Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 12, 1903, Page 6

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Bhly Breent stamps accepted in payment of ml|¥ accounts. ‘erscnal checks, except. on ha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. — — - BTATEMENT OF cm('mwr‘xon. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, 6s.: B. Tzachuck, secretary of The Bee company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and aomplete coples of The Daily, Morning, Kvening and Bunday Bee printed during the month of January, 199, 1. was as follow . 1. 19.. EEURLRRRBERS 041,485 75 Less unsold Net total | Net aversg GEO X Subscribed In my presence before me ?hll 31st day of Jlfi%fly, A. D. M. B, HUNGATE, Notary Public. 1008, (Seal.) Fortunately shortage in the coal sup- ply has not interfered with Missouri river nayigation at, thfs port. e—— The discovery of ‘a fine dlamiond em- bedded in a meteorite . was not néeded to stimulate the stargazing industry. The first thing lpmll‘f for places on Governor Mickey's ‘Water board should do 18 tn‘get 8 pipé line to Lin- cola. E —— The Chicago elevitor strike will' be submitted to arbitratiop. This reliéves the suspense of sky-scraper tenants averse to using the stair lift. = It all the bills Introduced in-the leg- islature prohibiting the carrying of con- cealed weapons should pass, the average Nebraskan will have no use for a hip { emmm—— One of the bills introduced Into the Nebraska legislature is to prevent frauds in the use of rallway passes. No wonder it is labeled as introduced “by request.” — Nobody in Nebraska will be surprised to learn that Dave Mercer is in line for a good political job. Dave always has been in line for soft jobs since he grad- uated from the railroad lobby. In order to promote religious educa- tion, it s sugested that instruction be given in the public schools in only those doctrines accepted by all religious de- nominations. Pray, what doctrines are these? - The steamship carrying Minister ‘Thompson seems to have encountered a few little difficulties and delays in get- ting him started for his post in Brazil, but he is used to trifling obstacles like those. em——— No wonder the grand jury in Oleve- land returned an indictment against a lbcal democratic boss who tried to buy 100 votes for $20. But a plea of tem- porary insanity is sure to be accepted as a valid defense. SEETE——— One-half of the legislative sesslon Is over and yet Omaha still remains in the dark concerning the proposed changes in the city charter that are be- ing hatched in star chamber session by the Douglas delegation. —— The St. Louis exposition management 1s hdving the customary experience with striking mechanics objecting to the em- plbyment of nonunion men. A success- ful exposition requires the good will of the working elasses and the manage- ment may as well recognize that propo- sition first as last. The Pennsylvania Rallroad company will expend $8,000,000 for a bridge across the East river at New York City. If an $8,000,000 bridge were only to be constructed in Nebraska by the Unlon Pacific milroad the tax bureau would want it assessed. for taxation at mile- age' rates’ for half a mile, or about $5,000. \ Eep———— Desplte, the Inroads of the automobile and the electric trolley, the number of horses in the United States is estl- ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Ninety-four years ago Abraham Lin- coln was born. 1u a number of the states this anniversary of his birth will be observed as a legal holiday, while at many banquet tables in most of the states the memory of Lincoln—next to Washington the most imposing and the most revered character in American his- tory—will be duly honored. Apprecia- tion of the great qualities of this fllus- trious man, admiration of his character and gratitude for the mighty work he accomplishied, grow with the passing years and so long as the republic stands, or so long as free institutions are cherished, the memory of the emancipator of a race and the savior of the unfon will not fade from the minds of men or cease to command their affec- tion and reverence. A distinguished contemporary of Lin- coln said there could be no exaggerated estimate of him. The more his char- acter Is studied the stronger becomes his clalm to be classed among the most illustrious statesmen and patriots the world has produced. He saw with un- erring vision the inevitable clash be- tween freedom and slavery that was to shake the unfon to its foundations and he had unfaltering faith that freedom would triumph. There is nothing in history more sublime than the patience and fortitude with which Lincoln car- ried the tremendous burden that came to him and the perfect faith that con stantly inspired him. There were peri- ods of darkest gloom in that bitter con- posed before in congress. Those favor- ing it urge that there will be perfect safety in the treasury taking oOther se- curity than government bonds for the deposits of public moneys and with a lien on the assets of national banks taking deposits there can be no ques- tion that the government would be fully secured. Of course under such a policy the banks would be able {o secure more government funds than if restricted to the bonds of the government, which would certainly be helpful in time of stringency. The requirement that the banks shall pay interest,on public funds in their keeping is proper, though quite likely the banks will object to this fea- ture. It would seem to be the expecta- tion of the senate finance committee, of which Senator Aldrich s chairman, that the bill will be passed by the pres- ent congress. SIMON S4YS THUMBS UP. It is announced that “‘the Omahf Com- mercial club will act in conjunction with the Western Hardware Jobbers' asso- clation in opposition to the enlargement of the powers of the Interstate Com- merce commission by endorsing a strong resolution recently adopted by the hard- ware jobbers of this city, protesting against the bill pending before congress, calculated to give the Interstate Com- merce commission the same powers as are accorded to the courts.” It is fur- thermore announced that after a great deal of discussion, in which it was plainly denied that the interstate com- flict when the cause of the union seemed hopeless and many despaired, but the great pllot, while fully consclous of the perils and dangers, was ever steadfast and confident, belleving profoundly in the righteousness of the cause and the patriotism of the people. It has been said that the world will never know the sum total of betterment that came to it though Lincoln's Incarnation of some of the highest ideals of life, that his example doubtless has been of Inde- scribable worth to rulers and chlef magistrates everywhere, whose burdens have seemed ‘easier.to bear since he showed how. to earry burdens.with a serene faith, If not with a light heart always. Presid MeKinley once sald in an address that for /him at least the thought of Lincoln's’ greater burdens amd the spirit with ‘which he carried them had been an encouragement to him, to think of his own burdens of state as seemingly light. *Abraham Lincoln wag a many-sided man and on no side was he other than an’ entirely good ‘man.’ “To"Americans generally his character. as a patriot ap- peals most strongly. His love for and devotion ‘to free institutions was pro- found and intense. He'had also an un- failing faith in the survival of those institutions and in the grand destiny of the republic. Lincoln's’ patriotic ex- ample I8 a legacy to his countrymen ‘which cannot be too often presented to their attention. = X S g THE NEW DEPARTMENT. The bill creating a Department of Commerce and Labor only awalts the signature of the president to become law and this will not be unnecessarily delayed. The new department will be promptly organized, with a secretary who will have a seat in the cabinet, and will begin the work assigned to it by the law soon as possible. Most of this is now being performed in ex- isting departments, but the Department of Commerce and Labor will have new work in the bureau of corporations, whose function will be to investigate the workings of trusts and combina- tions. This bureau is empowered to make, under the direction of the secre- tary of commerce, investigation into the conduct, condition and organization of any corporation, joint stock company or combination engaged 'in interstate or forelgn commerce, except common car- riers, which are under the supervision of the Interstate Commerce commission. The information obtained by the bureau is to be at the digposal of the president for his guidance In making recommen- dations to congress and may be made public at his discretion. It has been objected that this does not make ade- quate provision for publicity, but the president can be depended upon to make public so much of the information ob- tained by the bureau as in his judg- ment the Interests of the public require, With the organization of the new de- partment there will be nine members of the cabinet. Most of the employes of the Department of Commerce and Labor will be transferred from other depart- ments, but there are some new places and of course there are numerous ap- plications for them. — A NEW FINANCIAL BILL. The bill introduced a few days ago by Senator Aldrich, intended to give greater elasticity to the currency and permit the release of larger volumes of the government funds In times of string- ency, has been approved by the senate committee. on finance and will- be at once reported to the senate. It provides that in addition to government bonds national banks “may deposit. with the secretary of the treasury, as security for deposits of government funds, state bonds, municipal bonds of cities of 50,000 population which have beep In exist- ence for twenty-five years and whieh have not defaulted in auy of their debts, merce law ever was or i& now any ben- efit to the jobbers of the west, the Com- mercial club was enthusiastic in favor of the resolution. This s decidedly refreshing, although not at all surprising. It {s an open secret that the jobbers' end of the Com- mercial club has for years been a mere appendage of rallroad headquarters, and its opinions on railway regulation have been a mere echo of the wishes and utterances of the rallroad traffic mana- gers. When the traffic managers say “thumbs up,” there is a uniform raising of thumbs even though at heart the owners of the thumbs believe and know it to be absolutely wrong. When the traffic manager sends out a tip that such and such a project is bad, the whole rebate brigade cries “bad, bad, bad,” like so many sheep. And thils is why Omaha has suffered so much in the past from railroad diserimination, while its rivals, who have time and again arrayed themselves against the traffic managers, have secured conces- sions, Every Omaha jobber knows as well as we do that the reason why the Inter- state Commerce commission has not helped the west, or the east for that matter, is because its hands have been tied so that it could not enforce .any order or decision that public carriers did not feel disposed to obey. Give the commission the same powers now .exer- cised by the Board of Trade in Great Britain, namely, the power to compel obedience to its findings, and the com- mission will be of great use to western shippers and jobbers in all sections. The trouble with the jobbers' section of the Commercial club is that its mem- bers do not dare to stand up for their own rights for fear of railroad disfavor or withdrawal of rebates. Fortunately for them, for Omaha and the country at large, the new antl-rebate law that has Just passed both houses of congress will go far toward emancipating the jobbers from their bumiliating serfdom. When that day comes the Omaha Commercial club will be a business man's club in- stead of a traffic managers’ club. When that day comes the Commercial eclub will stand up for Omaha and Nebraska as against all other interests, and the jobbers will be lined up behind the newspapers that fight the battles of the city and state instead of belng lined up against them whenever the rallroad in- terests clash with the interests of Omaha and the state. W— Mayor Moores' message is a. compre- henslive review of the work of the vari- ous departments of city government during the past year. It reasserts his well known views on all the different municipal problems presented from time to time on which he has already taken a stand in communications to the coun- cll and in every case in the interest of the taxpaying citizens. As an annual report from the executive officer to the stockholders of the corporation known as the city of Omaha, it is a carefully prepared and well-considered document containing all the pertinent information and replete with good recommendations. e— The bill for equality in municipal tax- ation of railroad property aud of private property means more to,the people of Omaha than any and all other bills members of the Douglas delegation have fathered. It-would be far better for their constituents if they would drop all their other legislative schemes and concentrate their efforts on this one measure. —— Governor Franklin of New Jersey ven- tures to predict that unless greater har- mony be restored between labor and capital in the near future the country will be plunged into a civil war more disastrous than any previously recorded in history. He might have added that unless the sun continues to shine all life mated to have been 16,683,224 in 1902 and to have Increased to 16,557,373 In 1908. 'The demonetization of the horse by self-propelling vehicles has evidently ot been very effective. ' -E——be——— Bx-Governor Stanley of Kansas, re- serving the right to change his mind, bas finally concluded to accept the place offered hlim by, President Roosevelt as the succesfor to the late Benator Dawes a8 member of the Dawes Indian com- mission. ‘When once ln office, he will be more | ut his resignation e n-m' filed can seldom be pulled back. and the first mortgage bonds of any railroad company which have pald div- idends of not less than 4 per cent for ten years. The United States is to have a len on all assets of banks in which public woneys are deposited. The sec- retary of the treasury is agthorlzed to determine the proportion of the various securities he will accept and also to at any time require . additional seeurity. ‘The banks are required to pay interest on government funds deposited with them and the deposits are payable on dewand.. oY Secretary Shaw his recommended a policy of this kind and it has been pro- on this earth wiil speedily come to an end. Another question the legislature will have difficulty in answering is, Why should Omaha and South Omaha require governor-appointed police commissions while Lincoln is left to run its own po- lice and fire departments in its own way? If it is denied that the principle of home rule is sound, why should one city be singled out as tbe victim? A compilation of the city ordinances that are in force Is certalnly a long felt want. The Bee has repeatedly called attention to the lack of an authoritative i output In South Africa since the end of compendium of municipal legislation. If it is felt that the expense would be too great for the city, it ought to be possible to persuade some attorney to do the work, with the privilege of selling the volumes when prepared, the council agreeing to buy the number required for use in the various city offices. DY, Know Knute. Minneapolis Journal, Evidently the Standard Oll people didn't know ‘“your Uncle Knute." Anti-trust measures prepared In Standard Ol offices are entitled to no consideration and that's Just what they got. Why the Lawyers Co Pittsburg Dispatch, The complaint of the attorneys that the Spanish claims commission was unsatis- factory in its work is fully expiained by the statement that the attorneys desired to charge 33 1-3 per cent fees and the com- mission refused to sanction ft. Unele Plerp. 1s Wise, Chicago Chronicle. Mr. Morgan, it is to be observed, sends no telegrams telling people what they “must” do. Instead, he dispatches the suave Mr. Auerbach and the conciliatory Mr. Govin to adjust matters. In this re- &pect Mr. Morgan manifests considerably more acumen than his esteemed contem- porary of the'kerosene trust. s of Divoree. February Pilgrim. Most divorces are granted after a mar- riage of short duration, ome-half within six years. During twenty years nearly two- thirds of the divorces granted were given to women, and the most frequent. cause was desertion. Sexual morality seems at as high a plane in the United States as in most other countries where divorces are less common. Temper, rather than unlaw- ful passion, 1s perhaps the most serious enemy of the home. Bankruptey Law Amended. Buffalo Expre: After two years of agitation the bank- ruptey law has been finally amended to meet the wishes of various interests who have desired to make the prevention of fraudulent bankruptey more thorough and to increase the security of creditors. One of the sensible provisions of the mew law 1s that it shall be an objection to dis- charge if a bankrupt seeks to go through bankruptey proceedings more than once in #ix yea ‘Wider Horizon of Country Life, Portland Oregonlan. The isolation of country life is pa In fact, in many sections it has passed. What with railway stations at frequent intervals throughout the farming regions, free mall delivery pushing its way out into the rural districts, electric cars singing along on trolleys and telephone lines ex- tending far and near, loneliness has been banished from thousands of farm houses within the past year. If under the old regime the farmer's life was the most in- dependent of all, it {s now the most en- viable In another direction, since it com- BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE, Minor Scenes and Imeldents Sketched on the Spot. Towa put In a strong lick and partially corked countless ‘original packages” of booze by putting through the lower house & bill which takes the sting out of the original package decision of the federal supreme court. The bill is now before the senate. The essence of the measure is to restore home rule to communities in the regulation of the liquor traffic. It pro- vides that all intoxicating iliquors trans- ported into any state or territory, or re maining therein, for use, consumption, sale or storage, shall be subject to the opera- tion and effect of the laws of such state or territory and shall not be exempt by reason of being introduced therein in or! nal packages. It further provides that “ incorporations and persons engaged in in- terstate commerce shall, as to any shipment of intoxicating liquors, be subject to the local laws and police regulations of the locality to which the shipment is con- slgned.” Express company offices all over lowa have become mere retall liquor estab- lishments and the prohibition law:has been nullified. The amendment to the law of 1890, provided by the bill which has passed the house, overcomes the “original pack- age” decislon by including liquors going into the state as well as the distribution after entrance, and will make is possible for every prohibition states in the union to enforce its laws thoroughly. The demo- oratic members of the house supported the bill because it was in harmony with their 1deas regarding states' rights. They h that a state had a right to enact any legislation it saw fit under constitutienal limitations and that no law of congress should be made Interfering with that right. Speaker Reed was so sharp with his tongue and so accomplished at repartee that few men, if any, could tell of him being worsted in a wordy bout. It seems to have become the fashion to tell mow of the prowess of Mr. Henderson; the present speaker, in the same connection. That is why a good story of how the tables were turned on him is particularly relished here. It was on the day near the close of the last session, when the house voted to unseat J. J. Butler, the member from St. Louls, because of the frauds practiced in his district. After the session Jim walked over to an Avenue street car and boarded 1t near the front where the narrow seats permitted of his own bulky form being ensconced quite comfortably, but left ljttle room for others. There are only a few of these narrow seats mear the front of the car. Just before the signal was given to go. ahead Speaker Henderson came pufing up to the car and boarded it just beside Butler. He noticed neither Butler nor the fact that he was at the narrow,seats, but attempted to push his own libefal propor- | tions Into the space which would hardly | have been sufficient for a 10-year-old. Butler sat stolid and indifferent, s the | crowding proceeded until the speaker mani- fested some impatience and began to be | more vigorous. Then Butler suggested: | “Look here, Mr. Speaker, you have crowded me out of one seat today, but I don't pro- pose you shall crowd me out of another.” bines the quiet and beauty of the country with the touch of urban life that brings the world, divested of strife and noise, to its doors Tired of Trust Rule. Philadelphia Record. Many manufactygers who have sold out to trusts have grown weary of inaction or « salaried place: ovesubmission to a board of directors and hawe gone back into thelr old_business with the capital which the trust paid them féF ‘the works—almost in- variably more thati the works are worth. Thus the combinatfon to suppress competi- tion has resulted in more competition. One of the chief members of the type- writer trust has withdrawn and incor- porated a company with $5,000,000 of capi- tal to manufacture writing machines. It is explained that the profits of his com- pany were larger in proportion than those of other members of the trust and he L made up his mind to use his own business abllity for himeelf instead of for other people. WORLD'S GOLDEN AGE. Stream of the Yellow Metal Largest in History. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. In 1903 the world will see produced a larger amount of gold than ever before in all its history. There is a probability, however, that the United States will not hold the first place this year in the list of producing countries. In 1902 the gold output of this country was placed at pearly $81,000,000 by the director of the mint, though some other authorities put it at a higher figure. Nearly $8,000,000 of this amount was from Alaska, chiefly from the Nome district. The Klondik output in 1902 was a little over $14,000,~ 000, which was a large decrease from 1901. While the last-named locality is likely to decline instead of Increase in 1903, the outlook from the United States is tol- erably certain to go above 1902's mark. It s in the rest of the world, chiefly South Africa, that the greater part of the gold gain for 1903 will be scored. The high- est mark ever touched by the gold pro- duction of the world in ® single year was in 1899, when it amounted to $307,000,000. Estimates made about the middle of that year put the production of 1900 at about $350,000,000 and that of 1901 at $400,000,000. Something not forescen at the time puts these figures far astray. The British-Boer war, which started in October, 1899, shut up the mines in the Transvaal, the most prolific gold fleld of the world, and they remained closed until peace came in May, 1902. The Transvaal's gold output in the nine months of 1899 was about $60,000,000, and this helped to swell the world's prod- uct for the whole year to $307,000,000. The shutting off of the supply from South Af- rica cut down the world’s product in 1900 and 1901 to about $255,000,000 in each year, but that of 1902 was close to the $300,000,000 mark, There has been a steady increase in the the war last spring. Last December's pro- duction was about two-thirds of that of the blggest previous montb, September, 1899. The reports from the Transvaal field for the present month thus far indicate a gain over December. All the mines in the Transvaal are not yet running to anything like their full capacity, but the galn which is being made indicates that the $90,000,000 rate per year, which was the figure for August and September just previous to the beginning of the war, will be reached before 1903 closes. Present prospects are that the world’s gold yleld for this year will be in the nelghborhood of $350,000,000, and that the $400,000.000 mark, which seemed to be in close view just before the outbreak of war In the fall of 1895, will be reached in 1904, Some of the officers of the financial arm of the government in this country, notably Ellis H. Roberts, imagine His Illinols colleagues In senate and house are having a lot of fun at the ex- pense of Representative George E. Foss, relates the Washington Post. Mr. Foss would like very much a seat in the United States senate, as would many another statesman on the house side. The Ilwart Chicago Inter Ocean, which is, naturally enough, for Mr. Hop kins, sneered editorially the other day at Mr. Foss’ ambitiona. ““What has he done for Chic; the esteemed contemporary. “‘About as much,” was the Inter Ocean's reply to its own question, “as a cipher with the rim knocked off.” 07 asked The Department of Agriculture is the greatest patron of the “‘art preservative in Washington. Last year the department issued 757 different publications and a total of 10,686,000 coples. The allowance last year for printing for the department was, to begin with, $130,000, to which should be added a deficiency appropriation of $30 000. This did not include cost, from va rious funds, for binding and printing de- livered to the department which amounted to $265,000. To this must be added the sal- arles of the editors, writers of bulletins, the artists and clerks who address and mail | the publications. This came to $383,000. But there was more. There are special funds for particular kinds of publications, such as the Year Book, the soil surveys, the annual industry books and similar mat- | ters, which cost $400,000. Leaving out the weather bureau printing, the grand total | amounts to over $1,000,000. Of this large sum but $107,500 was spent for farmers' bulletins, the publications that go directly to everybody on a farm who wants them and knows how to write to get them. The ‘bulk of the rest of the stuff was printed as s0 much “dough” for senators and mem- bers of congres to send out to voters to curry thefr favor. “If the items for bun- combe printing, for the franking privilege and similar perquisites of the representa- tives of the people in congress should be assembled,” says a Washington letter, “it would present a spectacle of waste, at the expense of the taxpayers, that would be appalling as it is monumentally ridicu- lou “Can 1 say that you have been talking to the president on the trust problem?" asked a reporter of Senator Hoar, when he came out of the president's office this morning. The senator smiled his most seraphic smile, stopped, looked at the sky and sald “Let me #ee. Yes, you could say that. Certainly you could say it"'— “Then, Senator”— the reporter Inter- rupted. Senator Hoar waved his hand. “Yes,” he sald aln, “you could say that, but it wouldn't be true.” And the venerable man from Massa- chusetts chuckled for three blocks. PERSONAL NOTES. A St. Louls paper apologized the other day for printing the name of a member of City Councils “Beery” instead of Berry. Mme. Patti is going to glve sixty fare- well concerts in America at $5,000 each. Every time she raises her voice it seems to 1ttt the price a little. There Is no great surprise in the news that President Roosevelt is gaining flesh with great rapidity. The nation at large has always known that he is & heavy- welght. Secretary Chamberlain is distressed over the cordlality of his reception by the Boers and has requested them to cut out the social functions, the brass bands and the resolutions. F. W. Cushman, congressman-at-large Aboolu_toly Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE phrases heard in London, whers it is thought the famous soldier ought to be clearing out the Augean stable of the War office. Secretary Shaw was noticed to Jjoln heartily in singing the hymos while at church on a recent Sunday. A friend whom he met outside commented on the fact and Mr, Shaw sald In his slow, drawling way: “Well, they say money talks, If that's true the secretary of the treagury dught to sing." John D. Rockefeller, jr., with a detec- tive on elther side of him as & bodyguard, went to a church in New York Sunday and delivered an address on philanthropy. In the course of this he sald that “the man who needsy@ssistance does not come to you in the streets, as I have found from personal experiemce.”” Of course not; he couldn't get past the cordon of guards. Major Willlam Hancock Clark, eldest son of the eldest son of Captain Willlam Clark, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, will haye am dmportant part in opening the exposition ‘at Portland in 1905. He Is a resident of Washington. Major Clark has devoted himself to a study of the explora~ tion of Lewis and Clark and the incidents which led to their overland trip to the Pacific coast, and has given to historians of recent days much information which had been carefully guarded In the family an- nals, ORDERS FROM THE TRUSTS, Detroit Free Press: It Morgan and Rockefeller can and do dictate the anti- trust legislation of this country there is going to be more doing in this country next year than at any other time since Lincoln came through a winner in 1860. It is up to the party in power to decide whether it will beat the trusts or itself. Minneapolis Times: If anything confirm an honest senator or representative in his determination to do his duty by the public it would be this, and we have suffi- clent confidence in the honesty and decency of the great majority of the membefs of the house-and senite of the United States to believe that they will resent this fm- pudent attempt at dictation by a most offensive and oppressive monopoly in an effective way. Minneapolis Tribune: Has Mr. Rocke- teller paresis? I he sent or authorized this dispatch he is farther gone sthan Mr. the better for the Standard Oil company. That is the most odfous of all the.trusts and the 50 per cent addition to the price of ofl in the midst of the fuel famine has not tended to make it popular. Kept sena- tors will not save it, if the new legislation shall give the law & hold upon it. Indianapolis. Journal: This is the man (Rockefeller) who so recently outraged the millions by unnecessarily advancing the price of ofl when the masses most needed it, who is addressing American senators in words more dictatorial than Willlam IT would dare send to the German leglslature. The American people will turn with un- measured wrath upon the head of the hated monopoly for this display of arrogance. Even If he had been a good man he would deserve castigation for his dispatches to senators. Kansas City Star: The report that the “Rockefeller telegrams” against any trust legislation would probably rouse congres: to action shows the dread that exists in Washington of the accusation of specific influence of legislation by the trusts. So long as corporate influences can be kept in the background they may be effective. But let the people become convinced of some direct effort to control congress and there is always trouble, Most senators and representatives have a wholesome fear of being considered trust agents. If corpora- tlons are’'to be favored the act must be passed under some disguise. The ship subsidy bill, for instance, was put forward simply as a measure to build up American shipping. The way in which the corpora- tion agents keep themselyes in the back- round, and their indirect methods of at- tack, testity to the power of public opinion over congress. TICKLISH THOUGHTS. “Some Important folks,” said Uncle Eben, “4s like the groun' hog. Dey manages to step in an’ git de credit foh what were wine to happen anyhow.’—Washington tar. “Now, you mustn't try to talk,” sald the surgeon, who setting and bandaging the marn's broken jaw. “The least said the soonest mended.”'—Chicago Tribune. Mrs John never tried to decelve her. Mr. Frankfort—I %:lell that's so, all right. Uncle John says there are some persons you can make belleve anything you want to without trylng.—Boston Transcript. Frankfort—Aunt Clara says Uncle “Ot course, you eould hardly expect me to give you a pass over my road in return could Schwab and the sooner he is sent to Europe | for this one over you: is_ 3500 miles long an Ah! Allow me tg remind you, sir, that mine is just as broad."—Detrolt Free Press, Old Graybeard—It's a pity to keep such & pretty bird in a cage. rs. De Btyle—Isn't it a shame? How pertectly exquisitely lovely it would look on a hat!—New York Weekiy. Why, sir, "fifm— 2l you know, & man is as young as he feel ““After all, yes. That is to say, he doesn't brag about being young as he feels until he's old enough to know better." Philadelphla Press. 've been asked to take part in an ama- teur theatrical entertainment.” “Your friends ‘Wil be present, of course?" e Weil, I wouldn't do it, my boy. You don’t want to lose your friénds, you know."" —Chicago Post. ‘When & man asks himself: at am T good for, anyway?' the right answer is almost invariably: *“Nothing' erville Journal, e 0, WHY SHOULD THE SPIRIT OF MORTAL BE PROUD? By Willlam Krox. The following poem was. a particular favorite with Abraham Lifgoln. It was firet shown to him when a yOung man by a friend and afterward he “eut it from a newspaper and learned it by heart. He ¥ald to a friend: "1 would glve a great deal to know who wrote it, but have never been able to ascertain.”” He did afterward learn the name of the author, ©' why should the spirft of mortal be proud? Like a switt-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, & break of the wave, Man passeth from life to his rest in the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall Be :&%’.mna around, and together be As the 'young and the old, the low and the fihlil‘l:cl"nmblo to dust and together shall The infant a mother attended’ and ove The mother that infant's affection. who pro - The Dles Each, all, are away to that dwelling of rest. The maid on whose brow, on whose cheelk, in whose eye, Shone beauty &nd pleasure—her triumphs are by; And alike from the minds of the living erased Are the memories of mortals who loved her and praised. The head of the King, that the ecepter hath borne; The brow of the priest, that the miter hath vorn; The oye of the sage, and the heart of the brave- Are hidden and lost in the depths of the grave, The peasant whose lot was to sow and to reap; “The herdsman, who climbed with his goats up the steep; The beggar, who wandered in read— Huve faded away llke the grass that we tread. arch of So the multitude goes, like the flower or hd . Thm“;;\'l(hen away to let others suc- coed: 8o he ‘multitude comes, even those we behold To repeat every tale that has often been told. For we are the same our fathers have We s the same sights our fathers have en; We drink the eame stream, we see the same sun, And run the same course our fathers have run, The thou h;l we are thinking our fathers id thl 3 From the death we are shrinking our fathers did shrink; To Ten e e e Tare clinging our fathers daid cling, But it speeds from us all like the bird on the Wing. They loved—but the story we cannot un- 1d; They atorned—but the heart of the haugbty is cold; y ‘griéved—but no wall from thelr will come; They. joyed—but the tongue of their glad- ness 1s dumb. They dled—ah! they died—we, things that That walle on the turf that les over their nt And mike tn thelr dwelling & tran de, uae-xbom'- things that they met on their pligrimage road. Yea, hope and despondency, pleasure and Are 'mingled together in sunshine and Amfl'fi'« smile and the tear, and the song d the dirge, St follow each other ltke surge upon surge: "Tis the wink of an eye breath, Fn:;:n “he blossom of health to the pale- t death, From the gilded saloon to the bler and, the o, ':;“yud;noum the spirit of mortal be prous ‘tis the draught for the state of hington, has accepted the invitation to deliver the address at the Republican club banquet in New York they see & serious embarrassment in this immense flood of new gold, between $300,- 000,000 end $400,000,000 & year, which will be poured upon the world, but business men in general, neither in this country nor elsewhere, have any such fears. Never- theless, this gold deluge will not only tablish the gold standard in the few coun- tries in which the silver basis still prevails, but it will have & tendency to quicken and expand all the world's principal activities. on Lincoln's birthday, February 12 The tamous Ward MeAllister farm, near Newport, R. 1, where McAllister wrote the “What I Know of Soclety,” has been rented to Morgan Barry, an Irish farmer, for farming purposes. Now that Lord Kitchemer is busy In India they are beginning to think in En land that he could be employed to great advantage st home. “We bhave sent Hercules to the Himalayss,” is one of the The Name and lining are not the only things in a hgt—stock and workmanship are essentlal to good wear, style and price are necessary to popularity. Come and see our new ones Browning, King & Co, R. 8. Wilcoz, Mana, $4 u{n_ir ‘that mother” and’ tnfent-who. - -