Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 26, 1902, Page 6

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Delegates are voted whether they are present or not, ——— If college students persist In seeking sound bodles through work as section bande, the “jerry” may yet become a soclal ornament as well as an industrial necessity. » — Bryan wasn't the issue at Grand Island. It was ple, and the democrats captured the chance. It's a mighty for- lorn hope, however, the “Little Glant" has been called to lead. emmerhe—— The life of a hobo is certainly a hard one In Kansas and Nebraska these days. Food is plenty, but so is work, and to secure the first he must do the latter. These are certainly evil days for the professional tramp and the professional agitator. Fusion in Kansas has resulted in con- fusion. OId line populists of the Sun- flower state announce their intention of voting the republican ticket instead of supporting the hybrid affair headed by a democrat. Quite likely Nebraska popu- Usts will ind the needs of their case will be met by the Kansas solution. e Missouri republicans have added their enthustastic endorsement of President Roosevelt to the swelling list of similar testimonlals. State after state is wheel- lng into line behind the president, as fast as conventions are held. This un- broken republican front presents little of encouragement to the opposition, E— The railroads of Nebraska claim to pay 15.4 per cent of the entire taxes of the state. By rights they should pay #t least 25 per cent. Their market value, at the lowest estimate, exceeds $300,000,000. Appralsed at one-sixth that amount, they are worth $50,000,000 for taxation purposes, but they have been returned for only $26,500,000. How will the populist delegates ex- plain to their coustituents the capitula- Yion at Grand Island? That ignomini- bus surrender to the minority faction of e fusion combine Is not likely to prose satisfactory to populists from principle, and certainly will not suit those who are populists for revenue only. The democrats may be relied on to monopo- lize the pie, S Nebraska's weather may not be all that finicky persons would wish, but compared with the brand being served out in other states it seems excellent. Colorado is sweltering in the embrace of 2 hot wave, while Michigan is having a snowstorm. Indiana is entertalning tor- padoes and Iowa and South Dakota are suffering from wind and rain, while Ne- braska enjoys Juge weather as near per- fect as it can be made. THAT STARTLING CONDITION. According to the rallroad tax burean, “the most startling condition of af- fairs prevails in Nebraska that ought to be remedied without delay.” The thing that startles the tax bureau figure Jugglers 18 the diserepancy between the returns of the census enumerators of 1900 and the precinct assessors of the game year. We are told that the cen- sus enumerators have returned 220,044 more horses, 1,050,833 more cattle, 17,034 more mules, 145954 more sheep and 2,460,031 more hogs than were returned by the assessors. We concede that this is very startling, but not much more so than was the discrepancy of over 40,000 between the real population of Omaha and the popu- lation returned by the census takers of 1800. As a matter of fact, the census taker has big eyes and often sees double. He Is not over-particular and often tries to fill out space by guessing when he cannot’ get correct Informa- tion. When the census enumerators look at a herd of cattle or Inspect a drove of hogs or sheep they mentally tigure out how many there might be, but when the assessor comes to check up the figures guessed at by the enum- erator he finds that they were far from correct. Another reason for the discrepancy may be that the enumerators and the assessors did not take the census at the same time. The assessors did thelr work in April and the enumerators did not begin until June or July. Hun- dreds of thousands of cattle, hogs and sheep might have been and doubtless had been slaughtered or exported. Assume, however, that the startling condition of affairs which the railroad tax bureau has discovered was abso- lutely true, how does that justify the failure of the rallroad assessors to take into consideration the value of the fran- chises of the Nebraska railroads in mak- ing their assessments? These fran- chises are worth over $200,000,000, and no amount of pettifogging can hoodwink the people into belleving that <they should mot be considered part of the assessable property of the rallroads. The startling discovery that millions of money invested in bonds, stocks and mortgages or deposited in banks fail to be returned for taxation through the precinct assessors affords by no means a Justification for the undervaluation of rallroad property. Lands, lots, mills, factories, business blocks and residences are all returned for taxation, whether the money lenders, mortgage holders or stock speculators make returns or not. There is no way for visible property to escape the tax gatherer. ~ Why should not the rallroads be taxed in proportion to the value of their prop- erty? For the past eight years prop- erty in town lots and the improvements in the citles have earned little or no income for their owners. Much of the town property has been absolutely con- fiscated by taxes, but yet the owners had to submit gracefully, because that is the law. The railroads, on the other bhand, have been prosperous and enor- mously productive. They have doubled, trebled and even quadrupled in value within the past three years, but their assessment in this city Is lower by sev- eral milllons than it was ten years ago. Surely this Is a startling condition of affairs that ought to be remedied with- out delay. OUTLOOK FO DEMUCRATIC UNITY. The speech of Mr. Cleveland in the interest of democratic unity does not appear to have made much of an im- pression upon the party in the direction intended. It has been much discussed by democrats in Washington and so far as they have publicly expressed them- selves there Is no Indication that the speech has met with general favor. There are some, of course, who accept it as wise and sound counsel, but the majority of democratic representatives are not satisfied with the utterances of the ex-president. Perhaps the prevail- ing view has been best expressed by Henry Watterson, whose comment on Mr. Cleveland's speech was a caustic arralgnment of the ex-president’s record. The Washington correspondent of the Springfield Republican finds some evi- dences that the much-hoped-for demo- cratic unity may fail when put to the test. He says that the disposition of some southern democrats to insist upon even a general endorsement of the plat- forms of 1806 and 1000 is an unpromis- ing omen for the future. It is true there 18 a growth of feeling even among the southern democrats that Bryanism has been carried far enough, but as yet this is far from belng so pronounced as to warrant confidence that the de- mocracy can be harmonized before the next national campaign, at least in the way advised by Mr. Cleveland, who in his characteristic way gave the Bryanites some pretty sharp sl This their leader did not fall to take notice of and what he has sald in reply abun- dantly shows that whatever political in- tluence he still possesses is to be exerted with all possible vigor to defeat the reorganization movement. There 1s no doubt that Bryanism has very consid- erably declined and there is good reason to expect that it will continue to lose ground, yet it is still a force to be reck- oned with, as Mr. Cleveland and the other reorganizers will find. It is the aggressive, fighting element of the party and is not to be easily vanquished. The difficuities in the way of harmo- nizing the democracy are so great, so nearly insuperable, that it is hardly possible the task can be accomplished within the next two years. The an- e It might aid in arriving at a just as- sessment If the county commissioners were to investigate the packing house and stock yards values for themselves. The returns wmade by the county assess- ors for the five packing houses are ridiculous, and the compromise offered is equally so. Figures on the stock bave not yet been made public, t the value of the plant can easily be ascertained. It Is unfair to go after the public service corporations alone and let tagonistic factions are as bitter, or even more Dbitter, toward each other than elther is toward the republican party. How is It possible to bring together the Clevelandites and the Bryanites? How shall the democrats who believe with the ex-president that the party should be “relieved from the burden of issues which have been killed by the decrees of the American people” be in- duced to harmonize with those who ralsed those issues and insist upon ad- hering to them? Cleveland and Hill could meet and exchange apparently N THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, cordial greetings, but Bryan did not even condescend to acknowledge ‘the in- vitation to meet these democrats. The advoeates of reorganization will continue their efforts and may make some prog ress, but the unity they desire is from all present indications far in the fu- ture. E—— CUBAN RECIPROCITY. It appears highly probable that there will be no action by congress at this ses- ston In regard to Cuban reciprocity and that the matter will be left in the hands of the president to negotiate a treaty, which may be sent elther to an extra session of the senate or await action at the regular session. There seems to be no prospect of the republican factions in the senate getting together on this ques- tion, and if they do not it 1s sald to be reasonably certain that the president will exercise his authority under the treaty-making provision of the constitu- tion and negotiate a treaty with the gov- ernment of Cuba for reciproeal exchange of products. Having done this he might call a special sesslon of the senate to pass upon the treaty. All statements coming from Washing- ton in regard to this matter are to the effect that the president has not abated his strong convictions as to the duty of the government to do something for the assistance of Cuba industrially and com- mercially and will continue to make every effort to bring this about. He has certainly had strong encouragement to adhere to this position in the declara- tions of republican state conventions. A FAIR PROPUSITION. Referring to the repeated proposition of the anthracite coal miners to arbi trate all questions in dispute and if their position is declared untenable they will return to the mines and resume work, the Cleveland Leader remarks that noth- ing could be fairer, more temperate or more convinelng of the righteousness of the miners' cause. That paper argues that men do not take such a position when they are striving for a little more than $300 a year as pay for work in mines, unless they know their case needs only a hearing and a just decision. The Leader declares that the position of the president of the mine workers' union is unanswerable by any men who refuse to submit their cause to an im- partial tribunal and says that under such conditions the coal companies must ar- bitrate or stand condemned for mean- ness, greed and injustice before the bar of public opinion. “They must meet President Mitchell half way or feel the welght of national contempt and disgust. Nor is it the only sentiment which they will have to encounter. If they stand obstinately against any concession or arbitration, refusing to submit their cause to an impartial court, they will surely be held accountable for whatever evils may result to the country at large.” The operators have absolutely rejected arbitration, showing in this an utter in- difference to the public ir‘erests, and it is time that public sentiment regarding their course was given the most vigorous expression. Thelr refusal to arbitrate, if not a confession that they fear the result would be adverse to them, 1s to be explained only on the ground that to submit the dispute to arbitration would ‘involve recognition of the union and they are bent on destroying that organ- izatlon. With that attitude the great ma- jority of the public can have no sym- pathy under existing conditions. Had the miners refused to arbitrate popular feeling regarding their case would be different, but having attested their con- fidence in the justice and reasonableness of their demands by proposing arbitra- tion and agreeing to return to work 1If the verdict should be against them, pub- lic sentiment is very largely on the side of the miners. — According to the returns made by the census of 1000, the five packing houses at South Omaha have invested a total of $15,635,418, which is divided as fol- lows: Land . Buildings Machinery Cash and sundries. $ 774,200 3,839,028 1,225,869 9,796,312 Total $15,635,418 Of this total $5,839,108 1s represented by land, buildings and machinery, real estate in the fullest sense of the word, but the assessor for Douglas county re- turns this property for taxation pur- poses at $95,114. The tax representa- tive of the packers offers to compromise with the county on $262,331 as being one-sixth of the fair valuation of pack- ing plants, Without considering the nearly $10,000,000 of “cash and sundries” returned by the census, one-sixth of the fair valuation of the real estate of the five packing plants amounts to $073,184, or more than three and one-half times the figure at which the packers offer to compromise. And the “cash and sundries” still have a taxable value. — Pass Up the Discount. 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. Secretary Root states the cost of the war in the Philippines to be $170,000,006. The democratic editors who have placed it at $600,000,000 will please notice and allow the discount. President Roosevelt is accepting a great many invitations from the western muniei- econd edition of “The Win- is evidently golng to be an exhaustive affair. e Provocation and Results. Chicago Tribune. Lincoln Monday of Knoxville, Tenn., was a member of the Ninth United States in- fantry and served in the Philippines. Four men made Insulting remarks about the army and now one of them is dead and the other three are dyinj Strike Losses One Million a Day’ Philadelphia Record. The cost of the coal strike at a close estimate of money loss in wages to the miners, loss of profits to the owners of helpless third parties and the suffering thus inflicted is counted upon as an element of pressure in bringing about an ultimate ad- justment. The remedy by which the masses may be protected against warring combina- tions or warring classes remains yet to be devised. Anclent, but Effective. Chicago Chronicle. Observant people will be disposed to doubt the reports of anarchist plots against the life of King Bdward. It invariably happens that when royalty is about to be placed on public exhibition the police dis- cover a sanguinary plot. In this way the police establish a great reputation for zeal and vigllance while royalty enjoys re- doubled demonstrations of loyalty and en- thusiasm at the hands of Its subjects. Th device s 80 old that it might seem stale, but it continues to be as effective as ever. Grade of Colonels. New York Tribune. The State Aseociation of Auctioneers in Towa 1s said to have decided that no person devoted to that loquacious and vociferous calllng has a just claim to be addressed as Colonel until after he has entreated bids at a thousand sales or more. In rome other states of the Union the title of colonel s llke the quality of mercy, and is not strained by an aseoclation of auctioneers or any other board of revision, but dropeth, as the gentle raln from heaven, upon the man beneath; it also resembies the gentle rain in that it falls altke upon the just and the unju ' Towa Meat and Muscle. Chicago Chroniole, At a recent pedestrian contest a vege- tatian won in the international match from Berlin to Dresden. The distance is 135 miles. The winner walked it in a little more than twenty- seven hours. Hie competitor, a meat eater, fell behind an hour and forty-five minutes. The vegetarian has aleo beaten the famous run of the Greek from Marathon to Athens, who covered 140 miles in twenty-seven hours. ‘While proof is still lacking that an ex- clusive vegetarian diet is the best muscle maker, data are accumulating which show that meat {8 not indispensable and that health may be promoted by diminishing its consumption, The Greeks, who were in their golden age the most graceful as well as the most stalwart athletes, ate little meat. While the federal court enables the American beef combine to keep up the price of beef, Americans can better afford to experiment with a vegetable diet as a muscle maker. PLAIN STATEMENT OF FACT. Nothing to Arbitrate in the Alaska Boundary Question. New York World. Concerning the Alaska boundary, Sir Wil- frid Lau: fer, the Canadian premler, says: “We are perfectly willing to submit the question to arbitration, but so long, of course, as the United States maintains that there is nothing to arbitrate, the menace of open conflict on the disputed ground must continue to exist.” The only ‘“question” {s the question whether the Russo-Britlsh treaty of 1825 means what it says. It states that the line shall “ascend the Portland channel” to the Afty-sixth parallel, shall thence run along the summit of the mountains, “parallel to the coast” to 141 west longitude, and then tollow that meridian to the “Frozen ocean,” but wherever ‘the ‘mountain summits are more than ten marine leagues from the coast the boundary, in the treaty's exact words, “shall be formed by a line parallel to the ‘sinuosities’; of the coast, and which shall never excepd. the distance of ten marine leagues . therefrom.” Phat is the boumdary we bought from Russia in 1867, There was no ‘‘question’ then or for years afterward. Every map, British, Continental, Canadian and Ameri- can, agred practically upon the boundary. Even the British admiralty chart for the use of the royal navy, corrected up to April, 1898, showed the true boundary. After the Klondike was discovered Great Britain took up the Canadian claim to land within the thirty-mile strip. That the United States bas “nothing to arbitrate” is not a “menace of open con- flict,” but a statement of fact. If Canadian officials should invade Vermont, open a cus- tom house at Burlington and argue their right to the northern half of the state, we should reply that we had nothing to arbitrate, but would that reply, or the in- t provoked it, be the real act of J, B. McCormick, a well known corre- spondent who writes under the pen name “Macon,” gives the following account of the origin of the coolness between Henry Watterson and Grover Cleveland: “It {s well within the memory of middle- aged men when Grover Cleveland wa president of the United States and Henry Watterson, editor of the Loufsville Cour- fer-Journal, was ome of his chief friends and advisers, and not, as he now is, one of his severest critics. In those days Mr. Watterson was persona grata at the White House and its frequent visitor. In one of these visits President Cleveland, who could not spare the time himself from his om- clal dutles, requested’the editor to escort Mrs. Cleveland to the theater. Mr. Wat- terson gladly complied. The star was Clara Morris, and the president's wife was delighted with her performance, so much o that she expressed a strong desire to meet the actress ‘That is easily enough arranged,’ sald Mr. Watterson. ‘She and I are old friends; I'll send her a note and tell her of your wish. She will be de- lighted to meet you.' “‘Accordingly, the note was written and ispatched to Miss Morris by one of the ushers. In a few minutes it was answered, Mr. Watterson had anticipated, and at the end of the act the edito: corted Mrs. Cleveland behind the scenes and into Miss Morris’ dressing room, where he intro- duced the first lady of the land and the emotional actress. Of course, Miss Morris treated Mrs. Cleveland with the greatest consideration. After the performance Mr. Watterson escorted Mrs. Cleveland back to the White House. ‘Oh, Grover,' exclaimed Mrs. Cleveland, ‘I have had a delightful time. 1 not only saw Miss Morris act, but I met her personally, and found her a charming lady.’ The information was not as pleasant to the president as his spouse expected. On the contrary, his brow clouded, and, turning to Mr. Watterson he sald, in tones of anger: ‘When I confided my wife to your care I expected you to give ber all the protection that your age and experience would call for. If my wife desired to meet Miss Morris you had a private box, and you certainly could have had them brought together in it. You should not have taken Mrs. Cleveland be- hind the scenes and into the actress' dressing room. Such a proceeding was un- dignified, and not the protection I had the right to expect you to give her. You should not have gratified what was more the prank of a school girl than the be- havior of the first lady of the land, and you should have protected her against her the mines and carriers and loses incurred by consumers and related industri is $1,000,000 for every work day. If it wel possible to apportion the loss between the active parties in dispute no doubt they would be soon ready to agree upon terms, but it is known at the outstart that the bulk of loss will fall upon lanocent and own folly.' ““There was more said by the president of the e teno: 1 had this story from Mr. Watterson's own lips. This was one of the first causes of the break in the friend- ship which up to that time had existed be- tween the president and the editor. Now 8 15 doubtful if 1t will ever be restored.” JUNE 6, 1902. HARMONY AND HARPOONING. Philadelphia Press: It ing things at David B. HillL perienced a dodger to let anything hit him Indlanapolls News: regard of the other members of the band Chlcago Tribune: Grover ponderous phrases have & way of persisting. neverthelese. predestined defes Washington Post: eay and knows how to say it without re- peating himselt. Chicago Post harmony, the middle ground. mote and the beam again. Indlanapolle Journal: Mr. Bryan may fimd a crumb of comfort Maine democracy has endorsed democratic national platform,” but, then, the Maine democracy is a feeble folk and never knows what it is doing. Kansas City Journal: However, the dem- ocratic party s not obliged to follow either As leaders they are Both brought It disaster— Cleveland or Bryan. both has-beens. Cleveland with his administration and Bryan with his platform. It would do well to look up a new Moses not recommended by either. Baltimore American: With the leading democratic politicians of Illinols ecalling each other “pinheads and boodlers,” with Tom L. Johnson demanding a 3-cent plank in the platform, with Editor Watterson dia- covering a new chasm every day and with Editor Bryan sulking in his pressroom It does not appear that the democratic har- mony dinner improved the dyspeptic condi- tion of that party. PERSONAL NOTES, Among the speakers announced at the Blg Stone Lake, Minn., Chautauqua are Mrs. Carrie Nation, Willlam J. Bryan and Lieu- tenant Commander Richmond P. Hobsor. Emperor Willlam's recent speeches indi- cate that he is of one mind with the late General Israel Putnam: “Trust in Provi- dence and keep your powder dry." Becretary of the Treasury Shaw has asked the house to appropriate $10,000 for the purchase of the late Hermann Strecker's collection of butterfiles and moths for the Smitheonian institution. Rear Admiral Clark, who will always be referred to as “of the Oregon,” denles the published report that he intends to resign. He is perfectly satisfied with his present billet at the naval home at Philadelphia. Mayor McNamee of Cambridge, Mass., told the scholars at Webster Grammar school the other day that he hoped none of the boys would ever become a mayor and none of the girls the wife of a mayor. He said he could wish them no greater in- jury than that any of the boys should be- come a democratic mayor of a republican eliy. Thomas W. Lawson of Massachusetts does not let his interest in the possibly less practical things of life stop with yachts. He has placed a chime of ten bells on an observatory tower at Scituate. The bells will be rung for the first time next Sunday. The tower itself is a landmark for mariners making for Boston harbor from the south- ward. Francis Murphy, the famous temperance apostle, has become a resident of Call- fornia. He has a beautiful home and is in a position to enjoy, the rest he so richly deserves. But that he has not quit fight- ing the drink trafic is shown by an ac- count of one of his meetings printed In the Santa Barbara Independent and an ap- preciation by Rev. B. E. Newton in the same newspaper. Colonel Arthur Lynch, who {s fighting in the London courts for his seat in Parlia- ment as member from Galway, is a native of Smythesdale, one of the numerous smaller gold fields in the vicinity of the famous Ballarat. His father held for many years the post of registrar at Smythesdale under the mining department of Victoria. At the University of Melbourne he took the degree of M. A. and C. E. He practiced in Australla as an engineer for some time and then transferred himself to London, where he became an author and journalist. FAREWELL TO WAR TAXES. Ease with Which the Nation Bore the Extra Burden, (Philadelphia Record.) War revenue taxation has but few days more of statutory existence, except as' to the tea tax, which will be imposed, for trade reasons, until January 1 next. The special tax on “bucket shops” and tra actions by bucket shop methods has been retained, not for Its revenue-producing quality, but rather as an expression of legislative disfavor. This tax has had no effect upon the current of small specula- tion. The bucket shops pay it, and flourish the while like green bay trees. It neither regulates nor represses the busi- ness, but rather fortifies and encourages it. Mixed flour taxes, and the regulations accompanylng them, also remain unre- pealed, with & broader definition of the article, designed for the protection of the | flour export trade. All other provisions of the act of June 13, 1898, and its amendments, except as to excise taxes on fermented liquors and tobacco, will pass into disuse on July 1 next. Beer will pay $1 per barrel, as under the old law; and the former rates on manufactures of tobacco, with draw- back of excess tax paid on stock on hand, will be imposed. The heavy hand of fed- eral taxation, in short, will vex the business of the countrv mo more until another war period shall supervene. How marked is the difference between the real reduction and the sham reduction of the act of March 2, 1901, will be disclosed early In the coming government year. So smoothly ran the machinery and so insidious and indirect were the methods of this device for raising a war fund that public com- plaint of its exactions was reduced to a minimum. Under its operations a vast surplus revenue flowed into the public treasury, tempting congress to indulge In schemes of unmeasured extravagance, by which the national revenues for years to come have been practically mortgaged and a standard of profuse and inordinate pub- lic wxpenditure established. The absolute with which the bur- den of temporary heavy war taxes was borne surprised even those optimistic econ- omists who delight In rolling the national wealth as a sweet morsel under their tongues. There was Do way of measuring at the outset the ratio of possible de- mand, o the federal lawmakers took care to make the additional revenue ample enough to meet all contingencles. But thelr most sanguine estimates were far outrun by the results of the first year's levy, while the sudden termination of hoe- tilities with Spain and the complications of the Filipino revolt only served to ac- centuate the official thriftiness of legis- lators who saw in the assurance of peace only a pretext for further exactions. So far as a sound condition of the public treas- ury is concerned, the restoration of the internal tax system prevailing before the war might have been safely accomplished twe vears ago. fe hardly worth while for Bryan to tire himeelf out throw- HIll I8 too ex- Every democratic leader professes to want harmony, but he continues to toot his own horn in utter dis- Cleveland’s It will take Editor Bryan a long time to get out of that “shadow of Mr. Cleveland's speech was singularly free from platitudes and he didn’t make the mistake of talking too long. Happy is the orator who has something to By the way, Mr. Bryan does not tell us what he would do for the sake of what sacrifices he would make and what position he would recommend as It is the story of the n the fact that the “the last ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Caurrent of Life Metropolis. “Bad dreams, good new . [expression which signifies least one New York f tained the nonsense, ha banished In a shockingly fatal Mary Hendrickeon, a 17-year-old girl vietim of petsistent bad dreams, nothing. ily, 1t it manner. and fell dead by her bedside. She often screamed in her sleep. tell what she had seen. to her. Sometimes three days before she would recover. cause of the serious effect of nightmar: on the girl she always slept in the s room with her mother and father. of the day which might have induced ex- traordinary dreams at night. houses, are agaln tastes, belng erected below Twenty-third street, and it is possible that churches, which & fow years ago abandoned downtown sites for uptown, may be forced to move back. The shifting of population in New York is one of its most extraordinary features. This Is most conspicuous in the crowded East Slde, where one year the Poles may 80 on. But it s also exhibited in other parts of the city. The fact illustrates the remarkable changes which take place so suddenly In New York, changes so great that one returning to the city after an absence of ten years is astonished to see how far it has gone out of his recollection. The changes in the coming ten years will be especlally marvelous, on account of the great public and semi-public works now going on, such as the subway, the bridges, the Pennsylvania terminal, the invasion of Herald and Longacre squares by trade and the bullding of big hotels far from Madison square.” It was the ueual crowd of well-gowned femininity that filled the car, wending its way matineeward, reports the New York Herald. Every woman at all young or at all aiming to be fashionable wore a chaln of some sort from which dangled charms of every kind and description, lockets, heart- shaped and round, small gold or silver purses, lorgnettes and watches. The girl in the smart black costume, with exquisite sables, appeared to be exempt from the prevalling mania and therefore became the mark for the attentlon of the observer of detalls. As the atmosphere of the car grew warmer she slipped the long fur scarf from her neck, revealing the fact that so far from being immune she had eclipeed all thé others in the originality of her “‘dangle.” A small gold chaln was worn around her neck and fell half-way to the walet. On ft was a key set with diamonds. It no caprice of the jeweler, but the real article, an ordinary every-day affair such as ome wrestles with at the front door. Now, what was the romance connected with that very proasic key making it worthy to be set with diamonds and displayed so prominently as a treasured possession? The 8ad eyes of the owner had that misty, far- away look of unshed tears. The Parfsfan hat falled to hide the pathetic droop of the graceful head. Here was a story, surely. | Tmagination conjured a plcture of a betrothal rudely broken by the death of the flance, the key treasured as a memento of the many hapr evenings they had spent together, and the stolen kisses in the vestibule as he hes tated before opening the door for her. The somber gown hinted at a loss. The wist- tul eyes and sweet lips accentuated the iden. Or could the key be that of the vault where the young man had been entombed? Could it be? Fancy waxed more and more grewsome with each new contemplaton of the unusual charm worn by this fair heroine of modern romance. At Sixty-fourth street another very smart young woman boarded the car and, with a friendly greeting to the girl with the key, at once opeped up a conversation. “I see you are wearing your key,” she began. s “How shocking unfeeling,” thought the observer. “Yes," replied she of the pathetic eyes. “I can go out now with a peaceful mind, knowing that Marle will not be wearing my trocks. I mever could hide it where she couldn't find it." Somehow the unshed tears and the pa- thelc droop weren't so noticeable now. “‘Otillie’ Oastnaugle, who came to this country & few days ago in the hope of get- ting employment as a woman servant, is man and now awalts deportation at Ellls island. “Otillie” will be sent home as a man, not because he was found to be ome, but because he was likely to become a pub- lie charge. He eays he did not knowingly decelve. His parents had always dressed him as a girl and treated him as a daughter. He was taught to do housekeeping and later found work as a woman servant in Saxony. ‘While washing dishes and scrubbing floors in his native place a woman employed in the same household left Saxony for Philadeiphia. She secured a good place and “Otillie” de- cided to follow her. “Otillle” almost passed the rigid serutiny of the government officlals without arousing suspicion. “Otillie” wore a small shawl 8o far as the parents or any of the household know, there had been nothing in the course “As business extends further uptown,” says a New. York letter, “it is a curious fact that certaln downtown quarters, once the centers of fashionable residences, then captured, elther by business or temement ttracting a population possessing comfortable Incomes and refined Many new apartment houses are be in command of ‘a certain street, only to be roplaced by the Italians next year, and over his head as he walked by the ofotals, But when be was taken before the Board of the | Special Inquiry the palm of his hands and hie fingers aroused the suspiclon that he “ 1s & common | Was & man and the medical staft was asked At enter- had the notion | halr, which was worn long and carefully to set all suspiclons at rest. The offclals cut away the supposed woman's fine blonde dressed, and, to further prevent deception, and a | dreesed the intending emigrant in his proper leapeq | attire from bed screaming late Baturday night The Hen- dricksons sald that their daughter had been subject to nightmares for a year or more. When she awoke, however, she was never able to She simply knew that something dreadful seemed to happen it would be two or Be, On the Kalf-demolished wail of an old Broadway bullding sat four workmen the other afternoon, thelr feet dangling in atr, while the men were prying bricks from the wall with the help of steel bars. Below, on the opposite side of Broadway, stood & gaping crowd, stopped, probably, by the sight of the rope strung from each work- man's walst to a point on the firo escapes of the adjacent bullding, one or two storles higher up. So obvious was the purpose of the ropes that a curfous foot passenger ex- pected comment upon the rarity of the sight rather than on the need of the device. In just thirty seconds, however, six persons were heard to explain: “The ropes are to catch them in case they fall,” and nothing elso was sald. Mayor Low of New York has outlined a plan whereby he constitutes himeelf the fountain head of news concerning municipal departments. After July 4 it is his inten- tion to talk to the afternoon newspapeér re- porters once a week, on Thursdays, to the extent of half a column, taking the municl- pal departments in rotation and making public all matters of interest concerning them and the progress and efficlency of their work. If he shall find that there is sufficlent publie interest in. these ha! column talks he will designate two days a week, Mondays and Thursdays, the former for the morning newspaper men, the other day for the afternoon paper reports, and continue his municipal talks. BREEZY CHAFF. Chicagn Tribune: Fditor (In surprise) 1s this all you could get out of that popul convention? Reporter (who has just handed in his copy)—Yes, sir; all that's fit to print. Philadelphta Press: ~Did you hear about Jenkins getting married to & young ac- nking st and she must bs & very young 00, “I understand he's her first husband.” Philadelphia Press: Hardhead—Well, every man has a right to his opinlon, Pepprey—Yes, but the trouble is he can't be made to realize that there.may a wrong to it. New York Sun: First Man (at summer resort)—Look here, sir,.are you aware that I am engaged to that young lady you went out waiking with this morning} Second Man—Well, what of it? So am I Detroit Free Press: Clara—Shall I write Cousin Eliza that we think we will come out to visit her? Clarence—No; the last time we wrote, you :;mzmber. she'got away before we arrived ere. Chicago Tribune: The baffled villain of | the play turned frightfully pale. “I feel,” he exclaimed, ‘as it I were going to have a fit!" “All right,” said the soubrette, with a sly wink at the audience. “Go up to the roof and have one on the house.’ Boston Transcript: Mrs. Able—"Tow Mrs. | cuttle i run on about the Perkinsesi | I have no patience with a woman who | talks so_about other folks. Mrs. Cain—Nelther have I; it's perfectly disgusting! _ But what Mrs. Cuftle said about the Perkinses was awfully interest- ing. Washini Mandy,"” sald Farmer Corntossel, “I don't like to’complain, but the dinners you're givin’® our summer boarders ain't up to your best.” “Well, Hiram, it's kind o' hard to tell jes' what to do. When I was gettin' up all them delicacies some of the folks come to me and threatened to leave because they wasn't gettin' plain country fare, as advertised. THE IOWA COWBOY, ton Star: John B. Kaye in Boston Journal. When the land was wild and the country new And the crop fields only, fenced around, When snakes were plenty, and horses few, And the pastures without mete or bound, The farmstead cowboy-—boy indeed— The youngest worker, and by that grace, With only his own bare feet for steed, ‘Was a shrewd observer, skilled to trace The truant cows to their lurking place. His sight was keen, and the tell-tale track Of the spotted cow with the broken hoof, Or_the tender-footed heifer's rack, One light, three heavy, would leave him proof In the dust or sod, and point the way That the grazing herd had strayed at will In its aimless wanderings that day; And lead to the spot where they dallied th In gome sheltering grove, or beyond the 111, If the day were spent and the gloaming fell, And the breeze stilled down at even-tide, Trained was his ear for the leader's bell, Pulsing the air o'er the country side, Never mistook he its far-off tone, Throbbing, sobbing, “Herg, out herel’ No clucking cow bell save his own, Sob as it might, filled his soul with'cheer, For the sobs to laughter turned on his ear, All that wore feathers, down and wings, He knew thelr voices, ealls and ways. Figh of the brook, four-footed things, Tadpoles, snails, w:ll-dla(lnl Crays, Ants, and tumble-bugs and toads, Crickets, hornets, bats and beel He had sought out their abodes And could tell you the names of all the rees; They were his chums, were all of these. Old-time cowboy, long grown erayl Bounding bronco and buckskin suit Fringed and mounted in brave array, ‘With a_cartridge belt and a gun to ‘shoot, ‘Were not the outfit, then, when you Were In the business. You'd to wear A wheat-straw hat—was the crown burst f 0 8 A cotton shirt, blue jeans & pair, And one suspender to hold ‘em’ there! Old-time cowboys! not as. of yore Comes to your ears the sound of bell, Telling you of the herd once more, Yet you may hear a deep-toned knell Bcunding out 'neath a_ village spire Now and then, and here an n(hcru re, t where Tellin, tale to the sunset's Leading_some brother's spiri All the herded jovs of his future a. the F Now, the very thing wou No Clothing F yrowning Just Before ourth One week now unfil July 4th. On that day you will want to be comfortable and easy in dress, especially if you are going to sit ‘round the yard and shoot fire crackers. 1d be a pair of our Golf Trous- ers—the $3.50 and $4.00 kind that we are selling at $1.00. Or a pair of crash or linen ones, at $2.00 and $2.50. Roft shirts $1.00 up. Belts 25¢c and up. Everything in fact except shoes for men and boys. its Like Ours. K3 @ Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R. 8. Wilcex, Manager. e e e