Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1902, Page 6

i ] [:] THE _OMAHA D{\ILY BEE: FRIDAY.VI'{»ECE‘\TFER 5, e e i—————— e e e e THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIC fly Bee (without Sunday), One Yed ily Bee an Year Tilustrated B e, On Bunday I One Ye Baturday Beée, One Year.......... Twentieth Century Farmer, One Ye DELIVERED BY CARRIER Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy Daily Bee (without 8 Daily Bee (including Bunday Bec, per copy Evening Bee (without Sunday). Evening Bee (ncluding Sunday), per w 10c Complaints of irregularities in delivery phould be addressed to City Circulation Di partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding South Omaha—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M Streets Councll Bluffs—10 Pear| Street. Chicago—164 Un Bullding. ~&ew Yorl k Row Huilding. 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TZSCHUCK. becribed in_my presence and sworn to n’t:re me this 30th day of November, A. D. . B. HUNGATE (Beal) Notary Public. ——— That reminds us that some move to adjust the Unlon Pacific lockout is quite in order. As a Santa Claus “Cash K's” visit is ahead of the calendar date, but never- theless welcome. No confirmation is needed for the Washiugton - report that General Alger ‘wears a continuous smile since assuming his duties as senator. EEE———————— From the pessimisimi exhibited by our pew congressman-elect, the only infer- ence is that he is already looking for- ward to a second term. About the only thing that can be con- fidently predicted regarding the mimic paval war is that it will ‘wind up in a tremendous mutual volley of bouquets. Emm———————— About the only chance for a volun- tary settlement of the coal strike differ- ences outside of the commission is that both sides may become so tired as to <compromise on anything. “Cash K" has evidently taken notice of prevalling prosperity that should reduce the demands upon charity. His $1,000 contribution used to go 50 per cent higher in hard times years, —_— Two of the crack shots of Georgia have quarreled and agreed to fight a duel with revolvers. They are such ex- pert marksmen that it is hardly likely the affair can be pulled off. WE————— There are democratic papers which can see occaslonally something com mendable in the message of a repub- lican president, but the World-Herald does not belong to that class. Governor Savage, s disporting hhmself at the International Live Stock show at Chicago. Only a short shrift remains, and the governor 1s entitled to make the most of it. Nebraska woman suffragists are en- titled to credit for persistence, at any rate. They know what they want and will continue to want it no matter how many times they get no for an answer, Notwithstanding the crease of thelr earnings the railroad cor- enormous in- porations dolng business in Nebraska show no sigus of disposition to co- operate in solving the problem of equal taxation. ——— This is the time when the legislative Incubators are working over hours to hateb out bills for the coming session of Nebraska lawmakers. But the early bill 18 not always sure of catching the legis- lative worm. —— The same critics who in congress are carping at President Roosevelt's course with reference to the coal strike as frregular and illegal would have been most furious against him if he had taken any other course. Under the terms of the Omaha city charter the Board of Review is expected to accomplish work in the month which cannot be adequately performed in a year. Keep that in mind when you register your kick. There was a riot and indiscriminate fist fighting to buy hard coal the other day when 9,000 tons arrived at Provi- dence, R. 1. As the price was only $7.50 a ton the same disturbance would probably have occurred anywhere, even in the peaceable west. Eeeem— Tom Johuson comes again forth to en- per week 6¢ | 28,435 PUSTAGE REFURM UP TU CONGRESS. The decigion of the federal court of appeals in the District of Columbia, sus- pendiug the classification policy of the Postofice department, leaves it to con «s to reform the laws regulating postage rates. Failure to act involves an cnormous deficlt in the postal reve- nues and postponement of cheaper letter ge. The postal laws properly. favor news- papers and perfodicals, making them a class by theémselves on which the very {low rate of 1 cent a pound is charged, the same being prepaid In money with- out the trouble of afixing stamps. But | this classification has withont doubt be- come the means of gross abuses and frauds. Innumerable publications which were purely advertising circulars, having no bona fide circulation or any other characteristic of a legitimate newspaper | or perfodical, have secured the privilege of the pound rate under one pretense or another. ‘In the aggregate the gov- ernment ‘was thus enrrying at less than cost an enormous tonnage, which, in addition, interfered with the dispatch of more important malil, causing a great | annual deficit which one year reached $11,000,000. We must have more ships. They must be under the American flag, built and manned and owned by Americans, These win not only be profitable in a they will be messengers of peace and amity wherever they go.” It weuld seem that there could be no difference of opinion as to the wisdom and expediency of a great commercial nation like the United States being inde- pendent of forelgn shipowners for carry ing its products to the world's markets, the advantages and benefits of which to our commerce would be almost in- ealculable. —— NEGUTIATIONS RESUMED. Negotiations with Colombia have been resumed and the reassuring statement is made that a treaty may be ready for submission to the senate before the holi- day recess. It is sald that the secre- tary of state will confer with senators and representatives in congress before closing the negotiations, from which it is to be inferred that some new condi- tions have been introduced in the treaty, invelving concessions not contemplated in the protocol which was the basis of the Spooner bill under which the ad- ministration lg proceeding. com- Although the facts were well under- stood, year after year the need of legls- lation has been urged in the reports of the postmaster general and the presi- dential messages without result. The reform was one of the ifnportant fea- | tures of the Loud bill which falled in three successive congresses because It | went altogether too far. As the postal | laws clothe the department with. exten: | sive discretionary powers, a systematic |effort was inaugurated two. years ago | to accomplish administratively, at least ! In part, the reform which had failed in congress. This effort succeeded in weed- Ing out a myriad of illegitimate pub- lications and in saving millions of dol- lars of revenue. It has now almost wiped out the deficlency of postal reve- nues, when the courts intervene with the declsion that the reform, needful and salutary as it is, is beyond the legal power of the department. A proper act curing the defective clas- sification is what is demanded. ANNEXATION ACTIVITY. The advocates of Cuban annexation are sald to be showing such activity that it I8 likely their tactics will provoke a strong statement from the administra- tion. There is no great probability, however, that this activity will make much of an impression either In congress or upon the country. There s really very little popular sentiment favorable to annexing Cuba and it would be cx- ceedingly difficult to work up such a sentiment. The very general feeling un- doubtedly s that the island republic must be left to work out its destiny, with such proper assistance as this country may give without interfering with the independence of Cuba. Nearly everybody who has given the matter thoughtful consideration must see that while Cuban annexation might be beneficial to the people of that coun- try as a whole, it would not be an ad- vantage to the United States. The wide dissimilarity between the Cuban people and ourselves Is of itself a very strong objection to annexation, and when it is considered that we should have to allow those people participation In the gov- ernment, with senators and representa- tives in congress and representation in the electoral college, very few of our people would support an annexation proposition. There s nothing serious tg be apprehended, therefore, from the agl- tation of the idea of making Cuba a part of the United States. ¢ eem———— THE MERCHANT MARINE. The reference in the report of the sec- retary of the treasury to the merchant marine of the United States, though brief, is not without interest. There is a greater volume of American shipping at present than ever before in our his- tory, but Its growth has been entirely within the domestic trade on the lakes and the seacoast. ' Our dependence upon forelgn ships for conveying our products to the world's markets {s not belng les- sened below 9 per cent of our exports and imports being carried in American vessels during the last fiscal year. This means that a vast sum of money went abroad which the possession of ‘an Amerlcan merchant marine would have kept at home for distribution among our own people in various ways. It is true that there Is a large amount of American eapital Invested in ocean steamships under forelgn flags and the returns on this capital are employed here, but most of the money pald by our producers and manufacturers for the transportation of their products to for- elgn markets goes to European shipown- ers and helps to maintain foreign ship- bullding industries. How much this s is hardly possible to accurately detér- mine, but if the amount thus annuvally taken out of the country could be ap- plied to the creatlon of an American merchant marine we should In a few years have our own steamship lines, under the American flag, to every lm- portant port of the world and be in this respect entirely Independent of foreign shipowners. Moreover, we should have in the United States the greatest ship- building industry in the world, employ- ing a vast amount of capital and labor and comwributing greatly to the general welfare and the wealth of the country. As it is, American caplital is being in- vested In foreign ships, so that while European shipbullders are having abundant employmwent many of ours are At all events it Is made apparent that the Colombian government is desirons to come to terms and that Its attitude was misrepresented by the minister whom it recalled. It indeed seemed strange, when the negotiations came to a halt, that the government of Colombia should have adopted an attitude of ob- struction after having so strongly ex- pressed the desire to have the United States complete the Panama canal, and equally surprising that it should seek to defeat a project which if carried out will be in the highest degree beneficial to that country. It will give Colombia much needed financial aid and very greatly improve material conditions there, or at any rate in the state of Panama. If Colombia should not allow | the United States to build the canal and this country secured the Nicaragua route, the result would be the effacement of Panama and Colon from the map, 8o far as commerce goes. Our government is driving no hard bargain in this matter. It proposes to pay the French company all that its property is commercially worth, while all it asks of Colombia is complete se- curity for its Investment, not likely to be less than $150,000,000. There is noth- ing unfair or unreasonable in the terms and conditions of the United Staes. 4 DISCREPANCY SUMEWHERE. That there is a serious discrepancy somewhere which has helped the rail- roads to shirk the taxes which they ought to pay in Omaha and Douglas county is disclosed by the recent speeial survey of railroad trackage made by County Surveyor Edquist at the request of the Board of County Commissioners. For some reason or other the figures of the county surveyor do not correspond by a wide margin with the figurés re- turned by the railroads to the State Board of Equalization and by the state board certified back to the local authori- ties of this city and county. Within the city limits of Omaba alone the railway trackage found by the county surveyor compared with the mileage of the state board for the principal railroads, ex- cluding the Belt Line and the Omaha Bridge and Terminal company, is as follows: State County Road. Board's Survevor's Mileage. Trackage. Union Pacific.......ovuvess 6,903 450 Omaha & Southwestern.. 2.710 20.800 Omaha & North Platte.... 2.262 C, 8t. P, M. & O. 3.990 22,200 F. E. & M. V... 590 110 Totals .19.456 128.560 In studying these figures it should also be remembered that the Union Pacitic includes within its less than seven miles of mileage credited to Omaha the one- sixth of a mile Into which it has con- verted the west half of the Union Pacific bridge for purposes of tax shirking only. The apparent decrease in the figures for the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley as between the state board reflirns and the new survey must be due to the an- nexation by the county surveyor of side tracks to the Chieago, St. Paul, Minne- apolis & Omaha returned by the Elkhorn system. Nothing could better illustrate - the costly farce of assessing for local taxa- tion all the railroad property in Omaha on a mileage basls, prorated accoriing to what the railroad officials may be pleased to label “main line.” The fact is that the Unlon Pacific and Burling- ton each have half a dozen main lines into Omaba and it would be an in- solvable puzzle for any one of the offi- clals of those roads to point out which track constitutes the main line any ‘more than it would be possible to show where the Omaba & North Platte road trans- fers its trains west of Twentleth street to the Omaha & Southwustern. The figures returned to the state board have been concocted only with the de- slgn to confuse the public mind and to enable the railroads to hold back from taxation the most valuable property they possess. They will pretend that the hundred miles of tracks i Omaba alone which are not turned back to Omaha by the state board have been distributed throughout the state, but they cannot point to a single county that has ob- tained an additional penny In taxes on account of the distribution, The thxpayers of the city will do well to study these figures aund ponder on thelr significanc facing a decreasing business, The importance of an American mer- chant marine for the - ocean-carrying trade was fully recognized by McKin- ley, who said: *“One of the needs of the times is direct commercial lines from lighten his enewmies on the point of his political purposes, assuring them that, ‘Mke Paul Jones, he h not begun to fight. He decidedly refuses to confirm the statement that he is responsible for the increased republican vote in Oblo. ) our vast fields of production to the fields of consumption that we have but barely touched. Next in advantage to having the thing to sell Is to have the con- venlence ta carry it to the buyer. We must encourage our merchant marine. The theory upon which the Real Es- tate exchange has been acting In its efforts for tax reform is that a lower tax rate means better prices and more active demand for real estate, and that the only way to cut the tax rate is to increase the assessment roll by includ- ing property that has hitherto escaped taxation, The biggest lump of property that has evaded the assessment roll in Omaha is the rallroad right-of-way and L) terminal facilities. The Real Esta 3 change 1s on the right track when it | heads for the railway assessments, ————— Incidentuily to Denver's acquisition of municipal home rule under the new amendment to the covstitution of Colo- rado 18 a merger of the city and county governments for the area occupled by | Denv A r of the governments of the city of Omaha and county of Douglas, insofar as they cover the | same ground, would be the most econom- jcal turn our taxpayers could make. The partisan objection to the bill pro- viding for the expenses of the coal strike arbitration, that the president's action was illegal, had no welght with the house. The president’s act was not ille- gal, but there was no legal way of pay- ing out of the public treasury the ex- penses involved except by act of con- gress. The promptitude of the house in passing this bill will be generally approved. While the question of postal reform Is up, congress ought to attend to the al- lowance made to railroads for transport- ing the mails. In many instances we pay from five to ten times us much as European governments pay to rallroads for the same service, SE——— Make It Unanimous. Philadelphia Press. Since no democrat anywhere in the coun- try 18 acceptable to any other democrat for the presidential nomination why not all turn in for Roosevelt. Beyond the Range of Guessing. Washington Post. King Victor Emmanuel has given $40,000 to charity In honor of There is no telling how much he would have given had it been a boy. What the Trafie Will Bear. Indianapolis News. Despite the freight blockades, the rail- roads broke the November record last | month. Now that things are moving again, | and freight rates have had a lift, what they do in December will probably be a plenty. Even the stockholders ought to come pretty near being catisfied. The Public Be D—d. Baltimore American. The coal operators and the coal garry- ing railroads are not treating the public in a way that will win friendship. The people will mot soon forget the annoy- ances to which they have been subjected through the coal shortage in an inclement season and will insist that steps be taken to render impossible any repetition of this experience. Stock Inflation Checked. Springfield Republican. The floating of trust combinations Is be- coming increasingly difficult from the close- ness of the money market and past over- production of securities of this kind. Thus the trust-incorporating states represented an aggregate capital of only $130,000,000, | against nearly $600,000,000 for such incer- porations during the same month last year. Colonel Mosby’s Campaign. Chicago Chronicle Late bulletins indicate that Colonel Mosby is likely to land outside the breastworks along with Peter Power and other blasphemers of “‘extefisive interests.” encomium passed by the farmer man upon the bull that tackled the locomotive: “I admire your courage, but d—n your dis- | cretion.” Get Back to the Land. Philadelphia Record There is no cure for conditions of de- pression in either organized labor or or- ganized capital. Both depend on the m kets and neither the one nor the other can command them. The real remedy for hard times, the enforced remedy for redundant labor, 1s a reversal of the townward tide of population. land to dig. the occupation of the public lands in the west {8 a healthy one even where it takes the form of migration to -the cheaper arable lands in Canada. Great Business Institution. 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. ‘The Postoffice department of the United States was considered a geod deal of an institution before the civil war. In 1852 its receipts were $6,900,000. In 1862 they were $8,200,000. Last year they were $121.- 800,000. The receipts of the department have trebled since 1882. They have in- creased $50,000,000 in ten years, and in the same time the annual deficit hi from $6,000,000 to $2,000,000. These are big figures on a big subject. If the abuses ‘o the postal business can be reformed, no diMculty will be experfenced in making re- ceipte and expenditures balance. Congress should deal promptly with postal affairs. They touch the welfare of the people at many important points. PERSONAL NOTES, Mr. Hanoa will not resign from the sen- ate. He continues to atand pat. Incredible as it may seem, Senator Depew has a new story in his possession. It go in with the old one Eugene Fischhoff, a noted Austrian turf- man, whose home 18 in Vienna, has just ar- rived in New York. He says he may bring some of his horses to America. Fraulein Bertha Krupp is sald to be the richest woman in the world, with a fortune estimated at $75,000,000. It will be a lucky son of a gun who captures the daughter of the dead gunmaker. Jack Dalton, the famous Alaskan explorer and ploneer, who has been searching for Russian landmarks in Alaska, at the insti- gation of the government, has just arrived in Alaska, having finished his work. Friends of the late Senator Vance of North Carolina are ralsing funds to pur- chase a life-size marble bust of the Senator to be placed 1n the rotunda of the Carnegle Library building at Charlotte, N. Licutenant W. C. Fitspatrick, Seventh in- fantry, one of the student officers attending the general service and staff college in Leavenworth, Kan., has just sold part of his ol land in Beaumont, Tex., for $250,000. A portrait of President Lincoln will be placed in the Mississipp! Hall of Fame at Jackson. The picture turnished by Robert T. Lincoln, in response to a request, and will be placed beside that of Robert E. Lee. A French officer is said to have brought out an invention which will entirely abolish sound, flash and smoke when a gun Is fired. Now it he will only improve upon his inven- tion by abolishing the projectile he will de- serve well of mankind. When Captain Pershing, U. 8. A, marching across Mindanao he met many Moros. They told him they had been led to believe all Americans were elght feet high and wore horns. Those Moros must ha met some of our soldiers in battle. was the new baby. | for November the large incorporations in | The | man who monkeys with a trust in this en- | lightened land of ours justifies the qualified | As a last resort men must ' dlg to live, and they must go back to the | The reviving movement for | tallen | 1902, The Opposition View. Chicago Chronlele As a whole ture of bad ec (@em.) the message s a curious mix- nomics, good homily and in- different statesmanship. Tarift and Trusts. Chicago Tribune (rep.) The business men of the country will as sent to all the president says about the tariff and the trusts. They will agree with him that “it s better to endure for a time slight inconveniences antl ineaualities in some schedules than to upset business by too quick and too radical changes.” They will agree with him that corporations shall not be treated as ene but “shall be 80 handled as to subserve the public good.” 1 Optimistie, 1e New Hopeful a Indian (ind.) One reading the m would get the impression that we really have very few problems after all, and that we are a most fortunate and happy people, which is the case. The document is decidedly hopeful and optimistic in tone, and this is as it should be. It is not profound, or compre- hensive, and it does not indicate any great grasp of the situation by the man who wrote It. The president is evidently will- ing to be guided largely by congress. Per- haps he is wise in taking that position. The ship subsidy bill is completely ignored. Two Things Stand Out Clearly. Minneapolis Times (ind.) Two things may be sald positively about the message: Lawful business has nothine to fear from Theodore Roosevelt: dishonest combinations will find in him an earnest and powerful foe. The message is shorter than those we are wont to read. is lucid contains many epigrammatic sentences. such as “Publicity can do no harm to an | honest corporation; we need not be over tender about sparing the dishonest corpo- ratfon.”” Or, “We should always fearlessly Insist upon our rights in the face @ the strong, and we should, with ungrudging hand, do our duty by the weak.” Public Confidence Strengthened, Minneapolis Journal (rep.) The people of America think better of Roosevelt than they did a year ago. He has been tried. We believe this message will still further strengthen the confidence of the people on board our good ship of state in the man at the helm. This mes- sage breathes the spirit of action; it comes from a man who does things; congress can- not but feel the stimuius to uction which pervades it. And yet it {s all so calmly. 80 judiciously and so wisely spoken that we are unable to see where any legitimate interest can take exception, or how the in- fluence of this important deliverance is to have other effect than to strengthen pub- lic confidence; confidence mot only In our ability to utilize the most advanced meth- ods and systems and devices in our com- mercial and industrial world, but confidence in our ability to protect ourselves against harm from any of these powerful and glgan- The President’s Message tic forces which we have invoked and which peculiarly distinguish our age and civiliza- tion. Well Worth Read! 8t. Lowts Globe-Democrat (rep.) It ought not to be necessary to uree all intelligent Americans to read the message This 1s shorter than the one President Roosevelt himself-sent to congress a year ago. It is shorter than most his predecessors of the past dozen years. Everything is Included In it, however, which Americans in general would look for In a state paper of this sort. Everybody who reads it will gat a better idea than he had before of the country's national and in- ternational concerns. Americans are for- tunate in getting from the heads of their government & more comprehensive resume of its larger affairs than the peopls of any other part of the world do about the ac tivities their own governments. This message, of course, 13 not merely & conden- sation of the reports of the heads of de- tments and bureaus, although much s ed in it, in broad outline, which is given in detall in the reports of other adminis- trative officers. The president has an orig- inal and Interesting way of saving things 1d many things are said in the messae which do not come within the purview of any of the other officials. It fs a care- fully prepared, well proportioned and lu- minous state paper. Kansas City Star A striking feature of the president’s mes- sage Is its clearness and simplicity of style. This was to have been expected In an author of Mr. Roosevelt's experience. It is asually the amateur who uses involved sen- tences and superfluous words. Stevenson used to say he couid tell how long & man had been writing by the excess of his verblage. One need mot be a literary critic to delight in well bullt sentences. from which not a word can be spared without loss in meaning. abounds In expressions such as thess: “The wave will recede, but the tide will advance. This nation is seated on a con- tinent flanked by two great oceans. It is composed of men winnowed out from amone the nations of the old world by the emergy. boldness and love of adventure found in thelr own eager hearts. Such a nation. so placed, will surely wrest success from for- tune. As a people, we have played a large part in the world. * * * We may elther fail greatly or succeed greatly, but we can- not avold the endeavor from which either great failure or great success must come. * * * We know that we can solve these problems, and solve them well, provided only that we bring to the solution the qualities of head and heart which were shown by the men who In the davs of Washington founded this government, and in the days of Lincoln preserved it. * ¢ « Let us not, In fixing our gaze upon the lesser evll, forget the greater good. ® * ¢ We should always fearlessly Insist upon our rights in the face of the strone. and we should with ungrudging hand, do our generous duty by the weak. ROUND ABOUT W YORK. ' Ripples on the Current of Life In‘ the Metropolis, ‘ The fam< which came to “The Little Church Around the Corner” when Rector Houghton the elder consented to hold there the funeral of an actor whose remains were refused admission to another' church, also | brought with it an cver-increasing number | of strange couples seeking marriage, until the church became a metropolitan Gretna | Green. Now Rev. Dr. George C. Houghton, | the present one, announces that he will| marry no more parties without either his| personal knowledge or reliable vouchers | and accepted witnesses. He makes the an- nouncement in the Kalendar, the church’ | monthly publication, saying: ‘‘This parish is widely known by its charitable disposi- | tion, but there is a limit to the interpreta |||on of charity, and 1 limit ‘secret mar- | rlages’ and marriages unsupported by family J! recognition.” Fifty thousand dollars changing hands | every day in the *curbstone markets" of| New York City goes a long way toward proving the truth of the old adage, which | avers that “little drops of water, little | grains of sand make a mighty ocean and | the happy land.”” Fifty thousand dollars, mostly in pennies and 5-cent pileces! And| yet that is exactly what happens every day | in the metropolis, reports the Herald. The curbstone merchants are to be seen in fair weather or in foul, from the Battery to the Bronx, from the east side to the west side, plying their trade with com- | mendable avidity—busy merchants without | stores, having no other covering ebove thelir heads than the blue sky. A shinlng sun lights them by day and a street lighting municipal government {lluminates (hflr‘ | places of business by night. Their only ! expense is a license and a stock to trade, | | down town to business and you see them | | still working when you go home at night. Long hours do they toil, for theirs is a day of small things, when a penny is a large plece of money and a business transaction | involving the munificent sum of 5 cents is not to be considered lightly. There is the vender of chestnuts, “hot roasted,” filling the air with his charcoal smoke the peddler of pantaloon stretchers at 5| cents aplece, the orange man, the banana man, who considers himself a specialist in selecting one branch of the frulterer's| business, and who “makes a play" with & wagonload for one day and lives for & week without work on the rich harvest. | You see them on all sides in your trip | Various ways of acquiring a more or I close identification with what is called so- clety have proved successful in New York City. One man broke his way in by means of & phonograph which would reproduce | most interestingly at evening parties the voices of celebrities. Another used to stand 1n groups of well known persons when they were photographed at Newport and number- less aspirants have arrived because they could play the piano, | But the barber shop fs a new portal to | the sacred realm. On a side street near | Fifth avenue {s an establishment of this Kkind which boasts the most exclusive clien- | tele o New York. Many of its regular patrons come from an aristocratic but small club across the street, which does not in- | clude a barber shop amoug its luxurles. | Since that fact became known its vogue has greatly increased. And the knowledge that | a certaln exclusiveness atiaches to 1its patrons has made it more than ever sought | after. . | No actual case of an entrance into soclety, made through close attendance there, has | yet been recorded. But it fs known that many regular customers of the place count | this advantage among thelr other claims to a place in the set they are so anxious to euter. ! Methodist church, where he was once pas- tor and from which & few years ago he raised a debt of $6,000, Rev. Alonzo Church Morehouse, 82 years old, recently stood in | the reviewing room of a storage warehouse in an old black overcoat and fraved silk bat while his personal property and li- | Within two blocks of the Second street | | preacher. brary went under the auctioneer's hammer to pay a debt of $55 for their storage for the last two years. Not one of Dr. Morehouse's Second Street church parishloners came to offer assist- ance or sympathy, relates a New York letter. - “This is a new experience,” he sald. t 18 as Joshua satd when he stood by the side of the Jordan: ‘We have not passed this way before.’ I have served my God and He will bring it out right in the end. “I have a place to lay my head, for the kind brother, Rev. A. S. Henning, has let me have a parlor and a back kitchen in hie home at Ossining, near the camp meeting ground, and there my wife and I lve.” While he was speaking his wife moved | @mong the cherished chattels of a lifetime. rearranging here’ and dusting there, that they might look more attractive to pros- pective buyers. Brave as the couple appeared in their ad- versity, they broke down when an old melo- deon was sold for $12. “We paid $125 for that fifty years ago. and it's been good ever since. It was Hor- ace Wallace’s best,” Mrs. Morehouse said. After an hour of half-hearted bidding tho household goods and most of the li-i brary brought $80. Old clothes men did most of the bidding. The library of 400 books brought volume. In the course of forty-six years In the ministry Rev. Dr. Alonzo Church Mors- house gained a reputation as one of the most successful debt-raisers in the Metho- dist denominatfon. But like the shoe- maker's children who go barefoot, he quite forgot to look after his own finances. About seven years ago Dr. Morehouse wrote an autoblography, which was pub- lished by the Methodist Book Concern. It had a glowing introduction by Bishop Newman. From one of the early chapters it appears that Dr. Morehouse began to be a good glver early in life. He was & mighty hunter in his youth up in Schohaire county, and a mighty reader of the Bible, too. He made up his mind that it was bis duty to give tithes, so exactly one-tenth of all the proceeds of the mink, fox and muskrat skins and the wild honey which he sold was devoted to religious purposes. That was long before he became a He was a carpenter and a builder first and a minister afterward. In 1856 he was preaching in Rexbury, where Jay Gould came from, and where he preached the funeral sermon for Jay Gould’s father. of those of The president’s message | an average of 5 cents a| l LIVES OF LARGE VALU nee of a Verdiet in a New York Damage Case. Chicago Chronfcle, A woman who entered suit {n the New York City courts against the railway upon which her husband was killed to recover the sum of $250,000 damages for the loss was given a verdict for $100,000. Her claim was that her husband's life had a cash value to the extent named from the fact that he was able to earn a salary of $30,000 a year for some time before his death This 18 & larger sum than has ever be- fore been legally claimed for any single | lite, although jurles in the cases of two | other men who were killed in this same | aceident have already awarded damages to the extent of $30,000 and $60,000 respectively in each sult. The fact that men's lives have an actual legal cash value based upon the earning eapacity of the individual is now well tablished, as I8 also the other faet t some men can fairly earn by their own ef- forts salaries running up to tens of thou- sands of dollars and even more annually. Because we pald the nation’s president only $25000 a year until a comparatively recent date there was a generai feeling that nobody else could earn more than that sum. But we have learnsd with the rest of man- kind that many men would be very inade- quately remunerated unless thelr annual {ncomes were much larger. Scores, if not hundreds, of men carry life fnsurance to the amount of $160,000 and up- | ward. Their lives are recognized by the | compantes to be worth thess large sums. | Buch men earn every year more than an | ample intarest upom the heavy amounts | noted, and when thay die their estates are entitied to have the loss made good to any reasonabla extent The law courts ars, thersfore, only con- ceding what Iife Insurance and the experi- ence of the business world geaerally bave already shown—viz, that many men can fairly earn better pay than others, that there is hardly any limit te the earning capacity on the part ef some of the mera tortunately gifted ones and that when they that the loes be made | die there remains the right to their family or estate shall good. { It they have themselves prudently pre- arranged for this the indemnity s, of course, certain and immediate, while it their death is the untimely work of cor- poration carelessness the world's advanced thought now allows the possible remunera- tion through the courts to reach almost any sum. LAUGHING GAS. Baltimore American: The Judge—What jyas the flercest charge you ever {ook purt "The Major—A charge of 4 cents foh w drink of whisky, sah. Brooklyn Life: Caller—Speaking of ba- bies, madam, that's a fine youngster. Al- low me to congratulate you. Young Woman—Sir, that baby is not mine. Caller—I repeat, madam, allow me to congratulate you. Philadelphia Pres: Archie—The young lady's father doesn’t like you, doesn’t he? Maybe he objects to your playing foot ball. Reggle—I don't belleve he knows I'm a foot ball player. He seemed to take me for & foot bail. Baltimore News: *I didn't know Bump- torn was an autograph fiend."” ““You didn’t! He has personal letters from nearly every tallor and collection agency in seven states.'” Town Topics: She—Dalsy Cuttysark fa exceedingly proud of her feet and ankles. He—Is there any reason for her stopping there? Somerville Journal: Didn't you ever think that you would like to hear a publie speaier begin his address: “Gentlemen and ladles,” sometimes, just for a change? ‘Washington Sta that Itallan opera? ““Very much, in a way,'' answered Mr Cumrox. *“But T couldn't help wishing my #on could be there. He would have gotten material for some of the finest college yells ever invented.” Philadelphia Pres: “Beg parding, ma'am,” sald the tramp, “but don't the bible say ‘cast your bread on de waters “1 believe it does,” replied Mrs. Houskeep. “Well, ma'am, my name's Waters, an’ de ‘bible doni't draw no line at a chunk o' meat.” “How did you enjoy THE JINGLE CATCHES THEM, James Barton Adams in Denver Post. There is food for cultured souls in the poetry that rolls Soft and dreamy from the pen that 1s inspired, By the gentle notes of love, soft as coolngs of the do Are the hearts of youths and maldens sweetly fired. When tpe decds of war are told, men of more herolc mold Peell. their souls uplifted to a height sub- me, But they one and all will quaft at the cup that makes them Jaugh— It's the jingle that will catch them every me. To the worthy Christian's ear there i noth- ing half so dear As the sacred songs that tell of life above, And there's swelling in our throats as we listen to the notes Of the song that treats of mother's death- leso love. Songs of home will touch the heart, cause unbidden tears to start, Though their metre be at fault and rude their rhyme, But in {dle momen cares, and then It's lnm Jingle that will catch them every time. men would forget their Poets sing about the flowers in the sweet Elysian bowers, Of the birds that warble in trees, Of the mountains' mystic nooks, of the bab- bling of the brooks, Of the balmy kisses of the saucy breeze; All of which is sweet to hear, 15 enchanting to the But as up the hill tho tollin When their the forest masses climb wearled spirits long for an in- spirative song Ivs the Jingle that will catch them every me. This Weather May bring your thoughts next to Underwear— If you have not already selected your winter weight, you better do so now, for a little later it will be too late. Assortments will be broken and your size missing from the very kind that suits you. We'veall ki garment, nde from 50c to $6 a And then Gloves—You should see the differ- ent lines we have from yarn at 50¢ to genuine the common kind of Seal at $20. THE BEST ASSORTMENT IN OMAHA. Browning e 3@ R. S. Wilcox, Mgr.