Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 26, 1902, Page 6

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Remit by draft, express or postal order, payavle to The Bes Publishing Company; 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of sl sccounts, Fersanal cheoks, €081 on aha Of edstern exchange; 1o O i B EY PUBLIBHING COMPARY. ITATEMENT 0" CIRCULATION. tate of Neb uglas County, ss.: :-llu I 5 Lllchllfl. m" mflv E;O!n ompan. "hat the actual pumiser of fuil and mlplll. coples of The ening ana Sunday Bee muth ot January, Net total sales. Net dally average. GEO. B. TZ Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to tolon me this 1st GIQIB.I‘;IDII;HNAE}" A D, (Beal.) Notary Public. To the Meteor—May its flight be fleet. From all accounts Prince Henry is a royal good fellow as well as a royal fellow. cEpE———— We knew that a return to the debate with the Declaration of Independence was only a matter of time. b — 1t never rains but it pours. Omaha no sooner gets within sight of one market house than a second looms up on the horizon. | Seme—— It's a little early yet for spring house- cleaning—that devolving on the municl- pal authorities as well as that of the private householder, Champlon Jeffries 1s sald to be con- templatiig retirement from the prize ring. Perhaps he might be secured to act as officer-of-the-day for the United Btates senate. ‘We feel safe in concluding that Sena- tor Gorman of Maryland is not the first choice of our esteemed local Bryan- ite contemporary for democratic stand- nard-bearer in 1904, ep——— The rumor, that General Botha was megotiating for a surrender is promptly denled from London. Both General Botha and General Kitchener are too busy to be interviewed. co——— The eastern section of the country re- ports winter wheat badly damaged. It 1s a long time until harvest, but he— braska farmers have Dot seen any rea- #on to be frightened up to date. Tt is worth recalling that while the late grand jury presented the bills, the county attorney drew the indictments, mnd responsibllity for defects in the drawing must rest on his shoulders. emme— Professional pugilists who put in a month wrangling before every battle should take notice from the senatorial battle how easy it is to get up a con- test when both men are really willing. ~——————— A mountain of arsenle has been dis- covered In Washington. As the entire consumption of the country amounts to only $1,000,000 worth per year the supply In sight is sufficient to last for a little while. e——e———— Our German-American citizens can harbor kindly feelings for the vaterland and extend cordial hospitality to its representative without in the least im- pairing their loyal alleglance to the United States. South Omaha seems to have over- looked one fmportant point in favor of consolidation with Omaba. South Omaha is iofiicted with a city election every year, while Omaha lets three years pass between municipal mixups. ——————————— Germany now discovers that it did not claim enough when presenting its indemnity charges agalnst China. Evi- dently the German diplomats are in no way related to the men who make up unti-election estimates in this country. Kansas populists are wondering at the nerve of 25,000 democrats propos- ing to swallow 125,000 populists. The democratic appetite has always been a source of wonderment to all who ever observed an attempt made to satisfy it. Tm—E——— It is stated that the Sugar trust has bought up all of last year's crop of Cuban sugar and also the growing one and will be the sole beneficiary in case the duty is reduced. Congress might drive a spike in the scheme by post- poning the date at which the new law becomes operative in case it is passed. 4 ANTI-TRUST LEGISLATION. There is ample time yet before con- gress In which to consider and enact anti-trust legislation, but public inter- est in the matter should be kept active to the end that congress be not allowed to forget or ignore its duty. It Is well that it be occasionally reminded that the people expect something will be done for regulating and supervising the Industrial combinations engaged in in- ter-state commerce and that fallure to meet this demand might prove a bad thing for the party in power. It would be found pretty difficult to explain to the satisfaction of the people an omis- slon to provide such legislation, at least, as President Roosevelt has suggested and which is generally acknowledged to be proper and essential. The existing federal anti-trust law not being adequate there must be ad- ditional legislation and it ought to be enacted at the present session. What the public desires Is a law that will re- quire corporations doing an interstate business to give, at least once a year, public Information regarding their finan- clal condition. The people belleve, with the president, that in the Interest of the public the government should have the right to inspect and examine the work- ings of the great corporations. They believe that these organizations, which depend upon statutory law for thelr existence or privileges, should be sub- Ject to proper governmental supervision and full and eccurate information as to their operations should be made pub- lic regularly at reasonable intervals. There is little doubt as to the authority of congress to provide for this, and there should be no hesitation in exercis- ing the authority. e —— | ADVOCATING RECIPROCITY. Benator Beveridge of Indiana is an earnest advocate of reciprocity as a means of retaining and enlarging our foreign commerce. He sald in a re- cent address that we must makeé those common sense arrangements with our neighbors among the nations by which our surplus of American products may be taken across the seas. This, he de- clared, is the statesmanship of common sense. He said the miraculous growth of our export trade is lessening, and, on the other hand, our productiveness ‘| waxes until its magnitude today makes little its proportions of yesterday, which then were wonderful. It is true that our total exports were less last year than for the preceding year and the falling off was in manu- factured products, while those of agri- culture increased. Decline in exports of manufactures is still going on. We are not holding the great gains in the forelgn trade made prior to last year. Depression abroad in part explains this and is doubtless the chief reason, but it is by no means certain that with im- proved conditions in Europe we should recover what we have lost unless we shall make trade arrangements that will be mutually beneficial. At present there seems to be no promise of this. Nothing is heard in regard to the pend- ing reciprocity treaties and probably nothing will be done with them. Mean- while our productiveness grows and the demand for markets for the surplus be- comes more urgent. This condition can- not much longer continue without bring- ing a reaction and a decline of the prosperity which the country has had for the past five or six years. The admonition of President McKinley ap- pears to have been forgotten at Wash- ington; at any rate there is no lppu'ent disposition to heed it. e REVENUE FUR THE PHILIPPINES. The senate bill providing revenue for the Philippines is a better measure than the one passed by the house, which im- posed the full rates of the Dingley law. The senate bill is a compromise be- tween that of the house and the rec- ommendation made by the Philippine commission of a reduction to 50 per cent. It makes the duties 75 per cent of the existing tariff on articles coming from the archipelago into the United States, while dutles on articles going from this country to the archipelago are to ' be determined by the commission. A num- ber of republican senators were in favor of a 50 per cent reduction, believing that such a concession would be very beneficial to Philippine trade and also have a good political effect, but con- sideration for our domestic interests controlled the majority. The prolonged discussion of the measure, with a view to political effect on the part of the democrats, was of no great consequence. Not a single vote was changed by It, nor has it exerted any influence upon public opinlon. As one senator remarked, the roll call might have been ordered when the bill was reported by the committee and the result would have been precisely the same as it 1s. So far as the public is concerned the democratic arguments against the bill have reached only a very small pro- portion of it and there are many demo- crats who do not subscribe to those arguments. Leading democratic papers, particularly in the south, bave dis- sented from them. There is no doubt that a very large majority of the Ameri- can people recognize the necessity of remaining in the Philippines and of es- tablishing peace and orderly government there. They feel that this is an impera- tive obligation and duty, which cannot be honorably disregarded. As was sald by a republican senator in the course of the debate, we are charged with the duty of promoting the commercial welfare and the pros- perity of the people of the Philippine Islands so far as it can be done by the enactment of laws. Revenue must be provided for the support of the insular and municipal governments, for the support of public schools, the improve- ment of harbors, the comstruction of much needed highways and for other needful and useful governmental pur- poses. In this way prosperity will be protpoted and that will accomplish much THE OMAHRA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, toward the promotion of peace and con- tentment among the inhabitants. It is unquestionable that steady prog- ress is being made toward complete pacification and there is every reason to believe that when ample revenue shall have been provided for carrying out a Iiberal policy of public improve- ments and extending education, peace throughout the islands will come and be maintained. The task which the United States assumed has indeed been costly, but with so much accomplished no rational man can desire that we now abandon the task. The first require- ment is revenue for the islands and when that has been supplied the next step should be the establishment of an insular government, republican in form, as provided In a bill before the senate. This would allow the Filipinos to enjoy a very large measure of representative government and would tend greatly to secure and maintain peace. —— FRANCHISKE LIMITATIONS. The order of the district court enjoin- ing the council from passing the pending underground wire ordinance draws the line between what constitutes police reg- ulation as distinguished from the mod- ification of a franchise. This particular ordinance is designed to enable the city to order underground in a prescribed area of the business district all the wires carrying highly charged currents for electrie lighting purposes. The objections entered to this proceed- ing by the petitioners in court were: First, that the privilege of placing these wires underground constitutes a fran. chise that can be granted only after rat- ification by the people at the polls; sec- ond, that it constitutes a modification of the existing franchise of the electric lighting company in so far as it refers to the transmission of electricity for heat and power, which is subject to the same charter limitations. In support of the ordinance it was urged that its re- quirements were purely within the po- lice powers of the city regulating the manner of extending wires through the streets and insuring the safety of per- sons and property from contact with them. Judge Keysor, in his opinion, it seems to us, has struck the right line of cleav- age. He holds that so far as the ordl- nance alms to prescribe the manner in which electric lighting wires shall be placed, it is a police regulation and fully within the powers of the mayor and council. So far, however, as it inter- prets the wording of the existing char- ter of the electric lighting company by reading into it the right to use its wires for the distribution of electricity for heating and power purposes, it enlarges the franchise and exceeds the powers of the mayor and council as defined by the charter, Construed in this way eur charter pro- vislons relating to the granting of fran- chises fully cover the ground so far as preventing indiscriminate grants by the city authorities is concerned. The strict provisions setting up serlous obstacles to the acquisition of new franchises are unquestionably to the advantage of cor- porations already enjoying franchises. ‘While they constitute an effectual bar to hold-up schemes so common in other cities, yet at the same time they protect the taxpayers from the reckless dissipa- tion of valuable franchises by over-gen- erous city counclls. The charter con- templates the eventual municipal owner- ship of all these monopolies of service and until we reach this point sound policy dictates holding a firm check on franchise rights. ——— The recent fire in New York demon- strated that the automobile must be much improved before it can completely displace the horse. The streets of the city were covered with ice and snow and the fire apparatus drawn by horses reached the scene without serious de- lay, while the automobile apparatus was stalled. The trolley, the bicycle and the automoblle have all been pro- clalmed as the successor of the horse, but that animal continues to be man’s best servant In times of need. ] The appointment by the fire and police board of Charles A. Salter as permanent chief of the fire department is simply a well earned endorsement of his work as acting chief, in which the people of Omaha will heartily concur. Chief Sal- ter has shown that he has the right idea of discipline as well as of effective fire fighting, and as long as he sticks to that no one interested in maintaining the efficlency of the department at the high- est standard will have any cause to com- plain, —— Two local democratic bosses who have been fighting one another over the spolls are said to bave kissed and made up Just as a matter of resentment agalnst a democratic officeholder who found the patronage at his disposal insufficient to satisfy the demands of either. The former antagonists will, of course, now work solely to promote democratic principles. The general attorney of the East Omaba bridge company is camping out in Washington to persuade congress to pass the bill modifying the bridge charter, Notwithstanding this ex- penditure of effort and money, our people are assured that this proposed legislation is merely a technical time extension of no particular value to the company. ‘Why should the Bryanite newspapers hesitate to come to the defense of Sena- tor Tillman? Didn't Tillman head the Bryan forces in the Kansas City con- vention and champion there the plat- form just as it had been O. K.'d by Bryan? For such devotion is he not entitled to a rallying charge In Lis be- half? If Senator McLaurin is as bright as he is generally credited with being, he can observe how neatly a senator can » call a colleague a Mar without placing himself in contempt of that august body. Like everything else, it is all in know- ing how. — The Hoodoe in Action. Chicago Herald. Ia time, stopping at & New York hotel will be an act of herolsm. Comrades for a T Kansas City Star. ‘“The Star Spangled Banner” and “Die Wacht Am Rhein” are bound to get well acquainted within the next fortnight. Too Much Inquisitivemess. Baltimore American. BSecretary Shaw has drawn fire imme- diately. He wants the ladies to tell why they object to the customs inspectors. As if the making of the objection were not sufficlent. Any 0l1d Kind Goes. Philadelphia Enquirer, Touching the subject of dirty money, all of us like clean money better than the other kind, and yet when did anyone ever see people say they would bave clean money or leave the change behind? Back to 0ld Reliable. Chicago Chronicle. A fire like that which has destroyed an armory and hotel in Manhattan empha- slzes the valus of horses attached to fire engines, No automobile can make way through heaps of snow and over loose stones and bills of ice. The day of the horse 18 not ended. ‘Weoodman, Spare the Trees. Chicago Tribuna Bditor J. Sterling Morton of the Con- servative advertised recently for men to cut down trees on his farm, and now he is facing a storm of criticism from the Arbor day patriots. . Has not the man who causes two trees to grow where only one grew before the right to cut a few down occa- slonally? Let It Go at That. Cleveland Leader. ‘The statement of Ambassador White that the conduct of the German government during the Spanish-American war was all that the people of this country could de- sire may be accepted as conclusive, for, as he says, he is “competent to express opinion,” having been in touch with that government for five years past. Beaten at Their Own Gi . Indianapolis Journal. After the “renovated” butter-makers had expended time and money to secure legisla- tion hostlle to the manufacture of oleomar- garine the amendment to their bill requir- ing that all renovated butter should be so stamped has created widespread consterna- tion in their ranks. The oleo industry is as beneficial to the country as is that of reno- vating butter, and for that reason should not be discriminated against. The Price of Promotion. March Success. It those who are not succeeding in pro- portion to the amount of effort they exert would examine themselves closely, they would find, as a rule, that their locomo- tives are off the track. Not realizing ‘where, or what the trouble is, they merely intensify it by putting on more steam, and, the more they put on, the deeper they sink into the mud and the harder,it is to move. If they would stop long enough to examine thelr machinery intelligentty and make a thorough investigation of the causes that prevent its working properly, they would probably succeed in getting their locomo- tives on the right track before they waste all their steam plowing in the sand and mud. Even if they do not discover, until after middle life, the secret of their fail- ure to get on, they may ultimately reach their destination. ART AND $3 PANTS. ible Conflict of the Beautifal and the Material. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Five hundred of the professional musi- clans of Chicago who love their art for its own sake are sald to be on the point of withdrawing from all affliation with ‘the 1,500 musiclans here who are supposed, to love their art only for the money there is in it. The 500 charge that the 1,500 are swayed by sordld imfluences, that they will take the first job that pays the union price, utterly unmindful of the dignity of their exalted callinz. Thus certaln members of the Musicians’ federation will play Sousa and Strauss in $3-pants wagons through the streets of a morning; Wagner, Rossini, Verd!, Mendels- sohn, Weber and Mozart at an afternoon ception; Hogan, Evans, Dresser and Sol mon at an evening church-parlor comcert, and Beethoven, Ludovic, Wilmark, Chopin, 0'Connor, Gounod, Sullivan and De Koven at an all-night stag. The 500, while willing to admit that this is business, are not prepared to acknowl- edge that it is art. On the other hand, the 1,600 ask the 500: ““What would you have us do? If we play good music in $3-pants wagons through the crowded streets of this metropolls, thes by directing the mind of sordid man even momentarily to higher thought, are we not uplifting him? True, we are advertising $3 pants, but is there anything essentially inartistic in thie? If the stre crowds will not come up to our ideals, why is it not right and proper and ethical and pro- fessional that we should get down to theirs, at the union price per hour?" “Then,” they add, “what if we do mingle the classic and the ragtime at afternoon receptions, evening concerts and all-night stags? Are we not thereby popularizing the classic and at the same time demon- strating by contrast the inferiority of pop- ular compositions?" This argument may appeal to the ordi- nary mind with some force, but it is lost upon the 500. “Art should not be degraded upon any pretense or under any ecircum- stances,” they retort. “Music has & higher and holier mission to perform than that of creating an artificial demand for $3 pants. If popular airs are demanded at afternoon receptions, let popular airs only be played. If ragtime and coon melodies are demanded at church-parlor concerts and all-night stags, let such music only be played.” “Let us not,” the 500 plead, “desecrate our art. Let us not drag Mendelssohn, Rossini, Chopin, Gounod, Verdi, Buppe, Wagner and Schumann down to the rag- time and coon level. Give the uncultivated Rosenfeld, Dresser, Howard, Sully, Sloane, Jobhnson, Cole, Solomon and the like, if needs be, but save the old masters from pollution. We would rather that our lutes should be idle than that we should sacrifice art to lucre.” “All right,” says the 1,500, “you cling to your art, and we'll take the jobs.” In & case of this kind it would be haz- ardous for & Philistine to intrude opin- lon or advice. All that we would venture to suggest is that the 500 and 1,600 agree upon & joint harmounizing committee. Dis- cord is entirely out of place in & musical federation. Each side should make com- cessions. If the 500 will agree to play some music that the common people cam understand the 1,500 might agree not to play hence- forth in wagons advertising pants at less than §5 | S Irrepre: 1908, Bourbonism of Bryanism Detroit Free Press (dem.). Mr. Bryan bas resolutely accepted Bour- boniem as hisportion. The man seeme to have made up his mind that he will never learn and never forget. In his speech at the dinner of the Albert Willlams Democratic club in lonia Thursday night the Peerless Leader once more exalted the silver gods above all the other gods. “If the silver question is dead, why be afraid of a corpse?’ he asked. “If there is enough life left in it to scare & gold bug there is enough life in it to be saved.” The Bryanic method of argument has be- come as well defined as the Socratic. In the logic of Mr. Bryan the truth of an eco- nomic principle varies inversely with the square of the opposition. The more general the opposition the more true the principle is. Its political utility varies by the same law. The more opposition there is to the principle the more avallable it is for po- Iitical purposes. The ideal platform, ac- cording to Mr. Bryan's scheme of things, s one that nobody favors and everybody op- poses. Mr. Bryan's reasons for clinging to the corpse of silver would be as convincing if applied to unlimited issues of greenbacks. The “gold bugs” would probably squirm harder over greenbacks than over silver and the harder they equirmed the more righteous and the more timely the green- back cause ought to be. Or some of the If there is life enough in imperial- fsm and Neeloyism and watercurelsm and all the other isms that have followed the policy of expansion to ecare an anti-im- perialist there is life enough in imperialism TRIBUTE TO REAL WORTH. Varlegated Sparks from the Thought Anvils of Congress. Portland Oregonian. How often, as we tread the dreary desert of life, we are ready to blame but slow to praise; how many kind words of apprecia- tion that might have been dropped on thirsty ground by the wayside are un- spoken, how often is the hand outstretched in appreciation and gratitude only to find that the expected recipient bas gone onm in ignerance of our generous belated pur- pose. We meant well, but the train h: left, the bolt has sped, the bar has clos for the night, or the referce, mayhap, has counted ten. In eschewment, therefore, of absent-mindedness and the marble heart alike, let us, notwithstanding the press upon our columns and the lateness of the hour, offer a modest but timely tribute to a body at which much censorious attention has recently been directed. We mean the national house of representatives, which in Mugwumpla 18 gravely reprobated as no longer a deliberative assembly, far below the standard reared aloft in the senate. Oratory and deliberation have held high carnival in the house for two days. As to whether or not the Indian appropriation bill should pass, Mr. Burleson submitted the attitude of President Rooseveit, before taking and after taking the presidency, toward the trusts. In reply Mr. Hill spoke for an hour in favor of his sliver coinage bill. Mr. Glllett excoriated Mr. Wheeler for his comstructive discourtesy to Prince Henry and the German vote. Still relative to the Indian appropriations, Mr. Bromwell read a humorous poem, whose burden was the alienation of the German vote that ‘would accrue to Wheeler from his anti-Ger- man speech; Corliss completed his long ad- dress on behalf of the Western Union’ opposition to the Mackay Pacific cable, Hamilton defended the trusts so as to draw applause and laughter from both sides of the house; Sulzer made a speech in advo- cacy of increased pay to letter carriers; Jackson addressed the house in support of direct election of United States senators; Kern castigated the majority for its failure to sympathize with the Boers, and Boutell traced at length the history of “truculent sycophancy” from the foundation of our government. Newlands, as the last speaker of the day, gave his reasons for opposing the Hill coinage bill. The Indian bill hav- ing thus been pondered o'er and inwardly digested, debate was closed upon it. In view of this spectacle of oratory and deliberation, which for pertinence, dignity and courtesy could hardly be surpassed by the senate itself, let no one henceforth charge that the house is not a deliberate body. In numbers, possibly, its Wheelers do not compare with the Tillmans, Duboises, Masons, Wellingtons, Clarks and Keans of the upper house. But it has cleared itselt from the aspersion of being too prompt in the dispatch of public b PERSONAL NOTES. A New York judge has decided that It is not slander to say t! cards. In some parts of the country, ever, it s suicide. Joel Chandler Harris, the author, lives in a little frame cottage in Atlanta, Ga. He writes from six to seven hours a day, turn- ing out from 1,600 to 2,000 words, using a typewriter. Danlel Hardy, the mew general superin- tendent of the Missouri Pacific rallway, was, thirty-five years ago, a water boy on the old single track road rumning through Frazeyville, O. A solid silver statuette of Rear Admiral Schley, six inches high, has been recelved at Baltimore by Isidor Raymer, counsel for the admiral. Mr. Rayner has no idea who sent him the statuette, Governor McBride of Washington state has made & new move in his war on the rallway lobby. He has announced his in- tention to dismiss any state employe who accepts a pass over a rallroad, and he de- clares he will crush out the lobby. Anybody troubled that way and possess- Ing the price to take in Carlsbad can mix solid enjoyment with afliction by striking the town next September. The congress of German philosophers and physiclans meets in Carlsbad on the 21st of that month. The skill of modern civil engineers is il- Justrated by the fact that when two sec- tions of the New York subway tunnel were jolned Wednesday by & blast the error in the junction was within the circumference of & circle having & radius of a half inch. It is interesting to note that John G. Mil- burn of Buffalo, in whose house President McKinley was tenderly cared for after be- ing mortally wounded by the assassin Czol- goez, s & democrat of suficlent prominence to be thought of by the New York democ- racy as & candidate for governor of that state. The four greatest men of today, says Henry Labouchere, are Marconi, Roentgen, Edison and Carnegle. ‘“‘Celebrated states- men and distinguished soldiers generally do more harm than good. The foremost bene- factors of the race have been those who fought against abuse, superstition, ignor- ance or disease or have discovered the means of adding to the resources of man- kind.” Philip Plenaar, 8 Boer who has written book entitled “With Steyn and Dewel says that the latter gemeral is uncouth in manner and careless to & degree in mat- ters of dress. Lack of tact and abruptness in manner add to his unattrativeness, but be has an abundance of shrewdness and Is not without dignity. Besides, it is chiefly owing to Dewet and Steyn that the war did not end with the fall of Pretoria. to save the country. The more imperialism there ia the more the country is going to be saved. If getting away from the faith of the fathers scares Mr. Bryan the thing to do is to get further away from the faith of the fathers. This form of reasoning works ae well in one case as In another, and it is mon- wense in all cas: The Free Press is sur- prised that Mr. Bryan should have ap- peared before representative democrats of Michigan with an argument so childish, so flabby, and so paltry. Peerless leadership has reached a low level when it can justify itself only by insisting that a party must chain iteelf to a corpse to prove that it Is not afrald of the corpse, or because some- body else does not like the odor of dead tissue. But, fortunately for the country, the democratic party ls more progressive than Mr. Bryan, and while it is his privilege to whittle away his personal following if he chooses, it is the privilege of thinking democrats to reorganize their party and make {t modern. Mr. Bryan will be free to advance with them, or to remain behind with the memories and illusions of 1806. If he loves to believe that the silver ques- tion s still living, that it is & Frederick the Red Beard, resting trance-like ia an underground castle until the ravens no longer hover over the mountain top— walting until they have flown away to pass from under the spell and restore the glory of the nation—if Mr, Bryan chooses to mix pational politics sad folk lore, and blend grest questions of state with fatry tales, that is his own affalr, but the people of the United States are a practical folk. — ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropolis. ‘Walter Brooks, & Brooklyn young man, ‘was shot and killed during & carouse, some ten days ago, and a young woman named Florence Burns is under arrest charged with the crime. The tragedy has attracted uncommon attention for the reason that the parties to it are children of a prom- inent Brooklyn family, and for the further reason that it has brought to public notice a shocking state of vice amd crime in high soclal ecircles. According to the Brooklyn Eagle, Brooks was a member of a gang of young swells, sons of the first families oc- cupying mansions on fashionable Bedford avenue and Stuyvesant Helights. The mem- bers ranged in age from 17 to 22. They set the pace for another gang of youngsters of the same fashionable set, ranging from 14 to 17 years of age. Members of both gangs ‘were swell loafers, some having allowances, others employing their wits to secure the wherewith. Garbed in spiketail coats, loud vests, flaming necktles and carrying canes a8 large as their legs, they were a sight to behold. For years back the gang held un- disputed sway on the avenue, waylaying school girls and enticing older ones to en- ter the pace that kills. The record of de- generacy and debauchery and immoral orgies {s pronounced by the Eagle to rival the best efforts of Nero. Besides their im- morality the members of the gang com- mitted forgery, obtained money under false pretense, gold-bricked rustic visitors, kid- naped innocent girls and violated the honor of homes to which they were bldden as guests. Two or three of them were sent to reformatories last year. One was killed by his victim. The others are keeping in the shade until the storm of indignation blows over, In one of the municipal courts the other day, relates the Evening Post, there was tried a case involving the value of an elaborately constructed pair of shoes made for a man with crippled feet. The shoe- maker, who insisted on being his own law- yer, set the value of his expert judgment at a high figure. “Seven generations before me have been | T shoemakers,” he said. “I mever took less than $500 for work like this. I am an ex- pert in curing people.” “What, a doctor?” asked the justice. “Yes, your honor.” “A graduate?” he asked again. “Yes, your honor. “Ot what college?" “Ot nature!” very proudly—and with an impressive shake of his bushy head. ““Almost as good as the faith cure,” ob- served the justice, and the trial went on. The “Divinity that doth hedge about & King"” will protect Prince Henry on his r turn to New York City. Not only is every precaution taken to protect the person of the prince from any assault, during his stay here, but most unusual arrangements have been made to protect him from the curiosity and annoyance of crowds. The general public will have few opportunities of seeing the prince and none at all of meetiing him. When the prince visits the city hall the bullding will be roped in to keep out the public, and only the commit- tee, the city officials and the city hall re- porters will be permitted imside. The luncheon to be given by “The Captains of Industry” will be private. The mayor's dinner at the Metropolitan club will be private. The gala night at the opera will be confined to the fortunate possessors of the high priced seats, the demand for which is enormous, notwithstanding the prices. The only popular functions will be the launch- ing and the dinner to be given by the Staats Zeltung, and only 2,000 invitations have been issued to the former and 1,400 to the latter. In the reception to the prince the exclusiveness will be thick emough to cut. Here is & bunch of “dont's” drafted by Harper's Weekly for the benefit of New Yorkers' bent on greeting the prince: 1. Don't tell him that while you never learned to speak German, you can dance it like & dream. 2. Don't forget that “hoch’ is pronounced “hoke,” mot “hock.” In view of the enor- mous expense of the visit, such ox- pression as “Hock der Prins!” or “ der Kaiser!"” would be manifestly bad form. 3. Don't ask him his impression of Ame! ica until he has been in the country twe: ty-four hours. He might be embarras to reply, considering the surface aspect of the city of New York. 4. Don’t speak of his imperial brother as if he were a subject for a comic-paper joke instead of Emperor of Germany. Willle the War Lord, is all right in private conversa- tion with others, but would not do with the prince. 6. Don't get off that old joke about our climate being emervating for wome, but Tuetonic for others. He has probably heard it in Eogland, 6. Don’t be facetious with his highness and k him what the postage le on a malled fist. He might retort with a practical il- lustration of the special delivery system. 7. Don't ask him in the presence of the mayor how ome so high llkes fraternizing with one so Low. 8. Don't tell him that you have always been anxious to meet him, and that you have heard quite & number of people speak of his brother Willie. 9. Don't ask him how he got through the custom house, and if he had to pay duty on bis uniforms. 10. Don't request his sutograph. 11. Don't tell him he ought to bave come here two months earlier if be reslly wanted the freedom of the city. never heard of Tammany. 12. Don’t ask him if it is true his im- perial brother is such & big thing at home that when he goes out om parade it takes four hours to pass a given polat, A cabinet officer, who not very long ago rotired to private life, started to build up anow his law practice in New York City. A corporation cass was sent to him by a brother lawyer. Meeting that lawyer later, ha ex-cabinet minister asked what he ought to charge. “What did you think of charging?™ asked hie friend. ““Well,” the reply was, “I thought a thou- sand dollars would be about right.” “My dear fellow,” the other lawyer re- sponded, “If you do that you will never get another case. Ex-cabinet ministers are a luxury, it they are worth anything. Send & blll for $5,000 retaining fes, and you will get a cheok tomorrow. Then adfust your regular charges at your lelsure.” The thing was done, with the result pre- dloted. 1t that the gentleman in Question made in & month as much as the sum of his ealary during his entire offctal term. Hore is Tammany gag considered bright enough to wire to a Chicago paper: ‘was at the city hall today. his friends remarked to him that he looked prosperons. Dan replied that he was, and then sald that he looked for easler times soon. “Eggs, for {nstance, are a great luxury sald Dan. “They will be cheaper next week." ““Why will they be cheaper next week?" :;vdmo(tho-nvhmwnuto ““Why, we'll have & German Hennery in town after tomorrow,” replied Dan, BURDENSOME AND HARMFUL. Taxes Which Enrich the M turers of Print Paper. New York Times. Bleached wood pulp pays a tariff tax of one-quarter of a cent per pound. Un- bleached pulp pays one-twelfth of a cent per pound if mechanically made, and one- sixth of a cent per pound if chemically made. The white paper upon which news- papers are printed is taxed three-temths of & cent per pound. The intention and effect of these taxes Is to enable Ameri- can manufacturers of paper to charge & higher price for their product. The inter- est of the newspaper public in abolition of the tax may be illustrated by an example. It 1s impossible for & newspgper to add to its selling price for the exact additional amount which it is forced to pay for white paper on account of the duty. If the price of foreign-made paper is, say, 2 cents a pound, the duty amounts to 16 per cent ad valorem. But a l-cent newspaper can- not increase the price for which it ia sold to the public by 15 per cent or 25 per cent, or any other fraction. It must raise its price 100 per cent or nothing. The public interest and the interests of the country are most seriously involved in another The effect of the wood-pulp tax Is to hasten the destruction of American spruce forests, already seriously encroached upon by the demands of the paper-making industry for this necessary raw material. Across the Canadlan border and in Norway and other northern countries thers are immense for- ests of spruce from which, but for ‘he duty, our supply could be drawn. The ax 18 in effect a premium upon the destruciion of American forests, At its meeting held in this city during the present week the American Newspapc: Publishers' assoclation adopted a resolution asking congress “to abolish the duty on wood-pulp, mechanical ground wood, and lumber used in the manufacture, of paper, and that the duty on mews print paper be reduced.” The newspapers of the United States can secure the abolition of this per- fectly senseless, unnecessary and trust- breeding tax If they will raise a united volce in support of the demand made upon congress by the Publishers’ association. revenue produced is insignificant, and the sole effect of the duty is to increase the price of an article of almost universal consumption which public policy demands should always be procurable at the lowest possible cost. tac- TRIFLES LIGHT AS AIR. ‘Washington Star: get into lities, “Stayin’ in is whal Boston Globe: Client—Is there a cause 80 bad, or an individual so infamous, that your sérvices could not be obtained? Lawyer (thoughtfully)—1 cannot say, off- hand. What have you been doing? Chicago_Tribun Wil the nrim.‘o visit your stock yudl whlll he is here ‘We hope so, but we don’t know exactly what the feeling is in Germany just now as to can pork.” k. Boston Tranacript: t: Mrs. Hodge—Spelling is a funny t Those women we saw in the dance last night were what they call the “bally;” it is spelt “‘ballet. . Hodge—If 1 Wt to -pell it, I'd write Phlll iphla Press: ss: ‘“See here, walter! 1 going to get my dinner? I've boen wl.lklnl here nearly fifteen minutes. “That's more than I can tell you, sir, and l've Yo bsen walting here nearly fifteen Philadelphia Recol “I tell you," cried the .nn‘nph“thi m'",‘: States could lick er in the world.” mv)::l replied the man who had been swearing at the climate, “we can never be weather-beaten by any ‘other country. “I hope,” said the visitor quietly, “that you will not use money in your next cam- answered Benator ‘come from & district ould mot be tolerated ve got to do It Sorghum, sim| where bulldo: troit Free Press: Cltizen—How're you consiag on this winter, Uncle Henry® Uncle ~ Henry—Laws, ~chile, I got roomatiz—an’ chil:biaine in bofs my han's an’ bofe foot—an' done bin (:ol '-bit; bul. l.hl.nk hlben. I'se all right myself. HOME GROWN ROYALTY. James Barton Adams in Denver Post. Now lmlnd the bugles, beat the drums and let the cannons shoo! H Lot every rooter fall in line and be pre- pared to root! Tune Wp your cheering volces to the very And | Lh:‘o{d flag flap its tall in our Get out the bands and let them play the music of 3 Yo oruath of For Y’:l“tlenlud 5 on a toot—the great Prince Henry's here! Oh! ladles of |hp uyw world, put on your t For Henry no¢ lisenstble to charming Ye flu’lln‘ dudl- bend the pregnant hinges knee And Fins u&: hand of royalty from far across Yo gitted masters of the tongue in after- dinner work, A sacred dmt'-:.if'k s yours, and bne you Toend stars of heaven for Paw "round among the stars hought to shine Bore en inment with the wal- .nrro enterta ¥or 7S, e And you 78 oud Americans who boast of_ro; no" flenry that he’s not the only joker in Bhow h|m lhll we lbnv. cattle kings and Let ¥ they may Ye great coal barons, pnl-d with pride, ‘anear him take your stand, Yo emperors of finance don your crowns and play & hand Pn-tnl & royalty array, 'twill show him he is not The only fragrant dumplin’ in the royal hig! pot