Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 4, 1903, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1903. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING SCRIPTION. TERMS OF 8U Dally Bee (without Sut Daifly Bee and Sunaay, Une Diisirated Bee, One Year Sunday Bee, One Year Baturduy Hee, One Year 4 Twentieth tury Farmer, One Year DELIVERED BY CARRIER Dally Bee (without Sunday), Dally Bee (witho! Sunday), Dally Bee (includii Bunday), Sunaay Bee, per copy Evening Bee (without Bunday Evening Bee (Including Sunday), week . Complaints of irregul should be addressed to C Fment e OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding South Omsha—City Hall Building, Twen- ty-fifth and M Streets. uncil Bluffs—i0 Pearl Street ic Mo Unity Bullding 2% Park Row Hullding. eenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and ed- itorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, s to The Bee Publishing Company, y 2-cent stampe accepted in payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. e BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. Year...... 6.00 .. B per week 6c per seesiese 08 ities in delivery y Clreulation De- STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, 8.: George B. Tzschick, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Hunday Bee printed during the month of February, 1903, was as follows 16. ...80,030 80,660 ....80,400 ..80,570 20,550 29,200 0,010 30,500 30,052 .80,040 .80,640 ..31,850 | 31,800 | 1,620 Total Less unsold and returned copies. Net total sales Net average sales...... GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Subscribed in my p.esence and sworn to lay of February, A. D. M. B, HUNGATE, Notary Public. Delaware holds the long-distance rec- ord for senatorial deadlocks. Pope Leo XIII is certalnly the grand old man of the twentleth century. ] Leglslativé proceedings at Lincoln fail to show that the deficlency in the gas supply at Omaba reached to the state capital, That American dentist expelled from Saxony because of too Intimate ac- quaintance with the former crown prin- cess must have lost his pull. Notice how all the congressmen are preparing to go home as soon as possi- ble after the congressional adjourn- ment—that {s all but Dave Mercer. gee—————— Spring house cleaning bas commenced in dead earnest in.the federal building. The passing of Cadet Taylor is only the loremyner of several other passings. —— Nebraska's six new congressmen will now raise up their hands and take the solemn oath that will entitle them to $100 a week and free passes from now | read taxation bas jost beea A CASE IN PUINT. A sample brick of uniformify in rail feated very the com by unique opinion Kansas Uity & a Nebraska district jodge tn o It appears that Omaba Railroad ay), Qnie Year 8490 | nany some years agogave a permit, or | said t to an ele evators on the ] its stations in A( vators were to erect at two of yunty. The ele- asseseed for purposes of taxation by the township assessors, but the claim made that this double taxation on the plea that ator company wis was the state board. The raiirond company pald the taxes levied on the elevators under protest and broaght suit against the treasurer of Adams county for the recovery of this tax on the claim that when the elevators were erected the foundations were made of brick and stone, hence were a part of the rail- road right of way and could not be as- sessed as chattels. This position was upheld by the learned judge lodking through railroad epectacles and the county treasurer has been ordered to pay over the amount of taxes levied to the railroad company, This decision is on a par with the rul- ing of the federal judge who recently decided that the east half of the Union Pacific bridge was not taxable for mu- nicipal purposes In Council Bluffs be- cause it did not enjoy the. benefits of police and water works protection. If elevators erected upon the right of way of a railroad, owned by private individ unals or corporations, are exempt from taxation, a factory, a mill or a store railroad would also be exempt from taxes, always providing that the under- pluning of the structures was of brick and stone instead of timber. The sophlistry of the latter proposition with all the arguments recently ad- vanced by the railroad tax bureaus and corporation lobbyists. In the first place, elevators are not included among or necessary to the operation of a rail- rond. They are never returned to the depots and other tangible improvements on the right of way and are not even returned as property of the road, and therefore their assessment would not be double taxation, In the next place, the law does not contemplate the omission from the tax list of improvements erected on the right of way, ‘or depot grounds leased for private speculation. If such dis- crimination were permissible under the law, the Omaha Smelting works, which stand upon Union Pacific grounds, now assessed for three-quarters of a million, would be exempt from taxation, and warehouses, elevators and coal yards established within the railroad right of way could claim exemptfon from taxa- tion, providing they were fastened to the carth by plers Instead:.of ‘being chained down by solid masenry. But the decision in Adams county fs the natural sequence of the uniformity with which the rallroads are trying to avold thelr just burdens of local taxa- tion by court-made law. the | railroad right of way was assessed by | house erected on the right of way of a | is transparent, but it is about on a par | the fixtures appertaining to a ralroad | state board among the rolling stock. | |tl4-nq will not surrender at the first at {tack, but will fight bard. ‘ilat U ;nn t ultimately yleld i not to b | doubted, tor the pecple have the powe | through their r sentatives to compel ubissiof. The highest tribunal the authority of congress ovel corporations engaged in among the states and with foreign na tions is practically unlimited. VAL CFTION It has been appreliended that option of the French company to sel the Panuma canal would die today un less the treaty with Colombla was rati fled. It had been agreed that lin MaA and it wag thought possible that in the event of the treaty not being ratifiec { by that date the French would refuse to extend the demand more than the agreed upon as the price to the United Sta r the canal. This led the Washington authorities, when it became apparent that the treaty would not be ratified at this session, to ask for an extension of the option. At torney General Knox yesterday an nounced t the request had been ac: option and £40,000,000 be paid by the French limitation company has placed upon the extension and fs ratified, whenever that may | being assured, of course, that the time will not be remote. | company is very anxious to dispo its property s well be, understood, declining to extend the option the price to be pald was Increased. would seem that Senator ca treaty and terminate the to defeat its ratification. There question that he most earnestly effort against the Panama route, but he s in up the useless fight. 8 ALASKA HOMESTEAD LAW. The enac stead law will great benefit to that territory, crease of population, with the country want of such settlement. It is a quite general notion, at present. conclusively shows. and a lished where now there are few people. is a region Y| commerce option should run until March 4, 1903, company ceded to and the report indicates that no 1s willing to wait until the canal treaty it That the Panama | e of | but it would have been quite justitied in | unless 1t Morgan would now realize the sbsolute hope- lessness of further opposition to the is no and profoundly belleves all that he has said a very small minority and ought to give ment of the Alaska home- undoubtedly - prove of It s reasonably expected to stimulate the in- those familiar asserting that the a law bhas preventad people going to Alaska for permanent particularly in the east, that there is little in that territory to invite popula- tion and that 4here is small chance of it ever being much better settled than It is needless to say that this is an entirely mistaken idea, as the result of Investigations by government offictals The fact is that there is a very large area of Alaska that is available for agriculture and it is highly probable that most of this will be taken up under the homesfead law within a comparatively few years prosperous community estab- According to government reports there suitable for agriculture from the Philippines now exceed the imports jnto the fslands. Unfortunately | the table to show what r! played by the fmportation of American 1] bottled goods and whether the reduc ¢ [ tion in the military forces there is re v | flected in the reduction of these im portations, W Truant Otlicer Parker has reported to the Board of Education that he has put up 100 coples of the anti-cigarette and tobaceo laws, but up to date the clgar- ette and tobacco dealers have discovered no perceptible drop in their cash reg- Isters. Taking down the sign of a sa- loon does not seriously fmpalr the drink habit, the Short and Pointed. Chitago Tribune. Few of the eulogies on the Father of his Country cati be compared with the late Artemus Ward's. “G. Washington,” said Artemus, “wuz a man who never slopped over." 1 ) Passing Up a Pozzle. Detroit Free Press. It anyone can Secretary Cortelyou can. The puzzle is to stop billion dollar abuses with & $200,000 appropriation. The major- ity 1n the house evidently wanted to pass | him & hard oné. ¥ Melancholy Record Unchanged. Washington Star, Not & year passes that does not bring forth announcements of the discovery of a remedy for some disease hitherto consid- ered incurable. And yet the health office reports continue to read about as usual. | ) Presumption of the Defanet. Cincinnat . Enquirer. | Colonel Bryan is- asking Judge Parker questions, but the Nebraskan may not be accepted as the officlal examiner. When the right time comes the judge might not be found to be “slow” on questions him- self. Sky-Sweeping Oratory, Loulsville Times. The Missouri legislator who referred to his opponent in debate as “a nolse with hair on it,"” must take off his hat to Senato: Kittinger of the Indiana senate for his | eloquent description of Senator Park = “a whining old whiskered sanctuar; Verily. it is only to the shorn lamb that the legislative wind is tempered. All In the Climate. Boston Transcript. For longevity of its pioneers and states- men, commend us to Nebraska. That state | has had thirteen governors since it was | admitted to the union in 1867, and eleven of them are living. Politics is apparently a more healthful occupation in Nebraska than in any other state in the union. Cer- tainly Massachusetts cannot begin to mar- shal any such array of ex-governors. Blisters for Glad Ha; New York Sun. One of the gweetest sights in this world of joy is the candidate patronizing agri- | culture, The candidate loves everybody that has a vots, but If you believe him he is happlest when he is among the farmers. This is especlally the case if he is unifor- tunate enough 1é Tive,In a city. He likes to “get down, 6 mother earth;" to look into the tanned and manly faces of the tillets of the #oll; to grasp the sinewy hands of those Who wrest wealth from the ground; the tégders of the world, the most intelligent, the {ndependent, the most indlspénsable’ 1 our noble army 'of treemen. " ' Ingnenecgs. that, Debauch, “Detréit’ Free ' Press. Fully 90 per cent of all that fs di honest, all that is corrupt and all that is menacing to free institutions in municipal and state government can be traced di- s due about | the most congental soil for this specles of | intellectual fungus | empt. | tlon to .Y SEASON, It is in Fall B m At Varfous State Capitols, New York Mall Exy In England “the silly seasons midsummer. It don and spares the provinces. The Ameri- can silly season comes earlie Through 1 gracious dispensation of Providence it sel dom Invades Washington. It spends it force in the minor capitals, where the Is makers of the several states are gathered in solemn session. Thesc are the days when It 's al its height It begins about the sccond week in February and lasts through the third week in March. Al though distinctly a state phenomenon, its teatures are substantially identical every- where. It can be recognized by anm irre- sistible tendency to introduce measures wearing the hallmark of intended humor. Why all the {llustrations of freak legis- lation should be ‘crowded into the second balf of a session is a problem for the anato- mist of melancholy, or perhaps for the po- litieal pathologist. There are those who maintain that the untrained intellects, pos- sessed by the class of men which is be- coming prev.lent at the state capitals, give way after about six weeks of unaccus- tomed celebration. From February 10 on according to this school of opinion, they | are unable to attend to their duties. The waggish bills they Introduce thenceforth are symptome of a double hallucination that should invite the attention of allen- ists. They are supposed to be proper legis- lation and they are supposed to be real humor. For a variety of reasons which will sug- gest themsclves, and which it would be impolite to specify, the southwest offers OFFICIAL ana N so-called, aficts Lon- But no reglon is ex- and spinsters has just Albany. Illinofs {s dfscussing the prohi- bition of foot ball. Utah has been asked to establish an annual “washday"'—its ad vocates maintaln that such an institution | would put the Mormon commonwealth “‘one ahead” of its present practices. The northwestern states are wrestling with that veteran of sumptuary legislation, the bill to do away with “Mother Hubbards” in their subtler modern guise of tea ROWRS. In the border states the sanitary aspect of | kissing has come under the purview of the awmakers, The southwestern states, as usual, are ploneers in aggression. They have usurped the exclusive control of international mat- ters which the constitution vests in the federal government. Texas wants to tax lords; Missourl wants to brand and M- cense them, Texas has another pet meas- ure. It is thinking of framing the cotton handkerchiet which Mrs. Roosevelt sent to some Dallas women, and flling it solemnly away in the archives of the commonwealth, a specimen of “its leading output’— whether this 1s baled cotton or baled humor 1s not clearly indicated in the text of the resolution The proper attitude of mind for the na- ume toward the merry men of the leglislatures is not one of indignation. If it cannot share their guffaws, at least It can exprees its sympathy and cut the legis- lative sessions in two. The argument of & Utah newspaper that the state would be better served if it eleoted jackrabbits in- stead of men to its councils is stimulating rather than useful. been introduced at FOLLOWING THE STAR OF EMPIRE. Trend of the World's Commerce Dis- tinetly Westward. Engineering Magazine. The European mails and passengers al- ready go. from London to eastern Asia by way of Canada, because ft {8 shorter and there 18 a saving of ten days In time. The 1imifs imposed on cheap freight traffic from Europe to Asia are: The tolls through the Suez canal, the size of ships that can pass the Suez canal, the cost of coaling along the route and the distance. Tolls may be abolished, but this Is not The venerable bill taxing bachelors | | membe German Economio Professor Dubs it Mere Empty Pretension. EllmCULES AMERICAN BOASTFUL CLAIMS | i.’ln,‘l United States Has No Interest tn | and Cla ton Has Not Yet Henefited World. Southern Republics New Western BERLIN, March 3.—The Monros doce trine," says Prof. Adolph Wagner, “is an empty pretension .behind which there is neither energetic will nor actual power.” Herr Wagner is prcfessor of political economy at Berlin university and was re- cently asked whether the Monroe doctrine was, In a-moral sense, as binding as inter- pational Iaw. His lengthy reply brings forth the.above flat-footed statement. Exnmple of Amerlcan Impertinence. Later'he goes on: Sdurealy could such a doctrine be forced Upon: 4 .conquered people after. extraordi- nary: viotbries. No people and no great rulén. ever . proelaimed such a doctrine. elther England nor Russia, nor Napoleon t {he helght of his power, ever made & similar pretension. \Not even the United States' rredominant intereats are behind this unheard.of as- sumption, South America is neither geo- graphicaly nor historically wo allied with ‘th ' America and the United Btates as to Justity such a pretension even from a North American standpoint, The divisions of European politics and lack of Insight into and recognition of the eolidarity of the interests of middle, west- ern and southern Europe, which will re- in the chief theme of human civiliza- explains why Europe, why Germany Illlkl‘! this empty pretension into con- ation, From the standpoint of the wider Ger- manic races, a political recognition of the |NONROE. DOCTRINE SCORED| gy yoars the Standard Awarded Highest Honors World's Falr Highest tests U.S. Gov't Chemilsts PRIOE BAK(NG POWDER OO, oMicAGD, - WHITTLED TO A POINT. “Is it true that the elder Miss Bullfon is to marry her father's clerk?" “Oh, yes. I understand he was thr ;naflkwllh discharge if he didn't accept. uel Jim—Has that candidate for ma: any platform on which to ask-the nomination? Jam—Sure; he needs the money and he wants the job! Ain't that reason enough? ~Baltimore Herald. Kwoter—Well, atter all, you know, beauty 1s_only skin deep. 7 Newitt—Yes, and the people who refer to that fact most are usually extremely thin Monroe doctrine would be a false atep, even if it were settling the world ques- tlon whether the Germanic or Romanic elements should dominate the world. As a of the Germanic race, 1 do not want to see the Romanic element pressed to the wall, because it is indispensable to the world's’ civilization and isa necessary complement to Germanic civilization. This applles to Italy and France, and even to Spain, What do we Germans owe to them? What would our clvilization be without Jtaly or without France? They are as indispensable to us as the classic peoples were. No objective member of the Germanic race can wirh to see the world exclusively Germanic, but if we onge con- cede to the United Sfates predominance in South America, according to the Mon- roe pretension, would German interests be promoted thereby? Would not we Ger- mans be completely pressed to the wall hly the English element on both sldes of the ses We really have no_ interest in furthering the preponderance of the United Btates or England, or both. The world's civiliza- tion wou'd hardly be advanced thereby. Aside from some technical and business kpheres, what have the United States dons of importance for the civilization of = the world? What have tney done that de- serves to be named In the same breath with the achievements of Italy and France? Middle, western and southern Huropeans, hold yourselves together against the east as_well as the far west. That seems to me o be the only right answer to the Monroe pretensions. The Germanic people should not act againat, but should act with the Romanic peoples. That would serve the true interests of the civilization of the world Thinks Silence is Best. Prof. Eduard von Hartman, the philoso- pher, declined to dfscuss the question, be- cause, he eald, it was “inexpedient, since the Amerjcans make capital out of both afirmative and megative answers.” He added: An endorsement of the Monroe doctrine, however, hedged with qualifications, would be accepted as a recognition of their pro- gram, while the merest theoretical criti- clsm would be Interpreted as expressing Germany's plans for conquest, and the ‘Amerjcan people would be cailed on to resist the same, Silence s best. Baron von Zedlitz Und Neukirch, & mem- ber of the Prussfan Diet, and oditor of the Berlin Post, wrote: The Monroe doctrine is, from the stand- point_of international law, a nonbinding monologue, whose enforcement is purely a question of force. German intere: however, are so little touched by the doc- \ To cast some suns ekinned about it.—Philadelphia Press. ave you got a No, Willle. Why Cause you ought to have one an’ it in the parlor. I tell you the way yo Dobsley was givin' 8is gas last night worse'n a high wind."—Chicago Post. “Let the fight go o nate, determinedly, to, the mast!" “‘But," protested the is really not a color. ilo Standard. ometer, pat sald the trust mag- 'we'll nail our colors lam citizen, “black iladelphia Catho- Kitty—Whut did you say when Harry foa you that he loved you with an tmdying o Constance—Oh, I dldn't mind it. Harry, ou know, used to do the press work for a raveli: theatrical company.—Boston Transcript. “Say!" the man who had never before at- tended a concert remarked as the cornet sololst began his number, “who's the feller wavin’ the little stick?" **'8h!" replied his neighbor, “that's tho conductor of music.” “Oh! and s the feller with the horn the motorman ?"—Philadelphta Press. “Yes, all he does s to sit in a saloon ar growl ‘about the wrongs of the work “Well, that's all right, fan't 1t? He has three sons and a son-in-law who are all bard workers.'—Cleveland Plain Dealer jup) ' eald the imaginative philoso- gher, "thal a fatry were o appear to vou d ‘promise to grant you three wishes. hat would you ask for?" : f anything like that happened to me." mded Colonel Stilwell of Kentiicky, “T'd ask for a pledge and slgn it then and there."—Washington Star. CROWN JEWELS. James Barton Adams in Denver Post. In passing through this busy world, my triend, think not of self alone And turn to other wayfarers a heart as cold ac pulseless stone; ‘Wear not upon your face the brand of cold, unfeeling s. 'fishness Nor turn a deatencd ean ta thoss who teel the talons of distress. With true nobllity of mind endeavor to do all you can . hine o'er the clouds that hover ‘round your fellow man, And you will reap’a rich reward from out the Master's fount of love, And every smile on edrth will be a jewel in your crown above. X capable of sustaining a very consid- erable population and where the cli- mate during most of the year is as favorable as in some of our northwest- ern states. The false impresslons which have widely obtalned In regard to Alaska are of course largely responsible for the past neglect of congress to make | proper provision for the territory, but | trine, at least as interpreted in the Venes- uela incident, that we have no practical need for opening the question. Prof. Hans von Delbruck of-Berlin uni- versity, discussing Venezuela in the Preussische _Jahrbuecher, alludes to the “perfidious nature’” of the American policy and advocates an alllance Letween Great Britain and Germany. “Then,” he “we should see the strongest coalition in the world, as “while Germany covered Great Britain’s rear agalnst Russia and France, rectly to the Influence of these quasi public corporations upon local politics. They not only debauch city and state gov- ernments, but it Is thelr consistent policy to maintain these governments in a state of prostitution—their influence is cast hab- itually against all decency and efficiency and integrity in public affairs. The sen- timent in favor of municipal ownership s grounded almost wholly in the bellef that Ilikely. It will take years to deepen the canal even if this project should be advo- cated.. The cost of coal along the route, s well as the distance, will always be a serious drawback. There is abundant and cheap coal In Great Britain, on the At- lantic seaboard, on Puget Sound and all along the lne of the northern roads, and there are an unlimited number of empty freight cars westbound. By building the A cheery word when spoken to & man on brink of dark despair May give him courage to again take up the May blow to load he hap to bear, ife and ‘active flame the smouldering embers In his heart, | Give him the courage and the will fo rise and make another start. A smiling face may prove a sun to tinge with gold the clouds of wrath That plle themselves in threatening banks slong some weary plodder's pathi A smile that twinkles from a heart that overflows with brother love, PUSH TRUST LEGISLATION. Under the authority given by recent legislation the attorney general of the United States has taken the necessury action to obtain -precedence and an early argument for the case of the United States agalust the Nocthern Se- curities company. The new law pro- until March 4, 1005. The deadlock In Delaware is broken and the deadlock on the United States attorneyship is rapidly approaching a crisls. The man with the long pole will knock the persimmons. The Postoffice department is about to adopt a flag emblematic of the postal department. If something simple and unmistakable Is wanted a few mail sacks might be cut up into squares. p—— If the legislature will turn the search- light on the corporation lobby it will en- counter much less trouble in carrying out the pledges made to its constituents in promoting the Interests of the state. r————— Merger is the order of the day. The consolidation of the county and city of Denver is only & forerunner of the con- solidation of the county of Douglas and the city of Omaha. It may takd time, but it is bound to come. cEsm——r——— Bakers who conduct their industries in Omabha on a small scale are protest- ing against the auntal fee for the per- mit to engage in such business. Bakers who put thelr loaves on. a small scale should know enough to keep mum. et Queen Lil evidently has more friends | among the senators than among the | representatives In congress. Perhaps?t this is explalunable, however, |for the reason that the American House of Lords thinks it is nearer to royalty than the lower house of the national legisla- ture. —— It ought not to take much persuasion to induce the city treasurer of South Omaha to act as custodian of the special library endowwment fund. The library vides that the attorney geaeral biay file a certificate that, in his opinion, “the case Is of general public import- ance,” and upou such filing the “ease shall be given precedence over others and in every way expedited, and be as- signed for hearing =t the earliest prac- ticable day, before not less than three of the circuit judges of sald elreuit. In promptly availing himself of the au- thority conferred by this act, Attorney General Knox has given assurance of his purpose to push proceedings against the combinations which he may belleve to be violating the law. This the public expects him to do. The legislation of congress, if less com- plete for trust regulgtion than could have been wished, is yet sufficient to enable the attorney general to press the enforcement of the laws. For this pur- pose he has been supplled with ample funds, a necessary provision which un- til now copgress had failed to make. The anti-trust act of 1800 is In full force and it is thé: common belief that wmost of the combinations exist in con- travention of ‘that law, They cannot general may institute proceedings against the more conspicuous among them, but he will be careful to know his ground and not act with undue haste. The degislon of the supreme court of the United States seems to warrant the opinion that there is not an existing combination, engaged in in- terstate or foreign commerce, that does all be reached at once: The attorney | of that it will merits. country recelve the conmsideration the national wealth, S satisfactory to the railroads.” their franchises altogether, but also valuable terminal property that ceives the benefits of costly city gov erpment. It is not explained whether Presi idt‘ut Roosevelt's call for an extra ses | dead congress was planned to give the venerable members of the senate the it was Intended as a temporary relief to companies that are expected to carry them to and from their homes on presen. tation of a plece of pasteboard. now that the value of the resources is Dbetter understood it It i& a rich possession, which has already repald many times what our government pald Russla for it and will continue to contribute liberally to Speaking of the stock and bond basis | of ‘valuing caflway franchises, Repre- sentative Loomis Is quoted as saying that “neither this nor any other plan for assessing their franchises will be The only plan that will be satisfactory to the raflroads is the present plan, whereby they not only escape paying taxes on | evade paying city taxes on all of their re- | slon immediately on the heels of the benefit of mileage from their respective home§ to the capltal without wenring off any of their shoe leatber or whether the various railroads and sleeping car the people have no other means of pro- tecting themselves agalust the rapacity and criminal greed of quas! public cor- porations. They are not flying to munieipal ownership, but! are belng driven to it as a last desperate measure. The Woman with Humor, Tdlitan Belle In Harper's Bazar, It you consider the list of your friends, it will not take you long to discover that {the woman you like best is the woman with a sense of humor. She is the only one you think of first if you are getting up a plenic or & card party. You do not, perhaps, formulate it even to yourself, but in your mind she stands for the utmost good humor. 1If it rains or if it shinet anybody else is cross or grumpy, the | woman with a sense of humor can extract fun out of the dreariest proposition, and the first thing you know she has set every- body to laughing at her droll yings, and turned defeat fnto triumph, for who cares whother your original plan was carried out or not, Just so everybody has a good time? A sense of humor is sald to be lacking in most women. Afas! I have found this only too true, but I have noticed that when a woman does have it, the men are the first to find it out, and all she has to do to acquire a husband is to pick and choose. The day of the girl with the de.l face is golng out and the day of the girl with a sense of humor is coming in ¥ ELIMINATING THE WATER. Publie Distrust of Water-Logged In- % dustridl Stoc! United States Investor. The inflation injected into the capitaliza- tion of our industries in recent years, to- gether with that Injected into commodity prices, has all got to be eliminated event- ually, That s jnevitable. But it will vot largest ships in the world, even though they run under the most expensive Amer- fean register, by filling the westbound cars at a rate a little more than the cost of hand- Iing, Mr. Hill knows that he can turn the export trade with western Asia from its 200-year-old way past India to the direst Pacific sea route past Alask: P At ———— PERSONAL NOTES. The sultan of Turkey has given another reform pledge, In some ways he s a promising soverelgn. Count Bonl de Castellane favors a Franco- American alllance. No wonder. The one he arranged for himself was advantageous. Students at Stanford university bave been forbidden to fiirt. The faculty does not believe a love of study should lead to & study of love. Many & much younger statesman marvels | at the remarkable vitality of Senator Mor- gan, who during the present gession has contributed over 200,000 words to the fsth- mian canal discussio ? Representative Grosvenor has lmmd\u‘pdk a bill to retmburse Jacob Ritterbach, a Stage carpenter at Ford's theater, Wash- | ington, when Lincoln was shot, for & bag of tools he lost in the confusion Senator “Joe” Blackburn of Kentucky was caught recently smoking a big black briar pipe in the senate lobby. “Is this senatorial dignity?” asked a friend. *No, senatorial comfort,”” was the reply. Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania s tems porary custodian at Washington of three bullets carefully preserved in a plush-cov- ered box. They were shot into varlous por- tions of the anatomy of Captain Joe Rels. inger of Franklin, Pa., during the civil war and they back up the captain’s claim to a medal of honor. English editors take such delight in pil- ing up accounts of American catastrophes it could develop an overwhelming supe- riority toward the United States. Germany would have no need to fear the Franco- Russian alllance, because with Great Brit- ain it would be sure of Italy's support, while Austria in its own interests would bring iteelt alongside of Germany.” NEBRASKANS ARE CONFIRMED Reese Becomes Broken Bow Receiver Postmaster. WASHINGTON, March 3.—Confirmatians by the senate: G. C. Holt, United States district judge for the Southern district of New York; E. €. Cunningham of Tennessee, consul at | Bergen; Jobn T. Vivian, surveyor gemeral of Colorado. Reglsters of land offices: Lee Fairbanks, Del Norte, Colo.; S. A. Abbey, Pueblo, Colo.; D. H. Budlong, Coeur d'Alene, Ida. Receivers of land offices: John J. Lam- bert, Pueblo, Colo.; John B, Reese, Broken Bow, Neb. Postmasters: Pender. Colorado—E. Tague, Las Animas. Kansas—J. H. Buckman, Lyndon. Utah—B. F. Boothe, Brigham. Nebraska—A. Emmington, Aground. March 3.—The Dominion live s n, from Boston for Liv- erpool, which went ‘aground near Rocques Point iast Sunday, is still fast. The weather has moderated, bit three tugs, which made another attempt today to release the ves- sel, failed to do so, ana more powerful tugs have been ordered to the scene from Liv- erpool. The officers of Merion belleve there is every possibility of the ship being saved, although It is feared the rock has plerced the bottom forward. ~All the passengers have been removed and have proceeded 1o Liverpool by the way of Dublin. teamer Merion St Qu STOV Ana it will prove a jewel in the crown that walts for you above. Do well yeur Christian duty in the glorious brotherhood of man— Remember as you pass along that life on earth is but a span, That days and months and years fly by and from the cradle to the grave Is but a brief, death-ending march along life's old and footworn pave. Do unto others as you'd hava them do to you were they the strong And you the weak one jostied by the ever festless human throng, 4 And scatter smiles and down the tortuous trail And every smile will flash in your crown above. eery words as u move, in 88 jowels CLOSING ouT We will sell all plate Cameras at Half fee. | Big discounts on all supplies. | write tor prices. | J. C. HUTESON & CO., Bloek. Call or 218 8. 16th St, Paxton be eliminated until those who have in- jected it are compelled by stern necessity to let go thelr grip. And they will uot The ‘mayor of Council Bluffs declares that because the proceeds of the mu- whilst they slight every other form of American news that it will doubtless afford got ' violate 'the ‘law by in’ some fund promises to have some money in it, operating in restraint of trade. The while the other funds entrusted to him | way are too often oun the red ink side of the ledger. e It we had been compelled to go Saik] to candlelight under a regime of munici- pal gas works, what an outcry against munielpal ownershin would have been evoked. But accidents will happen in the best regulated gas manufacturing plants, without respect to who owns or operates them. — Information, is wired from San Fran- clsco to the effect' that the San Fran- clseo Rallroad Terminal, and Ferry company has just secured a freight terminal in San Franelsco at a cost of Depattment of Jastice, however, can- not wisely or safely act upon this the- ory. It will not proceed blindly, but must have substantial grounds upon which to base its cases. It must have information that will justify action and this cannot be obtained in a day. When the burean of corporations shall have been organized it may be able to sup- ply much necessary information to the legal department of the government, Attorney General Knox has been to no small extent instrumental in secur- Ing the new anti-trust legislation. He pas shown an earnest sympathy with President Roosevelt in the matter and his recommendatiops. were in the main $1,000,000 for' the site aloue, to which will be added ap exvense of §2,000,000 in improvements. If this valuable prop- erty could only have the bemefit of Ne- braska revenue laws instead of paying taxes on $3,000,000 it would be as- sessed for about $30,000. accepted by congress. There Is every reason, therefore, to expect that he wil make every effort to enforce the anti- trust laws, and that he will act as promptly and vigorously as ecircum- stances will admit of. It is not an easy nicipal tax levy is Insufficient it fs ab- periodically to ralse the funds needed to malntain several city departunents. The reason the proceeds of the mu. i nicipal tax levy are insufficient is be cause the Union Pa: the city lmits. City '‘Treasurer Hennings that the enactment of the so-called scav- enger law to expedite the collection of held up by Iinjunction. scavenger law would put the figured out. known to be in far worse shape than th city finances. ey According to the exhibit made by t! solutely necessary to fine fallen women fic raillroad refuses to pay city taxes on Its valuable bridge and términal facilities that ure within estimates delingdent taxes would about hold the city even with the loss of rallway taxes Whether the county ‘funds on a stable basis has not been The county finances are he peated very oftdp, will has let go their grip until the banks refuse any longer to furish them the means to hold af course, do not want to withdraw assistance so long as there is any hope that the boomers of stosks and of commodity prices may work out their plans suceessfully. But the banks have got to do one thing or the other— they must either call in their loans or increase them. Now the present policy may be kept up for a considerable period longer, but eventually one of two things must happen: Either the general public must consent to buy some hundreds of millions of inflated capatalization st fancy figures, and to continue indefinitely to a grim satisfaction to many an editor on | this side to be able to “throw up" the story of railroad and other horrors caused | by the recent cyclonic disturbances in the British Isles Henry Rice Adams of Minneapolis has been chosen grand master of Masons in his state, but that is not the only distinc- tion of which he can boast. In early days his father lived fn Monticello, Minn., where | he erected a store with a lodgeroom on | the upper floor. While walting for his | residence to be remodeled Mr, Adams and family lived in the lodgeroom, which is how | his son came to be a real native Mason, | the only one of his kind so far as is | | pay inflated commodity prices, or there must be a wholesale contractio of capital- izations and of commodity prices. Evi- dently the public has mo intention of ever buying the inflated capitalization at the prices demanded for it; and evidently they cannot much longer afford to pay the pres- ent inflated commodity prices. What then e| will happen? The answer ought to be obvious. Meanwhile such - bank state- ments as thal of last Saturday, If re- tendency to make us (bink that, after all, the ln- and slmple task. The great corpora- | Bureau of Insular Affairs the exports | oyjiable result is pot far off. known. Colonel J. D. Shires of Marion county, Kentucky seems to be rather radical in his ideas. “I am in favor,” he says, “of put- ting up all county offices for sale to the highest bldder. Let the nuctloneer run | each office to the highest notch, then knock | it offi The money thus obtained should be | used for bullding and bettering roads. As it is worked now candidates with money within the reach even o NO CLOTHING behind them buy the offices from floaters, who spend money in riotous living before they get home and leave their families breadless.” IT IS OUR PRIVILEGE to put the finest of garments for men and boys f the humblest purse, and one may be as well dressed in our store in ten min- utes’ time as in the custom tailors, where it's neces- sary to wait two weeks and phy twice as much. FITS LIKE OURS. Browning, Jing > Go. R 8. Wims, Managin ™"