Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 19, 1901, Page 6

Y BEE: THURSDAY, D THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, EI ITOR. SHED EVERY MORNING. CRIPTION. ¥ TERMS OF ar.§6 (X 200 | 1w One Ye 1w ARRIER rmer, BY r per week. 12 per week.1ic b ), per week 10c lay), per AN in delivery ilation b Dally Ev Evening week Complal ilaritl shouid be ad ¥ ¢ partment ‘ dur Hal Bulld urt L ourteenth Street. PONDENCE. Comm to news and edi toria eased: Omaha Bee | DUSINESS LETTERS, Business letters and remittances should be | addr d The Bee Publishing Coempany, VM N1 NCES ress or postal order, Publizhi Company ccepted In payment of Jnal checks, except on aha or not accepted IHE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglay County, 88.: George 1. Tanchiick, secrotary of e Bee Putiiching Company, belng Auly sworn, says that the actual number of full and of The Dally, Morning, 5 Sunday He printed during snth of November, 1%l, was as fol 31,000 10,520 v ..80,260 80,040 16 1 18 Less unsold and returned coples.... 10,801 | Net total sales FrE T Net dally average..... GEO Subscribed in my presen before me this %th day of November, A. D. 191 M. B, HUNGATE, (Seal ) Notary Publie. _—— Nebraska's winter wheat has ¢ the white overcoat it has be for. 1 sworn to | eured | n walting | The Fifty-seventh congress has ma¢ a good start. It will now take a two- weeks' rest in order to give overheated | members time for catching their breath The agitation has been renewed for the abolition of secret sessions of the | United States senate. When did the | senate hold a secret session that stayed | secret? We apprebend that Senator Millard will not be overwhelmed with work de volving on him as one of the three ment bers of the committee on revolutionary claims, The Omaha people are not half as much interested in the verdict of the Schley eourt as they are in the verdict of the Board of Review, which has now gone to the city council for approval. Austrian shoe manuf: cided to introduce American machines into thelr factories. This is certainly a more effective way of fightiug American competition than smashing the windows of stores that handle American goods, cturers have de The conflict between the Burlington and Elkhorn raflronds over the Elghth street switch has been submitted for arbitration to Judge Munger and the n id eity council are rel 1 from further pressure, at least for a few days. Speaker Henderson is going home to cat his Cheistmas turkey and the lov senators are contewplating a vacation that will enable them to lay in a stock of turkey and cranberry sauce that con stitute the customary midnight luncheon for the senatorfal caucus notice that when he office he will dispense with the oflicers who Mayor Low give assume services of all appointive are not necessary for the conduct of the clity’s business. Wonder if the wmayor contempluted the effect of such a large addition to the ranks of the unemployed. The Gerian several high officials of the participating in duels, The excuse for the survival of this barbarous custom, neither Iy there any son why a soldier should be called upon to adopt u method of defending his Lonor pro- libited to a eivillan. Aismissed wrmy for I8 1o uperor has o When a shortage in the office of the late fusion ofl inspector was first an nounced the papers of that party in sisted It was a lie sprung only for the purpose of throwing mud at a fusion officlal. It willl be noticed that the bonding company has just settled the balance due cluimed by the state. Now that Postmaster General Smith has resigned to enter more actively into his own private business the cabinet tinkerers throughout the country may be expected tuke up the work of de- molishing the present cabinet structure entirel Members who have no inten tlon of resigning may as well have a denlal ready The resignation of Postmaster General Sniith to resume his position as editor: tn-chief of the Philadelphia Press em- phasizes the fact that the editor of a great daily occupies a wore exalted po sition and exerts a greater influence than any cabinet officer, who is, at best, only a member of the Mresident’s staff, with very limited powers. It {8 doubtless desigable that the fire fighting force and machinery be brought to the highest point of efficlency. But the question is, Where will the money come from to pay the increased salary list and cost of new apparatus and when all s done what assurance have we that | more | important, | vention elected for the purpose of revising | the | the nigh price of | resentment THE OMAHA DAIL THE PARTY ON PROBATION During his recent visit to Omaha Senator the following ex pression of his reasons for not favoring the proposed special session of the leg- | islature; | State true t ant legislation | might he accomplished, but every question of § w before the people of the | st a live question during the la ewsion Conditions have not changed m en and it 1s not at all 11k men, should a eession would do more than they then did o burning of the Norfolk asylum, of e, has created mergency, but it | { seem a little unwise to call the leg- | together at an expense of over $20 the purpose of appropriating $40,000 | « new hospital for the insane. Further- | the patients of the Norfolk aeylum | have been distributed among the other in- | stitutions and seem to be well taken care | for the present he revision of the but inasmuch as present constitution ars another year may be endured serlous Injury At th last winter an effort was made to \dments and all of them failed | and it is doubtful if a legizlature convened | in extra session would accomplish very much in that direction. I hope, however, at some time to see a conetitutional t some imp oftance wis n | te that t ally since Iy o same be an wot felature 000 for for constitution is also | have lived for a good we under m without session submit the a to anyone, con- | the constitution | The state treasurer has recently made a report, In accordance with the roqueet of ublican convention, showing where | every dollar of tho public money Is to be found, and I see no special necessity for an extraordinary session of the legislature for investigating the state treasury The people of the state generally are en Joy 1 period of unparalleled prosperity; 18 this true of our part of the Custer county produced quite a con- stderable crop of corn, which is being mar keted at G5 conts a bushel; hay was very abundant and finds a ready market at $1| to $6 a ton. All other farm products ars | high. The people are gencrally satisfled. | They might endure an extr fon of the legislature without complaint, but they are not asking for It ym a political standpoint 1 belleve 1t would be unwise. The opposition might sk, and with some degree of justification, | why it 1o subject the state | to the expense of an extra session to ac- complish these things that should have been done when we were in regular session. | Senntor Currie 18 knpwn to he very conservative and Is a fair representative of the class of public men who labor under the delusion that material pros- perity alone will induce the masses to | patiently endure political grievances and | evils that should be remedied. In the recent campaign prosperity and farm products were | doubtless potent factors In assuring re- publican victory, as well as the popular over the assassination of President McKinley. Senator Currie | knows, however, that the republican | party cannot afford to stake its future | in Nebraska on prosperity and the high | price of corn and hay. The party is on probation and ean only retain its pow and supremacy in the state by proving its competency to give the people good | government. Nobody knows better than Senator Currie that the chief reason f the faflure of the last legislature to enact legislation that was absolutely sential to a wise and economical admin istration of the affairs of the state was due to the fact that wany members of the legislature had senatorial aspirations and expended all their brain power and energy in an effort to attract the votes | that would transport them to the United Stutes se) A spectal session would not be subject to such conditions and would be free from political plots and counterplots and the barter-and-trade element which kept the legislature of last winter in a | constant turmoil, The demand of the hour is for consti tutional amendments that will enable the state to fund its debt, which now ap- proximates $2,000,000, and to place it in position to safeguard the state school fund and provide for its proper invest ment and forever put a stop to the farm ing out and speculation in those funds, The demand of the hour is also for the abolition of the stilted supreme that I8 now constituted of thre and nine commissiones stitutionality, at an aggregute expense of over $40,000 annually, when five Judges could more efficiently discharge the functions. The semi-annual exhibit recently pub- lished by Treasurer Stuefer may be sa isfactory to some people who are easily satistied, but the great body of taxpayers of Nebraska are still looking for a more claritied explanation of treasury bond deals than we have had up to date, For that purpose, however, no special ses slon I8 necessary, The state can wait for these amend- ments another year, according to Mr. Currie. Mr, Currie ought to know that unless these amendments are submitted at the election of 1902 there is no chance ving them in the natlonal palgn year of 1904, and if submitted in ® they could not go into effeet before 1007, This means a continuance of the wretched financial edmplications and the costly and unsatistactory judicial sys tem for tive years longer. Is it safe for the republican party to postpone the day for these reforms and ke the chances of defeat for refusing to rectify mistakes and put a stop to crooked deals? Is it not extra hazardous to continue to ignore these blunders and breaks that have been made without any attempt to correct them? Is it not better to admit that they have been made and to make an earnest effort to rectify them at the first opportunity ? % especially was necessary es also court Judgges , of doubtful con- A CHANGE IN THE CABINET. The vesignation of Charles Emory Smith as postmaster general enme as surprise to the public and his retive ment from that office will be generally regretted by those connected with the postal service. His administration has been characterized by a high order of ability and efficiency and he will leave the generally in better condi tlon than when he became postmaster general three years ago. While always tavoring a liberal poliey 1n the interest of the public, Mr. Smith has at the same time been careful to protect the interests of the government, a conspieu ous example of this being his order in regard to second-cluss matter. He has igned in order to return to newspa the fire insuran rates will be lowered or even kept at the present level? | m [ ber of y | Payne. work, In wiich he years ugo at tained prominence. He Is one of the [come, the creation of auy wore national ablest and most forceful editorial writers in the country and the political influenc paper, the Philadelphia | Press materially ngthened | to it | yne of | of his will e st his return Mr. Smith will be sueceeded stor general by Henry €. I Wisconsin, than whom President Re velt could not have made a better se- | leetion.” Mr. Payne has a good of the postal serviee, acquired as by a knowl edg ts, 80 that Le 18 well equipped | duties of the head of the Post- | department. Ile has had, more- | a large experience in business af fairs and the is of g strictly business It can therefore be confidently assumed that | there will be no deterioration in |h:|vi o under the administration of Mr, for the oflice over, service postal \ character, servi SPANISH CLAIMS GROWING. Under the treaty of peace with Spain the United States agreed to indemnify its citizens for any damafe sus tained fn Cuba as the result of the con flict in that island. It was not antiel pated when the treaty was negotinted thut the claims would exceed a few million dollars and consequently 1o limit was pec jed. This was an un- fortunate omission, for thus far the claims filed foot up to a total of more than $60,000,000 and new demands are presented every day. The chairman of the Spanish claims commission, Hon. Willlam E. Chandler, alled attention to the fact that | his is almost the only instance in| which the amount of claims has not | been fixed by a limitation. The failure | to do this eannot now be remedied and | consequently the will he enlled upon to consider elaims which probably have little or foundation, but which take up time and involve | pense in thelr consideration. It ap-| moreover, that there was blun own has commission | dering on the part of congress In the legislation er which How ating the claims commis- | ston, is without power to do| things found , par- | ticularly in the matter of obtaining evi dence abroad regarding alleged claims. | It is stated th the Spanish govern- | ment Las volunteered its ald to. defeat | ss claims by supplying w | evidence it may have in its possession | with respect to them, but the commis- | slon is unable to avail itself of the of- | fer. This is o matter which cot can correct will doubtless do There Is no doubt that of the elaims | already filed there are many that can not proven, but the mistakes t have heen made in connection with this | matter are lkely to be very expensi HARMONY BETWEEN CAPITAL Much good, in the promotion of I mony between iabor and eapital, it may | 1 be hoped will result from | the conference just held in New York. This meeting of representatives of lahor and capital was characterized by a most friendly spirlt and the evidence of uu} wrnest purpose on both sides to bring | about harmony and the preservation of | industrial pes All who addressed the conference 1 the mutual in of labor.and capital and the | obligation that rests upon both, for the | wel ' material progress | 80 to live in peace to he essentl and w0, LABOR AND sonabl; terests conumon and for and harmony. Senator Hanna declared his belief that | the day is at hand for peace between labor and capital and promised to do hiis tol bring this about, saying that a settlement of the question will do more for good government, good morals and good social relations than anything could accomplish. Mr, Schwah, president of the United States Steel cor- poration, while not approving of trades unions now constituted, said that | “after the fortunes and the pros perity the employer and the em-| ployed are luked together; they are the | same and the two interests should stand together; that upon the peaceful adjust ment of the ditticulties that exist be tween capital and labor depends the future prosperity of the United States.” The position of the labor leaders was concillatol Mr. Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers' association, sxpressed the opinion that if the plan outlined before the conference Is car out it will do more good than any other movement in our country, saylng: “As one who knows the effect of industrial war, no one will welcome more than 1 industrial Other representa tives of lubor spoke to the same effect, all manifesting a disposition to assist in advancing the ecause for which the conference was led, Great interest will be taken in the plan that shall be formulated by the ex ecutive committee, the membership of which will represent in equal divisions capital, labor and the public—the public's concern in the differences between labor and ecapital being thus properly recog nized. In a general way the plan will probably provide for conferences between employers and employed wherever controversies and per haps also for some plan of arbitration where differences cann®® be otherwise adjusted, At all events, it may be eon tidently assumed that a fair, equitable W practicable scheme for the settle ment of differences between capital and labor will be devised. The sentiments expressed and the feeling manifested in the conference warrant this expectation This meeting of labor and capital, with a practical object in view which both vealize to be of vital fmportayee to thelr welfare, Is an event of nary significance, It beginning of new dustrial world, or at part of that world by the United S should recelve the encouragement of stand the value of soclety a whole progress and prosperity hest we as all, ed peace,” more than ordi may mark the epoch i the in 1 the large which is oceupted ates, the carnest and all cun industrial and to st in is It efore learty under i who peace national to A bill bas introduced lower house of the anniversary linm MeKinl \ While the memory presidents will be into the ongress making January of the birth of Wil wtional holida of the three martyred svered for all time to n holidays is of doubtful propriety of the pl O Inte John A. Horbach m that the legislature ¢ sot aside one day in the ing day, while t could in due conrs to recr neers of ahin, the de the Nobraska ¥ onee suggestion uld ras a work balance of the year| of time be dedicated ition and reminiscont prayertul- | It fous question for what pur- | | postmaster at Milwaukee for a num | pose the United States senate keeps up o {man who will be given charge of the bureau committee on Pacific it ships and clerkships to go around the Pacific have either through receivers' hands or been merged in the community-of-Interest systoms and | in the future they should have no differ the government than the | other railronds of the country | whom legislation Is standing committe ilronds, unless it has not enough chairman Al passed is because affecting handled by ! on raflroads | A few weeks ago the executive com mittee of the Commercial club roasted M Moores to a turn he sought to enforce discipline in the fire department by agaiust the former chief. Tuesday this week the committee took pleasure in taking lunch with the mayor and as sured him that his efforts to fmprove the | fire department met with its unqualified approbution And th smiled. because entertaining charges mayor blandly retary Root has flatly refused to take any uction which would delay the Cuban the ground that Uncle Sam is anxious to be discharged as recelver and to devote to business of Lis own on the sition 8 election on his time This Is a quietus sertions of the political oppo which has steadily insisted that the administration was scoking an ex for remafuing in control of the island. —_— The anti-British papers in this coun try will be demanding the dismissal ot the Assoclated Press correspondent at | Washington. In speaking of the party workers whose business it is 1o s members are tested measures he is the English truckling tol present to vote on con lling them nawe Whips." British forms cannot ated for o moment. Out with him of be | Sam Gompe the ir can the keynote of spressible confliet between Ameri- | workingmen and trusts when he | accused the glant corporations with un due interference in the political affairs the country -und notably with the national judiciary. One of the great trust Jawyers is quoted as saying: “Give us the courts and we will let the people clect all the legislatures and governors.” | We had almost forgotten that we are to have a recount of the ballots cast at the late election in order to ascer tain beyond a reasonable doubt who is | entitled to serve the county as register of deeds and clerk during the nest two years. All previous experience has | demonstrated that these recounts ave | mere snipe hunts in which the lawyers bag the gawe. Inventor Edison expresses the opinion | that Marconi will be able to make his | invention of wircless telegraphy a com mereial suceess and ineidentally praise him his discoveries, I'he opinion of Edison on such a subject is cortainly entitled to weight and possibly there will be no necessity for a Pacitic eabl by the time it is laid and in working order, Record-Herald Maclay says he has been vindi: seems to leavo Potts as the only anti-Schley | man with nothing to stand on | The Chiea Popular Side, News | Schley at le has the satisfaction of | knowing that the Dewey verdict would be | carried by an overwhelming majority if put | to & popular vote. | Money n the Rounds, 8t. Loul Hob Enough mor in United States to give The per capita 1860 $13 85, It the present amount people who want around. Democrat circulation in the to each person §28.78. in 1506 was $21.10, and in will be noticed that even would disappoint the an equal division ull An Old W er Reotified. Chicago Record-Herald, The chiéf gain for the United States in the negotiations of this tréaty is that it supersedes the Clayton-Bulwer convention and gives to us a free hand in arranging for the construction, maintenance and control of a canal whose neutralization we guarautee. Wo Great Lessons, Minneapolis Tribune Just about the time has never touched tobacco in any form dies | and gives the world centenarian bobs the statement dallied with hot ninety years or so. world, anyhow some centenarian who other with lesson alive and hearty he has smoked uml‘ d rebellious liquors f This is & perverse old a some up that v Hide r Rug Baltim American A musical critic kindly coming over from London (o Americans how to siug in English, which he asserts they do not even know peak. When he does get over he Is likely to be considerably sur- prised to find in what clear, simple, forcible and energetic English opinion here of his proposal to enlighten our national iguor ance will be expres Na re teach bow to Valley orge \n al Park, | $t. Louls Republic | There should be no doubt of the passage | by the present of the bill to be | introduced in houses by Seuna! Penrose and ive Wanger Pennsylvania providing for the govern- ment acquisition and incorporation of Val- | ley Forge as a national park, This hista well deserves to he made of al shrines of the great republic, in wh beginning it figures so0 gloriously. The story of American hero- {sm displayed at Valley th preme eple of the revolutionary war. It should forever thrill th hearts of Amer of what splendid stuff the founders of this | country made | The incorporation of Valley Forge as .‘ national park would tend to the perp of the proud memories of the palgn which takes its n: e from the sce of its action. No American but ha with approval the successful termination of the patriotic movement now und. Congress should pass by unanimous vote the bill to this elfect soon to be introduce congress the Repr Forge is were Ptua tion cam woul | 1argely | up | be | transit i thir | night. | the LCEMBER | One | ROUAD AROUT NEW YORK, | Wipptes on (e Car of Life in the Metropolis of ad Mayor tablish a may e and thos An new innovation unique in the Al reform i planned by tration of New York Cit his intention to ¢ mplaint Kick the m Low bureau where all kinds ¢ thetr and rs xercise lung igestions will receive glad hand. The must have the ekill and of a the patience of Job and the neces manner hot air without ¢ A ca- e basket of the hrough workings ot 1 interest. Its physique bruisor ry suavity ¢ absorh king back will take eitl ateh the ke continuously pac suggestion us wa care out the country will w the kickers' b 1 with possibilities are immense Three York for vari $1,188 orders average val steamers which from New of Europe last week in money orders. The numbered 102,265, showing of about $11.62. These are gifts from all over the Of the money § Britain_and $110,000 to Ttaly, $42,000 to Russ! $32,000 Norway, § $15,000 to France, $16,000 to Denmark, $8,500 Belglum and the Netherlands and $230 aplece to Egypt and Portugal. The Itallan crders average highest, namely, $25.68 each, and the Danish and Dutch the least—$0.05 and $9.80. In the year more than $12,000,000 has been sent to Burope by postal order. carried separate Christmas ted State u 6,000 goes Treland, $21 to Sweden, $70.000 to 8,000 to Hungary 000 to Switzerland Germany, to A new swindling trick ticket Abou dres was worked on a zent of the elevated road last week o'clock in the morning a man ed in the company's uniform walked to the door of the office grected Agént Fischer cheerfully, Fischer recog nized him as an old employe of the road Say, Rischer,”” remarked the visitor, 'something bas happened up town and the down 1 You ordered headquar s has have be ters . If Fischer had any fons they dispelled when another man g town train and handed the ticket chopper a telegram. The telegram purported to come from the telegraph station above and In effect said that Flscher had been relleved from duty. The man who brought the tele gram walked away. Then Fischer handed the stranger the money he had taken in, hi book and the unsold tickets, and departed. When he returned an hour later | the visiters and $38§ were gone. 1 ent reliave you en to rej at sus were off a down- am pass The projected tunnel of the Pennsylvania rallroad under North and East river and Manhattan, beginning in New Jersey and | ending in Long Island, surp: in mag- tude and the underground rapid enterprise now under way in New cost having | Dr.PRICES Crem Baking Powder The difference of cost between a good and a poor baking powder would not amount for a family’s supply to one dol- lar a year. The poor powder would cause doctors’ bills many times this. Dr. Price’s Cream Baking:Powder is the most economical in the end, because it goes further in leavening and insures perfect, wholesome food. Used always in making the biscuit and cake it saves both health and money. Made from pure, grape cream of tartar, most healthful of fruit acids. Notr.—You cannot, if you value good health, afford to use th ap, low-grade baking powders. They are mostly, in spite of the pure food laws, made from alum, which endangers the health, All physicians will tell you that such pows ders in food are injurious. PRICE BAking PowDER Co., CHICAGO. the offer, and there is little doubt it will, it will be a supplement to existing institu tions of learning by supplying the oppor tunity for post-graduate work by the stu dents of all colleges as well as facilitaving [ *"o | oo the use of government resources for re=ibe short after Christmas it would be ten search, thus directly.stimulating the higher | years away,” re the mist cducation and enlarging the scope of fts | INdIviqual advantages. The offer made by Mr. Carnegle is a noble | one and should be accepted in the spirit in | which it is made. It embodies and puts in | PASSIN ASAN Haltimore American: It fsn't long until Christmas commented the Optimistic Per 18 long until Christmas as 111 ark Somerville Journal 0w for Kix owhe—Is that 1 would have Smythe ek, If I had known offered you a cigar. I haven't that, York City. The Pennsyly a Job is estl- | mated o cost $30,000,000. The tunnel will | extend under the Hudson river at a point | off Thirty-second st and, owing to the | depth of the water the soft charact of the river bed be about 125 fee below high water n In New York City there will be extensive underground ter- minals reaching from Seventh te Tenth | avennes and from Thirty-second to Thirty- streets, elevator lifts, by which the station will bo reached, will be capable | of carrying a 1 number of people and | constructed somewhat after the pattern of | the elevators now In by the under- | #round raflway in London. ‘our and one-qu miles of tunnel are provided for on the New York side of | the state line. On the other side must be from one to one and one-half miles. The total length of the tunnel will be six miles When it is considered that two and one- half miles of it will be in triplicate and the remainder in duplicate, it will be seen | that the total length of distance that must | be bored is about fifteen miles. This makes | it the longest boring in the world The announcement of the plans has al- ready caused a great shakeup in land values in tha vicinity. The Tribune reports that in one Ity holdings that valued $1,000,000 hefore the project announced are now &t $8,000,000, nd will at were railroad valued ety woman who resides on West End avenue, rela New York | letter, personally answered a telephone call. | Over the line came this message: to k to the who furnace.” John wos summoned. Ie was the color of the coal he handles. Carefully wiping | his ashy shoes on a Persian rug ho sidled up the box and made his presence known. The woman, who was in the next room, heard something like this /! Mandy, dis s me. Eh? Say dat Yes, I'se no engagements for dat Cake walk? Wid you? Go 'way, you's only foolin’. Yes, yes, I'll be dar. Yes, bestest close to be hired. Yes, yes, goodby, Mandy." As ho returned to the hall, wiping from his brow the beads that this unwonted in- tellectual endeavor had brought there, the woman of the house sald to him ou seem to be in great demand, John.'" “Yes, Mrs. Blank," came the answer “Deed I is. 1 can truly sympathize wid you now. Dis society business ‘am comin' very hard on both of us, now dat dis cake walk season am on again.' A prominent es a “I wants gemmen runs your again EDUCATION'S ¢ Two Munificent Contributions Aggre- ating $40,000,000, Chicago Tribune. Christmas, 1901, will long be remembered for the magnificent gifts to educational In- stitutions in this country which the season has brought in the last few days. During the present r 149 ipstitutions of learn- ing bave been given sums ranging from $5,000 to millions, and at the head of the long lst stands Leland Stanford univer- sity, which on Monday last was enriched by the gift of $30,000,000 from Mrs. L Stanford with the income from which that university easily will the wolf from its door. A part ef this donation, the $12,- 000,000 of real estate, was deeded to the university some time ago, but it has de- rived no benefit from it for the reason that the validity of the deeds was called in juestion and pronounced against finally by supreme court of the state. The prop: erty, however, has now been redeeded in such form that the title is perfect, In ad. Aition to this, Mrs. Stanford gives outright to the university $18,000.000 in bonds and stocks which Mr. Stanford had set apart for the same purpose, but which had not been transferred The delay has worked no loss to the university On the othe hand, it has %alned by it, as many of the securities have largely Increased in value Mrs, § gift perfects the largest | endowment American university has r received As the money and property given outright there can b no con- t by heirs. Mr Stanford is wise and far-secing. And donatlon to edusa- tion is not all. Mr. Andrew Carnegle has supplemented his libra educational by the profier to the national gov of $10,000,000 for the foundation maintenauce of a university extensiop to be known as “The Univer Unlited States, located in the tal. It is to be devoted to and fal instruction, be the adoption and enlarge. of Washington It cougress accepts ye Jane anford's an ev the this magnificent scheme err and organization ty of national post ing in 1 ment of th Memorial lustitution. cap scheme the icago Tribune: The pugliist, though was not utterly dishearténed o wald he said track.’ practical shape an idea ns old as Washing ton's time. It requires no appropriation | of the public funds. The government is only asked to give a sultable site for it, Which it can easily do, and thereafter the government would act only as a trustee, as it does for the Smithsonian institution. Tt| is also a practical solution in the simplest manner of the project for a national uni- versity which has occupied public attention €0 long and made no progress because of conflicting views and determined hostility in some quarters The gifts of Mrs. Stanford and Mr. Car- negie will make the year 1901 the record- breaker in gifts and bequests for educa tional purposes. The total to date foots up $51,415,2200 What other country in the world can equal this record? VTR somewhat bitterly, *is Brooklyn Life: 1 was detained at Mrs. Dimpleton 1:30 a. m, the office Was It worth seeing? Dimpleton— Detrolt vou_think of King Cawker event Free Pross of the app Edward, the 1 guess it What do coronation Cumso aching Seventh? will be the crowning Chicag magazine hardly do you_don't imagiuation. “If 1 haven't,” responded the indignant contributor, “it Isn't for lack of fertilzing material. 1 have read all the recent fic tion."” his handing me for have Tribunc editor, P, wrticle it bac saying it Ny fertiiffy ald the will but of goem There's sitton, Boston Transcript: = Dazzler mean streak in Smith's com KOrry to say i, but I must Merrill—I've always supposed Smith the most lberal man in town Dazzler—80 have 1 but ago 1 borrowed a dollar from him, and when he saw me today he looked as'if_he wanted me to pay him. Rather low down, it seemed to m Philadelphia Press: “Joaksmith, it pears. o married and has gone to h eping Not at all. Wh “He's been writing so many jokes servant girls lately, he must’ have some experience with them. Sonsense! 1f he'd had such experlence he ‘wouldn't joke about it a I'm Edwin Charles Madden, the third assist- ant postmaster gencral, 13 @ native of Michi safd that his grent-great-uncle Ison, the hero of Trafalgar. on the murmuring Kaw object to the desiguation “Kansas City, Neb." It is useless to argue with peoplo who cannot appreclate good soclety. When people hereabouts read the accounts of floods and storm down east It is clear they have ‘no kick comiug” on zero weather, Verlly, the west ls one of the favored spots on the footstool Theodore 8. McLellan, an aged printer of Brunswick, Me., celebrated his 9lat birth- any on December 11, He did all the type- sotting and presswork on Longfellow's “Outre-Mer, or Tales of the Sea,” the first novel the great poet wrote. The State department has been offcally advised that the crown prince of Siam, Maha Vajiravudh, has completed arrang ments to visit the United States next Oct ber. No member of the royal family Siam has ever visited America. Sonator Heitfeld of Tdaho was asked r cently whether he expected to have opp tion when he came up for re-election. “Opposition?” he cried; “well, 1 should say go. There fsn't a man in Idaho but wants {o bo senator. That's what makes life worth living out west.” Captain Luke Wilder of Bangor, Me., and Daniel Webster were very close frionds At @ banquet In Bangor in 1835 Webstor ordercd Wilder's picture painted at bis ex- pense. It was done, but Webster never sent for it and it 18 now owned by Mrs Eliza Hazzard of Bangor, who & a grand- | child of Captain Wilder A letter camo to Washington the other day addressed to “The Black Eagle, M. C." Thera are two “Black Eagles' in congress One is DeGraffenreid of Texas, “the Black gagle of the Pineywoods;” the other is Senator Clapp of Minnesota, “the Black Eagle of Fergus Falle.” The house post- | master got the letter first and gave it (o DeGraffenreld. It belonged to him a week or two 1 Active megaphones e 18€- made you think so?" out had v done Washington Star: “Have you ¢ fhini £ th J asked anything for that cold of yours the solicitous person “yes, answered the miserable man;: “I have iried every remedy that wis wug- gested to me. 1 am now so full of remedies that it would be a relief to get back to a plain cold.” e 3 SNOW STORMW. aldo Emerson, 4 of the sky, o'er the Ralph V Announced by all the Arrives the snow, ar fields, Seems nowhere to alight Fildes hills and woods, th heaven, And ‘vells the trump: driving ot the whited air tver, and the at farmhouse the garden's and traveler stopp'd, the courfer's ot Delay'd, all friends maltes sit Around the radiant fir in a tumultuous privac The &l shut out, the house- place, enclosed of storm. Come see the rorth wind's masonry. Out of AN UNEECH GUATTY Cvermore Fuirnish'd with tile, the fleree artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round eve door, eding, the myr fanciful, so sa windward stake, or tree, or +. hix wild work aught cares he Mockingly, he hangs Parlan wreaths; t« the hidden thorn? from wall to wall, hs; and at the gate the work imt m inve farmer’s li Maugre the farmer's s A tapering turret ove And when' his hours are world Is all hig own, T Leaves, when' the sun’ apy art To mimic in slow structures, sle Juilt in an age, the mad wind's TPt (ratic arohitecture of the snow. A swar Phile d, and the tiring, as he were notf, i, astonish'd What 50c will Buy Here A Holiday Hint A fancy box with purchase (free.) A beautiful neck scarf, fancy kuit Scotch gloves, half- dozen handkerchiefs, 4 all linen collars, fancy stocking holders, a splendid pair of suspenders, fancy silk handker- chiefs, a night shirt, a good winter eap, 2 full dress ties, 4 pair serviceable hose, scarf pins, cuff links, ete,, and NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OU Rrowning-King -§- (@ Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R. 8. Wilcox, Manager.