Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 18, 1903, Page 6

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REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stampe accepted in payment of malil accounts. ‘erscnal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss. plsorge B. Trachuck, secretary of The B ublishing company, being du that the actual anlm\u-r of full and eomplete | o ily, Morming, KEvening and | §lnday Bue prinied dgrine tne month of January, 1908, was as follows 1. 1. 19 20. 2 1 2 3 4 5. L] 7 [ 9 10 1 12, 13. 14 15 16 Total Less uusold and returnad coples. Net total sale N Subseribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 8lst day of January, A. D. . M. B. HUNGATE, Notary Public. The Omaha club women will have committees to keep In touch with cer- tain legislative measures in which they are interested. It would not be polite, however, to call them ‘“touching com- mittees. —— The best way for the members of the Douglas delegation to show that they are on the square with the public de- mand for legislation that will put an end to railway tax exemption is to do something and report progress. ————— “The thieves who broke into the house {an | ure, of one of the big coal operators in Penn- sylvania and decamped with $5,000 worth of the family plate, showed very poor judgment. They should have or- ganized a scheme to tap his supply of hard coal. In the opinfon of Bishop Spalding, great wealth is almost certain to de- grade its possessor. It will take more eloquence than the bishop pessesses, however, to persuade the average man to dodge a fortune when he sees it com- ing toward him. —— While repairing the state’s depleted finances the legislature should not over- look the holes made In the skimmer by the Bartley embezzlements, the absorp- tion by Meserve of Interest on public funds and the middlemen's graft on the Stuefer bond deals. The rallroad tax-shirking brigade is continuously at work in the legislative lobbles. Volunteers who are represent- Ing the interests of the people for equal taxation of railroad property with the property of Individuals must not allow themselves to lapse Into inactivity. The ministers of Des Moines are get- ting ready for another purity crusade, and will doubtless soon be beating the tomtom and crying out that Des Moines 18 the wickedest city in the werld. The wickedest city in the world is always the one where the purity crusaders hap- pen to be operating. It is said that Russia and Austria are threatening to convoke a European con- gress to take action on the fallure of Turkey to restore quiet and order in Macedonia. So many different expedi- ents have been tried on “the sick man of Europe” that a surgical operation may be the last resort. In casting about for water commis- sloners, Governor Mickey must have found it hard to discover three Omaha democrats of prominence and capacity who had been allied with the regular democratic organization during the en- tire period of Mr. Bryan's supremacy and therefore to have given it up. —— Mr. Bryan's declaration that he has felt he can no more escape from the ‘work he Is now trying to do “than a man in the penitentiary can escape the work imposed on him,” is a poorly chosen siile, Mr. Bryan ought to know that some penitentiaries maintain green- houses for the benefit of star boarders, — President Roosevelt shows no inclina- tion to rellieve the senate of the neces- sity of putting itself on record on the nomination of Dr. Crum by withdraw- ing the appointment. If the majority of the senators want to draw the color line on positions under the federal gov- ernment, we might as well know who they are. Another measure to enforce the uni- versal use of automatic coupling appli- ances by the railroads has passed con: gress. How many more such laws will be npeeded to bring about the desired reform? Congress has already enacted seyeral automatic coupling bills, but the KEEPING FAITH WITH TRE PEOPL The republican party keeps faith with| the people. It fulfills its pledges to the country. Nearly fifteen years ago in its national convention the party declared it8 opposition to trusts. Two years later a republivan congress enacted the first anti-trust law. In Its last natlonal plat form the republican party condemned conspiracies and combinations in- to restrict business, to create monopolies limit production or to control prices, and declared in favor of such legislation “as will effectually restrain and prevent all such abuses, protect and promote competition and se- cure the rights of producers, laborers and all who are engaged In Industry and commerce.” The fifty-seventh congress was elected on this platform and it has kept faith with the people in the enactment of legislation supplementing the interstate commerce law and the act of 1890, so that they are made much stronger and their effective enforcement rendered more certain. If not going as far as some republicans desired this legislation yet marks a decided advance. It meets the national views of the admin- istration and the judgment of conserv- ative business interests. It contem- plates nothing destructive or revolution- ary. It is not an assault upon the busi- ness or prosperity of the country. An- other anti-trust measure that passed the house unanimously is pending in the senate. It I8 a comprehensive meas- but owing to the short time re maining of the session it may not be passed by this congress. It can, how- ever, be considered by the next con- gress If necessary. It will not he lost if it should fall of enactment by the present congress. . Of course democrats are predicting hat the legislation passed will be inef-! fective, Tt was to -be expected they would do this, but people who are fa- miliar with the uniform fallure of dem- ocratic predictions will attach no im- portance to the latest one. The coun- try has confidence that the administra- tion will spare no effort to enforce this legislatlon and will await results. We believe that the anti-rebate bill will prove effective and we do not doubt that when the bureau of corporations in the new department is In operation the public will be given all proper and necessary information In regard to the organization, conduct and management of the business of corporations, except common carriers, engaged In commerce among the states or with forelgn coun- tries. TLet no one be disturbed by the professed apprehension of democrats that this legislation will fall of its pur- pose, remembering the persistent demo- cratle cry that the republican party was controlled by the trusts and there- fore would do nothing adverse to them. — THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. The sesslon of the British Parliament that opened yesterday promises to have important results, though nothing as to this is intimated in the king's speech, which is of the usual perfunctory char- acter and gives no suggestion of what the course and policy of the ministry is to be. In this particular the king is merely the mouthpiece of the cabinet and nowhere does he appear so strongly as a simple figurehead than at the opening of Parliament, The most fmportant work of the ses- sion will relate to Ireland and there is promise of leglslation looking to the relief of conditions in that country, which are represented to be very bad. The government will propose a measure designed to eliminate landlordism and enable the people who are cultivating the land and now paying unreasonable rental for it to become owners, the government alding them financially. If a workable plan for this shall be put in operation it will undoubtedly be | productive of most beneficent results, material and political. Another matter of Importance that will engage the at-| tention of Parliament is the educational | bill, proposing some radical changes over which a vigorous contest is ex- pected. The industrial and commercial interests of Great Britain will doubt- less recelve careful consideration and there may be some legislation looking to thelr Improvement, but those who are urging a change in the economic policy of the country are very certaln to be disappointed. — PROVIDING FOR 4 CONFERENCE. The amendment to the Philippine cur- rency bill, providing for a conference between gold and silver standard coun- tries to establish a stable ratio, was adopted by the senate without a divi- sion and will doubtless be accepted by the house of representatives. As we have heretofore noted the Mexican government has appointéd a commis- slon to consider this matter, which will meet at once and enter upon the work. It will take a considerable time to ar- range for an International conference and in the meanwhile it is expected that the Mexican commission may be able to devise a plan for submission to the conference. In proposing this conference it is the purpose of Mexico and China to raise their own currencies to a fixed and per- manent relation to the gold standard, which is probably the longest step to- ward a gold currency of which they are capable under existing economle conditions. In the opinfon of so capa- ble an authority as the Financlal Chron- icle it will be a step of enormous bene- fit to the trade of the world if it ean tended to be successfully carried out. The money of Mexico, of China and other Oriental countries and of the nations of Latin America, will become interchangeable in value with that of the gold countries. Trade between the two will no longer fnvolve the risks of great fluctuations in the value of the money received for have shown ne haste to com- ply with their requirements wherever & loophole was afforded by which they ~ the manufactured goods exported from Burope and’ America, the purchasing power of the silver countries will rise by bundreds of millions, and the sta- bility of trade relations will enormously increase their purchases from the mann facturing nations on the one hand and thelr productive power and domes tic exports om the other. The Chronicle thinks it will involve no| visk for the United States to lend its| support in the thorough examination of the question and there appears to be assurances that this will be done. The proposition, it is perhaps needless to say, contemplates no change in the do mestic monetary systems of the gold standard countries HOW SHALL THE PURCHASE BE MADEY The consensus of opinfon among all classes of citizens and taxpayers s in favor of the municipal ownership of the water works. We doubt very much, however, whether any considerable number of taxpayers would favor the immediate purchase of the water works unless they can be acoquired at a rea- sonable price. Under the contract made with the water company when its fran- chise was granted the city of Omaha has a right to purchase the works at an appraised value to be fixed by three en- gineers, one of these to be named by the city, one by the water company and the third to be chosen by the two. If the appraisement is made by these ar- bitrators the city is to pay only for the tangible property of the company with- out making any allowance for the unex- pired franchise. An appraisement made under these conditions can, however, only be made on or after September 4, | 1903, Under the existing charter the city of Omaha is empowered to take the water works by condemnation under the right of eminent’ domain. In taking the works by eminent domain proceedings the city would have the right to appoint all the appraisers, but the valuation made by these appraisers would Include not only the tangible property but also the value of the unexpired franchise. The problem which now confronts the city is whether it shall avail itself of the privilege embodied in the purchase clause of its contract with the water company, namely, to take the works at the price fixed by the three appraisers, or whether it shall proceed under the right of eminent domain. The ordi- nance drawn in response to the resolu- tion of Councilman Hascall in conform- ity with the Howell-Gilbert water works bill contemplates the purchase of the works under the three appraisers clause of the contract. This method of acquir- ing the works Is doubtless most advan- tageous to the water company and most dangerous to the city of Omaha. While the ecity and the water company each have one representative on the appralse- ment board, the chances are one hun- dred to one that the water company will control the third man. In other words, the water company will be able to place its own value on the works. Attorneys who rank high at the bar contend that an acceptance of the pur- chase privilege by the city binds the city to accept the valuation fixed upon the works by the arbitration board or two of the three arbitrators, even if the appraisement exceeds by two or three millions the actual value of the works. To be sure, the city may refuse to ratify the purchase by voting down the prop- osition to issue the requisite amount of bonds. In that case the water company might Institute proceedings in the courts and under Its contract secure a judg- ment for the full valuation fixed by the appraisers. Condemnation proceedings under the right of eminent domain iwould not in- volve the city in any such risk. In the first place, the city has a right to ap- point all the appralsers, and if the amount allowed for the works and the unexpired franchise is excessive the city would have the right to reject the ap- praisement and have the property re- appraised Ly a new set of appralsers. It the appralsement is satisfactory to the city and a sufficlent amount of bonds is voted to cover the full valua- tion agreed upon by the appralsers the eity would have the right to take pos- session of the works by depositing the money in the courts, leaving the water company the option to accept or appeal to the courts for a final adjudication of the compensation to which it would be entitled in payment for the property. The good people of Council Bluffs are having a taste of rallroad tax shirking in the refusal of the Unlon Pacific to pay city taxes on the east half of its Missouri river bridge, on the ground that | although within the city limits, It 1s not receiving any benefits from the city gov ernment, which position has just been sustained by the United States circult court of appeals. On the same theory it would be only a question of degrees of benefit enjoyed by property subject to municipal taxation to furnish foun- dation for a claim to tax exemption. How far must the city grow up toward the bridge in order to bring it within the scope of municipal taxation? Would not property m close proximity to the remote city limits and outside of the area of regulation police and fire pro- tection, school facilities, etc., be enti- tled to the same exemption as the rail- way bridge? We believe the ruling in this case is thoroughly vicious and hope the people of Council Bluffs will carry it up for final decision by the su- preme court of the United States. The action of the Broatch police board in practically forcing all the new police officers to take out bonds with a single surety company in order to favor the local agent with a forced contri- bution out of the policemen’s pockets would not be serious except as an ex- hibition of the perniclous practices of the present board were it not that the blanket bond thus adopted is of ques- | the first suit on the bond will knock the tionable legality. Should one of the po- licemen so bonded make a false arrest, or lay himself liable to damages in any way, we have no doubt the surety com- pany would defend a sult to recover by pleading the Insufficlency of the bond. The law contemplates a separate indi vidual security to be executed by each officer as a prerequisite to the assump tion of police duties and at the time of the appointment, and the chances are whole scheme galley west, Governor Mickey has evidently at tempted conscientiously to perform the duty imposed upon him under the How ell-Gilbert water works bill establishing a governor-appointed board of six water commissioners for the city of Omaha. No two men would probably have made the same selections, but it will be ad mitted that the appointees of the gov ernor rank well with the community in point of business ability and substantial property interests. If the water com- missloners are as conscientious in the discharge of such duties as may devolve upon them as the governor has been, there will be little or no cause for com- plaint, — The report of the superintendent of schools submitted to the Board of Edu- cation discloses the fact that at the close of last week there were in the schools of Omaha just fifteen more pu- pils than there were on the correspond- ing day of the preceding year. This should give no cause for complaint, but if the school attendance is substantially the same this year as it was last year, on what ground can the board justify its estimate of school expenses for the coming year so much in excess of what Is required under existing conditions? The women managers of the St. Louls| gxposition have decided that if they cannot have their own way they will not play at the game at all. The os- tensible reason is that the officials of the falr are opposed to the erection of a special woman's building and the women think this is denying them equality. What would the women say if the men should insist upon having a man's building to the exclusion of.the women? Ealpped for His Task. ‘Washington Post. Mr. Cortelyou will enjoy the novelty of entering the cabinet with a practical knowledge of the dutles of a cabinet officer. Cruel to the Profession. Chicago Tribune, The sup: court ot North Carollna has decided that appli- cants for license to practice law muet be ‘able to write legibly and spell roasonably well.” They are pretty strict down there in the old north state. While the Fish Bite. New York World. It is estimated that fitty “get-rich-quick” firms York City alome. And until can be taught that there fs “royal road” to wealth all of cerns cannot be wiped out. there are in New the public no honest these con- Much Work and Some Play. Philadelphia ‘North American. is well = known that Presi- Roosevel " 'fs a strenuous worker, but nobody suspected until Leslie M. Shaw so informed an amazed world that he devotes elghteen hours out of every twenty-four to public toll. That leaves only six hours for sleep- ing, eating, riding, romping with the youngsters and getting battered up by Gen- eral Wood at single stick play. The pres dent must feel tempted to set General Wood on Shaw with the stoutest stick in the rack. It dent Sample of Amaszing Nerve, Philadelphia North American. An attorney for the Coal trust denouncing the union miners in his speech to the commission quoted the maxim of law that he who seeks equity must come into court with clean hands, and asked if the hands of the miners were clean or solled with violations of the law. Considering the notorfously Illegal cperation of mines by raflroad corporations and the Coal trust's continuous criminal record, the merve and eftrontery of the trust lawyer in calling the court’s attentfon to the legal maxim must be admired. Philadelphia Press. It Willlam H. Seward were now alive he would have no little pleasure in recalling some of the things sald against him because of the purchase of Alaska, in view of the returns of rhe trade of that territory. In the last six months of the calendar year, 1902, Alaska imported from the United States $3,413 942 in merchandise and in gold and silver. and it exported to the United States $24,389,188 in value. The total trade of tho territory, forelgn and domestls, for the six months was $30,792,658, Which 1s over four times | as much as Seward pald for the territory. It was a splendid “bargain’ for the United Btates. Self-Preservation Among Senato; Portland Oregonan. The United States senate stands as & solld wall against the on- set of popular opinfon against the com- stitutional provision whereby it is created and renewed. This is not to say that op- position to an amendment to the federal constitution providing for the election of senators by popular vote is universal among United States senators, but oppon- ents of the measure are numerous enough to defeat 1t by tacties well known to polit- fcal schemers, whose firat thought is to serve their own Interests. Eventually, no doubt, the volce of the people will be heard upon this proposition. Otherwise another of the cherished idols of “popular govern- ment” will be shattered Corporate Linbility, Boston Herald. The court of appeals of Albany, N. Y., has afirmed the judgment of the lower court, giving to Lottie G. Dimon, whose husband was killed in the so-called tunnel isaster In New York City in January, 1902, the sum of $60.900 damages and $2,165 in costs. The deceased, a man 35 years of age, was a civil engineer in the employ of the American Bridge company and the award was probably based upon what his earning power would presumably have brought in to his family had he lived c-t the regular measure of bis days. This was the first damage sult growing out of the tunnel disaster that has been decided by the court of appeals, and the amount ob- tained is said to be one of the largest ever given for a single death caused by a rall- road accident. The ease was appealed by the rafiroad company on the ground of ex- cessive damages granted in the lower court, but the court of appeals was unani- mous 1n its decision to sustain the finding. The awards that have been obtained in the case of the explosion in the New York subway, a disaster which resulted in the death of & number of persons, have been even larger than those ives in this accident case 1903 ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropol Plans for the third bridge across Bast river have reached the plcture stage. Ac- cording to the prospectus it will span the river a short distance above the present Brooklyn bridge, with the terminal at the intersection of Canal street and the Bow- ery, on the New' York side, and the junc- tion of Washington and Fulton streets (near the city hall), on the Brooklyn sida. The total length, including approaches, will be 9,900 feet, or within 500 feet of two miles, being the longest city bridge in the world. The river span will be 1470 feet long. The cables will be supported by two steel towers, rising 400 feet above high water. The structure will be 100 feet wide and a “double decker.” On the lower level it will earry a roadway 50 feet and 6 inches between guard rails. Four trolley tracks, two on each side of the roadway, and two promenades, 11 feet and 9 inches wide. The upper level will carry four elevated rail- road in pairs. The entire structure will be fireproof. The river span will be 185 feet above high water over the navigable chan- nels. Justice of the Peace George F. Seymour eat in his Hoboken office when a young couple entered carrying with them the usual and unmistakable evidence of desire to be made onme. The justice asked the young man's name. “‘Richard Mansfleld,” was the reply, and his honor stared for a moment as he reflected that the noted actor must be much older than this would-be bridegroom. Then he asked the girl's name. ‘“Maude Adams,” she timidly re- sponded. The justice nearly fell out of his chair, but recovered when informed that the pair lived in a suburb of Hoboken. Then he tied the knot, pocketed his fee and kissed the bride. Like another pled piper of Hamelin, save that his followers were cats instead of rats, Chiet Piccolo Player Weller Westinghouse Donnelly, of the United States crulser Ra- lelgh, wooed a cat mascot back to the ehip in presence of 200 comrades. Incidentally he charmed such a large colony of stray cats from a lumber pile on the Cob dock | that his pipery had to be suppressed and the gangplanks pulled in. Officers as well as the men had been wor- ried by an absence of twenty-four hours of the cat Portsmouth from the ship, re- ports the Herald. The animal had been shanghaied from a quiet farmhouse in Now ampshire. It was thought that ho had not taken kindly to ship lite and had de- serted. Chiet Plecolo Player W. W. Donnclly volunteered to find the cat on the dock. He had played to it many a time in the “glory hole” of the Raleigh, and he had reason to belfeve that his efforts had been appreci- ated. While his doubting comradas lined the decks he climbed on top of a big lumber plie on the dock and began playing “Homse, Sweet Home,” on the piccolo. The sailors laughed. There was no sign of the cat. Unabashed, Donnelly drifted into “Come Back, My Bonnie, to Mo.” and “Come for Your Coftee Now, Boys.” Still there was no response. but a commotion began underneath the lumber pile. The piper then played “Home, Sweet Home" again. Immediately thereafter he started the strains of “The Star Spangled Banner.” and every saflor stared, for Portsmouth appeared crawling to him up the woosdpile, with tail proudly erect. At the same time nineteen other cats ap- peared. Donnelly ‘placed Portsmouth on to his shoulder and returned to the ship, while the stray cats fn the file followed at his heels. A master-at-arms saved the day by hauling in the gangplauk. This year New York State taxpayers sre ked to contribute $75,000 for the enconr- agement of the beet sugar industry, as against $50,000 last year and $100,000 the year previous. Of this amount it is pro- posed to expend $5,000 in instructing the farmers in beet growing; out of the re- mainder the sugar manufacturer is to paid a bounty of half a cent a pound for | his production. The beet sugar production in the state fell off more than one-half last year from that of 1901 and 1607 in consequence of less acreage being con- tracted for and unfavorable weather con- Aitions, it is explained by the commissioner of agriculture. That offizial recommends that more acreage be contracted for by the sugar mills. When there is a largo appropriation the business of the sugar mills seems to expand, and when there is a small one their operations shrink ac- cordingly. A gang of Italians are under arrest in New York for swindling life insufance com- panfes out of a large sum, said to aggre- gate $1,000,000. The plan has been to se- cure policies on men certain not to live long by having the insured person rep- resented by & man in good health. An un- dertaker, two physicians and others were in the scheme, which 1s sald to have been in operation for ten years. There Is reason to belleve that some insurance companies are often swindled in that way. New York has a magistrate who every now and then rises up to the dignity and wisdom of a ““Danlel, chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.” He has displayed a righteousness and a fearlees nese on the bench that almost excite won- der in this day and generation. His hand 1s always uplifted for the persecuted. Here is & fair sample of him: When three Bow- ery shop keepers were arraigned before bim for selling collars to policemen in pro- hibited hours, he thundered: “Discharged! 1t you fellows had sold whisky instead of collars you would not have been molested!" The New York Prese says that when John D. Rockefeller, ir., swore the other day that he had debts of $400,000 he performed a surgloal operation on his consclence for | the removal of a personal tax assessment The same paper adds feelingly that “the poor young man deserves a great deal of credit for the brave show of courage which | he has been making in public during these many years, when all the while he has been | baraseed by numerous creditors, yet avolded the bankruptey court and Ludlow | street jail.” Colonel John J. Partridge, former pollce commissioner, addressing the Woman's Re- publican club in New York a few days ago, said that in 1902 he had made more than 800 appointments “and they did not cost the men & cent.”” The former commissioner added that, according to the computation of a friend, based on the alleged previous custom of exacting payment for appoint- ments and promotions, he had thus “thrown sway $782,000 What Shall We Have for Dessert? This question arises in the family every day. Let us answer it to-day. Try Jell-0, a delicious and bealthful dessert, ed in two minutes. No boiling! no | add boiling water and set to eool. —Lemon, Orange, Rasp- berry and Strawberry. Get a package at your grocess to-dage 10 cts. THE EDUCATIONAL TEST. Effective Opposition to the Men in Congress. Phiadelphia Ledger. It {s announced from Washington that 1t 1s impossible to secure favorable or, in- deed, any consideration of the immigration bill at the present session of congress un- less the educational test feature is elimi- nated. It has been decided by the active congressional supporters of the legislation to omit the reading and writing test and then endeavor to secure unanimous con- sent for the passage of the measure. The Washington correspondent of the Boston Transcript says that serious opposition to the educational test has been developed from several industrial sources which wish to maintain & fresh supply of labor. The proposition mow s to pass a bill which, while it does not exclude any new | classes, changes the method of adminis- tering the immigration laws in certain im- portant particulars, by which diseased, pauper and dependent immigrants may be more effectually detected and excluded Raising the head tax and extending the period of government supervision over ar- rivals are among the suggested reforms, but whatever may be the bill presented to congress, the measure will probably be materially amended before passage. The inrush of undesirable immigrants from southern continental Europe will continue while American business prosper- ity exists, unless the immigration laws are radically changed. Periods of business de- pression in the United States have been accompanied or followed almost invari- ably by a decline in the number of foreign arrivals. A vast influx of immigrants is the penalty the United States must pay for “good times." The educational test, fairly applied, would exclude the densely ignorant, but not necessarily the most dangerous classes. It is urged that the educational test is ap- plied in some states to voters and that the arriving forelgner could not reasonably object to a test of admission which is ex- acted from American citizens befors they are allowed to vote. It is wurged, too, that the educational test would prepare foreigners to become good American citi- zens. This result would not mecessarily follow, for many of our most bopeless criminals are intelligent, and some of them highly educated. The theory is, however, that education uplifts and improves our citizenship. Upon this foundation our common school system is' bullt. Unfor- tunately there is no sure test by which the moral character of the arriving im- migrant can be tested. Even when the educational test is invoked much must be taken for granted respecting the incomin allen. ¥ A STRAW FROM ILLINOIS, Demand for Election of United States Senators by Popular Vote. Minneapolis Tribune. Significant of the temper of the times, and of hopeful fmport, s the adoption by the senate of Tllinols, by a vote lacking but one of being unanimous, of a resolution demanding that congress shall call a con- vention for the adoption of an amendment to the constitution prescribing the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people of the states they represent. The Addicks diegrace in Delaware, the anarchy that prevailed in Denver during the Wolcott-Teller contest a short time ago the disgusting scenes that have marked senatorial elections in Pennsylvania, in- varfably resulting in the election of Quay or one of his henchmen, the Montana scan- dals and a dozen and one others that might be called to mind, have convinced intelli- gent voters that there should be a change. The house hcs passed submission resolu- tions by the‘required two-thirds majorfty, but in each case they were defeated In the senate, a fact indicating that more than one-third of the senators are afrald to submit their claime to thelr constituents. It is not likely that it will be possible to obtain the necessary two-thirds in the sen- ate until the popular demand becomes so emphatic as to be irresistible, and mean- while it Is well to depend chiefly upon initiative by the states. An application by the leglslatures of two- thirds of the states is mandatory and con- gress cannot refuse to call a convention in case of such a demand. Ratification by three-fourths of the states will cause still turther delay, so that it is easy to see that an expression of the people’s will in this matter even under the most auspiclous con- ditions 1s a matter of the indefinite future. The question could be settled quickly if the senate would consent to the first method of amendment provided in Article 5 of the constitution. Pending a change of heart on the part of the senate, how- ever, It is well for the states to take the initiative anA Tllinois is to be congratu- lated upop the action of its state sena Several state legislatures and many s conventions have given ékpression to the will of the people in this regard and the ball is still rolling. PERSONAL NOTES. Secretary Root has accepted an invitation to accompany the president on his hunting trip to Colorado and other western states next month. John L. Sullivan's last exhibition of his physical prowess to stand up in the | court of bankruptcy and have his old debts | knocked out. Colonel Bryan admits that he spent $20,- 000 for the people’s cause in 1896 and 1900. He also intimates that somebody else will have to put up the dough in 1904. John D. Rockefeller, jr., is reported to have assured his Sunday school class re- cently that kind words are the best thing to give & poor man when he asks for help. Senator-elect Ankeny of Washington s president of six different national banks and the richest capitalist in the state. He is therefore supposed to be qualified for membership in the national “millionsires club." The Louisville Ministerial association is- sued an appeal to the ministers of Ken- tucky to deliver sermons last Sunday in deprecation of lawlessness. The appeal was occasioned, the Lexington Herald says, by POWDIR Awarded Highest Honors World's Falr Highest tests U.S. Gov't Chemisty PRICE BAKING POWDER 0O. onicAGo the very small percentage of convictions for the number of murders committed in the state. " President Roosevelt been fnvited to tend the uavelling of the monument to be erected at Orchard Knob, on the Ohicka- mauga battlefield, in commemoration of the services of Maryland’s soldiers, union and confederate, in the civil war. The unveil- ing will take place on July 22. A New York politician went to the presi- dent last woek and said: ‘‘Mr. President, 1 want & place. I have got good olaims for one. What will you do for me?” “Don't see that I can do a thing, answered the president. “Choate absolutely refuses to resign as ambassador to England, and of course you wouldn't take anything else. Good morning. FLASHES OF FUN, A newspaper reporter will never be wholly successful unless he gets a widespread re, utation for being confoundedly inquisitive.— Somerville Journal Miss Ethelred—They say that a paper will keep you warm. Mr. Byrne Coyne—That's true, too, A sixty-day note of mine once ke “ {: me In sweat for two months.—Detroit ¥'ree Pro: ‘Would you call this an ‘open winter'?" *“1 don't know, but it seems to be open Flde enough to have given me this culd."— Philadelphia Catholie Standard. g Lady—~Were {ou pleased with the new school, little boy Little Boy—Naw! Dey made me wash me face an’ when I went home de dorg bit [e cause he didw't: know me~Chicago ews. Youn| “Truth lies at the bottom of a well,” sald the man who quotes. “‘Not at the bottom of an ofl well, I'll bet,” anerled the man who had invested.—Baltimore Herald. “But, papa, young malden, you non. He has no bad habits.” ‘No bad habits, eh! I've noticed that he has a mighty bad habit of coming around here to waste his time about four evenings in the week.”—Bomerville Journal. protested the soulfuleyed are unjust to Alger- At the request of the confirmed dyspeptio the operator was taking an X-ray photo- graph of the seat of his trouble. “his, 1 suppose,” snarled the sufferer, with a ghastly attempt to be facetious, “is what might be called taking light exerclse on an empty stomach.’—Chicago Tribune. 1 pm afrald your ideas are o 1ittle bit worldy and cynie sald_the friend. “Not ‘a bit of it,” answered Senator Sor- hum. “All I want is money to give to my ends. But they've got to give me com- plete and prastical demonstration that they come up to my definition of friendship.”~ Washington Star. “Is a historical novel one that is founded on historical facts?" 'No, my boy. A historical novel is one that presents the facts as the author thinks they ought to be rather than as they are. If you stick to historical novels, my son, ou will know less of history every day you ive."—Chicago Fost. THE FADING LIGHT OF DAY. Boston Transcript. ' “Jenny, gather up the scraps, and, Hetty, bring the broom; Sally, push the settle back and tidy up the room; Now’'s the time, ‘twixt day and dark, to clear the work away; For the morn make ready by the fading light of day “Come, my boys, bring in the wood and eplit the kindling fine, Fetch some water from the spring and feed the waiting kine: You'll not need the lantern, lads, the twi- light's clear and gray. Haste and you will finish by the fading light of day.” Thus the dear housemother spake, till busy all the while, Helping girls and cheering boys with gentls WO nd smile, THIl the tasks were ended and the sons and daughters gay Gathered round the fireplace by the fading light of day. Bcattered, scattered, far and wide, in dls- tant Jands, and ‘dead! 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