Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 22, 1901, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY _'THE OMAHA DAlLY BEE. E. .RUIEWA'I'IR. IDI‘I'OR. PU!LIIHID VERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Beo (without Sunday), One Year..36.0) Duily Bee and Sunday, One Yew 1iikitratea e, One Year Omaha: The Bee Nu *’ South Omaha; uu Hall Bullding, Twen- P.‘l’l Btreet. ol l“ourue‘;llh Street. 2 LURRI‘.IPUNDLWLL Communications relating to new torial_matter should be addressed: Live, Editorial Department. BUSINEBSS LETTERS. Publish e REMITTANCES. ' 0l bv fl"l X | or pos! ol g o pL\lhllll‘lll«ll LCompany. aceapted In payment of fl').ll S.lle!.l Xcept on "f"' 1 accepted. BEE .f.nnnno \-Uer.‘X nATIIII:N'r oF (,lllCLLATluN a ounty, 'l-urla fiuuluclk,,oin'clr‘:lfi'y ot "ine Bee Publismig’ company, being luy _w l:{ says that the actual number o AN complete ' coples of The Dal Sotning, Lvening and Bunday Bee printed during tie month of March, 1Ml was as follows: 1 20,04 ..80,380 114,380 20,380 20,380 99,100 29,310 40,980 180,180 429,580 20,380 83,440 80,730 Less un-uld ‘and returned coples Net total sales. Subscribed In my presence d sworn to before me this Ist day of ADElly A. D, 1901 M. B, HUNG, aATE otary ifo. p———————e— The auditorium brick supply is limited to 20,000. Come early and avold the rush. Perhaps those Cubans will convince themselves sooner or later that Uncle Sam 18 not to be trifled with after all. What's the matter with Kansas? Noth- ing In particular just now, except that it Is till a trifle too distant from Omaha. An invitation 1s cordially extended to the people of the flood-swept Ohlo val- ley to come to Nebraska and get out of the wet. — If no one else wants to confess to hav- ing perpetrated the Cudahy kidnaping, the public will have to return the credit again to the Hon. P. Crowe. Sii—— Aguinaldo bas not yet announced his lecture tour. He will not come up to ex- pectations, however, If he does not fol- low the footsteps of illustrious predeces- sors to the lecture platform, SE—— Senator Chauneey M. Depew has eele- brated his sixty-seventh birthday. We awalt anxfously the specially-brewed new story sprung by the great after- dinner senator in celebration of that auspicious event. It Nebraska republicans will only leave the management of the party and the selectlon of its candldates to the popocratic press it will have an easy way out, but they will hardly satisfy either republicans or popocrats. em— A local popocratic contemporary is shuddering over the “nnmanly sport of live bird shooting.” The unmanly sport of prize-fighting carried on at South Omaha under the nose of the fusion county attorney does not feaze it a bit. — The National Educational assoclation Is preparing for its annual convention to be held at Detroit next July. The last convention was beld in the south and the west should come In for the meeting of 1902, Why not go after it for Omaha? E——e—— Our popocratic friends scem to have more loterest in the journey of Ne- braska’s new republican senators to ‘Washington than they ever had in the dolugs of their popocratic predecessor. Of course this interest is purely unselfish and patriotic. Nebruska Is te contribute a notable in- stallment of red men off its reservations to the Indian congress at Buffalo. The Indians who have had a monopoly of trinket selling at Niagara Kalls for a century or more will do well to look to the laurels that they have so long malotalved, E———— If the proposed new railroad to Em- poria covers new territory exclusively without competing with existing lines the other rallroads will doubtless enter no objections. If it gives promise of di- viding present trafic it will not take long' for the roads now here to discover that it is not needed. — Nebraska's bank balance sheet, as pre- pared by the secretary of the State Banking board, makes a gratifying ex- hibition of reflected prosperity in the substantial increase In the amounts on deposit and the items of loans and dis- counts. Nebraska's banks are on a substantial footing these days, ——— ‘I'he attorneys general of Ohio, Indiana and Illinols have gotten together for a combined campalgn against fraudulent insurance companies. The combination should not be kept exclusive to those three states, as there Is work along the same lines In all the western-territory, Let Nebraska’'s attorney general apply for admission. er————— South Omaba live stock figures do not indicate that that market has yet suf- fered any by the anuouncemment that one of the packers has transferred his prin- cipal busiuess to Bt. Joseph. On the contrary, the receipts have gone up In- stead of down since.the announcement was made. Depend on South Omlhn to Lold its own. A CASE PRECISELY IN POINT. The question raised by The Bee in a recent editorial as to the effect of the attempted veto by Governor Dietrich of the constitutional amendment agreed to by the Nebraska legislature seems to have been passed on in a lately re- ported decision of the Penmsylvania su- preme court, which holds squarely that the governor has no part in the sub- missfon of constitutional amendments. This case, entitled Commonwealth agaiust Griest, arose from an applic tlon for mandamus to compel the sec- retary of the commonwealth to cause the publication of a proposed amend- ment that had been vetoed by the gov- ernor of Pennsylvania. The constitu- tion of Pennsylvania, with reference to both the method of amendment and to the veto power, Is closely akin to that of Nebraska. It contains a provision slmilar to ours requiring the approvai of the governor:to every bill, order, resolution or vote, to which the concur- rence of both houses may be necessary, before it shall become a law; and the article relatfng to amendment requires agreement by a prescribed majority of each legislative branch and publication for a designated period before ratific tion or rejection by the voters at the volls. The opinfon of Justice Green of the Pennsylvania supreme court, which goes into the question in great detail, is clear cut. After quoting the constitution he says: 1t will be observed that the method of creating amendments to the constitution is tully provided for by this article of the ex- Isting constitution. It s a separate and in dependent article, standing atone and en- tirely unconnected with any other subject. Nor does It contain apy reference to any other provision of the constitution as being needed or to be used in carrylog out the particular work to which the eighteenth article is devoted. It is a system entirely complete in itself, requiring no extraneous ald, either in matters of detall or of gen- eral scope, to lts effectual execution. It is also necessary to bear in mind the char- acter of the work for which it provides. is constitution-making; it ls & concentra- tion of all the power of the people in es- tablishing organic law for the common- wealth. It is not lawmaking, which Is a distinct and separate function, but it is a specific exercise of the power of a people to make its constitution. The court goes on to show that the duty of the secretary of the common- wealth to cause publication is a manda- tory one, following Immediately upon the entry on the journals of the vote showing that the proposed amendment has secured the constitutional majority of thelr membership, and that he cannot excuse himself for non-performance by setting up the advice, opinion or action of any other personm, organization or department, official or otherwise, for the simple reason that the article of the constitution which prescribes his duty does not allow it. Referring to the section of the constl- tution relatiug to the veto power the judge says that this power “Is confined exclusively to the subject of legislation. 1t is entitled, ‘Of Legislation,’ and only purports to be an authotization and lim- {tation of the legislation of the common- wealth. It prescribes the manner in which the business of making laws must be conducted, and the subjects with reference to which it may and may not be exercised, but nowhere s there the slightest reference to or provision for the subject of amendments to the constitution. It is not even alluded to in the remotest manner. On the con- trary, the entire article Is confined ex- clusively to the subject of leglslation; that is, the actual exercise of the law- making power of the commonwealth, in 1ts usual and ordinary acceptation.” In support of the position taken by the court the opinion refers to a num- ber of other cases in which the same conclusion bhas been reached, the. most notable being that in which Chief Jus- tice Chase of the United States supreme court held that amendments to the fed- eral constitution do not require the ap- proval of the president before submi: slon to the varlous states for ratifica- tion, although the amendment article of the federal constitution is very sim- flar to that of Penusylvanla and N braska. It this decision enunclates the law in the case it seems clear that the veto message filed by Governor Dietrich with the proposed amendment to the Ne- braska constjtution s altogether beyond his authority and can bave no legal effect. The secretary of state, when the time comes, will have no alternative but to accept the records of the legisla- ture his only gulde and to cause the publication of the amendment and have it printed on the officlal ballot for an expression from the people, without re- gard to the attempted veto. THE CRISIS 1N ENGLAND. ‘The British government is today con- fronted with the most serious problem in its history. It is a question not only of raising revenue for current expendi- tures, but also of providing for the very large deficits that are lnvolved in the war expenditures which the South Af- rican confiict has caused. It is not gen- erally understood how great the South African campaign has been in expense to Great Britaln, It means hundreds of millions of dollars already expended and a great deal more of outlay yet to be made before the pacification of this country I8 to be accomplished. The blue book which was presented in Par- Nament & few daye ago, on the au- thority of Governor General Milner, In & very clear and definite way ed what the government would have to do in order to restore peace and order in the provinces and bring the people of the Transvaal under British control. The policy outlined by Milner {8 one of reasonable magnanimity and will ap- peal to the best instincts of the burgh- ers. It does not contemplate any harsh treatment of the people who have been at war agalnst Great Britain, but rather adopts the Ameriran idea of treating them with proper consideration and giving them a participation in the government to be established.. If the British government shall adopt that policy the pacification of South Africa will not be very difficult. As the situation now stands, however, there seems to be no Sattering prospect more, unselfishness is more, altruism ie more, courtesy {s more and vanity, vapid- ity, vapor, virulence and vemality are far less. of the British government doing any- thing to Improve conditions at home or abroad. The men who are at the head of affairs seem to be absolutely blind to everything regarding the ma- terial interests and welfare of the na- tion and looking only for political ad- vaotage. The whole aim of Chamber- lain, who is the dominating influence In. the government, appears to be ab- solutely political and it i« by no means of a nature to reassure the Britigh publie, England is confronted by a crisis of the most serfous nature and it is not a reckless prediction that within the next ten years that country will ex- perlence a decline of financtal and com- merclal power that will place it in the third position among the nations of the world, & the Fe Indlanapolis The lowa bank defaulter declares that it was the “board of trade business which caused his ruin. It is the same old story, and it will continue to be repeated until men learn that, in the long run, the outside operator In optiony is a loser in nine cases of ten. —_— Con the F The act organizing the territory of Ha- wall gave its courts independent jurisdic- tion, under which the contention was set up that there was no appeal to the courts of the United States. The preme court of the United Btates hi gned Hawali to the Ninth judicial district and ordered the circult court of appeals to show cause why It should not take jurisdiction over Hawallan cases. This Is an indication of the opinion of the court on the queation whether the constitution follows the flag which may give administration lawyers some uneasiness as 1o the fate of the Philip- pines and Porto Rico cases. —_— % In the Weat. D. Lyman in the Atiantic. The majority of western men are out of thelr element in anything except busi- ness and politica. The wife usually acts as head of the family in all manner of so- clal and religious crises, as lnviting a min- isterial guest to ask a blessing at table or conduct family worship, while the mas- culine partner slouches around at such times in hulking and uncomfortable con- sclousness of his own lack of plety and polish. That solemn sente of his own dignity as head of the house, that shrinking defer- ence paid to him by the “weaker vessels'" of his family, which magnifies the pater familias in England, and to some degree in the old-lashioned New England community —this never lightens up the pathway of the average western householder. He may con- sider himself in great luck if he is not dis- crowned entirely. —_— THE PROPUSED OMAHA-EMPORIA LINE. The proposition to construct a railroad line from Omaba to Emporia, Kan., with a view to affording the city a southern outlet and connectlons with the Santa Fe and the Missourl, Kansas & Texas, deserves careful consideration. On the face of it the proposition made by the promoters seems to be a business proposition, but more thorough investi- gation will be needed before n definite answer can be given to the question whether it would pay Omaha and Doug- las county to vote the $250,000 in bonds asked as a conslderation from our people. That Omaha’s foundation for substan- tial growth rests upon its unequaled distribution facilities afforded by rail- roads radiating in nearly every direction goes without saylng. Of the territory within reach of Omaha jobbers and manufacturers, rail connections are lack- ing fu only two or three directions. While doubt whether the dream of north and south trunk lines with Guit of Mexico outlets diverting European exportation will be realized in this gen- eration, the necessity of north and south lines for local traffic is constantly pres- ent, and the proposed Emporia line would unquestionably satisfy part of that demand. When it comes to votlug bonds as a subsidy for construction it will devolve upon the parties interested to formulate thelr scheme into definite terms and con- ditions. This proposition will then be a proper subject for public discussion, on which the people should be thoroughly enlightened by the time they are asked to record themselves at the election at which the proposition Is submitted for thelr endorsement. DRY ROT IN SOCIE n the Palaces of the Wealthy. Boston Globe. The New York clergy are making & vigorous attack t:pon modern American con- ditions In the abodes of wealth. Dr. Rains- ford declares that women in the higher walks of lite shirk the duties of motherhood in order to be free for the pursuit of plea | ure, while other pastors of wealthy churches deplore the spread of gambling among their flocks. Reports from twelve prominent churches attended by families of wealth and fashion showed a .otal membership of 9,651, with but 1,500 children on the rolis of the Sunday schools. It was reported that only sixty-one children attended the Sunday school of a church which has 1,000 mem- bers. Tnvestigation shows that the homes of the rich are practically childless. 1In the mile of palaces on Fifth avenue between Fifty-seventh and Seventy-second streets there are only fifteen children under 12 vears of age. The average Is about one child to three of those costly and beautiful homes. In a single tenemeat house were found more than four times as many children as in a whole mile of mansions extending along Fifth avenue. The inevitable result of such facts cam- not be misunderstood. For the love of fashion and ease the race is being racrificed. Nature 1s silent at such social phemy, but her laws will hot be defied without a ftling penalty in ‘the ‘end. — Chancellor Andrews of the State uni- versity is sald to have taken occasion to hit at Governor Dietrich in an address at Chicago before a newly-organized branch of the University Alumni asso- clation. Taking a hit at Governor Diet- rich may afford satisfaction . the fu- slon backers of the imported chancellor, but it is hardly in keeping with the dig- nity and scholarship supposed to be in- cluded in the qualifications of the head of a great institution of learning. ep——— -Nebrasku's commissioner to the Buf- falo exposition will liave to get a move on him If Nebraska's exhibit is to be in place within reasonable time after the opening of the exposition, May 1. To get the full benefit of the exhibit it should be installed as soon as possible. Nebraska will be fairly well represented from the start on the Midway according to the lists of the commissionaires, but its substantial advertising has to come from the official state exhibit. Ep— ——— HISTORY IN BRONZE TABLETS. Confl Sadly ke Springfleld '(Mass.) Republican. There seems to be almost an epidemic of historical inaccuracy on bronze tablets. The Mary Washington chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution of New York huave unvellod a tablet in the register's office of the Brooklyn bridge. This is the Inscription: This Tablet Marks Illlr Site of the Provost Pri Where Patiiots Died for the Cause of |‘ree lom About A. D. 1756, Erected by the Mary Washington Coloninl Chapter. Daughters of the American Revolution, April 15, A, 1901 Revolutionary patriots are meant. The soldiers who died for “the cause of free- dom” In the old Provost prison were sol- diers of the revolution: war, and that war did not begin until Yet this tab- let has fixed the revolutionary war about twenty years too soon. This is the third case of the sort th has come under our observation within a short time. One’ was very near home, and involved the historical statns of the founder of Springfe] The tablet said one thing and the truth said another, but that wa: an error which was speedily rectified by an amendment to the inscription on the table Then came Mrs. Loga cholce selection of senators from different parts of & period covering sixteen years to figure on & tablet repregenting her husband taking the oath of office in the senate chamber. Mrs. Logan wished te make the tablet “in- teresting.” Amd mow comes Mary Wash- ington chapter of tie Daughters of the Arierican Revolution setting back the war for independence'twenty years. It is quite needl to say that onr con- fidence in bronze tablet history is being sadly shakep. Bub, it it is so éasy to make the most obvioug errors on bronze tablets, which are montlis in making, and which contain the briefest and barest outline of faots, can it be cause for surprise that written history {tself should be so full of controverted pojuts? DI General Rose- crang or General “Baldy” Smith conceive the plan for the relief of Chattanooga? The point is in dispute. DId Marcus Whit. man e Oregon?" The point is in dis- pute. When we pass from speclal con- troversies Into the larger fleld of his- torical interpretation, the chance for wide differences in oplnlon becomes even greater. Was the American civil war inevitable Two recent writers hoid views exactly con- trary on that point. Our civil conflict, says Spenser Wilkinson, a British student of war, “had its origin in conditions of long and gradual growth, rendering an ul- timate explosion inevitable.” On the oiher hand, Prof. Macy, in his “Political Parties in the United States,”” condemns the view that whatever has happened 18 “in the n ture of the case inevitable.”” He regards our civil war s by mo means inevitable. “It 14 an undeniable truth,” he writes, “that the civil war occurred as the result of a series of political crimes and blun- ders. ‘The whole field of historical study, from dates on bronze tablets to the broad gen- eralizations which historians draw from may be reduced in reality to the problem of getting th straight To wolve it is one pof the most difficult things that the buman mind can under- take to do. A history absolutely accurate was never yet written. The historian who t his ioterpretations and his facts Omaha's street improvements are waiting on the acceptance of a form of petition which will comply with the law and safeguard the city against property owners who may attack their signatures in the courts after the work is done. It is to be hoped these preliminary proceed- ings will be expedited as much as pos- sil..c, as many of the streets are in cry- ing need of new pavements, and delay in the commencement of the work is likely to throw it into cold weather. Smm——————— te in Walting. shington Star, The gentlemen who declared some time ago that the prosperity was only for elec- tloneering purposes are still walting their turn for prophetic vindication. e of the Question. Buffalo Express. It is not so much & question whether the Porto Ricans are better off than ever be- fore but whether they are as well off as people living under the American flag are Cleveland Leader. The Invasion of China was started in the name of civilization and Christianity, but the motive was soon forgotten. Loot was the only ti thought of after the troopa had been landed It was a bad start for the twentieth century. How It Will Work Out. New York Herald, There isn't beef enough in England to “go around'’ anG give every man a slice. If the soldler gets the home product, the rest of the population—the four hundred and four million—will depend on this country for something to eat. American exportations will not be affected in the least. Kicking at the Senate San Franctsco Call. There is hardly any sort of a senate in the Anglo-Saxon world that is satistactory to the people of whose legislation it has charge. We are talking of changing the method of electing members of our senate, Great Britain wishes to abolish her House of Lords and mow in Canada a cry has arisen for making a clean .wup of the Do- minion Senate. Uncle Sam's Gold Philadelphia, Ledger. About half of the $500,000,000 of gold in the United States treasury is owned by the government, the other half belng owned by the people, who hold gold certificates curity for it. There is no danger that th certificates will be turned in the bold- ers would rather have them than the metal; but there is faction In knowing tha government could pay them all and have quite enough gold left to carry on business. Ne Warrant for Pessimism, Brooklyn Eag We know that it is the habit of not & few in comparing the present with the past to magnify t st and to minimize the pres- ent. But everybody and everytbiug in the present can, In the broa? view of the progress of the race, be regarded as better than their prior approximate analogues, for the world is better and humanig Is better now thau ever before, sioce knowledge s Telegram. ng of the cornerstone of St. Paul's Lutheran church was con- ducted here this afternoon by Rev. G. Robertus, assisted by Rev. A. Woth of Seward and Rev. John Ma City. A large crowd'was in a the new church will start out with a large ‘membership. \ ADPRIL 22, 1901, A Lesson in The experience of the Indianapolis Press, which suspended publication recently, should disillusionize a horde of people who believe ‘he road to success in journalism is an easy one to travel. The Indianapolis News was bullt up by John H. Holliday and Willlam J. Richards, who devoted a quarter of a century to the work. So suc- vessful were they that when the property was 80ld to dissolve " a partnership it brought nearly $1,000,000 at public tion. Holliday and Richards retired and immediately established the Press to com- pete with the paper they had just dis- posed of, but with no thought of destroy- ing it. Few newspaper experiments have at- tracted #o much attention as has the Press, ‘The men behind the enterprise knew the Indlanapolls newspaper fleld as intimately as they knew the alphabet. They knew, too, all the ins and outs of the art of making a complete, clean, vigorous and attractive paper. Before a single number of the Press hud been printed Messrs. Hol- liday and Richards invested $260,000 in their plant, thereby procuring an equipment capable of producing a perfect newspaper. In addition they surrounded themselves with talent of an unusually high order. The result was that from its first issue the Press was a model newspaper, care- fully prepared, expertly edited and pos- sessed of most prominent qualities of taste and elegance in appearance and in con- tents. But it did not succeed. From the out- set it was a losing venture. Now, after sixteen months, in which time the losses, in addition to the original investment, aggregated over $200,000, the experiment has been adjudged a fallure and the paper has suspended publication. The amount of the loss—$450,000 in all—is staggering when all the facts are considered. But, while this sum gives some Idea of the enormous expense connected with the pro- duction of a complete newspaper, it is but an incident, and aside from the moral Baltimore American. Journalism #He Press was in every way Why of this case. equipped for success, yet it failed. did it not succeed” The answer appears on its face. The days of mushroom growths in journalism are passed. The successful papers of today are those established ones having perma- nent qualities. They fill the fleld; in them the public has confidence, their opinions are respected, their dignity recognized, their power for good, to the public and to the business men who patronize their ad- vertising columns, is demonstrated, a mat- ter of common knowledge. Other papers that appear in competition are soon forced to confess to fallure. They may flourish tor awhile, but the people always go back to thelr favorites. This is so true that there Is no case on record iry recent years where a new journalistic venture has sert- ously Interfered with the prosperity of the established newspapers. In the case of the Press its competition Increased the popu- larity of the News Tn this day and age it is, theu, safe to conclude that success in journalism is & thing of exceedingly slow growth. The business has grown to such gigantic size that new ventures are virtually barred by reason of the enormous capital required. Even where money is spent with almost wanton liberality, as in the case of the Press, to insure the publication of a com- plete paper, failure is more often the re- ward than is success. The very slowness of the successful growth is a guaranty of its stability, and, though other ventutes may be made and rewarded by an ephemeral success, the established paper s able to dety competition if it keeps itselt young and vigorous in tone and spirit. This is beacuse there is no power competent to de- stroy the successfully established paper ex- cept itself. So long, therefore, as it does not commit suleide it is free from danger. These facts may easily be gleaned from the Press experiment by men who think they see an opening for success in this peculiar fleld of labor, very STARTS FUSION DISCUSSION, Tekamah Hevcald (rep. The democrats of Douglas county have put their seal of dis- approval or fusion. They have declared that hereafter they will go it alone. They do not propose to mix and divide the spoils with populists or silver republicans. Where will Ransom be at? Grand Island Democrat: The Douglas County Democracy, one of the strongest po- litical clubs of the state, has adopted a res- olution pledging the organization to here- after oppose any and all efforts to bring about fusion between democrats, popullsts and silver republicans. Their declaration 15, in effect, that in the future the demo- cratic party should go it alone. The Dem- ocrat belleves that two or three forces aiming at the same result can best achieve the end sought by union of strength. There ia no decided difference in essential prin- ciples between democracy and populism, and @ party name.should not be allowed to be- come a stumbling-block in the pathway of good government. Norfolk News (rep.): It is possible that the Douglas County democracy may not have set the pace against fusion in the state, but certaln it is that it has rec nized the ultimate failure of that political independence from the combine, Lnd may be paving the way .for ultimaie victory on an independent platform. - Fusionists have per- sistently, regarded republican criticism of that policy as induced by hope of political preterment, but are now recognizing that it is impossible to win repeated victories by supporting several separate and distinct parties aud platforms, when voters look for a firm stand on one set of principles. The time to win an a fusion movement is past, or passing, and voters will insist on amli- ating with onc party or another that bhas a firm and abiding policy. Howell Journal (dem.): There will be no fusion in Nebraska pext fell it a few hot- heads are allowed to have their way. There are democrats and popullsts who will lay awake nights trylng to defeat fusion, and they will receive no end of encouragement from republican friends. These men will wreck fusion, and by so dGoing insure re- publican success, if it is within their power to do so. Honest democrats and popullsts, who have the interests of the state at heart, favor fusion, and can be counted upon to do all in their power to bring a union of forces about. By the means of fusion many reforms were accomplished in Nebraska. It 1s true some uaworthy men got into office, policy and is the first to make a show of | corps of inspectors and see that they compel the obsevrance of plain contract specifica- tlons. The charges of thie Secdmen’s league are of so direct and specific a nature that Secretary Wilson s in duty bound to in- vestigate them, and if ‘well founded bring rascally contractors and negligent inspect- ors up with a round turn. It is not Sec- retary Wilson's fault that congress has passed laws providing for a costly distribu- tion of seeds which fail to be of any public benefit, but it will be his fault if contractors are permitted to cheat the government in the quality and quantity of the seeds fur- nished. If Secretary Wilson is fit for his place he should be able to prevent costly frauds of this nature. PERSONAL NOT! The Boers have not captured General French and no attempt has been made to kill President Kruger. Honors are even. Senator Fairbanks of Indiana and John W. Foster, secretary of state in Harrison's cabinet, have each given $1,000 for the monument to ‘the late ex-president. Ex-Alderman Benjamin James of Boston, who died recently, was a direct descendant of Peregrine White, the first white child of English parents born in New England. 1t 15 a fact not generally known that there is' no statue in the national capital to Grant, Sherm: or Me although the number of lesser generals so honored Is very large. George H, Phillips, whose operations in the ‘Chicago cornpit have made him mo- torious, is a boylsh-looking man of 34. He s up every morning at 6 and by 6:30 18 hard at work. Envious paragraphers have cut In two the million-dollar salary of the manager of th» steel combine. Mr. Schwal declined to discuss the question, “How to live on @& week," and was promptly punished. The ship which will carry the German Antarctic expedition has been named for th late Karl Frederick Gauss of Gottingen, who was deeply Interested in polar re- search. The pame was selected by the kalser. ‘The new invasion of the south by north- ern men—and by sons of the south living In the north—to advance education recalls Whittier's closing lines to Virginia: ‘“‘And overy gate she bars to hate shall open wide to love.” A memorial to the late Archibald Forbes, the newspaper correspondent and author, has been presented by his widow to the University of Aberdeen./ It is a large but, taken as a whole, our reform official have been competent and honest. In Col- fax county fusion has worked to the satls- faction of all concerned. We have had no scrap over the division of spoils and, with- out an exception, have put good men in office. We can truthtully say that tho re- form forces of this county are a upit in favor of fusion. There will be fusion in the county whether there is in the state or not. We cannot understand how any con- sistent reformer can oppose fusion when he must know that a three-cornered fight means that Nebraska is to remain under r publican control and corporation hirelings sent to represent us in both houses of con- gress. Public good demands that the re- form forces contlnue to fight under one banner. . FRAUD IN SEED DISTRIBUTION. Quantity of the Congrea- nal Prise Packages. Philadelphia Times, : One of the reasons given for the selec- tlon of the canny Scotchman, James Wil- as secretary of agriculture, wis that a practical as well as a book farmer, and that crooked contractors and congre men with axes to grind couldn't fool h His sponsors seem to have thundered louder in the Index than his record warrants. Sec- retary Wilson may know tobacco seed from turnip seed when he sees them, but it ocharges by the Wholesale Seedmen’s league are true the public is belng badly imposed upon in the weight, varlety and quality of the seeds now distributed and the cou- tractors are being paid double what the seeds are worth. These are a few of the charges publicly made at a meeting of the Seedmen's league held In New York last week. In the pack- ages sent out under the contract for 1901 all the important specifications have been ignored. Iustead of named varleties the packages are merely marked selected seeds. The packages are smaller than required by the speifications. Packages of cucumber seed that should run 80 to the pound run %04 to the pound. Onion seed, which should run 96, run 106 to the pound. Peas, which should run 160, run 304 to the bushel. Sweet corn packages, required to run 60 (o the hushel, actually run 260 to the bushel. Packages marked tobacco seed contain turnip and other vegetable seeds instead. Mauy cheap seeds not called for in the con- tracts are Included. The contract was let for $78,000, which 1s twice what the 16,000,- | 000 or 17,000,000 packages of seeds with which it is being filled are worth. Everybody knew that the seed distribution feature of the department's work was a costly bumbug. Th chary Indicate ft to be corrupt as well as costly. It Is not to be supposed that Secretary Wilson, shrewd Scotchman that he s, can stand guard over every package of seeds sent out, but he is bound to stand guard over bronze cross with an inscription and will stand in the chapel. ' Tom Johnson, the reform mayor of Cleve land, insists that 3-cent street car fares are the right thing for the town. But Tom turns a deat ear to the request for 3-cent reform in a Pennsylvania town where he owns the street car lines. “‘Steel Trust alley” is the new nickname given to upper Fifth avenue, New York, where Warner Leeds, Henry Phipps, An- drew Carnegle and other manufacturers have purchased property. ‘‘Paradise alley" one impecunious clerk has dubbed it. Senator Quay's gastronomical taste is a trifle peculiar. A friend who called on the Pennsylvania boss recently found him demolishing large dish of roed beef and cabbage, which he was washing down with Mberal quantities of champagne. A new inheritance tax law in Minnesota avoids the unconstitutional feature of th old law by providing for a tax on both real and personal property. The rate is 5 per cent on collateral and 1 per cent on direct inheritances, with an exemption of $5,000. The shirtwalsts planned for letter car- rlers for summer wear are to be of gray gingham or cheviot, with turndown collar, dark tie and neat belt. This Is & meager outline of what promises to be a stunning fashion. There will be a faint outline of a vest of taffeta silk embroldered In colored polka dots, open enough to show the lace down the front. The bodice 18 finished with @ lace berthia around the shoulders. Say, wouldn't that rig jar you? Colonel Henry B. Freeman, late com- mander of the Twenty-fourth infantry tired under the age limit, says very much pleased that Funston has been made a brigadier general. He was in com- mangd of the department In which I served and he was most courteous to me in every way, never giviog me an order and al sending congratulations when anything was done by the regiment. I consider him a brave officer and a gentleman.' At the 8t. Nicholas dinuer in New York Prot, Wilson of Princeton related the story of the Scotchman and his dog in reply to the plaint of anti-imperialists: A Scotch- d his dog entered a fish store, whers tail was seized by a lobster. As dealer yelled: “Whustle replied the dog tle to your lobster! “International tiny has us by the tail,” said Prof. Wil- son; “‘whustle to the character of the age, not to us!" Tak on of Hall, I0WA CITY, April 22.—(Bpecial,)~ ecent meeting of the building com- of the university the committee took lon of the new hall of liberal arts, the contractors yielding under protest. The university will ask the twenty-ninth gen- eral mbly of the state of lowa for an l.:a priation of $200,000 for & mew medica! to your dog owner, er ARBOR DAY AND ITS FOUNDER. Leigh World: The citizens of Nebraska will think of J. Sterling Morton next Mo day, when the beads of perspiration Al standing out on their brows, when they are digging the hole in which to plant the ten der slip which some day makes the stately elm. We commend to our readers to honor the father of Arbor day by planting tree. If you can't plant an elm or an & plant a cottonwood. Callaway Courler: The annual recurs rence of Arbor day, which comes this month, ought to remind every citizen that he can in no way better subserve the in= terests of the country or of posterity thas by planting a tree occasionally. are what we need in Custer county and the man who makes even one to grow is (e that extent a benefactor of the race and will leave behind him a monument which, If not more lasting than chiseled marble, will certainly be more useful. Columbus Telegram: Monday next will be Arbor day, a day that should inspire every true son of Nebraska with the holy desire to perpetuate the forests of our great commonwealth. Plant trees. Let the example of Nebraska's distinguished son, J. Sterling Morton, be your guide give to your community A few trees that will add materially to the beauty of the landscape. If this be done as well in the future in the past we shall soon have no more stretches of barren prairie land. In times to come a grateful posterity will rise up and call him blessed who shall haye caused one tree to grow where naught but cactus had grown before. —_— DEALING WITH CUBA. New York Sun: We must remain I8 Cuba unt!l we are enabled to withdraw from there through the perfection of guar- antles for Cuban order and our own BA- tional peace. Toward this policy Americas sentiment Is practically unanimous, inde- pendent of partisan divisions, New York Tribune: It will probably be & good thing for the delegates of the Cubam constitutional convention to come to the United States and have a talk with the president. They will doubtiess learn sev- eral things, to their own edification and to the benefit of their island, and we sl hope that on their return they will de- clare, as Aguinaldo did the other day, that they are “satisfiéd with Amerl, Philadelphia Record: It is mot difficult to forecast the result of the conference be- tween Prosident McKinley and the come mittee appointed by the Cuban constitus tional convention to proceed to Washington in order to discuss the propositions com- talned In the Platt amendment. That pree- fous measure was embodied in the army appropriation act mainly, it not wholly, for the purpose of getting the president out of a hole and tiding him over the recess of congress. Mr. McKinley will not be likely to show his hand at this juncture, and with the exception of oleaginous words of little meaning the Cuban committes will get nothing for its trouble Now York Evening Post: The truth s that the transfer of Porto Rico from Spai ish to American sovereignty was an opera- tion requiring the most delicate skill, and that we went about it in rough, though good-natured, elessness. The Island was densely populated. Population pressed bard upon subsistence. Industry, agri- culture, commerce were all in a state of unstable equilibrium and a push would them sprawling. Our method was to glve them a succession of pushes. We tinkered the island's tariff laws, and them we retinkered them. We kept suffocated trada hung up for months, not knowing * to expect. We have remodeled Porto Rican finances and codes and laws and taxation, No wonder that..the nice ad- Justment of population {o means of livell- hood was broken up, and that widespread distress followed. We were glven a watch to repair and we set about it with a ero bar and sledgehammer, e—— POINTED REMARKS, Detrait Journal: Doctor's fees are often stigmatized o8 robbery. A nicer usage, perhaps, Would call them pillage. Chicago Record-Herald: He — Thank heaven, | never wrote you any love letters. She—Oh, well; they probably wouldn't have been literary enough to pubish, even if you had. ‘Washington Sta Why do you wander almiessly from place to place?’ inquired the philanthropist anawered Meandering Mike, ht Bours’ wleep a day fu anough fur any: An' we've gotier do somet'ing wit' e atner aixteen hours, uin't ‘wer Philadelphia Press: Visitor (from beyond the suburbs)—-Whut's one of (hem auto- moblles wuth Salesman—I can sell ;you this one at & bargain.” 1ts only 8975 Visitor (the fire in his eye dying out)=— Show me some of your wheelbarrahs. Cleveland Plain Dealer: “A New York woman left $10,000 for the comfort of her pet dog.' “Married woman.' “No. Old maid. “Then t's ull right. If she had been mar- rled some other puppy would have gotten Philadelphia Press: “lsn't it kind Brother Harry?" sald Mrs. De Btyle, hul ‘urnmlu(l to buy me nne of those fa: ‘e poodles for a pet Madam,' I ‘Washington Btar: “You cannot deny that ou_are scared,” sald the minister, as & Bombshell exploded near the palace. “I don't wish to deny that ncared,” snewered the caar, Naughtity. " To- deny that | am scared would be simply to con- fess that I am foollsl Pittsburg Chronicle: “I'm hungry sald the gar. Won't you enough to get 4 meul? sald Mr. Pompus, air,” me e y good man," ‘here's a penny for you ‘Oh, thank you, sir! By the way, have you got pepsin tabiet about you? 'I always get dyspepsia when 1 overeat myself.” Chicago Tribune: Maud+T worst break last night 1 ife. Mabel-How ? Maud—Broke off my engagement with Jack Billinwink. His uncle died this morn- ing and left him independently rich. Hadn't you heard? made the ever made In my Philadelphia Press: ““What with croup, measles and all children are a great cate,” ,the family man, “but they're they are (he utranger. 1 get wlong without them. Ah! You are a family man yourself?* “No. A physician.’ HOUSECLEANING CAROL. cordlally responde : know how we shoul Josh Wink, in Baltimore American. have come—the sad- The Carpets on the clotheslt sunt whacks wa hea The bedding's in (he Kitclien and the beds are in the hall, The plctures are upon the floor while some one dusts the wall, We eat cold meat and crackers wabbly kitchen chalr, Vor this is glad aning time—so free ‘rom toll 4nd car: from & The nelghbors line thelr windows and & " husly census tak Of all ‘the br lations make It 1t was bought with ready cash or on In- stallment plan; We rescue our provisions from the hasty rbage mun, And Tife Ie gay and carelessiike, it maken one want to roam-— To hie away—because the folks are cleaning house at home. we have, and gnleus The melancholy days are here—the. days of soup and du; Btove polish m the tubleware—tiiere's ple on Wagner's b Plano holds some vrym pans--the bath. ub's All wit !‘K The "Dm!nlolll«A‘l’ll. l‘tro oould tell who Bing hey! me— e LT Jf Bdannd 4 ! fadmedt Bl ianl o) r‘ e0oDe ! 0 see~throi ablg i