Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 11, 1903, Page 14

g THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUN NDAY, JANUARY 11 19 B. ROBEW ATEI(. ID!TUR UlLI!HIlI EV F.R\ fiORNlNO TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Datly Bee (without Sunday), One Year.4400 Dnily Bee and Sunday, One Year ilustrated Bee, One Year. Bunday Bee, Ofe Year Baturday Bee, One Year Twentleth Cefitury Farmer, One Year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Daily Bee (without Sunday), per copy.. Bally Bee (withou: Sunday). per week. 1ge ily Bee (including Sunday), per woek.17c Bunday Bee, per copy e Evening Bee l'llhnul !\mdly; per week 6c b.um:g Bee (1 per. Complaints of ' y should be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bulldl Sauth Omaha-City: u.u G-fifth and M Btree! "Council Blufta—io Pear! Street. Chicagoioio Unity Bullding. New York—2i28 Park Row Buflding. Washington—601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and ed- ttorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Neprasks, Doaglas County, se.: George B. Teschuck, secretary of The B Publishing company, being duly sworn, ll Ihl( the actual number of full and col plete copies of The Dally Morning, Eve g and Sunday Bee printed during t jullding, Twen- month of De wn as follows: 1 1. 2. 2. 2. 23 u. %. 10. 2. 1 B 1. 3. 13, ». » . Total Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales . Net average sales QEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed In my presence and swotn (o betore me this siet lay of December, A. D. i3, BN RGATE: (Seal) Notary Public. Resurrection of the meat packers' merger may be expected at the first favorable opportunity. Governor Mickey's inaugural Indicates that he 18 & man who belleves in talking little but saylog much. Texas has had its ofl craze, California and Wyoming still have theirs and Ne- braska cannot escape the epidemle, President Roosevelt's aerogram to King Edward is entitled to atmospheric right of way and all ordinary aerograms enroute should take due notice. The South Dakota capital is to be put on wheels, although navigation in ahd around Plerre will remain on snow shoes and in sleds for the next two months. Publicity does not hurt the national banks fn thelr legitimate functions, and the public will not believe that publicity would hurt the trusts except to stop abuses and repress evils, New Year's leaves do not very often stay turned. The antl-pass agreement which was begun ten days ago struck a snag before it had become a week old and now reposes quietly fn the raliroad archives. Em— The school board committees have been apportioned according to the orig- inal agreement without a scratch and the machinery in the fifth story of the city hall will run smoothly for another year without further olling. EEE———pe—— Governor Durbin of Indlana recom- mends to the legislature of the Hoosier state the repeal of the law under which graveyard life insurance companies are operated. The governor is evidently not satisfled to let them dle a natural death, Not content with following in the steps of men as politiclans, three Deaver women have taken to the manly art of highwaymen, or, rather, highwaywomen, It is only fair to say, however, that this 18 no necessary part of the enfranchise- ment program. e What would we say If American resi- dents in China were compelled to undergo description and identification under the Bertillon system as if they were all criminals? Yet that is pre- elsely what it s now proposed to do with every Chinaman iu this country. EEmE——— Jt the St. Louls exposition manage- ment want to take the shine completely out of the Chicago World's fair, it should arrange at once to lave the great Durbar repeated on the banks of the Mississipp! in 1004 with all the par- ticipating figures of the original, includ- ing viceroy and elephants. Em—— And now Councll Bluffs will have an opportunity to partake of the benefits of Mr. Carnegle’ free distribution of library bulldings. Had Mr. Carnegle only started his work sooner the people of Omaha might have had their Mbrary building erected without voting a $100,- 000 issue of bonds to provide the funds. SETE———— The proposed profit sharing scheme of the Steel trust does not promise to be- come & howling success. Out of 168,000 on the payroll of the trust only 12,000, or 7 1-7 per cent, have signified their willingness to share profits by investing Manifestly the wmen who labor for the trust are afrald of in shares of stock. getting rich too suddenly. ——— A measure bas been introduced in con- gress to submit a constitutional amend- ment lmiting the amount of property any individual may hold to $10,000,000. Unfortunately the proposition fixes only & maximum and o minimum. If it fo- cluded a guaranty of a comfortable birthright for every person born into it would be assured of much the greater . CUSTLY LESSONS OF THE COAL STRIKE At the end of the twentieth week of the anthracite coal strike the following estimate of the losses was published: Loss to strikers In wages. Nonunjon worker: . Employes other Raflroads in earnings Business men In® coal mining reglon..... ceeniies 14,800,000 Business men outside of mining region.. 8,900,000 Loss to min: 6,500,000 Troops In 400,000 1,400,000 Coal and irom police.......... Total.....oooiiiiiiiiininnnns ..$76,820,000 In addition to this, fully $25,000,000 was loet by mining operators through the closing of the mines, but §100,000,000 is & very small percentage of the actual losses imposed upon the country at large and the amount extorted from coal con- sumers by the conscienceless mining trust and their allled combines. That the anthracite strike has given a tremendous impetus to soclalism must be conceded on all hands, and it will not be surprising it public ownership of conl mines is to become one of the lssues in the natfonal campaign of 1904. Within the past two weeks the trend of publie gentiment has been emphasized in nearly all the population centers. In Chicago Mayor Harrison has pro- claimed that conditions now prevailing emong the poor of Chicago as a result of the scarcity and high price of fuel make it imperative that rellef be given immediately, and in addition to the police force the Salvation Army has been enrolled for this work. In the city of Milwaukee the Federa- tion of Labor has declared in favor of the establishment of a municipal coal yard, In Detroit a special sesslon of the city councll has voted that the banks be asked for an emergency loan of $50,000 for the purchase of fuel to be distrib- uted to the poor. In the meantime the prosecuting attorney is investigating the alleged illegal acts of the Coal club, and criminal prosecution of the coal dealers in the comblne will be instituted within a few days. In the city of Cleveland the disclosures of a combination among coal dealers and thelr arbitfary exactions have raisbd a storm of indignation, and, while the dealers declare that the people have lost a benefactor In forcing thelr association to disband, the public appears to be will- ing to suffer all the consequences of the breaking up of the combine. At the national capital the congres- sional investigation now In progress has disclosed a shameless degree of rapacity both among the wholesalers and retail- ers In coal. While absolute proof of conspiracy s still lacking, circumstan- tial evidence justifies the belief that the independent coal operators, after forcing the trust operators to permit the abroga- tion of contracts, are now dictating prices. The independent operators are reaping the harvest and recouping them- selves for losses during the étrike. As a sequence to these disclosures congress” will in all probability in the Immedlate future be compelled to grap- ple earnestly with the trusts and the legislatures of the varlous states will doubtless feel constrained also to enact drastic laws against trade combinations, Smegh—— PENNSYLVANIA'S OBLIGATION. The state of Pennsylvania has an ob- ligation to the country which its legisla- ture, now In session, should not ignore. This is to provide agalnst a recurrence of such a calamitous conflict as the anthracite coal strike. It may be ad- mitted that it 1s not an easy problem, but it cannot be conceded that it Is one which the people of that commonwealth, through their representatives, are inca- pable of dealing with and it is the gen- eral expectation that the legislature will grapple with the question earnestly and intelligently. In his message to the legislature Gov- ernor Stone says that the industrial dis- turbances of last year cost the sjate not less than a million dollars and nearly all of this was on account of the coal strike. That conflict called into service almoAt the entire militla of the state, necessitating a large outlay from the public treasury. This, however, is Im- material In comparison with the loss and injury to the great body of anthra- cite consumers from the strike and it is this which should especially Impress itself upon the Pennsylvania legislature. The people of that state will not se- riously feel the expenditure of a million dollars for the preservation of peace and order, but the many who are suffer- ing because of an inadequate supply of coal or for the reason that the price Is more than they can pay, are hoping that the legislature of Pennsylvania will find & way to prevent another such ca- lamity to the country, The message of the ex-governor rec- ommends a compulsory arbitration law for the settlement of difficulties between employer and employe. It says that such a law is entirely constitutional and feasible from a police standpoint look- ing upon strikes as injurfous to the publie, harmful to soclety and destruc- tive to life and property. “We should recognize strikeés,” declares the message, “as existing evils and as dangerous to the public good, and while mindful of the rights of both employer and em- ploye, adjust them from a higher stand- point, namely, for the good of societ;, the preservation of the public peace and of life and property. Without criti- clsing employers or employes, without blaming elther, we should so legislate as to prevent the reeurrence of these disturbances.” This is In the right spirit, but it ‘Is doubtful whether a sys- tem of compulsory arbitration would work successfully, so strong s the oppo- sition to such a plan of both empioyers and employes. The fact that the system has been found to work well in New Zealand, for lnstance, does not prove that it would be equally successful here. At all events, Penusylvanla owes a duty to the country in this matter which its legislators should give earnest atten- tion to and if they will do this it is not to be doubted that a way can be found to prevent such a contest between labor and capital as the anthracite coal strike. THE AMERICAN WAY. In an iInteresting report on the ob- servations of the Mosely commission of British workingmen during their recent tour of American Industrial centers one of the accompanying members of the party calls attention in the Outlook to the surprise occasioned by the willing- ness of all the large manufacturing in- stitutions visited to admit the inquisitive strangers without question or reserve. In only one case, it is noted, was per- mission refused to Inspect a factory. “If a simllar body of Americans,” the writer deelares, “had gone on a like quest through Great Britain or the con- tinent, I don't think everything would have been thrown open to them as It was done here. It speaks volumes for the supreme confidence of Americans in themselves that they took the attitude expressed by one of them to me in the words, ‘See all you llke and welcome, and beat us if you can.' " To us, because this has been the American way invariably from the days of the steamboat and the cotton gin, the freedom of our Industrial establish- ments to all who have a plausible rea- son for wishing to Investigate them Iis taken as such a matter of course that it does not even attract passing atten- tion. The American manufacturer has realized that in these days of sclence and invention the ordinary trade se- crets and special methods of operation cannot be kept secret if the effort were made and that no adequate gain Is to be had from any such policy of exclu- sion. Quite the contrary, we as a rule take selfish pride In the modern and up-to-date fnstallations we have in our manufacturing establishments and rejolce in having visitors remark upon, the advance we have made upon com- petitors, both at home and abroad. More than that, we have stood ready at command to supply the most ap- proved American machinery in all lines of industry In response to every requisi- tion made for it abroad until American- made mechanical devices can be found in all parts of the world. In other words, the American way involves a willingness to let every country start equal In the race for trade supremacy and depend upon the efficlency of Ameri- can labor and the superior alertness of Amerlcan genius and skill to keep American industry in the forefront. Our willingness to permit inspection of our factories by bodies like the Mosely commission is foufded on the conviction that we are In most respects ahead of our European competitors and that by the time they shall have fol- lowed us we will be still further in ad- vance of them. ——— IMMIGRATION COMMISSION. The National German-American alll- ance has proposed the creation of an im- partial commission to study the immi- gration question beforé there is any new legislation on the subject. The Phila- delphia Record commends the idea, re- marking that not only should such a commission be created, but it should be made permanent in New York for the protection of deserving Immigrants from wrongful deportation. That paper says there I8 no such protection at present and that immigrants are deported by the arbitrary decree of the officlals be- fore their friends can have an oppor- tunity of interceding in their behalf, It charges that “hardly a day passes in which cases of great injustice and in- humanity do not arise through wanton exercise of authority stimulated by prejudices of nativism toward all for- elgners.” This is a pretty serlous charge, and, it ‘well founded, as doubtless it Is, calls for investigation by the authorities at Washington. It was expected when changes were made of immigration offi- clals that conditions would be improved and that the faults and abuses which Caused so much complaint during the Powderly administration would be done away with. It appears from the state- ment of the Record, however, that such is not the case, or at any rate that there are still some abuses, showing that the spirit which actuated the former offi- clals 1s stlll active. This is a reproach to the government and the Washington authorities should look into the matter and summarily end the injustice and inhumanity which are said to be of al- most daily occurrence. It is very prob- able that a properly constituted commis- slon would prove useful, though it ought to be possible to find men for Immigra- tion oficials who will faithfully execute the laws without dealing unjustly with immigrants. As to proposed new legls- lation, it is unlikely that anything will be done at the present session of con- gress. —— DISTRESS IN THE PHILIPPINES, Undoubtedly congress will appropriate the money for the relief of the distress in the Philippines, a5 recommended by the president and secretary of war. Ae- cording to the statement of Secretary Root thera is an exceedingly bad condi- tion of affalrs in the islands. Ninety per cent of the draft animals died from rinderpest, the rice crop, upon which the people malinly rely for subsistence, was a fallure the past season, then the declipe in silver operated agalust busi- ness and reduced the revenues of the insular government so that it has been able to do but little for the relief of the people. From all these afflictions there has re- sulted general impoverishment of the people, and Secretary Root says the oc- caslon for rellief in the Philippines is greater than it was in Cuba when cor- gress appropriated $3,000,000 for the payment of the Cuban soldiers, or than it was in Porto Rico when hundreds of thousands of dollars were contributed by the people of the United States and wmore than a million dollars paid out of the national treasury for the relief of the sufferers frém the hurricane in 1809, Of course the duty of congress in the matter is plain. Provision must be made for the Filipino people in thelr present misfortune aud the only question is as to whether the amount proposed to be appropriated, $3,000,000, will be suffi- clent. Assuming that the conditions are as bad as represented, it Is more than likely that double the amount asked for will be required to give adequate relief. The fact appears to be that there has been too long delay in meeting the Phil- ippine situation, which has been serlous for months and of course has been growing steadily worse. It has now reached a point that calls for prompt action and it is to be presumed that there will be no opposition to this. After rellef has been provided there should be no unnecessary delay in providing a remedy for the currency conditions in the archipelago, for it 1s certain there can be no recovery In business until there is a change in the monetary situ- ation. PRUTECTING THE PUBLIC. Governor Odell of New York, in his message to the legislature, recommends |t-|z|n|-uon for the protection of the pub- lie from injury through conflicts be- tween labor and capital. The governor says that under our system of govern- ment both capital and labor are entitled to equal protection and from both should be exacted the same respect for law and authority. He expresses the opinfon that wherever the necessaries of life are involved in dispute between em- ployer *and employe, power should be conferred upon those affected to apply to thie courts for relief, and no power should be possessed by either capital or labor to deprive the people of that which I8 necessary to their welfare, but ample authority should be lodged in the Judiclary to enforce properly Its man- dates and that such disputes, whenever they arise, should not be permitted to in- terfere with those rights which are paramount and necessary for the well being of the people, « Unquestionably there are a great many who will concur with the governor of New York in the view that the people, who may be Injured by labor disturb- ances that interfere with’the production,| of necessaries of life, ought to have the power to secure relief, It is manifestly, however, very difficult to determiné how such power should be conferred. Much suffering might have been averted if the people of Pennsylvania could have in- terposed between the anthracite coal operators and the miners and compelled them to settle their differences without a contest. There is, however, a very strong sentiment in this country hostile to any policy of a coercive or compulsory character in regard to labor disputes. Men who feel that the third party—the public—should have proper considera- tlon, which under present conditions it does not get from either capital or labor, at the same time doubt if any power con- sistent with our institutions can be con- ferred upon the people that would effect- fvely protect them against being de- prived by labor disturbances of what is necessary to their well being. The chief argument of the opposition to “com- pulsory arbitration is that it Is unameri- can and it Is antagonized with practical unanimity both by employers and by organized labor. The question of protecting the people wherever the necessaries of life are in- volved in dispute between employer and employe 18, however, one that calls for earnest consideration. “Organized cap- ital and organized labor alike,” said President Roosevelt, “should remember that Im the long run the interest of each must be brought into harmony with the interest of the general public, and the conduct of each must conform to the fundamental rules of obedience to the law, of individual freedom and of jus- tice and fair dealing toward all” If capital and labor could be induced to take this sound view of their interests and of their relations and obligations to the public there would be no need of such legislation as Governor Odell rec- ommends. — In the flood of bills that will deluge the legislature during the present week a score of bllls to create a board of pardons may confidently be looked for. This is perfectly natural. A flagrant abuse of power is always sure to be fol- lowed by an epidemic of nostrums and sure-cure remedies. By the time the hoard of pardons bills have been fully discussed the legislature will discover that the constitution vests the pardoning power exclusively in the governor, under such restrictions and limitations as to the mode of application for pardon the law may provide. The discreet exer- clse of the pardoning power therefore depends entirely upon the good sense and integrity of the governor. The board of pardons may advise the gov- ernor, but it cannot exercise the par- doning power. A reckless or venal governor can override its advice and take his chances of being impeached. That was exactly what the last gov- ernor did when he pardoned Bartley in deflance of the popular disapproval of the parole, as expressed through the republican state convention, Moral: Elect honest governors. T —— In his acceptance of the caucus nomi- nation that is the prelude to his election as United Btates senator, ex-Governor Willlam J, Stone of Missour! asserted that while he was opposed to the reten- tion by the United States of possessions in the Orient he was in favor of expan- slon by the acquisition of contiguous territory. This must be teken to mean that he would have this government re- linquish all its rights of soverelguty in the Philippines and acquire sovereign rights over Cuba by annexation. Mr. Stone may be expected to rank among the leaders of the democratic party in shaping its position in natioual afairs, his remarks may be taken as a straw *instructors of every grade, and the enlist- pointing the direction In which one ele- ment would shape the democratic policy. In that case the democratic proposition will be to treat the Philippines the same as Cuba and then to treat Cuba the same as the Philippines had been before the change. ———— The %ersistent tendency of trusts to destroy competition by benevolent as- similation or foreible destruction is illus- trated by the attempt of the billboard trust to monopolize the bill posting busi- ness In Chicago. A damage suit for $50,000 brought in the Illinois courts discloses the fact that a competing con- cern to the trust was first lnvited to sell out, and, refusing to do so, was forcibly driven out by the destruction of its billboards. a Kick Coming. Chicago Tribune. It we judge the Missouri mule aright that sagacious animal will not abate one aw-he- haw-he or omit one lone kick by reason of any judiclal decision defining its status. Let the judges keep their distance. That fs all the mule asks of them. Marvelous Progress in Hawall, Cleveland Leader. No wonder the Hawallans are pleased by the completion of the cable connecting thelr islands with the United States. When it s remembered that they were a race of savages less than a century ago the prog- ress of those people toward civilization is truly marvelous. Prosperity in the Collegen. New York Times. The year books of American universities and colleges show impressive figures of i crease in the lists of professors, tutors and ments in the ranks of the pupils have boen swollen to highly encouraging totals. phy and of science are vear with huge accessions, while the lsts of trained lawyers, doctors and preachers throughout the country are expanding an- nually with a truly amazing growth. Slow Growth of Profit Sharing. Springfield Republican. Tt does not appear that the profit-sharing or stock-distributing plan of the Illinols Central railroad has been particularly suc- cessful. In other words, it is not being availed of generally by employes. It was instituted in 1893, and in 1898 only 750 employes had taken stock, and then only to the extent of 2,500 shares altogether, or an average of a little over three shares per man. Since 1898 the annual report of the road has ceased eaying anything about the experiment, which would indi- cate that stock purchases by employes have not been increasing greatly. ‘WONDERS PROMISED FOR 1003, New Elements of Progress in the Cru- cible of Development. Baltimore American. The present year promises to be quite as remarkable as its predecessor in a number of directions. Marconi has begun the necessary work for a transcontinental wireless line of telegraph. Winnipeg is to be the halfway station, and experts have gone beyond that point to lay out the bal- ance of the route. When tie coast of Brit- ish Columbia is reached this wonderful necromancer will have the cholce of several countrles on the other side of the water, but he s likely to select Siberia as offering the fewest difficulties. When that point has been galned there will be no difficul- ties except those interposed by the Russian government, and the world will be prac- tically girdled. At the present rate of progression this should occur long before the end of 1903. Each new venture s to be carried out more rapldly than its predecessor because of the increased ex- perience and confidence. But other wonders are promised for 1903. Santos-Dumont has just made public the information that he is building an airship in Parls to carry passengers. It is to hold twelve passengers and a crew of two, and he says that as soon as he can train enough aeronauts he will bulld more. He says the airship is an established institu- tion, and that there will be plenty of them flying about in a short while—in fact, he compares them to automobiles. It will not do to laugh at this, because not only he, but three or four more have successtully experimented with flying machines of that pattern. The advocates of the aeroplane are mot wise in asserting the impracticability of the Dumont machine. If they were able to show a eingle success by their own method, or if they could explain the latter consistently with the laws of sclence, there might be some palliation for their sweep- ing criticism, but to say something cannot be done when it has already been done dozens of times is undignified. Prof. Bell says he has made a wonderful discovery, but the public will continue to be skep- tical about flying on kites until an object lessoh has been given. In medicine it is believed that there will be during the year a realization of asseis that the immense number of valus able experiments will be crystalized Into principles which will be practically ap~ plied for the relief of disease and suffering. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Brooklyn Eagle: Were preachers to out- rank organists in churches and should ser- mons outclass singing, life would not be- come unendurable, and reverence and worship and moral stimulation might be more than they are mow. Indianapolis Journal: Of the $20,000,000 raised by the Methodists of the country for the Twentieth century fund of their church one-twenty-fifth, it is said, has been given by Methodist ministers' sons. This will make it necessary to modify the traditional {ll-repute in which ministers’ sons as a class have been held. Boston Globe: A Baptist minister told a lot of brother ministers in New York re- cengly that it was notorious that extempore prayer s the weakest point in modern religlous services. In everything else re- lating to the service of the church, he sald, the tendency has been upward, but prayer has greatly deteriorated. Perhaps more prayers would be answered if prayers gen- erally were more convineing. New York World A Philadelphia preacher makes the charge that young women rink and gamble.” Of course they do—some of them; equally, of course; most of them do not. If the clergyman i3 “judging by sample” he should be more fastidious in his associates. In any case, no reform is helped by reckless overstate- ment or by wholgsale libel of the more date sex Cinciopati Enquirer: It is announced that “a London preacher will try the plan of holding services in a darkened church «0 that the women's minds will not be drawn from the sermon by the study of bonpets.” Newspapers are printed nowa- days not so much to make public opinion as to meet a popular demand, snd those who take pleasure in believing everything they see In print have that great privilege. If the story about the London preacher is true, the Enquirer suggests that he should avall himself of modern improvements -in electrical appliances and provide for an occasional sudden flashlighi, 8o that he may know what is golng ou In the comgrega- tiom. BY HER OWN ures taken from columns for the year 1902. by— NEBRASKA STANDS Busineess in force Dee. 31, 1902. $5,234,600 New business in 1902......oow: 2,382,760 Net gain in business for 1902.... THE BANKERS RESERVE LIFE Invites the attention of Nebraskans to the fig. its three foregoing lines, and advises every man and woflan in Nebraska, interesteed in the up- building of this state, to keep an eye on these the week the Bankers Reserve will publish here its financial statement for The week following will appear the annual report to the stockholders, prepared B. H. ROBISON, Pres! _— 1,813,000 books contained in the next two weeks. Next Life Association nt. BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN. Any fool can find faults; the wise man discovers virtues The memory of blessings furnishes a rem- ‘The {edy for the blues. big drmies of bachelors of arts, of philoso- \ Every vice thickens the vell between our- gmented every | golyes and virtue. Doctrines found by dissection necessitate the death of truth. The gospel in life will save the world where the gospel in literature would fail. When you see sin ripening in your neigh- bor's garden look out for the seeds in your own. The beauty of our lives depends on the | clearness with which Gog can shine through them. He who keeps the powder of passion in his heart must not be surprised if there is an explosion. Only the short-sighted egotist is capable of mistaking his little chip for the whole mountain of truth. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. Andrew Carniegie gave away about §14,- 000,000 last year and starts the nmew year with a donation of $1,600,000 to Philadel- phia for branch libraries. Here's hoping Andy will not die poor. Down in New York they discovered a woman disgulsed a man who had been married for ten years to one of her own sex. Strange to say they lived happily until the disguise was penetrated. Chicago girls are several laps ahead of their St. Louis ers. One of them rode the elephant at the durbar. But St. Louls girls will hump themselves when the camels parade the streets of Cairo. According to au authority in such things Miswourl maintains its lead in the industry of train hold-ups, scoring twenty-three last year. Thus is the memory of eminent Mis- sourfans cherished and perpetuated. Boston proposes to biild a public forum on th: Common, where all sorts of mouth organs may get into action. In view of the scarcity of coal Boston shows great wis- dom In utilizing i's superabundance of hot alr. In one branch of municipal Statesman- ship New York aldermen reach an altitude thelr brethren in “the provinces” cannot hope to attain. One of the members tied 1,000 matrimonial knots last year and never m a smack. A bunch of sheriffs in Maine recently held a joint convention and served notice on adjacent saloons to cough up or shut up. Subsequent sessions of the convention became a practical demonstration of the ir- rigation movement. The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, famous for its bom- bardment of commissary departments, fs about to test its skill on Lord Roberts and his staff, who are expected next September. ‘With admirable patriotism the Ancients leave American edldlers off their lists and reserve their indigestion for the forelgner. Major Church Howe, formerly from ‘“‘the state of Nemaha,” now American consul at Sheflield, England, recently attended a speakingfest of the Shefeld Chamber of Commerce. In what & Sheffield paper pro- remarkable speech, which every n and employer should carefully read,” Mr. Howe sald the English were the unwisest people on earth when they threw their trade doors wide open and “let others send in anything they wanted, from a rat- skin to an elepl t, without any duty on It. ‘What you want not protection for ybur- selves, but as a weapon wherewith to fight protection in other countries.” T ———— DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES, Judge—What Is your a madam? Witness—I'm at least five years younger {han the nelghbors think me.—Philadelphia Tess. Ethel—-My husband was awfully hard up when he married me. Maud—He must have been.—New York Times. “Pa, did you ever have any haleyon days?" “Oh, yes; lots of them,” Mr. Henpeck replied, looking cautiously around. “'I didn’t get married until 1 was nearly 30 years old."—Chicago Rec 1d. P “Bigsby has a very artificlal way of talk- ng." ‘And_yet he is an ex as. nent of natural —CJeveland Plain ealer. Mrs. \\uyhnrk-suvh a man as you don't deserve to h Mr. Waybi dered (ur deserve thi fe. y, M'rla. I've won- have ever done to Leslie's Weekly. “I understand she's an artist.” “An artist! Why, that Hoenn't begin to describe her. She's a genlus, You ought to see the way she can make over a last year's gown or hat.'—Chicago Post. Pearl—DId you hear about the awful fright George 89t on his wedding day? Maude—Yes; I was there; 1 saw her.— Brooklyn anlo “Do_you belleve in the equality of the do. But T wouldn't ltke my wife to-know 167 "~Cleveland Plain Dealer. I mended a hole in your trousers pocket last night after you had gone to bed, Joh del?r," Now, um I not a thoughtful llllle wife Hus nnd(dubloull"\‘\\ &ll-er-er-ye-es, you are thoughtful enough, . “But how the mischiet aid you dlscever that there ‘was a hole in my porkel?—Nc- York Bun. FOR ALL OF ME, J. F. Folsom in the Independent. his crown, lutograt his Bold The klnl can keel The Let them, by lhelr pale light, Dwell sober-minded, just~ That pleases me; | 1 grudge no vested right, No unearned pelf I lust, Enviously. 1 claim the widest range For peace, for thought, for breath For mine and me; I force no undue change, But live secure 'twixt death And liberty. The men of discontent, Who patch the world outside, Have naught in me; 1 fain would sew the rent vmthl :ha\ n might bide ern: The king can kewp his crown, The plutocrat his gold, “or all of me; For when mankind has grown Into the Master's mold— They'll cease to be. e —————————— Huteson Fits Eyes Huteson Grinds Lenses Huteson the Best Uptician CONSULT HIn, 213 South 16th St. Paxton Block. This Week's Values Special in Our Children's Department Notwithstanding the superior qualities of our clothing it’s not high priced as the following description will prove, 5 $1.7, regu $3 Discount Boys's Reefers— Per Cent Jylu 16 years— 0$3.75, $7.50. 5 Per Cent Discount rice, Child's Wool Kiit Sults—2, 24 and 3 years, $1.25, $1.75, 82.50 and $3.50 qualitiee. Vestee Suits—3 to 6 years are now just half price. And our 25 PER CENT DISCOUNT SALE on Boys' Blouse Sults, Boys' and Child's Bults and Boys' and Child's Overcoats continues with unabated success. Early purchasers will meet with just reward. ——No Clothing Fits Like Ours—— There are a few more of those Boys' $1.00 and 75c Shirts at 26c. futs at 26c. of the Winter Gloves and Also some All broken Mnes are placed on separate tables and are greatly reduced in price to close out quickly. Browning e 5@ R S. WILCOX, Manager. STORE CLOSES AT 9 P. M. SATURDAY, 3