Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 18, 1901, Page 6

6 THE ©OMAHA DAILY m‘,rr BE. ROSEWATER, EDITOR JUBLISHED EVERY MORNING CRIPTION DELIVERED BY Bee (without Sund. Dally B (without Sur Dally Bee (ncluding Evening Beo (without Evening (neluding Werk : omplainis of rrexulariii should be addressed to City ( bartment year Farmer Year ARRIER er copy... 3¢ r week. | 120 r week 11 Dafly 2 Sunday), p youio 0 Sinday), per week.10c Hunday), per b 150 in delivery reulation De- B OFFICES, Bullding City treots ar] Street. Unity Bullding Omaha—The South Om Twenty-fifth a Couriefl Bluff Chieago— 164 New York—Temple Court Washington=301 Fourtesnth Street. JRRESPONDENCE Communications relating to news and torial matter should be addressed: O Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS. Buniness letters and remittances should be addressed. The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha Hall Bullding, | M 10 F ai- REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Publishing Company Only 2-cent s ccepted 1n payment of mafl account onaf checks, except on Omaha or castern exchanges, not aceeptec THE DEE PUBLISHING COMPANY BTATE Btate of N George B Publishing kava that complete Evening ar the month lows: MENT OF CIRCULATION braska, Douglas County, 8s.i Taschiick, necrotary of The Bee being duly, sworn, number of full and s of The Dally, Morning, Bunday BPee printed during of November, 1901, was as fol- Company, the actual 16... Wooens 18 19 10,550 20, 16,800 1, 10,910 Total sesennse Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales Net dally average GEO.'B. ZSCTUCK Subseribed I my presence and sworn to before me this 20th day of Novembe x“.\. 1901 . HUNGATE, (Beal) Not Publie. Just now a little hot alr 18 not offen slve to anybody even If it 1s generated in the rooms of the Board of Education. A Californian proposes to make a present of a collection of many thou sand shells to different schools through- out the country. The shell game has been seen In this part of the country of of Senator Dietrich been given a place on the committee on fortifieations, | He should see to it that Salt ereek is 80 strongly fortitied that the democratic ntingent which went up last fall is allowed to come down, 18 « nes Street railway men should be careful ahout running into wagons, but the of- fense 18 almost unpardonable when they overturn a wagonload of potatoes. No corporation can stand to pay for mauny loads of the tuber at present prices, The Omaha grocers ave said to be op- posed to the proposed change of market plice and especially to the establish- ment of two market places The gro cers are pot entively disinterested. 1f they had thelr way there would be no warket place It 1s not of half so much importance to the republican workers of Nebraska to what particular rooms at the natlonal capltol the senators from Nebraska are asslgued for the coming year as it what amount 6f federal patronag will be able to dispens 18 they neone is sending the Bedouin for an Arablan ‘horse in tended for the use of the president. This may be all right for dress parade, but it is ten torone the president will prefer a good American broncho when he has reul riding to de to the land of Senator Hauna does not appear much disturbed over the tempest in a teapot raging at Columbus and Cincinnati over the selection of officers and employes of the coming Ohlo legislature, else hLe would not have gone to New York to discuss the relations of capital to labor at the conference of the Natlonal Civie federation, enator Clapp of Minuesota correct ldea about secret execntive ses stons of the United States senate, but it 18 not HKely that he will be able to revo. Intlonize the obsolete custom any more than any member of the House would su d Inan attempt to the custom of w tionaries, has the rds plish ing wigs by its fune- There Is a little differenc between the etary of board and the ity treasurer as regards the amount that is required to be de- | posited In the sehool hond sinking fund | at the end of the year, but we would | rather depend on the accuracy of the fgurds ited by Mr. Hennings than on those presented by Mr. Burgess, of opinion St the school Who wants to play sultan of Turke The mun now working at the job is afrald of being polsoned in his palu 864 days in the year and Is worr fear some one will kill him on the odd day when he must go to another palace and kiss the mantle of the prophet, The sultan has more troubles than he could tell to & whole police force — The meeting of Senator Hanna and the labor leaders in New York is only nother illustration of the fact that scarecrows look entively different when one gets close to the The labor lead- ers cheerfully admitted when they heard his views that they had an entirely Qif- ferent impression of the man. 1f more such conferences could be held at times when there is no strife to drive the par- ties to the conferences apart labor and capital would have less difficulty in get ting together when there is a disagr ment, for they would understand each { absolute control of RATIFICATION OF THE TREATY. fication of the canal treaty, but none the less the fact that it has been disposed ¢ o far as this govern will cause a general feeling of satisfac tion the in of overwhelming, for while there had been no doubt to the result there some apprehension that the vote a ratification would more than The senators who have gone on in opposition to this convention are all fay to Isthmian canal, thefr fon to the treaty being based on the assumption that it does not give the United States entire and absolute con trol of the proposed waterway. We think their opislon in this regard was v concluslvely shown to be erroneous by the construction placed upon the treaty by Sen Lodge, Spooner and These senators clearly pointed out that the treaty con fers upon the United States all the au thorlty tiecessary to the complete con tr the canal, even allowing this gov ernment to fortify if It shall deem it expedient to do so, which it will not T'o the view of § that under the terms of the tr construction of fortifications United ates would be an act of war Senator Foraker replied that it would not only not be an act of hostility, but to bulld fortifications In case of neces sty is one of the Inherent rights of the vermuent In connection with mer sald that in leaving the new treaty the provision in the previous trent gainst fortitica tions England, after contending for half a century fortifl had in waiving that provision practically con ceded our right to fortify the prope canal There can be no reasonable doubt to this, But at all there 18 no probability” that the will fortitied. The best mili tary and naval authorities agree that to fortify would be a waste of money, that i it shall ever become necessary to de fend the canal it will be done by the navy and if our naval power should be inadequate for the purpose fortifications would be of little value, A navy power: ful enough to the force we could send against It would make short work of canal fortitications. There is hardly a possibility, however, that the canal will be in danger from a hostile paval force, so that all the talk about fortifying It 1s idle, The treaty concedes all that was asked by the United States and under it government will have unrestricted and the proposed |l in all circumstances, If the United States should deem it necessary to el the canal in time of war it has full au thority to do so. Neutralization is re quired by the treaty, but this our gov ermment would waintaif, as an Awmerl ean principle, If ther ne treaty stipulation. So in the matter of charg ing the ships of foreign countries using the canal no more than American ships, it Is a sound business requirement which this government would have ob. served without any stipulation. There is fn this, consequently, no restriction, but shply the recognition of a business principle. The exchange of ratifications between the two governments will donbtless be effected practicable, after which congress can enact the al legislation alveady proposed, a treaty wade with Nicaragua and Costa Rica for the necessary tervitory and the work of carrying out this vast enterprise en tered upon, vote favor the treaty was so as was Ainst be X rable an objec others B tacon ¥ the by the against fons, ns canal ever be overcome ever was wdas soon PRESIDENT AND MR. GAGH A short time ago it was reported that there was disagreement ” dent Roosevelt and Secretary Gage and that the secretary contemplated retiving from the cabinet, It that the report entirely recent Washington dispatches ing that there has never been any disagreement between the president and the secretary of the treasury, but on the contrary the most cordinl good feeling. A dispatch to & New York paper says the president has a high regavd for Mr, Gage, hoth as an individual and financier, and has repeatedly said that he conside lim one of the ablest financiers in the coun The power of the secretary to re duee to the simplest terms the most ab struse financial propositions is said to have excited thes admivation of Mr. Roosevelt and he feels that the admin Istration would suffer a serlous loss if Mr. Gage should leave the cabinet, The high estimate which the president is sald to place upon the financial abil ity of Mr. Gage is dertainly shared by the financial interests of the country. We have not approved all the recommendations of the seeretary of the treasury particularly from his proposition for an asset cur vency, but he 15 on the whole a judi clous, conservative, safe man, eminently ginlitied for the duties of his position and the contidence of the country, There s other able finan but President Roosevel is wise in not desiving to put a new man at the head of the Treasury department A SATISFACTORY INTERPRETATION. President Roosevelt's interpretation of the Monroe doctrine has attracted much attention in pan-American elreles and Is very generally and warmly com me 1. The president said that the doctrine 18 a declaration that th must be no territorial aggrandizement by any non-Amerlean power at the ex pense of any American power on Ameri can soil, It ds not intended as hostile to any nation*fu the old world and still less s 1t Intended to give cover to any aggression by one new-world power at the expense of any othes. The doctrine, sald the president, has nothing to do with the commercial relations of any American power, save that it allows each of theyr to form such as it de slres. It is intended to safeguard the permanent independence of the Ameri can republics, but it offers no guaranty against punishment for the misconduct of any of these countries toward a for eign nation, Referring to the views of between PPresi pears wis baseless, 0 od and business dissenting possessing clers, the other better, dent the miniter of Salvador in Wash lrmmburu contributors to exposition | record this | events | I'he country was prepared for the rati- | foeling of suspicion which unfortunately ient {s concerned | e remark It Is particularly gratifying that | | [ this | | conutry THE OMAHA DAILY BE WEDNESDAY, ington «ald they will tend to allay the | funds they can be voted with equal pro priety for refmbursing parties who have advanced i for an freigation ditch a normal school or any other enterprise that might be pr in the inte of the public but without authority of law exists S0 attitude in of ith the America rding the United States—a feeling, incomprehensible to thos aware of the just purposes of Certainly such utterances as those of President reg ney rote st who are the if Ameriean government ————— EXpectant aspirants to positions on the new fire and police hoard are hold ing their ears to the frozen grownd, in the hope of hearing something to thelr advantage. Attorney General Prout has returned from Washington and to him Governor has confided the task of interpreting the recent ¢ of the supre urt in the Redell case. Lawyers of the first magnitude hitve ex pressed a doubt whether a commission appointed by the governor would have any more chance to take the place of the present board than had the police hoard appoitted by Governor Poynter, which was ruled out on the ground that the points at issue, involving the title of the existing board, had been disposed of for all thne. —_— The London Globe is terribly worrled because the United States senate rati fied the canal treaty speedily and considers this evidence that Great Brit ain has the short end of the bargain The matter has been under discussion too long to work any gold brick deals, but like some of the radical antl-British papers in this country the Globe could not afford to miss an opportunity to howl. Roosevelt and of his predecessor do not have the effect to allay suspicion of this that feeling is to to be removed. The course Unite St townrd the publics has always been o friendly and frank andl honorable that it is difficult to understand how a doubt regarding our futegrity of purpose and good faith conld have found lodgment in the minds of the people of those countries, It probable, that the feeling of susplefon 18 dylng out. Much good in this direction should come from the Pan American congress, the delegates to which will be able to inform their people that the friendship of this country for its sister republies is sineere and abiding. deep-rooted of the N southern re¢ cision n however, 1 POINT NOT WELL Governor Savage has given through the press that he does not pro pose to convene the legislature in spe ause all the matters for which a session is urged were hefore the leglslature last winter aud the failure to act on them is proof positive that they would not be acted on in a special ses sfon. Incldentally he secks to justify his position by declaring that the faflure to submit constitutional amendments, bills and enact to the people was due to the seltish ambition of eandidates for United States senator wh lized the greater part of the contesting for the prizes The first excuse offer Govern Savage for v to gnize the pressing emergency is negatived by the nd. Conceding that the senatorial deadlock prevented the legislature from taking action on matters of great mo ment that stould have been disposed of, there is ample reason why the oppor tunity should be given for the legisla ture to make good its shorteomi in asession which would be free from such contention and devoted exclusively to the consideration of subjects of vital im portance. To assume that the legisla ture would not perform its duty is a r flectlon upon its patriotism and in rity It matter of histo sessions of cong TAKEN, it out S0 — Just now the public is getting a re minder of the fact that the policoman Is not such a bad fellow. In the ab sence of any thoroughly organized char | ity the knowledge of the city its | people which the policeman posses and his readiness to lend a belping hand where It is needed and deserved comes in good play to relieve distress caused by the sudden cold snap, — A Weig pass apportionment mensures promised a monopo sesston in and 1 by using to re clusion, Chicago News Historian Maclay says the naval court of Inquiry vindicated him. Maclay and Potts is much, n Suggestlo ville € are Louf surer-Journal While we looking around for an iso- lated island to which to banish anarchists wo might lay a small and distant island for use by the senatorial linen wash ers. aside Is ¢ that special nou 58 have been ealled by presidents to act on measures that had failed in re slons of the legislature have time and again been called by of varlous states to had b Kansas City Star, It the department thinks Admiral Dewey went oo far in the Schley case th public Is of the opinion that Admirals Ben- ham and Ramsey also went too far and in a direction not so magnanimous that taken by the hero of Manila. In any event It both opinions are extreme, let the one balance the other and let the controvers: be closed Navy ular sessions, Speclal ses. the et 1 ignored or de session. Two years o nor Roose velt reconvened the New York legisla ture to enact laws by which the fran chised corporations should he compelled to pay taxes on their franchises. The | late Governor Ping kept the legisla ture of Michigan in successive extra ses slons enact railroad taxation laws whichiit had repeatedly refused to pass. A few months ago the Texas legislature wis convened in extra session to submit amendments to the constitution of Texas and enact needed revenue laws, and al though it had ‘ailed to act upon these mensures inregular gession the recom mendations of the governor were car- ried out lnspecial session and the pro- posed constitutional amendments will be voted on at the next election, To lay the responsibility of legislative Inaction upon the candidates for United | States senator s, to sag the least, be neath the dignity of a chief exceutive Who surely must know that the most | important duty devolving upon the last leglslature was the choice of two United | States senators, It Is, morcover, unbe coming in this particular instance in view of the fact that Governor Savage was elevated to the position as an out come of the protracted contest that ended with the election to the senate of the governor chosen by the people. The Bee has no other interest in the reconvening the legislature to sub- serve than the weltare of the state i the interest of the republican part which its government has heen entrusted and for which it will justly be held sponsible, governors legislation that ed in regular Ve Baltimore uropean powers at present seem engaged in the pleasant task of taunting one another with cruelty. The Prussians who eriticised the English for the severities of the Boer concentration camps, are | fogging Polish children who will not learn their catechism in German and imprison- Amerfcan. to | fshment of the little ones. And so the compliments and the conslstency are pass- ing on, The Coming Telegraph Syste Denver Republican In some way, however, wireless telegra- phy will almost certainly come into pra tical use, and it will require so little capital compared with what is now telegraph wires and poles that evitably reduce the cost of teley below what it i today It is possible, how. ever, th in long-distan telephoning 1t and all other kinds of telegraphing will find a formidable ri Recent improvements promise to make it as easy to talk between New York and San Francisco as it is now between houses but few blocks removed from each other in the same city. er Kings Blistered, Boston The world is a copper-bottomed strueture that Is, there is plenty of copper almost everywhere. But it seems to make no dif- ference how plentiful a commodity is, the insatiable mania of the eager commercial mind for speculation on the basis of monop- oly 15 bound to assert itself. The general verdict is that the present troubles with copper stocks are the result of the attempt of a few men to control the copper market of the world. What a problem! But if rains of sand should ever come to have an extraordinary value, may rest assured that some trust would surely combine to control the sands of the sea. Nothing seems immune from the clutch of the mod- ern monopolist em———— one of Volce, it will in- Co It Governor Savage has not yet been convineed that the emergency exists that would justity him in ealling an extra session of the legislature, it confidently believes that his views will undergo a change in the no distant fu- ture, we —— The I The Board of Education has been urged to invest in a patent smoke con sumer that will do away with the pillar of smoke that by day from the tall chimney of the High school build ing. The board has been given assur ance that by an expenditure of $1,800 a saving of 20 per cent in the cost of fuel can be effected which will pay for the smoke absorber in six months. We make bold to assert that this prospective sav- ing of coal will not alarm the coal deal ers who have a contract to supply fuel for the public schools, Up to date no patented or unpatented device that will consume smoke has put in an appear ance in Omahba and probably never will material %0 long as we continue to burn soft coal smut In the meantime every smoke consuming apparatus will be guaranteed to save from 20 to 50 per cent In fuel just us every patent gas burner saves from 33 to 100 per cent of gas, even though the gas meter con- tinues to register the same number of cublc feet of gas consumed. —_— A member of the Nebraska for the St. Louls exposition I quoted as advocating the advance of the money necessary for Nebraska's representation by the rallrouds traversing the state, T'o this scheme there could be no serious objection providing the rallroads can bhi induced to donate the mone 1r, w over, It contemplates a refunding of t nion by the next legislature there will be most deeided opposition. That would simply afford an opening for a repetition of the old tacties of bulldozing and club- bing mewbers of the legislature into voting appropriations after instead of before the debt has been incurred. Such a practice is pernicious and demoraliz Small wonder that the s dential patronage disgusted with the presidential tone of voice. It reveals thelr hypocritical methods in a way t& make them ashamed of themselves. When a justice of the United States supreme court whispers in the presidential ear and the president blurts out loud in reply that all promotions must be made for merit, it makes the rep- resentative of justice feel cheap. No doubt it was out of respect for this delicate fi ing on the part of the statesmen in Wash- ington that the president Pook Senator Cul- lom by the arm the other day and led him into a far-off corner, placed his hand over his mouth and whispered something in the senatorial ear. It was the Rooseveltian way of letting this persistent office-seeker know that the president had heard of the Cullom gomplaint that he talks too loud on strictly confidential subjects. ckers after presi- are rises | A Dem Moses New York Sun Once more we greet Colonel Moses Wet- more of St. Louls with a glad heart and hand. For two'years we have revered and brated him as the one man in the world who knows how to fight trusts. His mefhoa bas the naked simglicity of genlus. He is a tobacco manufacturer. He is a hater of trusts, as befits a crony and hunting com panion of Colonel Bryan. The tobacco trust is his special aversion. So he sold out his tobacco plant at fat figures to the trust | Then with the money obtained from a con- scleficeless monopoly he proceeded to start an independent plant. It was highly pros. perous, for Colonel Wetmore knows hls business. Meanwhile he continued to flame agalust trusts, We felt that he was plan ning another stunning blow at them. It 1s reported that blow has fallen The trust has bought the colonel out again As he can sell longer than the trust can buy, there must come a time when he has got all the trust's money and the trust has got all his plants. The Octopodicide, the slayer of the devil fish, has b n found. Democratic as soclations in search of an orator for Jackson day can do better than to ask Colonel crn commisslon ing. I large sum can be voted away to | g SEC 0 BERCE TRAE K0 O e up trust DECEMBER To have vindicated | ing parents who object to the savage pun- | expended for | phing far | 18, 1901, D OF STATE POLITICS | ora Jourr b the supreme more in cleaning up the docket thought it would be able to do was vinted last April the behind. The last flual sitting of the term | far court ) Repe commission is than | When commission v court was five or six year case on the call for court for the September yeats and three months behind Heved that the docket will be cle: next meeting of the legislature the only two It 18 be- ared by the Lincoln Post (pop.) has asked the supreme court what it meant by its recent de | Omaha police board days of study, aided by | talent in the attorney general's office, the | Rovernor threw up his hands and decided | that nobody could tell whether a new com mission should be appointed or not. The governor seems to think that the supreme court should give a handy reference k | with each opinion Pender Republic Baker of Omal | likely to su tendered an dent in Governor Savage to tell him sfon fn the | After the whole force of case several | (rep): Judge who 1s n of Congressman Mercer, appointment Monday by Roosevelt of ociat the supreme court of v Mex dge Baker took the matter under | sideration for a couple of days before ciding what he will do him advice it would cause Nebraska is a g Mexico will ever be with Nebraskans Papillion Times (dem.): It Is given out that Judge Baker has been tendered the position of assoclate supreme judge of New Mexico and that the judge is hustling for the pla The Times is of the opinion that Judge Baker would be just the man to deal out justice in the territory. His | record for h g eriminals without glove s | would indicate that he would be a terror | to the many evil-doers of that country At the time the people of this distriet Wil be sorry (o lose him from the bench | for the same reason Ben as was Presi justiceship an a do- If we were giving to decline it, be ter state than New and Ben stands well same | Sidney State report shows 0,000 In debt Auditor that | This 1s | constitution Telegraph (rep.) Weston's semi-annual N aska is over $2, somewhat intereeting, as the prohibits an Indebtedness in excess of $100,000. The Omaha Hee fn this connecs tion says that the question now up to the peopls hall the state continue to pite up a mountain of debt and pay premium out of the school fund on its own warrants or shall it pursue the only rational course .In-H open through the eubmiss of the necessary constitutional amendment? Ex- | cessive expenditures by both populist and republican legisiatures is responsible for this big state indebtedness. Kearney Hub (rep.): Governor Savage has | appointed a commission to represent Ne- | braska at the St. Louls exposition, to pro- | vide an exhibit and see to t atter of funds. The ouly way an exhibit can be se- | tamity i"" strite of the street. And the w her chief pleasures in the dem | his ability, as shown in her | roundings and growing social cess (7), power, wealth, bave end, and the material resu can enjoy together And for the | most fatal a strife destroys the colder the | yqyancement of girlhood and boyhood into Is the strenuous [ normal maturity. Public demonstration of physical force me form technical Louls has a hen-pecked husbands | ki1l brings about either abnormal muscular sociation pledged to strike for liberty when | strength to the detriment of the heart the Midway or perish in the at-|displaces the balu by which natu tempt meant brain and muecle to keep the bheaut! The tul organism in 000,000 1 counted recognition” to and dangerously every RSONAL NOTES, inquiry {lluminate federal naval court of of example of the The the for court . upreme there prprise Anyhow lack of en money was no dilatoriness in roundiog up the prize or | Aifferer . the placid Strange may \ ther grows the life of the fuel cart s it Appear we greater or ot st ase blooms, o o rection worthy srdica family think they have coming from the United This is the highcet note yet touched by the is a way of galning do something unfeminina daring, or to abandon accomplishment and every grace, to famous on a fleld man believe that he n outwit, outthrow, outfight, every | other in his special sphere of mental P21 or bodily activity his life is of no impor !% | tance while the strugsle lasts. The valu O ot his greatest endowment to himself and those who live throvgh him is dlsre rded, until some agonized face bends over Iiness or in de States. | In tim lke wise assimilate the and Medicine Hat straight all is well Three New York new satisfied unless the hero of Santiago court-martialed and shot for the crime being fn at the death of Cevera's fleet A committee has been formed in London to raise funds for a memorial to the Iate | i ", Kaote Greenaway, the artist Bir Thomas | Wardle is chairman. The Greenaway family | has requested M. H. Spielman to prepare a | memorial volume A Missourl editor formed “spider web leg social” ha present the weather reports from Calgary | become When the latter is on| If | man the 2 can out uver man pers will not to | & ma regard the aske Washington 8tar: “Do {sthmian canal as a good th interviewer | oIt may ' b thoughttully, | Hieht Puck concerta? He—Well, to tell the I'm always afraid Il say after a number when I ought to say, wonderful! n whose types trans R soclal” into “spindle a wanderer, not be cause he feared to kill the blundering printer, but because the women who at- tended the party insisted on “being shown.” sald Senator Sorghum becon “for somebody, if 1t 8 worked ghe—Why do you dislike to go to truth, it's because How beautiful “How THE NATIONAL FIRE WAST mons Drain Upon the Renoun cen | Somerville Journal: Hicks—I understand | that poor Bjones had to have his les am putated st week tibune Wicks il 1t w d for the United | had the tsm in ot Country. Chicago November fire 1ece es shows no decr in the monthly | of losses for the vear. On the other the loss¢ to date already promise to exceed those of the last three years. For November the total logses were $18, 288,42, compared $5.515,000 last yeur and $11,857.630 in 1899, For the pres ent year to date the total amount to $154,550,472, as compared with $160 $95 10 1000. The outlook s that during the re of this month the losses wiil b ed to an amount larger than those of last year | Phiiagelphia Press In this connection Mr. Arthur E. Har- |a neckile for o gentle rell contributes to Leslie's Weekly some | Clerkesos, miss hove significant information on the subject of | "ERe" G HOn'! Want to pay more than fire losses. He estimates the total losses | a4 quarter for twenty-six years at $2.800.714,021 and | Clerkoyos, mad the insurance at a little over $1.700,000,000, leaving an uninsured loss of about $1,100,- | 000,000, Annlyzing the causes, he finds that about 23 per cent of fires are caused by defective flues, overheated stoves, faulty | bovs, ctric installations and ofl stove and gas- | " oline accldents. About the same percentage an't the leg that efther. L rhetn 8| list hand % why pt: Harrlot—Harry ball_cach side ha lon't they have an eve Boston Trans fs it that in eleven men? dozen on ¢ Harry - Becau Hves of twos me body knew that would endan, 1 suppost it e men with " The very : proposed” t asked me next 1 her what own Toplc ing_after vou confided in had better d He—1 hope he-Oh, y could ¢ losses a and #ho favorable 1 didn’t belteve vou were & 1 told her iy better maindor iner 1 want to & nan, « are some very fc 1 m, does husband lors? your Detrolt Free Press xpressions are decidedl which, for instance ne thit saye that boye will be for exampl fverybody knows thut will be men when they grow up “A great many com wrong.' OLD WRITS, cured 1s by baving funds for that purpose. | The funds can possibly be raised on the expectation that the Nebraska legislature {\Ill repay. But this sort of borrowing and Peying, which is clearly illegal and not &dod public policy, has already heen worked to a finish, and, like any other unauthorize outlay, a stop should be put upon it. Ne- braska people had a great deal better sub- | scribe from their own pockets any sum reeded to make a showing at St. Louis than to wink at or tolerate this mischievous mothod. Holdrege Citizen (rep.) tention by been attracted to the semi-an- nual report of Auditor Weston, which shows that the indebtedness of the state 1s about $2,000,000. This condityon does not seem to be due to any particular state ad- | ministration or legislative session, but both populist and republican legislatures have made excessive appropriations. Be- sldes we are cur 1 with a wretched system of asscssment which is a disgr: to the | state. When Meserve was taeasurer he purchased thousands of dollars of sta warrants for the permanent school fund, His right to do this has been questioned. How this indobtedness s to be wiped our is a question that puzzling our state officials, B Considerable at 1. itral City Nonparell (rep.): The Lin- coln Journal advocates an appropriation of $150,000 for a Nebraska exhibit at the St Louis expesition. The Journal is generou N very generous. The proposed appropriation is about $150,000 too large. The state of | Nebraska has Invested enough in the show business, considering the doubtful returns from the investments.. Even our own Transmissiesippi and its warmed-over the Greater America exposition, not good financial investments for ka taxpayers, outside of Omaha, and | it was certainly a great public disaster 1t it has obligated us to make appropriations by the hundred thousand for every exposition that aspiring cities may inaugurate, Xpos sitions are getting too common and the ex- position fad too expensive Emerson Enterpri The World-Herald published a lengthy article Wednesday in which it stated that the republican state officlals at Lincoln have concluded that The Omaha Bee has lost its Influence. The World-Herald is lable to be very much mis taken, It Is well known that a newspaper of established circulation has Influence whether people like its editor or not and The Bee has warm friends as well as enemies. The Nebraska republicans want state officers, too, that are above even susplcfon and the people of the state have been very much interested, to eay the least, in the charges brought against state officer, although most republicans have withheld critictsm awaiting further devel- opments. The republicans must be har- monfous also and present a solid front If they expect to win again next fall Pender Republican (rep.): Inst week the Jast of the patlents were removed from the Norfolk asylum to Lincoln by the state bhoard of charlties. While 1t is true that the larger part of the asylum was recently | destroyed by fire, vet it is not true, ac- | cording to the unvarnished statement of facts, that the remaining patients could not | be well taken care of in that portion of the | hospital yet remalning fntact. As a matter | of fact, they have been the better taken | care of there than they will be In the | asylum at Lincoln, which, before these pa tlents—over 100 of them—were taken t was badly crowded. In this act of removal a plain intent 18 shown by the crowds of South Platte statesmen, responsible for the move, to deprive Norfolk, if possible, of the hospital entirely, by so arranging mat- ters pertaining to the care of the insan that the rebullding of the Norfolk asylum can be prevented, thus giving to Lincoln and other South Platte points the advan- tage of having all these state wards main- tained among them. Governor Savage likely to hear a good sized clap of thunder from northeast Nebraska when he comes up for renomination on account of his per mitting this removal. The Norfolk asylum was being conducted successfully and heneficlally to the patfents entrusted to it and because of its partial destruction by fire was no more a cause for i{ts abandon ment that is what the action means than the burning of a portion of the penitentiary last winter for the removal of that institution South Sloux City This part of Nebraska will not and ought to submit to the eteallng away of the institution it has. and was to not only state Atter all George an oficer for most of the a gentlemen Is Dewey notlon of an 00d enough | 10ss | waste 18 a serious tax on th | waste of loss 18 due to carelessness in the use of lamps, matches, cigars, pipes, plumbers’ tools, candles and gas Jets. Properly ex- posed to fire originating on other premises a of 31 per cent: fires from | crime, liquor, tramps and wischief, 8.52 per | it, and of unknown origin, 21.15 per cent Ho estimates that half of the last named is occasioned by incendiaries. Elmi nating the causes which may alled un- | avoldable, such lightning, epontaneous combustion, etc., It remaing true that nearly all fires are preventable Why are they not prevented? First, per- haps because of the crroneous impression that insurance covers fire losses and ondly because of either Ignorance or in- difforence. 1t is certain that these fire losses could be reduced by increased watche fulness of premises, by more careful con- struction and by more rigld enforcement of laws having reference to fires. And yet| in spite of this, fire losses are steadily growing heavier year by year. The drain is not only a heavy one, caused by inex- cusable recklessness, but it imposes a heavy tax upon those who are careful of their property. The New York Journal of Commerce, by way of comment, well says: “It 18 clear that the enormous fire resourcen of is strange that Green Rag army march by in welrd res 1 I saw a grisly View flaring bugles drum's tattc not a solemn tread, the catacombs of sions of the dead army was of shadows gaunt and gray; A rustling as of parchment went with that Bere array 1 stopped and gazed and could that army be? T looked, a sadden thought revealed the truth fo 1 The shadows in tho £ olden time, entittes of pleading pleading's prime; For now new assignment would greet my wildered eyes And now th #loomy Again the wha profert, Would swee pass b shows a loss No did T hear nor e'en a al army—it passed with n Limbo, to the man The of shadows wondered—what But « leglons were shapes The in the days of e of Oyer tn dark and of col the shade of along and md my In_ grucsomeness view A ime the band of writs in elose g rrid il stre(ched us 'far as eye could see ween for full a mil writ of latitat was there, ouster keen hubere facias selzinam and entry were seen; writ of cor ant writ of Al the b searred fr close behir | e brixtlin 1ot aivers ki not number [ saw the sk and sans fa too the ne known to fame, | Of many kinds and’s in nam But ax I wached these coh all thinner grew, murky gloom they van- from view. | The The | The And And the writ of m nobis hoar, the trench- ght thren of that 1Ik, n moll and fight the writs the ranks of pleas in stern arruy—ono could thesc wder, the United States and it public opinion is 8o Aull regarding this | No other nation could stand such no other nation would Acep marched a drain and THE PA the plea of son There. ve Spee et New York Authorities who labor and endurance n I-assumpsit and others Ryening Foat ndry in respect and make the comparative of men a study tell us that Americans violate the laws of nature more generally and rashly than those cf any other nation. They tabulate the results of incessant strain and excitement, of the disregard of needed rest and the violence done to the digestive apparatus by going to the limit of exhaustion, etc., and say with one consent that early deaths and prema- ture disability of brain and body are the vesult, and that professional and financial life is a slow method of suicide to at least one-third of our young men. The cause? Where does it lle heaviest? The man Is eager to be in the front rank, to live like a prince, and to be notoriously successful as above and beyond his fellow- men; that ia one place where the responsi- bllity lies. /The woman, what of her? In how many homes in this country is it a common every-day word of affection “Never mind, dear; If this plan of mine succeeds, or it 1 mako this coup, you shall have a carte-blanche to furnish your house as you choose and you shall have the pret- tlest turnout in the town.' 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