Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 27, 1903, Page 6

THE “OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1903. m_(?MAHA DAILY BEE Dally Bee and Sunday, Une Year. CONFIDENCE IN THE PRBSIDENT. the new Department of Commerce and not entitled to the entire credit for that mittee, of which M. Vest was s mem- tion of disinterested advice justifies the for all who may desire to furnish Omaha FEATURES OF LOTTERY DE 10N, features of the Hoar and Littlefield bills are ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. the ministers of New York and wicinity CONSOLATION FOR THH HEATHEN, 4 it We noted a few days ago the state- | lexislation. According to Scnator Vest, | suspicion that these spontaneous gath- — Aliivtinn Guiites Parats t J, & Out a Flhe 4 E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR ment of the New York Commerclal that | Hou. George ¥. Edmmnds'bad more to | erings have become grinding places for | Chicago News: The supreme court jus- | Ripples on the Current of Life fa the Ginde i taein. Yor tha Dast A — - — » - » pres- [ do wi v fra b « o tices have themselves taken pains to indi- Metropolin. . A R e PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. the new power conferred upon the pres- | ith the framing of the existing law | political axes. cate (hat their decision must not be con A xed di oo & Chicago Tribune PO -t | iden of the United States, in the crea- | than anybody else, he being at that vo ol . — hing | 8trued too broadly, but the point raised s | o o o versity “d ""‘“"’;‘ on the| Manufatturers in thes Christian city of Dally Bo6 (9 LR} Sungasy (ne Tecs tion of the bureau of corporations in | time the chalrman of the judiclary com- the open door Is the right thing| o =, ", euggestive. The prohibitive | Jucstion of ‘race sulcide’’ exisls AmORE | Philadelphia make idols and ehip them to Asia. The trafic has horrified many who Rev. Dr. Copeland Myers of Brooklyn com- | tp o . lilustrated lee, One Year slectric o " v - y ought rum was the only objectionable are : Bunday Bee, Ohe Year Labor, 18 tremendous and might be em- | ber. It Ix periaDs not a matter of very | V'th ‘l" B ”""“"' 'l‘l"’ I'dn;“ 'hfi Dot lkely to be enacted into law a' 4% | mends the utterances of President Roose- | ticle shipped to the heathen from this i Bl entietn Gonrary Parm et ployed to destroy corporntions at the | great lnportance and yet it is well to | o8l f00F "I'"‘T il o g it |80 diroct Dractical 1efleemos’ on HAtOBAl| Yo i uMeRt, 4He dvr!lrci;lhu “It | gountry. For years England and Germany 3 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. will of the chief executive. We ex-|have the credit for this valuable legis- ty .'I“"’ kst '-‘l’ oy ‘:“" ha WIth | ogtstation. 1t serves to show, however, | .io.s ":nm:w:l‘l‘:\m“n g :":" ‘;mmm have been monopolizing the trade in Budd ly Bee (without Sunday), per €opy.. sed the opinion that there was no [lation placed where it properly belougs, | telephoue service? It would take SeV- | ipat the exuct extent of the powers of con- Ao bas, Krishnas, Sivas, Ganeshes and Jum- iy Bee (without sunday), per week e ars eral millions to establish 8 power plant. | gress fn this matter has yet to be tested. | 1o ol have sounded the same note of warPh | jums. This was because they Happened to Daily Beg (including Sinduy), per week substantial ground for any fear of this ~ ity it Dy | SToen In this matter bas yat to be \esicd.|ins." Dr. Myers, however, thinks that @ | be on the ground firsy The fdols which inday Bee, per copy .....s : - v Pres. A FEW CRACKS IN THE WALL. v ake less than a quarter o pringfield Republican e decision of | greater and more immediate problem is | Evening Bee (without Sunday weok éc | kind and that certalnly so far as A million to establish a first-class telephone | the United States supreme court upholding | saving of the: children LT RS ey tEEIG GUE WErOr § IWutter ot fhct, 9 Evening Biee (ncludios 8uiday), per, | gent Roosevelt 1s concerned le can be | Spite legislation to gratify revenges : the coastitutional power of congress £0 pro- | deplored the previthlos of the child Iaghe oL $xpensive and ineflilent. The Ameri. ' Ry v ke e NRR R pAET _ o | SETVice, ~ v ce Eompiaints o ‘irreiuiariies " deiivery | depended upon to exercise the authority | and avenge fancied ot real grievances BIbit the sending of lottery tickets from |evil in the southern cotton mills, 10 TS | emgrs e oo o e O e e, 1 should be adareased to City Cireulation De- | Ji0 By B0 onre and conservatiam, | has seldom proved a paying investment, | oy, o CSECEESE | one state to another (r an Important one, | Pennuylvania, mining reglons and Ia New | R . N L & ol a *! 3 ’ ] v 0. s id OFFICES. having consideration allke for what is[and this applies especially to charter- o especially In view of the current conten- | York. “All thid' means,” Re continued. . g Omaha—The Bee Bullding, . the | making and municipal ref e tia. | be drawn with the purpose of forcing | tion that congress would have no power to | wreékage physically, morally and Intel- ineiper 40 more work and last longer. Tho AR Omage Cley Hall Bullding, Twen- | due to the public and what Is just to the 4 :‘]‘”‘ “‘(’"' "I i “; acquisition of the water works under | force state torporations and combinations | lectually. America’s future is in it, for the :-dul'hvn”;ho"h-ln . used A Al‘nrrlrnlq ol AN reets. on. “harters fr: »l to promote fac- ™ lol, wi self-closing eyes and automati- corporation e D 0 clause of corporations under federal regulation on | fut S;?cm" —Bn‘:: unf«refifilug:;"." v\l':.m- glad to say that our New York | tional interests at the expense of the ;_‘:; :‘;l';hg:! llll:l “?:s ::::t ‘;‘;:,“:;" pen-l'l; of :-ln. excluded from interstate |: :;r:nl; ‘.‘;n”x::::l’v:’-l: “:n:::rl.lfle-:&:::‘“"’ wiggling toes, refuses to uwe any & 228 Fark Row Bullding. whole community rarely fail' to prove -, Y | commerce. The court rests its lottery de- | peril for ano o |Other. Besldes, many & poor heathen who —501 I urteenth Street. contemporary has faith in the good ymunity rarely fail' to | wotill- not ‘ivesberter il 16 Sosesded 3 ther clasa of -chiMren, the | could not afford to bu ety g > ENC! ¢ v 1 that | disastrous to the whom they are . P cision on the right of the national govern- | danger of being mangled by the intellectual y an expensive Eng RRESPONDENCE. judgment of Mr. Roosevelt and that fis s to the men om they thivorgh 1t ¢ et . . : tish of German'idol, is able to &flow hime Communications relating to imply In regard | designed to benefit and quite often gh its right of eminent domaln.|ment to regulate commerce between the|machinery. The mad rush of school, which | (& T FC0E o Yol $dot o Itoria) matter should be addressed: Omaha | Its apprehension was gimply in regard £ F and q 0 It will devolve on the water Board to |states. makes the children go to school before they “‘:" b:ell“hrll’:'\:’l;u‘:;:‘;\‘"’r"h:r:,;‘:; v G‘: . Editorial Department. to some future president who might be [ prove advantageous to the men whom | oo ot the city does not get the worst| Buffalo Express: The decision is espe- [ ought to leave the cradle, and makes them | g % EMITTANCES, y Lad smallest purse. Within a ‘ew vears the e o % especially antagonistic to the corpora- they were intended to injure. cially interesting, however, in again defin- | graduate almost before they ought to leave | H S r postal order, Remit by draft, express able to The Bee Publl ing Company, tions and bent upon destroylng them. Raising the salaries of positions tem- of it ing the right of congress to regulate com- the high chair, means shattered nerves and {most impoverished rative of the far east ted i ent of . o —_— vl 9 | will figd, thanks to the energy and inge- Balf Bt tidmpe hecspied 1y permen 3% In the last tssue of that paper at bud | porarily occupied by polltical cronles | Twelve governors have alrendy ac-| metee beveer e st 1 fonerees, ) (0 of;;";;f,;f:,-mm*;;,;;"-;,'_;:,;;:n..u,2“... American trader, that he necd ] Omaha ot eastern exchange, not SCURIY | 1t confesses entire confidence that Pres- | and favorites and lowering the salaries | cepted invitations to participate 1n the | by expreas companes it would seem to be |the child. This is our hope—thers Is B0 | oe i pgy et (he #piritual consolations e TTON. ident Roosevelt will not use the law to | of offices temporarily filled by offensive | delication exercises of the St.. Louis | strictly within its power to forbid the trans- | other.” . B s“'“":q:":l;“m pePaoan IDIMRINREV /Y TRCULA’ . g » vike the - e S o STATEMENT OF CI unjustly deal with the corporations and | part'sans does not strike the impartial | exposition, April 30. With so many |Portation of any products. This has an im Rev. Jobn L. Scuducr of $he First Con- | pee something a little Mit inconsistent in Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, s.: Geor) Tzechuck, secretary of The Publis corapany, bem{ that the actual numbe! no one who has a proper estimate of the president will expect him to do more citizen very transfer and favorably. Nor distribution of does the appoint- governors brought together at one time, invitations to lmitate the governor of portant bearing on the trust question. One of the provisions of the Littlefleld anti- trust bill, which has been passed by the gregational church, Jersey the state regulate not only ¥y, would bave o size of fam- sonding out a sbip with a deckful of mis- sionaries and a holdful of {dols. Such per- goplaa o6 The Daily, Morain than require that the law shall be|ments and employments from the legitl-| North Carolina’and the governor of |house, is that any corporation falling to | snentd we e Mgy Meta By e : 4 January, 198, was as follow proverly enforced. It cannot be too|mate and responsible head of govern-|South Carolina may become altogether [ make certain reports may be restrained, o0 | should give licenses to marry only to those | balance. There is & ,.:f:,'n'.“,.",.'cm.g n f 3 1. clearly understood that Mr. Roosevelt|ment to the ward representatives |too common. :“"m“’:r.‘:’: United »‘"‘“"rn:"m h"“!:::‘r';: Who are healthy and fit to be fathers and | Chicago who owns a public hall. In the i fs not making war upon the corpora- | Promise any betterment in the public sl re made I vlew ot the declston given | BOthers. lnveterate paupers, - hopeless | course of his business he is obliged to let k] tions. He has fepeatedly sald that che | service. On the contrary, it simply A bill has been introduced in the | "o\ "\ o"conadently expected that the su- :;‘An:l;’rdl:r lnwlrrtllbla criminals, insane | this hall out to republican, democrdtio and % polies to be pursued 1 regard to them | MEANS riugs within rings and a give- | IEIslature to enlarge the powers of the | preme court will uphold this provision of | yiry ot o-:::-- re lfl::::lmlnumc speakers, who take speclal pains ; should not be one of destruction. What | and-take &ystem of spoils under pretext | COUNLY surveyor of Lancaster county. |the Littlefield bill, it it becomes law. to injure the next generhtidh should b":‘l’.l'o‘:’?"‘;'::':""m " -"';"h'":“::“‘;"dhd]“l‘ ¢ he aims to accomplish is the ellmina- | of smashing the machine. Why not also enlarge the powers of the| Kansas City Star: The opinion clearly | denied the privilege of wedlock. Swhify smarchist to do? 'Ta efeer 0 11¥e § tion of that which is bad and the pres-| The King is dead—long live the king. | C0UDtY surveyor of Douglas and every | Slves congress the power to prevent Wnter | “A birth orbldden by law should be c0n- | and in order to retuin a place in Which an- erention of that which I good. The| When the old tnuchine is in tho scrap other county, that expends thousands of | ®t2t¢ transportation of comm s strued as a oriminal offense. The work- |archism can be occasionally expounded he Net total sales. Net average sales. . GRORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed In my presénce and sworn Lo before me this 3ist l;:y gl January, A. D. policy he urges is remedial and not rev olutionary. It is not to be doubted that when the heap, the new machine Is lubricating its | running gear. The change of machines does not necessarily mean the purifica- dollars anntally Dbridges. for rondways and Spenk Louder, Willlam, garded as Injurious to the people, but does it also recognize its power to prevent the distribution, by interstate traffic, of articles | of necessity when the methods of distribu- tion are held to be injurfous to the public? man's dmbition should be to rear two echil- dren, instead of ten. Let the rich have large families, for they have the means to provide for them President Roosevelt can has to keep his ball in constant use. His speculative opinions and his business oper- ations have to march mbreast, but in par- allel lnes which will never meet. . o .n- | tion of the government. It simply well afford to advocate a: multitudinous | of eourse, there might be some g0od rea- bureau of corporations has been.orgun- | ¢ ply ekl The point Is one of importance. It may |household, for he gets a salary of $50,000 a P SEIRL 18 T 1001 raARORRALEN ized the law will be fully carried §ut ana [ means that a new lot of ple-biters lmvpi The announcement that William J. Bryan | INVOIYe the constitutionality of some of | year. I wofider how Le would enjoy his :"‘ °l"¢:m!;‘;“"d l:m ';m::n\;:‘: :’:':K no corporntion that is complying with wedged their way into' the places occu- | will not be a candidate for a nomination | the aBti-trust legislation enacted by con- | own advice if he had a dozen children and ompanies s beg! o existing law and is dealing honestly and fairly with the public has anything to fear from this. On the contrary every pied by the old pie-biters. If the Omaha delegation in the legis- lature ean turn its back on the city hall for just a few m’.iutes and turn its face for president in 1904 docs not fully cover the ground. Being a candidate is some- thing of & technf ituation. gress in the current session, and it weuld have some effect on further efforts to con- trol by federal laws the abuses of inter- ate traffic. It has come to be regarded was getting $2 a day. I claim the size of the family should be determined by the state of the pocketbook." by getting out advertisements in defense of {dolatry or by instructing their agents to hold joint debates with missionaries, “Wor- ship Flim Flam! A psychological analysis by government experts shows 98 per eent ¥ HUNGATE, | such corporation will be made stronger A Study in Flgures. neceasary that congress shall have & | Strange things sometimes Bappen in the i e, B ¥ - of deity! In portable, collapsible form, i (Seal) Notary Publle. |\ ") o dnet that the government fnvestl- | to thescourt house, it might perceive a Chicago News, e meroe by b aatoent of botter | yMng room of the Waldort-Astoria, 8878 | yith a case! When opened out the reverso | Benator-elect Smoot I8 just beglnning to learn what a bad man’ he is. — gation has shown it to be on a sound basis and worthy of public confidence. It is not corporations of this character that are fearful of .the consequences few cracks in the wall that need patch- ing. For example, they might see that wide crack that allows all the interest an county funds to leak out into the Mr. Cortelyou. thinks about $600,000 will run his office in nice shape. Congress had supposed $30,000 would do the job. That Js a good deal like tBe experience of the average man who goes on a v laws within its present powers, or, if those powers are not sufficient, then under neces: sary amendments to the constitution. Meanwhile the decisions of the supreme the Néw York Press, but’the appearance of & middle-aged man large dog there after midnight last week was the prelude to an experience new in the house. The tardy guest was very anxious to keep the ‘way. ceases to be Flim Flam and becomes Jim Jam! The great dual Two gods at the same time! A clear saving of 50 per cent!'~4his ¥ind of advertisement might the way, what has become of i ¥ be objectionable. DIB"’Q Morcér's great bridge that was fo | Of the new law providing for thelr fn- NI A Hknewsbl while the Warry W Sore of vital public tntarest. T | A Eeparation amly ooy e aontented 10| “Attee all, though, 1t 18 & mers exchange 0; i vestigation, but only such as canpot|C!ty funds in bank depositories are o such an | o¢ 4401y, They got Buddhes and Krishnus; - connect - South Omaha ~ and- -Lake AP WFE S Bet cent Intevest, Washingfon Post. SRELTIAT B OTL. Infraction of the rules could never be tol- | oo "cdi®a iare and cents. Manawa? stand the light of publicity. There is no occasioch for worry over an erated. Then the animal was led into the N aeveiithibventy President Ropsevelt s most heartily | If the delegation were disposed to|fncrease in United §tates senators from Dall and tied there while the walters SMILING REMARKS, When a farmer member is picked out | In favor of whatever will conserve the look a little further it might discover |the west. . Notwithstanding the large ma-| Three hundred tunes have been submitted | brought the tenderloin steak and mush- i by the railroad lobby to head the rail- road committee, it may be safely as- sumed that the lobby knew what it was about. ————— Every member of the legislature must g0 on record on the vital issue of rail- The roll call will show business interests and the prosperity of the country. His opposition to monop- olistic combinations which contravene the laws is earnest and sincere but he does not Inténd a warfare upon all cor- porations that would be destructive of business and prosperity, The law will the crack through which about $5,000 a year is lost by the looseness of the law that permits the county commls- sloners to pay 45 cents a day for feed- ing prisoners in the county jail, while prisoners in the city jail receiving the same kind of ratlons are fed for 16 cents per day. . Jority from the west and the south, the gentlemen from New England continue to control that 8t. Louls Globe-Democra: It is Intimated that the legis! mittee investigating the get-rich-quick concerns in this state is ready to report n & Rhode Island competition for a new national hymn. A movement to erect a monument to General John A. Logan in Murhpysboro, 11, his birthplace, has just been started. - Sepator Knute Nelson of Minnesota s one 8¢ the most accomplished linguists in the #enate. He speaks Norweglan, Swedish, ish, German, French and English. rooms ordered by the owner. When they came the cause of the dog's presence was made evident. The beofsteak was for him, and, considering that it was so late and the res- taurant nearly deserted, the head waiter allowed the meat to be taken to the dog. But he regretted his weakness when, after the animal had finished his meal, the owner returned to the restaurant to remonstrate Jinks—Why did young Pudney fall? I thought he was doing well. Binks—He was untll he spent too much time reading the advice to young men on how to succeed.—Judg: Johnny—8ay, pa wi His father—Classical music, my son, music that you can’t whistle, and wouldn't it you could.—Brooklyn Life. road taxation. be enforced. That can be confidently i B “a deplorable condition of things.” The aigald Vasderbiit tef S s e vociferously with him because the dog had| This l‘-h 'hfm":"y'.‘ of "l'; l’l:"t Wrhen fi.t which is more potent—the le or the f the *delegation svould public s prepared to hear that the lock: n uf 0 obey not got the mushrooms as well. Then he PhEher SHKS S S e it0 Ko b pote peop predicted. But it will be done discreetly g8 look still ORRR TRkt Attornsr’s wimimondBITTRS EAnbHAE | 1od tay atthnt dbt m:"i‘ll“-' e |in” the ot sun for .an hour er twd and rallroads. and conservatively, so that all interests further it might also discover other are all right and fhe stable empty. £ase which cost him so much money. He adding a new chapter to the annals of the push the lawn mawu’.—dvmervlllq"la}lr:.l. shall be properly cared for. * cracks l_n the court house by which Repudiating the Bond. may find this an unprofitable game, too. restaurant. ‘A Georgta rural editor has sign ‘::::lp.}n :;w':e:;:lgnl ;e:::;::\mol: s s salarled, officers manage to ladle out ~Chicago. Chronile. Mrs. Roosevelt's gift, sent to the Dall sed the be- | | Weire st ome 5. the doflar whehever that can be placed on the widespread A8 TO COMPULSORY ARBITRATION. comfortgble incomes on the side ' be- Refusal of Genmgny and Great Britals to give up the cpj (Tex.) fair, brought $121 into the treasury Washington's birthady' w gioning of the work of derfolishing the an- Atlanta Constitution. 4 ) cause law d & ured Venezuelan vessels | and she recelved a personal note of thanks P TV {nterest 1n the municipal ownership con- |, A Dill bas been introdiiced In the legls- | "UURE F faw €00 mot #Deetfeally re-| 3 gccordance with'the terms ofythe proto- | from Mra. Calloway, one of the directors. | ety Fan of Racorde lu the basement af | jiiyhat makes Jape DiEler, henk afound e Wettion mow in: svsslon in ‘New Yorg|l8ture of Pennsylvanis providing for ount for Interest on | gols furnishes a_singular instatice of na-| In the cosmopolitan town of Chicago 1t 18 | ary ofeen he dungeons where revolution- | ®ign,, yneg. trfing' Wi g funds. t# which they are trustees. tional shamele ary officers were confined when the bujld- | wetght” k' i ety compulsory arbitration In controversies b ne Wil any power dare | gaiq the population, gathered from almost ing was oscupled by the British, Above| ‘Fhen she todethiihe 4 s between labor and capital. It is not at to trust agreements which these precious | every point on the globe, speaks more than <4 " ¥4 E—— The story has been revived that King Leopold of Belgiim will visit the United States, probably about Easter time, This thould give the American actresses time to spruce up for the royal visitor whose weakuess 1s known to lle that way. E————— Nebraska should participate in the St. Louls exposition with a creditable exhibit of its resources and products. To do this, however, it is not necessary all probable that the measure will pass, but it is interesting as renewing inter- est in the question of arbitration be- tween capital and labor, which we need hardly say is one of the very greatest importance. We think t‘u\l every In- telligent man who has gijen amy atten- tion to this overshadowing question must have reached the tonclubion that in order to preserve industrial-peace it is absolutely essential that a.jvay shall Comptroller Westberg, who has never been very backward in caming forward, declared himself heartily in favor of municipal ownership of water works at the Prospect Hill Improvement club meeting, but advises caution in the pur- chase of some of the other franchised corporations until they have reached a stage of progress such as that attained by the water works plant. What the explosive comptroller means by his com- allies may make in future? Another Squeese Promised. Cleveland Leader. The anthracite mine operators, it is sald, will seek to make the public pay higher prices for coal during next winter to make up the losses occasioned by the strike and to compensate for a possible increase in the wages of miners. The public will have to submit. There is no way in which to get reliet from extortion. forty dlalects, in addition to the Chicagoese. A tumbler of champagne placed on a aide- board in the cabin of the big Cedric the day the vessel left Liverpool was still in place when it reached New York and the steward says that not a drop was spilled. This speaks volumes, not only for the steadi- ness of Cedric, but for the abnegation of its first bonch of passengers. Dennis Kearney, once the sand lots orator of San Francisco, has been put into a novel emont Older. The book deals hinese agitation in California the marble paved main floor only rapidly disappearing debris heaps and rows of Ionic columns now remain. The marble columns have been left to the last. In a day or so derricks will be rigged and they will be removed plece by plece, eighty-four plece: in all, weighing from three to six tons each. The contractors will have to blast away the massive foundations that formed the structure's cellar and in an earlier day the dungeons. Prior to the touch of the laborer's pick the other day the only entrance to these | was by narrow outside stalrs midway along 1 can't help habbin' my said Uncle Eben '‘when I sees a young man stan'in’ aroun’ talkin' 'bout his hahd luck, 'stid o' readin’ de ‘help wanted’ ad- vertisements,"—Washington Star, Mrs. Crabshaw—My husband let me pick out my_birthday present. i Crawford—So there was no surprise n_ it ' Mrs. Crabshaw—Not to me. But there will be to him when he gets the bill.—Town Toplcs. > THE DARK BEFORE DAWN, ive * . " the west wall. The dungeons themselves place for supernumeraries on the pay-| capital and labor to agbltration. reader can divine. How big| The fact that Colonel Humphrey of the | PO! 4 . on the southeast corner being the reputed Edith ‘M. Thomas in Scribner’s, roll. The fallure of the passage of the statehood bill means that the present membership of the senate and the next louse will govern the numerical strength of the next electoral college, so that figuring on the result may begin at once. dustrial peace, is on recorl in opposi- Passing of the Story Tellers. b eEmEp—— 0 . |'tion to the 1dea of compulsory arbitra. | %18 Of its plant by purchase or lanta Constitut u'ulethe comb to glve It the requlslte| hook that hung In the main floor cellins, | r.y 41g moon withers in the Fast— ¥ And now a Nebraska man has con bulld a plant of its own which whl g i e i) b from which hook it Is asserted patriots | The winds of space may drive her far! tributed to the national conselence fund |tion. 'The leaders of organized Jabor, | .\ = # WIIl sup- | Two of the best story-tellers in the sen- [ pr garak lectured in Washington on|were hanged under the orders of the mo- | In heaven's chancel waits the priest— » by sending $10 to Secretary of the | Without exception, are opposed to that :»hy per power and cheaper light to [ ate will return to private life with the | «gcult Sciences” recently and gave some | torious Cunningham. Dawn'a, pontff-priest, the morning start i policy. It has advocates, who strenu-| city and to private consumers? ISR eEUAS omphal rge Graham | qemonstrations of what could be done by A gates’ of Day-spring fall ajart Treasury Shaw. If no contributions —————— Vest of Missourl, whose wit and stori mental concentration. Next day someone Down in the sub-basement of the old e came to It exeept from Nebraska the concience fund would not burden the treasury. — With an aggregate state debt of nearly $2,000,000, the present Nebraska legislature would scarcely be justified in lncreasing the appropriations for the next two years by more than half a million above the appropriations for the last two years. e e The offer of a Mexican millionaire to pay off the country's foreign debt is P\oumla to maintain Industrial peace, The difficulty. is to devise a practicable plan—one that will bé satisfactory to all concerned. Neither labor nor eapital in this country is favorable to a com- pulsory system. Whenever it has been seriously proposed it has been met with an overwhelming opposition. The Civic Federation, organized to promote in- ously urge that in no other way Is it but these are so greatly in the minority that despite the ability with which they argue their cause they exert very little influence upon public sentiment and eo far as organized labor is ran cerned seem to make no impression whatever, Yet it must be admitted that there Is no subject today before the Aplerican people of greater interest or moment than that relating to the future con- | last fall must a franchised corporation be be- fore the city would be justified in buy- ing it out or building a plant of its own, If it cannot be.bought out at a reasonable price? Take for example the Electric Lighting company, which now supplies light and power for Omaha without a legal franchise. Why should not the city either acquire pos- Republicans of Lincoln have just had an experience with a primary election apparently carried by ballots cast by non-registered voters on perjured cert tes which has doubtless 01\(*!\0!]“ thei® eyes to the possibilities of the | case-and made them realize better how | the primaries in Omaha were carried by the Mercernaries. Out of some 2,600 votes more than 900 came from men who swore they had neg-! lected to register because of sickness | or absence from the city, while in one Quartermaster's department who, at Si- boney, told Colonel Roosevelt of the Rough Riders to “go to the devil,”” will soon b under obligations to President Roosevelt for an appointment as quartermaster gen- eral, is an example of what great changes ma; happen in a very short time in this country. Indeed, it is very diMicult for anybody to know whom he may kick with safety. have enlivened the cloak.rooms for the last twenty years, will end his public ca- Teer, and at the same time John P. Jones of Nevada will retire. While Senator Vest was brilliant on the floor, he was witttest in the smoking room. When surrounded by & group’ of appreciative listeners, h would tell stories-and make jests by the hour. Senator Jomes also has not kept his fun under a bushel. He is extremely se- rious and profound in debate, but in & frec-and-easy discussion in the cloakroom his quaint humor is second to that ot mo member of the senate AMENDED BANKRUPTCY LAW. on the stage, is anxlous to play the heroine's role in a dramatization of the hook. Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian author, loves to keep his-hair in disorder. This {s sald to be his one vanity. He always carries a little toflet case containing & looking glass and a comb, which are a tached to the lining of his gray hat. He will often remove his hat to Jook into the mirror to ses how his hair is lying. If it 1s not rough enough to suit his fancy he was telling in the senate cloakroom of these marvels. “Why,” sald the tor, “I almost belleve that man could smash a bottle by simply’ concentrating his mind upon it.” “That Spooner blandly. “I've known of a bottle and break & dollar. en to think THE JURIST IN POLITICS. Objections to the Political Invasion of the Judielary. Kansas City Star, The protest of Justice W. W. Goodrich of the New York supreme court, against the nothing,” said Senator | cell of Ethan Allen and later of l1§ patriots at a single time. It is about fifteen feet square, unlighted, and in the highest point of the double arches formed by its groine & bare elght feet high. The oaken doors that separated these dungeons from the broad corridor in the middle of the cellar disappeared long 8go, but the oaken lintels are still in place. They will be given to the New York His- torical society, which already reasures the Custom house, along with the ash cans and rubbish barrels, says the New York | Sun, there stands a sturdy little wagon | which has carried in fte day more than $4,000,000,000 of Uncle Sam’s money. When the little wagon was consigned to the scrap heap some time ago Cus- todian Lawlor decided to preserve it. ve been here now for nearly twenty years,” sald Mr. Lawlor, “and it ain't within my memory when the little wagon falled to make its daily trip up Wall street to the subtreasury and never a penny spilled. There's them that bave been here thirty years and the tale is the same. 1 call that faithfulness and Uncle Sam'll Oh, mystery of the morning gloam, Ot haunted-alr, of windless hush! Oh, wonder of the deepening dome— Atar, still Zar. the morning's flush{ My spirit hears, among the spheres, Fhe round eafth's ever-quickening rush! A single leaf, on yonder tree, The planet’s rush hath feli, hath heard; And soon, all branches whis be! That whisper wakes the nested bird— The song of thrush, before the blush ot the dreaming world hath 50 Per Cent Discount dQitlons between capltal and labor. In » a b a 4 o district fifty votes more were polle invasion of the fleld of the judiclary by the | have a hard time finding any other wor 3 Probably not so much an act of patriot- | comparison with this all our forelgn | tpe primary than were Sy l:: I',d "" Features of the Measure Recently | “VAL Tl LSO 0N of available | for It, 1 guess. Anyway, I'm going to| For a few d.flly""“l'm"'l‘r‘]cz:“ all plate ism as a business propasition to transfer | relations and everything respecting our | jjean. cnndid Poliog Dy repube Passed by Congrel candidates was made in good falth and|keep the little wagon as long as he'll let | cameras at one-ha P " Cut Price the interest payments from the pockets | jueular possessions Is of minor conse- '(an candidates at the last election Harper's Weekl good temper, and it ought to have a far- | me.’” rlel‘:lfl'nr;wxi! gpmbly 1 o ke BaRDONMers 1o 1o COlRES | oo o el aid rigl | That the certificate loopliole is the| A measureof great importance to busl- | reaching effect. This utterance was not| The wagon still seema At for duty. Ita [$1.00 TEBOCT Lo ; of the geperous philanthropist s f strial and gommereial | qyvenue for grossest fraud both in pri- | ness men cnd lawyers—and, indeed, to tho | necessarily inspired by the assumed candi- [ joints are rather weak, though, and It has | S50 " 00 . s oy Irogress of the country, our financial whole community_ls the bill which was | dacy of Alton B. Parker of New York for | been repaired so often that it was thought | &1 SRREEREETR E—— maries and elections 1s too plain to re- | Beed's 4x5 Plates . ... Congtéesman * Do Armond wants'-tn| WOUf0re 804 jthe _well'bejgs of ourquire explanation. The law ought to|TE"ed BY the president on Febeucey §, and | the. democratle nomisaiion for president, bost 1o rwpines b 8 A e Y I ™ OMl or write for cut Deices. know what Great Britain would think | PeCPle 88 a whole, all “dgpend upon fpe gmended to provide against such z.:::‘..rl?y":n:::amp:r’a TS A The :’::(»1.!1 b whould be made. How. | custom house to the subtressury at the J. C. HUTESON & CO Stia ismtasalion! o felease Canada for | *Uch relations between capital and 1abor§/misuse of the election machinery, | first place, that by the new law preferred | ever, the fruitless efforts of last year to | €lose of business each day for more than . . oo - anpexation fo the United States. 1¢|®® Will insure industrial peace and keeb | qough It is not to be expected that | creditors of a person who soon afterwards | sccure a candidate for governor from the | thirty years %8 & 16th 8t Paston Blosl there is anyone in congress who has decelved himself into the idea that Great Britain would regard any such proposi- tion with favor he must ve deaf, dumb and blind. The efforts of the German government to discredit American meats under pre- tense that they are treatéd with pre- servatives that are not herlthful Is too gauzy and transparent. If the United States resorted .to such flimsy excuses for discriminating agaiust German pro- ducts we would . hear from It very quickly. in constant operatign ‘and activity the agencies that are necessary to industrial progress and prosperity. | Every discussion of this very impor- | tant question must have a tendency to ! bring about the solution of one of the most plexing problems connected | with odern _ industrinl conditions, | There seems ngWw to be no possibllity | that we shallgever have compulsory | arbitration in this country, but there is reason to thimk that hereafter both | capital and ldbor will be better in-| clined than in the past to submit thelr differences to arbitration. beneficlaries of such practices either In Lincoln or in Omaha will lead the way. | — ki | Acting on the suggestion of The Bee, Senator Hall has introduced a bill de- signed to shut down on the shameless trading of school board patronage by which the payrolls of the schools have | been loaded down with ‘sisters, cousins and aunts of board members and pull | rather than merit made the passport to appointment and promotion. Nothing has done so much to demoralize the teaching force of our public schools and to ‘retard their progress as the flagrant nepotism practiced by school boards in becomes a bankrupt are not debarred from having other claims passed upon by a fail- ure to eurrender the amount received. In pursuance of & decision of the United States supreme court, a preferred creditor may now retain the amount pald, provided, of course, the payment was Dot fraudulent, while at the same time, as regards debts unpaid, he will share the rights of other creditors. Another important amendment provides that the appointment of a re- celver for an insolvent corporation shall be deemed an act of bankruptcy, entitling the creditors to choose their own trustee. Among the objections to a discharge which are included in the new law Is the giving of a false mercantile statement, or the proof that a voluntary bankrupt has sought 0 through bankruptey more than once judiclary of New York state are still fresh enough in mind to be made the subject of such & protest, even If there were not plen- titul instances in other states. Justice Goodrich very truthfully says: “The judge who 1s listening with ex- pectant ear to the bee of political prefer ence buzzing in his bonnet is already crip pled in his usefulness. Let us have no diclal temptation to play to the gallerie: no hungering after the fleshpots of Egypt, no opinions suggestive of the writer's view of his own availability as a candidate.” This epitomizes the objections to the po Itical invasion of the judielary. The courts of the land, especially those of higher of final resort, should be kept abso- lutely free from the contaminating influ- ences of officeseeking. It is absolutely es- { IT'S ABOUT TIME | for the spring underwear. What are you going to do? Will you get into it without turning up the legs or sleeves? Some dealers look no further than chest and | waist measuramoants, Most likely, tho’, you longleg- ged, long armed, short legged, short armed men will come here. sential to the well-being of the nation that the courts be kept pure, and that they in- spire the awe and reverence of the people. They are the tribunals of justice. They o six years. The bill just enacted also #dds to the llst of debts from which a bankrupt cannot be relieved by a discharge in bankruptcy. Among tbese additions are NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS. Can be applied to our underwear. The Interstate Colmerce commission bas figured out that the market value of the rallway securities issued against In a letter to the Washington Post Sevator Vest explains the authorship of the authtrust act in 1890, known as (he | the past. There should not be a single vote recorded against Senator Hall's bill. all the railroads in the United States aggregate $8,351,103,528. It would be interesting to know how much the rail- roads pay in taxes on this lmwense cap- Sherman law. Simply as a contribu- tlon te history his statement Is valuable. I: appears that while John Sherman roported an anti-trust bill from the sen italization and how much more they would have to pay if all the rallroad property were taxed on the same basis with sirong opposition in the senate,' so and at the same rate as other property. ’ ate tuance committee that measure was arterwand wholly changed, having met The unusual activity that has re- debts to wife and children, and alimony; also any sum due under a judiclal decision to a seduced woman or for the support of cently prevailed among the various im- provement clubs, north, south, east and west, Is by no means altogether due to popular interest in revenue legislation. that &s & matter of fact Sherman is The presence of political candidates for city offices and their gederous contribu- an illegitimate child. We note, finally, that the lict of corperations permicted to go fnto voluntary bankruptcy will hereafter include mining corporations, and that the fees of referees and trustees are to be in- creased on an rage about 50 per cent of the fees hitherto allowed by law, pass upon the application of the laws and upon the laws themselves. They are sup- posed to stand between the people and leg- islative and government error, and they ould and do command the confidence of the public. But once the higher bench be- comes a recognized stepping-stone to the lucratice places of general politics, the prestige of the courts will suffer and their usefulness will be lmpalred. Browning, Kingsr Go (R 8. Wigs, Menagee', ~ ]