Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 16, 1902, Page 6

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Bubscribed {n m; befors me this 318 001 (Seal) N ear. E—— It's up to the county board to do a Ht- 4tle retrenching that will even up its end o©f the balance. senatorial deadlock for Iowa this Corn King Phillips has had his crown n soak for some time and it looks now THE OMAHA DAIL Y BEE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1902 GOVERNOR SHAW'S FAREWELL MESSAGE. Governor 8haws’ valedictory will com- mend itself to the people of Towa-as a model of directness and brevity. ernor 8haw possesses the rare faculty of presenting a dry subject in a clear, forceful and comprehensive manner. No state in the union enjoys greater | prosperity or less taxation than Iowa. It has no bonded debt and has nearly £1,000,000 surplus in its treasury and is therefore In position to make liberal appropriations to the state institutions .| under the management of the Board of | Control, and also to its univeruity, its agricultural college, normal school, and other institutions of learning which hold a high place in the affections of its people, Governor Shaw'’s recommendations for permanent state buildings are coupled with the admonition that the time has gone by for the construction of cheap buildings; he emphasizes the necessity | for the construction of high-grade, fire- proof buildings, not only as a measure of safety, but also as a measure of {economy. He points to the fact that artificlal butter and adulteration of cheese products are well known. The live stock associations have taken a hand in the question of range as af- fected by the disposition of the public domain and agricultural societies of all varleties have interested themselves in forestation, irrigation, rural mail deliv- ery and other matters of public moment bearing directly on the prosperity of the farming community, While the chief pitfall to be avoided at these meetings 1s the temptation to use them for political or personal propaganda, yet as a means of enlightening the public by the pres- entation of pressing problems as viewed from the standpoint of the rural inhabi- tant they find an adaptability nothing else supplies. The growing strength of the various agricultural societles and the widening interest their sessions are commanding constitute a most hopeful sign of the times. The farmer Is awakening to the fact that concentration and co-operation are as necessary for him in this twen tleth century era as they are for the manufacturer, the trader and the in- vestor. for many years the policy prevailed of building cheaply, and that anything would serve the purpose so long as the roof did not leak nor the walls cave in. He asserts that the time has passed for other than commodlous bulldings of modern architecture and of strictly fire- proof construction. In discussing the projected construction of state educa- tional {nstitutions the governor ex- presses eminently sound views when he says: 1 am of the opinfon that designs for all public bulldings should be thrown open to competition and the plans, before selec- \ tlon, examined by men of recognized ability and of national reputation. The buildings hereafter to be erected should be such as will stand the test, architecturally as well as mechanically, not only of this, but of subsequent centuries. The recommendations of the outgoing governor of Iowa with regard to the elevation of the standard of the public schools are equally sound and com- mendable. It 18 an open question, however, whether the Towa legislature will ‘deem it advisable to appropriate $250,000 for the St. Louls exposition, as recom- mended in the message. The Loulsiana Purchase exposition will doubtless excel everything heretofore undertaken in that direction, with the possible excep- tion of the Columbian falr, and may even outrival that exposition in some respects, yet it is doubttul whether any legislature In the union, outside of Mis- sourl, would be warranted in levying s If he had lost the pawn check. Sa————— Those warring base ball magnates should try to be a little more polite in the choice of names to be batted at one another. e ) The Commercial club has expended a fraction over $17,000 in the year 1901, and the guestion naturally arises, Did the club get its money's worth? A Chicago officlal bas asked that his salary c¢hecks be cancelled for five months time he had been absent from duty. No'danger tbat the habit will #pread. e ] Congreds will have to make at least ten new’Judicial districts in Nebraska to take care of half the lawyers with aspirations to life attachment to the federal salary list. ————————— If the control of the East’'Omaha Bridge and Terminal colnpany has changed hands, let us hope that corpora- tlon will also change its pollcy aus a chronie tax-shirke: —_— The latest dispatch trom South Africa states the British column is hot on the trail of Dewet. It it succeeds in reach- ing the Dewet end of the trail some In- teresting news may be forthcoming. If it is simply the cheapest possible market house Omaha wants, it might supply the demand by stretching a can- vas awning over auy of our streets and move it around from place to place each week, Thirty per ceut of the last crop of wheat in Kansas s sald to be stll in the farmers' bands. he speculator and elevator man are not making all the money out of the increase In price of grain since harvest ssses have escaped being injured In some of the numerous train wrecks which have oceurred lately, but thelr managers will doubtless discover some way of bringing them to the at- tention of the public, While playwrights and comle opera Nbrettists are racking their brains for something new and novel in other parts of the world they are overlooking the best thing that ever happened in the Omaha police court mixup Arthur P. Gorman has been formally elected senator from Maryland, Under ordinary clrcumstances the country would not congratulate Itselt over this, but as he is to take the place of Welling- ton the people will shed no tears, Governor Savage is sald 10 be now in no haste to make new fire and police commission appointments. The 2530 pa- ,triots who have been waiting for com- misslons from the governor will have to possess their souls in patience, Prince Victor, fourth in succession to the Itallan throne, is about to renounce his royal right to marry an American glirl, If she is up to the usual Awerican standard she is worth many times the prince’s chances of ever, becoming a king. A prominent member of the Nebraska Hortleultural society recommends the planting of trees on the south side of orchards. Every man who has experl enced the eftect of the north end of a south wind cau readily understand the Teason. a tax for $250,000 for an exhibit of Its products and natural resources at any exposition on this or the other side of the Atlantic. Most of the other recommendations made by Governor Shaw will doubtless meet with the hearty approval of the legislature, particularly the recommen- dations that provision be made that the state receive interest on the funds in the hands of its state treasurer, for a more rigld {nspection of olls and other explosives, and for the enlargement of the powers of the bureau of labor, SOME CONDITIONS PRECEDENT. In assuming his functions as tonst- master the retiring president of the Commercial club, Mr. C. H. Pickens, said: We all realize how essential it s that this city should have many manufacturing industries that we do not now possess. This can be accomplished by persistent, hard work. We apprehend, however, that the hard work must be preceded by conditions that will make manufacturing as profit- able or wore profitable in Omaha than in any other competing Industrial center, It is essential above all things that we should be able to assure the investor that he will not be taxed out of exist- ence and that he will be enabled to operate hfs plant as economically in Omaba as it can be operated in any other western city. It Is an admitted fact that taxation in Omaha is excessive and can only be reduced by general retrenchment in city, county and school expenditure and I a proper equalization of taxes which will exact a proportionate share from all individuals, stock companies and fran- chised corporationé. Located in the heart of the corn belt and beef-producing region, Omaha ought to furnish cheaper living to bread win- ners than any city east of the Missis- sippi, but this is not the fact. The con- sumer and the producer have not yet been brought together through the me- dium of public markets. As at present conducted the market place facllities are inadequate and inaccessible to the great majority of the working people and mid- dle classes. MIDWINTER AURICULTURAL MEETINGS, The midwinter meetings of the vari- ous agricultural societies devoted to the promotion of different branches of farm work are being held this month in all the states around us, While many of these orgunizations date back their his- tory many years, they have for the most part only recently attained their present scope and character. Instead of hold- ing simply haphazard experience wmeet- ings, the sessions have come to be thoroughly mapped out in advance, with programs designed for educational ef- fect. Requisitions are made on the most eminent and successful specialists in each separate field for contributions to the general fund of information and a sclentific yet entirely practical tone given to every feature of the proceed- ings that Invests them with constantly THE GRAY AND THE BLUE. ‘The discussion precipitated in the southern states by the introduction of # resolution in congress that the old goldiers'’ homes be opened to the ex- confederate veterans 18 in many re- spects to be deplored. .The war of the rebellion has passed into history. The fssues involved In that great struggle have been settled. The surrender of General Lee at Appomattox witnessed the capitulation of the commanding gen- eral of the greatest confederate army and also signalized the trlumph of the principles for which Abraham Lincoln and the armies of the north had fought, namely, the preservation of the union and the perpetuation of f institu- tions. It was decreed by the arbitva- ment of the sword that the flag of the union represented patriotism and the flag of secession represented treason and rebellion. In conformity with this verdict an amendment to the constitu- tion of the United States was adopted that guarautees the validity of all debts fncurred for the payment of pensions and bounties for service In suppressing the lusurrection or rebelllon and pro- hibits the states from assuming or pay- ing any debt or obligation incurred in ald of insurrection or rebellion against the United States. While the pensioning of men who sought by force of arms to destroy the union was not expressly prohibited, no- body ever drenmed that such a proposi- tion, either directly or indirectly, would be presented to congress. The reconciliation of the blue and the gray and the fraternal relations estab- lished through their association under the national flag In the Iate war with Spain has softened the sectional feel- ing, but it has not obliterated the scars, nor has it convinced the men on either side that each was not in the right. It is greatly to the credit of the con- federate veterans In the southern states. and to the southerners in and out of congress that many of their leaders are decidedly opposed to the proposed bill that would open the doors of the old veterans' homes to the confederate sol- diers of the south. Such a course would only tend to reopen the strife that has happlly subsided. No high-spirited union veteran would be content to be placed on an equality with those who fought in the rebel ranks, and very few ex- confederate veters would submit to the humiliation that would ensue when they came under the fire of the men who will always insist that the war of secesslon was a treasonable conspirac OUR COMMERCIAL CLUB. The Omaha Commercial club has done a great deal to promote the growth and prosperity of this city, but it has not yet exerted the full measure of its ca- pacity. Its sphere of activity has been confined within comparatively narrow bounds. Its most noteworthy efforts have been In the direction of creating and sustaining friendly relations be- tween the country werchants and the wholesale dealer. Incidentally, it has been the means of bringing to Omaha varlous religious and commercial con- ventions and political gatherings and has exerted itself in a soclal way in the entertainment of excursion partles and convention tourists passing through the city. In its most vital function, namely, the protection of the interests of Omaha against the inroads of commercial rivals who enjoy special privileges and differ- entlal rates, the club has been decidedly foeble. While the club has been assured and reassured by Its secretary that the in- terests of Omaha were being fully pro- tected it s nevertheless a fact that the infringement upon Omaha's territory has heen steadily increasing, and all efforts to check the inroads upon Omaha's job- bing and manufacturing interests by Kansas Clty and St. Joseph have failed in every Instance except where the rail- roands themselves have voluntarily granted concessions. It Is a matter of common knowledge that the Commercial club, as heretofore constituted, has not attemped to grapple with the rallroads because the roads exert a potentlal in- fluence upon its membership through re- bates and other concessions made to fa- vored shippers, The Jjobbers and manufacfurers of Kansas City have such a compact or- ganization that no individual or firm or combination of Individuals or firms can wield sufficlent influence to diy the growing value for the thoroughly up-to- date farmer. But it Is not only by the exchange of ideas and the discussion of new methods and theories that the agricultural so- cleties make themselves felt, They offer opportunity for concerted action for the remedy of abuses and the promotion of common interests that if avalled of wisely eannot fail to produce good re- sults, The efforts of the dairy interests along the line of self-protection agaiust club of that city from its main purpose, namely, the enforcement of the most liberal treatment on the part of the traffic managers of the transportation companies. Where Omaha begs for crumbs Kansas City asks for lonves, and 18 not too modest to demand the entire bakery. Where Omaha makes pitiful appeals for justice Kansas City demands and knows how to enforce its demands, Its merchants and manufacturers have the courage to maintain their rights and eannot be bought off by individual con cessions As a matter of fact the Omaha Com merclal club has become a self-destroy- ing agency by its eagerness to lend its Influence to the promotion of the politi- cal schemes of rallway managers, while the Kansas City club has been a poten- tlal force in checking the aggression of these managers where it would be detri- mental to the general public and espe- clally to the commercial interests of thelr city. Can anybody explain why Omaha, with a public school attendance of less than 17,000, should maintain twenty- three kindergarten schools and forty- nine kindergarten teachers, four kinder- garten directors and one superintendent of kindergartens, while Kansas City, with nearly 20,000 school attendance, gets along with fifteen kindergarten schools and fifteen kindergarten teach- ers, and Minneapolis, with a school at- tendance of more than 37,000, manages to get along with but two kindergarten schools and fourteen kindergarten teachers? Discussing school board retrenchment, a4 member of the Omaha Woman's club exclaims, “What is the reason of this spasm of economy?’ We would sug- gest that the Woman's club institute a department to study the financial ex- hibit of the schools, with special refer- ence to the regularly recurring deficits, ‘What would a good housewife do if she found her weekly expenses were con- stantly exceeding her allowance and piling up a mountain of debt to plague her? Another isthmian canal company has come futo the field and proposes to be generous. It Is willing to dig the canal and operate it for its own profit and only asks the government to guarantee 1ts bonds for enough money to complete the work. As Uncle Sam is not & pauper he will hardly permit private individuals any such great sacrifice in his —_— be remembered that Bank- wrecker Mosher once exploited & scheme of reforming the natlonal finance in the columns of our amiable local contemporary. When we have to turn to Mosher for tips on treasury management Omaha might look to It wil | South Omaba for an example of the beneficent effects of pure city govern- ment. ace of Justice, Indlanapolis Journal. Justice 1s often slow, but it its tread is leaden sometimes its footfall is heavy—a fact which the evidence In the Neely case seems thus far to confirm. Discouraging Reformers, New York World, Just as the elght-hour day is becoming generally prevalent a sclentist tells us that In a mere 60,000,000 years the day will be forty-elght hours long. It s discour- aging to be thus Tebuffed after working out a refol s we believed, for posterity. Where Money Failled. Philadelphia Record. The oldest inhabitant of New York City never heard before of anythfng but a simon- pure democrat as congressman from the down town Seventh distriot, It has been reserved for Perry Belmont, as a demo- cratic candidate in the district, to demon- strate that in this regard the oldest in- habitant has something to learn. Mr. Belmont's candidacy may not adorn a politi- cal tale, but it &eems to point the simple moral that in elections money doesn't always bring the voters around. How Times Have Changed. Detrolt Free Press. Poor Mr. Bryan finds things very dif- ferent in these days. The other day they gave Mm a banquet In Boston at which there were forty places that were to have been occupled by old supporters of his, but weren't. Among others, Joshua Quincy had an engagement in Canada. Even George Fred Willlams abandoned the fallen idol. When George Fred plays the part of Brutus it {s time that the Nebraskan “In his mantle mufing up his face” should hustle off the stage. But possibly there Is more money still in oratory than in editorializing. Value of Persistent Knocking. Philadelphta Record, It took six years of fighting to get a final decision in the United States supreme court confirming the right of the states to impose updn railroad companies the prin- ciple that fhey shall not charge more for a short haul than a long haul, or, in other words, more for a lesser than for a greater service. At last, however, the matter is determined. The right of the state to rea- sonably regulate the business of its creature certainly must be deemed necessary to the public security. That it should bave been 80 stoutly questioned furnishes a new proot of the disposition of great corporations to stretch thefr authority beyond proper mits, TWO MOTTOES INTERPRETED, Lessons and Crockett Truisms. Philadelphia Record (dem.) Mr. Bryan goes back to Andrew Jack- son for a lesson to impress on the demo- cratic party of today. What it has to learn from the hero of the battle of New Orleans, he affirms, *‘Is the lesson of stead- fastness.” Standing fast against all the storms which beat upon the party he re- gards as a superlative virtue. There {s another historic character from whom might be drawn a lesson not less important to the democracy—a character who was full of the homely virtues and whose experience as a ploneer developed his mind more than could the study of text-hooks, “Davy" Crockett took as his motto: “Be sure you're right, then'—and not until then—"go ahead."” Steadfastness without the assurance that the position s right becomes pig-headed obstinacy—a defect Instead of a virtue. In the language of another historic figure “We're all poor critters” and liable to err. To stand fast when repeatad experi- ences have shown the erroneous nature of au attitude is proof of folly. To get out of the wrong position as soon as possible 18 the only wisdom. When there can be no doubt of the firm- ness of the platform, steadfastness be- comes one of the greatest of virtues. It was through the lack of this on a memora- ble occasion that the democratic party al- lowed itself to be led away from its funda- mental principles and placed In a wrong position. When a united democracy shall have returned to the doctrines for the pro- motion of which it was created, steadfast- ness will enable it to regaln its former Jacksonian “Davy" Jsuprema ROUND AROUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Lite in the Metropolis. A notable instance of child heroism was brought to light the other day when the police of Brooklyn discovered 6-year-old Martha Manges guarding and providing for two younger brothers and a baby sister Fatherless, and her mother unconsclous in & hospital, the little girl, with extremely limited means, managed to supply their wants, kept them warm in a cold house and bravely overcame the child-fear of lone- liness at night Henry Manges, the father of the family, died six months ago. In his lfetime the family was always well cared for and well fed. After his death the mother was com- pelled to keep Martha in the house to at- tend the younger children while she went to work, and the “little mother” became proficient in the task. Mrs. Manges left her home to go to work Tuesday of lact week. In the house at the time was a small loaf of bread and a little meat. While walking along Fifth avenue the woman suddenly sank unconscious to the pavement. An ambulance from the Seney hospital was summoned and the sur- geons tried in vain to revive her. There was no clew to her identity, and for three days the woman lay unconsclous When the mother did not return Tuesday night little Martha put the other children to bed and sat up the greater part of the night to await her return. The next day ‘what little was left of the bread was eaten up and the children lay huddled together the greater part of the day. Finally, the next day the crying of the baby attracted the attention of the neighbors and the chil- dren were given a little food. The pelice heard of the case and Investi- gated. When the little ones were taken to the shelter of the Children’s soclety they were washed and fed. The “little mother'” worn out by her long watching for the mother than did not come, fell aslecp while eating a bowl of bread and milk. In the Seney hospital the mother, Agnes Manges, 18 slowly recovering. Although the Bowery still possesses the glamor of wickedness for the sailor on shore leave, the soldler on a vacation, or the visitor from the country, New Yorkers are beginning to realize that the famous old thoroughfare, immortalized in song and story, has become a stald and legitimate business street. Barring an occasional dime museum, a few cheap concert halls at the lower end, and two score saloons, relates the New York Sun, the Bowery has been given over almost entirely to business men. The Bowery stores are busy ones, too, and many of them kandle goods of tho best quality. The merchants of the Bowery are organ- ized into an assoclation, and they are very Jealous of their reputation as business men The day when the Bowery shops was a place to cheat or rob the unwary has passed. It Is interesting to note also that New York's Chinatown, at the lower end of the Bowery, has become quite a commercial center. A score or more Chinamen have opened shops along Pell street, and their principal customers are people from the upper part of the city, many of whom drop in while out seeing the sights. For these, the shrewd Chinamen have In stock great quantities of odd Chinese toys and trinkets. Just at present there 18 a big sale for the wood pulp flowers, which are packed into little disks, and when dropped into water open up at once into very pretty creations. These flowers are well made and one wonders how a box of fifteen or twenty of them can be sold for 6 cents. A woman of experience In the soclal life of Gotham expresses in the New York Sun the conviction that the lot of the bachelor at the present time 18 a very happy one. “To be a bachelor fn New York," she says, “Is a great, good thing. It does not matter if Eis means are so limited that he can barely pay his living expenses. soclal position, and even if he is without social position, but possesses good looks, charm or accomplishments, he may go through a winter brilliantly and perhaps marry well if a good opportunity comes along. “Hostesses have learned that the most successful parties are those at which the men guests outnumber the women by far. 1t 1s getting to be quite the thing to have a double number of men on a list. Above all, {s there a demand for the men classi- fled as dancing men, as dinner men and corner men as the chaps who are most popular for thelr good looks are called. “The dancing men are the most rare and the most difficult to obtain. If ono gives a dance there must be men to dance with. Not merely rich men or clever men or handsome men, but men who can dance and who will do so. “The cotilion leaders head the list and then follow the men who are known ae willing performers in the german, skilled at taking thelr partners through difcult figures; enthusinstic two-steppers and waltzers who are self-sacrificing enough to take out raw debutantes and chaperons. “Men of this sort will have their hands filled through a season and, mark you, they may be extremely uninteresting In every other way, but If they once get on the list of dancing men their entertain- ment is assured. “The dinner man is quite different. may not be able to dance a step. He rarely does, but he 18 a good talker and is known to be clever in some line. He has a fund of anecdote, badinage and compli- mentary phrases, “What is the cause of it all? There are many causes, but the most powerful one {8 the fact that women, within the past fow years, have been marrying rich men and there {8 o rage for entertaining. A rich young matron with a town house and a country place and plenty of money, nat- urally wishes to entertain and, as she must have men, the young and desirable bach- elors are asked. “Not so many years ago conditions were vastly different. People married early and girls aid not have the ambition that they have at present to outshine each other in dress and jewelry. “To be a bachelor In those days was rather a reproach. Now it s an envied po- sition, and the most sought for bachelors are becoming 0 consclous of their soclal value that they would scorn the idea of marrylng except with the prospect of goodly wealth as an accompaniment of the bride.” He The New York Press in a column etory about Senator Platt says: Thomas C. Platt, ited States senator, 18 in a condition of health which alarms himself as well ns his friends. It s not the sudden stroke of paralysis but that of old age and constitus tion burned out by too many affairs of im- portance that required more time and trou- ble than the old man well could afford. The result is that a bodyguard, or rather a safeguard, attends him almost day and night. The mere presence of this bodyguard is an indication that Platt recognizes his physical incapacity. Platt today simply tot- ters around from the Fifth Avenue hotel to No. 59 Broadway, the United States Express company’s ofices, and Is attended at every step by a safeguard. g What the eenator fenrs now Is an attack of paralysis, and to have a man beside him when that comes on he has engaged one of the most powerful and ready men in the city to attend him. He is Frank Gillesple, & former captain of the fire department and one of the members of the old Gillesple family of Ulster county, of which James Gillesple Blatne was proud to boast. | interview not signed by himself. If he bas any | ¢ i RICHARD CROKER" Sketeh of Lewis Nixon, New Leader of Tammany Hall, Lewls Nixon, the new leader of Tammany Hall, on whom the mantle of Dick Croker has fallen, is the opposite of his predecessor in antecedents, character and record, being a man of high attainments, a successful shipbullder, and a clean man morally and politically. For some years Mr. Nixon was building yard of William and there he supervieed the bullding of many of our best ships. Finally he ac cepted the post of superintendent of con Cramp & Sons, bullding firm, with which he still main- tains a connection in an advisory capacit Under his skilled eye were bullt the ar- mored cruiser New York, Admiral Samp- son's flagship in the Spanish-American war, the fleet commerce destroyer and scout ship Columbia and St. Paul and St of the American line, which also did gal- lant service in war time as auxiliary crufs- ers. Mr. Nixon, after severing active con- | mection with the Cramps, set up as a ship bullder for himself, bhaving bought and greatly enlarged and improved a small plant at Elizabethport, N. J., operated by 8. L. Moore & Sons. He has successtully launched from the ways of the Crescent yard gun boats, torpedo boats, destroyers, submarine fighters and swmall crulsers, as well as various types of merchantmen and smaller commercial oraft. Though allied with Tammany hall eleven years ago, Mr. Nixon toek no prominent place in municipal politics until eeveral years later. When, lined up for the first fight for control of the greater city, Mr. Croker saw the need of pushing to the front clean, strong young men of the stamp of Nixon, Stewart M. Brico and Willlam Astor Chanler, he persuaded the young ship- builder to run for alderman in the Twenty- fifth district. Nixon cut down the normal republican majority there, but falled of election. He afterward accepted the ap- pointment of East river bridge comml sloner and last year he was talked of ae Tammany's candidate for vice president to run on the ticket with Mr. Bryan. As the most act!ve member of Tammany's anti- vice committee of five Mr. Nixon took part in the notorious Parole club raid in Dey street. He openly opposed Willlam 8. Devery and sought, without success, to oust him from the police department. He admitted in his report that blackmail was belng levied upon illegal resorts, but denjed vigorously that Tammany hall as an or- ganization countenanced any such methods or profited by them. Mr. Nixon is married. He s not only the president of the East River Bridge com- mission, but ho is also vice president of the Autotruck company, proprietor of the South Amboy Powder works, a trustee of the Webb academy and Home for Shipbuilders, a fellow of the American Geographical so- clety, a member of the New York State Chamber of Commerce, of the Army and Navy club of Washington, the Rittenhouse club of Philadelphia, the Union, Democratio and New York Yacht clubs of New York and the Seneca and Richmond County Country clubs, PERSONAL NOTES. Tt may be noted that Mr. Kipling is in South Africa, but he {s not fighting. The roster of Philippine heroes is grow- ing steadily. The latest name on it {s that of Major Waller, “the hero of S8amar." John G. Milburn of Buffalo, at whose house President McKinley dfed, will be tendered the presidency of the New York Bar assoclation at its meeting in Albany January 21. Governor Shaw has so far learned the situation in the Washington news factories as to declare that when he is In charge of Uncle Sam's treasury he will authorize no Willlam Gwin, the colored messenger who has served thirteen secetaries of state dur- ing the last thirty vears, carrles a gold watch inscribed “From Willlam M. Evarts to Willlam Gwin, February, 1893 The lesson drawn by Rev. G. W. Torbush, a Methodist clergyman of Pittsburg, from the 6uccess of the play “Ben-Hur" is that Christlan theaters should be endowed by Christian men and women and supported by the church and run even at a loss By the municipal assessment the heaviest indlvidual taxpayer in Hartford, Conn., Is James J. Goodwin, who pays on $468,0 The firm paying the largest Is Brown, Thbmson & Co., who pay on $507,000. In- surance and bank stocks are now listed with the state tax commissioner, President Roosevelt has been unanimously elected an honorary member of the Union League club of New York. He has been an active member of the club for about eighteen years. Presidents Harrison ard McKinley were the only chief executives attached as government expert to the ship- | struction for the great Philadelphia ship- | Louls | STRENUOUS HEALTHFULNESS. Americans Pushing the Grim Reaper to a Back Seat. Insurance Statisticlan. This country is more healthy with the ex- coption of Norway and Sweden than any part of Europe, and the effect of the in tense strugglo for success on the part o our business men and women {8 more than balanced by our higher standards of living, which tend to make our people continue along the path of improvement. Whilo it is impossible to arrive at final conclusions on the basis of our industrial or ordinary ex- periences, because of the careful medical selection exercised In insurance practice, the facts established by other fnvestigations indicate that the adult foreign born citizen Is subject to a lower mortality in the United States than in his own country, and it may be safely assumed that any Inherited ten- dency to early decay will be more than bal- anced by the healthler conditions of lite In our country, A comparative mortality table shows that close behind Norway, and ahead of Great Britain, France, Germany, and ahead of other states of our country, Now Jersey has the lowest death rate. The chance of attaining the age of 100 {n Mas | sachusetts fs today ten times what it was half o century ago. Certainly the facts ate abundant tending to prove that old age s being attained by men and women in this | country with an increasing degree of fre- | auency, and, what s better, to quote the words of authority: “It s cortain that our American men at 60 aro not broken up as badly as aur fathers were at 40." BREBZY CHAVF Baltimore New T don't 11t walled Bigsley. ‘Don’t understand what?" | [“The more I contract my bills the more | they expand.'” | _Chicago Tribune: “Ethel, dear, how can you expect that cold of yours to_get any better while you aro doing absolutely nothing for it | ““Doing nothing. mamma? Why, T am taking absent treatments for It Hght alon, Just as hard as I can!” Philadelphia Press: “Say!" crfed the first flea in poor tabby's fur, “we're simply mak ing_ this eat wild."” “Ha!" sald the second, “then she's a wild cat, and that makes us golfors.” “How 807" “Playing on the lynx. understand Atlanta Constitutlor friend in Texas a G Tn a lotter to & orgin_correspondont : "I have no news to tell vou, 'cept your house is burnt down, your farm has been sold for a mortgage, an' most of your friends air dead."” Washington Star: “What we want to do 1s to send business men to the legislature.” “Well,"” answered Senator Sorghum, "“we are getiing on in that direction, The way some of the people in the legislature talk business to me is simply dazzling.” Denver Republican: Officer: brother, who was 8o deaf, any better? Bridget—Sure, he'll be all right in the morning. Officer—You don't say so. Hridget—Yes; he was arrested yesterday, and he gots his hearin’ in the morning. your Philadelphia Press: “Oh, yes; he's very clever,"” Huh! he doesn’t do anything to show it er knew him to do a stroke of work.” lhat's just where he shows his clever- A man has to be clever who can make a lving without workin; Brooklyn Bagl Larkens—That M Sniffin 18 a remarkable woman! Vanscooter—Indeed? Larkins (Impressive She {8 posi- tively the only woman I ever knew who when she was showing off her baby and it began to yell, did not remark that she could not understand why it did so, as it never cried other time 110 The February number of World's Work contains the complete poem of Rudyard Kipling, “The Islanders,” which the wholo world is now discussing. Following are the most interesting verses: And yo vaunted your fathomless power ind ¥ unted your fron pride ed on the Younger ¢ men who cauld shoot and [} A to \'f\ur idols; then ye soitls fools at the wicket or afs 0t the gonls . wholly contente: With the flann the mudd Given to strong d helleving land lay fenceless and ths go by; wonder;" b of ping soms fdle—in the lee the fore- for your bousting, and what your boasting worth It yo grudge a year of service lordifest life th Anclent, effortless, , eyele on cycle Bot— Life Dt to the rd ) long untroubled that ye who in- it forg not made with the mountains; it with the deep, Mén, not Gods, It was is not_on not Gods, devised it. must Kee Men, Afrid, aloof, incurlous, un- thanking, gelt— Wil ye loose your schools to flout them till the browbeat columns melt? WIIL ye pray them or preach them or print them or ballot them back from your unthinking, shore? ‘Will your workmen lssue a mandate to bid your rulers? similarly honored by the club. The Boston Transcript says: “Lieutenant H. L. Roosevelt, United States Marine corps, & nephew of President Roosevelt and who is well known in this city from hav- ing served at the barracks at the Charles- town Nayy yard recently, has been ordered from his present dutles at the naval training station, San Francisco, to Cavite, Philip- pine lslands.” Emperor William, among & variety of new subjects engaging his attention, is looking into the relations of the German workmen's preductiveness and the use of beer during working hours. His majesty's inquiries among employers and students of social questions indicate that he regards the beer now drunk regularly on factory premises as appreciably detrimental to both accuracy of workmanship and amount of product. them strike no more? Will ye rise and dethrone (Because ye were ldle both, Pride by Insolence humbled? apurred by sloth?) No doubt but ye ure the people; who shall make you afraid? Also_your gods are many; no doubt but your gods shall aid, 1dols of greasy altars ballt for the epirit's ense talking q little fetishes; Totems of sipt and party and wise wood- rement gods 1l come down t h you from Indolence Prou brazen Baals and the battls and under the rods? gusty, flickering gun-roll with viewless salvoes rent, And the pitted hail of the' bullets that tell not whence they were wont? When ye are ringed as with fron; ye are scourged as with whips, When the meat i yet In your belly and the boast 18 yet on your lps; When ye go forth at morning and the noon beholds you broke— Ere ye llo down at even, under the yoke. From when your remnant and healing your lungs Cherry Pectoral. this. If he knows of better, be sure and get last she was given up to die. A neigl try Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, ealth.” — D, P, JoLLy, Avoca, N, Y. 2. 80c., $1.00. of Ignorance It’s consumption. If you had only known how your cough was going to hang on, you would have done something promptly, wouldn’t you? But even now, when you have early consumption, the best medi- cine for controlling your cough is Ayer’s You had bet- ter talk with your doctor about anything it. The one great 'object is to be cured. “My mother had consumption for many years, At hbor told her to She did so and was com jetely cured, and is today in the enjoyment of goud J. €. AVER CO., Lowell, Mess.