Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 4, 1902, Page 6

| THE OMAHA DALY BEE BE. ROBEWATER, EDITOR, — PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: nday), One Year.$4. Une Year. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. (without Bunday), per copy.. E (without Sunday), per w.cz..nc e (including Sunday), per week.170 naa; , per copy o Pentng Bee (without Sunday), per week 10 Evening Bee (including BSunaa; 3 ery ed to City Circulation OFFICES. ha—The Bee Bullding. uth Omaha—City HllH’u(ldln‘, Twen- ty-fitth and M streets. g ncil Bluffs—10 Pearl Street, partment 01640 Unity Building. ork—Temple Court. ington—01 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUBINESS LETTERS. Business let! and remittances should be addresaed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, able to The Bee Publishing Company, 2-cent & ps accepted in payment of accounts. ‘ersonal checks, except on aha g eastern exchange, not accepted. EE PUBLISHI HE /G COMPANY. BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, Nbllmn:' g:::huck. fi:-urfl le The Bee any, being duly sworn, says that the lzl\u’l numb‘.\‘ ofyf\lll an c?lfi of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of May, was as follows: 29,690 1. 2EBRIRRREENY Subscribed in my prese befors'me'this st day of Sy, A" . Tuy . B, H GATE, Notary Publle. It Is “unconditional surrender,” with terms covering at least, five typewritten sheets, Just give the train crews a chance and they will show the office men what fast railway time is. By grace of a pardon from his ex- cellency the governor of Kansas, Carrie Nation comes out under the amnesty clause. The political mind readers who always /become busy In Nebraska whenever a campaign approaches are again working overtime. Leaders of the local branch of the American Transvaal league seem to be disappointed that the war has really come to an end. As usual in all big labor strikes, both the miners and the mine owners are winning out hands down—according to the spokesmen of each. France has not yet asked for bids for the Island of Martinique, but no one should be surprised if the for sale ad should be sprung at any minute. There are enough automobile enthusi- asts In Omaha to form an automobile ‘club. But to discover their identity by inspection of the tax lists would be a hopeless job. Members of the school board who are beset by friends of aspiring teachers can imagine what it would be if the per- manent teachers’ list were to be sud- denly abolished. The Chicago riots are to be deplored by every true friend of labor. Labor has nothing to gain and everything to lose by resorting to force in a contest with aggregated capital, m—— Mr. Harriman's effort to colonize the Pacific coast I8 commendable, but a hun- dred thousand colonists could be planted in Nebraska without crowding the other inhabitants uncomfortably. — The most expensive autograph collec- tion known to history has just been gathered by John Bull in the signa- tures appended to the document con- talning the peace terms agreed on with the Boers. Erm——e—— Prospective discoverers of belching volcanoes should take the hint con- talned in recent announcements and plant their. samples of nature’s smoke- stacks in out-of-the-way spots that no one can reach short of weeks and . months. E—— . Bverything indicates that Omaha's population has grown substantially #lnce the census of two years ago, and it the pending school census does not furnish figures to prove it the school census emumerators will be derelict in their dutles. E————— More fire hydrants are needed within city Umits of Qmaha, but it takes money to pay for fire hydrants. As all water fund will be of the NOT READY TO DISBAND. The Lincoln Journal ecredits Benator Millard with a desire to assume the role of peaceimaker between the warring rallrond magnates who are sald to be striving to get the upper hand over one another in the control of the impending republican state convention and the dictation of the candidates for the state offices. According to the Journal, Sena- tor Millard wants the managers of the Unlon Pacific, Elkhorn and Burlington roads to harmonize their differences and Join forces on a community-of-interest plan in the selection of a non-partisan man friendly to all the corporations for governor. Whether Senator Millard has been so indiscreet as to propose such a plan of campalgn is exceedingly doubtful, but the publicity given .to this plece of political gossip Is taken up as a text by the local popocratic organ for an ar- raignment of Nebraska republicans, who are stigmatized as being controlled “body, soul and breeches” by the cor- porations. It Senator Millard has been quoted correctly, he has slmply expressed an individual desire for corporation har- mony that does not reflect the sentl- ment of the rank and file of Nebraska republicans. The republicans of Nebraska will not surrertder their independence in the se- lection of candidates to any of the cor- porations or all of them combined. They have never taken Instructions from thelr representatives at Washing- ton as to candidates or platforms, and, while they may take suggestions, they reserve the right to reject or ratify. They have In the past suffered by cor- poration interference and are not in a frame of mind to harmonize themselves into inevitable disaster on the recom- mendation of anyone. The party In Nebraska is not ready to disband to turn the state over to the corporations. THE REBATE PROPUSITION. A pumber of republican senators are reported to be favorable to the proposi- tion to grant a rebate In Cuban prod- ucts, the amount to he pald into the treasury of the government of Cuba, to be distributed or used as that govern- ment may think best. It is said that the Dietrich plan is well thought of, but will probably be modified. Presi- dent Roosevelt is manifesting .a good deal of anxiety to have something done and there appears to be a chance of something being done, aithough there is no definite assurance of anything. We noted a day or two ago a state- ment by Representative McCall of Mas- sachusetts that the proposed tariff con- cesslon of 20 per cent would give $8,000,- 000 annually. This would be a very handsome sum for the treasury of the new republic and would go far toward solving the problem of providing for the ordinary expenses of the government. It ‘would, if properly used, benefit the whole people, whereas under the bill passed by the house only a small por- tion of the Cuban people would be bene- fited. The American Sugar and To- bacco trusts, there is no doubt, would reap most of the benefit. Evidence pre- sented to congress shows beyond ques- tion that a large amount of Cuban sugar lands is owned by Americans, presumably connected with the trust, ‘whose president has acknowledged that he has purchased lands there. A cor- poration has just been organized for the purpose of controlling the tobacco industry of Cuba. These corporations would be the chief beneficlaries under the operation of the house bill. There is no question that the rebate plan would be more advantageous to Cuba than the other, but there may be a con- stitutional obstacle to its adoption. - TRADE POSSIBILITIES LN SOUTH AFRICA While some foreign journals express the opinion that the work of reconstruc- tion in South Africa will encounter diffi- culties and may therefore be slow, the probability is that the British govern- ment will push it with all possible energy and that it will be aided in this by liberal investments of British capital. The restoration of peace is welcomed in- continental Europe as promising an early revival of commercial relations with Africa, which were impalred or altogether cut off by the war. The Austrian minister of commerce spoke of the satisfaction that would be created by the termination of hostilities because of the benefits to trade and this is the feeling in Germany., It is the bellef that under British rule there will be a rapid development of the Transvaal and there 1s very good reason to think that this will be realized. It is true that British enterprise generally operates slowly and along conservative lines, but in this instance there is an extraordina- rily strong Incentive to vigorous exer- tion and it is not to be doubted that this is realized by the British government and people. The mineral wealth of the Transvaal will draw capital and population to the country and improve- ment in all the facilities of modern ac- tivity will be made as rapidly as possi- ble. The British government, we may be sure, will lose no time, when order shall have been fully restored, in show- ing that its rule means material prog- ress and the steady development of all the resources of its newly acquired ter- ritory. The United States has no little inter- est in the trade possibilities of South Africa. There should be a market there for our manufactures to a considerable amount, particularly the products of iron and steel. In the consular reports of last February the question of our trade relations with Africa was consid- ered and it was stated that the 150, 000,000 people In Africa do not need our bulky graln, nmor our cotton, mnor our animals, either slaughtered or on the boof, but they do need our flour, our cornmeal, our cotton goods, our pre- served meats, boots and shoes, tools, machinery and locomotives. In his communication Consul Strickland said: “Here are railroads being bullt and equipped, millions of natives being clothed and otherwise provided with the fHE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, Appliances of clvilization, wharves, bridges and docks being constructed and electric plants and appliances being introduced, while we are taking no part in the furnishing of all these things.” He pointed out that what is needed is the means of getting our goods to the African market under American control and sald that the welfare of our manu- facturers requires that good lines of steamers under the American flag should be established immediately be- tween the United States and Africa. It may confidently be assumed that American manufacturers will not be blind or indifferent to the opportunity for business which the African market will offer and the time may not be re- mote when they will have the advan- tage of American steamship lines to that market, as well as to the Orient and South America. —rr— THE UREGUN BLECTION. The result of the election in Oregon was a republican victory except as to the governorship, which was lost be- cause of a factlonal fight. The repub- licans elected all the rest of the state ticket by about the usual majority and the two members of congress by in- creased majorities. They also elected a majority of the legislature, While, therefore, the result is not wholly satis- factory from a republican point of view, yet Oregon has declared In favor of republican polities and principles. The loss of the governorship is, of course, to be regretted, but with the circum- stances understood this fact will have no influence in behalf of the policies and principles represented by the suc- cessful candidate for governor. On the contrary the verdict is distinctly and unequivocally an endorsement of repub- lican national policy in all respects. There 18 no good reason, therefore, why the result in Oregon should not have as great an influence in the coun- try at large as if the entire republican ticket had been elected and it is not to be doubted that it will have. It re- flects the attitude of a majority of the people of the Paclfic coast, particularly in regard to the Philippine policy, They belleve it to be the duty of the United States to retain possession of the archi- pelago and to give the Filipinos peace, good government and the benefits of American instruction and protection. The voice of the republicans of Oregon calls to the party generally to stand by its principles and policles and the call will not be in vain. e IN A NUTSHELL. - How many times has Mercer been In Omaha during the past four years? ‘Where did he spend his vacations and at whose expense did he travel?, ‘Would Mercer return to Omaha if he should not be re-elected? Would he not establish his home in ‘Washington and resume the old busi- ness of corporation lobbyist, for which he recelved an early training in Ne- braska? H How much money has Mercer con- tributed to the republican campaign funds in this county and district and how much time has he contributed to promote the election of republican can- didates? Where has Mercer ever been xnown to make a speech in favor of anybody ex- cepting Mercer since he has been in congress, and why bas he always found some excuse for skulking when the bat- tle was raging most flercely? Mercer’s friends generally insist that Mercer has become indispensable. Two years ago Mercer asked for the suffrages of the people on the ground that his long service and speclal acquaintance made him not only invaluable, but in- dispensable. His frlends laild great stress upon the fact that no other man in the district could replace him. The people took Mercer at his word and ex- tended his contract for 'two years longer. On those conditions Mercer was elected. He was in honor bound to serve his time out, but he started to break faith with his constituents almost immedlately after election, and three months before his present term com- menced he was scheming to vacate his seat in congress, if he could be elected senator. How would this district have fared if Mercer had succeeded and left us without a man in the house who had become indispensable? What would bave become of us all if Mercer had succeeded in throwing up his job two years ago, and will he tell us whether Mercer will be any more indispensable for the mext two years than he would have been for the last two years? It Mercer gets a sixth term will that satisfy bim? Will it be the last term or will he insist on a seventh term, on an elghth term and on an indefinite num- ber of terms to follow, until he becomes like the old man of the sea astride the neck of Sinbad the sallor? . b The rallroad attorneys have been granted leave to be heard in the rail- road tax case, but profess to be unde- cided whether to appear as representing the railroads or as friends of the court. It will make no difference under what name they may present themselves— every one knows that they will talk for the rallroads who hire them. If they came in their individual capacities as citizens they would be on the other side, pleading for more just assessment of railroad property in Nebraska that would lighten the tax burden they thew- selves are compelled to bear and which ought to rest on the corporations, with whom they have no common interest in this matter except as they depend on them for thelr salaries, e ] Governor Cummins of Iowa reiterates his position that the great combinations of capital must be restrained and regu- lated by the government in such a way as to protect the public and patrons without throwing away the ecopmomic advantages accrulng from organized prodtction. Governer Cummins Is therefore widely at variance with mer- ger champlons like Mr. Harriman, who fnsists that no legislation should be at- tempted untll requested by those inter- 3 ested In a proprietary way. If the rail- way magnates and trust promoters had first to give the word, no measure limit- Ing thelr arbitrary action would ever find its way on the statute books. Of all the hot alr schemes that have ever been projected, the proposd air line from Omaha to the gulf for the purpose of capturing the trade of Cuba and the Invaslon of Central America by Omaha jobbers is the most visionary and wild-eyed. With Kansas Olty, St. Louis, New Orleans and Galveston so much nearer and with superior facilities for intercepting and bullding up traffic in the tropics, the Omaha airline would prove a bubble. Why should Omaha waste energy on trade exten- slon Into the Caribbean sea so long as it has not fully covered Its natural ter- ritory in Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota? Mayor Moores' firm stand agalnst overdrafts on the water fund will be endorsed by all our taxpaying citizens. What he says agalnst overdrawing that fund applies equally to overdrafts on other funds. Al these funds have been limited by charter provision and, how- ever great the pressure may be, the mayor and council are expected to hold expenditures within appropriations, The quickest way to send the tax rate up next year would be to accumulate a lot of overlaps. . Detroit Free Press. President Palma's salary is to be $25,000 a year and | none too much for & man that had to wait twenty-five years for his Job, Spiking Demucratic Guns. Indianapolls Journal. The reduction of the army 10,790 men will interfere with the platform maker who mpy seek to frighten people with the menace of an increasing standing army, Good Motto to Tie Too. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. Senator Hanna's advice at the Ohlo con- vention was: ‘‘Keep on letting well enough alone.” A proverb to this effect has done g0od service throughout all history, and doubtless before. Knew When to Quit, Philadelphia Record. The wise ex-president of Hayti, Simon Sam, has brought his sheep to ehelter to the figure of $1,600,000. There are few politicians of Simon Sam's class Who know just when to quit. And the Horse is Still There, Kansas City Journal. Edison says he has Invented a storage battery that will throw the horse out of business. ~The bicycle was to throw the horse out of business, and 8o was the auto- mobile, but horses are still earning their feed as usual. Like tho flag, the hors seems to “stay put.” Reconciled to the Inevitable. Philadelphia Ledger. Conservative England has had its shock over the proposition to illuminate St. Paul's cathedral with electric lights, and by an American at that; has calmed down again, and gow accepts the Innovation with undis- gulsed satisfaction, It is easy to predict that Mr. Morgan's gift will do much to reconcile England to what it calls “‘the American invasion.” Lese Majestie. Chicago Chronicle. That entertaining collection known as the United States senate is “talking” of passing the house bill forbidding the sale of liquor in the capitol so as to punish the members of the lower house who catered to the pro- hibitionists by passing the bill. We can fancy the dignified old demijohns doing any- thing of the sort. Never a particularly in- teresting body, the senate without whisky would be a mere intellectual Sahara. IN THE RANGES OF THE DEEP. Reminders of How Little We Know About the Earth, New York Mall and Express. Convulsions within that ridge of earth that ris from the depths of the ocean and presents to the forces of the air and sun those jagged points that are trans- formed into a blooming chaln of islands to inclose the Caribbean sea and the con- temporaneous eruptions and tremors that have been noted elsewhere, are impressive reminders of how little we still know of the 8olid surface of the globe. Our knowl- edge is scanty enough of the exposed sur- face, but two-thirds of the area is swathed in tho restless waters of “old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.” Exploration of those depths is slow and difficult and all our gropings have revealed but little of their secrets, leaving the imagination free to roam over its moun: talos and plains, to penetrate its valleys and gorges and range through its mys- terious caverns, for we know that it has below the waves all the features that char- acterize the earth’'s corrugated crust as it apD above them, varied with growths nourished by the elements of water, as these are varied with the life begotten by light and air. But what impresses us most when the volcano breaks forth or the earthquake rumbles beneath the islands and coa: is the fact that this vast engulfed surface comes nearer to the elemental forces by which the solld earth was shaped and which seem not yet to have finished thelr interior of continents the solid, or those that were volcanic long ages past seem dead beyond resurrection. What changes still go on in the ranges of the deep we cannot tell, but where they project above the surface, eclally in the “broad belt of i where the cooling of the crust been slowest, we are llable to bave startling exhibitions of the unfinished process of creation. The intervals of quiescence, that seem to us so long that we fancy the work may be done, are but moments of time in the goologlc ages. That Moot Pelee slum- bered for fifty years, that ninety years passed in comparative quiet after the erup- tion of St. Vincent's Soufriere and the Cara- iquake, even that centuries go by while some old volcano reposes in peace, is no assurance that the day of convulsions for the earth are over. From within a thin crust the primal heat still slowly radi- ates and unbalances the pressure. Still there may be sinking and uplifting, the breaking and eliding of great masses, the bursting forth of fires and the shaking of regions far apart, for distance counts for little more than time, and rifts and faults may run for thousands of miles in the pro- found depth, to comneet the foundations of the with those of the Alaska JUNE 4, 1902. ROUND ABOUT NEW YOR! Ripples on the Current of Life in the A green goods man named Montgomery, who is booked for a long rest from the cares of business, is convinced that the twentleth century woman is sharper than & row of upturned tacks on a bedroom carpet. He regarded them as tempting game of the “come-on” varlety—a ‘“come- on' belng a person with a bundle of money anxious to exchange it for twice the quan- tity of counterfeit bills. To test his theory he selected & milliner in a Pennsyl- vania town, sent her a charming letter inviting her to invest and promising profits that would make a stock of Easter bon- nets look like remnants at a bargain sale. But the milliner did not embrace the op- portunity. She sent the invitation to the postoffice authorities at Washington, where such documents are gleefully accepted. Presently a letter, ostensibly from the milliner, was received by Montgomery, ask- ing when she should go to New York, where she should stop, and what she should do. The Information was sent immedi- ately and when Montgomery reached the hotel designated he met a demure little woman in country garb, who told him she was ready to do business. ' “DId you keep it to yourself?"* “Of course I did. Good gracious! How could I pass any of your money on my cus- tomers if they knew I was down here bu: ing counterfeits of you! Do you think I'll be arrested for passing of 1t?" “No,” sald the sleek New Yorker, “I don’t think you will ever be arrested for passing of it on any one.” Then he sald to himself: “Oh, these women are easy; why did I never try them before And he had to work hard to conceal his inward mirth, “Have you the money?” he asked. “Right In this sachel. All bills. are the goods?” “Over in Brooklyn. We wiil have to go over there to get them.” “I hate to go to Brooklyn. that town. I'm ready.” S0 was Montgomery. So were two de- tectives listening in another room. The green goods man had not got to the door when he was placed under arreat. “Miss Saunders” was Miss Mamle Clancy, one of the best detectives employed in a large New York department store. ‘Where I don't know But I suppose I will have to. Douglas Robinson recently purchased a number of houses on the blocks bounded by Thirty-first and Thirty-third streets and Seventh and Ninth avenuwes, New York. The land 1s to be used by the Pennsylvania rallroad as a station, but not right away. To prevent the vacant houses from being plundered by thieves: Mr. Robinson has offered them to policemen rent free and already a number of families have moved. Some of the residences are very fine and there is some prospect that the officers and their families may have the use of them for & year or more. There are taller buildings in New York and in other citles, for that matter, than the so-called “Flatiron,” which is soaring aloft at the junction of Broadway, Fifth avenue and Twenty-third street, but this structure, which is to be but twenty storles in height, is often termed the most re- markable sky-scraper in the world. To begin with, the lot area upon which the “Flatiron” stands 1is of only 8,770 square feet, yet its cost to its present own- ers was, In round figures, $2,250,000 or about $260 a square foot. The building, which is approaching completion, will cost another $2,250,000. The bullding rises twenty stories above the sidewalk and there are two ries below it. The height above the walk is 300 feet, below it thirty- one feet. The total floor area is 204,000 square feet. The area of wall on street fronts is 152,000 square feet. There will be 40,000 square feet of glass surface. It will have 1,200 windows, 5,000 electric lights, 3,000,000 brick will be used; seven- teen stories are of terra cotta and pressed brick and 4,000 tons of steel is used in con- struction. The structure will have 400 offices and six high speed elevators. To the casual observer the twentieth story of this spindle-shanked building ‘would not seem to be a desirable shelter at the time of a heavy wind storm, but there are many applicants for offices in the top story. $ A retired police sergeant who died in this city a year ago, says the New York Sun, belleved in the latter years of his life that he was the only man then liv- ing who had known Aaron Burr, but there is still living in Brooklyn a man who as & boy knew and served Burr. He is Gab- riel Harrison, an actor and a teacher of elocution. Mr, Harrison's father lived from 1830 to 1833 at 33 Reade street, and on this same street lived Aaron Burr, then an old man, Burr occupled the front and back pariors of Mr. Proudhomm two-story and dormer brick house. arrison used to carry proofs & boy for his father, who was a copper plate printer, to Mr. Progd- homme, who was line copper engraver, and in this way he met Burr. He ran many an errand for the old lawyer. In return Burr gave him a few lessons in elocution and so won the boy’s gratitude. Mr. Harri- son says that even then Burr's voice was one to win the listener. This was In 1831, and during the cholera scare of 1832 he missed Burr. In 1834 or 1835, he he went with a companion, George who . afterward became mayor of Chicago, to take delicacies to an old man in the Tontine bullding. To his surprise the In- valid proved to be Aaron Burr. This was the last time Mr. Harrison eaw him. The New York Chamber of Commerce has recelved as gifts three groups of statuary, the cost of which amounts to about $36,000. ‘The statues will adorn the front of the new home of the chamber in Liberty street. The statues are in memory of distinguished New Yorkers who were identified with the fer history of the chamber, and they have been given to the assoclation appro- priately by members who are in the public eye at the present time. The men in whose memory the three statues will be erected are De Witt Clinton, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. The first is the gift of Morris K. Jesup, president of the chamber; the second is given by John 8. Kennedy and the third by Willlam E. Dodge. The cost of each is estimated at about $12,000. The sculptors who are dolng the work are Danlel French and Phillp Martiny. Work has been begun on the groups, but has not advanced beyond the first stage. Be- cause of the great amount of labor in- volved in the chiseling of the marble it is not expected that the statues will be completed in time for the dedication of the bullding, which has been planned for No- vember 11 of this year. Inasmuch as the statues will play & vital part in the pro- gram of this occasion, plaster casts will be erected in their places, which will be identical in size and figure to their marble prototypes. As it is now planned the figure of De Witt Clinton will stand in the center over the office door of the bullding, the statue of Alexander Hamilton being at the right band of the central figure and that of John Jay on the left. The statues will be of herolc size, of & height of about eight feet, and each will be flanked on either side with crouching allegorical figures. Mr. French is making the statue of Clinton and My, Martiny those of Hamilton aad oy " B A GREAT SPEECH, Tribute to the President's Decoration Day A enn. Brookiyn Eagle (Ind. dem.) The splendor of the address s the splen- dor of {lluminated manhood. The strength of it is the strength of manifest right. Not, we think, since Lincoln's words at Gettys- burg has the comstitutional commander-in- chief of the army and navy of the United States sald that which will be longer re- membered or which more deserves always to be In mind. Truly, the baptism of duty and the touch of destiny have made—or re- vealed—this president to be a thinker and & leader, who can carry his countrymen with him, forgetful of party, compact of patriot- ism, resolute for the right and as scornful of political cunning as of persanal conse- quences. The address is in all parts patriotio and eloquent, but in none merely rhetorical. It sums thé past, portrays the present and faces the future. It summary of the past 18 accurate to nicety and discriminating to the very shade of justice. Its portraiture of the present not only glorifies the army and the navy as a whole, but scarifies those of their number who have ylelded to the temptation to retallate on savages the out- rages of savages on our men. It also classes and characterizes the wholesale con- demners of the army in words that will neither down nor die. The presi- dent likewise meets the propositions not MERCER AND THE OLD SOLDIERS SPRINGFIELD, Neb, June 1—To tm BAitor of The Bee: 1 notice that you charged in your recemt debite that Con- gresamat Mercer has displaced two unlop Yoterans from empleyment In the capitol but you do not give the names. This is & serious charge. Mercer ja the son of votoran, and old woldlers are generally friendly to him, but if this story is true wy do not propose to support him for anothet term. If it is not trus, then you oughi to retract. Unless you publish the named and give us & chanoe ¢0 investigats we will not eredit the story. G. A R Note by the Editor—The charge that Mer- cer has caused two Nebraska veterans to be dropped from employment in the national capitol to make places for men from Min. nesota was publicly made snd cannot be refuted. The names of the veterans are Martin Ennis of Doniphan, Hall county, and James Bright of Grand Island. Mercer's action in this commeotion was severely censured by Nebraska members of the Grand Army at Washington and no attempt has been made up to date to justify it. CHEERY CHAT, Puck: “So the #Md.n! is the servant of the le, * said the man from a forelgn land. = “Well, it seems to me that you treat him with & deal of respect and consideration for a servant.” uh!" “scornfully retorted the native Euess you never lived in the merely of the hour, but of the far future |® with regard to the Philippines in a way to show that ordered liberty, graduated gov- ernment, regulated right, taught truth and trained purpose of fittedness for freedom enter into the veritable missionary move- ment of our army in the archipelago. The program is and looms so large as to appal some. The detalls are so many as to fatigue others. Both the magnitude of the project and the multitude of the par- ticulars invite pessimism, stimulate appre- hension and lately did give apparent im- munity to partisan defamation. But the work of contemporary copperheadism has been overdone. Those who resorted to it are running away from it and denying their responsibility for it. This nation never did desert, decry, defame or fall to honor its army or its navy. This nation never will. It has set them to no tasks of which it 1s ashamed, to none by which the world has not been made better, to none which bas not made the bounds of ordered freedom wider yet. ‘The liberated thought, the stored statesmanship and the luminous and pulsing power of the president’'s words to- day lift the occasion of the address to a high importance and make and mark an event of long and shaping significance in our history. PERSONAL NOTES. Charles E. Willlams, though minus limbs, is one of the successful young lawyers of Palmyra, Wis. Even volcanic ashes cannot escape the dollar in this commercial age. Bottles .of them are mow for sale in New York. Evans Badby, last in the line of direct descent from the king of the Semeca In- dians, Powhattan, was buried on Friday in New York. Colonel D. B. Dyer of Augusta, Ga., has the distinction of being the only repub- llcan who has ever been on the staff of a democratic governor in Georgla. Henry 8. Bisbin, the painter of cows, s the latest edition to the long list of Ameri- can names on the roll of the Legion of Honor of the French government. President Diaz of Mexico begins his working hours 8:30 every morning, stops at 1:30 p. m., returns to his desk at 4:30 and scarcely ever leaves before 11, and often not unt{l midnight. Two large laurel wreaths placed on the grave of the late Bret Harte at Frimley bear the inscriptions: “In Loving Remem- brance. From the Bohemian Club, San Francisco,” and “In Remembravce. From Sir Henry Irvin Senator Lodge is to deliver an address on “Oliver Ellsworth” at the commence- ment exercises of the Yale law school on June 23. On the following day Dr. Roswell Park will address the graduating class of the medical school. King Bdward has almost realized the dream of the small boy who wished that Christmas would come twice a year. The king now has two birthda; one on May 30th, for use in England, the other on November 9, for use in the colonles. ‘When it comes to originality in shirt de- signs and colors Senator Lodge of Masea- chusetts always takes a long lead over his colleagues, but in his st effort he has outdone even himself. He appeared in a walstcoat and shirt of identical material, a delicate purple, which is sald to have been specially woven for him. Nothing approaching it has been seen at the capitol before. Philadelphia Record: *“That duck was fine,” sald the enthusiastio patron. ‘° roprietor of the res= &reenback.” Somerville Journal: The exactions of Yllbllc life are very great. For instance, he street car conductor seldom gets more than ten hours' sleep at once. Chicago Tribune ‘What a liquid volce our wife has!” sald the guest as the ostess left the room in response to a call from the nursery, “Liquid!" exclaimed the host. ‘*That describes 1t exactly. It flows at the rate of 300,000 gallons a minute.” Judge: Conviot—Ah, mum! i I'd o :!e wth 1 - 4 0 nice loved 1 never would hev come such an end as dis. Philantl ist—You would not? Conviet. 0, mum. B8he killed de guy dat got her in less'n two weeks after de ceremony. JUNE. James Russell Lowell. some perfect day Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear la; Whether we look, or whether we I We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stif of might, An_ nstinct within {t that feaches the owers, Ang, groping blindly above it for light. Clfmbs to a soul in grass and flowers; The flush of life may well be seen ‘Thrilling back over hills and valleys; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The_ buttorcup. catches the sun in’ its chalice And there's never a leave or a blade toa To be some happy creature’s palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his {llumined being o'errun With the deluge of Bummer it recel His mate feels the beneath her win, And the he in her dumb breast flutters and sing: He sings to the wide world, and she to her In the nice ear of Nature which son is the best? Now is the high tide of the year, And whatever of life hath ebbed away Comes flooding back with a ripply cheer, Into every bare inlet and creek and bay: Now the heart is so full that a drop over= fills 1 t, ‘We are ha now because God wills it; N; :n-uerp «')w barren the past may have "Tis enenkh for us now that the leaves are Wo ML ih ‘the warm shade and feel right How'l:\‘: sap creeps up and the blossoms Wo Tony, shut our eves, but we cannot 1p knowin Thlth:kre' are m‘al.r and grass is growing} The breeze comes vfl‘;lllpe Iny :nngl:: ear, dandelions are blossomin, 3 T?’?\'n :‘u‘-- has sprouted, that streams ard flowing, ver is bluer than the sky, ;R:: ::: robin is plastering his house hard 00d news back, d not lack; fowa by; Ana if ihe breeze kept the g ther couriers we shol < e could guess it ail by yon heifer's ing— ! how clear bold chanticleer, G"."m'.':é"mm the new wine of the year, Tells all in his lusty crowing! Joy comes, l’fl;f goes, :'a know not how; now, Everything is happy how, | . for the heart to be true o be green or skies to be £, living. :éloudl‘hlvo fled? ue— “Tis the natural way her ti they leave no ho knows whitl VVlno the unscarred heaven And ‘(’lz.: yes forget the tears they have shed, 8 heart forgets its sorrow and ache: T:‘eh:o\ll o the season's youth, And the sulphurous rifts of passion and oo 3 len e and smooth, e e e S oraters Nealed with snow. A $5 OPPORTUNITY few days will be the scene of some to make extensive alterations injour reduce our stock and especinlly-the children's assortment. Therefore this special Our children’s department for & remarkable values. We soon begin store and before then we want to $5. Sale of Juvenile Suits, Kabki Suits, Double breasted suits and three. g0 In this special sale of §5.00. 00 Saflor Suits, Norfolk Suita -plece suits—sizes 3 to 16 years—all Juvenile suits—8 to 6 years—some with vests and others with shields and sailor collar in red, gray and blue—form- er prices §5, $6, $6.50 and $7.50—this 8ale «..ocvveee wens ...$5 KAHKI SUITS—brass buttons and baggy trousers, in Deat fancy mix cheviots and made the same as U. " former prices, $6, $6.50, $7.50 and Ballor sults in red, blue, brown and tan-—sizes 8 to 8 years— fancy trimmed—former prices $5.00, $6.00, $6.50 and $7.00—this sale 8. officers’ coats— $8.50—this sale . $5 Norfolk sults—sizes § to 12 years—in light and dark gray—some with yoki tures—also & splendid line of blue this sale d more made with double pleats—all in neat mix- erges— '+ Child’s D. B. Suit in light weight—sizes 6 to 15 years—in cheviots, worsteds and serges—in fact all of here for (former prices $5.00, §6. $7.50 and $8.50) ...ovoinn We have about 75 3-plece suits in pattern cheviots and stripes that go iu this sale for 00, $6.50, $7.00, our spting line goes $5 $5 No Clothing Fits Like Ours. Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R. 8. Wilcox, Manager.