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

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Remit by draft, express or postal order, yableto ThegBee Publishing Company Z-cent stamps accepted in payment of aceounts. Personal checks, except on maha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. 56t wosk: ¥ per and edi- OUmaha !TAT“ENT oF CIRCULA’HON. Mornln o'm l.l‘ CO |- of Th. Dl.“y- Ht %S during Sunday Bee printed o e evruary, 12, was &8 follows: & H EURRPBEEEE GEORGE B. TZBCHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to re(are me this 2§th .fl of Fehrulr)’. A. D, UNGATE, al.) Noluy Publie. E————_fi Wanted—A few more enterprising Dmaba merchants to expand their busi- hess places into bigger stores, —_— Henry Watterson urges democracy to get together. All men wearing the dem- ocratic brand are preaching the same doctrine, but each wants the other fel- NO MANANA POLIOY. The manana habit of the Spaniards of putting off until tomorrow what should have been done today bas been the curse of Nebraska. Instead of meeting every vital issue promptly and squarely, the men who have ruled the state re- gardless of party have dodged, trimmed and procrastinated under most flimsy pretexts. The popular demand for es- sential reforms has always been met with the answer, “Not now, but some other time,"” In nothing has this policy proved more costly and damaging than in the neg- lect and refusal of the dominant parties to bring about oft-promised constitu- tional revision. Men of all parties agree that our organic law is most defective, that we need an enlarged supreme court, that our educational funds are in danger and offer a premium to specula- tion and peculation in the state treas- ury because of constitutional limita- tions on their investment, that the state debt now exceeds $2,000,000, although the conftitution expressly prohibits a debt in excess of §$100,000, that our ma- chinery for the management of public institutions lacks elasticity and our sys- tem of filling executive offices with pre- tended deputies and secretaries is un- safe, costly and detrimental to the pub- lic service. BEverybody knows that con- stitutional amendments can be sub- mitted only in years when members of the legislature are elected, and every- body knows, or ought to know, that ex- perience with their submission in presi- dential years has taught that there {s no chance for carrying them when the public interest is all centered on na- tlonal issues. And yet the men at the helm and their advisers shirk their plain duty to re- lieve the state by submitting these amendments this year, because, like the Spaniards, they have fallen into the political manana habit for fear they might offend somebody or give their opponents some advantage. It does not take a prophet to foresee - the dis- astrous consequences of this policy when the people wake up to a full real {zation of the situation. THE THREATEND COAL STRIKE. The obstinate refusal of the anthra- cite coal operators to confer with the miners, as they were repeatedly asked to do by the latter for the purpose of discussing and seeking an adjustment of grievances, had the result to have been expected, in the decision of the miners’ convention favorable to a strike. The low to come to him. SEp— If those Chicago grave diggers have formed a union because they do not want to work overtime, it would be a good plan for them to move to some more healthy community. S Colonel Wattergéon declares himself bpenly in favor of expansion. If Colonel Watterson 1s not careful he will be the villain of another epic in an early issue of Colonel Bryan's Commoner, et The redoubtable Carrie Nation threat- ens to invade Omaha. Now for another tirade on Omaba's wickedness. The wickedest city in the world is always the city where Carrie happens to find herself. That's-part of the business. Bantos-Dumont proposes to make a trip over London in his airship during the coronation ceremony. Alrships are pxpensive, but they are probably theaper than paying the price demanded for seats along the route of the parade. | South Omaha citizens might have saved themselves all the trouble of a spring election this year If they had only looked with more favor on the consolidation proposition when Omaha was in a receptive mood just before the late censu: — The business element in Mexico Is beginning a vigorous campaign for the abolition of the sllver standard. If this thing keeps up much longer sound money men will have no horrible exam- ples to cite as proof of what free sil- wer coinage will do. E—— The dalry products of the United Btates are of sufficient value to pay off the national debt fn a little over two years. The cow and the hen have per- formed wonders in the west in lifting farm mortgages and if Uncle Sam ever gets into a tight place he might call on them. e—— Richard Rock, an old frontiersman who had killed wild buffalo by the thou- sands in his day and gone through many Indian cawmpalgns, was finally killed the other day by a domesticated buffalo. Civilization has its dangers as well as the strenuous life of old on the Lrontier. ——— The Civie federation committee will before long have an opportunity to show what it can do In the way of settling labor difficulties of the first magnitude. The prospective strike of the coal miners involves organizations, both of employer and employe, noted for their tenacity and fighting qualities and if the committee can settle this trouble it will have demonstrated its usefulness. —— For months the opposition press de- clared that the men accused of postal frauds in Cuba would not be tried and when that point was settled it declared i5e wrial would be a farce. The three principal figures in the frauds will need considerable argument to convince them that the sentence of ten ye: imprison- ment to which they have been treated is a farce. m—— The record of Nebraska bank deposits for ten years, tabulated by Secretary Royse of the State Banking board, is a pretty accurate record of the ups and downs of agricultural conditions in the state. It is needless to add that the bank holdings for the last year recorded are In excess by nearly $6,000,000 of the highest mark ever reached before and three times as great as the low tide of 1806, ™~ S declaration of the convention is provi- slonal and there is still a possibility that the threatened conflict may be averted. It is manifestly the desire of the officers of the United Mine Workers to avoid a strike and they will ask the assistance to this end of the National Civic federation. They are showing an earnest disposition te have the diffe ences amicably settled through a con- ference with the operators, but it now appears doubtful whethér this can be brought about. ; If the appeal to the Clvie federation shall fail of the desired result-a great army of labor, upon which hundreds of thousands immediately depend for sub- sistence, will be idle. If the struggle should be prolonged many industries which use anthracite coal would suffer, for the present supply of that fuel, it is authoritatively stated, Is small. This might mean idleness for a great deal of labor other than that engaged in coal mining. The Industrial prosperity of the country would be seriously affected by the contest if it should be long main- tained. Whether or not the grievances of the miners are just and the demands they make reasonable and fair we do not know, but we think there can be no question that in refusing to discuss them in conference and thus endeavor to effect a peaceable settlement the operators have made a great mistake. They are taking a course which seems pretty sure to array public sympathy largely on the side of the miners, who are employlng every effort to bring about an amicable adjustment of dif- ferences. LEGISLATION ASKED BY LABOR. Organized labor is makiug an effort to gain what it considers its share of recognition at the present session of congress and several measures looking to this have been introduced. Among these are bills forbidding the importa- tion of convict-made goods by the sev- eral states, limiting the hours of labor on federal contracts, and doing away with the old “fellow-servant” doctrine of the common law. The measure, however, in which orgauized labor has perhaps taken the greatest interest is that known as the antl-injunction bill, introduced by Senator Hoar early in the session. The title of this bill Is “to lmit the meaning of the word ‘conspiracy’ and the use of restraining orders and in- junction in certain cases.” It is in- tended to legalize agreements, combl- nations and contracts between two or more persons in connection with the furtherance of trade disputes between employers and employes engaged in in- terstate commerce. It provides that such agreement, combination or con- tract shall not be considered “as in restraint of trade or commerce. nor shall any restraining order or injunc- tibn be issued with relation thereto.” A similar bill came before the house of representatives of the last congress and was amended by striking out the lan- guage quoted above, which was of course the vital part of the measure. This change was not satisfactory to the labor organizations and the bill failed. The bill now in the senate has also been amended in a way that is disapproved by organized labor and unless congress can be induced to leave it as originally introduced it probably will not pass. The opinion is sald to be largely held in congress that such a law would be dangerous, because it in effect author- {zes combinations between employes in cases of trade disputes that might im- peril the whole interstate commerce of tha country-Wiboui redrees or remady. THE OMAHA DATLY BEE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1902. It is admitted that the Injunction has perhaps been more extensively em ployed in labor disputes within late years than it should have been and that some restraint upon it may be desirable, but it is apprehended that this proposed law might have very mischievous re- sults. It therefore appears likely that organized labor will not be able to se- cure this legislation. In regard to the proposition that labor on government contracts shall be limited to eight hours a day, strong opposition has been shown to it by those who take government contracts for the iron and steel used in ship construction, representatives of these corporations having made extended arguments be- fore the house committee on labor to sghow that the proposed limitation would operate injuriously. There is also op- position on other grounds. What im- pression this may have upon congress is uncertain, but there is understood to be a strong sentiment in favor of the eight-hour proposition and its adoption would not be surprising. The bill to forbid the importation of convict-made goods is a reasonable measure that ought to pass. Every proper effort on the part of organized labor to better conditions and to remedy existing ills and abuses should receive the careful consideration of the law-making power. Labor as a whole in this country is now fairly well compensated and its general condition {8 undeniably better than ever before, but it will not be questioned that there is room for further betterment and the question as to how this can best be at- talned is worthy the serious attention of stutesmen and of all interested in the welfare of American labor, on which the nation’s prosperity rests. THE ENJOINED RAILROADS. The railronds against which the fed- eral courts at Chicago and Kansas City have issued a temporary restraining or- der, requiring them to adhere to their published schedule, will undoubtedly conform strictly to the judiclal man- date, so that shippers within the terri- tory of these roads may feel sure that for a time there will be no discrimina- tlon In rates, that the small shipper will be on an equality with the larger one. Of course very few of them will be af- fected by this, but they will possibly derive satisfaction from the feeling that all are on an equal basis and that the law is operating as it ghould do. The railroads, also, which sagaciously agreed to make no opposition to a temporary restraining order, should also be well satisfied, since they will save the money that otherwise would have gone for re- bates. Only the shippers who have profited by violation of the law have any cause of complaint at the action of the Interstate Commerce commission, for these will be deprived while the or- der remains in effect of a considerable percentage of thelr profits. It is not worth while to consider what the courts may decide, when the cases ghall be fully presented and argued, in regard to a permanent injunction, which the commmission will ask for. It would seem a safe prediction that the courts will require the railroads to conform to the law, but expectation in this direc- tion has sometimes been disappointed and may again be in this matter, RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE. The friends of government have reason for gratification over the an- nouncement that Secretary of the In- terior Hitchcock has no disposition to retire from the cabinet. While Mr. Hitchcock has made himself disagreea- ble, it not offensive, to some people, he has a habit of standing perpendicular against jobbery and crooked schemes of all kinds. A man of that character is sure to make enemies, but he is to be respected for the enemies he makes in the fearless discharge of official duty. The head of the Department of the In- terior is constantly beset by appeals in the interest of land grabbers, pension sharks and patent agents who seek to enrich themselves at the expense of the government. It takes a man of high integrity and moral courage to hold these persistent spoilsmen at bay, and the opposition to the retention of Sec- retary Hitchcock and clamor for his re- tirement proceed from the class of patriots whose questionable schemes he has thwarted and whose unreasonable demands he has turned down. Isn't it pretty nearly time for the county attorney to stop his foolishness in declining to recognize Police Judge Berka and to prosecute prisoners be- fore the police court, as has been the practice immemorial? Why should the county attorney go out of his way and put the taxpayers to extra expense to help along the brazen attempt of Judge Gordon to keep on the payroll after he has been repudiated by a ma- jority of the voters at the polls? Why should the county attorney, just because he is a democrat, pervert the machinery of his office for the purpose of boosting a claimant for police judge who has no moral or legal basis for his trumped-up claim except that he needs the money? —_— In discussing the commercial outlook in the Philippines in a congressional symposium, David Henry Mercer of Nebraska says: “I found the city of Manila to be & very comfortable place in which to live, though numerous im- provements are necessary. Some cap- italist will make a fortune in starting an electric railway.” Here is a broad hint which Tom Blackburn should not overlook. Electric rallways in Douglas county do not present brilliant pros- pects for the franchise broker, but an electric railway franchise in Manila af- fords an opportunity to make & fortune for a talented promoter which may not present itself again for several genera- tlons. Between the contentions of the attor- neys on different sides of the tax man- damus suit it may be necessary to im- panel a coroner's jury to ascertaln whether the council as a board of egualization is dead pF alive. Should The Railroad Confession Portland It 1s clear that the determination of the president to emforce the laws has brought considerable anxiety to rallroad ofclals The interstate commerce act has so long been regarded as impracticable in some of its provision® and its evasion or violation has brought such mild reproof that rail- road men have come to look upon the law as the embodiment of an impracticable theory and a mensure that is hardly to be taken seriously. Railroad interests have fostered the notfon that more legislation is needed to govern Interstate commerce and all sorts of sage advice has been given as to the remedies that congress should provide. It seems not to have occurred to these people that thers might be & virtue in the present law if it were fearlessly en- torced “The feeling in raflway circles fs that strict enforcement of the law will produce serious trouble,” says the Wall Street Journal, representative of the rallroad and stock market interests. “If the adminis- tration endeavors to execute the interstate law as it stands today there is golng to be a period of anxiety In regard to rallway affalrs. If the orders to enforce the law are carried out with any considerable de- gree of energy there will be speedy and urgent demand for some change i the in- terest of the road The interstate commerce law, lax as has been its administration, has been pro- Oregonian. ductive of great good for the commercial interests of the country. Kor a long time it prevented the favoritism that had previ- ously made business uncertain and only re- cently has dlsrespect for the law reached the point where railroad officials dared openly admit they had violated its most im- portant provision. And in this admission they showed they could maintain rates that were illegal; why, then, could they not maintain legal rates? The rallroads cut under the published tariff, which was an il- legal act. They all used the same {llogal rate, maintaining it for monthe. The big ehippers got the secret rate, tha general public got the other. It may be advisable to provide by law some sort of traffic evener or some method by which inequalities of service shall b recognized in the authorized rates. But these needs should be developed under the operation of the law, not by a fashionable evasion of its letter and spirit. The pres- ent law has benefited the railroads as much as it has the gencral public. It is possible that under a policy of energetic enforce- ment the law may yet be found to be of practical value to all interests concerned It the rallway authorities will obey only the laws that please them it fs time the people should know it, and one of the ways to find it out is to go after offenders. It not, it will then be time to provide other means of rellef for transportation troubles that tend to demoralization in business, the equalizing board be pronounced a corpus delicti, however, most of the councilmen will be able to prove an alibl. A party of Pacific coast capitalists 1s making an effort to induce American farmers to go to the Philippines. The Philippines may be all right as a place for farmers, but under present prosper- ous conditions not many Nebraska farm- ers are likely to abandon the land of hog and hominy to toil under the tropi- cal sun. The Russian police have arrested an American who 1s a student in a St Petersburg university for participation in the recent political demonstrations. Politics is not the harmless amusement in that country that it is here and Americans who desire to play the game will do well to stay hom Testing the Cure-All. ‘Washington Post. ‘The free and unlimited coinage of silver ought to make the Filipinos perfectly con- tented and happy. Eh, Mr. Bryan? Looking Backward for Inspiration. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. Adlal Stevenson advises the democrats to g0 back to 1876 if they want to win in 1904. This is hardly emough of a retreat. His party once went back to ‘78 and fell short. It would be better to select a period ante- dating James Buchanan. Speculative Element in Thieving. Brooklyn Eagle. Men charged with robbing this govern- ment of $1, ‘have run away, leaving thelr bondsme pay $40,000. As a finan- clal speculation this is not so bad, o the part of the fugitives, They can retire, rich. But what of the courts that shilly- shally over a case like this for two years? —— As to Watered Stock. New York Press. The persons who rant and rail against watered stock are those who hold none of ft. As I take {t, watering stock is an ex- cellent device for allaying the suspicion and dispelling the communistic cloud of the community. We milllonaires must keep down the envies and jealousies of our pop- ulace. When we establish a corporation with $10,000,000 capital and earn annually 30 per cent in dividends we incite this pop- ulace to discontent and soclalism. So we increase the capital to §20,000,000—all water—and earn 15 per cent. The popu- lace, the middle-of-the-roadsters, the hind- teat democracy, are satisfied, not realizing that our income is the same. Opportunities for Advancement, Springfleld (Mass.) Republican, The new president of the Western Unfon Telegraph company was once a messenger boy, and his rise to the head of the con- cern has been made the subject of much comment on the unlimited opportunity which continues .to be extended to the humblest class in a free government. The president of the Illinois Steel company, E. J. Bufington, differs with those who say the present opportunities in working up from the bottom are equal to the old. A scientific and technical education, he says, are now becoming essentlal. A mere work- ing acquaintance with the busines does not suffice. Nobody would now think of starting a eteel works, for example, with- out a department of chemistry. This may all be true, and still, when education, tech- nical and otherwise, from the lowest to the highest grades, 1s being offered in such profuse abundance and at nominal cost, it can hardly be said that industry is be- ing refined beyond the reach of the poorer people. ANOTHER “AMERICAN INVASION.” How the Tobacco Trust Lines Its Path in England with Gold. Louisville Courier-Journal. Heretofore the cries that came out of England agalnst the “American invasion™ tave been persistent, but submissive; earnest, though friendly; serious, yet not without the saving strain of humor. But the voices of protest that mow come over the sea sound suspiclously like they are pitched in dismay. And there is no wonder. For who could have foretold that the American Tobacco trust would defy all rules of etiquette and boldly enter the British trade and in addi- tion to a flat yearly bonus of $1,000,000 offer to distribute with free hand among its customers all the net profits of its English trade for the four years, which will amount to $20,000,0007 The British had been living @ long while, but they had mever seem or heard anything exactly like this. The sweeping audacity of it, the barbaric, ram- pant Americanism of it were enough to make even the imperturbable English aghast. It was the biggest morsel of American invasion” yet. The announcement came just as the British trust was chuckling at its own cua- ning. Goaded by competition, it had adopted an American idea and declared that it would give a bonus of §250,000 to its cus- tomers—a petty quarter of a milllon—pro- vided they would have nothing to do with its American rival. Then the American rival took up the gauntlet and hurled back its startliog response. S0 the war is on—two great trusts of competing nations are fighting it out on the English concern's home ground. While commercial and largely prosalc, yet withal the battie has a touch of the romantic, and while the fight proceeds the world. looks ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples in the Current of Life in the Metropolis. Just twelve years ago there was a rall- road wreck at Hamburg, N. Y., ten miles from Buffalo. Several persons were killed, among them the parents of & baby girl. Frank Conger of Brooklyn, N. Y., one of the uninjured passengers, removed the in- fant from the arms of its dead mother, took the little one to his home, adopted the child and cared for it ever since. Last week Mr. Conger died in a hotel in De- troit. In his will he bequeathed his for- tune, estimated at $6,000,000, to his adopted daughter, Oressa Stewart Conger. The will states that the girl, whose Income will be $175,000 a year, was the daughter of Rev. E. E. Stewart and wife of Rochester, Y., who were killed March 6, 1890, in the wreck on the Lake Shore road at Hamburg, N. Y. During a blizzard a passenger train broke in two on a heavy grade and the runaway portion, consisting of a drawing-room coach and four heavy sleepers, overtook the day coach and smashed it into kindling wood. Conger and others found the infant in the arms of her dead mother and con- fided her to the care of Mrs. Conger in the drawing-room car. A Masonic pin in the child's dress attracted his attention, and as he was a prominent Mason he took up a subscription from the members of the order on the train and another at Buffalo and took care of the parents’ bodles. Aftes the coroner’s inquest releases were ob- tained from the grandparents of the babe and Oresea was legally made the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Conger. What will be the next move in apartment houses, one wonders. The Ansonia, with its thirty-room, $20,000 apartments, its hot air and cold air pipes, its special elevators for automobiles, 8o that the happy mobil- 18t can 6tep from his own tenth floor apart- ment directly into his machine and be transported in glory to the street, and its other unimaginable conveniences, seemed to have just about reached the limit. But now there is a newer wrinkle in apartment houses. One of them over near the river front advertises, besides its automobile storerooms and elevators, a “private yacht landing.” Although the advertisement fails to stato the facts epecifically, I infer that there must be a water lock whereby the craft can be navigated into the basement and the wearled yachtsman be transferred from his own quarterdeck to his downy couch without the Intermediate use of a small boat. Or, perhaps, a steelyard reaches out to his anchorage In the river, selzes him gently in a mechanical grasp and swings him aerially home. Fully 300 wives, daughters and sisters ot policemen invaded the city hall last Friday to aek the mayor to restore the three platoon system in the police department. The women were ushered into the council chamber, where they held a meeting. Alder- man Doull presiding, and the mayor a pa- tient listener. The women told him that the present two platoon system broke up the family life of the policemen and made them strangers to their own children. The mayor said that he was much impressed by what he had heard and promised to give the matter his most earnest attention. Park avenue people are booked for more nerve-racking excitement. The effect of the tunnel explosion is revived by unex- pected cave-ins, both of sidewalks and bullding fronts, apparently undermined by the excavations or the explosions of rock blasts. The first serious cave-in occurred when the sidewalk and areaway of 55 Park avenue sank to a considerable depth, leav- ing the front wall with no support and ex- posing the cellar. The houses on either side of No. 66 were also rendered unsafe. Later in the afternoon there occurred a further settling of the walls and sidewalks and the residents on the east side of the block were ordered by the police to leave their homes. The tunnel along Park avenue, where the trouble occurred, is bored through solid rock, seams of rock for a distance of about sixty feet commenced to slide in a lateral direction into the tunnel Wednesday night. It wae not belleved, however, that any great damage would be done until recently, when the first cave-in occurred. The finan- clal loss was estimated at $76,000 to $100,- 000. To what extent the theatrical managers of New York are respousible for the ticket speculator nuisance is a difficult question. There s, unfortunately, no doubt that some theaters are in partnership with the specu- lators. Other theaters, however, make ap- parently genuine effor's to suppress the abuse and fall. The Broadway theater has stopped it temporarily. It sent a number of its employes out to watch the specu- lators, each employe taking one man as his epeclal charge, and when a customer came to that particular speculator the employe gave warning that the ticket would be re- fused at the door. That goon put & stop to the proceedings and the speculators retired, defeated to the tune of about $150 on the evening's work. But this is only one suc- cessful case out of many which have been unsuccessful. Unaportamentike Bocrs. Roswell Fleld in Chicago Post As the war in “South Africa progresses 1t becomes more evident that the Boers are capturing the British just for the fun of catching them. They are eminently a sporty people and have been accustomed since childhood to the joys and excitement of the chase. Although they have released General Methuen, they have done so merely for the exquisite pleasure of catching him again, as the small boy who has finally caught up with the elusive game, whether mole or fleld mouse, lets him go to experi- ence once more Lhe utumph of pureuit and ture, The the best tonic you can making rich blood. newspapers keep you posted. Read this one and you will learn that Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is possibly take. There’s nothmg'_llke it for building up the nerves, for throwing off that feeling of exhaustion, and for Suppose you ask your doctor how often he prescribes this splendid tonic. “After suffering terribly, I was Induced to try yous. Sersaparilla. I 4ock three bottles and now feel like & new man. 1 wouldadviseullnmeed ofastanicto try this medicine.” — I. D. Goop, Browntor $1.00 & bottle. Al drugrists. wn, Va. 4. CUAVEBR CO. o Lowell, Mass, A SIGN OF THE TIMES, Minsissipp! Democrats Grow Weary of Bryanism and Populism. Nashville American (dem.). Mr. Bryan should look after Mississippl. The legislature of that state has adopted a resolution by an almost unanimous vote and with great enthusiasm to cut loo from Bryanism and populism and urging a political and business alignment between the south and east and the severance of political connections with the west. When the resolution was adopted “‘members of the house mounted their desk ved their hands and yelled themselves hoarse.” The action, of the legislature of Mississippi, an Intensely democratic state in the very heart of the south, is very significant. Mr. Bryan can hardly regard it as otherwise than ominous and indicative of his waning in- fluence in the south. It must be evident to any man of clear mental vision that the democrats of the south are growing weary of Bryan and Bryanism, of mistaken and hopeless pollcles which inevitably lead to defeat and disaster. In 1896 Missiseippl out of a total vote of 8,102 gave Bryan a majority of 58,404. In 1900 out of a total vote of 57,459 it gave Bryan a majority of 45,953. The democrats of Mississippl realize a fact, which evi- dence has made clear, that the south's al- lance with the west has beem disastrous to southern interests and to democratic hopes of success. In 1896 Mr. Bryan carried the western states of Colorado, 1daho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. In 1800 the only votes he got out of the west were those of Colorado, Montana, Nevada and Idaho—a total of omly 13 electoral votes, or only one more than Tennessee gave. These were the only votes Mr. Bryan se- cured in the west. He had none in the east, notie ‘in’ the horth, and of the 153 electoral votes which he recelved out of 447 the south gave him 142. Experience has shown the futility and folly of political partnership with the west. There can ba no natural political or busi- ness alliance between the eouth and west. In the growth, manufacture and exchange of products, in transportation, nearness of markets, financial relations, development, enterprises, and in various ways the south and the east are more naturally and strong- ly allfed and naturally related and benefited than the south and west. Aside from the ordinary relations and interests pertaining to citizens of a common country there is little in common between the south and west. The west politically s as hostile to the gouth as the east is, and the sentiment against the south is at least as strong The democratic party has never succeeded without aid from the east, nor is it likely to. The Mississipp! democrats give indica- tion of wisely realizing the situation, what- ever the distinguished gentleman from Ne- braska, whose own state refused to vote for him in the last election, may think about it. PERSONAL NOTES, Rear Admiral Schley likes Boston almost as well as Baltimore. Governor Jordan of New Hampshire has appointed Thursday, April 17, as Fast day in the Granite state. John Morley, who is writing a life of Mr. Gladstone, has just discovered among the late premler's effects a dlary cover- ing most of the interesting period of his career. Daniel Welle, the wealthiest man in Wis- consin, who died last week, erected an of- fice building in Milwaukee of pure white glazed terra cotta, the only one in the United States. Colonel John Mosby, the once noted guer- rilla, is now quietly and faithtully serving the United States government in Colorado, preventing private parties from fencing in government lands. The first week in August has been se- lected for Old Home week in Maine, and the city of Portland, “the gateway of Maine,” is recommended for the great | gathering on State day. | Thomas A. Morris of the class of 1834 is the oldest living graduate of the United States Military academy at West Point. There is only one survivor each of the classes of 1835, 1838, 1840, 1844 mnd 184s. The purchasing of the home of Chief Justice John Marshall in Richmond, is contemplated for the purpose of erec ing thereon a proper courthouse as a memorial of the federal government to its greatest chiet justice, as well as a proper home for the judiclary, of which he was such an ornament. President B. C. Branson of the Georgla Normal school is credited with saylng: Our tenant farmer olass is distinctly a sad-faced people. They need anointing with the oll of gladness that David sings of. Our people in the rural districts need occupation calling for skill and taste quite as much as they need education MARCH MERRIMENT. Washington Star: *“Some er de loudes’ talkin' reformers,” said Uncle Ebe “makes me think of a bald-headed ~marn goin’ ‘roun’ sellin’ hair restorer.” “What's the news from the front today?" asked the first Londoner anxiously. “That_our front is now where the rear was, 1 suppose,” replied the other, gloomily. Philadelphia Press: Brooklyn Life: ~ Maud—You looked really charming at last Jshts dinner. Helen—Oh, you are flatter Maud_No. ho, honest. I i not know you at first. Chicago Tribune: “Yes, he's a sprightly looking baby,” said the ‘sporty uncle of the infant, after a prolonged inspection. “Looks as'if he was full of ginge “That is something, Willlam," exclatmed the mother, much shocked, 'we never give him. He 18 too young for that!" Baltimore American: lot of grammatical errors as he makes. “Yes. Regular Boer, isn't he? “What's the connection?" “Oh! Just the way he murders king's English.” the ‘Washington Star: “Do you think that Shakespeare wrote all the things that are © rerIIlo 0 him?’ 11 unsl»red Miss Priscilla Prymme, a gentleman, 1t e pretends to be should hope not!" Chicago Tribun Wh: the man who was looking on hive of bees is called a colony?’ “The reason, 1 reckon,” said the man who was removing the honey from the hive, “is that we tax them without their consent.” The bees, meanwhile, buzzed angrily, but the spoliation went on, just the same. BILL WAS THERE. is it," inquired “that a Hartford Times. Blll was just a common sort, Never dreamed of wealth nor fame; Plodded on and didn't (r{ Schemes to set the world aflame, Kept lb-fioln' all the time, Busy here and everywhere. When a task turned up to do, Blll was there! Didn't congregate around Evenings at old Perkins' store: Whra the other boya would tell 'All they ever did—and mo He just rose at mornl \leht, ‘Weather stormy, weather fair; Always work on do, Bill was there! Never heard him whine around ‘Cause things didn't go just so; In (hn joy he whistled loud, In the pain he whistled low, Took things m they came, Smiling If 'twas joy or care, Never faltered; when things came Bill was there! 80 he didn’'t make no stir, Lived a quiet busy life; Lived a life that didn’t have Room for petty thought "and strife. He had simple work to do— ‘Wa'n't no call to do nor dare; Just a_constant watch, you know-— Bill was there! Such a man as Bill drops out And the world goes just the same; Doesn't hear Death the word’ When he calls him by the name. Just the common, plodding sort— Bill has certain’ gone to where They'll remember how and when Bill was there! Don’t Delay the Easter Purchase You know the advantage of buying first. Set the pace. Don’t wait to follow. shown first here. fectly proper and right. 1 wear and how to wear it, Fashion's And when they are here they are per- favorite fancies are f you want to know what to look at our windows. 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