Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 16, 1901, Page 6

Toe OMAHA DALy BEE ROSEWAT EDITOR Pl — BLISHED EVERY MORN TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIC ¥ 1w irregularitics Dally Bee (with Bunda DELIVERED BY CARRIER b | ally Bee (ncluding Sanday), per week.17 ening Hee (without Sinday), per week 10 Complaint » Clty Circulation De- Dally He dllustrat Buturday 1 Twenticth Century Farmer, One Year ally Bee (without nday), per copy.. ally Bee (without Sunday), per week.. .1 Bun Bee, pet E Ing Hee (Inc ing Sunday), per week 4 in “delivery should artme Le OFFICES. Omaha—The B iding South Omaha Clty Hall Twenty-Afth and M stroets Councll Bluffs <10 Pearl Street. Chicago—160 Unity Bullding New York—Temple Court ‘Washington—#1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENC Communications relating to news and edi- torlal matter shou wddressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department BUSINE! 1 TERS, Business letters d remittances 1ld be pddressed. The Puplishing Company, Dmaha Bullding, b 1 REMITTA Remit by draft, express or postal order, ayable to The Bee Publishing Company, nly 2-cent stamps uccepted in payme mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or castern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPA — T OF CIRCL BTATEME LATION, tate of Nebraska, Douglas County, &8.1 'thr e B. Taschick, secrotary of ‘The Tes Publishing Company, being ‘duly sworn, Bays that the actual number of full an omplete copies of The Dally, Morning, vening and Sunday Hee printed duriog [he month of November, 190i, wus a8 fol- we: 20,820 30,040 Total v Less unsold and re Net total sales Net dally average oeee S - “()l': B. TZSCHUCK. Bubseribed I my |xr4-wrn1;» nnd|!\:ur\!| ‘(‘n afore me this 90th day of November, A. |- ot M B, HUNGA'TE, otary Publie, As a Napoleon of finance, Millard ¥ 11 more Funkhouser, the democratic chalre- man of the finance committee of the school board, stands without a peer. come— The verdict of acquittal in the Bonine case 18 simply another fllustration of the oft-demonstrated fact that it 1s impos- sible to conviet a pretty woman of a serfous crime before a susceptible jury. | m— From the quiet that prevalls in Towa no one would suspect that the legisla- ture will be called on only next mont\ to elect a United States senator to rep- resent the Hawkeye state at Washing- ton. If the Omaha Real Estate exchange gucceeds In securing a more equitable distribution of the tax burdens it will have accomplished a great deal In the direction of reduced taxation and in- creased property values. To the intimation that the school board order requiring six periods of class room service instead of five from each High school teacher has- been largely ignored, Principal Waterhous enters a confession In avoldance, The supreme court of Nebraska has decided that @ road overseer is not an officer of the district, but of the towr ship in which the county road Is sit- uated. But suppose there is no town- | ship division in the county, then what? tional organization of police chiefs Is gatherlug a collection of photographs of anarchists which it hopes to make com- plete. Anarchists who have not yet been fdentitied will please send in thelr photos. Only one free silver coinage bill so far introduced into congress, and that by ap obscure backwoods member. If the silver billlonaires still pin faith to their propaganda they should see to it that at least the usual number of “by requests” put in their appearance. —— That bill to reimburse the Pan-Ameri- can exposition losers out of Uncle Sam’'s treasury does not seem to have | sounded on hospitable cars, It will be | bard to persuade anyone that the Buf- falo fair would not have come out in fairly good shape had it been less ex travagantly and wore judiciously man- aged. Did you notice the well-patronized ad vertising columns of The Sunday Bee as compared with alleged competitors? And The not have to give away cigars or roses to bamboozle ad vertisers to take its space. The Bee gets the advertising patronage because The B patrons get full money's worth, It Presdent Roosevelt's advice to break up the Indian tribes and treat| the red man like any other man is fol lowed out what will hecome of the In diau agent and the Indian trader and the other reservation invaders who have looked to Uncle Suw's guardianship of the tribal Indians as the source of thel incomes? Bee does | | ‘Nebraska republicans regained control of the state only after suffering purga- tlon through the ordeal of rire and water, To retain the ascendancey the party must make an honest effort to execute every promised reform. No republican back slider can ever justify himself by point Ing to some populist predecessor who did as bad or worse, As expert mathematicians in long division and cube root, the legal rep- resentatives of Omaha's franchised cor- porations who have demonstrated to thelr own satisfaction that their clients are overtaxed deserve recognition In the form of honorary degrees for masters of the abstract It they should delve into the mathematies of four di- selence, | the members | mone mensions they would soon prove that the city owed the frauchised corpora tlons money; AMATTER NOT SETTLED. Governor Savage has ventured to as sure the people of Nebraska In an in terview in World-Herald that the controyersy improper manipu lation of the state school fund for pri gain has wottled, The gov ernor Is quoted as saying You know it has been charged that he invested the school fund for his own bene- fit and that the great fund was in danger of belng lost. I want to say that I, with of the Board of Educational Lands and Funds, personally went to the treasurer's office, looked through every rec- rd and counted every dollar of cash hand. We found every dollar there in e or properly accounted for, and found that Treasurer Stuefer has invested within ten months over $1,000,000 of the public school funds to the best of his ability. I want to tell you that every dollar of Ne- braska's money is in safe hands, for I be- llevo that State Treasurer Stuefer is as honest A man as the sun ever shone upon, d when the last day of his office expires you will find that every dollar of Nebraski money will be there, not in certificates of posit on broken banks, but ready to be counted out upon it. That settles one matter. Governor Savage may depend upon it that this explanation does not settle the matter with the Intelligent people of Nebraska, by a long ways., His assur ance that the records of the state treas- urer are accurately kept and that in th exhibit made to the Board of Educa tlonal Lands and Funds every dollar of the school money was either there in cash or properly accounted is not called in question. But the mere fact that the books of the treasurer balance with the certificates of deposit and cash on hand does not explain the shady bond deals and speculative transactions by which the school fund has been milke by several thousand dollars that have gone into the pockets of middlemen who had not a dollar of their own stake, but on the contrary were given the use of state funds and securities by the state treasy The assutanc Savage that eve i the over the vate been we glven by Governor ¥ expliration of Mr, Stuefer's term as state treasurer every dollar of public money will be th in cold cash will be very gratifying to taxpayers of Nebraska, but that does not mect the point at issue. The question that still confronts the governor as chief executive of the state is whether the state treasurer has, in making investments of the permanent school fund, pald heavy bonuses to fa vored boud speculators when he could and should have dealt directly with the county bourds and either given the r spective counties the benefit of the ex cessive interest coapons or placed the coupons to the eredit of the school fund. The delusion under which Savage lbas been impressed with the idea that the Stuefer incident is settled may perhaps be dispelled when be reads the comment of J. Sterling Morton that appears in the last number of the Con- Governor servative, which hits the nail on the | head in this fashion: There is an old-fashioned way of clarlfy- ing muddy water with alum. When the Missouri river packets were doing all the carrying trade for passeagers and freights between’St. Louis and Nebraska points the drinking water was pure Missouri river aqua, settled and clarified with alum. The accounts of State Treaeurer Stuefer need clarification. But whether alum or something more stringent is required for the process Dr. Rosewater has not yet, seemingly, determined. A big frog sittng by a limpld stream. the bottom of which is visible to the naked eye, can make the water very muddy the moment he Jumps into it, and so all the Burt county, Otoe county and other bond purchases were quite queer and inexplica- ble until Stuefer jumped into the discus- sion of them, and now they are more inex- plicable than ever and queerer and mud dier and nastler. pert In truth-telling inform the people of Nebraska about his school money invest- ments, Surely Mr. Morton Is not prejudiced against Treasurer Stuefer or hostile to | Governor Savage or any other member of the Board of Educational Lands and Funds, and Mr. Morton reflects the views of ninety-nine out of eve hun dred people who have given the subject any thought. REORGANIZE THE SERVICE. At its recent convention the National Civil Service Reform league considered the question of reorganizing the cousu lar service and there was general ap- proval of the bill for this purpose framed by Senator Lodge. There is algo a movement on the part of nuwer- ous commercial bodies looking to the reorganization of the consular service. As the president is strongly committed to this there Is very favorable promise of action on the lwportant subject by the present congress and probably at this session. The Lodge Dbill is a mensu which not only recognizes the civil service reform principle, but p vides for the co-operation of the eivil service commission in the examination of candidates for appointment in the consular body. The bill proposes the gradual re-examination and re-classifi- cation of the service within two years of the passage of the act. The exam- ining board is 1o be composed of the secretary of state, or such person in that department as the president shall designate, and a cousul general or consul of the United States whom the president shall desig- nate, in conjunction with the clivil service commissloners, This board is to determine the scope and method of the examination, but among the subjects it must include M its tests shall be either the Freneh, German or Spanish lauguage. The service Is graded by the bill into six clusses, and from those passing the examination the names of the tive highest shall be submitted when vaenucy arises, the president makiug a selection from this lst. 'he bill provides for 4 consuls gen- eral of the first class, 13 of the second class and 19 of the third class. The consuls are to be 37 of the first class, 5 of the second class, 60 of the third, 40 of the fourth, 30 of the fifth and 50 of the sixth, the salavies ranging from $8,000 a year down to $1,000. Al fees, with the exceptlon of those of consular ageuts, are to be turned into the treas- ury, consular agents receiving one-half comprehensive in cold cash, | ‘ou may depend | dollar of Nebraska's | y 18 in safe hands and that at the | Let Stuefer have an ex- | THE OMAHA DAILY places the consular service on substan- tially the same basis as that obtaining in the army and navy. The president is empowered to around from place to place, as he may think advisable, substantially the I of the officers of army and nay Doubtless this measure will undergo some moditications, but in its general provisions it contemplates such a re- organization and remodeling of the con- sular service as could not fail to greatly improve the service, It Is very generally conceded by thos tention to the matter that the consular service Is now In the main etficient. A majority of those engaged in it are capa ble, diligent and faithful men. But was sald by President Roosevelt in his | message, “a standard of excellence can not permanently maintained until the principles set forth in the bills he tofore submitted to congress on this sub- ject are « into law.” The great interest being manifested by the com wereial of the country in this subject should secure the desived legis lation move consuls same the W dispose bodies A CANAL COMPLICATION What is known as the Maritime Canal company, organized under the laws of New Jersey, 1s threatening to further complicate the Nicaragua canal project. This company claims to have purchased the route surveyed and recommended by the canal commisslon and alleges that all franchises and concessions have been fonveyed to It by the government of Nicaragua in consideration of a large sum of money. That government, it appears, has admitted the sale of lands to the compuny und the granting of franchises and concessions, but has stuted to our government that the sale had been annulled and the franchises revoked since It was made public that the Nicaragua route had been selected by the commission. The Maritime com pany protested against this action, pre- senting its protest to the Department of State, It Is stated that Secretury Hay has decided not to the claims of the company, but to regard the action of Nicaragua as official and final, and upon the suggestion of the secretary of state the senute committee on inter- ocennic canals bas decided to pay no attention to the claiwm of the Maritime company and will proceed with the bill which it hus reported providing for the construction of a canal. How this sum- way of dealing with the matter will be regarded by the Maritime com- puny remains to be seen, but if it be true, | us stated by the company, that it has ex- pended $1,700,000 for lands aud fran- | | | conside will make no effort to r State department has recommended that the company be paid for the lands by it, which according to the Nicaraguan government cost about $100,000, but it is questionable whether the company will be satistied with such an arrange- ment, which would return to it but one- seventeenth of the money it claims to have expended. It is not apprehended that this new complication will delay canal legislation, but it may futerfere with the beginning of construction unless congress or the government of Nicaragua shall make a fair settlement with the Maritime Canal company. MERCER'S BRIDGE BILL. That bill introduced by Congressman Mercer for the construction of & bridge at South Omaha, according to the press dis- patches, is a matter of speculation. General Manager Kenyon of the Stock Yards com- pany has wired Mr. Mercer for & copy of the bill, for, as & matter of fact, no one here knows what it means. Morcover, if the gov- ernment or anybody else is to bulld a bridge across the Missouri at this point it Is very probable that the Pontoon Bridge and Ferry company would bave to be “seen” on the | proposition, inasmuch as that company has the other side. However, everybody, it is safe to say, hopes that congress or some- body else will eventually construct a bridge at this polnt.—World-Herald For once we fully agree with our en- terprising contemporary. The South Omaha bridge bill introduced by Con- gressman Mercer Is appavently “a mat- ter of speculation.” The inspiration for the proposed motor bridge may not em- anate from the managers of the Pontoon Bridge and Ferry company or from the general manager of the stock yards, It is purely “a matter of speculation,” but could, if it pussed congress, be annexed to the multiplex air line system of su- burban roads projected by Congressman Mercer's chief fugleman, In these days of industrial evolution there 18 a good deal more money in handling electric wotor franchises and bridge construction privileges than there is 1n selling town lots and farm lands, A CONDITION--NOT A THEORY. The taxpayers of Omaha are con- fronted by a most serious situatfon, The enormous increase in taxation within the past five years has made the burdens of local government almost unbearable, On an assessment presumed to represent 40 per cent of actual value the tax levy for this city and school district aggre gated 25 mills in 1899, was increased to S mills in 1800 and in 1901 it was raised to #4 mills under pretense that the in- sused revenue would be applied to the the school fund. Now it trauspires that this deficit not only was not wiped ont, but it has been enormously increased. Unless a very material Increase in the aggregate as- sessment of property in Omaha can be | made the city tax for 1902 will not fall below 86 mills and may have to be | raised to 40 mills. The lowest possible estimate for city and county tax for 1902 will aggregate 6 per cent, exclusive of speclal taxes levied improve- ments. This means a tax of from 2 to 214 per cent on the actual cash value of every foot of ground and every bullding within the ecity Mmits to maintain the eity and county government for one year, With such taxes staring them in the face capitalists who have woney to in vest are not likely to venture into the purchase of Omaha realty. The ques tion that presses for imwedlate consid- eration Is, What can be done to avert who have given at-| chises it is not to be expected that it | -over this. The | held | some rights and privileges, especially on | payment of the deficit then existing in | BEE: MONDAY, D SCR ity of Omaha? There are only two ways to bring about a reduction in the levy: One is by Increasing the aggre assossment, and the other is by easing the aggregate expenses, I'he first can be dene only by ralsing the assessments on individuals and cor. porations who have hitherto managed to keep thelr assets covered or who have been specially favored in the mat ter of valuation. The other ean only be accomplished by radical retrenchment in all branches of the public service. i There Is some merit in the claim { the gas company that the annual roy | alty paid by it of 5 per cent on its gross receipts is in the nature of a payment for the franchise that gives it a pract! cal monopoly for furnishing gas for lighting and heating purposes to the cit izens of Omaha. This royalty for the r 1001 is sald to aggregate $15,000 I'he payment of a bonus for the fran chise does not, however, constitute an exemption from taxation; it simply fur nishes a basis to the assessor for reach ing an estimate of the value of the fran chise, irrespective of the gas generating and distributing plant. In other words, while the gas company has paid for the privilege which constitutes the franchise the payment in itself does not operate as an exemption from taxation. Under the constitution of Nebraska the fran- chises corporations are subject to tax- ation independent of thelr holdings in realty or personal property, and the mere fact that the franchise has been acquired efther by purchase or by the payment of royalty cannot exempt the corporation from taxation. The Bee still maintains t the best and most economical wa have af forded temporary relief to the supreme court would have been to huve called in the distriet jud, serve as rel erees when not busy on thelr respective benehes, rather than through the costly and cumbersome supreme court com mission. Now that have the com missioners, however, they ought to be superseded at the earliest possible mo- ment by additional duly constituted Jjudges of the supreme court. The court cannot be lawfully enlarged except by constitutional amendment. The saving in woney, to say nothing of the bene- tits of a responsible judiclary to pass '8 Lo we law affecting life, property and consti tutional rights, would justify an extra sesslon of the legislature to provide for submitting the much demanded propo- sition at the next election, According to the World-Herald, which is the recognized organ of the finance committee of the school board, the ap- parent deficit in the school fund on Jax uary 1 will be $150,000 in round figures. But what the actual deficlt has been during the past several years or what it is now Is an open question. made the big fight for Mr. Funkhouser as a brilllant financial manager 1s not in position to shower boquets upon itself. The principle that should govern in the distribution of federal patronage is the vecognition in each community of the men who did the work that helped bring Nebraska back futo the republican column, To seek to avold factional dit- ferences by bestowing the favors upon some one who did nothing at all simply demoralizes party organization and dis courages those whose active efforts are needed to keep the republican party in power. vernor Savage wants to let the members of the local bar make the se- lections for vacancles on the bench. In this the governor are advising him to usurp the powers of the mayor and council over the police comiulssion would have him violate, Hot Time in Hot Countries, Boston Transcript, Now four more South American repub- lics are girding themselves for war. The wilitary fever is catching. A Lett Rebuke, Baltimore Amerlcan. By donating $10,000,000 to the cause of higher education Mr. Carnegle has indi- rectly rebuked that young man Schwab who used to work for him Superfluous Information, Cleveland Leader. Whenever a bank cashier or teller runs away with money not his own the news- papers hasten to say that he was a “(rusted employe.” Every man in a bank s “trusted;” if he were not he wouldn't be there. An Explanation Wanted, Washington Post, Judge Dunne holds that it is all right for a newspaper to criticisc a court decision atter it has been rendered. We are quite sure that this eminent and just Chicago jurlst s a son of Ireland, else he would have taken the pains to explain how in the dickens a newspaper could criticise a decl- sion before it is rendered. Prelude to a Kick, Ban Francisco Call Now that the American people have taken to ralsing money for the relief of the women and children in the British concen- tration camps in South Africa it will not be long before they will begin to urge the government to interfere on behalf of the Boers. When the Amerlcan begins to put his money up for a cause he is getting ready to talk business. Just a Finger or Brooklyn Eagle It is reassuring to discover that naval and military officers can take a wee nipple without falling into disrepute or under the table. The fact ought to be forced upon the attention of the Women's Christian Temperance union, for otherwise that fer- vent body will start in pursuit of the sup- posed offenders and chase them with pro- testing shrieks from here to Manila Where a Censor is Needed. Philadelphia North American, The British censor s not atterding to his business. He should either censor the speeches of government officlals, who con- fess thai the concentration camps are so bad that they are being broken up, or blue pencil private and anonymous letters, printed by the London Times, describing feusts and pink teas in the camps and as- serting that the reconcentrado Boers are so bountifully supplied with luxuries that thelr feos as cowpensation, -The uulun- menace to the growth and prosper- | to thoir guards ) final judgment upon weighty matters of | | made against him fs that | with a close business assc If this is| | true the Commercial club coterie that | endorses | the home rule principle which those who | STILL Wausa ¢ deman |on the furnish win Lets have York Rep and | Two deals, dollars hay have been bonds n t to Invest warrant the |a big t su st Omaha Bee and report the state t fund ack #chool or an | wrong Don't qui You know vestigation the report trust funds he could hag made any It M official and Otoe ¢ has only td Jured innoc of the fact Stanton glven to the week w the stat fs at the oxa This balane | state treas | showing so of money in in the state {in a better has b books were short in an county state school at the expe wel people that only a fral rebutted ststed fund. M It 1 ter which our attitud; defense to doing an delay of his guilt ¥ | Come in “{}’lrn‘lmlv'r s the Minden appearances s SONAL CA Tazette d tter an can 1d to the the whole ublican wherein © been ventilate ays, tha marke! hem spicion ry to 1o to say of the re 18 4 nowled « surer wr 12 Joft well bble as made by of the in “balance on hand.” this connection by the fusion organs have been refuted by the fnvestigation Boe's charges have not been disprover investigation er 18 gulltless the hest thing he can do is to demand Burt, it guilty attempt ir. St mination continy ounty Pleket pross by all right hool fun nt t o 18, or ury. Thi far as it a e me Ight heen ma not proj y of his I fund ense Mr. Stue 1 attempt s & case to his constituents, amount of letter writing or newspaper clip- pings can change our views of his actions or are sorry em to convict him of wrong doing as they do and feel that it he has any from bluster people make a thereto. O hay i fr n by sails of h Mr. hould follow the example of Ad investiga effec ot The temper of the | t, h [ Why were they paid for b with Treasurer Stuefer's chec low some of the funds to remain idle by methods It of Nebraska ok Paul Republican tha officers in ng et It s A the state the depository legally report ple of Nebraska is such t endure donbtful transactions in the man lation of the state's permanent school fund thousands veral realized by ms had they o X Ay the que would to pa (fter Interests in the treasurer’s o It 18 now up to The | t the the It that [ i jen't nyone o sta e law ba then that be y a the wise b will not ulators as the buy on the speculator ! Better a than ertainly for 1% fnvestigation matt Th who checked oithe up the that Ree of worth while thi At the in » officers and treasurer himself have nothing to do with The Bee's charges. The Republican defended Mr. Stuefer dur ing the campaign upon the ground that he is not permitted by to place the nks m a only nd that as a The charges made In of nd t The the teals he rof repor rt A searchi f ma But The nor been ' Cuming he the in- to convince his best friends [ and Treasurcr Stuefer las 0 f 1 ime ar as shows that trifle than §18,000 of the school money uninvested. | but it r ainl was at the time, y lated to thero more in the a good relates to the amount But there was re b which place that were made against him. y any s M pgards the No Intimation one hing tueter | rees | ch his man | immense | | no the | {in the | ciferousness of President Roose erly kept or that he fs | The charge | fer injustice to imnm-lv by refusing to do so. which We ounts. he the &l od onspl fund or The charges has thus far made to disprove having so attempted has s he has nothing more to offer evidence jmplicating him in the affair we cunnot do otherwise Heve that he, to say the least, more AND OTH and shut The Kansas City the xpe daor. rt s ally t f: hem afled 1t ate to purchase bonds and then turn them into the | t a handsome profit and her of | of the countles fssuing them. « strongly made and it scemed to most and with the | t admits whitewashing, and if Mr. Stuefer is fnnocent | of any such offense as is charged appear to us that it ought to be no very difi- | cult matter to make a showing In the mat- would be plain and eatisfactory Until he does so E han be- | willtully as Nellgh to milk the state school of no it does that he is than ach day only makes stronger the conviction RWISE, not t | man to go into a trance when a of wives found him out, | 1t King Edward's | Pan-Americ an exp he first surplus oronation comes up to tiol n cat prize by putting up the price. | If we could only can a few tons of surplus | cold and tap it next July would be raised several degrees. A New Jersey trance habit, returned to consclousness just was closing a deal for a new mean Two tamilies in a legal mixup In lawsuits Phil as bis wife husband. delphia unruly boy: schools, S try to the and | Leary's in their sh sity Ex-Mayor Dr. himself as Omaha oxp timber have sought Kansas ( fang on De the annual Commercial tee has town Wyoming tlon except | strength | 1900 the vo | tieket was the gain In There are presidential The have more in prospe desperate means to keep awalke. Spring clothespins to muzzle the lips of Massachu | Captaln W. five s are In ome current effect th in the ow windo filed Samuel manager osition, it ni ity s ember 1 banquet club. n appoin the Nevada, In the te for only the thirteen election man th use people state as a model commonwealth The story who ing! acquired on lale at secure hand district | the prospectus, it will materlally {ncrease the galety of June days. People who were awarded the the human comfort the Phila- and delphians resort to in point ts ITS OF WASHINGTON LIF s of Men and National Cn tair ents at th nt promiee revival pper house of with little of a ¢ in the some time past speeche senat have been businesslike. A A le foreshadows a new senators are nd uttering , the attempt New Yor for amon able of mold eloquent perorations beautiful, from the Lone Sta Burton from Kansas. An an ncement that Mr. Bafley would spea tnvariably filled the galleries of the hou devoted following hung breathle his words, enthusiastically comparin 1 to Webster, whom in the early days ¢ ambition he took for a model and t whom he Always been faithtul. Befor he left the other side the capitol M Bailey threatenal to ‘stir up’ things in h w ephere, but a senator must bid his time. Like a froshman at college, h requires discipline and is ot encouraged t assert himself. No mattor his intentions, how quicken the pulse ratorical flights. the change two cay Bailey his has new ardently he h 1 of the senate, it may ! some time before an opportunity eccurs fc him to fill the nate thrill bt colleagues by the eloquence that s &0 muc appreclated in Texas.” pes gullerles or Scnator Burton of Kansas was at one tim teacher of elocution, and ever since he too his degree at college, whero he had alread won a name @as an orator, he has ought after as & public speaker. In the speeches he made in his own brought him such fame that he was to stump Indiana and Maine, and since the he has been one of the most popular of th national spelibinders. His answer to Bry Unfon League club, New York, casioned much favorable comment, and still remembered and referred to. In last campalgn ae spoke in 100 counties ¢ his state and is sald to have been as fres at the cnd of his tour as he was at the be ginning. Senator Burton i8 & native Indlana but has lived more than half ¢ Jife in the state of his adoption. He a lawyer by profession, and it has alway his ambition to be elected to th United States senate. For the last twely indeed, he has frankly worked fo the nomination, and six years ago was de feated by only one vote In the caucus, Bul wfter this repulse he showed no rancor o bitt work enrnestly an calously for the success of his party he earned the al reward of & sew in the upper house. be 185 stat wvite I th ot h been years, rness and ®0 A fow days ago Senator Cullom of linol dited with remarking upon the ve 1t, who 1s well known, does not hesitate to spea loudly while holding confercuces with hi visitors Yesterday morning, relates the Washing ton Post, Mr. Cullom went to the Whit Houss. A soon s he appeared in the pre: dent’s reception room the president him and walked over to him. With muc solemnity Mr, Cullom took Mr. Roosevel over into a corner of the room and whis pered inaudibly into his ear for fully fiv minutes. The president Nstened with smil ing countenance. “All right, senator,” he said voice when Mr. Cullom had finally conclude his confidential communication, ‘“‘nobod shall ever hear what I say to you in th tuture.’ “But how about this particular matter? querted the anxlous senator. The president put his finger to his lips “Sh-u-u-h!" he whispered, “not a word Somebody might hear us." And so the senator went away. He doe not know yet what the president might hav sald was ¢ a in a loud in coming the farther from the west 1 travel notice the ¢ that the | more 1 sce of paper money of small de Wallace nominations,” said Mr. Martin ot Stoux Falls, S. D., to a Washington Pos interviewer. “Out where I live one doosn’ sco a paper dollar once in six months. 1 you give a dealer a ten-dollar bill out of | Which to take a quarter he will give you back a half dollar, a quarter and nine silve dollars, I've been enst and haven't had a sily change. 1 inquired r dollar given me (o into this and have been unable to find an explanation. The only possible reason 1 have discovered i that there are a large number of govern ment employes in this section of the coun try and that they are all pald in smal paper. One also finds more gold In cireu lation here than in the weet “This reminds me of the pecullar sys | tem of the westerners have of paying fo to the Bay in the enemy's cou Bryan's Commoner | have formed hat i WS, 2 b A of duty as Indian agent at I The captain proved very obnoxious to the rooters hat of A D! w nted smallest republican coul of Carry Natlon's Hatchet a clubbing combine, 1s without foundation. | The Hatchet Is buried, Captain R. P. Leary, hero first governor of Guam, is about to be re- tired as a rear admiral lite “lghting Bol Th vy insurance companies to sweat A bunch of students at have, | hash and hamburger steak as No doubt such a bill of fi with the germs of revolt, bu expect the fat of the land fo An ot ar Groe elghteenth ¢ Samon, and he At would in the shado without a | single draft on the {magination, At the instance of fire fnsurance com- | panfes department stores in eastern cities | have abandoned digplays of Christmas finery Heretofore | displays of incendiary material caused many ory of throw these blood n protest against | ness ana Arbor uni- @ steady diet, | welghted the student $3.50 a week? ' ptury who distinguished the has been sectic when he Kansas function ‘hh held at the clubhouse in the afternoon |in order to give the | meet the Chinese diplomat, the ublic omen to sta Indlans at the relleved from on o h Lake, chance Minn nd - they scalp for threo years preparing hospltable reception to Minister Wu Ting will attend cord a City will id a commit- how in growing presidential Bryan on th than nties 1900, el e n ote n an n in 18 W \im - the popula voting tion and 1,440 oming and the republicans carried them all in the unusual they do a thriving trade in the sale of food | showing for a party which polled less than 60 per cent of the tolal vote of the state, | propriety ot Boston | has given to the Harvard art museum some gorgeous articles of wearing apparel worn by Harvard students of his ancestors upon their graduation in the Green's grandfather graduated in 1784 A. Mercer, of | democratic fce cream, lHquor that doesn't small articles, such as soda w or anything over a dollar or two. In the first pla westerners always carry their silve loose in the trousers pockets. You seldom gee a man with a purse, After he ha; taken a drink at a bar he will dive dowr into his pocket and pull out a whole hand ful of silver dollurs, half dollars, dime and nickels, the amount v to fifteen or twenty dollars. He pours al this out on the bar and spreads it out a man does in counting money. The bar tender selects what he wants for the drink and the purchaser sweeps the money off th bar {nto his pocket. The practice arises I suppose from the fact that the westernel does not want to indicate he is at all un willing to settle.” THE GOOD OLD TIMES, Days of Our Daddies No Better Tha the Present. Chicago Tribune It fs @ frequent habit of the as well as of soclologleal students, to sigh for the “good old times” and to compare the morals manners of the day with those of the days of our grand fathers and grandmothers. The fastness and boldness of modern more than once have furnished moralists, and soctety themes for the contr have 5 day been placed in and dignity and old often, ir fact, that have come to regard our forbears as patterns of exemplary conduct It 1s refreshing, however, now and then to find testimony that some of the grand mothers were no better descendants, Testimony of contained lotter which pulpit and t with the mode of th we this was sort in a sold 1t an autograph sale in New York the other by ad- day. It was written at London in 177 Sophla Montague, wife of the English miral who commanded on the North Amer jean station, Lady Montague had teen to a supper and with feminine enthusiasm describes it to a frien It was the best supper she ever at”" Everyone was drunk, “on my con sclence,” but she did not consider tha any matter, “for we were good company. Then Lady Sophia gives a description o London women In general. “They turn Jay Into night and night into day" are “as mad as March hares." eir dress is preposterous. They and pinch thelr bodies in tight stays til they sink, for to be very small at bottom and hanging over at top is quite the fashion." No natural color is another fash and “feathers fifteen Inches long 1 head" is another. Lady Sophia's letter with this tng indictment Al life ‘Inconstancy, the fashion eparation, the fashion; with body but your husband top of the fashion.” Familiar as fon th Bwe to he at the it all sounds, therefore, what saw to rying from five present smart- for poets and essaylsts as well as than some of thelr [t frankness and “supt and She thinks | “paint any- this s not a time to for social | tated i which we are reforred so often practices which should be {m! soclety today. Wera the o s a better than the new time: they as good? Those who at rn manners and soclety must go ba 75 to find their “good old days. I canoot this side of the fall . by of 1 they of & MEMBER THE MAINE, Industeions Claim Agents Joggin Na Memory, Philadelphia Record The induetry of the ¢laim agent 1s fnde fatigable. Given a ghost of a chance to ob- taln a slice out of Uncle Sam's *pork’ barrel, that hard-working m o will scour the country to find claimants who cases might be wire-drawn #o ns to constl tute plausible demands. might have | supposed that claims arising out of the de struotion of the Maine had been settled, so far ae the United States was concerned, by the relief act ed by congress on March 1808, for benefit of the would bolieved that at v a | bility for which remains through the eacrifica tho 1 of sons in battle, the tlon of its floets at Manila and Santiago and the loss of its West Indian and Far Those who have entertaine these, however, have the claim agent A long list of clal suffored fn the expl battleship | has been submitted to the Spanish Treaty | Claims commlssion, and the demands foot up to a goodly fraction of | The |8t 4 the Kk & ot r s One the hay ement o suffere Epatn b, crime (its responsi on ma unproven) destr n o astorn colones. nottons without K Kuoh reckoned n | s ms based ug slon of our Injuries 1 n " a milllon dollars undertaking on the part of the United (In accordance with the treaty of peace) to “adjudic all claims of its citizens ag ix use for this federal treasury. The | United Statos Killed and at Valpar indemnity exactod from Chilf on that o have been elte | a8 precedents in justification of the presen demand. On the other hand, it tended that in view of tho inability of the naval court of Inquiry to find clear ovidence | of the muthorship of the destrustion of the {battleship and of the fact that the Unfted ates had, by virtue of the rolfef mot aforementioned, decided to recognize the of the sufforers to {ndemnity s walnst themselves, therefore, the could not be made the founda- tion of a duplicate demand In this the dotectiveness of the treaty of peaco with Spain is again | brought to light. The government's briet s | controverting the demands of the. Maina k [ clalmants asserts that the treaty In ques s | ton was not fntended “to provide for, but to relinquish and leave in oblivion, ae set- - tled in the tribunal of war, the grievances o |referred to." It s fault of the | treaty that it failed pression te the intentions of the in this | and several other important particulars. s torms o ar i attempt o | ettle raid the the exc so of 1 mariy wo ot of | r a t t righ | a lal | | | connect 1 nectl| a grav to give e slgnatories h t i TO A SMILE, of | _Chicago Tribune | &In “to “tell you sald about you, Holme, pausing “I'm' 8o glid with a joyful “Why, T couldn't be halt the 'things she has auoth Ars. Selldom At last for the exclatmed Nexdore, little gasy 1 dq y Philudelphin here s Khe Kk Newltt m she Press: Porcy Vera~I still hope for me; although she WAs very sympathetic My dear boy, that's the end woman ever marries the man rejects sympathetically of [ Wi Somerville Journal would only try the of saying to his wife | things that he says would be surprised result If the marrled man experiment some duy ome of the charming to other women, h and gratified at’ the 5 Washington Star hang up any mistlet asked Mr. Frast “Deed T fen’,” Brown. “I's git advertise foh de lady “1s you all gwine to iy Christmas Pinkley answered Mis mu little t courtes Minmi pride o rdiniry t hus a Fight o expeet,” t f f Chicago protested th HOW you w You b elothes. yellin' 2" tbune: *I done the shootf; boy with nt to he sald 1 \ good 4 Dian't 1 do all’ the hollerin® an bout a month now Philadelphia P Miss Goldrox's love daughter is an heird that I would be just i were apatiper 8 At settles you, don't want ‘any family.” realize that yo but I assure you anxfous to marry replied her father, such fool as that in e the Chicago Post groat friend of alls at yvour home.' That's because friend How " “He lets ever I stiy has hecome wife.” “iinks vour he seems to be and yet he nev is @ self-sacrificing r t me put the blame on him when too long at the club, and so he persona non grata to my wite Washington Star a splendid suceess,’ ins “Dia you sell lots of things?" Yos." Yes, indeed “Our chureh falr was 0 suid young Mrs. Tork | Everything was r 8o useful,” I can’t think of a single article t couldn’t be saved up and donated to | be sold @t the next fair.” ev 1 s | ol 4 1. L. McCreery. ® | There Is no death! The sturs go down .| “'Fa rise upon some other shore, | And bright in heaven's jeweled ' crown kY hine for ermor There is death! The forest leaves Convert life the viewless air; The rocks disorga to feed The hungry moss they bear There Is no death! Shall chunge ers, Iden grain, or mellowed frult, rainbow-tinted flowers, The dust wo tread beneath the summer show 2 or (T | There 18 no deatn | “And flowers m ¢ [ They only wal | Tho warm, sw The die thre t loaves may fall Wl puss away wintry hours, of May cath ¢ 18 no d hat ven Are ever first The country ath! The choleest gifts hath Kindly lent to earth to seek again of thelr birth n 1 And all thing Are worth Whose loss Are that for growth or joy of our love or care, has left us desolate, garnered there n ] | Though life become | “We know its fai | Transplanted into n n immortal bowers, n desert waste, flowers, The volee of birdlike meloc That we have missd a | Now mingles with the angel ¢ | “In everlasting song od g0 long ir | is no death! Iq Although we grieve When beautiful, familiar forms Thit we havo learned.to love are torn From our embracing arms | Although with bowed and breakin, |~ With sable garb and | We bear thetr sense And say that they are o heart, # dust to rest, “dead,” They are not dead! They have but passed Heyond the mists thit blind us hera, Into the new and larger 1ifo that serener sphere t f | They have but ¢ |G put thelr | mhey have 1ot | “They ure tropped their robe of elay hinine ruiment wander not. *lost" Though disenthralled and glorified, They still are here and love us yet; The ar ones they have left behind They never can forget. 1 n And sometimes when our hoarts grow talnt Amid temptations flerce and dcep, Or when the wildly raging waves Of grief or passion swe N Wo feel upon our fevered brow Thelr gentle touch, their breath of balin “Their arms enfold us, and our hearts Grow comforted and calm, And ever near us, though un The dear, Immortal spirits tr For all the boundless universe an, picture of soclety in 1901, but in 1776, a] " Is Lite—there are no dead!