Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 23, 1903, Page 4

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Remit by dratt, express or postal order, able to The Bee Publisi Company, fi' 2cent atamps accepted accoun ersona r eastern excl IHEOBEI PUBLI!HI!{O LOHPAm PO e B St idvimlor == ) fl'A‘l'lI.II‘NT OF CIRCULATION. l‘tfi. of h- Douglas Coun( l ecretary ol Nllmu Compa, .bel duly sworn, s that th lc(uul numbflr of full and bk and’E B Fnted aring the month of Februa: lnnd-y B was as follows: 1 20, n:u!g;uus:::s: Less unsold and retu Net total sales. Net average Bubsctibed and to before me n.:g ‘-‘i of nnru-r'i;;n D. Weary ‘Notary O Bubile. The South Omaha primaries were a tame affalr and altogether one-sided, but hurricane weather is predicted for the Omaha primaries. E———— Do the citizens of Omaba want the pext city council to be made up of ‘“safe men” who will do the bidding of cor- porations, right or wrong? Some men are aspiring to be council- men who have about the capacity re- quired for constable. Have we mot had enough square pegs in round holes? e ) lowa democratic leaders do not ap- pear to be over anxious this year to go up against Governor Cummins the sacrificlal victim on thelr state ticket. Srm— The Philadelphia Record recently bad editorial reference to ‘“ex-Senator Thurston of Nevada.” That should be ground emough for a eitation for com- tempt of court. Sii Thodb Lipton's motto miist b3 “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” !hmroek III may yet be only a link in the lineage that leads to Shamrock XIIIL ——— Several healthy but neglected recom- mendations in Governor Mickey's in- augural message might serve to show the legislature how it' can make itself more useful before adjournment. e Whether Mr. Bryan will join Mr. Cleveland in making memorable the | dedication exercises of the St. Louls "exposition has not been officlally an- nounced, but it would not be hard to venture & guess. e After his long and arduous dutles in the greenhouse, Mr. Bartley really needed a recreation trip, although he might not have taken it at this particu- lar time if that investigating committee had not forced him to it. S—————— A few fresh Klondlke stories are about due to start the annual tide of fortune seekers to the Alaskan shores. It is high time for the publicity bureaus of the Alaskan transportation lines to get busy for the summer season. ————————— The privileged corporations are all agalnst municipal home rule becguse it is easler and cheaper for them to fix up their jobs down at Lincoln away from the eyes of the people whose rights they are trampling on than to stand up under the searchlighit at close range. p—————— The Bartley investigating committee will close its arduous labors next week and Joe Bartley, Ezra P. Savage and sundry other men of note and L O. Us,, who have been roaming about between the lakes and Puget Sound will come back to Nebraska to get a siff of fresh alr. GOOD, BAD AND INDIFFERENT. The voluminous revenue revision bill has passed the lower house of the leg- islature and Is now on parlor skates in the senate. No man, and no set of men, could draft an absolutely perfect reve- nie law. Viewed at long range the revenue bill formulated by the house may be pronounced good, bad and in- different. Tt could have been very much better in a great many respects apd it might hayve been worse in more respects. There is much in Jt that justifies the majority that voted in favor of its pas sage, and there Is a good deal that justi- fies the minority who recerded them- selves against it The explanation filed in support of his negative vote by Rep- regentative Nelson is eminently sound. He emphasizes in plain language the flugrant favoritism exhibited toward railway corporations in their virtual ex- emption’ from municipal taxation and the rank injustice thus done to the tax- payers of Omaha, South Omaha, Lincoln and every other city in the state. It points out the lopsided features of the bill that will inevitably caumse an - crease in the tax burdens imposed upon the farmer, the merchant and the small home owner without a corresponding increase in the tax burdens imposed upon the corporations enjoying most valuable franchises and privileges. On the other hand, some of the provisions embodied in the bill, notably the crea- ton of the single county assessor and the sections providing for the more sys- tematic and uniform assessment of all classes of property, will commend them- selves as an {mprovement on the present law. How the bill will fare in the senate 18 still problematic. There is ground for the serious apprehension that the senate may mutilate the bill in the interest of the municipal franchised corporations and other interests that have maintained @ lobby at the capitol for months, that has centered its efforts upon members of the upper house and hopes by delay- Ing final action on the bill to the last hours of the session to accomplish its mission. It is & matter of common no- torlety that members susceptible to im- proper influences have not only been ap- proached but manipulated by a gang of boodlers that has no equal perhaps in any other state in the union. If the bill comes out of the senate without the ac- companiment of a colossal scandal it will be almost miraculous, e ___ ] COMMENT ON THE DECISION. The comment of labor leaders on the decision of the anthracite strike com- mission Is in the main reassuring. This is particularly so in regard to the state- ment of President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers, who is quoted as expressing satisfaction with the awards generally and stating that the miners will stand by the commission’s decision. Mr. Mitchell, it “is needless to say, speaks with the highest authority, so that there fs no doubt’that his position ‘will be endorsed by the organization of which he Is the head. The editor of the mine workers’ organ also approves most of the awards of the commission and other leaders of labor, among them Mr. Gompers, are reported to be well satisfied with the decision, regarding it as distinctly in the interest of organ- ized labor, notwithstanding the fact that the decision _does not formally recognize the miners’ union, the com- mission regarding the question of rec- ognition as not within its jurisdiction. There are some, of course, who do not take a favorable view of the report, but they constitute a very small minor- ity and probably do not exert any great amount of influence. The operators have sald nothing in regard to the awards, but there has been no intima- tion that they are dissatisfied or will not comply with them. One operator remarked that the effect of the decision will be to keep up the price of coal, but probably the price would not have been reduced if the decision were wholly in favor of the operators, The precedent established by this commission is most important and its suggestion that “the state and federa! governments should provide machinery for the making of a compulsory investi- gation of difficulties, similar to the in- vestigation which the commission has made,” is worthy of earnest coneidera- tion. While it is very genmerally con- ceded that compulsory arbitration is not practicable in this country—that such a system as that of New Zealand, for instance, could not be made effec- tive here—there is no reason why com- pulsory investigation of labor difficul- ties could not be Instituted and made beneficial In eliciting the facts and de- termining the right and wrong in such difficulties. It is not to be doubted that such a plan would prove useful in averting conflicts and preserving in- dustrial peace. Workingmen generally should give thoughtful attention to those portions Emremm——— 3 The impression seems somehow to bave gotten abroad in the land that the members of the Panama Canal com- mission will not only have supervision of the commission’s report which deal with general matters, as for example the rights of nonunion labor and the boycott. There are very positive and explicit declarations In regard to these which merit serlous consideration, made as they are by men entirely friendly to organized labor. E— Governor Dockery of Missouri threat- ens to veto all the appropriation bills and reconvene the legislature to revise them If they foot up more than the estimates ‘of expected state revenue. If such a practice were pursued by Ne- braska executives every one of our leg- islatures for the last dozen years would have had the privilege of sitting In ex- tra session, umless they learned the lessen from the experience of their predecessors. — “Hello, Lincoln! Omaba wants you."” “Hello!” “Will you connect us with the senate sifting committee? Hello, there! Will you kindly accommodate the ‘wholesalers, merchants and telephone users of Omaba generally and advance According to a local contemporary one of the problems for Omaha to solve when it gets possession of the water ‘works 1s & process of filtering or cleans- murky April. it Eu H i= § E § i £ = THE the telephone bill, known as Senate File 234, and report the same to the legisla- ture at once? What's that?" “Can’t understand. Please talk louder, we are a trifie hard of hearing.” ADVOCATES A MERCHANT MARINE. The address of Secretary Shaw at the banguet of the New Orleans Board of Trade contsined some facts and sug gestions, particularly in regard to our trade with the countries south of us, which merit more than passing attes tion. There appears to be a tendenc, which ought to be earnestly encour- aged, to cultivate more assiduously the trade of South America and it is to this that the secretary of the treasury addressed himself. He pointed out how largely this country buys from South America and how relatively small are our exports to that continent. It is a fact which to the practical man will appear surprising that in ten years the balance of trade Dbetween the United States and the South American countries has been $730,000,000 in favor of the latter. We import from South America $110,000,000 annually and send there of our products $35,000,000. That is the present situation and the question is as to how it shall be im- proved. It Is the opinion of Secretary Shaw that one of the most essentlal re- quirements s the establishment of steamship lines running directly from our ports to the principal ports of South America. We transport our products to the seashore more cheaply than any other country, but to send them abroad we must have the help of the ships of other countries and for this service we pay $200,000,000 per annum. “It is not surprising,” said Secretary Shaw, “that wa take from Brazil, for instance, more than 40 per cent of all it has to sell and sell it in return only 10 per cent of all it has to buy. The marvel is that, being compelled to send our goods there In foreign ships, and generally first to Europe and thence to ports of destina- tion, we are not so far discriminated against as to make it impossible to ex- port anything to South American coun- tries.” President McKinley urged the estab- lishment of . steamship lines to South American ports as being absolutely necessary to the Increase of our trade with that comtinent. There 1s much testimony from South America to this effect. The progress made by European nations in acquiring the trade of the countries south of us is due to a very considerable extent to the fact that they carry their products to those mar- kets in thelr own ships. This gives them a prestige which the United States does not have and cannot se- cure so long as Its products continue to be transported chiefly in foreign ships. It is not to be doubted that in time American manufacturers and merchants will come to a full realiza- tion of the handicap under which they Dow labor in this reapect and will re- move it. Meanwhile such talk as that of Secretary Shaw will have a ten- deney to arouse attentlon to what is a most vital matter in connection with our South American trade. e—— 3 - Mayor Harrison of Chicago Is greatly exercised for fear the visit of President Roosevelt, coming as it does right in front of the municipal election there, may be turned to political account for his republican opponent. If the shoe were on the other foot—namely, a democratic president coming as the city’s guest—his apprehensions would not be so notice- able. But he can rest assured that the president of the United States will not allow himself to be mixed into a purely local contest, no matter on which side his sympathies may be. If anyone realizes the delicate position a presi- dent occupies when he accepts the hos- pitality of the people President Roose- velt does so, and morcover he observes its proprieties. ——————— City Clerk Elbourn admits that he spent some time in Lincoln boosting for the primary inquisition bill intended to enable corporations to spot employes Who fall to vote according to instruc- tlons, but he asserts now that he ts op- posed to the spotter feature of the measure. If City Clerk Elbourn is on the square in his professions he will go down to Lincoln and ask the governor to veto the inquisition bill with a mes- sage that will permit the re-enactment of those sections that regulate the issue of certificates to nonreglstered voters. If Mr. Elbourn does not urge the gov- ernor to veto this odlous bill he cannot be on the square in his pre-eut pmtuu» tions. e — A large number of Omaha business men appear to be disinclined to wait for & reduction of telephone tolls by the solid five of the city council. They want the legislature to perform ghe surgical operation without chloroform- ing the patient or forcing him to inhale laughing gas It now remains to be seen who has the most Influence with the senate sifting committee, #he busi- ness men of Omaha or the telephone lobby that has been entertalning the legislature lavishly for the past two months. We would stake our purse on the telephome lobby. EE———— Giving Themselves Away. . Washington Post. Some robust stories of bribery and cor- ruption come from Rhode Island. There ismo telling what may develop when the New Engldnd folk begin to unmask each other. Large Jobs in Sight. Minneapolis Journal. Now that the canal treaty has been rati- fled, it will be the principal duty of the government to evold an American Panama canal scandal. The sight of $200,000,000 worth of work is enough to call out the services of all the most boodlers and grafters on the continent. The political faith of Wyoming repub- licans is no less breezy and convincing than “It would be just as easy to Bottle & March its vocabulary. Says the State leader: OMAHA DAILY BEE: accomplished MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1908. blizzard on the Laramie plains as to pre- vent sending a Roosevelt delegation from this state.” This séems to cover the ground. The Point of View. Philadelphia Record Ex-Senator Thurston of Nevada flnds that the possession of the Philippine islands has already conferrod great blessings on the people of the United States. What appears to have led to this discovery ia the fact that the ex-senator has a professional con- nection with one or two corporations that are endeavoring to exploit the lands and forests of the Philippines. The blessings do not seem to have extended much further. Growth, Not Wealt", the Go: 0. 8. Marden In Buccess The youth who starts out in life with wealth as his ideal is a foredoomed failure. It you would succeed let growth, expan- slon of mind and heart, and wealth of character, not money-getting, be your aim. Be as large a man as you can make yours self. Broaden your s;mpathies by taking an interest in other things than those which concern your immediate business. A knowl- edge of the great world movements, active sympathy with all efforts directed toward progress and the betterment of mankind and the cultivation of the finer side of your nature—fostering the love of music, art and literature—will not only enlarge your vision, but will also increase a hundred- fold your enjoyment of life and your valus to soclety. Do not allow yourselt to be- come self-centered. Glve some of your energles to securing better conditions for those less fortunately circumstanced than yourself. Remember that you are, first of all, a man, and then a citizen. How the Missourl Steals Land. Kansas City Journal. The Missouri river plays sad tricks with land owrdbrs all along its way, but none have lost more and none have gained more by its constant changes of course than certain farmers in Boone and Cole counties. The Columbia Herald estimates that Boono county has been robbed of 6,000 acres of valuable land since 1865, all of which has been added to Cole county. Ten Boone county farmers whom it names have within recent years lost from 20 to 120 acres, and cne of them has lost 120 out of 160 acres. People on the Cole county side have profited proportionately. The Herald mentions H. T. Wright, to whom has accrued 400 acres; Ewing Johnson, 600 acres; Pressly Edwards, 160 acres, and B. M. Anderson, 450 acres. What is worse, Boone county is mow in imminent danger of losing 3,000 acres by a threatened change in the river's course. Fifty years ago the little town of Wilton was two miles inland. Now it s within a stone's throw of the river, and it is consid- ered only a question of time until its in- habitants will have to move back or be swept The people of Boone county are becoming much concerned abbut the situation and are raising a fund with which to wage battle with the aggressive “Big Muddy,” which seems disposed to turn all their property over to the Cole county neighbors. DAMAGES FOR ACCIDENTS, Verdicts for Large Sums Rendered in Recent Cases. Philadelphia Press. The New York Central has faced another heavy verdict in the award of the jury of $70,000 damages for the death of Earnest F. Walton, a member of the New York Stock exchange, who Wll killed in the tun- nel accident. This is one of the Heaviest damages ever awarded for a death it a etate where a few years ago damages were limited to $5,000 in case of loss of life." This was abolished by the last conmstitutidmal convention, end our own constitution ywisely prohibits the general assembly from;passing acts limiting damages. This is as it should be. The public has no more effective way of forcing rallroads to provide for the safety of their passengers except by making it more costly to kill a man than to cerry him safely. The courts have, by theilr doetrine of negli- gence, surrounded the corporation with protection at every point. In countless cases the injury proves to be one which, under judge-made law, brings no damages. ‘Where damages can be assessed it 1s well that juries should make them heavy enough to instil caution in corporations. The size of verdicts under this just public view steadily ariees. Ten years ago the New York court reduced a verdict of $9,000 for a mason’s leg to $5,000, on the ground that the larger sum was too much; but sums as large have since been awarded without ob- jection by the courts, Twenty years ago an award of $25,000 was the largest which had been made for the loss of I and ten years ago, when a jury in this eity awarded $39,000 In the case of C. S. Boyd, it was considered an exceptionally large sum. Since then Judge Wilson has confirmed a verdict of $10,000 to a woman for injuries to her spine In a traction car; a New York court h iwarded the sa um for the loss of an eye—though in England in the same year an eye was only held at $1,750. A Brooklyn jury six years ago reached the lmit in an award of $24,250 for a little girl's leg. Few little girls would sell their legs for less, and the jury was undoubtedly led to this valuation by the large number of legs which had been cut off in Brooklyn until the damages pald by the Brooklyn Traction company amounted to one-tenth of its receipts. The late Earnes! F. Walton, es a mem- ber of the New York Stock exchange, r celved a large Income, and the jury has very properly taken this into account. Just as an Arkansas jury did the samle in award- ing a widow $50,000 for the loss of her husband, though the verdict to Mre. Homer Jdwin for $90,000 inst. the New York Central still remains the limit. *WHAT'S IN A NAME? Lipton's Third Shamrock and the New Defender. New York Tribune. From published descriptions of the America’'s cup challenger, which was launched yesterday, and less trustworthy accounts of the defender, which was named the day before, the conclusion is drawn that they differ widely enough to make this year’'s races more distinctly a test of types than the last.two competitions were. For the present it is not safe to say much more than that. No surprise will be caused by the announcement that Sir Thomas Lipton is charmed with his new Shamrock and sure that if it is defeated the victor will be a miracle. Confidence is one of his en- gaging traits. Another is the constancy of his affection for a boat which has once flown his signal. So far as we know, he was never heard to epeak disrespecttully of either of the racers which disappointed his dearest ambition. 8o now, when he pro- nounces a glowing eulogy on his latest marine acquisition, it is not that he loves the first and second Shamrocks less, but the third Shamrock more. As for the name of this y s defender, it has met with a courteous but not an en- thuslastic reception. *Reliance” is not to be jeered at, but we cannot say that it is remarkably felicitous. It does not suggest “the beauty and mys of the ships and the magic of the sea. It merely serves notice that we are doing nautical business &t the old stand. It might have been im- proved, but we disdain to think there is an omen in the curious circumstances that Dr. Noah Webster and Dr. Noah Porter, hav- ing defined “reliance” as “anything on which to rely; dependence; ground of trust,”” cite as their only example, “the L WaS & poor reliance.” BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. ‘s Mecord as a Long- e Orator. The speech of Senator Morgan of Alabama on the Panama canal delivered during the extra session fills ninety-seven pages of the Congressional Record. It will average 4,000 words to the page and make a total of about 388,000 words, which is equivalent to about three volumes of the orainary 400-page novel. It would make a larger book than Grant's memolrs or a book about halt as big as the Bible. This is in addition to his speeches on the e subject delivered during the regular session, which closed March 4. The last is regarded as one of the most remarkable speeches ever delivered, not so much because of its contents, but because of the age of the man who deliv- ered it. Mr. Morgan is 70 years old and, although he 18 in excellent health and has a vigorous constitution, to speak four or five hours a day for five days is an ordeal which few men in the full vigor of early manhood could endure. It {s also remark- able because the senator used very few notes. He made frequent references to published reports and other documents from which he quoted freely, but the speech was purely extemporaneous, and fhe senator 1d_not have even a skeleton of the toplcs to guide him. The New York Sun pronounces Morgan's deliverances on the subject of the isthmian canal a “stupendous literary achlevement'* and institutes these comparisons: The thirty-five tragedies, comedies and historical dramas printed In the follo of 1623 contain about 850,000 words, the life work of the greatest of poets. This is the longitudinal measurement of Shakespeare. Between the day when Edward Gibbon sat amid the ruins of the capitol, listened to the bare-footed friars singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter, and concelved the idea of wting the decline and fall of Rome, and the time when the last volume of the colossal work issued for the press on his 61st birthday, twenty-four years elapsed. In these twenty-four years the historfan produced about 1,025,000 printed words. This is Gibbon. But the amazing output of each of these glants has been exceeded by the senator from Alabama since he was 75 years old. Confining the count to the past three years, reckoning only his speeches, writings and laborious compilations on the single sub- ject of the transistbmian capal, and wiping from the record every other utterance of his, Mr. Morgan yet surpasses either Shakespeare or Gibbon. The proot of this statement is presented in the subjoined summary of a part of his efforts eince the original Hay-Pauncefote treaty was sent to the senate, a little more than three years ago. The record is by no means complete, but it is suficient to stag- ger the imagination. Spectal care has been taken to underestimate rather than exag- gerate the volume of such deliverances ot Mr. Morgan's as are not yet officially meas- ured; the speeches of his in executive ses- elon, for example, from which the seal of secrecy has never been removed, and which the Congressional Record, comsequently, does not contain. We are well aware that in such items as necessarily estimated we are not doing full justice to Mr. Morgan; but we prefer to err on the side of con- servatism rather than on that of sensation- alism. We now come to details. The table which follows is the result of much labor, but it is equally the source of astonishment and protound admiration: Fifty-sixth congress, nr-z session: Words. Eleven gpeeches in open 60,700 Ten ru'ouuon Bl kmenaments, te... . 4,100 29300 . 125,000 'rwenty-thm speeches, open session 38,960 Seven bills, resolutions, ef 7,200 Various d ‘documents.... 15,000 Estimate, executive sessions. « 10,000 l-‘lny-levenlh congress, it ses- Thipty-four speeches in open session 216,300 filxl«yn bills, resolutions, etc. 6,200 Tifteen reports, documents, 89,600 Entimate, executive sensio 100,000 Fifty-seventh congress, second ses- sion: Eight speeches In open session, 20,350 Fo{xnefln bills, resolutions, et 8,200 Varlous reports and documents 77,400 Estimate, executive session... 50,000 Ad g}l‘ufllonl and remarks at holflnll 15000) tra session ... Total .. . .......‘l“”l Set off against lha life work of Shake- speare and the indefatigable labors of Gib- bon for nearly a quarter of a century, the total of Mr. Morgan's productive energy during three years is illustriously conspicu- ous in this resume: Words, gd‘w:r‘a Bhlkelp‘lr. 1,025,000 John T. llorlln 1,695,900 He has wasted that many words, con- cludes the Sun, so far as the main purpose of his personal prejudice and ambition is concerned. But he has made a phenomenal record, and candor comp us to say that he has not only talked much, but has talked surprisingly well throughout. Former Senetor Allen of Nebraska, here. tofore classed as the “long-distance orator,"” “lags superfluous,” s0 far as quantity is concerned, but his record for continuous performance is unbroken. His speech in one of the night sessions during the de- bate on the repeal of the silver purchase law lasted between fourteen and fifteen hours, and was substantially continuous, the only interruption belng an occasional reading by the clerk of some paper which the orator would hand up to him. No par- ticular fatigue, either of volce or frame, was noticeable as the result of this elocu- tionary effort; for all that anyome could see, Mr. Allen was as fresh when he ended his speech as when he first rose to address the chair. _— A CREDITABLE ACT. President’s Withdrawal of nation of an Unfit Can Chicago Record-Herald. President Roosevelt's withdrawal of the nomination of Willlam Plimley to be as- sistant treasurer at New York Is highly to his credit. It is not every man, whether in public life or outside it, who will frankly confess an error to which he has commit- ted himself and at once do his best to re- pair it. In the case in question the presi- dent's action is all the more noteworthy because Plimley, who bad the strong back- ing of Senator Platt, had already been confirmed by the te and was waiting only to receive his commission. The main charge agalnst Plimley was that while employed in the money order bureau of the New York postofice he had borrowed money from certain banks, in one instance as high as $150,000, the loans be- ing given him presumably because he fa- vored those banks with government de- posits. He was also charged with making s practice of borrowing money from his subordinates. Such conduct would show conclusively that he wad unfit to be the occupant of so respoasible an office as of the United States. President Roosevelt has already made it clear that no man who, to bis knowledge, {s unfit can obtain any office at his dis- posal, no matter how strongly political backers may urge it, and his treatment of Plimley notwithstanding Platt's protests is nothing more than an unusually emphatic expression of his guiding principles 1o the disposal of party yatronags. THAT BARTLEY CIGAR BOX. Pender Republic: The Bartley ‘clgar box" s about as elusive as the gemtleman who struck Billy Patterson. Holdrege Citizen: The mystery that is supposed to le hidden in the somewhat celebrated Bartley “cigar box" Is not being solved very rapldly. Hebron Reglster: The legl yet succeeded In prying off Bartley “‘cigar box" and consequently it remains as firmly closed so far as the pub- lle is concerned as though It were guarded by a time lock. Stanton Picket: Joe Bartley is sald to be conducting a loan office down at the state's capital. If such be true it is probable that he will be a little more particular about his securities than he was when the state’s money was being farmed out to his friends. 4 Callaway Queen: While the committee s busy investigating the pardoning of Bartley end unearthing strange things every day, luxuries in other climes. be only another case of locking the barn door after the horse has been stolen. This appears to Springfield Monitor: When the commit- tee appointed by the house to inquire Mto the legality of the Bartley pardon has fin- ished its work It can be put down as so much time squandered. But then, would the members of the committes have em- ployed their time to any better advantage. Broken Bow Republican: The Bartley “cigar box" investigation ie still going on without developing anything of spectal importance. Bartley is the only person that Is able to impart any definite informa- tion and he is conspicuous for his absence from the state. We are still inclined to be- lieve that nothing will come of the in- vestigation. Wakefleld Republican: Ex-State Treas- urer Joseph Bartley fs not resting so easily since it has been {ntimated that he did not receive his pardon legally, for as soon as the legislature had appointed an investi- gating committee Bartley hied himeelf to Chicago and kept in hiding eo that he could not be summoned to appear befors the committee. Geneva Sign: ‘The legislature, or rather the house, has undertaken an fnvestigation of the misuse of state funds by ex-Treas- urer Bartley. The BSigoal would be glad to see definite results from this investiga- tion but hopes for none. The investigation was begun too late in the session and it may be doubted if a legislative inveatiga- tion could uncover any of the facts any- way. Howells Journal: And now they tell us that Bartley" rdon was not legal and that they may send him back to the pen. Stuft and nonsense! There may be some question about the legality of the pardom, but no eane man belleves the smooth rascal will ever wear a striped sult and again do service for the ! y more than it is [\believed that the state will ever recover a dollar of the half-miilion he stole. So far as the rights of the people are con- cerned the Bartley incident might as well be closed. THE KEEPIN( it Worldly Rather Than itual Observance. OF LENT. Harper's Weekly. Our generation is not irreligious, but the prevalling tendency is to be more con- cerned about the conduct of life than about salvation. Perhaps we are rashly and i1l advisedly calm about salvation, but our Interest in it tends to be Indirect. We incline to the feeling that our immediate concern is to make the most and the best of our liyes, and that if we da that, what- ever follows will take care of itself. Our use of Lent is determined by this general sentiment. We don't so much try to square accounts and make direct and spe- clal progress towards heaven as to fit our- selves for t recurring duties of earth. And, of course, Lent gets observance chiefly from women. Our leisure cl is nine- tenths women, and even the busiest women are better able to adapt their dally tasks to the lenten duties tl undertake than Business does not stop ‘when old Trinity calls ‘Wall street to prayers many a man lays down his muck rake and heeds the invita- tion to his soul. The usual concerns of life go on, the children go forth to school, the breadwinner goes to his desk or his bench, the breadmaker to her dough. The fixed employments and engagements do not budge, but the mistress of the house and the grown-up daughters can adapt their occupations somewhat to the season. When & lenten service comes in the morning they can get to it if they chooss, and when Prof. Darley lectvres on “The Outlook for Civilization” their morning engagements can be arranged to include him also. Read- particularly active in Lent. 11 other women's clubs, and what with the Increased diffusion of ideas and the moderate slackening of the social pace that gives more time for sleep and reflec- tlon, such soclal intercourse as is left is not unlikely to be exceptionally remuner- ative. If all this does not seem like very strict Lent keeping, it must be remembered that this is in the main a Protestant country, and that not more than ome-fifth of our population belongs to eitber of the two churches that recognize:Lent as a season which brings religlous obligations. With the other four-fifths lenten observances are a_matter of taste, to be taken for what they are worth, and borrowed or declired, as convenience dictate PERSONAL NOTE! James H. Gregory, a Marblehead, Ma: man, holds the rank of brigadier general in the Colombian army. For a loss of thirty pounds in welght a lady in St. Louls has been awarded by a speclal jury a verdict of $9,000, which is at the rate of $300 per pound. At the funeral of Prince Albert Hunlakea, in Honolulu, on March 16, the hearse wi drawn by qver 100 men. He was the la representative of his dynasty. Professor Woleott, director of the geo- logical survey, denles that he sald the anthracite coal supply would be exhausted in sixty years.” Two hundred years {s nearer the mark, he thinks. Yale university numbers among the stu- dents taking the post-graduate course a Buddhist priest named Ichina Shibata. He is a soldler and fought with great distinc- tion and great bravery in the Chinese war in 1894. He received at the close of the war & bronze medal presented by the mikado himself. The loss of a culture tube filled with bacllli of @ virulent form of diphtheria has caused a reign of terror in Medford, a suburb of Boston. Because of the viru- lence of a diphtheria case he was attend- ing a physician made a culture and sent ft to the State Board of Health In Boston. The expressman lost the package and all day long the entire police force has con- ducted a thorough, though fruitiess, search for it. In the new edition of the congressional directory Senator Spooner makes a revision of his blography, in which he furnishes few items of news not heretofore known He states that he was offered the position of secretary of the interlor by president McKinley, to succeed Secretary Cornelius N. Bliss; that he was also offered the position of attorney general, to succeed John W. Griggs, and that he declined the tender of & place on the United States and British jolat bigh commission. WATERED STOCK OF TRUSTS. Enormous Amounts of Val Fletition; Unloaded on the Pub Springfield Republican. There has been printed in the Congres sional Record, in connection with the speech of Mr. Littlefield of Maine on hi anti-trust bill, a lst of industrial trusi existing in the United States on Januar 1 lnst. The list is prepared by the “con gressional information bureau,” whateve that may be, and is regarded by Mr. Little field as the most complete and mcourate catalogue of trusts so far published. By an industrial trust is mean a corporatiot combining any number of pre-existing cor porations. The totals follow: Number of trusts Common stock Preferred stock Bonds ... Total capitalization....... 1000 89,281,196, 604 There is given in addition a list of the largest companies engaged in monopolist| of a public-service character street rallways, electric and gas lighting companies and telephone and tele graph companies. Only the more important concerns are included here; yet a total of $4,619,607,819 In capitalization Is figured out. The so-called ind trusts making up total capitalization of over $9,000,000,000 are practically all engaged in manufactur- ing. But, of course, nothing like all of the manufacturing concerns in the country have as yet been united in combinations. Far more concergs Of sOme age must re- main uncombined than have been com- bined; while in the wake of each combina- tion have appeared many similar independ- ent corporations organized to compete with the trust im its particular fleld, either in good faith or for the purpose of being bought up by the trusts, at a large profit to promoters. The entire actual capital—land, buildings. machinery, material and cash—engaged in manufacturing in the United States in 1900, in real values, according to the census of that year, amounted to $9,874,664,087, and could not probably by January 1, 1903, have greatly exceeded $10,500,000,000. It would probably be a stretching of the truth to say that one-half of this actual manufacturing capital was represented in the Industrial trusts now existing, but of this there can be no certainty, What is certain, however, {3 that an enormous issue of merely paper values has attended the organization of these trusts, and that this paper has to a large extent gone into the hands of the investing public. It is gen- erally admitted that the common stock of the trusts represents chiefly the capitaliz expectations respecting the power of trust monopoly in gathering profits from the pub- lie, and in that case nearly two-thirds of the capital of the trusts, according to the above table, is water. The actual capital invested in manufac- turlng in 1890, shown by the United States census, was $6,625,166,486, It thus appears that the trusts, comprehending only a part of the manufacturing plant of the country, have issued within the past dozen years or so almost much paper representing no actual value whatever as there was property invested in manufactur- ing no more than twelve years ago. It is an astonishing exhibit. We may question whether before in the history of the coun- try there has ever been a greater relative Inflation of capital than is here shown. The expectations of monopoly are set forth as of the most extravagant description. But whether those expectation aro to be realized is another matter. SMILING REMARKS, Mike (teaching Pat poker)—Well, Bay what got HcmFm" trowels and a black lhnmrouk. Tess—Yes, Indeed, hs had the lmp\lflonct to try to kiss me, and he did it, too. Jess—Why didn't you run away from him? Tess—1 couldn t.” You know how small our sofa 15, Well, we were squeezed in tight I couidn't budge.— Fhiladelphia Press. Hewitt—I avemuhod myself the other ay. Jewett—How? Hewit was so anxious to unload 8 lot of pennies a street car conductor that I forgot 1 hld a transfer in my pocket.— Brooklyn Life. ““The latest DODullr song is called ‘My Own United States,’ " remarked the man Who keeps up with 'them. of "Lords and music by J." Plerpont Morgan, course,” volunteered the oy, llrlllhl off the re¢l.—Cincinnati ’l‘flbflno. Miss Blugore—I wi have it for sale, have you no Grocer—Yes, Miss, of course; two pounds for 7 cents, or— Miss Blugore—Oh! T must have the ost gpensive ind, it's for a swell wedding.— Chicago Tribune. “I think that was an awful mean rema that 'Tithel made 0 Mes: Dorking of Chic cago, who wis celebrating her Afth divorce her sixth marriag ‘What did she say? ‘I wish you many returns of Wpaltimore Herald. t some rice. You t? Towne—You seemed anxious to pick & quarrel with_him. Browne—Y@, he's going to be marrled next month. Towne—Ah! I see. Cut you out, eh? Browne—Oh! no, but' I hope he' will cut me out of his (nvitation list. My game is to save a wedding present. —Phitddelphia ress. “Have you got the grip?” they asked, as he shivered. “Well, I may have,” he answered; *“but I ;:tltmoru as {f the grip had me."—Chicago ost. Penn—This comes from writing things ahead of time. I said the beautiful co- guette wore her heart on her slesve at the all, Inker—Well, Penn—Then I discovered that her ball dress had no slesves.—Dotrolt Free Press. Blossom—Why on‘r rth are you going to marry that old relic? Flossie—1 love the ground he walks on. Blossom—Yes, but isn’t there any pleas- anter way can get hold of it?—Balti- more Amer{can. Fond Youth—Why, Nellie, eating onions! Lovely Maiden (with spirit)—If you don't like onfons you can move—to the other end of the sofa.~Chicago Tribune. you've been MAUDE'S LENTEN SACRIFICE. James Barton Adams In Denver Post Maude Moeller awoke at the dawn of day And yawned and stretched in the usual way. The light from her sweet eyes seemed to eap As the fair orbs burst from the shades of sleep. Her cheeks were as rases when they ex- pand, For their color was not applied by hahd. Her hair o'er the fleecy pillow rolled Like shimmering billows of threaded gold. Her lips half parted revealed a glint Of teeth of a mother-of-pearly tint, Again did she yawn with a “hi-ho-hum,’ And agaip stretched her u..uu?’n fl‘urc some. And she sald, in her mind: “It is Lent, an To myself some luxury should deny. “Some sacrifice I should make, but Oh! 1 dnnkt know just what it should be, you now." And she thought and she thought and she thought and thought THIl her brain was awhirl like a simmering pot! Bhe arose and her blue eyes roved to where Her rose pink stockings hung on a chalr. There wasn't & pair in the bloomin' town That for delicate beauty could turn ‘em down “Oh! great s the sacrifice!” Maudle cried But Il make it and humble my worldly prid And she hid ‘em and pulled on her limbs so te LA pair that was black as the shades of night.