Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 1, 1902, Page 6

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LATION, County, ary of I being duly sworn, mver of full wnd of The Duily, Morning, Footine Wil Buiday oo Sritied month of April, iwi, was as tollowi 0,800 1 40,800 0050 1 20,680 o000 0,640 ms10 .49,550 0,500 20,680 0,780 29,580 ans1o 20,500 20,650 29,600 10 20,420 0,480 29,460 M.510 20,560 STATEMENT OF CINC Total ....coonuis . Jans un old and returned coples.. Net total sales.... ., Net datly average ..... GEORGE Bubscribed in my presence and_sworn to q:" me this 30th day of April, A. D. (Beal) M. B. HUNGAT Sl Notary Publ Noble trees all over the country will be the most impressive monuments to the founder of Arbor day. b1 Ak-Bar-Ben's royal carnival has been fixed forjthe period from September 24 to October 4, Mark it down on your calendar. L __ ] The Union Pacific intimates that it will nd pat. If the city will only stand pat it will show that it has the stronger hand. S— If they want to be in on the corona- ¢lon ceremonies the British troops in South Africa will have to hurry up their unfinished work, — The second innings in the French par- Hamentary elections will be pulled off @8 soon as the contestants are able to recover from the first scrimmage. And now the council is asked to do something for the blllboards. Better do something to protect the public from ghe dangers of the tottering fences. Senator Money should have waited till he could get that street car conduc- tor onto the tloor of the senate, where Bhe would have the protection of sena- gorial courtesy. ‘When American paval officers want to make a night of it In Venice they will consult the dictates of prudence by choosing & Venetian garden in some sea- port on this side of the Atlantic. The cessation of the Conservative from publication with the death of its editor, J. Sterling Morton, will take from the esteemed Commoner one of its prin- eclpal functions, namely, of replying to the diatribes of the versatile sage of Ar- bor Lodge. ——— The hog market, which is registering pver $7 at South Omaha, was only $5.60 Bt this time last year and $3.70 three pears ago. The same ratio of increase is wisible also in other live stock prices. That may throw a partial light on the Fise In meat products. S —— That astute and experienced politi- elan. ex-Senator Willlam V. Allen, in the Jast issue of his pungent paper remarks: “Eara P. Savage easily has the lead for fhe gubernatorial nomination by the re- publicen party.” ExSenator Allen has &nother guess coming. ey Our Jacksonlan friends are saild to be greatly perplexed as to what they should do In the event David B. Hill sonians bhave a habit of bullding air- eastle bridges they .are never called wpon te croms. The withdrawal Governor Savage from the gubernatorial race may clear the atmosphere, but it does not lessen the necessity for considering only men of positive strength for places on the mpublican state ticket this fall. Every Man nominated by the conveution must ot ouly be qualitied for the position he ooels, but by his charscter and record Within thees weeka General Palma wil be inaugarated president of Ouba wnd the new fepubiie will enter upon its tateer A8 an independent state. The fitet problem the Cuban governmens will have to face i o of dollars and cents and It e apt to be a perplexing proposi- tioh, Involving as it will the question of how to stipport & new fepublic the cost of whose government Is mofe than the ihcome When the American oecupation ends there will be In the treasury of the ieland about $800,000, When the ex- penses which Cuba will asstime on be- coming free are considered this surplus looks very small and it promises to melt rapidly as the numerotis bills come In— Mils now pald by the United States. Heports on file in the War department show that the cost of maintaining gov- erment In Cuba has Increased steadily since American occupation, without a corresponding Increase in the receipts, There was an excess of receipts over ex- penditures in 1900, but last year this whw reversed, though the excess of ex- penditures was not so large as to wipe out the surplus of the preceding year. If the Cubans continuve the system of asylums, schools, courts, penal institu- tions and public improvements estab- lished by the American administration it will take up about all the revenue that Is now being received. To the reg- ular cost of the government there will have to be added other expenses as soon as the Americans withdraw, These will fnclude salaries for a lot of officials who will fill offices now occupled by Ameri- can army officers, who are paid out of the United States treasury. Then the number of officials will be increased, including the president, vice president and cabinet officers, A diplomatic serv- fee must be established and maln- talued and a skeleton army at least will have to be organlzed and provided for. Necessarily the per- | sonuel of the new Cuban government | will be larger than under the existing adwministration, which of course will mean a larger pay roll. Another matter that will confront the new government is the demand of the “patriots” for com- pensation for thelr services in the in- surrection against Spain. These are said to number 70,000, whose uaggregate claims amount to $80,000,000. But thls demand seems so preposterous that per- haps it will not cause the new govern- ment any serious trouble financially. There wiil be difficulty in increasing the revenues of the island. Its re- sources, it Is said, are now mertgaged almost up to their total value and the customs tariff 1s already arranged to yleld the largest possible revenue, with- out Interfering with trade. This was the purpose in mind when the tariff was framed. If there is reciprocity between Cuba and the United States this tariff must be reduced as to imports from this country, so that no additional revenue from customs can at present be counted on. Internal taxation may be somewhat Increased, though it is believed not to any material extent, particularly in the case of real estate. It will thus be seen that the Cuban statesmen who are about to take up the practical work of government have a very ditficult task before them in the matter of making provision for the waintenance of the government and averting the danger of bankruptcy at the very beginning of Its career. THE ASS AULT ON THE ARMY. The indiscriminate denunciation of the army in the Philippines by Senator Rawlins and other democrats is meet- ing with some popular resentment. A great majority of the American people will refuse to belleve that the soldlers who are upholding the flag and the sov- ereignty of the United States in the far east are all fnhuman and cruel and those who thus characterize them are being sharply condemned, as they de- serve to be. The Utah senator has felt called upon to explain that he did not, in his speech in the senate, call General Chaffee a “dastard villat but this does not mitigate his unjust and unwar- ranted assault on the army. No one attempts to justify the cruel- ties alleged to have been commlitted, but it 1s manifestly unfair and unjust to hold the entire army responsible. As was sald by Governor Taft in his ad- dress to the Yale students, there are 500 military posts in the - Philippines and a larger number of detachments in the fleld, so that it is possible for ex- ceptional Instances of abuses to occur without typifying the conduct of the army, which he declared Is ou the whole humane and considerate toward the na- tives. That this is so was shown by the numerous petitions of natives a few days ago sent to the senate In which there was unqualiied acknowl- edgement of the good treatment they bad recelved from the Awerican sol- diers. "It was not to be expected,” sald Governor Taft, “that in an army of 60, 000 men there should not be brutes or weak men who would yleld to the temptation of arbitrary power and the proveeation of the ambush and treach- ery, savagery and danger of the Filipino guerilla warfare as it was practiced.” Some information as to the character of this warfare is coming out in the testimony before the court-martial at Manila, but doubtless much of the evi- dence Is vot made public for the reason that the detalls of Filipino brutality and barbarity are not fit for publication. Is it astonishing that soldiers who have withessed these things, who have seen their comrades made the victims of ~ treachery and unspeskable cruelties, should retaliate when the opportunity offered ? A thorough luvestigation of the con- duet of the army iu the Philippines will be made and we do net hesitate to prediet that the result will justify the smatement of Governor Taft, that ou the whole the comduct of the army has been humane apd considerate toward the natives. Exceptional in- shances of bhave the E OMAA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY. Chaffes, dating from the beginning of the civil war, will belleve, without the most indubitable evidence, that he is the “dastard villain” who 18 responsi ble for such cruelties, or that the of- ficers generally in the Philippines have counseled or countenanced any prac- tices not justified by the laws of civ- {lized warfare. The Philippine army as a whole is still entitled to the respect and confidence of the American people. THE DUTY OF THE COUNCIL. In complying with the mandate of the supreme court it {s the duty of the council to ascertain the actual value of the taxable property of the franchised corporations by adding together the bonds and stocks fssued by each cor- poration, computing their value at the current market price and deducting from the total the amount assessed ngainst these corporations for the real property listed by the precinct assessors. It is the duty of the council, when this computation has been completed, to fix the value of the property and franchises of each corporation at the same ratio to actual value at which the property of individuals and other corporations has been appraised. In other words, if the average of as- messments made by the tax commis- sioner is at the rate of 40 per cent of actual value, the assessments of cor- porate property must be at 40 per cent of their appralsed value. This does not imply that the council should not be able to reach a conclusion as to the ratio until it has overhauled the assess- ments of each and every parcel of real estate and each and every item of per- sonal property, but it means that it shall take a general average of the tax commissioner’'s assessment roll. As- suming that there are a great many in- gtances of favoritism and undervalua- tion, that fact alone does not warrant the council in refusing to proceed with its assessment of the properties of the franchised corporations. Such a read- Justment would certainly be intermi- nable and could not be completed during the life of the present council. It is even gquestionable whether the council could reopen or revise assess- ments of the undervalued properties without specific complaint. This power, it would seem, was exhausted by its former adjournment. The order of the court which reconvened the board can hardly be constituted into an order to reconsider the entire list of assessments and to re-value properties that are as- sessed at less than 40 per cent of their actual or market value. While this would ‘doubtless be just and desirable, an attempt on the part of the council to reconsider its former action would be regarded as a deliberate evasion of the order of the supreme court to pro- ceed expeditiously with the business in hand, namely, with the assessment of the franchised corporations, to be fol- lowed by a tax levy that will be in pro- portion to the estimated needs of the city for the fiscal year. Granted that great wrongs have been perpetrated in the undervaluation of other taxable property than that of the franchised corporations, the remedy will have to be sought through next year's assessment. Now that the franchised corporations are vitally concerned In a fair and impartial assessicent of other properties, they will see that the owners of all taxable property shall be com- pelled to pay their just proportion of the taxes. They can make a good be- ginning with the county board this year, but they cannot very well undo what has already been consummated by the city tax commissioner, the Board of Re- view and their own action. Spm————— WILLING TO STAND BY 118 RECORD. The Bee has been accustomed to im- pertinent curtain lectures from irre- eponsible nondescripts who for some inscrutable reason temporarily occupy editorial positions in this community. These people never lose an opportunity to represent The Bee and its editor as Intensely selfish and insanely hostile to enterprises calculated to promote the growth and prosperity of this city. Pointing backward only a few years, we recall the bitter denunciations of this paper because it opposed the acceptance of a public library site with a string tled to it and persisted In its assertion that water would be struck within twelve feet below the surface of the Hitcheock postoffice block. In both in- stances The Bee's position has been tully vindicated. The Geraldine incident during the ex- position was another example. A few months ago The Bee was denounced as an enemy of Omaha because it dared to admonish the promoters of the auditorium that another $100,000 would have to be raised before the project could be successfully carried out. That position has also been sustained by the disagreeable logic of events. The how!l about The Bee's attitude toward the self-styled National Editorial assoclation is made the subject of an- other impertinent lecture. We are told that “the editor of The Bee attacke everything in which he or his progeny are not personally interested.” We are told also that “Omahba people know that the National Editorial assoclation is made the target for the shafts of the Omaha paper because its editor has no interest In the association.” The people of Omaha may not remember, but it is nevertheless a fact, that The Bee ex- pended several hundred dollars in en- tertaining the National Editorial asso- clation in its bulldiug eleven years ago. That was before the association bad struck the icefa that resulted in Ws practical dislntegration. Even then its traveling membership was wmade up largely of actresses, milliners, country doctors and other people who managed in some way to travel on editorial badges. It !s scarcely necessary to add that the hostlle attitude of The Bee is ot inspired by selfishness, but because it detests shams and humbugs of all kinds and because it does not want Omaha to be imposed on. The Bee roads and dead-heading lunches and en- tertalnments in the name of the presa. If taking this position makes The Bee #n enemy of Omaha and the outcast of the Salvation army exhorters, it will cheerfully take the consequences. According to the ruling by Judge Bax- ter, to the effect that votes sworn In by unregistered electors must be vouched for by two resident freeholders of the voting precinet, it is doubtful if a single unregistered voter has ever had his vote properly sworn In at any election in this city. Buch an interpretation of the law means substantially the disfran- chisement of all persons who fail to register In clties where registration fis required, as it s manifestly next to im- possible for each political party to keep legally qualified freeholders accessible on election day for each of the seventy odd voting precincts in Omaha. The total elimination of the unregistered vote would entail no special hardship and would be in line with practice In eastern citles, but would it not be better to have It done by legislative amend- ment of the election laws rather than by judiclal law-making? L ] The fear that the franchised corpora- tions may get the worst of it in the cur- rent tax levy under an assessed val- uation revised according to the supreme court mandate need not worry anybody seriously. Even though it be true that the corporate assessments might be fixed proportionately bigher than some personal assessments made by the tax commissioner, the corporations have been having decidedly the best of it for a long succession of years and on the average will still be noticeably to the good. Lucky for them that the supreme court decision does not provide for the collection of back obligations which these corporations have evaded from year to year. The general crop report is encouraging 80 far as conditions at this early stage in the season warrant, and hold out good inspiration for the farmers, particularly of the district cowprised lu the corn belt. The weekly bulletins Issued by the weather bureau will be carefully scanned by people in every walk of life because they realize as never before the fact that the entire fabric of our pros- perity is bullt up on the foundation stones of agricultural products. Good crops mean brisk business in every line of trade and industry. If the office of the supervising archi- tect of the treasury intercepts 10 per cent of the amount carried by the ap- propriation for new public buildings just passed by the house it will absorb more than $1,000,000 under that one act. No wonder the work on our public build- ings goes slow. It takes time to get rid of such enormous architects' fees with- out exciting too much notice, e—— Our amiable pepocratic contemporary has unearthed a democrat who refuses to take an office to which he has been elected. It should at once close with him for an exhibition engagement. “The only democrat who ever refused an office” ought to be a drawing card worth money to the box office and a rake-off for the kitty. Em— The 8t. Louls world’'s falr managers are sald to have finally reached the point where they will take officlal ac- tion looking to the postponement of their exposition for a year. Everybody knows that the exposition must be postponed, 80 they may as well face the muslc first as last and have their letterheads desigued anew. —— They Hold the Purse Strings. Buffale Express. Congress is very impartial in sending out the speeches of members of ‘both parties for campaign purposes, but why should the government pay the cost of this aistribu- tion? —_— The Way of the World, Saturday Evening Post. “So Httle done, 80 much to do," sald Cecil Rhodes before he died. Others have said the same thing differently. Others will say it again. It is theé fact that there is al- 0 much to do that makes life worth Squaring the Accounts. Washington Post. The financiers on the other side are some- what alarmed over the operations of John Plerpont Morgan. But the man is merely trying to get back some of the money the plal s, flddlers and grand opera stars come over and take from us every year. pers. Boston Transcript. ‘What's the matter with our senators? Tillman and McLaurin were disciplined for scrapping; Money has been arrested on the charge of using knife too freely, and Clark for driving his automobile faster than the law allows. The lawmakers are making quite = record as lawbreakers. sing Bountiful Crops. 8t. Louls Republic. Warmers of the middle west are not con- gratulating themselves on the present high prices of wheat and corn. The short stock of feed in the country must be re-enforced by bountiful crops during the coming sum- mer if the agricultural interests are to profit by the strong markets. On the Burnt Down Deck. New York World. Casablanca Bryan will live in the history of 1902 as the boy who stood on the burnt- down deck “whence all but him had fled.” From far Nebras! prairie slopes to the northeasternmost point in Maine he is the only democrat whose voice ls still raised for the Chicago-Kansas City platform. Pr Give Them Time to Cool O, Chicago Tribune Manifestly the savage inhabitants of Min- danao can do no harm If they are isolated. They bave no navies, no modern weapons. no important commerce. They can De per- mitted to work out thelr own salvation with fear and trembling. The United States can occupy a few of the important towns on the seacoast and let the fnhabit- ants in the interior rage and imagine vain things If they are so disposed. Gradually they will come under the influence of civill- zation and will be softened by aseoclation with white men. It will be a mistake to organize expeditions into the interior to at- tempt to “Wipe out” the people or to intro. duce them ‘foroibly to modes of living they Bo4 care for Dor apprecate. BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE, Scenes and Incidents Observed by Ar on the Spot. Secretary Wilson of the Departrient of Agriculture expresses the opinion that there is but one man in the world who was smart enough to find out through eclentific study what made the difference between tobacco raised in the United States and that raised in Sumatra. This man was a German, who was considered &0 hare- bruined in Germany that he was laughed out of the country. He came here and proved to Secretary Wilson that it was a certain soll and a certain ferment in the tobacco leaf that caused the superfority of the Sumatra tobacco, 80 now they are rals- ing 800 acres of the real Sumatra leaf in Connecticut under canvas. But Japan heard of this wonderful man, offered him $7,000 & year to make discoveries of this sort, and he has left us. This moves Secretary Wil- son to say that Cecil Rhodes' $10,000,000 ®eems almost wasted since men who can delve into the secrets of nature scientifically are wanted by the world now, and not mere delvers In literature, history, languages and easy things. What the younger gen- eration should want and struggle after s to fit themselves to earn $7.000 a year. If it is worth $7,000 a year to be able to tell how many crystals there are in an ounce of sugar or some such thing as that, In- stead of how many persons periehed in the first or second Punic war, there are num- berless young men who are going after that. It pays better, it appears, to under- stand the true inwardness and outwardness of electrolysis than to kmow who Mithri- dates was. Storing the mind with facts doesn’t seem to store the pockets with an equal bulgingnees unless they are sclentific facts. Bo, if there are any more $10,000,000 to glve away, let them go to some echool of sclence. Congressman Henry C. Smith of Michigan occasionally brightens his speeches with snatches of song. The other day he said the Cuban reciprocity bill reminded him of the following, which was duly printed in the Congressional Record: Sich a I’ feller, en he eettin’ up so wise! Bay he like his’daddy, but he got his mammy's eyes; Angel tuk and drap him fum a window in de skies— By-bye, honey, twell de mawnin'. 8ich a W' feller, in the cunnin’es’ er close! Say he love his' daddy, but his mammy's what he knows! Foun' him in de springtime, and dey tuk him fer a rose— By-bye, honey, twell de mawnin'. Bich a I’ feller, en he talkin' like a man! By-bye, by-bye 'kise yo' II'’' han' Lots er 11" chillun in"de sleepy lan'— By-bye, honey, twell de mawnin’, “Here are two pennfes just turned in to the superintendent of delivery by one of the carrlers,” remarked an official of the Washington city postofice to a Star reporter. “The amount of cash gathered up by the cpllectors ot mall is really sur- prising. Hardly & day passes without a certain percentage of the coin of the realm finding s way to my desk through the medium of the street letter boxes. “It is hard to believe, but hundreds of persons every day in the year drop unstamped letters in the box with pennies to accompany them to cover the postage. They think the money will do just as well as stamps. But they are mistaken. All such unstamped letters, if there is no identifylng mark on the envelope, ulti- mately land in the dead letter office. “It often happens,” added the postal official, “that coins placed In envelopes for transmission work their way through the paper. In nine cases out of tem, even when the money 18 no more than a dime, this office is notified of the occurrence by the loser, who requests that he be reim- bursed.” Last week, reports the Washington Post, the apeaker of the house was officially in- formed that Danlel Lewls of Fort Leaven- worth had accidentally broken the tongue of his wagon and that the government owed him $3. This was occasioned by an unmanageable government team of six strenuous mules. Congress is looking into the matter. It required a great expanse of manuscript to convey this intelligence and when a printer in the government printing office had consumed $2 or $3 worth of time in putting all of the etory into type, locking it into forms and making it ready for the press there were four pages of ordinary book form, winding up with a paragraph afdavit, which ends: *“And further deponent sayeth not. Lewis (his x mark).” Elihu Root, &s secretary of war, signed the communication, to which was prefixed tourteen military endorsements. Three were made at Fort Leavenworth by the adjutant of the Fourth cavalry, the quar- termaster of the same and the captain of the corps of engineers commanding. Two were made at department headquarters in Missouri by the chief quartermaster and the brigadier gemeral commanding. The sev- enthly and the eighthly were made in Washington by the assistant adjutant gen- eral and the deputy quartermaster general. Back to Omaha the request of Dan Lewls, for $3 for the broken wagon forwarded. There it received another endorsement and then three more endorsements were put on at Fort Leaven- worth. Again Omaha added an endorse- ment and the string of red tape ended as the document traveled on to Washington, with the endorsement by Quartermaster General Ludington. In the fullness of time Dan Lewis' name will be embalmed in one of the big books that will be known to future generations as *House Doc Daniel The only instance {n the memory of the oldest capitol employe on any person com- mitting sulcide by leaping from the dome, says the Washington Star, is that of a young man who was studying for the priesthood, and who took the fatal leap about thirty years ago. His mind had been weakened by overstudy and his friends had kept a close watch over his movements. On the day in question he eluded their vigllance and climbed to the top of the capitol dome. When first seen he had mounted the ralling and was walking around. Upon reaching that portion imme- diately above the east front of the capitol be halted for a few moments and then sprang ioto the alr. The knees of the unfortunate man struck first, with such torce that they made deep indentations in the thick copper sheathing. These in- dcntations remain today and are pointed out to visitors by the capitol guides as they relate the detalls of the tragedy in midatr Senator Morgan is 75 years old. Thurs- day last he stood on his feet for five hours and read 30,000 words of a Nicaragua canal speech and was as fresh as a daisy when he bad finished. Everybody left the cham- ber, but Senator Morgan ambled along con- tentedly and probably didn't know or care whether one semator or fifty listened (o him. President Frye escaped early. He called Senator Scott to the chair. Senator Scott kept awake as long as he could and then took @ nap. Semator Kittridge wi present most of the time, because he ls going to make & speech in reply to Morgan. Once he rose to make an inquiry. Senator Bcott slept pf ully. “Change cars,” sald the resding clerk Senator Scott awoke with' a start ‘mnd answered the question and Senator Morgan weat oo and on and on. " ‘Makes Clean Bread With Royal Baking Powder there is no mixing with the hands, no sweat of the brow, Perfect cleanliness, greatest facility, sweet, clean, healthful food. yal Baker sny Pastry containing over 8o practical and valuable i BOVAL BAKING POwSRA CO., 190 MLLIN OT.. REW COST OF MODERN WAR. Great Britain's Military Borrowiugs Much Larger Than in 1812, New York Evening Post. 8o far as government borrowings are an indication, the annual cost of the Boer war to Great Britain has been nearly doubla that of the wars against Napoleon 100 years ago. In the perfod of 1792-1802, when England was fighting Incessantly in almost every corner of the globe and was in ad- ditlon subsidizing half a dozen continental states, the principal of the British debt increased £297,980,587—an average annual increase of £20,789,000. Between 1802 and 1815, a period which covered the Spanish campalgn, the American war and Water- loo, the debt {ncraased £323,386,041—an annual average of £24,875,000. Loans ralsed by the exchequer during the two years following the Boer war outbreak in October, 1899, foot up £114,000,000. They Include the £30,000,000 war loan of 1800 and two Issues of £13,000,000 exchequer bonds in the same year, £60,000,000 consols in 1901 and £11,000,000 exchequer bonds. ‘The above list does not include the tempo- rary treasury bills issued in 1899 and 1900 or the £14,413,000 of the same bills {ssued after the consols.loan of 1901 and still out- standing. Neither does the above 1ist in- clude loans {ssued by the exchequer for other than war purpos It will appear, therefore, that, disregard- ing the amount ralsed by increased taxa- tion In this war or in the Napoleonic con- test, the Boer war has cost the British government an average of £57,000,000 per annum in loans, against an average annual cost of £24,800,000 to £29,900,600 per annum in the Napoleonic contest. The much greater cost of supplles, am- munition, transportation and equipment as compared with 1802, and the fact that there have been and are still more British sol- diers under arms in South Africa than were commanded by Wellington fn 1815, sufficlently account for the heavier outlay. It must, however, be remembered that the British war loans of the Napoleonic period were {ssued at very heavy discounts, being put out at prices as low as 60 and with interest as high as 6 per cent, whereas the lowest price of the recent loans has been 94% for a 2% per cent loan. PERSONAL NOTES. Paul Revere's house in Boston, from which he started on his famous ride, is now an Italian bank. Ex-Governor Morrill's apple orchard in Kaosas now contalns over 64,000 trees, and is sald to be the largest single apple orchard in the world. Eight thousand trees have been set out this spring. Senator Ben Tillman, in denying that he possesses “‘unexplained wealth,” says he has had a note for $4,000 in a certain bank for four years past, which bas been renewed four ttmes on account of his inability to pay it Thomas Brackett Reed always had a well-fed look, of course, but nowadays he wears A well-groomed air of comfortable prosperity such as he never could boast while in congress. When he visits Wash- ington he puts up at the best hotel, which involves greater expense than he could have met in the old days. The ex-speaker Alum is wsed in some baki; in most of the so-<called ders. because it is cheap, cheaper powder. But alum ison which, taken in food, lo~aly upon the stomach, liver and powders and is sald to wonder why he remained in public life so long. . Jacob A. Rils of New York advocates the opening of public schools in great cities on Sundaye. Lectures and entertalnments should be given to keep the boys from the evils of tenement house life and the all- alluring glitter of the saloons. Somewhere about a hundred members of congress are base ball cranks of deep or shallow dye and over half of them were at the opening game of the season in Wash ington. The home team won and the states- men returned in the evening hoarse, but happy. Robert M. McWade, United States consul at Canton, China, has charge of the wel- tare of Americans in a territory vaster, perhaps, than that of any other consul in the world. It comprises 170,000 square miles, and a population of 86,000,000 human belngs. AIPY TRIFLES. Boston Post: “Is this milk sterilized?” asked the cranky husband, * “No," replied his wife, “but it's water- cured.” Chicago Tribune: “Talking through your hat” is slang. “Laughing in your sleeve” is idlom! Cleveland Plain Dealer: “A Connecticiit man 15 sald to have been drunk twice a day for three years.' “'Bay, he must have a remarkably quick recovery.’ Somerville Journal: It i no sign that a rl doesn't love her dog just because she ooks down at him and says enthusi- astically: “Oh, Ni you would make a lovely mat!" Hewitt—Well, a dumb man has Judge i he doesn’t have to bite his one advantage; iip to keep from speaking Jewett—No; all he has to do is to put his hands in' his pocket Philadelphia Press: ‘“‘Merchant has a most_remarkable twpewriter girl.” “What's so remarkable about her?" “Why, she doesn't carry one of the ‘Duchess’ novels to the office with her to read between whiles.” Detrolt Free Pr g0od deal of money “Not a saving grace, “Grace spends a then." Chicago Tribune: “Johnny, what is cen- tral_time?' “Central time, ma'am, telephone girl Keeps v gits ready to say ‘hel the time the aitin’ while she Baltimore America It says In the paper,” remarked Mrs. Fadoogus, “that the man who invented the steam calllope has Just died."” & asked Mr. Fadoogus. “I at 807" he had been lynched long ago.” TRANSLATED. Is thi thought (In Memory of J. Sterling Morton.) He has not ceased to be; nay, dry your tears. Ye should not sorrow that the morn ap- pears. Ye wm;ld not grieve because the flowers unfol And grasses spring from out the dewy mold Changed he is, but lost he eannot be. Though him no more our darkened eyes may see, As fades the'bird into the llquid blue, And still exists, he keeps his pathway, too, His feet Be comforted. bave found the way Out of carth's treach'rous eoil, the mire and clay, His lonely, faithful heart, 8o true and tried, Has found its Love upon the other sid ISABEL RICHEY. Plattsmouth, April 25, SAILOR SUITS. 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