Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 2, 1901, Page 6

[] THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROBEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED JVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION y Bee (without Sunday), One Year. .$5.00 \ly Bee and Sunday, One’ Year... L0 Tllustrated Bee, One Year. 0 Twentleth Century Fa DELIVERED BY lly Bee, without Sunday, per copy Bee, without Sunday, 'per week y Bée, including Bunday, per we E Be | per week. . lue Evening Bee, including Sunday, per week loc Compiaints of irregularities in delivery should be addressed to City Clrculation De- partment. OFFICES, Omaha: The Bee Bulldin Bouth Omatia: €1ty Hail Batlding, Twenty- fitth and M Streets. Council Blufts: 10 Pearl Street, Chicago: 164 Unity Bullding. New York: Tempie Court. 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Last chance to register today, Reglstrars from 8 o'clock In the morning till 9 o'clock in the evening. — The robbers who are devoting thelr at- tentlon to Iowa banks are doing a safe busin — The Winnebago Indians are being vac- cinated. 1t is to be hoped the vaccine may work better than the Indian, —— It you neglect to register you will for- Melt your right to vote. Last year's reg- Mntrldon does not hold good this year. 1 Towa people will not belleve this Is a genuine political campaign until Fred White and Pansy Blossom Butler have been heard from. | E—— If the Pan-American congress keeps up its present gait it will need an offi- clal referee and timekeepers before the sesslons are concluded. S—— | The position of director of the mint will be an important office when Henry ‘Watterson 18 elected president and mint Julep made the national decoction. S Tammany's fireworks accldentally ex- ploded before the time intended. Possl- bly there will be no opportunity to use them after election. EE—e——— Stripped of all side issues, the main question before the voters of Omaha next Tuesday s whether the tax rate shall stay up or come down. e The democratic county board for Douglas county has squandered more money within the past three years than the school board, and that Is saying a great deal. There 1s $58,000,000 on deposit in the banks of Nebraska, an Increase of $8,000,000 during the past six months. Nebraska seems to be keeping up its end of the prosperity procession, e The Treasury department has re- sumed the purchase of bonds. Repub- lican administrations are the ouly ones that know how to accumulate a surplus in the treasury avallable for debt sink- The supreme effort which the fusion organ is making to inject some life into the state campalgn of its party closely resembles a contortion act in a clrcus— 1t 18 hard on the performer and equally bard on the spectators, — ‘A bill prohibiting the free coinage of sllver has passed the Spanish Cham- ber of Deputies. The Spanish leg- islators do not appear to realize that they are rendering themselves liable fo be indicted for being accessory after the fact to the crime of '73, E— The project of colonizing the Boers in ithe range country has been again re- vived. Natural conditions in Wyoming would be similar to those they are ac- customed to, and they would find the added advantage that they would never be called upon to trek agaln. E——— The Board of County Commissioners imposes more than $300,000 of taxes an- nually upon the. citlzens of Omaba. Every taxpayer Is interested in the se- lection of commissioners who will stand against overlaps, sinecures, political grading and all manuer of tax-eating, e Director Moore of the Weather bureau in his annual report states there is no ground for the bellef that hall storms can be prevented by the firing of cannon or that rain can be produced by bom- barding the sky. The Lincolun rain- maker s certaln, however, that he did not keep all hLis neighbors awake at night aud burn a large quantity of good powder for nothing. A court of inquiry wight be called to settle the guestion, LET WELL ENOUGH ALONK. The agitation for further currency leg- islation seems to us to be untimely and mischievous. The currency is on a gold basis and will remain so. There ap- pears to be an ample supply for the re- quirements of business, though it is true that at the beginning of the crop move- ment there was for a brief time a tight money market, partly because of the large amount of money lying idle in the treasur, As to making the currency more elastic there seems to be no urgent necessity for legislation to accomplish this, Perhaps no one has given this subject more careful and intelligent considera- tion than Mr. Charles G. Dawes, former comptroller of the currency, who in an address a few days ago before the I11i- nols State Bankers' assoclation unquali- fledly opposed the idea of allowing the national banks to Issue asset currency, also asserting that at present there Is plenty of elasticity to the currency. Mr. Dawes declared that it was out of the question to discuss asset currency as a benefit to the government in running its financial plans. The government credit was protected in the gold act of last March, It is the business interests of the country that should be considered in any change and not the government. He serlously questioned the idea under the asset currency scheme of allowing banks to issue currency and then have them taxed 5 per cent and pay 1 per cent tax on uncovered circulation. He asked why such risks be limited and said: “If there was really danger of a loss to the government in such a plan, why was not the government affected in the same manner? It Is putting a risk on the depositors which they should not be asked to carry. With such a system all small bauks would issue such notes and the great banks would not make on them because of the small amount of profit. The western banks would use such notes and it would be on them that the burden would fall.” Mr. Dawes sald that under the na- tional bank system there Is plenty of elasticity and he did not think there is need of legislation In regard to this. “We have sufficlent elasticity in the draft and note system of our country to do all the business we do,” he sald, add- ing that we need asset currency only in times of a crisls and that there is danger In this system of giving too much elasticity to currency and thus de- stroy the currency itself. He referred to the great advances made in this country in the natlonal bank system. In the last ten years our system has increased 50 per cent over that of Eng- land. For this reason we do not need a centralized bank system. The perlod of all crises has been short and it was found after such a period, extending only for a few months, there was more money than was needed to supply the country. The depositor, sald Mr. Dawes, must have ample protection in all financial changes and the bankers are more interested In the care of such customers than they are in questionable profits that might occur. We believe that in this matter the Judicious policy is to let well enough alone, The business of the country is being transacted under prevalling cur- rency conditions without hindrance. No legitimate enterprise finds any difficulty in obtaining what money It needs. Any tinkering with the currency at this time, it seems to us, Is more likely to disturb than te improve financlal condi- tions and is therefore to be deprecated. We are inclined to belleve that this will be found the predominant feeling in congress. e— AN IMPUDENT THREAT. The Omaha correspondent of the Lin- coln Journal, who recelves his inspira- tion at headquarters, breaks out again in the followlng fashion, pretending to quote & member of the new republican county committee: “Rosewater might as well understand that we are keeping cases on him and the attl- tude of his paper toward the county ticket. I know that republicans all over the state bave their eyes upon Rosewater, and i y considerable portion of the ticket is de- feated Rosewater will have something to explain to Nebraska republicans hereafter. There 18 no good reason why we should not elect every man on the ticket even agalnst the strong men put up for some of the offices by the democrats. There are 1,800 more republicans in Douglas county than there are fusionists. That was the majority for Major McKinley for president. 1 belleve the republican margin is greater now, as the populist party has about played itself out here. It any of the republi candidates are defeated it will be repubd- licans who will be to blame." Is it not a plece of sublime fimpudence for the Mercer-nary deserters whose treachery has kept the court house filled with democrats and populists for four years and who did thelr best to turn the city hall over to the common enemy last year to indulge in such idle threats at this stage of the campaign? Do they imagine that the republicans of Ne- braska are ignorant of the fact that the state was redeemed from populism and two republicans elected to the United States senate by the almost superhuman efforts exerted by The Bee and its edl- tors in the face of the open disloyalty of Omaha federal office holders and the organized opposition of men who ought now to be thankful that they have not been scarified Instead of belng gener- ously accorded active support as candi- dates on this year's ticket? Instead of showing grateful appreclation of the generous treatment accorded to them by Rosewater on the stump and in per- sonal solicitation of campalgn funds, the self-appointed custodlans of the con- sclence of the party want to make Rose- water responsible for possible defeat, which, if it comes, will be simply just retribution for their own disloyalty, False and treacherous in all things, they are also false In the figures by which they try to lmpose upon repub- licans outside of this city. It Is not true that Douglas county gave McKinley a majority of 1,800. The vote in Douglas county on president in 18900 was 14,340 for McKinley and 13,270 for Bryan, a republican majority of 1,061, Governor Dietrich went out of Douglas county with but 800, which shows that the bushwhackers did not stop with the legislative ticket, In the present campaign the faction THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1901. that pretends to be “keeping cases on Rosewater” and to threaten him with dire destruction has complete control of machinery of the party. No member of the old organization has placed a straw in their way, but on the contrary every requisition made by the new machine has been responded to without the slightest display of sore-headedness. It anything goes wrong next Tuesday, the full measure of responsibility will be upon those who have assumed the com- mand of the party forces. E—— CONDITION OF THE TREASURY. The annual report of the treasurer of the United States presents little that is néw, but some of the facts are worth bearing In mingd, notable among them being the figures relating to the surplus. At the close of the last fiscal year, June 30, the surplus In the na- tlonal treasury was over $77,000,000 and for the first quarter of the current fiscal year the decrease In revenue average a little over $1,000,000 a month as com- pared with the corresponding period of the preceding year. If receipts continue at this rate and expenditures are not Increased, there will be a surplus at the end of the current fiscal year ex- ceeding $60,000,000. This suggests the question whether it is not entirely safe and expedient to reduce the revenue. There are large enterprises soon to be undertaken. The construction of an Interoceanic canal will doubtless be authorized at the com- Ing sesslon of congress. The laying of a Pacific cable should be done by the government. River and harbor im- provements will call for liberal appro- priations, as also will additions to the navy. But with all these demands in addition to present expenditures a re- ductlon of revenue could still safely be made and the burden of taxation light- ened to some extent. The matter should certainly recelve the careful attention of congress, Un- doubtedly the democrats will urge its conslderation and the party in control of congress cannot afford to iguore the subject. It is perhaps wise, as Secre tary Gage has urged, to have a mod- erate surplus from year to year; but it is not easy to justify the continu- ance of taxation that ylelds so great a surplus as that of last year. Such large accumulation in the national treasury of idle money, which is taken from the channels of business, is manifestly not a policy to be persisted in. S ——— JUST FUR FUN. Does The Bee still Insist that its charge that Mr. Cermak, the candidate for Omaha's school board, is & probibitionist, should recelve eerious consideration?— World-Herald. The Bee never charged that Mr. Cer- mak was a prohibitionist. It simply called attention to the fact that Mr. Cermak had been registered as a pro- hibitionist a year ago and had explained that record as being “Just for fun.” The Bee now asks the question whether a man who, while under oath, to make true answer to all questions put to him by the registration board, answers falsely, “just for fun,” is a fit person to become a member of the Board of Education? And this also reminds us that Cermak claimed to be a republican when he bad himself registered as a prohibition- st last year, while this year he passes himself off as a democrat. Cermak’s political coat of many colors seems to have been borrowed from his near relative, Dr. Swoboda, who was a republican up to the open- ing of the campaign two years ago; be- came a democrat “just for fun” after the republican county convention; had himself nominated for coroner on the demo-pop fusion ticket, and after being deteated turned his political coat once more, became a republican this fall and had his name presented before the re- publican city convention as a candidate for the Board of Education. Being re- jected and baffled in his ambition to get office, he again turned his coat and Is now hard at work as a non-partisan for the democratic school board ticket. When the election is over we anticipate the acrobatic doctor will give it out cold that he had turned a political head- spring “just for fun.” SpEme———— THE KAISEW'S THREAT, The recent declaration of Emperor Willlam, that if no commercial treaties are negotiated he will “smash things to pleces,” 1s not regarded very serlously at Washington, whatever may be thought of it in Europe, for which, pre- sumably, it was chiefly intended. The utterance of the kaiser was undoubtedly in response to the Austrian and Rus- slan announcements that if the proposed German tarlff should be adopted the existing commercial treaties between Germany and those countries will not be renewed, with intimations that a policy of retallation might be adopted. This was well calculated to nettle Em- peror Willlam and his threat is quite characteristic, though it Is not easy to see what he would smash to pleces or why the smashing would not be at least as damaging to Germany as to the countries with which she now has commercial treaties, Senator Cullom construes the kalser's declaration as meaning that unless the United States revises its tariff or adopts reciprocal measures which will give Germany better opportunities to get into our markets, retallatory methods will be resorted to to keep our products out of Germany, and the Illinols senator remarked that threats of retaliation will pot have any influence upon this gov- ernment in endeavoring to protect Its own interests both at home and abroad. He expressed the opinion that nothing will be done in the direction of a re- vision of the present tariff by the com- ing congress. Of course congress will not permit Germany or any other country to die- tate our tariff policy, yet It will not be entirely wise to give no heed to for- elgn feellng and sentlment with re- spect to closer commercial relations. We have a large trade with Germany, amounting last year to $191,000,000, and we should make every reasonable effort to retain and if possible increase’ it. In order to do this it will doubtless be necessary to offer tariff coucessions to Germany, in the form of a reciprocity agreement. This can be done, proba- bly, without any change In the present tariff law, but if not it might be found expedient to make some change, per- haps at least to the extent of broaden- ing the scope of the reciprocity clauses, Whether or not the declaration of Em- peror William was intended for the United States as well as for European countries, 1t expresses a feeling which should not be wholly disregarded. EEse—— In the last issue of the Conservative, J. Sterling Morton ‘declares that “the head of a department who knowingly pays out as wages money belonging to the government to men and women whom he knows are not needed aund whom he knows do not earn the money, is guilty of altruistic larceny.” If Mr. Morton's definition of altrulstic larceny is correct that species of pilfering from taxpayers i8 quite pronounced in the management of our public schools under the beneficent supervision of Superin- tendent Pearse, —_— The Chinese are fixing up stage scen- ery castles on the walls of Pekin to take the place of those knocked down by the foreign soldiers so that the town will look natural when the emperor re- turns. The officials should touch off some red fire and stage thunder just to convince his royal highness that for- eign cannon had never desccrated the sacred city. S—— It is In accord with the eternal fitness of things for the champlons of Super- intendent Pearse to justify the flagrant favoritism In the selection and promo- tion of teachers to the machine,” But intelligent men and wowmen who desire to elevate the standard of our schools and put an end to these abuses are not likely to be deceived by such campaign methods, Sylvester Scovil appears as a witness in the closing days of the Schley Inquiry. It is Incomprehensible how he had kept out of It 8o long, for readers of the yel- low journals know full well that Scovil fought the war with Spain all by him- self and knows all about it. Nothing but his innate modesty prevented him from ¢ ing the Santiago prize money himself. Si— The republicat. candidates for school board are in every respect the equals of the candidates on the 'democratic ticket. The republican candidates ap- peal for popular support on a platform that pledges them to put an end to nepotism, favoritism and wasteful ex- travagance. The demo-fusion candl- dates are pledged to no reform. Candidate Fuunkhouser is still very busy trying to explaln away his bril- liant financlering as chalrman of the finance committee of the school board whereby he managed to draw from the taxpayers and disburse over $100,000 more this year than in 1809 and $71,000 more than 1900 without reducing the floating debt. The gratifylng announcement is made that the repAving of Harney street be- tween Fifteenth ‘and Twentieth will be begun at once and pushed to completion this year. With the exception of Six- teenth street no thoroughfare has been s0 badly broken up as Harney, and no improvement will cause more general satisfaction. Kansas City Journal, Senator Jones of Nevada has returned to the republican party. This is cause for sincere congratulation—to Senator Jones. 1t is of small consequence to the republican party. Blather of Fool Frien 8t. Paul Ploneer Press. Admiral Schley may well pray to be saved from the fool friends who are planning to make a circus show of him in & tour throughout the country. This is supposed to be preparatory to bringing him out candidate for the presidency. Admiral Dewey could give him some advice on that subject which might be usetul to him. Indlanagolis Journal. The action of the cabinet In continulng the reduction of the army in the Philip- pines goes to show that its most rellable information does not sustain the reports of newspapers that a hostile feeling pervades the_archipelago which is certain to break out in insurrection it a large army Is not present to suppress it. Moving on the Combines, Buffalo Express. 1t 1s reported that Attorney General Knox 1s preparing another case against & promi- nent corporation for alleged violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. Not only that, but upon congress certain legisla- ing his powers for the collection of evidence against trusts, This will prove somewhat disconcerting to those politicians who have been calling Mr. Knox a supporter of trusts, Vinegar Mixed with New York Tribune, Ts it not lamentable that the nature of their products does not sweeten the relation between the refiners of beet sugar and those refiners of cane sugar who are united in the Sugar trust? Strange to say, the ri- valry between them could hardly be sourcr and more bitter it they were all engaged in the manifacture of Have they for- gotten the old saw that molasses catches more files than vinegar? Vote for More Capital. J. Sterling Morton's Conservative, The sensible citizens of Nebraska want more, not less capital to come into the etate, establish manufactories, pay out wages and convert raw products into com- modities. That citizenship ought there- fore to vote against Hollenbeck and all the other nominees on the popullst ticket— a ticket supported by every Bryanarch- ist, communist, soclalist and anarchist in Nebr Nebraska needs more, not less incorporated capital engaged In manufac- ture. Call it in by voting against thoss who would drive it out. Boosting America New York Tribune. The estimate that the population of the United States and its possessions will reach a total of $100,000,000 at the end of the first ars of this century has a rounded ful- which may pufft American pride un- It may be prudeut to moderate the and not to count too Some of « wonder- growing amazingly. In fact, we grow o fast that we should be- ware of valopglory. It is time to take beed. n duly. screams of the many chickens years in advance. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, Birmingham, England, which long ago made brass idols for the poor heathen who would otherwise have been obliged to bow down to wood and stone, is now very much afraid that medals to commemorate the coronation of King Edward VII will be ‘made in Germany.” Indeed, Germans are already manufacturing these medals and shipping them to Englaud. The merchan- dise marks act is complied with by printing “made in Germany” on the wrappings, but there is nothing In the medals themselves to indicate their foreign extraction. The Birmingham menufacturers are anxious te have the medals themselves indelibly marked with their allen character. Such & mark might deface the medal and make It unsalable; otherwise it would probably have very little effect. It is generally complained that marking foreign goods with the na- tionality of their origin has not prevented their sale in England, and in foreign coun- tries and the colonles the only effect of disclosing the country where they were made has been to increase the direct export trade of shipplng German manufactures through England, where a certaln margin of profit was left. The customer cares very little where a thing is made so long as it 1s the thing that he wishes and the price Is low. There are more than 470,000 signatures to the petition which the Finlanders recently forwarded, through the Finnish senate, to the czar, in relation to the recent edicts on military service. Nowhere are these edicts referred to as “la The petition_says hat the edicts do not recognize that the innish people possess & fatherland of thelr own, and that those who belong to this country are Finnish citizens.” This, it says, 18 “Incompatible with the indispul ble right of the Finnish people to maintain in its union with Russia the political posi- tion that was in 1800 irrevocably guaran- teed to Finland.” RElsewhere it cites the reply of the Finnish estates at the extra- ordinary Diet of 1809, wherein the estate asserted their right to partake in legislation on military service, and pointed out that, “In case a new military-service law 18 enacted in a different manner, it will be im- possible to recognize such a law as legally binding, even provided that it were applied by means of external force, and that it will appear to the Finnish people merely as an imperious command.” TIn conclusion, it de- clares that the military burden in itself ts far less onerous than the loss of security and the disregard of legal principles. o The Intelligence office of the Imperial German navy has issued a critical report upon the lessons to be learned from the re- cent French naval manoeuvers, the eritl- clsms being founded largely upon the French officlal accounts. The conclusions are interesting, especially when compared with those of British and other forelgn ob- servers. It {s held that the manoeuvers fully demonstrated the difficulties and the vital importance of reconnoitering, and that the number ot French ships employed in this service was nsufficlent. The most instructive lesson of the manuoevers is de- clared to be the proof that the full fighting capacity of a fleet can only be maintained by keeping each ship in constant service. As for the submarine b it is pointed out that their attacks were made in the daytime and against ships that were lying still. The torpedoes hit and the IDDI’chh of the boat was undetected, which is to indicate that the submarine may be luc~ cesstul under especlally favorable circum- stance but that the area of vision under water s very limited is proved by the fact that the assallant came to the surface actly under the prow of the battleship which had been fired at and would have been run over had it mot been for skilful manbeuvering. The machinery and crews were fully adequate to the demands upon them, but the torpedo boats, say the Ger- man critics, did not justify the confidence that had been placed in them. o The reserve of the Russian press, amount- ing in some quarters to practical silence, in regard to the political situation in Afghanistan, has caused considerable com- ment in diplomatic circles in touch with Downing street, and some doubt has been cast upon the accuracy of dispatches from Simla stating that all was quiet at Kabul and that Habibullah Khan had been recog- nized as ameer of Afghanistan by his brothers and chiefs of the native troops. It is learned from Russian sources of in- formation that the new ameer is consider- ably disturbed by the sudden withdrawal of his brothers and has taken timely meas- ures of defense, surrounding himself with strong bodies of falthful troops. It is also said that he has sent out on all the roads leading to Kabul strong detachments, which will prevent the return of his brothers to the capital, or, it possible, bring them back as rebel prisoners. Habibullah fs also belleved to be aware that under the flag of his elder brother, Omar will as- semble enormous numbers of the warlike people of the hills, who recognize him as the lawful successor to Abdur Rahman' and look upon Nasrullah Khan as the favor- ite of England. It is also thought at St. Petersburg that Habibullah has resolved to ask the assistance of the czar and the ameer of Bokhara, promising always to be the faithful friend of Ri . The British expedition, under Major Aus- tin, which has been making surveys along the Anglo-Abyssinian frontier, had a terri- ble experience. After traversing vast re- glons of swamps, they penetrated the prac- tically unknown country of Boma, and in March last they entered the desert, where, for a month, they underwent great suffer- ing and privation. Often it was necessary to keep the animals without water for forty-eight hours. At the beginning of April water was found, the expedition reaching the Sacchi river. There Major Austin found on A bush a plece of rag, which proved to be a silk handkerchief, with an initial B in the corner. It un- doubedly belonged to the Itallan explorer Bottego, who was murdered in this region some years ago. After leaving the Sacchi supplies began to give out and the situa- tion became most critical, officers and men belng reduced to less than half rations. Orders had to be given to kil the transport animals for food. It was then decided to strike south fnto the Uganda protectorate, the main survey having been completed be- tween the Sudan and Abyssinla. It was not untll May that Lake Rudolph was roached. Here a band of Turkhana swept down upon the caravan and murdered three soldlers, whom they left dead on the ground. At midnight they tried to rush the camp, but were beaten oft. They followed the expedition for some days and kept up a desultory rear and flank attack, in which several more of Major Austin's men lost their lives. Teller's Lonesome Fosition, Washington Post. The return of Senator John P. Jomes to the republican party will leave Senator Teller in a rather exclusive position. It will be recalled the democratic party de- serted its time-honored sound money prin- ciples in order to att recruits like Jones, Stewart and Teller, and in doing so sacrificed the support of such men as Whit- ney, Olney, Francis, Dickinson and others who declined to sacrifice convictions for expediency and exchange principles for policy. Is it not about time for the demo- cratic party to take stogk and indulge ia some reflection? Why is ROYAL Baking Powder bet- ter thaun any cther? Because in its mammoth works a corps of chemical experts is con- stantly employed to test every ingre: dient and supervise every process of manufacture to insure a product ab- solutely pure, who in every respect. lesome and perfect The most wholesome food and the most digestible food are made with Royal Baking Powder. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM §' NEW YORK, POLITICAL DRIFT, Polle of the voters of Greater New York, made by opposing parties, indicate that both sides will win. Nearly thirty Tilden democratic clubs have been organized in Chicago and the Carter Harrison crowd manifest unusual heat under the collar. Senators Pettus and Morgan are the old- est members of the upper branch of con- gress. The former is 80 and the latter 77. Balley of Texas, who is only 38, le the youngest. A bunch of New York women raised $32,- 700 for the Low campaign fund in two days this week. That's the kind of a hustle that tickles the boys on the firing lne, The regletration in the city ot Boston this year has been unusually high for a contest of less political importance than one in which presidential electors and con- gressmen are voted for. Grover Cleveland has come out in favor of the democratic ticket in New Jersey. This indicates that Grover's mind is not wholly occupled with the task of defend- ing the veracity of fishermen. Justice Jerome of New York, candidate for district attorney on the union ticket, s the most strenuous candidate In sight. He makes from ten to fifteen speeches a day, kicks Croker for exercise and lunches on tiger meat. Without Tammany a cam- paign in New York would be a very tame affair, Seven American presidents were born in Virginia. The Adamses, John and John Quincy, were born in Massachusetts. An. drew Jackeon, Andrew Johnson and Jame K. Polk were born In North Carolina. Plerce was a native of New Hampshire, Buchanan of Pennsylvania, Cle nd ot New Jersey and Arthur of Vermont. Abra. ham Lincoin. was born in Kentucky. Robert E. Burke, the Croker of Chicago, who was indicted for pocketing th his ofice—city oil Inspector—has secured his liberty by a writ of habeas corpus, the court deciding that the city ordinance mak- ing the office & salaried one was in conflict with the state oll Inspection law, which permits fees. At the time of the indicte ment Burke hastily pald $30,000 into the city treasury. Now he wants the money back. The treasurer has invited Bob to go away back and sit down. HOW THE DUTCH DO IT. Methods Employed Reclaiming “The Dutch have taken Holland" is not €0 much of a trulem as it seems. They have taken a part of It and intend to take & great deal more. There is a project on foot for draining the Zuyder Zee. The un- dertaking has been a subject of discussion in Holland for more than half a century, but now it has taken on a more practical shape and is to be a political lssue. About fifty yea jo Haarlem lake was drained and more than 16,000 people are living on what was once the bed of the lake. Zuyder Zee, which contalns more than 1,300 square miles, was a trifiing ex- tent until All Saints’ day in 1247, when the North sea swallowed up a large tract ol country. So the Netherlanders in shutt! out the sea are only reclaiming what rl[hl- fully belongs to them. It is not yet decided whether the work will be done by inclosing with a dike a large tract now under water and then pumping this {nto the sea or by constructs ing one great barrier dike and reclaiming the Inclosed area by inetallments. The lat- ter plan is the more ambitious and more expensive, but doubtiess more economical in the end. It would require and the cost would be $40,000,000. proposed to ralse the sum by loan and to pay it off, principal and interest, in sixty years. The patience, energy and thrift of the Netherlanders make the big enterprise thoroughly feasible. In song and story their merits have been recognized, and It was not without reason tbat Goethe in his greatest poem made the Dutch the type of an industrious, happy people, the posses- sors of a free eoil gained not by conquest over a weaker people, but by an honest | wrest from the shallows of the sea that which was lawfully its own. sMIL Teacher (In year 1910)— toric events occurred Brooklyn Eagle: Willle, wha during the year Willle Boerum—W-Why, ser, —why, the Boer war ended four times! Plttsburg Chronicl A man is known by his works,” declared the irrepressibla reformer, who was addressing a large and enthuslastic audience, our's must be a gas works!" shouted a Ads. uncultured person who occupled a back seat. ) Detrolt Freo Press: now to have Snages. en I'm right in style,” Spiffing, 1 had pneumony real month. t is quite the fad new money,” sald Mrs. replied Mrs, bad last ‘Why don't you chal- the truth of his scan- said the Amerlcan. “That would be'too easy a task for him," answered the European. “I'll have to chal- lenge him to fight. Chicago Tribune: Ardup (taking one of them in his hands)—They say It's unlucky to open an umbrella in & house. Balesman (who knows him)—You'll be fn great luck if you can open an umbrella account in this hous: Brooklyn Eagle: Perdita—I tnder: land Mr. Binks plays the cornet. L)declfielTYuu have been misinformed. Plain Dealer:: “I.see that of foundland Hfm“ v -m& « ‘ of York was -aversly nauseated. 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