Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 8, 1903, Page 18

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY MARCH 8 190 THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. T PTION. 3 00 Daily Bee (without Bunday), One Year, “' Dally Bee and Sunday, One Year.. 6.00 Hiustrated Mr‘( H five, One A . 160 h Century Farmer, One Year.. 1 DELIVERED BY C. ARRIE! - Dally Bee (without 8 or COPY .rv Daily Bee (without Sun . per week..1dc Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week “(c e 4 Wik %0 oor 10c r copy (Without Sunda (ncluding Bunday), Complaints of irregularities in delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De- Jartment. G ¢ OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding. South Omaha—City Hail Butiding, Twen- Washington—01 CORRESPONDENCE. = Communieations relating to news and ed- itorlal matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The fice Publishing Company, Only 2-cent stamps ncl'n‘nud in payment o mail accounts. Personal checks, except, on Omaha _or eastern exchange, mot A ed. e BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY STATEMENT OF CTRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss George B. Tzschick, secretary of The Bee Publl‘gln ‘Company, being duly sworn, saye that the actual number of full l!nl complet coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of February, 193, was as follow 3 Net average bscribed in my piesence and béfore me this 28t ay of Februlr‘ A. D. 1903, M. B HUNGATE (Seal ‘Notary Publle. In passing it may be noted that Mr. Groundhog will complete his period of self-imposed hibernation this week. e— A Fourth of July conference on the negro question held at Atlanta would certainly promise the delegates a warm time. The democrats will shed profuse tears over the fallure of the statehood bills, but a chemical analysis would prove that they are crocodile tears. mre————o—— Commercial agency reports say that business is ahead of last year and still increasing. The debate on the per- manency of prosperity is indefinitely postponed. ——— Presumably the other branches of the state government should feel thankful that the state university does not ask for all the money that is to come into the treasury. Omaha is forging to the frout among’ the clearing house cities, “s'he" bank clearings for the past week reathed high water mark and approached closely to the $10,000,000 figure. Unless the republican members of the legislature make a very material reduc- tion in the aggregate of tho appropHa- tion bills the next legislature may not have a republican majority. Two-thirds of the legislative session has passed, but the remaining one-third can be made to turn out more wheat and less ‘chaff if the lawmakers are in- tent on getting down to business and sticking to it ———r———— In cougress or out of congress, ex- Speaker Henderson will be classed among the big men of the country. He may retire from public life, but he will be heard from on public questions, and ‘what he says will command attention. It goes without saying that the run- ning mate on the presidential ticket with President Roosevelt will come from the west, but there is no law, written or unwritten, that conflues the eligibles to Ohio and Indiana. The west includes several other states. e ] It Andrew Carnegle feels badly that his offen, to pay Venezucla's debts was not accepted, he might make the offer to the Nebraska legislature with fair as. surapce in advance that it would be quickly accepted without giving him time to reconsider and change his mind. ——— The local Bryan organ Insists that nothing Bryan has been saying in his recent speeches should offend a real democrat. But several men prominent in democratic . douncils have indicated that they take no stock In Colonel Bryan's declarations, Another theoret- feal discussion Is In order on what con- stitutes a real democrat. — Talking against time behind the closed doors of an executive session has not balt the glamor of long-distance speech- Ifylng In open house for the benefit of galleries and press reporters. With not even the free advertising features of space In the Congressional Record, the temptation of the senators to orate must suffer a decided diminution. E——— An inquisitive reader of the Com- moner asks If there is anything in the federal constitution to prevent a presi- dent of the United States from holding the office for more than two or any oumber of terms in succession, and the answer in the negative is promptly fur- nished him, Were It not for innate modesty the editor would also voluuteer the Information that there is nothing in the constitution eithcr to prevent a can- lidate for president from aspiring fo the position any number of times In succession. ‘ PRI.’IDIRTl(leILI'.'UPPURTURITY‘ value the wisdom and conservatism of The closing hours of the Fifty-seventh congress presented to the American peo- ple an object lesson that affords mate- rial for serious reflection and calls for heroic treatment. It emphasizes the universal {mpression that the national legislature i rapidly degenerating intd a body of political free-booters, whose sole object Is the Jooting of the treas- ury. Year after year the closing days of congress witness a disgraceful strug- gle for extravagant and wasteful ap- propriations, log-rolled by barter and trade in omnibud bills which, under our straight-Jacket constitution, the president must either sign or veto as a whole regardless of their merit or de- merit. Appropriation bills Involving the ex- penditure of hundreds of milllons are held back until the last hour of the ses- glon and are rushed through under whip and spur loaded down with items aggre- gating millions, whose presentation for payment is not much better than a high- wayman's holdup. This daagerous abuse of legislative power has mnot been checked by the close jointed rules of the house nor the loose jointed rules of the senate. In default of a constitutional amend- ment that would empower the president to veto any items in an appropriation bill, just as the governors of nearly all the states now' do under modernized state constitutions, the only resource left to successfully grapple with this evil is a chief executive who has the courage of his convictions. No man who has ever occupied the presidential chair pos- sessed this rare quality in a more emi- nent degree than Theodore Roosevelt. What the emergency calls for is: 1. An official ‘notice by the president to the Fifty-elghth congress that he will not approve another omnibus bill whether it be a.river and harbor bill, public building bill, or any other ap- propriations combine. 2. That except in an emergency he will not approve another general appro- priation bill unless it Is passed at least tén days before adjournment so that in cuse of its veto congress can either pass it over the president’s head and relieve him from responsibility, or re-enact the bill with the objectionable items cut out and allow the revised bill to be- come a law with or without the presi- dent's signature, 3. That he will treat all appropria- tion bills passed through a combination of conflicting interests as a perniclous measure procured by, corrupt methods and will place the responsibility for the defeat of meritorious appropriations coupled in with palpable jobd upon con- gress, let the consequences be what they may. In taking that position, we feel sure, the American people, irrespective of party, will uphold President Roosevelt and hold him blameless for whatever may happen, even if rivers run dry and public buildings run shy. e—— WESTERN INFLUENCE. The influence of the west in the af- fairs of the nation Mas been steadily growing and is certaln to become more potent In the years to come. Less than a quarter of a century agq the western section of 'the country, while sending able men to congress, did not have a very great influence upon the cqurse of legislation or upon the policy of the na- tional administration. Eastern senti- ment and eastern influence were domi- nant up to within recent years, or until the time when Harrison became presi- dent. It is true that prior to that time the west had sent great men to congress and was represented by able men in the cabinet, but still its influence had been relatively small and the east continued to dominate in the executive and legis- lative departments of the government. New England and the great states of New York and Pennsylvania exerted the chief power at Washington, regulated only by considerations of expediency as to the political effect upon the states of the west. A change has come about within the last dozen years, so that today' the statesmen of the country are looking rather to western oninion than to that of the east, to the wishes of the people of the west instead of to the wishes of the people of the east, as the guide of their conduct in legislation and the general administration of affairs. This is particularly the case with the republican party. The west has be- come the great bulwark of that organ- ization, as the south is of the demo- cratic party. The stronghold of repub- licanism today is in the west. It is not uncommon to hear eastern and middle states spoken of as doubtfully repub- lican, with a few exceptions, but no one questions the fidelity to republican principles of the chief states of the west, !\"almd)' doubts that In the natlonal “contest of next year the west will give its electoral vote for the candidate of the republicar party and will elect to congress a great majority of republican representatives. The influence of the west in the af- fairs of the nation is largely due to the fact that its republicanism is of the stalwart kind. It belleves in the pro- tection of American industries and American labor and it has a profoundly patriotic Interest In the expansion and progress of the nation. The people of the west are optimistic and they have an uobounded faith in their country. “I have no fears for the future of my country,” sald General Henderson in his valedictory speech to the house of representatives. He spoke as a west- ern man and reflected the universal western sentiment. Ejere there is abso- lute faith in the republic and the will to preserve its institutions. The existing and growing influence of the west in pational affairs Is a fact that can be regarded with the utmost satisfaction. of higher ideals in government. - We would not under- the east, but for national advancement the confidence, the courage and the ag- gressiveness of the west are essential and indispensable. E— CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION. That the revision of our state consti tution has become an imperative neces sity is agreed on all hands. The only divergence of opfnion Is whether revi glon by a constitutional convention or by separate amendments submitted di rectly by the legislature will bring us relfef in the shortest time for the least money. The advocates of constitutional revi- slon by convention contend that theirs is the surest and safest plan even If the result is achleved at greater ex- pense and requires longer time. Great stress is lald by them upon the fact that separate amendments and a bunch of amendments have been submitted and defeated each time because they failed to receive the necessary majority of all the votes cast. They furthermore point to the fact that the submission of the twelve amendments by the legislature of 1895 Involved a very large expease for publication without benefiting any- body, and they predicate their opposi- tion to a repetition of the experiment on the assumption that the same result will follow if the present legislature submits a serles of constitutional amendments for ratification in 1004, While this argument is logical it is not well founded. The separate amend- ments submitted prior to 1896 failed be- cause they were objectionable to a very large body of voters, or because they were printed at the tail-end of the bal- lot and were ignored by. the majority of the voters. The defeat of the twelve amendments submitted in 1806 was due chiefly to the intense political excite- ment of the presidential election, which absorbed popular attention to the ex- clusion of all other issues. Even then the amendments fell short only by from 800 to 2,000 votes out of 230,000 cast at the electlon. The presidential election of 1904 is ot likely to be such a hot blast in Nebraska. The printing of the amendments at the top of the ticket and the practical unanimity of all parties in favor of the proposed amendments will Insure a full vote on the amendments and give us a revision two years sooner than it could possibly be gotten by calling a consti- tutional convention. The extra heavy expense for advertis- ing the amendments in 1896 was due to the fact that they were figserted in nearly twenty daily newspapers, each of whom brought in a bill all the way from $2,000 to $2,500. Had the secre- tary of state limited the order for pub- lication in dailies to once each week for thirteen weeks as the constitution con- templates instead of six times a week for thirteen weeks, the total expense for publication would not have exceeded $12,000. The publication of an entirely new constitution In one paper in each, county would Involve an expense of at least $75,000, but the cost of advertising the amendments s a trivial matter com- pared to the benefits that will accrue to the state from the constitutional revi- sion In 1904 instead of 1906. Those ben- efits cannot be measured in dollars and cents. A VETERAN STATESMAN. Among those who retired to private life at the close of the Fifty-seveuth cougress was Galusha A. Grow of Penn- sylvania. This veteran statesman had been a member of congress for many years and few men had contributed more largely than he to the welfare cf the country. A republican from_the birth of the party, Mr. Grow was al- ways a stanch supporter of republican principles and especlally of the protec- tive policy of the party. While not classed among the foremost advocates of that policy, he was still one of its ablest champions, as he was of every other republican principle. The greatest claim of Mr. Grow to the regard of the country, however, and that which will give him a conspicu- ous place in our history, is what he did in securing the enactment of the free homestead law, under which the public domain has been turned from a wilder- ness into an empire of happy homes. Had Mr. Grow done nothing “ut this in his prolonged public service, covering wore than half a century, he would be entitled to the everlasting gratitude of the American ‘people. Galusha A. Grow may not be reckoned among our greatest statesmen, but he must be regarded as one of the men whose practical wisdom and foresight have contributed immeasurably to the general welfare and done an Inestimable service to the country. Sy THE PAPAL JUBILEE. To the world of Catholicism the past week has been a period of uncommon interest. The celebration of the twenty- fitth anniversary of the accession of Pope Leo XIII as the head of the Ro- man Catholic church was an event which not onlythe people who acknowl- edge the spiritual authority of the pon tiff took an interest, but all people who are familiar with the career and char- acter of the veteran pope of Rome. He 1s recognized everywhere, regardless of religious falth or belief, as one of the great men of the nineteenth cen- tury, as well as one of the most notable of the heads of the Catholic church in ancient or modern times. There is no wore remarkable figure in Europe today than This venerable man, who preserves in his more than ninety years a en- tal force that makes him one of the world's most extraordinary wmen, exert: ing an influence upon the religious thought of mankind that is unequaled. religivus prejudice should dimin- ish the clalm of Pope Leo to the re- spect of the world. This is due to his wonderful ability and his perfeet rec- ogultien of the demands of modern conditions. He has greatly strength ened the church of which he Is the head becanse he has understood the require ments of his time and made the most of them. When he became pope the Csthollc church was not making prog ress. The policy of his predecessor, a 1 of no great ability angd of arbitrary h. ma will. was detrimental to the chu had been to a large extent underr even In its former strongholds. firel work to which Pope 1 himself was that of rehabilitating the churck where it had lost ground and in this he was greatly successful. The re- sult is that now the Catholic church is more powerful than ‘ever before in Its Listory and is making steady progress. The wisdom, the diplomatic sagacity and the recognition by Pope Leo of modern couditions have brought about a change respecting the Roman Catholic chureh which would have been thought almost tmipossible a quarter of a century ago, This distingnished man cannot live much longer, but the policy he has pur sned and the example he has given may be expected to long survive him and be fruitfel of still further benefits to the church which has profited so gre under his administration. ) applied CONSTRUCTING A HIGH MU A If this thing keeps on Nebraska gov- ernors will soon be clothed with func. tions more numerous and variegated than were Imposed upon the Pooh-Bah In the sublime court of the operatic Mikado. Outside of the regular func- tions pertaining to his office as chief executive, the governor of Nebraska 18 already head ofl inspector, chief com- missioner of labor, chief food Inspector, chief fish commissioner, grand game warden, supreme veterlnarfan and grand medicine man of the state health and pharmacy boards. To cap the cli- max a bill has just been Introduced in the house to establish a department of architecture wherein the governor is to figure as grand state architect with plumb, square and compass dangling from his button hole, with the other insignia of his complex and diffuse of- ficial paraphernalia. Now, if the legislature would pass a bill to require the governor to append with his official signature the initials of all the different titles he holds by virtue of his office it would be emi- nently in accord with the eternal fitness of things, to create a department mod- eled after his Briish majesty’s royal privy seal, expressly charged with the classification of ex-officlo titles and the improvisation of the proper curliqueus that are to he attached to each; coupled with a liberal appropriativn for the con- struction of a vault In the state house for the safe keeping of all the regalia, seals, stamps and engravings, pertain- ing to each of the various departments of which the governor is the factotum extraordinary. In due time when' all the legislatures get through with the construction of departments and titles Nebraska’s governor will be a sort of high muck-a-muck very much like to a Turkish Pasha with nine tals. S p—— Another reduction in newspaper pos- tage by -the Canadian postal depart- ment, so that such mail matter may be sent to England at the same rates of postage as for domestic delivery, illus- trates the firmly fixed policy of the Canadian authorities to encourage in every legitimate way the publication and distribution of home newspapers and periodieals. Canadlan postage rates have for a long time been more liberal to publications than the best rates in this country, although from the disposition here to charge up every postal deficit to the low newspaper postage just the opposite impression prevalls. What the newspapers have done to build up and develop the coun- try would not be offset If the malils were thrown open free to every publi- cation properly in the newspaper class. . S The inference is given out that Gen- eral Funston's summons to Washington to confer with the assistant secretary of war has something to do with the plans of the government for statloning troops in Alaska in connection with the pending contention over the Alaskan boundary question. The chances are, however, that the desire for General Funston’s presence at the capital is in- spired not by prospective complications in Alaska, but by the pressure being brought for an official investigation fnto his conduct while in the Philippines. Whether there is any foundation or not for the charges brought against Gen- eral Funston, it is known that repre- sentations have been repeatedly made to the president that nothing but a court-martial will satisfy those who are behind thenf, —_—_— In making appropriations for the maintenance of the university the leg islature can well afford to draw the line at the item of $50,000 for the proposed college of wusic. It would be just as rational for the legislature to appropri- ate $30,000 for a coll a college of painting. of sculpture or Difference in Methods Only, Brooklyn Eagle. Women In France can obtain the right to wear trousers by paying to the govern- ment a tax of $10. The right can be ob- tained in the United States, in several in- stances, merely by marriage, with the tax paid to the minister, in fee simple. The Omaha parents are showing very poor judgmeni in keeping their children home from sehool because & negro teacher is employed. Not only are they exhibiting their own foolish prejudice, but they are undoing the lessons of equality which are a part of the common school education. A Territy Suggestion. Collier's Weekly. It you would have your womenfolk eco- nomical, let them handle money and learn to respect its value. There may be women who have muot suficient womanliness to honor the confidence this trust implies; but they arg eyceptions. If such be your daugh- ters, it I8 your business to teach them other- wise. If they be your wives, it is your own fault for having married them. When & father gives his son an allowance he should do the eame for his daughters; not as a| matter of material favor—for the daught- | er's bills might double the son's allowance | ~put as a matter of discipline, of financial experfence and educalion The Wiser Polley. New York Tribune The retaining ot a corps of three-score surgeons by a great railroad corporation in order that they may give first ald to the injured In accidents will be generally com- mended; but is it not the wisest policy for railroads to take such precautions that surgeons need not be called on for the re. | liet of victims of disasters? | othing Effect of “Pork.” Loutsville Courler-Journal It 18 observable that, notwithstanding the strenuous campalgn of the minority in the house to prevent all further legislation when the omnibus public buildings bill came up it went through with a whoop, with only about a score of votes against it Even indignant fillbusters are not proot against the seductions of “pork.” What They Accomplished. Cineinnat! Enquirer. Some pessimistic bachelor who pretends to have faithfully tead the accounts of the conventlon of the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution, just held in Washington, writes to ask: “What was it they did, anyhow?" Well_thcy elected officers, and they gave some demonstrations in parlia mentary procedure which almost made the rapld-fire process of the house of represen- tatives look solemn. Some of the men are reported to have been very proud of the ladies. Others are looking more than ever for life pertners who hold closely to the beauties of domesticity, and who do not raise their piping little voices in an audl. torium so large that the deep-toned Edwin Forrest could not have filled it. Confidence Back with Cash. Minneapolls Times, The rallway directors and managers of this country seem to have the utmost faith in the continuance of prosperity. Thelr budgets provide for expenditures in better- ments this year of about $300,000,000 and the bill for maintenance and bettermenta combined will be between $800,000,000 and | $1,000,000,000. Nearly 17 per cent of the | gross income of 1902 will be spent in pro- | viding additional facilities this year. In the last few years the carrying capacity of the railways of the United States has been doubled, trebled and in some cases quadrupled and still the roads are not able promptly to take care of the business offered. What better demonstration of the volums of our internal commerce could there be than this? $ LAST C , OF SCIENCE. Greatest Test to Which the Profession Was Ever Subjected. Philadelphta Record. The experiment of ralsing featherless chickens might have had some excuse in the early days of the Department of Agri- culture, when “Uncle Jerry” Rusk had to blush when asked for reasons for the cre- ation of that institution. Now, however, functions enough have been added to make the department buey and perhaps even use- ful. Wireless telegraphy, horseless car- riages and the like have a place in modern lite, but what conceivable use is there for featherless chickens? No objections have been raised to the department’s plan for of cleanli- cleanly and decent, and that it is only a matter of training to restore the lost habit of living on a higher plane. At no time, however, have chickens been without feath- ers, and the schéme of the department is virtually to create a new fowl which must be at a distinct disadvantage when com- pared with ordinary birds. The suggestion that roosters should be deprived of thelr crow by an early surgical operation can be defonded, but absolutely nothirz can be sald in favor of chickens without their natural and beneflcial covering. The hen has already been the subject of wrong at the hands of man. By the inven- tion of artificlal hatcheries she has been robbed of the joys of motherhood, and the chicks are brought into a cold world with- out the care of mothers. No wooden box with gas heat can fairly take the place of the soft and warm feathers of the mother hen. A further outrage is announced in the manufacture of an artificlal egg. At least the hen should -be allowed to keep her feathers. 'the secretary of agriculture evidently regards the experiment as an aid to science, but since It can have no wseful purpose the robbery of the chicken is un- warranted and wrong. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, ‘Cub, gentle eprir, ethereal cub” darn quick. Ker-choo! As & sure sign of spring, the cut in the price of coal is one to svear by. Miesouri law makers are shocked and provoked because a member's vote brought as high as $1,000. They want to get mc- quainted with the rich lobbyist. “The Smiths, a magazine for people named Smith,” comes from Detroit. The Jones, the Browns and the Johnsons are now in honor bound to show their Jiterary merit. The stork made six vieits to ome block in Chicago during the first five days of the week. By way of explanation it should be stated that the block Is occupled by for- elgners. 1t is up to the Sherlock Holmes of Buf- falo to make their theorles stick in the Burdick case. Results and less hot air would be an agreeable change for & mys- tifled community. After fifteen years of spasmoding drought in spots, Vermonters are slaking their mighty thirst with the contents of divers barrels and jugs. Eighty-three towns have voted for wet goods. Admiral Crowninshield's retirement is not such a bad move for himself as some mildness, ENTRANCING ENERGIZING "0_ ENTHR AT xcrossin ALLING JUST OUT Tales From CHANGED IN SIZE Town Topics DOUBLED IN CONTENTS SANE IN PRICE An original COMPLETE NOVEL by one of its notable list of clever authors will appear in each issue. This number of the QUEEN OF QUARTERLY MAGAZINES CONTAINS “DREGS IN THE CUP” ——BY— G. VERE TYLER alone worth ONE DOLLAR, but you can get it for FIFTY CENTS and in the number you will find some forty other good things in fiction wit and poetry by the BRIGHTEST WRITERS OF THE DAY incluaing an exceedingly strong story by RUDYARD KIPLING It you are mentally fatigued and want to be enlivened and enter- tained, not at one but at a dozen rendings, haad your newsdeaior » HALF DOLLAR and tell him to give you Tales From and you will get hours and hours of Rest and Town Topics Recreation or remit subscription price for one year ($2.00) to TOWN TOPICS PUB. C0., FOR SALE on all trains and by all 425 Fifth Ave., New York. news and periodical dealers, any one of whom will gladly forward your subscription. BLASTS FROM W'S HORN, The broad mind will not have the big head. What we galn in form we may lose in torce. The indulgence of the flesh dwarfs the spirit. Misfortunes are God’'s call to new min- istries. The man who never begins never has to break off. Stolen fruits are sweet only to a de- ranged appetite. External forms of religion often mark its extinct fires. To pander to the lower facultles is to paralyze the higher. Some people are planning they get to heaven. SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. Brooklyn Eagle: concerns racing that promised exactly what it ls—false. and knaves is too absurd to refute. and themselves. Philadelphia Press: for the Presbyter form in calling for contributions to the In 1890 there in amount of at least $760,000. were fifty-six Presbyterian churches the boroughs of Menhattan and the Bronx, while in 1800, with an increase of 33 per in the population, there were only The money is wanted to pay debts on old churches and to bhulld new ones and revive interest in the work too much talk about heresy In the last census period was cent fiftty-two churches. ot the church. Perhaps wot helpful. Portland Oregonian: If the Ministerial oclation of Salt Lake City puts the sec- tarian issue of - Mormonism abead of the already to move for a change of administ-ation when When you see the re- port that 30,000 clergymen invested in the sudden wealth, you may take the statement for ‘We may have some clergymen who are foolish, but to | thing say that thousands of them are gamblers And sensationalists never tell the truth after they have printed thelr falsehood, They let the latter stand to disgrace its victims The Presbytery of New York has set, perhaps, a difficult task v: oyD: at city to pers 8. E. Kiser in the Record-Herald. DOMESTIO PLEASANTRIES, | “Pa,” sald 'little Willie, who had been reading a cigar store advertisement, ‘what's imported and domesti “A servant girl," replied pa promptly.— Philadelphia Pres: ““He kissed me when he called last week,” 8ald Miss Ann Teek, as o'er her cheek The crimson blushes started. “That's so like Ned," Miss Peppri |, “He ‘always was kind-hearted. "ribune. v said, ~Chicago Mr. Byrnne Coyne—Ah, sweetest one, may L be you captain and guide your bark down the sea of life? Mrs. Berrymore (a widow)—No; but can be my second mate.—Detroit ¥ Press. “It looks s if the kaiser was getting more ard more putted up and in love with I ms Y. Sometimes I almost wish he had married a_woman like my wife.”"—Cleve- land Plaindealer. “He thraws as he goes by. “What & waste of'good material!" *Oh, dear, no; it's not a waste. They ro ust the superfiious ones that he can't de- {ver In person owing to the shortness of the evenings.”—Chicago Tost. kiss at me every morning Grover—What did you say to your wife when you got home iast night? Wilder—Oh, I didn't have to say any- . Shoe was tully able to furnish all the conversation that the occasion seemed to require.—Boston Transcript. Madge—Don't you think a girl marry an economical man? Dolly—I suppose 8o, bejng engaged to one.— should it's w Yor] ust awful un. LENTEN SACRIFICE. The world and flesh, till forty da, 1 must renounce; I shall myself do All luxury and pomp and vanity, For this is Lent. o by, ' | For me no more ten-cent cigars shall burn— All such extravagances 1 shall spurn; A humble corncob pipe shall serve my urn This present Lent . 1 shall give up my dally street car ride And walk instead, to mortity my pride, Ten cents a day thus saved I'll ay aside Right siraight through Lent. 1| My last spring's sult I quite intend to wear, But worse inflictions stlll I'll have to bear, Bo that for that I do not really care One copper cent moral and legal issue of polygamy in its ¢ contest against Reed Smoot for a seat in it Whether Mr. Smoot is a Mormon or a Presbyterian in his religious beliefs makes no difference with the qualifications as the United States senate, it -will fail ought. for senator. A Mormon apostle has much right to be senator as a Methodis bishop, so far as his religious convictions But when it comes to violating moral The brethren would better give up & sectarlan BO. and statute law it is different. fight. Chicago Chronicle: black es a solvent of the race nology. but do not Intermarry. It to bring up children in freedom. misesgenation as a substijute for virtuous marriage within race has proved a maledic- tion In the south. bave been extirpated by time and the s tem I8 forgotten there will be no race ques- | This vagarian tion left to vex either race. preacher, a native of Virginia and whit; of his admirers imagine. The hero of the revolving chair will draw a salary of $5,600 for life, a sum which would reconcile ge average mortal to the weariness of doing nothing. The late queen of Hawail did not get her claim for $200,000 through congress. It perished with other “good things” during the closing hours. Mrs. Dowminis should not be discouraged. Many a clalm mocked succeeding congresses for fifty years with- | out seelng its finished. Her name is Rogers and she teaches in the high school of the historle town of Pawtucket. Three hoodlums intimated to the te g00d,” but after they had poulticed their battered noses and blackened eyes they be- | came the meexest lambs in the flock. New York Irishmen have decided to dis- pense with the old style regalia on the | coming St. Patrick's day parade. If the Celts of Getham can forego 'he use of | cocked hats, green plumes and gorgeous | sashes on the 17th of Irctand it will be con- clusive proof that the “world do move.” A paleface Indian of the Gotham breed | bumped against the real thing in New York one day last week and in less than a sec- ond was grating bis teeth on the curb- stone. The real Indlan was a Carlisle boxer, and put up an artistic job. Here- after the paleface will confine himself to clgar signs. soclological freak IT'S to describe the beauties of our spring clothing The minister who re- cently recommended marriage of white and question in the south has learned little from eth- In Europe all races freely mingle, was slavery which contaminated the south by denying to the blacks the legal right to marry and Tilieit When slavery's effects | No little suppers following the show, With topthsome lobsters and le fizz Cli- quot— You bet I've got to go a little sloy, For this is Lent. For this fs Lent and I know shortly that My wite will strike me for an Easter hat At’s either strict retrenchment or a spat That's evident We will sell all plate Cameras at Half Prie Big discounts on all supplies. write for prices. J. C. HUTESON & CO., 218 8. 16th St Call or Paxton Block. HARD like the season they abound in cheerful eolors. 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