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

6 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2 ‘[HE OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNINC IMS OF SGBSCRIPTION. (without séfnaay,, Une Year . $4.00 One Year Cew hustrated dvseiosse O] Bunday Bee, w aturaay bee, Une Yedr : Lo ‘wensleth Cefitury Farmer, One Year.. 1w DELIVEKED BY CARRIER Dally Bee (without Sunday), per cc Daily Bee (Wiihout Sunduy), per week...1 Daily Bee nciuaing sunauy), per week..1ic Butiuay b r cop b [ Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week sc Evening bee (nciuaing suuday), . per week . 10c Complaints ‘of irreguiaritics in_delivery shouid be addressed 15 City Circulation e parument. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Buildin Bouth Omaha—City Huil ty-nith ana m sireets. Council biufis—lu Fearl Street. Chi 8. Bullding, Twen- KO—ibw L alng New york—an Purk how Bullding. Washington—oul Fourteenth Street. CORKESPONUDENCE. Communications relating to nev torial matter should be adaresse Bee, Eaitorial Lepartment BUSBINESS LETT RS Business letters and remittances should be addressed’ The Bee Fubushing Com- pany, OUmaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by drati, express or postal order, yable to The Bee Publishing Company. nly Z-cent stamps accepled in paymet of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or castern exchange, not v THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPA. and edi- Omaha BTATEMENT OF CIRC Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, George B. Tzscliuck, secretary 'of Bee Puvitshing Company, being duly sworn, Bays that the actuai number of full and complete copies of The Daily, Mornins, Evening and Sunday bee printed during was as follows: the month of October, 81,070 81,600 .84,680 82,800 31,830 860,615 0872 coples... al ... Less unsold and returned Net toral sales. Net average sale GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this %ist day of October, A. D., 2. M. B, HUNGATE (8eal.) Notary Publi, If you want more, be thankful for what you have. | For today the turkey supplants the eagle as the national bird. The doubling of the deposits of the Omaha banks within a period of two years is a fact that carries its own com- mentary. If worse comes to worst, it may be necessary to compel the State Journal and the World-Herald to arbitrate their Aifferences. The foot ball players who not only sur- vive today’s battles, but also carry vie- tory on their banners, Wwill fndeed have cause for thanksgiving. No new cabinet officer has been added to the president's family since the first term of Grover Cleveland. The ninth cabinet officer s almost due. —_— Theinext amendment to the rules of the Commercial club should be one against telling stoiles of questionable propriety at its public banquets. It turns out that Nebraska is not the only state in which land frauds on the public domajn have beeu perpetrated. There may be some consolation in that. L It now takes $2.85 in Mexican silver | to buy what one dollar in gold will buy | in that country. But we will not say | anything wore about the sacred ratio| of 16 to 1. Now that' the contending telephone companies of South Omaha bave gotten Into court with their troubles, inquiries of central Will bring the response that the judicial live is bus; Not since the days of the James and Younger brothers has the Industry of bank robbery flourished as it has lately. The trust privelple may have to be re- sorted to in suppressing it nor If the forecast of Gov Mickey appointments to his cle foree should prove to be correct it would seem that the Kirst congressional district is the | only one on the governor's map. The goveruors of eighteen agricultural states are expected to attend the live stock show at Chicago next week. 'I’ho‘ governor of Nebraska must be in the | list, and no bull fight among the attra tions, either. — Those helter skelter newspapers which | a few days agoe proclaimed the anthra- cite coal arbitration all off and all differ- | ences between miuers and operators ad Justed might at least 'fess up to thelr | readers that they got the cart abead of | the horse. Ee———— The complaint about the inadequacy | of the ecqupensation attached to thed office of ligutenant gévernor in this state ‘) under present coustifutional limitations | overlooks the fact that the $10 per diem of the lieutenant govérnor s at a greater rate than the salary accorded the gov- ernor himself, who'gets only $2,500 a year, or less than'$7 a day. Neither officer 1s likely to grow rich off his pay. ——— Jealousy is not an admirable emotion, but like the wrath of man it sometimes eventuates in good; as In the relations between Henry Wy Frick and Andrew Carnegle. The former, It appears, Is not to be outdone in public benefactions, and proposes to build and endow an ed- ucational institution at Pittsburg which will throw the Carnegle institute in the Bhade. However, Carnegie's benevolence 18 evidenced by actual brick, mortar and THANKSGIVING DAY. President Roosevelt's proclamation designating a national thanksgiving day saye that in the more than a century and a quarter since the United States took its place among the nations of the wave had on the whole more to be thankful for than has fallen to the lot of any other people. Each succeed- ing generation has had its burdens and its trials, yet decade by decade we have struggled onward and upward and now abundantly enjoy materfal well-being. “The year that has just closed,” says the proclamation, ‘fias been one of peace and of overflowing plenty. Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good, and we seek to praise Him not by words only but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty 'to our fellow men.” In the spirit of those words all should observe this national festival of thanks- giving. The season of joy should also be a season of charity and mutual good will. Out of the great material pros- perity that has blessed the labors of all classes of workers in every section of the union there should come a genulne spiritual uplifting that will enable men to see the brighter and the better side of our national life and appreciate more fully the splendid opportunities it af- fords. Any good eitizen, no matter what his religious bellef, can join with his fellow citizens on the day set apart in heartfelt thanks for the bounteous ®ood ‘things heaped on the nation and the people during the year. That s the primary meaning of the day, though there are others hardly less significant which have grown as the day itself has expanded into a national occasion. Thanksgiving, though in its origin it was purely local and up to the time of the civil war had scarcely any officlal recognition outside of New England, has become an essentlally national festival and undoubtedly is permanently established as such. The Pilgrim Fathers perhaps left no move distinct impress upon the country than that which is perpetuated in the thanksgiving observance. It Is certainly well that the nation takes one day in the year to consider the state of the body politic and express gratitude not only for ma- teral well-being, but also for the main- tenance of the institutions that have brought such happiness and prosperity. Surely no nation has better reason than this to be thankful. Seseee——— HELPING THE HOME MARKET. The advance In wages of hundreds of thousands of railroad men and other em- ployes of large companies will neces- sirily be helpful to the home market. It increases the purchasing power of a great army of wage earners to the ex- tent of hundreds of millions of dollars and a large part of the increase will go to the purchase of more' of the neces- saries and comforts of life, It will be a stimulus to commerce and’productive in- wowe dustry. There Is one point, however, sug- gests the Cleveland Leader, that is doubtful and this is the influence which it may have on American competition with other nations for the markets of the world. That paper says that if capital accepts whatever decrease may be necessyry in its profits, in order to advance wages without increasing prices, looking to the expausion of business and wider oppor- tunities for investment for its reward, then the position of this country in com- petition for the trade of other countries will be made better instead of worse. “But it the éhippers of freight are to pay for the Increased wages of railroad em- ployes because of a higher average charge for transportation, then the ad- dition of many millious a year to the cost of sending great staples to market must affect the ability of American pro- ducers to sell their merchandise in for- eign lands.” The rallroads have ad- vauced transportation charges and it is country will more than pay the increase in the wages of rallroad employes, yet this is hardly likely to have an appreci- able effect upon our competition for for- elgn markets. At all events, the ad- vance in wages Is unquestionably a good thing for the home'trade and that is the more important consideration. HALT OF CANAL NEGOTIATIONS. The announcement that the Panama 1 negotiations had come to a halt, owing to the rejection by Colombla of the last proposition of the United States, was a distinet surprise, although the disposition that had been manifested by the Colombian government caused kome apprebension. It was to be ex- | peeted that that government would be somewhat exacting, but there had been such apparently earnest expressions of a desire that this country should con- struct the canal that it was believed | Colombla would eventually accept the terms offered by our government. Having declined our proposition as the basis of a treaty, which is as far as this government is willing to go in making concesslons, it looks as it the Panama route will have to be dropped unless the Colombian government shall recede from its position, which seems improbable. It appears to be the de- termination of that government to insist upon its own terms and conditions and In order that it may do this it is under- stood that Nicaragua and Costa Rica have been induced to keep out of negoti- ations with the United States, at least until it should become cértaln that uo treaty would be made between this country and Colombia. Thus there seems to be a definite arrangement be- tween those countries looking to coer- cing the United States into accepting their terms or abandoning the project of an, isthmian canal. It Is a situation that strikingly shows the untrustworthi- ness of assurances and prowises from these sources. other substantial things, while it still re- What further steps our government highly probable that the shippers of the ! new negotiations with Colombia and an attempt may be made to induce Nica ragua and Costa Rica to enter into ne gotlations. In its present aspect the situation is certainly perplexing, but there can be no doubt that ultimately an Isthmian canal will be constructed and that it will be owned and controlled by the United States. CONSTITUTION CHANGING. In his brief address at the Commercial club Lieutenant jovernor McGilton seized the occasion to endeavor to im- press upon the business men of this city the necessity of a revision of the state constitution that would enable Ne- braska to administer its state govern- ment upon a more businesslike basis. To undertake to conduct a wercantile or manufacturing establishment, which in twenty-five years had expanded its output twentyfold and increased the number of its employes eight or ten times, in the same building in which it had started up would appear to be pre- posterons. Yet Nebraska, with nearly 1,100,000 population scattered over its fertile prairies and dwelling in its cities, continuing to administer its affairs under a constitution framed and adopted when it had but 200,000 people within its borders presents no more an extreme case. The necessity of constitutional revision will be admitted by everyone who looks into the matter with unbiased judgz- ment. How to accomplish this object, however, is still a perplexing problem. Mr. McGilton has expressed the opinion that In view of the failure of all previous attempts the only course re- maining is through a constitutional con- vention. The failure of the amend- ments submitted in the past by the leg- Islature for ratification at the polls has been due to the fact that a large propor- tion of the voters neglect or refuse to express themselves either for or against the proposition, and under the ruling of the supreme court failure to register a vote I8 the same as voting against the amendment. The difficulty arises from the fact that the same methad of secur- Ing popular approval is required for summoning a constitutional convention as for adopting amendmenTs formulated by the legislature. The amending clause of the constitution, so far as it relates to revision by convention, regds as follows: ‘When three-fifths of the members elected to each branch of the iegislature deem it necessary to call a convention to revise, amend or change this constitution they shall recommend to the electors to vote at the next election of members of the legislature for or against a conventlon, and If a majority voting at eald election vote for a convention, the legislature shall At its. next session provide by law for calling the same. Inasmuch as the language here used 18 precisely identical with that employed in connection with the submission of proposed amendments, it Is hard to see how the supreme court coukl rule. dif. ferently in the ome case than in the other. In a word, to alter the constitu- tion by convention will require the posi- tive votes of the majority, not of those recording themselves on the proposition, | but of all the voters casting ballots at that particular election, Not only this, but the election at which the proposition must be submitted must be the election at which members of the legislature are chosen. The next election fulfilling this description is that of 1904, the presiden- tial year, In which the national issues are sure to overshadow all the ques- tions of merely state import. Whether it is likely or even possible for a propo- sition for a constitutional convention to carry an absolute majority at the presi- dential election in this state is a very serious question. The Bee still believes that it advised the wisest and most practicable course when it urged the governor last winter to call the legislature In extra session to act in the place of a constitutional convention and submit the necessary amendments for ratification at the re- cent election, LAST YEAR IN THE RAILRUAD WORLD. Coincident with the orders putting into effect an increase of from 10 to 85 per beent freight rates on grum, flour, voal, iron and cement, the official reports of the railroads for the fiscal year ending | June 80 to the Interstate Commerce enormous increase of thelr protits. There was an increase of 10 per cent in net earnimgs, while the aggregate amount distributed as dividends to shareholders was nearly 25 per cent greater than the previous year. If the average net earn- ings per wile of all the rouds, which was | $3,001, be capitalized at 4 per cent, the railroads of the United States are pay- ing on a valuation of $7 per mile. It Is not disputed that every mile of rallroad with its. equipment could be duplicated at an average cost uot much exceeding oune-half, and certainly be- low two-thirds of that tigure. It is a suggestive fact that the item showing taxes pald, by all the railroads, was about the same the last fiscal year as the preceding year, notwithstanding the enormous increase of actual earnings and profits and the corresponding in- crease of valuation as estimated in the business world. In-some states, as in Iowa, there was an increase of taxes, representing new mileage and higher as- sessment of the old, but Nebraska stands almost alone in showing an actual de- crease of assessment per mile. These are the conditions upon which, beyond question, there is now a syste- matic effort among those who control the carrying properties to establish a gen- eral advance of freight rates, with a strong probability that it will be done. The first half of the current fiscal year bhas already nearly elapsed, and the earnings so far exceed the rate of those which have just been given to the pub- le for the last year. The advances ol wages recently ordered will involve some addition to the cost of operation, but mains for Frick to make good on his|will take it is impossible to say, but|wages are still out of proportion to the promises. . probably there will be no effort to re- galns of the cowpanies. Taken all to- gether the facts clearly demonstrate that the roads ean well afford to contribute more nearly their just share to the pub- lic treasury, especially In Nebraska where they haye never done so. The public will wateh with interest the struggle for control of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company. "It cannot be positively proved, but it 18 highly prob- able, that an effort is on to ellminate the Colbrado concern as a competitor of the United States Steel corporation. The Osgood management, which has had such phenomenal success In developing the Colorado iron and steel industry, was able to defeat the first attempt of John W. Gates to seize control. That attempt is now renewed with a persistency and vigor which shows the importance the great interests behind Gates attribute to the supression of western competition. Precisely for that reason western sym- pathy and interests are enlisted on the side of the Osgood management. On complaint of Congressman Loud investigation is to be had into the charge that officers of the National Letter Car- riers’ association in violation of the civil service rules covertly contributed to the defeat at the recent election in Cali- fornia of the chairman of the house post- office committee. But what is to be done about the open and undisguised attempt to use the National Letter Carries’ asso- ciation, through its official organ, in the interest of the re-election of Congress- man Mercer here in Nebraska? If it is against civil service rules for the asso- clation officers to help down Loud, Is it any less offense for them to make their association journal a campaign circular for Mercer? The Commercial club, through its ex- ecutive committee, has undertaken again to advise the city council as to what it should do with the pending franchise ordinance. In this case, as in most in- stances in which the name of the Com- mercial club is used in this way, the action was taken on merely an ex parte statement from parties interested in de- feating the franchise proposition with- out even the courtesy of a hearug to the promoters of the proposed power canal. It is this one-sided sort of deal- ing by a small clique that pretends to be th: whole club that weakens the influence of the club when it really moves as a body for some public pur- pose. People who should be wost thankful of all are the owners of the rallroads in Nebraska, who for years have been un- loading the taxes they should pay for the support of the government onto the shoulders of other property owners. Not knowing how niuch longer this out- rage will be toleratéd, the beneficlaries should be thankful while it lasts. In little Delaware a special election has been called fo!dedide again between two legislative candldfites who came out of the last fracas With a tled vote. Here in Nebraska the tié would have been cut away by appealing for an injunction or mandamus to some convenlent and ac- On the Giving of Thanks Baltimore It {s & very easy matter to argue that the blessings and the other good things of this life are not evenly distributed—that some have far more than their share and others far less. A visit to the homes of the poor and another to the homes of the rich will, of course, give very different pictures of life, though they may not tell all the truth about the amount of real happiness these homes contaln. It is not safe to measure contentment by a scale graded either on wealth or luxury, for hackneyed though the phrase may be, money cannot buy happiness. At the same time money can buy many things that conduce to happiness and can when put to the best use add not only to the comfort of its owners, but to the ad tage of others. It is only when such wealth i hoarded and allowed to lle ldle that it becomes of no use to & com- American. that havé come to them and give thanks to the great Giver of All Good. Na- tlonal proeperity may not always mean individual prosperity, but there are very few who do not in some measure reap direct benefits from favorable conditions of business President Roosevelt, In a speech in Phil- adelphia, polnted out how great had been the improvement in these conditions since cight years ago and his words are true. There have been enormous fortunes pile up, but while the rich may have been get- ting richer the poor have not been growing poerer. More is done to relleve poverty now than ever before; more avenues of es- cape from poverty are being opened every year, more encouragement {s being given to thrift and to industry and more people are saving something every week or every month, no matter how small their earn- munity. When it is expended in a legiti- ings may be. mate way, not only its possessors, but Truly, this is Thanksgiving from fits many others reap benefits from its ex- purely ‘material side. There is a higher istence. It thus confers blessings not only on the one, but on the many, and as an agent for good has a power that all must recognize. It is for such reasons that all can re- joice at the conditions now existing in the country and can in sincerity follow the advice of the president and the gov- ernor in glving thanks for the blessings of the year. Even those who will not go to church on Thanksgiving day can, for a time at least, turn their thoughts to the good things view of it—one more worthy of man, but one he is very apt to overlook. For the freedom he enjoys, the liberty given him by the founders and the buflders of this great republic, for his health and the love of those dear to him, for his right to wor- &hip his Creator after his own fashion, for his manhood and for the opportunities glven him to prove himself worthy of respect, esteem and honor; for a thousand and one blessings God gives to his children let one and all give thanks. BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE, Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched on the Spot. During the crest of the campaign for con- trol of congress last month a Washington reporter dropped into the democratic con- gressional headquarters to interview Chair- man Griggs and observe the machine at work. He did not succeed in interviewing the chairman, but got what the boys call “a corking good story” out of the Texas ranger, Charley Edwards, who held down the job of secretary. The story was not published at *he time because premature publication might have increased the demo- cratic slump and the remorse of Griggs. The story 18 now out and is worth reading. The reporter found Edwards sitting at his desk talking confidentially with a large, emoath-faced man, but he at once turned his attention to the newcomer. “Is Chairman Griggs in?" asked the re- porter. “No,” replied the soft-voiced secretary, “he {8 not. Do you want to see him per- sonally?" “Yes,” was the reply. “I would like t get something from him on President Roosevelt’s Cincinnati speech.” “An interview?" queried Edwards. “Well, you can't get it. “And why not?” asked the reporter, who, not being acquainted with the Texan, who at heart is the best fellow in the world, was feeling just a trifle resenttul. “Because,” sald Edwards deliberately, “the old lunk-head*ls fncapable of glving an interview. He never has an opinion ment to a number of skilled workmen. Lists of the new stamps wanted are fur- nished by the government, and the work is sent to Washington complete, even to the polished wooden handles. As each stamp is a separate plece of work, all the type cutting is done by hand. The base is sent from the main shop to the cutter with a circular path of solid metal around the outer rim. In this rim the cutter deftly chisele out the name of | the postoffice and state. This done, the stamps are put through a hardening pro- cess, that the type may stand the vigorous pounding of postoffice workers. The date letters and figures are cut on separate bare, and sets of dates sufficient to last many years are furnished with each stamp. Many of the city postofices require special stamps. These are made by the best cut- ters. ters in the country learned their trade in the Chambers shop, AN UNFORTUNATE COURT ORDER. Fraud Order of the Postofice Depart- ment Nullified by Court, Brooklyn Eagle. By nullifying a fraud order the supreme | court has opened the gates to all manner | of humbugs practising in the name of health and religion. There was a concern called the American School of Magnetic Healing that evaded the results of its con- duct by concealing its headquarters at Nevada, Mo., and there applied for the dollars of the trusting, promising in re- turn to give them ‘“absent treatment’ for worth expressing, and if he did have one he wouldn't be able to express it in words of | one syllable without four grammatical breaks to the sentence. He's a peach, he is. | Why, don’t you know that I do all hla} thinking and writing for him, and when I'm away that duty devolves upon Joe Sinnot, | the sorgeant-atiarms? Anyhow, Griges is | n New York . [ “I notice,” said the reporter, “that he goes to New York quite often. I suppose it 18 to see Ben Cable and talk over the situa- tion with him, isn't it?" commodating court Secretary Edwards’ lip curled in disdain. | anything they might suppose to be the matter with them.* All that this amounted to was that the School of Magnetic Heal- ing accepted the dollars of fools. To pro- tect the fools from thelr folly the postoffice returned their letters with the dollars, stamping the envelopes “fraud.” Now the supreme court says that the postoffice has | name { home of Willlam PERSONAL NOTES. A thirty-ton granite monument of plain design has been erected over the grave ot John Sherman in the Mansfield (0.) ceme tery. The only Inscription is “John Sher. man,” cut on the massive block The Treasury bullding In’ Washington is | being thoroughly scoured on the outside by | order of Secretary Shaw. Every sign of | age, which to most observers only added to |the beauty of the bullfing, is being removed Some of the men at the New York Horse show appeared in costumes rather startling in their kaleldoscopic tint, but the majority { were quieter than of yore in this respect Hotel men there say tha® never before did | & horse show attract 8o many strangers to town, the number being put at from 40,000 t0 50,000, As a consequence the hotels were enormously overerowded. Anticipating the speedy confirmation by {the United States senate of the appoint- |ment of Chiet Justice Oliver Wendell | Holmes of Massachusetts as a justice of the |supreme court of the United States, the | Bar association of Middlesex county, Massa- | chusetts, has tendered him a complimentary | farewell banquet in Boston on the evening of Decomber 3, and he has accepted the In- vitation. Judge Holmes is a member of the association. All the judges of the supreme and superfor courts of Massachusetts will be invited to attend the banquet. SPICED REMARKS. Town and Country: Aftorney—Ignorance of the law excuses no one. Client—Except, of course, & lawyer. Cleveland Plain Dealer: Bimler says that a man's heart {sn't in his business and | his liver all right he can’t succeed. “‘Bimler | & butcher. | Judge: “Few men are as good as they pretend to be.” “Well, what of {t? Few men want to be." Philadelphla Press: “I've just thought |of a good joke on Lincoln.' “You mean by Lincoln.” “No, I mean on him. The town that's after him out in Nebraska fs the Jennings Brya New York Sun: Sir Walter Ralelgh had Just laid his cloak in the mud when Essex inquired the reason. “Because,” replied the wanted to raise the dust. And a subsequent present from the royal bounty showed it was indeed pay dirt. ought to know. He used to be wily courtler, I Washington Star: “Don’t you think our voting system should be reformed?" “I do,"” answered Senator Sorghum; “tha way things are at present you can't tell half the time whether the people you pay to vote for you are delivering the goods or Some of the most skillful tpye cut- | not: New York Sun: '“Why did he marry the widow after courting her daughter?” “He concluded that he would rather have the girl as a lE?d.\ll’thl‘ than the widow as a mother-in-law."” Chicago Tribune: hat made you think I'd even look at you?' she asked him. ““Well," replied the youth whom she had rejected with scorn, “the other girls have got all the really desirable young men away from you, and I thought maybe you'd take anybody ' you could get now. Good evenin'. Baltimore American: “I wish to be yery exact,” sald the man who was cataloguing the library, “so do you think I might class Yriters on’ etiquetts as the oivil authori- ties?" Brooklyn Life: An automobilist was onco halted on the highway by an ordinary per- son. ““You have killed my baby!" said the ordl- nary person, displayli some temper. “But why do you halt me? Am_ I not ready to pay for all the damage I do?" iiemlnded the automobilist, with a severs 00K, At this the ordinary person was quite u‘?-nhed, and drew back, stammering apolo- es. no right to protect the public and this would eeem to mean that the preclous scamps in Nevada, Mo., can go right on selling think-treatment at a dollar a thought. Maybe it's as well. Some people learn only by experience and if they can Talk over the situation exclaimed. he “See Ben Cable! he commission are published, showing the | Reason for Thankfulness. Chicago Tribune. Editor Bryan is not absolutely without causes for thanksglylng. It might have been worse. Suppose Missouri had gone republican! P the Nerve Tonlic. Minneapoljs Journal. Stiver fs stfll declining in the Philippines. It is now down to $2.60. In proportion as silver goes down the merve of the re- the Philippines the gold standard should 80 up. We Have the Mea: Indianapolis Journal 1f some of the essentials of a Thonksgiv- ing dinner cost more now than in 1895 and 1896, people have a great deal more money with which to purchase. The public soup house of those years is not a possibility of next winter. Time to Stop Drain, Philadeiphia Press. $1,000,000 in a comparatively short time owing to the fluctuation in the price of eil- ver. Perhaps the senate will now consent to abolish the absurd silver standard. The | losses of the government are a mere ba; trade; Slow but Sure Progres Minneapolis Journal | The impatience of the people for the ac- | tual construction of {rrigation reservoirs and canals by the government to begin at once causes Secretary Hitchcock to say a few wise words about making slow but sure progress in the great enterprise. As the secretary says, it is far more im- portant that water ehould be running over well-constructed ' works for an indefinite period than through the ruins of a single failure. Prosecution of L St. Louls Republic. Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock's an- nual report has much to say regarding the extensive frauds which are belng pra ticed by large cattle owners and others who wish to secure a monopoly of gov- ernment land. Mr. Hitchcock's adminis tration of the Interior department has been marked by a vigorous prosecution of these offenders. As long as his opposi- tlon to the granting of special privileges is marked by the bitter hatred of the men who are back of these schemes, he will receive the cordial support of the people. bbers. Hoch * St. Louls Globe-Democrat. It is now sald that the man after whom America was named was a German, and his pame was Haimerich, Itallanized into Amerigo, We never fancied belng discov- ered or named by a Latin. We always imagined him salling up and down our hore in & banana cart. But Halmerich is a different proposition. We are kindly disposed toward him. We know that the hold of his ship was stocked not with spaghettl, but with prytzels and our favorite brew. Unconsciously we have- all along rendered homage to Halmerich. Un- knowingly we have built monuments to him in our breweries. This discovery ex- plains our seeming prejudice against the Latins. Now we bear them no ill will, but they must cease to taunt us with the fact that our continent is named for them This is Halmericha. Nicht wabhr? Then let the maps be changed. Hoch der grosse Halmerich! Gro Haimerich! publican senators who were afraid to give | The Philippine government has lost over | telle as compared to those of producers and | 4 with him!" “Why, wouldn't know Ben Cable if he ran against him, and he hasn't sense enough to realize that there is any situation. Between our- selves,” he continued, leaning toward the visitor and adopting a confidential air, “he goes there to get drunk. He's the biggest tank not employed by the Standard company. He can’t find whisky enough to drink in Washington, so he has to go over there to get his fill. Oh, don't talk to me about Griggs. I can't bear to hear his name mentioned.” | The reporter left, thoroughly convinced that Chairman Griggs was an ogre indeed. As he closed the door behind him the man who had been talking confidentially to Ed- wards burst into a fit of laughter that caused the chandeliers to rattle. Having subsided, he turned to the secretary and said: “Look here, Charley, it's all right to help me dodge an interview when I don’t want to talk, but, for the sake of the folks at home, leave me a shred or two of reputa- | tion In it."” But all the satisfaction he got out of Edwards was: “Well, I didn't say it be- hind your back, Judge, did I The United States government has never | fssued a postage stamp decorated with the head of a woman. But this cannot be said after December 1. On that day the Post- | office department will begin sending out to postmasters a new S-cent stamp on which will be used the head of Mertha Washing- ton. The design is considered one of the most beautiful ever put out by the Post- office department. The head is encircled with a wreath. 'At the bottom on the left is 1732, the year in which Martha Wash ington was born; on the right, 1802, the year in which she died. Three years ago George H. Hamilton of Washington erected a slx-story build- ing of concrete under what is known as the Ransome system. He had trouble in obtaining a permit to erect the bullding, the experts alleging that it could never be taken down except by blowing it up with explosives, to the injury of adjacent build- ings. There is not a stick of wood or a bar of iron in the entire etructure, all the floors being of concrete subjected to a straln of 900 pounds to the square foot. Recently it was desired to make an addi- tional door on the basement floor, but it was found that the entire opening would have to be chiseled out as if it were of fron. It was then attempted to drill through some of the interior walls for ad- ditional electric wiring, but no metal drill was found which was hard enough to go through the concrete, and the wiring w put along the wooden wainscoating. The experts pronounce the building as having ten times the strength it would have if it had been carved from solld granite. It has no party walls and there is not a crack or evidence of setting in any way, although there are a number of heavy iron safes on each floor. It has only twenty-five feet frontage. The owner carries no fire in- surance on the building. The cost of construction was only about 80 per cent of that of a steel bullding. Perhaps few persons know that all of Uncle Sam's postofice date stampe are made in a little shop at Lodge, Northum- berland county, Va., says & writer in Chat Hop. Benjamin Chambers, an expert ma- chinist, has for a number of years had a contract. with the government for this While the shop is small, it has almost every known appliance for the bandling and cutting of metsl and affords employ~ oil | | buy wisdom for a few dollars it stays by | them longer than if somebody had told it to them. Yet, the attitude of the court la surpris- | ing. Hundreds of scallawags are trying | to prey on the public, and most of them by | subtler schemes than that of the School of Magnetic Healing, which is so barefaced in its fraudulence that jt becomes humor- ous. There are people who advertise goods THE OLD THANKSGIVIN' DAY, A. J. Waterhouse in New York Times. If dreams could bring them back again, the old Thanksgivin' da; It wishes had the cheery of alterin’ our ways, I'd sit again by grandpa’s board an’ see his kindly face; I'd view the table, bounty stored, and listen g racE ® . to his 63 And if the blessing halted some I would not twist, 1 know, As did my sister and myself, oh, long, long [ years ago, For now Thanksgivin's not the same; it lacks the genial cheer That glorified an' hallowed it, since grand- pa isn’t here. which are never delivered, and not even | The blessing that he asked was long, or so made, people who are willing to teach pro- tessions at a distance—the greater the dis- tance the better they like it—on advance payments of disquieting eums; people Who will trace your relation to millionaires recently dead for a retaining fee of con- siderable size—in brief, bunco men of all sorts, selling anything from new creeds to patent clothes wringers. If the postal au- thoritles did not follow these scamps, any | one of them could become rich in a fort- ! night by using the mails for purposes of it seemed to me; It covered everything In sight, an’ some you couldn’t see. The turkey an' the President, the things of cheer and joy— I wriggled less to hear him bless *‘this orphaned girl and boy.” ', bles Jongress, too,” he sald, “with all its sharps and flats, An' please forgive the errin' ones that's nown as democrats.” And while the mighty turkey steamed and forth its odors dealt, I pinched my sister 'neath the board to show her how I felt. robbery. To A.lllhthm(l ‘monll cuamel an end, and so | With all due respect to the supreme | , . the blessing passed, | the A court, the postmaster general did exactly R o ot ey T right, apd the supreme court has done exactly wrong. It is not for a judge to declde in a medical case. It is for physi- cians. Schools of Magnetic Healing will not have the vote of one qualified medical practitioner. The emptiness of the claim of the Nevada institution is proved by the fact that the fellow who did the magnetic thinking, one Weltmar by name, did not even live in Nevada, and did not see the letters of his dupes, which were answered by a corps of typewriters. The money turned into him in a single day was $1,600. Does Justice Peckbam mean to say that such mongy was not properly returned to the people who sent it? The School of Magnetic Healing did not even have an existence, if its thinker was not apprised | of the names and residences of his vic. | tims. Why have officials of the courts for- | bid ‘them to exercise common eense? Courts ought to exercise it, too. And how we children ate and ate, unmind- ful of the load, = TUl auntie sald in ‘warning tones: *“Them children will explode!™ We didn’t mind what auntie sald; we ate, an’ ate, an' ate, An' frequent was our bland request: “Some more upon my plate?’ And when a wreck alone remained upon the festal board, ‘While grandpa offered final thanks, we lack of room deplored. If dreams could bring them back agal - old Thanksgivin' days S the 1t 1 could hear my grandpa’s volce in words of grateful praise; 1f at the board my sister sat, not worn and gray and old, But In her eyes ‘the light of skies when mornings were of gold, Then, though the blessing wandered on through minutes growing long, To cover all the peopled carth and life's tumultuous thro 8till would = l't‘Amey‘)d with zeal, 'or 1t would take a host of words to the thanks I'd feel. i "f sit in full content, or cry No telling what is going to Our lines are perfect—every etd. We Close Your Turkey Dinner Are you prepared for it? 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