Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 5, 1903, Page 8

6 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1905, THE ©OMAHA DALY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORX TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Year. :::: Dally Bee and Sun o .. Tilustrated Bee, On Sunday Bee, One Year Baturday Bee, One Year. . Twentleth Century Farmer, One Year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Bunday), Dally Bee (without Bunday), ¥ Dally Bee (Including Sunday), v Bee, 12 Evening Bee (without Bund. P Evening Bee Hn4~lud6.n Sunda 100 Complaints of irregularities in’ delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding. Bouth Umaha—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M Bircets Council Bluffs—10 Pearl Street. Chicago—1640 Unity Building. New York—2328 Park Row Bullding. Washington—i01 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPOND! Communications relating to news and ed- ftorial_matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorlal Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Puhlishing Company, ent gtamps aceepted in payment o mail accounts. Fersonal checks, except on Omaha or castern exchange, not acc 3 THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. ETATEMENT OF CIRCULATIO! State of Nebraska, Douglas County, 8s.: Goorge B. Tzschick, secretary of The Bes Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee Prlnled during the month of February, 1903, was as follows 1. 1. Total. . unsold ane Net total sales... Net average sales. GEORGE B, T2SCHUCK. Bubscribed In my p.esence and sworn to before me this 2%th day of February, A. D. 1903, B, HUNGATE, (Seal.) Notary Public. e e Mayor Moores once more has dipped Lis veto pen into that indelible ink. What has the creed of Bob Ingersoll to do with the mission of the Commer- clal.club, anyway? — Our Dave is undergoing a new experi- ence. He is off the public payroll for the first time in years. Easy victorles are not the victories worth having. We will win out yet in the fight for equal taxation of railroad property. | The light of the Fifty-seventh congress ‘was extinguished amidst joyous song. A funeral without music would no longer be in style. ‘Who says thirteen s not an unlucky number wheil just thirteen members of the senate constitute the outgolng squad that failed of re-election? | The roil call on House Roll 330 has had one good effect.” It has served to separate the sheep from the goats by forcing them to come out from cover. With an extra sesslon of the senate on his hands President Roosevelt will bave to defer taking a rest to recuper- ate from his recent tusse! with con- gre e Colonel Bryan says he won't bolt, but that if any bolting is to be done the other fellow will have to do it. Which * does the bolting all depends on the point of view. 1f 1t will result every time fn cutting short,_the meeting of the school board, the g% company will be excused If It sees to it that an accldent happens every second Monday. o empesseesy Nearly balt of the votes recorded In tavor ¢t House Roll 330 are republican votes and among those recorded against it are fusion votes. The raflroad lobby recognizes no political lines in its work. All legiglators look allke to the rallroads after they are elected, if not before, The discovery of the antl-toxine to destroy the germs of <holern infantum gives hiope that the preventive may be found also for croup and all other in- fantile ailments. The father of the future may never know what it s to walk the floor at night with the infant prodigy. The message of congratulation sent by wireless telegraphy from the Amer- jcun hieracchy to Pope Leo XTI would Liave been recorded among the miracles ly former occupants of the papacy. The wiracles of modern science would have read a8 strange to people a hundred years @go as the wmiracles described in the bible. = Take the whole list of Mayor Moores' vetoes since he has been at the head of the municipal government and every one of themn has been actuated in the Interest of the taxpaylng cltizens, Many of these vetoes have been over- ridden by the council, but if every one of themn had been sustained, that the ity would be in better conditlon than t is now will not be questioned. e} It is yefreshing to see the Wabash set THE FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. In the record of the Fifty-seventh con gress there I8 much to commend. The legislation it enacted will contribute to the welfare of the country and while some of its omissions are to be regretted, none of these is of a nature to Interfere with the business or impalr the pros- perity of the nation. It wisely re- frained from disturbing our fiscal policy. under which existing prosperous condi- tions were created, refusing to heed the clamor for tariff changes that would bave unsettled trale and put a check upon prosperity. Whether or not the failure of proposed financial legislation will prove to be a mistake cannot now be confidently predicte There was wide divergence of opinion in regard to the merits of the measures introduced, £0 that perhaps had elther of them be- come a law the result would not have been satisfactory. We do not belleve thar there is any serious danger that the currency supply will be found inad- equate to the demands of business dur- ing the ensuing year, though leglslation that would have made avallable to the rooney market more of the treasury surplns than can now be done would un questionably bhave proved beneficial. In the public estimation, and doubt- less in the good results that will come from i, the most important legislation of the Fifty-seventh congress is that re- Inting to the corporations engaged in in- torstate or forelgn commerce and to railroad rebates. In regard to the former legislation did not go so far as had been generally hoped for, but what was done will render more effective the anti-trust aet of 1800, If proper effort s made to enforee it, while the anti-rebate law puts more power Into the hands of the Interstate Commerce commission, which it is safe to assume will be fully exer- clsed. Indeed this legislation is already baving good results, there being mani- fested on the part of the rallroads a general purpose to comply strictly with ite requirements in all respects. The creation of a bureau of corporations, with ful' authority under the direction of the secretary of the new Department of Commerce to investigate the organiza- tlon of corporations, can hardly fail to have a salutary effocl. The authority given the attorney general to expedite proceedings against trusts, of which that otficlal Las already taken advantage, ls not the least meritorious plece of legis- lation by the Fifty-seventh congress. Tt is peedless to review here all the work of the last congress, the detalls of which have been given in the news dis- patches. As to the omissions, it is to be regretted that the statehood ‘bill failed and that something more than passing a coinage bill was not done for the Phil- ippines. "There Is reason to apprehend that some mgre or less serfous trouble may be caused in the archipelago he- cause of the fallure, due entirely to the scnate, fo further reduce the tariff on Phillppine products coming to the United States. In the matter of appro- priations the Fifty-seventh congress was liberal, the total, according to Senator Allison, chairman of the committee on appropriations, amounting, in rouud numbers, to $1,554,000,000, which s $114,000,000 in excess of the appropria- tions of the Fifty-sixth congress. The appropriation for the Panama canal ac- counts for nearly half of this excess. The expenses of the government have gone permanently beyond the billion dollar mark which was reached a few years ago and then caused no little ap- prelicusion for the future of the coun- try. The second session of congress was marked by fillbustering tacties in both the eenate and the house—for which republicans were responsible In the former and democrats in the latter. The course of/ neither was defensible, A striking example of so-called “senatorial courtesy” was presented in the fact that a single senator was able to prevent the ratification of the Panama canal treaty and thus force an extra session of the senate. Such obstruction by the minor- ities I8 a reproach to the senate, but it Is extremely difficult if not fmpossible, especially as to the senate, to provide a reiedy. em———— HOSTILITY TO MONRUE DOCTRINE. German hostility to the Monroe doc- trlne, wkich Bismarck declared to Le an “impertinence,” continues to man- ifest itself from time to time, chiefly by persons who have no official respon- sibility, though occupying positions that give some measure of Importance tq thelr utterances. The latest declara- tlon agalnst the doctrine is by the pro- fessor of political economy In the Berlin university and this was thought to be of sufficlent significance to be telegraphed quite fully to the press of this country. No doubt Prof. Wagner reflects the sentiment of a great many of his coun- trymen, particularly In regard to the relations of the Germanic race with the Romanie elements and its dislike of the English element on both sides of the sea, but he and those who are ir sympathy with his view seem blind to the fact that e highest interests of Germany are in cultivating the friendship of the Euglish element, which is largely Teu- tonie, rather than the Romanlc ele- ments. It the latter are belng pressed to the wall, as the Berlin professor assumes, it is simply because they have rot the qualities to maintaln a better position In the great world contest and up as ane of the reasons why the courts should enjoin its employes from strik- ing the obligation it owes under the in- terstate commerce law to keep its trains woving for the benefit of the public, The rallroads are always ready to ap- peal to the Interstate commerce law whenever they want protection from the courts, but the law never governs them when shippers or patrous ask to have the gugrantees of the interstate law en forced. “Heads 1 win and talls you lose” is not in it wit)J the way the rail roads play battledofe and shuttlecock with the interstate -gmierce law., they will not be improved by Germanie asscelation and sympathy. The Ger- wavie race, however, may be injured therehy, There 1s much In this professor's talk that is slmply absurd, but it need not South and Central America. There is nothing in it that will prevent German wanufacturers and merchants from se curing all the trade they can with those southern countries and commercially in trenching. themselves there as firmly as possible. Al that it requires Is ihat the territory and the political institu tions of those countries shall not be dominated by any foreign power. It 18 perhaps to be regretted that Germany does not follew Great Britain in giving universal recoguition to the Monroe doc- trine, but that American principle Is perfectly secure at least so long us it is not rejected by the republics for whose protection it was declare ONLY THE FIRST SKIRMISH. The fight that barred Ilouse Roll 330 from going onto the general file is only the first skirmish in the campaign for tax reform, In thig preliminary contest the champions of the equal taxation of railroad property have been at a disad- vantage as agalnst the consolldated co- horts of the railroad tax shirkers, whose lobby has been continuously and per- sistently at work even from the time that the legislative nominations were made In the various districts. The tem- porary setback thus met with by the friends of the defeated measure ghould serve only to make them waken more fully to the extent and power of the opposition which they have to over- come, The campalgn so far has been one of misrepresentation, and the misinforma- tion disseminated out of railroad head- quarters must be coumteracted by a campaign of education that will open the eyes of eyery taxpaying citizen in the whole state to the monstrous In- Justice of the law by which the great raflrond corporations evade their due share of the expenses of municipal gov- ernment while enjoying full benefits at the cost of the other taxpayers. In this connection those who are ac- tively Interested in the movement to stop raflroad tax shirking should re- member who their friends are as dis- closed by the vote In the house on the committee report. Twenty out of twenty-four fusion members responded right to the roll call and are entitled to credit even though actuated partly with a view to making political capital for their party. In addition to the eight re- publican members from Douglas county, ten republicans from outside counties stood up courageously to be counted and their names should be remembered. They are: Friedrich of Cass, Harrison of Washington, Jones of Otoe, Ramsey of Gage, Spurlock of Cass, Gregg of Wayne, Jahnel of Washington, McAllister of Deuel, Sears of Burt, Sweezy of Webster. With this nucleus for a base of opera- tions and a just principle to fight for, let the campaign go on. The railroad organs down at Lincoln are trying to make excuses for the throw-down by the Lancaster delega- tion of the bill for the municipal taxa- tion of railroads by pleading that the movement was a dead one long before the Lancaster men turned in against it. It is alleged that after looking the ground over the business men of Lin- coln agreed that the Lancaster delega- tion would be losing time and influence by continuing the fight for it. This Is about as flimsy as could be put to- gether when it is known that most of the members of the Lancaster delega- tion were never favorable to the propo- sition and that they simply pulled off the pressure from behind by making the business men of the capital belleve that a fight for equal taxation of rail- road property would antagonize the dominant interests in the legislature and jeopardize the biennial quest for big appropriations for the state institu- tlons located at Lincoln. Lincoln lives on plckings from the state treasury and rather than risk having the door partly closed it would let the railroads get off without paylng taxes at all. The conviction of Mrs. Lillie in the murder trial at David City will beé a subject of much controversial discus- slon. The difficulty of securing the ver- dict of “gullty” for a capital offense against a woman, no matter what the testimony may be, is a pecognized fact, and where the prosecution relles upon circumstantlal evidence exclusively the gex of the woman usually secures the benefit of the doubt. In this particular case the jury seems to have been at least consistent, inasmuch as the crime, if committed by the dead man's wife, must have been deliberate murder. and the prisoner was clearly entitled either to a verdict In the first degree or a com- plete acquittal. It i1s hardly probable, however, that the trial just finished will be conclusive, as the case Is sure to be carried up to the court of last resort. The tax levy for the coming year for the city of Omabha will produce a smaller revenue than at any time within the past five years. When it is remembered that the municipal govern- ment has been conducted on a fairly economic basis, while the needs of the eity have been constantly growing, the trying conditions ahead of the mu- nicipal authorities may be understood. We doubt if there I8 a single business house in Omaha that Is figuring on get- ting along during the coming year with smaller expenditures than during the past year, to say nothing of the perfod of retrenchment following the hard be seriously considered. The American pecple are not very greatly concerned abhout what Germany thinks of the Mon roe doctrine, so long as that country does not undertake to contravene the prineiple and continues to give it such recognition as was done In the Ven- ezuelan case. There Is nothing In that doetrine that will interfere with Ger- mans golug freely to any country of times. If the eity pulls through with- out a considerable overlap in the shape of obligations held over for the next year's tax levy, it will be a miracle, Mr. Cannon calls the system of hold ing up legislation in the senate until unanimous conseut is secured “legisla- tive blackmali The language may be a little rough, but it describes the stand and deliver policy pursued by some of the senators with accuracy ful, howev whether the It is doubt broken elected down by until the direct vote of the people. When its members have to look to their constituents for re-election, the senate may be held responsible for its part i the national legislation. of the The total appropriations con: gress just concluded are only something unanimous consent practice of the senate can be senators are BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE, Minor Scenes and Incldents Sketched on the Spot. For years unnumbered a beverage com- monly known as ““cold tea” has been sold in the capitol restaurant, where statesmen and their friends secured their midda: lunches. This beverage has been classed as 1 | inspiration for statesmen and has a reputa- tion, when taken in moderate doses, of prndu:ln[ volumes of spoech rivaling the outpuf’ of Quay and Morgan when talking against time. But banished at last. the beverage is to be That is to say, it will not over a hundred million dollars more | be a saleable commodity. Congress has de- than the appropriations of Its next 'l"‘"d ‘h"“'l ;": l"fll”l ";“m“"‘:'f"‘l" ";;"""; predecessor. But a little item like a[}iors Sha'l not Be seld within the limite o hundred million dollars is merely a bag atelle among appropriations that foot up over fifteen hundred millions, e “Don’t Tread on Me.' 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. Beginning with Napoleon, every warrior and statesman who has butted up against has been unceremo- the Monroe doctrin, nlously knocked out. Unnecessary Advice, Philadelphia Press, David B. Hill wants the democratic party to go slow. He will have his wish. The party has always been going #o slow that there is no probability it will ever catch up. Good xe for Wonder, Cincinnatt Enquirer. The conclusion drawn from the recent publication of plctures of Mr. Smoot, the United States senator-elect from Utah, Is that he s not a handsome man. On the contrary, he is plain. He is charged with being a polygamist, but the wonder is that even ome woman would marry him, No Canse for Kicking. Chicago Chronicle. It is very truly argued that, having voted to admit Mormon Utah to the union, con- gress can hardly complain if a Mormon {8 returned to the senate. The religious ob- jection to Brother Smoot s a humbug anyway. The fact that he believes in the doctrine of his church is the only thing that is charged against him and the same thing might be urged against a Presbyte- rlan, a Christlan Sclentist or a Methodiet by people who do not believe in those doctrines. Mildest-Mannered of Men. New York Tribune. The Inventor of the Gatling gun has gone over to the majority. In conversation and disposition, and in the varfous assoclations and habits of ordinary life, he was one of the mildest mannered of men, and he died at a ripe old age. Amiable in temper, he was nevertheless the discoverer of the basic principle of some of the deadliest and most destructive weapons of modern warfare. Such are the Inconsistencies of the race. Dr. Guillotine was a lover of humanity, sympathetic and compassionate, but how dreadful a use of his invention was made in the time of Robespierre. Baltimore Sun. If Uncle Sam is to have an efficlent navy as well as a large one the men behind the gune ought to be thoroughly trained in the use of their weapons. The North Atlantic battleship squadronm, it is stated, in Washington dispatches, the Gulf of Mexico prior to its departure The ships of the +been instructed to begin a systematic course of practice. The commanders of other to {mprove thelr marksmanship. people . will los fear that our naval artilleri terlorating. are de- Plans to Turn Down Bryun in Ne- brasks Comvention. Detroit Free Press (gold dem.) What appears to be an authoritative statement appeared in yesterday's issue of the Brooklyn Eagle giving the details of a plan formulated by eastern democrats ‘“‘to crush Mr. Bryan's infiuence in his own state and prevent at all costs his control of the Nebraska delegation to the next democratic national convention.” In the language of the Eagle, “the brightest men in the party have decided to throw him out without more ado.” With all due respect to “the brightest men in his party,” it would be difficult to conceive of a political policy established on & basis of more magnificent asininity. The undertaking is so masterfully foolish that one can readily belleve it originated in New York and has the heartlest sup- port of the New York politictans. It is not necessary that a scheme of that kind should bear a trade mark. The workmanship le unmistakable. The Free Press has as little admiration for Mr. Bryan's economic theo- ries as anybddy, but it believes that the democrats of Nebraska are capable of de- elding for themselves who shall be their leader., They are nmot in need of aselst- ance from New York, and such assistance can take practical form only in a corrup- tion fund for the debauching of Nebraska conventions, We can concelve of no other ald that New York is capable of rendering to the democrats of any state. If the east has the sense to let the Bryan problem alone it would soon solve itselt. Mr. Bryan's influence over his party has been steadily decreasing. Mr. Bryan him- self is slowly modifylng his extremist theories; but he is lagging behind most of his fellow democrats, and his power 1s rapldly waning. If he were let alone he would eventually find his level in the coun- clis of the party. But it New York pur- poses to control the local politics of Ne. braska, Mr. Bryan will soon cease to be a tading ember. He and all that he has ever represented in national politics will be fanned into fire again. Democrats that bave no sympathy with the Bryan pro- pagands will be driven to his support in eheer deflance of New York's Impudent and mercenary meddling. It may be possible to keep Mr. Bryan out of the next democratic national convention, but the victory will prove to have been dearly bought. General Joseph E. Johnston said of the battle of Bull Run that, “The confederate army was more demoralized by victory than that of the United States by defeat.” A similar condition of affairs is likely to exist in the demogratic party it the New Yerk politicians begin to interfere in Nebraska affairs. They may succeed in defeating Mr. Bryan, but they will rally around him hundreds of thousands of voters who unreservedly prefer Bryan leadership with all it means to Wall street dictation Eagtern interference in Nebraska politics will go far toward convincing the average voter that Mr. Bryan was eternally right in refusing to enter into & truce with the New York leaders of the party. It the New York democrats retain a glimmer of common nse, they will tear up their plans, and let Nebraska alone. n the democrats of the country have fully re- covered from the fever of free silver—as we believe they have—Mr. Bryan's pres- ence in the 1904 convention is not likely to work any injury to the party, but his absence as @ result of Wall street interter ence will be eloquent in his cause beyond the power of words. will be kept at target practice for three months in arships have been ordered to give gunner§ every opportunity It may be taken for granted that the American no sleep because of the ‘was reading. as he turned the pages slowly, day, while waiting on the table, relates the United States congres: ing rows of ivories came Into prominence. the capitol building in Washington. Such a provision has been incorporated in the new immigration bill, which has become a law. Washington Is fast becoming a city of monuments and statues. President Roose- velt has signed a bill providing for the erec- tion of two more statues in the national capital—one of Brigadier General Count Pulaskl and the other of Major General Baron von Steuben, both of revolutionary fame. The eum of $50,000 1s appropriated for each, and it is probable that both will be erected in Lafayette Square, opposite the White House, where already stand beautiful statues of Lafayette and Rochambeau. These directly face the White House, and the monuments of Steuben and Pulaski are to be placed on the opposite corners, one near the Arlington hotel and the other just across the street from the famous Decatur and Corcoran houses. In the center of this square stands an eques- trian statue of General Andrew Jackson, of doubtful artistic value. In view of the fact that the square is to be occupled by statues of four of the generals who aided in achiev- ing American independence—two French- men, one German and one Pole—Represen- tative Bartholdt of Missouri, who Intro- duced the bill for the Steuben statue, has suggested that the Jackson statue be re- moved to some other location, and that the park be called “Revolutionary Square.” Justice Shiras of the supreme court builded better than he knew some months ago when he determined to resign. He was urged to remain on the bench a little longer, for which request there were good and sufficient reasons affecting the judicial business. Finally, the justice yielded and continued to serve till Justice Day was named as his successor, Thereby Justice Shiras has again proven the wisdom of the old adage that things come to the man who waits. If he had re- tired some months ago, as was his purpose, he would draw a salary of $10,000 annually the rest of his life. But in the meantime congress has gone on and enacted a law for Increasing the salaries of judges, so that Justice Shiras will go on the retired roll at an snnual salary of $12,500 a year— an increase of $2,600 annually over what he would have otherwise recelved. Accord- ingly, the learned justice by 'tarrying earned that sum annually. President Roosevelt {s having a great deal of fun with Secretary Moody these days. He tells his little joke to every member of congress who visits the White House. “My secretary of the navy has broken down,” says the president to his callers. “Moody has nervous prostration and his doctors have sent him on a month's sea voyage. “Overwork?" naturally asks the visitor. “No, the heavy round of soclal duties. He cannot stand much. He gave one dinner and that completely unmerved him. He gave it at the hotel, where everything was got up for him. Mrs, Dewey Invited all the guests. He had a guard of marines to see that everything was all right. He did not do a thing but eat the dinner. Since then he has been in a state of col- lapse. It is wonderful how delicate these bachelors are.” ‘Then the president laughs loud and long. Senator “Tom" Platt was fingering a gllt-edged book that had come to him in the mail. He seemed so much interested in it that Semator Quay asked what he “This,” explained the New York “boss,” s a reprint of a curfous volume much thought of by William Penn and his followers, but which 1 am told Is scarcely known among thelr descendants.” “And what is it called?” asked the Pennsylvania statesman. Platt tossed it on Quay's desk. It was the bible. When a southern representative is at home, he has as his servant a good old colored man, called Snowball, who stands in ostensible awe of his employer. One Washington Post, Snowball accidentally spilled the soup on the person of his con- gressman. With apparent indignation the southerner shouted: “Snowball, you black rascal, do you know you have scalded a representative in tho “Fo' de Lawd, ah knows dat, but ah really didn’t mean fer to do it.” “Do you know, you scoundrel,” continued the cungressman, in still more violent terms, “that you have scalded a man who may be senator of the United States?"’ { Snowball's face took on a still more seri- ous look and he again apologized most abjectedly, but his master was not satis- fled “Snowball,” he roared, “you have scalded a man who may yet be president of the United States.” Snowball's face relaxed and two gleam- “Lawd, mistah,” sa'd he, ‘“when you gets to be president I reckon I'll be Gawd." PERSONAL NOTES. A standing bronze figure of R. T. Palne, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, will be shortly erected in the public square at Taunton, Mass It is sald that Chartran, the French ar- tist, has made a striking portrait of Presi- dent Roosevelt, one that suits even the painter, who is his own eeverest critic. After years of delay Mr. J. Plerpont Mor- gan is building a library for his personal use at a cost of $300,000. Could he have | been waiting for an offer from Mr. Car-| pegle? Congressman David G. De Armond, who has introduced & bill Into comgress pro- | posing the purchase and annexation of | Canada, hails from Butler, Mo., whither | be removed from Penneylvania as a lad “Gaines,” sald Speaker Henderson to John Wesley Gaines, the Tennessee repre- | sentative, “what are you going to do this | summer?” “I shall take three or four | months of absolute rest,’ Gaines replied. | “Ah,” sald the epeaker sweetly, “going to | resume the practice of law?" When a woman can get & South Dakota divorce on the plea that her husband was habitually late to dinner it ls evident that the law 1s being overworked, whether or po the husband was. Besides, there are dinpers from which any busband would be justified in staying away altogether. Should Senator Allison serve out the term for which he was recently elected he wili have broken all records of service in the United States senate, having been a mem- ber of that sugust body since March 4, 1873, He and Senator Jones took theiryseats t the same time, and the latter's term would also have been extended six years more had he comsented to serve. THE OLD RELIABLE Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE HERO OF BIG SPRINGS, Brakeman Senter's Prompt Action Saves Many Lives. Minneapolis Journal, 3d. Union Pacific Brakeman Senter ought not long to remain a brakeman. At Big Springs, Neb., yesterday, he performed an act that showed the qualities that characterize suc- cessful men. While other men were paralyzed by ap- prehension as an overland train, running at great speed with unresponsive brakes, bore down upon the rear of a crowded pas- senger train standing on the main track, Senter thought and acted. It seemed better to him that the lives of four engineers and firemen should be risked and that two locomotives should be destroyed than that the mogul should crash into crowded Pull- man coaches and snuff out, perhaps, a hundred lives. With firm hand he threw the switch and sent the overland smashing and crashing into the sidetracked train with head on. The engineers and firemen, understanding in a flash the wisdom of Senter's cours jumped from their engines, as was yroper. There was a crash and a roar and two engines were nothing but a scrap heap—but no lives had been lost The man who could take such a respon- sibility upon himself and act with Napo- leonic quickness 1s gifted with qualities that, important as was thelr presence in him yesterday, can serve the company in & more responsible capacity than that of pas- senger brakeman, GUNS AS PEACEMAKERS, Effect of Modern Artillery on the Peace of the World. Baltimore American. Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling, who died last week in New York, once told how he came to Invent the gun whith bears his pame and which in its present form is one of the most destructive weapons of war that ever came from the hands and brains of men. Said Dr. Gatling: “In 1861, durtag the American civil war, I was living in Indlanapolis. My residence was near the depot and I often saw troops of volunteers leaving for the front and the dead bodfes brought back for burial. 1 was surprised to note that the number of men killed by sickness was fdr greater than the number killed by ball in actual battle. Then the thought struck me . that it a gun could be constructed capable of doing the work of a hundred men and requiring but two or three to operate it the horrors and durations of war would be wondertully lessened. I set to work at once and in a few months completed the first gatling gun While this statement may seem utterly heartless and cold-blooded, a confessfon that Dr. Gatling used his brains and his inventive genius to devise an instrument that would bring about wholesale slaugh- ter of his fellow men, yet it is a serious question whether such inventions have not added to the peace of the world rather than to its wars. Surely have they brought about a complete revolution in methods of warfare, glven strategy a greater part to play and make impossible the meeting of large armies upon the open battlefield. With guns like these, with Instruments that can shoot forth dynamite and lyddite and other high explosives, regiments that marched against each other as did the phalanxes of old would be mowed down Iike wheat cut by a modern reaper. What fs true of fighting on land is also true of battles on the sea. In a test of two fleets of equal strength, with modern equipment, with torpedo boats and submarines, the slaughter of men and the destruction of ships would make the world stand aghast at the progress made in naval warfare. Governments and rulers of the world have come to a realization of this, Weli do they know that a war between two great nations, either on land or sea, would mean wholesale slaughter, destrustion of cities as complete as it they had be wrocked by an earthquake or over- whelmed by a tornado. Realization of this cannot fall to make such govern- ments and such rulers hesitate before fs- suing declarations of war. Gatling and Krupp and others who have perfected the modern gung may not have acted from either philanthropie or humanitarian mo- tives, but they have made nations more thoughtful, more ready to recognize the rights of others, more willing to submit to peaceful arbitration disputes which in former years were settled on the battlefleld with the sword and the gun sald the humoro ‘Halr cut “T was barber, thinking,” of hanging out a sign: protested the w who —Phila- vietim. gets his_hair cut while you wait. delphia Press. Waggsby—That fellow Longwynde uses such contortjonate language. Naggsby—You mean extortionate—dis- :d—or something, don't you? Waggsby—] mean exactly what T say. He makes every one of his infinitives do the split.—Philadelphia Press, to 1 see there's talk of taking more of the ns' lands. After a while, 1 suppose, they'll have nothing but the memory of their once vast holdings.” “That's o, II'_have nothing but mental reser 3altimore American. ations." “Why don't you answer some of these calumnles that are directed at you?" “‘What's the use?’ answered Senator Sor- ghum. “I h: Jearned not to fear abuse. The trusts are the most abused Institutions on earth. And vet, look at the money they make.'—Washington Star. Lou—Jane tells me that her flance s worth $100,00. Do you belfeve it? Ella—He 'must be ‘worth more than that. Why, ho paid taxes on #5000 without & murmur.—Judge. Hicks—I understand he to_edit a sociely paper, ‘Wicks—Yes, and he should make a suc- cess of it. Hicks—Why, he can't write at all. Wicks—Not 'mich, but just think how snobbish he is.—Philadélphla Catholic Standard, has undertaken a1 ““George says his father will cut him oft with a shilling If he Insists upon marrying DS nd what did you say?" “I reminded him that papa s a lawyer and that he'd be glad to take up the c against his father's estate on shares Cleveland Plain Dealer. THE BUTCHER MAN'S MOAN, Ed Mott In New York Bum. With garb uncouth and grimed face marked By many a furrowed line; With tear and sigh and moan he said, “My name is Christian Klein. “I was an East-side butcher, sir, For many happy years A_false love slaughtered my fond hopes-- 80 pray excuse these tears! “Oh, fickle Katie Dinkelspiel! Why for you did I yearn? Why ‘glve to you my fresh heart, and k skewers in return? “I said T'd carve my way to wealth, She vowed she'd marry me. Infatuated 1! the time ¥ brisket seemed to flee! But she proved false. One day she wrote— It was no tenderline— 1 love the baker, and I am Frankturter own It, Klein! ‘T lver Tone for him, and oh! He finds his knead {n me. I never sausage love as his! He suets me to a T! “I read, then cried, ‘She's tongue me decp! A vipér have I nirsed! Oh, sir, of all bad cuts I've had That 'was the very wurst! “One thought is branded in my brain— Your pity, pray, allow— Where my 'poor head she fondled once, His headcheese preseing now!" Then paused the uncouth butcher man, And flerce his eyes did glare; And closing $ight his brany fist, Right furiously he sware: 1se Katle Dinkelsplel!” he cried, I haunch ye il I die! But saddle be my lonely lot!" “Pork Christian Klein!" quoth I. The good man dried his tearful eyes, A d, “It's bock beer time; ! Oh could you favor me naing me a dime?" taste and appelite Coutant % Squires Best grades, and all size Semi-Anthracite, a naces, $5.75. COAL = Telephone 930. price. Best lllinois Nut, $6.50. 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