Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 2, 1902, Page 6

‘ f ; i ) ! ~wmt the coronation, the peace negotiators ‘ THE OMAHA DALY BEE E. ROSBEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EV TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally Bee (without Bunday), One Year. Daily Bee and Sunday, Ons ¥ llustrated Bee, One Year nday Bee, One Year Saturday Bee, One Year..... Twentleth Century Farmer, DELIVERED BY CARRIER afly Bee (without Bunday), per cop; fly Bee (without Bunday), per week. .1 aily Bee (Including Sunday), per week.1ic unday Bee, per copy 3 S0l vening Bee (without Sunday), p Evening Bee (Including Sunday) week 1 ¢ Complaints of irregularitie: hould be addressed to City jepartment OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Building. Bouth Omaha—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M_streets. Council Blufts—0 Pearl Street Chicago—1640 Unity Bullding New York--Temple Court Washington—01 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to editorial ter should be Omaha Bee, Editorial D_;Jrarlmrnl BUSINESS LETTERS Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha REMITTANCES Remit by draft, express or postal order, ayable to The Bee Publishing Company, -cent stamps accepted in_payment of accounty Personal checks, except on maha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPA | = STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. {Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, se.t | pOtorge B Taschuok, scretary of he Bes | Publishing Company, being duly sworn, that the aotual number of full and complete coples of The Dally, orning, |Evening_and Bunday Bee printed during ‘the month of April, 1902, was as follows: 1. 20,560 3 20,630 20,530 20,510 20,600 .. 20,720 20,510 i Clrculation news and addressed: BOML Nt . 6,945 Less unsold and returned coples... 10{107 Net total sales. Net dally average A 29 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 3th day of April, A. D. (Seal.) M. B, HUNGATE, Notary Public, Lo} The Bryanites were most conspicuous by their absence at the funeral of J. Bterling Morton. Ep——— That Douglas county fair is a good thing—for the promoters who manage to keep on the inside. The month of April has passed off the calendar without making good its tacit promise of April showers, —— Queen Wilhelmina's convalescence can not progress too fast for her well wishers all the world over. Peseutciin The festive billboard is only waiting 'or the next high wind to give another exhibition at playing high jinks. i—— Those May day strikes may yet give the Civic federation arbitrators a chance to engage their pacification talents. ‘With the approaching session of the United States grand jury Omaha may confidently look forward to another in- ‘cursion of aboriginal Omahas. It may be cheaper to move than to pay reut, but in Omaha the difficulty In finding suitable dwellings to move into ‘puts an embargo on moving in general. It now looks very much as if there avould be no land-lease legislation dur- ing the present session of congress BRITISH APPREHENSION. “The public alarm here i acute,” says a London dispatch referring to the At- lantic shipping combine, The appre- hension felt in England regarding the possible effect upon the British ship- ping Interest of the transatlantic steamship merger is manifest In the attention which is being given to the matter in Parllament. There is a gen- eral expression of fear that it will en- danger the supremacy of Great Britain on the seas and also Injuriously affect her naval power by withdrawing ships now available for naval service in the event of war. Recent advices state that the bellef prevails in and out of Parliament that if the steamship com- bine continues on the lines along which it seems to have been organized, the British flag Is unlikely to be long re- talned by the ships now carrying it. It is remarked as an amazing thing about the present agitation that the whole matter has been in the alr for more than a year, yet Englishmen are just awake to thelr fancied danger. That they are now very much aroused is evident, but it i8 not so apparent what can be done to remedy the situa- tion. If the government has falled to take precautions against the transfer of subsidized steamers to the American flag, it is probably too late now to do anything for preventing this, for un- doubtedly the question of the right of the companles owning the subsidized ships to transfer them has been care- fully considered by the promoters of the combiuation. Meanwhile the alarm of the British may have less substantial ground than they assume, It is by no means certain that the British Atlantic lines are to be transferred to the Ameri- can fag, which would necessitate their having an American register, or even that they will be under American domi- nation, but simply that they will be a party to the “community of interest” plan, which contemplates the making and maintenance of rates that will be profituble to the combination. How- ever, it 18 possible that the agitation over the matter In England may have some good resuits and if it shall have no other effect than to put a check upon| this scheme of monopoly, which in spite of the claims of its promoters cannot be to the advantage of commerce, it will have done a very useful service. — RAISING THE COUNTY ASSESSMENTS. The proposition of Commissioner Os- trom to raise the assessment on all prop- erty listed above $3,000 by 16 per cent for county and state taxation wauld in the main be unobjectionable providing that the county tax levy is lowered cor- respondingly, It is doubtful, however, whether the county board would be Justified under the law to make a sweep- ing Increase In the assessment of all taxpayers whose property 18 listed above $3,000 while leaving the assessment of all property listed below $3,000 at the valuation fixed by the assessors, or prop- erty owners. The constitution of Nebraska and the revenue laws of this state do not con- template any discrimination against or partiality in favor of any class of tax- payers. If it is just to raise all property assessed above $3,000 it would be equally just to raise all property as- sessed above $2,500, or $2,000, or $1,500, or §1,000. As a matter of fact few homes of wage workers are listed by the assessor above $1,000. This also ap- plies to farms and farming lands. In Douglas county the bulk of all taxation falls upon the owners of city property. The owners of farms and farming lands have no grounds for complaint. In fact, taxes on farm lands in Douglas founty either in the shape of the Bowersock Dill or the Lacey bill. Ak-Sar-Ben's hustling committee s mbout to start out on its rounds. Pa- triotic Omahans should hustle to get 4nto the royal circle without walting to e bustled in by the hustlers. Andrew Carnegle h sailed for Europe, and towns looking for public Mbraries should take notice that let- gers addressed to him during his sojourn mbroad will require 5-cent postage. Boer leaders will confer among them- #elves on terms offered by the British, May 15. If the scheme Is to proclaim ‘the empire at peace with all the world will have to do thelr work expeditiously dn the time intervening. Republicans of Douglas county are mrgently and earnestly requested by the World-Herald to send a delegation to ghe coming state convention in the in- gerest of James H. Van Dusen as candi- date for governor. What has Van Dusen done to the Bryanites that he should thus be singled out for high honors by the Bryanite organ? The Georgla anti-trust law has been declared uncoustitutional by the su- preme court of that state. It goes with- out saying that the bench In Georgla s occupled by democratic judges, oth- erwise we should have the occasion selzed at once by the democratic yellow Journals to denounce the plutocratic gendencies of the courts. If the mew Lincoln postoffice is to be & thing of beauty the plan for the re- wised structure should be left to the warchiteets and not to members of con- gress. It is doubtful, however, whether the present unsightly building can be converted Into a thing of beauty by any process of reconstruction even with the best architectural talent. What the eapital ¢ity ueeds is an entirely new and modern public bullding. r————— s When the Cubans come to take an inventory of all that the United States bhas done for Cuba during the period of occupation, one of the principal items will be the successful campaign waged against unsanitary conditions at are less than those of the adjoining counties, S8arpy, Washington and Dodge. The main question before the county commissioners, acting as a board of equalization, is whether any class of property or individual taxpayer has been favored to the detriment of other taxpayers. The duty of a board of equalization is to equalize. If the ratio of assessment to actual value is 40 per cent, the assessment of all classes of property, real and personal, should be at the same ratlo. If it is 30 per cent, or 20 per cent, the same rule must apply in order to make the tax burden equal for all. A Jjust ground of complaint in this re- gard has heretofore been the rank par- tiality shown to one class of property owners and the failure of the board to take Into consideration 'the value of franchises in the assessment of cor- porate property under the pretext that they did not know how to go about it and could not agree ou any plan by which the value of the franchises could be ascertained. From that perplexing difficulty they have been relleved by the supreme court. It would undoubtedly be advantageous for the county assess- ment to be placed upon the same ratio to actual value that has been adopted by the tax commissioner of Omaha in the assessment of city property. The double standard of taxation has worked injustice and is confusing when invest- ors make inquiries concerning the as- sessed valuation of property offered for sale. The assumption that a material in- crease In the county assessment would correspondingly increase the amount of state taxes levied against Douglas county Is not well grounded. If, for ex- ample, the assessment of Dougl county property was uniformly at 40 per cent, the State Board of Equalization would be in duty bound to lower the tax levied against Douglas county to corre- spond with the ratio of valuation be- tween Douglas county and other coun- ties where valuations are lower. Should the state board refuse to recognize this inequality the power of the courts could be invoked to compel it to do so. The only danger in adopting Commis- gloner Ostrom's plan is that it would foster extravagance and wastefulness in the management of the county's af- Havana by American engineers and bealth officers. These wonderful Im- provements could hardly have been effected under either Spanish rule or independent self-governwent, . .. . Ty — L o P e s S A fairs. An increase in the revenues from taxation would put more money into the county treasury then is actuslly needed for an economic and efficient adminis- _umudthllxulul.nhi«-n councl] as & matter of cony: THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1902 and jobbers of every description would be as numerous and active around the county board as files around a molasses barrel. If the county board decldes to adopt the municipal standard of assess- ment it must set its face firmly against increased expenditure and cut down the county levy to correspond with the in- creased valuation, ANXIOUS FOR CANAL LEGISLATION. President Roosevelt I8 sald to be ex- ceedingly anxious that congress shall act upon the canal question at the pres- eat cession, It being feared that if the aatter goes over untll next session it +ill not be disposed of during the life of this congress. It is understood that the president has no choice between Panama and Nicaragua, but he s very desirous that the canal should be authorized by this congress and the question thus dis- posed of Instead of being allowed to take its chances in a new congress. It has been Intimated that the president might urge action in a special message, but the disposition of republican leaders In the senate to accept his view seems to render unnecessary any special ap- peal to congress. Certainly the republicans in either house ought to see the expediency of disposing of this question during the life of the present congress, since should the succeeding house of representatives be democratic there would be doubt that any positive action would be taken for another two years. It is pointed out that while as a rule the southern states favor the comstruction of an {sthmlan canal, diversion would be easily caused by party opposition to the Philippine policy. Congress I8 in posses- slon of all the Information necessary to enable it to determine the matter. There Is nothing more to be learned as to the relative merits of the routes. Everything relating to them is most fully presented In the report of the Isthmian Canal commission. The terms and conditions upon which concesslons can be obtalned for the respective routes are also known. Both routes are practicable. Each has some distinctive advantage, but either would serve the purposes for which an interoceanic canal 18 necessary. Preference is largely a question of cost. The commission at first reported in favor of the Nicaragua route, but when the Panama company offered to transfer its property to the United States for what I8 regarded as a reasonable sum and its ability to give a clear title was demonstrated, the commission recommended the Panama route. Un- questionably the Panama canal can be constructed at very much less cost than the Nicaraguan canal,and also in a much shorter time. The engineering difficulties are certainly no greater, if 80 great, in the former than in the latter route. Senator Morgan, in his recent speech on the subject, pointed out the dungers that would menace the Panama canal. They are not more seri- ous than would threaten the Nicaragua canal, as the earthquake in that region a few days ago very strongly sug- gested. The Nicaragua-Costa Rican- Guatemalan is pre-eminently an earth- quake belt. There has been no des- structive earthquake on the Panama fsthmus In more than three centuries. From a commercial point of view there is little cholce between the routes and so far as military considerations are concerned one would be quite as serv- iceable as the other. In the matter of concessions we shall perhaps be able to secure as satisfactory terms from Co- lombia as from Nicaragua and Costa Rica. There appears to be no good reason, therefore, why the canal question should not be determined and disposed of by this congress at the present session. If, however, the matter cannot be de- cided by congress the compromise prop- osition for leaving it to the determina- tion of the president, as provided in the Spooner resolution, should be adopted. THB DEMANDS OF LABOR. The opening of spring is usually marked by more or less labor disturo- ances and this year these are rather more numerous and general than for several years. Strikes affecting a num- ber of trades are reported from many points, the demands of labor being for increase of wages and reduction in hours. Labor employed in the bullding trades s most largely represented in these strikes, bullding operations being very generally on an extensive scale. For a single example, it is stated that in Pittsburg specifications on work that {8 being held up by the labor trouble aggregate $10,000,000. Nearly everywhere the demand for labor in the bullding trades is fully up to the supply and this, with the increase in the cost of living, explains the move- ment of labor to secure better pay and less hours of work per day. The condi- tions appear to be highly favorable to the success of the movement, so far at least as the demand for more wages is concerned, but it may be hoped that workingmen generally will take a con- servative view of their opportunity, for otherwise they might impair the condi- tions that are contributing to the pros- perity of all interests. Judge Baxter's ruling that unregis- tered voters must be certified by two resident freeholders of the precinct In which the voter resides is doubtless in strict conformity with the law. Under the statute the establishment of voting precincts is vested in the Board of County Commissioners for county and state elections and the precinct bounda- ries cannot be changed except under certain prescribed restrictions. In Doug- las county the precinct boundaries within the city of Omaha have been fixed to correspond with the respective ward boundaries. No other division has ever been made by the county and none can legally exist within the city of Omaha until such change has been made by the county. The subdivision of wards ioto voting districts has been made by ordinance by the yor and and Live Nebraska Towns Chadron —A Center of Commaerce. Chadron, a city of 2,500 inhabitants, the seat of government of Dawes county, is lo- cated 444 miles from Omaha, in the north- western part of the state, and 65 miles south of Hot Springs, 8. D., the popular health resort. Situated in the White river valley and bounded on the east, south and west by the famous Pine Ridge—once the happy hunting grounds of Chief Red Cloud and his tribe, the situation is unique and beautiful. The ridge of hills rising to a height of 800 feet, covered with pine and cedar, are always verdant and abounding in springs of clear water, and from this source the city owns and controls one of the most perfect and complete systems of gravity water works to be found anywhere, the supply being inexhaustible. In 1885 the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missourl Valley rail- road located its shops and established its division offices here, making this the ter- minus of the Long Pine, Black Hills and Wyoming divisions, and now employ about 300 men, most of whom own and occupy homes in Chadron and share in a payroll of $20,000 to $30,000 each month. The city does a large mercantile busi- ness, some of the stores carrying stock valued at from $30,000 to $40,000. All lines of business are well represented by up-to- date merchants, and & good market is had, this being the center of a vast stock-ralsing region. We have two banks, doing a very satisfactory business and carrying large deposite of the surplus money of our ranch- men. We have a roller patent flouring mill which gives us a home market for our wheat; an electric light plant, a complete telephone system connecting us with the neighboring towns and many of the ranches in the “sand hills country;” two newspas pers, the Chadron Journal and Chadronian; @ $40,000 courthouse, and the best hotel accommodations of any city in the morth- west, and many other enterprises, but that of which we are most proud and of which every Chadronian is wont to boast is our schools, In our public schools we have about 500 students enrolled, and it was this school in competition with all the schools of Ne- braska, which took second honors at the Transm'ssissippi exposition. Our publie school is under the eficient management of Prof. W. C. Phipps, and an able corps of assistants, and s at home in a eub- stantial brick bullding. We also have lo- cated just south of the city on a beautiful elevation the “Chadron academy,” ably pre- slded over by Prof. L. M. Oberkotter as principal and a complete corps of teachers. This, without doubt, is one of the very best institutions of this kind in the state, and the only Institution of higher education in the northwestern country. The ourricu- lum embraces all branches usually taught in & preparatory school, and diplomas admit to any college in the state without exami- nation, and also Includes a school of music under the management of Miss Myrtle Lashey. We have six churches supporting pastors and a rallroad Young Men's Chris- tian assoctation, with a large membership. We bave also the usual number of lodges and clubs of all kinds. Chadron from a treeless plain a few years since, has grown to be a city of beautiful homes, inhabited by progressive, cultured and contented people. The prin- cipal industry of this county is stock rais- ing, and all who have engaged in this busl nees have been rewarded far beyond their expectations. A limited amount of farming in conjunction with stock raising has also been a success and the opportunities of those who desire to come are no less today than they have been at any time In the past. W. H. REYNOLDS. while these subdivisions have been recognized in county elections, they have never been legally designated as voting precinets in the sense which the law contemplates. If they actually were precincts, then there would have to be precinct assessors for each and such other precinct officers as might be re- quired. The law allows precincts to is- sue bonds, but no one would contend that the ward subdivisions created by ordinance could legally vote bond {ssues. A strict application of the letter of the law to the swearing in of votes would doubtléss ‘bar voters who failed to se- cure sworn vouchers from resident free- holders of the precinct, which in the city of Omaha means any resident free- holder of the territory embraced within the ward boundaries. As a reminder of the cruelty for- merly practiced in transporting live stock by rail the imposition over in Chl- cago of a stiff fine upon a railroad com- pany for keeping cattle in its custody 108 hours without water should serve a good purpose. Fortunately such exam- ples of barbarism are no longer fre- quent, but on the contrary every care 18 taken to provide reasonable comfort for animals in transit not only out of humane motives, but for the preserva- tion of the value of the stock. That still further improvements in the accommo- dations furnished live stock shippers are to be had may safely be counted on, but in the interval the enforcement of the laws requiring feeding and watering in transit alone will prevent a lapse to old practices of neglect and maltreat- ment. E—— The government s taking vigorous measures to prevent the spread of cholera in the Philippines in protection both of our military forces and the native Inhabitants. With quarantive established against Hong Kong K and other Infected ports, the determination of the authorities to take every precau- tion is not to be questioned. If Amerl- can rule in these Islands can check the ravages of diseases that from time im- memorial have regularly swept orlental communities, something will be ac- complished that would otherwise bhave been left undone probably for genera- tions. ever Touched M Chicago Record-Herald. A London paper scoffs at Secretary Shaw, referring to him as a “shirt-sleeved diplo- mat.” It isn't likely, however, that the secretary will let this cause him to go back to lowa and sit down. Can Philadelphia Record. Canada does not propose to lag in the rear of the procession. A prospectus has already been launched for the formation of & “Dominion Securities company” of for- midable speculative intentions. _— Great Opportunities Neglected, ‘Washington Po An Ohio bookkeeper died the other day and it has been discovered that there is & shortage of $3,000 in his accounts, cover- ing a period of thirteen years. In these days of large undertakings it would be safe to assume that the man died of mortifica- tion. Another Plume oa Our Cady. Cleveland Plain Dealer. The roast beef of old England loses all its flavor now that it is learned that the United States is the greatest beef eating nation in the world. Our per capita of meat consumption is & third larger than that of England, twice as large as France, two and one-half times as great as that of Russia and Ireland, and eix times as much as Italy. Plea for Pigeon Life. Indlanapolis News. The bird killers are in Omaba this week. The man that can kill the most birds, they emerge from a cage, weakened and intimidated by confinement, is to recelve a o iron medal, the symbol of the world's champlonship. Now, if he could only be compelled to wear this medal around his neck all hie life, so that people would know that he is the man that attained the bad eminence in bird killing, the lesson would not be lost. trial Developments. Minneapolts Times. Not only wage earners, but the public at large, will be interested in knowing that within & balf a century the output from our factories has increased in value two and one-third times. In the eame length of time the number of wage earners was mul- tiplied by five and one-half and the wages by ten. The most rapld rate of increase, both in the number of workmen, In wages, in product and in value thereof, was during the decade of 1880-1890. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropolis. A whaling good story was brought to New York recently by eight forlorn saflormen from the {ll-fated New Bedford whaler Kathleen. It is a wondroue tale of the sea such as would make the eyes of Jules Verne and Clark Russell bulge with envy and put the hair of the small boy siraight on end. The wrecked seamen told of the sinking of the 195-ton Kathleen after fifty-elght years of sea service by the crazy plunge of of monster bull whale. To the eastward of the Windward islands a school of whales was sighted. Captaln Jenkins sent away the four whaleboats at once. The mate harpooned and lanced a big cow not half a mile from the bark. He was the first to bring his catch in. The cow was towed to the port side of Kathleen and the tackle wae passed under the carcass. The cap- tain sighted a tremendous bull whale within & quarter of a mile on the starboard quar- ter. It was by all odds the biggest whale he had ever seen. ‘“Hey, there, mate,”” he shouted, *you take your men and go after that bull over there.” The mate and his men tumbled down Into their boat and bent thelr backs to the oars. The uneuspiclous leviathan met them halt way. Deviara plunged the barpoon into the big fish's back. The bull sounded at once. Apparently his first rush did not take him very far, for while the men were still reeling off more line for him, thinking that the slackening ot the line was merely temporary, he rose di- rectly ahead of them and began to thrash the water. They had hardly gathered in the slack when the monster started off along © eurface of the water. He went fast. The harpoon line was reeled off with a Whirr. The friction over the bow set fire to the gunwale and it blazed up twice, only to be doused out by one of the men. The whale was making dead for Kath- leen. Deviara got out his hatchet, ready to cut the line when the big fish dived under the vessel's keel. But the bull did mot dive. He rushed right on and struck the bark amidehips on its port sid The stout timbers were crushed in as a berry box s crushed when you kick ft. The whale sunk like a plummet as soon as he struck the ehip. The boat's crew cut the rope just in time to save themselves. Mate Deviara called on his men to pult The Heaviest Hair on Record Absalom’s. Every year he polled his head, and the weight of his hair was 6 1-6 pounds. We can’t promise you any such hair as this; yet you know the familiar saying, “Ayer’s HairsVigordmakes » the hair grow.” It also stops falling of the hair, and restores color to gray hair, all the dark, rich color. “My hair was coming out very badly and was turning Y"J 'wo bottles of Ayer's Hair \A;fl stopped the alling and completely restored the color.” Mzs. M. D. Gray, North Salem, Mass, $1.00. AN druggists. J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass. PERSONAL NOTES, social episodes. All his characterizations | were clean, always telling in effect, how- It General Smith's ears are not red hot | ever slight in materials, and his admirers these days there s nothing in the old | Bfew from year to year as long as he had saying. the physical strength to entertain them, Queen Wilhelmina seems to be picking| Cleveland Leader: The fact which fs up courage and health, to be ready for the | Out of harmony with all the rest is tha: next blow that misfortune deals her. | death camo at less than G4 years of age. The more the detalls of King Edward's | SUch & man ought to have been hale and coronation are revealed the more it ap- | DeArty at 80. His life could not have pears that his majesty Intends to be what | 188ted too long to suit his fellow country- 1s vulgariy called “the whole show.” men. Fifty years of contlnuous work on Walter MacE: B if | the stage would only have multiplied the cEwen, the American painter, | y,e of admirers to whom he brought pure residing in Parls, has been awarded one and wholosome pleasures. hard for the bark, which was settling rap- idly. They came alongside in plenty of time to save those aboard. Within a moment after the blow struck by the whale the cap- tain had set all hands to dragging bread ;:d water up to the deck, whence it could conveniently thrown int v] - oy y 0 the whate. The ship soon sunk and the entire crew found iteelt in the whaleboats, 950 miles from land. A passing steamer next day rescued them. Bixteen years ago Mrs. Sarah Lockwood of Brooklyn secured a divorce from Fred- erick E. Lockwood on charges which she belleved to be true, and which he ve- hemently denied. They were of a nature to harden her heart against him, and to deaden the affection which she thought had been killed. Mr. Lockwood has spent these years in wandering about the country, never re- maining long in one place, and never with a thought of a second marriage. Mrs, Lockwood gave her life to the care and education of her 2-year-old daughter. Some days ago Mr. Lockwood was asked to call at the ofice of a lawyer in Brook- lyn. He did so, and was told that his wite had found that the charges were not true, and that sho had asked his permission to o into court and secure an annullment of the decree. The mother and daughter of 18 were in the court room when the father came in. The judge In & few words swept the decree from the books, and the twain were agaln husband and wife. Then the daughter threw her arms about her father and wept, and three happy people left the court room together. “Those who fall to see New York at lea: once in the early days of spring,” writes a correspondent, “are losing something ot pleasure in sight and feeling that would do them good. One never realizes how much there is here of greenery until he sees it unfolding on every side. The impression of many s that the city is practically treelees. They would revise that opinon in sight of the big parks and the little nooks and corners where nature has still her own way. As for the grass—there are acres of it. As for the waters—they never were clearer or brighter in the sun. for the air—it Is never again so pure. even the people look happy.” Meyer Guggenheim of New York City, who gave $60,000 to the Jewish hospital in Philadelphia, has & family of sons who inherit his philanthroplc impulses. Wil- liam Guggenbeim has just given $50,000 to the United Hebrew Charities of New York City for an endowment fund. This is given without any conditions, and he offers to give 350,000 more provided that $250,000 additional is coutributed by friends of the soclety before the end of the year. This would create & total endowment of §350,000. No other charitable organization in New York City has & more extensive field of labor. This field s constantly growing, every year nearly 50,000 Russian Jews ar- rive and fully one in tem requires wssist- ance. —— ‘;.'h,::: ';;‘:“:::nm;;"':m:; ';;"(h:' M‘:fl Chicago Record-Herald: As a mimic of AHAL BOVeMIBEAL | eccentric American characters Mr. Russell ot Why b ¢ yet received thetr | M D0 eaual. He could run tho whole o S "w“‘;‘;n““‘:m“.“':&’ by “' *"\ gamut of vivid description, magnetic pathos ALK SURETSUIAE St A80s." 3 m;:: :”d‘.‘ and dramatic power that made Jobn B, are ot planted pretty seon. thely tailure | GOush the matchless platforny orator of his day. Moreover, he so entered into the tosetow cannot be blamed on the late|,ppeat of his imitation of Mr. Gough that : tears coursed down his cheeks, only to be Citizens of Charleston, §. C., are urging | jighted by that ineffably sweet smile as he that the name of Meeting street, one of the | concluded with & wavo of his long arm: widest and most important streets in their [« thank you, ladles and gentlemen.” And city, be changed to Hampton avenue, in| (o think that we shall never again see that memory of the late General Wade Hamp- | ynjje—Sol Smith Russell's smile—breaking ton. In Columbla, too, there is talk of|,nq gleaming through and rippling over having a Hampton street or avenue. that mock serfous face of shrewd American During Governor Odell's six weeks' trip in | humor. Its quaintness, its surprised fnno- the west New York, for the first time In{ cence, its sweetness dwells with all who its history, will be governed by the speaker | saw it like a benediction. of the assembly. Four weeks after Mr. Odell's departure Lieutenant Governor Woodruff will leave for Europs and for the remalning two weeks Speaker Nixon Philadelphia Press: “‘His musical com- will act as chief executive. positions achieve, .some little popularity, out_not for long. Champ Clark of Missourl astounded the | “That's so; THst thirty-day notes, as it house of representatives a few days ago by | were.' appearing in a dove-colored frock suit Mke | jiqce. wColonel Bridge's dog and mine those occasionally worn by handsome young | had a fight i‘(-mt-\'day. £ men o shows of the “Klorodors® kind. To| .3eY U, ‘clonei Grew first, but shot an inquiry from an amazed fellow member | wg, 5o I lald him up with & bullet In his he replied: ““Oh, I have to wear some- |shouNer.” thing, and it might as well be this."” The “Little Willie— costume was not a success and has disap- o TR g Chicago News: . pa, peared again. PaThey never send In tholr “bills, my” son. AU lcast, that's A TEAR BEHIND THE SMILE. TR} Dovo. Cleveland Plain Deal “Potersen says he's very susceptible to heat “Susceptible! 1 should say he w: he holds the medal for be the to be sunstruck in Chicago Chronicle: There are so few hearty funmakers in this workaday world that none of them can join the great ma- jority without leaving an unfilled place. Everybody who ever saw Sol Smith Ruesell Detrolt Free Press: Miss Kidder—Gun- son just returned from a shooting trip this morning and ho seemad tickled to death. will be one of his mourners. Knocker—Unusual run of luck, eh? Philadelphia Record: The lights are out | , Miss Kidder—Yes; he didn't shoot the and the curtain down; death has claimed e gay Sol Smith Russell after a long battle | Chicago Post: “How nice it would be." with the grisly conqueror. For nearly [Sommented Hoozer —thoughtfully, “if we thirty years he 8o played his part as to|°U'd OnlY skip the day after. make himself a favorite among theater- | Washington Star: “United States sena- goers In every part of the country. His | {9r8 are mighty busy people,” sald Farmer death will be widely deplored. “‘Yes," answered his wife, *“it appears Chicago Post: He was nmever fortunate | jike they was elther makin' or breakin’ enough to produce a play of literary dis- tinction or of high dramatic significance, k Times: Gerald—There's a fool inute. t that rate it won't be long ave a good working majority. but he appeared in nothing that was not wholesome, clean, enjoyable and interest- ing. for many, many delightful hours, and his death will be widely mourned. Kansas City Star: It is more or Jess true of all successful comedians that persons ality counts for about as much as talent or genius. It certainly was true of Mr. Rus- sell. Amorg the characters that actors represent on the stage few appeal so for- cibly to the public as those of genius cast In respectable poverty and taking the frowns of fortune good-naturedly. There has never been another actor on the Ameri- Geraldine betore you We all owe bim a debt of gratitude | 0 L rallroad stock does fluctua odness” how that te. “Yes, {t's a wise railroad knows its own par.” THE LEAFY TREES. stock that James Whitcomb Riley. In the Spring when the green gits back in the trees, And the sun comes out and stays, And your boots pull on with a good tig! squeeze, . And you think of your barefoot days: ‘When you ort to work a ou want to nog And you ind your wife agrees can stage who was so succesaful in repre- | ¢’y time to spade up the garden lot— senting the ‘‘shabby genteel’ as Sol Smith | When the green gits back In the trees— Russell. Well, work fs the least of my idces 3 'hen the green, you know, gits back in St. Louls Globe-Democrat: Sol Smith the trees. Russell will be mourned by millions who When the green gits back in the trees, and tever saw him except bebind the footlights. | “becs s As an actor he touched the springs of | Ts a-buzzin' round agin In that kind of a “lazy-go-as-you-pleas feeling with a true insight, and he dell-| 614 gait they hum round in cately understood the relations of humor| When the ground’s all bald where the hay- and pathos. His acting was comedy of a| , K "O0S., 11; ana the breeso healthful order, not glittering foolery or|(coaxes the bloom n the old dogwood. nonsense. A vein of tenderness marked his | “And the grecn glte back in the trees— . e, 1 say, In uch scenes as these work. 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