Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 21, 1903, Page 6

6 HE OMAHA DAILY of the state are allowed to control their own fire and police departments through | officers selected by thelr own cltizens, Why should the reffresentatives from districts outside of Douglas county deny BEE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1903 OUR FUTURE RESPONSIBILITY. What is to be the future responsibil ity of the United States in regard to the conduct of the independent coun tries of this hemisphere, is a question describing the operation of the Torren PROSPERITY STILL AWEAD. System, reports that since: its installation in 1899 about 9,000 parcels of land, of the value of $15,000,000, heve been registered, and that the system has been sufficiently tested to justify action that will gradually THE OMAHA DAILY BEE The advocates of a large volunteer foree in England, for purposes of home defense and a substantial foundation for a compar- atively small standing army, are encour- EDITOR. Are Sunny, Prospects Hright, E. ROBEWATER, - No Discouragement Visible, ) EVERY MORNING. 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Perscnal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, . George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Be Publishing company, being duly sworn, say that the actual number of full and com e kevening and o 4.00 6.00 i utiding, Twen- “Total unsold and returned coples. Net total sales.. Net average sales. G Subsecribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 3ist day of January, A. D. M. B, HUN L GATE, (Seal.) ‘Notary Public. e As & record-breaker In the papal chair Pope Leo Is a decided success. Unfortunately the cable dispatches do rot state whether the lle discovered in Dublin is an emerald isle or not. An extra session of the senate might force some of the newly elected sena- tors to start in working for their sal- arles ahead of time. ’ ST All these submarine boats we are or- dering for the navy suggest the ques- tion whether aerograms can be trans- mitted under water. —r—r—— Senator-elect Smoot of Utah denies that the church is in politics In his state. It Is the politicians who are in 4be church who make the trouble. The Peter Cooper club has placed Itself squarely on record in favor of the equal taxation of rallway property with other property for municipal purposes. Score one for the Peter Cooper club. em— A jug whose age can be traced back to the year 1581 has just been sold over in London for $7,600. How much more it would have brought had it only been filled with good old stuff of that anclent vintage. ' General passenger -xtu of all the prineipal railroads are engaged in form- ing an organization to maintain a pro- tective bureau. That's where the pas- senger men get the better of the pas- sengers. r— Before Bartley and his sureties are re- leased on his official bond the legislature should find out how much has been realized on the contents of that cigar box and assert the claim of the state to the proceeds. —— Ex-Mayor Ames' health is in such pre- carious condition that the requisition for his return to Minneapolis has to be suspended. Strange how the health of rascals never gives out until thelr dis- honesty s uncovered. emmr——— “The first '.hllnl for the Douglas delega- tion to do to show that they are on the square in the matter of clty taxation of rallroad property is to have the tax ex- emption clause struck out of the South Omaha charter amendment bill. Our modest city comptroller is said to have requested the charter revisers to fix the salary for tha ofice he occuples at $5,000 a year. What a neat profit could be made by duyirg this officer's services at their real value and selling them at the price he puts on them him- self, eE— If one of our legislators wants to make & ten-strike with his constituents he will put through a law prohibiting members of the school bodrd from using their positions fo secure the appointment or promotion of relatives or dependents on the public school pay roll and thus put an end to the flagrant’ nepotism per- weating our schools. em————e—— A merger i on between the soclety kpown as the Spanish War Veterans apd that organized under the name of the Spanish-American_ War Veterans. After careful luvestigation and com- parison the members of the two asso- clations seem to bave convinced them- selves that it was one and the same ‘war in which they fought. e— The proposed new apportionment bill glves Douglas county four members of the senate and thirteen members of the house, Douglas county now has only three members of the senate and nine members of the house. The extent to which the people of this city and county have been disfranchised by the refusal of successive legislatures to observe the constitutional requirement for a reap- portionment after each census may | of no little importance and one that is be respected. already recelving attention. The abso- late authority of this republic in all the affairs, of the western hemisphere has | been pretty well recognized. However indlsposed European governments may have been in the past to .acknowledge the Monroe doctrine, it is no longer a question with any of them that that Amerienn principle is firmly and frre cably established and must hereaft | That is the meaning of | the result of the latest exposition of the American principle and there will never be any departure from it. Eu- ropean governments understand more clearly, if possible, than ever before, that the Unitel States will never yleld or surrender one lota of the principle enunciated eighty years ago and since maintained, that no European power shall take territory from any independ- ent country in this hemisphere or over- throw its political institutions. That being established, the question of the responsibility of the United States for the conduet, in respect to their in- ternational obligations, of the South American republics, becomes one of more than ordinary interest. Our gov- ernment has very plainly shown that it does not propose to shield any inde- pendent country of this hemisphere from the penalty of any refusal to pay its honest obligations or otherwise to comply with its international duties and requirements. The United States stands as a defender of no wrongs against any foreign power. All that it insists upon is that whenever a foreign power has a claim or grlevu.l;lco against any Amerl- can state it shall seek satisfaction in a way that will not Involve any Injuty to the territorial integrity or the political institutions of such state. It simply declares that the autonomy of every in- dependent American commonwealth must remain unimpaired. In doing this the United States un- questionably assumes a measure of 're- sponsibility .in regard to the conduct of the Independent countries over which it extends protection, and it is a very serlous question as to how far this re- sponsibility may have to be extended and exerted in the future. If this coun- try must protect the southern republics against foreign aggression, what may it properly require of them in order to protect itself from the danger of be- coming involved in serious troubles on their account? This question has been urged upon public attention by recent events and may become more pressing in the future, U —— OUR VAST INTERNAL COMME; “The American people generally have no conception of the ‘vastness of the in- ternal commerce of the United States. They are made familiar from time to time with the foreign trade of the country, but it is only once in ten years that they are permitted fo be- come acquainted with the enormous business that is' done within our own borders. It will undoubtedly be a sur- prise to most of our people to know that the domestic trade of the United States 1s larger than “that of any other country of the world by hun- dreds of millions of dollars and s equal to the entire international commerce of the world. Yet that is the fact according to ofi- clal statistics. These place the internal commerce of the country at twenty thousand millions of dollars, in com- parison with which our forelgn com- merce {8 a mere bagatelle. The aston- ishing figures include only one trans- action in each article produced, while in fact a very large number of the Articles produced pass through the hands of sevi “middlemen” between those of the producer and those of the consumer. If that fact be consid- ered it will be seen that the estimate is less than it should be. The manu- factures of the United States are now about double those of the United Kingdom and nearly equal to those of France, Germany and Russia combined, while the value of the agricultural products of the United States far ex- ceeds that of any other single country. These facts most foreibly demon- strate the overshadowing importance of the home market and show beyond question the necessity of preserving that market for the advantage snd benefit of our, own people. That has been the policy of the republican party and 1t has been splendidly justified by results. The American people are the greatest consumers in the world. As A market for manufactures and cholce foods ours measures three times that of the next best nation on the globe. Our 80,000,000 consume 8s much as 240,000,000 of the population of Great Britain. Could anything: more strikingly enforce the wisdom and expediency of protecting. the home market and malin- taining the policy which has built it up? 'l'hg manufacturer, the agricultural producer and the workingman are all Interested in maintaining this great home market, which enormously sur. passes that of any other country and is steadlly increasing. Both houses of the Wyoming legis! ture have passed a resolution endors- ing woman suffrage and asserting that Wyoming's experience with it has served to ralse the standard of candi- dates and Improved the character of the legislature. This action on the part of the lawmakers is much in the nature of pelting themselves with bouquets. r ———r—— The people of South Omaha are en- titled to municipal home rule and have & right to resent any effort to deprive them of their powers of local self-gov- ernment. Why should South Omaha be compelled to submit to a governor-ap- pointed fire and police commission? Lincoln and all the other swaller cities the two cities in this county the rights of heme rule which are exercised by all| the ecities in their respective districts? WHERE DO THEY STAND! The South Omaha charter bill as it comes | from the standing committee on cities and | towns will contain no provision for taxa- tion of terminals of railroads for municipal | Yesterday the house committee | discussed the bill and listened to a num- ber of South Omaha gentlemen on the meas- Dodge the taxation of rail- roads be done through the State Board of Bqualization and the motion carried with- out a dissenting vote and no discussion. Representative Gilbert of Douglas is chair- man of the committee and so is Repreésent- They made no fight for terminal taxation.—Lincoln Jour- purposes, ure. Representative Roberts of county moved that ative Nelson of Douglas nal. The information herein property for municipal purposes. The principle at the foundation of the campalgn against railway tax exemp- tion waged under the lead of the Real Estate exchange is the same applied to The separate tax commissioner system is in vogue in both of these municipalities, under which the property of all private citizens is placed on the city tax rolls at full value, while the railroad property assessed by the state board is taxed on less than 1 per cent of its real value. How any members of the legislature elected to represent a constituency in- cluding the people of South Omaha could consent to leglslation that would per- petuate this flagrant injustice is almost South Omaha as it is to Omaha. past comprehension. If the members from Douglas county yield to the railroads without even a protest in the matter of assessment of terminal property in South Omaha for city purposes, how can they make a suc- cessful fight for the assessment of rail- road property in Omaha locally? Is it rot clear that if Omaha hopes to win out in its demand for its constitutional right to assess and tax rallroad property within its jurisdiction on the same basis its representatives must make a fight all'along the line and stand up for equal rights for South Omaha, Lincoln and the other incorpo- where _the railroads are evading their just share of the municipal burdens in a proportionate degree? ,It seems to us that it is time for the DoOUg- | nothing but sit in a stooped attitude, sew- las delegation to stand up and be|ing all day, counted so that the taxpayers of Omaha [ One night, when she was quite worn out and South Omaha may know where as other property, rated cities they are at. . e Attorney Baldwin of the Umnion Pacific now pretehds that when experts testi- fled for his company in the maximum rate cases that its terminals her® were |y, 1\ ocances o worth §15,000,000 he meant not the ter- minals in the city of Omaha, but in the The testimony in ques- tion does not bear Mr. Baldwin out.|the p But even if that were the case, the maxi- mum rate case was tried ten years ago and the improvements and natural in- crements since that time have made up more than the difference in the city of entire county. Omaha alone. | E— It is reported that the Insurance men have hypnotized the joint revenue com- mittee into modifying the section rela ing to the taxation of insurance com- panles by reducing the basis of their taxation from the entire gross receipts to 80 per cent of the gross receipts. The insurance people have gotten off so easy with their taxes in Nebraska thus far that they are not satisfiled with being put on any plane somewhere near other taxpayers. e We note that former Governor Savage has taken his departure for Seattle to be gone a month or more, ostensibly to We trust The Bfi'- demand for a legislative in- vestigation into the contents of that Bartley cigar box which the ex-governor sald he had in his possession has not look after business interests. hastened this exodus. Miss Roosevelt seems ‘to be enjoying hugely the New Orleans Mardi Gras, but if she wants to take in the carnival that tops them all she will come t6 Omaha to join in the celebration of Ak- Sar-Ben's hosts next fall. Atlanta Constitution, It were indeed sad it President Ellot h started in to make Dr. Benjamin Andrews feel that he is not in his class, loquaciously speaking. ing the Load. Indianapolis News, Coal freight rates have been advanced. Just as if we didn’t have troubles enough! Of course, it doeén't make any difference it will be the consumer to the dealer: who pays the freight—and then some. Bootless Rivalry, Philadelphia Record. hat is the use of increasing our navy Uil it shall be as large as that ef Germany is | bigness of equipment bound to have & bigger navy than we have? | vidual may be developed. Mere Is every nation to have a bigger navy than | Will avail future America if Germany will not stand still, but any other nation? Carrylng Out the Contract. Cincinnati Enguirer (dem.) The fact that Colonel Bryan now assumep | races. to have taken out a patent on the demo- cratic party indicates that his delivery ot | race. the old machine to the populists in 1900 | dirt floor hut swarming with infant popu- was not a complete and final success. Per- haps he has an idea that it is still possible to turn the goods over. Progress of the Torrdha System. Philadelphia Ledger. The Chicago real estate board has adopted | scendanty of the British, the German and declaring for an amendment law, by which it is be- resolutions to the Torr leved all the real within twenty-! the railroad companies ' contained is decidedly at varlance with the profes- sions of members of the Douglas dele- gation, that they are solidly and ear- nestly enlisted in the fight for equal tax- ation of railroad property with other bring all the remaining real estate in the county under it H A Dangerous Con Brookiyn Bagle. | To prevent the burial of the living they have, in certain German towns, mortuary chambers in which a bell fope Is placed in the hands of each corpse. It seems like a good idea. Will some kindly disposed per- son please place a bell rope in David B Hill's hands? We can't be too careful in such cases. Sometlnng Doing. Indianapolis Journal, A 400croom office building for members | of congress, connected with the capitol by a subway, all of which is to cost $3,- §00,000, and the enlargement and beauti- fying of the main wing of the capitol at an expense of $2,80,000, and Cannon, the economical, behind, the movement to se- cure these things? Surely things are do- ing in Washington! An Important Amendment. 8t. Louis Republic, ‘That Missour! legislaturg resolution pro- viding for the taxation, branding and li- censing ot forelgn lords and noblemen, both real and genuine, bogus and fraudulent, should bé so amended as merely to require that these gentry submit tbeir credentials for approval at the secretary of state's office and pay & specified license tax before being permitted to do business in the state. The branding of suth folk would raiee such a smell, Water as a Fuel, Springfield Republican! A Washington inventor of repute claims to have perfected a device by which pure water can be burncd and made to yield as intense heat as is wanted in stoves and turnaces, Practical application of the same principlé Is apparently found in the burn- ing of ashes mixed with water which has been resorted to by householders here- abouts during’ the fuel famine. Such a \mixture, pasted over a strong bed of live oals, has been found to burn a long time and give out great heat. Another fllustra- tion is often observible in . great fires, where water, it sprinkled on in limited quantity, rather adds to than quenches the blaze. But if this inventor device by which water is decomposed and its gases fired without the application of extraneous heat, ho is in the way of making his name known to futfire generations. “Business Hefore' Ple: x Philadelphia Record. John Mitchell told at tje Clover club din- ner the other night a sfory not altogether humorous. Mr. Mitchell looked well In his first sult of evening clothes. He had sald that life was a serious problem to him— that he eaw little that was not serious. The story, which he gave later on, bore out that view. He sald there were two sisters, seamstre: who lived in a little room and rned their bread by sewing. They were ure.” young and pretty, but they seldom laughed; they never wore comely clothes; they did d a good part of the evening. with labor, the,younger eaid to the older *‘Oh, dear, I wish we were both The older sister’'s mouth took on a grim smile as she refurned: ‘“Be stili work hard. Business before pleasure. WARNING !?, TWO PRESIDENTS. ‘the Seriptural Com- mand, “Be Fruitful and Multiply.” ‘Wastithgton Post. The president ‘'of ‘the’ United States and ident of Harvard university have, almost simultangously, made serjous and welghty deliverances upon the most im- portant of all questions. The Harvard pres- ident finds that the graduates of that great institution are doing comparatively little in the way of fulfilling the command “Be fruitful and multiply.” Many of them do not marry, and those who do marry have but few children. The game rule appl! to the liberally educated men and women of America generally, to the graduates of colleges and universities in every section. The old-time custom of early marriage is no longer tolerated in the upper strata of soclety, and the sons and daughters of par- ents who were proud of large families are careful in their avoldance of that example. President Roosevelt, in his letter to Miss Van Volst, which was printed in a recent issue of the Post, discusses the subject of race suicide with his customary frankness and directness. It it were possible for the Post to be pessimistic as to the republic's future, a cause could be readily found in our social statistics. Natlons and their governments are -not guaranteed perpetulty. Given a steady decline of the birth rate among Americans who haye descended from the best European stocks and a continued in- flux of the worst European stocks, with their swarms of children, it must be only a question of years when the latter will domi- nate. What could be expected of such dom!- natio The St. Louis Republic quotes Herbert Spencer in attempted refutation of Presi- dent Roosevelt's contention in favor of an increased birth rate. The republic says that Spencer, discussing the law of popula- tion, took the position that for a time in the history of a race great fertility—which he termed .“excessive’—conduces toward advancement. It is a phase of evolution. But when a certain growth is attained fer- tility is no longer a cause of progress, and turther evolution pecessarily entails a de- cline in fertility. The Republic says: “This proposition is supported by reason. It is easily within the comprehension of the average imellect. Stated differently, it 1s that after a race has by its fertility galned a certain pumerical strength its force must go to the development of in- dividuals at the expense of further “in- creased numbers. In short, the quality of the race is improyed at the expemse of quantity. 0 one will care to dispute’ Mr. Roose- velt's assertions. The big family idea is wholesome and Christian, It appeals to the race pride and the race instinct. But keep the quality commensurate. Let there be ate in the county | tinues to roll in. We will come within the operation of the act @ yeass. The resolutions | must not “shut the gates of mercy on man- recite that Torrens certificates of title are | kind” simply becamse it has become the mow received in place of abstracts and | American fashion to shirk the parental guaranty policies by the real estate board, building and loan | understand the inevitable. assoclations and mortgage creditors in Cook | the quality of citizenship is the one great county geneglly, The reglstrar of titien. | menace of the sepublic's futurg, S0 that each indi- numbers thing unle the numbers individually pos character, quality and strength. “Mere bigness of population of itself means pothing. Witness the anclent Indian Mere bigness of the family without capacity and efficiency Is of no value to the Vide the Mexican peon living In & lation.” One might concede the truth of Spencer's proposition and still be quite unable to find in it any encouragement for hope of this republic's distant future if the small family idea continues to prevall among,the de- Scandinavian stocks, and the tide of such immigration as we are now getting con- e not protesting inst the reception of this tide. Wo office and responsibility. But it is well to Impairment of Five years of uninterrupted business ac- tivity has led many persons to belleve that the crest has been reached, 4nd that a re- cession is due. When the revival eet in, following a long period of depression, dur- ing which the industrial life of the country was almost paralyzed, there was an army of croakers who asserted that the wave of prosperity was ephemeral, and that there could be no permanent revival until the purchasing power of the gold dollar was reduced—in other words, until the colnage of silver at the inflated ratio of 16’to 1 was enacted into law. Instead of lagging as these pessimists predicted it would, busi- ness has steadily improved, and now s more active than ever before in the history of the country. Barring labor troubles, which temporarily hampered certain lines of industry, there have been no develop- ments to retard commercial activity, and there is no more reason to belleve that the crest has been reached at this particular time than there was to take seriously the predictions of the silver men. The problem we have to grapple with now i how to supply the demand, not how to stimulate one. From all pi ot the country come reports of unparalleled ac- tivity in all branches of trade. Railroads have not sufficient equipment with which to move all the trafMc offered, and as a result nearly every important road in the United States is experiencing blockades. This con- dition is not due to lack of effort on the part of rallroad managements to supply the deficlency; in the last few years they have expended millions of dollars in the pur- chase of cars, locomotives, steel rails and other materials, to be in position to handle the enormous traffic offered. Engine and carbuilders and steel rall manufacturers ran thelr plants day and night in order to equip the railroads, but they were simply overwhelmed with orders, Plants that had been idle for years were started up, and old plants were enlarged, but even these plovisions were inadgquate tb keep up with the expansion of business. Close observers of the situation express the opinion that there are no sigds thdt business activity is subsiding. On the contrary, they say that the new stage of industrial development upon which the country entered a few years ago is still only in its incipiency. The impregnable strength of the United States as a manu- facturing nation, in .competition with the foremost industrial nations of the world, has been recognized as never before, and has been manifested In the remarkable growth of its foreign trade. There may be eclements of weakness in the existing situation, but the most acute observers seem thus far to have been unable to di cover them. While there is always & pos sibility of overdoing a boom, it would be idle to predict its collapse simply on gen- eral principles. For the present, the skies are sunny and the prospects bright. ECLIPSE OF ER. Statistics of Last Year's Production Explains the Phenomena. Saturday Evening Post. The disappearance of the silver question from politics no longer appears mysterious in the light of the statistics of production of the precious metals furnished by the director of the mints. It appears that in the calendar year 1902 the mines of Nevada turned out $2,120,000 in silver and $3,614,212 in gold. Tke original silver stite is now a golden state. A few years ago it appeared a safe prediction that, if the fortunes of the white metgl ever became desperate, Senators Jones and Stewart would be -seen looming above the wreck like Ney on the retreat from Moscow. ‘Marshal, where is the rear-guard?" “I am the rear-guard.” Jones and Stewart show no inclination to be the rear-guatd on this occasion. With their state producing more gold than silver they are very sensibly occupying comforta- ble quarters near the head of the pre cession. Colorado used to be Nevad twin star in the silver firmament, Six years ago “goldbugs’ were as scarce there as bears in Mississippl. You might have tramped with your gun from the Kansas Iine to the Utah desert without getting a shot at one, Ndw Colorado digs out-§27,- 502,420 in gold to $9,085,714 in silver. is by far the greatest gold-producing in the unmion. And by a coincidence the gold party won at the late election. California’s output of the precious met: is almost entirely gold—$17,124,941 to $480,- 793 in silver. Arizona and New Mexico produce more than twicewas much gold as silver. The production’of South Dakota is almost exclusively gold. Wyoming, which some {ll-informed people have classed with the silver-mining states, turned out only $2,756 worth of silver last year. The only s that produced any substantial excess of silver over gold were Idaho, Montana and Utah, and even in these the gold furnished & very respectable proportion of the total output. For the United States as a whole, the product was $80,853,070 in gold and $31,- 040,025 in silver. The value of our silver harvest was less than one-thirtieth that ot the corn crop and a little over a twentieth of that of our hay. Both the precious metals together are insignificant comparea with any of the principal farm crops. It may be takeh for granted, therefore, that any financial policy we may adopt will be chosen on its merits and not under pressure from any class of miners, - POLITICAL DRIFT. Friends of Mayor Low of New York con- fidently assert he will be renominated by the fusion element which elected him six- teen months ago. Ol of the citizens clected alderman of Fairchance, Pa., last Tuesday occuples a cell in the local jail, awaiting trial on the charge of murder. The Pennsylvania: legislature is consid- ering a bill reducing the state poll tax from $1 to 60 cents. The amended price is at least 20 cents too much. All previous records in private pension slation were broken by the house at ‘Washington, Saturday, when 825 bills went through in miuch less time than as Wany minutes. A lawmaker iu Kansas who is indifferent to the frowns of the powers that be pro- poses & law mposing a heayy tax on the wool which the rallroad lobby pulls over | | the eyes of his assoclates. The light -of wisdom often flashes In humble minds:” One of Chicago's aldermen clinches his peroration with this brilllant saying: o man was ever lifted out of a tight place by a corkscrew.' A bill pending In the Indiana house of representatives makes it & misdemeanor to give or to accept tips. The penalty s a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $25, to which may be added a jail sentence. The first election in Pittsburg and Alle- gheny since the passage of the ripper la resulted in the defeat of the republicans who passed the law by the citizen-demo- cradts. Something nearly always happens when the politicians push things too far. The chaplain of the lower house of the Missourl legislature entertains boundle falth in Providence. At the opening of & session the other day he prayed that the legislature be saved “from the ungodly lobbyists who hang around here to make & few dollars without homest labor.” This is the greatest tel that prayer has ever been gubjected L0 10 Misseuri's capitol, country since the South African war havi ular volunteer force. It many young men who, course of events, form other military duties. class of men. 22,000 men, of whom only 2,600, a littl more than 10 per cent, are volunteers. not composed altogether of movice contain a large proportioh of men who al Rifle association. They are likely, there serviceable body. \ The House of Representatives in Bel. those dependent upon men or animals. I to a maximum of 2,400 francs ($480) pe atnum. Every accident, within the scope of the bill. The amoun! through accident. In case of death the in per cent of wages remained unassured. . French interests. other's with jealous of time to the Abyssinlan capital. of fronclads had been ordered t sible in his eyes. declared that Menelek would not visit Jibu- til, now tells the Paris newspapers th: Let fidious British agent. M. Ba Indian ocean.” The recently cabled report that the French representative has with-' s temporarily from Addis Abbaba seems to indicate a more or less serious drawn grievance. e The advantage or new woman will have the same that every man ha there next year. the women will all vote. bave the advanta provinces and In some of the cities the women are in the majority, a rather un- A good many young women, it is thought, will not vote because unwilling to admit that they are 21 years old, while a considerable num- ber of older women have opposed woman usual thing for a mew country. A wonderful mountain rallway is being constructed at present in the Tyrole, and when completed next summer it will be the steepest line in the world. The railway, which will be two and & half kilometres in length, will join the village of Kaltern to the summit of the Col de Mendal at & Deight 6f 2,650 feet. This distance will be covered in exactly twenty-seven minutes, while by road it takes four bours to reach the top. The force is electricity, and the cog (middle) rail system has been employed. The maximum grade is 64 in 100, surpassing that of the Stanserhorn line, which form- erly held the Buropean record. The coaches will hold fifty persons and baggage, and special precautions have been taken to enable the tourist to view the wonderful scenery through which the line passes. M. Strubb, & Swiss engineer of Clarens, Is carrying on the remarkable enterpris e A bicentenary celebration will mark the present year. It is just two centuries since Peter the Great founded SBt. Petersburg. It was bullt upon land which he had lately wrested from the Swedes and Its original purpose was to serve as a fortress against the expected Swedish invaders. The mu- nicipal council of the city has resolved to celebrate its bicentenary in a manner which marks the difference between the Russia of 1703 and the Ru of 1803. The eity fathers have unanimously voted the sum of 6,000,000 roubles to increase the number of common schools for the boys and girls of 8t Petersburg, and have further re- aged by the latest statistics of the National Rifie assoclation, which show that the rifie clubs which have been formed all over the not been created at the cxpense of the reg- was feared that in the ordinary would have joined the volunteers, would find it casier and more agreeable to ‘become members of a rifie club, and thus enjoy the sport of shooting without having to undergo drill and per- But It appears that the rifle clubs appeal to a speclal There are 328 of these clabs already in existence, with a membership of It appears, also, that the new rifie clubs are ready hold the certificate of the National fore, to prove the nucleus of an extremely glum is now engaged in a discussion of the government bill relating to compensation for injuries occurring to working men. The measure applies to all commercial and industrial enterprises which employ motive power by machinery as distinguished from Includes all workmen recelving wages up from whatever cause, including culpable negligence, comes of indemnity is fixed at 50 per cent of the actual 10ss of wage-earning capacity caused demnity takes the form of an annuity in favor of the vietim's direct heirs equal to one-fourth of his wage-earning capacity during the term of his expectation of life. As rogards the indemnities to workmen, the employer is at liberty either to insure or, not, but should future experfence show that obligatory insurance Was necessary, the bill, said M. Francotte, the introducer, would be amended accordingly. For him- self, ho remarked, he was in favor of free- dom of action, as French statistics showed that after three years' trial only 10 to 15 Abyssinia is one of several polnts upon the earth’s surface where there is an al- most incessant conflict between British and Ever since the Fashoda affalr both nations” have watched each movements in that seighborhood apprehension, realizing the future commercial and strategical import- ance of the country. Just now the French are excited over the failure of the negus to | attend, in accordance with previous prom- | 1se, the opening of the Jibutil-Harrar rail- road, which they hope to extend in course A couple sail trom Toulon to Jibutil to salute Menelek and make the ceremony as Impressive as pos- | The Abyssinian explana- tion s that the emparor had not time to go to Jibutil and get back to Addis Abbaba be- fore the Lenten season, but M. Bavalaer, the French explorer, who some time ago has nothing to do with it, the re- stralning influence being in reality the abominable’ Colonel Harrington, the per- er also pre- dicts that Menelek will one day totally abandon France “to beceme the ally of our enemies and ruin our establishments in the sadvantage of woman suffrage will have a thorough test in the commonwealth of Australla, Every ight to vote in the federal election *In New Zealand and South Australia women have voted for sev- eral years, but under the coafederation of all the provinces into the commonwealth They number 854,000 and the men 973,000, so the men will But in some of the 5 Highest Honors World’s Falr | Highest tests U.S. Gov't Chemists IOF BAKING POWDER 0O, ©OMIGAGO solved that on and after the celebration of the bicentenary the elementary education in all the St. Petarsburg common schools shall be gratultous as well as compulsory. t CUT IT OUT! T | Doctor Invelghs Agninst the Gentle Art of Removing the Appendix. t Chicago Record-Herald. The London Lancet has taken up an | article published by Dr. Howard Kelly in - | the Journal of the American Medical As- soctation on the important question, ““Should | the Vermiform Appendix Be Removed When the Abdomen is Opened for Disease of Other Organs?’ This is a question that ought to be readily and easily disposed of and we are surprised at the fact that either Dr. Kelly or the Lancet should exhibit the least doubt about i{t. Why should a vermi- form appendix ever be spared when there is an opportunity to take a whack at it. The Lancet very sensibly says: “As Dr. Robert Abbe asserts that the normal appendix never contains faecal con- cretions, Dr. Kelly advises {hat if such can be felt the appendix should be removed, even though it appears healthy. He con- siders, further, the question whether the appendix ought not always to be removed when operations are performed near the eaecum which might give rise to adhesions.” It s absurd to waste valuable time In arguing over this matter. Down with the appendix. It would be just like a normal appendix that was let alone when it might have been removed to cut up afterward and cause trouble. The only gbod vermiform appendix is the one that has heen cut off, and there is but solld argument agalnst the removal of the unmannerly appendix when the abdomen is opened for disease of other organs. If it were thus removed the need of a future operation might be obviated. But it cannot be belleved that the sur- geons would permit such a consideration to welgh with them. The' surgeon who loves his art always forgets mere profit when he sees an appendix. PASSING PLEASANTRIES, She—Have you geen the new dance called “The Automobile™ | . = e—No; sort of a breakdown, I suppose? —Yonkers Statesman. % g Customer—I seo the high French heels are coming in agaln. What do you suppose 11!!)36 TOAS nl(flil' |bhll“? a i . 5 3 alosman 1t 1 being don ) it the Wemand of the ShRSpee T omnn: hicago Tribune, y “I want to_see everybody contented,” 1d_Senator Sorghum. Have 2L found a way to manage t?" “Yes. When discontented people call to see me I send word that I am not. f; ‘Washington Star. Mr. Krusty (her employer)—'"Miss Ugli- mugg. you are late this morntng. What S you? Miss_Uglimugg—"My clock stopped, sir.” Mr. Krusty— "'l guess you looked at it."— Detroit Free Press “To whom do you attribute the curative powers of your springs?’’ asked a visitor at a health resort. “Well,"" answered the proprietor, thought- tully guess the advertising has” had something to do with it Towne—Met Gabble and Perking' at a smoker last night, and Introduced them to each other, Browne—0, say, it's a shame to introduce a bore like Gabble to anybody. . Towne—It's evident you don't knaw Per- Kkins, or you'd see the humor of it.—Phila- deiphia Bress. Adam had been reading history, when ba cherry tree eplsode. t & fool that fellow Washington was upl” he exclatmed. “Why, didn’t he sy, “The woman ‘tempted mer’ " With' an_increased estimate of his own ability he went Indoors to complaln of day~ before-yesterday's coffee. ACROSS THE STREET. Dean Rice in Boston Journal, Actoss the street the bright lights flashed and gleamed, And fortune's favored ones were gathered ere. The merry music of the dance outstreamed Upon the air. Across the street—it seemed so far away, That joyous world, from my unhappy sphere, Made up of weary toil, day after-day, And year by year. I turned me from my window, with a sigh, “Thou mak’'st life's differences, Oh, G« 80 wide. . I could not conquer that ungrateful cry, Tho' hard 1 tried. Across the street, next might, across the street, Death's grim insignia from: the door w: hung, 1 heard the passers-by, low-volced, repeat, “8o fair, so young.'’ Agross the strect—ah, surely ‘twas not 8o, That they were mourning who. Iast night gay wer r mansion was a house of woe, That yond | "' Where death held sway? the street, beside a single light, cheerless company & sad wateh ki And she, the homaged one of yestorni; Forever slept SPECIAL KNEE PANTS SALE. ‘We have about 250 pairs of child’s knee pants that were fut and made up from short lengths of suit fabrics in our own factory, and made with that usual elegance that characterizes our clothing. These paute, in the regular way of manufacture, would sell at gne dollar and fifty cents—To be had now for 75c a Pair. NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS. e YR 8 Wik, Manager.