Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 27, 1902, Page 6

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BUSINESS LETTERS. tters and romittances should ‘he Bee Publishing Com- and ed: FULSION CONFUSION, The populist and democratic conven- tions just held at Grand Island, to put in nomination a state ticket for the com- ing campaign, have afforded a striking fllustration of the confusion of fusion. The efforts of two conventions, going through the forms of nominating one set of candidates to make the race on two different platforms under two differ- ent names, which all admit have no difference in meaning, would be amus- ing If they were not taken so seriously by those participating In them. That nothing sustains the maintenance of two separate party organizations, except the lust for spoils and the hope of each to get the uppermost. in the distribution, is no longer concealed. The purpose of fusion I8 twofold. Firet, each party to the compact Is struggling to fool the other party into the bellef that it is furnisbing the bulk of the fusion votes and therefore entitled to the bulk of the offices; and, second, both together are endeavoring to fool the people into the belief that they are REMITTANCES. t by draft, express or postal order, m)‘lbl. to The Bee Publishing Compuny, 2-cent mps accepted in payment of mai accounts. Fersona: checks, cept on {: Or eastern exchange, not ace Dl.@ THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPA. " ITA‘I'IKENT OF CIRGULATION, tate ot ka. Douglas Count George ik, secretary of The Hee Fublishing’ Company, being duly sworn, says that the attual number of full and Tpiste coples of The Deily, Morning: vening and Bunday Bee printed during month of May, 1%, was &s follows: R Iy F:EE.- Net total sales. Net dally average Subscribed tn my sence and s U?Kl before me this slst "B 1901 Seal) of .‘5 A Dl n otlry Bibiic. 'L King Edward's bedside is now the focal point of the world's news. Sp—— Hereafter the main show of the fusion eircus will be pulled off in the demo- pratic tent. i The weather man is admonished to ftake another look at the calendar and hurry up the late consignments. l The ocean steamship combine should now let its coronation schedule of pas- senger rates down a notch or two. S—— Our Dave snya he Is coming straight to Omaha n as congress adjourns. What will Afllntlc City do without him? e ———— It Is now Dr. Theodore Roosevelt, but we will continue to address him as President Roosevelt for some time to tome. i Nebraska populists may now enjoy the rare privilege of serving as hewers of wood and drawers of water for the Bemocratic animals. Set—— According to latest information, Mont Pelee is still a warm number, although public interest in its indisposition has perceptibly cooled off. T It will take a “big glant,” to say noth- ing of a “little glant,” to carry the Ne- braska forces of calamity to victory in the midst of republican prosperity. | Among the recipients of coronation bonors, Sir Thomas Lipton is to be a peer of England. As a true sportsman he has long ago been voted the peer of anyone. ‘Whenever the franchised corporations are willing to compromise on a figure for their tax assessment we may be sure -that the other taxpayers are getting the ‘Worst of It. e i-i— _ King Edward's coronation festival has been declared off, but King Ak-Sar- Ben's coronation carnivai will be held on schedule time, subject only to the acts of God. ' e— By the adoption of the conference re- port on the Panama bill, which is sure to receive the signature of the president, another of the pledges in the last re- publican national platform is redeemed, —_——————— rpr ways that are dark and tricks that are vain, the heathen Chinee is reputed to be peculiar. When it comes to pecullarity, however, the fusion statesmen in Nebraska will not have to give way to the heathen Chinee, — It was a two-ring show at Grand Island and the continuous performance lasted twenty-four hours without inter- ruption. Riddle: How long would it bave taken to drop the curtain had there been three rings as formerly in- stead of only two? If the signs are read aright, a grand battle is In the air between rival tele- graph companies, and if it is a fight to a finish it will end only one of two ways—elther the strouger will swallow the weaker or the government will swal- low both into a postal telegraph systewm. _— South - Dakota populists have sub- mitted to voluutary wmerger into the democratic corporation of that state, trading off even their separate name “n the bargain for a chance at the spolls. In Nebraska the absorption merger h mot yet been completed, but it is well under way. x epe— _Items have been added to the general deficlency Dbill before congress to the amount of $660,000 to help pay the deficits of the Buffalo and Charteston expositions. It must be a gratifying recollection of all connected with the _ Omaha exposition that it inberited no deficlt with whieh to waylay congress. still really two great political parties unselfishly joined together to accomplish patriotic purposes. We feel safe in ex- pressing the conviction that neither of these games of deceit can succeed. As to the ticket and platforms, they are precisely what was to be expected out of a mass of heterogeneous and con- flicting interests, with no common pur- pose except to divide between them the patronage of the state government. While some of the candidates are above the average in point of personality, on the whole they are of an indifferent and conglomerate character, with no special fitness for the offices which they seek which would appeal for support outside of their own party lines. Their platforms are radical on nearly every issue they touch. Thelr extreme partisanship s disclosed in the arraign- ment of the republicans for offenses of which the fusion officers were equally, if not more, guilty when they were in control of the state house. The rallroad tax planks are in line with public senti- ment, but no more so than the rallroad tax planks of the republican platform, which promise in scarcely less specific terms to respond to the popular demand. The issues joined in the platforms will, of course, call for further discussion as the campaign progresse: NO UCCASION FOR COMPRUMISE. The supreme court in the Omaha tax case laid down a specific and unmistak- able rule by which the value of cor- porate franchises was to be reached in computing their valuation for assess. ment purposes. Under that rule the taxable value of a franchised corpora- tion 18 to be found by adding together all of the bonds and stocks at their mar- ket quotations and deducting only an amount equivalent to that returned as the assessment of its real estate and other tangible property. When the question of revising the as- sessments of these corporations was be- fore the city council a grossly inade- quate valuation was agreed to in the form of a compromise under the pre- tense of the corporations that a large part of their property and business was situated outside of the limits of the city of Omaha and, therefore, not subject to municipal taxation. It is a fact, how- ever, that none of the property of any of these corporations, with the excep- tion of the telephone company, is out- side of Douglas county, so that in list- ing them for assessment on the county rolls there is no excuse nor occasion for compromise of any kind. The mandate of the supreme court certainly applies to the county commis- sloners sitting as a board of equaliza- tion just as much as it does to the city council. That mandate requires them to assess corporate franchises at a val- uation computed as the sum of the out- standing stocks and bonds, minus the tangible property already ssed. No other deductions are to be made—no other concessions to be granted. The bond and stock Issues are of record and their market quotations accessible. The problem is simply one of mathematics and calls for the intervention of neither the Real Estate exchange nor the cor- poration lawyers. When the sum is added all that the county board has to do is to reduce it to the same ratable proportion that has been applied by the assessors in fixing the values of real es- tate within this county and enter it upon the assessment roll. Any devia- tion from this plan is a flagrant viola- tion of the law in deliberate disregard of the supreme court decision. SENATE CANAL BILL ADOPTED. The house of representatives having adopted the senate canal bill, known as the Spooner substitute, that question is disposed of and in a way that will be satisfactory to a very large ma- Jority of the people of the country who have given intelligent attention to It. The vote in the house on the conference report agreeing to the senate measure was nearly unanimous, showing that a great change In sentiment had taken place since the passage of the Hepburn bill in January, when the house was overwhelmingly in favor of the Nicara- gua route. The change was due in a measure to the subsequent report of the Isthmian Canal commission favorable to the Panama route, made after it was ascertained what the French company would sell its property for, and in part to conditions in the region through which the Nicaragua canal would pass that were deemed by eminent sclentific authority to be dangerous. It is impos- sible to say definitely -which of these considerations was the more influential in changing opinion In congress, but probably the latter, which undoubtedly was the case with the public. The bill will doubtless be promptly approved by the president and the ne- gotiations it provides for entered upon as soon as practicable. The general terms of the measure have heretofore been stated. It authorizes the presi- dent to purchase at a cost not exceed- g $40,000,000 all the rights, franchises flm‘ s Cunal DAILY BEE: company of France on the Isthmus of Panama, provided a satisfactory title to such property can be obtained. He is further authorized to acquire from the republic of Colombia exclusive and per- petual control of a strip of land six miles wide extending from the Carib- bean sea to the Pacific ocean, with other concessions necessary to the con- struction, operation and maintenance of the canal. If the president should be unable to obtain a satisfactory title to the rights, franchises and property of the Panama company and the required territory and other concessions from Co- lombia, within a reasonable time and upon reasonable terms, then he shall negotiate with Nicaragua and Costa Rica for territory through which to con- struct an Interoceanic canal. The bill creates an isthmnian canal commission, provides for appropriations, the first of which is $10,000,000, aud authorizes the secretary of the treasury to borrow from time to time, as the expenditures on the canal may require, the sum of $130,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. There is no time limit for negotiations. The construction of an isthmian canal is now assured and there will be a general feeling of satisfaction that the matter has been taken out of the fleld of controversy. A great responsibility has been devolved on President Roose- act of benevolence. The effect of gaining the friendship of the population of France was worth far more than the cost of the expedition, Wor ™ Chicago Tribune. Upon the whole, Mr. Cleveland has rather the better of Wditor Bryan thus far. The latter has not been able to wriggle out of that shadow of predestined defeat. Whom Does the Shoe Fitt Washington Post, The gentlemen who gathered at the home of the late Richard P. Bland last week for the purpose of unveiling a monument to his memory were conspicuous in the work of plotting the great silver advocate out of the democratic nomination in 1896, | Somehow or other hypocrites have a great | weakness for gathering about the graves of thelr victim Good Examples to F Baltimore American. The king of England ordering that all loyal addresses and references shall in- clude the queen as well as himself, and the emperor of Germany leading the stu- dents of Bonn In cheers for his empress are setting notable examples as apprecia- tive husbahds. And the royal ladies In question are both deserving of the marital tributes thus gracefully rendered. Operation of the Natural Law, Baltimore Amerfcan. Europeans continue denouncing American invasion, but they are not mi ing any strenuous efforts, seemingly, to re- pel it by refusing to buy the goods. In the velt, but there can be no doubt that he will perform the duty faithfully and with the least possible delay. e THE TRUST ISSUE. The democrats attack the trusts as if they alone were opposed to trust abuses, ignoring the fact that the republican party was the first to declare opposition to monopolistic combinations and enacted the only federal law against them. As was sald by a republican congressman a few days ago, trusts are not a new issue. As long ago as 1888, when Cleveland was president and the democrats had a majority in the house of representatives, the committee on manufactures was instructed to investi- gate trusts. It made an investigation at an expense of some $10,000 to the tax- payers of the country and with what result? The committee reported in 1889 that it found the number of combina- tions and trusts to be large, affecting a considerable portion of the manufactur- ing and industrial Interests of the coun- try, but that owing to the difference of opinfon between the members of the committee they limited the report to “gsubmitting to the careful considera- tion of subsequent congresses the facts shown In the testimony taken before the commlittee.” There was no suggestion as to legislation for dealing with the trusts and no attempt by that demo- cratic house to frame legislation. The democratic party came into con- trol of the presidency and both branches of congress in 1803, after the republican party had enacted the anti-trust law, but the democrats did nothing against the trusts, the number of which steadily increased while that party was in power. It did not attempt to enforce the existing anti-trust legislation and when the Cleveland administration pro- brief, no amount of human indignation or policy will do away with the natural law of the survival of the fittest and as long as American goods are the fittest they will survive those of European competitors, An Appeal to the Books. Philadelphia Record. The dispute between the anthracite miners, who assert they are underpaid, and the mine owners, who declare that the wage now pald is adequate for the service rendered, is In fact an appeal to the books. The Reading company, which s the largest employer, offers to show its books and give all required information. Out of such a situation it would seem a way might be found to break the present deadlock. Labor Commissioner Wright, who has had free access to all necessary sources of in- formation, ought to be able to at least sug- gest the right thing to do. Who Sald Harmony? Chicago Chronicle (dem.) Ts there a genuine democrat anywhere who can make a speech on party affalre without recelving unpleasant attention from various harmonizers in all parts of the country who are armed with brickbats and decayed vegetables? Every old leader of the democratic party was more or let of a democrat. Most of the new leaders trace their political ancestry through a populist or two to a long line of flat money republicans. If the old leaders eannot speak without precipitating a riot what will happen pretty soon when some of the mew chieftains take the floor? TAKING AND GIVING LIFE. Truths About the Philip looked by the Oppositi Chicago Tribune. General Wheaton has a philosophic way of looking at the situation in the Philippines, where he has been on duty for the last thres years. He sees compensations for the rave ages of war where Senator Hoar can sec none. The general admits that there has been much ‘loss of life among the natives, due to their obstinate and unwise resistance to American authority. He says that the sanitary reforms which have been intro- nounced the act of 1890 to be defective and inadequate the democrats in con- gress made no effort to remedy the al- leged defects and render the law more effective. They merely incorporated in the tariff actof 1804 a provision relating to trusts which was so manifestly. inade- quate that even the democratic admin- {stration paild no attention to it. The democratic party had an excellent op- portunity at that time to strike at the trusts and utterly failed to improve it, although the demand for some action against the combinations was then hardly less general and vigorous than it is at present. Now that the republican administra- tion is seeking the enforcement of the anti-trust law the democrats are not satisfied, complaining because it has not instituted criminal proceedings, instead of taking the more direct way of reme- dying abuses through injunction. Had the administration resorted to criminal prosecution against the alleged beef combine, for example, it is not to be doubted that the democrats would have found fault with that course on the ground that it was intended to give the combine an opportunity to continue its exactions upon the public, which it was the purpose of the injunction proceed- ings to promptly check. The republican party declared its op- position to trusts fourteen years ago and attested its sincerity in the law now in force. The democratic party, ‘when it had the opportunity, did nothing agalnst the trusts. There can be no doubt which party s to he trusted to properly deal with this question. — County Clerk Miller has come to the conclusion that county officers ought to be elected to serve four years instead of two years as now, and he is inviting opinions of other county clerks through- out the state on the same subject with a view to promoting legislation having that purpose. It is safe to say that Mr. Miller will find unusual unanimity among all the county officers, who are always convinced that their terms of official usefulness are altogether too short. The strange part of the proceed- ing, however, is that County Clerk Mil- ler never discovered this remarkable de- fect in our legislation until he himself became duly installed on the county pay- roll free from the threat of an election contest. em———— Kick Over the Milk Can. Kansas City Journal Mr. Bryan figures that there will be much more fun iz heading off the plans of the party reorganizers than in making a losing race for governor of Nebraska. Generosity Appreciated. Bhtladelphia Ledger. "To the American people the sending of duced by the American civil and military authorities have saved many more lives than the American soldlers have taken. American rifles and cannon have sent many Filipinos to premature graves, but compuisory vacecination and the stamping out of the bubenic plague have saved many Filipinos from such graves. The destructive and conservative agencies of ofvilization ave gone through the archipelago hand in hand. The general estimates that 500,000 lives have been preserved by the presence of the Americans in the Philippines. This 'is not the way in which the “‘anti- imperialists” keep their account books. They will not give credit to the agents ol the government In the islands for the saving of a single life. They will contend that nothing done there has worked for good— not even vaccination. Yet General Wheaton's logle seems to be sound. It is unfortunate that the Filipinos did not allow the Ameri- cane to devote themselves exclusively to the task of protecting life in the archipelago. That was their desire. They would not have fired one hostlle shot if the Filipinos had not made it necessary for them to do so. THE PEERLESS IS “IT.” Brya: Announced Intention to Boss the Graveyard Party, Kansas City Star (ind.) Under existing political conditjons in the United States public interests are best served by a comparatively even balance in the numerical strength and popular prestige of the two leading parties. For this reason all high-minded citizens, regardless of nat- ural preferences, would welcome a rejuvena- tion of the democracy. They would gladly see a return of the high-plane rivalry that once existed between the two great political organizations of the country, the strength of the one acting as a check on the policles of the other. For these very good reasons the statement given out by Mr. Willlam J. Bryan deserves consideration. Mr. Bryan has at least cleared the demo- cratic atmosphere, even it he has grievously disappointed those eupporters who had hoped that he would some time hearken to the volce of reason on the subject of demo- cratic reunion. To apply to him the illus. tration he used In discussing Mr. Cleveland he has made the democracy a ‘“preferred creditor’” by letting it know the worst in advance, His statement has made clear these facts: That Mr. Bryan means to remain active in politice, accepting any leadership that may be offered him in national affairs, and as- suming such leadership when it is not of- fered. That he will give no countenance to those democrats who could not conscientiously support him in his races for the presidency, except on what he knows to be the impos- sible condition of confession of sin, plea: for admission to the Bryan ranks and a term of probationary membership. That he utterly refus to approve any plan of democratic allgnment that does not endorse as essential policies the erroneous deoetrines that twice caused the defeat of the party. That he would rather be the head of a losing faction or a defeated party than to retire in order that the democracy might be led to victory by others. That his course will be, as it has been for some time, utterly selfish and disloyal, inasmuch as there is no hope of success In his leadership or through his policies. It is also quite plain that if the regular democratic organizations should—as it ought —repudiate such a hopeless leadership Mr. Bryan would become the standard bearer of & relief ship to Martinique was such an ordinary matter that many of them, doub! less, have already forgotten that such a ship was sent, but Assistant Secretary Adee, who happened to be travellng In France at the ti reports that the act .‘ . m:d‘:l:l:‘ over IG;‘:‘I party or head & new organiza- p of his remalning followers. circumstances all who want to mocratic party restored to its old-time pristige, with possibilities of again securing the reigns of government, must realize that they can have nothing more to do with William J. Bryaa. FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1902. A New Domain Indianapolis News New lands for great masses of people will be created by the irrigation of the arid sections of the Rocky mountain. re- glon and Pacific coast. The government owns about 600,000,000 acres of land in this region, and 10 per cent of it will be avail- able for agricultural purposes under a sys- tem of irrigation entirsly practicable and not difficult to attaln. The vast remainder consists of mountain and forest and desert beyond reclamation or at least for many years to come. The lands that can be brought in constitute an area equal to one and a half times that of New England, and their reclamation would open to settle- ment a reglon easily capable of supporting more than 10,000,000 people. Of course, the work can not be done all at once, and this perha will constitute part of its value. It will require a good many years to make valuable acres out of valueless lauds. Farmers east of the Rocky moun- tains have complained that they would be taxed under public irrigation laws to open cheap lands to be brought into competition with their more expensive land. On t other hand, it was held that the states in which the land lay would take up the work if the national government would cede to them the arid lands. This the govern- ment had repeatedly refused to do. It was then agreed that the rest of the ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK, % on the Current of Life in the Metropolis, Rev. John L. Scudder, an up-todate con- egational minister at Jersey City, has started an athletic boom among the women of his congregation. The other evening he preached a sermon on “‘How to Bring Up Our Girls,” In which he sald: “The kind of angel I like to see welghs not less than 130 pounds. “Her walst is more than five inches In diameter, and her heels, instead of being perched upon stilts, are on a level with the rest of her feet. “She is as straight as an arrow; she never has hysterics; she sleeps seven hours and enjoys every moment of it. “‘She has a clear head, a pure heart and a cheerful disposition. She is a real woman— nothing artificial or assumed about her. Bhe is no sham, no apology or caricature of & woman. She is just what God meant her to be—healthy, hearty and perfectly natural.” He endorsed athletics for girls and asked this question It an English girl can play cricket with her brother, why should not an American girl play something better than bean bag? Recorder Goff's statement in the trial of Jerome Victory, that *‘the police have only business to keep a prisoner in safety and not to put him through an inquisitory de- gree,”” amounts to a caustic denunciation of what is known in police garlance as ‘“The Third Degree.” ‘““The police,” he added, “transcend their power every time they question & prisoner. No ‘captain, sergeant or detective has any right to question a prisoner. That s the magistrate's duty. It is a dangerous and malicious practice.” That the recorder's criticism is just is proved by young Victory's statement of the kind of “Third Degree” to which he was subjected. A boy only 15 years old, and in- nocent of crime (the jury promptly ac- quitted him), he was detained two or three days before being arraigned, nearly starved at the station house, twice knocked down by one policeman and spat in the face by another, and otherwise roughly handled, in order to make him confess to a crime he never committed. The People's University Extension soclety of New York has completed its fourth year of work for the improvement of soctal con- ditione. It s the aim of the soclety, says the New York Sun, to help the hundreds of small local organizations which are &trug- gling to ald the people around them by providing for these little socleties the trained teachers which their work most requires. How much the poor themselves appreciate what is being done is seen in their pathetic desire for the practical knowledge given. It is not unusual for working girls to at- tend the evening classes supperless, because they have not had time to go home to eat a meal first. Women just come from the hard labor of scrubbing offices after business hours are found at these same classes. Instruction in dressmaking and household economy means much to them in their struggle to feed and clothe their children well on scanty for mothers on hygiene, sanitation and the care of children form the largest department of the socléty’s work. Then the; is Instruction in elementary manual training—for instance, in basket weaving and chair caning for boys and girls, helping them to earn & living and keep them out of mischief. Sewing and dressmaking classes are also held and are in great demand. Especially they awaken enthusiasm among the grown girls and married women. A man thought the cooking class the best thing In the soclety's work. His wife worked In a store before they married. The result was that it took all his wages to buy canned food, and yet the couple never had anything fit to eat till the wife went to cooking school. For the girls working in shops and fac- tories physical culture classes are held. The girls like them and gain noticeably in health and strength. Lecture courses in civics and American history deslgned to inspire a stronger sense of clvie responsibility in the individual are gtven. For these and for all other kinds of instruction it offers the soclety is con- stantly recelving more appeals than it can possibly satisty with the means at its di posal. The recent hotel disasters keep the guests of these places in a state of ready watch- fulness “They are ready to rush into the street at the scratch of a match,” says one of the proprietors. A day or so ago there was a curtain on in the dining room at the Hotel Endicott. Someone sald “Fire, and the whole household trooped into the street. One wontan rushed upon a second floor balcony and was about to throw her- self to the pavement, when a woman more cool advised her to go into the hall and walk down stairs. The contractor for the stone work of the Hall of Records at Center and Chambers streets has in place one of the monster anite pillars which will form part of the facade of the structure. There will be thirty-two pillars, eight of twenty tons of 2,200 pounds each, elght of twenty-eight tons, eight of thirty-two tons and elght of forty tons. The one in place is one of the smallest size, Its dimensions are thirty- six feet long, four feet wide and two feet thick. It was quarried at the John Peires works at Hallowell, Kennebec county, and the quarry work for it alone took up three months. It was taken to Harlem on a pecial flat car, lightered to the Battery, and transported by ten horses on a truck to the west front of the Hall of Records. It was lifted from the truck Into the alley by & boom steam derrick with & capacity of 100 tous and lald on chocks. When the Llargest pillars are landed at the Battery country should not be drawn on more than was absolutely necessary, and so the pur- pose of the law is to work out a way that shall be nearly self-supporting. Jt Is to begin under the direction of the secretary of the interior with money ylelded by the current government land sales. There will be only a few million dollars which will be Increased yearly. As land is irrigated it will be sold at a price to cover the cost of its reclamation and of maintaining the irrigation. Not more than 160 acres will be sold to any one owner. While this to a degree involves an appropriation equal to the present net proceeds of public lands from the general fund for the advantage of a small part of the country, the appro- propriation is not great, and, besides, storage basins which frequently have to be con- structed in the mountains of one state for lands lying in another, might be held as examples of government work quite as clear as a great deal of what is done under the river and harbor bill. Altogether, the con- clusion is probably as falr and as work- able as ls often reached in human affairs. The practical results are going to be an addition of good land that will hold about a8 many people as there are in the Philip- pines and they will be American people. It will only cost us a few million dollars and not a drop of blood. the truck that will take them to the Hall of Records will be drawn by twenty horses. The cost of the thirty-two pillars will be about $170,000. The largest of them will be round and thirty-six feet long, with & diameter of four feet two inches. The Provident Loan assoclation, which conducts = philanthroplc pawnbroking busi- ness in this city, made, last year, a profit of 6 per cent on a capital of $388.000 and has a surplus of $111,000. Philanthropy in this case is a good business investment, which makes it the best kind of an invest- ment. Loans are made on personal prop- erty at moderate but paying rates. Among the trustees of the assoclation are Willlam E. Dodge, Abram 8. Hewitt, D. 0. Mills, Cornelius Vanderbilt, George F. Baker, Solomon Loeb, James Speyer and J. Ken- nedy Tod. President Bonnard's report says: “After branches have ben opened In the important centers of the Greater New York city we may well consider the advisability of extending our usefulness to less profitable business In poorer sections of the ocity, making more loans on clothing and less de- sirable pledges. We must not forget that the purpose of our corporation {s philan- thropical 60 far as s consistent with the tull measure of strength and safety.” ——— PERSONAL NOTES, In the event of the death of King Edward British insurance companies -una to lose $10,000,000. The corporations controlled by J. Pler- pont Morgan and his assoclates enough taxes Into the New Jersey state treasury to cover all the expenses of the common- wealth, it Is said. John Philip Sousa ha & copy of his march beautifully {lluminated upon vellum in an- tique fashion and inclosed in a gold- mounted morocco case. Robert de Billy, one of the Rochambeau party, before sailing for home last week, sald that what had surprised him most in this country was the loyalty of the nat- uralized citizens to the country of thelr adoption. The loss entalled to London in innumer- able directions by the abandonment of the festivities has been roughly estimated at $20,000,000. Hundreds of bankrupte! ow- ing to seat, food, timber and decoration speculations are expected. Harlan P. Hall of 8t. Paul, Nestor of the Minneapolis press, has announced himself as a candidate for governor of Minnesota on the democratic ticket. Mr. Hall started five newspapers at St. Paul, four of which survive and are prosperous. Personally he is exceedingly popular. Democratic Congressman Joseph A. Conry of the Ninth district of Massachusetts has been selected by Mayor Collins of Boston to deliver the Fourth of July oration before the city authorities and people m Faneuil hall and he has accepted the invitation. Bos- ton's list of Fourth of July orators is long and contains many eminent names. Considerably over 400 columns of the Con- gressional Record are occupled with speeches on the isthmian canal bill. Sena- tor Morgan's elght speeches on the subject fill 172 columns, Senators Hanna and Mitch- ell coming next with forty-two columns and two speeches. The shortest talk of the lot was one of a column by Senator Hawley. Senator Kittredge of South Dakota takes pride in never saying more than “Yi ““No" to newspaper men. One day recently & correspondent interviewed him, but was unable to get more than the monosyllables named in reply. Finally he asked: “What is the largest city in South Dakota?" senator looked his surprise as he answered: “Sioux Falls.” The correspondent bowed and left. Meeting a friend a few moments later he sald: have all you fellows beaten now. I have just added the words ‘Sloux Falls' to Senator Kittredge's vocabu- lary."” WHERE BRITAIN EXCELS, from Rallroad Accidents in England and Americn. Atlanta Journal We were aware that the number and per- centage of deaths from raillroad accidents s very much smaller In Great Britain than In the United States, but a recent report of the British Board of Trade con- tains the almost incredible statement that in the whole of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales not one passenger was killed last year in rallroad train accidents. When we consider that the rallroads of the United Kingdom carried 1,500,000,000 pas- sengers last year this statement is very hard to belleve. The number of persons in- Jured in any way out of this vast number is glven at 476. The British Rallway Gazette boasts that only one in about every 3,000,- 000 passengers on the railways of the United Kingdom last year falled to reach his destination without injury of any kind. ‘The accuracy of this report I8 guaranteed by the government, the British Board of Trade is a government bureau. The report for 1901 is the cleanest on record. The statistics for the year 1900 show that sixteen passengers were killed and 863 Injured during that year. While passengers on the rallways of the United Kingdom escaped entirely last year elght trainmen were killed and 156 injured. This ‘was a marked decrease of the number of fatalities and injuries to railway trainmen last year. The number of railroad employes killed and injured In this country is shockingly large every year—very much greater than the number in all the countries of Europe combined. The enforcement of the federal law requiring airbrakes and automatic coup- lers on all cars used in interstate com- merce has reduced the percentage of fatall- ties and personal injurles on our raflroads to a notable extent, but the uumber of them is still frighttully large. Deaths FLASHES OF FUN, Philadelphia Press: about him." “No? But he's still doing business at the old stand, {sn’t he Ay, Eather, he is floing business at the old stand-still." New York Sun: ““There's no progress ‘‘Yes, he expects his income wil paps, Jack says be doubled next hnl- good. Some da}' he may make enough to luvDOI'l himsel Chicago Post: “No, George," isald the girl regretfully, “T'll not sit in the hammock wnh you this evening, Papa has attached 8 patent device to It that registers the ght. Detrolt Free Press: “Don’t you think she’s a model mother?” ‘Why, her children are little terrorst"* Yes, 'but she writes such good papers for our mothers' meetings.” Chicago Tribune: Glrl wllh lho Glibson Girl ‘eck—Fan Bl begun to show her age, hasn't lhe1 Girl with the Julla Marlowe Dimple—I :‘hould say not. She's begun to try to de it. New York Sun: Madge—Dolly is going somewhere with that young man this even- arjorie—Yes, going to sit with him in the hammock. Right after dinner she went upstairs and put on a dark shirtwaist. Detroit Free Press: ‘“There is only one lace where an American s content to ave another a ve him, remarked Bell- ingham to Gilde 'And where is lhlt I'd lke to know? “In the upper berth of a sleeping cai Philadelphia Press: “Well, I'm th this rag-time music Is nltlns ou( ate,” re- marked the busines: ‘m sure It gave me indigestion.’ ‘“Nonsense!" “Fact. The orchestra at the restaurant where I take my lunch always pll»ed it ’lnd 1 couldn’t help keeping time with my jaw ‘Washin, on Bta. should we care 5o, much the nhilma}lher W 't a8 mueh as we used an- lw.red Senator Sorghum; fur or ofl or d these day: T d rather have veral other things than YOUNG LOCHINVAR UP TO DATE. 8. E. Kiser In the Record-Herald. Oh, young Lochinvar came out to the west; He' Glaimed that his sutomoblia was tha It wau xiu.lnt?d dark red and it briliantly one, He W]enl ke a streak and he rode all alore; He shot over ruts with a zipp and a far, And people fled madly from young Lochin- var With a whirr of his wheels and a hum of his Mrfl He ksncke down the children and ran over o} He fr ned the horses and laughed at their pranks, And men who got mad he regarded as cranks; He gave her the very last notch on the har. And a cloud of dust followed the gay Lochinvar. He stayed not at bridges, he stopped not for stone, He calmly took all of the road as his own Till he came lo l crossing and smashed through a And enfluvnred o Butt through a trainload ot freight Thay loflrc ed and at last, lying under a ‘l'hny lound a few chunks rof the bold Lochinvar, The lady sat waiting to hear the loud hum That Would tell her the gallant had finally But Ihe wdwd with sighs and she walted in ‘Those cl.r wheell bore many a sickening stain And, lo show you how pitiless some people are. They_sald 1t Lochinvar. was good for the young tion of Omaba's shrewdest paremts. 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