Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 7, 1903, Page 7

j y A THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ATURDAY, F EBRUARY ALONC THE OCEAN'S FRISCE| - KEEP 1T BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE Captains Ocurageons Who Face Deep Bea Penls Near the Bhore. FIERCE FIGHTS ONSTORM-TOSSED WATERS in Boats | larly as Other | » Cara—The | Fishing Fleet. ' New Yorkwrs W t €Y Day as Re Men Go Ont Go Out EW YORK, Jan. 23.—A paragraph in a anicipal report the other day referring to the citizens of New York who fish for mar ket within its boundaries probably was the | first intimation that the majority of the | population had that such en uneity-like occupation was being followed in the me- tropolis Yet there are so many professional fish- ermen and baymen in New York that their ¥ote is an impartant consideration in sev eral wardd and political divisions, and in a | few districts they are in absolute control They are urban Captains Courageous. A | large pronerition of their number rarely | fishes ouaide of the city limits. In the #ight of the skyscrapers and the thousands of stoam-heated offices, they pass through | ®ea adventure daily. Their battles with | *ea and wind are as hard and often as | deadly as the fights of their brother fisher- men on the Georges and Grand Banks When the gale whips over bay and riv- }ers and sound. and the ferryboats and tugs drive along, sheeted with snow and ice, the | fisheriien of New York ply with safl and OAr 10 look after nets and eel pots. Oyster boais await cargoes and must be satisfied The market is calling for clams and mus- wels. { | | | A blizzard may force these city workers 1o hug their fires in houses and boat eab- jne temporarily. But it must be o real Blizzard. Mere wintry weather that makes other city folk shiver and huddle them selves up does not affect the “cap'ne” a myore than a spring zephyr would Oy®lering Is the leading branch of New York's fishing business. Whole oystering villages form part of the city and figure fa | the Adirectory like any other wection. Every day through the winter, with the | exception only of days when the bays as | hopelessly frozen over, the oystermen are | out as soon a8 the tide has well begun to | ebb. Scattered along the Kill von Kull, Staten Island Sound and Arthur Kills are half a doten primitive little settlements in the borough of Richmond, where almost the entire population goes out as regularly lol tong for oysters as the dwellers in other | perts of New York go out to tong for | money. On the shores of Jamalca bay are thriv- ing towns made up almost entirely of fish- erpen, oystermen and clammers, all cltl- | tens of New York. Fleets of dredgers can be seen in the upper bay any day from the skyscrapers | and from the ferry boats. Up and down they move In equadron formation, each under mainsail alone, dragging the iron dredge astern Well inside of the extreme seaward limit ©f the city, men lie every day in anchored | sloops and schooners, through thick and thin ef weather, fishing for codfish, ling, hake and whiting with hand line and trawl. | Most of them run for home every evering | and carry their catch In to be shipped to the market by express. But it happens | ©often that a wintry storm overwhelms them | #nd drives them far out to sea or forces | them to lie at anchor, swept by icy water for Y.ours, and sometimes days, before they may dare show a rag and beat I at last. Nets Everywhere. The market fishermen's nets are set in the very middle of the busiest harbor traflc. They stretch from the rocks of Governor's island into channels that bear the biggest tonnage in the world. Their stakes and hedges stand for miles in the | western part of the upper harbor, like | fences marking the boundaries of watery tarms. Imost under Grant's tomb are other fishermen. From that point north they ect mets in the winter for striped bass Fishing buts, with their boats and gear, picturesquely draped with fish nets like the cosy corners of flats, are planted along shore as far as one may go northward along the Hudson river. In the whirling tides of Hell Gate Is an- other New York fishing ground where men work for market. On little rocks and Teefs, barely visible above the wrinkied water, stand unpainted shanties with great reels and racks full of tangled netting and lines. Stuck away in the coves and along the preity Dutch shores of the borough of | Queens are groups of houses whose owners | €0 out In boats as reghlarly as their neigh- bors go out in trolley cars. Wild money marts are almost all that are sought by these workers. in the rivers and sound, swift and treacherous tides and ceascless navigation by big vessels make trouble every minute of the day for the men In emall boats. If they anchor along the channel to tong and dredge for oysters and clams they are in peril as constant as are the dory fishermen who lie in the steamer tracks on the Grand Banks In the lower bay danger more manifold | surrounds them. Great as the harbor is, | there are 50 many bars and shoals that in = gale there is poor sea room for sailing vessels. And those shoals of New York harbor are notorious among the sailormen of all the world for their wickedness. In one direction lie the shaggy old Romer sands, with waters spouting white over them even when men ashore look on the sea and admire its calmness. In other directions the cast and west banks lie in walt, each sending up a reef lke the up- | turned end of & scoop When a sudden February roaring Cown on the boats are all against being able anchor and ride it out gale comes the chances to remain at| 1f the wind is not | Omaha People PRAISE PARACANPH. Evidence from home thousand miles away. Hundreds of people are daily using Paracamph in our city with marvelous results. | Mr. O. H. Thorson, 1908 Pierce street, | Omaba, says: “We secured a botile of ! Paracampb from Kubo & Co. drugsists and find it & most valusble remedy for Sore Chest, Headaches and ail Pains in any part of the bedy. We would not be without it in our home for any considera- tion." Mr. F. M. Hawes, 1412 Howard street, Omaha, says: “Having secured a bottle of | Paracamph from Kubn. & Co., druggists, | and given it a thorough trial, I find that it s all that is claimed for it and a most | valusble household necessity.” Paracamph gives instant rellef and cures | Cold in the Head, Sore Throat, Soro Chest. | Croup, Sore Muscles, Frost Bites, Neu- ralgla, Muscular Rbeumatism, Chapped Hands and PFace, Burns, Cuts, Bruises @welling and Inflammations Paracamph is neither a salve, olntme: liniment, but It is a soft solid, and when applied liquefies. opens the pores and penetrates 1o the source of the allment, @rawing out all fever and inflammation. 1t not caly relieves quickly, but cures per- ‘manently. Bvery bottle is guarauteed to do just what we claim for it or your movey re- funded. o take bome a bottle today for insurence agatnst all pains aud sches. is better than a | sucdenly Nebraska Railroad Assessments—What They Have Been— What They Are—What They Should Be. Assessment County. for 1502 Adama Antelope Dlaine . Box Batte.... Brown Ruftale Purt . L050.00 244,405.00 657,127.00 KI8,082.00 227,570.00 6,030.00 .00 Boone [ Chane Cherry Cheyenne Clay Coifax . Cuming Canter Dak Dawson Dawes Deuet 723.402.00 2322.942.00 151,600.00 284,055.00 28K, 525.00 569,025.00 403,550.00 295,800.50 218,155.00 664,365.50 761.004.00 199,292.00 731,400.00 205.008.00 125,520.00 258,400.00 760,710.00 10,485.00 320.00 10%,115.00 Franklin Greetey Hall Hamilton Hartan .. Hayes Hiteheoek Hooker Howard Jeflerson Johnson Kearney 10883 5846 7081 503,104.00 275,126.00 397,744.00 465.512.50 Lancaster .... Lincoln 195,447.00 840,513.00 281,595.00 £R8,767.00 152,730.00 202,670.00 556.828.00 332,185.00 290,924.00 175,400.00 181,560.00 252,690.00 552,574.00 94,870.00 217,079.00 196,060.00 115,600.00 557.617.00 €06.713.00 498,748.00 Nemaha Nuckolis Otoe Pawnee Perking Phelps 412,700.00 130,415.00 220,085.00 217,950.00 114,800.00 454.130.00 116,550.00 £4,400.00 154,255.00 267,000.00 227.700.00 2814.887.00 11,760.00 442,622.00 77.65 57.87 PLRT 22.08 o911 33.30 16.88 40.11 53.40 45.54 en.07 .26 59.92 #29,359,631.00 per mile, The figures above presented are carefully compiled from reports of the authority auditor, the bulietins jssued by stockholders published within the past 1802. .. 1902..... Asscssment for 1902, 6%2,621.60 246,01%.00 Mites 182,07 72.87 18,40 4052 28.5¢ 10819 a5.21 B0 13427 Should Be. ® 128480611 205.402.50 £5,200.00 148,560.00 152.228.75 1,858,764, 241.288.71 552,495.10 1,052,712.50 1.141,147.00 245,53 65,440.00 521.282.75 1,080,016.40 TT4 44841 102.924.00 619,324.00 181,455.00 491,132.00 £62,614.20 204.780.00 55,440.00 | natt 272,494.00 144.088.00 307,108.80 263.022.00 498,801.50 220,124.00 202,348.00 251,646.00 453,022.00 745,531.00 186.930.00 626.924.50 185,661.00 110,548.50 252,207.00 768,042.00 12,676.80 71,863.50 105,026.00 161.851.40 450,570.00 269,557.00 217,976.50 225,528,850 1,214,446.00 265,808.75 525, 40 314,085.88 735,025.85 1,067,865.52 7R2,322.82 208,818.05 20,780.27 12,510.00 62,490.00 92,670.00 208,471, 1,046,549, 1,108,249.53 710.882.00 2, 194,070.00 7,252.00 102,612.00 302.191.40 BRT,933.00 258,249.00 255,500.00 400,806.00 354,855.00 120,524.00 205,867.20 T35,694.50 215,099.00 B18,018.40 115,790.00 202,211.00 517,119.50 525.453.00 369,377,00 151 166.767.00 206,620.00 465,698.00 76,645.00 208,673.00 401,097.00 83,232.00 527.573.20 581,679.00 547,501.80 §8,110.00 332,680.00 271,842.00 1K8,352.80 170,542.00 £5,960.00 415,504.50 118,220.00 1.279,854.20 1,161,201.79 991,062.52 467.300.44 R15,452.80 711,164.40 157,456.78 2.520,812.11 1,201,586.80 467,187.3% 75,076.13 1,843,585.55 131.550.06 136,479.19 244,472.32 1,316,569.25 336,079.93 641,261.29 1,185,582.48 106,930.00 BA5TTLAS R32,663.75 1,015,634.68 120,150.00 343,618.84 206,585.00 490,465.60 1086,150.00 034,046.08 99,900.00 115,644.8% 268,282.40 157,009.47 211.994.54 902,237.07 10,080.00 620,710.08 146,944.40 239,600.00 2NT.353.50 10.214.40 3.262.00 veers $26,589,592.70 2.803,992.55 + . .85,367.06 4.061.57 0.222.14 ate of the railroads and the reports to their year. These documents afford conclusive proof that the aggregate true value of railroads in Nebraska based on net earnings. after deducting operating expenses, betterments and taxes paid, exceeds $312,000,000 An inspection of the table herewith presented shows just how much each county bas lost by gradual reduction of the the aggregate apportionment of railroad 1902 and what at one-sixth of their value based on net that have not reported net earnings, proporty. the aggregate assessment which constitute less entire railroad mileage In the state, is based upon raflroad assessment within the past ten years, assessments to each county for hould be if the railroads were assessed ngs. The appraisement c: railroads than obe-sixih of the value of their tangible the year | ear the favorable for a run toward the shelter of Coney Island Point or the Narrows, there is nothing for it but to set as much sail a man may dare and work out to Sandy Hook and thence to sea So, whenever a sudden storm blocks trafic in New York and makes it a weary struggle for a hundred thousand New Yorkers to get home at night, other citizens are having a still harder time of it. They would hall as luxury the bility of walking home, and they would be well content to wait in a stalled clevated railroad train all night; for they are work- ing in iced oflskins, heaving at iced rig- gings with iced fingers, as they are being blown far away into a black oce Isolated New Yorker winter Even the men who do mot go as far as the Lower bay have their share of the dangers of the sea. For days at a time eccasionally for weeks, they may be storm bound in shanties on bars and marsh islands. Whenever the bay freezes over it is certain to eatch many bay men away from the mainlaud. Then there is Dothing left for them but to remain where they are. These shanties, all lying within the eity of New York, are as wild camps as a man could make in the heart of the Rocky mountains in winter weather. Toward the end of February, when the fce breaks up. the occupants are in danger as imminent es that which threatens any toller of the sea anrwhere. There comes a vight when pedestrians in ity streets hear the water beginning to drip from roofs and eaves, and see the gutters beginning to run, while the wind suddenly turning, begins to blow softly from the south. “Spring is coming,” they say And while crowded New York is expand ing under the sofiening weather New York, only a few miles &way loud with the pealing of cracking ice floes Great fields of white begin to move and beave. Black streaks shoot zIg-zag scross the floes where two huge pieces apart. With each hour the Mke reports and cannonlike boomings grow Then, suddenly, ‘he ebb tide begins to move and. the soft south wind blows against it Toe drives in from the open sea before the wind and meets bending, cracking, shoul- Gering Ooes driven by he Ude. Where lonely split groans and rifie- | they meet, fce slides on ice, field over- | laps field, till enough ice has gathered | to submerge the original fields and make them touch bottom even in channels carry- Ing fifteen and twe feet of water. Floe after fioe, pressed down by siil} floes, settles to the bottom till & dam is made across the chamnel Swaying, groaning, menscing, it holds fast il ebb tide grows in force and gins run strong and swift. Then with rending noises that ring out like shots from batteries of field guns, the \\h'lh-‘ mighty mass gives way and comes rolling, ¥ hing helter skelter, and tumbling over and over down the channel ' new | | the fee Gorges in New York. Each winter whole obliterated by such Protruding as marsh islands are | sttering rams of ice. tongues of land are cut away lean as a pair of shears would cut a of cloth. If the ice happens to spread yond the chaunel, it takes & house as readily as if it were a chip. the bay each morning the time of breaking ice. Every nhmy; man looks around with his telescope to see if any other shanty is fiying his flag, union down, as & signal of distress. It at natural for these citize: of New York to step out in fronmt of their shanties or on the moving decks of their craft each merning and look around at the flags as it is for other citizens to buy a | newspaper. Everywhere around the town | this mute cc begins with the | To bun lonely men it s | comu that they can have | with other men | 100, | It their 1y in case of fllucss, injury or danger. And | s each man knews this, all the blyl‘mn‘ and fshermen of New York scan the flags s esgerly and obey their summons far at sea would re- faithfuliy as sear spond to a dist | on another ship. Show. out b | with it | Sharp in owner is versati reds nication on is chance for help, Two orchestras will furnish the music at tertal » be_given at Boyd's ity Press club on the | february 9. Manager Carl * the Orpheum has just of- fered the services of Lis orchestra, in ad- t yd theater orchestra. So Albin Huster, the Orpheum leader, will di- fect the music for the Orpheum icts and | Ernest Nordin. the Boyd director, will ln.\e charge of the remainaer of the pro- En"n The two orchestras will be com- ed Wroushout. | Columbus | to miners, maintaining that they were f | nished by the operators, wh [ they say | their earnings to th | amounts 10 § WHERE WHITE SLAVES EXIST ] | Shooking Oonditions of Labor Bevealed in Several Ohio Oities. COST OF LIVING HIGHER THAN WAGES | Women Work in ¥\ Night for & Mere Plttance, According to Stat ndries and in Mines at thew, A convention of minere recently 0., challenged the a the state's official statistics of beld at uracy wages paid made the possible showing in their own behalf. state commissioner of labor does not deny the source of the statistics and pronounces the challenge of the min 2 disagree able surprise.”” A diegatch to the Cin Enquirer from the state capital say the qualified admission of the labor com- | missioner of ex parte information virtually | discredits the entire work of the depart- | ment. Even as the official siatistice”stand supplemented with independent | 18 tion, they reveal a shocking condition of affairs, particularly with reference to fe male labor in mines and factories Director of Charities Cooley of Cleveland upon examining the official figures and making an investigation his own ac count, recently asserted that the conditions were absolutely appalling, not to say crim inal. Yet there are reasons for believing that the very best possible showing was made by the employers, and that in reality the conditione are worse than the figures show. Two vears ago the labor commis- sioner appointed three women deputies to | investigate the factory conditions in the state 50 far as their sex was concerned Three cities, Cincinnati, Cleveiand and Columbus, were chosen as the field for their work, and they went abo system ally. Their work was obstructed and ham pered. admission being refused to factories and employes being instructed to furnish no information. So galling was this policy of obstruction that Attorney General was called to the assistance of the depart- ment. It was not until he threatened crim inal proceedings in the name of the state sgainst a number of firms in Cincinnat that the interference ceased and the depu- | ties were permitted to pursue their investi- gations unmolested The n Sheets Laws Vielated. Their reports show that they found many abuses existing, most of them being viola tions of sanitary laws and disregard of | decency in the arrangement of dressing rooms, etc. In many instances there was a total nomobservance of the law requiring safety appliances in case of fire. But the major portion of their work related to the weges paid women and the cost of their living. Their finding is & startling one. The average wage paid to women in Ohio, is $4.88 a week, and that the average income of each operative from other sources amounts to but § cents a week, or $4.88 in all. | The cost of living is $5.24 a week 36 cents more than the income. They find that $2.44 is the average for board and lodging, light and heat 17 cents, clothing $1.25 and other mecessaries $1.39. It seems paradoxical that the cost of living should be higher than the wages received, but the explanation is a simple one after all. Many of the female operatives are young girls who live with their parents, and with other children they contribute their earnings to the general maintenance fund. Otherwise, of course, it would be impossible for them to exist. The average of female em. ployes in 21 years and §"months. In the three cities named there are 1,750 under 18, 3,454 between 18 and 25 and 1,716 who are over 25 years. This s pot the total.number of women employed, it should be understood, but the number of operatives which the deputies found at work in the factories which they visited. The total was 6,920, and this num- ber furnishes the basis for caleulation. , It | will be remembered that during the coal strike investigation testimony was pro- duced showing that the great silk and cot- ton mills of Pennsylvania were being run | with child labor, the meager earnings going | to help out the scanty wages of the father for hie underground toil H Goes to the Family. | The report shows that of the 1,751 opera- tives on the schedule in Cleveland i eir families. In Colum- bus 522 out of 2,155 did the same, while in Cincinnati 1,802 out of 5,59 contributed to | the general good. This exhibits a total of | 3,079, or less than 50 per cent of the whole From this it will be seen that the explan tion goes only part of the way. The query still stands: How do the other 50 per cent | manage to live on the pittance which they receiv. | One of the most remarkable things in | this comnection is the fact that many of | these women workers have persons de- pendent upon them, thus enlarging the mystery of how they manage to live. Of the 1,171 women interviewed in Cleveland it was found that there were 162 persons dependent upon them, or 1 for every 7 workers. In Columbus there were 855 de- pendents for 2,155 workers, or 1 to every 8 1In Cincinnati the ratio was 1 to every 3, there being 1,18¢ dependents upon the 3,594 workers. The average ratio as| gleaned from these figures is 1 dependent for every 4 workers in petticoats. In Cleveland the highest average wages are paid to women employed in the manu- | facture of flags, tents and awnings, and 63 a week. Next come the makers of ladies’ clothing, who get $6.64 The lowest wages are paid to the girls who work in the big machine shops making belts, nuts and washers. Their average pay is $3.46. These girls, it should be re membered, work In th the bighly favored penitentiar ctors in the city, who employ convict labor and are furnished factories, light and heat the bargain. Low as the rate is, the con- tractors pay the state more for the con- | per diem than the Cleveland tacturers allow the girls who the roar and grind of their huge or | on manu work amid machines. Visltors Were Amased, The delegation of British workingmen who visited this country s guests of Sir Alfred Mosely were amazed at the employ- ment of girls in this form of employment, | and upon their return home published le ters demouncing it. They pointed out the fact that these female slaves were com pelled to be constantly on their feet watch- | ing several of the automatic machines. The deputy commissioner, who visited one of these belt works in Cleveland, found tha the forewoman of the packing departmen GRAIND THE PURE GRAIN COFFEE The coffee habit is quickly over- come by those who let Grain-O take its place, If properly made it tastes like the best of coffee. No grain coffee compares with it in flavor or healthiulness. TRY IT TO-DAY. Al grocers everywhess | 15c. and Sc. pas package | en | plete | poods was pald $10.5 for precisely It was al found that women were grad ually driving men out of 11 of ehoes, their employers. reduce the same work in the the production, placin young girls as operators of dangerous ma chines. In every a was displaced wage was cut almost squarely in tw Columbus the highest wages are by the women in the employ of makers, the average being §7 Next in importance are the pursue ghastly trade of cofin making They earn $6.83 cach week. The paid operatives are manufa $2.66 n week that ¢ elo is lower ties The operatives are those ake womén's clothing, and they are pa $5.44. Awning and tent makers earn § a women employed in candy factor s get only $3.34. It has been ascertais that the average number of hours each week by femal n factor cost of instance where by a woman s re a week women the those wh average e records show than the other the opera or nearly ten hour Eight In o rds than § cents ar of which ing” eystem prevails in some ness, while the black with ances of overtime without pay The women deputies, be rememb took up only such forms of employme Cents mn Hour er w they rece hour for d. The ve slightly m might be termed skilled or partly so, where | | with is an interesting study to | have women came into actual male workere. It observe into what manufactures they penetrated. Nearly all of the awninge tents and flags are made by them. making of paper boxes, it may be said, i irely In their hands, and they large the making of wooden boxes has been pointed they ariving the males out of th dustr the help of on factory in o grind out a competitio assis ly in As o are boot the 1 bore th bak n with only bu ploye gi of pea cracker manufa ing and wrapping They are being slowly carriage and buggy trade the machines which stit leather tops and trimmings the clothing, male and female them, the males being gradually sessed. In the machine too: shops hines io all the pack- troduced into the rators heavy Nearly all ¢ is made they h he {are also forcing the men aside and are In their numbers making the race warm for the convicts the great tobacco industry are multiplying, the packing, rolling, flling and stripping departments being almost entirely in their hands. distant when they will be making the com- cigar themselves driven from the market The report of the deputies shows that the constant handling of tobacco produces an appetite for strong drink and that the female is not exempt from it. They report that th found the girls in factories Joud and insolent are to be labeled, wrapped and packed girls are being introduced to take the place of men and boys. the drug and medical trade Wherever of the coffee {and epice business and of the distilling in- | America Owes Duty rugs, | dustry. Women gloves, suspenders are making the belts and shirts of the state. They make and pack the jellies and pickles in the large factories. employed in large numbers and binderies. EACH SOLDIER BLAMES OTHER Fort Sheridan Soldicrs Charged wit Steallng Arms Plead Companio Alone in Guilty. CHICAGO, Feb. 6.—The court-martial ofy &8¢ Sergeants Leonard and Swentsel at Fort Sheridan today was marked by the attempt | of each to throw the blame for leged misdeeds on the other. Swentsel swore that the guns and them. their al- theft Sergeant Bailey testified that suggestions to raid the Fort Sheridan ste- | tion and sell blankets and grain belonging to the government. Sergeant Webb mad | similar chargee NO GREASE OR DANGEROUS DRUGS. In “Herpicide” the New Scientific and Successful Dandrufl Treatment Have you dandruff? contagious parasite disease, healthy snd one that will eventually to baidness. To cure it you must de the parasite that eats at the root bair. The only preparation for destroying these germs is Newbro's Herpicide Klein of Laramie, Wyo., says unpleasant, un lead troy stopped my hair's falling out, and it bringing 2 new crop of hair is free from grease and makes hair glossy and soft as silk One bottle will convince you of its merits. {SENATE ALSO OPPOSES PACT| ington Legislature Pa Alaskan Boun- ry Treaty. OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. tion was raised in the senaie today to th passage of the jolnt memorial adopted by the house yesterday again e ratification of the treaty with Great Britain conoern g the Alaskan bound: The memorial passed with but diesenting SHOOTS DESERTING Miner 6.—Slight opposi five votes Colorado Kills Untaithfa Woman, Afterwards Commb ting Suiclde. LEADVILLE, Colo., Feb. Cassagranda, a miner, today blew out brains with & revolver after twice his wife, who had deserted him. The woman's wounds are mortal LOCAL BREVITIES. Chadowich streets was Frederic Eckstrom hicago to withess & George in kstrom rank Calta asks divorce from Mary alleging Infidelity and naming Frank Mert co-respondent. The Calta marriage w January 2, 188, and they two da ters G. M. Hitchcock will address the Philosophical society at 2:3 p. at the Paxton hotel on Laborer is Worthy of His Hire lic is invited divorce vid Anna Dorcas of Seventeenth arrested vesterda ity warrant left last night serformance of Gr £EY which the ng for ar lea. topic. ““Th The pub suit Judge rder for of Mary Day has gra temporary 330 per month apd for Thomas « lda, alleging she has trefe jealousy that married them has become unbearabie married April %, 1882 Frank Eichelberger has commenced sul in district court against the Union Yards company for § 0. He considers tha exhibited such ex life They he was injured in that amount January &, sheep pens, a from & scaffold and struck 198, when. in rebutlding the crowbar fell Bim on bis head and right shoulder. per week and that she had ucceeded & man who was paid §24 a week ure ell the average In eived he regalia | e who | | worked The { adually and shoe The day is not far and then the penitentiary con- | tractors who employ convict labor will find the tobacco This is true of | Leonard had stolen | that he merely disposed of Leonard swore that he had not been | '/¢ in the deal and that he knew nothing of the | Leonard had approsched him at different times with Then you have & of the Charles | Herpicide | |allayed the itching, cured the dandruff and | { ¢rtitled to organize to get his own. After is | the Herpicide | or dangerous drugs es Pro- WIFE 6.—Valentine | shooting and avy Omaha m. Sunday J. Fleming ted the alimony Stock (-} | i Sight Drafts who i 1 not ‘ | the “Strongest | but the PROMPTEST R. 8. Hall J. H. McCulloch Law Offices of Hall & McCulloch Omaha Nat'l Bank Bidg. OMAHA Mr. H. D. Neely, Manager, Omaha, Neb. r: We beg 206 Dear drafts for § Of about twenty-five were sent to the various « claim that its poli Yours truly, HALL \ “Strongest in B Henry B. Hyde, founder. Read the following letter— Equitable Life Assurance Bociety, 50 in settlement of policies on the life of the late Dean Campbell Fair. These claims were handed you January 29th and checks in payment bear date of February 2d. ‘of over 70,000 of insurance, many of which claims ‘ompanies on the same day, your checks are the first the estate has rec Promptness in a matter of this kind is of the great- est value, and our experience confirms the Equitable’s ps are “sight drafts at maturity. The Equitable Life Assurance Society. ‘l H. D. NEELY, Manager, Merch. Nat'l Bank Bid’g, Omaha, Neb. at Mat_ljrity \ FIRST TO PAY $70,000 Insurance in 25 Companies | Eluitable only m the Worid" in the world. FEBRUARY 5, 1903. to acknowledge receipt of licies covering an aggregate ived. & M'CULLOCH, Attorneys. the World” — O MUST SETTLE RACE WAR Roet Says Attempt to Make Black Oitisens Has Failed COUNTRY NEEDS TO TRY NEW SYSTEM to Negroes So Long Held in Slavery, but Diffi They are in printeries NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—The fortieth anni- | versary of the Union League club was celebrated at the club house tonight by & reception tendered to the survivors of those who joined the club in 1863. The first year the club was organized 542 members joined. Of that number thirty-two are still members of the club fiftcen were present tonight, among | them being Daniel F. Appleton, Legrand B. Canvon, Henry Clews, Everett Clapp, ohn 1. Denny, Thomas Denny, W. F. Dodge, W. E. Foote, Horace Fuller, Charles Lanier and Salem Towne Russell There were about other members of club present A letter of regret w eived from President Roosevelt | Seeks Solution of Negro Problem. Elihu Root, secretary of the navy, was hairman, who congratulated the veterans the club for having woven the thread into the fabric of the great life of the country He added: There are many today upcn which the ernment depends. There are today situ tions of possible evile i~ our country that call for devoted patriotism. First, division Detween the rich and poor, in Which wealth controls legislation and poverty is trying {0 stir up @ war of classes, but every good citizen should declare that never that in ihis free land ehall we have a war of classes There are some labor organizations who fight against the better man doing more Work than the poor man and pull down the competent man to the level of the incom- petent and stupid. 1 do mot declare war against labor or- anizations. 1 belleve in them. The laborer problems civil war the great question was, | “What shall we do with the black man? and the answer was, i equal rights and he will rise. hree amendments were added constitution and 1 fear we will | face the conclusion that the ex has failed. The suffrage has been away from the negro and in many southern states the black man no hae the right of suffrage A curious development has been within the last vear. President Rc has appointed fewer black men than Presi- dent McKinley did, and there are today fewcr black men holding office than whe Mch iniey died, but outcries are heard in the | south about Pres Roosevelt's policy of Appointing biack men to office in the south | Under McKinley, Cleveland, Harrison and back to H times more negroes were appointed to office and nothing was said 'A black man attended an official recep- to have the taken »f the longer n | We are very proud of the fact that doc- turs so gener- ally indorse Ayer’s Cher- ry Pectoral. There aretwo reasons for this: First, we send the ¥ formula to r any physician 1 upon request; | and, second, i ! the physician . between were, t t chitis, and all other throat and agree with us. Thre sizes : coming up | fety of this gov- | ‘Give him citizenship, | to | iment | tion in Washington at the White House a shorl time go. The black man as an offi- clal of the government had always at- tended these reception. Yet this Invitation resulted in a loud outery from the pape; Must Face Con .. 1 do not want want to show th dition of feeling I black man e denie the highest there ship. This right to argue the At we have to face a con- n the south, where the e Tight o aspire to 16 In American cltizen- to_aspire the highest dignity is now questioned. In a short time white man will succeed in excluding e black from all offices in the southern states. We can never throw off the re- sponeibility that rests on our people for the welfare of these black people that we held in_slavery for so many generations. Now that the first attempt has fafled the | question is what to do, and will take the greatest thought of the greatest minds of | the country. EVADE GERMAN GRAIN DUTY din Charged with Mixin Wheat with that Grown in Ameriea. question. 1 Ca BERLIN, Feb. 6.—Herr Roeelcke, agrar- | 1an, complained in the reichstag today that Canadian wheat continued to come to Ger- | meny as American wheat, thus paying @ | duty of §7% cents per 100 instead of $1 Interior Secretary von Posadowski-Weh- ner replied’ that the legend to the effoct that much Canadian wheat was coming in mixed with American continued to circu- |late, but the government had thoroughly investigated the reports and had been un- ble to find proofs. Experts who had exam- ived recent ehipments, which appeared sus- pclous, had decided that the excess of duty must be refunded. The German cus- toms authorities and the consuis of Ger- many in the United States were doing everything to prevent evasions of the law As for Canadian flour, it was impossible to { detect the country in which it originated. LYNCHING NO BAR TO OFFICE Court Holds Law SULLIVAN, Ind., Peb. 6—Judge O. B. Harris of the circuit court today held that the state law depriving @ sheriff of his office should he fail to protect a prisoner from a mob is unconstitutional The decision of the court was in the test | suit brought by the state on the relation of Coroner Maxwell against Sheriff Dudley, charged with failing to protect James Dil- | lard from a mob some months ago. 4 Receiver Appointed. { AVENWORTH, Ka W. C. Hook of the Unite night stated that he had a E. Cole, former state aud the third receiver or trustee to conduct the affairs of the Kensas Mutual Insurance company. Cyrus Leland and W. W, Hooper are the other trustees. Feb. 6 Blates oo sinted_George tor of Kaneas, Judge rt 1o | “ That's all right. Keep on giving 4t to M. sees for himself that the medicine is all we claim for it We make no extravagant claims. We raise no false hopes. Avyer’s et I Cherry Pectoral Sixty years of experience make us believe that this is the best medicine in the world for colds, coughs, croup, bron- lung troubles. And the doctors 2., Soc., $1.00. J.C. AVER CO., Lowell, Mass.