Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 18, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ly Bee (without SBunday), One Year. ily Bee and Sunday, One Year. Tilustrated Bee, One Year.. Bunday Bee, One Year turday Bee, One Year. ‘Wentleth Century Farmer, One ¥ DELIVERED BY CARRIER. ally Bee (without Sunday), per copy ally Boe (without Bunaay), per week atly Bee (ncluding Bunday), per week..1/o lunday Bee, per copy.. . o vening Hee (without Sunday), per week E‘ e \ (Including Sunday. ‘100 v eek ssreseenb 150 Complaints of irregularities in ery should be addressed to City Clrculation Department. Evening Bee OFFICES. Omaha~—The Bee Bullding. South Omaha—City Hail sullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M Streats. ‘Council Bluffs—10 Pear] Street. Chicago—16# Unity Bullding. ew York—Temple Court. Washington—bil Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. = Communicutions relating to news and edi- torial matter shouid be audressed: Umaha Bee, Editorial Uepartment. BUSINEsS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressea: Ahe Mee Pubushing Lompany, hh. oo REMITTANCES, Remit by drafi, express or postal order, ayable 1o ‘The Bee Publishing Company. nly 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mafl accounts. Fersonai checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPA. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss. George B. Taschiick, secretary ot The Bee Publishing Company, being duly aworn, Says that the actusl number of full and complete copies of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday rinted during the month of February, was as 10i- BNRREEENERER Total : Jess unsold and returned coples Net total sales . 837,816 Net dally average. 20,022 GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK. resence and sworn to of February, A. D., B. HUNGATE, Notary Publie. Bubscribed in_my mzn me this 2th (Beal.) ‘Watch the lawyers scatter when they have to face those business men jurles. —— Pat Crowe will take due warning not to set up in business in the vicinity of Filley, Neb. Old Boreas seems to insist on paying his respects annually to the memory of good Bt. Patrick. ‘When Omaha realizes on that prom- Ise of a new branch telephone exchange talk should be still cheaper. It is only fair to state that the new law requiring sports to take out state licenses does not apply to those who chase the duck in its city haunts. Not even his political enemies have been able to discover anything to reflect on the character of Frank Koutsky, the republican candidate for mayor of South ©Omaha. Spp— If the independents, so-called, keep a petition ticket in the field the citizens of Bouth Omaha will have a chance to shoot in the alr if they don’t want to hit the target. There s complaint in Washington about the poor drinking water. The quality of the cold tea in the senate and bouse restaurants is kept up to the usual standard, however. A report Is curi. ¢ in London that Bir Thomas Lipton is to marry an American girl. If Sir Thomas cannot pecure the America’s cup he can un- doubtedly carry off a greater prize. Sm————— General Funston Is to appear before the senate committee on the Philippines. Those looking for a little amusement sbould make it & point to be around when Funston and Senator Patterson clash. ao—a—— The underwriters are urging upon the Jowa legislators the beauties of a de- partment of Insurance. If the lowa legislature wants full particulars on this subject it should address some_of the late fusion officials in this state. King Edward has decided he will not go on his usual visit to the continent this year. Being a king has its dis- advantages as well as its attractive fea- tures. Affairs of state frequently inter- gere with the ordinary pleasures of life. Em——— It is in order for the people of the United States to cease jeering the Mexi- cans over adhering to the brutal cus- tom of bull fighting. At a recent exhi- Dition of this kind, of the 10,000 people present the majority were American tourists, ——— St. Louls papers are warning work- ingmen against coming to that city to find employment on the exposition grounds and bulldings, as the local sup- Pply of labor is equal to all the demands. Evidently St. Louis 18 in uo hurry about the bullding: ¥ m—— Populists propose to hold the demo- crats' 10 the bargain made last year to give them the head of the ticket this year. In this eveut several democratic ambitions will be wrecked, but then it will be easler than to have them founder at election time. —————————— Andrew Carnegie is sald to have given mway forty, more public library build- ings one day last week. Whether the list includes any fortunate Nebraska towns has not yet been disclosed, but Nebraska can surely take care easily of peveral mere Carnegle lbraries. g Democratic papers in Iowa are sym- pathizing with the woman suffragists over their defeat in the legislature. Jowa democracy should save its tears for itself, The suffragists only meet defeat every two years, when the legis- lature convenes, while lowa democracy A gorced to Jook pleasant every year. [} FOR POLITICAL OAPITAL ONLY. The democrats of the house of repre- sentatives propose holding a caucus to consider what course should be adopted in relation to the government's attitude toward the Boers. It is not difficult to foretell, in ti™ light of the utterances of democratf In congress, what the views of the caucus, if one is held, will probably be. There will be a declara- tion in favor of our government ex- pressing sympathy with the Boers, pro- testing against British methods in South Africa and proposing mediation or intervention for the settlement of the war., The government will be con- demned for allowing the British to pur- chase horses and mules in this coun- try and ship them to South Africa and it will be charged that the course of the administration has been prompted by sympathy with England. Only a few days ago a speech was made in the house by a democratic representative from Missourl which clearly and fully set forth the position to be expected on the part of a democratic caucus. The object of this 1s political capital and that only. It is intended to have an influence upon the congressional campaign. The hope 18 to persuade the people that the republican party is un- friendly to Boer independence and therefore recreant to the cause of free government, It is possible that with the ignorant and thoughtless this may be effective, but it is not concelvable that it can exert any influence upon those capable of understanding the mat- ter. Buch persons know that our gov- ernment s bound by its international obligations to observe strict neutrality regarding the South African conflict They know that the British government having repeatedly declared that it will not accept mediation or intervention it would be useless for our government, which has once tendered its good offices, to again make an offer of mediation. They know that to propose intervention would be to invite a quarrel with Great Britain, which no- ratfonal:American citizen can desire. The Boer envoys who recently called upon the president and secretary of state were reported to have said that they did not seek inter- vention, because they knew the United States could not with a due regard for its international obligations propose in- tervention. As to British methods of carrying on the war, it is very questionable whether this or any other country has any war- rant or right to pass judgment on it. The concentration camp system is very generally condemned and doubtless there 18 much of hardship and suffer- ing attending it, though British author- itles deny much that has been said in denunciation of it. Shall the United States government assume that all the cruelties and horrors alleged are true and make a formal protest against the system? Should we act in so grave a matter and condemn a friendly nation without en accurate knowledge of the facts, accepting exparte testimony which may be more or less prejudiced? What justification could we offer for such a course and what sort of position would we be placed in if it should be found that there was no reason for it? In regard to allowing the British to pur- chase horses and mules here, it is per- haps sufficient to say that our govern- ment has always maintained the right ot its citizens to sell arms and muni- tions of war to all persons. Jefferson, when secretary of state, asserted this and it has been many times declared since. There is ample precedent for the non-interference of the government with the purchase here by the British of horses and mules. The attitude of the democrats in this matter is demagogic and its purpose obvious. There is as much and as sin- cere sympathy with the Boers and their cause among republicans as among democrats, but republicans are not will- ing to put the government in a false position and possibly involve it in a conflict with Great Britain. However earnestly the American people desire the success of the Boers they are not dis- posed to become participants in the South African war. — 1S A WAR IMPENDING? There are some indications that both Russla and Japan are making prepara- tlons for war. Recent advices from the latter country have reported extraor- dinary activity in military and naval circles and also a very strong popular war feeling. The impression given was that the Japanese government had de- termined that the time had eome to get in readiness for possible hostilities with Russia and that the country was ar- dently responding, the general feeling being that war is inevitable sooner or later. A London dispatch refers to a report from St. Petersburg to the effect that the Siberian raflway is declining consignments from merchants because the resources of the lne are fully oc- cupied in forwarding troops and war material to Viadivostock. These are certainly significant ecir- cumstances which seem to warrant the conclusion that a Russo-Japanese war may be impending. There is no doubt that Japan Is keeping a vigilant watch upon Russian operations in Manchuria and it is also not to be doubted that Russia is strengthening ber position in that province as rapidly as possible. Notwithstanding the apparently fair as- surances which that power has given in regard to her aims and purposes in Manchuria, Japan evidently still has reason to distrust her and does not pro- pose to allow herself to be unprepared for a possible emergency. She has now a powerful ally in Great Britain, which while not required Dby the treaty re- cently negotiated to ald Japan in a war with any single power, must do so in the event of more than one power en- gaging in hostilities against Japan. Thus in case of war between that coun- try and Russia, if France should join the latter Great Britain would support Japan. Manifestly the treaty had such & contingency in view, for Japan be- herselt guite able to cope with s not mistaken. So far as naval power {8 concerned, Japan is now superior to Russia In Asiatic waters. Not only has the former more ships, but some of them are much more powerful than the ships of the Russian Asiatic fleet, being of later con- struction and much more heavily bat- teried. Nor is there any doubt that the Japanese navy would fight quite as well as the Russian. Thus In the mat- ter of sea power Japan is well able to meet Russia alone, with the chances of success on her side. For military oper- ations Japan can put a formidable army in the field and the fighting qualities of her soldiers have been sufficiently at- tested to give assurance that they would be found equal to any demand upon them. They are well disciplined and as brave and patriotic as the soldiers of any country. The war preparations which the two countries are said to be making may not mean that a conflict is imminent, but there are very good reasons for thinking that it may come in the not remote future. Only a com- plete renunciation of Ru 's Man- churian policy will prevent it and that 1s not at all likely to be made, Ee—— MALIGNANT FAKIRS. It is to the shame of Omaha that the never-ending wrangling of its dally news- papers should stand in the way of the more rapld advancement of our city, but such is the situation and has been the situation, to which only the editors of th ers are blind. How much harm they have done and how much that is inimical they are now doing and how much ill for- tune they may bring us in the future would be difficult to estimate, but the fact remains that there {s a constant menace to pros- perity as long as they give so much atten- tion to politics and to each other and so little to the elvic good. These observations are called out by the receipt in this city of a letter from an eastern caplitalist who had boen appealed to by certain heavy merchants to take a financial fnterest in the location here of a large factory, which it had been announced had been “landed” by the Commercial club. We hesitate to drag the Commercial club into this, because the name is to Editor Rosewater like a red rag to a Nance county bovine, but we cannot otherwise make our- selves plain. ‘The scheme was an attractive onme and promised well, provided extra capital could be obtained. The committea thought they knew where they could obtain it and sent forward a full presentation of the facts. But the answer they got was very brief, something to this effect: “I have your favor of such a date and, although the proposition certainly promises well, I some time ago made up my mind to attempt no further investments in & locality where the newspapers keep up such a dlsgraceful wrangle. Nor do I want to put my money in & town where the press abuses a faithful public servant as does your press, for they might turn around and abuse me. I refer, gentlemen, to the recent viclous attacks upon Congressman Mercer. Your Commer- clal club should take ps to stop this."” But what can the Commercial club complish with the editor of The Bee, where all others have failed after thirty-one years of strife? Nothing but sit down and walt untlil these wonderful life insurance policles ‘we read about come due. And so goes glimmering the glove factory of Topp and Company. This screed, which appears in a local soclety weekly that dips into politics as a diversion, 1s a sample of the malig- nant work of fakirs who seek to foment dissension in the community in order to avenge personal grievances. The Omaha daflies have their perfodic quarrels and contentions, but in this re- speet they do not begin to be as virulent and vituperative as those of other cities. Chicago, 8an Francisco, St. Louis, Kan- sas City, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Den- ver and Des Molnes have been torn up by newspaper warfare as acrimonious as any ever witnessed in Omaba. But nobody contends that these quarrels have seriously impaired the confidence of investors or blocked industrial growth in those cities. In Omaha, too, the newspaper quarrels were decidedly more intense and more personal twenty-five years ago, when the old Herald and Re- publican were the chief competitors for public favor, than they have been in re- cent years. In this particular instance the story about the loss of the prospective glove factory is the concoction of & malignant fakir who had been ‘employed on the reportorial staffs of The Bee and World- Herald and dropped from the payrolls of both papers for good and sufficient reasons. Not only is the story relating to the negotiations of the Commercial club maliclously distorted, but the pre- tended letter of the nameless eastern capitalist is a downright fabrication. No such letter has been received by any member of the Commercial club and the Injection of the names of Mercer and Rosewater Is a clumsy attempt to make political capital for the one and to prejudice the other. Nobody in or out of the Commercial club who has a thimbleful of brains could be made to believe that eastern caplitalists would forego any profitable investment because SOme man or paper opposes or favors a change of congressman to represent its locality. Omaha's prosperity is not menaced by the quarrels of the dallies, but by the mischievous work of the fakirs who make a living by sending out damaging sensational reports broadcast and the covert attempts to undermine the men and papers who have helped to build up the city and who are vitally concerned in its future growth and prosperity. —— In this country, as well as in every other, there 18 a set.of people who can- not resist the temptation to make fools of themselves whenever an opportunity offers. Just now some of them, with more money than sense, are offering extravagant prices for trivial articles used by Prince Hepnry during his visit to America. As the representative of a great people it was fitting that every courtesy should be shown him during his visit, but such foolish sentimentality is disgusting to sensible people. City Treasurer Hennings appears to have met with unusual success in col- lecting in delinquent back taxes with the ald of special deputies to prosecute the work. Why, then, should the county entertaln any proposition to farm out the parties when it can do it cheaper and more effectively itself by following the city's example? No one will question the necessity of going after the delin- quent taxpayers because the county is getting decidedly the worst of the bar- gain. But If legal assistance 1s needed the county attorney and his force, which includes two more salaried assistants than were accorded his predecessors, ought to be able to furnish it without additional expense. 1 State university students have organ- ized an anti-saloon league to participate in the local campalgn now on at the state .capital. The right of these stu- dents to organize for any special object, political or otherwise, will be readily conceded, but the propriety of turning over the university halls to their use for this purpose is certainly open to ques- tion. We know that the privileges of the university bulldings have been abused in the past, but the practice should be condemned. Student political organizations should find meeting places outside of the university campus. A St. Joseph firm has taken a con- trect to furnish the British government with 12,000 horses and mules, Before they are taken to South Africa the sol- diers should be instructed regarding the peculiarity of the animals so they will not stampede next time the mules take a notion to change ranges. Give the Mules More Rope. Washington Post. Genera] Delarey has demonstrated that it is easier to capture American mules than g0 to the expense, of shipping them from New Orleans. General Sam Pearson should 0 to the rear for his eeat. ‘Where the “Ancients” Thrive. Loulsville Courler-Journal. Massachusetts seems to bave a monopoly on secretaries of the navy, yet that does not prevent Boston from hiding in its boots whenever It hears a reverberation in the direction of Mole St. Nicholas. Baltimore American. The Eclectic Woman's club of New York discussed the poseibility of a woman loving two men at once. The husbands who sup- posed they were enjoying & monopoly of af- fection are now engaged in energetic efforts to disband the club. Our Growing Exports. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. Exports of American manufactures are growing again. The total in January was $34,412,992, as compared with $52,664,035 in the same month last year. Only i irom and steel is there a falling off in exports, and the home demand for these articles is greater than the supply. Popular Election of Senators. Philadelphla Pre: The house of representatives has four times passed & constitutional amendment making senators ‘elective by popular vote. More than half the states, through their legislatures, have asked for the adoption of this amendment. Senator Hoar argues that the amendment would be a breach of the national pledge ¢ the equality of states would not bé @ d without the consent of every one of m. But changing the mode of electing: the senators from the legislature to the people still leaves each state with two senators in the upper branch and on an exact equality. Many senators favor. the amendment and there ought to be a vote on it. If two-thirde of the senate can be induced to concur in the amendment already passed by the house we are confldent that three-fourths of the states will ratify their action. Magnanimity of the Boera. Springfleld (Mass.) Republican. ‘The release of General Methuen by the Boer commander will not be regarded in London as a British vietory. A release of this character Is very remarkable in the his. tory of war, since Delarey does not ap- pear to have demanded an equivalent for his distinguished captive. If he knew that Commandant Kritzinger was In British hands and was under trial for his life by a drumhead court-martial, his action be- comes all the more extraordinary. Methuen could have been held as a hostage, and, under such circumstances, Kitchener would never have dared to permit Kritzinger's execution as he permitted the execution of Commandant Scheepers not long ago. The release of Methuen, however, will mot in- jure the Boer cause, since he can mnever take the fleld again, while the contrast be- tween British and Boer methods of treat- ing captive generals cannot fail to impress the world. PA G OF THE LATIN, Anectent, Scholarly Sorely Menaced. Kansas City Star. The University ot Missourl is ylelding to the modernizing influences of the age. The curators have ordered that its diplomas hereafter be printed in Eunglish instead of Latin. The alumnus of the future will be forbidden the pleasure of getting out his dusty parchment roll from the bottom of his college trunk and reading the sonorous Latin periods engraved thereon. Of course he would have forgotten what the words meant, but the sound would have been there. And after all, it is the stately pro- cession of syllables that makes Latin a delight to the old boy who couldn't for the life of him translate more than “Gallla est omnls divisa in partes t ' or “Arma virumque cano.” Yes, Latin is going out. Old Andover men there are who remember how Prof. Parks used to pray: “Lord, thou art the sine qua non of our hopes and the me plus ultra of our expectations.” But what would modern congregation have to do with such & supplication? Members of the House of Commons used to delight to fling oft stanzas of Horace at each other, and Gladstone could quote the “Iliad” by the page. But it'is already a score of years since the Irreverent Lord Randolpn Churchill made sport of the Larmie hobby of venerable M. P.s by quoting relevant passages from the classics in one of his speeches in the house. Wendell Phillips used to end his fnvec- tives against slavery by thundering, “De- lenda est Carthago.” That would fall flat on an audience today. Senator Hoar can- not refrain from rolling off a few od Latin phrases in some of his set speeches and his magazine articles. But they mark him as baving come down from a former eration. might have been hoped that the classic coll diploma would have been suffered yet awhile longer to endure. After all, its Latin is the only thing about it worth pre- serving. Nobody cares what it sa) Its only use—except to the post-graduate stu- dent—is to revive in the old boy fond memories of college days. And these are assoclated with the quaintly familiar yet unintelligible Latin sentences. Upon thi sacred form do the curators lay profane bands. Procul, O procul este, profanil An Institution ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropolis. An echo of the visit of Prince Henry is brought home to New Yorkers in the tailure of the chief caterer of his highness, he who furnished the spread at the launch- ing of Meteor. Rupert Fritz, one of the oldest chefs of the city, has filed a petition in bankruptcy, alleging that the theft of his tableware after the luncheon caused his financial ruin. The thefts are charged up to souvenir flends who on this a8 on other occaslons were viciously ag- gressive and obnoxious. Fritz wae employed as steward at the Liederkranz club, Fifty-eighth street and Park avenue. He obtained the contract to furnish the luncheon to Prince Henry and his sulte, President Roosevelt and his suite, and guests invited to witness the launching of the Emperor's yacht. He obtained the loan of much valuable silverware from chefs and stewards of his acquaintances to meet the requirement of about 2,000 people who attended the lunch- eon. Prince Henry and President Roose- velt, with thelr suites, were first served, and after their departure the invited guests were admitted to the banquet hall. The rald on the silverware that followed was general. It was carried on so adroltly, however, neither Frits nor his a ants were aware what was going on. The work of the souvenir flends was thorough. It is belleved that mamy wera not content with one article, but tosk as many pieces of ellverware as they could safely conceal. When Fritz came to collect the silver- ware loaned him by his friends he awoke to his loss. The crowd had disappeared with hundreds of dollars’ worth of prop- erty. He knew that it was futlle to attempt to regaln the articles. He was nearly prostrated by the loss, for he found he could not make amends to his friends. He immediately resigned his place at the Liederkranz club and after taking invem- tory of his belongings found that the only course left for him was to make an assign- ment. District Attorney Jerome has sent to the state rogister a statement of his reasons, fourteen in number, why his Sunday open- 1ng blll should become a 1 Here ia one of the fourteen reasons ‘aking two men to a saloon and twenty customers we have at least 154,000 men and voters who every Sunday either break the law themselves or connive at and encourage its infraction. All well informed persons tell us that this estimate is ridiculously conservative, and that 260,000 persons is nearer in the truth than 154,000. But take the smaller num- ber, and we have in a single community 154,000 people who will not yield willing obedlence to this law. Now, if it be con- sidered that these persons are nearly all voters, and that usually in this city a much smaller number than 154,000 votes will de- termine an election, it becomes perfectly plain what must be the political fate of any administration which prevents these per- sons from doing what they wish to do and what they do not look upon as immoral. It is no reply to say they can get what they want by golng to a hotel. They do not want to eat and are disinclined to go through the hypocritical process of evasion by having a ‘fake’ sandwich laid before them. The city of New York is a cosmo= politan city, and its inhabitants, being citi- zens and voters, have a right to have their tastes and habits considered, whether they be forelgm borm or native born.” Mr. Jerome declares that if the demand for more liberal excise legislation is unheeded the citles of the state will revolt ana form & political union to protect their interests, A little child in its mother's arms was 80 injured by a locomotive on a raflroad crossing that it has been a mental and physical wreck ever since. When hurt it was 1 year old. Now it is 11. A claim for damages has been hanging In the court all this time. A jury awarded it $10,000 some days ago and now a judge h t aside the verdict because there is an error, in that some- thing about the father that should have been brought out on the trial was not, or that something that was brought out should not have been; a layman cannot under- stand this hair-splitting. He ofly sees that these long legal delays are often a denial of justice, The maldens of Barnard college found a way to revenge themselves upon have the fiinty-hearted Columbia youths who have barred females from their swimming pool. It has been a time-homored custom for the two colleges to give a French play every year, the Cercle Francaise of Co- lumbla uniting with the French soclety of Barnard to produce the plece.s But it so happens that there 1is & theater at Barnard, but none at Columbia. The Cercle Francaise were making ready to exert their histrionic powers today when a message came from Barnard. The com- munication suggested that as Columblia wi theater, it would be well for the men to remain in the water while the maidens dazzled from the footlights. In a recent interview Mrs. Astor, the New York society leader, is reported to have used this phrase: *The college edu- cation, without which no man can be a gentleman.” This has provoked the ire of Mark Twaln. He says that it Is a direct personal insult, as he never had a college educa- tion and he has always wanted to be & gentleman, and he has fondly thought that he was on: The genial humorist says there is onme ray of hope to be found in the thought that Mrs. Astor may not have the same idea in her mind when she uses the word “gentleman” that other persons have. “She probably means a leader of cotil- lions,” he says, “a spick-and-epan dandy, who knows enough to observe the ordinary rules of politeness when he is on parade and who has a valet at home to tell him what clothes are proper to wear. “A gentleman, & kindly, courteous, un- selfish man, who think first not of him- self, but of his fellow men, that is what a gentleman is; mot one of these soclety ‘chapples,’ who in reality is one of the most selfish men on earth. “Abrabam Lincoln 4ldn’t have a col- lege education, yet he was known for his kindly, courtly ways, and his absolute un- selfishness. He may have been rough and coarse in his talk and actlons, and, p baps he wouldn’t have graced Mrs. Astor's drawing room, but he was & true gentle- man for all that.” A dispatch spnounces that the long- etanding controversy between the New York Sun and “Big Six," the printers’ union, has been adjusted. At a conference between directors of the Sun and a com- mittee from Typographical union No. 6 It was agreed that the office should be ‘‘unlon- ized,” with the understanding that the com- positors who took the places of the strikers & year ago might remain if they took out union cards. This is admitted by unlon compositors as & concession on the part of the union, if not & victory for the publish- ers of the newspaper. At the headquarters of “Big Six" it was admitted that an agree- ment had been reached. It is reported on good authority that Senator Hanna was in- strumental in bringing about & settlement. The printers spent over §300,000 in prose- cuting this fight and the Sun lost double that sum. G Baking Used in Millions of Homes. 40 Years the Standard. Powder A Pure Cream of Tartar Pow- der. Superior to every other known. Makes finest cake and pastry, light, flaky bis- cuit, delicious griddle cakes —palatable and wholesome. Price Bakina Powper Co,, CHICAGO. and is a Note.—Avoid baking powdersmade from alum. They look e pure powders, y raise the cake, but alum ‘a poison and no one can eat food mixed with it without injury to.health. OH, FOR THE VANISHED BAND. A Bunch of Regrets for the Buffalo that Was. New York World. Thirty years ago the number of wild buffalo roaming the western plains Wwas more than 2,000,000, according to trust- worthy estimates. In a létter to the senate Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says the number of wild bison now in the United States is about thirty-three, or possibly thirty-five. The best that he can promies for this race of splendid animals is that its extermination may be delayed for a consid- erable period by prompt congressional ac- tion, Trade hae been chiefly responsible for the wiping out of the great buffalo herds. In the single season of 1878-79 over 200,000 hides were shipped down the Missourl river. But purposeless hunters, men whose sole desire was to kill, have done their full share of the mischief. Commerce and “gport,” in the reckless combination which has marked this as the age of extermina- tion, have robbed the plaine of the most majestic of American wild animals. The elephant is being wiped out of Asla and Africa. The giraffe is so near to ex- tinction that individual specimens sell for $6,000 to $8,000, where they would have ‘brought only $150 to $200 & quarter of a century ago. Other “big game’ everywhere is in peril of the buffalo’s fate. ‘We shall have so much time to be sorry when the last ex-monarch of the plains is gone that we really ought to take some time and paine to prolong his stay. PERSONAL NOTES. Dewey threw sixty-seven tons of metal at Manila and Schley 114 at Santiago, and the Spanish vessels got the most as well as the worst of it. David B. Hill has, as the only adornment on the walls in his law offices at Albany, pletures of George Washington and Abra- ham Lincola. Chiet of Police Francis O'Nelll, of Chi- cago, has the most rezuarkuble collection of Irish music extant. Its collecting has been his hobby for many years. Colonel Jere Baxter, president of the Ten- nessee Central railroad, is trying to carry out the plan of a reproduction of the Ten- nessee state capitol in sawed block coal at the St. Louls fair. Mrs. Alice Meynell, the famous English poet and essayist, who was declared by Cov- entry Patmore, before his death, to be the greatest woman poet since Sappho, is belng entertained fn Chicago. In Boston they did not make Prince Henry eat in French, as they have done pretty much everywhere else. When they haa bolled Penobscot salmon, or baked beans, or brown bread, they didn’t put on any frills about it, but just sald so on the bill of fare in plain English. This must have been a real novelty to the distinguished visitor. A petition is being clrculated in Loulslana asking congress to appropriate money to finish and maintain the mobument which marks the site of Jackson's victory over the British at the close of the war of 1812. The battle was fought on the plains of Chal- mette, a few miles outside of New Orleans. Loulsiana started the monument long ago, but has left it unfinished. l BREBZY LINES, _Washington Star: “Some ‘wnple," mald Uncle Eben, “is so drefful business-like dat while dey iooks foh a reward in de nex’ worl’ dey’s mighty skeery foh fear deal do any mo' dan what's necessary to earn it." Chicago Tribune: “Miss Prima Donna is ag theatric off the stage as she is on it." “Yes, indeed. Even when she Was being !;“u“"("-’" she announced that it was by re- est.’ ** Philadelphia Press: o geologls ol t in South Africa, tapping the speci- men with his hammer, “is a specles of frappe i You don't say " exclalmed his assistant. Let's look a little further and maybe we'li find some British soldiera.” New York Sun: May—What caused the row between Belle and Jack? Clara—He sent her a check good for one hundred kisses and she got Tom to cash it. Chicago Post: L friends. “Friends! Friends! Why the man's enmit s 8o malignant that he gives every bool agent and canvasser who comes to hig offica my jaddress and tells him I'm an casy mark." sald the thought you were Love Sommet of an Ofice Boy. Chicago Record-Herald. I wish, some day, when she's typewritin' an I've took a note out for the boss some- where, They'd bé some outlaws sneak in here and That' jong-legged clerk to death and th at long-legged cler! 0 deal and then the band. Would steal her, there, To try to save her, and they'd run away To where they had their cave and keep her there, And ast more for her than her folks could pay. and nobody else was Then I would get a gun and bowle knife And take the name of Buckskin Bob or oe, And, track them to thelr den, and then 'd go A-galley whoopin® in, and save her life, And she would say: “My hera's came at ast!” And we'd stand there and hold each other ast. FAIRY TALES. Yonkers Statesman. ‘When in my barber's “parlor” I find my- self at night, And throw myself quite coatieas in the chair, I feel a sense of pleasure, I may say of delight, And do not know a single earthly care. I hear him strop his razor with all his main and might— He's ready to begin I plainly see— My ears are both wide open, I liaten with elig! To the fairy tales the barber tells to me. He tells me of his travels by land as well as sea; ea; Ot coul everyw He's shaved kings Spain to Germany, And as for queens—at least he's cut thelr you know he's been most re! all countries, from He knows all men in office and down In Wall street, t00; He often gets a tip'on the q. t. He makes & plle of money—I smfle, now wouldn't “you? At the fairy tales the barber tells to me. But he's no more @ barber, I feel that 1 could sob; He's gone and sold the shop and all the work; He thinks that he's done better; he's got another job, He's now & bare-faced weather bureau clerk. 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