Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 3, 1902, Page 6

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[P A——————S It appears that nearly everybody at Washington is ready to sprmg some sort of an antl-trust bill That story about the price of beef coming down may be taken as sure proof that the market for chestnuts holds firm. That the organization of labor goes on apace is pretty well shown by the institution of the potato peelers’ union at Chicago. From the descriptions of the opening of the house it develops that Congress- man Mercer threw himself a bouquet of real flowers. President Roosevelt makes It clear that he does not agree with those polit- fcal doctors who prescribe tariff smash- ing as the exclusive nostrum for trust evils. e—— Every corporation holding a franchise to supply public utilities in Omaba is enjoying a good thing, and it is no won- der none of them wants to have the fleld divided with others. Nebraska real estate dealers are about to open their state convention in Omaha ‘What they will say about the value of real estate as an investment will not be intended for the assessor's ears. Senator Millard Intimates that Colonel Mosby has seen a mountain in a mole hill in the fencing of public lands by the cattle barons, but the colonel in- sists that his eyesight is as good now as it ever was. ——— Several of Nebraska's congressmen- elect are in Washington watching the congressional wheels go round. It should hot take them long to catch on suffi- clently to make themselves useful to their constituents. ——————— Becretary Shaw has put in recom- mendations for appropriations for a large number of public improvements throughout both Iowa and Nebraska. Depend on a western secretury of the treasury to watch out for the west, = From sentiment expressed at the pub- M meeting called to discuss pending franchise propositions, there is no ques. tion but what Omaha would like to have cheap power. It Is water power, how- ever, and not wind power that is wanted. _——— Corporal punishment is to be banished frow the Lincoln public schools by edict of the board of education. If Lincoln bas a surplus stock of pickled rods this ought to permit other school dis tricts to lay in their supply at bargain prices, King Oscar, having handed us a bunch, to use the technical description, in our matter with Mexico, seems to bave evened It.up in the Russian arbi- tration. It looks like the application to international settlements of the policy followed by sagacious base ball um- pires. Omaha club women will try to do their holiday shopping early ju order to re- Ueve the clerks In the retall stores from There is the rush of the closing days. Just a faint suspicion also that this de- clsion is prompted by the idea that the early bird gets a better selection of the goods and greater attention from sales people. - In point of literary style President Roosevelt more nearly resembles Gen eral Harrison than any other president. His diction is in 20| resolution, separating the good recent striking THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. President Roosevelt's second annual message follows the plan of his first one in the treatment of public questions, but it discusses fewer of them and more concisely. It Is marked, how er, by the same spirit that charac terized his first communication to con gress and Is therefore earnest, hone ful, confident and encouraging. president regards existing co | with the satistaction which American citizen should feel and looks to the future with the eye of faith and a profound conviction that this people will meet intelligently and biavely whatever demands shall be made upon them. Having played a great part in the world, wa cannot now play a small part, even if we would, and to try to do so would result ignobly and shame fully. But the president is confident that the American people will continue to do thelr part in the world's work, will be found still capable of solving the problems that confront them at home and abroad. “Ours s not the creed of the weakling and the coward ours 1s the gospel of hope and of triumphant endeavor,” « & the charac- teristic way In which Mr. Roosevelt reassures his countrymen apd lnsplies them to greater achievements. Our gigantic industrial development must not be checked, declares the presi- dent. While in the course of this ¢e velopment vast fortunes bhave been | made, yet in the aggregate these | fortunes are small when compared to the wealth of the people as a whole, while the plain people are better off than they have ever been before. Yet there are evils and these must be reme- died, which we shall succeed in dofng only by proceeding patiently, “with | practical common sense, as well us from | the bad and holding on to the former while endeavoring to get rid of the lat- lter.” The president reiterates the views expressed in his first message and later in public addresses respecting national regulation of the combinations engaged in interstate and foreign commercey, speaking now with greater confidence than before as to the power of congress to provide for this It having been demoustrated that the necessary supervision cannot be ob- tained by state action, it must there- fore be achieved by national action. The aim is not to destroy the corpora- tions, which would work mischief to the entire body. politic, but to do away with any evil therein. “Publicity can do no harm to the honest corporation,’’ says the president, “and we need not be overtender about sparing the dis- honest corporation.” The president has no doubt as to the authority of con- gress to restrain monopoly and to pro- vide for the correction of the abuses and evils incident thereto, and he evi- dently desires that this authority be exercised soon as possible. If con- gress gives heed to the plainly implied wish of the president there will be legislation at the present session deal- ing with the combinations. President Roosevelt speaks strongly for the maintenance of the protective principle. The country has always ex- perienced prosperity under a protective tariff, the people have acquiesced in the wisdom of the principle, and “it is ex- ceedingly undesirable that this system should be destroyed or that there should be violent or radical changes therein.” He urges stability of economic policy, says that the country cannot prosper under fitful tariff changes at short in- tervals and suggests that the tariff should be treated solely from the stand- point of our business needs. The pro- tective principle, however, should al- ways be kept in view, In the interest alike of the great body of our indus- tries and of the labm employed in them. The advacates of tariff revision will find little encouragement in the president's rvefereuce to this subject, while the supporters of reci- procity will be gratified with the state- ment that one way in which tariff readjustment can be reached is by reci- procity treaties, which it 1s declared can be used to widen our markets, give a greater field for the activities of our producers and secure in practical shape the lowering of dutles “when they are no louger needed for protection among our own people, or when the minimum of damage done may be disregarded for the sake of the maximum of good accomplished.” The message suggests & tariff commission, though this is not very rigorously urged, and there will be very general endorsement of the rec- ommendation that anthracite coal be placed on the free list, where it w supposed to be until the fmportation of anthracite disclosed the fact that there is a duty on it The president's discusslon of the ‘re- lations of capital and labor, their obli- gations, duties and rights, merits care- ful attention and we think will com mand very general ‘approbation. It is judicious, conservative and in complete accord with the spirit of our institutions and the fundamental principles of a sound soclal system. As the president cays: “We can get good government only upon condition that we keep true to the principles upon which this nation was founded and judgé each man not as a part of a class, but upon his indi- vidual merits. All that we have a right to ask of any man, rich or poor, whatever his creed, his occupation, his birthplace, or his residénee, s that he shall act well and honorably by his neighbor and by his country.” This & sound American doctrine, which shouid be ineffaceably minds of our people. ditions every Inausoal known reasons therefor. The | impressed upom the The president urges reciprocity with Cuba, pointedly setting forth his well In regard to cable, the Philippines, the army and | navy. irrigation, Alaska and conditions | among the Indians, will be found inter | esting and instructive. President Roose | velt has wasted no words in his and yet has given to every subject presented adequate consideration. THE MISSOURI TRUST LAW The Missouri trust law is a one, and if the decision of the | City court of appeals in the brewery | case 1s sustained it will plant many thorns in the path of unlawful trade combinations. One of the provisions of the law js that contracts with such combinations or trusts are vold and that debts arising out of them are not legaily enforcible. It reduces the mat ter to a question of evidence of the un lawful character of the combination. In a multitude of cases it ingly difficult the unlawful character of a trade cow bination, even where the fact ally certain and notoriously exists, This indeed has been the peculiar and often the insuperable difficulty under many of the state as® well as of the national anti-trust laws of which the provisions are severe, but the enforcement is dis- couraging. The progress of legislative and judicial action is nevertheless stead- ily compelling corporate combinations against public policy to act under many disabilities. The illegal brewery com- bine at Kansas City, if necessary, can' of course conform to a cash basis in its dealings, but it will be at an immense disadvantage in competition with law- ful competitive concerns that ar handed for credits. Obviously the very efforts to circumvent the anti-trust laws as the pressure of their enforcement grows steadily heavier, as it inevitably will, constitute a serious tax and ob- stacle for unlawful business undertak- ings, aq Kansas stic is exceed to secure legal proot of i® wor- THE TREASURY REPORT. The annual report of the secretary of the treasury contalns little of a statis- | tical pature that was not already ¥a | millar to the public, the weekly aml monthly statements of the operations of the national treasury keeping the coun- try constantly well Iuformed as to the financial affairs and condition of the government. The estimates of receipts and expenditures for the current fiscal year, which ends June 30, 1903, prom- ise a surplus at the close of the year of $43,000,000, while for the next fiscal year it Is estimated that the surplus will be in excess of $51,000,000. These are re- assuring figures, but as they are made upon the basis of existing laws it can- not be confidently predicted that they will be realized. However, they give assurance of a safe treasury condition for the next two years, even should ex- penditures be materially increased, which probably will not be done. There is no apparent reason why the present congress should add to expenditures to any considerable extent, and it should certainly be the policy of the Fifty- elghth congress, for obvious reasons, to observe judicious economy. L In regard to the currency, Secretary Shaw thinks it desirable to provide for the exchangeabllity of gold and silver. This matter has been much discussed, but the proposition has not hitherto met with very mueh favor in congress and does not seem likely to. The sec- retary also urges that the banking sys- tem s lmperfect and expresses the opinion that the time has come when, in order to provide additional ecircula- tion, elther the government debt must be perpetuated and additional bonds is- sued as occasion may require, or some other system must be provided. He sees no objection to the issuance of circula- tion based upon general credits, if properly safeguarded. In this, it is safe to say, public sentiment is not at pres- ent with him. At all events, there is no probability of any currency legisla- tion at the present session of congress and there will be ample time in which to discuss the suggestions of the secre- tary of the treasury before the meet- ing of the Fifty-eighth congress. QUESTIONABLE USE UF SCHOOL MONEY The action of the Board of Education, commissioning the attorney of the board to act as its representative at Lincoln the coming winter for the purpose of promoting legislation in the interests of the schools, at a compensation of $5 a day In addition to his regular salary is | a decidedly questionable use of school | money. The object of levying school | taxes is to benefit the school children rather than the lobby at Lincoln. We know that money belonging to the | schools has been diverted for all sorts of questionable purposes in the past, but | that does not alter the fact that it is wrong. The entering wedge for this lat- est contemplated raid on the school fund | 1s to be found in the action of the board two years ago sanctioning the requisl- tion of a committee of school board members for expenses for several trips to Lincoln in the interest of bills then pending before the legislature. The Bee denounced this outrage at the time it was enacted and pointed out the danger that would arise if it served as a prece- dent. Aside from the expenditure of the money, there 18 no good reason why the Board of Education should maintain a lobbyist at Lincoln. The members of the legislature chosen by the people of this city and county are retained for the very purpose of representing the public Interests for their constituents, including the Interests of the public schools, and there 18 no good reason why they can- not take care of all the measures really Beeded to promote the work of the schools! The truth is that the legislation the board’s lobbyist I8 expected to look after since scen the result in the doubling of the school levy against which the tax- s have been helpless. en the new school board organizes in January, the first thing it should do is to rescind the commission of its paid lobbyist. Secretary Wilson does not too much emphasize the point that no other coun try, unless it be Canada, is so well sit uated the United States for main taining the health of domestic animals. i’he full power of the national govern- ment can now be almost instantly e: erted, in of threatened outbreak of disease, at any point between the oceans without regard to state lines or local autborities. An industry annual product amounts to $1.000,000,000 is too prodigious to be endangered by inharmonious local ju ri The now being the Agricultural depart contaglous livestock dis and will likely be fol lowed by enlarging the power of the na- tional government to deal with cases, as case whose almost tions. ted by ulnst case in New E campalgn condu went such It is to be remembered that a presi- dent's message 1s addressed to congress. According to the original theory it was not intended for the information of the general public. In large part the mere information contained in the ordinar message at the opening of a session is fully given to the public earlier and more in detail through the departmental r ports. The more interesting fea- ture presidential messages is the recommendation of measures and poli of | cies which they are made the medium of communicating to the public as often as to congress, although even on this point it happens that the atti- tude of the chief executive or his views at least in outline are not known in ad- vance. rarel; Formal announcement has been made of the Inauguration of an old age pen- sion system by the Union Pacific to take effect the first of the new year. If the road can manage to have a frequent suc- cession of strikes the number of em- ployes remaining in its service twenty years continuously will be considerably reduced, and eligibles to the pension list correspondingly. E——————— It has been a close finish between the hunters in the northern|woods and the foot ball players as far as fatalities are concerned, fourteen of the rormer and twelve of the latter having been killed outright during the season. But in the matter of injuries and broken bones fhe foot ball players are far ahead. The conviction and sentence of a dep- uty United States marshal in North Dakota to two years in the penitentiary for collecting mileage from Uncle Sam when he rode on a freé pass must seem hard to the victim When e knows that most of the other deputies and their superiors have been doing thé same thing. e ‘Where Are the Promoters? Chicago Record-Herald. Silver seems to be about the only thing that isn't getting higher in price. Evi- dently the people who form trusts will have nothing to do with it. Commendable Generosity, Cleveland Leader. The Union Pacific Railroad company is to pay pensions to its employes amounting to $300,000 a year. That is generosity on the part of a corporation which must be commended. ‘What's the Score Chicago Post. Foot ball season score: Killed, fourteen; maimed and hurt, ninety. Deer shooting season score: Fourteen hunters killed, eleven hurt. This leaves foot ball still considerable of a lead. Preierence for Paper Money. Buffalo Express. The United States treasury now holds $610,019,092 in gold, the largest amount of gold ever held by any nation at any one time. The explanation of it is that gold coln will not circulate in the United States where the people have become accustomed to the more convenient paper. Was It Cause and Effect? Boston Globe. President Roosevelt's remarks to the British labor leaders that ““more and more as our modern industrial progress goes on there is a tendency to work In federation or combination, both among employers and among employes, in corporations and in unions,” was followed prowptly by the an- nouncement of the formation of & potato peelers’ unlon in Chicago Could Moder Kansas City Star. The Nebraska man who was startled at breakfast Thanksgiving morning by read- ing an account of his divorce from the wite who at that moment sat opposite him at table had a unique experience, but he may yet have cause to be thankful. Divorces are not often surprises to those affected by them, but where a wife shows such a lack of confidence in her busband as not to let him in on her plans for separation, di- vorce in any form ought to be a pretty g00d thing. They Come Hig Minneapolis Times. This 1s not only a great country, but one addicted in proportion to its greatnes to the luxurles and dissipations of lite. According to the Internal revenue reports, the production of distilled spirits for the last flscal year amounted to 104,804,651 gal- lons. Fermented liquors to the asfount of 44,478,832 barrels were produced. The cigars numbered 6,864,499,625 and the clgarettes 2,651,61 Of chewing and smoking to- 298,048,339 pounds were prepared and 871,135 pounds Making the Money G Springfield Republican. Although but little more than four years bave passed since the Daval battles of Manila and Santiago, Lieutenant Niblack of the navy, in a paper before the Institute of Naval Architects, declares that since then ordnance and gunnery have been revolutionized. “Guns and methods good enough for 1898 are an invitation today to disastrous and bitter defeat.” Is this sort of thing to keep up forever? When will military preparation cease being revo- of snuff 17 | party is composed of nothing else. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metroy The division of the Empire state into two states is again broached. The praposition 18 to make New York City and its fmmedi- ate surroundings a new state, which would have a population of over 3,000,000 people. Back of the proposition is the desire of | politictans of New York City to cut loose from the “up-state’ which s per- | niclously active in smashing the plans ot the Gotham machines. While little serious attention will be given the suggestion, it serves to draw attention to the fact that no {native of New York City has ever been | d president. There have been since when George Clinton was elected gov- ernor, fifty-five gubernatorial elections and but four of the long list were New Yorkers. In the last fifty years but one New York Clty man has been elected United States senator. A separate state would give a host | of ambitious statesmen the chance which s denied them by “the country districts.” added that fow of the ot are vote | may b | of t rading men natives of the This is especially noticeable in professional and commercial life, n nent editors, lawyers, preachers and finan- ciérs and many leading physicians halling originally from outside the confines of Man- hattan island, opolis city Police court interpreters in New York City appear to be on a higher plane than polyglot aids in other countries. A recenmt newspaper paragraph relates that when a German who did not speak French was in the witness box in a Paris police court, and no official interpreter was forthcoming, the witness' daughter would have been ac- cepted. But a representative of the “pro- cureur’”’ demurred because of sex. The dis- pute ended in a barrister acting as inter- oreter. In the New York City magistrates' courts there is no woman on the staff of interpre- ters, but if one appeared as a candidate she would probably find no obstacle to her ap- pointment, provided she complied with the civil ser e regulations. But these are ex- acting. Candidates who go before the civil service examiners are required to prove their knowledge of English, German, Itallan, Hebrew, Spanish, French, Scandinavian and Russian. The civil service examination ex- acts that a candidate shall establish his efi- ciency by composition in the languages in which he s expert. Two brothers, heads of one of the largest banking firms in New York City, have been for years conspicuous for a peculiarity which was thought to be confined to them. Although they live near one another and start for business at the same time, reports the Sun, they have never been known to travel downtown together on the same train. If they arrive at the station simul- | taneously, ns frequently happens, since | they often meet and walk together, one | always waits until the other brother has started downtown. Then he takes the next train. Their object in doing this is to avold any danger of the consequences that might arise from an accident. In such a case onc brother would be on hand to attend to the business. Now a younger pair of brothers who seem in a fair way to become as prosperous as the prototypes, after a while, are emulating their plan with even greater caution. They live in the same house and are usually ready to go to business at the same time every day. But they approach Wall street by diverse routes. They will not even trust themselves simultaneously to the same ra road, and while one goes to his place of business by the Sixth avenue elevated, the other goes to the Third avenue. Such a plan not only prevents the consequences of serlous accident, but even a delay. A man with an enterprise of only modest proportions, say involving the expenditure of about $5,000,000, excites very little at- tentlon in New York these days. A week ago a distinguished Catholic clergyman came from Toronto, Canada, with a plan to erect a cathedral that would excel St. Sophla in magnificence and overtop the tall dome of St. Peter's. The aura of this solen- did dream made New Yorkers blink a little but they took this profect as a matter of course. Now once more is the “newest and biggest” thing in the world planned for New York, says a correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch. This time it is a hotel. It 1s to occupy the historic site once occu- pled by the old Brunswick, which, by the | way, was.n its time the biggest and grand- est and finest and everything that had ever | happened. Rubbing his eyes and trying for a moment to catch up with the swift march of events the average New York man dis- covers that the New York.he knew vester- day is a dead and burled city, as obsolete as Herculaneum. If he on Tuesday' turned in at a doorway which on Monday had opened to him fts hospitable arms he stumbles on the ruins of demolition. ore- paratory to a new monster of enterorise. Retreating he falls into a subterranean in- ferno of pipes, wires and debris. out of which he is very likely blown sky high into the rafters of another new skyscraper of whose very existence he had never heard. From this eminence he looks down upon a city wrapped in a devastating cloud of soft-coal smoke and gasps: “Is this New York?" It ls not. At least, it is not the New York of New Yorkers. Where only the day before yesterday stood an anclent city, the metropolis of complacency, pleas- ing and pleased with itself, is now sprawled an endless, inchoate mass. At every corner something is being torn down to make room for something else, which is to be the biggest thing on earth. Half a dozen hotels are under wey in Manhattan and a dozen or more theaters, every one of which 1s to make a new record for size and solen- dor. What is to be the end? Alreadv the ‘Waldorf-Astoria Is a mere road house. the Metropolitan opera house & roost for owls. Delmonico's and Sherry's are coffee stands All belong to the dingy past of day before yesterday, and New York lives in the at- mosphere of day after tomorrow. PERSONAL NOTES, George Gould has leased the Manhattan elevated road for 900 years. And he expects to collect the rent until the lease expires. President Castro praises the Monroe doc- trine and says Venezuela loans on the United States. This Castro is smarter than some people thought. Abram S. Hewitt has shaken the demo- cratic party for all time. He says he's no populist, and asserts that the democratic Heber R. Bishop, who, since his retire- ment from active business a number of years ago, has spent the most of his time in | collecting art treasures, is critically ill at his home in New York Allen farm, once the home of Ethan Allen the hero of Ticonderoga, will soon be trans- formed by its present owner, W. J. Van Patton, into & public park and presented to the city of Burlington, Vt. Five couples—Mr. and Mrs. J. J. McCar- dy, Captain and Mrs. Henry A. Castle, Col- | onel and Mrs, H. G. Hicks and General and | Mrs. Mark D. Flower—ate their tweniy- | | ffth Thanksgiving dinner together at the | bome of General Flower in St. Paul. | Richard Stockton Emmet, the oldast 1| Iy all the promi- | LABOR TURNING THE TABLES, New Jersey Union Applies to Court for an Injunction, Boston Globe. The New Jersey glass blowers have eo completely turned the tables on a great glass company in that state as to evolve & very Interesting case in the history of labor's contests with capital. The labor union turns squarely upon the great glass making corporation and asserts that it is an organization having for its purpose the sale of the labor of its mem- bers. It furthermore asserts that a certain glass company being in competition with it bas violated the laws of the state and the Iabor market and prevented by force the organization's business of selling labor and 18 engaged in an fllegal alliance to prevent men from leaving its employ. It therefore asks'that the glass company be enjoined from imterfering with the business of the organization. This is the first time that a labor union has ever asked a state for an injunction against a corporation, and as this labor union is a powerful one the case will prob- ably be carried to the highest tribunal in the latd for decision. This case is anomalous, since the glass Dblowers assume the position of capitalists who are being interfered with while on strike, and they aek that the company show cause why its interference with its late employes shall not cease. Hearing of the arguments in this ap. plication for an iInjunction will be before the greatest lawyers of the state. The alle- gations of the labor union have all been caretully drawn and the issue will be car- ried as far as it can be legally. The case assumes that the labor union has exactly the same legal status as the corporation, and s a unique case of labor's turning the tables squarely on its.adver- sary, as they have frequently been turncd on it. The final decision will be inter- esting. BILLION DOLLARS FOR INDIANS, \ Vast Sums Spent on the Wards of the Nation. Kansas City Star. Most persons will learn with surprise from the report of the commissioner of In- dian affairs that from the foundation of the government up to 1890 the United States has spent more than $1,000,000,000 on the Indians. That {s an enormous sum. What 18 there to show for it? Astonishingly little., Some educational progress has been made and Indian out- breaks no longer menace settlers in the west. But the full-blood Indian is still an alien to American civilization. The $1,000,- 000,000 epent has not worked the transfor- mation that might justly have been anticl- pated. Moreover, after the expenditure of this vast amount of the old method of deal- ing with the tribes is being abandoned in confession of its failure to make of the In- dians industrious, self-reliant citizens. Most of the money spent must be charged off to the account of political methods and of futile experiments. The costly failure in dealing with the In- dian problem has been due not to any de- liberate adoption of a policy of injustice, but to lack of foresight, to Ignorance and to indifference. At the outset no compre- hensive Indlan policy was adopted. Each administration was content to deal with the immediate problems that pressed upon it for solution. Thus grew up haphgzard the vicious reservation system. As the white settlers crowded westward the In- dlans were driven out and treatles were made granting them forever the districts to which they migrated. These conventlons were ‘necessarily violated and the tribes were, confined within narrower and nar- rower limits, while money compensation was granted for the land. So in time the Indians were restricted to reservations, in Keep a good supply of Ayer’s Family Medicines on hand. It’s so easy then to take one of the Pills at bedtime if you feel a little bilious, or if your stomach is a trifie out of order. Just so with the Sarsaparilla. A few doses will bring back your lost appetite, give strength to your weakened nerves, and relieve you of that terrible feeling of exhaustion. And besides there are the children to think of. A dose or two at the right time often_ means so much, civilizing influences, of encouraging fdla- ness and of discouraging self-reliance, has | been the disheartening lack of progress that was to have been anticipated. The same conditions would have resulted, as Dr. Edward Everett Hale has suggested, if the ignorant Polish or Hungarian immigrants to the United States had been shut off by themselves and treated as the mnation's warde. It has been demonstrated that the Indian cannot learn civilization out of & grammar and arithmetic and (11t he cannot be cod- dled into self-reli It he is to amount to anything he mus: take his chances with the rest of the world. Of course this In- volves certain dangers. But it seems to be the general scheme of the universe that worthy results are not to be had for the mere asking. Lyman Abbott is right in contending that the only way for the In- dian to learn to live is by living. Fortunately this principle has grown In favor in the last decade. The abandonment of the old paternal system is already in progress. With the allotment of the tribal lands in severalty and the influx of white settlers the Indian will have the chance to develop his self-rellance, to learn the re- ward of industry and to make progress in every department of civilization. PLEAS | | i REFLECTIONS, Cleveland Plain named a brand “1 should con “You wouldn't Dealer: “They f cigars for Barker. der that quite an hono £ you knew the cigars.” Detrolt Free Press: “Your speech is very strange,” sald the foreigner. “I went to the foot bal, game and sat in the grand- stand and others had a grand time standing Brooklyn Life: Fditor—You want to be sure, Miss Scratchington, that all the his- lorical data of your novel is strictly cor- Miss Scratchington—Don't Wworry about that, dear sir; people who know history never read historical novels. Philadelphia Press: “My dear sir," began the bunco man, “your face strikes me' as being familiar.” “S0?" replied the coldly. “Waal, m erly strikes people Chicago Tribune: * ‘Painless dentistr: snorted old Hunks, who had just ha tooth extracted and 'was opening his poc! book with extreme reluctance, ** ‘Painl H'mph! You don’t seem to think it hu: to have to pay $2 for two minutes' work!" intelligent farmer, fist's different, It gen” for bein' familiar.” ‘Washington Star: *“Don’t you think that a newspaper in smaller, more compact form would be appreciated?” said the publisher. No,” answered his wife. “It must be large encugh for a man to hold in front of his face when there are womgn standing in a street car.” New York Tribune: Robinson Crusoe had Jjust named his man Friday when he was ready to kick himself the {sland “What a fool!” he exclaimed. *If I had called him Saturday I'd have had a pay day every day of the week." ; Subsequently, howe: the rovalties on his book more 'than co red his loss. ARMS AND THE MAID, Eric Moore in Harper's Magazine, Two hundred years ago and more A doughty Dutchman reached our shore, And, save his own, no arms he bore. But blunderbuss and sword, Becoming something of a swell, Through shift and thrift it soon befell, He bought the grant his wealth could’ well Afford. As time went on, the humble lot His rich descendants quite ‘orgot; Thelr 'scutcheons showed no stain or blot; . Their pride no shadow felt; % With heads erect they went thelr way, Yet held the fruitful lands, where they In peace and plenty to this day Have dwelt, And more; the fairest of her rgce— Blue-eyed' Katrina—loved 10 tface The arms and find her proper place Upon the pedigree; Right heedful of her grandsire’s fame With blushing eagerncss she came, ' A very sweet “Colonial Dame" To be. To heraldry she gave her heart, And lauded much the draftsman art, Displaying on emblazoned chart {er thrifty burgher line; chiarge of political agents, and were sup- ported as government charges. The result of shutting them off from are perfectly tailored, lean neighbor. But since I caught her unawares Descending the ancestral stairs, The only arms for which she cares Are mine. Our Overcoats and those for the boys are as stylish and up-to-date in cut and ma- terials as those the men wear. The materials include all the desirable fabrics and we can fit a stout man as easily and perfectly as his $10 TO $40. No Clothing Fits Liks Ours. contrast with the ponderous sentences |the Panama caunal the message has | la legislation not so much for the benefit of Grover Cleveland's officlal deliver- | nothing definite to say except that we |of the schools as for the school board. ances. No reader will have any difii- | can undoubtedly acquire good title from | We had an example of that not long ago culty to understand what the president |the French company. Other portions of | when a bill was pushed through remov- s driving at member in this country of the famous fam fly which was identified with the rebellion in Ireland in 1798, resulting in the execu- tion of Robert Emmet, has just died at his home in New Rochelle, N. Y., ia hi elghty-second ¥ . R. S. Wilcox, Mgr. lutionized and doubled in expense every four years? The man who can achleve aerial navigation in & practical way should come along and put a stop to the 'hlolo business. He could make war a8 obsolete the message relating to the Pacific|lng the limit of the school tax and Lave | ay the Greek galley, N