Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 5, 1901, Page 6

THF ©OMAHA DAILY Br,n . OSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS 01 80 BSCRIPTION: e (without Sunday), One Yeu Baturiay b ) Twentleth Contury s ) DELIVERED U i Jnlly Bee, without 8u aliy Bee, without Sun Daily Bunauy per copy Venlilg e, WIthou( St ompiaints of ek e tadressea v iy, Circuiation De- parument. OFFICES. Omaha: The Bee Bullding. ith Omaha: City Hadl Building, Twenty- Aith and M Btreets, C u\mtll Blutts. 19 Pearl Street. ty bunding Wie Coury 1 Fourteenth Street, PONDENCE. relating to news and edi- Ji Do dadressed: UMb BUSING NS LT RS, 9 letters and renituances should be Puvashing Compuny, rdoer, any. @il uocounts. malia OF cust THE BEE P r IHCI,LA'HU& Btate of Nebraska, Douglas \ounli Goorge . Trschuck, secretary of Tho Beo ublishing Comp being duly sworn, # that the actual number of full an omplete coples of The Daily, Morning, ning and Surday Hee rinted during the month of October, 1), was as fol- lows. 29,100 L. E0,290 L.48,020 20,170 LN Total Less unsold ai Net totul sales Net daily . TZSCHUCK oy, Dresence und sworn to ot day ot Qctober, A. D. UNGATE, GEORGE B. Subscribed in hefore me this (Seal.) ——eee e Don't fail to vote early Every republican i expected to do his duty at the polls, The w t-thn-l mlln Iululn wait until the next day to bring on his snowstorn Today is your last opportunity to make a guess on the election. Tomor- row the public WHI'Lhaye the‘figures. The present campaign is said to bave been the quictest ever known in Lien- tucky. Up to date not a single man has been killed, ————— Bee will, as usual, furnish the only eclection returns service on which the people of Nebraska without respect to party predilections can el AE———— If the Turkish customs house should prove to be as empty as the imperial Lreasu the French squadron would pot secure enough to pay its coal bill, The The Chicago horse show is now in progress and is expected to be a swell function, | Evyery, horse must have dts hat on stralght in order to guin -dmls slon to the parade General Botha's latest line plunge brouglt the ball dangerously near the British goal and unless the line takes & brace the uext play Is likely to see some vne pushed over for five, — The Municipal league is consistent. It berates the republican school bourd can- didates because they are nominated by the machine and endorses the candi- flates nowlinated hy the democratic ma- chine, S—— The Buffalo exposition attempted to give an imitation of the closing night of the Transmississippl and reports would fndicate it was a falrly warm eveniug without reference to the thermomets Some eastern roads are experimenting with an automatic stoker on thelr loco- motives. But all the railronds still re- quire the services of a tiveman to do the swearing wlen the cugine r to make stean. The editor of the Commoner advises his readers not to bet on the election. he editor probably piuned his faith last year on election returns in the fusion organ and does not wish his friends to bite on the same game, | —— | Some people are blessed with a super abundance of gall. For example, cliad Martin, former postwaster and prnn, pective cundidate for mayor, asks the republicans 1o vote the non-partisun democratic school board ticket nomi nated in the intevest of Pearse, Ed P. Hlullh. 'l‘llll Mihol Poppleton and Euclid Martin, eacl I| a all rock-ribbed democrats, have appealed to the citizens of Omaha, in the name of the Municipal league, to vote the demo- eratic school board i H Is non-partisanship as is non-partisanship. Within the past year the taxpayers of Douglas county have been paying all the way from 75 cents to 85 a yard for moving dirt on county roads in order to make political capital for the demo- cratic county board. The only way to put an end to such flagrant waste of money is to vote for the republican candidates for county commissioner. e Minister Wu has been recalled and colleges which want ‘to advertise a spe- elal feature will e forced to seleet some other orator. 'The faculties and student bodies might with profit store up some of the remarks he bas made, “He is a poor benighted heathen,” but has man- aged, In an unassiming way, to take Hlargely attended and | portant matt Hrst THE RECIPROCITY CONVENTION. The convention called to month, under the ausplces of the Na tional Association of Manufacturers, to is to discuss the Important. expect that the question of reciprocity, The I8 every reason conventlon will be very that its delibera- aching influence, Amerfcan sentl xeeedingly im- tions will have far it only fn monlding it o regard to (0 3 b conside influence 1ty bave upon for- eign countries whicl are eagerly await ing an expression regarding reciprocity n the great busiuess interests of the United Stutes, A thoroughly representative i in the conven tion of the manufacturers of this coun- try, us will be the one that will meet in Washington this month, cannot fail to have great weight with the general public, which perbaps does not fully accurately understand the prin ple of recij v, or aj fate its real significance existing conditions, but it must also exert a great influence upon the representatives of the people in congress who are liable to take a more or less narrow view, what shonld be the policy of the gov- ernment in this respect. The late President McKinley urged a broad and enlightened policy in regard to our for- eign commercial relations and this, as we understand 1t, is what the proposed reciprocity convention will urge. There is no disposition among those who will constitute this convention to abandon the protective polic Ameri- can manufa surrendered. Far from.it. What they favor is only such concessions, in ex- change for able this country, 1o in in fair rease its commerce abroad, competition, reciprocity, and benefit, which shall presery and reprisals. time without buying and from other countries in return, a thing e possibly with whom we deal. from our customers such of to our industries and labor.” This is the requirement imposed by existing conditions—by the growth of our industries greatly beyond the ‘demands We can well af- ford to make concesslons in order to keep what foreign trade we bhave got, no circumstances ma- terial loss in the home market, since Lere the advantage is largely on the of the home market. knowing that under are we likely to experience any side of our own manufacturers, ——— TRYING TO DODGE THE ISSUE. Superintendent Pearse is not the issue. He was brought here by republicans and has been kept in office He had nothing to do with He Is a republican. by republicans. nominating the democratic They are not pledged to him. them are known to be against him. tainly the them was against P X It Superintendent ¥ issue we would like to know what is th issue? ars ago because a majority candidates. Cer- World-Herald. same reason. Last year b that his three-y contract a year This knew $3,600 1902, year republican school board ticket ers. Why is Pearse fighting for the demo- he knows that their election uffords him the only chance for reappointment for another three-year He knows that the republican candidates cannot con- crats? Because term at $3,600 per year, meet this i, but also subject to | government to take the interests which they represent, of urers are not urging that the principle which safeguards American Industries and Awmerican labor shall be equal eoncessions on the part of foreign countries, as will pre- serve the trade we already have and en- What is sought to be obtained !s a real trade one of mutual advantage com- mercial peace and prevent retallation The principle to be kept in view is that laid down in the Buffalo address of President McKinley, that we cannot expect to sell and export all the fmporting “If such sald McKinley, “it would not be best for us or for those We should take | their products that we can use without harm Most of convention which nominated is not the Pearse was a republicun two of the epublican candidates were picked out by him in advance of the convention; he was a republican last year for the kept dis- creetly in the background because he at would uot expire until r Pearse I8 supporting the democratic school board ticket and the fight that is being made agalnst-the is in- spired by him and waged by his back- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY large, if not inde sirable, larger, than is de- en {f account be taken of the various contemplated enterprises in which the governuent may cngage within the next few Of conrse 1s a possibility that revenue will ase without any further cutting off of taxes, but this can only result from a decline in the general prosperity and there is uo present Indication of this, On the contrary the outlook is for an indefinite continuance of the ixting prosperous conditions, . with a very strong probability that they will - pre Morcover, tl ry reason to expect that the expenditures of the government will be in some directions reduced within the current fiscal year. They should be less in the Philippines aund also fu Cuba It 1s well enough to have a moderate surplus, as Secretary Gage and sowme members of congress urge, but the rate at which the surplus s now piliug up is immoderate and is distinetly unfavorable 10 the business interests of the countr which are being deprived of the money that lies idle in the treasury. Besides, it is manifestly not good policy for the from the people money for which it bas no fmmediate use and the accumulation of which in the national treasury must necessarily be a detriment to the business of the country. The treasury now has an available cash balance—that Is, an excess over all current demands—of more than $172, 000,000, No good reason can be given for increasing this amount, while it seems to us that the demand for cutting off taxation and reduciug revenue is fully justitied and can be met with en- ‘tire safety. We regard this as a matter vof first importance for the considera- tion of congress. years, A WORD WITH WOMEN VOTERS. The legislature of Nebraska has con- ferred upon women who pay taxes and women who have children of school age the right to vote for members of the school board. WIill the women voters of Omaha exercise their privilege intelli- gently and with independence or will they allow themselves to be delivered in droves like the wives of the Mormons who were voted by the bishops in wagon loads for the tandidates endorsed by the apostles: Why should not the women voters do their own thinking and act in accord- ance with their own best convictions and judgment? Why should women who are vitally interested in the man- agement of the public schools be ex- pected to listen only to one side of the question In private meetings and exclu- sive club gatherings, in which no oppor- tunity Is given to refute assertions and stories without foundation trumped up for campaign purposes? Are not women who have the suf- frage in school elections equally respon- sible with men? Are they not entitled to the same treatment and consideration that is given to men in a campaign? ‘Why should not their intelligence be re- spected? Why should they be treated as children who bave to be privately ad- monished and taught by self-consti- tuted guardians of public morals and public schools who want to use them to accomplish personal ends? Yet this is precisely what is being at- tempted with women voters in the present school board campaign. In order to bolster up nepotism, favoritism and extravagance in the public schools, the women bave been appealed to to rebuke the so-called republican machine, when as & matter of fact the cry of machine has been raised simply to offset publ indignation against the star- chamber methods of the school board combine, Confidentially the woman voters are told by the spokesmen for this combine that the republican candidates for the school board are pledged to supersede the women principals of the schools with men who are to be tools in the hands of the city machine ‘ix future campalgns, It is hardly necessary for The Bee to brand this story as false and without a shadow of truth. No- body has ever thought of such a scheme, much less proposed it. Like other fakes and fictions the story has been set afloat in the interest of Superintendent Pearse to frighten school teachers into working sistently vote for him without violating for the election of the Pearse candi- the pledges made for them in the plat- They are pledged to break up nepotism, favoritism and extravagance, form. dates. But we have too much respect for the women voters of Omaha to believe that and there can be o retrenchment until | oy will permit themselves to be made the school board places an educator at com- mitted to the policy proclaimed in the and who will de- vote hlmself exclusively to the work of the schools instead of to the promotion | of AKk-Sar-Ben spectacles, auditorlums, the political schemes of the coterie of or- ganizations designed to strengthen his the head of the schools who .is vepublican platform the Commercial club and other pull, Ee—————— IN REGARD T0 THE SURP. A great deal of atteution is treasury, which shows a surplus for the four months of the current tisen year amounting to over 327,000,000, 1 giving out this report It was presumably upon the authority of treas- ury officials, that this surplus was con- sidered phenomenally large in view the expenditure ning of the fisc enue taxes. were less by nearly $5,000,000 thaun iu the same period of last year, the expend itures decreased by about th department. The decline in tows. surplus for the first third of the tisca year should be maintained, at the close being given to the last report of the national stated, of incident to the begin- I year and the reduced receipts due to the repeal of internal rev- While the total receipts of the government for the lust four months prineipal decrease being in the War recelpts from internal revenue has heen nearly made up in lncreased revenue from cus- If the rate in the growth of the catspaws to pull chestnuts out of the fire for anybod, The representative of the States in the Pan-American bas made a speech informing the othe ' | nations that this country wants none of thelr territory and is prepared to stand on the Monroe doctrine, ropean na- tions are so persistent in warning Latin America that Uncle Sam contemplates encroachwments that it is constantly necessary to reitervate the assurance that such is not the fact. We ure muking good progress in the development of our own resources, bt still have enough of the job remaining to keep us busy for WADY years. People ln the mountain country ob- Ject to the statement of a London paper that New York is now in the coudition of western mining camps a generation ago. The old-timers in the mining coun- try assert they would never have tol erated a boss like Croker and that his limit would have been fifteen winites ! to get out of town. United congress 1 N for the Innecent, Philadelphla Ledger. Those Bulgarian brigunds have no con- ception of the number of American melo- dramas and contibued stories they will figure in. | A Fact Known to Fighters, Bt Louls Globe-Democrat. Admiral Schley's remark that he never saw & battle fought according to the origl- of the year the surplus will amount to over $80,000,000, A recent Washington dispatch says |8l plag will be universally backed up by that Necretary Gage believes that the bond purchases, which were resumed a the beginning of this month, will dispose of the fear expressed In some quarters a large amount of conceit out of those who sought him more than -nythln;l else for the novelty of the thing. / that the treasury surplus will become But the question Is whether It Is not already quite as| Mr. Kassom a special commissioner to negos undesipably large. all who have smelled powde! 1 A Pelitical Straw. St Paul Ploneer Press As @ straw showing the direction of popu- lar opinion In the middle west it is worth noting that the lowa delegation has de- termined to ask for the reappoiutment of [ [acting 1t, NOVEMBER 5, 1901 tiate re not because Mr. Kusson is an lowan, but because the state | believes in reciprocity. It is also signif- cant that répresentatives of 600 manufactur- ing firms in Chicago enthusiastically ap plauded Mr. Kasson's recent plea for reci- procit [ | i Fact and Fiction in H Philudelphia Record There is no doubt that as hetween the history of the Santiago naval baitle written by Maclay and the history of the same bat- | tla told by Admiral Schley the public will preter the latter. No matter what may be | the finding of the court of inquiry it has | been demonstrated that there was never | the least warrant for the ribald mali- | fous attack on Admiral Schley in the Mac- | lay history. Never has there been a more determined effort to break down the testi- mony of a witness under cross-examination | than that of the judge advocate in this | case, yet the Schley account will stand for the truth in all future time. ory Returning Prodigals Hartford Courant The returning prodigals are keeping the republican latchstring busy. Stewart and Mantle came in out of the cold some time ago, and here's Jones of Nevada. He was right about bimetallism, he says, but the | unexpected and enormeus output of gol has knocked the 16 to 1 issue higher than Gilderoy's kite and on all other issues he's a good republican. Fred Dubois fsn’t back yet, and his face isn’t turned the right way, but he's a protty intelligent fellow, and we don’t give him up by any manner of means. Towne Is taking more interest in ofl just now than in politics. What is left of the “silver republican” party of five years ago? Renerve Defensive Force, Kansas City Star. The tremendous defensive force of the United States, in available men, is revealed in the census report showing that in 1900 those of militia age numbered 16,360,363, of whom more than 13,000,000 were native born and more than 14,000,000 were white. When it i¢ remembered that the quality of the American soldier is the finest in the world, the magnitude of this bulwark of na- tional security can be faintly compre- hended. Although there is no system of enforced military training in the United States, as in some of the Kuropean coun- tries, the adaptability of the American to the requirements of war has been ex- emplified n such striking instances that the resources of the reserve are not belit- tled because of the crudeness of the citi- zens in military training. The World's Gold Oatput, Philadelphia Record. Mint Director Roberts’' compllation of sta- tistics of gold production in the world dur- ing 1900 indicates an output of 12,457,287 ounces, valued at $2567,514,700. In 1899 the world’s gold production was $306,584,900— the decrease of over $49,000,000 having been due to the collapse of gold mining in the Transvaal. South Africa produced $73,277, 100 in 1899 and only $9,671,000 last year. The United States heads the list of gold producing countries with $79,171,000, more than one-half of which came from Colorado and California. Recent discoveries In these two states point to a considerable increase of output for the current year and a still larger return for 1902. Silver production for 1900 is stated at 178,796,796 ounces, the largest annual output on record. The white money metal still finds buyers In the far east, India alone taking nearly 30,000,000 ounces a year. Justice Brewer's War Brookiyn Eagl Supreme Court Justice Brewer rose to tha occasion in his Yale address. So much em- phasis has been lately laid on the material progress of the country and on the impor- tance of knowledge of the most advanced business methods that there has been dan- ger of overlooking the need of spiritual and intellectual development. The need of such talk as that of Justice Brewer {s im- perative. It is time that educated men were calling attention to the fact that “‘a man's life comsisteth not in the abundance of the things that he possesseth.”” That a man should understand this it is not nec- essary for him to go through college. But it is necessary that some higher standard than that of mere material success should appeal to him. The greatest disaster that could happen to this country would be the abandonment of the jdeals for which men have fought and died. It was mot a petty tax on tea or on legal documents which impelled the colonial fathers to rebel. Tt was Interference in their liberties. The war which they fought to defend their rights cost them many times more than the tax would have amounted to In a genera- tion. It was not for dollars and cents that they were fighting. The commercial in- stinet did not blind them to the fact that thers wag something of much greater im- portance than mone;. DEMAND FOR FREIGHT CARS. nt Peatures of Present B s Conditio Chicago Post General prosperity throughout the United States, us measured by the continuous movement of traffic, flowing In ever-increas- ing volume, was never greater than at the present moment. From the more distant coast lines, as well as from all parts of the great interior, comes but one cry. That 18 occagioned by the inadequacy of existing facilities to furnish an unimpeded channel for the vast movement of freight. Exports have of late shown a falling off, it is true, but this has not scemed to decrease in any appreciable degree the embarrassment caused by the lack of these facilities. There were short crops everywhere throughout the great cornbelt, but still the absence of this cereal from the highways of commerce does not appear to have ren- dered them any the less crowded with mer- chandise in transit, From every railroad in the country comes a cry of shortage of cars in which to load the traffiic awaiting transportation. The wheatfields of the Dakotas, the coal and iron regions of Pennsylvania, the fruit gardens of California and the cattle ranches of Wyoming and Montana—all send forth the same cry for more cars. It Is a cry which for a time at least must go unheeded. The rallroad companies of the country for the last two or three years have been or- dering cars by the thousands. The car- shops have been kept running night and day to fill thelr orders, hut still the cry is heard In more incessant and more urgent tones. Business has imcreased at a far more rapid rate than the means of trans- though it was believed that these had beem planned on the most generous basis, The unprecedented and unforeseen in- crease is due to the exceedingly rapld de- velopment of the country's resources in the Interior. The increase of population has brought with it an increase of consump- tive power, as well as an increase in the productive output, and this combined in- crease has brought about the augmentation of the transportation movement. The gen- cral trend of trafic has changed. The bulk of It used to be castward. Now it Is west- ward. The movement of farm preducts to the coast for export has become consider- ably less than the movement of gederal merchandise to the great prafrie lands of the west. Present condltions were unfore- seen and unexpected. What the immediate future may develop no one will undertake positively to predict. This enly Is certain, that the existing prosperity is deep-rooted and goneral, Signl n Assessing Corporations Chie The decision of the supreme coutt in the case against the State Board of Equaliza tion embodies instructions as to how cor- porations shall be assessed on their capital #tock, including the value of their fran- chises. The instructions are adopted from the decision in the circuit court in which the case originated and was tried. The court says that in assessing a cor- poration the assessor shall ascertain and take Into consideration the market or cash value of its stock and the total amount of its indebteduess; from the sum of theso two amounts he shall deduct the assessed valie of the corporation’s tangible prop- erty; the result will be the amount for which the corporation. shall bo assessed for taxation. This ls very clear and it may be illustrated by a table of figures. Take the case of a corporation with stock of $1.000,000 worth in the market 80 cents on the dollar, or a total of $800,000; the corporation owes $300,000 and has tangible property worth $500,000. To assess this corporation the value of the capital stock and the amount of its debt will he added together and from the sum thus produced the value of the tangible property will be deducted. ‘The balance is the amount to be assessed. This is the statement: Stock, $1,000,000, market value Dues s 000 Total . sesieiess .- 81,300,000 Deduct tangible property 500,000 Amount of assessment ceaen S 800,000 The amount to be assessed, as ascer- tained by this calculation, is the same as the market value of the capital stock. The assessment might as well have been made at that sum from the beginning The reason Is plain. The bonded debt of the corporation was incurred in the pur- chase or construction of what constitutes Chronlcle. its tangible property The two amounts offset cach other. The result s thut the market value of the stock represents all the taxable property of the corporation, its tangible property and its franchises This has been the contention of the Chron- icle from the beginning There is a weak spot in this calculation, but our tax eystem is 8o full of weak spots that oue more or less is unimportant The court says that the “assessed or equalized” value of the tangible property shall be deducted from stock and bonds to ascertain the amount of the assessment. If the tangible prop- erty is asseseed at its “fair cash value,” an the law requires, figures is absolutely correct But if the tangible property is assessed | only one-half its cush value, as other | at Troperty s assessed, the corporation will suffer gross inequality and Injustice. In the above case the tangible property worth $500,000 will be assessed at only $250,000. This amount deducted from $1,200,000, the amount of the stock and bonds, will leave the assessment of the corporation $1,060,000, which is as much in excess of a falr assessment as the valuation of s tangible property is below a fair assoss- ment The way out of the woods is plain. Al taxable property of every kind must be assessed at its fair cash value. Then the corporations will be on an equality--neither above nor below other owners of property. It must be the beneficent result of this great decislon at last—when it is fully assimilated and becomes the rule of assess. ing property in this state—that all kinds and varietics of property will be agsessed for taxation at their fair cash vadue, which the law requires. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples in the Carrent of Life in the Metropolis. The onward march of the new century woman suffered a temporary check lastf week. A New York court rendered an amazing decision, holding that the wife is responsible for her husband's bills if con- tracted In Illinols. The defendant in the case was Mrs. John T. Dickinson, formerly of Chicago and now the wife of Colonel John T. Dickinson. Dickinson had a dress suit made in Chicago and neglected to pay for it before he left the city and forgot all about it after settling in New York. The tallor could not reach Dickinson with a judgment, but Mrs, Dickinson possessed considerable means, lived at a fashionable hotel and circulated in high soclety and the tailor attacked her purse. The appellate division of the supreme court decided that the wife must pay the bill rendered if the husband fails to pay it himself. “When I was retained in the case,” sald counsel for the tailor, “I confess I could not ses how an action would lie against Mrs. Dickingon for money owed by her husband, especially when I was told that she was not with him when he ordered the garments, apd at no time guaranteed the payment of the bill. But on investigation T found a pecullar law on the statute books of Illinols which provides that ‘‘the e®- penses of the family and of the education of the children shall be chargeable upon the property of both husband and wife, or of either of them, in favor of creditors therefor, and they may be sued jointly or separately.” Judge McAdam eays the contract for the clothes was made in Illinois and must fol- low the Iilinols law quoted, and Illinols courts have construed it to apply to tallor bills contracted by the husband. Judge Jerome, candidate for district at- torney on the fusion ticket, is the warmest political campaigner that ever came to the front in New York City. In his whirlwind speeches he not only excoriated those who encouraged and profited by vice, but also tanned the hides of the “good people” who are content to enjoy themselves and rarely attempt to better the condition of the com- munity at large. A specimen of Jerome's tanning process was given at a meeting of the ultra good, mostly fashionable society women, last Thursday evening. He said: “When you look before you in this audi- ence and see people who by sending their checks or little cash contributions to a campaign fund and then at once imagine they are statesmen and politiclans—then tell what sacrifices you have made. You don't know what sacrifice is. You are a contamptisle 1ot #Caves You live in com- fortable iomes. Tammany has not hounded you. You sit around in your Union league, Union university, Calumet and Knicker- bocker clubs and when you hear of the cor- ruption of Tammany hall you say you know nothing about it. Public lite is rotten. It is honeycombed from top to bottom, It can be proved and if you make me district at- torney 1 will prove it. You are supposed to be American citizens. You have allowed things to come to such a pass that even the soclalist is impressed by it. Why, even the messenger boys are talking about ‘‘pulls” in thelr little business affairs. The people who are responsible for such.a condition of affairs are the type of people who are before me now, and, as I have said, you're not worth the powder to blow you' out of existence. The price of decency is to be found in self-sacrifice and I leave it to your consclence to say whether or not you are responsible for it.” It might have been expected that such a violent excoriation would have offended the westsiders, but these people enjoy novelty and excitement and gave the flery orator several rounds of vigorous applause. The famous Bowery of New York Is | undergoing @ revolution which in a short time will completely change its character- istics. The Tribune reports that the tide of business s turning so rapidly toward that thoroughfare as to surprise both resi- dedts and visitors. Above Grand street, with the exception of a few notorieus re- sorts, known and avoided by all but those who like that sort of a thing, the Bowery is all that could be desired. Women may walk the streets at any hour and meet wothing but courtesy. Children play about with the habitual cheerfulness of young tenement dwellel Here and there a brightly lighted concert hall may attract the uninitiated to see an uncommonly bad performance of some kind, but there Is little to satisfy the lover of the sensational. Below (rand street--that is another story. Even there the street compares favorably with many others that do not suffer from equally evil reputations. An ordinance passed last January desig- nated Cooper Square which makes a fitting terminal for the wide street leading to it. The great brown building of Cooper Insti tute looms up imposingly from the moment the traveler in the Bowery turns at Grand street. Now the square has a new feature to recommend it-—the St. Gaudens statue of the founder of the Institute Backward in Coming Forward, Baltimore American. Mr. Pat Crowe refuses to give himaalf up after the Omaha ofMcials have conooded all his demands. Mr. Crowe nluwcridl that it 1s DOt Becessary to survender hime solty PERNSONAL NO' loud much General Vaccination has lssued a call to arms In Philadelphia, and soreness is apparent The king of Greece could run a farm alone it he had to. e is accomplished in plowing, milking and the cutting and bind- ing ot corn, 1t is stated in Berlin that the mopuments of the emperor and emprese Frederick out- side the Brandenburg gate will be unveiled at the same time, on October 18 next year, the birthday of the late emperor. Of the surviving ex-mayors of New York —there are now seven—William R. Grace was born in Ireland in 1832, Smith Ely, jr., in New Jersey in 1822, Edward Cooper in New York in 1823 and Abram S. Hewlitt fu Haverstraw, in 18 The republican candidate for governor of Rhode Island i Willlam Gregory, the in- cumbent. He is a resident of the town of Wickford. The democratic candidate is Lucius F. C. Garvin. He is a resident of the town of Cumberland. George L. McNutt, the New York minis- ter who gave up preaching to become a workingman and live with the poor, de- clares that boarding house fare drives many a man to drink. “It ought to be a penitentiary offense to fry beefsteak,” he says, The Benjamin Harrison Monument as- sociation of Indianapolls has raised nearly $40,000 and it is belleved that the plans now agreed on, which will be put into active operation at once, will swell the amount easily to $100,000, and $150,000 may | be. reached. The son and heir of Lord Penrhyn of Wales may shortly visit the United States. Were one of the American girls to capture him it might tend to offset the present raid of European nmobility on our wealthy maidens. The Income from the family es- tate amounts to about $3.500,000 a vear. Booker T. Washington., whe. he visited Windsor castle during a trip to Europe, was entertained at tea by Queen Victoria and while in Paris attended a banquet which was presided over by United States Ambassador Porter, the late ex-President Harrison, Archbishop Ireland and others. District Attorney Philbin of New York City has devised a winning plan for mak- ing bondsmen pay up forfeited bail. He puts the bondsmen's property into the hands of a receiver and then it Is a case ot pay or bring in the man. The scheme is causing all sorts of consternation among boudsmen, to say nothing of the criminals. Thomas A. Edison is very deaf. Owing to & playful pleasantry he hag invented a sort of shorthand speech, among which is his greeting to the older hands in his shop and laboratory. When he sees one of these men, Boo " says Mi. Edison, which has come 7 mean good morning, or good afternoon or the value of the | the above statement in | A NOTED PHYSICIAN | Makes an lmporunt Statement | "of Interest to A1l Women. “DreAr Mna, Pixknast:—The hon- est, intelligent physiciun is above the 00l." Whatever is best in each ease should be used, no matter to what school a physician belongs. 1, as & matter of conscience, can enmly pres . DR. WANATA, of Lansing, Mioh, seribe the best, and as L know and have roven that there s nothing in Materia Mediea which aquals Lydia F. Pink- ham's ‘ognhhle 'ompound i severs cases of fomale disorders, [ unhesitatingly presoribe it, and have never yet been sorry. 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Washingt an very much alarmed abo Star the future of this country, Pross: I want to get a dog the customer. repl who had hat department, wtleman transferred to shirt do you we: Record-Terald: “Pa, why do they eall traveled jer resort trying to some woman over it on v 10 a s alang about the time they were think up a name for {t." you a sprinkler inquired the company. afd Deacon Don't you urch?” Chicago Tribune: connection th sprinkler Tronside, eyeing him ste iy, know, sir, 1Us a Baptist ¢ sald ‘the te. Philadelphin Pross: Ve 3 yeurs sinee 1 turned traveler, “It's elgh feft home. “80 | was saying to Merchant this morn- ing. “Merchant? Why, when T left ha was selling out at a sacrifice 10 g0 west.” “Well, he's still selling out Cleveland Plain Dealer: *I see that they viving an_old fashion ai Niazare, "What's thit he lady who recently went over the falls in & barrel wore hoops.” Boston you great deal myself vou May L-will anseript: know I have always thought of you and I have flattered think not unfavorably of me. Harry! Boing rt you gave m vou know, I thought vou w to axk me to lend you some money? Chicago Post: *“John," she said, “do v think you can afford 4 new gown for me? He looked at her sharply. Have you ordered it?" he gsked. a wigh of resigna- are not in Lurists " the eminent of suppresss a5 you can't amatour phologe LOYMENT, corge Herbert. that_is weary, let him s My soul would sfir And trade in courtesies and wit, uitting th omplexions ur, To ueeding 1t cold good night. The laboratory men have picked up the pecullar greeting, ®o that ‘when the “‘bo appears in the morning he is greeted in his own shorthand speech: “Boo, Mr. Edison." In Denmark many odd little storles are told of King Christian and his kindly ways, above all of the friendly interest he takes in the doings of his subjects. Whenever any Dane makes his mark in the world, ne matter what his station In life may be or what his views, the king always sends for him, at the first opportunity, that he may know what he is like and have a talk with him. He often stops, during his walks about the streets of Copenhagen, and chats with any workman be chances to encounter, Man is no star. auick coal Of mc Who blows it A faint desi Lets his own ashes but 11 doth control re, choke his soul, Life 1s a_business, not good cheerj Ever in wars il shineth there Whereas the stars Watch an advintage 1o appear. The sun or here, Oh that I were an orange tree, ‘That busy plant! 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