously the case in respect to the ship subsidy Dbill, but there was also unnecessary and injurious delay in passing the army bill. The delay of legislation in the senate again calls at tentlon to the necessity of a change of rules in that body. It now appears probable that not the least important of the measures of th session, that reducing revenue under the army revenue bill, will fail, owing to the suarl between the two houses caused by the action of the senate in entirely recusting the bill passed by the | house. The bill Is in conference, but s0 radical are the differences between the houses that the chances are agaiust their coming to an agreement. The supporters of the ship subsidy bill made a determined effort to get actlon upou it, but the opposition being equally persistent the measure had to be aban- doned for this congress. The Nieara- | gua canal bill will go over for the ver, sufficient reason that action on it would be fmproper while the Hay-Pauncefote among ap- | plication of the differential allowed be tween them on regular bus T fuvored lines want the same conces slons ou excursion tratlie, which their competitors are not disposed to grant, and this obstruction may cause a ro opening of the entire question. BEvery great exposition has proved that finan- clal success depends largely on the co operation of the railrouds to make it accessible to the public and Buffalo will do well to look to this im- portant feature of the enterprise, close The reconciliation of former Governors Boyd and Thayer forms an incident worth more than passing notice as an- | other example how time bridges the deepest chasmis. The contest between these two men over the possession of the executive office was one of the most bitter recorded in the annals of Ne- braska, but the personal asperities have had all the sharp edges worn off by the succession of subsequent events, rnor T ver Is fast rounding out his dllotted time of life and those who know Iim or are at all familiar with his busy Gov- |an income that would justity marriage is made not only endurable, but agreeable, hy modern conveniences. How about Shy girls for men vas form the man bachelor them that done by womi tirely new the o nerly an. pro woman? can find as readily Almost as he can all done at home 1s does not have ofessions mony than even that of the man, — SLAVERY IN SOUT 1 CAROLINA, New Syatem of Labor Con C led, Sald to Be I Philadelphla North American Slavery has been re-established in South |V Carolina under a system of so-called “labor The iniquity of the scheme was revealed during the trial of a farmer for the murder of a negro and a grand jury contracts.” The economlc changes of the times tend toward ber inde- pendence as fuly s they do toward that of apartments for find woman's work now done in the factory, but most of it is still She have a home to find employment over, for those that are educated, many en- avenues of employment have opened up, such as stenography, ing and all the the training and ability she has no Qif- culty In earniug an independent livelihood. And it Is probable that her independence of the necessity of “marrying for a home' has more to do with the decadence of matrl- to More- bookkeey- It she have Sir George Gabriel Stokes of Cambridge university, to whom the Berlin Academy of Sclence has awarded the Helmholtz medal, is the third person to have that dis- tinction, the other two being Lord Kelvin and Prof. Virchow A conditional gift of $10,000 has been made to Worcester (Mass.) academy by CEester W. Kingsley of Cambridge, who has already been a benefactor of the academy, building the Kingsley Ipboratories and con tributing money for other purposes Members of the medical profession in Ergland have decided to erect a marble statue to the memory of Dr. Willlam Gil bert, the physiclan to Queen Elizabeth, in the main facade of the new town hall of Colchester, in which city he was born and died. Prof. William Fremont Blackman of the chalr of Christian ethics at the Yale Divin. ity school will leave the university at the end of the current academic year. Funds for instruction in this branch were glven for a certain number of years by a friend of the school, the time expliring with this year, Captain Edmund G. Murray of Spring- le, Me., has served a deputy sherift of his county for twenty-eight years, a longer term, it 1s belleved, than any other man in the state ever served. Captain Murray is also one of the strongest men In the state. At the age of 14 he was able disaster when allowed to run among the common herd. Fusionists lost control of Nebraska because some fusion officials acted ke republicans in the matter of deal- ing with rajlroad and other political corpo- rations. Let us profit by experience. One populist or democrat fn the pay of political corporations sheuld not be permitted to be levated to offico where he may disgrace his entire following. Al good populists and democrats should turn their cameras upon the legislature and get good pictures of the railroad tools in our own party, in ordc that we may prevent the disgrace of the party in tuture UNITED STATES AT THE HEAD WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—(Special.)—The United States now stands at the head of the world's exporting nations. The complete figures for the calendar year, 1900, when compared with those of other nations, show that our exports of domestic products are greater than those of any other country. The total exports of domestic merchandise from the Unlted States in the calendar year 1900 were $1,458,013,669; those from the United Kingdom, which have heretofore led in the race for this distinetion, were $1,418,348,000, and those from Germany $1,050,611,000, you arattio marry teliin’ first mon was?" night for t're You'd sa And yet, That He interferes with H Philadelphia _Pre mamma, Fithe Sthel (who has been watching the prep- of cherry ple)~Why, she's out in Kitchen unbuttoning a lot of cherrles. ~Where s Life: Clubberly-Old man, do you ever have any doubt about your love for her? Castleton—Oh, yes; but when it comes on I get down a stack of unpaid bills and look them ver, Indianapolis Press: ‘“So ye are goln' to arrity's widdy, are yez?" SOl am.” And Twat will yez do fwin she takes 10 yez how much the better mon her DIdn't Of used to be lickin ‘Im—about once a fori- year?" — HOUGHTLESS FOOL, Chicago Post won't. God' rest He does the most annoying things And makes remarks out'andish; o much of woe he brings, o {8 brigandish; whene'er he's in' the wrong, alwayw sure to rue it His natul He’ ‘Then Is the burden of his song: “I didn’t mean to do | hrase absolves him from all blame In his own estimation There naught to say, should he disclaim devastation. ome one's plan, Brings discord, mayhap, to it, Intent Then mildly pleads as such men o “I dldn’t mean to do 1t."” ulls a curtain from the pole, breaks a window shutter, er must rejoice that his last years and good will to all, car are passed i peac has been ordered to Investigate the matter and begin proceedings to break up the system When a negro seeks employment on a farm he is required to sign a contract in which he relinquishes all rights and makes himeelf a chattel. Here are some of the terms of the contract, which is in printed form treaty iy under consideration by the British government. There s uucer- tainty as to whether there will be any regarding the Philippines. Additional interest 1s given to the firat rank, which the United States now holds as an exporting nation by the fact that a quarter of a century ago it stood fourth in that list. 1In 1876 the domestic exports of the United States were $497,- 263,787; those of Germany, $607,096,000; those of France, 747,480,000, and those of the $1,037,497,000. Today the He harrows up some woman's soul With words he should not utter; He'll make a wreck of anything, And, as he stops to view it Why, to that phrase he still will cling “Ididn’t mean to do it.” Ab What the governor of North Carolina said to the governor of South Carolina on that historle oceasion is not in it with what the seven governors of Ne. | legislation brasku sald to one another at thefr re. | It 18 proposed to make the Spooner bill, cent reunion. conferring la authority upon the — president, an amendment to the army The souvenirs at the Washington [ nppropriation bill, as the best way to birthday banquet of newspaper pub- | secure this legislation, but it caunot lishers at New York were small hateh- | be confidently predicted that this will ets. Presumably this was intended | sueceed. to shoulder a barrel of flour, General Lasserre, who has arrived In France from China, where he commanded the French artillery, says the fighting gave the French gunners the first real oppore tunity of testing the effect of melinite shells, It was very deadly. Nothing in the world equals it, and all the allled | troops were amazed at the terrible nature of the explosive. Joseph Easton Gary, the judge who tried the avarchists, is the oldest member of the Chicago bar. He wes born in Potsdam, Tresident Gompers of the Awmerican Pederation of Labor is to visit Porto Rico in his official capacity for the purpose of looking into the advisability of organizing the wage workers there, The annexation of our new island pos- | | sessions promises excursion parties for | the heads of varvious national associa tions which ought to make those po- en vase or statuette, Or feellngs lacerated; A business scheme that is upset, A scandal great created All these, and oth “ profuse, He halds, {f you but knew it, Are covered by that one excuse: YT aldn’t mean to do it United Kingdom United States stands at the head of the list, the United Kingdom second, Germany third and France fourth, with the figures as fol- lows: . United States, $1,453,013,659; United Kingdom, $1,418,345,000; Germany, 1 agree at all times to be subject tq orders and commands of said landlord or his He shall have a right to use such he or his agents muy de necessary uire me (o remain on his farm and perform good and satisfactory | to represent allegorically the propos entrance of Mrs. Nation into the jour- nalistic arena. — In fyaming o vew ballot law for Ne- braska the legislature should not for get that it will in all probability have to stand the test of the courts and that the highest court of the state as at present constituted Is made up of a majority of judges elected as fu. slonists, — President McKinley has already Is- sued his call for the usual sneclal ses- slon of the senate immediately after Inauguration to consider communica tions from the executive, which al ways take the form of nominations to appointive offices that require confirma tlon. There will be feveral eurs to the ground as soon as the senate recon- venes. — The lower house of the Illinois legis- lature has taken action endorsing the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people without first requiring a deadlock as an object lesson, The election of senator in Illinols this year passed off almost without a con- test, yet the legislators see the advan- tage that direct popular chaice would extra ex- The senate has been called in session for the consideration of ecutive business and it is expected that the president will, in the latter part of Mareh, call a special session of the Fifty-seventh congress, with partieular reference to pussing upon Cuban aflain The ivterim between the clos- fng of the present congress and the assembling of the new congress will therefore be only a few weeks, A GUUD LAW TO REPEAL. When the bill conferring independent taxing power upon the Bourd of Educa ton was before the last legislature The Bee opposed its enactment, It opposed it because it could not see that vesting such power in the board was either nec- essary or wise, but on the contrary be- Heved a divided responsibility for the tax rate would produce increased taxa- tion and destroy accountability ‘for it on the part of the different taxing bodies, Experience with this law during the tWo years it has been on the statute books confirms the anticipations then outlined, The knowledge that the board is bound by no lmits in its vequisitions on the taxpayers has lifted no small part of the weights on the finaneial safety valve, removing the restraint pre- viously felt on expanding expenditures. give. The Nebraska legislature should not fail to take a stand before it ad- Journs on the question of electing sena- tors by the people al (ke bullet byx. Although the revenue from other sources, such as school apportionment, lquor licenses and police court fines, has lugrensed rather than decreased, the tax sitlons more attractive than eve Louls Democrat, There is not much chance that Cuba's constitution will be presented to congress at the present session. It is reported that the instrument is nearly completed, and that the finishing touches are being put upon it. In fact, the Cubans have made about as good speed with their charter as the Americans did with the constitution framed in 1787. The Philadelphia conven- tion was in session about four months, which is slightly longer than the time which hus elapsed since the Havaba con- vention opened. If the Cuban consiitution i5 dealt with by congressgbefore next De- cember an extra session will have to do it. The indications, indeed, are that an extra sesslon cannot be averted, The Suffeage in Marylay Philadelphia Record An extra session of the legislature of Maryland is (o be beld for the purpose of disfranchising illiterate voters. The dis- franchisement bill which has been prepared makes no distinction of race or color, and 15, therefore, not llable to the constitu- tional objection which has been raised against similar legislation in two or three other states. In order to allow no facility for the familiar species of fraud upon the secret ballot which is practiced in Penn- sylvania the Maryland bill denies the voter (unless he be blind or armless) any as- sistance whatever in exercising the suf- frage. It is proposed that the sample ballot 10 be published for the information of voters shall give the names of the can- didates, the offices for which they may have been nominated and the parties to whish they wmay belopg, but uet io the or- services He shall have the right to lock e up for safe keeping. He shall hive the right to work me under the rules and regulations of his farm And if T she away he shall pay o reward capture and re ses of kame, which ame with at the expirat work out tions of this sald landlord shall have the right transfer his interest in this contr and 1 agree to coating for said assignee, same as for the original of the first part Laborers who worlk under (hese contracts are confined and guarded in stockades like convicts and it was In an attempt to es- cape from such a stockade that the negro Wil Hull was killed by his employer. had left the stockade before and had by found at his home, arrested by officers of taken back prison of Farmer Newell without the order of any court or pretext of trial again attempted to return to his home he other party party the law and under puld | hay of no eturn any i n of all eave his farm or the right to o it exc toget nt 50 adv ndebtedness 1 may above time, | agr the rules and At same wa to the was shot down like an escaping felon The terms of the contract signed by the negro made him the absolute slave of the landlord and if such a contract farmer legal the not permitted even if they it possible fo it is the duty to sell r the as entitled stockade dovised and estabilshed it run | er und ng $25 for my » 1o regula- | o8 N to ot to any A Hull private When he could be to employ force to provent the escape of his chattel But such a contract is ngt legal and could be maintained in court. themselves desired to do so tgnorauce of the uegro farm hand has made system flourish in South Carolina and now that it has been exposed and shown to be slavery as bad as that which existed hefore the war of the white people of the #tate to abolish it and punish those who Men are not into slavery. Only the N. Y., in 1821, was rdmitted to the bar in Missouri In 1844, went out to the Mexican war with Murray F. Tuley, tried Jaw pracs tice in New Mexico with him, and later came back and settled down to legal work with him in Chicago. He was elected to the bench of the superior court of Cook county thirty-seven years ago and has held that office continually ever since, a record ap- proached only by that of his colleague and tormer partner, Judge Tuley. Judge Gary was o carpenter In his youth. The kaiser's bedroom in the Neues pal- ace s simplicity Itself. It Is rather a small apartment and the walls are hung with flowered batieie. The brass bedstead |15 of English make, such as might be bought anywhere for $30 to $60. The bath- | rcom is assuredly the most primitive ever | fitted up for u modern monarch, 4nd it must |be remembered that Willlam 1s the first German emperor who takes his bath reg- ularly every morning. Apart from the | sponges, brushes and robes the room con. | tains nothing but a deep zine tub, rather narrow ot the foot end and painted white, with the color worn off in spots, John Xavier Merriman, who is coming to England, is one of the most iuteresting | figures In South African politie The London King says of him: ‘“Farmer, sur- | veyor, LL.D.. wember of Parliament, ex- cabinet minister, bishop's son, he has played his part in every phase of life at the Cape, and played it well. He is not the bitter hater of England that some would have us believe. He has sat in many cabinets—he is the sole survivor of the first ministry of Sir John Molteno—and he has been the friend of every movement to strengthea imperial unity. He sat in the cabinet with Mr. Rhodes, too, which is proof of his lovalty to the common flag. Bul the dald parted ihelr way h to $1,060,- 611,000; France, $787,060,000. All these fig- ures, it should be remembered, relate to the exports of domestic products. Thus, in the quarter century the United States has in- creased Its exports from $497,263,737 to §1,- ,013, or 192 per cent; Germany, from $607,006,000 to $1,060,611,000, or 73 per cent; the United Kingdom, from $1,087,497,000 to $1,418,248,000, or 34 per cent, and France from $747,489,000 to $787,060,000 or & per cent, Other Nations Compared. The following table, compiled from official reports, shows the exports of domestic mer- chandise from the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany, in each calandar year from 1875 to 1900: United Kingdom $1,087497,000 Germany $ 607,006,000 019,916,000 967,913,000 6 938,500,000 1,138, 24,570,000 | 117,060,000 | 5 26471000 | 82,597,000 0,60 133,561 854,729, 154 8O7.812,1 1895 1896 1897 | 1508 1590 1800 857,745,000 K4 486,000 54,063,000 1,001, 278,000 1,060,611,000 No Yacht Races This Year, BERLIN, Feb. 24.—Emperor Willlam has informed the Heligoland “cup committee that, In consequence of the death of Queen | Victoria, the cup race s off for this yei 20 Years We do not know of any other hair preparation that has been used in one family for twenty years; do you? But Mrs. Helen Kilkenny, of New Portland, Me., says her mother used Ayer’s Hair Vigor that long and always liked it as a hair dressing. 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