Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 25, 1903, Page 6

} | | | | 6 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1903 THE OMAHA Dany Btf, E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY MORX NG TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Bee (without Sun ¢ Dally Hee and Sunday, Une Year.. ay), Une Year.$4.00 1 .0 illustraied Be Year Bunday Bee car Suturday Bee, One Year | Twentieth Century Farmer, DELIVERED BY CARRIER Daily Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... 3¢ Daily Bee (without Suucay), per week. ..12c Daily Bee (Inciuding Sunday), per week..17c Bunday Bee, per copy ... taieis Evening Bee (without Sunday). week & Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per | ‘omplaints of irregularities in deiivery | should be addressed to City Clreulation De- | partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding, - South Omana-—City Hall Building, Twen- ty-fifth and M Streets ¥ | Blufts—10 Pearl Street. Chicago—16y Unity Bullding. New York—2128 Park Row Butlding. Washington—g1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communieations relating to news and ed- itoria] matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, ayable to The Bee Publishing Company, nly 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts. Perscnal checks, except on Omaha_or eastern exchange, not accepted THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Etate of Nebraska, Douglas County George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee | Publishing company, being dulv sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete | coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and | Bunday B during the month of January, 1 as follow 1 7 .. 80,600 2. 2R020 3 30,640 [3 28,805 D600 5. .30,500 31,630 [ .80.520 30,410 1 . .80,620 t .. 80,400 9. 80,450 5 H pEERRRERBRE 10, 30,650 1 2. 30,560 13 30,550 " 30,490 15 30,570 16 80,470 Total 941,485 | Less unsold and returned co o878 Net total sales ..031,607 | Net average sales. GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn (o | before me this 3lst day of January, A. D. 1903, M. B. HUNGATE, Notary Publie. — Our Dave wants a federal appoint- ment. He does not care what it s so | long as It pays well. Em— It isn't everyone who can, G.| like Washington, extend bis birthday cele- | ©UF navy all that we need it tosbe, what bration over three days just because it falls on Sunday. If the city election had not been post- poned see what fine weather Omaha would be enjoying for Iits municipal campalgn, The rallroad attorneys evidently knew what they were about when they - took | the rallroad tax case before the federals court Instead of Into the state courts. | Secretary Cortelyou's estimate of the expenses of his department aggregates only $669,600. ' Beside his associates in the cabinet Secretary Cortelyou is mod- esty personified. Something must be wrong with the senate that it should sit down on the proposed junket for a committee to in- vestigate conditions In the Philippines. It must be that the senatorial excursion- fsts prefer to travel in Europe this year. | English producers are looking more The deadlock on the statehood bill may not be an unmixed evil. No one will be ‘able to tell how many question- able legislative measures it will have | contracts to deliver Welsh coal on this crowded out by monopolizing time which would otherwise be given to their con- sideration. And still not a word from the World- Herald reinforcing The Bee's demand for legislative action looking toward the recovery for the taxpayers of the money lost by Bartley's peculations, Meserve's absorption of Interest and the middle- man's graft on Stuefer's peculiar bond deals. Si————— The bureau of forestry in the Agricul- ture deparfment will make further ex- periments in growing trees in the sand- hill section of Nebraska. Who knows but what, some day Nebraska may be- comé a lumber state as well as a grain state. Stranger things than that have bappened. Andrew Carnegie will sunplement his Ubrary distribution by establishing an institution for the tralning and educa- tion of librarians. But the donation of a hundred thousand dollars for that pur- pose can only be a starter. An up-to- date library school could use that much money every year. Senator Tillman Intimates sarcastic- ally that the logical outcome of the president’s policy with reference to the negro in the south will be the appoint- ment ‘of Booker Washington to a place in the cabinet. Perhaps. The consen- sus of opinion, however, would be that Booker, Washington would be more in place in the cabinet than would be Sen- ator Tillwan. The franchised corporations whe fixed up the scheme to change the basis of their assessment showed their hand too soon. The fact that the scheme has been blocked, however, for the present, gives no assurance that it will not be projected again if the opportunity seems tavorable while the revenue bill is on its way through the two houses. This will be a good thing for the local tax com- mittees to watch. One member of the Nebraska legisla- ture wants to pass a bill providing for { British and the German navies, ‘linll‘ bit humfiliating to make such a | sary 1n view of the facts. | spect to sea power, and THE BUILDING UF NAVIES. The naval appropriation bill earries £70,000,000 for the buliding up of the American navy. This Is not ouly for the addition of new vessels to the navy, but also for the hnprovement of its person nel, which is quite as necessary as that | of adding new ships and new armory From the very beginning of the upbuild ing of our navy establishment the great objection has been o the one great ob Ject of providing it with sufficient men and that is the chief tronble today. Whatever the number of ships, the the men necessary proposition is to have to man and to equip them and unless this is attained there is no use trying to build up a navy. This consideration has been repeatedly urged upou con gress and yet up to this time that hod has not shown a proper understandii or appreciation of its importance. Time and time again it has been pointed out that in order to have the sea power of the United States properly cared for we had got to bave not only more ships, but a higher clags of seamen, and that this was to be attained only by a process of enlistment and discipline which could make our men superior to any others in the world. It has been the impression that we were the great est in the world. The experience in the war with Spain seemed to justify that ‘dea. But the experience of a later date and the report of Admiral Dewey show that instead of our navy being the greatest In respect to its shooting, it is really third—that is, inferior to both the It is a confession, but it'is absolutely neces The United States Is today the fifth nation in re- yet It Is the second nation in regard to the necessi- tles for naval eq@ipment. Both as to our extended seaboard and our insular possessions this country has more need of a great navy than any other nation except Great Britain, and even In re- spect to that mation our naval necessl- tles are hardly less great. In a word, the United States navy should be as great in all respects as that of any other power on earth and we shall not be ab- solutely secure until such is the case. With abundant resources for making excuse can there be for limiting it be- low that of any other nation? FURKIGN COAL IMPORTATIONS. The removal of the tariff on coal has not been followed by such an importa- tion of that fuel as was expected, byt it is to be by no means concluded that the effect will mot be to bring a great deal more coal to the American market from abrcad than had heretofore come here. Since the removal of the tariff on coal the importation of that fuel has not been so extensive as had been looked for. This is easily accounted for by the fact that a great deal of foreign coal had been contracted for before the duty was removed and that the whole possible supply from abroad was en- gaged. But there has been a change since. The removal of the duty has stimulated the demand from abroad and now than ever before to the American mar- ket. According to eastern papers Eng- lish coal operators have sent solicitors to all New England points to ask for side of the Atlantic cheaper than the rates of soft coal now prevalling in the east. They offer, according to the state- | ments, to make contracts for a year and | are depending upon low ocean ratcs and a decline In the price of bituminous | coal to enable them to wake shipments to this country. It is said that many New England manufacturers are mak- | Ing contracts with the British coal men | for supplies which will last them for a | year or more. 4 | The significance of this to the coal producers of the United States must be apparent. It i1s of course absolutely fm- possible to import sufficient coal to this | country to supply even one-tenth of the | demand. Everybody understands that, 8o that the removal of the coal duty Is not and cannot be the benefit it was | expected to be. Yet there is no doubt | | that the increased Importations of conl | which that legislation will stimulate will | have an effect beneficlal to the Amer {lean consumer. The fact appears to be that the appearance of British coal | solicitors In the east has already had | the effect of reducing prices in the | principal eastern markets and there fis | every reason to expect that this will he felt throughout the country. At all| events the result of the removal of the | tarlff duty on coal is a matter which | will receive very general attention a having a bearing upon other features of the tarifr. —— THE RAILWAY TAX INJUNCTION, The order of Judge Munger of the fed- eral district court issuing a temporary | injunction to prevent the city council from making the municipal tax levy for the coming year upon the assessments fixed on the rallroad terminals by the tax commissioner and the Board of Re- view brings the issve of equal taxation of raliroad property with other property for city purposes further to the fore- front. While this action on the part of the federal court was not unexpected, it is by no means final, but merely requires the case to'be presented formally on its werits. The opinion on which the temporary Injunction 1§ based seems largely in the the coloriug of all kerosene used for {lluminating purposes. The fastidious * housewife will then be able to make her lamps match her furniture or carpets, with appropriate shades for special oc- sasions. For pink teas the lamps will be filled with pink fluld, while St. Pat- rick's day will see the color changed to green and the Fourth of July give a chance for the careful blending of red, nature of au apology, admitting the jus- tice of the contention that the railroads would ‘escape their due proportion of the municipal tax burdens if the assessment figures of the State Board of Equaliza- tion must be accepted, but hiding behind legal technicalities and suggesting that the proper body to ralse the rallway fig- ures'ds the city council when sitting a an equalizing board, and not the Board of Review. The shaky ground on which | have us stop referring to them as Ge the railroads stand could mot be more clearly puinted o The the coutlict with the constitntional guaranty of uniformity in assessment and taxation of all property within the jurisdiction of the body im posing the same is entively overlooked and the fact that the n by which | the uate question of sy allronds are att m sting to perpet- | Iy char-| X exemption was acterized by our own supreme court as violating the rudimentary princi ples of justice completely ignored. The injunction was granted on the presump- tion that the allegations contained in the | petitions of the railroads are correct | when a trisl on lssues involved would most show that they are flatly contradicted by the facts. Under the circumstances the only thing for the city to do is to proceed on the theory that its position Is fmpreg- nable and that its right to assess rail road property through the same officers as nssess other property will be even- tually upheld. As president of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs. Fairbanks objects to the use of the word Amer- fcan in connection with the nationality of our forelgn born eitizens and would man-Americans, Irish-Americans, ete. The history of the United States, how- ever, shows that the nation ow as much for its existence and perpetuation | to the sons and daughters of other| countries who have given up thelr na tive land for our institutions and who are as patriotic and loyal as any born lhere. Unlike the rich Ame icans who expatriate themselves to get entree into the nobility of Europe our foreign born people, although proud of their Americanism, are not ashamed of their birthplace and there is no good reason they should not continue to use a name that clearly indicates thelr double nationality. All this litigation over prize money due to naval officers who participated in the battles at Santiago and Manila prompts the question again, why the relic of prize awards should be main- tained in the navy long years after its abolition in the army> What good rea- son is there for paying naval officers extra i there for paying naval officers army officer gets extra compensation no matter how much valuable property of the enemy he may capture? The whole system of prize money should be abol- ished once and for all time. S—— The tremendous success attending the Mardi Gras at New Orleans this year suggests that Omaha's Ak-Sar-Ben has the foundation on which to expand much further than it has ever gone. The Ak-Sar-Ben festivities can compare favorably with carnival exhibitions any- whe:. and can and should be made a drawing card reaching out over this en- tire kection of the country from the Mis- sissippl river to the Rocky mountains. —_— From the complaints entered by the fusion organ it is not clear that the fu- slon members of the legislature are right on the question of raflroad taxation not- withstanding all the platform declara- tions on which they were elected. As we have noted above, the railroads have no party politics. They would just as soon work through fusionists as through republicans. The new public building bill provides for the sale of the present federal build- ing In the city of Lincoln to the city at a price not less than £50,000. The bill might as well have fixed the price at $50,000, because it I8 a safe bet that with such a wording of the law not a cent more than $50,000 will be offered. — It Is really amusing to have the rail- road tax bureau send out literature pre- tending to be in the Interest of the farmer. The farmer of Nebraska knows that if the rallroads had any special concern to relieve him from his burdens they would not be raising rates on every- thing he has to sell and buy. —— ! ating the Portent. Washington Post. There is an accumulation of reasons for belleving that the next democratic national convention will not be a mere ratification meeting for popullstic plans. repare to Shudder, | Indianapolis News. When we think of the immense amount of labor involved in harvesting the ice crops hat ripen every night this weather, it makes us shudder with apprehension at next summer’s pric Ty Now Fallen Despo Baltimore American. Fickle, indeed, is the popular taste. Coal 1s no longer the absorbing topic of conver- tion. Even the coming spring fashions re now commanding more attention than the fallen despot of domestic romfort. One Word Te Chicago Inter Ocean. It was brought out incidentally in a par liamentary discussion the other day that | Great Britain follows the United States in | the use of boilers for its warships. The | term “follows” tells the Btory in a nutshell the Story. | | he Camel and the Needle. Cineinnati Enquirer. { It is recorded that Mr. Rockefeller re- cently received $8,000,000 in dividends from the Standard Ofl company however, has been made for enlargement of the eye of that needle or reduction in the size of the ed. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat Not a railway passenger was killed in Great Britaln last year, in three months, ending October 1, there were 1,434 railway collisions, with a list of 148 persons killed. The contrast suggests carelessness, not to say recklessness, Trusts Are Doing. Detroit Free Press. They substitute one plant for many. They reduce their clerical force by thousands. They have taken an army of commercial men from the road. They have the best of labor-saving machinery, and yet, with all these advantages, to say nothing of the special favors they receive in (he matter of transportation, they are charging the exorbitant prices in coal, meats, olls and | or three for a quarter.” | kindergarten fair anywhere, No provision, | °a! In this country | other monopolized commodities. The cut- ting of expcnses and arbitrary increase in prices readily explain the fabulous profits that pay a tithe in conscience money to churches, universities_and liSraries. Can't Be Takkn Serfously. Washington Post Mr. Hobson finde fault because the news- papers don't take him more seriously. The man evidently overlooks the fact that his contributions to the gayety of the nation have been altogether voluntary and the newspapers are edited by human beings. Insarance Against D 8t. Louls Republic. Admiral Dewey is justified in his in- sistence upon increased target practice in the navy. Unless a gunner can hit what he shoots at, all the rest of his training at the government's expense Is wasted and his ship 1s not an mplement of war. The cost of target practice is a cheap Insur- ance against disaster. Some Difference In the Game, Minneapolis Journa King Edward complains bitterly because the peers and peeresses did not take inter- est In his effort to have a great ceremonial opening of Parliament. The king is begin- ning to discover that a modern conetitu- tional monarch s not even so Interesting as bridge whist. A monarch s becoming something that smacks of antiquity and bridge whist and other things are very modern. Why Pay at AlIY Minneanolis Tribune There is a cynical flavor in the refusal of the railroads to pay the gross earnings tax on rebates given to get business, re- bates being unlawful under the interstate ‘commerce law and belng penalized still more severely by the new Elkins law. But there fs something cynical, too, in the simultaneous effort of the law to compel railroads to compete and \u prevent re- bates, which are the most effective method of competition. Rallroad regulation by law s a sad tangle, anyway; and it 1s small wonder that the rallroads pald this tax rather than to invite any more of it, especially as they seem to be In the wrong. Why should an illegal rebate be taken out of the gross earnings, any more then a legal commission paid to agents to get business? JUSTICE SCORES AGAIN. press Companies Must Not Limit Thelir Liability. New York Tribune. The recent decision of the appellate term of the supreme court In this district that the limitations with respect to expres: company receipts of amounts of lability for articles damaged or lost, stolen or destroyed are not valid is one of especial importance to those commobn carrlers. any corpora tions, with the ajd of lawyers of experi- ence and ability, have been trying for years to protect themselves from the pay- ment of heavy clalms from customers by restrictions of the sort which have been declared to be without warrant of law. * To the great majority of people the find- ing of the appellate judges will appear to be just and right. If express companies agree to transport packages ' for certain sums they ought to be required to pay the full value of those packages if they fail to deliver the property committed to their care. THERE ARE A FEW OTHERS, English Not a World Language, Though it Heads the Procession. Chicagn Chronicle. A British’ etbnomlgt: who has been study- ing the declining figures of British trade has suddenly diacovered that English is not the “world gpeech” it was fashionable not long ago to call it. For a time we read many essays practically inculcating the idea that it was quite enough to know English to rule the commercial world. The newer gospel is saner. One reason why the Germans have made progre: rapldly in selling their manutactures lies in their recognition of the fact that people like to buy in a language they understand. German technical training invariably in- cludes acquisition of freedom and ac- curacy in all living tongues It is true that English is now spoken by, as estimated, 115,000,000 persons, Russian by 80,000,000, German by 70,000,000, Spanish by 50,000,000, French by 45,000,000 But French remalins ‘the most popular language of international intercourse. It holds a closer relationship to all other languages than the English does, while its kinship to the English from one of their common progenitors, the Latin, keeps it the best vehicle of sclentific and professional thought in transit from one language to another. French fs the lingulstic clearing house. English is not the “word” language by any means. ABOUT A HANDKERCHIEF. Southern Newspaper's Comment on a Recent Commotion, Charieston News and Courler. The most pronounced display of very bad manners that we have noted in & long timo must be credited to the account of some of the society people of Dallas, Tex. An en- tertainment has been given in that city in the interest of the local kindergarten. Mre Roosevelt, the wife of the president, wi requested to make a contribution. In com- plignce with this request and without un- derstanding “‘what was wanted or what was in contemplation as an entertainment,” as Mrs. Henry C. Coke of Dallas exnlained the | other day, she sent a handkerchief to be sold for the benefit of the Kindersarten soclation. As the story goes, the handke: chief *“is cotton, machine hemstitched and some assert that it could be duplicated in any dry goods store in Dallas for 10 cents, A majority of the people in charge of the entertainment re- Mrs. Roosevelt's gift should be returned to her, “after it had been cxhibited at so much per look at the reception.” We agree with Mrs. Coke that Mrs. Roose- velt “did not receive fair play,”-and her gift in aid of the entertalnment at Dallas wae far better than it deserved. There wi no reason in the world why she should be asked to make any sort of gift in ald of & and particu- Ilarly in @ community which she has never visited, and in which she can feel no spe- interest. She was asked to make a contribution to the Dallas fair because she happens toibe the wife of the president of the United States and she assumed doubt- less that it was not the intrinsic value of the gift she made, but the gift itself that would be of interest to the Dallas peopla. If the beggars felt otherwise they ought to bave stated in thelr letter requesting a con- | tribution that no contribution would be re- celved unless it was worth su much. It is not an evidence of the best breeding to value a gift according to the price marked on the tag. The Texans ought to have told | the lady how much they would expect her gift to be worth in dollars and cents. The New York World says that Mrs Coke, “one of the foremost soclety women of Dallas, was the strongest defender M Roosevelt had,” and that she said that “those who criticised ber most severely were northern women.” Our only regret is that these “northesn women' selected & southern state in h to make & display of thelr native wanuers. ROUND AROUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropolis. Turf Investment and grain gambling schemes have ylelded the promoters at least $5,000,000 within a year. As a means of ridding suckers of their money these plans are shown to be not only effective, but as swift as betting on the wrong horse. But they are not swift enough to meet t {demand. Hence a New York genius evolved a mechanical cotrivance warranted to “‘do* the confiding public at a swifter gait. It was exhibited in a New York court during the trial of the man who worked it The machine consisted of a copper box about two feet square, with a false bottom Two genuine bills, wet with a ‘“secret” preparation, sandwiched with tissue paper and placed in an envelope, would be laid in the bottom of the box and the cover closed. Half a dozen batterics attached to the box would then be set in operation, the strange noises impressing the vietim and making him belleve that some strange process was going on In the excitement the false bottom would be allowed to drop over the first envelope, leaving exposed another envelope in which three genuine bills would be found. The center bill would be supposed to be the counterfeit that had just been made. The prospective victim would be allowed to take it to a bank, and, finding that it passed muster, usually returned to get large quan- titles of green goods, which were palpably frauds. By this means suckers were trapped for $50,000. Startling Indeed is, the declaration made by Captain Langan, chief of the New York Cty detective bureau. ““The trouble with the average case agalnst one of these syndicates,” said he, “is that the great majority of their victims are women who speculate without the knowl- edge of their husbands.” He was speaking of a concern on Broad- way that had just been raided. It adver- tised the investment of money Pelonging | to other people on the races and guaran- teed.3 per cent per week on money sent | them, and a quarterly dividend, according | to_their profits. . The detectives add that more than one stald and trusting husband would be as- tounded 1f the letters found in these places should be made public. “In the borough of Manhattan,” says Harper's Weekly, “the native whites, both of whose parents were born in the United States, now constitute only 16.9 per cent | of the population. Even of the native whites born of native parents only about two-thirds were born in the etate of New York. The largest contingent of outside natives came from the New England states, and, curiously enough, there were more immigrants coming to the city of New York from the southern than from the middle and far western states. Not only are the native-born children of native Americans vastly outnumbered by those who are forelgn-born or the children of forelgn immigrants, but the raclal nature | of the forelgn element is materially chang- ing. Inetead of being almost exclusively Irish and German, as it was fitty, or even forty, years ago, the Irish-born are now fewer by nearly 21,000 than they were twelve years ago, and the Germans fewer by upward of 5,000. The increase of the foreign-born during the last decade has come almost entirely from Russia, Italy and the Hapsburg dominions. As the birth rate among the newcomers just mentioned is incomparably higher than that among the native-born who were children of native parents, it looks as if, fifty years hence, the native American element would dwindle to & very small fraction of the metropolitan ropulation. They will doubtless continue, however, to possess a greatly disproportion- ate share of the city's wealth. As for the so-called Knickerbockers, they are llkely to be mearly extinct by the end of another generation. Even now only a very few of them can be discerned struggling painfully on the surface of soclety—rarl nantes in gurgite vasto. The report of the Department of Health makes some interesting estimates about New York’s growing population. According to the United States census, compiled in 1900, the population of the greater city was 3,487,202 The estimated population com- | plled by the health department for the | middle of the year 1903, 3,732,903, shows | that the population since 1900 will have increased 295,701. The health commissioner belleves that the 4,000,000 mark will be reached in a year. The death rate for the third week of February shows a percentage of 18.21, ms against a percentage of 19.52 for the corresponding week last year. PERSONAL NOTES. Senator-elect Smoot insists that his heart beats warmly for his native land. Robert Poole, who recently died at his suburban home near Baltimore, had charge national capitol at Washington, as well as | the heavy iron castings and columns of the treasury bullding. James Hilton of St. Louls recently pur- chased a genuine De Vincl Madonna for $9, has been offered $15,000 for it, but holds it at $60,000. Experts pronounce it a rare gem, and one of those stolen from _the vatican over 100 years ago. ‘The monster st2amer Sedric did two won- derful things. It came across the At- | lantic in high seas and gales without a | tremor, and a glass of champagne placed on the sideboard of its smoking room did not lose a drop the whole way across. Rev. Dr. Bdward Everett Hale of Boston | lately, in a public address, expressed his astonishment and dismay at having heard | & man 80 years old say (hat he had never | read the constitution of the United States. | He did not venture to say, so far as re- | ported, that the man was & citizen of Boston. Franklin P. Roberge, a veterinary sur- | solved, after much heated discussion, that | geon of New York, is suing the estate of | | Robert Bonner, the horseman, for $100,000. Roberge claims that he attended Bonner's | horses for twenty-three years without pay- ment, the horseman having promised to | | give him $100,000 or leave him that amount |in his will. | Williatn McAdoo, formerly a congressman | trom New Jersey and late assistant secre- | tary of the navy in the Cleveland adminis- | tration, is now a citizen of New York, where he bas bullt up a flourishing law | practice. During his congressional career he ranked as one of the ablest men on the | democratic side, llkewise among the most | popular. An official of the state administration of Maryland is the commander of the State Fishery board. He recelves an annual sal ary of $1,600 and has the appointment of seventy-five oyster measurers chosen from the various Maryland counties on the Chesapeake. The duty of the oyster meas- urer s to prevent the marketing of very small oysters. New York crooks worked oft twenty- three substitute bodles on local insurance companies and g0t the money. Burglars looted a house in Chicago and carted the goods away in wagons. Thieves raided the home of a Philadelphia policeman and se- cured a few trinkets. It is a pity so much energy and courage should be wdsted, or at best onmly. poorly rewarded. Had the get-rich-quick fraternity organized a turt investment company or & grain gamblery, they could have scooped in thousands in stead of peunics. | sport. HINTS FOR THE LEGISLATURE. St. Edward Advance: If our State Nor- mal is to be divided into several parts and distributed throughout \the state to gratity the ambition gf a few politicians why should St. Edward not have a part of the ple? When Nebrsska succeeds in elim- inating the saloon and politics from its edu- cational system we will have accomplished an end far wore {mportant to the general good than the placing of prohibitory liquor laws upon our statute books. Schuyler Quill: A bill has been intro- duced in the house reapportioning the ju- | dicial districts of the state. It provides for four less judges in the state, on being ing made smaller by cutting oft Merrick county. If this district is to stand the pro- | posed reduction, which no doubt it can, the bill should be amended so as to cut off & | few more judges. Give tewer district judges | and increase the supreme court members. Rushville Recorder: We cannot see any just reason why the Norfolk asylum should not be rebullt. The state cannot afford to allow so much valuable salvage to go to waste, and the needs of the state call tor the maintenance of the Norfolk asylum, both on the score of economy and con- venience. It is one of the few state in- stitutions established in the northeast part of the state, and now an efficient water works system has been built near it, there is no necessity to add to other in- stitutions and waste so much of the state's money in devising new building schemes. Fairbury Gazette: Everybody admits that Nebraska has the best leglslature that ever assembled at Lincoln, and yet it begins to look like the members were playing “hoss” on the revenue question and on raflway assessments. Amy plan which fails to assess every dollar of property on an equal basis is a fraud and a humbug and means political suicide for the members of the legislature who endorse it. Any as- sessment plan that favors any class ot property, regardless of ownership, will be a flat fallure. And the people will hold members to a strict accountability. Wausa ~Gazette: One of the best compli- ments given the present iegislature is the complaint of want of patronage made by the Lindell bar. The management of that de- partment insists that the receipts for the month are far short of what they have been during previous sersions. While all the present members are not striotly temper- ance men, it {s & gratitying fact that very fow, if any, Indulge to an exo This is but another proof that in politics as well as in other pursuits of life the “boozer’’ is relegated to the rear and the clean, sober and reliable man is coming to the front. Auburn Post: The present legislature seems to be inclined to make a record of economy, which it should do, but many interests are besieging it for large appropriations. Among them 18 one for an exhibit at the St. Louls fair and another for a building for the State Historical so- clety. The state has been in the show business for a number of years past at some cxpense and It seems to the Post that now is a good time to stop the mhow business and give us somethins that is needed and will do the state more good than a display at St. Louls, and that is a Iiberal appropriation for a historical bufld- ing. ‘ Auburn Post: A bill has been Introduced in the legislature to reapportion the judi- clal districts and curtail the number of district judges, This is & move in the right direction and the bill should pass. According to the bill, the First district 1s composed of the counties of Richardson, Pawnce, Johnson and Nemaha. The Fifth district 1s Gage and Jefferson. This di- vision has been made already by the judges of thi rict. Judge Stull has held court in these four counties for ‘the last four years and Judge Letton the other two, and no one heard of eithior judge being overworked. It would be better for a1l parties if the district was divided. SPORTS OF GREAT MEN. Love of the Chase and of Natiomal Games Uncooled by Fame, Baltimore American. The announcement that United States Senator Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland will eid fn the finapcial support of the Washington Base Ball club does not come as a surprise to those who are aware of that statesman's love for the national This love dates back to his boyhood days when the young Marylander who was to hecome so prominent in state and national politics in after years was a good base ball player himself, and though’' he mever took {a hand in a profegsional game, could hold his own with any amateur in Howard county. There is nothing about the sport whish the senator does not know. The secrets of the inshoot and the outshoot, the up-curve and the down-curve, the bunt, the hit-and-run, are ho mysteries to him. “He is as familiar with them as he is with the ins and outs of political manage- ment. Rarely is & game’ played af the na- tional capital which the senator does not of the work of building the dome of the | gee, usuaily in company with other states- men of more or less prominence, who take this method of relaxation from the burden of making laws for the land and listening to constituents who are looking for offices. President Roosevelt's sporting tastes e in another direction. Hunting big game is his fad, and though in his recent southern trip the bears refused to come within range of his gun he has had great success in the Rockies, and has written in & ¥ery entertaining manner about those tripe. Nothing smaller than a llon_ & bear or a moose s large enough for him. Shooting at birds finds no favor in his eves. Even the wild duck does not tempt him. On the contrary, ex-President Grover Cleveland spends much of his leisure time in winter banging away at ducks and partridges and other small game. The rest of the year finds him frequently sitting in a skiff wait- ing for the fish to bite. He is a lucky fish- Walton of America. Not a few American statesmen, whether it be to thelr credit or not, find their amusement in the alluring, but oft expensive, game of poker. Chief Justice Fuller is credited with spending much of his leisure time reading flotion of the dime Dovel variety euch as “Old simply | taken from this district and the district be- | | { Highest Honors World's Falr Highest tests U.S, Gov't Chemists PRIOE BAKING POWDER 0O, OMicAGO Bleuth, the Detective; or Piping the Jones Falls Mystery.” There {s also a meniber of the cabinet whose tastes lle in the same direction. George Washington loved the fox chase, and not infrequently took his seat at tne card table among his friends. In England golf and cricket are the sporls of states- men. Emperor Willlam loves the boar hunt and does not mind the element of danger it possesse: 8o it is evident that these men who have risen to prominence in the world's affalrs have not allowed the cares of state to drive from their veins that sporting blood which came at their birth, and which will remain with them as long s they live. POINTED REMARKS, 1 don't see why you should resent being called a self-made ‘man." ‘‘Because I believe in fair play,” answered Mr. Meekton. “'I won't see the eredit taken away from Henrletta in that manner.'— Washington Star. Timid Lover—Your parents seem to have gotten over this disltke for me. Yes. When we first met they were afrald it might lead to something." —Brook- Iyn Lite. Blobbs—I still have the first dollar I ever earned. 8lobbs—Sentiment? { Blobbs — No; counterfeit. — Philadelphia Record, “Can_you support my daughter in the manner to which she has been accus- tomed?™ “I'm not quite sure as to that. I aid retty well in the conservatory last night, ut—who held her last?'—Chicago Post. “Look at the way baby's working his mouth, claimed Mrs. Newman. “Now, oses to put his foot in it.” replied her husband, grumpily, That's what I aid when I Philadelphia Record. “Professor, ' inquired the thoughtful mem. ber of the class, “don’t you suppose there will come a timé when all the coal and all the coal ofl stored away In the earth will have become exhausted? said the Instructor. 'We shall be playing harps, I hope,'— Chicago Tribune. ki t you don't pi the leading lady, from the stage.” “‘All right,'” answered the manager, plac- faly. “Let's fix a date and I'll advertise me my salary,” said “1 shall denounce. you erman, too, and has become so fortunate | Regular. at it that he can justly be called the Izaak |$1.00 Tripods ... It. Maybe it would make a hit."—Wash- ington Btar. Barnes—I never saw such an eater as Vilkins is. His jaws are on the move nearly all the time. i Howes—Yes; It sn't his tault ‘but the doptor's. The dootar told him fo_take a nk of ‘whisky before eating.—Boston Transcript. > Leading Lady ‘(of defunct opera com- s;r'xy)—x wonder if we'll ever able to Manager—Dell, that's about the only p sible way we'll éver be able to get home. Detroit Press. ‘WAITING. John Burroughs. Berene I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me. 1 stay my haste I make delays, For what avalls this eager pace? I'stand amid the eternal ways, And what is mine shall know my face. Asleep, awake, by night or day, The friends | seek are seeking No wind can drive my bark astra Nor change the tide of destiny. ‘What matter if I stand alone? 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