Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 11, 1902, Page 7

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A system of government was estab- lished throughout the devastated island, order and peace were restored, courts organized and a judiclal system put into operation, the elvil and criminal laws wodiied, an effective system of sani- addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- y, Omaha. REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order, n able to The Bee Publishing Company. 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of accounts. Personal checks, except on a or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING' COMPANY. — BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. fl‘:o of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.t orge B. Taschick, sectetary of The Bee wnu ing Company, being duly sworn, ® that the actual numper of full and plete coples of The Dally, Morning, vening and Sunday Bee printed during month of March, 1%2, was as follows: 20,970 1 20,760 18 20,420 19 20,770 20 2 133133 T EERRNERERN Less unsol Net total sales..... Net dally average GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed tn my presence and sworn to ore me this Slst day of March, A. D. GEORGE RASMUSSEN, Notary Public. Murder mysteries appear again to be the order of the day. The rivalry between Omaha's two medical colleges will now be keener than ever. Epp———— ‘The Iowa legislature seems to be dying :bout as hard as the usual legislative Reclprocity is a good thing when it feclprocates so that each country per- Buades itself that it is getting the best Bf the bargain. Marconl's wireless telegraphy ought to pome in handy for the inventor if he ts to keep in touch while enjoying s rest abroad. s 8witzerland and Italy may engage in & little diplomatic sparring match, but tbere 1s no danger that they will strip Por a finish fight. Bantos-Dumont, the great French Reronaut, who has just landed In New York, evidently knows where to go Wwhen be wants to fly high. Omaha still holds second place among American pork packing centers and thiere is fair prospect that it will main- tain its rank for some time to come, ———— Dave Henderson reads his title clear for another term in congress, but “Our Pave” 1s still perturbed over the ob- $treperous opposition to his life tenure. e President Roosevelt's visit to the Dharleston exposition has passed iuto history and the absence of Senator Till- man from the function was not even Boted. A great many people are still wonder- Ing whether Joe Bartley is preparing a uine surprise party for them by de- iting a $200,000 prize package in the $tate treasury. e If home rule in Ireland is desirable, so home rule in Omaha. Why should Bay Omaha home ruler insist upon gov- éruing Omaha’s police and fire depart- ments from the state capital? A few old shacks of the vintage of @856 still ornament varlous portions of Omaha's business district and their un- timely taking off by condemnation pro- Eéedings will not be mourned. cr——— John Finerty never misses an oppor- gunity to twist the British llon's taill and he would extegd this delightful practice $o the American mule If that tender- talled animal were not such a high kicker. E— The Fiji islands are at last connected with the outside world by ocean cable, but the Fiji islanders have not yet felt the necessity of a special telegraphic rode to keep the secrecy of thelr dis- patches. e Chicago club women express fear ghat spring house cleaning may inter- tation established, postal and customsa services organized, schools were opened, hospitals and asylums built and the complete machinery necessary in a well regulated government was put into suc- cessful operation. When American occupation of Cuba began the task that was presented seemed almost hopeless of accomplish- ment. It was freely predicted that not less than ten years would be required in which to do the work necessary to place the island in proper condition to be turned over to the government of its people. Only three years, however, have been consumed in accomplishing the task and a few weeks hence Cuba will pass into the control of its people with conditions better than ever before in its history. Not the least important of the things done has béen the stamping out of that dread disease, yellow fever, which for centuries had been a draw- back to the island’s advancement. The system of sanitation established the Cuban government will be pledged to continue, in the interest alike of its own people and ourselves. It is stated that nearly $9,000,000 have been expended in the work of sanitation. Many public improvements have been made and the educational work accomplished has been great. According to a recent statement there are now over 3,600 teachers em- ployed In the island, with an average enrollment of pupils of 180,000 and an average attendance of 140,000. Hun- dreds of barracks and asylums have been converted into school houses and as fast as time would permit new school buildings have been erected, the expenditure for this purpose last year amounting to $500,000. In the meantime the Cubans have been recelving sound practical instruction in the principles of government, which should enable them to wisely manage their affairs when they are given control of them. Certainly the United States has the strongest possible clalm to Cuban grati- tude and friendship, yet it Is not un- common to see statements from the island to the effect that there is much popular dislike and distrust of Ameri- cans, Notwithstanding all that has been done for Cuba we are told that there {s a moral obligation, an obligation of honor, to do still more. Having given them freedom, we are now asked to as- sure them prosperity. How far shall we have to go In order to fulfill this ob- ligation? WIIl the proposed tariff con- cession be sufficient? No one can tell with certalnty, but if this is granted it is not probable that it will end the Cuban appeal for assistance. [ — ACCESSIONS TO POPULATION. There promises to be a larger foreign accession to the population this year than last, when the number of immi- 487,000, For the eight year end- ing with February the number of fmmi- grauts was 50,000 greater than for the corresponding period of the preceding year. It s possible, therefore, that the tmmigration for the fiscal year ending June 30 will approximate 600,000. The increase shows that the people of the old world are fully aware of the pros- perity of this country. Nearly all the people who are coming here, it appears, are of the classes which will be useful and it is not noted that they are anywhere In excess of the demand for labor or are interfering with the wages of American workmen. It seems that these new comers have no dificulty in obtaining employment at the current prices for such work as they can perform and If a few hundred thou- sand more shall come there is no doubt that they can find enough to do. There is a good demand for labor in nearly every part of the country and especlally {n the west and this seems likely w continue for a year or two to come and possibly longer. Therefore the present accession of able-bodled workers from abroad is desirable and this being real- ized there is & cessation of the demaud for further restriction of lmmigration and it 18 predicted that no action will be taken oif the bills that have been intro- duced in congress for this purpose. THE HIGR PRICE UF MEATS. There are few households anywhere in which the high price of meats Is not just pow & matter of commanding interest. Probably no subject' connected with do; gere seriously with attendance at their rlub meetings. That is one of the best plgns yet of the success of the woman's glub movement. . EETE————— 1t the warring demofratic members of fhe county board would devote half the energy to stopping leaks for the benefit ©f the taxpayers that they are putting pn schemes to plant favorites on the gounty payroll they would make a bigger hit with the public. E———— ‘We now know that President Roose- welt's great - great - great - grandmother Yived in South Carolina before the revo- fution. If the president will make a more tours American historians will able to trace his genealogy to every mestic economy Is moré” generally dis- cussed. Two explanations are offered, one the falllng off, according to sta- tisties of the Agricultural department, in the number of cattle and sheep, the other manipulation by the “beef trust.” As to the first it is remarked that there would be force in it If the price of meats had advanced without manipula- tion, with as great proportionate in- crease for beeves and sheep on foot as for dressed carcasses in the market, which has not been the case. The cow- mon opinion is that the “beef trust” s entirely responsible for the high prices and steps are belng taken in some quar- ters to fight the alleged trust. Thus there is reported to have been organ- fzed a “Butchers” company” in New York, with a large capital, to engage in packing, while it is announced that in Philadelphia the wholesale and retail dealers in meat are preparing to make war on the trust. Should the price of meats continue high these movements may spread to other cities, but what effect they would have Is a question. It would seem that the most practical way of dealing with this matter is for people generally to curtail their con- sumption of meats and at the beginning of epring is a most favorable time to do this. Americans eat more meat than any other people and it is difficult for them to forego the habit even for a brief time, but there is no doubt that most of them would be better off phys- fcally for doing so. A great many have already been compelled to economize in the use of meats and If more did so it would probably not be a great while until the price declined. There I8 no more effective way than this of fight- ing the beef trust, if there is one. SHALL WE HAVE DIRECT PRIMARIES? The trend of public sentiment in all sectlons of the country is in favor of di- rect primary nominations. The avowed purpose of the direct primary system is to purify politics and make sure that the candidates nominated are the choice of a majority of the party. Direct primaries have long since passed the experimental stage. In most states the primary election laws have paved the way for a free and unbought expression of party sentiment by plac- ing the machinery of primary elections under the safeguards that surround the regular elections. This Is especially true in the cities of Nebratka where the reglstration of party affiliations fur- nishes an official enrollment of voters entitled to participate at the primaries of the respective parties. In view of the fact that the republican state convention has been called for the middle of June and congressional nomi- nations are expected to be made within the next eixty days, the question whether the old system of convention nominations shall continue or whether the committees shall provide for direct primary nominations becomes a live is- gue, .The direct primary or Crawford county system has its drawbacks as well as its advantages. To carry out Iits prime object it must be so arranged as to register the will of the majority. When more than two candidates are in the field for the nomination for any office, and no one receives a clear ma- Jority of the votes polled, provision must be made for a second ballot in which all but the two receiving the highest vote are dropped. This is the plan that pre- vails In parliamentary elections in Eng- land and France and has been adopted also in nearly all the states In this coun- try that have introduced direct primary nominations. It is the method employed by the republicans of Lincoln in the nomination of their city officers, Such a system would probably com- mend itself to the voters of all parties in this city and county. We feel sure it would solve many difficulties in the impending contest for congressional and county nominations. Any scheme of di- rect primaries that contemplates nomi- pation by anything less than a majority would, however, be sure to prove disas- trous to the candidates at the election. A minority nomination could not be re- garded as binding, but on the contrary would invite defection because it would be an open declaration that a man whom the majority had refused to endorse had been foisted upon the ticket. — B branch of the municipal gov- ernment is almost at a standstill, so far as new work is concerned, waliting for the annual tax levy that has been sus- pended in mid-air for more than two months. The park board cannot put its plans into effect until it knows what sesources will be at its command, anu the same s true of the health depart- ment, the tax collection bureau, the fire and police board, the public library board, the engineering and public works departments and every official and em- ploye who has more than mere routine work to perform. It is not to the in- terest of anyone to have this unsatisfac- tory condition continue a day longer than necessary. a—— The largest quarterly receipts in the history of the American postal service have been recorded for the period end- fug January 1, when the total reached the stupendous figure of $32,000,621, ex- ceeding the expenditures by over §1,000,- 000. This is nearly a dollar for every adult member of the population and goes to emphasize how widely spread is the use of our postal facilities when business is fanned by prosperity, ——— According to the W hington corre- spondent of the Lincoln Journal the at- titude of the Omaha Commercial club on the question of irrigation Is not under- stood in Washington and the suggestion is offered that the club members are being used to pull somebody’'s chestnuts out of the fire. Here is another knocker who should be promptly knocked for his impertinence. Officers and soldiers stationed in Cuba will be allowed to bring back with them free of duty all their private effects. It will be safe to say that every smoking man on the roster will find it convenient to lay in a goodly supply of his faverite brand of the fragrant weed before he finishes packing his personal effects. The steady demand for farm lands throughout Nebraska and lowa and the whole corn belt region shows no signs of let-up. The man who has a good Ne- braska farm has an asset of constantly increasing value on which he can make a sight draft almost any time. Chicago Record-Herald. Oh, but won't it be chilly when the Cuban mioister to Spain arrives in Madrid! Chicago News. President Roosevelt is not the first oBbe to be charged with trylng to Mexicanize this country. Mr. Watterson's own party acoused of the same thing when Mr. Rising Railroad Rates Philadelphia Press (rep.) Mr. Charles A. Prouty of the Interstate Commerce commission undoubtedly ex- pressed & broad public feeling in his dec- laration before ‘the Illinols Manufacturers association that the steady upward move- ment of railroad rates was reaching a point at which it would soon become robbery. From the organization of the Interstate Commerce commission in 1887 until two years ago there was a steady and continu- ous decline in the average railroad rate. This decline went on for six years, until in 1893 and 1894 it shook rallroad credits to thelr very center. It threw 40 per cent of the mileage of the country into bank- ruptcy, wiped out dividends on the great mass of rallroads and led to the default of & large share of the rallroad bonds out- standing. The drastic experience led, however, to rallroad economies. The trainload was in- creased. Railroad management was revo- lutionized. Without any increase of rates, ability in management, efficiency and re- trenchment placed rallroads on a paying basis. At the same time there came con- solidations on a great scale, both directly and by “community of interest.” This was accompanied by an increase of rates, which began about eighteen months ago, and, as Mr. Prouty testifies, has greatly increased in recent years, This increase was accompanied also by a reappearance of the preferences shown to tavored shippers. As rates have risen many raliroads have gravitated more and more to the practices of an earlier period. Both forms of spoliation began. Rates bave advanced for the genmeral public, and discrimination between shippers has aided great combinations and consolidations. Rallroad managers wiil make a great mistake It they do not realize that this is creating a public sentiment which will lead to sharp and merciless legislation. Two factors exist in making uniform rates, One is the making of the rate; the other, com binations by which the results of the rate are dietributed between different railroads. If the rallroads make rates then combina- tions will not be permitted. If combina- tions are permitted the railroads must not in the last resort make rates. This is a basic principle certaln to be enforced Astute managers like those at the head of the Pennsylvania railroad see this and favor the measure before congrees which is intended to accomplieh this by kiving the railroads the right to make combinations and leaving the ultimate power over rates in the hands of the Interstate Commerce commission. To say, as has been sald in various quarters, that if the government makes rates it must assure stockholders their dividends Is-a curfous misconception of the position of a raliroad. Any man who puts his eapital into the business of a com- mon carrler does so under the provision of law that he must not charge more than a reasonable rate. But the reasonable char- acter of this rate fe not to be reckoned on the nominal stock, but on the actual value of the raflroad, what it would cost to repro- duce 1t, taking its entire history into con- sideration. There is no dificulty In paying dividends upon all railroad stock reduced to this basis under any rates likely to be as- sessed. Bryan wanted to have silver colned free. Now everybody is quits. One Chance to Get Even. ‘Washington Post. Perhaps Hon. James K. Jones will proceed to get even with those Arkansas voters by joining a few more trusts and whooping up the prices on some of the necessities, Friendship Worth Cult Cleveland Leader. The value of the agricultural products exported in 1901 was $100,000,000 in excess of that of the same exports for 1900. Alto- gether farm products valued at nearly a billion dollars were exported. The friend- sbip of foreigners is worth having. Canada’s Uncrossed Bridge. Louisville Courier-Journal. Canada, which has been disturbed be- cause a great many Canadians have been coming over here to be assimilated by the United States, is now disturbed because a great many citizens of the United States are going over there to assimilate Canada. Pay of Governors. Springfield Republican. The legislature of Towa has increased the ary of the governor from $4,000 to $5,000 a year, not a large sum for a big state like Towa, provided the office is well filled. Only seven statos pay their chief executives more than that—New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania $10,000 each, Massachusetts $8,000 and California, Illinois and Nevada $6,000 each. Nine states, including Iowa, pay $5,000, one pays $4,500 and nine states pay $4,000. o Doing Good Work. Indianapolis News. The industrial department of the Civic Federation has settled seven strikes in three months and prevented two strikes that would have rendered idle 200,000 men. The influence wielded by the Civic Federa- tion lies as much in the mutual under- standing between employer and employe that it brings about as in anything else. It promises to displace the walking dele- gate whose Interest often lay in promot- ing trouble and exciting the suspicions of employes. It is Up to St. Lowis. 8t. Louis Republic. The attention of the entire country is fixed upon St. Louls at the present time. The local movement to suppress municipal corruption is of tremendous significance to all other American cities. If this move- ment is successful, if St. Louls manifests a willingness and an ability to expose and punish her boodlers and to permanently purify her municipal assembly, the city's just renown for such achlievement will be widespread and of -lasting benefit. If, on the other hand, a definite and convincing victory is mot scored, the city must suffer grievously in repute. . HOW TO GET CHEAPER MEAT. Proposed Replenishment of the Ex- bausted Range. People have been asking lately why meat prices are so high. They will find a partial swer to their question in Mr. Irish's article in the April Forum. The United States owns 400,000,000 acres of grazing lands out west of the 100th meridian. It allows these lands to be used in common by its citizens. Anybody who pleases may graze his cattle on the lands belonging to the government. This was well—for a short time. Chicago, Omaha and Kansas City grew rich on the slaughtering trade. Then came a decline in the supply of cattle. H had begun by 1880. It reached alarming proportions by 1900. The delivery of range cattle to the slaughtering centers was shown by the last census to have fallen off 60 per cent in six years. Here was work for the hydrographers and agrostologists of the Agricultural de- partment. They found that the ranges had been eaten bare by the sheep and cattle herded on them by people in general. No/ care had been taken to revive the forage of the districts over which the hrds had passed. That was a plece of business which no one presumed to appropriate to himself. The lands were public property and were treated as such. There being no vegetation on the ground the rain passed through it as through a sieve, and was carried away rapidly and riotously in deep ruts of water courses. The meadow hal become aimost & desert. The remedy, thinks Mr. Irish, will have to be the same one that has been so suc- cessfully employed by Australla and by Tex The lands must be leased. The Australian ranges were at one time re. duced to the condition in which ours are to- day. The colonial government called a moeting of stockmen and devised a system of leasing. The ranges have been restored to their original carrying capacity. Texas has had exactly the same experience. Colo- rado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Utab and Wyoming lease their state lands now anl draw an income from them of over $1,000,000 & year. The federal government is being urged to adopt the same plan. The prin. cipal petitioners in the case are the Na. tional Live Stock association, the Amer- ican Cattle Growers' association, the Pa- cific Stockmen's assoclation, the secretary of agriculture in his last veport and Presi- dent Roosevelt in message Lo congress. A measure that has support of this kind cannot be without its merit. It should be given a fair discussion. It has & worthy object, for it alms at the removal of a condition which means increased expense of living to millions of people. Rellef of some kind is badly meeded. CHEERING SIGN OF Marked Wenlth of Wage crease in Reserve rners. Chicago Inter Ocean. The greatness of no country is to be measured by the enormous wealth of the tew non-producing clippers of coupons, nor yet by the millions accumulated by the great captains of industry. It is true that, as a rule which has few exceptions, the fortunes of the multi-millionaires, or of the millionaires, represent superior intelll- gence, foresight, enterprise and energy. Great riches are generally earned by hard brain work, courage and persistency in wisely directed effort, and the men who achleve them by increasing the com- mon wealth, by expanding the fields of in- dustrial production, or enlarging the areas of commerce, are justly entitled to the re- wards they receive for their superior sa- gacity and shrewdly directed endeavor. They furnish employment to great hosts of tollers, who, without the enterprise of the capitalists, would stand idle in the market place, with none to employ them. But notwithstanding the useful, honored place occupied by the men of wealth who promote the country's industrial and com- mercial development, It is not their enor- mous individual or aggregate fortunes which represent the real greatness of the nation, as that country is greatest and strongest the “plain people,” the working men and working women, of which can earn not only enough by their labor to comfortably house, feed, clothe and educate their children, but to put something by for the “rainy day” of the proverb. If this country is measured by the wealth of its working people it will be found to be the richest, most prosperous country on the face of the earth. According to an authori- tative report, the savings fund deposits of the United States have reached the enor- mous total of $2,640,000,000. During the last five years the deposits have Increased $700,- 000,000. These are startling figures, but they are undoubtedly correct. The larger sum, for instance, is greater than that which stands for the entire Indebtedness of the natlonal government, bonded and other- wi All depositors in savings banks are not wage or ealary earners, nor always poor people, but the rich depositors are few, and the aggregate deposits represent, if not the wealth, the prosperity of the “plain people,” who in five years have put into the savings banks $700,000,000, or nearly as much as the interest-bearing debt of the United States. These deposits of $2,640,000,000 stand for more than the prosperity of the working people; they stand for good citizenship, are the safeguards of stable government, of law and order. POPULAR ELECTION OF SENATOR, Arkansaw Method = proach te It. Chicago Tribune, The Arkansas legislature which is to meet next January will go through the form of electing @ United States genator. Prac- tically that semator has already been elected. He was chosen at the democratic primaries held last week. At theee pri- maries the democrats, who will elect all but @ handful of the members of the legislature, put on record their preferences for United States senator, as well as other officers. The voters in countles electing a majority of the members of the legislature expressed themselves to the effect that they preferred James P. Clark to James K. Jones, the present, senator. This expression of opinion ts conclusive. When the legislature meets it will feel in honor bound to elect ex-Gov- ernor Clark even as presidential electors are in honor bound to vote for & particular presidential candidate. This Arkansas method of electing a United States senator {s not the method which the framers of the constitution had in mind. It was their idea that the members of a leg- tslature, unbiased and untrammeled, should select, after deliberate investigation, one among the best men In the state to be the senator. The Arkansas legielature will not tnvestigate or deliberate. It will obey the mandate of the primaries. Senator Hoar must view with great disfavor this perver- slon of the constitution by which fn a round-about fashion the electfon of a sen- ator is handed over to the voters of the ma- Jority party. This Arkansas method of election has fts defects. A successful candidate gets a ma- Jority of the voles in counties electing a majority of the legislature, but that candi- date may fail to receive a majority of the votes of all the democrats. It would be better to let the choice fall on the man re- celving & majority of the total vote. In this case probably the result would not have been changed. The democrats of Ar kansas have wearled of Semator Jones They could not reconcile his professed hos- tility to trusts with his ownership of stock in a trust Senator Jones will have served eighteen years in the senate at the end of his pres ent term. Although not a man of command- fng abllity he has acquired great influence in the senate, partly because he has been there #0 long and partly because he bas been for some years chairman of the demo- ératic national committee. Once the man at the head of & national committee counted for little except during a campaign. He counts for a good deal now all the time. But influential senator as James K. Jones is the democratic voters of his state are able to reach him and put an end to his senatorial career. There are several states the people of which would discard their senators if given an opportunity to ex- press effective opinions on the subjgch. Near Ap- The posted. Read the best tonic you can making rich blood. bottles and now feel like a new man. $1.00 & bottle. All druggists. newspapers keep you this one and you will learn that Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is possibly take. There's nothing like 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 indaced to try your Sarsapasilia. 1-took thres 1 would advise all in need of a tonic to try this medicine,” —1. D. Goop, Browntown, Va. J. €. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass. PERSONAL NOTES, Fdward Everett Hale is remarkably for tunate in having lived long enough to se- cure the honors which are usually given posthumously. General Stewart L. Woodford, former minister to Spain, started Saturday evening for a tour to the Orient by way of Montreal and Vancouver. Mrs. McKin the same. y's condition remains about he goes out driving frequently and visits the cemetery every day that the weather will permit. Miss Stone is on her way home, and it will be strange it the talented American reporters do not wring from her the hith- erto guarded secrets of her prison house. Former Chief Justice Benjamin Frank- lin Graves, the only survivor of Michigan's great wibunal, will be tendered a banquet in Detroit by the Bar assoclation of that city. General 8. B. Buckner has presented Mun- fordville, Ky., with water works, and his son-in-law, Colonel Morris B. Belknap, has given the city a marble fountaln made in Florence, Italy. Frank Sargent, who has been appointed commissioner general of immigration by the president, held, as his first position with a railroad company, that of engine wiper at Phoenix,-Ariz. Mrs. U. 8. Grant has been shown the de- signs submitted for the Grant memorial, six of which are to be selected, and she was so well pleased with them that she ex- pressed the wish that they could all be| preserved in marble. Henry H. Edes at a recent meeting of the Colonial society of Massachusetts read a paper in which he said that Prof. John Winthrop and not George Washington was the first person to receive from Harvard college the degree of doctor of laws. Angina pectoris, from which Cecll Rhodes suffered, is a diseaee of great men. It ca ried off Matthew Arnold, it killed Lord Clarendon, Dr. Chalmers, John Leech, Dr. John Hunter, the famous physician; Thor- waldsen, the sculptor, and Sumner, the American statesman. It seems to have a predilection for those in whom there is a high development of the nervous system. In the early days of the South African war the representative of an Australlan paper was mortally wounded in an engage- ment and two of his comrades entered the Boer lines in search of him. They wers blindfolded and taken to the tent of Gen- eral Delarey, whom they found sitting on the ground, with sleeves rolled up, peeling potatoes. The venerable leader gave them every aesistance In his power. The passing of Senator James K. Jones from the senatorial arena occasions consid- erable regret among his colleagues. His retirement from office, it is hoped, will not still his mellow volce entirely. Mr. Jones' marvelous proficiency as a political prophet in presidential campalgns contributed so much galety to the last two contests that the country camnot spare him from the megaphone. Without Jones a presidential campalgn would be as solemn as a funeral Drocession. Robert B. Armstrong, who has been ap- pointed private secretary to Secretary Shaw, is an Iowa man, who had been in the newspaper business in that state for several years prior to 1896, when he went to Chicago as political writer on the Chi- cago Record. In 1898 he sent east as the New York representative of that paper, and a year ago, after a short Euro- pean tour, he accepted his present posi- tion. Mr. Armstrong had knows Governor Shaw, and has been in a measure identi- fled with the governor's political fortunes. Brooklyn Life riology, anywa , 1t _teduces worrying to a positive . for one thing." Somerville Journal: The dem always dangerous-but m find this out from pers girl s Philadelphia Press: Judge—Have 1 not geen you twice before under the influence of_liquor?” Defendant—If you were in that condition, your honor, you probably did see me twice Washington Star: I suppose you can clalm to have done some good while you were In congress?” “I can,’” answered Senator Sorghum., have put my family beyond every poss bility of want for several generations. Detroit Free Preas: “That's a novel oc- cupation,” ejaculated Mr. Dinsmore, look- Ing up from his paper “What 187" asked Mrs. Dinsmore. “Writing fiction. Washington Star: ““When a _smaht_man stahts in to be foolish,” sald Uncle Eben, “it often looks like he put all his brains into makin’ de job a record-breaker,' Cleveland Plain Dealer: Box—T should think Liberty would get tired of standing on that pedestal in New York harbor. Nox—Yes, and congress is so lacking in gallantry that it has refused to help her to a-light, Detrolt Free Pry Critle—Well, Dick, 1 suppose you owe all that you are io your wife. Buccessful Author—No; I think I owe about three-fourths of my stimulus to all those other women who wouldn't have me. Baltimore American: “We have called,” sald the head of the deputation of citizens, “to protest agalnst the street car service you are giving us. Why, some of us can- not even get a strap to hang on by." “Very well, gentlemen. I shall at once iIncrease the wervice,” sald the affable magnate, while the hearts of the deputa- tion leaped with joy, “'by putting in more straps.” Chicago Record-Herald: He—I can't live on less than $3,000 a vear, She—Dear me, what a tragedy it would be If you had a poor pa. simply Now, Play Ballt Denver Post. games is on, the season's here, the stricken ball' cuts through the air, the batters fan the atmosphere, the runners ‘round the bases tear, umpire calls the strikes and puts runners out when they are in, nor heeds the rooters’ angry squalls that they will kill him sure as sin! The season's here, the same old muss, and on the seats the same old us! The e 8. E. Kiser {n the Record-Herald. 1 Don't plague the bashful country boy Who looks with awe upon you now; His clothes are poor and he is c In making way So gulleless now, so poorly dressed, May hide away, down in his breast, A Lincoln's heart, or be possessed Of wishes such as Garfield had To stand where but the greatest may— Don't laugh out at the country lad Who passes awkwardly today. 1L Don't u‘)urn the poor boy In the street Who trles to pass and jostles you; The shoes are ragged on his feet, His trousers may be tattered, too. With grimy hands and tangled hair He dodges here and hurries there, Too little for his years, but still Deep In his breast may be the will That spurred Carnegle up tae hill, Forgive the child who sometimes dares To play @ little on his way: Down in the busy lhnruui‘flnn‘n Are boys the world shall know some day. ur Oh, country boy, 1 lift my hat In ‘humble deferénce to you Oh, little worker in the street, Clad in_your solled and tattered blue, With awe | watch you as you pass— 1 might cry “Bravo!" if I knew, Oh, ragged, tired, awkward boy, What things God' sent you here to de. ORSES AT AUCTION CLOSING OUT SALE OF STANDARD BRED HORSES 11 Brood Mares in foal or foal by side by TACONN SON, 2:09, and JESSICA, great brood mare, by George Wilkes). are the dams of Tom Lee, 2:16; Jessle Kling, others equally as good. W. Chamberlin, OF CLARKS, NEB,, will close out his entire band of Standard Bred Horses, con- sisting of 45 head, to be held at CLARKS, NEB., THURSDAY, MAY Commencing at | p. m. ET 21845 (son of NEL- In the lot 2:18%; E. M. 2:18%, and G., 13 yearling Colts and Fillles by TACONNET. 2 and 3 2-year-old Stallion by Taconnet, & -year-old Stallion by Gus Tupper, 2:1 year-olds by TACONNET and GUS TUPPER, 2:17. ndard and registered. standard and reglstered, 1 3-year-old Stalllon by Sir Normandy, standard and reglstered. 10 high class Road Horses, ready to use, good enough to go to the horse shows or fast enough to take to the races; 4 to ¢ years old. The sale is POSITIVE and everything will be sold without reserve. WRITE FOR CATALOGUE. P. McGUIRE, Auctioneer. Holstein, lowa. W. CHAMBERLIN, Clarks, Neb.