Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 16, 1903, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 16 1903 THE ©MAHA DALY BEE bty S E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNIN! TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily Bee (without Sunday), One Year.$4.00 bally Bee and Sunday, One Year [ 3.4 idustrated Bee, One Year... : Lund Bee, O LIVERED BY CARRIER. Dafly Bee (without Sunday), per copy... Dadly Bee (without Sunday), per week. .1 ee (Including Bunday), per week.l ), por week 6o per | 100 Compl eguiarities ‘in delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De- artment. y OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Building. South Omaha—City Hall fiunaing, Twen- ty-fifth and M Streots. Councl Blufta—1y Pear] Street. Chicago—1640 Unity Bullding. New_York—228 Park Row Bullding. Washington—w1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. 2 Communieations relating to news and ed- ftorial_matter should be addressed: Omaha l.ee, Editorial Department STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, #s: George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee T'ublishing com s v, being duly sworn, h ‘actual_number of full and_ com- that the 3 full #ad oo yiote coples of The Dally, Jig_ A unday Bee e oo, ¥ EEURNENFENEEEE Total . 1.ess unsold and returned coples. Net total sales [t et aver: al . GEORGE B. TZSCHUC Subscribed In my presence and sworn to of this 31st day of December, A, D. Wi me g B. HUNGATE, L Notary Public. No wonder the coal man usually car- ries a side line of ice. Like the street car, the legislative LIl hopper bears the sign, “Always rvom for one more.” Seopr—— If the tariff alone is responsible for he trusts, the conl trust ought to col- lapse forthwith. But will it? — If it is left to a vote of the Filipinos, Governor Taft will stay in the Philip- plnes as long as the present form of governing the islands is malintained, em————— The raflroad attorneys are protesting again against the assessment of rallroad property for city taxation on the same lasis as other préperty. That I what taey are pald for. Chlef of Police Donahue draws the line at dealers in futures and options who call themselves “clairvoyants.” The next thing he will be after the preach- ers and bucket shop men. The legislatures of several states are Just now engaged in doing thieis utmost to convince doubting people that the election of United States senators by direct vote has become an imperative necessity. e— Apostle Reed Smoot has landed on the nomination for the United States senate from Utah with both feet. like his company, but they will not be able to help themselves. The action of the German Relchstag in adopting resolutions directed against the Standard Oil company Is perhaps Intended to be notice to Mr. Rockefeller to plant a little of his money In endow- menpts for German universities. The usual number of legislators who want to achieve notorlety by, intro- duelng freak bills are manifesting them- selves In varlous legislatures now in sesslon. Fortunately the freak bills seldom go beyond the introduction stage. It is good to have the governor of Ala- The other senators down at Washington may not THE CHARGE OF DERELICTION. We have heretofore referred to the charge of dereliction made against the law officers of the government, chiefly on the part of democrats, in regard to enforcing the anti-trust law. In the United States senate on Wednesday Senator T'llman, who Is a representa- tive democrat at least of his section, renewed the charge, asserting that proof, pleadings and petitions had been presented to the attorney general “warn- ing and begging him to protect the peo- ple against the impending danger, but he has sat quietly in his office and done nothing.” If this be true then indeed, Attorney General Knox deserves un- qualified condempation, but there is no evidence adduced to sustain the charge and fair-minded men will not accept the bare and unsupported statement of the South Carolina senator, whose habit of reckless assertion 1s well known. It is the view of some thoughtless per- sons that as soon as the coal situation bhecame menacing to the public interest, or they recelved from some source a re- port setting forth the existence of a conl combination, the law officers of the government should have proceeded to cause the arrest of coal operators, rafl- way managers and any other who might be implicated. For instance, a New York newspaper publisher sent to the attorney general a statement charging the existence of an lllegal combination or conspiracy among railroads engaged in transporting and selling anthracite coal and proffering evidence in support of the charge. It was referred to the United States district attorney in New York with instructions to recelve the evidence and report to the Department of Justice. This was the proper course, but because no suit has yet been brought the attorney general has been criticised for fallure to perform his duty, though those who do this know nothing of the evidence and have no reason to suppose that the United States district attorney in New York and the officials of the De- partment of Justice are not prosecuting a necessary Investigatlon. Hasty action in a matter of this kind would be most impolitic and unwise. It was discussed a short time ago in the United States senate and Senator Spooner said that “Where a lawyer Is bringing suit agalnst men with un- limited capital, who have built around themselves, through the assistance of most skillful and able lawyers, every possible safeguard, he desires to thor- oughly understand what he can do and to thoroughly explore the whole situa- tion before he puts the matter into court. He wants to be reasonably cer- tain, as a lawyer, that he can succeed, Senator Foraker of Ohlo, an able law- yer, sald In regard to testimony pre- gented that the attorney general would not only want to examine it as to the fact, but he would want, if he thought there was testimony to be had that would support the charges, to examine other questions. He would not only look at it as to the sufficiency of testi- mony and as to its avallability, but he would also have to consider jurisdic- tional questions. The charge of dereliction against the attorney general of the United States has nothing to support it and we be- lieve 18 wholly unwarranted. He is an able lawyer and a conscientlous public officlal and there is not a reasonable doubt that he is faithfully performing his duty. — WILL REPURT THE TREATY. The senate committee on foreign re- lations will report the Cuban reciprocity treaty, amended so as to guarantee that there shall not be a further reduction of the sugar duty, which is placed at 20 per cent, and providing for a 40 per cent reduction on American cattle ex- ported to Cuba instead of 20 per cent. There will perhaps be no objection on the part of the Cuban government to the first amendment, but it may not be dis- posed to concede so large a reduction on our cattle. It is the expectation of the Cubans to develop cattle ralsing as an' important industry of the island, which 18 practicable, so that it is quite not speedily come to terms he will nego- tiate a treaty with Nicaragua and Costa Rica, which could be done, it is under- stood, without delay. It Is probable, therefore, that the question whether tiie United States shall build the Panama or the Nicaragua canal will be determined within the next three or four weeks. It would be a disappointment to a ma- Jority of our people Interested in an isth- mian canal if the Panama route should have to be abandoned, but our govern- ment cannot submit to any exactions or to conditions that would unduly limit its authority over the canal and the neces- sary contiguous territory. It has been sald that the attitude of Colombia is due to German influence, but the German Foreign office has taken the trouble to deny this state- ment, as obviously absurd as some others regarding German designs in this hemisphere. THE THREK ESSENTIALS. As the basic principle for the proposed compulsory municipal ownership bill, its godfather assures us three things are essentlal: 1. The enforcement of the right to purchase the plant. 2. Keeping the enterprise out of politics. 8. That none but honest and com- petent men be appointed as appraisers. This 18 about as practical as William J. Bryan's proposition that the standard dollar should have the same purchasing power at all times and under all cir- cumstances. It is an old adage that you can bring a horse to water, but you can't always make him drink. We have the right to acquire the water plant, but it is another matter to com- pel a community to exercise that right whether the conditions are favorable or unfavorable to it. To keep the water works out of politics by conferring upon the governor the power to appoint the appraisement commission i& to presume that governors have no political affillations or political asplirations. Looking backward at governor-appointed nonpartisan police commissions, governor-appointed non- partisan normal school boards and boards of charities, we discover names of very prominent politiclans, and we find ourselves face to face with some of the most rotten deals in politics that have ever disgraced Nebraska. But the most childlike and bland propo- sition s the assumption that we can create strictly honest and competent men by law. On that point we feel sure the Real Estate exchange com- mittee to whom the compulsory pur- chase bill has been referred will have no difficulty in reaching positive con- clusions. sausages | was patented years ago, but the device to grind out honest men by passing them\through the legislative hopper is yet to be discovered. If any man can improvise that kind of a mill his fortune is made. Emr——— PUBLISH THE INVENTORY. At least once each year every well managed business house takes an inven- tory of its tangible property to enable it to make a correct balance sheet. The same business methods should be ap- plied to public corporations. The tax- payers of Omaha, South Omaha and Douglas county, who severally and Jointly constitute the business firm for whom the Board of County Commis- sloners, the respective mayors and city councils and school boards are the man- agers, have a right to demand that an inventory be taken at the beginning of each year of the tangible assets of the county, city and school district. These exhibits of tangible property should be given the widest publicity through the press, so that the people may know periodically what materlals and properties are held in trust by their public servants. For exgmple: The people of Douglas county have a right to know how many grading machines, teams and tools the county owns, They ought to know how much furniture owned by the county is in the court house and how much at the county The mill to convert dogs into tion of the United States and the con- stitution of New Hampshire In every public school once a year. This Is just about as rational as would be the enact- ment of a law requiring children of all the Declaration of Independence by heart. It Is doubtful whether 50 per cent of the members of American state legislatures, Including those of New Hampshire and Nebraska, have ever read the whole constitution of the United States or that of their own state. S——— The Postoffice department has an- nounced its determination to establish no more rural free delivery routes over roads that require the payment of turn- plke tolls. Rural free delivery has ex- erted an important influence for the good roads movement and If it serves to hasten the abolition of the turnpike toll roads still remalning in different parts of the country it will be entitled to another credit mark. When it comes to giving up rural free delivery or giving up private toll roads, we may be sure that free delivery will have the prefer- ence If the people themselves are al- lowed to decide. In order to placate competing candi- dates for the United States attorney- ship, Nebraska is to be divided Into two federal judicial districts, although there is scarcely business enough to keep one court grinding. A few years hence when another set of competitors enter the race for the district attorney- ship congress will doubtless be asked to divide the state into four districts. No wonder hogs grow spontaneously on every bush In Nebraska. S——— Ex-Speaker Sears seems to be imbued with the strange idea that the state should try to clear up its debts before plunging headlong into additional ex- pense for new state institutions and new buildings. Mr. Sears must be labor- ing under the delusion that the state's business should be run on the same business principles as a private business establishment. A deadly blow is belng struck at the long-haired, battle-searred swashbuckler by a bill introduced in the lower house of the legislature proposing to impose a fine and imprisonment for carrying concealed weapons on second convie- tion. Gatling guns and navy revolvers as side arms are of course to be priv- fleged. Size of the Daily Squeese. ‘Washington Post. It is estimated that the coal-consuming public is now being done to the extent of $3,000,000 per day. Who Is getting the money? Another Foghorn Retired. Springfield. Republican, General A. J. Watner of Ohio is another of the leaders in the: free silver movement who finds In the greatly increased produc- tion of gold and the rising tendency in prices a present satistaction of the essen- tial demands of that movement. Silver re monetization, he says, is no longer an issue. —_— Beyond Rench of O New York Sun. The Hon. George Fred Willlams of Ded- ham, Mass., has founded a party which he calls “The People’s Rules.”” The rules are these: Initiative and referendum, public ownership of municipal utilities, restriction of “government by Ipjunction.” No matter how many new parties may be formed, Mr. Willlams will continue to be the same old party. Tribute to Governor Taft. Philadelphia Ledger. The demonstration, made by the Filipinos in protest against the proposed retirement of Governor Taft is a flattering tribute to him as a man and to the United States as a colonial power. Our new colonial service has gone far to justify Itself when natives 0 recently In insurrection rise up not to rebel against our rule, but to oppose the plan for the withdrawal of our governor. The incident s one that should reassure our anti-imperialists and reconcile them to the continued occupation of the Philippine tslands. proving the Schools. New York Tribune. ‘The common school system has been the boast of Americans, but enlightened teach- ers are waking up to the fact that our the kindergartens to be able to recite ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. es on the Current of Life in the Metropolis, The tax roll for 1003, just completed by the assessors, gives New York taxpayers the severest jolt experienced in a genera- tion. Values have been boosted nearly 50 per cent. In round numbers, the incre in the real estate assessment is $1.426 006, while the personalty se assessment s $936,000,000 higher than that of last year. Under the plan of assessment at full value taxpayers are assured that taxes will reduced in proportion to the increased as- sessment, but, it newspaper comment re- flects the sentiment of the town, very few taxpayers bank on the professions of the officials. The Sun In a double-leaded roar pronounces the assessment an attack on real property but little removed from con- fiscation. The personal assessment rolls contain some Interesting figures of the reputed | value of the personal property of well known men. For Instance, Andrew Carne- gle's assessment of $5,000,000 is the highest | on the rolls, and is just twice that of John | D. Rockefeller. John Jacob Astor and Russell Sage come next with $2,000,000 f each, Howard Gould is let off with $750,000, | while the assessment of J. P. Morgan is placed at $600,000. Charles M. Schwab is on the rolls for $500,000, Reginald Vander- bilt for $350,000, August Belmont for a like amount and Cornelius Vanderbilt for $250,000. Among the local politicians W. S Devery is down for $50,000 and John F. Carroll for $100,000. Mayor Low ls the wealthiest of the city officials, his aseess- | ment being _$57,000. Richard Canfield's | personal property {8 valued at $100,000. | Among those not taxed by reaeon of having sworn off thelr taxes on the ground of | being nonresidents are Richqrd Croker of Wantage, Hermann Oelrichs, Willlam Wal- dort Astor, George J. Gould and Elbridge | T. Gerry. The real estate asscesments are also es- peclally. interesting this year, as they show presumably the full value of familiar prop- erties. Conspicuous Increases in this assessments are such es the Hotel which is raised from $1,000,000 to the Manhattan hotel, from § $2,200,000; the New Netherlands, $1,000,000 to $2,200,000; the Herald building, $1,000,000 to $1,800,000, and the Hanover bank, §1,200,- 000 to $2,750,000. The new Macy store s put down as worth $6,000,000. The Carnegle mansion and grounds are assessed at $2,000,000. The Astor house goes up from $2,000,000 to $3.- ( 000,000. The new Fuller building le valued | at $2,500,000, and the new Stock exchange at $4,600,000. The Metropolitan club goes up from $950,000 to $1,500,000 and the Metropolitan Opera house from $1,455,000 to $2,165,000. Delmonico’s is doubled and Sherry's increased 60 per cent. The lessee of a New York hotel who thought he had earned enough to retire from business and enjoy his fortune in leisure recently had an offer for his rights in the business that he has built up. After a consultation with his attorneys he settled | on $8,000,000 as a reasonable sum. There was no formal consent to sell for that amount, but that was the figure that seemed Just aftef a hurried view of the situation. There came from the intending purchasers an intimation that they were willing to do business immediately on that basis. Luck- ily nothing Jefinite was done until the lawyers eet out to make a more thorough investigation as to the value of the prop- erty based on the income it yielded an- nually. On that basis the hotel was vastly moré valuable than it had at first been considered. The proprietor’s personal profit for the last eight years had averaged $1,- 000,000, In view of these profits, the price placed on the hotel was increased to a figure which it was quite impossible for the syndicate to pay. In view of the large amount he found himself to be earning annually, the proprietor was quite satisfied to remain in harness a few years longgr. A retall merchant of New York has had his lesson. He believed that he had a right to abuse bis employes as the fit took him. He told & young woman to hacd him & box of hosiery. She gave him the wrong box. He threw it at her and struck her | on the side. Then he took a hammer and threatened to kill her with it. He struck her with his fist and shoved her-against the wall. She sued for $2,000 damages. The Jury gave it to her with less than ten min- utes' consultation. It is said they would have given her a much larger sum If she had asked for it. The honored name of President McKinley has been bestowed upon an institution which is to wage war on {ndigastion. The recently chartered McKinley Memorial hos- pital is for the treatment and cure of di easos of the digestive organs. Sald one of the originators: “There is certainly a field white for the harvest. Diseases of the digestive organs are an American failing, and a systematic effort must be made to check the inroads of gastric troubles. It RING O 1904, Demoeratic € culations Put Through A Mangling Machine, Philadelphia Press. It 18 & far cry to the presidential elec- tion of 1904, but some democrats are figur- ing on the outlook and constructing tables of electoral votes showing how a demo- ).~ | cratic president might be elected. The fol- lowing is one of these tables with the ad- dition of the republican pluralities given in 1900 and 1902 in the states outside the south that must be earried to emable the democrats to obtain a majority in the elec- toral college: Rep. Pluralities. Hlectoral |£\. 1902 Vol States. te. New York. 143,608 29 New Jerse: 66,899 12 Cornecticut 28,510 7 Indiana . e 1 Rhode Island....)] 13972 4 Nevada 2458 3 Maryland | 13941 8 Delaware ' P 1 3 West Virginia.. .| 21,02 Y Total electoral vote. % Add solid south.. 161 £ Necessary to a chofce.... =0 Majority 1 901 plurality. It needs only a glance to show what a strained calculation this is. Only two of the states mentioned outside the south *Democratic. went democratic in 1902 and they were Rhode Island and Nevada, with a total elec- toral vote of only seven. The latter alone went democratic in 1900. The attempt to argue that because most of these states gave smaller republican pluralities in 1902 than they did in 1900 they are drifting to- ward the democratic party is to forget all previous premises. The same states gave smaller republican pluralities in 1898 than they did in 1896, but they all swung into line again in 1900, In the table of states there is probably only one that is likely to go democratic in 1904, and that is Nevada, with three elec- toral votes. But, taking the table as it stands, the flimey basis on which it 1s bullt is readily discernible. At the mo it gives only ten democratic majority in the electoral college. The loss of Connecticut and Delaware, or of West Virginia and Ne- vada, Would make a tle and throw the election into the house of representatives. Elther New. Jersey's or Indiana’s vote would defeat the democratic candidate. In fact the construction of such a table re- veals the weakness of the democratic out- look. An attempt to figure out a possible chance for the electlon of a democratic president in 1904 is like a child's house of cards. It falls to pleces at a touch. SIGNIFICANT POINTERS. Vast Improvements Projected by the Railroads. Chicago Tribune. The plans of some of the leading railroads of the country are fairly eloquent in their significance as bearing upon the industrial outlook for the present year and the con- tinuance of the prosperity of the year just closed. During 1903 the New York Central management of the Boston & Albany rail- road will spend $4,000,000 for grade cros: ings and general Improvements. The New York Central also will expend about $26, 000,000 upon the reconstruction of its termi- nal in New York City, and, included in this, will be the cost of installing electric instead of steam service within the city limits and suburbs. The Union and Southern Pacific companies will spend $40,000,000 in reducing grades, shortening lines and adding to their transportation facilities. The Pennsylvania company is to begin next month upon con- struction contracts amounting to $50,000,000, including the terminal in New York, the enlargement of bufldings and yards in Pitt: burg and the erection of the new union sta- tion in Washington. The appropriation of this large sum of about $120,000,000 by four railroad compa- nies alone, to which millions more must be added to completely represent the plans of all the railroad companies for the increase of their capacity to move the already con- gested accumulations of fuel, grain, lumber, iron and steel, and make ready to handle the product of this year, shows that not only they have confidence in the continuance of the prosperity which made last year such & noteworthy industrial ome, but that the logle of the situation warrants them in these heavy outlays. Expenditures upon o large a scale mean an Increased consumption of material, an increased demand for labor, and, naturally, a largely increased distribution of wages. The last item means a higher standard of living. It also means an increase of eral business, for a large share of wages goes to the retallers, and what helps the the wholesaler, and what retafler helps helps the whole raflroad. In promises are bright for another prosperous year. FERSONAL NOTES, 1t 1s the good fortune of the new German ambassador to have an American wife. An American wife 1s a mascot for any Euro- pean statésman. CHECKING DRIFT TO CITIES, Elee oty Working a Tr in Country Life. Portland Oregonian, Country lite 1s becoming more sttracts fve, and it is probable that the census of 1910 will show a material check in the drift of population to the eities. The west, always most progressive, exhibits more of the modern movement to eliminate the tsolation and uncouthness of country life than does the stald east, but even there It 1s notable. And in the new states, having vast areas yet unsettled, the modern agen- cles of communication and comfort closely follow the frontlersman, who complaina that the world s growing too small Oregon, it is belleved, introduced the barbed-wire telephone to civilization, but the device 1s mow widely used, both east and west, and the service la belng rapidly extended. The substitution of wire for wood fences is a great promoter of this modern convenience. But it is to bs ob- served that the farm fence is made to do telephone duty only whero the expense of regular telephone lines would be burden- some. In many sections the density of population and prosperity of the people require regularly equipped telephone sys- tems for the service of the farmers, and the farms have their ewn little systems con- necting stock barn, granary, spring house and back lot with dwelling. Instead of trudging miles In the dust and heat of summer, and mud or snow and cold of winter, to the country postoffice for the weekly mail, the farmer may now find his paper and letters at his gate daily Through telephone and mall deltvery the farmers may keep as closely in touch with the world as the city dweller. The young folks also get companionship in this way, and the duties of the farm are relleved of irkeomeness. But the east wind's moan is mot emptier than a lover's kiss by telephone, and the spreading lines of trolleys add a material factor to the growing popularity of country life. They make it easy to get about, for the people to come in busi- ness and soclal contact, and for the va- riety of intercourse that adds charm to life. The young folks find here reliet from the hard conditions that have so eften made the farm life a prison from which almost any escape was welcome. The trolley car giyes quick and cheap trans- portation for people and produce, and it sformation is reaching far across country and carry- ing 1ight and prosperity to the homes that have been burled in the deep, dense coun- try. Electricity fs working most of the trans- formation in country life. The telephons and trolley car carry city conveniendes to distant farm homes, and in some cases the reeldences and barns are lighted by the electric glow. The dally postman, however, 1s the ploneer in modernizing most localities, and the taste of progress which he gives sets on foot agencies that cure the country of the disabilitles 1t has long labored under, without reducing its na- tive charm ‘and usefulness. The process will in time reliave the congestion of cities and make the country populous and fruit- ful. It will give our civilization a better balance and contribute immeasurably to the vigor and stability of the race. FLASHES OF FUN. Dalton—How that English thl;’ld laugh at_your joke! ‘aller—Yes; he must have heard it be- fore.—Boston Transcript. Rich—1 sep you have a silver watch now. B2t Danr, "ant 2o Tnow” Chroumy e ¥, "and_you ¥now’ oiroume City Friend—In this house occurred New York's most famous murder mystery. Country Cousin—Indeed? Which do you mean? City Friend—The one the police solved.— Judge. “What kind of a time did you have at the party?"’ asked the old friend. “First rate,” answered Mr. Cumrox. You sce, It Was a masquerade party, and mother and the girls couldn’'t identity me and criticise my grammar and deport- ment.”"—~Washington Star. “How dld you like that play of rural lte?" a fraud,” answered Mr. Trulirural. ‘ain't true fo nature. 1 understand ali them farm folks on the stage stays up till 11 or 12 o'clock every night o' thelr lives.’—Baltimore Herald. "Buccess,” 1 naserted, sagely, “is due to our accurate judgment of human nature.” i retorted the man who always carries things to extremes, “to its inaccu- rate judgment of us.’—Brooklyn Life. Mrs, Gayman—My husband resolved to gtop drinking on New Year's, but he didn't eep his pledge long. Pe. Newbride—My husband made the same resolution and he isn't having any trouble at all. He just eats cloves every time he_feels like taking & drink.—Phila- delphla Press. ‘Wite—Don't you think you might manage to keep house alone for & week while L off on a visit? usband—I guess 80; yes, of course. ‘Wife—But won't you be lonely and miser- e Husband—Not & bit. progress has not kept pace with our pride. Tibendoniot® Mot go.—New York Lama denounce lynching in such vigor | probable they will view 80 large & re-|poor farm, the character and quantity | We have been developing fads, but welhave | e ‘Gieected. in these chemaerer O"' | Captain Francis Marion Schell, the fa- | Weekiy. ous terms In his message to fhe legls- | duction of the duty on cattle as likely |of supplies the county carries in its | not been developing in proper measure ex- mous scout and plainsman, has just died. 2 lature, but it would be much better if | to be unfavorable to the bullding up of | storehouse and other institutions under | <C1IeRC0 of teaching of the fow tham| yxommAsE 1N JUDGES SALARY. | Fi* ook tho frek wason Stuim o Callforaia | iyl "% g 1378 vice: that “has " RG . d tatlon for y the southern states would do more to re- | thelr own Industry. direct control of the county. and girls eficlent and useful men and Signor Marconl, the inventor of wireless | " Nome whatover,” answered Senator press the lynching habit by practice| However, this one amendment to the Difference The taxpayers of Omaha otght to know what machinery, engineering in- struments, furnifure and tools, ete,, the city owns In the various departments, as well as the number of horses, fire en- gines, fire hose and other fire apparatus in the custody of the fire department, and what other chattel property the city may have on hand in each of the de- partments. A like exhibit should be made by the respective school boards. The people have a right to know how many school n the Measures Pending in Congress. Philadelphla Press, women In the spheres of life in which they will be placed. This is ome of the most important questions which can face the state, and the governor will do a great | service if he can indicate how the central authority can within reasonable lmits ot expense make our common schools more efficient instruments for the development of character and the training of children for practical life. 1 am unable to find any excuse visking his money when_there are so many sure thinge lying around beg- ging for attentlon.”—Washington Star. telegraplry, is sald to bave discovered method by which oxygen may be extracted from air at very slight expense. An increase In the salarics of United | There are three living ex-secretaries of States judges ought fo be made by con- | WAT In the United States senate—Mr. Proc. gress, and there appears to be a strong | 'OF Of Vermont, Mr. Elkins of West Vir- probability of such action.. The sepate | §ibia and Mr. Alger of Michigan. passed a bill making the salary of the| Mrs. Betsey M. Stevens, the surviving chief justice of the United States §13,000 | #ister of the late Genel Benjamin F. and that of each assoclate justice $12,500. | Butler, has just celebrated her 95th birth- The house judiciary committee agrees to | day at tbe old homestead at Nottingham, | that part of the bill, but cut down the |N. H. salaries of circuit and distrfet judges from | Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island ran short $7,600 and $6,260 agreed to by the senate |of coal the other day and was compelled to $7,000 and $6,000, which would be an|to replenish his bins from the village of rather than preaching. i Em——— b Judging by the number and va- rlety of bills introduced at the very out- ret of the session, the people of Ne- Lraska must be convinced that they liave been governed very poorly Indeed and that everything is out of kilter and needs mending very badly. treaty will hardly prove an obstacle to its ratification by Cuba, since there is chance for a compromise. The prospect, therefore, is to be regarded as favorable for the early establishment of closer commercial relations between the United States and the young repnblic, with results which it is confidently ex- pected will be mutually advantageous. There is talk of an effort on the part of some of the democrats of the senate to defeat ratification, by a resort to “WAIT TILL YOU'RE DEAD.” W. D. Nesbit in Chicago Tribune. You grieve because men do not seem To understand your worth? Because the good you try to do Remains unknown on earth? Because no laurel fits your brow, Or bay entwines your head? “Twill all be yours one of these days— Walt till you're dead. Expa on of American Capl Philadelphia Record, American capital is not yet adequate for the country’s industrial opportunities and needs, and & good deal of foreign capital Real Estate exchange men say they { are encouraged at the prospects of rev- It saddens you because your faults [ ] O L 1 ease 008 c] e en ol vi d to the skies, i vaue legislation In accordance with their | iiibustering, but it is doubtful if a sufi- | books are ow in use In the VAFOUS | will long be inveated here, But in the last | sancien. — 1t ihe aificrene berwern o | Toe ool o b e o o gy e White il your Virties scern to be recommendations. But they must Dot |cient number of them can be induced | public schools and how many in the |few years we have taken up o good part of | two houses does not defeat any legislation | added for cartage. 4 e R » bkl lot thelr encouragement make them |to take this course to prevent ratifica- | Fiigh school library, what apparatus in | our obligations to Europe, and the amount |t will be fortunate. An increase 15 badly | There 1s no more enthustantic hunter in | L WhY not Tefoice: instes A k ueglectful. The only way to secure the ! tion, of American capital now seeking inv needed, and #f it is only $1,000 that would Because of all the coming fame? the laboratory and what materials of every deseription subject to the control of the school board Is on hand, and what quantity in the school board storehouse. The taking of these Inventories would impose considerable labor on the cler- teal force and custodians, but by rights that should be part of their duty. elther branch of comgress than Senator | Burton of Kansas. He has trophies to The amount fixed by the senate for the | prove his skill in the cha While in cireult and district judges was mot too | Hawall last summer he enjoyed some royal much, but the cut made by the house com- | gport after the wild boars there. mittee is not very large. 4 Billfard experts in congress yleld the palm ':'"" ‘;’_’:fi;’éfl" chancellor of England re- | ¢5 gepator Mallory of Florida, whose work celves $5i @ year and the three lords| .y the cue is of the highest order. Only of appeal and the master of the rolls $30,000 | congregsman Cochran of Missourl and Con- e.;.h_ '1;::; ::‘rd“;’hl:‘p(.i‘mwe”r-wfl‘nl-s 8| gressman Lanbam of Texas are supposed to salary of $40,000, ous other Judges, | o yp pig ¢lass, and both concede the Florida men: abroad s an important item in the Wait tlll you're dead. world’s finance. Consular reports have di- rected attention to the investment of $500,- 000,000 or more Upited States capital in Mexico, a large majority of whose railroad are controlled in this country, and to the imposing list of American investments in Canada, American capital is ‘developing Cuba and our insular acquisitions, seeking gas works in Japan and Paris and contest- legislation imperatively demanded is to Leep everlastingly after it be much better than the existing rates Folks do not understand your plans, Appreciate your deeds? They do not laud you when you meet Some weaker brother's needs? They do mot say kind things of you? No rose leaves for your bed? They'll praise you, all in goodly time— Wait till you're dead. GRUWING IMPATIENT. The statement that the president is growing impatient at the delay in the canal negotiations with Colombia is not surprising. The vacillating course of that country in the matter has been well calculated to produce such a feeling or mmT—m—— The management of the St. Louls ex- position 1s losing no chance to make hay while the sun shines at the national live stock conventlon. The territory comprised In the states carved out of the Louislana purchase constitutes the Walt till you're dead. They'll tell it then; They'll chisel it in’ stone, And put it in a chosen place, even one of Irritation. At the outset —_— ing with itself for the control of London | including the fourteen on the queen's . Secluded and alone. greatest live stock country of the world, | the Colombian government manitested | rme omnibus public bullding bills at | "> TP beach, recelue §25,000. Such salarics are | ™42 SUPCHOF "‘"I‘ = s k| PETNGT Sed S a a 4 omnibus public s a e —— B - b o appointed secons and it the live stock exhibit at St. Louls o y ¢ not - expeoted 'In this -country, but th gy the most earnest desire to have the United States take the Panama canal Introduction of Fake Castl Washington have suggested omnlibus public building bills at Lincoln. Omni- in the army on his first public appearance A ‘Wait till you're dead. at one of the president’s receptions had United States can well afford to pay rea dees not outdo all others there will be sonably well. A judge in New Jersey re- t any rate they'll llflrl-ll'h the truth, } great disappointment. Springfield Republican. and complete its construction. It pro-|phug building bills are perniclous, de-| Some of our millionaires, in building | ce tly resigned because he could mot live | %°™€ d"flrfm! with his sword and tripped - fessed a willingness to make any falr their houses, are bothered, no doubt, to find | satisfactorily on a $9,000 salary, which is | V°F it several times while he was in the * any fal®{moralizing and dangerous. They foster ! 1 | line. 1t got between his nd dangled Delaware democrats offer to fuse with a bl cesslo] hich ! v architectural styles which suit them. One | $4000 more than is pald to the district | ' k f and reasonable concéasion which this ) extravagance and jobbery and become | (hing, however. they ought never to do, | judges of the URited States. The judges | 00Ut In & most perplexing way. “Young he anti-Addicks republicansgn an agree- | government might require. But as soon man," sald Major General Corbin in & most | kindly manner, “that thing you are wear- | ing 18 & sword, not a hurdle.” During the speech of Senator Nelson of Minnesota against the admission ‘of Okl toma, New Mexico and Arizona as state and that is to build an imitation in whole | of the or in part of some European castle dating back to the middle ages. Nothing could be more absurd in an architectural sense, than the importation of the castle style into Amerfés; for the castle was the spe- supreme court in New York City receive $17,500 each and the judges of sub- ordinate courts in that city receive twice | as much as is paid to eircult judges of the | United States No sensible person favors what might be a source of legislative corruption in- directly by making members tie up to support measures and appropriations in conflict with their consclentions con- victions simply because there Is some mént to elect a republican to represent Delaware in the United States senate for the long term in return for the elec- tion of a democrat for the short term. Another epistle from Colonel Bryan will as congress had expressed a preference for the Panama route, by the passage of the bill giving authority to the pres- ident to negotiate for it, the Colomblan ~ b\ Your Eyes May 3 government experienced a change of rk in tha | clal outgrowth of feudal conditions of war- | called large salaries for United States |the senator sald that 50 per cent of the 1 be in order, showing this to be & plot | feeling and the efforts to conelude nego- w' et bavesl'for thele copatite fare and it has no reason for existence to- | judges, but the amount agreed upon in the | population of New Mexico is Spanish and N..‘ "'.nflon . of the money power to capture the Del; i vhich o el day except as it may survive to tell its|senate bill is not large, but only sufficien | Mexican. Delegate Rodey of New Mexico, . b ptare a- | tiations upou terms which the United own history in the lands that developed it. | to enable these' judges to live In a re- | who was listening to the speech, scribbled Need it badly. Why d ware democracy for the reorganizers, | States can accept have been frultless. Winston Churehill, the . brilliant | Byt more than that. The introduction of | spectable manner and leave something for | @ note and sent it to Nelson. It said: wive it to them? You put it off The fusion of Bryan democrats and| President Roosevelt is anxious to have | novelist, who happens to be a member | fake castles into America, to emphasize the | their families when they die. The house | “Dear Senator—I recently had occasion to ...." :1 -n: r-:’l» you knew populists in the west Is all right, but |the isthmian canal matter disposed of [of the New Humpshire legislature, | soclal importance of their millionaire build- | of representatives ought to pass the genate | inquire into the matter, and, much to my e risk ¥ any fusion of demoerats abd republicans | before the close of the recent congress 'Anu a law enm:l«ll b his: state- that | *18. 18 escrutiatingly velgar, sbnormally | MU, Wit a1 asveemest eren on the house | surprise. 1 fué thas §1 per oont o e} . C HUTESON & CO., population of Minnesota is Norweglan. How obbish and disgustiugly aliep Lo the air on ecarth did that state get 1a1” in the east is all wrong and it is stated that if does | will compel the reading of the coustitu- | we breathe. N i " bill will be @ great lmprovement over the existing situation. . 213 8. 16th Btreet, Paxton Bleck.