Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 8, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, MAY 8§, 1902. E. ROSEWATEK, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. PR ol — ‘ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. {ly Bee (without Sunday), One Year.}4.00 liy Bee ana Buuday, Une Year....... 5.0 :drmm Hee, Une Year..., . Bee, une Year.. turday Mee, Une Year entleth Century kar DELIVERED BY C Iy Bee (without Sunday), per cop; K. 1ic per week.lic ¢ week.lvc per . Complain; irregulant y ] uld pe addressed to Ciw Circulation . Department. OFFICES. Buflding. iau sullding, Twen- Chicago—1tw Unity Building. ew York—Llempie Court. ashingion—wl kourteenth Street, , CORRESPONDENCE. Communications felating to news and mrm matter shouiu be Baaresseu: ha Bee, Iaitorigs ueparument. ,, BUSILNESS Ll sks. Busitess letters and remitiances should d: ‘The Bee Publishing Com- . addresse :ny. Cman: REMITTANCES. Remit by draf: ess or postal order, ble to The wmhnln( Company, 3-ceat s accepted in payment of accounts, Dl checks, except on eastern exchange, not accepted. or. THE BEE PUBLUSHING COMPANY. BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. of Nebraakh, Douglas County, sa.t plcgres B Tasenuc, Sectetary of The Bes m. -0l any, being duly & that mlml.;:(uhl number of fuil an lete copies of The Daily, Morning, an0 sunday Bee priated durlng month of April, 1%K, was as Lollows: t ‘ 10,107 Net total rales, 876,838 | Net dally average .. 20,227 & GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed 1 d Ptore me thia Wih' day ot Avril A D, (Seal.) B, HUNGATE, 1% * Nléury Publle. e ke The oleo bill has proved oleaginous enough to slip through. April, A D. Just | Inside tips from' the supreme court #eem to be more common than ever, The Union Pacific foundry.controversy s now up to_City Attorney Connell. | o With all these doctors of two schools | favading Omaha the city should be able l to present a clean bill of health. H T ‘. That Chicago priest who drowned in . & bath tub must have been practicing the precept that cleanliness is next to Godliness. E—— At dll events, Queen WHhelmina has ‘been laying the foundations for several good sized doctor bills to be presented in due course of time. $ S —— Prescription for Senator Money to use ‘ mext time: Pay the nickel, take a re- celpt from the conductor and trust to the company to refund. SEEEr——r— | President Jiminez of San Domingo is under the distressing necessity of call- ing on some occult astrologer to tell s him whether or not his presidential star is finally set. S ——— Just to prove that the Fourth of July is still on the calendar the keel of the battleship Nebraska will be laid on that day with appropriate ceremonies at Beattle, where jt is bullding. — The annual ravages of Missour! fruit orchards are being reported on schedule 5 time. To keep up the record requires [ that these orchards be completely de- | |B stroyed at least once each season, { The new billboard ordinance gener- {8 ously'exempts political and charity bills 4 from the monopoly it confers on the bill p posters’ trust. The councilmen who are pesponsible for this plece of municipal p- Jegislation ‘can claini both exemptions. | ’ Nebraska's late trust-smashing attor- g mey general lnsists he is a candidate for 3 the nom! for governor at the 3 ds of the fuslon state conventions. On the plan of reciproeity ex-Treasurer Meserve will volunteer to finance his campaign for him. S By the way, what has become of the yellow shriéks about the Im- pending epi that was to rise out of a contaminated , wwater supply and sweep over Omaha ‘with deadly trall? Are the yellow fakes 7o soon forgot? The World- _ thousands of miles away. But the battle is over it will ralse its voice horvor or say “I told you so.” E————— ] \n\m p Few people realize the colossal costli- of the judiclal system tmposed on ;ukl for which the taxpayers must constantly foot the bills. The money wasted aonually in Douglas county ~ mlone for needless jury and witness fees * and other court expenses would more pay the Interest on the eutire e of contaglous disease remains as mum &8 an oyster just now on the subject of city taxation and rallroad assessment, | keeplng up a steady fire on targets €3 AS TO RAILROAD ASSESSMENT. Representatives of every rallroad in Nebraska have entered remonstrance with the State Board of Equalization against any Increase of the valuation of the propertles of their respective ronds for taxation purposes. In making these appeals the rallroad attorneys are slmply discharging what they belleve to be a duty they owe to their employ- ers In order to earn their salaries. With the tangible proofs of the marked improvement of the roadways and Increased equipment for which the railroads of Nebraska have within the past three years expended many mil- lions, no intelligent man could be per- suaded that railrond property In Ne- braska has not materially increased in valne and should be correspondingly assessed even regardless of the fact that the roads are more prosperous than ever and are earning more for their owners than they ever have. The only argument advanced by the railroad rep- resentatives against an increase in the raflroad valuations Is that the railroads are already bearing their full propor- tions of the burden of taxation as com- pared with owners of other property. This argument, however, is not borne out by the facts. In the first place, the rallroads of Ne- braska have never borne thelr full shares of the burdens of local taxation. Take, for example, their taxation In Omaha and Douglas county, where their terminal facilities are worth anywhere from $6,000,000 to $10,000,000, while their contribution to the maintenance of local government is a mere bagatelle. Assuming, however, that no diserimi- nation in their favor had been practiced by former boards of equalization, a comparison of relative changes in prop- erty assessments should convince the present board that the railroads have been undervalued and should be ralsed as a matter of justice to other taxpay- ers and as a matter of self-preservation for the state at large. In 1889 the grand assessment roll of Nebraska aggregated $182,763,538, of which $29,5684,221 represented the valua- tion of railroad property. In 1897 the grand assessment roll had shrunk to $165,103,786, of which $25, 501,720 represented rnlqund property. In 1901 the grand assessment roll ag- gregated $174,439,005, of which §26,- 422,732 represented railroad property. It will be noted that the comparative shrinkage in the grand assessment roll as between the years 1889 and 1897 was $17,669,802. Of this $4,022,501 was the shrinkage in raflroad property and $13,- 547,301 the shrinkage in all other classes of property; in a word, while the valua- tlon of railroad property was reduced by nearly 15 per cent, the valuation of all other property was reduced less than 9 per cent. Between 1897, which was low water mark, and 1001 the grand assessment roll has been increased by $9,245,359, of which $861,012 represents the in- crease of the rallroad assessment and $8,304,847 the increase of the valuation of all other property. Reduced to per- centages, the railroad assessment has been Increased since 1897 less than 8% per cent, while the assessment of other property has gone up 7 per cent, or double the per cent of increase of the raiiroad property. Had the proportions of increase been the same the valuation of the railroads for 1001 would have been $27,283,744, which would still have been $2,570,477 below the assessed valuation of the rail- roads for 1000. WIll anyone dare con- tend that the rallroads of Nebraska are worth less today than they were In 18007 WIll anyone contend that they were overassessed in 18907 The most valuable asset of the rall- roads is not, however, the roadbed and rolling stock, depots and machine shops, but their franchises. The Union Pacific railroad, for example, could have been readily duplicated five years ago for $40,000 a mile, and yet the syndicate that purchased the road paid more than $100,000 a mile. Only three days ago James J. Hill made the assertion that the Burlington stock at 200 cents on the dollar was cheap and the stock rep- resents less than one-half of the cap- italization. Although the constitution of Nebraska expressly provides for the assessment of franchises, all state boards have heretofore ignored the fraochises in making assessments and persistently placed railroads on the same footing as lands, eattle and chat- tel property which enjoys no special privileges for levying tribute upon the public. These facts should be kept in mind by the state board in reaching its conclu- sions, The railroads have their special pleaders, buf the people look to the members of the board as thelr rep- resentatives to see that equity and justice prevall in conformity with the letter and spirit of the constitution. CRITICISM OF SECRETARY ROOT. The secretary of war bhas been un- sparingly criticised in connection with the charges of cruelty in the Philip- pines. He has been held to be in large measure responsible for whatever wrongs and abuses have occurred there and also to bave endeavored to conceal them from public knowledge. It is al- leged that he knew of the wrongs and abuses committed by the army long be- fore he was called upon to supply in- formation to the senate committee in- vestigating Philippine conditions and that be took no steps, until forced to do #o0 by the charges being made public, to put a stop to the wrongs. It Is de- clared that murder in the Philippines #ald the Massachusetts senator, “as a man of distinguished ability and high honor, had done his full duty in prob- ing to the bottom charges of cruelty or maladministration made to him. Al be had provided for was that those against whom the charges were made should have fair play. He means to have justice done to officers and men and he will not condemn them until heard.” If the accusations made against Secretary Root are true the pres- ident must share the responsibility and we cannot think that any one will believe Mr. Roosevelt capable of attempting to cover up the alleged atrocities in the Philippines or of shielding any one who may be gullty of such practices. That the president has kept himself fully con- versant with conditions in the Islands is not to be doubted. It is his way and had the secretary of war withheld im- portant information which it was his duty to communicate to the president it is not probable that he would now be has been held a light offense by the War department and that tacitly at freeholders of the ward do in the cabinet. There is, perhaps, no man in public life more in the confi- dence of President Roosevelt than Sena- tor Lodge, and the statement of the senator that the secretary of war had done his full duty in regard to the charges of cruelty and maladministra- tion in the Philippines may confidently be assumed to reflect the view of the president. Becretary Root had the entire con- fidence of President McKinley and in spite of reports to the contrary there is every reason to belleve that he is fully trusted by President Roosevelt. WEAK SPUTS IN THE MARKET. There have been uncovered within the last few days some weak spots in the stock market which should serve as a warning to investors, while at the same time conveying a suggestion of what may happen if the situation should be- come more inflated than at present. While Wall street has apparently re- covered from the flurry incident to the heavy decline in certain speculative stocks and the consequent failure of several brokers for a considerable amount, it {8 by no means certain that all danger is passed. There has been in the past three or four weeks a des- perate effort on the part of cligues and pools to market off upon the public a large volume of industrial and other securitles recently manufactured from the trust and consolidation craze and not as yet distributed beyond the hands of promoters and underwritérs. This attempt at renewed booming has not succeeded, the public baving kept aloof, but the effort will undoubtedly be con- tinued and the lesson of the recent dis- closures is that the public should re- main aloof from securities whose values are established by the speculative syn- dicates. There are powerful financial Interests concerned In the maintenance of confi- dence and these can be depended upon to protect the market in any ordinary emergency. Théy will use their vast power to a certain extent to pre- vent panic or any very serlous disturbance. But there s a dan- ger point in the process of inflation be- yond which these interests might not be able to avert a crash and it is a ques- tion whether that point has not been nearly reached. The lesson of recent developments merits thoughtful consid- eration. p—— CIRCUMVENTING THE LAW. The persistence of insurance agents and book ageuts is proverbial, but they do not hold a candle to raflroad attor- neys and railroad tax agents in their efforts to prevall on assessors and equalizing boards to violate their oaths and ignore the plain letter of the law in the assessment of the property of the corporations that employ them. A fair example is furnished by the efforts made on behalf of the Omaha Bridge and Terminal company to have its prope erty assessed for taxation by the state board on a mfleage basis, although the board has no authority to do so. The law relating to rallroad assessments reads: The president, secretary, superintendent or other principal accounting officer within this state of every raliroad or telegraph company, whether ineorporated by any law of this state or not, when any portion of the property of such railroad or telegraph com- pany i situated in more than one county, shall list and return to the auditor of public accounts for assessment and taxation, etc. The provision that the railroad in order to be assessable by the state board must be situated in more than one county Is clear and unmistakable. All the property of the Bridge and Terminal company in Nebraska is situated in the county of Douglas, and is therefore sub- Ject to assessment and taxation by the local assessors, the same as the property of street railways, and under the statutes all bridge companies are ex- pressly made subject to the same rules of assessment that govern the assess- ment of street rallways. That means that the bridge company is required to pay taxes not only on its tangible prop- erty but also on its franchises, and ex- plains why such desperate efforts were made last year and again this year to have its property listed with the state boerds instead of the local boards. The mere fact that it succeeded in imposing on the state board last year and evad- ing a large part of its local taxes by this means affords no justification for a repetition this year in the face of the law and the late supreme court decision. S It 1s to be doubted whether Major Gardener's popularity with the demo- cratic members of the senate is of the enduring kind. The democrats will be anxious to extol him only so long as they think they can use him to manu- facture political’ capital to be drawn on for their own benefit, Live Nebraska Towns PLATTSMOUTH—Proud of Possessions. Plattsmouth is the capital of Cass county and has about 6,000 Inhabitants. It is the gateway to the great South Platte country. It is situated on the great Missouri river near the mouth of the Platte, assuring grand water privileges. It is on the main line of the great Chi- cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, at a point halfway between Chicago and Den- ver. It is also on the main line of the Mis- eour] Pacific rallroad, between Omaha and St. Louls. It is only thirty minutes by rall from Omaha, the metropolis of the state, and two hours from Lincoln, the capital. Its markets are Chicago, Denver, St. Louls, Ka City and Om: Twenty-four passenger trains leave Plattsmouth dally for the north, south, east and west over the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs, B. & M. and the Missourl Pacific railway. The principal B, & M. railroad machine shops, car shops, storehouses, roumdhouss, etc., west of the Missouri river are main- tained at this point for the use of its sys- tem. It employs many hundreds of hands, disbursing to employes monthly from $40,000 to $45,000. Improvements are constantly being made and additional help employed. It has brick and terra cotta works, cap- ital $30,000, capacity 27,000 brick per day) six clgar factories, employing from four to twenty hands each; a large broom factory, a new $80,000 courthouse, electric light plant, a large steam laundry recently con- structed, $40,000 system of storm water sewerage, one of the finest systems of waterworks In the state, grades of streets established and Main street paved with Siloux Falls granite, and Sixth street with brick. The streeis of the city are lighted by gas and electricity. ‘We have two fine school bulldings and elght ward buildings and an enroliment of 1,347 pupils this year, with twenty-five teachers. The High school department, with its four-year course, fitting graduates for the State university. No belter common schools extant. The following religious denominations all have places of worship In the city: Pres- byterian, Episcopal, Baptist, Methodist, German Presbyterian, Christian, Catholic (two), Colored Baptist, Swedish, German Methodist, 8t. aul Evangelical, First Church of Christ, Sclentist, and owning buildings worth from $1,000 to $15,000. The Parmelee theater is one of the finest in the state. The Hotel Riley cost $75,000 and In point of architectural beauty is among the finest in the state. One dally, one semi-weekly and three weekly papers— republican, democrat and independent. We have the Plattemouth and Nebraska Tele- phone companies, with a network of wires throughout the city and extending out into the county. We have the Plattsmouth Business and Normal college, recently es- tablished here. In addition to the general improvements going on In the city the B. & M. rallroad is now constructing a new $500,000 steel bridge across the Missour! river at this point. and will soon cemmence the construction of a new bridge across the Platte, just north of the city, A pontoon bridge across the Mis- sour{ is also dec¢ided upon, and work will be commenced soon. In addition to these improvements there is a prospect of the construction of a great power canal along the Platte river from the west to this poiat, and in connection therewith a company has been organized to bulld an electric line, with Plattsmouth as the central point, and & survey of the roufte has already been made. Corperations or individuals seeking to establish factories or branches are in- vited to correspond with the Plattsmouth Real Estate exchange. R. B. WINDHAM. Monopolizing the Ranges Portland Oregonlan. Just as it was believed that the fight against the proposal to lease the range lands of the country had been won news comes from Washington that new effort is being made in behalf of that project. Cer- tain large herdowners in the southwest, who operate upon the open ran are back of this new movement. They see clearly that unless, through the lease system or some other device, a fresh hold can be got upon the ranges, their monopoly {s doomed. Set- tlers are moving in upon the southwestern ranges precisely as upon those of easters and central Oregon; they seek, maturally, the cholce watered and sheltered spots, and, not o much by their numbers as by their locations, they are “boxing up” the ranges. Appeal, of course, is mnot made upon this ground, but upon the pretense that under general competition the ranges are being destroyed, and that only under the lease system or some other looking to a llmited use of the ranges, can the value of these lands be preserved. _ There 1s, indeed, something in the clalm that the ranges are suffering from over- grazing, but the conditions are very far from being as serious as the lease pro- mioters have tried to make out, and there is Do assurance that better conditions would follow if the lands were turned over to the leaseholders. In many | cts the bunch- grass which once mone the soll has practically been destfoyed, but there has come up in its place other grasses which many belleve to bé of greater value. The so-called “sheep grass' of eastern and cen- tral Oregon is distinctly a better stock feed than the coarser bunchgrass to whose place on the ranges it has measurably suc- ceeded. It has not some of the important merits of the bunchgrass, vut 1t makes more feed to the acre and is, on the whole, better suited to the present uses of twe range industry than the more famous orig- inal grase. Thie is the universal restimony of stockmen who do not now depend wholly upon the range to carry their herds through the winter season. Experienc® does not support the theory that with the failing of the bunchgtass the ranges be- come worthless, and there are many prac- tical stockman who would not exchange a range upon which the secondary grasses have become established for the best bunchgrass range. / The objections to leasing the ranges are many. First and foremost, it would tend to prevent the settlement of the country. Lands under lease would practically be beyond the reach of the immigrant. This fact is clearly illustrated by current events in this state. In several parts of central Oregon which until just now have been open range country settlers are pouring in and making permanent homes—a thing ‘which manifestly would not have been pos- sible if the lands had been under lease. Again, the lease system would in the very nature of things crowd out the small stock- man and promote the interest of the large owner. The pretense, of course, is other- wise, but nobody who has observed the operation of government land administra- tion can for one moment doubt that the rich man would find ways to get the ad- vantage of the man of small herds and limited means. If this sort of injustice occurs in the apportionment of grazing privileges in the Cascade Mountaln forest reserve, what could be expected in the contest of wits and resources which would follow if the lands were open for entry under a general leasing system? There can be no serious doubt as to what would happen. The small stock owner would be driven to the wall, for the man with large Interests would manage to have the first and best information, and he would find it easy to take up any area he wanted by hirlng “dummies” to represent his in- terest and “hold down locations for him. The only clailm made for the proposed lease eystem is that it would conserve the native grasses, but there is no assurance to this end. On the other hand, it is cer- tain that it would postpone the settlement of the range country; that it would im- mediately injure the range Industry; that it would operate for the advantage of the richer as against the poorer stockman; that it would tend to monopolization of the land. These are reasons emough why the thing should not be dome, R R R I a state that accords women the suf- frage. How can woman suffrage be upheld as a demonstrated success when the amateur outflanks the expert In political maneuvering? Le Roux, the French lecturer, whose assertion that Dreyfus had confessed his gullt to him created a small sensa- tion the other day, now says he never said it. The question now is whether Le Roux speaks unintelligible French or his Interpreter unintelligible English, Oh, Thunder, Brooklyn Eagle. m Thunder, the Winnebago chief, in- that he is not dead. If Tom Thunder would only read the papers he would see how absurd it is to make claims like that. Patriot’s Ui Distinction. Loutsville Courler-Joutnal. And who was Rochambeau, whose statue is to be unvelled in Washington? Fist! ‘Was he not the only figure in the American revolution that has succeeded in keeping out of the “historical” novels? Usual Republican Complexion, 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. This year's surplus for ten months is $65,000,000 and is estimated at $75,000,000 for the twelve months ending June 30. The removal of war taxes will cut off revenue next year to about the amount of this year's surplus, but the treasury holds $185,000,000 in cash beyond the sum reserved for the protection of the currency. The national financial outlook has the usual republicgn characteristics. The Flag in the Philippines. Philadelphia Record (dem.). President Roosevelt has declared that “the flag will stay" in the Philippines. ‘The nation will stand at his back in making the flag stay, but the pation will also de- mand that the flag shall stund for the same thing in all the territories of the United States. The attempt to set up as many different forms of government for as many different lslands as may come into the possession of the republic is doomed to faflure. The flag will stay and free government will be bullt up under its folds wherever it stays. Coming Back to His Own. Indianapolis News. The number of horses ralsed in this country is Increasing an unprecedented rate, and breeders are quoted as coumting confidently on = continued increase of ex- without respect to the Boer war, which is regarded as practically over. With wii our lmprovement in the means and this increases comsumption. The whole mass of mankind comes to & better - dition and bas greater wauls. .? THE RUSH TO AMERICA. Tide of Incoming People Rising Higher a Higher, . New York ‘Times, 8o far the year 1902 has broken the record, of the past decade for immigrants landing at this port. January and February showed & large increase on the figures for the same months last year. This March showed 23,000 more than March, 1901, and during the first two weeks of April there entered 40,000 souls, as agalnst 28,000 in the same fortnight & year ago. For the rest of April the proportions are as large, if not larger, and May bids fair to outdo April. None too soon have the new quarters of the immi- grant palace on Ellls island been made ready. The flood of immigration, which sub- elded & little after the lean years of the '90s, 1s rising to unprecedented heights during the fat years which bear a rotund O auspiclously in the place of thelr penulti- mate numeral. Rules that immigrants must have money in their pouch, that they must be healthy and free from suspicion of crime, have no deterrent effect. The Spanish war, the ad- vance of American manufactures into Burope, the outery of European papers against the American bugbear, and the evi- dence of their own senses, which show them how North America has become the land above all others which feeds Europe, have impressed the dullest and least imaginative. The old bogy of {lliteracy among the fm- igrants has lost much of its former force, since other mations are paying attention to education, although they have not attalned that low percentage of illiterates we find in Scandinavia, Switzerland and northern Germany. BStrange to say, it is this im- provement in popular education which has done much to cause the rush to the land of dollars, since a reading people has the press and cheap mails to ald them in de- ciding where their chances of a livelihood are best. PERSONAL NOTES. President Palma is swinging around the Ouban circle, but refrains from introducing the rear platform speech into his territory. Roy Farrell Greene of Arkansas City, Mo., is one of but few American poets who devote all their time to their art. He is only 28 years of age. Phillp Marting, the sculptor, has just finished the cast for the memorial statue of the late vice president, Garret A. Hobart. The statue may be unveiled on Decoration day. Commenting on the fact that Andrew Carnegle, before sailing for Europe, pro- vided for some more libraries, a New York paper Urreverently says that “Marry Andrew has given another million to the conscience fund.” In the brief period when he is not en- #aged in fixing up billlon-dollar combines Plerpont Morgan occaslonally cracks a joke. H : Stand by the Standard! Price’s Cream Baking Powder is everywhere the acknowledged stand?.rd, the powder of the highest reputation, greatest strength, and absplutcly pure. It renders the food more healthful and palatable, and using it exclusively you are assured against alum and other dan- gerous chemicals from which the low- grade powders are made. Dr. Price’s Baking Powder is sold on its merits only— never by the aid of lotteries, gifts, commissions or other schemes. The entire value of your money comes back to you in baking pow- der-——the purest, most econemical made. Norx.— Alum baking priced, as they cost PRIk Baking PowDEn Co., CHicaao. wders are low t three cents a nd to make. But alum leaves in the read or cake glauber salts, sulphuric acid and hydrate of alumina—all injurie poisonous, ous, the last two admiration for an imported setter. he's a fine dog. His name is Russell Sag “How dld you come to give him that name?’ *“Well, he never loses a scent.” The terolc statue of Charles Sumner, by Miss Anne Whitney, which is to be erected at Cambridge, Mass., has been cast in bronge. It shows Sumner sitting in an arm chair and holding & book in one hand. Miss Whitney is 80 years old. It was expected that during his recent southern trip Presldent Roosevelt would pass through Stallsville, 8. C., and the town got ready to give the best reception in its power. The school children were to sing for him and the whole place was to be fete. But a bad spot in the road forced & change of route and Stallsville was much disappointed. On learning of all this the president sent ‘an autograph letter to the teacher of the school expressing regret at his inabllity to keep to the program. He also sent to the school a large photograph of himself. 0 TEMPORA! 0 MOROS! Minneapolls Journal: The brilliant vie- tory over the Moros will tend to check any tendency there may have been in popu- lar feeling to judge the army rashly and to glve way to an epidemic of maudlin depre- cation of the inevitable rity of a war waged by the order of the people. St. Paul Ploneer Press: The proportion of serious wounds received in the fight with the Moros the other day indicates that the fighting must have been of a desperate na- ture. If there were any correspondents with good descriptive talents present we may look forward to some good reading when the mails bring full accounts of the battle. Chicago Chronicle: All patriotic Ameri- cans, imperfalist or anti-imperialist, will commend the victory of Colonel Baldwin and his men over the treacherous, assassi- nating Moros of Mindanao. It was a gal- lant fight, waged against heavy odds ana bravely won. It shows that the American troops in the Philippines have no need to resort to the “‘water cure’” or t| wughter of children in order to triumph over thetir adversaries. ¢ Kansas City Star: All the world admires herolsm and courage in battle, Even the gentlemen who are opposing govern- ment's Philippine policy must feel thelr hearts warmed toward the United Statee troops who stormed the Moro fort with such precision of rifie fire and gallantry that General Davis wired to General Chaffes that he had ‘“‘never seen or heard of any performance excelling this gallant fight.” Springfleld Republican: The campaign against the Moros in Mindanao seems to be genuine war. General Davis' dispatch announces an important victory in the cap. ture of another Moro fort, which was evi- dently attended by much slaughter. The aumber dead and wounded on. our side reaches nearly fifty. The question now fs whether this heavy blow at the dattos and sultans will bring them to terms or whether the war will go on. General Davis thinks his campaign will be & short one. A SMILE OR TWO. C{gl(‘l‘o Post: “Did he inherit anything?” e8. hat ‘A thirst.” Cleveland Plain Dealer: “Why did you fit up your new ball grounds over here?” “‘Because a judge of the supreme court lives right next door.” Somerville Journal: It is a bad habit for a man to_talk while he is at work, unless, he is an auctioneer, or a lawyer, or & minist Chicago Tribune: ‘We don't allow beg- or canvassers in this buflding,” sald he janitor of the apartment house. “But I've got to see & man on the fifth said the shabby man, pleadingly. “I'm" the owner of the bullding.” Philadelphia Press: Pitts—Curlosity is the besctting sin of most people. Potts—Well, curiosity was responsible for my losing a fot of money last night. tts—How was that? ts—I was curious to see If the other ng. Pot! 1 gfl:&' really held four aces or was only ashingto ‘Do you take any in- d the young woman. Senator Sor- n most cases, get up more en among a crowd of voters than half a dozen stump speeches.” —_— MODERN SURGERY. ‘W. D. Nesbit in Baltimore Amer Old Bill Jones—a Hoosler man— ‘Was bullt on the Hoosler plan— Blood, flesh and brains To give him pains e had. His stomach ached sore from his birth, His lungs would wheeze all they were ‘worth; His heart was slow, And then would go Like mad. Bl Jones saw a doctor man— One 'who worked on modern plan— ‘Who hawed and hummed, And pinched and thumbed nose. Then he got out his knives and saws And carved on Jones without a pause. ““Your stomach’s out!” At lAl-ll. his shout For two weeks Jones was stomachless, And then he told of great distress. His heart, he said, w“OI”u“ like lead, worse. He sought the doctor man agaln, &0t his knives and saws—and then Bill's heart came next, Although it vexed His purse. And after that Bill's Anoth Jones' chest was bare Of all but alr Unbreathed, The doctor next went searching for More things in Bill's in-te-rior, ure's aids All nat; Lett, ere his biades Were sheathed. 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