Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 16, 1902, Page 6

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(Beal) Notary Public. —_— Secretary Shaw has very prudently rung off on his Wall street telephone. —_— The Towa idea is now reposing under & mantle of snow, but it will thaw out by the time spring sets in. —_— Another hospital has been projected, this time in South Omaha. There may be such a thing as too many hospitals. The coal barons will be heard at Scran- ton this week, but in the meantime the people of the whole country are freezing. Parties ambitious to.own a street rail- way franchise in the Philippines had bet- ter fire their proposals into Manila by cable, R If an eminent divine of Omftha has ar- rived at correct conclusions, they have stay-at-homes In churches as well as stay-at-homes at primaries and general elections. e The end of the Hawailan cable has been hitched to the Golden Gate, and Honolulu will be within hailing distance of the government at Washington before New Year's, Hereafter - whistling, coughing or sneezing on the Union Pacific picket line will not constitute an offense suf- ficlent for punishment by contempt of court proceedings. While Dewey is playing foetball with the American marines in the Carribean sea the Britlsh and German sea dogs are bombarding the Venezuelan coast citles just to keep in. practice Germany and Great Britain will not be permitted by Uncle Sam to war on Venezuela, but there is nothing to hinder them from scaring the Venezue- lans into submission to their demands. Sm—— The conclusions of the Board of Re- view are that the assessmept of railroad property by the state board represents less than 1 per cent of its actual value, while all other property in Omaha is being assessed at 100 cents on the dol- lar valuation. Here is uniformity. Congressman Fowler, was plainly in- formed by his republican colleagues on the house banking comumittee of a lot of things which he ought long ago to have known regarding the bill that carries his name. They made it plain to him that his banking and currency bill can neither pass the house nor even the com- mittee, Sp— As a rule the first thirty days of the short session of congress Is practically ‘wasted, and the present session Is no ex- ception to the rule. Experience shows that it is lmpossible, in the absence of some emergency, to get congress to set- tle down to business before the firkt of the year, and even then it is generally some time before the appropriation com- mittee begins to hold continuous ses- slons. ‘The inevitable result is that many important measures are delayed till the last days of the session, when they are crowded out by the appropriation bills. a—————— "The movement in Georgia to establish a “patrol systew” in the agricultural dis- tricts is nothing but the re-establish- ment of the Ku Klux system of terrorism in vogue in the South at the close of the war of the rebellion. It is almed ex- clusively acr the colored population, It provides for patrolling the highways day and night, and no negro can be abroad without subjecting himselt to arrest and severe penalties unless he can ex- hibit a certificate of character signed by the proper officials. It practically an- nihilates or destroys thes freedom of the colored people, and places them in con- stant jeopardy of arbitrary arrests. THE VENEZUELAN SITUATION. &0 complicated Is the Venezuclan sit- uation that ne definite oplnion formed as to what course it auay take or what the probable outcome will be. The proposal of arbitration made throngh our government is under consideration by the Britieh and German forelgn of- fces. but there is no Intimation as to what their decision will be. There must be a consultation between the allles, and this may delay for several days a de- termination of the question whether or not the propoeal shall be accepted. The indications are that the British govern- ment Is favorably disposed toward the arbitration proposition, buf a report from Berlin states that it is the opinion in official cireles there that the proposition was made too late to affect the general situation. This, however, would hardly be regarded as a valid reason for reject- ing it, since it was submitted as soon as possible after the allles had entered Venezvelan. waters “and demonstrated their purpose to forcibly collect their claims. To reject arbitration because it was not proposed before what has occurred would be very generally re- garded as implying that the European nations are aiming at something more than the collection of debts. Meanwhile there s reported to be very strong sympathy with Venezuela on the part of other South American countried | and a disposition to offer her assistance if she shall need it. This is credible, for most of the southern republics are in debt to foreigners, and they see dan- ! ger to themselves in the course of Great Britaln and Germany toward Venezuela, if those powers succeed in collecting their claims. It Is unfortunately true that integrity in regard to financial obli- gations i8 not a conspicuous character- istlc of the Spanish-American countries generally, and when they find a determin- atlon on the rt of their creditors to compel them to pay- their just debts it is quite natural that they should be dis- posed to stand together for resisting it. It is also sald that there is great dis- satisfaction with the United States be- cause it does not Interpose In the Ven- ezuelan dificulty and make application of the Monroe doctrine. Our govern- ment has repeatedly and clearly ex- plained the meaning and scope of that doctrine, which it has very recently been pointed out by the president of the United States, does not safeguard the independent countries of this hemi- sphere agalnst the collection of financial obligations which they justly owe and refuse to pay. The United States in- tends to protect all of its sister repub- lics against selzure of territory by a for- elgn power, and from Interference by a foreign nation with their political in- stitutions, but it says to them If they re- fuse to pay their debts this government will not Interpose to prevent the colle tion of such debts by the method which it has recognized as legitimate. With this the Monroe doctrine has nothing to do. v It Is still possible that the Vehezuelan difficulty will' not hécome more acute and aggravated, and there is ‘no doubt that whatever our government can prop- erly do to this end will be done. A BLOW TO AMERICAN EXPORTS. The German tariff will, it s sald by those who speak with authority, de- prive the meat packing industry of 25 per cent of the provision export trade, exclusive of fresh meats. The foreign representative of one of our leading packing firms states that the new law will practically put an end to the meat trade with Germany, which is one- fourth of our total exports in this line. This Is a serious blow and the packers, it is reported, are preparing to ask the government to take some action for their relief. There is no doubt that the new Ger- man tariff is aimed at the United States. Evidence of this is ample. Some of the supporters of the measure have been so frank as to publicly de- clare such to be the case. Some ten days ago a résolution was Introduced in the Relchstag In rega¥d to withdrawing the most favored nation treatment from countries which do not grant to Ger- many full reciprocity. The mover of the resolution declared that it almed primarily against the United States. In the course of the debate on the tariff bill last Saturday the fact that it is directed chiefly against this country was clearly disclosed, one speaker saying: “We expect that the government will undertake a thorough- going revision of all treaties containing the most favofed nation advantages. The United States has introduced the limitation of the most favored nation clause; we have every reason to act in precisely the same manner.” It Is possible that the German government will not be disposed to go| as far as the advocates of discrimination against the United States desire, but it appears to be reasonably certain that our eommer- cial relations with Germany are ap- proaching a crisis. What should be the policy of this country in the matter is manifestly an important question. Undoubtedly there are some who will counsel retallation, but that is a course to be adopted only when all ather plans and expedients fail While there can be no guestion that in any tariff war between Germany and the United States, the commerce of this country would suffer a good deal less than that ‘of Germany, the fact is to be borne in mind that there are meas- ures of reprisal open to Germany to which we eould reasonably take ex- ception, bat ‘would nevertheless place some of our products now findiug & market 1o Géfmany at a considerable disadvantage. Some time ago the able consul general of the United States at Berlin, in a report to the Department of State, urged that there should be a broad, liberal and comprehensive treaty between the two countries, “under the lufluence of which the prosperity and re- clprocal good will' of the republic and empire will be promoted and mailn- tained.” It cannot be said that Ger- 2 DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, wany's present policy will contribute to such a treaty. While the attitude of the American senate towatd pending trade treaties does not warrant belief that a reciprocity treaty with Germany would be ratified. With our exports decreas- ing, this latest blow to our foreign comn- merce, affecting one of our most im- portant Industries, should command the thoughtful attention of the legislators at ‘Washington. NEW YORK LOAN SITUATION. The New York Investor, in a careful analysis of the loan record of the New York banks since August 26, when the stringency became critical, emphasizes the fact that in the meantime there has been no net reduction of the loans. The banks all understood that the difficulty of the situation was caused by excessive borrowing, especially for speculative purposes, and it 18 admitted that they have made strenuous,efforts to call in loans. But while an immense amount of loans have been called in, the fact remains that the banks have not been able to resist the fressure for funds in other directions, although they have suc- ceeded In efféct in getting sounder se- curity without reducing the amount of the loans. ~ The significant explanation given by the Investor of the failure of the banks to materially shrink the volume of loans amounts to an. impeachment of the policy of the banks. It is in short that many of the banks themselves, directly or mdirectly, were implecated in specu. lations and promotions. They felt bound to sustain the market in the interest of these operations, and to do this it was necessary to be lenient with many en- terprises in which they were not directly interested. / The failure to restrict loans appears to be one of the strongest points operating on forelgn creditors at this time, and whose demands are making the money market very sensitive. There is not as yet any pronounced and general move- ment on their part to call home their enormous loans that have been piling up for over a year, and it is not believed that there will be, but with the pressure so severe as it has been on the banks for several months any noteworthy de- mand of the foreign creditors is instantly severely felt. E—— A PHASE OF THL COAL ARBITRATION. The Investigation before the coal strike commission has not yet reached a point of exceeding importance Im public esti- mation—full publicity as to the relations and doings of the rallcoad companies, which are also operators of gnthracite coal mines, producing about two-thirds of the total output. While the Pennsyl- vania constitution positively forbids it, the fact 1s notorfous that there is identity of proprietorship in all the coal carrying roads and most of the mining companies, and enough has already incidentally transpired in the investigation to show that stich proprietofship stands on a fandamentally different basis than that of the independent mining companies having no connection with or control over transportation, but being necessarily In large measure dependent upon compet- ing operators who have that illegal ad- vantage. It is not doubted by those familiar with the facts that a policy of syste- matic discrimination In transportation charges has been for years practised against the independent operators, every detall of which is a direct violation of the interstate commerce act, and many of them of the Sherman trust act. So grave have the effects become that the in- dependent companies have steadily been compelled to yield in the contest and have been absorbed by thelr competitors armed with power over rallroad rates. This is precisely the point, as is now known, which led the Independent op- erators to refuse to join In the proposed concession of a 20 per cent Increase of wages, since It was apparent that if the price of coal were not ralsed the transportation and coal companles by discriminating rates could in effect com- pel the independent operators to pay the entire Increase of wages, that of their competitors’ as well as that of their own employes. The contest, therefore, resolves itself into a distinct issue between the vietims and the benefielaries of wrongful rail- road discriminations. This phase 18 no less interesting and important than the differences between the proprietary coal companles generally and their striking employes. It 18 not likely that the com- mission is competent to correct and set- tle it, but if it is able to develop the facts it will have accomplished a result of inestimable value. e NO EXCLUSIVE FRANCAISE. At a special meeting of the Central Labor union resolutions were adopted declaring against an exclusive franchise of the proposed electric power project now pending before the city council. At this special meeting only a baker's dozen of the membership of that body were present and thé instigators of the meeting were openly charged with hav- ing been hired by parties interested in sandbagging the cheaper power enter- prise, which is of great moment not only for the members of organized labor who now reside In Omaha, but-also for future generations of workingmen. In the very nature of things it would be deplorable for the Central Labor union to array itself against an enter- prise that would insure an increase of mills and factories for Omaha and South Omabha by snap judgment taken on mis- Information. The hue and cry raised against an exclusive franchise is s leading. There can be no such thing as an exclusive franchise or grant in the state of Nebraska. That was set- tled by the courts in the decision rela- tive to the franchise voted by an Omaha city council to the Holly Water Works company twenty-two years ago. The courts declared in so many words that under our constitution there can be no monopoly in public utility or any ex- DECEMBER 16, 1902. clusive franchise for any purpose affect- ing the public. That was the ground upon which the council but recently voted a franchise to the Thomson-Houston Electric com- pany for wire conduits under the streets and alleys of Omaha. Had the franchise granted to that company been exclusive it would have been vold. There is, how- ever, a very marked difference between franchises granted to street rallways, water, gas, telephone or electric light- ing companies. All these franchises contemplate occupancy of space under the streets or over the streets, and in- asmuch as two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time, these fran- chises may become exclusive, becanse no competing concern could plant its tracks, pipe lines, or wires where the duplicates would seriously affect pub- lic convenience, The proposed franchise for conveying power in Omaha contemplates no such | lonaire had bought out the persons who | things have happened in Mississippl within In fact, it would not in the| Were about to spoil an elegant bit of Fifth | the past few weeks. What with bears and candition. least conflict with municipal ownership. With the power brought to the city limits by overhead wires the city could readily avail itself of the opportunity for supplying the municipal bulldin with power and light and supplying power and light to private consumers. There i nothing, either, in the proposed franchise to hinder any competing power supply concern from entering the mar- ket under specific municipal regulations to be enacted in the future. Madifestly the opposition to the proposed franchise springs from a desire to block the effort to supply Omaha with cheaper'power than is now obtainable directly by the use of high priced coal or indirectly through the medium of the Thomson- Houston comipany. S————— For many years The Evening Bee has been recognized officlally by the city and county boards as the paper having the largest ciremlation in Omaha and Doug- las county. Druggists and liquor deal- ers may publish their applications for license in The Evening Bee in eompli- ance with the law in good faith and no licensing board can legally refuse their applications if they publish their notices this year where they have been pub- lished during previous years. If other papers have any claims to priority they have not yet furnished the proofs either that they have increased their circula- tions within the last year to surpass The Evening Bee or that The Evening Bee has lost its circulation during the past year and fallen behind them. Under such conditions the attempt to compel these people to pay three prices for one service is a downright imposition. —_— The purity department of the Wom- an’s Christian Temperance union has a rod in pickle for President Roosevelt, be- cause he turned down its urgent request for an explanation of his conduct in plac- ing the painting, “Love and Life,” in the private apartments of the White House. The offensive plctiire was on exhibition in the Corcoran Wrt gallery, and as a matter of ‘fact, thére' is nothing in the painting to which the purest-minded person eould object. It was pre- sented to the government to be placed in the White House, and those who are acquailnted with the president's peculiar ways feel sure that it will remain where it s, unless some- one should imitate the man who made Omaha famous by driving the leg of a chair through the Bougereau painting now hanging on the walls of the Lin- inger art gallery. Merchants who patronize The Bee for their Christmas advertising get the larg- est returns in Christmas trade. It pays to pay the highest price and get the best | goods. The Evening Bee alone suppiies more than 8,000 subscribers by carrier delivery In Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs that are not reached by any other newspaper. Stick a pin there, The River, Only, Moved. Boston Transcript, Stands Towa where it did? Not en- | tirely. A three-mile strip of it has been | moved into Nebraska by the Missour| river. e at Might Have Been. Indlanapolis News. reported to be very scarce in Ne- George Washington and wife of the mil- | lionaire banker, ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropol Millionatre home owners along Fifth avenue are occasibnally taken in and fleeced as smoothly as lambs In Wall street. Considerable money as well as Judgment is mecessary to do the job suc- cessfully, but the profits justify the in vestment and the risk. All that fs nec- easary is to secure possession of a lot adjolning one of the palaces and threaten to bulld a flat or store building Like Davy ' Crockett's coon, the millionaire “‘comes down." Last spring a Chicago millionaire whe bought a corner mansion on Fifth avenue soon discovered that the brown stone house next to his, which had been sold,;was to be replaced with a building to be used as a cafe, |, a sort of aristocratic saloon. The Chicagoan saw his duty and did it. Suddenly the work of tearing down that house next to his stopped. The wreck remained and to hide it a high fence was put up. The nelghbors were told the mil- avenue, but strange’ to relate, flaring theatrical posfers have been permitted on that fence. g Farther up Fifth avenue, right in the midst of Fifth avenue, a man bought some expensive lots and announced that he was golng to put up flats. John Jacob Astor nd W. C. Whitney lived near and a very shiopable millignaire lived next. There was t comsternation, but there was a lot of money back of the consternation and the vulgar intruder was bought out. *“Competition in New York {s down to a pretty fine point,” remarked a man from the far west quoted by the Tribune, “but whete is impressed me most was not in legitimate business, but in the ‘touches’ made by beggars or 'grafters,’ especlally along Park Row, where I suppose thelir trade Is keenest. “The first experience I had in this line was the other evening whe) I was stand- ing at the entrance to the bridge, a litile undecided what line to take uptown. First came a tired looking man, who had 4 cents, but wanted to o to Onme-Hundred and Twenty-fifth street. That seemed a long distance to, walk for the lack of a cent, so I gave it to him. Perhaps he passed the word to hib fellows in alleged mistortune; perhaps they recognized in me an out-of- town type/ but In the next four of five min- utes put forward their pleas. None wanted over 2 cents and all wanted these not very | startling sums for some laudable purpose. ‘The first two or three got what they asked for. Then all of a sudden I realized that I had struck a,sort of endless chain, or more exactly, that It had struck me. So promptly made up my mind what line I wanted to take and hurried from that vi- cinity. “But fs ‘was all quite different from my home town. %0n the coast if a man gave a beggar a cent the mendicant would look at it in pained amazement. There is generally 10 cents or nothing. Some of the San Fran- cisco beggars ought to spend a couple of weeks in New York. Then they could ap- preciate what strenuous life in beggardom really means Several members of the Tranmsportation club of New York City were smoking and chatting over the after-dinner coffee a few days ago, when the convereation turned to the horseless age,” rejates the Times. Trol- ley cars, automobiles and air ships had their share of the talk, when one of the ty, a young man well known in New York clubland, fid: “I wonder if they will ever invent silverless dinners.” “Sllverless dinners!” exclaimed the oth- ers. 5\ P o “Yes, dinners at which one will not have to bother with knives, forks or spoons; where Qvurr)ng will be prepared in such tashion that one can simply take it in his ngers and still not require a pail of water alongside of b A “1 doubt It, id another. “In fact, I don’t see how such a thing could very well “Well,” continued/the man who had made the proposition, “I am willing to wagep the cost of a dinner that I can get up one which you will call excellent, and we won't have a | plece of silver on the table.” | The wager was at once taken, and the young man sought the chef. Next night the | five men were again together, and each had | brought a woman to pass judgment on the meal. It consisted of eight courses, and all | those present voted It a perfect success. | The menu wi tollows: Oysters on the half-shell, to be eaten from the shells. Consomme In_cups, Frogs' legs, with a sauce on the side. Half of a baked squab, with the leg in paper cap. Lamb chops, with the ends in paper cap. Stuffed celery. Ice cream sandwiches. Coffee. Mrs. Mary Bond Morosini, grandniece of | A. C. Morosini, recently | had a terrible experlence with a burglar. Robbers entered her home at Mount Vernon | tittle.” and the young matron was the first to give |'Swedish newspaper in this country. | catalogue of the various breakfast foods. It | gressmah to push a button and ascertain | what is good for him. WONDERS OF OU The Warbling Ox and the Ki Sketched by Master Pe: ‘Washington Post. Bulletin No.38—new series—of the divi- teresting document from that the Department | est but pregnant pamphiet therefore, essay the impossible. the safe side is our motto. beyond its depth. warble in Mississippl.” We skip it. sippl or elsewhere. |be it from us to enter a denial. Strange Bobos and moving accidents by flood and field, how can we be sure that the ox doesn’t warble In that fllustrious state, or even in Arkansas and Louisiana? Neither have we a word to say against the assertion that at Liano, Tex., the cattle owners treat their cows for screw-worms by Christl Science. We don’t knew anything about the Llano cattle owners except that they live in Texas, and our information as to screw- worms could be passed through the eye of a cambric needle without crowding the ori- fice in the very least. It may all be true— doubtless ts. But we shy at the “Notes on Kissing Bugs” furnished to the department by a gentleman residing in Philo, 0. O must draw a line somewhere, and it see: to us that the limit has been reached in this: “Notes on Kissing Bugs—June 28, 1802, we received a specimen of Reduvius personatus Linn., from Mr. W. T. Hubbell, Philo, 0., with the information that it was caught in the night within the fold of a lady’s night- dress after twice stinging her. The lady described the sensation like the sting of a wasp, causing sickness and something like a chill, symptoms which, however, might have been due to nervousness, as the lady was not very strong.” Any one who wants to belleve this yarn is at liberty to do so. For our part we don't see how a well-regulated kissing bug could get tangled in the folds of a lady's night- dress. We have never heard of such a thing proposition now. A careful perusal of Bulletin 38, howeve moves us to wonder whether the president's protest against lengthy official reports, especially those which are illustrated, was intended to apply to such publications as this. Surely every right-minded person must want to know about screw-worms, and kissing bugs, and warbling oxen, and things of that kind, and surely no taxpayer would object to expenditures in {llustrating these exciting things. A really lfe-like picture of that kissing bug, for instance, would be welcomed in every American home, while the very simplest black-and-white sketch of the warbling ox—especially if it were accompanied by the musical score—would take the very highest place in the affec- tions of the people. We are gladi we saw that bulletin. Such experiences help to impress us properly touching the greatness of our own, our na- tive land. PERSONAL NOTE! Venezuela ‘has milllons for defense but very 1fttle to' pay bHls with. Despite the terrific speed af Tom John- son's “‘Red Devil” automobile jve is unable to overtake the band wagon. 1t will hardly do for any more raconteurs to die at present. All the good stories have already been credited to Tom Reed and Tom Ochiltree. King Oscar of Sweden has conferred the Royal Order of Vasa upon Dr. John A. Enander of Chicago, the oldest editor of & Librarian Putnam is preparing a card will soon be’possible for a debilitated con- Dr. Steiner of Sandusky, 0. who will write Tolstol's blography, is a Tolstolan disciple, and has worked as a day laborer with the immigrant people of the United States to study their needs. Steps were taken toward erecting a monu- ment in bronze to Commodore John Barry, the “Father of the American Navy,” in Washington, at a recent meeting of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. The Missouri politician who denied the charges made against him, “unequivocally and without reservation,” has defled the usual Missouri and Kansas form, says the Kansas City Star, which requires the uee of “in toto, every scintilla and each jot and Edward Butler of St. Louls has the pe- the alarm. Said Mrs. Morosini: | “I retired early and had pot been asleep | braska, also, and as Mr. Bryan looks back | Yery long when I was aroused by some one | over the last five or six years it isn't hard moving about. I lay perfectly still and' for him to see how all this trouble might | }stened. A moment later I heard some one | have been avolded. High Art Marked Down. Philadelphia Ledger. Speaking of the government in business, perhaps It s not generally known that this | government 1s selling fine cheap. The subject is Martha Washing- ton on the mew S-cent stamp, mow ready for the hollday tradg. Any Port in a Storm. Chicago Inter Ocean. The lavish manner in which President Castro is distributing amnesty these days only proves once more that those who make it & rule in life to keep out of family rows are blessed with a large shai worldly wisdom. Wom Cincinnati Enquirer. Prominent mote is made of the fact that a woman clerk in the Postoffice department at Washington gave up her husband rather than lose her situation. The order of the postmaster general is cruel. No telling how many poor husbands will be driven out this cold winter to make their own living. Cleveland ¥y to Reform. Brooklyn Eagle. Mr. Cleveland is reducing his habit of splitting the infinitive. He would now say, for iustance, “the effect of protection for the sake of protection is generally to demoralize its advocates,” Dot “to gemer- ally demoratize” them. Several men who split the infinitive have become, presidents, but none three time: ————— Auvilier Source of i ust Frofis, New York Commercial. A stranger riding over the St. Louls, Iron Mountain & Southern railroad, along the eastern slopes of the Ozarks, in south- eastern Missour!, asked what the numerous plles of soft white stones ready for ship- ment were for. “Those rock: sald a habitant, “are the refined, powdered sugar as loudly hit his knuckles against the foot of my | bed. 1 | the bed. He ran lightly around and peered | w & man standing at the foot of | into my face to see if I slept. I screamed | 1 could and the man fled.” The burglar tried to escape, but ran into engravings | the arms of the husband, who slept in a | room opposite, and the athletlc young banker struggled manfully with the thief in the dark hall, but was unable to hold him. Finally the burglar struck the mil- lionaire two or three blows over one eye and finally escaped out of the window, but not until Mr. Morosini was beaten nearly insensible. The whole neighborhood was aroused, but no trace of the robber could be found. The most successtul barber in New York City has his shop in his kit. He starts out in the morning on a regular route, which he tollows as sedulously if not as early as the milkman follows his.. He has four- teen customers, each of whom pays him not less than 50 cents for & shave. Three give him $1 each. Two batchelor brothers living in the same apartments, give him $2 for halt hour's work. Plenty and Poverty. Detroit Free Press, There are two big thoughts in the news from England that there is a deplorable | state of poverty and want. One is that we are in an enviable state of prosperity that calls for the utmost wisdom in its perpetu- ation. The other, that organized labor in England has been very largely responsible for conditions existing there. It has been \arbitrary, ~dictatorial, short-sighted and at times almost senseless. The harvest that it is reaping is largely of its own production and its tactits m st change before England can cease to go back in the commercial e———— A Matter of Polley. Baltimore Amerioan The United States supreme court has de- of commerce in the crude.” The adulterant is mined in large quantities and Is said to make excellent food if ome doesn't kmow be is eating it | than any other except his own. cullar distinction of having been dead and brought to life, but only in a legal sense. He was recently convicted of bribery, but appealed his case. Later he qualified as & bondsman for a friend and in accepting Mr. | slon of entomology Is perhaps the most in- has been issued of Agriculture for several years past. Tt is naturally out of the question that a mere newspaper should give even the falntest suggestion of the wealth of fact and sapience contatned in that mod- We shall not, Keep on But surely we mey be permitted to revel in, and perad- venture comment upon, at last a tew of the simpler propositions involved. That cannot offend science or take modern journalism On page 109 of the pamphlet to which we have reference there is a “Note on the ox We | have never heard an ox warble, in Miséis- | 1t may B% all right. Far before, and we don’t propose to syallow the | THE OLD RELIABLE Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE | precisely similar reason. Willlam's mothe: was English; Edward's father was German. The sale of the household goods of M. Cambon, the retiring Frehch ambagsador at Washington, took place last week and many articles exposed for sale brought fancy prices. Chairs (hat M. Cambon paid $16 or $20 for sold for $76 and $100, and so on. Fashionable socliety was represented and men and women bid against each other with acrimony. The Persian minister paid a high price for lace curtains. An officfal of th house has returned to Washington from a trip fn-the wost and, meeting Congressman Bull of Rhode Island, began telling him of his experiences. Among | other things the returned traveler told ot a barbecue whi¢h he attended in Colorado, | where they roasted the finest ox he ever saw. The Rhode Island man, who was badly | beaten by his democratic opponent in No- { vember, interrupted: “Don’t want to hear about your roast ox. You should have been in my district last election day and seen | how they roasted Bull to a turn, but not to a return.” PASSING PLEASANTRIE Detroit Fres Press: houghts. Cl I can h ly belleve it, for it you could you wouldn't sit so far away. Cleveland Pln'ln Dealer: “Young Flut- ferby seems to be an empty-headed fel- ow. " Tom-I can read He hasn't a lump in his bin." Boston Transcript: I‘g\e'tn to see Mrs. Mrs. Bouncer—I have Grace tals afternoon. hat delightful company she ls! Mr. Bouncer—Yes. 1 undegstand that ghe is no talker. - Cincinnat{ Tribune: '‘And this long, shal- low metal pan?’ ‘asked the Christmas -hopfier. “what is it for?" “That 1s a collar button box,” replied e affable salesman. under any bureau.” Brooklyn Life: Hewitt—I proposed to twin sisters and both gave me, the mitten. Jewett—Well, there's one consolation; your mittens ought to be mates. Philadelphia Press: Ascum—I don't see why you patronize that cigar store. They glve you pretty poor weed there. Graphter—I know, but they keep a big box of matches on' the counter and :you can take all you want. "It 1s made to fit Chicago Post: ‘“‘What makes papa so eross? “1 don't annoy him “Certainly not. I just happened to re- mark that Christmas was almost here.” Baitimore American: Jones—Da You‘treat your cook like one of the family? mith—Great heavens, no! - We wouldn't dare to take such a liberty, know. DId you sag anthing to Signs of the Timen, ‘Washington Star. Christmas Day approaches, You feel it In the air; 'Tis written in the grocery store Where fowls are fat and fajr. ‘Tis mentioned in the window Of the big emporium, 'Tis whispered in the murmur Of the shoppers as they come. Christmas Day approaches, The people smile to s Its heralds thus appearing In a splendid pageantry. You note the fact most keenly Whene'er you pause to look On the vaniehing proportions Ot your busy pocketbook A WOMAN'S HEART. 8. W. Gillilan in Baltimore Amerfcan, Omaha, Dec. 10.—With more than a dozen astonished but admiring passengers l0ok- ing on, a soclety woman fternoon arose in a stret car, Btooping over, she enuggled that garment about the Infant's legs, smiling into the child's face and remarking to the father: “I'm afrald the baby has scarcely enough on for this weather."—News Dispatch, Ab, there spoke the heart of u woman! Who'd ask of her church or creed? Bhe Hollowed a Godlike impulse To lessen a human need; Her womanly oul was ringing With “unto' the least of these'— Bhe gave of her best to shelter babe from the chilling breeze. ve of her be: the widow From Him who was just and right; Deserves not a placp more honored Butler the court reversed a former decision which declared that he was civilly dead. | Emperor Willlam of Germany talks fluently in six languages—English better Indeed, it bas been said that he actually speaks Ger-| man with just & trace of English accent. | In the case of his august uncle of England this condition is just reversed, and for ll\ Than she who was quick to part With costllest silken raiment . Because of her tender heart O women of wealth and station, O women of pow'r and place, There's more n this life than' beaugy Of fabric and form and face; There's always a chance for playing The womanly woman’ God gave to the world no blessing Surpassing a woman's heart. 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