Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 16, 1903, Page 4

L R T e b ! THE OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLIBHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Year..$4.00 Dally Bee and Sunday, One Year. 80 Illustrated 3 Bes. One Year 200 Buturday By Twentieth DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Sugday), per copy. Dajly Bee (without Sunday), per week. . 1 Daily Bee (Inciuding Sunday), per week..ljo Bunday Bee, per copy Evening Bee (Without Sunday), Evening Bee (including Sun week .. Complaints of irregularities 'in deiivery should be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bulldin South Omane_City Hall ®Butiding, Twen- ty-fifth and M Stree Council Blafts-io bear) Street. Chicago—164) Unity Bullding. Now Fork-2 Bark Row Hullding. Washington—§01 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communieations relating to news and ed- ftorial matter should be addressed: Owaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. e 2T o weok 60 V) DOF Remit by dgaft, express or postsl order, ayable to Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent i P8 acct’led in pa *ment of mail accounts, Perscnal checks, except on Omaha, of eastern exchange, not acce Led. THE HEE PUBLISHING COMPAX STATEMENT OF CIRCULATIO Stats of Nebrasks, Douglas County, George B. Tzachuck, etary of PublisRing company, belng duly sWorn, that the adtual number of full and aompiete copies of The Dally, Morung, kivening and Sunday Bea printed duting the month January, 1908, was as follow: 80,420 Bee s 80,660 28,920 Total Lesa wnsold and returned copes Net total sales... Net average saies. GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed fn my presence and sworn to betore me this 8ist day of J-n;?ry. A b 1908, M. B, Notary O Pantic. The Fifty-seventh congress is just about entering the last quarter. e Colonel Bryan's call to arms brings his Commoner mighty near the verge of yellow. e That much-discussed revenue bill should come in this week like a belated valentine. fl Minister Bowen’'s experience proves that for opportunities of usefulness a second-class diplomatic position often cutranks a first-class embassy. e That Bartley clgar box has been nlayed too long in the game of political bluff and bluster. It is high time for the legislature to call for its contents. It ex-Treasurer Meserve wants a vin- dication from the charge of pocketing interest eared ‘on deposits of state achool money, now 1s the time to ap- ply to the legiglature for it. Senator Tillman's defepse of lynch- ing shodld oceasion no surprise.. Till- man s perfectly capable of justifying burning-at the stake ‘and even cannibal- ism. He has not gotten out of the eye- for-an-pye stage yet. If The Hague tribunal were not oc- chslonally given something to do to Xeep it from getting rusty on inter- national law, It might not be able to wnlimber when a really important mat- ter comes up for arbitration. e Before the Bartley bondsmen can make good their plea for rellef, Bartley should be made to d!uvr'e the money he is sald to have collected on the I-O- T's held. for the public funds he had leaned out state treasurer. exmmesrieeg ‘When the Department of Agriculture Is established jn its new b‘lldfl'l‘, for which congress has appropriated $1,- 500,000, the complaint that agriculture 18 neglected by Uncle Sam, like a step- child, will no longer be permissible, The peoplg fi Nebriska have been promised constitutional revision by the most speedy method. It s a serious question, however, whether a constitu- tional convention furnishes the most speedy and effective method. —— What distresses the democrats is not thiat & republican congress should enact an anti-trust measure, but that jts en- actment contradicts the democratic as- sertion that no republican congres would ever dare to Ioul-lute adversely to the trusts. Fm——— The total. ndmber of liquor licenses issued, for Omaha for the current year figures up 286. If the school board were alive to the Interests of jts own treasury several more concerns that transact an .extensive business in in- toxicants gn- & $10 druggists' permit would be compelled to take out a $1,000 liquor license. Sty For the information of an inquirer Mr. Bryan announces through his paper that he is not interested: either as of- ficer or stockholder in the cotton trust or in any other corporation. Wonder bow Mr. Bryan managed to get rid of the stock in the World-Herald that once made him part owner of that con- | cern, L o—— That must have been a sarcastic sally when Chairman Gray of the coal strike * commission expressed regrets that the lang association ~ with the lawyers representing both contending parties which had been so pleasant to the arbitrators bad to be broken. List- ening to legal wranghing for succossive weeks may perhaps bave been a pleas- ant diversion, but it Is" safe to assume that rot one of the arbitrators would care to undergo the pleasant experience & second time, i | THE NEW CABINET POST. Mr. George B. Oortelyou, who will be at the head of the new executive de partment, fs well qualified for the post. It is sald of pim that he possesses in a remarkable degree a faculty for sys tematiging things and getting them futo smooth running order. He has shown notable executive ability in his present position and it is stated that never before have the routine affafrs of the White House been handled as they are today. The appointment of Mr. Cortelyou to a place in the cabinet will carry out the wish of the late Presi- dent McKinley, who intended to make a place for him in his official family. The advancement of Mr. Cortelyou to a cabipet position will complete a series of promotions, remarks a Wash- Ington ecorrespofident, that is not likely to be equalled for many years, If ever at all, Less than twelve years ago he entered the public service as a con- fidential stenographer for the surveyor of the port of New York, later being transferred to the postoffice depart- ment in the office of the fourth assist- ant postmaster general. In 1805 Mr. Cortelyou became President Cleveland's stenographer and remained in the same capacity with President McKinley. TIn this capacity he bas made a host of friends among men In public Itfe and' there 18 no doubt that he will make a success as secretary of the Department of Commerce. What the public can confidently count upon is that the bureau of corporations connected with the new department will fajthfully per- form the duty of Investigating the or- ganization, conduct and management of cerporations coming within its au- thority as defined in the law. The act does not require that, the information thus obtained shall be made public, that being left to the discretion of the president, who cam be relled upon to do what he shall deem best for the in- terests of the public. The bureau of corporations will exercise such a degree of supervision as should have good re- sults and if after trial this is found not to be sufficlent it will be a simple matter to amend the law so as to make 1t stron, > The new cabinet post will not be a sinecure. Tt will be the business ‘of the secretary of commerce and labor, as provided.jn the act, “to foster, pro mote and“develop the foreign and do- mestic commefce, the mining, manu: facturing, shipping and fishery indus- tries, the labor interests, the transpor- tation facilities and the insurance busi- ness of the United States.” Here is enough to satisfy the most ambitious worker. There will be no unnecessary delay In organizing the new department ahd getting into operation and there is every reason to expect that results will Justify its cceation. E—— AMERICAN COURSE CUMMENDED. The German chancellor has expressed satisfaction at the course of the United Btates in connection "with the Vene zuelan difficulty. It transpires that the secretary of state was kept informed in regard to the German position by the diplomatie ‘representative of that coun- try at Washington, receiving such in- forMation in advance of its being im- parted to Mr. Bowen. This was a very marked courtesy and showed how de- sirous the German government was to avold giving any offense to the United States. . Those who have endeavored to stir up feeling in this country aga.nst Ger- many must now see their mistake and should be willing to admit the ground- lessness of their professed belief that Germany was scheming to get a ter- ritorial foothold .in this hemisphere. The evidence is that the German gov- ernment hes acted in the most direct and stralghtforward manner, actuated by no other purpose: than that of se- cuting what she believes to be her just claims. Carl Schurz b properly characteriged s “mischievous = reck- lessness” the expressions against Ger- many whieh have been so freely in- dulged in and there should now be an end to thls soxt of unwarranted dis- trust and suspleion of a power that has given repeatel assurances of its friendship for the Unitéd States, so far as the relations of the governments are concerned. TRE GULD AND SILVER RATIO. The president of Mexico has ap- pointed a speclal commission te study the silyer question, with a view to de- ¥ising a plan for. establighing a stable ratio between gold and silver. This commission will enter upon its work the present week and it s expected that its @essions: will last several months. «A& Oty of Mexico dispatch says there is great interest taken there in the willifgness shown' by President Roosevelt to ald in the solution of what ds ‘widely rfiwnlm«l as a very serious problein. Ajuerican financial journals are fav- orable to the idea of establishing a stable ratio between gold and silver, but some of them poln® out that in order that measures to this end shall be ef- fective” Mexico, as the largest producer of the debased.coinage, must consent promptly to suspend the unlimited pro- duetion of the dollar and this step must be followed by the redemption in “gold of ‘her outstanding ' elr- culating coln. It - will be folly, declares a ledding financial paper, to seek to establish an exclunge ratio be- tween gold and silver as long as Mex- ico continues to keep the Oriental and the Latin American countries supplied through her ‘mints with the debased currency. - “Even should the ratio of 82 to 1, which ratio was adopted by Japan ‘whes that country sought to re- form her monetary system, be estab- lished through the proposed interna- tlonal conferences, this ratio could mnot long be maintained unless Mexico co- operated in the manner above suggested.” It is needless to say that the Mexl- can govesnment Is not disposed to take THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY any such course as this. ernment does not at present contem plate stopping the coinage of sliver. The paper we have quoted from, how ever, is updoubtedly correct In opinion that no ratio that might established could be and supply it to the Oriental and Latin Américan countries. There must be a check to this flood of silver In order to maintain a stable ratio between the two money metals. While fully realizing that some more or less radical change will have to be made, that gov- the be maintained v hile Mexico continues to freely coln silver be changed when the electric light poles and wires are removed. We are under the impression that the &ty reserved the right to use a section of the tele phone company’s conduits at the time the right was granted to that eerpora tion to put its wires under ground. There I8 no necessity of duplicating conduits all over the business area of the city so long as the capacity of ex- isting conduits Is not overtaxed. Nebraska should be represented at the 8t. Louls exposition, it there '1s no need of lavish appropriations for this American Interest in this matter | PUrPOSe. An exposition commission of grows out of the situation in the Phil-{ économical bueiness men can make a ippines, which s of a nature that threat- | ¢reditable showing within a reasonable ens to cause a vast deal of trouble if relief is not provided. The depreciation limit of resources. One Jewel of Consintency. of sfiver has caused a heavy loss to Boston Transcript, the Philippine government and been When President Roosevelt preaches in digastrous to’ business, Undoubtedly | fAvor of blg families we do at least call our government can manage this metter. and must take steps for prompt relief, but the proposition that 'came from Mexico v merits the considera- tion given it by the president and sec retary of 'state. The problem presented is anything but simple and now is as favorable a time as there will ever be for giving it attention and endgavoring to find a solution, THE TOOLEY BILL If the so-called Tooley bill, proposing to change the methods of apportioning him consistent. A president who prac- tices what he preaches is always entitled to a respectful hearing. Antiq 'y of the Trust, t. Louls Globe-Democrat Mr. Littlefield has demonstrated by an appeal to history that the trusts are more than 4,000 years old, and Mr. Rockefeller contends that congress should show a decent respect for old ag An Effective Separator. Washington Post. The people who invested in the St. Louls got-rich-quick concerns aro unable to tell where they expected the manipulators of the schemes to get their profits. - The bus- the school funds to the varfous s('hnoLI iness of separating paople from their money districts throughout Nebraska, could be traced down to its real source, its in- spiration would probably be found to have emanated from the ralilroad lobby Infesting the legislature at Lincoln and its purpose to be to divert attention from the overshadowing issue of rall- road tax shirking. As there is neither merit in the Tooley bill, there should be no need of any unneces- sary alarm over it as a menace to the revenues of the school districts which would lose by its eohetment. 1t the state school fund is held in trust for the children of the entire state, emch child of school age has In equity the same claim upon it, and to discriminate between the school children in its ap- nor reason 'portionment because they happen to re- €lde in different parts of the state would be the rankest kind of injustice. We may be sure the clear-headed and far-sighted members of the legislature will not .want to have themselves charged with responsibility for such an outrage, not only upon the present gen- eration of school children, but upon all future generations to come.. 8o far as concerns the question of equitable tax- atlon of railroad property for municipal purposes on the snme basis as other property ‘within the same jurisfiiction is taxed, the state apportionment of school money has no connection with it whatever and each . proposition will have to stand on its own legs. SE—— WHERK POLITICS COMES IN. Some of our democratic friends who profess to be hot for house roll No. 171 seem to be anxious cmegy to put the republicans In a hole for the pur- pose of making political capital for their own party. The only way to in- terpret their enthusiasm is that they would prefer to have the bill killed so that they can use its fallure to sand- bag the republicans rather than to have the bill pass with republicans claiming the credit for its enactment. So far as The Bee is concerned, it is enlisted in the fight for equal taxation as a matter of principle and not as a matter of politics.” It would prefer to have the bill pass rather than fall, without re- gard to Its effect upon politics . and without regard to which political party contributes most to putting it through. In shirking their. taxes the rallroads know no party lines. They are repub- licans in republican states and demo- crats in democratic states. They are working through republicans in Ne- braska now. because the republicans happen to be in control of the legisla- ture, just as®they worked through the fusionists a few years ago when the legislature was dominated by a fusion majority. It is the people against the rallroads in the present contest and the ,members of the legislature will have to vote mot as republicans or as democrats, but as representatives of the people or as'pawns for the railroad lobby. always was easy. Putting it on the Publle. Philadelphia Record. Mr, Bogle, ope of the largest Indiana coal operators, says the advance in wages was granted Because the public always takes the side of the miners, and the oper: tors decided to take the added coll of min- ing out of the publio. Model American Character, 8t. Louis Republie. Among the eulogies pronounced upon Abraham Lincoln's character the most complete and eloquent is that contained in the words: “He was not schooled; he was educated.” Every American recognizes the truth of the ocondensation. There is no north and no south in appreclation of the man who was educated in the American conduct of life. A Great Public Service. Indlanapolls News. But Mr. Rockefeller has, all unintention- ally, of course, rendered a great public service. - His attempt to dictate to the senate, and to defeat legislation just be- cause “‘we are opposed” to it, has opened the eyes of many people who have hitherto been skeptical even as to the existence of such influenc those which he endeav- ored to exert. Ameriean Charity Going Abroad. Baltimore American. American charity has agaln gone abroad and a,considerablo sum of money has been sent for the reliet of the famine-stricken people of northern Sweden. It is hard to understand how such conditions can exisy in sich a country as Sweden, or how that government, with the aid of others near at band, ean fall to supply all the ald neceseary. Americans will not, however, on that account hesitate to help the poor and will continie to belp ‘us ‘long as 18 necessary. | REST R RATLROAD MEN. Movement of Most Frelght Tra Suspended on Sunday. Chicago Record-Herald, The management of the Chicago and Northwestern rallroad has issued an order confining the movement of freight on Sun- days to live stock and perishable ship- ments, with an exception during the present public emergency of coal and all kinds of fuel. Pursuant to this order thousands of employes in every branch of the operating department of the Northwestern system of over 8,000 miles enjoyed on Sunday last their first Sabbath at home. The {nnovation and experiment which this railroad thus inaugurated will be watched with extreme interest, and it is to be hoped that every big rallway system in the coun: try will join in the promulgation of a sim- flar order o that “a Sunday at home for railroad employes” may have a fair trial. 1t s only in co-operation that such reforms can be successfully established in a great allied industry eniploying more than 1,000,- 000 human belngs. It 1s not to be expected that this move- ment for a rallroad Sunday is entirely de- vold of its practical side. Few movements in the interest of humanity are in fact salely sentimental. In this case the North- western officlals are convinced that with a day of rest the employes of the company will move as much if not more freight in six days than formerly in seven, and do it more efficlently and more cheerfully. They be- Meve that one day of rest will bring renewed nerve force, without which an operating man is of little value, and that the moral influence will be such as to make better men of their employes and consequently result in more thorough service. —— I ———— It is' noted that ihe South Omaha PERSONAL NOTES. charter DIl as it comes from the| p y,ung a wealthy Chinese merchant Pflnwr. is labeled as introduced “by re- quest.”” Why should any bill supposed to represent the.wishes of the general public within the jurisdiction affected have to be introduced “by request?” How many of the bills prepared by the rallroad lobby or framed in some other of Indianapolis, has becn made head of the Chinese Masons in this country. It wil be a shock to the temperance element in Kansas to lLear that Mrs. Na- tion 18 under arrest at Los Angeles for decorating the town. Young Rockefeller is a chip of the old block. He insists that for the ‘purpose of speclal interest are introduced “by re-|taxatiqp, his vast wealth -is more than quest?’ Why should any member of | offset by his colossal debts. the leglslature endeavor to evade| Herbert W. Bowen, minister to Venes- responsibility for a measure demanded by his constituents by recording it in- troduced “by request,” as an intimation that it does not meet his own approval? If the bill is not worth fathering, why should it be introduced at all? ——r—— The South Dakota legislature is fa- the valugd policy law, a bill to that effect havihg already passed one house, with promis- We take it that the fire insurance men there are using all their stock arguments against telling the lawmakers how such legislation is sure to increase fire losses and ralse insurance rates, yet apparently with- Nebraska has bad a valued policy law on its statute but the Insurance men have not been dble to point out a single tangible example where it has ever in- vorably inclined toward ind prospeets in the other. valued policy provisions, and out the desired effect. books for years creased rates or stimulated arson. —— City Electriclan Schurig In his report to the mayor and counci! recommends the construction of a condalt system by the ‘eity to carry the wires of the fire and police alarm circult, which must uela, Judge Taft, governor of the Philip- pines, and Judge Hunt, governor of Porto Rico, were classmen at Yale and were close triends. Francls B. Loomis, the new dssistant secretary of state, has held the office of consul general and two ministries, & rec- ord of service \without precedent in the State department. Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt had a limited train on the Southern -rallway stopped and brought back twenty-five miles s0 that they could get aboard. Probably they were traveling on passes, too. General Basil W. Duke of Loulsville was offered the federal district judgeship of Kentucky by President Roosevelt, but de- clined to pccept on the ground that ‘e had endorsed another man for the 'position. John M. Dick, an octogenarian resident of Mansfield, O., has applied to life insur- ance agents in Cleveland for a policy for $1,000,000. John Wunamaker is sald to be the best insured man (n this country. He carries policies amounting to $1,500,000. Lloyd Griscom, enroute by way of his pative land to his new post as minister to Japan, has reached Loudon from Teheran. He says the shah of Persia has queer ideas aboyt geography. The ruler expressed # desire to visit the United States and asked 1f he could go all the way by the Siberian railroad, or if it took more than one day to cross the Atlantie. He was greatly distressed when Minister rifcom enlightened him. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropel Joseph Willlam Sheppard, & devout be- Uever in Brabminism, gave up his lite L sacrifice to his faith. For fifteen y s he lived on rice, port wine and honey, taught by the Indian mysticlsm that this diet was the medium by which he would undergo a psychic change, making food unnecessary for the preservation of the body. A week ago he refused to eat, insisting that at ‘st his mind had absolute control of his body and that he would live on the strength given by his intellect. Sheppard had every comfort he could think of. His family begged him to go to a hospital, but ho refused to listen to them and scoffed at a physician's orders. “Don’t tell me I need food,” he said a few minutes before his death. I do not and I am not going to take any.” Sheppard was 64 years of age and & suc- cessful inventor. ,It required a man combining the strength of a Sandow with the agllity of a monkey to cross Broadway at Twenty-third street during a recent gale. To turn the corner of the Flatirow building took the pushing power of a locomotive. Some of those who attempted the feat landed safely around the corner. Others landed somewhere half a block away, while a fow are stiil chasing the hats they neg- leoted to nafl on their heads before est ing the feat. The triangular shape of the bullding, Its immense helght and the amount of open space around it combined to deflect: the currents of wind to the sidewalk, where they swept around the corner and formed a whirlwind. Those who got caught in it eay it was ltke a Kansas cyelone. At any rate when It struck the bullding it created enough havoe to ause a crowd of about 500 persons to gather and watch its pranks. The three policemen on the corner were kept busy all day ordering the crowd to move on. Several women who attempted to cross were bowled over as if they were ninepins, and one pf them fainted. She was rescued by Policeman Slatman of the West Thirti- eth streot station, who carried her to the sidewalk, where she was revived. Another unfortunate who overestimated his power to buck against the wind lost his breath while in the middle of the street and had to orawl to the sidewalk. Women's hats wegg torn from their heads and the number of men's hats blown away was legion. The merchants whose stores are in the vicinity of the building were dismayed. All previous efforts of the wind there, they say, are placed far in tha,shade. They will push the test suit for damages which one of them has brought against the owners of the bullding, lthough they do not see what relief this will bring in the future, as the bullding is up, and will probably rematn. A ring of the telephone bell in police headquarters at 3:20 o'clock distrubed the early Sunday morning quietude of the Mul- berry street bullding, relates the Times. “Well, what is 1t sald the officer in charge. A man is settipg fire to the house,” came from the other end in a low sweet voioe. “That's bad. Tell me your name and addre: “I'm Mrs. Annle Fleming of 108 West One Hundred and Thirteenth street,” the woman said. “All right. We'll attend to it,” the ofi- cer assured her. Two minutes later, away up in the West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street sta- tion Sergeant McCarthy was giving orders to Policeman Schemmerhorn, who looked doubtful when he got his order, but he moved quickly, just the same, because the sergeant sald the case was urgent. He ap- peared again quite soon and with a frown assured McCarthy that “it was all a fake.” Once more the telephone bell broke the stillness at' headquarters and once again the officer In charge sent word to Harlem. This time Policeman Horn was”sent. Horn and Schemmerhorn linked their efforts, and now insisted on getting at the source of the excitement. They finally found Mrs. Fleming, demanding in no mild, uncertain tones to know just what she meant. “It's all right, now,* she sald. Pressing her for further light the two policemen were informed by Mrs. Fleming that her husband had come home ‘“‘slightly under the weather,” and that to frighten him so that he would promise her to sign the pledge she had pretended that she was going to have him arre: “He's promised now, 1t's all right. The two policemen left, reserving their remarks for the street, where there was plenty of rodm as well lots of alr. ;he sald, “and Ho dashed breathlessly up the stalrs at a downtown station of the “L" and shouted between gasps to the man at the window: “Gimme a ticket to Twenty-elghth stre The seller sald: “‘Where's your money?" “How much is 1t?" “Five cents. “Here It {8; Twenty-elghth “Pass slong; don't delay the gam “But 1s 1t for Twenty-elghth street?” “Shove along, I say.” “Don't you give me any of your sass; I asked for a ticket to Twenty-eighth street. Is this 17" “Bay, 1t you don’t move along I'll call & policeman. Can't you see you're blocking “I'll stand here all day. You've got to tell me if this ticket lots me off at Twenty- elghth streef. I don't propose to be carried past my station. You elevated railroad chumps may run New York as you p but T'll let you know I'm from Texas The man behind remarked: “Well, Texes, move along and I'll explain. ' You've got your Twenty-eighth street ticket, apd I'm going to buy one exactly like it. In this city all tickets look allke to us. The man was desperately sober; but he did not intend to be “done.” Prof. W. T. Hand of the Mississippl Agricultural college has been on a visit to New York. While there an acquaintance 1d to him: “You do not find much ef an agricultural nature here, do you?" ‘“‘Oh, 1 am picking up a few hints,” answered the protessor. - “For instance, Wall street can give me points for a lecture on watering stock; your ‘tenderloin’ seems to be given over to the sowing of wild oats, and your street cars beat hl! pressers and cotton gins Era Magasine. Some one describes the human body as “a nitrogenized mass of hydrocarbon, whose only use is to be burned up aptly pictures the preeise truth. Life is combustion. ' The hydrogen and carbon of the body are continually combining with oxygen in slow combustion, to produce the gentle, uniform heat of health, If any one of the three parties to combustion s deficlent, life suffers, and vitality declines. The human furnace ought to recelve at least as good treatment as a house h No ‘one would think of choking off the llr from a furnace, nor of expecting & fire to burn biightly with air that had slready been passed through haif & dozen other furnaces and thus deoxidized. Yet that absurd way is exactly how we treat the human fire.) We fall to breathe fully and deeply and we stay for hours in rooms whose alr has passed through the lungs of a dozen people ur dwn, time and time again—and then we wonder why our vital fire burps lowl DEPOSITS OF. SUR Suggestions Worthy of Cons in Nebraska, Portland Oregonlan. No one has yet introduced in the legls- 83 a means of securing the fulfillment of their obligations. When some city, county lars through the defalcation of“an officer who has an {nsolvent surety company as a bondsman, people will wonder why some law was not passed to protect the public under such circumstances. As the law now stands, a county treasurer, tax collector or other county or state officer may give an official bond with a surety company as surety, and the county or state has mo alternative but to accept the bond, even though the surety company be insolvent The law merely requires that when the company begins doing businees in the state it must have a pald-up capital of $100,000. It 1s not even required that this capital must be unimpaired. After a company has once entered upon business in this state it may impair its capital and be worth as surety for public officers, trustees, ete. In ocase of state or county must look outside the state ‘of Oregon for the property upon which to levy In order to enforce payment of an obligation. Insurance éompanies are required to de- posit in the state treasury bonds to the amount of $50,000, which are held by the state as security for the fulfillment of the company’s obligations. Nothing whatever 1s required of surety companies, which do & very similar business. The secretary of state has twice called attention to this werious defect In the law, but the last legislature gave no heed and the present legislature has thus far followed the ex- ample of its predecessor, probably upon the theory that since no Josses have ever been sustained none ever will be. The practice of giving official bonds with surety companies as sureties I8 new, but growing rapldly. Before an individual can be accepted as a surety he must be a oiti- zen of the state and provy that he is worth double the amount for which he is durety. A corporation, to serve in the same capacity, need not be worth any- thiag. By making it compulsory upon the state and county to accept such bonds with corporations as ®uretics the legislature conferred great advantages upon these con- cerns. In addition to that, the law re- quires that the fees for the surety service for trustees, administrators, etc., must be paid by the estate or trust fund. The state of New Jersey requires a de- posit of $50,000, and also provides that it any surety company wishes to withdraw from the state it must first secure an agreement ' from some other company or person to assume 'all its obligations. Ore- gon now has a law which provides that the tatute of limitations shall not run agalnst the state or a county, so a similar pro- vision as to the continuance of the deposit should be made. ——————— RAILROAD DEATH ROLL. Conspledous Difference Between Great Britain and the United States. Chicago Tribune. I 1901 282 passengers on American rail- roads were killed by train collisions and wrecks. /Not one passenger was killed on British roads. The mileage of the American rallways far exceeds that of the railways of Great Britain, but the latter carry more passengers yearly than do the former. The British record 'is ome which should put American railroad managers to shame. They have labored ‘successfully to run trains fast as they are run in England. It would have been more to the purpose it they had endeavored successfully to se- cure for passengers the same immunity trom death that British passengers enjoy. There is one conspicuous difference be- tween Great Britain and the United States. In the one the block system s in universal use. In the other it is in operation on only about 25,000 miles of track, which is about one-tenth of the total mileage. It is ad- mitted that that system ténds to aveft ac- cidents. It does mot prevent them in this country, as s shown by the recent dreadful accident on the Central New Jersey. It was due to the fault of the engineer in overlooking er disregarding signals which were properly displayed. The block system has been introduced in the United States so recently and to so limited an extent that there are few, it any, engineers who have been brought up under it and have learnad the great lesson that signals must be obeyed immediately, The engineer on the Central New Jersey express train sald he thpught the danger' signal would turn white. If he had been better trained he would mot have thought. He would have stopped. After engineers have grown up under the block system there will be few, if any, serlous accidents on roads where it is used. Therefore it is nect ry for the roads to extend the system rapidly and give passengers the effective protection they get in Great Britain but do mot get here. This will require a considerable outlay of money on the part of the rail- roads, but they must reconcile themselves to the expenditure, for they must make travel safe. While installing the ‘block system they must improve the system of running tralns by telegraph. There must be checks and counter checks. When a train dispatcher sends an ‘order he mist make sure that it s delivered and under- stood. Passengers on English ropds have the one great safeguard which has been men- tioned. They have still another. The men who manage Enklish rallroads and their employes are not so reckle the Ameri- lature & bill to require surety companies | to make deposits in the state treasury | Vestigations to find who Is at fault or the state has lost a fow thousand dol- | nothing whatever, yet it must be acceptedd cans, They do not take so many chances. Here, when there is a bad accident, & coroner’s jury investigates it after a fash- fon and that is the end of the matter. In | England recklessness which has fatal con- sequences meets with swift and severs pun- ishment. There are real, not sham, in- The droad of punishmert makes rallway men careful, and trains are not smashed up and- passengers killed as they are here. There are many things about American railroads which their managers can justly foel proud of, but there are also serious de- fects which must be remedied. If the man- agers will not remedy them voluntarily they must be compelled to do 0. The yearly death roll s the reproach and shame of the American railroad men. LINES TO A LAUGH. “Never interrupt & woman when she e telling_you her troubles,’ counseled Uncle Allen_ Sparks. “She is hever o happy as then." cago Tribun: Mother, say “rul Mm It is worse than a sin, Thomas, it is nuu ~Harvard Lampoon. Tommy Backba: 18 1t & sin to Playwright—What ¢ do you think of my new drama? Manager—It has same merit. Playwright (eagerly)—Yes—yes’ umupr—lu shortness. —) et troft Free “Somb people, 1" belleve, still maintain that oll and water won't mix." “*Nonse! the Baptist church. “'Suj p(lhl- ¥ou ‘woke up some da; loun 1t a millionalre—what 'zu do?" “do right to sleep again, so the knocking S the tax n_the Goor wouldnt annoy me”—Baltimore Her- ald. “Blinkerstior{ mixes his Arinks dread- fully. -1 saw him with an assorted load last, night that would have flled an in- Vt‘n’go an) 8 B amizes to be considered o common carrier.”—Cleveland Plain Deal Clara—The truth is, 1 did not love my husband at all when I married him. I married for eympathy. Gladys—Well, you have mine.—Philade:- phia Ledger. “I've come to tell you, sir,” the young man said bravely, “that'I want to marry our daughter.” “What?" erled ol Goldrox. “Yes, sir; but I assure you if she had pot & penny 1 would still want to marry w0—"" Bt nottles you. Idon't want anagher fool in the family.”—Philadelphla Catfollc Standard. OLD GLORY. By the shij .nn the crew Axd the h?n§ blended ranks of the Grey and the Blue— ‘Who gave youn Dld Glory, the name that you bear With such pride everywhere, As ynn cast yourself free to the rapturous And lmp out full length, as we're wanting yot Who And 'the honor and fame so becoming to u? 0 v: 8 You that name, with the ring of yot Your nu‘lp'ennwroked 14 ripples of White With Your tars at their gilitering best qQyerhoad, BL v o b7 Thelr delllhlfullel( Ught, Laughing down from thelr little square heaVven of blue— ‘Who gave you the name of Old Glory? Say who?— Who gave $ou the name of Old Glory? The Old Banner lifted, and falterin, 1 awhis Tof e In vague lisps; and whispery fel again. sllent 0ld Glory, speak mm How you hlwened 0 We lre asking about a name, 8o That'Sonnds so famillar and careless and gay, As we alicer it and shout in our wild, ‘We, the mwdv every man of nl.llln‘ We, o, Dick and Harry, each swinging his hat Aud hurrahing “Old Glory! our like you were ':. all know, we're as coin- And yet Il seems like you humor us all, And wagt us your thanks, 83 we hall 'you, and fs Into line, Mth‘-{ou Bver us, waving us on W‘I\eu our glorifled, sanctified hatlorl have And Shis 19 the reason we'rs wanting to (And we're wanti) ‘Where our own fat! to Who 80.) avé you the name of Old Gilory? Who gave you the name of Ol Glory? The old flag unturled with a billowy thrill For an instant; then wisttully sighed and was s O1d Glory, the story we're wanting to hear Is what the plain facte of your christening were; For your name, just to hear it, mm-nt[llz! and cheer It, is a tang to the spir As salt tea And aeellr;' you ny, and, the boys march- ng There's a $hout in the throat and a blur in tho eye, And an aching to live for you always—or o} 1t, dyi S, still keep you waving on high, And 5o, By our love For you, floating above, nd the scars of all wars and the sorrows thereot ‘Who gave you the name of Old Glory, and Are we thrilled at the name of Old Glory? Then lhc;flnld banner leaped like a sall in Ana fitiered’an sudible answer at last, ~ Ang it spake, with a shake of the voics, By (nd it sala: y the driven snmow white and the living blood red Of my bars, and their heaven of starswver- By thl- lxmhnl conjoined of them all, sky- As 1708t from the steeple, or flap at the mast, Or drooy c'er the sod where the lang grasses nod My tame is as 0ld as the glory of God. 80 I came by the name of oLD G!‘)BY. clothesy wet feet, colds, night coughs, the croup—a part of school life. And it should be a part of home “life to keep on hand a bottle of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. Just one dose at bedtime, when thecold is threatened, will stop all future-trouble. We wish you would ask your doctor if he knows anything ' better for colds, coughs, bBronchitis, weaks thmulndlungn Thros sien: 2, ., 5100, 4. C. AVERCO., Lowell, Mass. ‘1 have used A: lu'lofilngwuld be I*mf ecmul i the w& fi i sl e od . Brymer, Shlby. Ala. N —