Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 20, 1901, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF Daily Bee (s Datly Bee and . flustrated biee unday Bee, Of Baturday Bée, One Twenticth Century Farmer DELIVERED BY ¢ Daily Bee (without Daily Beo (without Sunday), Daily Bee (including Sanday) unday Bee, pet Sveming Bee (without Sinday), per week.1 Evening bee (ncluding Bunday), per weck vgssenjgsed Complaints ‘of irregularitics 'in delive shouid be addressed to City Clrculation D partment OFFICE: Beo Bullding City SUBSCRIPTION nda Year.$6 (] Year v § One Year.. 1 ARRIER. rweek. 1 per week.1 Omaha~The Bouth Omaha Hall Twenty-Afth and M streets Council Eluffs-10 Pear| Street. Chic 1{0 160 Unity Bullding New York—Templa Court Washington—il Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE, Communications relating torial matter sl Id be addre Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS, Bulldini d: Oma Businesx letters und remitiances should ve addresse Omaha. The Bee Puplishing Compan; REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express ¢ r able to The lee Publisbing Compan B Htmps accpted In payment maill accounts. Personal checks, except Omaha or castern exchanges, ROt weeel THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAN SBTATEMENT OF ¢ Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, s8. George B. Tzschick, secretary of T'h Publiehing Company, belng duly swor says that the actual number of full gomplete coples of The Dally, Mornin Evening and Sunday Bee printed durin the month of November, 1901, was lows: 1 tCULATION. 16. 1. 18 19 2. 2 Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales........... Net daily average..... GEO. B Bubseribed in my presence and sworn to before me this th day of Novem! A H M. B, HUNGATE, (Seal.) Notary Public. —— e It Is no easy job to freeze the plumbe out of business. The speculator who coppered Amalgs mated stocks appears to be coming ou a big winner. 'n Christmas th 1 No chanee for u g year unless the weather man gets some quick work. o news and ed! postal order, gred. he Bee 21,805 D301 DECIDEDLY RICH AND RACY, According to the home-made TLincoln correspondence of the Omaha Fakery, Governor Ezra 1. Savage s eagerly girding his tenderloins for a fray with the editor of The Bee, The governor is represented as panting “for the | with unconcealed contempt and hurling detiance straight into the editor's teeth.” We are assured that it is only since the belligerent governor has been anointing his backbone with Mexfean liniment | that e has come to regard himself serl ously candidate for the guberna- torial nomination at the Lands of the republican convention next summer. We are reminded also that last spring, shortly after Dietrich had been elected senator, his excellency contemplated permanent retirement from publie life to the shady repose of his Custer county bull ranch, because he had come to look upon the office of governor not only as a burden difficult to bear, but as an ex which he could no longer afford to assume, But “when the little editor threatened him with the weight of his digpleasure Governor Savage decided on | the fnstant that he would be a candldate 3t | for governor in 1902, il According to the mind-reader of the Omaha Fakery the sole purpose of the Custer county Gollath was to lock horns in a test of strength between the bull- puncher and the pencil-pusher. Being a typleal frontiersman full of dash and cournge and eager for an opportunity to participate in a general mix-up, the gov- ernor 18 sald to have refused to kouckle under to the demands and commands of the doughty quill driver, and, in the lan guage of the correspondent, “forcefully isigned his little tormentor to the nether reglons and commenced to take account of the men, arms and ammuni tion,” We are further told that today it well known that Savage longs for the fray even as the bride groom longeth for his bride.” He does not propose to rematn behind shelter to awalt the assault, but to take the field in person and assume the aggressive, wise the aggressive s bis way of fighting. “He throws away his luggage, burns his bridges behind bim and with a loaded pistol In either hand charges down upon the enemy. We are at a loss to divine whether the brilliant genius who concoeted this flam- boyant tale was suffering from a case of jiw-jams or under the influence of some powerful narcotic, There certainly lius been no oceasion up to this time for any warlike preparations at the state house or for arming the university ca dets in defense of the governor. Neither commands nor threats of any sort ema nating from the editor of The Bee have onset ] w » 0 as a ry ha pense Y, n, 8, ng Governor it is n Not a train has been on time at St Louis for two days. At that rate St Louls people should be able to cateh the trains. The supreme court of Nebraska wants ft distinetly understood by all whom it may concern that it s not & bureau of information, t ! Will Ben take it? This is the question | that is agitating the minds of several men who are anxious to take possession of his sho t The speclal Chiristmas issue of The TI- lustrated Bee next Sunday will be un- | excelled as o holiday number. Order | ¥ pxtra coples earl t Keep your ears tied up and do not swear at the weather man, who is doing the best he can. Besides you will all need ice next summer. « t New York women are having a dog show. When it is all over, the men who do the judging should know how | the people who officiate at baby shows | L feel. ¢ d Sp—— < since frontiersman, cony a splracy of irresponsible newspaper writers and | for stead wen directed at the executive ms its ocen nsion ancy by the stalwart There has been but one sution between the editor of this aper and the governor during (hat eriod and that was concerning the tartley parole, Neither the editor of The Bee nor anybody authorized to rep. resent him has usked the governor to| grant a favor or glven him an oppor- | unity to refuse one, | 1f the governor bas been affifeted with | nightmare about an imaginary con- | lie bas simply been the victim his own fool friends who are trying to | precipitate a fight by which they hope 0 profit, BILL The report of the house committee on | he Nicaragua canal bill concentrate authority and responsibility the construction of the proposed canal in the hands of the president, in- ponsibility 1 in the have by REPURT ON CANAL proposes to | of devolving the 1 ipon a commission, as provi Il of Semator Morgan., We loubt this will be approved rountry. no the | break of war, Troubles are crowding thickly upa Admiral Sehley, Boss Croker has d clared in favor of the admiral as tl next democratic candidate for the presi- dency. Des Molnes Is having a hard tine « 1t securing water for its proposed ne army post. Water fs cortainly a nec sity since the canteen abolished. has bee An Towa woman fs sulug the esta of A& man who is dead for breach ¢ promise. This does seem like takiy advantage of a man when he canng m e e Mr. Hepburn, chairman of the house ufmittee on commerce, is opposed to a commission for the reason that he thinks it would remove the responsibility for the honest and efficient administration of so great a trust from the head of the government, where it properly belongs. | He would bave the president absolutely | free in the choice of officials who are to take charge of the work, that he may be the sole responsible representative (o | Of the government in handling the enor- ¢ | mous amount of woney to be expended 15 : in the construction of the canal. There is no doubt this is the correct position, it W 1 « defend himself, A prominent pugilist he will retire from the ving on acconnt | of heart trouble. Retirement should he | unnecessary as long as the voeal organs | perform thelr usual functions. }‘ —_—— | The Omaba Fakery is anxious to stiv | up trouble between the governor of Ne- | braska and The Bee, with the full | knowledge that such a serfmmage would | be fun for the boys and death for the | frogs. announces that — | The appointment of D. Clem Deaver as recelver of the O'Neill land office has been confirmed by the senate, but we doubt whether the Holt county ghost | dancers will ludulge in another midnight | wake. Two church organizations which split | during the civil war have just succeeded | in getting together at a meeting held = 8t L They can well afford to | follow the example of the wen who did the fighting. J. Pierpont Morgan is golug to Europe, On his recent trip there were a few bargains in steamship lines and other little enterprises which e did not have time to inspect, but he hopes to around to them this time, | | The Commerclal club seems at last to have reached the conclusion that the efficiency of the fire department o not depend ou the relustatement of ex Chief Redell. The idea that any one man 1o the public service is indispensa Ble caunot be waintalped, ) | plan ness safe very proposition dent and the | the newspapers of the country | thought % | but the senate will very likely make an | rarnest effort to have the commission adopted, that hody having a weak for How it is to say that public opluion will be strongly on the side of the house place all authority and osponsibility in the hands of the presi- fore that It will prevail. commissions, to SCHLEY'S BILL It was the very general publie senti- ment, as indicated In the comments of on the urt of Inguiry, OF EXCEPTIONS. findings of the Schley that the controversy should be allowed | to close with the court's decision, It was felt that although a majority of the court had found against the applicant on most of the specifications of the Navy department the opinion given by Admiral Dewey was an ample vindiea- tion of Rear Admiral Schley, concur- ring, as it did, with the nearly universal publie judgment. eling keenly, however, that the find ings of a majority of the court are un- falr and unjust, Schley asks that they be disapproved by the secretary of the navy and that he be afforded an oppor- tunity, through further investigation, to show why the opinion of the wajority should not be approved. The bill of ex- ceptions submitted by Schley's counsel rtainly makes very strong case agulust the majority of the court of in quiry and will persuade muny who that the controversy should bhave been dropped that Schley has tuken the proper course. It now rests with the secretary of the navy to decide which must be gomewhat embarrassing. He may confidently be expected, how ever, to take such action in the matter e consclgntiously lleves to be ght and just, uninfluenced by any per sonal considerations. There 18 a not uncommon opinfon that the secretary of the navy is under the control of a clique in lis department, but there is no sub stantial ground for the opinion and the long and honorable public service of Secretary Long warrants the bellef that he has acted and will continue to act In regard to this unfortunate contre versy as bis sense of duty dictates, Interest in the situation is perhaps somewhat strengthened by the protest as of Rear Admiral Sampson againet the | individual opinion of Admiral Dewey, though it i not probable that the protest will have much effect upon the popular | Judgment. WRONG IN PRINCIPLE When Mayor Moores ordered the po lice to coilect contributions from liguor dealers for the relief of the Galveston flood sufferers The Bee entered its pro- test on the ground that the police should not be employed for the purpose of rais- ing charity funds or any other kind ¢ funds from parties who are under police survelllance. It goes without saying that such exactions are regarded as forced contributions which saloon keep- ers aud keepers of other public resorts dare not refuse for fear of incurring the displeasure of the authorities, The same reason bolds good now as against the order issued by the mayor constituting the police foree n city poor relief ageney throngh whom contribu tions are to be collected from all classes, but especially from those subject to po- lice supervision, Mayor Moores' action is unquestion ably inspired by good motives, A well directed effort for the relief of people temporarily suffering for want of fuel, clothing and prowisions will commend ttselt to all charitably inclined persons, but this duty can und should be per. formed without resort to the police force. No matter how well police off rs may be titted for the work or how consclentiously they may perform this function, It is fundamentally wrong and opens the way for scandal of the “well defined rumor” class sure to be ciren Iated by maliclous partisans who cateh at every straw to bring the police into disrepute o A NATIONAL NAVAL RE An Amperative requirement in con nection with the building up of the navy Is the organization of a naval r ERVE. serve force, provision for which is made | in a bill that bas been introduced s retary of the navy said in his annual sport that there Is pressing need such a force from which to draw fee immediately upon an of for out- sults of the Spanish-American war wer such as to assure ever knowledge of naval matte should at once be taken to one certain and positive one that steps requirement which will face the nation upon an out- | break of war—the lmmediate necessity at that exigent time, if it comes, of a large increase in the men of the navy from an existing reserve—an fner which must, in the main, said the s retary of the navy, be made from the seafaring class, who, having acquired the habit of the s water, President Roosevelt In his message also urged that pro: m be made for a national naval reserve, organized and trained under th ction of the Navy department and subject to the call of the chief executive whenever war be- comes lmminent. He sald: “It should be a reul auxiliary to the naval sea- going peace establishment and offer material to be drawn on at once for manning our ships in time of war, It should be composed of graduates of the cal academy, graduates of the naval wilitia, officers and crews of coast line steamers, longshore schooners, fishing vessels and steam yachts, together with | the coast population about such centers as life-saving stations and lighthouses,” The bill introduced in the senate by Senator Hale provides for carrying out the suggestions of the president and s retary of the navy. In this particular the United States is behind other great maritime pow Other nations have their naval reserve: composed of the ocean-goiug clem their merchant marine, All of their great ships today more or less officered und commanded and manned by naval reserve forces, This service tends to stimulate the ambition of American youth for entering the mer- chant marine service, It has the tend- ency- to elevate the service in that those on the ships commissioned by the United States navy arve entitled to wear the uniform and be considered a regulay part of the navy of the United States. At present we have a large number of seagolng officers and men, but they are, so far as defensive and offensive pur- poses of the United States are con- cernied, not erystallized for wilitary service, The Ildea is to organize and Kkeep them in touch with and under the discipline of the navy, so that in the event of war they would be immediatel avallable, It Is wanifestly worse than useless to g0 ou increasing the navy without pro viding the force necessary to man the ships in times of national emergency. The plan of u national naval reserve will meet this requirement and its ex- pediency 15 so obvious that there ought to be no doubt of securing the proposed legislation, Thomas W. Blackburn, chairman of the republican congressional committee. has broken out in & fresh complaint against The Bee, which he accuses of refusing to respect Lis private Lusiness because he is the ardent friend of Con gresswan Merc In this Mr. Black- whether there shall be further proceed- ings o the case and he is in a position burn labors under a hallucination, Hi private business, which is ot very in | In reference to this the sec- | He stated that the re- | having | meet the | i, are at howe on the | it of | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20 voluminous, hins always been respected, but when he attempts to procure ex- clusive franchises for suburban rail | rouds over all the public roads in Doug | las county designed to eurich the prowo. ters and speculators in franchises with- out muking any return to the taxpayers, The Bee considors it its duty to expose the job and call a halt. In taking this course The Bee does not make Mr, Blackburn arget be s he as sumes political guardianship over our congressman, but because what [he calls his private business s i public busine Any other man in or out of politics doing the same thing { would Lave been treated in the same way. a For once the Lincoln Journal has passed a sound criticism on Omaha's municipal affuirs when it says that the tax-lovying power should be concen- trated in one responsible body. The Bee opposed the bill giving the school board free reign to inflate the tax rate without regard to the demands of other brauches ol the city government. The independ- ent taxing power accorded to the school board bas had a most perniclous effect j and the sooner it is taken away the bet- ter It will be for the taxpayers and the general publ Nebraska democrats are keeping up the discussion ou the subject, “Is David B. Hill a den a David says he is, butfwhen the doctors come to diagnose the case they find the sywmptows of democracy in the west such a varying quantity that their task is by no means ecasy. The disease has become com plicated with so many other allments that it has about lost its original char- acteristics, | A circular hus been sent broadcast over Towa coutaining a proposed new congressional apportionment. As - ar- ranged it would if enucted produce us lively a onal ambltons as It taken serlously the wmajority of the present congres- sional delegation could be depended on { to spend the holiday vacation with | their constituents, The tabulations of the national bank statements just issued indicate that Omaha banks are in a pretty good way, all yellow journal sensations about the financial decrepitude of the city to the iy notwithstanding _— Like Prize Fighting. Bultimore American, Base ball is a great game. All during the summer the players quarrel with the umpires, and between seasons the managers quarrel with one another, We're All Right. St. Louls Republic, With corn in Nehraska eelling at 70 cents a bushel farmers with even fractional crops of the cereal are not in such a bad way for the coming of Christmas. e Spiee of Life. Indiarapolis News, This is a great country. Floods and rains | in one section and freezing cold weather in another, to say nothing of orange groves | and flowers in other portions. ash of congres WUs ever seen, y P Just Impracticable Scheme, Philadelphia Record. The faflure of the Pan-American congress | to agree upon a plan of compuleory arbitra- tion might have been foreseen. Compulsory arbitration involves a partial surrender of national soverelgnty, even it it be confined in its scope to questlons of .boundary or other disputes not compromising honor. An Big Petidon in Prospect. Boston Globe. Promise 1s made that there will be fully | 9,000 signatures to a petitlon eoon to be presented to President Roosevelt urging him to enforce the treaty of Washington, which would prevent England from securing supplies of any kind, even horses and mules, in this country. Such a petition would “mean business,” not gush. Another Wonder in Sight. Philadelphia North American, Sig. Marcon| sent up a kite and got three telegraphic dots from somewhere. He thinks it was a message from Poldhu across the Atlantic, but if Sig. Tesla knows & hawk from a handsaw it was a signal from Mars and Marcon| has been poaching upon his preserve. Marvelous things hap- | pen to these wizards of sclence when no- body is looking. At End of the Rope, San Francisco Chronicle. The prompt conviction and punishment of the army officers who were Involved in the hemp frauds at Manila ought to bave a good effect on all army men in the Philippines. The penalty for any frauds in Manila ought to be severer than at howe, for any cor- ruption in the army in the islands hurts in a4 double way, and the chief damage is the loss of prestige of American arms. thusiasm, Washington § It is always an inventor's privilege to be confident and help sharing to a degree the enthusiasm of Marconi in his wireless telegraphy experi- ments. What Marconi hopes (o attain is so important that there is a practical senti- ment in his favor as well as a disinterested desire in the popular mind to see a plucky and persistent effort crowned with success. At the same timo so many plausible inven- tlons have failed and brought grief to nu. merous small Investors that many people have grown wary and will hesitate about bestowlng full falth in the commercial practicability of the idea until it is uo longer necessary to employ the old-fash- toned telegraph system to convey informa- tion of what wireloss telegraphy Is accoms plishing. Better Save the Plgs. Beatrice Express. Pigs, as well as hogs, are quoted from day to day in the market reports. This means that everything in the hog line that will bring any sort of a price is being sab- rificed by penny wise, pound foolish farm- ers. The venerable brood sow, the shoat that is blossoming nto glorious hoghood, the prize hog and the runt—everything that will make sausage is being sold because feed is short. As the inevitable consequence there will be an unprecedented shortage of hogs next summer, and as sure as cause and effect are related to cach other the price of swine then will be as remarkable as the price of corn is now. Stockmen, farm pa- pers and farmers of experience are pointing out this fact every day and urging the agri- culturists to hold thelr hogs, but the sacri- fice goes on. The man who does hold onto his swine will be In the swim 1o a few months hence, or it {s useless to draw de ductions from history, precedent, experl- ence or anything elsey the Amerlcan public cannot | No Lack of Baltimors 18 this country still reveling in a burst of splendid prosperity, or has it struck a retrogressive movement? This question 1s pertinent just now, because it affords an opportunity to decide between substan tial prosperity and speculative prosperity. Perhaps the question, with its suggestions of doubt, would mever be asked were it not for the trouble which the speculative markets have encountered. A cloud of gloom has hung over them for fully six months. The etockbroker and the plunger find things very dull. Fictitious security values have been shriveling. Stock ex- change business has been diminishing. On these accounts the frequenters of ‘“tho street,” as the speculative nelghborhood 18 famillarly called, have lost those smiles which were worn last spring Observing this change u the one special locality, the average cltizen s disposed to make inquiry this the part of the speculator a premonitory #ign of decreasing prosperity?’ Under or dinary circumstances the question would be aptly put. In this particular case, how- ever, the speculative market and the actual business market are at variance. Stock speculation fs flat, whilo gencral business 18 active. The two lines of trading have for once, taken divergent courses. It presents an Instance in which speculation ia dull, despite an animated forelgn and domestic trade. When it 18 recalled that speculation has collapsed becauss of epecial reasons, it can be understood why general trade should not be judged by speculative depression Speculation—which is a specles of artificial trading, with expectations and sentiment s loss of emile on TREND OF ¥ How the Dally Newspapers Line Up on the Schley Verdict Public sentiment on the case of Admiral Schley, as reflected by the newspapers of the country, overwhelmingly approves the judgment rendered by Admiral president of the court of inquiry An ex amination of seventy-eight representative | dally newspapers, published in the leading | cities between the two oceans, shows a re- markable preponderance of eentiment in favor of the claims ot Admiral Schley. Po- | litical partisanship docs not enter the dis- cusslon. Of the newspapers examined forty« four are republican, twenty-one democratic and thirteen independent. On the divided Judgment of the court of inquiry they line up as follows Favor of Dewey's verdict Favor of Benham-Ramsay Non nmittal “Give us a rest” GG With the exception of five papers pub- lished in the south the list represents northern sentiment dlstinctively. Of the | papers adverse to Schley six are published in New York state, two in Massachuseits and four scattered through the middle west verdict. .0l EVILS OF WATERED STOCK, very Class of Trusts Sad, Tremendous Debt, a with Baltimore American, The president struck the keynote of the trust problem when he suggested as their principal evil overcapitalization. That fs the very point. The public for severai years has been involved in a maze of un- certainty with regard to these combina- | don't | its meetings, | The tions. Some have claimed that the trusts were an ovolution of trade. It is high! probable that those who gobbled up nearly | all the land in England during the middle | ages had the same view of their pro d- Ings; but the statutes of Mortmain put an end to the delusion before the entire king- dom had been swallowed. It fs possible, of course, that a few great capitalists can be 80 wise as to discover that the laws of political economy based on an expericnce exterding over many centuries are alto- gether false and wrong. The world, how- ever, 1 not likely to reverse its procedurs without a protest, In spite of this colossal aggregation of philanthropy. Some trusts—little affairs of a local character—may have been of advantage to those who formed them, but such as thesc are not the combinations that are doing the | damage. When millionaires combine to form |'a trust of industries with which they have | no legitimate connection, suspicion must | arise at once, and their declaration that they | propose to serve the public will not carry conviction to Intelligent people. The ordl nary individual in business transactions I8 selfish, and men who have amassed millions | In business transactions are not unlike the ordinary individual. These promoters, who have no business in the trusts which they promote, have some other purpose or it would be unworthy of their cousideration; in other words, It is matural to Infer that they are after big money. It is possible to make large sums by buy- ing up rival industries and destroying | enough to pay heavy dividends with those that are left. Something of this sort has | been done by these promoters. But this | restricts the fleld of labor and takes the | bread out of honest men's mouths, It s | also & dangerous experiment. It 1s safer to | buy up kindred enterprises, capitalize the | whole at prices far beyond its value and pocket the difference as the price of pro- | motlon. This s the worst evil of these | huge combinations. They are saddled with | tremendous debts, the interest on which It | may be possible to pay as long as there are prosperity and publie confidence, while | the dividends can be realized by raising prices on an unsuspecting community. The terrible wrong inflicted on th people will become apparent when a crisis strikes these enterpriges. They will tumble to pieces like balloons struck by a hurricane and the disaster will be universal and prolouged It is against such a catastrophe that the lawmakers should provide HSONAL NOTES The kalser's way of making w archy is to start a crusade agalnst beer. General Botha may have been shot (hrough the lcg, but as long as his horse's legs are all right he doesn't mind a little thing like that Ralph Hall Caine, the son of the famous novellst, who is barely is editing House- hold Words, the weekly paper founded aud for some time edited by Charles Dickens 8. Candler, §r., a new member of the Mississippl delegation to congress, says he made his first dollar by hauling cordwood behind & yoke of oxen to a country town and selling it When Dr. White, the American ambassa- dor at Berlin, was presented to the late Fleld Marshal von Moltke as a man who bad been born at Homer, had taught Ithaca and a resident of Syracuse, the lat- ter sald: “I suppose I shall have to talk Greek to him.' Congressman Perkins of York is the leader of the house easily in literary abil- ity. From 1890 to 1865 he lived In Paris, en- ged in work on French history. “A Life of Richelieu” and “France Under Louis XV were, in part, the result of his labors during the period T. L. Glenn of Idaho, one of the new mem- bers of congress, whatever suc cess he attained is due to haviog read when most of his neighbors slept, or while he was walting the preparation of his meals, as be seldom had the opportunity to study duriug the daytiwme ow L I { tending Prosperity American s leading forces—has passed thraugh a see ries of \Il\"l“l“n‘.l"l‘\"rs s since the North« ern Pacific eplsode. Only one of these ree verses has had any bearing on the move- mente of actual business. Publiec confi- dence has been so acutely shaken by the sustained on account of rank ma- nipulation that the great outside element f« touching the epeculative market very gingerly at present. That is why business is so flat in that quarter The chief adverse factor in actual trade, which also affects the speculative, was the corn shortage. The high price, however, to which the cereal has since attained has more than counterbalanceq the shortage in crop. The buying power of the farming class has, consequently, not been crippled Moreover, the shaky Industrial conditions in Germany, which at one time menaced the volume of our foreign business, have wonderfully improved, that even that particular cbstacle to our progress is re- moved. On top of these intangible evi- Aences comes the more practical showing of our rallroad reports and our weekly bank clearances, They continue to show increases over the phenomenal record of last year. Rallroad companies cannot find cars enough to move their trafic and the bank clearings in all sec- tions of the country are disclosing a splendid expansion fn the present evolution of business. All this testimony in favor of continued prosperity {s entirely too overs wholming to be offset by more speculative depression. Even the latter depression e expected to enjoy a transient respite after January 1. los WASHINGTON 1 ople and Events at al Capltal, told by correspondent about Senator Kearns of Utah, which is good enough to b true. e senator not o long ago was working with a plek and shovel for $2 a day. Last ummer he and his partners refused $14, N0 for one of their mines. The senator is used to lifo In the open and the atmos- phere of the oppresses him. Last Thursday he sat down beside Senator Heft- feld, also a westerner, and sald s a story “Henry, what do you think of this game, | anyway Heitfeld, being now schooled in the wiles of diplomacy, answered the question with another. “Why do you ask he inquired. “Oh,” replied Kearns, “they use too much uage in thelr talk to suit me. Why they say what they mean instead of bundling it all up in a lot of unnecessary words ?"* Some one asked Senator Cullom of Illi- nols, the other day, just after the forelgn relations committee had adjourncd one of what had been accomplished senator thought for a moment and then replied that about the only action 1 been a motion to remove the injunction secrecy on the text of the new treaty at Britain, was the next suggestion of with ¢ “Bu “the full | toxt of the treaty was printed this morning In every “Just “that's crecy knew paper in the United States. Just sald the senator, reason injunction of se- placed the treaty. i we it publie at the was that 80, the apon made once not a paper in the country would print its ! ] | tull text.” “I witnessed a sad Island navy yard a few Thomas L. Walker of Vallejo, Cal., 1o a Washington Post reporter. “A number of lors were brousht to the yard from va- rious points for admission to the hospital for the insane at Ukiah, and among them was Warrant Officer Osborne Delgnan, a member of the valorous crew that accom- panted Hobson on his daring but uneuccess- ful attempt to block Santiago harbor. Delgnan’s home is in lowa, and after serv- ing for a number of years In the merchant marine he eulisted In the navy, and was a member of the crew of the New York at the time of the outbreak of the Spanish- American war. When Hobson called for volunteers to accompany him in the Merri- mac, Deignan was one of the first to offer his services. He and his companions were 1 und confined In Morro castle until he surrender of Santiago, and when he came home after the war the citizens of his town gave him a rousing reception, winding up by presenting him with a sword, Representative Hull of lowa secured the consent of congress to the admission of Deignan to the Naval academy, as he was still a young man, but he was a sailor and an enllsted man clear through, and refused to accept the chance for promotion. . He eferred to take his chances as a warrant officer and was advanced several grades on ccount of his gallant conduct. Defgnan was assigned to one of the ships in the South Atlantic squadron, and late in the fall showed signs of mental aberration. He was closely watched, and when the case be- ame thoroughly developed he was sent to this country.” sight at the weeks ago,” eald Mare Senator Chauncey M. Depew prepared a remarkable blography of himself which ap- pears In the congressional directory. It fs one of the longest in the book, notwith- standing his term of service as a senator is one of the shortest of all the members of that Impressive body. As one senator put it: “Depew's biography is as long and s Interesting as one of his after-dinner speeches.” The most Interesting part of the blography s that conveying the information that he woe married {n December, 1901, to Miss May Palmer. Inasmuch as the kenator has not been married to Miss Palmer and will not be until the latter part of this month, he Is recelving many congratula- tions on his enterprise as a chronicler of current events. The directory containing the announcement of his marriage appeared December 2 Little Archibald Roosevelt, the president's son, who i attending a kindergarten in Washington, is now known as the bully of that educational tpstitution. The mothers of the other little tots attending the school are bragging because Mrs, Ropsevelt se her child there, but the tots are not so thuslastic over Archibald’s presence other day a lady who has a little girl at- the kindergarten asked her how she liked little Archibald “I don't like him,” came the decisive reply. “He butted me twice in the gtom- ach.” Investigation proved that Archibald's fa vorite amusement 1s lowering his head like |a bllly goat and butting the other pupils around the play ground A bachelor member of congress, who {s not handsome as Apollo, dropped into Clerk McDowell's office In the capitol, th other day, relates the Washington Post, to sympathy because the lady on whom ho had looked with favor was about to be married to another man “That reminds me,” said Mr. McDowell of the iucident which happened when Governor Dick Oglesby went down to Joljet to Inspect the state prison. In one of the cells was a very ugly man “‘How did you geL in Oglesby *‘Abduction,' was the reply. ‘I tried to run off with & girl and tbey caught m here” asked a Washington | i | to Springfield #ee how you could expect any other way.' " The homely buchelof congressman la foudly. ‘Them, as the application story dawned upon him, the from his face and he walked out of Dowell's office without saying & word I'll pardon you as moon as I g #ald the governor to got a v SECOND WIND FOR THE HORSE ]s"n‘ & Pace Quite Satisfactory the Owner, | Chi g0 Inter Ocean Socretary Wilson's reference to | American horse in his address at the | | stock exhibition the other night directs « tention to the decline and fall and sut quent rise of that noblest of animals | A few Interosting statistics will tell | story. In 1868 the total number of horscs {in the country was 5,766,940, valued 2 In 1802 the number had | sed to 15,498,140, and the high waje | valuation mark of $1,007,500,636 was reached. There were 1,000,000 more horse in the country the next year, but the had declined and a decline both in & and value set in and continued until 1s when the former was 14,364,667 and h latter only $452,647,30, showlng a shrinka in value of more than 00 per cent in years. In fact, the value of the 1406410 horse in the United States in 1807 w ouly $20,000,000 more than the value placed upon 5,736,040 horses in 1868, These wero sad days for the horss. 1ia was thrown out of the street car business everywhere and the bicycle superseded hin in milllons of homes. For a time it looke as if ho had seen his best day. But h friends wero confident that he would ris again in public favor and their loyalty to him was soon rewarded. In 1898 the reactlon in his faver began That year the number of horses in t country was emaller than it had been for eight years, but the value of the stock ad vanced to $478,362407; the following ycar the value of about the same numbs ad vanced to $511,074.813, and {n 1900 & smaller number by over 200,000 reached a valuatic of $603,069,4 the highest polnt in » | yonra, the rva retary Wilson fs a friend of tha horse and a firm bellever in his ultimate | triumph over all unfavorable circum | stances. “No horseman,” sail he in hi | address, “has ever lost his lave for the horee. The man who has an automobile fs not a man who rears and breeds and feeds horses. And so that gallant animal will be with us throughout the ages.” There 16 the best of reason for this optt mistle vie of the horse situation. The bleyele did not succeed in supplanting him as many predicted it would. If the trolley has superecded him on the traction lines he has found employment in other and less | exacting fields. There is little danger that the automobile will render him uscless Behind the mere utllitarian point {nvolved In the case there is a sentimental regard for the horke that cannot be wemkened by any puMng, blowing, whizzing, dust-raisiog thing on wheels SMILING REMARKS, Philadelphia Press: “Isn't it ridiculous to, may talk ix cheap®* course it fs, for we froquently refer to talk as ‘gas.' Jingleberry 18 a bright fellow in talk very brilliantly for an hour,” ®ald Harkaway Perhaps [ met him at the beginning of his sccond hour,” sald Dawson Chicago Tribune you spoke of me us a common lin “Whoever told you that sir, must havo en trying to break It to you gently. [ suld you were a whole bureau of statisties.” Philadelphia Record her complexion lovely: fully tinted china_cuj Miss Kostique—Yes; witully painted m nd Plain Dealer: * e man who 1 urbstone #afd the other man, “I faney be much less in order to ¢ much m than your much oped lack of muchines: Philadelphts s killed him “His unlimited faith." Ah! Christian Sclenc No; he took the advi who suggested remedies.” “1 am told, slr, that Miss Gush—Isn't 1t's lfke a beauti- 1 8w it certainly s a Clove much, wi're not ed the vers s ra devel eh? What of all his fricnds Washington Star: D world js growlng worse I shouldn’t venture the man who makes no pretensions to belng i philosopher. “One's fmpressions on- that point are lkely to depend largely on the kind of soci#ty he happens to get into.” WHERE, 0 WHER you think the or” better?” an_opinfon,” satd y IS BB Chicugo Where, Oh, where, Is ‘the tearful guy Who was longing last July ter and snos 1 who didn't know A good thing when he had it And who was glad 1t Didn't stay Warm for aye? The man who couldn't let well enough alone, But put up w moun That could ) heard a block away By 1se it was a hot day? Where is he now, Anyhow? is he siting on the snow banks Giving than I weather, Nay, nay I¢ he luxuriating In atmosphere, IPreezing his ¢ And draining Of pleasure By 80 doing? Is he woolng The north wind, Throwing onen the blind, Flinging wide the door And calling for more? Not on your ornate And up-to-date i e i 1pe For revolt already In manner strenuous as Teddy, Tle Is blasting the storm And_calling for reform In the matter of weather. Tie wants to have the weather man take The cold wave and dump it in the lake. He wants to have it hot, Not Skt warm say A LWO-quart measure er tintype. ind_comfortabl But red, rampant, sizzling hot— A bolling. steamiing, smoklng pot Full to the brim | With sunstrokes and hot winds all in trim Mo work full thy I ampant as a carnival of crime. e wants it right away And wants It to s Glasses A nige pair of Gold Glaeses for Mothory Christmas might be just what she necds, » Other Suggestions OPERA G ANCY THERMOME D NICKE L8208 RS .o 8100 READING L. B0e KODAKS, ax low as . 800 ). C. Huteson & Co. Expert Opticians, 1520 DOUGLAS STRLLT, OMAHA, NER