Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 11, 1903, Page 6

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Remit by draft, express or postal order, able to The Bee Publishing Company, 3-cent stamps accepted in payment of IIII-“ accounts. ‘ersonal checks, except on Omaha_or. eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. Ptk uniinr A y SBTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. EEEBIREERENEEE Lesa undold and returned coples ot total sales... et average sales. X oy GBORGE B. TZSCHUCK. resence and sworn to bef¢ i S5t of January, A. D. | ey W B HUNGATE, ) ‘Notary Public. I we are to have a new city charter, 1t is about time for it to make its ap- pearance at Lincoln. Se—— Having demonstrated the accuracy of his weather predictions, the groundhog 1s willing to be lenfent. m——— The legislative redistricting bill has duly made fts appearance. The judiclal redistricting bill should follow quickly. i e ] ‘Whatever may be thought of Mr. Ad- dicks and his methods, the staying qual- ities of his supporters cannot fall to command admiration. e——— Nobody has as yet explained why the school board wants to set apart $11,000 trom the school tax levy for 1908 for the purchase of text books. At the Tilden banquet in New York, Charles G. Hamlin talked just as if he had run for governor of Massachusetts and been elected instead of defeated. emmpmtde—— It will be remembered how Governor Savage sublet the selection of his Omaha police board to John N. Baldwin and Dave Mercer and what a mess théy made of it. — No need of worrying about what Speaker Henderson will do after he lays down the gavel March 4 next. The speaker may be depended on to take care of himself. Bvery time a property owner in Omaha pays $5 In city taxes he pays $1 ‘which the railroads ought to pay. Will any member of the legislature contend that this is just? em— The Philippine extradition bill having become a law, people contemplating en- forced trips abroad will observe the precaution of marking our new insular possessions off their list of countries to be visited. e It {s Intimated from Washington that Our Dave might accept a federal ap- Polntment 1f it should be offered to him. His anxiety to basten back home (7) as soon as his term In congress is ended seems to have singularly abated. Teemp— Senator Carmack evidently holds Sec- retary Root in mighty small esteem. But Mr. Root will manage to worry along If the Tennessee senator will only confine himself to letting off exhaust steam on the floor of the senate. — /In view of recent incidents we belleve ‘the public might be easily stirred up to exhibit a lively Interest in the discussion of that time worn proposition regularly threshed out by. every up-to-date college del {patulilyy Is it safex to seems to bave renched the stage of com- petition between the two opposing polit:’ fcal parties to prove that the other has promised more and done less for 'the people of the territories now seeking ad- mission inte the Union as states. P Ei—— President Baer's interest in the non- union miners is intense when it happens that the nonunlon miners are contending for the same thing that the coal barons want. Let the nonunion men organize or even ask for some concession with- out concerted action and watch Presi- dent Baer become decidedly less sympa- thetic. 4 ——— The solicitude of the rallroad lobby- NEBRASKA AND WISCONSIN, The battleground of tax reform is by no means confined to Nebraska. The conflict with corporate taxshirkers s ragiig in other states, notably in Wis- consin, more furiously f anything than it f8 in Nebraska. But there is a marked contrast between the attitude of the Wisconsin law makers and the Ne- braska law mmkers as regards railroads and thelir interference with legislation. In Wisconsin legislative bulldozers of the stamp of Baldwin are not tolerated. The contrast between the legislature of Wisconsin and that of Nebraska Is forci- bly fllustrated by the fact that the ap- peal of the railroads against increased taxation 18 to be made before the legis- lature by the presidents of the various rallroads during the present week and not by a paid gang of legislative cor- ruptionists. Speaking of the situation in Wisconsin, the Chicago Record-Her- ald says: The time bas come when the railroads will bave to place their cards face up on the table and carry their points by sheer force of argument. They will have to show their position to the people of Wisconsin and in the manner that the man who earns $1.50 can understand. The day of the lobby- ist with his peculjar methods is passed. He has no place in dealing with the tax- ation problems. | Whether the rallroads shall pay an increased tax or whether they are now $1,000,080 short of what they ought by Governor LaFollette, %11l have to he decided I gold facts. It the rail- s'it is, the chances are against any incréase being made. On the other hand, if they cannot do this, it'is absolutely certain, public sentiment being what it is, that they will have to draw bigger checks for the next two years and thereatter. The contrast between the Wisconsin and the Nebraska legislatures is also manifest by the vigor with which the bill for the abolition of the lobby I8 being pressed in Wisconsin. The first section of that bill provides that it shall be unlawful for any lobbylst or any agent of any lobbylst to solicit the vote of any member of the legislature for or against any bill or measure before that branch of the legislature or to influence or to attempt to influence any member of such legislature to vote for or against any such bill or. measure. While this does not prevent anyone from appearing before a committee when a bill is up for consideration, {t means the death knell of the third house if it becomes a law, and there is every indication that it will become a law. Why should not.the Nebraska legisla- ture emulate the example of the Wis- consin legislature and legislatures of other states that are cursed with organ- ized gangs of hireling bribe-givers? e THE PRESIDENT AND THE TRUSTS. It is stated that President Roosevelt caused the public announcement to be made that the Standard Ofl company was endeavoring to prevent anti-trust legislation and that telegrams bad been recelved by United States senators, signed by the head of the ofl trust, urg- ing that such legislation be stopped. A ‘Washington dispatch says that if this be the fact, or if it should be generally believed to be the fact by trust mag- nates, “the political significance of such a development would be very great and might have a very important bearing on the action of the next national re- publican convention.” The obvious meaning of this is that the trusts may endeavor to defeat the nomination of President Roosevelt next year. It is by no means improb- able that they will do so. It is not to be doubted that the men generally who are in control of the great combinations are hostile to the president. A New York republican paper. recently sald that it is a matter of common notoriety that the trust influences are so deter- mined to make an end of Mr. Roosevelt that if his nomination cannot be pre- vented they will even go to the extreme length of backing a “conservative” dem- ocrat to beat him for election. No In- telligent man will underrate the power and influence of the great combinations. They are vast and far-reaching and if exerted In the political field will not be without effect. But we do not believe that the trusts can compass the defeat of President Roosevelt {p the next re- publican national convention and we think his election would be made the more certaln by their opposition. A very large majority of the American people are well satisfled with the course of Mr. Roosevelt in regard to the trusts. The policy of dealing with them which he has recommended is moderate and conservative. It does not propose to revolutionize but sinply to regulate, It is not designed to destroy but rather to preserve that which is worthy of preser- vation and eliminate that which is not. It contemplates no injury to whatever is lawful and fair and honest. No cor- poration that is complying with the ’ !l"'llld dealing in a straightforward ‘way (with the public has anything to fear from the Roosevelt policy. The earnest determination of the president to secure legislation which he belleves to be necessary to check the growth of / monopolistic combinations and to protect the public against their evils has the practically unanimous approval of the people. They know him to be absolutely sincere and they feel confident fhat whatever legislation Is enacted he will make all possible effort to enforce. They want such a man in THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, less secure in this respect when the next republican national -convention meets. INCREASED FREIGHT RATER A protest against the recent general in- creases in freight tariffs on grain and grain products, dressed meats and other commodities hae been filed with the Interstate Commerce commission in be- half of the producers and shippers of lowa and the west generally. The pro- test sets forth that the railways have partaken more largely of the general prosperity than any other class of prop- erty in the United States; that their earnings are largely increased over pre- vious years, net profits and dividends {mmense, surplus unprecedented; that their stocks doubled in value in the last five years as a rvesult. It is further urged that freight can be handled and Is being handled by the rallroads one- half cheaper than ten years ago on account of improvements In methods of transportation. The protest adds: “The railroads have already, by a 22 per cent increase in the 1900 classifica- tion, more than recouped themselves for the claimed increase in expenses on ac- count of advance In material, wages, ete, and the increased tonnage of the country, on account of the increase and development of the shipping commodi- ties of the country, promises still larger earnings and dividends.” The commis- slon is asked to require the corporations to open their books to inspection by that body. That the statements in the protest are true the recent statistics of railroad business and earnings conclusively show. The traffic of the past year and partic- ularly since the beginning of the move- ment of the last crop has been unpre- cedented. For months. the railroads, especially the eastern lines, have had their facllities greatly overtaxed apd necessarily their earnings have been larger than ever bhefore. The last num- ber of the Financler gives figures of the earnings of the lines east and west of Pittsburg and Erie for 1802, showing a great Increase over the preceding year. It appears that in four years the gross earnings of these lines have increased over $80,000,000, The balance applicable to dividends was $10,041,000 in 1899 and $21,682,000 at the close of 1901. For 1902 the surplus over charges amounts to all of $25,000,000, or over 12 per cent on the stock without taking into account expenditures for improvements. The earnings for 1901 were equal to 11 per cent on the entire outstanding stock. The western raflroads have been rela- tively presperous and as the protest states have more than recouped them- selves for the claimed increase in ex- penses. In December last the Interstate Com- merce commission called on the rafl- roads to give thelr reasons for advancing freight rates and most of them have replied, but it 1s stated that the replies are not satisfactory to the commission. Therefore it proposes to pursue the in- quiry and a hearing has been arranged for the 26th of this month, when rep- resentatives of the leading rallroads will go to Washington to answer such ques- tlons as the commission may desire to put to them. Whether the Inquiry will have any practical result is problemat- fcal. The fact is that the advance in rates is the natural outgrowth of the merger system, by which immense blocks of largely watered stocks have been thrown upon the market with the | promise of paying profitable returns in the future, Er—— STRICTLY NONPARTISAN. In trying to justify the violation of home rule principles in the proposed ap- pointment of a water commission by the governor instead of a commission elected by the people, or appointed by the mayor and council, the champjons of that extraordinary measure declared their main object to be the complete ex- clusion of the commission from polities. The commission, they said, was to be strictly nonpartisan and must always so remain; But this feature of the bill does not seem to have impressed itself very strongly upon the politiclans. The first thing out of the box is a per- sonal appeal to the governor by that stanch nonpartisan, Charles A. Goss chairman of the republican county com- mittee, to allow the executive committee of the republican county committee to name the members of the commission. Why the republican county committee, a majority of whose members live in South Omaha and in the country pre- cincts, should rush into the breach is inexplicable. If the water commission is really to become political spofls the republican city commlittee should, by all means, have precedence. If the prerogative of the republican county machine or city machine to name the members of the water works board is conceded, why not also concede the right to name the three democratic members of the water com- mission to the democratie county or city machine? We feel sure they would name simon pure democrats instead of half-breeds or republican democrats, We note that a bill has been intro- duced into the legislature to reduce the interest rate on .registered warrants issued by the city of Omaha from 7 to 5 per cent. This bill ought to pass. The city receives only 2 per cent on the de- posit balances of its treasury, and the the executiye office and they have the power to place him there in spite of the hostility and the machinations of the trusts. Let the people clearly under- stand that the combinations are bent upon making an end of President Roosevelt and they will rally to his support with an enthusiasm that will overwhelm all opposition. There are Intimations of schemes and in in behalf of others. If there be m: will prove futile. Theodore Roosevelt difference between the interest it re- ceives dnd the Interest it now pays s too great. Five per cent warrants ought to command par right along without en- tailing any loss whatever upon the city's creditors. The reduction in warrant in- terest rate would only be recognition of the reduction in current interest rates on commercial loans that has taken place in the last few years. 1 At the celebration over the Brazilian- Argentine boundary arbitration in Rio Japeiro, enthusiastic admirers of the part played by the United States in the award are sald to have cried out, ! limited arrived there. ltve Cleveland and Roosevelt” If any further proof were needed to comvince Oolonel Bryan that Grover Cleveland was not a democrat, this would be con- clusive, In 1882 the assessment of 1,944 miles of raflroad in Nebraska aggregated $12.- 680,670, or $6,510.76 per mile. In 1002 5,706 miles of ralirond In Nebraska were assessed for $20,422,782, or $4.636.92 per mile. At the mileage rate of 1882 the assessment for 1502 would have been £37,197,880, or $10,775,148 more than the roads have been assessed for last year, And yet John N. Baldwin insists that the railroads are paying more than their share of taxes now when every mile of railroad in Nebraska is worth fully double its value of twenty years ago. The next move promised at Lincoln Is the imposition of a governor-appointed fire and police commission upon South Omaba. Of course the proposal which purports to take the departments out of politics comes from a bunch of discred- ited politicians who hope to catch on by this circuitous route. If 1t is true that the exposure of the Rockefeller intrusion lnto the anti-trust legislation is to be credited to the occu- pant of the White House, whatever President Roosevelt may lose in popu- larity with the trust magnates will be made up by gains in popularity with the masses. - m—————— Shadows of Coming Troul Baltimore American, There are faint signs that the twentleth century I8 going to see a rebellion against the sardine system of street car traveling. Somew! Behind the Times. Somerville Journal. In these days of skillful modern surgery the man who has never had an operation performed feels somewhat as if he weren't wholly up to date. More Seared Than Hurt, ‘Washington Post. Americans are introducing the quick- lunch system in London, and the editors over that way are warning their readers against it and declare it is wicked. The dyspepsia cure man usually follows the quick lunch. Paper From Cornstalks. Minneapolis Journal. If the Department of Agriculture suc- ceeds in producing good paper from corn- stalks it will have done the country a great service. Spruce trees that take thirty years to grow will be too expensive to com- pete with the stalks, and we shall not need to worry about our paper supply or about our forests so much as we do. And perhaps we will get better paper, Join the Don't Worry Clab, ‘Washington Post. Mr. Cleveland went to a photographing establishment in Philadelphia the other day to have his pleture taken. While he wi there quite a crowd collected on the side- walk and when he came out he was en- thusiastically cheered. By putting these two facts together and considering what has happened In the pi some people will be able to make themselves extremely un- happy. (I' Trafts, Chieago Chronlole. ‘With all due deference to the shocked statesmen of the senate, it may be sald that if the Mormon religion really constitutes the dominant and impelling influence in the lives of {ts professors the fact hardly constitutes an argument against ft. A creed which exercises so much power over men's lives can hardly be utterly and irre- trievably fal There must be some re- deeming traits In it. Am Inflated Estimate. Philadelphta Press. The talk about there being 10,853,396 men in this country available for the militla may sound big, but it does not mean much. That 1s an estimate ot the males of militia age. Many are unfit for military service, quite & number are foreigners and not much over 100,000 are armed, and they have for the most part anclent arms. It would take considerable time and money to organize and drill a modest army out of that raw material. But provision should be made for that purpos DEFECTIVE TRAIN DISPATCHING, Fallure to Delive spon an O le for a Wreck. New York Sun, Detalls now at hand concerning the cause of the frightful head-on collision between two passenger trains on the Southern Pa- cific rallway near Valls, in Arizona, which occurred only a few hours after the wreck in New Jersey, bring up for fresh con- sideration the existing method of running trains by telegraph. It appears that Operator Clough, at Vails, eparate orders for the bound west, which was twelve hours late, One of these orders directed that it should meet, or “cross,” a freight at Esmond, a station four miles away, while the other order specified where the limited should meet through passen- ger train No. 7, eastbound. The first order, involving the freight, was properly deliv- ered to the conductor and engineer of the limited; but the second and more important order, concerning the meeting of the two passenger trains, was not delivered at all. This being the case, the engineer of the ‘westbound train drew out of Vails with the understanding that, except for the freight at Esmond, he had a clear track. The orders were probably sent several minutes apart, and it may be that some time elapsed after they were recelved at Valls before the At any rate, Opera- tor Clough forgot that he had more than one order, and did wot discover his mls- take untll the train had gone. Practically, this wreck on the Southern Pacific was of the same nature as the one of & few weeks ago on the Grand Trunk rafllway, in Canada, wherein twenty-eight persons were killed and as many more in- jured. In the case of the Grand Trunk dis- aster the operator misinterpreted a casual remark of the dispatcher, taking It as a command, and allowed a train for which he had orders to proceed without them. Can train dispatching be called safe which leaves wide open the door for blun- ders like these? After the Vails operator bad repeated one of his orders to the dis. pateher and recelved the “O, K.” thereon, why did not the dispatcher, kmowing that another order was in Clough's hands and that the conductor and engineer for whom it was Intended were ready to sign it, insist upon (he repetition of that erder at omce? It will be said that the dispatcher obeyed the rules of the road, whereas the operator * Re- FEBRUARY 11, 1908. Ripples on the Current of Life on the Metropolia. The strenuous life among the wealthy “Yesterday morn- has its pathetic side. relates the New York Sun, “an auto. ng. mobile rolled up Fifth avenue. pants. vehicle moving at a moderate wate. a short distance behind the first there rolled another private automobile It proceeded with years old and her nurse. agaln. Both of the children were born to wealth the sable- decked youngster in one automobile is new in Europe Wving with her second husband, and position. The mother of who is no telation to the child. He re- mains with the father when the father hap- pens to be in New York. The father of the child In the second automobile has a second wife and this child lives with her mother— that s to say, she lives with her when the mother s not at Afken or in Florida in | the winter and in Europe or at Newport in the summer. In spite of the servants, the furs and the automobiles there was an un- deniable pathos about the little procession of orphans—orphans of a new kind, but none the less bereft for that reason. Sixty gay, laughing, giggling, a Ninth avenue elevated train at One Hun- dred and Sixteenth street on Tuesday aft- ernoon. Thelr ages were from 12 to 17. Many were well dressed. pretty. They owned the car, which might have been reserved for them, as only two .| men were In it when it reacned their sta- tion. At Ninety-third street an old woman entered, looking feeble and tired, but not one of all these maidens offered her a seat. She supported herself by leaning on the back of a cross-bench until the car arrived at Warren street, where many of the girls got out. Surely the home training of those girls has been sadly neglected. The New York Central's plans for the | expenditure of about $20,000,000 in recon- structing its terminals in New York Oity, ineluding the abolition of grade crossings in owelylng districts and the substitution of electricity for steam as the motive power for trains within the city, were con- sidered by the board of estimate last week, in the form of bills that have been drafted for introduction in the legislature. The Interesting fact was disclosed that the officers of the company are considering the erection of a station on Forty-second street, which will include a twenty-story hotel and possibly a large department store, after the manner of the large terminal hotels and stations often seen in England. While it cannot be stated definitely that such a station will be erected, the English plan 1s finding much favor in New York. A large modern hotel, a department store and two or three theaters may be built at the Pennsylvania station, and, whether or not the Central constructs a combined hotel and terminal, one or more large hotels will be bullt near the station on Forty-second street. The Central plans include a con- nection with the subway. It is said that work will begin in thirty days after the necessary bills are passed and that all of the improvements will be completed within between the city and the company will probably be en- five years. The agreement tered into this week. A compromise payment of $115,000 to David C. Johnson, a well known sporting man in New York City, has revealed the the Neéw York and Pittsburg millionaire, had $1,000,000 in the year preceding his fact that young Theodore Hostetter, lost death in New York gambling houses. Hostetter died last August. Mr. debt. for borrowed money. He said that fre- quently when Hostetter wanted money in a $5,000 to $20,000. He says he also gambled with hurry he had loaned him from Hostetter when the latter wished it, and that Hostetter had wén $30,000 from him on the last presidential election. He had also matched pennfes with him at $1,000 a was merely for my own protection, and with no fdea it would get into the courts, that I toss. “I did not Intend to sue; it put my claim into the hands of Howe & Hummel,” sald Mr. Johnson. ‘‘Mrs. Hos- tetter will say, I am sure, that I always treated her husband as a sincere friend and that I was more service than loss to | him when it is considered what a plunger he was. I helped him to win many thou- sands by advising him in his bets. It Theodore Hosetter lost $1,000,000 here T do not know anything about it. I want to say right now that he was the nerviest gentlo- man plunger that T ever saw, and you may say the luckiest as well.” A sult against the Hosetter estates was brought in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, several weeks ago. The court records show that the papers were marked “compromised and settled.” There is no city in the world where a woman, during a day's shopping, can get s0 many things for nothing as she can in New York, according to the Times, ‘Men and women are employed especially to make her comfortable. In any one of a dozen large department stores there is a parior where she can write all the letters she wishes to, make appointments with her friends by telephone, find a maid to walt upon her, a compartment to put away any purchases she may make and have them all tied up until she is ready to take the train for home. She need not leave any one store all day it the weather happens to be bad. She can get an excellent meal there at a rea- sonable price. As she wanders around demonstrators are constantly tempting her to try a cup of chocolate or some kind of breaktast food, served with cream on dainty little dishes. She may collect no end of artistically illustrated booklets and samples of special foods to take home with her. In at least two stores she may hear a really good concert by well-pald musi- clans, either In the morning or afterncon 1t she is accustomed to buying one par- ticular brand of coffee or tea she gets a premium card with every pound that in time enables her to get for nothing a hand- some plece of furniture or a et of books. Magistrate Crane of the police court in Harlem, N. Y., thinks that when the sani- tary code comes in to collislon with com- mon pense it is the former that must give way. A Degro was brought before him charged with violating section 115 of the code, which refers to the beating of carpets, rugs, etc. The magistrate discharged the prisoner, eaying it was absurd to arrest anyone on such & charge. “I have my own rugs beaten almost every week, and where can the work be dome better than in the yard? District Attarcey Jerome of New York is disposed to look with mome degiee of prids on the result of his last years work in helping reform the police department of that city. Csptain Gannon bas just been convicted of irregular practices and fined $250; Captain Moynihan and Acting Ci tain Churchill have also been “broke: Captain Foody Ras been reprimanded; Cap- tains Delsney, Price, Creeden, Chapman, Eheekan snd Inspecies Harley have retired uader pearimacd A very young child and his nurse were the occu- The fur-covered chauffeur kept the Only vehicle the same deliberation and it contained a child not more than 3 The two vehicles continued bn their way to the park and an hour later were making down the avenue garish school girls scrambled into the last car of Many were Johnson denied that the $115,000 was entirely a gambling Its payment in part, he sald, was TALK OF THE STATE PRESS. Fairbury Gazette: The leglslature seems to be getting right down, to business That's good politics, and it is the best way to fnsure a republiean legislature two i& to be elected Neligh Yeoman: There seems to be a pre valling sentiment in Nebraska in favor of a larger homestead in the Sand Hill sec- tions. But unless the right to commute is rescinded the change 1t all the easier for the stockmen to gobble up large tracts. Falrbury Gazette: The proposed plan to divide Nebraska into two federal judiclal the Platte river, hangs fire. time there will be two districts, but such does not seem to be the case at present. But it looks llike the question might be decided from a po- It may be In As it {s now, the federal court, bag and baggage, is put on wheels and becomes a traveling caravan twice a year to points where there is nothing to do but open court and adjourn Norfolk Press: The best way for a pub- lic official to retain his job is by giving good and faithful service. That is what the Press asks of any of them, because it is their duty to the public. The acts of a public officer are legitimate subjects of criticism, and because a newspaper points out that an officer has done wrong it is not vilitying or abusing him. Yet it is the common cry of the wrong officlal and his friends that he Is being vilified when his wrongful acts are pointed out. It Is the duty of every newspaper to do just that very thing and the Press proposes to live up to its duty'in that line, no matter whom it may hurt Aurora Republican: What will be done with the supreme court commission ls the question uppermost in the minds of the at- torneys. The present arrangement is most unsatisfactory. We have the spectacle of one set of commissioners handing down one kind of decision and another set making a | directly opposite decision on the same questions of law. The supreme court stands as supporting all decisions and the decislons from Nebraska are so mixed up as to bo of little value as precedents to follow. Nebraska decisions have been none too widely accepted in other courts and they may, under the present conditfons, lose their their value alogether. A change is due at once. Nelson Gazette: The state of Nebraska and every country comprising it is not so much in need of a drastic revenue measure for the purpose of getting more money it 1s of an economical disbursement of pub- lic funds. When the men elected to office guard the state or county money as sacredly as they do their own private pocket books (and we might say a little more 80 than many individuals) then, and not until then, will we get the desired re- llef. It's one thing to cry economy every time a legislative body comes together and preach the need of more revenue, but it's an entirely different matter to so con- duct public affairs as to be on a cash basis as well as one in keeping with our ability to pay without actually becoming burden- some. Ord Quiz: The movement among the dis- trict judges of the state to reduce the num- ber of judicial districts and the number of judges is taking definite shape, and it is probable that a bill to reapportion the di tricts will soon be in the hands of ap- portionment committees. ~Lawyers agree that there s a gradual reduction in the amount of litigation, and that fewer judges can do the work, with a consequent saving to the state. There {s also much sentiment in favor of a return to the district attor- ney system and a bill to that effect has already been introduced. The argument s made that countles are unable to elect at- torneys who are capable of coping with the stronger members of the bar in crim- inal ceses, and that in smaller counties the salaries are so small as to furnish no attraction to good lawyers. It is claimed that district attorneys may be elected, with reasonable salaries, resulting In stronger legal talent and better service in the prosecution of criminals. Many dis- trict judges favor the plan. PERSONAL NOTES. | Cole Younger 1s not to be permitted to place himself @ exhibition. | This will greatly inteneify the desire to see him. Mr. Littlefield has demonstrated that combines have existed since 2,000 years B. C., which is as far back as congress will care to go. Senator Lodge has introduced a bill into the United States senate authorizing the erection of a monument in Washington to John Paul Jones at a cost of $50,000. It the base ball belligerents would emu- late the diplomats and throw a few ultl- matums at each other, the exercise would lend a ray of galety to a tiresome situa- tion. Abe Slupsky, whose name is almost as familiar to the reading public as that of the Honorable Dink Botts, has resigned the office of collector of rates in the St. Louls water commissioner's office. A'bill prohibiting the eating of snakes is as good as passed by the Kansas legisla- ture. The wisdom of confining the reptiles to the visual organs of Kansans ought to raise the lawmakers several pegs in publie esteem, It is said that John Edward Addicks, who ever since 1858 has been trying to get himself elected United States senator from Delaware, has spent close to $1,000,000 in the vain effort. As a result of his fight the state had but one senator for four years and for two years it has had none at all. Representative Bankhead of Alabama was | raaking his anoual speech for the appro- | priation for the southern fast mail. “All | it will cost,” he said, ““is the sum of $143, | 787.76." “You seem to know all about 1t," - imterrupted Representative ‘“‘Hank" Smith of Mtchigan. “I do,” replled Rep- resentative Bankhead. ‘“Well, then, what {s that 75 cents for?” “Axle grease,” sald Bankhead, promptly years hence when a United States senator | might simply make | districts, making the dead line, as usual, | sufclent business for | litical and not a business point of view. | from the taxpayers into the public till as | Fif'y Years the Standard POWDIR Awarded Highest Honors World®s Falr Highest tests U.S. Gov't Chemists MIOK WAKING POWDER 0O, ©oHicAGO WONDERFUL INVENTION. Wisard Edison Throws Out Amother Buneh of Prophectes. Philadelphia North Amerfcan. | Bdtson announces in specific terms that he has perfected his storage battery and that the days of the horse are numbered. | These are his words: | “The new battery will settlé the horse— not at once, but by degrees. The price of automobiles will be reduced so that almost every family may have one and run it without the ald of an export. In fact, I hope that the time has nearly arrived when every man may only have his own automobile, but also be able te light his | own house, charge his own machino, heat his rooms, cook his food, etc, by elece trielty, without depending on anyone else for these services'™ | ‘That seems an audacious prediction, but Edison is not in the habit of boasting idly of his achievements, and the invention of !'a storage battery adapted to vehlcle trac- | tion does not appear so wonderful as many other things he has done. But Edison must look to his laurels, lest | the man who claims to have found a way to make fuel of water wrest them away from him. Banishment of the horse from clty streets would be a small matter com- pared with the rescue of the world from all danger of fuel famine and the instant collapse of the Coml trust. If the water burner will only make haste to put his device on the market, the family automobile can wait awhile. not SMILING REMARKS, “What a luxury a clear consclence s exclaimed the high-minded statesman, “Yes." answered Senafor Sorghum. its & luxury. But it isn't a necessity.”"—Wash= ington Star. “He says he offered his heart and hand to Miss Goldrox, but she made light of them.". “Yes; and I understand her father fired the rest of him."—Philadelphia Press, must have the owe them one. Von Blumer- Biggebys to dinner. V Von Blumer—Of course. We passed an awful dull evening there, and it is nothing more than right that they should pass one here.—Brooklyn Life. 4 “Astigmatism,” explained the dootor, “is an abnormal condition of the eyes, in which they appear to have different planes of vision, and you can see better with one than with the other.” “I gee,” observed the professor. “One pupll is ‘more apt than the other.—Chie cago 'Tribune. A man never means more than half of what he says to a woman. And a woman never means more than a quarter of what she says to a man.—Somerville Journal by the phrase ‘grim r has smoothed his ruffied front?" * I don't know,” answered the student who cares more for the newspapers than for the classics, ‘‘unless some fastidious and elaborately ‘dressed general had_ just gent his clothes to the laundry.”—Wash- ington Star, Caller—Well, the nerve of thatt Merchant—What's that? Caller—Why, didn’'t you hear that snip of u boy ring to you as ‘Bill?’ Merchant—Sh! That's our office boy. 8o long as [ can pretend I didn't hear him it's all right—Philadelphla ~ Catholio Standard. ““What {8 meant AR ABOVE RUBIES, ‘Thomas Compton. What 1s it all that men possess, among th selves conversing? Wealt r fame, or some such boast scarce worthy the rehearsing: ‘Women only are men's good, with them in love conversing, i It weary, they prepare us rest; i sick, their hand attends us; When_ with grief our hearts are pressed, thelr comfort best befriends us; Sweet or sour, they willing go to share what fortine sends us. What pretty babes with pains they beaf, our name and form presenting! ‘What we get how wise they Keep, by spar. ing wants preventing! Sorting wll thelr household cares to our ob- served contenting! All this, of whose large use I sing, in two words 18 expressed; @ood Wife 18 the good 1 pralse, if by good men possessed, Bad with bad in f1l suit well, but good with good live blessed. 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