Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 29, 1902, Page 4

b o SRR S it S SRR ks S SRR SRS == === = TS R s e THE OMAHA DALY BEE BE. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EvhR! 'MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Year.5400 One Year 6.00 DIL(VERLD BY CARRIER. i Dally (without Sunday), per ¢oj Daily Bes (Vithout Bundayy, per week. 18 nl Bee (Inclwdln( Bundly‘. D!l’ 'e!k e Bunday b dl!ll('d to City (Jrcullllon D.- ()FFI"EB Omaha—The Bee Bull I\g Bouth ()m.hl*lly Hl.ll ullding, Twen- ty-Afth and M Stre ‘Council Blufte—io Pearl Street, thrn,o—llw Unity Bullding. New York—2328 Park Row Building. Washington—01 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and ed- itorlal matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. partment, STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nehruu. Doyglas County, ss.: semuck,’ eetulary . O wibe Bee Pr‘:lllmn‘ Compahy, belng duly eworn says that bet of full and complete eopl- or . DAlIy. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 1902, Less unsold and returned copies. Net total sales... Net average sales. GEORGE B, TZBCHUCK. Trese and sworn to batore me this wth da of Nowemver, A D, 1002, HUNGATE: (Seal) No tary CEE—————E——————— And that reminds us that those busi- ness men juries no longer seem to have the call. E—— All the portents for the Colorado leg- islature indicate a blockade that will be anything but peaceful. ———— At all events, the controversy over the beginning of the century no longer over- shadows the advent of the new year. ENE——— At 1s to be hoped that the impending drawing of the district court jurors for the year 1903 will prove a more profit- able investment than the Auditorium gift enterprise. ————— It would seem that Missourl would be above such a thing, but a strong effort will be made to pass a “Jim crow” street car law at the coming session of the legislature. S COolonel Watterson is now addressing himself to the Monroe doctrine, but ‘without the same success as when tack- ling the Four Hundred or dressing down Grover Cleveland. Governor Bavage's recommendation to the legislature for the creation of a board of pardons will exemplify the o'd raw about locking the stable door after the horse is stolen. ——— If Mr. Frick makes himself under- stood, there is s0 much doing every day in his own business that he positively will not bother himself with running of the billion-dollar Steel trust. e—————————— Having apparently choked off the vower franchise ordinance that promised speedily to give Omaha cheap power, the eagerness of the council to pass the free-for-all blind has noticeably abated. 1 E———— A contractor willing to put up money to get out of his agreement to supply the county with anthracite is in a para- doxical position. As a rule the aspir ants for county contracts would be willing to put up money to get them. t—— The Union Pacific lockout has already worked incalculable injury to Omaha and Omaha business interests and its prolongation only makes matters worse. It is high time for the officials of that rallroad to get down off their “nothing- to-arbitrate” stand. Sy It 1s now beginning to dawn upon the citizens’ committees and Commercial club committees, that are trying to sug- gest charter amendments, that it will be unsafe for them to proceed without first securing the graclous consent of John N. Baldwin of Council Bluffs. Er— South Omaba has had a superabun- @ance of Ohristmas mutton but South Omsnha is not responsible for the ex- travagent stories sent out by yellow Jouinal fakirs to eastern mewspapers cwnegining the alleged roasting of 5,000 sheep within less than half an hour. e : ‘W, J. Bryan has reached the city of Mexfco on his tour of recreation, but he Bad not passed out of the raflroad depot more than ten minutes before he deliyered himselt of a discourse on free silvér. Fortunately for the Mexicans Bryan cannot spout Spanish as fluently as & Texas spouter spouts the burning fluid, E— The census for 1000 credits the city of Bt. Joseph with about the same popu- lation that it credits the city of Omaha, but the mortality lists for 1901 and 1902 show that Omaha had 1085 deaths agalnst St. Joseph's 672, which affords the most conclusive proof of the enmor- mous inflation of the St. Joseph census. Nobody has ever claimed that the cli- of St. Joseph is more salubrious than that of Omaha, and as there have been no epidemics or unusual fatalities in Omaha within the last twelve months the divergence in the number of deaths in the two cities represent the correct THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1902 PRESIDENT ROUSEVELTS COURSE. The course of President Roosevelt in regard to the Venezuelan affair, while disappointing to the German govern- ment and perhaps also to the other Eu- ropean governments concerned, has un- doubtedly strengthenéd foreign respect for him and increased confidence in the clearness and soundness of his judg- ment. The request of the allies that Mr. Roosevelt should att as arbitrator was a notable tribute, attesting com- plete falth in his integrity and sense of justice. It Is a no less distinguished mark of high consideration for Mr. Roosevelt ‘that the Buropean govern- ments accepted his proposal td®submit the controversy to the arbitration of The Hague tribunal. The German foreign secretary has pointed out that the course of the presi- dent is in, strict accord with the view he expressed in his last annual message respecting The Hague court and one of the French members of that tribunal has expressed the opinlon that Mr. Roosevelt's attitude saved the court from extinction. In a letter of congrat- ulation the distinguished Frenchman speaks In hearty commendation of the president’s services in reminding the Eu- ropean governments of their duty and says: “Honmor to your government, which has understood that amidst the general abstention someone had to awgken the others from their lethargy and lead them forward in the way of Justice and progress.” That the earnest stand taken by our government in favor of submitting the Venezuelan issue to the international court of arbitration has given a stronger position to that tribunal s not to be doubted and the value of this is great. Enlightened and eonservative public opinion in this country approves the course of the national administration in the Venezuelan matter. It has been wise, prudent and in entire accord with the duty and obligations of the United States, continental and international. It succeeded because the Furopean gov- ernments were compelled to realize the high and honorable motives that prompted it. There are some who think that our government should have urged arbitration before the European govern- ments adopted coercive measures, but that would have been futile. The Venezuelan government was not dis- posed to seriously consider arbitration until the war vessels of Great Britain and Germany appeared on its coast. Only when Castro found that the for- elgn governments were In earnest did be concelve a real desire for arbitration. President Roosevelt and his advisers bave made no mistake in this matter and their course has been distinctly helpful to American infilnence in Europe and should strengthen the claims of the United States to the confidence and good will of the southern republics, Sm—— ROPEFUL BUSINESS OUTLOOK. ‘While stringency will probably be felt in the eastern money centers for sev- eral weeks yet, the strong expectation of another prosperous year seems to be in all ways warranted. It is not now anticipated that the settlements usual at the opening of the year will be at- tended with any critical tension, which has for several months been a marked feature of the financial situation. It has materially depressed prices in the stock market, but without any disturb- ance seriously affecting actual values. Many of the ablest financiers regard the check which speculation has re- ceived as auspicious to an important degree for the substantial business of the country in the coming year. Great stress is properly put upon the existence of general confidence In con- ditions and prospects of industry, as in itself & fact of immense importance. It is manifested in plans and contracts al- ready perfected for even greater expen- ditures in railroad construction than those of 1002, immense as the latter have been.. The dominant note in the business world is actual preparation for extension, for activity and for larger operations, but free from chimerical and hazardous undertakings. The industrial horizon s unusually devold of those in- dications of apprehension and contrac- tlon which mark the change from pros- perity to a period of depression, At the close of the year the volume of production and exrhanges is enor- mous and unprecedented, and the de- mand for all staples, agricultural and manufactured, unslackened on a scale of high and remunerative prices, while the tendency to higher wages involves the distribution of a larger share In 1908 to the ‘'wage-earning population— always a satisfactory sign. With solid credits in all legitimate undertakings, and with an abundant supply of sound money, there is every reason for courage and outreaching enterprise. FROM UNDER THE HAT. It has been given out from under the hat that the republican members of the Douglas county delegation will resent any attempt on the part of representa- tive citizens or committees of the com- mercial bodles to formulate amendments of a political tendency to the eity char- ter. It has also been given out under the hat that the proposition to increase the number of councilmen would be re- garded as a political amendment and, therefore, cannot be discussed without special permission. At the risk of belng ruled out of order The Bee proposes to discuss this question not from a polit- ical point of view, but from the stand- polnt of good government and the pub- lie welfare. ‘When the present charter was framed five years ago Omaha was divided into nine wards, with one councilman for each ward and nine councilmen-at-large, making in all eighteen councilmen. The abolition of the ward councilmen was madé in the interest of a measure of economy and had no political bearing whatever. By restrictiug the selection of councilmen-at-large within the ward boundaries and limiting the number of wards the charter of 1895 virtually gave the city nine ward councilmen. Experi- ence has shown that ward councilmen elected at large are in no respect su- perior to meh elected from their own wards. The consensus of opinion now is that nothing has been gained and a great deal has been lost by the change from eighteen to nine councilmen. The differ- ence in the amount of councilmanic sal- aries is comparatively trifiing and does not offset the drawbacks of a close cor- poration couneil practically ruled by five members, It certainly is much easier to get up a combine of five than a combine of ten and eighteen members, or even fifteen members could be counted on to render a great deal more efficient serv- ice to the various interests and localities than is now rendered by, nine members. In this respect the experience of Omaha does not differ materially from other citles of equal or larger populations. The weakest feature of our charter is its lack of elasticity. The division of the city into nine wards regardless of area or population has been a sort of straightjacket. The twentieth cemtury charter for Omaha should be framed on broader lines. The present subdivisions of voting districts is based on a pre- sumed maximum of 800 voters, which doubtless will be continued until the voting machine takes the place of the present slow process of balloting, but there s no excuse or good reason for assigning six precincts to one ward and eleven precincts to another. ‘What is wanted is not merely uniform voting districts, but uniform voting wards with an average of six voting precinets to a ward. Such a recast would divide Omaha into about twelve wards. A fair and safe makeup of the city council would be one councllman from each of the twelve wards and six councilmen elected at large regardless of location, the entire number so sub- divided as to tenure as to enable the city to elect one-third each year. These suggestions have not yet been submitted to John N. Baldwin and we vealize that without his permission we shall not be able to induce the delega- tion to consider them. The rank and file of the citizenship of Omaha will, we feel sure, however, be disposed to enter- tain the proposed change without re- sentment and regardless of whatever political consequences it might have in the dim and distant future, ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION. The bill passed by congress making provision for an isthmian canal author- izes the president to appoint a commis- slon composed of seven hmembers, at least four of whom shall be learned and skilled in the practice of engineer- ing. It also provides that the compen- sation of the commissioners shall be prescribed by the president until the same shall have been otherwise fixed by congress. The commissioners are to serve during the pleasure of the presi- dent. Thése will be desirable positions and there are many applicants, so that the president is likely to find the prin- cipal difficuity in selecting from the nu- merous’ capable men available. Perhaps the fact that there are so many applicants is due to the expecta- tion that the commisslon to be appointed will be as liberally compensated and otherwise provided for as the existing commission, created three ymars ago. The act-authorizing this commission ap- propriated $1,000,000 for salaries and ex- penses, more thap two-thirds of which. according to an officlal statement, has been expended. It is understood that the chairman of the commission, Ad- miral Walker, has drawn $15,000 a year as his salary and each of his assoclates on the commission has drawn $12,000 a year. It is charged that employes un- der the commission, many of them sons of army and navy officers and of mem- bers of congress, have been receiving compensation beyond their availability for any practical purpose. In short, there appears to have been a lavish out- lay of public money by the commis- sion, although every cent may have been spent strictly within the lines of the law. Congress will doubtless endeavor to get full information in regard to the expenditures of the existing commission and meanwhile the disposition is to pro- vide against extravagance on the part of the commission to be appointed. A bill introduced by Senator Morgan pro- poses to fix the salary of the commis- sloners at $5,000 a year and undoubtedly most people will agree with ihe Ala- bama senator that this is fair compen- sation for a position whose duties will not be particularly onerous or exacting and which will be of long tenure—prac- tically a life office to a man over 50 years of age. Another pyovision of the Morgan bill which will be generally ap- proved is the requirement that the pay- ment of money on account of all ex- penditures, except for the salaries of officers, is to be made by paymasters of the army under all the legal obligations and all the penalties resting upon them. The construction of an isthmian canal will require the expenditure of proba- bly not less than $200,000,000 and it may amount to considerably more than that. It is a large sum even for this wealthy country and there cannot be too many safeguards against waste or extravagance. ——— Omaha will be in evidence at the St. Louis World's fair. More than a year ago the exposition managers sent to Omaha for their head electrician and now they have picked out an Omaha man for head gardener. Whether the 8t. Louls exposition will import its head guardsman from Omaha is problematic, There are yet a few men willing to wear gold braided caps and blue coats with brass buttons left in and around St. Louls. Benator Vest's views on the trust ques- tion strikingly illustrate the ineapacity of traditional democracy for dealing with the subject. After declaring that the Sherman trust act exhausts the constitutional powers and is utterly io- efficient, he lays it down that states rights would have to be sacrificed In order to adequately amend the constitu- tion, and states rights are dearer to the southern heart than the natural rights of man. e—— The annual report of the Union Pa- cific shows that the outstanding stocks of that company aggregate $203,669,207 with a net funded debt of $248,008,000, making a total capitalization of $451,- 767,207. As all these securities are quoted on the market at or above par it is reasonable to assert that the value of the rallroad property embraced in the Union Pacific is equal to its cap- italization. The same report gives the aggregate amount paid out as taxos by the company for its fiscal year, 1902, at $1,369,760, which is but slightly over 3 mills on the true value of the property reflected by the capitalization. What other property is there in the states traversed by this road that gets off with a tax of 3 mills on its valuation? What audacity for railroad officers to pretend that they are contributing in taxes their full share of the cost of government. The report of the commissioner of patents shows no traceable tendency of the trusts to stifie invention. The trusts are just as eager to get hold of a good thing in the shape of a patent as any business firm or corporation. But then the trusts have enough to answer for even if this accusation is disproved. —————— The New Hampshire constitutional convention has adopted an amendment providing that no ‘bne “who is not now a voter” shall in future vote or hold office in that state “unless be is able to read and write the English language,” but it is to be observed that i§ contains no grandfather clause. » It is greatly to be feared that members of the military family of Governor Mickey will not have the same oppor- tunities to disport themselves publicly in festive regalia as have been enjoyed by the staff artists to the present execu- tive. S —— Heartless Squecse of the Poor, Boston Post. Kerosene oll can be bought in Boston to- day for 15 cents a gallon. Six months ago, before fuel began to be scarce because of the coal strike, it was sold for 10 cents a gallon. As people began to use it more nerally for heating purposes, the price was advanced, a cent at a time, until when the greatest distress prevailed it was put up to 14 cents, and now, in view of a con- tinued fuel famine, it is made 15 cents. ‘What is the cause of this increase of 50 per cent in the price of an article of universal necessity? Crude petroleum, from which kerosene is made, was never so cheap. The development of new oil territory has brought down the price of the raw material. ‘The cost of manufacture is the same as be- ftore, or less. In a time of distre: mong the poor, kerosene at 10 cents llon would be a blessing and would save lives that are now sacrificed to {insufficlent warmth. PrRRRTL G- S, A Nation of Readers. Minneapolls Times. Whether the' people of the United States read too much or too little they do read and there are statistics to show it. Leav- ing out of account the emormous circula- tion of tho newspapers and magazines, the of tremendous influence, the papers and the uncla fled periodioxls, consumption alone is sufficient to stamp this nation as & voraclous one in a literary way. Four hundred thousand copies of ome popular novel have been sold, 350,000 of another, a book for children has passed the 300,000 mark and several novels have reaches circulation near or beyond 100,000. These books of great papularity are invarlably works of fiction; many of them of the his- torical class. — Grand Army of Titles. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The American people live and move and have their being in an atmosphere of harm- less shams, many of which take form titles and dignities. and mean nothing at all. who know nothing of tors of laws, medicine, theology and philos- ophy who never even passed through the primary school, to say nothing of accumu- lating university degrees. There are col- onels galore, generals not a few and a cap- tain here and there who doesn’t know the difference between a repeating rific and an Australlan's boomerang and never smelt gunpowder except on the Fourth of July. e— Manufacturers in & Mad Race. Rochester (N. Y.) Herald, ‘We can hardly account for the recent dis- position in manutacturing quarters to throw discretion to the winds and foree prices to the straining point. The 10 per cent ad- vance in wages cannot justify the increase in the price of finished products by 10, 20, 80 and 40 per cent. The effect of these ris ing prices will be to force a crisis and economic disturbance will again be precipi- tated. The pace set by the steel trust and tho coal trust and the beef trust has been taken up in other quarters, probably under the theory that if it is to be a game of grab, why, they might as well go in and get what they can out of it. Unad It ted Greed. Philadelphia Press. The Standard Ofl company is credited with explaining that the increase of nearly 5 cents a gallon in the price of petroleum 1s due to the increased demand for ofl for heating purposes. This furnishes no reason excepting the desire of the company to increase its enormous profits. But it can- not be charged to the tariff. This is one trust that owes nothing to a protective tarift. Does the Benefit? Chicago Record-Herald. The cost of beef to the retaller is mow from 4 to 6 cents cheaper than it was three months ago. So say the men who control the market. Has this welcome reduttien been noticeable in the price to the con- sumer? If it will leave him more with which to t his coal bill AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION. They are pure wind There are judges Scientific Medicine a Striking Feature of Social Progress. Medical News. In looking over the history of the search for a means of cure, one Is struck by the great value of the ounce of preveation. Keeping the germe out s in every way e to dealing with them after they e entered the body. This fact sel- ssing more and more deeply on the minds of the piblic au- thorities and the people, and their response in the form of provisions for improved pub- 111': and private sanitation is one of the striking features of the soclal progress of m.tmlu-n. All the more ealight- ened nations, states and cities of the world possess organized departments of health, which, with varying degrees of thorough- ness, deal with the problems presented by the Infectious diseases in the light of the Iatest discoveries. Fifty years ago the term preventive medicine was unknown. Today it repre- sents & great body of well attested and nc- cepted principles. It has cleaned our streets; it has helped to build our model tenements; it has purified our foed and our drinking water; it has entered our homes and kept away disease; it has prolonged our lives, and it has made the world a er place in which to live. PROSPEROUS AND GENEROUS, Chicago Tribune. On the evening of December 81 there will be an tmpressive scene in Trinity Method: ist Episcopal church in Springfield, Mass. Bishop Fowler will be present. W, D. MacDowell, secretary of the Methodist board of education, will also be present. Nelther of these two men, however, will get the interest and attention which will be given to a third man who, three yeai ago, was a presiding elder of excellent rep- utation but of no great renown. That man is Bdmund M. Mills. On the evening of December 31, in Trinity church, at mid- ght, Dr. Mills will make the announce- ment that he has raised the last dollar of the $20,000,000 Methodist thank offering fund. For three years Dr. Mills has been giv- ing the thank offering fund his whole timi His headquarters are said to look like a bank and a mail order house put togethe The amount of speaking, writing and con- ferring which Dr. Mills' methods required has been tremendous. The executive offi- cers of the Methodist church all have a ash which the promoters’ of oll well companies look at with envy. Seldom, however, has any Methodist officer been able to look back at three years of greater accomplishment than those which Dr. Mills fs now rounding out. The ends to which the Methodists will apply their $20,000,000 are interesting. Thers will ‘be about $8,000,000 applied to educa- tlon. Syracuse university and Ohio Wes- leyan university will get over $1,000,000 splece. Education being thus aided, there will be about 38,000,000 set aside for church indebtedness. There will also be a large sum for hospitals and another large sum for retired ministers. Such, at any rate, are the statements that have been given mificant fact with regard to the people who have contributed to the thank offering fund is that they are of the rank and file. Dr. Mills has reported few gifts of stupendous size. This is where the glving power of the Methodist church is explained. The members of that church are neither the sediments nor the froth of the modern world. They are mainly peo- ple who work hard, have steady, regular incomes, live temperately and spend little ostentatiously or superfluously. It is from such people the money can b sed. It is from such people that the Methodist $20,- 000,000 has been raised. Of course, money is more plentiful now than it used to be for people in the social position of most members of the Methodist church, and $20,- 000,000 in 1902 {8 & smaller sum than $5,000,- 000 would have in 1872. This has to be remembered. Even so, however, the present $20,000,000 is a great achievement. The Methodists should have congratula- tions from their neighbors. MONROE DOCTRINE OUT OF DATE. A Wattersonian Blast Against a Cher- Ash Institution. Loulsville Courier-Journal. Nome of the conditions that made the Monroe doctrine a national eafeguard re- mains to menace us. The greatest calamity that could happen to mankind would be a war between England, Germany and the United States. Considering what we are doing in the Philippines, and have done and are going to do in China, considering what our commercial {avasion is doing in Europe—mindful that a strong power may propose and accept what a weak power durst not—mindful of the advantage of close, friendly intercourse with England and Germany—why should we permit an unseeing jingolsm born of & kind of super- stition to atand between us and a better, clearer understanding with England and Germany not only as to the Monroe doe- trine, but as to all our fiscal and tariff relations? ‘The Courfer-Journal is an aggressive, progressive American. It is a democrat devoted to home rule, free trade and sailors’ rights. If fighting be the alternative, it is Jingo to the core. It adores the bunting! It dotes on the bird! It fully comprehends the power of the great republic. Whilst Europe doubted, we were for giving Europe its belly full of demonstration. Burope doubts no longer. England and Germany recognize us to the limit. That placates us. That makes us liberal, expansive, gen- erous. Truth to say, after all, we are con- sclous of a sneaking kindness for bot John and Hans. Let us, therefore, at least come to & parley and se¢ whether we may not reach some working agreement. We shall be no worse off after than before, being sure in advance that, if we want to fight, the fight should be pitched on high, noble, defensible ground, and whatever else betide, it should mot be forced upon us by some fool with & gun, nor yet by sense- lese, undiscriminating clamor over a “‘doc- trine” we ourselves whistled down the wind when we set up our eagles in the Philippines and carried the flag inside the wsacred walls of Pekin! In short and in fine, we cannot hope to gobble up the earth. We want markets. We want amicable, intelligent neighbor- ship. The Latins are doomed, Spain dead, Italy dying and France down with an in. curable disease, our two all our best friend: our business rival England and mm?nr. and we should ehape our forelgn policy accordingly on just prinei- ples of give and take, of live and let live. PERSONAL NOTRS, Time is money. A venturesome man can get $1,000 by staylog four rounds with Jim Jefferies. Secretary Wilson will have to do some subsolling in the Philippines. The rice crop this year fs a fallure. 8. Morris Pool, who gets out the Patent office Ofclal Griette every Tuesday, hi been employed in the ent office sin 1867, Nearly 10,000 letters for Santa Claus lle unclalmed in the New York postoffice. There is & beginning of a good mall order business for some one. Now that Lord Rossiyn, who, by the way, admits that he is no squealer, has been advertised by belng fleeced, he will be properly taken up by New York so- clety, illustrating the sage saga which say! “There stranger pets in our soclal sets than are seen in Central park.” Something over a year ago the German emperor lssued his flat against French champagne and ever since then only Ger- man brands have been served at the im- This ukase was not grate- ir regimental dinners drank French wine from bottles disguised in German labels. It is even sald that on ome occasion his imperial majesty dined with the officers of a regiment and drank the prohibited liquid without knowiag of it ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. % on the Current of Life in the Metropolis. An organized attack on the traction com- panies of New York for more cars and more room for passengers has reached pro- portions decidedly irritating, to pepurious corporations. The movement was started by a woman's club and its objoct is to se- cure increased means of conveyance as well a3 diminieh the danger to person, clothes and morals under present- conditions. 1t has interosted the governor of the state, the mayor of the city, the Board of Alder- men, the railroad commlasion, the presi- dents of the five boroughs, the law officials of the city, ministers, labor unions, hundreds of pri citizens and forty-seven lawyers. As Is customary when a corporation is up against 1t, the sireet rallway people are ready to knuckle down, provided the city authorities relax certain laws and grant increased police protection. Rip The policemen of the Broadway equad are looking for a blonde young woman who has been buncoing them, relates the Sun. The squad, as is known, guards the oros ings on Broadway and is the public escort of every lone woman. A lone woman who appeared two weeks ago at Broadway and Twenty-third street and was escorted through a maze of vehicles, suddenly gasped and clutched at the side of her dress where a chatelaine bag might hang. Are you (17" asked the Broadway cop. “Yes! No!" she sald quickly, “but my purse has been stolen. What shall 1 do? How shall I got home? Oh, officer, I live in Brooklyn. Can't you please lend me a quarter? I'll return it to you tomorrow. This particular cop handed over the quarter. He thought no more about it un- til Baturday, when he overheard two of his tellows comparing notes in the Tenderloin station house and telling each other how they had each lent a quarter to a good- looking blonde young woman who had been robbed of her puree. Other members of the squad were asked it they had met the woman and most ot them admitted they had given a quarter to a woman answering tho description. The only member of the squad reporting at the Tenderloin station who got the best of the woman was Ed McCabe, who guards the Thirty-second street crossing. He got the lost pocketbook tale with a couple of tears on the side. He also got the “brace” for the quarter. He told the woman he didn’t think he had a quarter. He put his hand in his pocket and drew out a single nickel. The woman glared at him and told him he ought to be dismissed for insulting a woman. Then she de- parted. “I had more money, but I dldn't flash it sald McCabe, “I al keep a lone nickel to steer off touches. I get so many on my crossing that I wouldn't have any salary coming if I fell for them all.” “And divil a wan of us paid a cint for his yellow shield,”” sald one of the fifty-seven roundsmen whom Colonel Partridge made police sergeants just before his retirement. The old price was $4,000, if the last quo- tations are to be trusted. Fifty-seven at $4,000 s $228,000 that mobody will get. The fifty-seven shook hands, pinched them- selves and sang In chorus: “Is It a dream? Then wakin' would be pain. O, do not wake. Let me dream again. Among them were grizzled veterans-of the force who had entered into five or six previous examinations and had always been turned down In spite of their fine records, because they would not give up. Sergeants George R, Holahan of the Dekalb avenus station, Brooklyn, and Robert E. Dooley of the Coney Island station were promoted to be captains and seven captains were transferred. During the noon hour, when the crush at Fulton street and Broadway Is at fts worst, relates the Evening Post, a little old ‘woman rushed in front of a cab waving her umbrella frantically at a car that had just started after tNking on a passenger. The conductor rang the bell, fearing the woman would be ht In the crush of vehicles, and the car stopped so suddenly that the one following bumped into it. Reaching out to help the woman on the car, the conductor was not a little *“jarred" to see her stop near the car and address & young man who was on the platform. TALK OF THE STATE PRESS, Norfolk Press: There will be no inaugu- ration ball and frills when Governor Mickey takes his seat. That's the best way to art a business administration. Lyons Sum: Although not yet officlally installed, Governor Micxey has made it clear that he has well defined convictions and that he latends to remain teuo to them. Beatrice Sun: The president has an- nounced that there would be no disposition of the district attorneyship of Nebraska until the eenators agree on a man. Now, It Mr. Summers can keep the senators disagreeing he will have a dead cinch. Grand Island Independent: It is pretty much Governor-elect Mickey's own busi- ness whether he wants a ball or not in on- nection with the inaugural exercises. The Ppeople of the state are not much interested anyway. They are not concerned unless it were in the reduction of a slight item of expense, for which, again, they would not care a rap If the ball were held for the ben- efit of a few of the upper crust of the cap- itl city. But the man displays nerve. Geneva Signal: The Signal hopes that Governor Mickey will move with caution in making changes in the heads of state insti- tutions, and It is moved to express this hope because of the rumors In regard to the alleged probability of the removal of Dr. Beghtol from' the superintendency cf the Kearney school. We have no personal Acquaintance with the doctor or knowledge of the success of his superintendency, but we have heard only the most flattering re- ports in connection with his work at the school. Wood River Interests: Lincoln swelldom I8 greatly cast down over the announcement that there will be no inaugural ball this year. Governor-elect Mickey is a strict Methodist and dancing. card playing and other devices rupposed to ensnare and lead from the paths of rectitude the young and frivolous will not be countenanced by him. We may not agree with the gov- ernor in his conclusions, but if them's h sentimerts and convictions we aftmire his spunk in saying so and staying by it. We don’'t have much use for the man that can't say yes and no. Too many men have angle worms for back bones. Callaway Queen: Governor Savage has &t last come to the conclusion that a par- doning board would be a good thing for this state. This writer is of the same opin- fon, and more than a year ago made the suggestion in print. If the coming legis- lature wants to do something worth doing, let it appoint a committeo of five to act s a pardoning board, said board to meet at least twice each year for the purpose of looking over and passing upon petitions for pardon, the members of sald board to draw pay only for actual service, of for service rendered during these meetings. The judgment of five men is better than that of one in a case of this kind, and the extra expense to the state need not be anything great. It's a good thing, and should be pushed along. Central City Nonparell: There is some unnecessary commotion over the fact that Governor Mickey declines to lond his pres- enco to the inaugural ball proposed by the Lincoln Commercial elub. No ouve will re- spect him less for the action; consistency is a jewel 8o seldom found in modern poli- ticlans and officeholders that it is positively refreshing to see a governor who takes his religion down to Lincoln with him and re- mains true to his convictions of what is right and wrong regardless of criticlsma and jeers. A public official should be al- lowed to live his own private }fe in con- siatency with his personal convictions; his official acts are public property, but his private life is his own. If Mr. Mickey did not believe In dancing “efore he was elected he acts very properly In discountenancing it now, even if by so Jolng ho s compelled to an ange the plans of the leaders of Lin- coln’s bon ton soclal set. — FADING SMILES OF 1902. Cleveland Plain Dealer: ‘‘So think so hard lknmk .rn\l Unmzun- " “How thoughtless. Wuhlnr!on Star: “De really useful man,” sald Uncle Eben, “is de one dat leta his money hsfi ‘im talk aroun’, sayin' ‘Merry Christmas' to & Yonkers Herald: The Chorus Girl—He {‘nld me my future home would be in ea; “How are you, John?" she asked. “Pretty well, Aunt Louis replied: the passenger. “‘And how is Mary?* 2 “80-s0." “And has Minnie got over the mumps?” “Pretty nearly.” “Step dively,” broke in the conductor, recovering from his surprise. “Oh, T don't want to get on the car,” blandly replied the little old woma At a viclous bang of the bell car lurched forward and the old woman ex- claimed: “Such impudence! These conductors seem to think they own the town.” HEROISM OF TODAY. An Instance Proving the Spirit of Knighthood = Still vives. Saturday Evening Post, In an age of materialism, when at times It seems as If the world forgot many of the cardinal virtues and was only Inter- ested in galning its own selfish ends, every once in & while some humble person does that which appeals to the emotions and shows that the spirit of knighthood still survives. When a man or a woman ri his or her Iife, not for any personal a vantage or. for fame, but because it is a matter of duty, then we know that heroism 1€"not dead and that the great opportunity will always produce the ome person re- quired for emergency. A few we 0 General Chaffee sent to the War department an official report calling attention to the heroic conduct of Alice Kemmer, an army nurse then on duty in the Philippines. Nurse Kemmer had been granted leave of absence and was about to avail herself of a -earned rest from official duties when two soldiers were taken down with smallipox and removed to the isolation hospital. Alice Kemmer had never had one of the most dreadful dis- eases with which poor humanity is af- flicted, but she did not falter. For two long months she devotedly nursed these men back to health, living all those weary weeks with them as their sole companion, the weather intensely hot and her sleep s0 broken that mever at amy time during that long period she able to have mo: than two hours’ rest. Probably Alice Kes mer, army nurse, thinks she has merely done her duty and cannot vuderstand why General Chaffee should lavish on her such unstinted praise, but that is the way of heroes. They do what is required of them because it is their duty to do it, and they think neither of themselves nor of any pos- sible reward that may come to them. It is probable that this devoted woman will gain no material recompense for the sub- lime act of self-renynciation, as the gov- ernment of the Unitéd States is singularly niggardly in its recognition of heroes in humble places, but she will not be uncon- sclous of the estimation in which she is held by her fellow countrymen, and the example that she has set may be an inspi- ration to men and women; to soldiers at the front and to soldiers in the greater army of peace, who sometimes, growing weary under the heat and burden of the day, will find renewed hope and courage when they recall the story of Nurse Kem- | mer. Boubrette—I llwl.y- told you you'd ar some day. bel Chicago Post: "And what s there so remarkable about her?" “‘She doesn't think lh' collld {mprove the training of other peopl sren pr Phlhdel hia Press IM%" e do you con- ghtest chlldnn you kr{o'?" "lxcuu me. I didn't know you were family man. T mean the next fo'the bright- Boston Trln.lcrta(. 'Why did you lea: "i‘t‘:. former position?” asked the hou: “I didn't llka the table,” answered the dom-luc “They seemed to think they treat uu as if I were a domestic.” Life: He—I was afrald that, uur ul. {nn wouldn't be able to manage from your window. .— wcnldn’t have been able tn it at hadn't been for papa. ago Record-Herald: l.ll Dhllol:rlly lles in two wo rfiantlll llld and ictetus might have had it fig- ured ou P? right in his day. but In (hese timesph y seems to be pretty fully expreased | n the two words, “gain’ and re. OMAHA. Omahn, nuun of Missouri's broa Hail fo thee, Omaha! pride of the wes! Minerva ik prung from the loins of N.- braska, Armored and furnished from sandal to crest, vl]lnY. ulawny‘mtwdun the cold wastes of the And ma * plaing of the Aztec, with suniignt )(ld'uy hetvm the Atlantic's wild surges d Che deeper Pacific's more moderate In old tlnu‘l the cities that grew into - ‘Were Dx ded close down by the ocean- washe | sands, That lhe & ul“:f the sea might bring to The l:lhulo and trafic of far distant But now nw‘ ame skill that erst fashioned And brlldefl below 1t the deftly shaped Hat {:‘ldtd the land for the speedier And Tald or its pathway a network of steel. Hae tunneled our motntains and traversed our valleys; Has russeled our lowlands and bridge- panned our streams, T men '’ scarcely a village or hamlet so As ot 0 be roused by the engines wild screams. Far better than ocean’s best mast-crowded arbor Are the grand fertile prairies that gird thee around— The corn lands the wheat lands, the old bison stock I And the ellver and gold lands that make up thy bound. Far better than trafic with German or with | n.moa thirsty Turk, or with heathen is hu \Fadiic_that springs from the hills and the valleys Of this peace-blessed, home-dotted land of the free. Then hall to the queen of Missouris broad An'hall fo Omaha! prids of ‘the ¥rom catle 1o cottage—s ok Broadstreet to al God’ Vless 1t, and s foréver be L i AXTELL. Honey Créek, Ia