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

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(Seal.) N e ——— They have a few more anarchists in Russia. ‘ pimee—ppee———— David Bennett Hill hungers for har- mony with a big H. Members of the Moulders' union call 1t a lockout. Other people call it a freeze out. ‘When all other sources of revenue are exhavsted John Bull can always fall back on the income tax. S ————— Omaba needs a garbage crematory very much. The only question is where the money is coming from. The open: season for hunting ducks and geese is closed, but the season on political canards and roorbacks has Just opened. If President Roosevelt keeps up his fight on the trusts he may force the democrats to take the plutocrats under thelr protection. An all rail route through the heart of Alaska up to the Arctic circle is to be constructed this year and summer botels near the north pole will become the fashionable resort at no distant day. et p—— When Tomas Estrada Palma came to this country twenty-five years ago he traveled in an emigrant car. Palma's return journey as president-elect of the Cuban republic is made in a palatial private car. While the attorneys of the Taxpayers' ledgue are bombarding the supreme court it will not do to lose sight of the precinct sessors who are quletly at work listing property for next year's as- sessment roll. As an argument against dispensing with kindergartens the Chicago Chron- icle cites the fact that insurance statis- tics show that a large proportion of fires are started by children who are neither &t school nor at work. This Is a clincher. —_—— Towa has captured another julcy plum from the federal pie counter in the ap- polntinent of General J. 8. Clarkson as surveyor of customs for the port of New York. If there is anything lowa wants all she has to do Is to ask for it. Em——— Henry Watterson still lnsists that the future of the republic is imperiled by the man on horseback, and yet Thomas Jefferson, the great patron saint whom Henry Watterson swears by, was the only American president who came on ‘ horseback to be inaugurated. Eae———— The secretary of the Omaha Commer- cial club and keeper of the Omaha In- dlan supply depot, so-called, are now in Chicago to witness the opening of bids for Indian supplies, but their presence at the ceremony will have about the same effect as the pope’s bull against the ‘comet. ——— Representative Ray of New York, chalrnan of the house comunjttee on Judiclary, to whom was referred the resplution calling upon the attoruney gen- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1902 PORSUING THE COMBINATIONS, The adminstration is pursuing the policy promised by President Roosevelt in his annual message and repeated in his Charleston address, of enforcing the law against the combinations. The United States district attorneys at Kan- sas City and Chicago have been in- structed to prosecute a thorough investi- gation as to the alleged beef combine, with a view to ascertaining whether the anti-trust law has been violated. In a letter to the chairman of the judiciary committee of the house of representa- tives Attorney General Knox states that he has no evidenee which can be classed as legal of the existence of such a com- bination, but he has directed that a thorough investigation be made. Until this is done of course the Department of Justice cannot determine whether steps shall be taken toward a prosecu- tion. The public will heartily commend the action thus taken, from which some good results may ' reasonably be ex- pected. It may not be possible to show that there is actually a “beef trust,” but the common impression that there is an arrangement between the leading packers to maintain and advance prices is probably well founded and if this shall be proved to be the case there is no question that they can be prosecuted under the Sherman anti-trust law, on the ground that such arrangement is a conspiracy to monopolize trade and alsq in restraint of trade. The law is very clear and explicit in, regard to this. Everywhere there is an earnest public protest against what 1s believed to be the unwarranted advance in the price of meats and in taking notice of this and endeavoring to ascertain whether the advance is due to an unlawful com- bination among packers, the adminis- tration is dolug a service to the public which will be universally appreciated and which there is reason to expect will have a salutary effect. Sp— THE RUSSIAN ASSASSINATION. The assassination of the Russian minister of the interlor gives most pointed 1llustration of the bitter feel- ing among Russian students toward the government. Recently the students have been vigorously agitating for political and social reforms and a large number of the more radical ones have been sent to prison. In their prosecution the min- ister of the interlor was especially ac- tive and consequently incurred the re- lentless hatred of the student class, or that portion of them who are agitating for reforms. His assassination by one of them s therefore a deed of revenge. The student class in Russla is a force which the government has constantly to reckon with. Intelligent, with ideas of political and soclal progress, they exert a very considerable influence upon pub- lic thought and are almost continually engaged in agitation. The government consequently finds it necessary to maln- tain a most careful and thorough sur- veillance over them and their move- ments are watched with the utmost vigilance. Thelr agitation, however, has not been altogether fruitless, but as- sassination will certainly not improve affalrs or promote the realization of the reforms which the student class desire. On the contrary, it is likely to result in the government adopting severer measures for the repression of agita- tion and more harshly punishing those who engage in inciting popular sentl- ment agaiust the existing order of things. PROTECTION SENTIMENT IN ENGLAND. There is unquestionably a growing sentiment in England against the free trade policy. A member of Parlilament recently expressed the bellef that a se- cret ballot in the House of Commons would result in a large majority in favor of duties and London correspondents say that arguments are now constantly heard that free trade has been too long a mere fetich, that the day of pure Cob- denism is past and that If Cobden were allve now he would favor certain re- stricted tariff measures for revenue. Articles have appeared In leading Brit- ish magazines and commanded much at- tention urging that England, with its present economic policy, could not compete with the United States and Ger- many, and that she must have a pro- tective tariff to save her manufactures, with which Americans and Germans now successfully compete even in her home market. The revenue requirements of the Brit- ish government, created by the costly war in South Africa, have forced it to fmpose duties on sowe of the neces- sarles of life, as sugar, flour, meal and grain, Notwithstanding the declaration of the chancellor of the exchequer that these duties do not violate the prin- ciples of free trade, it certainly can- not reasonably be contended that they are in accord with that policy. Nor is it by any means certain that they will not have the effect, as he asserted, of io- creasing the cost of food. But the im- portant thing Is that these duties, with the exception of that on sugar, are likely to be permanent, for not only must England have large revenues after peace, It her proposed plans respecting South Africa are carried out, but her ag- ricultural interest is dewmanding protec- erah for information relative to the prosecution of the Beef trust, confidently belleves that the attorney general will immediately probe the matter of the al- leged Beef trust to the bottom. We ap- prehend that it will take several X-rays and the searchlight of publicity to ex- pose the skeleton of that stall-fed bovine. The squatter governor of South Da- kota has been appointed United States commissioner for Gregory county for the purpose of accommodating the new settlers who are expected to locate on the Rosebud Indian reservation during the comjug summer. Nebraska's squat- ter governor, the lamented Pearman, over to the happy hunting but if he were still in the land he might also have taken the distribution of the Indlan That was bis favorite pastime. tion. It is urged in support of this de- mand that the security of England is involved in the question of improving agricultural conditions, that more wheat must be grown and the natipn made, i possible, less dependent upon foreign supplies. Political as well as economic reasons will therefore be urged in favor of maintaining the duties, which will of course have the support of the agri- cultural producers. This breach in the free trade policy having been made, it appears highly probable that the manu- facturers will sooner or later lusist that they be given some measure of protee- tion against the competition that is not only taking trade from them in foreign markets, but is steadily reduciug thelir business in the home market. There are already many British manufacturers who went this and if the demand should become general there i no doubt that 1t wounld be supported by British workingmen, who could hardly fail see that they would be benefited protection to the home market. 8ir Robert Giffen pointed out in a re- cent address the need of new taxation and the possibility that it would be in- direct taxation, which may fairly be ac- cepted as Indicating the trend of senti- ment. The Innovation made by the gov- ernment can hardly fall to give an Im- pulse to the antl-free trade feeling and it seems a safe prediction that in the not remote future the economic policy of England will undergo a pretty com- plete change. to by THE UNION PACIFICSHOULD KEEPFAITH ‘When the Union Pacific railway man- agers appealed to the mayor and council for an amicable settlement of the long standing differences between the city and that corporation, The Bee volced the sentiment of the community in sup- port of the proposed adjustment. Under the compact made between the contract- ing partles the city of Omaba made a generous graunt of rightof-way to the Union Pacific by vacating a large num- ber of streets and alleys and the Unfon Pacific bound itself to construct and maintain permanent terminal machine shops and repair shops, equipped with modern machinery, at Omaha. It was clearly understood between the contracting parties that the recon- structed machine shops were to Include all appliances for the construction or re- pair of locomotives and cars, including foundry work, which had for years been maintained and operated as part of the old shops. The summary abolition of the foundry and the transfer of the foundry work to Chicago has very naturally created the impression that the Unlon Pacific railroad is not acting in good faith. While no specific provisions are em- bodied in the contract for the malin- tenance and operation of the foundry as part of the machine shops, the com- pany could with equal propriety aban- don any other of its shops without tech- nical breach of the contract. The ap- prehension that such a policy could or would be adopted at any time In the fu- ture is within itself a menace to the prosperity of Omaha. If the abandonment of the shops was really contemplated before the contract was entered into it would have been but right and proper for the representatives of the Union Pacific who negotiated the Jjoint agreement to have so informed the mayor and council. While no positive announcement has been made that the closing down of the Union Paclfic foun- dry is to be temporary or permgnent, it is to be hoped that the Union Pacific managers will set at rest all conjecture and doubt in the premises. The Union Pacific cannot afford to break faith with Omaba any more than Omaha can afford to break faith with the Union Paecific, Sstee— The contention before the United States supreme court over the Great Northern and Burlington merger recalls forcibly the contention over pro rata be- tween the Union Pacific and Burlington railroads years ago. Whenever an effort was made to pass a pro rata bill through the legislature the Credit Mobilier lobby at Lincoln would insist the redress must be sought through con- gress and not through the legislature. ‘Whenever the pro rata bill was brought before congress the Credit Mobilier lobby pointed to the legislature as the only tribunal to enférce the right of the Bur- lington to make reasonable traffic con- nections with the Union Pacific. And this game of shuttlecock and battle- dore continued until the Burlington had secured an outlet of its own. Just now the same tactics are Dbeing pursued with regard to the .Northern Securities company merger. When the Minnesota legislature was in session the lawyers of the Jim HIill syndicate de- clared that the only tribunal that could deal with the question was the United States supreme court. Now that the case is before the supreme court they claim that the only tribunal to deal with the merger is the state legislature. e The commissioners of Douglas county are making a tour of observation over all of the country roads with a view to ascertalning what repairs and lmprove- ments will be required during the pres- ent year. We are assured that the com- missioners started out with a firm re- solve not to sanction any additional work this year aside from what 18 now mapped out. Although this is the mid- dle of April, we must class this resolve with the new year's resolutions, which are usually broken before a change of the moon. It may be safely predicted that the commissioners will not be able to withstand the heavy pressure for po- litical grading and bridge work that al- ways comes just before election. Joy for Smoked Hams. Philadelphia Press. Some people are mot bothering so much about the price of meat since the cost of clgarettes is betng reduced. All kinds of living are not dear. Coming Events Cast down. Indlanapolis Journal. Nebraska democrats who claim to know say that Willlam Jeonings Bryan will be the fusion candidfte for governor in that state next fall. You can't lose William J. A Line R Brooklyn Eagle. A great national highway, 3,000 miles long, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, would be a glorious achievement and a perfectly feasible one. We want one g0od road in this country, and that ought to be it. The Maxim of Rhodes. Chicago Chronicle. Rhodes’ tombetone, as unimpassioned pos- terity will inscribe it, will perpetuate his only sentence mow remembered: ‘B man bhas bis price and I have the pric That was the fundamental maxim of Rbodes® statesmanship. Mighty Slow in One Thi Philadelphia Ledger. The British Pacific cable has reached the Fiji lolands, on its way from Australia to Canada. The indications pre that it will Aunisbed snd at work before thig ¢ouRLY has finished talking about who shall build the one proposed for eur use between the United St Hawall and the Philippines. Chicago Inter-Ocean Man's chivalry toward woman has seldom been more beautifully or more herolcally exemplified than in the case of Leuis Hanck, who jumped into the Chicago river to rescue a drowning woman without walt- 1ng to get a report from the health depart- ment on the condition of the water. Warm Pace of Justice, Minneabolis Journal. The dispatch with which a cold-blooded murderer in Detroit was hurried to prison for life sets an example that c well be followed in other citles. Now [and then there are criminal cases in which the evi- dence is so nicely balanced that the ac- cused is entitled to every delay that can possibly be wrung from the law: But, on the other hand, there are many crimes of & flagrant pature, where the gulit of the accused is certain, that the ends of justice and public order are best attained by the utmost possible celerity. Stirring Up the Mossbacks. Philadelphia Record. British self-confidence has been given an- other severe shock in the appearance of American enterprise and capital to finance the London underground rallway project. This means more than the mere floating of the undertaking financially. It means the use of American material in the building and equipping of the road. It becomes an American enterprise, in short, and the Lon- don newspapers are again busy trylng to harmonize the situation with their claims that British commercial and flnancial su- premacy has not been shaken very re- cently, Rural Made Boxes Hung Up. Philadelphia Record. Rural free dellvery has a department string to it in the guise of an order com- pelling the ruralists to buy one out of four- teen specified mail boxes, or in default thereof to euffer exclusion from the free delivery privilege. Each jolly farmer must have an fron mail box and must buy it from one or another of the favored fourteen manufacturers. This is regarded by the department officials as a beneficent ar- rangement all around, but a senate amend- ment has upset it and the fur will fly in conference committee accordingly. Think of making the free delivery privilege con- tingent upon a reluctant purchase of some petty contractor's patented mail box! FATAL INITIATIONS. Too “Horne Much Play” Trouble in the Camp. Brooklyn Bagle. Another case of over-initiation comes to notice in Michigan, where a dylng man brought suit against the order of Modern Woodmen for $50,000 for injuries received in the process of making him a member of the company. It cost him a leg. So it would seem that the sports of the Woodmen may be expensive to them. And they should be. Rough and tumble sport is not neces- ary to the joining of any order. Initia- tions of any sort are not necessary, if it comes to that. No person is better for having been made to stand on his head in a corner, to make laughter for a crowd of his fellows, or is wiser for having been forced to siide down a greased board into & tub of ice water. These things belong to the hobble-de-hoy age, and are sometimes forgiven to col- lege students, but not so easily to adults Secret societies have nothing to tell or confer on humanity that makes any form desirable. There may be forms that are impressive, and there are some which are symbolical, but three times in four the doings of the lodge and society room are the veriest antics, and the member is se- cretly ashamed of them. Indeed, one of the best reasons for secrecy s the fear of ridicule if the public finds out how super- fluous, how childish these performances are So long as the purpose of an initlation is to have a laugh at the initiate’s ex- pense, to exhibit him naked, dripping with water, to toss him in a blanket, to prod him and scare him, to lower him into holes by ropes/ to chase him with fire, to threaten him with swords, and to do any other of the silly things that grown men sometimes descend to, the public has no right to inter- fere. The initiate will be mortified, but he will take his revenge by initiating other people. When the performance is so savage, however, to imperil life and limb, the law has a right to stop it. It did so = number of years ago when the Sons of Malta had injured and crippled a number of persons in proceedings of the most savage character. Causes COURTS AS ASSESSORS, Functions Assumed by the Federal Courts in Chiea, Chicago Record-Herald. Without attempting & review of the de- clsion of Judges Grosscup and Humphrey in reducing the reassessment of the fran- chises of - public service corporations in Chicago, there is one point about the basis which they adopted which should not be permitted to pass without pro- test. The rule fixed by the decision read as follows: “The basis shall be the true met earn- ings of the several complainants for the year, covering April 1, 1900, proper allow- ance being made for depreciation and re- placement, but not for extensions, and re- duced further by the amount of additional taxes that the enforcement of this rule pro- duces. Upon this basis the value of com- plainants’ capital stock, including fran- chises and tangible property, shall be cap- italized on & ratio of 6 per cent; this equalized by reduction of 30 per cent, and then divided by five.” It may be questioned whether the court has not adopted an excessively high ratio (6 per cent) In capitalizing the capital stock, franchises, etc., on net earnings, when private property is capitalized on a ratio of between 4 and 6 per cent and taxed on such capitalization. But the chief ob- jection to the court's rule is the 30 ver cent reductiop. In the layman's view there is no war- rant in law or justice for any such re- duction. While there was a great amount of real and personal property in Cook county assessed at less than 30 per cent below its full value, it was illegally and inadequately so assessed. But If the 6 per cent ratio of the earn- ing capacity of property in Chicago were adopted to fix its assessed value it would be found that more than half of all t aséessments in the business section of (L city were made at more than their full value. The full value, without any reduc- tion of 30 per cent or any other variable percentage, must be the alm and practice of courts as well as assessors if we are ever to arrive at & just and equitable assess- ment of all taxable property in Cook county. It judges, when assessments come be- fore them for revision, may read 20 or 30 or 50 per cent reductions fnto the basis of assessment there can be no protection or appeal against assessors doing the same. The law says that the assessors shall determine and fix'the “fair cash value. which shall be set down in the column beaded “full value.” Any departure from this basis is fraught with injustice and danger of imequality, faveritism and cor- ruption. _Live Nebraska Towns Alliance—Marvel of theA West. Alllance, situated in Box Butte county northwestern Nebraska, on the Billings line of the Burlington, 361 miles from Lincoin, is the marvel of all visitors and commercial glant of the western half of Nebraska. Founded in 1888 on unsettled prairie table- 1and, it has today 5,000 people and unlimited prospects for further advancement. Buch progrees is a mystery to the stranger, but easily accounted for by the citizen who knows this development is made possible by railroad interests ever vigilant for the town's welfare, and the natural adaptabil- ity of the country surrounding Alliance for stock ralsing. The quality of potatoes and hay ralsed s exceptionally fine and the shipments of these large. Alllance has, briefly: Accredited schools with an enroll- ment of over 700; nine church organizatione, six of which have their own edifices; water works; electric lights: telephone system; $30,000 opera house; newspapers; pressed brick works; steam laundry; planing mill; secret socleties galore; substantial buelness buildings and many comfortable homes. Most important are Burlington interests at this general division, and junction for the Denver and Guernsey lines. Here are located car, machine and repair shops and general offices of the company. The Bur- fington employs in the varlous branches here about 600 men, the monthly payroll easily reaching $30,000. These men are an industrious clase, and it is a fact that nearty 50 per cent more of them own homes 1n Al- llance than do the company employes of other towns in the etate. Freight and pas- senger receipts at Alliance station have in- creased three-fold in the last five years and now amount to over $20,000 per month, Here all cattle from the south via Denver, or from the east and southeast by way of St. Louls, Kansas City, Omaha and Lincoln are unloaded for feeding and inspection. The stockyards have a capacity of 125 carloads with good water, excellent quality of hay and all conveniences. Alliance Is to have the largest coal whart on the Burlington sys- tem, and a large car shop Is also to be con- structed. The value of company property fs now placed at $300,000, and this city s destined without doubt to become the largest railroad center in the state, with the single exception of Omaha. This will be made pos- sible by the extension of the road from Guernsey to Salt Lake, the bullding from Billings to Great Falls and connectton with A narrow-gauge road into Britien Colum- bia, making a direct line from 8t. Louls, and by the comstruction of a line from O'Neill to Alllance, giving a direct route from Sioux City and northeast to Denver, Salt Lake and the southwest. The realiza- tion of these plans are all strong probabir- itles for the immediate future. The property valuation of Alllance for 1901 is believed to have been $1,325,000. With the bringing into the limits of con- tiguous territory, the figures for 1902 will reach a round $2,000,000. The amount of business transacted {s enormous, ranch trade coming a distance of seventy-five miles, and many of the ranchmen making this city their homes. The fleld for invest- ment is unlimited and the returns derived from rentals offers to capital an Inviting field. One of the urgent needs of the city in a sewerage system. The climate Is ideal and healthful, residents being espe- clally immune from pulmonary and other disorders so prevalent in the lower latt- tudes. This thriving young wonder of the west offers advantages in the educational and soclal line that are unsurpassed in any city of its size. It Invites attentlon ana challenges comparison as & typical, hust- Iing city whose march forward is bound to keep it in the van of all In the great north- west. HARVEY J. ELLIS. b ————————————y i The Nation’s Growth Washington Post. Outside of such wild fictions as those of Gulliver, Munchausen and W. S. Gil- bert's opera librettos, it would be difficult to find more astounding statements than the cold facts published by the Treasury department’s bureau of statistics showin the progress of the United States in its material Interests in the ninetenth cen- tury. In 1800—three years beforo expan- slon began—the area of the republic was 827,844 square miles. The population was 5,308,843—a total now excelled by each of several states and much less than double the aggregate of a single city. The popu- lation per square mile was 6.41. The pub- lic debt was $82,076,204 and the net revenue only $10,848,749, scarcely sufficient to run slugle third-class city of these days for a year. But it met all the wants of the na- tion, for the net ordinary expenditure was $7.411,370, of which $2,660,879 was for the army, $3,448,716 was for the navy and $64,- 131 for pensions. Exports were worth $70 971,780, imports $91,252,768. American ton- nage in the foreign trade was 669,921 tons. The number of postoffices 903, with re- ceipts of $280,504. New York City requires annually for its government more than twelve times the cost of the national government in 1800, and the police department of a first-class city now calls for more money than our army and navy cost a century ago. In 1900 our area, exclusive of Alaska, Hawall, Porto Rico, the Philippines and other insular acquisitions, had grown from 827,844 to 3,025,600 square miles. Popula- tion had climbed to 76,303,387 and popula- tion per square mile to 25.22, leaving plenty of room for increase. The estimated wealth in 1900 was $94,000,000,000, but it is Im- possible to make a reliable estimate on that subject. The general opinion is that this is too high, but it 1s not improbable thet it is too low. At any rate, the figures are too huge for comprehension by any class of citizens except astronomers. The public debt, despite great reductions from the maximum figures, stood in 1900 at $2,- 136,961, The net revenue had increased 240,852, the met ordinary expendi- ture to $447,663,448, of which $134,774,768 was for the army, $65,953,078 for the navy and $140,877,316 for pensions. Exports in 1900 were worth $1,394,483,082; imports, $840,941,184. American tonnage In the for- elgn trade was 826,604 tone. The number of postoffices was 76,688 and the receipts therefrom were $102,354,579, We know of no better inspiration to pa- triotism than the comparison presented in those statistics. And to those who belleve in special providences it should be an in- spiration to devout gratitude to see “what God has done for this most favored land.” But there are some items of great Interest as showing the country's growth which 41d not exist or were not reported in 1800, Upon the estimate of $94,000,000,000 as the totel wealth, the average wealth of every man, woman and child s $1,235. There are 6,107,083 depositors in savings banks, who have $2,449,547,885 deposited, and there are besides $2,508,248,558 of deposits in na tional banks, exclusive of deposits with trust companies, state banks and private banks. The money in circulation was $2,- 065,150,008, averaging $26.98 to the In- dividual citizen. Gold was produced to a value of $79,171,000, silver to a value of $74,633,495. It adds to the marvelousness of the story of this republic's growth since 1800 to remember that for four years dur- ing that century we waged an enormously destructive civil war. IN THE FUSION FOLD. Custer County Beacon: The Beacon sug- gests Judge H. M. Sulllvan as a candidate for congress. If populists campaigner, he's the man for the place. Saline County Democrat: W. V. Allen gives it out that he ie not a candidate for governor. He should be taken at his word and it should be seen that he sticks to it. Howells Journal: The fusion press of this district is almost a unit in favor of the renomination of Congressman Robinson. His four years of faithful service have shown him to be the right man for the place. Columbus Telegram: Several democratic newspapers are advocating the nomination of Editor Adams of the Grand Island Demo-~ crat for lleutenant governor. Why not for governor? The signs read that in the fusion mixup this year the nominee for governor will be a democrat. Adams I» worthy ‘the place. Madison Mail: Congressman Robinson's position of ranking opposition mem- ber of the committee on the revision of laws is vitally important. It is mot often that a young member of the house reaches ant a vigorous PERSONAL NOTES. The German emperor owns 350 carriages for the use of himselt and his court. Mavroyeni Bey, who was Turkish minister | to Washington a few years ago, has been appointed by the sultan prince of the Island of Samos. Ex-Secretary John W. Foster has accepted an Invitation to deliver the oration &t the dedication of the soldiers and sallors’ mon- ument in Indianapolis, Ind., in May. George Gray Ward, who is in San Fran- cisco arranging for the Great Pacific ocean cable, says that by next Thanksgiving day the United States will be doing busines: with Honolulu by wire. D The late Dr. Thomas Dunn English was a close student of natural sciences, as well s an accomplished mineralogist, and could 80 through a cabinet collection and give an expert opinion of every specimen. Allen Welsh Dalles, the 8-year-old grand- |won of ex-Secretary John W. Foster, hi written a book entitled “The Boer Wa | It was printed March 15, for private circu- lation, Mr, Foster acting as publisher. Every afternoon at 2 o'clock Senator this place. But Mr. Robinson's exverience | on the bench and his standing at the bar | no doubt convinced Speaker Henderson that | bis appointment would be a wise one. 10| make. North Platte Tribune: While some of | the North Platte friends of Congressman Neville claim that he will not be a candi- date to succeed himself, yet there is evi- dence galore that pins for his renomination are now being set. During the sickness of Mr. Neville, he paturally felt pretty blue and he thought that if he recovered his strength again he would refrain from the arduous work Incident to a campaign in the big Sixth district. But now that he has fully recovered and is reported to be feeling better than for many years, his hankering to continue in the harness as a lawmaker is strong and he evidently de- sires to be re-elected. It will be well, how- ever, for Mr. Neville to keep out of the campaign it may endanger his health and his defeat is certaln. Columbus Telegram: Hon. Jobn C. Sprecher of Schuyler was in the city last Saturday. He did not come on & politizal mission. It is true that he is prominently mentioned as a probable fusion nominee for governor, but he is not seeking the place. It would do him no good to seek. He could not be nominated. The corporations would not permit such & man as Sprecherp to be- come govermor of this state. He stands too fast by his honest convictions. Such men a8 Sprecher are nominated for high ofices only when there is a slip in the po- litical machinery, and the corporations temporarily lose control of the wires Some day the people of Nebraska, demo- crats, populists and republicans. will break away from the corporation leading strings and nominate men of the Sprecher stripe. But I fear that day will not come during the present year. A Case of M Cockrell of Missour! eats two apples. He 15 an expert regarding this frult, and never eals it unless it shows just the proper de- gree of redness and has all external evi- dences of being pertect. The Patriotic League of the Revolution has petitioned congress to secure & pension for Theodore R. Timby, who, it s alleged, 1s the true inventor of the revolving turret used on Monitor in its batsle with Merri- mag. He is a native of Duchess county. New York. THE SURGEON'S KNIFE Mrs. Eckis Stevenson of Salt Lake City Tells How Opera- tions For Ovarian Troubles May Be Avoided. “DrAr Mns, Prxxmas: =T suffered with inflammation of the ovaries and womb for over six years,enduring aches and pains which none can dream of but those who have had the same expe- : MRS. EOKIS STEVENSON, rience. Hundreds of dollars went to the doctor and the druggist. 1 was simply & walking medicine chest and & phys- fem wreck. My sister residing in Ohio wrote me that she had been cured of womb trouble by using Lydia E, Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound, and advised me to try it. I then discontinued all other med icines and gave your \'E{euhln Compound a thorough “trial. Within four weeks rearly all pain had left me; I rarely had headaches, snd my nerves were in & much better condition, and I was cured in three months, and this avoided a terrible surgical operation.”— Mra, Eckis STEVENSON, 250 So. State St., Balt Lake City, Utah.—g§5000 forfeit if above testimonlal s not genuine. Remember every woman is cordially invited to write to Mrs. Pinkham if thereis anything about her symptoms she does not understand. Mrs. Pinkbam’s address is Lynn, Mass. LAUGHING MATTEF Judge: “Yes," says the philosophical p son, “wealth brings its disappointments. “After we lose it," puts in the materia tstic man. New York Sun: Jaggles—Is there less danger in keeping an auto than a car- riage? Waggles—There seems to be, marriageable daughters. T heard of a girl eloping with 1f you have haven't yet chauffeur. Cleveland Plain Dealer: “I gce that the chorus girls in a comic opera company have struck because the manager wanted the expense of having thelr ashe well. - And there seems to be so little to wash, too.” Philadelphla Press Leading Tenor—I love to sing that drinking song in the second act. Soubrette~Why so? Leading Tenor—There's a rest almost at every bar. Washington Star: "I am writing a story of 8 struggling inventor. “It won't do,” answered the abrupily critical friend. ' “Inventors don't struggle nowadays. They let the people who are eager to buy stock do the struggling.” Chicago Tribune: hat prison for, my friend “Stealin’ a pin, ma'am.” “What?" “That's right, ma'am. It had a dlamond fastened at one end of {t.” Omio Stte J.-urn{l “Hello, buddy?" claimed the ‘sprouting blade’ of grass the embryo leaflet 2 are you in ex- to “Please don't shoot!" exclaimad the bud, in mock alarm s«: Tess—He told me I n like a peach. ow mean of him! Tess—Mean? Jess—Yes, he told mo the peach made his blood run cold, THE FAMILY ME fuzz on a NG. Charles Sprague. We are all here, Father, mother, Sister, brother, All who hold each other dear. Each chair is filled; we're all at home! Tonight let no cold stranger come. It is not often thus around Our old famillar hearth we're found Bless, th ndthe #pot; For once rgot; Let gentle Pe - er pow And kind Affection rule the hour We're ali—all here. We're not all here! Some are awa; the dead ones dear, Who thronged with us this anclent hearth And gave the hour to guileless mirth, Fate, with a stern, relentless hand, Look'd in and thinn'd our little band; Some like a night-flush pa And some sank lingering day by day; The qulet graveyard—some ife there— And cruel Ocean has his share. We're not all here. We are all here! Even they—the dead—though dead, so dear— Fond Memory, to her duty true, Brings back their faded forms to view. How life-like, through the mist of years, Each well-remembered face appears! We see them, as in times long past From each to each kind looks are cast; We hear their words, their smil hold; They’re round us, as' they were of old We are all here. We are all here, Father, mother, Sister, ‘brother, You that I love with love 8o dear, This may not long of ug be said Soon must we join the gather'd dead And by the hearth we now sit round Some other cirele will be fo: Oh! then, that wisdom may we know, Which ylelds a life of peace below! 8o, in the world to follow this, May each repeat In words of bliss, We're all—all here! Don’t take Ayer’s Sarsa- parilla if you are well. Don’t take it simply because you R NG p B Indlanapolls Journal After many statements to the contrary the commissioners of the St. Louls exposi- tion bave finally decided to postpone it till 1904. The decision is caused by the impos- sibllity of completing all the bulldings by 1903, and by the general disinclination of foreign governments to participate in the fair before 1904. The postponement ought to result in more thorough and satisfactory preparaiions. \ are sick. Take it for what the doctors recommend it and you will like it, be- ) \ % N 7)) | \ come fond it, for it gives health, strength, vigor. “1 suffered turning to restored."— M. J. W. Fiatm, SO AN Groggtsta. doctors said for yews. The my blood was all 4. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Miass.