Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 20, 1903, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE B ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY TERME OF SURSCIUPTION, Datly Bew (without Bunday ), One Year.4.00 | Lally Bee and 8 (3 i lustrated Bee, O [ Lupday Bee, O ! turday Do, One & entheth Century Farmer, Onie Year.. 1ov | DELIVERED BY CARRIER ! Dally Bee (without Hunday), per copy... ¢ | 1'ally Bee (without Runday, per week i ally Bee (Including Sunday), per week Landay Bee, per copy i.vening Heo (withou: Sund ivening Bee (ncluding Sunday), ook . Complaints of *liould be add Jartment MORNING. iny), per week 6 per irroguiarities in deliver: d 1o City Cireulation De- OFFICES Butlding ity Hall Bunlding, Twen- ty-Afth and M Streets Counetl Bluffa—1v Pearl Street. Ghicago_isk Unity Bulldin k228 Park Row ton—1_ Fourte ORRESPONDE .2 unications relating to news and ed- | 1oL st ahould bo Addressed: Omana ditorial Lepartment it OF CIRCULATION, Ctate of Nebraska, Do Codnty, #s Gacrge B, Tanchuck, stcretary of The Dee 1 ublishing e ny, being duly sworn, tay 'al, the actual, nuimber, of full wnd com ies of The Dai ornin e L and Bundny Beo printed during the 1 onth of December, 1 1 STATEMENT EEBENERRUREESE 1.ees unsold and returned coples 1'et total sales . 1ot average salos GEO Subseribed in my 10,181 o 043,464 ROE B TZECHUCK. resence and sworn to 1 ot this Sist of December, A, D. el O B NUNGATE, iean Notary Publi e —— The new broom has not yet put in its sppearance in the court house, Don't jubllate too soon. According to the ealendar winter Is only half over. It seems that putting conl on the free I'st does not put free coal in the coal Lia. EEE—— Thé settlement of the Unlon Pacific strike still appears to be In the dim and distant future. SE—— If what were formerly known as the lad lands of Nebraska should turn out 10 be ol lands it would not be so bad wfter all. To make a good serlal story the an- thracite conl strike investigation should put & little more action luto each suc- ceading chapter. Sm————— ‘That Ciisngo grand jury is deter mined to yire the lawyers a chanee to share sowss uf the exorhitant profits of the conl deniers. e —— From th laxpayers’ point of view the situatiun would be fmproved by more Board of Review and less Bodrd of Equalization. e—————— Goverror Mickey has been In office ten days and not a single convict par- Comed out of the penitentiary. There bas certaluly been a new leaf turned over in the executive office. EEE———— New York presents the anomaly of a senatorial election with only one ecaudi- date in the feld, while little states like Delaware and Colorado have so many candidates they cannot get together ai P . — 1f all the suburban electric rallways projected for Omaha on paper should materialize, no city In the country would afferd equal facilities for Ingress and wgress to the people of the surrounding coumtry. SEp——— 1t Is Just possible that the people who rapected the present Nebraska legisla- tare to pass up the old question of revense law revision the same as the preceding legislative bodies will be sadly Cisappointed WE——— Lieutenant Governor Tillman will wish be had confined himself to fight- fng Ms battles with hot air and paper wads, with occasional fisticuff in the fashion of bis llustrious mamesske In the Unfted States senate. —— Colopel Willlam Jennings Bryan has returned bome from his excursion to Meskeo and is ready to receive con- emtulations on his fortunate escape o appearing as one of the speakers 4t the late Jacksonian hanquet. Sr———— One out of the three Omaba members | of the state senate is being groomed for wayer this spring. The second is also sl o have the magoralty bee in his bonaet. and we feel sure the third would S0t ebject to becoming & dark borse. — B sew takes & combination of eight Sembers o ma the hool board, whersas I the membership were re- dwced fron, Afteen t sine It would take waly Bve 1o i3 up the annual slate. And e sinte would be fxed up Just the B — ™ beep wp the good work, the tax wmmittee of the Real Estate exchange | will Rave o e to I that the eity tax et a0 higher then absclutely neces ey W produce the revesue required e evwaunii b WA sehool Hairiol a@eive wik b anpew ble, wnless the wwling s alons showlt L Porfoct wirelvss wh -l o e s e Beep track A owt pasecuge vewswl 0B the ocean R A iy than we aew keep A 8 e pacsmugrc W ks v laad e ay A PRUTHACTED INVESTIGATION. General Wilson of the anthracite strike commission has been reported as saying that the greater part of the voluminous testimony which has been taken is quite Irrevelant to the real Issues, but however this may be there Is no doubt that the very general opinion Is that the investi- gation hias been unnecessarily protracted and should be Lrought to an early con- cluslon. There is no longer any con- siderable public Interest in the proceed- Ings of the commlisslon. At yesterday's sesslon there were very few present as ators and even of the lawyers on either side only a small minority were in attendance, There is no reasonable fault to be found with the commissfon. It was ap- pointed for the purpose of making a thorough Investigation, of going to the very bottom of the controversy between the operators and the miners. It has been faithfully rylng out this purpose and in doing so it was Inevitable that more or less irrelevant testimony would he Introduced. The comihission could not very well Impose the restrictions of a judicial tribunal in the matter of evi- dence, being merely a board of arbitra- tion without legal status. But it can determine when the purpose for which it was constituted has been accomplished and fix the time when investigation shall end, and it would seem that that time has about been reached. All sides have been given a fair, impartial and ade- quate opportunity to present their state- ments and certainly the commission can need no more testimony in order to form an opinion upon the merits of the con- troversy between the anthracite op- erators and miners and reach a conclu- slon as to a final adjustment. Public Interest is now wholly in what the commission may decide and what suggestions it shall make looking to the establishment of better 'relations be- tween the operators and miners and the prevention, iIf that be possible, of a re- currence of so calamitous a conflict as that in the anthracite region. The pub- lic is now familiar with every phase of the controversy and probably there are few who have carefully followed the testimony who have not formed a defi- nite opinfon In regard to the controversy. It must be frankly admitted that both parties to the contest have committed grave mistakes, but it is not to be doubted that the welght of popular judg- ment is on the side of the miners and that their contention for better wages and for better treatment in all respects Is very generally approved. There is unquestioning confidence in the wisdom, the fairness and the sense of justice of the commission and it should give its conclusions to the public without un- necessary delay. E— ABRAM S. HEWITT. The late Abram 8. Hewitt was dis- tinguished in several ways. While best known to the country through political serviee, having been for ten years a rep- resentative in congress, during which time he was prominent in the councils of the democratic party, his most valu- able work was In promoting Industrial development. For many years Mr, Hew- itt was one of the leading manufactur- ers of the country, noted for his energy and euterprise, as well as # high order of business judgment and sagacity. He occupled, also, a conspicuous rank among philanthropists and what he did for the benefit of humanity gives him a Just claim to historical remembrance. Mr. Hewitt's career in politics, while highly meritorious and honorable, for he was far removed from the ordinary politician, did not equal in distinetion or success that which was characteristic of bim in business life or as a thinker. It has been sald of him that his temper- ament was not of the kind that makes the highest successes In politics possi- ble. He could not be all things to all men. Vet he exerted a great deal of influence during his public career. The life of Abram 8. Hewitt, prolonged far beyond the psalmist's allotted time, was ® life of large and useful achievement faithfully devoted to every duty and upon the record of which there is no blemish. EE—— CULTIVATING AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP In appointing a new ambassador to the United States who is entirely fa- millar with American sentiment and spirit, the German emperor has given | renewed and very strong assurance of bis desire to cultivate American friend- ship. It would have been hardly pos- sible for him to have given stronger evidence of this than Is contained In the selection of Baron Speck von Stern- berg. who has bad diplomatic service iu this country, whose wife is a native of the United States and who has al- ways shown a great lnterest in Ameri- can affairs and institutions. The new ambassador will come to this country with the avowed purpose of ex- teading German friendship with the | United States, something which the re- | called diplomatic representative of Ger- many was not altogether successful in dolng. He sald In an Interview a few dayc ago that “the circumstances of ench country place it beyond the jeal- |ousy and fear of the other.” a fact which | ought to be recognized by those Amer- | leans who are distrustful and suspiclous }nf Germany and profess to belleve that | country bhas designs In this bemisphere | Inbmical to the interests of the United | States. In the same futerview the new smbassador sald: “A portion of the | American press hac ativibuted to Ger. | many unworthy and covert alis in the Veuesuclan dispute. 1 am bappy to say, viministration of ety | I bebalf of my government, that we | disease | ueither bave mor ever have had any for thinking otherwise and has been a very determined countenanced and aided by "Dlmmo the latest assurance of Germ n that ad ty | ®ood will, manifested in a wr mits of no doubt as to its sin and | will hope that the coming of Ambassa dor Sternberg will have a most salu: effect upon the relations of the | countries. two THAT EAD i When Millard * three other democrats were electod the school board on “the well-defined rumors” issue the popocratic organ con | gratulated the city of Omaha upon the | smashing of the machine. When the supreme court mandamus for the Custer to appoint a new fire and police board for the city of Omaba there AN Furkhouser and ts issued cratic reformers over the smashing of the machine. When Mercer and the Iowa graders captured the republican primaries, dis franchised half of Omaha and all of South Omaha and installed an out and out anti-machine county committee it was proclaimed from the housetops that the machine was smashed to smither- eens and dumped onto the political scrap heap. When Mercer's glorious victory over the machine was followed up by the re- organization of the republican city com- mittee without a solitary machine man, the new machine was pronounced abso- lutely perfect and in running condition. And now an alarm has been sounded for the 'steenth time that the dreadful machine, with all its cogs and wheels knocked out and its cylinders and gear- Ing full of holes, is again moving over the political track and threatens to crush everything in its way. spectacle that smashed machine pre- sents. Compared with that machine, stance. Like a cat, it has nine lives. ‘Well-defined rumors do not seem to af- fect its health, it puffs, enorts and re- volves without a police commission vote catcher, and swings its trip hammers without the county and city committee fly-wheels. Dreadful machine, what is to be done to head it off? Ring the town bells, call to | its | bull fighter. from | was great jubilation among the popo- | | these Asfatic islands. What an awful | Victor Hugo's devil fish is not a circum- | | rental averaging 2 cents an acre. out the fire department, rally the police force, let the “siren” sing its doleful dirge, muster the home guards, requisi tion the governor for two regiments of militia, bombard the legislature with petitions to save the city from destrue- tion by special act which will choke the breath out of that horrible machine, invoke congress to dam the Missouri river and submerge the town for a few days. If after all these energetic efforts for its suppression the machine still sur- vives, all patriots who fervently hope to secure a seat at the municipal pie tables may as well give it up and look for other jobs. ———— At the meeting of the association of county attorneys for Nebraska recently held the members present are said to have exhibited doubt as to whether they should ‘favor extension of the official term by statute to four years. The chlef point of doubt, we take it, turns on the time the new scheme would be put into effect. If to elect all county cflicerssat once the tenure were to be changed be- ginning next year, it would cut short the two-year terms for which the county at- torneys have just been chosen. The county attorney certainly is not for cut. ting his own loaf in two. Now that the republican city commit- portionment based on the republican vote polled in the respective wards at the preceding election the county committee will have to follow suit by making the next apportionment conform to the same cuse or valld reason for allowing 1,200 republican voters in the country pre cinets seventy delegates and 11,000 re- publicans in. Omaha only ninety dele- gates in our county conventions, — The proposed consolidation of Omaha, South Omaha and Douglas county under one government would effect a great sav- ing to the taxpayers, but it Is a good ways off yet. A very respectable sum taxpayers by prying loose all sinecures who do little or no work for the city or county and compelling every man elected or appointed to office to perform the dutles devolving upon him Instead of sfiiting the work on deputies and clerks who also draw salarles. governor-appointed police boards as a most flagrant violation of the principle of home rule. municipal government have been usurped by or for state offfeers, the ex. periment has proved a dismal failure, The so-called compromise leasing hill proves no more acceptable to those who oppose obstructing settlement of the public domain by leasing it to the cattle grazers than the original leasing hill. In a word, it only compromises the gov- ernment. S———— Where the Trouble Lies. Denver Times. There are 4,000,000 cold people because of the coal famine; they are cold because they don't know enough to make it hot for the right people — 4 Good Time Com Indianapolis News. “Within twenty years,” says Senator Dolliver, “every trust magnate of today will be dead or in sanitoriums for nervous Cheer up, fellows! There's a good time coming Greyhou Philadelphia Ledger. The cost of Atlantic greyhounds is enor- mous. The twu new Cumarders, which are to be completed in June, 1905, are to cost 94,250,000 each, or nearly $10,000 per rum- ning foot. Stood upen end, one of these prominent In public | great ships would be more than 100 feet this country Digher than the tower of the eity hall, or twice as high as the biggest of ofice bulld- ings. And its great cost may be understood from the fact that the iaterior Suish and tee has established the precedent of ap- | principle. There has never been any ex- | could, however, bhe easily saved to the | Indiana is having a revulsion against | Wherever functions of | | people | and the peace of the world BEE: TUESDAY JANUARY 20 equipment of this great structure are much more cogtly than the finish and equipment f the fnest of oMed buildines. Arousing a Dangerous Spirit. New York Tribune. The mobbing of coal trains in warious parts of the cou shows A dangersue | spirit of disorder which may riee and extend to an alarming extent if relief eprond suffering is not afforded to wide peedily. Right Man in Right Place. Philadelphta Record The manifest of the people of Manila that Governor Taft shall retain his position as the head of civil administration in the Philippines and his reported will- ingness to stay at Manila and do what he can to restore orderly government in the archipelago ought to bring to an end any turther effort for his recall. If his health sBull be prolonged he will no doubt be able to render great service both to the people of the United States and to the people of Of his ability and tion. destra integrity there is no qu IMPUDENCE OF Denfending Leaseholds of Land Ilegally Approprinted, Cleveland Plain Dealer. According to Senator Millard of Nebraska a plan has been arranged to end the range war in the west over the open government lands. This plan, it appears, {s a simple one. It {s merely to cohfirm the cattle barons in their possession to property stolen from the government. They have inclosed, without a shadow of right, mil- lions of acres of the public domain and have successtully resisted a somewhat feeble effort to oust them. Colonel John 8. Mosby's revelation of the magnitude of the steal attracted the whole country’s atten- | tion, but he was “hushed up” through the | influence of certain western senators and the steps which he recommended to bundle out the squatters neck and heels were never taken The cattle men and thelr friends in con- gress are now urging the passing of the land lease bill introduced at the last ses- slon. They claim that it will end the trouble. ~Doubtless it will, and¥to the complete satisfaction of the predatory gen- | try who have robbed the government of its land and successtully defled its power. The bill proposes to lease unoccupled pyblic land for grazing purposes at an anhual 1t ap- parently includes that land already ap- propriated and fenced in by the cattle men. This is something of a concession on their part, since it appears to recognize the gov- ernment’s title to the land. But the ques- tion arises how a government whose power | was net sufficient to oust Intruders from millions of its acres can collect even nom- | fnal rents which the grabbers are gracious enough to offer. RELIGION AND COMMERCIALISM, Lay Sermon on Trade as a Missionary Annet. y Starl The Idea of the church mifitant is in per- fect accord with the preaching of Christ and Him crucified when the object of attack is that selfishness and greed and worldi- acss which are arrayed against humanity. But the church as the promoter of strife and the instigator of worldwide bloodshed is not assuming a role that Is pleasing to contemplate. It was in such a character, though, that it was porirayed by the Re Dr. David H. Moore, the resident Methodist bishop at Shanghai, China, in an address to the missionary . conference delivered in Kansas City lasi week. More than ordinary interest attached to what Dr. Moore said, for he ascribed the same reason for the Boxer uprising in China that has been advanced by the Chi- nese apologists. It was, according to him, “‘a patriotic arousing in blind fury to resent the tearing away of the fabric of a nation.” But the reverend bishop 1is lecturing throughout this country to secure money to send missionaries in China. He is called the “fighting bishop” of the Methodist church, and no one would feel disposed to dispute tha title after reading this: “The whole history of the effort to tear down its (China's) walls of exclusion is enveloped In tales of blood, of plunder and abomination. It Is the law of God that every barrier shall be broken down. In the onrush of the tide of commerce we can dis. cern the beginning of the*consummation of God's plan to make all nations one and to bring the ends of the earth together. There- fore I plead for a deeper interest in China. Awaken this dead mass, They must be given a wider horizon or they will make no response to the whir of our machinery. This can only be done by giving them a taste of our Christianity.” Is it any wonder that so many ministers have felt it necessary of late to deplore the waning influence of Christianity? Why should it be a force in daily life if it is to preach commercialism? Carnegle with his o libraries and Rockefeller with his univer- eity can do that better, and more money would be made by watching the fluctuations of stoc! China’s horison must be widened in order to respond to the whir of our machinery. And to do it, what? The “fighting bishop" says, Awaken the dead mass, arouse the “yellow peril,” send more missionarles to tear down Its walls of exclueion, though to do so means more “blood and plunder ana abomination"—give them a taste of our Christianity. “In the name of God,” says the bishop. “Whose God?"" might theyChinese ask. The missionary spirit) whea It is the eplirit of Christ and not (he commercial In- stinet, is a fine thing; it is @ magnificent affuence of humanity, But it does not have to look for treuble. It does not need to BO far to find work and plenty of It. It is not, in fine, a good thing when It disturbs a ctv- ilization and a religion older than itselt and transforms a myriad of peace-loving into a mendce to the eivilization When the church goes away from home to accomplish something there fe an fm- plied assumption that its domestic fleld has been setisfactorily covered nr\g that there is nothing left to do in the shadow of its own vine and fig tree. Yot one need not be captious to suggest that there fs a greater call on Christianity to combat com- mercialism at home than to spread that influence to an unwilling people. Suppose that instead of accepting with thanks and praise a few thousand’ dollars from John D. Rockefeller for converting the heathen, some missionary should get Mr. Rockefeller Info a corner and talk true Christian brotherhood to him until he had re ull'»' appreciated what that meant. With t' joyful acclaim the seraphim and cher- ubim would greet that misslonary. And before that greetiig what real joy would reward the churchman's labor in that long step toward the ibolition of greed and plunder. When a United States senator can tell the senate of the wealthiest people in the world that & poor woman died of cold and starvation in Wathington at the moment when coal was belng mined at $2.50 a ton and sold at $20 a (on there is urgent work for the disciples & Christ at home. h, It was pitiful! Near a whole eity full, Home ste had none. Thomas {bod who said that fifty and it vas Charles Dickens who wrote of poor Jo, Rev. Mr. Chadband's sub- ject for homilies: ‘“‘Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reversnds of every order, and dylng thus around us every day." [ ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropolis, Quite a bunch of women “bucking the tiger in a bucket thelr hopes and meditations rudely by u rald of policemen, who merel fiscated the books. The shop was in of two men, but all the spectators and s ulators were mere women. One of the s who hung around the corridors had | three point ma n shar of A can Bieycle preferred wiped out and a hot Scotch for a bad cold and sh almost loguacious. She was reall shrewdest fi cler In the party, for as soon as the police came she dashed to the telephone and told an evening newspaper all about it upon promise of remuneration When asked who the traders were she said “Now If you were up to Canfield’s on a raid you wouldn't think of asking who the players were, would you? Well, the | same way here. They're all gentlemen at Canfleld’s and wouldnt want their names in. Here we are all ladics. One of the rogular patrons is the sister-in-law of supreme court judge. e buys 100-share lots and sometimes sells short. There fsn't one lady in a million that will sell short They haven't got the nerve. You'd be sur- prised it T told you where some of us live and what our names are.” After the hot Scotch referred to above she went on “Mrs. Strumel runs the place. She's a wonderful woman and the widow of a jeweler. Sometimes she says she's a Jap, then a Spaniard and her last story was that she s a Brazilian, but ehe's a wonder- tul octoroon. Her father wag a white man. She 18 making lots of money and her am- bitfon is to get into the swellest soclety in New York. She already lives in the finest apartment house on Central Park West, and only the other day she went to a mee ing of the Eclectic club as a guest of one of the fashionable members." That New York has been discriminated against by the railroads is the contention of the members of the Produce exchange com- mittee on freight rates and terminal charges, who met the New York City mem- bers of the legislature one day last week and asked their support for a bill intended to benefit the port of New York. The com mittee said that there had been a steady decline in the percentage of exports from New York during the last twenty-nine years and presented a chart, which showed that, with 100 per cent representing the total exports from the six ports of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Nor- folk and Newport News, the exports of flour from New York decreased from 70 per cent in 1873 to 28 per cent in 1901; in wheat, from 63 per cent to 33 per cent, and in corn, 47 per cent to 20 per cent in the same period. The proposed bill provides, in substance, that rates charged by common carriers for transportation of passengers or property, and for all terminal charges, shall be just and reasonable, and’ that there shall be no discrimination between shippers, and prohibits any differential or greater rate than is charged for the same service by the same carrfers, or under an agreement with other carriers to any Atlantic port outside the state. It also provides for a hearing before the Board of Railroad Com- misstoners for violations of the law, and confers upon the hoard, in such cases, power to fix the rate for the future. engaged in shop had jarred n on te s Danie} J. Fogarty, a New York rounds- man, has received notice from the secretary of the treasury that congress has voted to him a medal in appreciation of his brav- ery in saving lives. Since he was ap- polnted to the police force in 1895 Fogarty has saved five persons from drowning, He 18 the third policeman since the organiza- tion of the metropolitan force to receive a congressional medal. Fogarty already has five medals for lite saving, two from the Life Saving Benevo- lent assoclation of New York, two from the Volunteer Life Saving cesoclation of New York, and an honorable mention medal from the police department. Fogarty started making a record the first vear he joined the force. One cold January | night he jumped Into the Harlem river and hauled out a Roman Catholic priest who had been seized with vertigo and fallen oft a pler. Fogarty has never told the name of the priest. Fogarty 'was riding on a West Farms car on July 25, 1896, when he saw a man fall into the river from a new dock. ran out on the Harlem bridge and, when he saw that the man couldn’t swim, jumped into the river. He saved the man, who was James Harvey, a steamfitter of Albany. Fogarty saved another man from drown. ing in January of the same year. He had been transterred to the Bicycle squad and was riding down First avenue, near Ninety- elghth street, when he heard cries, This time It was Willlam O'Toole, a fireman, who was a little the worse for drink. In diving Into the river Fogarty's leg struck a spike. but had about abandoned hope of either them getting out when two other polic men appeared and pulled them both out. His fourth rescue was of Johnnie Crows, a little East Side child. He fell from his mother’s lap at the foot of Peck slip on a Sunday afternoon. Fogarty and child wera carried by the current to the Brooklyn bridge, where they were picked up by a tug. The fifth person he saved was an East Side child, also Fogarty 1s 30 years of age A young woman, followed by a valuable terrier, was walking through a downtown street several days ago, relates the Evening Post: Suddenly, the dog was missing, swal- lowed by the earth, the young woman thought, so quickly had it After a vain search of the nelghborhood, the young woman went to a nearby police station, where she enlisted the services of a “plain clothes” man. .The detective led her through several streets, stopping every mow and then to ask pedestrians if they had seen a etray dog. Finally a woman in a tenement doorway In West street told the searchers that & man on the top floor of the house “kept dogs.” The two climbed to the garret, and in a tiny room found some children playing with a number of fine dogs of various descriptions. Nou | of the animals was the n g one. Then the detective put his shoulder against the door of an inside room. It ylelded quickly and he found himeelf face to face with evil-looking man, who had a bull at his heels. “Is this your dog?" asked the “fancier,” divining the object of the strangers’ visit. 0, replied the girl There was a growl and a curse, and the young woman fled with a shriek, as the man struck the detective and the latter drew his revolver. Half-way down the rickety stairs she heard a whine behind her, and, turning, saw her own pet, which had recognized her voice and escaped during the fight upstairs. Much to the disgust of the detective, who came down later un- hurt, the young woman refused to make a complaint, and the “fanciers” fence is still running an terrier Troubles on Jim Hi Concerning the prospective departure of Uncle Jim Hiil for & trip to Europe one of his associates explains that Uncle Jim needs a rest because he has worked very hard lately h the convening of veral Western legislatures his cares prom- se to be greatly increased.” Could any- thing be more perspicacious and at the same time circumspect than this deliver ance? Fogarty | He got 0'Toole alongside the pler, | disappeared. | TIPS FOR THE LEGISLATORS, Alliance tslature vised 600 Times Gentlemer you to appr makc @ | world's fair build ate’s sible | 'Fremont Tribune 1t | move in Representative the house to mak. tions on the revenue ously considers the more state u about erecting buil two millions of and no money. Ban ft Blade As usual, a grist of nor- | mal school bills has been introduced in the state loglslature. The promoters seem to have but little regard for justice and each | promoter will push his pet measure stmply to ggatity a desire to work for the par- r locality from which he hails. The 2 distribution of state educational in- | stitutions 1s seldom considered. | Fairfield Herald: The third house prom- | 1ses to be an interesting feature of the do- | ings at the capital this winter. A number | of our public-spirited citizens, chiefly mem- bers of the Sclentific Agricultural soclety | have petitioned it to memoralize congress asking that such legislation be made as will | secure an extra eclipse of the sun this year, | as on examination of the almanac only two have been provided for, will be visiblo in this country. St. Paul Phonograph-Press: When pass- ing a law for the rearrangement of our methods of taxation, would {t mot be'well to provide a heavy penalty, double nssessment, for a perlod of two vears. Then make it the business of the asseesor to thoroughly investigate, and if any time during the year he finds that a To the Nebraska Leg- Governor Savago ad the sum of §7 play at the 8t. Louls Don't do it! Use the money « normal echoot or apply 1t t6 the indebte Be practical. Be priate to was a very adroit Sears to compel declaration of inten: question before it seri- abject of bullding any It is folly to talk when the state has n debt | his property then apply the penalty. Plainview Republican: A bill to prohibit football will be introduced in the legisla~ ture in the near future. It ought to become a law. When men are obliged to ircase themselves in armor to save themselves from the deadly battering ram the rush and crush of the cruel wedge or the strangling, bone-breaking tackle, it is no longer eport, but brutality. Let the legls- legiglaturo elther prohibit the game as it does duelllng, or at least pass laws to pre- vent the Fone-crunching, blood-spilling, ear- chewing contests and make them play decently and humanely. Columbus Telegram: One of the regular scandals attaching to every session of the Nebraska legislature a'ises from the mad { desire of the average legislator to secure the locatlon of a state normal school in his | home town. In order to accomplish the al- leged great boon for his home town he fis ready to enter into all kinds of questionable deals with other interests. In return for some other member's vote for his mormal school bill he will sell his own vote to every schemer who asks for it. And after all his shameful scheming he gets for his pay the privilege of watching the death of his own bill in the closing hours of the session. It will be the same fWis session. Holdrege Progress: Of course, there are a multitude of things which the Nebraska legislature should do during the present session, but one thing which the people of the western part of the state would ap- prove and appreciate more than nearly ail else would be the establishment of a state normal school in their midst. This is an almost imperative educational need in this scction of the state. And Holdrege s an 1deal location for such an institution, either geographically or from any other stand- point. The Progress hopes to see a bill passed providing for the establishment of a normal school in the western part of the state before the present session closes, and that Holdrege may be designated as its location. Fairbary Gazette: Douglas county ha: set one good example to the state. That is In the matter of assessments. Every particle of real and personal property, including corporations, has been assessed on a fair cash basis. That's right. ffaln. Dut the fact remains that assess- ments everywhere, and for all kinds of property, have been 8o ridiculously low in all countles in the state as to excite ridi- cule. This is probably the reason the rail- ways are fighting an increased assessment. Let the assessment reform spread until everything is put on a cash basis, then the rallways will have no good excuse for hold- ing aut, and then property should and must come to a cash basis and bear it's just and square share of taxes. . Valentine Republican: It the Nebraska legislature is to be called upon by the state delegation in our national congress to give or withhold sanction to the passage of the proposed lease law for this state, that homorable body should undoubtedly | disapprove of any such measure. This they | should do in the Interests of the small stockmen and the country, the business in- | terests of which would not only be dwarfed but ruined should such a measure become a law. For their actions in this matter not only will members of the legislature, but also members from this state in the halls of our national congress, be held to glve a strict accounting to the people. The republican pocty i8 now striving to head | oft trusts and this is one form it cannot consistently support. If necessary to lease the public domain why not accept and pass | the bill framed and introduced by Captain | Lacey? The answer to this is that it does | not give the big fellows the advantage over the small ones that they yearn for. CONCERNING TAX ASSESSMENTS, w Individusl Opinions Are Colored by Self Interest. New York Tribune. To 'all the voluble critics of the new tax assessment we commend the temper and philosophy of Mr. Frank Bailey of the Ti- tle Guarantee and Trust company, who, | when asked what he thought of the sched- ules, replied “In what capacity do you wish me to an- swer? If you ask me as an officer of the | Realty assoclates of New York, of which o |1 am vice president, I should say ‘Abhor- | rent!" If you ask me as a director of the Brooklyn say ‘Vile, atrocious!" If you ask me as vice president of the Title Guarantee and Trust cofopany, I should say ‘Excellent!’ It you JAS. BOS Watch Case on costly works in preference Lo a solid gold cuse. Ask weler “to sk you o Jas. & neither of which | such as a| | person has not made an honest return of | K all are treated alike, no one will com- | his father live, don't you k. Vask me as & ctttaen, 1 woutdn't know what | to say."” It Is the same old story pends on the point Everything of view from which the ELLY ment is regarded. The man who finds h taxes raised thinks atrocious; the man who fin them lower ink | cellent; the nman avho b ' the effect of the assessment on himself per- ronally does not know what to It w keep these facts in mind we ca asily pi serve composure while the storm of more or less uninformed protest rages over the | new arrangement PERSONAL NO The man who is waging war on ton much legislation in the Indiana is named Slack. Emperor William has finally tumbled the fact that foreign nations need leaders at Washington instead of statesmen Councilmen Kohl and Koch 4r of the committee appointed by land common couneil to investigate th price of coal A nervy woman at Detroit who necded coal to warm her boarding house took a gun and the cash to a conl office and cal for the goods. She got them. Tt | to peanuts there are precious few * offs’ among her b ders. Representative Sulzer of New York has | Introduced a bill carrying an appropriation of $50,000 for a monument to Samuel J. Tilden, to be erected at Washington. On the pedestal might be chiseled those sad- dest of all words of tongue or pen which ‘we need not repeat. The assessed valuation of property Ject to local taxation in New York fs $5,841,687.999, of which § real estate and $558,403,3¢ is property. Last year the aggregate valua- tion was $5, . making an ‘increase this year of §i A New York con sman has introduced a bill making it illegal for any person en- gaged In trade to use for advertising pur poses the name or plotures of any living persons without having first obtained their consent in writing. Should the bill become a law dead walls will become, in fact as well as in name, plastcred exhibits of the defunct. Benator Hanna has sent out invitations to a dinner to be given at the Arlington | hotel in Washington on February in honor of Genmeral William Booth, head of {the Salvation Army. Those Invited aro President Roosevelt, all the members of the cabinet, the British ambassador, Sir Michaol | Herbert, and several intimate senatorial | triends of Mr. Hanna, Congressman Kahn of California = was walking along a Washington street when a man dashed past him holding a bundle of money in each hand. Following came a merchant and a policeman around the cor- ner and asked if-Mr. Kahn had seen the thief. Receiving an affirmative reply, they asked: “What did he look like?" i, congressman answered delfberately: looked like he did not have a minute (o spare.” legislature to bers leve- high | | Aimos tand- sub- state is personal MIRTHFUL REMARKS Justice—What! You here again? piastus— fam't mah_fault boss me me—blame dat police: —Detrolt Free Press, & Don't ver dere. Smarticus—I understand one of Straighl- lace's daughters is engaged In & very ques- tionable occupation, Spartacus—No! What Is it? Smarticus—Conducting_the query depart- ment in a newspaper.—Philadelphia Press, ot Meeme to me |oaid the druggists as- . “you are laying in a pretty b k of codllver ofl. Ll ThiA" said the druggist, winking hfs oft for next winter's’ consumption,”— Tribune. eye, “ig ‘hicago “Do_you think you will be able to hold Your own In the present congress?" “Yes," sald Senator Sorghum; “I'l hold my own, all right, and when we quit I shouldn't be surprised if I had some of the other fellow’s, tco.”—Washington Star. I sve there is talk of increasing the fn- heritance tax. aid the rich man's san; “it's get- a fellow would almost as lef hive | w.''—Brooklyn Eagic v “I notice that an eastern minister got up and bitterly denounced ostentattous charity by millionaires." “What was the matter with him?" “Why, it appears that there isn't a mil. Uonaire’ in his church."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. his family life isn’t all that it's cracked up to be,” remarked the father “The baby eried for an hour this morning Just when 1 wanted to sleep.” *asked the filppant man. Sam Foss in the Knocker. yment company, I should | atpotntof Asoild and a cheap filied case wears s A Jas. Bo: guaranteed Lo Wear for 25 years. foss, Case und eystone trade-inark stam ped luside. Send for One day through the primeval wood, A calf walked home as good calves should; But made a trail all ben. as 3 A'crooked trail as all calves a9 Since then two hund: And, I infer, the cal: But still he left behind his trail And hereby hangs my mortal tale, The trail was taken up next day By a lone dog that passed that way. And then a wise bell-wether sheep Pursued the trail o'er vale and steep, And drew the flock behind him, too, As good bell-wethers always do, red years have fled, £ is dead. And from that day, o'er hill and glade, Through those old Woods & path wpia nidde And many men wound in and out And dodged and turned and bent about, And uttered words of righteous wrath Because ‘twas such a crooked path, And still they followed, do not laugh, The first migrations of that calf. Chis first path became a lane That bent and turned and turned again, This crooked lane became a road ‘Where many a poor horse with his load 'ofled on beneath the burning sun And traveled some three miles in one. And thus a century and a half They trod the first steps of that calf, The years passed on in swiftness fleet, The road became a village street. before men e aware crowded thoroughfare, And men two centuries and a half Trod in the footsteps of that calf. And o'er this crooked journe; nt The traMc of a continent, > "o taet with the hand or pocket. 0ld citse Wears thin and weak Stiffencd Gold it1s maude of Lwo layers of sol{d gold wi alayorof stiffe " afi welded The outside gold will last & quarter of & contury and the stiffeniug rhotl will kevep, the case strong us i it Thie is why tho g metal belwee; 1 b one solid sheet ther t. a8 YOU wear wear the o] ook THE KEYSTONE WATCH CASE COMPANY, Philadelphia, Pu.