Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 22, 1903, Page 6

.~ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE E RUII‘WAT:R. EDITOR. © PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. P 7 v < i ki TERME OF §UBSCRIPTION, (without Bunday); One Year. and Sunday, Une Bee, Une Year DELIVERSD BY CARRIER. afly Bee (without 8tmday), per copy... 3 Iy Bee (without_Sgnday), per weel ily Bee (Including Sunday), per woek.1ic unday Bee, per copy. ey Bee (Including Sunday), per i delive ulation D Y be vening Bee (without Bunday), per vening week ... Complaints of frreguiarities should be addressed to City Circ partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Buildl outh Omaha—City Hall ty-fifth and M Streets. Councll Blufts—lv Vearl Street. Chicago—1640 Unity Bullding. New York—228 Park Row Building. : Washington—01 Fourteenth Btreet. CURRESPONDENCE. Ko Communications relatng to news and ed- ftorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Lepartment. jullding, Twen- STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraski, Douglas County, se.: George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The D Publishing company, being duly sworn, ta. that the actual number of full and com: o coples of The Daily, Morning, Even, & and Bunday Bee printed during the month of December, was as follows: 33,280 down to business, a few pertinent sug- gestions may not be inappropriate: 1. Repeal dll dead-letter lawy dbat en- cumber the statute books. 2. Abolish the fee system tute falr salaries fof every public officer and employe—state, comnty and munici- pal ) 3. Enact laws that will forever put an end to farming out public moneys or trust funds for private gain. ‘This should include not only state treasurers, but county, city and school board treas- urers and county judges who are cus- todians of money# belonging to widows, orphans and litigants. 4. Revise the revenue laws to conform with the provisions of the constitution that tequire the asesssment of fran- chises as Wwell ‘as tangible property of corporations, andplaee the property of railroad corporations on an equal foot- ing with the property of other corpora- tions aud Individuals In contributing its just proportion of the expense for main- taining municipal government. 5. Enlarge the field of taxation by en- acting laws that will tax express com- panies, cattle parior car companies, suburban electric - railroads and other concerns that are taxed In every other state but Nebraska. 6. Formulate and submit for ratifica- tion by the people amendments to the constitution that have become an Im- perative ngcessity under existing condi- tions. These constitutional amend- ments should include: The enlargement of the supreme court to at least five members, which would — | enable the state to dispense forever with et total sales et average sal 80, GEORGE B. TZECHUCK. Bubscribed In my presence and sworn to Tore me this Sist day of December, A, D. M B, HUNGATE; (Beal) Notary Publie. R ———————————— A leading Nebraska populist proposes a public ownership party. If it would tnsure public ownership of public serv- ants jt might find popular favor. E— With the horrible example set by his predecessor as an object lesson, the new leutenant governor of South Carolina ought to make an exemplary official by contrast. Sp—— Senator Hanna says that the produc- tion of presidents is still a thriving in- dustry in Ohio. But the Buckeye state has not yet been able to get a monopoly on thé business. Perhaps congress made a mistake in not making that appropriation to pay the expenses of the coal strike commisslon available only efter the work of, the commission has been successfully com- pleted. The Minnesota legislature has voted down the resolution providing for an Investigation’ into the distribution of free passes by the rallroads. The law makers prefer not to investigate them- selves. & J N — The land lease: bill has been trans- ferred from congress to the legislature, but we apprehend there will be just as much, If not more, diversity of opinion regarding the propriety of its passage in the legislature as there is in congress. The United States court has ‘been sit- " ting In Lincoln, but unable to do busi- ness for lack of cases on the docket ready for trial. Yet the scheme is to double up court expenses by dividing Nebraska into two federal judiclal dis- tricts. —— The Omdha Commercial club promises to restrict the use of its club rooms to members only. If it will restrict mem- bership to men who have something in eommon with the commercial interests of the city, it will take two steps for- ward instead of one. Ep— Senator Vest of Missourl enjoys the distinction of having a salute of thir- teen guns fired in honor of his retire- ment from the public service. Most of the United States 'senators who retire without asking another term make thelr exit under a different kind of fire. ] Republics are ungrateful sometimes; so are republicans, but republicans do not begin to be as ungrateful as democrats. That inference will naturally be drawn by the relegation of James K. Jones, chairman of the democratic national | committee, to private life by the Arkan- sas legislature. Municipal ownership of the water works scems to be a popular band- ‘wagon from the way all the peliticians are clambering in, Municipal owner- ship of the telephone, the gas works or the electric lighting plant would be just as attractive and equally useful as a relief to the public, but none of them has, the call. The Lincoln Star is doing good work In exposing the combine of job printers organized to mulet the taxpayers of Ne- braska in the matter of furaishing print- ing and stationery supplies. If this combination involves a conspiracy to de- fraud the public, as it seems to do, It would be a good subject for the legls- lature to look into by an investigating committee with a view to framing legls- lation that will prevent further salds of that kind. e ————— The proposition made in the state senate to request one member of the the expensive makeshift of a gupreme court commission. Amendments to relleve the state from the strait-jacket provisions of the con- stitution_that fix the number of execu- tive officers and limit their salaries, re- gardless of changed conditions and pub- lic necessity, and have opened the door wide for whipping the devil around the stump in the appointments of so-called deputies to the governor—deputy labor commissioner, deputy ofl Inspectors, deputy health boards, deputy veteri- narians, ete. A constitutional amendment to safe- guard the public school fund and pro- vide for its rational investment. A constitutional amendment that will establish home rule for cities and re- lieve legislatures from thankless and pernicious charter tinkering. Last, but not least, a constitutional amendment that will compel railroads to furnish state officers, judges of the courts and members of the legislature with free transportation over their lines in Nebraska and will make the accept- ance of a rallroad pass in this or any other state by any public officer an im- peachable offense and subject him to re- moval from office therefor. - S—— FREE COAL ON PACIFIC COAST. 1t was to be expected that there would be_ dissatisfaction on the Pacific coast with the removal of the duty on coal, the duty having been imposed mainly for the protection of the coal Industry of that section. The Seattle Post-Intelll- gencer says that the action of congress amounts to the giving of a bounty of not less than ‘a nifllion dollars a year to the coal operators of British Columbia, to encourage them to take away, with coal mined with Chinese lubor, the mar- ket for coal mined by American white labor in the state of Washington. It adds that large bountles, amounting In the aggregate to probably more than | this, will also be given to Australian and British mine operators to encourage them to flood the Pacific coast with coal, brought In as ballast for wheat ships, to the complete destruction of the Amer- ican coal mining industry of the coast. We are inclined to think that the Post- Intelligencer some ~het exaggerates the danger to the coal industry of that sec- tion. Undoubtedly it will be injured to an extent by the removal of the duty, but we do not belleve there is any good reason to apprehend Its complete de- struction. If a duty of 67 cents.a ton has been sufficlent to enable that in- dustry to develop and prosper, it is hardly reasonable to suppose that it will be ruired by taking off that amount of duty. However, the removal of the tarift on coal was demanded by an over- whelming public sentiment extending from the Atlantic to the Rocky moun- tains and no diserimination eduld be made in behalf of the Pacific coast in- dustry. Perhaps the action of congress will not prove as beneficial as expected, but it was compelled by extraordinary conditions and it is doubtful if there will ever again be a duty on coa). St THE VENEZUELAN ARBITRATION, The arrival of * Minister Bowen in Washington, it I8 understood with full authority from President Castro to ar- range with the diplomatic representa- tives of the Buropean powers having claims_against Venezuela for their sub- mission to The Hague tribunal of arbi- tration, glves promise of an early ar- rangement that will ‘remove all danger from the situation and relleve the gov- ernment of the United States from all care or anxiety in regard to it. It appears that Minister Bowen Is especially desirous that the blockade shall be ralsed and with a view to this the offer has been made to pledge the Venezuelan customs for the payment of the obligations of that country. It is reported to be the German idea that the blockade must be enforced until the supreme court to act in an advisory ea- pacity In formulating revenue legisla- tion & deciaodly unique. A merger of the . judiclary and legislative depart- ments would be the next thing in order. There might have been some propriety, perhaps, in inviting members of the supreme court in ay unofficial capacity to gonfer with the legislative committees charged with formulating amendments § protocol 18 signed and this will probably be concurred in by Great Britam and Italy. Ia the Refehstag on Tuesday the German chancejlor stated that it is the alm.of that government to bring armed action to the spéediest possible termina- tiou and that the blockade will Be raised as soon as the' negotiations at Wi ington have reachéd g'satistactory con- clusion... It I8 thus hows that Ger- many's attitude is couciliatory and that 16 has had ud"other Al oF metive i THE OMAHA DAI LY BEE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1903 th ter than that of securing for its citizens what it belleves to be their just claims against Venezuela. Had its purpose gone beyond this it would not have agreed to submit the claims to arbitration. It Is quite evideat that from the beginning the German government has dominated the Venezue- lan situation and had it rejected arbitra- tion 1t is very probable that Great Brit ain would have acquiesced At all events a satisfactory diplomatic arrangement seems assured at an early day, to be followed by unrestricted com- mercial intercourse with For this result the southern republic will be Indebted to the good offices of the United States, while a new prece- dent of great value will be made in behalf of the principle of international arbitration for disputes of this charac- ter. INTERSTATE ACT AMENDMENT. Whether' anything will be done at the present session of congress to strengthen the Interstate commerce act is prob- lematical, but the probability appears to be that the question will again be de- ferred. It has been recently stated that the rallroad interest is exerting influence to have the Elkins bill pushed for con- sideration, but nothing has oceurred that.can be regarded as confirmatory of this. It is doubtless a fact that most of the rallroads are not unfriendly to this measure, which is a compromise and among other things favored by the rail- roads contains a pooling clause, this feature being the chief objection to the bill on the part of shippers generally. The measure provides for increasing | the powers of the Interstate Commerce commission and giving to that body authority to enforce its orders for the prevention of discriminating freight rates. To this extent it Is unobjection- able, but the authority it gives for the making of contracts by railroads for the division of their traffic or earnings, and for the formation of traffic associations, meets with opposition as being prac- tically a renunciation of the most vital principle of the existing law. It Is sald that the chalrman of the Interstate Commerce commission has given general approval to the bill and that he thinks the public will benefit by railroad pool- Ing under certain restrictions. He is quoted as saying: “The most offensive and demoralizing of all evils connected with raflroad operation is the giving of a rebate and I think the first duty of congress is to provide a legislative remedy against that evil; but I think no remedy is adequate which does not include in its provisions the right of assoclation and contract between rail- roads, which is forbidden by the present laws. In the opimion of Chalrman Knapp there cannot be continued com- petition that is legitimate and honest without permitting the roads, by an amendment to the existing law, to put some sanctioned restraint upon compe- titlon with each other. He therefore regards a measure which embodies that principle as not only in harmony with the alms and purposes of a published tariff regulation, but practically essen- tial to the realization of those purposes. There s another bill in congress which cortains most of the meritorious fea- tures of the Elkins bill and omits the pooling provision, but it has ‘teceived little consideration and is not likely to | get any from the present congress. This measure was framed with a view to meeting the public demand for a more effective regulation of the railroads and does not contemplate making any concessions to them. Its aim is to protect the public by in- creasing the authority mission so that its decisions and orders ! shall be effective. It is needless to say that this bill is determinedly opposed by the rallroads. The subject has re- cently been having some consideration from the senate committee on interstate and foreign commerce, but as now in- dieated there s little promise of any action by the present congress. In his message to the South Dakota legislature Governor Charles N. Her- reld ‘indulges in these cuustic reflec- tions about the inspection of {lluminat- ing olls: The inspection law of our state, to say the least, is simply a burlesque. Strenu- ous efforts have been made with biennial regularity that would prevent the state from being the dumping ground of inferior ofl that camnot be disposed of in other etates. The adjournment of the legisla- ture is usually celebrated by a particu- larly noxious stench from every lamp chim- ney in the state. These distressing condi- tions havo at various times become in- tolerable. ‘What spplies to oil inspection in South Dakota would apply with equal force to ofl inspection in Nebraska. If the lamp chimneys could only speak they would emit volumes of indignant protest against the ofl inspection burlesque. ‘With a surplus of §1,600 in its treas- ury, the State Board of Agriculture now sees its way clear to build a fish building on the state fair grounds at Lincoln at a cost of §9,000, providing the legislature is willing to make an appro- priation from the state treasury and can also be induced to enact a law that will compel county boards to levy a 3-cent per capita tax on every man, woman and child in the state of Ne- braska for the support of agricultural socleties, which, if Douglas county Is a fair sample, are close corporations or- ganized for the benefit of its members, =———— Pledging United States senators to support a constitutional amendment for the election of senators by direct vote of the people 1s all right in its way, but it cannot be half as effective or expeditious as would be the adoption of resolutions calllng for a convention to propose amendments under article v of the con- stitution. More than enough state legislatures are in session right now to make up the twothirds necessary to make it Luperative on congress to call of the com-| a constitutional convention, but con- gress, or rather its upper house, will not budge, until it Is right up against it. Ere—— Omaha city councilmen sre being pald to attend to the city's business. Their salaries of $75 per month are not ex- travagant, but they are fully equal to the services which are to be rendered in attending one committee meeting and one regular meeting each week and at- tending to Incidental matters in the in- terval. If any of them think they are underpald or overworked they are free to resign, and there will be no difficulty in finding equally competent men to fill the vacancles, One of the conyndrums the state as- sociation of . county commissioners should solve before leaving Omaha is whiether it is equifable to taxpayers of this or any other county to be compelled to pay 45 cents for two meals to feed prisoners in the county jail when pris- oners in the city jail are being fed for 16 cents per day for rations of the same quality and quantity. . A merger of all the principal express compaunles Into one great combination is the latest talk of the financiers. If it really materializes it ought to glve a strong lmpetus to the movement for a parcels post. What good reason is thers for running the postoffice department as a feeder to the big express companies? Entitled to the Right-of-Way. New York Tribune, Coal should have the right of way by land and sea until better days are dawning. Up to the time when warmer weather comes railroads and vessels alike should be taxed to the utmost to hurry fuel to consumers. Squeezing the Home Co Chicago Chronicle. Kerosene costs the domestic consumer 6 cents per gallon more than he paid twelve months ago, while the price to the foreign consumer is only 1 cent per gallon higher. The circumstance indicates that Mr. Rocke- feller is distrfbuting benefactions to the forelgner in the form of coal oil, while in his own land his philanthropy takes the shape of universities, Checking a Public Evil. Philadelphia Record. A member of the New York genate has introduced a bill against the evid of land- scape disfigurement by huge advertisements. The time is coming when legislative re- straints will no longer be necessary to check this abuse, for business men will soon universally realize that for other than aesthetic reasons the daily newspaper is the best place for advertisements. Some Things Worse Than Death. Portland Oregonian. The old saying, spoken thousands ot times in the ears of the bereaved, that “there are .worse things than death,” has had in the last week significant illustra- tion in the official life of Oregon. As. be- tween a public servant stricken down in an honorable career and borne to his grave with high public honors, and one stricken with dishonor yet liying to meet and face it as best he may, anyone, however fond, would choose m“fi former might belong to his household.” A&-between the alterna- tive to die in honoF, or live discredited one falthless to &' Prie & man's neai est and dearest.should bave no difculty in choosing. Systematic Plunder Springfleld (Mass.) Republican. The communication from Agent Brosius of the Indian Rights association shows once more the greed of the white man, which at every point endeavors to defeat the efforts of the government to do justice and see fair | play to the red man. It is a shameful thing that consclenceless speculators should still be appointed to the responsible post of Indian agent. If anything lke the conduct of Agent Honnell and his gang should be attempted in respect to white settlers in any part of the country, how quick would be the indignation of the country! And | should 1t be less quick to resent this abom- | inable injustice? What is the matter with the Indian bureau, which of late years has | been supposed ‘to select honest men for agents? Is there any excuse to be offered for the state of things at this Kansas ageney? RAILROAD PASSES ARE BRIBES. 7 Perquisites of Lawmakers Shown Up in the Proper Light. Detrott? Free Pres: The Northern Pacific rallroad has made a practice of issuing passes over its lines to members of the legislatures of Minn sota, North Dakots, Montana, Washiogton. This was not an unwonted act of generosity on the part of the road. In fact, this free transportation had come of the interested solons. could be tortured fnto representing a legiti- mate purpose it would be to enable the legislators to go to and from the capital or to travel to state institutions or to make investigation in the line of officlal duty. President Mellen has brought out the fact that this is net the view of the case taken by the legislators. The latest batch of passes, as usual, were good only for the time that the respective legls- latures were in session, and they have been indignantly returned. The statesmen demanded the privilege of using the road from one year's end to the other, and as often as they wish. The president answers the angry lawmak- ers by declaring that the leglsiators in every state mentioned have been in the habit of lending their passes to thelr friend or selling them to scalpers to an extent that brought protests from the pay- ing patrons of the road. The lawmakers now threaten “to get even,” and to the ex- tent that they attempt to do so from mo- tives of revenge they will demonstrate their personal view of free transportation Mr. Mellen has shown that the legis tors with whom he has had dealings are not ordinarily appreciative or grateful and has brought about @ conclusion that it they attack the road because it will not give them all the passes they ask for, they are capable of favoring it when their swinish demands are gratified. Legislators, @ such, have no business with railroad passes. They are provided only with & view to keeping the law maker in & kindly temper toward the cor- poration which grants these free rides. No self-respecting man will accept this ex- pensive hospitality and then seek to injure those who extended it. No self-respecting man will sell his political support for a pass or other bribe, no matter how thick may be the sugar coating. The foreed conelusion is that no self-respecting legi lator will accept railroad passes at all, and that is the exact proposition for which we contend. It is precisely ou & par with the policeman on a beat who accepts free drinks and ¢ In nine cases out of ten they induce him to look the other way when the law is belng violated, even though he be bonest in the erdinary affairs of lite. KEEP IT BEFORE Nebraska Railroad Assessments—What They Have Been— What They Aro—What They Should Be. Assessment for 1592, 35.00 Miles. 132,07 7287 18.40 4245 28.50 107.90 a5.21 50.99 134.27 12418 47.36 2.01 11271 a0.82 119.00 L] 64,400.00 147,875.00 142,050.00 176,050.00 244,405.00 o, B63,550.00 438,418.00 TE5,492.00 832,042.00 181,800.00 484,065.00 2NK,525.00 569,025.00 403,850.00 205,509.50 218,155.00 564,368.50 761,004.00 199,892.00 731,400,00 2006,008.00 128,520.00 26K,400.00 760,710.00 16,485.00 83,120.00 108,1158.00 190,665.00 504,768.50 820,368.00 B545,012.00 7,770.00 203,388.00 877,975.00 105,630.00 373,145.00 508,104.00 275,130.00 807,744.00 465,512.50 425.872.50 138,300.00 1,198,447.00 £40,633.00 281,605.00 BSK,767.00 152,730.00 362,670.00 B0G,828.00 532,185.00 390,024.00 175,400.00 181,560.00 283,600.00 582,574.00 94,870.00 217,079.00 396,060.00 115,600.00 657,617.00 606,718.00 498,748.00 412,700.00 330,415.00 220,035.00 217,950.00 114,900.00 454,130.00 116,550.00 84,400.00 154,255.00 267,000.00 227,700.00 814,837.00 11,760.00 443,622.00 127.86 40.34 8218 62.87 168.04 471 20.88 30.89 5185 74.00 66.13 8106 . 12,59 Hitchoock 49.16 Holt 77.63 Hooker 80.18 Howard .. 91.20 Jefteraon 106.83 58.46 70.81 4175 a8.15 27.66 200.94 105.35 58.46 Hamilton . Lancaster . Lincoln m Merrick Nance Wheeler York Total .. Average asse: $20,339,631.00 Fairly assessed, would be...... property. ent per mile, 1892, . Average mssessment per mile, 1902.. THE LEGISLATURE 082,521,600 § 1,284,896.11 246,018.00 205,402.50 62.560.00 55,200.00 159,404.00 148,560.00 102,924.00 182,228.75 649,824.00 1,858,764.70 183,092.00 241,233.71 181,458.00 552,495.10 491,133.00 1,062,712.60 562,614.20 1,141,147.00 * 204,780.00 245,833.50 55,440.00 65,440.00 405,756.00 B521,283.76 609,360.00 1,080,016.40 645,510.10 TT4,448.41 272,494.00 468,300.40 144.688.00 179,388.46 807,108.80 470,226.00 263,022.00 325,628.56 408,801.50 1,214,446.00 820,124.00 £66,808.75 202,245.00 526,506.40 261,646.00 453,0232.00 745,631.00 186,080.00 620,994.50 185,061.00 110,848.50 252,207.00 703,042.00 12,676.80 71,868.50 106,026.00 161,851.40 450,570.00 289,657.00 817,076.50 87,770.00 104,070,00 267,262.00 102,612.00 $02,191.40 B87,933.00 268,269.00 3565,509.00 406,596.00 354,8568.00 120,824.00 1,206,867.20 785,604.50 215,009.00 518,018.40 118,790.00 62,211.00 517,119.50 o 525,458.00 869,377,00 161,282.50 156,767.00 2086,620.00 465,098.00 76,648.00 209,673.00 401,097.00 83,232.00 527,878.20 581,679.00 547,601.80 £8,110.00 3 271,842.00 188,352.80 170,5432.00 85,060.00 416,504.50 113,220.00 87,776.00 146,944.40 2116,808.00 287,353.50 10,214.40 853,262.00 18,48 11271 134,45 120,96 448 36.82 9429 59.01 63.69 00.79 2076 s6.07 81.89 107.00 4154 127.86 40.34 8218 e2.a7 17116 417 20.83 30.80 51.85 74.96 66.38 S1.55 12.60 49.16 77.02 30.18 9129 119.41 5846 7052 41.52 36.31 27.66 228.16 105.85 58.46 68.38 33.94 73.07 189,00 112.26 87.10 43.85 45.39 59.30 o116 21.49 50.46 80.36 23.12 82.72 785,025.85 1,007,865.5% 782,322.82 834,183.83 5627,878.48 96,300.00 208,918.05 2,620,736.27 12,610.00 62,490.00 92,670.00 80K,471.60 1,046,549.71 1,108,240.53 710,832.00 87,770.00 639,262.08 816,086.35 90,540,00 1,270,354.20 1,161,201.70 991,062.52 467,300.44 816,452.50 711,164.40 167,456.78 2,820,812.11 1,201,586.80 467,187.33 1,029,166.28 T17,491.60 985,526.44 775,076.18 1,843,685.565 878,908.95 181,560.00 296,585.00 490,463.60 198,180.00 110,779.02 084,046.08 99,800.00 115,644.88 268,282.40 157,000.47 811,004.54 902,287.07 10,080.00 630,710.08 S AL ciie. B26,080,502.70 §52,803,992.55 The figures above presented are carefully complled from reports of the state auditor, the bulletins issued by authority of the railroads and the reports to their stockholders published within the past year. proof ‘that the aggregate true value of rallroads in Nebraska base after deducting operatiig expenses, betterments and taxes paid, exceeds $312,000,000. | An inspection of the table herewith presented shows just how much each county has lost by gradual reduction of the raflroad assessment within the past ten years, the aggregate apportionment of railroad asse: 1902 and what the aggregate assessment at one-sixth of their value based on net earnings. that have not' reported net earnings, which constituté less tHan one-sixth of the entire railroad mileage in the state, {s based upon the ~value of their tangible ‘These documents afford conclusive on net earnings. ments. to each county for the year ould be if the rallroads were assessed The appralsement of railroads ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropolis. An eccentric Frenchman with a title and pame outpointing & yardstick has started a tremendous flutter among the swells of Gotham. The -newcomer is a genius. So is his press agent. Both admit the charge and congratulate themselves on the vista of prosperity ahead. Besides the press agent the titled genius has two barbers at- tached to his staff, together with the im- | pedimenta of a born poet and lterary ana- lyst. He is not a lecturer. He gives * terences.” His managers have listed seven of these “‘conterences.” Admission to each | “conference” is fixed at §5, but no one may { buy a ticket to a single “confere “I care nothing for people who would make me the object of vulgar notoriety, either in this country or my own,” said tho count to an interviewer. “Those who in ignorance or malice essay to hold me up to ridicule I can afford to ignore. What do they know? Why should I care? 1 do mot address myself to-the small-minded “I come to thesnew world s the repre- scion of one of the most ancient and most among its members Marshal de Montesquieu and Mme. de Montesquieu, mother of the | I hope to attract here an element of curl osity and Interest different from that which centered about the academicians and uni- versity professors.” “The very thing that newspapers want to sentative of the old French nobility, as the | | illustricus houses in France, that comprised | | tamous D’Artagnan, to cite only these, and | be with the San Francisco minstrels. He | took the job on trial, till good times came again, but nothing good enough bas come along to tempt him to give up a $5,000 job, and he is worth every penny of it “A laudable effort is being made in New York City,"” says a Philadelphia Ledger let- ter, “‘to arouse public sentiment to the evils of child labor in New York state, in the hope that it may be abolished in all fts phases. The campalgn is being conducted by a committee that includes William H. Baldwin, president of the Long Island rafl- road; Dr. Willam H. Maxwell, superin- tendent of schools; Dr. Felix Adler and Bishop Potter, For several months investi- | gation of the matter has been going on, and it 18 sald amazing evidence has been col- lected which shows that child labor con- ditions In New York state are almost as acute as those in the southern cotton mills and in the Pennsylvania coal reglons, “While New York has laws forbidding the employment. of children under 14 years of age in factories and mercantile establish- ments, the statutes are so defective that a large number of children of tender age are at work in such places. One of the pro- visions of the law which permits of evasion 1s that public echool puplls are allowed to work during vacations. Under the com- pulsory education law a child is not re- quired to attend school more than eighty days and s, therefore, free to work the | rest of the school year. “Wholesale perjury by parents, who have sworn that their children are 14 years of age, has been discovered, in the legis- | lation that will be sought a system ‘of reg- istration, by which children will be yequired know about the way detectives work in big | department stores are the things we don't | want to tell,” sald a supeFintendent quoted | by the New York Times. “We should be glad to digpense with them altogether, but we can't afford to. A clever woman will outwit the shrewdest store detective that ever walked. We have to work cautiousiy or we lose our trade. If the dectective™is & man and stares at & woman too hard she my complaint at the desk and tells other women how she was insulted. If the store detective is & woman she s likely to t ‘fresh.’ 1 think the best store detective York today 1s & wan who used w0 s to obtaln a certificate of age signed by the | registrar of births, will be included. The | legislature will also be asked to include | newsboys, messepgers, peddlers, dellvery | and ofice boys within the scope of the laws, which at present apply only to factories and mercantile establishments. It was | tound during the committee's investigation ! of street children that a large proportion | were at work without dny family necessity for.their earnings. “Governog, Odell is in thorough sympathy with the movement to amend the laws, and the outlook for the needed reform is en- Sourngiag” ARRAM STEVENS HEWITT New York Sun: Abram Stevens Hewitt was of the very best and highest type of the American at any period in the history of this republic. Minneapolis Journall Abram Hewitt was what s known as a democrat from prin- clple. Some time ago he coased to be & democrat—also from prineiple Chicago THbune: Mr. Heyitt was in all respects & man of whom his city and state had reason to be proud. He plaved many parts during his long life, and played them well. Buftalo Express: Mr. Hewitt allied him- selt by marriage with another good man and friend of the people, Peter Cooper. A large part of his lifework was the realizas tion of his father-in-law's dreams of prac- tical philanthropy. Finally, Mr. Hewitt is leaving behind him sons and daughters who are following In his footsteps and proving of much use in the world. A noteworthy and praiseworthy American family is this one of the Cooper-Hewitts. Kansas City Star: Among public men who were eager only for legislation to help their constituents or themselves, Mr, Hew- itt was a conspicuous figure. He was not willing to be a quiet recipient of govern- ment aid. While he would like it so loug 814,085.88 as the people Insisted on paying for it, ho never let slip an, opportunity to point out to them how unnecessary it was and to urge them to let the business develop nats urally without the federal bounty. It was by his public-epirited course, by his stead- fast support of what he belioved publio weltare, even where it seemed to comflict with his own business interests, that Mr. Hewitt made his chief impress upon the country. TIERSONAL NOTES. Governor Taft has succoeded In pacitying everybody in the Philippine country ex- cept the editor of an insurgent newspaper at Manila, Willlam Hill of Honesdale, Pa., 18 the last survivor of the crew of Commodore Stock ton's frigate Congress, which ralsed tho first United States flag over California in 1846. ‘The Isthmian Canal commission has ex- pended over $200,000 in salaries and travel- ing ftems. The members of the . commis- Blon propose to stay with the appropriation to the last ditch. Harold Godwin will rebuild the Willlam Cullen Bryant house at Roslyn on the lines of the original structure which was burned a few weeks ago. Thero will be no ttempt to reproduce the exact interior. There is not a single negro’in elther house of the South Carolina general as- sembly this year. It fs the first time that has been the case since the enfranchise- ment of the negro, although last year there was but one colored member. Licutenant Blakeley, who is In charge of the naval recruiting station at St Louls, says that more than 50 per cent of the men Who offered to enlist have been rejécted be- cause of “flat foot.” He says that more cases of flat foot are found in the cities than in the country. Dr. Sven Hedin has been honorary ‘mem- ber of the Scottish Geographical society, an honor rarely given. It has also awarded him the Livingstone memorial gold medal, for the dlstinguished services which ho ren- dered to science by his explorations in Cen- tral Asia. That medal, which was founded to commemorate the life work of David Liy- ingstone, s the highest distinction which Scotchmen can confer on distinguished ex- plorers. N D T STy POINTED REFLECTIONS, Him ailghtly, Hoe aiways belng rather o hard man.” that man can dull a knife ? Say, %i;::quln' it in his pocket! "—Chicago “Yes, I know S8es me as "lz':fythln hab some comfort 'bout ft,” d Uncle m. “Ef dar warn’ no ice in winter, dar wouldn' be no ice cream in summer.”—Washington Star. Judge—Did the defendant, to your knowl- edge, ever invite another 'to commit pers Jury? Witness—Yes; I once heard him ask & woman her age.—Boston Globe. am going to see the new problem evening, h—1'm surprised, Kitty. They say_ the t fit for a young woman to_ listen_to. Kitty—Yes, I only heard that today. I was iucky enough to get tickets, how- ever, for tonight.—Boston Transcript. Kwoter—You can never judge a man by his_clothes. Newitt—Unless brief authority. It then.—Philadelphia Py Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but the woman in the sleeping car who Keeps all the other women walting for an hour, while she makes her morning tollet, i& not likely to be puffed up by the recetpt of the encomiums of her sex—Somerville Journal. little he's clothed in a 1t's e: to size him up > s, 'na/ don't you try to hand an honored e down to posterity?” “I don't know,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “Maybe I don’t look far enougl ahead. 8o long as my signature is at the bank, .l can't see that my with posterity makes much differen Washington Star. SEEIN' HER HOME FROM meRTDV, James Barton Adams In Denver Post. 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