Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 22, 1903, Page 1

JU [RISH FIGHT IS OVER EACH SIDE BELIEVES OTHER IS SINCERE | ernment to Act Bpeedily. ! Unionists Jojn Nationalists in Pressing Gov- | LACK OF CASH ALONE SEEMS TO BAR WAY National Exchequer, Depleted by War, Not Able to Bear Extra Burdens EFFORT WILL BE MADE, HOWEVER, TO ACT 5 No One Constders § Opportanity W Pos I Be Allowed ¢ Slip Away, Even If Loa In Necessary. le Presen | | | pertormance THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. NE CHOATE ATTENDS A DINNER! Returns to Londen in Time for the Opening (Copyright, 1903 by LONDON, Feb. 21 Cablegram — Special Press Publishing Cc (New York World Telegram.) — All the | women of the United States embassy will attend the first court on March 3. Mrs. | and Miss Choate have gone to the south of | France to remain until the end of this month, but they will return March 1. Mrs. Henry will attend with her daughter. Mrs. | Clover and Mrs. Ridgely Carter are re-! maining in town to be present Ambassador Choate returned to London in time to be present at the opening ot Parlia- | ment and to attend one of the Parliamentary | dinners on Mdnday night, going later the reception at Devonshire house. | After the state procession on Tuesday Mr. Choate had a luncheon party at Carlton | house terrace and Secretary White had a | few people also, Mrs. White having come | over from Ireland for the occasion | Most of the embassy people attended the | of “Resurrection” at His | Majesty's theater on the second night, when | LONDON, Feb. 21.—The interested parties | In the Irish land question, Irish national- | Ists, landlords and teuants, are now for the first time In the history of Ireland in | agreement upon the lines of the Dublin conference. They have also. jolned forees in bringing pressure on the government to make Secretary Wyndham's fortheom- ing bill agree in spirit with the recom- mendations of the conference, and all in- | dications point to the bill conceding those demands. It will be introduced in Parliament at|about April 1 she will take her two pretty | @ Rotable one in all respects. | the end of March, and if passed will ac- | complish what Mr. Redmond and Lord | Dunraven agree in saying will be ome of | the “most extraordinary, peaceful revolu- tions ever effected.” It Mr. Wyndham, for lack of funds or | other causes, falls to meet the views of the conference, he will bave on his hands, to quote Mr. Redmond, “an Ireland such the world has never seen.” In this view | such a strong supporter of the government s the duke of Abercorn concurs, Mr. Redmond adds: If this agreement of keenly opposing pa: ties 'lncks fulfiliment through the K ernor’s refusal there will ba twice as many countles under the ban of the crimes act | A8 there were prior to the present truce. | This truce will be continued until the mean- | ing of the bill Is revealed. A great na- tionallst conference, at which Bourke Cock- ran of New York will be one of the princi- pal speakers, will méet in Dublin, in April o take action on the subject. * Amaszed at the Results, The duke of Abercorn, who is president of the powerful Irish landlords’ associa- tion, which at first declined to join the earl of Mayo in & movement to join the nationalists, but later signified its assent, frankly admits that he is amazed at the results achieved and at the “happy topsy- turvydom" now prevailin Asked If he thought the nationalis sincere In their professions of willingness to settle the long-standing grievances by & compromise, he emphatically expressed his belief in their complete sincerity. The duke could not conceive, that the govern- ment would d on any quibbles” when the solution of the most serlous problem of the empire was within its grasp. He thought the process of changing the hoid- ings from the landiord to the temant might possibly cost $3.600,000 annually, adding: “It surely would be cheap at that price.” ther Mr. Redmond nor Lord Dun- raven belleye the transfer of the land would involve more than $1,500.000 an- nually, and both think that the economies | resulting from the cheaper administration would greatly reduce this figure, If they @14 not eventually quite wipe out the necessity for state aid in the payment of differences between the maximum price the tenant can afford to pay and the minimum orice the landlord can accept. Lack of Funds is Drawback. The Irish unionist leaders are of the opinion that the whole question might be declared settled in advance if the govern- ment was not so “desperately hard up.” In consequence of this lack of funds, Mr. Wyndham's bill will not be introduced until after the presentation of the budget. so that any money to carry out the provisions of the bill will not be included 1n the year's taxes. Chancellor of the Exchequer Ritchi while quite sympathetic toward Ireland, now faces = more serious financial situa- tion and more bitter protests against over- taxation than have confronted any chan- celior in recent years The phenomenally small government ma- joritles since Parllament reassembled are indications of the storm which is brewing over Mr. Ritchie's head. He must also float a new Transvaal loan before October, and the government, for this reasom, is| paralcularly anxions in this respect. Consols, yesterday, were at the lowest point reached this year, and inquiries made at Anglo-American banking houses, such as the Morgans, Seligmans and Speyers, reveal the fact that there is no indication of the United States subscribing to a loan. Since the last loan was so largely underwritten In New York the iuterna- tional monetary situation bas completely changed, and the firms here say the Ameri- cans now meed their capital for use at home Easy to Float Loan. One financier said: “If the government would bring out a loan that would really provide means for cettling the Irish ques- tion, they would get more underwriting than they would know what to do with, both here and in America.’ i Mr. Redmond was asked point blank if he thought the landlords were in earnest He replied 1 have every reason to think they are Just as anxious as we are to settie. | If Mr. Wyndham brings in a bill on the s of the decision arrived at by the | Jlin conference the greatest step in_ the | dustrial and soctal history of Ireland ccomplished it will be & most import ant step toward home rule. Under the new System the landlords will live in Irela: Jerive benefit from their riy and #in to take a new interest in irish affairs. They will then see the necessity ?r an extenslon of local government and will | eventually become ae anxious as ourselves t secure home rule More than t AFTER THE NEWS OF RUSSIA Proprictor of London Paper Seek Have Censorship , 133, by Press Publishing Co.) | \ - | Wyman bas called out serious warnings | of the election of Washington Telegram.) — Alfred | from the medical fraternity on the dangers | Sate. and of the effect of this action on | Sl oL Harmsworth, the proprietor of the London | Feb. 2l.—(New York World Cablegram — Special Dally Mail, has gone to Russia to see It he can arrange with the Russian authorities for a news service from St. Petersburg for the Dally Mail. The arbitrary interfer- ence of the Russi censor bas made It | their American ways. the king and queen were present 1 Captain and Mra. Clover gave a dinner party at their house on Park Lane, taking their guests on to Tree's theater. Mr. and Mrs. Ridgely Carter were of the party. | Mrs. Carter wore a robe of soft cream lace | and had on her neck a collar of turquoise and diamonds. Mildred Carter, their little girl, is still at school in the United States Their other child, Bernard, has just gone to an English college, but later they mean to send h'm to Harvard, When Mrs, Clover returns to Washington | little girls with her. Neither has ever | been to an English school, so they have all They say,they love London and are sorry g0, s0 their | parents promised to let Doral have her first season fn London and a presentation | at Buckingham palace when she is 17. She to {18 12 now, tall, very fond of horses, rides | well and any morning early she may be | | seen on the Row riding with three other | girls who also live on Park Lane, and three grooms following. Mrs. Clover means to | %0 to her mother’s place in California for | | e SUNDAY MORNINC Xy 22 22, FEBRUARY 1903 WENTY PAGE SINGLE DUE TO WASHINGTON Representative Omaba Oitisens Pay High Tribute to His Memory. OMAHA CLUB'S ANNUAL BANQUET NOTABLE | Occasion Marked by Uncommon Attendance | and Excellent Addresses. | DR. ANDREWS DISCUSSES CITIZENSHIP Chancellor Exalts George Washington as a | Perpetual Model. JOHN L. WEBSTER ON ANOTHER PHASE Washington's Commection with the fon the Theme of a Schol- | Address Dealing with American History. Conntit nrly i “Washington” was the name at the Omaha club’s dinner last night. Eloquent and learned men spoke earnestly of the first | American, paying fitting tributes to his | many-sided genius, his high conception of | citizenship and his unfaltering adherence to the convictiors he had formed after dus deliberation. It was a representative as- | semblage of Omaha men who had gathered | to listen to these addresses, and the occa- sion. the third annual event in honor of | the great president’s birthday, was made It was 9:15 o'clock when Edward !‘orlt‘rl Peck, president of the club and toastmaster | of the evening, introduced Dr. E. Benjamin | Andrews, chancellor of the University of | Nebraska, who responded to the toast: | ‘Washington, Our Perpetual Model In Cit- izenship.” Dr. Andrews said in part | There 18 no more interesting or amazing | fact In American history than the persist- ence with which Washington keeps before the public mind as the foremost American. | honor many other citizens. cularly honor Lincoln, and next after him Grant. We honor McKinley. Lincoln, Grant, McKinley are great names in_ this repubilc and will forever be. It is, how- We par- |to be e | ever, clear that no ohe of these ten 1a | Nellie Post, Lady Barrymore's daughter | thought of as occupying quite so high a | by her firat husband, the late Arthur Post, | niche in the esteem of the American people as Washington does was one of the principal debutantes at the | “5 WATRIEOR (0K, 0\ re remarkable viceregal drawing room in Dublin castle. In view of the fact that Washington's | Miss Post resembles her mother, is a tall, | character, like all earth's greatest charac- | handsome brunette and Is much admired ters, passed through its mythical period. Miss Murlel White, daughter of the secre- Soon as those were dead who knew Wash- | Ington personally, all his deeds and char- tary of the United States embassy, was her = constant companion in Dublin. acteristics were magnified to superhuman proportions. He was thought to be a | greater general than Napoieon or Welling- ton. He was a hero Lke St. George, a jant like Hercules, a saint like Thomas & Kemp Then came reaction. Critical udy revealed that Washington was alto- Sether human, having faults like other men, only no doubt less numerous than most; that he had a hot temper leading on one or two occasions to emphatic profanity, and so on. Safe to Know the Truth. But, and here the t wonder comes in, this éritic udy did not in the slightest dislodge Washington from tne pinnacle of fame on which he had stood from the first. It was found safe to know the truth about him. When criticlsm had unearthed the very worst that could be sald iouching his | life, conduet and character, there Tt is worth while to Inquire into this mar- velous power of our greatest American to PRAISES AMERICAN PAPERS | French Journalist Speaks % of Th Country. (Copyright, 198, by Press Publishing Co.) PARIS, Feb. 21.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—Paul de Huy, the editor and publisher off the Petit Parisien, has returned from the United States with great admiration for American ways and methods. He sald today to the ‘World correspondent. “One thing that struck me was the frank BEAUTY IS AT A DISCOUNT Crarina Makes a Change in the Per- sonnel of Her Malds of Honor. (Copyright, 192, by Press Publishing Co.) ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 21.—(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—The czarina made an extraordinary transforma- tiom in her suite at the last court. ber maids of honor have among the prettiest been chosen from girls at court. This | gave umbrage to the majority of the court ladies, who are not pretty, so this time the czarina surrounded herself with a retinue of somewhat withered dames, who have seen younger days, uncharitable persons say. The czarina is said to have been also in- fluenced by a desire to place temptation to fiirt out of reach of the czar. Hitherto | CITIZENS UP IN ARMS Representative Omaha Men Protest Against Proposed Bevenue Law. OPPOSE PLAN FOR TAXING FRANCHISES | | Proposed Amendment Would Destroy the Fruits of Long Fight. | CORPORATIONS TO EVADE ASSESSMENT | Suggested Measure Would Allow Many Millions to Escape Taxation The effcct was a tremendous personal) SOUNDS NOTE OF WARNING TO STATE triumph for the ezarina. She appeared in | eoft rose-colored silk in empire style, her | finest diamonds and pearls studding her | People of Neb: while she wore Peter the Great's | famous tiara of diamonds and emeralds with | center, reputed | She looked an | bodice, an egg-shaped ruby in the worth $8,000,000. empress every inch and it was remarked that the czar's eyes followed her every- where. He danced only with her. BERNHARDT'S TOMB COMPLETE Great Actress Has Ma¢ Magnificent Fin ing P1 ‘e of a at- (Copyright, 1%2, by E PARIS, Feb. 21.—¢ blegram—Special T¢ hardt's grewsome ¢ coMin made and & Ubishing Co) ork World Ca- i.)—Sarah Bern- ordering her own it for a bed is a matter of past £ which served the purposes of adfw_ ' ig much better than her pet snakes and Viger cats. But, was it for advertising purposes? She has followed up her coffin exploit rig- orously In her later years by supervising the erecting of her own tomb in the Pere la Chaise cemetery in Paris. It would seem that both of these morbid freaks are merely | the evidence of an eccentric nature, which may also be responsible indirectly for her great genlus, The tomb is mow completed. granite structure, severely plain and. plerced by four arches. Inscribed upon it in plain, bold letters 1s the single word “Bernhardt.” It stands close to the tombs of Talma, Rachel and Mlle.’Mars, so when the “Divine” Sarah goes to her final rest she will at least be sure of illustrious com- pany. BELIEVE PRIEST It is a IS CHRIST (Copyright, 188, by Press Publishing Co.) CRONSTADT Ruasts, Feh 21 —(New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.) —Eight pilgrims have ‘arrived here after tramping 900 miles to worship “Father John of Crobstadt,” whom they believe the Christ. They were sent home by train by the authorities, who have don¢ everyth! they can, thoughk without avall, to stamp out the peasants’ belief in the. divinity of this priest. ska as Much Inter- s the People of Omaha in Having an Equitable Val untion Made. ested Thirty-three representative citizens adopted unanimously the following resolu- tions at a meeting called suddenly by the tax committee of the Real Estate exchange at the Commercial club yesterday after- noon: Whereas, It is reported that amendments are in contemplation to the general revenue bill which has been prepared by committee of the Nebraska legisiature, which amendments provide that street rail- way, electric light, water and gas com- panies, shall be assessed only on their tangible property and in_addition to an amount equal (o one year's gross receipts which sald additional assessment on_the §rose receipts is to be in lieu of a tax on the franchises; and Whereas, Such amendments would mean | that the value of the franchise would be grossly undervalued to the case of the Omaha corporations of millions of dollars Whereas, Such principle and method of | franchise assessments would if carried out in state, county and city taxation, greatly lower the assessments at present standing against the Omaha franchised corporations and would result in the undervaluation of franchised corporations not only in Omaha, but throughout the state, and practically undo all the work accomplished during the past two years by the public aitation and t such co figures: therefore be it esolved, by emergency meeting assembled, Thas unqualifiedly condemn said amendments; that we regard the thr gned paseags danger, an prevent the passage of sald amendments. Action Prompt and U mo This resolution, which explains itself, was framed by W. S. Poppleton, introduced by Dr. W. H. Christie, seconded by F. D. Wead The only amendment to its original form was sug- gested by Victor Rosewater, who desired the importance of the proposed legislation to other cities and towns than Omaha set Real Batate exchange had called the meeting at The eiti- and was adopted without dissent. forth. The tax committee of the one hour’s motice for 4 o'clock. zens presont inciuded tha following: B. R. Ball, T. L. M e Tona BoShec special | extent in the | THE BEE BULLETIN. Forecast for braska—Falr Sunday and | Warmer in st Portion; Monday Fair. | KEEPS LIPS SEALED Ex-State Treasurer Bartley Gives s Ourt Answer to an Interviewer ha Protests on Revenue BIIL | Rartley Cartly Anawers Reporter. Talk of Admitting Two States. Bill for Opening Part of Rosebud News from Nebraska Town Progress of the Lillle Tria Titled People Offend the King. e Lights on London Police. ons of Revolution Mananet. Nelson Defends Charter Bill Past Week in Omaha Soclety. Where Thermometers Count. News from lowa Tow Aftaies in Counell Riufts. Sporting Events of the Day. Six Vietims of Hotel Fire. Employ Tacties of Tracy. Indian Posing for the Camera. Crude System of Accounting. Confession of Forelgn Con Life of a Well-Boand Book. Toples for Women Whe Travel. In the Domain of Woman. Amusements and Music, PRESENT BUSINESS IS HIS OWN AFFAIR | Indicates He Considers Term in Peniten- tiary Has Paid the State DECLINES TO GIVE ANY Reports Oredit Him with Collecting in Large Sums on Loans INFORMATION HOLDS HEAVY CLUB OVER MEN WHO OWE Les! ors Inclined Information Rele, to Want Some Money ng the Bartley Bondsmen. 12 13 14 15 (From a Staff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 21.—(Special)—"1t anybody thinks for a holy minute that I am going to come back from the penitentiary | after serving six years, and tell him any- thing about my present business he's d-—— badly mistaken,” sententiouely remarked Joseph Bartley, ex-state treasurer of Nebraska, to a correspondent for The Bee this afternoon. “I am trying to attend to my business the best I can and it doesn't make a bit | of difference to me what people say about | me,” continued the man who defaulted to | the amount of over $500,000, as he wheeled around from his desk in his office in the Richards block { s It not a fact, Mr. Bartley, that you collecting Iin money By monthly in- stallments, on loans you made while you wero state treasurer?’ was asked him. ““That is my business and 1 refuse to talk about 1t,”" was the quick and decisive re- ply. “Isn’t it & fact that you are maintaining yourself by means of loans you made while art on New Army War College. Canal Treaty Up in the Sena Story, “Flower o' the Corn." Markets and Financial, Baum Huys the Bennett Stock. Temperature at Omaha Yesterday: Hour, Deg. Hour, Deg. | - « 34 . 26| .2 1 . 33 20 20 . %8 18 19 20 EEZezaza {DIDN'T BET, BUT LOST MONEY are Costly Experfence of a German Farmer with a Hrace of Sharper Henry Scheurle, a transient German from | North Dakota, was too shrewd to bet on tion toward raising the valuation of orations to just and reasonable | the citizens of Omaha In we proposed | of the same as a great public that we call upon the public. the press and the Douglas county delegatio to vigorously oppose the same, and that we earnestly ask that sald Douglas county delegation use all the power It possesses to obnoxlous the unlocking of a padlock, but he lost his money just the same. Saturday after- noon Scheurle wad accosted on South Tenth street by two mien who exhibited a friendly interest in him and the North Dakota rgument about opening a padlock they had. Scheurle was willing to argue, but when he was asked to bet that he could cpen it he backed up. “T've got money all right,” waid he, “and I'm game, but I won't bet on that. “Let's see your money,” sald the palr, and the German handed over his pocket- book. One man counted over $43 in bills and banded back the pocketbook. After & while the fellows left, and when Scheurle wanted to buy a clgar in the Burlington ation later, he found his pocketbook didn’t contain a cent. GOVERNOR MICKEY TO SPEAK Program is for Him to Make Three Addresses During the Day. % wheat crop, and finally drew him Into an | state treasurer?’ was asked. But this inquiry brought no mors satis- factory response than the first one. “Isn’t 1t true, Mr. Bartley, that on a recent otcasion, one of your customers be- came delinquent in his monthly payment j of on the loan he had received from you and that you wrote him a letter, threatening him unless he came to time with the payment and that he came to time | forthwith?" was the next attempt at | probing. Bartley threw back his head and laughed —one of those cynical laughs—and them looking rather annoyed, said: “Who told you such a thing as that?” Not in Discussion Business. Bartley simply will not discuss the past or the present either, insofar as it relates to his money-loaning industry, which, it is said, has attained considerable propor- tions, nor will he talk about the movement on foot to secure the release of his hond: men from the obligation they owe the state, nor of that celebrated mysterious *ecigar box" and ite contents. He Is a sphinx so way in which the managers of American wspapers open their doors to all comers, even competitors. I found a great deal of fraternity and no jealousy. We do not do that here. “Being spectally interested In newspapers, 1 visited the paper factorfes and found them much larger and better equipped than ours. In' America they turn out 1,500 tons datly. In France we think we have done marvels when we turn out 150. We make money on circulation; the Americans fre- quently lose on that, but gain enormously p bis position ss jeader in apite of the mighty rivals time has raised up. This cannot be because his career is removed from oar time by a century, since study has 50 brought before us the events of his life that we know actually more of him than we do of Lincoln and almost as much as we do of McKinley. One consideration helping to explain his rimacy is that Washington's citizenship ad many sldes or aspects and that he wi a model In each. He was “first in wa and also “first in peace’—a warrior as well as a statesman. Because his double presi- dency came after his military work and | has gotten itself recorded much the more | fully, many admirers of the great man al- W. H._Beli, G. 8. . Charlton, W. H. Christle, Javid T. Cole, Robert Cowell, Lorenzo Crounse, J_O. Detweller. William Fleming, J.A. Gates, W. T, Graham, C.'F." Harrison, G. M. Hitchcock, Herman Kountze, Proceedings of J. H. Melntos H. F. Melntosh, T. J. ‘Mahoney, Euclid Martin, L. P. Perine, W. 8. Poppleton, AL Reed, Victor Rosewater, Robert Smith, John Steel, Mel Uhi G. Ure, D. Wead, he Body. ‘When Father John left Petersburg the other evening, in spite of the secrecy al- ways observed about his movemints, a considerable number of people gathéred at the railway station and he had to be es- corted from his carriage by twelve stalwart gendarmes, who joined hands and formed a ring about him. The women in the crowd threw themselves on the ground and tried to crawl ‘inside the ®iDg to kiss his feet or even his 5 PROPELLE der and suggested as chairman former Gov- Mr. Detweller called the meeting to or- | far as all these matters are concerned. His 1ips are sealed end e regards it nobody’s Governor Mickey s to be the princtpal | b8 SEE SR T FERICER opnl'yn speaker at & patriotic meeting to be held | ,;p0y Jonder on money that belongs to the I e e e e fiernoof | state of Nebraska. He resta secure in the st 4 oclock. The members of the Grand | youioge that the persons to whom he |T;m~"» oo dnd “(‘}"‘“‘- {llard and |y o rarmed out these embezzled funds are urston Rifles, Omaha Guards and Loyal |y, victims and no such little thing as aa Leglon are to be in attendance. There also | ° ¥ TNE R BG FHCC S alature 18 | will be other speakers. Previous to the | .1y to disturb the equilibrfum of his hour of meeting the members of the Grand | oo ¥ 17 T UL | Army posts and the Union Veterans' union { .y pave not asked a single member of i will gather at the postoffice bullding for th> | 1y jegislature to support this resolution purpose of giving the governor an honor- | on advertisements. “I think our way of ‘making up’ & paper is better than the Amer™an way. There, I think, the headlines are too close to®| gether, or are too frequent. In the details of a printing office the Americans are far ahead of us. ‘Since my return to Paris T have been arranging for the introduction of several | Amerfcan features in the Petit Parisien, such as an electric proof press and an auto- plate machine, like those employed by the New York paper: ““Another thing T would like to see Intro. duced here is a newspaper cuttings (refer- ence) department, which in the New York nmx is a model arrangement. e interfor organization of the Amerl- can newspapers, as a rule, is superior to ours. “The New York reporters took my breath away. I noticed that the American papers pay comparatively little attention to poli- | tics, while in France a r with no poli- most forget his extraordinary talent as a eneral. It 18, however, safe to say that if fie had been a military man and nothing else he would have ranked with the fore- most. 5 Less of a Politician. Agaln Washington was less a mere poli- ticlan than Lincoln. It is well known that at one period Lincoln was a politiclan and little 1t nothing more—politician not in the | worst sense and yet certalnly not in the | He was & party man, bent merely on ancing party men and party measures | Defore he seriously settled down to his | great statesman life mission. No such period_occurred in Washington's life. He Was always too serious and too patriotic | for mere partisanship. Washington got and kept his eminence without resort at any time to any political device or contrivance. | He never participated in any factional | work or deacended to any of the ruses o | common among men whose mentality is on the politicul and not on the statesmanship plane. With these traits of our great first citizen, that his civic character had many | facets and that he was never a politiclan | fa any objectionable sense, went other civic | exceliencies, each helping 'to copstitute him for ull time the modei American. For one | thing he held & just balance between Anglo- and Anglomania tics could not exist. ‘Business first’ is the American's motto. He wants news in the | paper, and then, It be has the time, he reads polit ] WARNINGS OF EARTHQUAKES | French Savant Has a Scheme Them Over for Tramsmitth the W (Copyright, 1903, Press Publishing Co.) | PARIS, Feb. 21.—(New York World Ca- | blegram—Special Telegram.)—A method by | which warning of earthquakes may be sig- nalled by the combiued use of the seismo- | graph and the telegraph was explained by | Whatever Jacobin ranters m phobia. He_respected Great Britain. How could he help doing 30, knowing that all that was best in our institutions came from that source? But ht say to the | duly or inappro- | Priately obsequious to the Brtish power | against which he had boldly drawn sword | in the carse of the thirteen colonles. Expansionist, but Net Jingo. | Washington was also a model Amer! in being an expansionist without bein | any sense a Jingo. Jefferson is often re- ferred to #s the leader and father of Am ican expansionist policy. No sa. Washij ton was before bim in this. Washingtor wax the great expansion protagonist. With him_ moreover, expansion was not mere | theory. He himself crossed the mountains | into the Mississippi valley, a pathfinder nd a pathbreaker, in effect' doing more to enlarge westward 'the borders of America than was accomplished by Jefferson in the contrary. he was never u Louisiana purchase or by McKinley In the Prot., Lipman at the recent meeting of the | §OVISA0S purchase or by Mertniey 18 106 Academy of Sclences. jman at no time sunk to a jingo spirit. He The clasticity of the earth’s surface is| dld not wish war or coug merely for such that the slightest seismic shock may | [hn fake of b He sivioed feainet ent UP IN THE AIR Eurepea *‘: Bull Oratt for Use in Trop- feal Waters. Novel . . (Copyright, 1%8, by Press Publishing Co.) BERLIN, Feb. 21.—(New York World Ca- blegram—Special Telegram.)—Count Zeppe- lin, an air ship inventor, is experimenting bile launch. the water. The launch is very light and has a draft of only one foot. On the dack is a kind of platform, to which is attached a propeller made of aluminum, having two screws 37 inches long by 14 Inches broad and 1% inches thick. A petroleum motor of twelve horse power is the driving force. The speed of the launch in calm weather is timated at fifteen miles an hour. It seems hardly to touch the water. craft was to supply the want of a suitable boat for tropical waters, plants hinder the use of an ordinary boat The idea of aerial propellers is the result of the count's ballooning experiences. 1soum<!-: COCKRAN IN EGYPT Before Re & New York Lawyer Wil Give Adv sh Some 1%3, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Feb. 21.—New York World Cablegram—Special Telegram.) Bourke | Cockran is now in Egypt stay some weeks, making & trip to Khar- toum. While in London he was welcomed, as usual, alike by “smart” society and by the Irish leaders. He lunched with John (Copyright, Redmond, the ( Count Zeppe- | lin's object in building such a peculiar | and said: ernor Crounse, who presided. announced the object of the meeting. “An emergency exists,” be declared, it appears that an immediate m: is important. have to begin all over again. $32,000. The method will “We spent two years and a lot | of time and money to obtain the equitable where aquatic | where he will | assessment of the franchised corporation The matter was fought out by public agi- tation and in the courts and a fair and just { valuation for taxation at last fixed upon the corporations. It seems outrageeus to think that the legislature s going to vitiate our accomplishment. The adoption of the pro- | posed amendments would place us back where we were, would mean another long fight changes may be for country districts only, the injection of the principle into taxation is wrong and will have a pernicious influ- ence. In time it will creep into municipal taxes. I belleve that all the citizens who stood for equal taxation will be with us in the coming fight to prevent the enactment | M!! of these provisions into law.” sShould Send Out Warning. F. D. Wead ‘and meeting of as many citizens as we can get together According to the newspaper dispatches from Lincoln, efforts are being made in the joint revenue revision commit- tee to change the method employed In tax- | ing tranchised corporations. at the Lake of Constance with an automo- | posed changes become a law, then the two It is an odd looking craft, | years’ fght that the citizens of Omaha having propellers in the alr instead of in | bave been making to secure equality in tax- ! ation will amount to nothing and we will In the case |of the street railway company we figure that it will reduce the assessment in this | city about $3,200,000, meaning a difference In taxes, computing with a 10-mill levy, of work against | equitable taxation in Omaha, and has no | | good reason to stand upon.” W. S. Poppleton was called upon to speak It the pro- able escort to the church. In addition to his address at this meeting, the governor has agreed to talk to the mem- bers of the congregation of the First Meth- | odist Episcopal church and to talk to the children during the Sunday school session at noon in the First United Presbyterian chureh, Twenty-fourth ard Dodge. WATER COMMISSION MEETS Informal Session Held to Talk Over Frospective Duties of the Members. | The appointees of Governor Mickey on the new Omaha Water commission hed an informal meeting Friday at which they dis- cussed thelr prospective Autles, the re quirements of their officlal bonds and the details of their organization. While noth- ing definite was agreed on, the consensus to release my bondsmen,” sald Bartley. “Then you know that the resolution has been drawn up and that an effort really | is being made to secure the release of your ;bnmtsml‘n? was interposed. Evidently annoyed at statement, he replied: “Well, what I know of it is what T have learned from the newspapers.” While Mr. Bartley may not be able to inspire the most implicit faith in every- thing he says, no one who could talk with him ought to doubt his word when he says he Is not bothering himself about any movement for the benefit of his bondsmen. It's & 100 to 1 shot that this is the least of Joe Bartley's troubles. It's a eafe bet that Bartley has decided to let the bond men look out for themselves, though there is no question but that he is thor- | oughly informed as to every detall of the | movement to secure the passage by this legislature of the resolution for the re- lease of these bondsmen. his unguarded in the courts and while the present | ot opinion appeared to be in favor of mak- | ing ex-Governor James E. Boyd the chair- | man. Although the time for organization | { under the law does not arrive until the | first Wednesday in March, another in- | tormal meeting probably will be held before that time to arrive at a more definite un- derstanding. |W00DS’ CONDITION CRITICAL Colored Man Shot by Detective Helt- feld Takes a Turn for the Worse., As for his own release from anything that might be construed into a legal obli- gation to the state, Bartley is evidently not concerned. He got the only releaso at the hands of Ezra P. Savage that he | cared anything about. The other release is not essential to the success of his pres- ent vocation, which is said to be in a most flourishing condition. As to any pledge { made by him or his friends that, in consid- | eration of his release from the penitentiary | he would address himself with all possible | power to the remuneration of the state for the money he had embezzled, be it far from | Joe Bartley to worry. Suggestion Which Takea Harry Wood, the negro who was shot by Detective Heitfeld Friday evening in the It has been suggested that before Bartley dway saloon, while the former was re- | ststing arrest, was reported at a late hour {1ast night as in a critical condition. He | had been resting easily during the day and | rather favorable opinion of his chances of and his sureties are released on their oficial bond the legislature should pry into the mysteries of this remarkable case and as- certain the amount of proceeds that has been realized on the valuable contents of | be transmitted to the furthest end of the | | world Prof. Lipman would take advantage | of this 1o unite all the observatories having | through one of its most critical periods. When we recall the fact that we are voters aud eitizens of a republic he made mor: than any hundred. more than any chairman of the Irish par- liamentary party; T. P. O0'Connor, Willlam | was called together more to anticipate O'Brien and John Dillon | what might be done than to condemn meas- He originally intended to eall for New | John L. McCague sald that the meeting ! that mystic cigar box and claim it all in the name of the state. And this suggestion has struck a responsive chord. The wis- | recovery was expressed by the hospital au | thorities, but he later grew worse. { paratus connected would signal the earth- | moves more quickly than seismic waves. thousand other men, shall we not strive to | be as bruad and as good a citizen as the first citizen of the republic? Washington and the Constitution. | Mr. John L. Webster responded to the | toast, “Washington and the Constitution.” | In his opening remarks Mr. Webster mneny| but succinetly sketched the condition of | the country during the four years from 1753 | to 1787, when the colonies were united under the Art) of Confederation. He pointed out how amarchy and disorder and quoted from Washington's | ight of | the condition toward which the country | (Copyright, 138, by Press Publishing Co.) | was drifting. Tbe attitude of the severa LONDON, Feb. 2I.—(New York World | parties into which the peogle had divided Cablegram—Special Telegram.)—The pros- | Was also made clear. Of the initiatory steps | pective opening in the city of London of | to & constitutional convention. taken by American quick lunch counters by G. H. | Virginia at the inatance of James Madison, | a dele- selsmological instruments by :elo‘nphi wires 8o disposed that when the first sels- mic impression should be received, as usual after an earthquake, all the other ap- quake’s approach, for the electric fluid QUICK LUNCH FOR LONDONERS| of Eatieg in & Hurry Wor- | the Great City, Prospect rles People of of increased facilities for getting food. It | the people of the other states Mr. Webster | then went on: | has also provoked a counter ovement among London's lelsurely business men They bave started a country lunch elub, | whose members lunch together three times a week at some country place with sultable | impoesible for any Bewspaper correspon ent to send mews without being expelled. It Mr. Harmsworth gels the censor's ban relaxed it will be the biggest achievement of bis career. N train service. They began with a lunch u\ spoke. George Washington so loved his retire- | ment from public strife that he hesitated t | aitend the convention. It required the per. suasive influence o Madison and Edmund andolpp and HeMy Knox to have him cept this new responsible duty. One of | the letters of Gemeral Knox to George | Guilford, twenty-nine miles down the Sur- | Washington is of more than paseing inter- est. in which he said rey rallroad, the journey there and hlell h ted that ho: and the thirty-seven minutes for lunch | o' ' ‘ake It for granted Continued on Second Page.) taking from 13:40 to 310 p. m. York at the end of March, but he has de- cided to delay his departure until the mid- dle of ! b attend the n tional convention in Dublin on the 14th, having been summoned to pass on the British government's promised land pur- chase bill for Ireland Mr. Cockran is Intereste for promoting an Irish which, it Is expected, wil next year. BIG PRICE FOR A SMALL JUG Fetehes Eight Hundred Dollars Be- canse it is 0Old and Homely. (Copyright, 133, by Press Publishing Co.) LONDON, Feb. 21.—New York World | Telegram.)—A small jug, nine inches and a half high, made of Fulbam stoneware and dated 1581, fetched $800 at Christie's this week. It had been in the possession: of a cburch at West Malling, Kent, over 400 years. Its brown | surtace is splashed with red, orange, green and purple. Its neckbend and handle are of silver gilt. It s positively devold of charm except in the eye of & counolsseur, but brought three times the price ever pald for such an article at Christis's, d in a big scheme | tric industrial revival, | been knocking on the door and begging per- be launched early | mission to enter Omaha during the past It 1s not yet too late to admit these | and throw wide open the door of competition, creating | losses to the established corporations that payment of | | ‘ ures that were known to be advocated. He | thought the meeting should sound a note of tors might | tie matter, | should be to understand that a time can come torbearance will cease to be a vir- | was Captain Ely’ elec- | have | warning o order that the legis! know that Omaha was watching “The franchised corporations given when tue,” he light declared. and “Street railway, telephone compani year rivals to the present corporatio will be far greater ihan t| Just taxes.” Mr. Wead said he thought the time had There is no reason to doubt that the proposed changes in the revenue bill are contemplated, he point we must not he continued, “and that come for a vigorous protest afirmed. ““There is o lose sight of." is while the Douglas county delegation is busy knocking out these objectionable fea- tures and succeeding in the endeavor, they are not to lose sight of the matter of rail- way taxation. It has been suggested that the franchise-tax matter has been iptro- | duced to divert attention from the rallroad tax relorms. Victor Rosewater was asked to speak on (Continued on Fourth Page.) aptain Ely Lectures. the modern “Sinbad of the gave one of his characteristic lec- | Christian association and their parents Sat- urday evening, which was largely and Intersting. The feature of his lecture experience on a whaler and his sallor yarns. His lecture was il- | lustrated with ~whaling and faring weapons which he exhibited, | Movements of Oc: sea Vessels Feb. 31. At New York—Salled: Vaderland, for Southampton; Luclana. for ldverpool Carthaginian. for Glasgow: Graf Waide see, for Plymouth, Cherbourg and Ham- bur At Havre—Salled: La Savole, i tor New | pAt, Liverpocirrived: Belgenland. Philadeiphia. Sziled: | York | At Souln-mr!on—n(uv-l' from London, for New York, and passed | Hurst Castle At Malta—Arrived: Moltke from New York via Funchal, ete., on & éruise. At Antwerp—Arrived: Nederland, from tor Campania, for New Minneapolis | turés before the boys of the Young Men's | attended | dom of it has appealed to thoughtful mem- bers of the legislature. But the trouble seems to be In deciding how to go about this dificult task. No doubt ample proof could be obtained to show conclusively that the centents of that cigar box has ylelded and s still ylelding & big income—to Joseph §. Bartley. The otatement was made to a correspondent of | The Bee & day or two ago by a gentleman ‘,whn professes to have incontrovertible ev- {dence, that Bartley has made loans enough and of suficient character to keep him and his family in comfortable circumstances the rest of their days without any weork on his part, except to see that his “interest™ is promptly and regularly paid. Sald this geotleman: ‘Bartley has no cause for anxiety about | his financial condition. He has enough money loaned out to enable him to continue his extravagant habits as long as he lives.” Little substantial hope is entertained of \ getting at any useful facts as to the notori- ous cigar box and its contents. The co- terie of people who could give imformation on this point is so small and the respective positions are such as to warrant no hoge | Phtladelphia. Buphrosine, for | | | At Astoria, Ore—Balled Austraila. At Portland, Ore.—Safled: Riverdale, for | Amsterdam. | VAt Algiers—Arrived: Kalserin Maria Ther- esia. from New York via Funchal, etc., on orlent_crulse. i NAL Rotterdam—Salled: for Amsterdam, ew York. At San Francisco—Arrived: Nippon Maru, from Hong Kong: Bannlng, from Navidad led : P. Sall & Hitcheoek, for York; | whatever. Bartley has refused to say & '-nrd Ex-Governor Holcomb, who went into | ofice as Bartley commenced his second term and testified to having sccepted the | slieged securitios preseated to him by the [