Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1901, Page 6

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Three things Omaha Is still walting for: An auditorium, a market house and a first-class fireproof hotel, —_— Whatever may be sald about President Roosevelt as a cabinet maker, he will be credited with pickiug his own tim- ber. It this thing keeps up we shall shortly have Inquiries from abroad whether Miles, Schley, Hobson or Dewey was the real hero of Santiago. —_— That the most notable secretaries of the treasury have come out of the west 18 quickly attested by reading the finan- clal history of our country. British soldiers were able to eat thelr Christmas dinner in Pretoria this year, but the nation continues to be disturbed by worse dreams than plum pudding was ever capable of creating. General Miles denies that he will ask for a court of inquiry. The general has handled firearms long enough to be wise about blowing down the muzzle, even though sure the barrel Is clear, When Omaba takes its annual inven- tory at the end of the year it will find in the figures evidences of growth and expunsion which even those who have had their eyes open to It all the time have scarcely realized. It would have been real mean had the grand jury wmade a distinction between the slot machine resorts in Omaha and South Omaha. While they were about it they could not very well make tlesh of the one and fish of the other, A couple of West Polnt cadets dls- missed for hazing are now in Venezuela, If the cadets would only try some of the former West Point methods on the ple of that country they wight be willing to quit the revolution business. The solicitude of the Chinese inhab- ftants of Omaba for the retention of Judge Gordon on the police bench may perbaps explain sowe of the mysteries of that court. The Chincse may be pe cullar, but not more so thun Judge Gor- don. If the Chinese could only have voted. Great Britain Is seeking a better class of volunteers for the army, and the an- pouncewent is made that hereafter no more will be accepted who are not in some degree proficient in drill. This is much like the rule that a boy should Dot go near the water until he had learned to swin. Patrolman Norrls may have been the victim of u bungling scheme to decoy policemen iuto a holdup in order to verify the so-called “well-defined ru- mors” now belng investigated by the grand jury, but & man who allows him- solf to be confidenced and used must take the cousequences of his own fool- ishness. Another mau, sald to have been an in- timate friend and associate of Kit Cax- #on, is reported to have died in Denver, For a man who speut practically all his life in the wilderness where white men were as rare as white crows the late Mr. Carson appears to have had an as- tonishingly large number of intimate triends. The star wituess in the great case of slleged police blackmail has decamped, leaving word that the sensational expose Wwas a4 put up job to sell cheap newspa- pers. While that does not constitute a clean bill for anyone, it throws an In- teresting light on the wethods pursued by the yellow journal fakirs to make people believe that they are great agen- cles of moral purification, THE OPPOSITION DEMORALIZRD, lleve, safe to say, that this country When congress resumes its labors on January 6 the republican majority will be compelled to grapple with the great problems affecting the future growth and prosperity of the mnation. While most of the weasures that will come be fore congress will simply vitalize the principles and pollcles to which the re publican party has been committed for +| many years, some momentous questions | must be dealt with in the light of re | | cent experfences and existing conditions | | With brainy and courageous leader ?Hn[- Intelligently directing a harmonious and cohesive force the republicans are not likely to encounter any storms that will tend to alienate or destroy public confidence or demoralize the rank and file that have battled under the repub. lican banner, There never was a time when the op- position in both houses of congress was w0 hopelessly demoralized in mid-ocear it Is tossed | Like a ship without chart or compiss out by the varying winds. Out of more than 200 democrats oceu pying seats in both houses it is doubtfu if half a dozen could be found who are entirely in accord on all points that have heretofore divided the two great parties, The various groups and sub-divisions that are agreed on some points cannot agreo upon others, There are pro- nounced democratic free-traders and there are ardent democratic protection- Ists; some favor a tariff for revenue only, while others favor a tarift on cer. tain classes of products; some favor a ship subsidy and others are opposed to it. On the money question some still ad here to the free silver fallacy, while others are ewmphatic In their endors: ment of the gold standard. Some favor the abolition of national banks and the establishment of state banks, while oth ers are opposed to the abolition of n tional bauks und equally opposed to the creation of asset currency., Discord prevails in the ranks of democracy with possessions. While a majority profess to be in favor of the abandonment of the Philippine islands at the earliest possible moment, a very respectable fraction either favor the permanent re tention of the islands or the military oceupations of the islauds for an indeti nite period. portance there is even greater diver gence of opinion among the democratic mewmbers of congress, and the prospects of the fragments being united is not very promising. THE SUB-TREASURY SYSTEM. The main feature of the plan for a great central banking institution to act as the tiscal agent for the government as proposed by Secretary of the ‘lreasury Gage lies in the abolition of our preseut sub-treasury system and the trausier o its functions to the new bank. The dis- cussion of this project cannot go on in telligently without a fair knowledge of the origin and history of the sub-treusury and the causes which brought it iuto existence, Our sub-treasury system, or as is wa then koown, the independent treasury, congress by Pre wessage of 183 Ithough it was not endcted into law until 1840 and then v repeaded after a trial of scarcely wore than a year. Six years later, however, the independent treasury law was re cnucted without change of any kind, under which the ordinary tiscal opera tows of the government bave been con ducted ever since with slight woditica tious wade necessary by the uationu banking acts begiuuing with the war ol 1861, If the sub-treasury system is ever dis carded, it will not be because it wus not 4 Vust lmprovement over what had goue before. The two United Stutes baunks which culminated in the great tight of Andrew Jacksou agaiust the Sceond Bunk of the United States had been the exclusive depositories of moueys belong: ing to the federal government. As oue of his most etfective strokes aguinst this corporation, President Juckson had arbi- travily in 1838 ordered the government deposits withdrawn aud set up the sys- tem of deposits in so-called pet bunks selected Irom among the various state and private bauking iustitutions, Al though these government deposits never in the aggregute exceeded $00,000,000, a wmere bugatelle in these twenticth cen- tury days, they proved a uever-euding source of weakness and distress, through the varying values of wildeat bankuotes, suspension ef specie payments and final brukruptey and collay When the independent treasury law was first enacted, all the pet banks and banks that hoped 10 be favored with the use of the government's wouey entered vigorous protest, As 4 result of their exertions it was repealed simultancously with the pas suge of the bill tor a third United States Luuk, which was to have taken its place, President Tyler vetoed the bank bill, al- though be signed the sub-treasury repeal bill, but by sheer force of circumstances the government 'was compelled to con- tinue to handle its tunds in wmuch the same way as it had when the law wa in force aud when it came up for re- enactwent in 1846 there was little or no opposition. Siuce the creation of our present pational banking system, na- tional banks in all the larger cities have been wmade governwent depositories uuder strict regulations requiring ample securities for safekeeping and prevent- ing undue favoritism, That the independent treasury system has in the past performed the functions for which it was designed with a fair degree of satisfaction, especially as com- pared with previously existing condi- tions, will be denied by none, Whether a8 Secretary Guge contends its defects have now become more pronounced so that it uo longer meets satisfactorily the demands of our marvelously expanded government and’ has outlived its useful- ness will be subject to debate. What- 1 ver tho conclusion may be, it 1s, we be- e regard to the government of our insular | Oun issues and measures of minor im- | was first outlined and recommended to | t Van Bureu in Lis [ | | THE OMAHA DAILY will never go back either to the of pet banks or to a private monopoly of the public funde, If the tem 18 to be abolished it will have replaced with other device that overcomes existing ditficulties without giving up the advantages of full safety and absolute independence of privite banking nstitutions sys to be sub-treasury some EVIDENCES OF OUR GREAT STRIDES Time brought prising formed progress was when the holiday and comfort to the enter editor who kept the world in the pluck, push and community. In those country known 80RO joy about of &ood old times the failed to widely circulated his through his medium of publicity his grateful appreciation to hix patrons for thelr recognition of his invaluable services by the delivery of pumpkins potatoes, poultry W But these make and cordwe helpful wethods of reciprocity ave been swept away by the tidal of twentieth century progress and in their place has come the wetropolitan journalism that strives to direct the popular vision to the swelling arteries of commerce, whose pulsations are graphically portrayed by the speclal artist employed exclusively by the world-famed chroniclers of com- mercial and industrial evolution. Thus it is that one of these exclusively great newspapers devotes at least one page ench Kk to describe in langy at once chaste and convincing “the great strides Omaha and jobbin thut has be mutually wave over we Is making in To reproduce all 0 so delighttully recounted about drummer and denler, buyer and Jobber would entertaining wholesale trade.” il several volumes more by far than the Arabian Nights or Baron Munchuusen's ve narratives. Lamentable as it may be, we are compelled for want of space to dole out to our readers only a few of the effusions, which present a view of the Ins and outs of the Omaha Jobbing district as photographed by the exclusive camera of the World-He, M, E. Smith & Co., dry goods jobbers, always like to see their trave ling men come in—especially about the holtdays. may not all be given a suit of clothe automobile, tive work during the past season, yet they are sure of the glad-hand, and that is bet ter than nothing. Then there is Joo Kel- ley's grin, which alone is worth coming sev eral leagues to see. clous chofcest morsels of these bril , or an Tt will probably be gratitying to the lov- ers of summer luxuries to know that cu- umbers are selling for $1.50 per dozen, rad- ishes from 30 to 45 cents per bunch, and that a whole barrel of lettuce can be had for $6.50. Then they can get 100 pounds of turnips for $1.25, the same amount of beets for §2, and Kalamazoo celery at 35 cents per bunch. Strawberries will come along in a month or two at an average price of 3 cents each. Oscar Keyser, a leading merchant of Belle- vue, was in the city last week and called on Paxton & Gallagher for what he wanted. Mr. Keyser is not only a good merchant, but is something of a hunter as well—not one of those pot hunters who slip up on the blind side of a flock of game and slaughter them unawares, but one who takes them on the wing. And this recalls a little story in which Mr. Keyser played a mineat part. Along early in the fall a k of prairie chickens made their appear- ance down in Sarpy county, and, owing to | | ir scarcity, at 1 no little amount fon. Several pot hunters tried to ion on them, but fa Finally Keyser started out. He chased the sve day after one at a time. He 1 sccured seventeen of the twenty-three and of them was killed except in a day, ot on | falr fght and open fleld. Charles Jewell & Co representing M. E. Smith dry goods jobbers, in the west, {8 In Omaha for a short time. Mr. Jewell {8 one of the best known traveling men out of Omaha and has always borne a good reputation for veracity and sobriety, hence what he says has weight with all who know him. Of a recent trip out in Idaho he says ““The funnlest thing I saw while absent was & six-legged steer that is now on the ranch of William Zoobl, The pecullar part of this case s that this steer was born with but the regulation number of legs, but as it grew older two additional legs began to sprout, and now the beast has six legs, which he uses as easily and gracefully as a steer with but four legs. 1 told the ranchman that he had a fortune in that steer If he would exhibit him in some of the large cities, but he only laughed at me and sald: ‘That's nothing. Such things often happen up here.' Asked to ex- plain, he replied: ‘There is a spring of water on my ranch that is seldom used. When- cver an animal gets too dry and fs so lazy that it will not go to a good drinking place he goes down to that spring to slacken his thiret. About a month after they drink the water from this spring two additional legs begln to sprout and in time grow as long as those already in use.' “0t course,” added Mr. Jewell, “I did not believe what Mr. Zoobley said and in- tmated as much. He then took me out behind his barn, where he had a lot of hides hanging on the fence, and sure as you live half of them showed that they had covered beasts with six legs." Jewell's pipe went out or he might have talked longer. What the business men of other citles will think of Omaha's great strides as a great jobbing center as portrayed by these pen pletures we cannot even sur- mise. As a specimen of metropolitan journalism, however, these realistic sketches cannot fail to create a most profound impression, Professional engagements and tremen- dous pressure of business Lave pre vented Thomas Blackburn, Esquire, at- toruey-at-law, promoter of electric sub- ways and would-be dealer In franchises, from expressing his views on the issues of the hour through the ouly medium that s willing to give him space com- meusurate with his claims upon public attention. But the public at laxge and the small bore politiclans are assured that the protracted silence which has been maintalned by Mr. Blackburn for the past three days will be broken be- fore the expiration of the year 1901, One of the knotty problems which Judge Vinsonhaler is called upon to declde In the county election contest Is whether the votes cast on affidavit by parties who failed to register should be thrown out.. It would take an unusu- ally gifted trance medium to look into a ballot box and pick out the ballots cast editor never | They | A compliment for their effec- | BEE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1901, by parties who swore in their votes and determine how they voted. unless, in deed, each voter can be brought before the court and induced to testify how he actually did . Even If these could all brought before the court and each could remember how he voted it 18 a question whether vol men be the | the secret andidates for whom he voted right of u soverelgn voter to cast u ballot be invaded by the courts? Can this privilege of ship by closure of the ballot by law to be secret? Amerlean citizen compulsory which is d dis be destroyed igted When people talk about the annual postottice deficit, they overlook altogether the vast amount of postal service ren dered the government on which 1o post age Is pald. The franking privilege of wembers of congress carries thousands o tons of letters and public documents public Ling of the KOove publications regularly tributed by t departments | The government every year out liuge sums for telephone, telegraph and cable tolls, express charges and other forms of trausmitting communications, | and because it 15 ealled on to pay for | its postal service by footing a deficit af fords no special cause for alarm, OXPeTIse, to €y e pays The Itallan government has com- plained to Uncle Sam that Italians do 1ot buve the same protection of law that Americans do in case of mob violence and Iynchings. 1f the Itallan government | will investigate a little it will discover that Judge Lynch is not in the least par: tlal in such matters and that the necks uative born sons are frequently stretehed by his order. Lynchings are deplorable, but it is an assured fact that A mob never stops to inquire into the nativity of the object of its vengeance. Emr—— President Roosevelt five seve been under times in his life, but never has he been with such a furlous discharge of popguns as has been centered on him within the past few days. It Is not expected that a wan of Roosevelt's stamp will beat a | hasty retreat, but he may be tempted to make the same exclamation that s credited by Victor Hugo to General Cambronne when asked to surrender the Napoleonic guard on the historic bat- | tletield ot Waterloo, bombarded Eastern rallroads are considering the advisability of raising the wages of the operating employes to the standard of western ronds. ‘This Is not charity, but have discovered that western roads by paying better wages are securing the most capable cmployes, The present kades are attributed to the incompe- tence of a large portion of thelr em- ployes. After the wages are raised the men should be inoculated with a large dose of western ginger und then things would move, Details of evidence in the trials of Fil- ipinos show that sowe of the people of those islands are not much behind the Apaches of our own country In the mat- ter of cruelty and treachery. As soon as the facts become generally known in the United States it Is probable a de mand will be made on the government that blaukets, beef and luxuries be dis- tributed to lnduce the brown men to re- turn to the reservation and be good. Taking Governor Savage at his word, the Omaha Bar association is preparing to name for him the man to be appointed to the expected vacaney on the bench of this judicial district. The judicial dis- trict, however, includes Burt, Washing- ton and Sarpy counties in addition to Douglas county, and the attorneys out- side of Omaha have equal interests with those practicing bere. The South Omaha council has a way f making settlements with damaged lalmants by confessing judgment and piling up an enormous deficit in the Judguwent fund, which in due time the thrifty financiers who engineer the claims expect to take up by an Issue of floating debt bonds. Such financiering would wreck any town. = Sprucing Up for Trouble, Globe-Democrat. The Chinese goverument will intrust the reorganization of its army to the Japs. Evi- dently China s preparing to become & fighting nation. Think of Jones Kic Washington Post. It is strange that the confirmation of Attorney General Knox should have been opposed by the representative of the round bale trust. We thought the trust folks always stood together. Now @« Ghow Chicago Tribune. The decision of the courts in North Da- Bota that It Is not & crime for a cowboy to pass & $50 confederate uote on an In- dian in payment for a pony may etart the ghosts to doing some of the liveliest kind of dancing out there, Dance, Another Navy Worked Up, Chicago Fost. The British Navy league i Indignant be- cause Commander Clover said it circulated reports reflecting on the English navy in order to keep up Its eficlency. This pro- test, however, may be simply part of the scheme which Commander Clover says is worked so successtully. Putting 1t On Democrats, Philadelphta Record. Representative Hepburn of Iowa asserts that the republicans never would have de- clared themselves in favor of the inde- pendence of Cuba had not the democrate driven them into ft. There Is little truth in the assertion, but it contains a sad con- fossion of the weakness of party epirit, Handshake Loses Favo: Minneapolls Journal. The president has decided to dispense with the bhuge task of shaking hands with overybody that comes to Washington. What & silly thing thie handshaking business on & wholesale scale {s, anyway. When does the average citizen feel most like a ninny? When Le is lined up with several hundred of his fellows and rushed past some celeb- rity with a fixed brass-monkey smile and tries to tell the celebrity how glad he is to &ce him, It na Problem of Irrigation Philadely A bill providing for the extension of na tioaal ald to irrigation is reported e could | A4y fof lntroduction into the senate and be cotipelled to disclose the names of | house of representatives. It of the members of congress from the states having the largest area of arid artd land and is the result of much thought and study. The chief feature bill 18 that it places the administration of t whole project in the hands of the secretary of the interior and o makes possible the carrying out of the scheme on comprehen sive principles. The next most important feature is the sotting aside of the obtained from the sale of public lands in the irrigable states as an irrigation fund The need of devising some comprehensive plan of irrigation for the arld and semi arid states has been recognized since th population began to press into those re glons. 8o long as land was plenty in the reglons where agricultural operations can be carried on with the aid of th rainfall freigation ~ould remain ir demand for more land scheme would have this, it is probable, had of the project and the manded discouraged a boginning. It was feared that the work once entered upon and fnitial appropriations made the scheme would develop into a grab game much like the annual river and harbor bills. The bill now framed seeks to overcome these obstacles by limiting the amount of money to be spent to the sum obtained from the salo of public lands in the states which have lands to frrigate, and by put ting the administration of the scheme un- der the control of the Interior department It doubtless places n large power in the hands of t tary of the interfor, but It _concentrates the responsibility and en ables any abuse to be traced to its source. Investigations made fn the past and great amount of Information obtalned espe- clally fit the Interfor department for carry- 18 the work and sem the natural bey the front for been matured not the vastne large outlay de fn Press ing out this work. Geological survey maps of all important rivers have been prepare which the catchment in the mountains and the re positions ot the reservoir sites, canals and frrigable lands. ( ations have also been made of the flow water at points throughout arid made of the o and the ar ALl this timely it country show area ative of various region, and | water jan well possibilities | data will able and an irrigation bill is passed. The will a comprehensive, well subject. 1t will not studies onditions prove v approve guarded bill on this however, sanction a treasury grab unde the terms of which an annual levy will be made on the ublic funds and which is to be distributed according to the persistence and assurance of the representatives from | the arid states. Another objection appears 1o have been overcome in the proposed bill and that ovislon limiting the | amount of land to be sold to one person and e requirement ler must both cultivate and live nd It the bill to be Introduced on as broad principles as indicated well guarded as reported it will meet public wishes and encounter little op position from the cast. The chief obstacles are likely to be met (n trying to harmonize the differing views of the west on this su Ject Irrigation fs a national question. It fs | as much o as the care of the rivers and | harbors of the country, and fts tmportance 18 destined to grow as the population of the country increases. The hesitation in approving schemes proposed in the past has been due to the fear that the govern ment might be launched on a plan fnvolving the expenditure of untold millfons and whose ultimate benefit no one could forecast. Such | an irrigation project will not be approved, and the friends of irrigation will do well to avoid it from the tart and so prevent | public opinion from becoming DTI'J\I‘HH'\JI against thom, s the f rrigable that a sett hi drawn and is as probably | DO REPRIMANDS END ALL? And what next? Shall the matter be “dropped,” since Secretary Long has spoken? No. The American people and thelr congress have the final word, as yet unspoken . New York Times With an attempt at Justifiable caution, the press dispatches say “‘Secretary Long has disposed finally of the Schley case so far as the Navy depart ment Is concerned.” The Schley case Is not disposed of—not even o far as the Navy department s concerned The enemies of the victor of Santlago should enjoy their triumph while they m Philadelphia Record If the secretary of war shall fnsist upon crushing whoever may dare open his mouth as to the settled yet unsettled, Schley-Sampson matter, he will have to open a private cemetery be- hind the department building. For the present, however, he has only set all the aninmials to snarling and gnashing their teeth again. Is this the official fdea of an “absolute termination” of high controversy? Baltimore American: It is amazing that President Roosevelt should countenan much less sanction, such action by his cabi- net secretaries. But if he and those about him listen to the siren song of the poli- ticlans apd by oficlal condemnation of Schley, repudiation of Dewey and censure of Miles seck to end the controversy which has split the country into factions and de moralized the navy, they are worse than blind. No question was ever settled until it was settled right. This question must and will he settled right in the end; that end {8 not yet, nor will it be until right prevals and justice s done. Mitneapolis Journal: Admiral Dewey can worry along. The people feel that the hero of Manila did the right thing at the | right time. His “memorandum,” as Secre- | tary Leng calls it, gave balance to the of flclal findings. It gave Schley the credit he was entitled to. It was irregular, but it was common sense. The round robin of | Presidcnt Roosevelt when he was a colonel at Santlago was irregular. But it was right To be frregular at the right moment s the thing. That was Dewey. Chicago Post RSONAL NOT George Adams, a miner Ki port, Pa., has received werd that David Craig, a tramp who came to his house ten years ago sick and was nursed back to health by Adams and his wife, is dead In Colorado and has left him $5,000. meral Fitzhugh Lee is to start on a lecture tour of the southern states and, pe haps, elsewhere this winter, his subject being “Peace and War in the United States and Cuba.” He has also agreed to lecture about fifteen times at varlous Chautauqua assemblies next summer. John Valentine, president of the Wells Fargo Express company, who died recently, was an authority on the American produc- tlon of gold and silver and his annual sum- mary of the eutput of the precious metals was recelved with a great deal of respect He was only 61 years old Thomas A. Edison’s condition 1s worry ing his friends. The famous Inventor has recently beem advised by several distin- guished physiclans to cease work, but he pays no heed to their counsel. He s en- grossed In the investigation of several difi- cult problems and refuses to rest Representative Smith of Michigan has in- troduced more pension bills at the present sesslon of congress than all his ussociate | members combined. Mr. Smith has no less than 3,700 pensioners in his district. He says that this mumber cannot be exceeded in any other congressional district. | The Chicago Historical soclety has pur- | chased from the heirs of President James Knox Polk in Nashville, Tenn, his diary | and correspondence, state and personal. The | diary fills forty volumes and the corre- | spondence covers @& perled of twenty-one years., Polk's part 1s all In his own hand writing. Only $3,000, it is sald, was paid for the collection. g Some Connecticut people seem disturbed by the fact that the measure providing for the state constitutional convention requires that it shall meet on New Year's day, which | is a legal holiday. A minor matter of dis qulet I8 that no place s named in which | the comvention shall meet and the hour of | the first assembly Is not specificd. But the | dolegates elected will undoubtedly get over | these little dificulties easily. Nving in Me- | | Very Much Mixed Boston Globe. It may astonish some people te learn that out of & British population of nearly 400,000,000 about 48,880,000, or than one-eighth, are of British birth or descent nearly 4,000,000 are non-British white men and the colored races number 242,000,000, | The native British seem being snowed un- der, Jim Hill's Philanthropy. Detroft Fres Press Where President Jaumes J. Hill of Northern Securities company is golog get among the rocks e In trying to con vinee those who d ped pi r all of thelr money in the memorable deal that he was engaged 1n & purely bumanitarian job. the Missionary work that pays so euormously uecessarlly under euspicion. 1S OF WASHINGTON 1 Scenes and Incldents Observed at the National Ca Your Unclo days’ auction malls and Sam has just closod a ton #alo of articles lost in the cleancd up $5,400, the largest sum ever realized from such a sale, The | number of packages offered for sale was | also unusually large, there being more | than 6,000 of them. The packages con- tained the customary variety of articles, useful and useless. The prize package brought $53, and and contained an excellont diamond ring which was worth about $100 Several persons competed for the ring with- having it, and a woman fnaily won it. Another diamond riug, worth about was knocked down to an enthusiast 7. seen Littlo Archibald Roosevelt, the presi- dent’s son, who {8 attending a kindergarten in Washington, s now known as the bully of that educational institution. The mothers of the other little tots attending the school are bragging because Mrs. Roosevelt sends child there, but the tots are not so enthusiastic over Archibald’s presence. The other day a woman who a little girl attending the kindeygarten, asked her how she liked little Archibald. “I don't like him," came the declsive reply. “Ho butted me twice in the stom- ach.” Investigation favorite proved that Archibald’s amusement s lowering his head like a billygoat and butting the other pupils around the playground. A group of Senator Mason's committee ports the Washington Times, and in dulged in a pastime which 1s a delight to the Ilinols statesman—impromptu story telliug. One of the yarns concerned Senator Balley of Texas and was to the ofy that while the Texa a member of the house he attended a mass meeting In his dist During the meeting he con stantly referred Jacob T. Patrick, a prominent republican from Kentucky, as “Judge.” This incensed Mr. Patrick, who finally arose and sald 1 am not a judge. I nover was, and more than that 1 have no tit 1 am plain Jake Patrick, the only strictly private citl- zen fu the entire commonwealth of Ken- tucky. 1 am not even a ‘mlister.’" “Well, sir," replied Mr. Balley, “you are unique. 1 should think that you would be least a ‘colonel.’ 1 have always un- stood that In Kentucky it Is the caslest and ch pest thing in the world to be a colonel.” “There Mr. choap senators gathered room, re- in was ot to 18 Patrick to something “It s a colonel in on in that,” replled almost as easy and in Kentucky as to be @ congressman Texas." The laugh was Senator ‘Bailey and the crowd was refreshed at hls expense. “lowa hae taken a foremost position as a Itve stock state,” said Mr. Frank L. Cum- mings of Des Mofnes, Ia., to the Washing- ton Post man. “It 1s now second only to exas in its number of cattle. I think it exceeds any state in the unfon in its num- ber of good, blooded cattle, Over one- 5 th of all the hogs In the United States are In lowa and the sheep-raising industry of the state ranks well up. There fs no longer any doubt that it has more horses than any other state in the union.” Mr. Cummings has a table showing the number of cattle, hogs, sheep and horses | auatntance from the last federal census and was public last fall at th n Chicago. 1t shows that ot cattle, all kinds all kinds, 63,207,249 61,414,024, The live these figures. Jive stock e the 18 67,0 of & stock follows Kinds according t 6,366,549, &wlt horses, 1401,427 Toxas,” continued which 18 the which excecds Towa has 9,046 tle. Towa, having 4,49 Ilinols fifth and nearly double state. W 9,601,990 Me. ¢ tate in fts number of ca Kansas stands Lext to 041, Nebraska s fourth, Missour! sixth. lowa has the ot hog mmi the ut number of other next to lowa in Senator Beveridge of Indlana was walking wn the n idor of the capitol the other day, was stopped by Mr. Holme, a well known Chicago attorney Mr. Holme use to be Senator Mason's law partner, and this circumstance, cow with the fact that he had knows the Hoc latter 510 enough to n cor when he by oratorical the boy, ma greot the prodigy the Chicago man b tatesman sinc was a a Mr. Holme which th and g ing his spe as thelr old warranted. I have you since you got from You are looking well and happy. do you good to travel” ator Beveridge hastily disengaged his hand from the attorney's grip, and drawing himself up to his full helght, remarked se- verely: “I desiro to correct the impres- slon that you seem to have regarding my Jourmey to the Philippines. It was a trip mado entirely at my own expense. I bought my rallroad tickets with my own money, the expense of my steamboat transportation were borne by myself. 1 pald every cent of es of that jaunt, as you call it wn pocket.” attompted to explain to him that he did not mean any slur or implied criticlsm. He tried to show that while he had not used the word “Jaunt” after great deliberation, still he had an {mpression that it was not entirely a term of opprobrium, but often could be seen fn the best verbal oclety. The senator would not listen te any explanation or apology. He waved the Chicago lawyer and continued hia career down the capitol corridor. Mr. Holme was monplussed. Heo steod for A moment trying decide on what he &hould do next, and then turning, he walked in the opposite dircction taken by Senutor rbanks’ young He had not when he wi shoulder. Tu eridge man over whom a great “I beg your cago man looked at in fllustr vigorously Rrasping of appe shaking | not sven your jaunt 1t scems to back out of my Mr. Holm aside colleague. gone more than twenty feet topped by a hand lald on his nin he Boev The senotor's face was that of a light had broken ho eaid as the Chi- him inquiringly. “Do you know that when 1 objected to the word Jaunt’ I had it mixed up with ‘Junket. SAUCY REMARKS, saw Sonator pardon yChicago Post: “He belloves fn expa Well, 1 to see him ¢ ston, hould say so. Why, you ought Sony son of Bro cloth ville Journal ours faller than Yes. 1 have Smythe—lsn't that pou are ne. w0 now wear his old Washington Star mor, sald Unclo ®0 much of a dollar porchunity to git bus mo’ San Francisco cliim to he the salt of the earth! He (mildly)— But, my dear, we have never denfed your claim’to being the peppert Take keer of yoh . “but don't think o loses do o Arn one or two The dat an’ Bulletin: She—You men Boston Post: First Physician-~I under- stand the measles have broken out in your netghborhood ? cond Physiclan are o scattored cateh Yes, but I'm afrald the families they won't Cleveland Plain Dealer: T the recent drop in Rockefeller $67, 000,000, “Well, it must have been a plea have the descent so nicely lubric ey may that Standard Ofl cost Mr. Chicago Tribune: “Guard,” sald tha pas senger With tho goatee, “you elevated rall roud people don't know how to q tng_ arrangeme instead of ‘under wake, Hiram,” whispered wife, “don't tell everybody you've got cold feet!” the se Press: Katharine—I asked rs. Hobson how 1t was that married four times and I at_all What did she say? that perhaps T was thit ah ha Dorothy Katharln too parti JUSTIC crITIC, Sun Francisco News-Letter. ritic came to heaven's gate ittie thing," St. Peter ‘watd, “Hut may be big for you." take this fablet and this p ite two Ines that rhym The critic scratched his head awhile, Then murmured, “Give me tme." You block the way of decent foll,* St. Peter's speech was terse, "Depart and take a desk in Hell Untll you write that verse.” The eritle wandered off to Hell 1 squatted on a coal They furnished him a charcoal stick And long asbestos scroll. The Imps forgot all other play And watched him with delight Hehold! " they erfed, “this eritfe mar Who told men how o write,"” The critfe squatted on his coal And 1oudly did he curse. “Alag! my name fs mud!* he satd, “1 cannot write a verse. Although this happe 1 years ago, T mention with regret, in the United States. It was complled If you do, a lit- tle draft or asharp wind will give you a cold or a cough. If you have a cold best advice we can give y eside a blunk ashestos seroll The critlc’s sitting yet. now, the ou is this: Go to your doctor and ask him to name the best medicine in the = world for colds and coughs. If he says, “Ayer’'s Cherry Pec- toral,” then get a bottl ¢ at once, If he has anything better, get that. “Ayer's Cherry Dectoral is a most won take cold and cough at nigh haven't been witaout it in th , or have house for Mg 28c., 50c., $1.00. remedy for chilc When the he croup, it gives immediate relief Soriia Keierek, Brooklyn, N. Y. J. C. AVER €O, Lowel