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

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1903, THE OMAHA DAILY fia}; E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Year..$4.00 Dally Bee and Sunday, One Year l Tllustrated Bee, One Yoar Sunday Bee, One Year Saturday Bee, One Year N Twentleth Century Farmer, One Year DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week Daily Bee (including Sanday), per week Sanday Bee, per copy ki ; EV"n"yI‘ Bee (without Sunday), per week 6 Evening Bee (ncluding Sunday), per of irregularities in delivery Complaints City Cireulation De- should be addressed to rtment b OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bulldin; South Umaha—Clty Hall ty-fifth and M Streets Counctl Bluffs—10 Pear] Street. Chicago—1440. Unity Bullding, New York—232 Park Row Buflding. Washington—601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to new ftorial_matter should be addresse Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES. T Remit by draft, express or postal order, vable 1o The Bee Punblishing Company Bhly 2-cent stamps accepted In payment o mail accounts. Personal checks, except o Oom: eastern_exchange, not ac 3 PE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, #s.: George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Bunday Bee printed during the month of February, 1905, was as follows: Butiaing, Twen- nd ed- Omaha Less unsold an Net total sales, Net average GEORGE B. Subscribed in my p.esence and sworn to béfore me this %th day of February, A. D. 1903, . B. HUNGATE, (Seal) Notary Publle. —_— The legislature will soon be on the howe run. For the present, the most strenuous labor of the water works board is to smoke cigars. The floodtide of bills that are intro- duced in the legislature will be stemmed within forty-eight hours. Omaha has again had a very narrow escape from being advertised as the wickedest city in America. There are still others. E EE—— The legislature will make no mistake in passing the Burgess Dbill that re- quires fair competition in county and state printing. abiits— According to latest accounts a fog hangs over 8t Louls, although the mddel{t of the 8t. Louls World's fair has left London. Spe— Thirteen new senators were sworn in at the opening of the extraordinary session. Fortunately the thirteen did their swearing on Thursday. p——— The Steel trust is spending a good deal of money judiciously advertising its fabulous earnings, but several hun- dred ;million dollars of Its stocks are still on the market. Judging by the number of amend- ment bills introduced in the legislature, there is a fair chafhce for the constitu- tion of Nebraska to be amended within the next two years. —p——— There is a well-defined rumor that the projected extension of the Burlington from Lincoln to Sloux City is to be operated as a sidetrack for railroad legislation. Tie passes will be dis- tributed ‘after the end of the session to all who may apply. ——— When the Latter Day Saint who is to represent Utah in the United States senate was sworn in there was much applause In the ladies’ galleries. Men with large families, whether prospective or retrospective, are popular nowadays, at least with the gentler sex. Senator Tillman is being soundly be- rated for holding up congress during the last hour of the session for a $30,000 South Carolina claim. But that sort of statesmanship Is very popular in the Palmetto state and Tillman has scored a great trlumph by his highwayman's tactics. Unless the railroads put an end to the tax war by cheerfully or regretfully consenting to pay their just share of the burdens of taxation—state, county and municipal—the paramount issue In Nebraska for the next two years will be, “Up with raflroad taxes—down with rallroad freight rates.” Western railroad managers are said to be In @ quandary regarding the call- ing In of passes issued to shippers be- fore the Elkins law went into effect. Up to date Nebraska railroad managers do not appear to be in a quandary about calling in the hundreds of passes issued by their political attorneys and lobby workers with the deliberate intention to defeat legislation offensive to the railroads, even where it is absolutely Just both to the people and the rail- SEAD FOR PERSUNS AND PAPERS. The people of Nebraska have lost more than half & million dollars through the Bartley embezzlement. The larger part of this sum has never been ac counted for. Part of it has doubtless been lost In gambling and speculation, but a larger part was either repre- sented by I 0. Us. In that famous cigar box, or by Investments In mines and real estate, cr by private account in unknown depositories. When Bartley was paroied the people were given to understand by Governor Savage that the parole would be jus tified by restitution. Bartley, himself, has time and again asserfed that he proposed to pay back every dollar the state lost while he was treasurer. Bartley has been at liberty for more than a year, but not a dollar has yet Dbeen repaid out of the contents of the cigar box. It 1s up to the legislature to make a searching investigation and exert all its influence to bring about restitution of at least part of the money the state has lost. The resolution calling for an investigatién should be pushed through the house without division and a vig- orous effort should be made to bring about the recovery of whatever is left in the hands of Bartley or his confeder- ates, whoever they may be. THE SENATK SPECIAL SESSION. The message of President Roosevelt to the senate, which convened yester- day In extra session, briefly asks at- tention to the canal treaty with Co- lombla and the Cubau reciprocity treaty, remarking that they are of far- reaching importance to the welfare of the United States and that there i3 urgent necessity for their adoption. Al- though something more than this was to have been expected, in view of the president's great interest In the con- ventions, it is sufficient, since there is really no new argument to be pre- sented in behalf of either treaty. It is presumed that Senator Morgan will continue his opposition to the canal treaty, though it would seem that he should by this time realize the bope- lessness of keeping up his fight. The Panama company has extended the op- tion for the purchase of the property without making any new condition, the sentiment of the country is very largely in favor of the Panama route and there is the necessary two-thirds majority in the senate for the ratification of the treaty. Mr. Morgan ought to realize, therefore, that his opposition is useless and if he does not senatorial courtesy should not permit him to delay ratifica- tion of the treaty much longer. There 1s no very defiiite information as to the chances of the Cuban reciprocity treaty, but it is thought they are favor- able to ratification. There will be a fight made against it, however, and It has been reported that some senators who would have voted to ratify at the regular session will not do so -now. There Is reason to belleve that the ad- ministration confidently. expects the ratification of both treatles. Sm—— CRITICISM OF THE SENATE. The remarkable speech of Mr. Cannon in the house of representatives, in refer- ence to the rules of the United States senate, particularly that requiring unanimous consent, should not fail to attract the attention of the country, since it points out a wmost marked and important contrast between the two houses of congress not commonly under- stood, but which ought to be better known. The next speaker of the house, with that candor and courage that are characteristic of him, said that while the house of represeatatives has rules that permit a majority to legislate, the senate has no such rules and legislation in that body is bad by unanimous con- sent. The result of this is that a single member of the senate can block legisla- tion and If he have the physical en- durance prevent action on any mweasure to which heé' may be opposed. This has been done more than once and In the last congress one senator was able to prevent the ratification of a treaty favored by more than the necessary two-thirds majority and force the call- ing of an extraordinary session of the senate. An analysis of the procgedings of the upper branch of congress will show that they rest almost wholly on unanimous consent and the practice is a part of that “courtesy” which has come to be a reproach to the senate. Says a Washington correspondent: *“As long as every senator continues to feel that in wrecking the plans of any other senator outside of the lines of debate or party organization he invites directly ‘the wreck of his own In turn, so long the let the secondary interests lnvolved in a measure take thelr chances, or to let the president call extra sessions if he wishes to; the one thing to be careful about s not to overstep the almost in- visible line of courtesy for one's col- leagues.” Thus the will of a majority can be set at naught In the senate, and more than this the action of the popular branch of congress may be thwarted by an individual senator. . The protest of Mr. Cannon against this condition will be approved, it is not to be doubted, by the intelligent judgment of the country. We think there will be very general acquiescence roads, The aunouncement that the manual training department at the High school will be greatly expanded next year and by the beginning of September, or a lttle later, will fuclude casting, forging and pattern making, will be gratifying to the friends of manual labor instruc- tion, but it has not yet been definitely settled whether the boys are to work by the hour or by the plece, We ap- prehend that the boys of the locked- qut Union Pacific machinists and boiler makers will resist the lntroduction of plecework. in the opinion he expressed that the senate must change its method of pro- cedure or the house of representatives, “backed up by the people, will coripel the chan else the house shall be- come a mere tender, “a mere bender of the pregnant hinges of the knee to disposition of most senators will be to | restriction on debate showed that a large majority of senators, irrespective of party, are firmly wedded to the tradi- tional methods of that body. A change is unlikely until senators are chosen by direct vote of the people and thus brought under the influence of popular sentiment, to which for the most part they are now Indifferent. ep—— BURBANK'S BLASTIC CHARTER. Attorney B. G. Burbank, whose eagle eye has been steadily riveted upon the city hall and a'three thousand dollar attorneyship for some time past, and whose profound mind has penetrated the Inner recesses of all the different departments of municipal government, has evolved out of his inner nsclous- ness an elastic charter as a substitute for the patched quilt charter bill intro- duced by the Douglas delegation. Mr. Burbank is quoted by the World- Herald as follows: There i no use of beating around the bush. We kept out of the charter amend- ment bill everything that the rallroads and tranchised corporations would be likely to serfously oppose. We were careful to keep the important charter amendments in which we were interested in a bill by itself, so that these powerful influences would have no particular reason to interpose objection. That included the change in the charter as to the time of the election, which is now fixed for next month, but which will there- after be changed from spring to fall, and the terms of offica made two years instead of three. * * * We have sought to rob the charter of some of the features that contribute toward the maintenance of a political machine and those provisions we have incorporated in the charter bill. We have tried to change the street gang pro- vision so as to prevent the employment of a small army at public expense to do political work for the machine without anybody knowing anything about it until the bills come in after election. If Mr. Burbank is reported correctly, his prolific mind has performed a stu- pendous task. The Burbank charter is strictly original and should by all means be patented or copyrighted. Its conspicuous feature is the duplex and delicate mechanism by which the old machine,is to be smashed and the Bur- bank machine substituted. With the Burbank charter in operation, the mu- nicipal government is to be as far as possible kept out of party politics and at the same time all city officers, mem- bers of the school board and county officers, district judges and supreme judges are to be elected on the regular party ticket with a single cross-mark in the ring in November instead of hav- ing city elections separated from all other party elections, as has become the prevalling custom in every large city in America. Mr. Burbank is one of those rare men who can eat his ple and keep it at the same time. He can pulverize the ma, chine, departisanize the electipns and at the same time nominate all his candidates by machine rule at party primaries and ram down the throat of every voter the straight ticket from top to bottom, yellow dogs, cats and all. The stress lald upon the virtues of the double action, self-ndjusting, elas- tic eharter improvised by Mr. Burbank and in part approved by the republican members of the Douglas delegation is the extraordinary provision that re- quires every street sweep, garbage hauler and sewer laborer to be con- firmed by the council before he can do a stroke of work for the city. The in- ventor of thjs reform evidently does not take into account the possibility of a heavy smowstorm blockading the streets, or a great freshet washing out sewers and culverts, or a cyclone strewing the streets with signboards, billboards, telegraph and telephone poles, which would call for immediate action on the part of the Board of Pub- lic Works for the prompt protection of the community. He would have the mayor convene the council first and then require the Board of Public Works to submit the names of the street sweeps and com- mon laborers for confirmation, and if the council happened to be in a dead- lock he would bhave the whole ecity paralyzed In order to forestall the pos- sible use of the street cleaning and street sweeping force In a primary election. But Mr. Burbank and his followers, 0 nearly all afe expecting to break into the city hall in some ecapacity, would not object seriously to have the street gangs, sweepers, repairers, sewer men and all mustered for the support of the straight ticket on election day if | they were candidates for city or county offices. The truth ‘of the matter is that the city treasury bas never been looted to pay political street sweeners under the present Board of Public Works. As a matter of fact, only a fraction over one hundred men were employed by the city all in all at the time of the pri- maries before the presidential election two years ago, or at the time of last tall's primaries. It is a matter of notorlety that any | one of the frenchised corporations em- | ploys twice, thrice and even five times that number of men and ne amount of ! charter tinkering will prevent them | from appearing at the primaries, The | only instance, within the memory of the oldest Inhabitant, where three or four hundred men—political street sweepers—have actually been naid for by the city was at the end of the first term of W. J. Broatch as mayor of Omaha. But even that abuse, which was an impeachable offense, would not have justified the legislature in the en- actment of a law that would prevent the Board of Public Works from em- ploying common laborers on short notice whenever and wherever they are submit to what any one member of another body may demand as a price for legislation.”. . Mr. Cannon may be assured of an almost unanimous popular support in the position he has taken. There is little reason, however, to ex- pect the desired reform in the near future, The recent discussion in the senate of the proposition tc put some needed. There Is no more reason for requiring the city laborers to be confirmed by the council than there 18 for them to be named hy the mayor. There is just as much reason to fear that a majority of the council would get up a political street sweepers' combine as there is that the mayor would exert his influ- ence to compel the employment of po- litieal roustabouts. There fs just as much danget from the machive with which Mr. Burbank has coupled up as there is from the old machine which he is so anxious to pulverize. Many of the sowcailed law and order people, who want a_governor-appointed police commission for South Omaha trot with the class that elbows its way regularly into political conventions, school boards and eity councils In order to barter their votes to the highest bid- der. They want to purge South Omaha of vice and debauchery on the Kelly plan of rakeoff, with dividends distributed twelve times a year. There is nothing in the constitution of Nebraska that imposes upon the legisla- ture the duty to regulate and fix the standard of thme, but such a unique measure is now proposed and pending. The next thing we will hear of will be a bill to create the office of state clock regulator and time starter with a stem- winder salary. fp——— One of the first citizens of Cuba certifies over his name and under his spectacles that he has been cured by a celery compound. But one of the very first citizens of Omaha threatens to sue the cempound company for dam- ages because his picture has been pub- lished far and wide without his aid or consent. Why Not Return to Jackson? St. Louls Globe-Democrat. Democrats may as well go on voting for Cleveland anybody; it is pathetic to think of what the party would do if Cleve- land should dfe. Entitled to a Grin, Detroit Free Press. Omaha parents are vigorously objecting to a negro teacher in the public schools. This entitles Senator Tillman to at least one sardonlc grin. ‘Who's Whot Washington Post. Colonel Watterson's suggestion that the next democrasic nominee be the Man-With- The-Tron-Mask was doubtless created by a desire to get away from the Man-With-The- Iron-Jaw. andor Worthy B Bpringfield Republican. Mr. Quay’s candor should be emulated by his senatorial colleagues. In declining to vote on the question of taking up the Lit- tlefleld anti-trust bill he frankly admitted that he owned stock in varfous corpora- tions known as trusts. Now there must be a number of other senators who own that kind of stock. An Even Chance. New York World (dem.) ‘The boy stood on the rotten all but him had fled. The boy’ ‘William. He shouted ince: plank must be “reaffirmed.”” There is just about as much chance that Willlam J. will have his way as that the democrats will declare in favor of colonising the moon, re-establishing slavery or reafiirming the resolution that '‘the war is & failure.” vt SRS iiieiaivay ‘Will the Navy Survivet Minfieapolis' Yournal. Admiral Crowfiinshield, the choice snob of the navy, hal resigned. It {s good for the navy to get rid of him, but it is too bad to think of the government having to continte 'to pay' him $6:625 a year.on the retired Hst. But even ‘at that, his rid. dance 1s cheap. There is no place in the American navy:for an admiral who takes offense because he can't have a splendid battleship for ordinary cruising duty, espe- clally when such use of a battleship is in confilct with the departments regular plan for disposition ©f the battleships. ——— How the Good Trust Works. Springfield Republican. Sinoe acquiring the plants of the Sharon and Union steel companies the United States steel corporation has secured a fuller monopoly than ever of the steel wire production of the country and the event is belng celebrated by an advance of §2 a ton in the prices of ‘all kinds of wire products. Thus again is the lle given to the repeated assertion that the big trust alms to tollow the non-monopoly policy of main- taining moderate prices and relylng upon large production at & low margin of profit for its advantage. It is not & “good trust’” any more than the others are. It is pursuing the general trust policy of charging all the traffic will bear. TRAGEDIES ON THE RAIL. Limited Damage in Death Cases & Premium on Carelessne: Cleveland Plain Dealer. So long as human life is cheaper than properly raised or depressed tracks grade crossing tragedies will continue. So long as it 1s *“good business” for the railroads to pay mominal damages to the heirs of train wreck viotims rather than provide adequate equipment and capable employes disasters by rail will continue to shock the country. On last Saturday alone a dozen people were killed and Injured in railroad accidents. A week ago today the New York | Sun printed a list of a score of such accl- dents during the previous week and took occasion to say in conclusion: “It la re- corded that the total number of persons killed on railroads in this country during the year ended June 30, 1902, was 2,819, while the number injured was 39,800. In 1901 the number of killed and injured was even greater than this.” These accidents continue to be recorded with alarming frequency and the present winter has been even more remarkable for the exceptional number of wrecks involy- ing large loss of life. These facts are being used with telling effect by those who are now urging the 1llinols legislature to stpesl the law fixing the limit for a life at $5,000. In Ohlo, too, this is the maxl- mum amount that can be obtained as dam- ages. In New York and some other states the question of damages is left to the jury. In the cases arising from the New York Central tunnel' wreck of a year ago large verdicts were returned, based solely on the earping capacity of the victims and what the imsurance men call thelr ‘ex- pectation of lite." Many who oppose the repeal of the $5,000 limitation argue that, were it not for thi the sympathies of jurymen would be worked upon and excessive damages obtained which the reviewing courts might not have the courage to set aside. As a matter of fact the setting mside of excessive damages is & famillar experience In every state and arodses no comment. Moreover, why should not the courts be trusted in this as in other matters? It is not to be forgotten that in personal injury suits the door s open to frauds which would be impossible In cases brought to recover damages for loss of Iif: latter there can be mo dispute fact of death or as to the vietim’ capacity and expectation of life. In the former there is wide margin to be al- lowed for perjury and homest error. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropolis. Attempts to enforce reasonable respect for the law and decency in one of the tough districts of New York proved abortive be cause the local or district magistrates do not approve of police activity. Recently Police Captain Gorman of the Mercer street station raided a number of joints, captured 126 prisoners and marched them into Magis- trate Crane’s court. When asked by the astonished magistrate what all this meant, Gorman said he was trying to suppress vice dn his district. “You cannot suppress vice, for i1t has existed since the world began,' was Crane's tart remark. Captain Gorman sald meekly that it the maglstrate would assist him in cleaning his district he would be very grateful. Crane replied contemptu- ously that he was not doing police duty. He then roundly scored Gorman for making wholesale arrests, declaring that they did more harm than good, and discharged all the prisoners, who hooted at the captain as they left the court room. Michael Coyne, patrolman of the Delan- cey Wtreet station, is the last candidate for the life-saver medal. One night recently, relates the New York Sun, a drunken man fell into the East river opposite Corlears street. Coyne saw the struggling man in the water and plunged In to save him. The water was, of course, like ice and the tide was running rapidly. Coyne knew enough of the East river and of the season to know all that before he jumped. But he also knew that there was a life to save and that it was the man on the spot. Coyne reached his man and attempted to swim ashore with him. That task was too much for him. The tide carried him out into the middle of the river, but the brave policeman held on to his man for fully half an hour before two other policemen in a rowboat reached him ahd brought him ashore with his com- panfon. Only a short time ago this same policeman saved the lives of four persons in & tenement house fire. Apparently he has ne fear of elther fire or water. Coyne 18 a splendid type of the New York ‘“‘cop.”” A collector of Wall street trifles has as- sembled the nicknames by which the best known stocks are known in the brokers' of- fices. Generally speaking, they are mere abbreviations for economy of time and space, but there is a dash of fun In some of them. Canadian Pacific is “Canuck;" Mis- sourl, Kansas & Texas is shortened to “K. T." or “Katy;” Missourl Pacific, Mo. P., Mop,” and Southern Pacific, by a similar condensation, becomes “Soup.” Atchiso Topeka & Santa Fe preferred is “Big Ate and the common is “Little Atch,” just tho preferred and common shares of North- ern Pacific are respectively “Nipper” and “Little Nipper,” which, blind as it may seem, is a pretty close approximation of N. P. R. R. Ontario & Western, “0. & W." is the “Old Woman,” and Peoples G Light & Coke is “Postoffice.”” Toledo, St. Louls & Western becomes “‘Tolu” and American Locomotive “Choo-Choo'" for reasons suf- ficiently obvious., Either “Smelts” or “Strikers” stands for American Smelting & Refining, while Chicage, Milwaukee & St. Paul {s known by both “Paul” and “The Saint.” Colorado Southern, C. X., is still called “Coxey,” and Pennsylvania fis of course “‘Pennsy,” just as Jersey Central is “Jersey” and plain “Central” New York Cen- tral. “Met” stands for Metropolitan Street Raflway and ‘“Telegraph” for Western Union. “Jojo” 1s the derivative nickname for the far western St. Joseph & Grand Island. Such familiar names as “Maple Leat,” “Panhandle,” “Blg Four,” eto., which have been semi-officially adopted by the respective railroads to which they ap- ply, are also current in the street. Bthel Bowman, who is 20 years old, walked for the first time in her life, one day last week. She is the daughter of A. H. Bowman of Plainfleld, N. J., and soon after her birth paralysis developed in her ankles. As she grew up she managed to get about the house in braces and on crutches, but she had to be lifted in and out of chairs and to and from her bed. A strong nurse was always with her. The successes of Dr. Lorenz reawakened hope in Mr. Bowman, and he had his daughter carried to the Hahnemann hospital in New York City. After sultable preparations Dr. G. W. Roberts cut the ligaments and tendons about her ankles. On Thursday, the twenty- first day after the operation, the plaster casts were removed and Miss Bowman was able to walk. She uses a stick and a crutch, but says she feels sure she will soon be able to discard them both and walk as well as other people do. George Bettner of Bayonne, who has a large collection of geese and chickens, says he can recognize any of his fowl, even after they are killed and dressed. Because of this faculty the family of John O'Shaugh- nessy’ missed & goose dinner they had planned. . Bettner went to feed his flock recently and found the finest goose in the lot had been stolen and he determined to have re~ venge. He was told by neighbors that the 0'Shaughnessys were going to have a goose for dinner, and he sought Chief of Police Magner. Then detectives started for the O'Shaugh- nessy domicile. As they were cothing around the corner Mrs. O'Shaughnessy grasped the goose and jumped into bed. The head of the house declared he haa seen nothing of anybody's goose, but the youngest child prattied innocently, “Mamma has a nice goose for dinner toda The detectives made a search. They found Mrs. O'Shaughnessy in bed, but she got up on request. The police wrapped the goose in & newspaper and took it to headquarters. The, other day & friend sald to James R. Keene: “Why do you work so hard? You have all the money you should want, and yet you keep on as hard as when you were collecting your first million.” "The veteran Wall street operator lighted a fresh cigar and replied: “Ever see a young dog thase a rabbit? He's just as eager after his second and third as he was after the first. As the dog grows old he draws all his ex- perience to his ald, and though he may lack speed he makes up in finesse. He dis~ plays as much desire to catch his hundredth rabbit as he did his first. Catching them only whets his appetite, but does not glut | it. Say, I'd rather talk horse.” ! Few interments have taken place in Trin- | ity church yard, New York, of late years The other day one occurred, however, and | the incident set the tongues of the gossips to wagging. Miss May White, granddaugh- ter of the revolutionary patriot Jacob Le Roy, was burled in the vault of her fllue- | trious ancestor. Great canvas shields wery | spread over the tall iron fence to prevent the gatbering of a throng, but this served only to whet curlosity. Thousands gath- ered on Broadway to witness the strange spectacle—a burial in the very heart's heart of New York. The Only Obstacle. Springfield Republican. Resolutions favoring election of United States senators by popular vote have been adopted in several western legislatures by & nearly unanimous vote. Only the United States senate itself, by blocking the sub- misefon of & .constituticnal amendment, stands in the way of this change. Appar- ently & large majority of the members of that body feel that they would have no chance of getting back on & popular vote. A FORGOTTEN EPISODE. tdent in the Life of Conrad Jordan. Washington Post. “The evil that men do," says Shakes- peare, “lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” We might paraphrase the quotation and say that the official record of a public functionary is often all we can find in his obituary nd- tices, whereas the qualities which gave him his chief claim to our esteem as 4 man are promptly forgotten Conrad N treasurer, was a person of forceful char- acter, and ‘not devold of ‘sentiment, but cherishing a wholesome horror of over. doing it. Forty years ago he was a hard- working clerk in a New York City bank and lved in New Jersoy to economize. One bitterly cold December evening as he was crossing the Cortlandt street ferry on his way home he had an adventure. A young woman; who, with her betrothed, had been hurrying to catch the boat, boarded it as it was moving out, but, dis- covering that her escort had been left be- hind, turned and tried to jump back, missed her footing and fell into the river, disappearing in the swirl of water and broken ice. Young Jordan, without an in- stant's hesitation, sprang in after her, brought her to the surface and held her there, at the risk of his own life, till the deck bhands could fish them both out with rope and boat hooks. With his characteristic contempt for what he called “flummery,” he declined to let any one know his name, but through the men who had contributed enough dry clothing to send him home his address was traced, and presumably he received a letter from James D. Stryker of Lambertville, N. J., the young woman's father, inclosing $100. Jordan returned the money at once with a brief message to the effect that the rescue was merely a response to a humane impulse, and did not call for compensation. Miss Stryker, however, was not to be put off in this way, but eent him & case of domestic currant wine, with a note saying that he must accept It she had made it with her own hands. The father also called in person then, and every year thereafter till his death, to express his thanks to Jordan afresh. “And so they were married, and lived happily ever after?” Not a bit of it. This was not a falry etory or a romance in a 10-cent magazine, but an event in real life. Miss Stryker married the man for whom she got her ice water plunge, while her savior went his own, way and reared a separate family, who probably would never have known what their father had done had not somebody besides himself let them into the secret. In Mr. Stryker's will, opened in 1883, was found a bequest of $260 to Conrad N. Jordan for the pur- chase of a souvenir of his December duck- ing for an unknown woman's sake. There wers & few persons in Washing- ton when Mr. Jordan was here under the first Cleveland administration who sneered at him because he showed scant regard for the civil war record of a subordinate whom he had to discharge for drunken- ness and insubordination. By what right, they demanded, should this stay-at-home civillan have authority to e away the livelibood of a man who had had the cours age to risk his life for bis country? The moral_is that not all the brave men prove PERSONAL NOTE! Australian merchants have placed in this country a big order for British flags. It is a reversal of the famous commerecial mazim when the flag follows trade. Senator Patterson is one of the most en- tertaining men In congress. He used to write jokes for circus clowns, and much of his native humor fs still preserved, King Leopold, the gay monarch of Bel- glum, regretfully announces that he will not be able to come to this country for at least a year. The country can stand it it he can. At his Washington's birthday reception at the state house In Boston Governor Bates of Massachusetts shook the hands of more citizens of the state than had any of its governors in any preceding similar function, The number was 3,177, including three infants. Prof. Shaler of Harvard peints out that Buropean peasants are suspicious of “the people in the next valley.”” Age-long fends like that between Sienna and Florence are common. In this country, owing to con- stant travel, the most ignorant are ready to trust strangers. United States Senator John W. Danlel of Virginia, in an address in Baltimore Thurs- day evening on ““The Thoughts of Robert E. Lee,” sald that the nineteenth century produced five eoldiers to’ whom the world has given the title of great—these being Napoleon, Wellington, Von Moltke, Grant and Robert E. Lee. /Two elderly women were sitting in the house gallery In Washington carefully scanning the varfous members of that Lody on the floor below. One of them turned to a man nexf her and inquired: ‘“‘Could you tell me the name of that patriarchial gen- tleman there “That is General Gros- venor,” was the reply. “Grosvenor? Gros- the woman exclaimed. “I wonder if 1t is possible for a man to be as wise as he looks? Senator Foraker, like numbers of his col- leagues, is not a soclety man and only “does soclety” from a sense of obligation. During one of the last nights of the season when he, with Mrs. Foraker, was obliged to attend several tunctions the same even- ing, he gave this order to his coachman: “Drive us to Senator —'s to dinner, then call and take us to Mrs. ‘s reception. At 12 call for us to go to the —— embassy and after that take us to the madhouse. The doyen of French medical men is Dr. David of Montpellier, who celebrated his 103d birthday on February 10. The doctor was born on the 19th day of Pluviose, year IX, and practiced medicine until he reached the ripe age of 98 years. He then retired and went to live at Montpelller, with his daughter. Dr. David is in full possession of all his faculties. He 1s an authority on certain diseases, and patients still come to consult him, some from great dis Jordan, formerly United States | DON'T TELL THE DOOTORS. from Appendicitis. New York Times | The latest novelty among the speculators in Insurance has made its appearance at Lioyd's, in the shape of insurance expense or death from appendicitl applicant who 1s free from a well-defined or discoverable predisposition to inflamma- tion of that inconvenient and apparently inexplicable organ, the appendix vermi- formis, for an annual premium bt 5 shillings gets a policy guaranteeing his direct ex- penses if he has to undergo an operation, | up to the amount ef £200, and it he dics during or in consequence of such operation | the designated beneficlary recelves a lump sum of £200, The new scheme is sald to be taking very well and large numbers of such policies have been written. The scheme is legitimate enough, and takes its place with specialized accident insurance. From the point of view of the underwriters, however, it may be feund necessary to in- sert a clause in such policles making their possession confidential between Iinsurers and insured. If the surgeons knew who beld insurance of this kind there is teason to fear that the number of operatiohs im- mediately and imperatively necessary would show an alarming incre POINTED REMARKS, “Headquarters for 8 queer, queer about 1t? Towne—I always thought $3 pan designed for other quarters. Iribune. “I'll never speak to them againl" ““Oh! You shouldn‘t get as cross ag that, Flossie!" “No! I won't speak to them again, and LU teht them so every tme 1 seo them!"— uel were o “Sir,"" sald the old lady, "I am quite con- sumed with thirst. Can you direct me to a ain in this neighborhood ? exclaimed Weary Walker. 't_deserve fo have a ess. “1 wonder,” said the Gilmor street resi- ent, “‘who originated the expressio ‘Where there's smoke there must be fire. “I dunno,” sald the east ender, “‘but I'll bet he made the remark before my farnace was invented.”—Baltimore News. _he still superintendent of that powder h, no; s traveling now.” Is ‘that’ s “‘Yes, At any rate, he hasn't come down since the explosion last week.''—Detroit Free Press. “Shakespeare says there is good in every- Ihln“rm." remarked Mrs. Buyby. % e old duffer evidently never went lhovgln' with his wife,” " rejolned the freight pay of the combination, ‘‘or he wouldn't have made a fool assertion like that.”"—Chicago News. “I see that somebody has figured out that Adelina Patti will receive during her tour 3347 for each note sho utters and $2.50 every time she breathes." “Say, wouldn't that make winded?'—Cleveland Plain D HOME MADE BREAD. ou short- er. W. D. Nesbit tn Chicago Tribune. It makes a fellow hungry just to think about the bread Of honest old-time baking, on which in youth he fed: The loaf that showed the traces of the Fln' Intense caress, But bulged above those wrinkles as if Inl out to bless who gazed upon it with a joyous That Reveiled in th t ot 1 at revelled In the prospect o 8¢ revelied in the prosp the slices Today the chemists make it, and the flour 1 Inl.l!led; m.clr::fl is ' sclentific and is properly The baker's wagon brings it—it is con- sclencels and hard; e cooking echools concoct it by the rules upon a card; Exactness and precision guide the baking, it is sai But, the d, ey never equal the. old-f oo op Ly nater &g old-tashioned Bometimes there comes a fancy from the mist of yesterday That holds the yeasty perfume of the dough set out to raise, 1 And when we hear the patting on the floury mixing board, And see the old-time oven with its Joodness stored. And when the door Is opened, what tying gust ; Of pungent, rich aroma floated from the browning crust! i The breakfast foods displace it—there are '00ds you needn't chew, And foods that give the stomach not a single thing to do, And foods with wondrous titles, thaf have leaped to sudden fame— The old-time bread was splendid, with the same old-fashioned name; It held the balm of summer and théiglory of the wheat And . breathed an Invitation that would make you come and eat. 00d old times are going, and the good old bread is gone! 3 The thick cut elice of “home made*’ with the wealth of jam thereon! ? The plece of bread and butter thgt was such a boyhood boon 4 And filled the vold that clamored fh the hunx\'{ afternoon! And, oh, Lucullan fancy! You wers fit for any fate, ‘When home ‘made bread was floating in the gravy on your plate! . Jts crumb was Al'lgn flaky, and its crust was never burned; Your mother used to make it (but: your sister ne\;er l!ll"‘“kd')- o5 e constant march of progress hufls our cherianed thinge i b home made bread no longer flanks the apple butter jar— No more the fang of sploes tells that something good is & A-0p & tempiing portion of the good old- fashioned brea CLOSING OuT We will sell all plate Cameras at Half Price. Big discounts om all supplies. write for prices. J. C. HUTESON & CO., 213 8. 16th St, Paxton Block. Call or PAIR FOR PAIR Means a pair of suspen ders for each pair of trousers. That's what every man man ought to have. If it's one peir or five palr, we have what you want, as we have, five styles and colors of a new Lisle suspender of the “Crown" manufacture, that are out of the ordinary; light in weight, but heavy and strong in service. On sale today at 50c a pair. § different colors in § different windows. Notice them on 15th street side. NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS @ 0. TR 8 Wies, Manager,