Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 7, 1903, Page 6

| AHA DAIL Y BEE: WEDNESDAY JANUARY 7 THE ©OMAHA DALY Br,p_ E. ROSBEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION afly Bee (witho unday), One Year.$4.00 ally Bee and § One Year 60 dllustrated Year 2.00 Bunda . Baturday Bee, O Twentieth Century DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Daily Bée (without Sunday), per copv... 2¢ aily Bee (without Sunday), per week..12c ally Bee dncluding Sunday), per week.17¢ Bunday Bee, per copy i ¢ vening Bee (without Sunday). vening Bee (inciuding Su Complaints of irreguiarities in delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. L0 per week 6c day), per 10 OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding Bouth Omaha—City Hall -fifth and M Streets Council Bluffe—10 Pear] Street. Chies gwll‘dfl Unity Building. New York—2128 Park Row Building. Washington—501 Four nth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. il Communications relating to news and ed- Jorial matter should be ‘addressed: Omaha Editorial Department. STATEMENT Btate of Nebraska, Do George B. Tzschuck, Publishing compan that the actual number of full and lete coples of The Daily, Morning, Even- ng and Sunday mewyrlmed during_the month of December, 1902, was as follows. 5 82,280 80,820 31,120 30,010 31,470 30,880 30,780 28,700 30,600 30,860 30,000 30,250 Bunaing, Twen- 7 EEBERERERRESSE Total . Less unsold and returned cople Net total sales .. Net average sales GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this Sist day of December, A, L M. B. HUNGATE, (Seal) Notary Publie. Just one more day of Savage. —— Inauguration week comes only once in two years in Nebraska. W The legislature is fully organized and the legislative mili has commenced to grind, ‘The erying need of the Omaha ‘Woman's club is a Czar Reed to enforce the rules of decorum and debate. The Board of Education has rung out the old and rung in the new, but it re- mains to be seen whether that means a change for the better. As a factor in organizing Nebraska legislatures the long-distance telephone bas become almost as potential as the long-distance railroad pass. SE— The sultan of Bacolod has sent his compliments to the American general in the Philippines and the probabilities are that he will return them by gatling gun. } em———— The junior member of the Omaha lice commission is steering the legis- lature, which goes to ghow how easy it is for the tall to wag the dog sometimes. —_— Publicity and accountability should be the keynote of coufity management re- form. The taxpayers want to know all about the income and outgorand they bhave a right to know. E—— Oongressman Burkett is trying to set- tle the United States attorneyship con- test by the division of the state into two judicial districts, but it will take a good deal of eloquence to persuade congress to his views. ‘While the anthracite coal mine strike arbitrators are deliberating and Investl- gating the price of coal 1s steadily mounting upward and the mine opera- tors and dealers are squeezing the people while laughing in their sleeve. Er— Governor Odell positively denies the rumor that he is to become president of the Pacific Mail Steamship company. Last winter he had to deny the well defined rumor that he was to become president of the Union Pacific rallway. E—— In the distribution of positions of honor, responsibility and profit Douglas county has secured the office of door- keeper of the house. Not a very extra- ordinary concession to the county that contains one-ninth of the population and pays one-seventh of the taxes of the state, Et—— |, The Chicago Inter Ocean prints a daily water bulletin with these remarks underscored: . “Fourteenth Street—RBad. Chicago Avenue—Bad. Hyde Park—Bad. Lake View—Bad, Carter Harrison— Bad." Whether this is intended as an underhanded fling at the mayor of Chi- cago or a deadly assault upon Lake Mlichigan microbes is not divulged. —_—— The republican members of the Penn- sylvania legislature have been instructed by Senator Quay, chairman of the state committee, to' fix- the final day of ad joumment at the very opening of the sesslon, in: fulfillment of the party pledges to give the people of the state a session of the legislature at which the public business will be promptly and economically dispatched. Why can't the Nebraska I‘lflutm do likewlse? The Feadral jury is again in session and if apyibootlegger near the Witinebago reservation has sold or given awgy a bottle of Whisky to a red man its last adjournment one or more ty United States marshals should be gt once dispatehed to the reservation requjsitioned (o bring in fifty or . Winnebagos to identify that bot- tle draw-§2 apiece and wileage for the government in bringing the it to “justice’” Uncle Sam bhas money to burn The chief interest of the American people In the Venezvelan situation Is i | regird to the cuestion whether. the blockade fs to be maintalned during the progress of the arbitration | lings. According to the latest informa | powers to keep up the blockade, theie THE VENEZUELAN SITUATION. tion it s the intention of the European evident idea being that this course is n in order to be certaln that Venezueln will submit to the decree of the arbitrators. Our government, how- ever, should certainly have something to say In regard to this, since maintenance of the blockade will mean a serious loss of trade to American merchants and | manufacturers. Not only this, but to permit the block- ade to continue when proceedings are in progress for a peaceable settlement | of the dispute would establish a prece- | dent by no means desirable. So far as | we are aware there is no rule that will Justify the allies in malntaining the blockade of Venezuelan ports after they have taken thelr case into court, and at all events it is clearly wrong that neutral nations should be made to suffer in consequence of a controversy of this character. There has been no officlal statement as to the position of our government in this matter, but it will be a very great disappointment to the American people If thelr govern-| ment shall fail to fusist. npon the right of American ships to enter the ports of Venezuela after the controversy be- tween that country and the European | powers has been submittéd to The Hague tribunal erE—— THE ANTHRACITE COAL DUTY. The reassembling of congress was sig- | nalized by the introduction of resolu- tlons relating to the duty on antliracite coal. One submitted by Senator Lodge proposed the suspension of the duty for ninety days and another submitted by Senator Culberson provided for the com- plete removal of the duty, which amounts to ondy 67 cents a ton. We think there is no doubt of one thing and that is that the great ma- jority of the American people are in favor of completely wiping out the duty on anthraclte coal. It s very generally regarded as an entirely unnecessary duty, which is not needed in the interest of protection and does not contribute to the revenues of the government. Until the anthracite coal strike there was no renlization on the part of the people of the country that the duty on anthracite, which very few knew anything about, was a source of protection to the mo- nopoly In control of the hard coal mines of Pennsylvania. The duty was {m- posed not In ‘the interest of the Penn- sylvania producers, which so far as ap- pears never asked it, hut for the pro- tection of the coal interest -of the Paclfic coast, which claimed that it was being injured by the importation of a semi-anthracite coal brought in ballast to the Pacific coast., It should be under- stood, therefore, that the tariff duty on coal was not levied at the instance of the Pennsylvania anthracite com- bination, but was proposed and urged entirely in the interest and for the bene- fit of the coal interest of the Pacific coast. It can be confidently predicted, there- fore, that that interest will vigorously fight a proposition to repeal the duty on anthracite, though it may not make any serious opposition to the proposal to suspend the duty for ninety days. The trouble with this proposition, how- ever, is that if it would accomplish any good the benefit would be only tem- porary. It seems to us that it would he of very little advantage and that the proper course is to repeal absolutely the duty on anthracite. There is no sufficient reason for retaining it. It is not apparent that the coal of the Paclfic coast now needs this protection, but even If it does It myst yleld to the general welfare. The resolution intro- duced in the United States senate by Senator Lodge, proposing a ninety-day suspension of the coal duty, will not be satisfactory to the country. Public senti- ment generally will not approve it. The obviously proper thing for congress to do 18 to repeal the duty. ssary THE DUTY ON RUSSIAN SUGAR. The Dingley tariff law provides for a countervailing duty on sugar imported from countries that pay an expnrtl bounty on their sugar. This duty was levied on sugar coming into this coun- try from Russia, it being held by the secretary of the treasury that the Rus- sian government pald a bounty, although that government insisted that its policy in regard to the exportation of sugar was not in the mature of a bounty, as that system was practiced in Germany | and other European sugar-producing countries. 4 Our governmeni having lmposed the countervaiiing duty, the Russian govern- ment adopted a policy of reprisal, with damaging effect upon American trade wilh that country. — The question In- volved was carried to the supreme court of the United States and that tribunal has just decided that the action of the treasury officlals was justified. It'is the oninion of the court that the sys- teny pursued by. the Russian government In regard to the sugar industry of that country, especially with reference to the export of that article, Is In effect a bounty, and consequently Russian sugar coming into the United States is subject to the éountervailing duty w- posed on exvort-bounty sugar. What effect this decision will have upon our trade relations with Russia remains to be seen, but it is more than probable that it will be detrimental. The view taken by our highest court is pretty certain to be accepted by all the governments interested jn the question and thus Russia will be compelled .to acqulesce in the general opinion that rnment will go farther than it has already done in the way of retaliation upon teal. Jury to 4 n done certalnly Amer » 18 problemat commie he cannot do very much more In erican trade than has alveady own lnterests_ benefited by toward this country and her not course pursued The government of the czar haps realize that it will be change its poliey’ respecting the sugar industry and cultivate better trade re lations with the United States. ve been may per. well to STOP RAINBOW CHASING In discussing the proposed annexation of territory adjacent to Omah; ber of the committee of fifteen Is quoted as favoring a constitutional convention, to be made up of citizens from all over the state, who shall | 1 amend: a mem- ment to the state constitution which will be acceptable to all rties inter- ested In the welfare of the st How anybody claiming to be con- versant with the constitution of Ne- braska would propose such an imprac- teable scheme {8 Incomprehensible. Constitutional conventlons cannot be called promiscuously from all over the state. Their membership is expressly apportioned by the comstitution, so that every legislative district is entitled to the number of members in the consti tutional convention to which it is en titled in the house of representatives, Out of the 100 members Douglas county would, therefore, entitled to nine, although by rights it should have twelve | members had the last legislature appor- tioned the state on the the national census for 1900, A constitutional convention eannot be called spontaneously. Article xvii of the constitution, entitled “Amendments,” makes the following provision for call- ing a constitutional convention: When three-fifths of the members clected to cgch branch of the législature deem it necessary to call a convention to revise, amend or change this constitution they shall recommend to the electors to vote at the mext election of members of the legislature for or against a conventlon; and it a majority voting at said election vote for a convention the legislature shall at its next session provide by law for call- Ing the same. * * * No amendments or change of this constitution agreed upon | by such convention shall take effect until the same has been submitted to the elec- tors of the state and adopted by a ma- | jority of those voting for and against the eame. Manifestly no relief can be expected through constitutional convention in less | than four years. The first stage would be the passage of a bill by the present legislature, submitting the proposition | to the people to call a constitutional convention. That proposition could not be voted on until November, 1904, If the proposition carries by a majority of the popular vote the legislature of 1905 would be required to pass a bill calling a constitutional convention, which could not possibly convene be- fore the summer of 1905, and if its work could be completed in time to give pub- licity to the new constitution = three months prior to the election the people could vote upon it in November, 1905, | and unless a special session of the legis- lature were called for the winter of 1906 no great measure of relief could be hoped for before the regular session of the legislature of 1907. All this was foreseen and foretold by The Bee when it urged upon Governor Savage last summer the imperative necessity of a special session of the legislature for the purpose of formulat- ing and submitting a series of constitu- tional amendments at the last general election. Had this been done the con- stitutional amendments most needed would doubtless have been ratified and would have gone into effect this winter, asis of Mr. Ignatius Donnelly Dunn is trying to explain and excuse himself for filing more than forty protests against the Issuance of licenses to liquor dealers and tries to make the people of Omaha believe that his only motive is to pre- vent the owners' breweries from acquir- ing ownership and control of a great majority of saloons in Omaha. He also insinuates that his action was inspired by a patriotic impulse to break up the pernicious political influence exerted by | brewerles through which “they have the | be serfously hampered in | future gene | work on a new year. | powers instead of attending strictly to one’s l\'ullh. | the Mexican ambassador might at least have the Indian nds in Oklahoma was within hig rights as an executive offic of (he government and could not be en- joined. For the same reason neither the commissioner of public lands nor the stary of the Interfor can be man dnmused to revoke the regulations cov ering the sale of Indian lands, which were expressly designed to protect the Indians against sharp practices on the part of speculators. There is serious danger that Governor Savage will pass out of office without divulging the name of the man who offered him $5,000 for the privilege of appointing a police and fire commission for the city of Omaha in the hot month of July, Anno Domini, 1902, and the historian of the twentieth century will acquainting ations with the temptations by which Nebraska governors are beset. A Scason for Romancing. Washington Post. That is a beautiful story about Tom Platt refusing a re-election. But, then, the po- litical romancers lose no time in getting to Novel Experience. Chicago Chronicle. Cuba has started its minister to Spain. Spain has indicateddn advance a determin: tivn to receive him cordlally. Thus a Httle and with a long history enters upon the Prospero Home Industry. Loulsville Courler-Journal, There has been a great falling off in | the French sardine’catch, but that will | not affect the American sardine eaters. | Fhe Maine herring industry, which sup- plies us our “sardings,’. is still prosperous | under the Dingley tariff on sardines. Penalty of Deing'n World Power. San Francisco Call. Under the stress of exlsting interpational complications Uncle’ Sam feels that he ought to own more fighting ships. This dream of being one of the great world own affairs is not so pleasant as it prom- ised to be. Child Labor in ni: Philadelphia North American The bald, hideous fact that girls under 13 years of age, infants in body and mind, watch and serve spinning machines from dark until dawn, on their feet for twelve night hours, doing work that would tax the endurance of men and getting the pittance of 3% cents an hour, s in itself a fearful indictment of the officers of the common- Pathos of Lomeline: Indlanapolis News. Before announcing his country's decision to change from a silver to a gold standard, waited until Mr, Bryan had returned home. It was no doubt a pleasant trip for the Ne- braska man, but as far as tangible results g0, his run down to Mexico didn't seem to accomplish any more than his political run- ing in this country. ' Mr. Bryan better stick to the Commoner. It brings results which, even if they do not: entirely satisfy ambi- tion, at least make Tife comfortable. —————— The Cry fox a Big Navy. Phitadelphla Record. Admiral Watspn Ngis joffied the group. af superheated naval officers, who are looking for a war with Germany and who demand a lot more battleships. He is worried by Germany's comiier¢fal ambltions; he is ap- prehensive of the Naval league of Ger- many. Not fess than ten more battle- ships in the next flve years will make him feel perfectly comfortable. ““The time has come,” he eays, “for energetic work on be- half of the navy i we are to stand on equality with the hustling Germans.” The time has also come.for a suppression of jingolsm. —_— Between Friends, Chicago Chronicle. Insufficlent motive power is the excuse offered by rallroad officers for the fact that 150,000 tons of coal are collected in the yards of the various roads entering the city when the dealers are howling for-it. Just why motive power was available to haul the coal several hundréds of miles and then suddenly gave out when only two or three miles remaln to complete its delivery is question that has excited speculation. Pos- sibly the mine owners who enjoy “friendly relations” with the railroad functionaries could throw light on the mystery, but doubtless they will not. Crazlest Scheme of the Year. Loulsville Courler-Journal. The craziest scheme broached for some time is that originated by Albert G. Whit- ney of Chicago and incorporated in South | Dakota for 356,000,000, with Lawyer George | N. Martin as prosident of the company. | ‘Whitney's plan is te stretch a-cable 250 | miles into ethereal space and catch enough | been able to inflict upon the city an| irresponsible administration in certain | departments of the city government.” | Mr. Ignatius Dennelly Dunn omits to | make reference to the fact that the police government of -Omaha is in the | hands of a fire and police mmmln!un‘ appointed by the governor and he fails | to specify what connection these ap-| pointees, or for that matter any otln'i" branch of municipal government, | can have to the acquisition by the brew- | ers of the bulk of saloon property in | Omaha. Is it not rather because the | thousand-dollar-license exacted from the saloon keepers has to be advanced by the brewers that these concerns have been forced as a matter of self-protec- tion to assume their ownership? Mr, Ig- natius Donnelly Dunn can't make any- body belleve that his action was thor- oughly disinterested and solely inspired for the public good. notoriety that his principal client, a wholesale liquor dealer, has recently embarked in the brewery business in competition with the old established concerns and expects to profit by the prosecution instituted by his patriotie and unselfish attor The decision rendered by the supreme court of the United States in the suit of certain Klowa Indlans, Instituted against Secretary of Interior Hiteheock to prevent the opening of the lands in Oklahoma, will dispose of the pending application for a mandamus instituted in the interest of the Winunebago land lease ringsters to compel the commis- sloner of Indian affairs to revoke the rules governing the sale of Indian heir- her policy regarding her sugar industry is essentlally the same as that of other countries which pay direet export boun- | to prevent his cable from pulling Chicago, | It 1s a matter of | electricity to run the industries of all the | earth. How he s to get his cable there he | retuses to disclose, but he is sure that after he has got it forty miles high the rest will be easy, as the forces of gravitation will then tend to draw it from instead of to- ward the earth. seems to be that he will then be put to it | or whatever it may be fastened to, up in definitely toward kingdom come. And that Whitney has thoroughly developed his plan | he is willing to prave by revealing some of | the most important details. His cable, he is free to disclose,.will be three-quarters of an Inch in dlameter at the Chicago end and | one-eighth of an inch at the other end, 250 | miles In the sweet high and high. —— A JEWEL HOCK. Isle of Guam Plends for a Lift from Conglesn. Philadelphia North American From his lonely station in mid Pacific Commander Schoeder issues & pitiful ap- peal in behalf of the helpless people over whom he has beep appointed benevolent dlctator. In the first place, the bandful of natives on the island of Guam have no money to pay for their education in the ways of American civilization and congres has refused to contribute to thelr support. Since ihe hurricane of 1900 they have done well to keep alive. Not a pouni of copra or cocoa or coffee has been produced for |export. 1In fact, there has not .been enough produced tu supply the home mar- ket, according to Commander Schroeder The $35,000 worth of exports last year con- sisted almost entirely of Mexican slver dol- lars. Practically the gole source of funds to the islanders s the small force of naval and clvil employes. Besides those in the, psy of the United States government there are | he had rheumatism and dyspepsia ‘“‘until Indeed, Whitney's idea | ju Minor Scenes and Incldents Sketehed on the Spot. “One of the many scientists working won ders in Washington springs another wonder on the newspaper correspondents at the national capital, and the correspondents with characteristic zeal, pass it off on innocent and defenseless readers. The new wonder 1s a device to detect lying and at the same time register the emotions of the liar. Strange as the dgvice s It has not startled Washington, probably because the residents believe the industry is too firmly rooted to be disturbed by sclentific con trivances, According to the inventor he can tell with his apparatus whether a man {s telling the truth by noting the color of kis breath. ‘“Every thought and every mood of the human brain,” he says, “has a relatively corresponding color in the chromatic scale,” and his invention fs an apparatus which reproduces in living and varying colors the changing thoughts con- cefved within the mind The apparatus comsists of a tall glass jar, half filled with a colorless solution and to which are attached two glass tubee which pass through an opening in its top. | One of the tubes has an apparatus which | fits over the mouth, and the other runs to | lass receptacle containing purified air. When the apparatus is fitted over the | mouth of & person and the breath passes | through the liquld and thence to the glass receptatle, the varying thoughts within his mind are reflected in the changing colors of the liquids in the jar, this action being caused by the effect of the chemical proper- ties of the breath upon the solution. So far the experimehts have merely de: termined what colors reflect certain moods, | such as happiness or melancholy, but, as the work progresses, it is expected that the knowledge of the “brain colors” will grow correspondingly. It is hoped that when complete knowledge and control of the working of the “Wonderbottle” have been obtained it will'be péssible to differentiate the “suicide shade” from the general color which is known to indicate melmcholy. fecretary Shaw went over to the Treasury | department one morning accompanied by a friend from lowa. While the palr were seated in Mr. Shaw's private office the sec- retary found a letter which particularly in- terested him. Leaning back in his chair, he put one foot on the corner of his desk. In half a minute a man dashed in, revolver in hand, and, covering the visitor, id: “Is! this man trying to rob you, Mr. Shaw?" | ““No, no,” shouted the secretary. He is my friend.”” After some further excitement it developed that when he put his foot on the | desk Mr. Shaw had pressed a button that | calls a watchman. The man came in a| hurry, just as he had been ordered to do. . | In the rear of representative hall in ‘Washington is probably the most sumptuous smoking room in the counfry. All the fur- niture, rugs, pictures, etc., are of the finest, | any other form is an abuse. ' TALK OF THE STATE PRESS, Waekefleld Republican: J. H. Mickey will next Thursday take the oath of office that will make him governor of Nebraska. The Savage man can then take his departure for Washington as soon as he desires. No tears will be shed. Louisville Courler: It {s about time John N. Baldwin was eliminated from Ne- braska politics. Mr. Baldwin may be all right as a politiclan in his homo state, Towa, but he is decidedly out of place when he tries to run Nebraska affairs. We have a great many good, level-headed men in our own state who are able to look after our affairs. Kearney Hub: The case against Edward Rosewater In the Douglas county district court for unlawful expenditure of money as a candidate for United States senator has been dismissed by the county attorney of that county. Thus falls a prosecution that was begun for political purposes and that every sane person knew had nothing to rest on Louisville Courier: Governor Mickey I8 being besieged by officéseckers. He Is not acting hastily in any of his appointments, but giving all careful consideration and treating all applicants with respect. Nelther {8 he making a lot of useless pledges. He goes into office independent of all surely will make a good governor. As & state Nebraska stands high in this country and with a Christian governor surely we will attain additional prominence. Mickey is a practical farmer and knows what the state needs. Norfolk Press: Governor Savage prob- ably rounded out his record by granting two more pardons, the men released being G. W. Argabright, who was up for lite for Killing his father-in-law, and Rev. Rowland Hills, who was sentenced to four yea for blgamy. That Governor Savage has stretghed his prerogative to the limit goes without saying, but the public will un- doubtedly be willlng to condone all his acts in that line but one, the pardoning of Joe | Bartley, That one act, however, should lead to'a reform in this matter and rob the exercise of the pardoning power by the ex- scutive of its scandalous features. That power, like the functions of a court, should PERSON AL NOTES. The 300 soldiers who have presentes w loving cup to Helen Gould doubtless mean it. | It 1s eald that Guam is pressed tor mouey, but so Is the rest of the world right after the holidays. The mext president of the eelebrated Cobden club of England will, appropriately enough, be Mr. Johann Bull. Lord Kitchener is learning Urda, a com- posite tongue which makes one familiar with the sentiments of Sepoys The Cleveland boom has assumed sur- prising proportions in the east. It now looks as if Grover had been rolling in the | snow. | The rumor that Senator Quay will soon reslgn his seat has again been revived, but {1t is again observed that the semator was not present at the revival. Inventor Edison declares that electricity will eventually banish disease and abolish the drug stores. Mr. Edison is now looking tor @ suitable name for his elixir. Zero Snow has drifted eastward from | Portland, Ore., and settled in Chicago | Zewo's appreciation of “the eternal fitness of things” approaches the borderland of gentus. State Senator James S. Barcus ot Terro Haute, Ind., at the close of the present ses- slon of the legislature, will remove to New York and will devgte all his time to the Mr. | magazine he owns. The suggestion that a fund of $5,000 be ralsed for Senator Hawley of Connecticut has aroused some indignation in the Nut- meg state. Some of the senator's close triends declare that he is in no feed ot reliet, being already in comfortable efrcum- stances. . Unless he changes his .mind President Roosevelt will not go on a hunting expedi- tion until he leaves the White House. On his recent trip in Mississippi his hosts, he ays, did not seem to realize that he s an | able-bodied man perfectly willing to ‘Fough it. They were embarrassingly solieitous about his comfort, but he M a splendid time nevertheless. Mr. Roosevelt looks forward to a hunting trip when he will be absolutely alone. only be used to subserve the ends of jus- tice and humanity, and its application in | The boundary | line between correct use and abuse should be clearly defined by law. Fdgar Post: State Superintendent Fow- ler has stirred up quite a good deal of a controversy by his recommendation of a new normal school in the central or west- ern part of the state, or the transferring of the Industrial school at Kearney to Peru and the normal to Kearney. Ross Hammond, who lives in a private normal school town, Fremont, and who does a lot of work for the before mentioned private normal school, gets interested and takes the state superintendent to task and tries to convince him that no ore vormal and here the congressmen retire to smoke | and gossip, safe from profane cyes, for in | the center of the wall hangs the slgn, | “Strangers and cigarettes not permitted’ in this room.” This rule is religiously obeyed, | though no one seems to know who promul- gated it. The most atroclous cabbage cigar is permitted to exhaust itself, but the finest | Turkish cigarette is not tolerated for an in- stant. Recently Congressman Joy of Mis- | sourl, who is a confirmed consumer of | paper pipes, inadvertently lighted one in | the republican smoking room. Before he had taken a second whiff several of the members ordered an assistant sergeant-at- arms to read the rules to him. Mr, Joy | dropped his cigarette and made his way to the., house restaurant, where 'everything goes, . y Ciptain John Lamb, who represents the Richmond dlstrict in congress, delivered a lecture .at Williamsburg Monday night on the battle of Malvern Hill, reports the Washington Post. Captaln Lamb has be- come famous on the subject through his detense of General John Magruder from the charge that he was responsible for the slaughter of the confederate troops in that engagement. b Captain Lamb at the time of the battle | was an orderly sergeant attached to the staff of General Magruder. The night after the battle he was iy Magruder's tent when General Lee came in. The latter demanded to know why General Magruder had ordered his men to charge when inevitable defeat and disaster awaited them. General Lee,” Magruder answered, “I charged because you three times ordered me to. I was not able to get my men ready for the charge when you gave the order the first and second times, but when you gave the order a_third time we started.” Genera! Lee, says Captain Lamb, admitted that this was true, and it was not until re- cent ye: at General Magruder has been charged with the responsibility for the dis- aster. Captain Lamb is the only man now lving who has personal knowledge of the meeting between Lee and Magruder the night after the battle. “Uncle Joe"” Cannon, the next speaker of the house of representatives, has reversed the natural order of things and is growing | young instead of old. Five years ago he was posting himself on the best beds for in- valids because he was convinced that the multiplicity of allments from which he suffered would soon drive him between the blankets. He says that among other things Uncle Joe' is the health- | fest man in the house. He can eat apple ple and cheese at midnight and go home and sleep lke a log. The change came” when he adopted one of those physieal | culture and hyglene systems which are so generally advertised in the magazines. He has carefully observed the dlet end of the system and carried out the exercises. result he says he is “feeling 8o kittenis! that people are talking about him. other day, while making a speech, those who sat near him observed that he was doing many queer things with his ms while he was talking. After he had finished he was asked about his unusual movements. “Well,” he observed, “my system says o take ten minutés of movement No. § every third day, and, bless my soul, it T could find time to do it except when I was on the floor speaking.” Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota is using a queer looking contrivance for a igar holder. He says in regard to it: A tew years ago I secured a position for & young man in the census office dnd every once in & while he thinks it is time to remind me that he still appreciates the favor. At first be used to send me cigars— villainous ones—and 1 finally remonstrated with him for spending his money needlessly. Then he toek to sending me cigar holders. The .bowl of this one is made from the cork of & champagne bottle, while the stem is tashioned from the hollow bone of a turkey wing. You never saw anything like it before, did you? It looks a trifie queer, but it makes a fine smoke out of a cheap fourteen American residents. The estab- lishment of a lepes station and the heayy | shrinkage in the governor's recelpts have made it necessary to stop all works on public improvements, It is not much Commander Schroeder asks congress to grant him—only $43,000, to give employment to the people it road ship lands so as to allow the speculators to gobhle the-lands at ridiculously low figures. The supreme court holds that ties. Whether or not the Russlan gov- | the secretary lu ordering the openlng of building. Certainly & great world power like the United States ought to be willing to pay that small price for the glory of possessing a valtry “gem and jewel of the Pacific.” X elgar.” B o] Final Strapped Nations, Indtandpolls Journal. That money is more abundant than might appear at first sight s shown by the fact ! well taken care of. schools are needed In Nebraska. He rays that with .the two mormal schools in the Third district, at Wayne and Fremont, and | the State normal at Peru and the normal department of the State university the eachers of the state ought to be pretty | He then clinches his | argument by saying that four normal schools in lowa provide professional tralning for | 500 teachers and he thinks that the ones mentioned ought to be enough for Ne- braska. The state superintendent proceeds to make a monkey out of Ross by giving the names and location of seventeen nor- | mal schools in Jowa, and pertinently re- | marks that it soventeen normal schools are demanded In Towa to train 500 teachers surely five are none too many to train 900 | teachers in Nebraska. Everyone who h an ax to grind agrees with the state su- perintendent. OUR PRESENT DAY LIVING. Feverish and Selfish Phase of Amer- fean Life. Springfleld Republican, The mass of reople in these times elther prefer not to commit themeelves to the pos- seseion of real estate or are unable to ac- quire such possession. They choose rented homes instead of owned homes, commoniy take out some life insurance as the eole protection of the family in the future and then proceed to live up to their incomes, saving little or nothing. They become per- manently fdentifled with no particular neighborheod and freguently change their residonce; and the endless devices of mod- ern civilization to catch the pennies and nickels and dollars of the people, making what was a luxury yesterday a seeming | necessity today, insidiously draw the aver- age person and family away from saving and accumulation, afid render it nsxt to im- possible. Small families are the rule, and to live up to the full standards of'an age of comfort and juxury and diversion never be- fore rendered possible becomes the su- preme consifleration. And so we “go the pace,”” each n his litile or large way, as circumstances admit, with little thought of the future, t on enjoylng to the ut- most the present with its new and multi- plylng catistactions of wants that multiply with the means of satistying, and thus glv- ing to American life that feverish and sel- fish and heedless cast which is the remark of all who stop long enough to observe. This may be a life highly stimulating in certain desirable ways, as In intellectual quickening ‘among the mass of people; but it must be demoralizing to an extent and certainly calculated to intensify the condi- tlons which create classes based upon prop- erty possession. It makes for social in- stability, unrest and revolution. It would be_better for soclety in the long run if the luxuries of the moment were being les afld ownership of property were belng more, widely distributed. If your hair is turning remedy is simple : It will not do impossible wonderful things. that a New York syndicate stands ready to relle: e Venezuela's wants. No doubt there is ample security, or no banker would look t the loan. It is sn evidence of our prog- ress toward imperigiism when we, like Eng- land, offer to place mortgages on the es- tates of the “Sick Men" of the earth. It always restores color, druff, and prevents splitting at the ends. parts gray before I used A 1_have man) by M( hair was three there isn’t a gray hair to be seen. same experience with it.’”’ — Henry Col | geles The children of John C. and Jessle Fre- mont are three: Isabel, the eldest, an in- valld, now living at the home in Los An- John Charles, a commander In the navy, and Captain Fremont of the army, now in the Philippines. Commodore Fre- mont was born in California and appointed to the naval academy by President John- son fn 1868, In the war with Spain he com- manded the torpedo boat Porter, under Sampson in the West Indles. He has a son, John C. Fremont, jr., a midshipman on the flagship New York, now in Pacific waters, near Seattle. Also he has two daughters, of whom one is named “Jessie Benton." FLASHES OF FU “Sir!" she eXclaimed haughtily., “You have kissed me. Never dare to look at my faco again!" Meekly, he turned and left the house; fad I didn’t marry that fool,” she gasped between sobs.—New York Sun, ‘Percy, about something.” “What in the about, old chap?" ““That's the twouble—for the life of me I cawn't wemember.'—Brooklyn Life. I'm worwid to death world are you worwld Towne—Some people consider him a self- ish cad, What sort of fellow I3 he, any- way? Browne—Well, he's the sort of feilow who delights in getting a halr cut and A sham- poo during the Saturday rush while you're waiting to get shaved.—Philadelphia Press. Mrs. Plumplelgh—W1ill you take an order for coal? Dealer—Well, we are supplying only our old customers, " - Mrs, Plumpielgh (shyly)—About-how oid do they have to be?—Somerville Journal. “A woman always puts the most Im- portant thing in a letter at the very end.” sald he. “'Sometimes a man does it too," sald she, ““when he makes a statement of in- debledness, and then adds, ‘please remit.’ " —Washingion Star. J “Speaking of timber.' sald the teacher of the night school. “can anyone tell me what tree has contributed most to the hap- riness of mankind?" ““The cork tree,” responded a with a bad eye, fo the scandal o class.—Chicago Tribune. young man the whole “What s your name?' inquired the jus- o “Pete Smith,” responded the vagrant. “What occupation?’ continued the court “Oh, nothing much at present; just clr- culatin’ round ** “Retired from circulation for thirty day pronounced the court, dryly.—Green Bag. She—Have you heard the news? McSolo- mon s to marry again, the fourth time, I belleve. He—Yes, T've heard about it. Beats all how the fage for collecting wiil take hold of a man. etimes it Is old books or playbilis and sometimes it's postage stamps. In McSolomon's case appears to b wives, . HOPE. ‘W. D. Nesbit in Chicago Tribune, The sunlight of the joyousness, e shadowings of sorrow— Her eyes are full of yesterdays, Her lips still smile ““Tomorrow!" Her eyes look back to where the gold Of other times Is blazing; The merry glint of other ays . Comes while her eyes sre gazing; Mer eyes from out the misty past The countless blessings borrow— Her eyes are full of yesterdays, Her lips still smile *“Tomorrow!" Her eyes look wistfully away, lown the paths of pleasure; ey seem to catch the dawning glow Through some half closed embrasure; And far away she sees the sun Above the clouds of sorrow — Her eyes are full of yesterdays, Her lips still smile “Tomorrow!" FEED IT gray or falling out, it is starving. There isn’t life enough in the roots. The Feed your hair. Feed it with Avyer’s Hair Vigor. things, but it often does stops falling, cures dan- 4.C. AyerCo., Mase! 's Hair Vigor. N, amnfi'u:’; leman, I]n York City, N. Y.