Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 24, 1903, Page 6

o % 6 “THE OMAHA DA]LY BEE: TUFQDAY, MARCH 24, 190 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE | ROSEW ATFR EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION. Iy Bee (without Sunday), One Year. um One Year. rated Bee, One Year da Ds Duily Bee and Sunday, i Bee, One Year. iay Bee, One Year.. I'wentieth Century Farmel DELIVERED BY ( Patly Bee (withiout Sunday), per cop: Jaily Bee (without Bunday), per week. Daily Bee (Inciuding Bunday), per week..lic Sunday Bee, per copy ning Bee (without Sunda: Eyening Beo (including Sund ook Compl ery ehouid be Aadressed 3 "City Clroulation De- partment. orntE! QmahaThe Bee Bm South Omaha~Cl Hlll Hulld(nl. Twen- ty-niih and M ireets. lm Gouncil Bluffa_i0 P}:rlllds'tr-n. nicago—1 nity Bul Fork s Park Row Hutiding. Washington—50] Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. o Communications relating to news an - torlal matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorfal Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company, Only 2-cent stamps accepted in payment ot mail accounts, Fersona rheckn.‘t‘xccceepl on Omaha or eastern exchan, no 3 _ THE BEE x-Luusmfiu COMPA. " STATEMENT OF CTRCULATION. State of Nebranka, Douglas Count; Georgn B Taschiick aceretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ys that the actual number of full end complete copies of The Dally, Morning Evening and Sundny Bee printed during t month of February, 1503, was as follws Less unsold and returned coples. Net total sales... Net average sales. GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed fn my presence and sworn o is 28th da UAr) A . £ . %5, HUNGA'TE, ¥ ear ‘Notary Public. President Castro of Venezuela seems to have gotten into a place where no resignations go. Rather than allow the new revenue law to be manipulated and mutilated by boodle, let it die and R. 1. P.—Rest in Peace. Mount Soufriere Is smoking up again. | It must have found itself compelled to lay in soft coal during the anthracite strike to save money on fuel. —— The reslgnation of the attorney gen- eral of Porto Rico might give Our Dave a tip to lose no time in getting himself “prominently mentioned” for this job. em—— Will the allled corporations kindly permit the citizens of Omabha to nom- inate and elect men of their own choice to the' mext!city council? I, mot, why not? . Seppmp iy Having got what they wanted out of the revenue bill in the house, the rail- roads are telllng ihe other privileged corporations to help themselves in the senate. The Falr estate is about to be settled again. The controversy over the Fair millions has been settled so often that a final settlement would be almost a ca- lamity. If both sides to the coal strike could only make themselves believe they got the best of the arbitration award all concerned would be in a happy frame of mind. It takes nine days for newly born kittens to- get their eyes open. It has taken nearly nine months for the citi- zens of Omaha who have beer buncoéd by sham police reform to get theirs open. ——r People In Washington who watched the recent extra session of the senate think they see a cloture rule In sight. Bxperience in the past, however, has served to create the lmpression that such a vision is due to color blindness. ——————— City Clerk Elbourn says he is opposed to the unquestionable feature of the primary election bill. But he has not yet told the governor so or asked him to veto the odlous meastre. * Here is a chance for City Clerk Elbourn to make good. Emee—— The lobby at Lincoln does not have to speak over a telephone to talk to the legislators while their constituents at bome do. This way explain in part the potential difference between the lobby on the ground and the constituency at a distance—but ounly in part. e ‘When they want to go ahead with any project, Kansas City men do not feel it necessary first to ask the per- mission - of the corporation managers. Omaha business men will have to break loose for themselves if they want to do effective work In pushing the city's progress. a————— The supreme court of Missourl bas come to the rescue of the imprisoned legislative boodlers who refused to tes- tify before au Investigating committee for fear of Incriminating themselves. The Missouri corruptionists must have run into a pretty close corner if no other loophole was left for them to crawl out of. S ‘We know now why such a pressing emergency existed to demand the post- ponement of the Omaha city election till May to avold bad weather while the time for the spring municipal elections in all other Nebraska cities and towns was allowed to remain a month earlier. The dark lantern brigade needed mere time to get thelr test oath bill through ture so that the work of spot- for the forporations aonld o THE ME RGER CASE. The case of the:United States against The Northern Securities Company has gone to the court and the decision, which may not be rendered for several months, will be awaited with great in- terest. The case has been argued with very great ability on both sides and those who have taken the trouble to read the arguments must be impressed with their force and comprehensiveness, On the part of the government the con- tention of Mr. Beck, assistant attorney general, was particularly strong and able. He took the position that the powers granted by the New Jersey charter to the Northern Securities com- pany were most extraordinary and pointed out that under it two mea may control the unlimited powers of the holding company, which in turn con- trols the vast powers of ‘the Burlington, Northern Pacific and Great Northerh companies and all subsidiary compa- nies. When in the history of corporate organization, he asked, was there ever a charter which: concentrated vast and immeasurable power in the hands of so few? The attorney for the government urged with great force that the Northern Se- curities company contravenes the anti- trust law of 1800, that.it is a combina- tion which Interferes with free competi- tion and that therefore it is in restraint of interstate commerce. It is not impor- tant, argued the assistant attorney gen- eral, that the proposed combination does not secure a complete monopoly of a given subject of commerce; a partial monopoly is equally offensive to public policy. Another proposition was, that the fact that the power of the combina- tion has not been exercised to Increase prices or rates Is not important; the law Is.concerned not with what is done, but with the power to do. “The law wil lobk to the substance and.not to the form and will not permit a monopolistic combination, no matter by what corpo- rate or legal devices it may be at- tempted.” The arguments of the attorney for the defendant were principally directed te show that the organization and purpose of the Northérn Securities company do not contravene the antitrust law of 1890, which it was held has no applica- tion to such an organization. The lead- ing attorney of the company, former Attorney General Griggs, took the posi- tiori that the anti-frust’law. has mo ap- plication whatever to the case, inas- much as that law does not 'interfere with the right of an individual or a com- bination of individuals to buy all the property he or they have the capital to purchase. He urged that the law can- not limit the amount of that purchase. and that the anti-trust act does not spe- cifically say such purchase s a violation of its provisions. The careful reader of the arguments WIill see that there are some nice points to be determined, but it is hardly pos- sible to avold the ‘concludlon that the merger is hostile to free competition and consequently is opposed to public policy nnd In contravention of the Ilw l eep——— THUS FAR AND NO FARTHER. The republican members of the legis- lature will have a great deal to answer for and explain to' their constituents when they come home for good. While many of them have done their duty faithfully, many others have shown a lamentable lack of moral courage and scores have fallen by the wayside. The railroad corporation ¢ohorts under the leadership of John N. Baldwin and a gang of corruptionists, whose proper place is behind iron bars; have suc- ceeded in debauching and demoralizing the venal weaklings who lack the cour- age to assert thelr manhood and through them have succeeded in defeat- Ing wholesome legislation demanded by the people. x By their machinations they have thwarted the effort to give Nebraska an equitable system of assessment and tax- ation that would compel all classes—the rich and the poor, the land owner and the bondholder, the toller in the work- shop, the merchant and the corporate monopolies—to bear their just share of expenses of government in proportion to the value of thelr taxable property. They have, moreover, prevailed upon the legislature to ignore and turn down the just demands of the taxpayers of the larger cities of Nebraska for the re- peal of laws heretofore enscted: at:the behdst of railroad mn.ger- by whicl these corporations /are able to evade municipal taxes although they enjoy all the protection and benefits of municipal government. To cap the clima an attempt is now being made to rob Omaha, South Omaha, Lincoln ahd other cities, that have “given franchises to street rall- ways, electric lights, gas and water companies, of the benefits of the de- cislon rendered by the supreme court last year defining the basis of taxation for these corporations to be the true value of their stocks and bonds. Representatives of these corporations have for weeks been at the state capl- tal endeavoring to overturn the decision of the supreme court through legisla- tion that would fix one year's gross Te- ceipts as the basis of taxation. There is absolutely no excuse or warrant for such legislation. The proposition could vot ‘muster a corporalis guard In either house wore it not for the corrupting influences that are being employed to convert & majority of tq; legislature. ‘Within the past week ‘wine suppers have been given to members of the state senate by the corporation corrup- tionists and it is an open secret that boodle is being distributed In the state capitol by the lobby to lubricate the way for the viclous amendment to the revenue bill through the senate and switch it back into the house for con- currence. Under our pecullar system of legislation a Dbill must recelve the afirmative vote of a majority of the members elected to each house, but amendments lugerted in one house may e e 1 IR _[be adopted by a bare majority of a quorum by the other. Tt is not uncom- mon by this procese for huge jobs and steals to slide through by concurrence when only a bare quorum of either house through which it is being log- rolled is present. Thus, for example, it takes 51 votes to carry a bill through the house, but 26 voter may put an amendwent into a bill by a motion to concur. On the passage of a bill the vote of every member must be re- corded, while a motion to concur may be carried viva voce without record, so that the boodlers who have sold out can escape the just indignation and con- tempt of a betrayed constituency. For these reasons, and in the interest of good government and the republican party, that will be held responsible, The Bee appeals to members of the state senate to fight down and defeat any at- tempt to amend the revenune law in the interest of franchised corporations under whatever pretext the appeal is made to them. It goes without saying, that the men who will support such|an amendment will subject themselves to the snspicion that they have sold them- sélves out for a price and the stigma of corruption will attach to them forever. We realize that the revenue bill as framed up under the supervision of Baldwin and his clackers is not exactly what the people of Nebraska desire or expect at the hands of the legislature, but If it is to pass at all let it pass In its present form unless it can be im- proved in the Interest of the rank and file of .the taxpayers. It would be most scandalous for the legislature to undo what: the ‘supreme court has decreed after a protracted g¢dntest with the al- lied franchise corporatipns. It will be no exeuse or warrant for the senate to include in the one year gross receipts category the street rallways, gas com- pany,. electric light companies and water works ‘ companies because the telephone company has managed to flimflam the" house into placing it on that basls. On the contrary, if the senate really wants to do the honest thing and the right thing, it should re- mand the telephone company to the basis lald down by the supreme court for all corporations that hold municipal franchises. The legislature certalnly has gone far enough in its subserviency to the great corporations .and its motto should be, “Thus far and no farther.” FINANCIAL REACTION IN MEXIC0. Mexico has enjoyed a long period of prosperity, but a financial reaction In that country appears to be imminent and how serious the results may be cannot be predicted with any degree of certainty. Recently six large import- ing firms in the City of Mexico falled and there is apprehension that others will follow. The explanation is found In the great decline in the price bf sil- ver vmhln the past year or two. The Mexican importing houses buy for ‘gold | and of course their goods are sold for sllver, the currency of the: country. ‘When silver rapldly depreciates, as has been the case, the money obtained for the imported goods will not always pro- cure the gold to pay for them, for the importers cannot as a rule .charge enough to cover the difference in ex- change, for the obvious reason that this difference cannot be anticipated. The merchant who buys on the gold standard and sells for silver is thus much of the time at a great disadvan- tage and this has been peculiarly the case during the last year or two, by reason of the steady fall in silver. It is highly probable that there is more trouble In store for the business classes in Mexico, particularly the im- porters, before that country can make the change that is in contemplation from the silver to the gold standard. Indeed this seems to be inevitable, but it should not discourage the effort that is being made to place the Mexican monetary system in accord with that of the commercial world. The wiser statesmen and financlers of that coun- try appear to fully realize that the change must be made at whatever cost and are earnestly addressing themselves to the task of finding the most prac- ticable way of accomplishing it. PLENTY UF CANDIDATSS. It appears that there Is no lack of candidates for isthmian canal commis- 'sloners, so that the president will have no difficulty in finding men willing to accept the position, though he may be somewhat perplexed in making selec- tions from the numerous applicants. Immediately after the ratification of the treaty a large number of senators called on the president, nearly every one of whom had a candidate for a commissionership and several had more than one. The law provides for seven commissioners, four of whom must be men skilled in engineering problems and two of the four must be army and navy officers. Thus the fleld for politiclans pure and simple fs somewhat restricted, yet there is a much larger number of politicians in the race than of engineers. Not.a few of them are formér senators and representatives who are out of a Job. The commission will not be appointed until the Colomblan congress has rati- filed the.treaty and it Is said that In the meantime the president will not after half of the show period Is over, as has been done regularly for all pre- vious expositions. Hitherto the excuse has always beeni that the rallroads were at the mercy of thé scalper, but this time even that old pretext cannot be used. in Nebraska knows that the potential force behind the proposed amendment to the revenue bill that would place the franchised corpsrations on a one year gross receipt basls is boodle and men who support that propo- sition will not be able to make people belleve in their honest intentions. ——— By proclamation of the Ameer of Afghanistan husbande in that country are to be limited hereafter to four wives. It is needless to say that the Ameer, though a devoted advocate of large families, to set the example has come down to the liinit of four at once by divoreing all his surplus halves. ————— That Boston preacher who says that birds’ wings on Easter bonnets is sure to shut the doors of heaven to the wearer is putting the modern woman up against a serious dilemma. It s the old alternative between an approx- imation to heaven on earth and a lot- tery ticket for the heaven beyond. Everybody Syee———— Will Fighting Bob Stand It? ‘Washington Post. Rear Admiral Evane asks for more men and more officers and the Navy department has responded to the appeal by reducing the number of ships in hie squadron. Is the Navy department committed to a policy of injuring the feelings of our heroes? ol ncles to Success. Kansas City Star. Colonel Henry Watterson sees in Grover Cleveland and in Willlam Jennings Bryan two stubborn obstacles to the achievement of democratic success in 1904. He regards the one quite mischievous and obstruc- tionary as the other. The real man of the hour—in the judgment of Colonel Watter- son—could scarcely be polnted out with strict propriety, in his own paper. Tumble in Asphalt Prices. Springfield Republican. It was a great thing for the citles when the asphalt trust broke down. Prices have been falling and falling until now New York City has awarded paving contracts for some $250,000 at $1.105 & square yard when laid on old Belgian blocks, and $1.95 when concrete is to form the foundation. These are the lowest prices ever -secured by the city, and compare with prices paid of trom $2.50 to $3 when the trust was In full opera- tion. The experience of the country with other trusts, in respect to low prices, ete., through “‘economics” in production, is about like this experience with the halt trust. . Vagaries of Life. Portland Oregonian, The pope fs about 93, and his great age might be quoted as due to his saintly life and serene devotion to other than worldly pursuits, but here is exCongressman Mar- tin 1. Townsend of 'l'my. N, Y., an active politician and able ll'yer 1l his days, dead at 93 of pneumonfs. There have been many long-lived sinners and a good many short-lived . saints. Burr lived to ,,7 Phillips Brooks, ibate and a saint, At there* ever was 6ne; dfed” when but a little past 57 yeard"of age. Ex-Governor Holbrook of Vermont, “war governor,” cele- brated his ninetieth birthday recently after ab active lite of worldy pu Playing in Great Luek. Washington Star. The west {s playing in great luck. She is to enjoy the honor of a visit this spring from both President Roosevelt and ex- President Cleveland. ~ The latter's plans are not compléte, but in all probability he will follow In some of the former' footsteps. It would be sacrilege to suggest within the circle of Mr. Cleveland's ad- mirers that he may.have In view among other things testing. western sentiment toward himself at this time. But it cannot be doubted that whatever his purposes may be his trip will afford such an oppor- tunity. Shall he go.as far as Nebraska? And shall we hear of him at Lincoln? Mr. Bryan on one occasion while visiting the east roferred to that section as “the en- emy’s country.” Will Mr. Cleveland be made to feel while in the west that he is in “the ememy's country?’ Probably not. For whatever the west may think of his financial views and record, she will treat her distinguished guest, we may be sure with due courtesy. The presidential cam- paign s on. And why not? SELFISH HAWAIIAN LAWMAKERS, Benighted State of Affairs in the Paradise of the Pacifie, Chicago Post. Startling news comes from the territory of Hawail. It describes conditions so ut- terly foreign to anything ever known In the United States, that lhe average Ameri- can must stand aghast at the realization that anywhere within our extended bor- ders a benighted state of things should exist. Awful is the thing of which lhe Hawallan legislators are accused. They are actually charged with holding “the fixed opinion that they are elected to advance their own interests!” Just think of it! Eight native senators out of fifteen, and twenty-thres native representatives out of thirty, clected to make laws under the Stars and Stripes, who have only “a dim idea of thelr dutles,” who actually oppose laws because they affect their private interests or favor laws because they expect to benefit by them ‘Why, one senator is said to have killed a bill which sought to limit saloons to within 200 yards of schools and churches because he owned a bullding which would be affected by the restriction. Would a United States semator do such a thing? Never, not even to oblige & beet sugar friend. And then the freak bills these Hawallians Introduce and the silly arguments use in debate. The senate chaplain re- ceives a salary of $160 for the s« A representative argued that the house should receive twice this amount he had thirty instead of fifteen souls to pray for. The chaplain got $250, give any serious cousideration to the matter. It s the impression that Ad- miral Walker will be placed at the head of the new commission and it is not unlikely that some of the other members of the commission which in- vestigated the canal routes will be on the one to be appointed. At all events there will be places for only three poli- ticlans, so that most of the applicants are certain to be disappointed. e Rallroad men are already talking about speclal excursion rates for the St. Louls exposition. If the exposition is to have the advantage of favorable rates they should be put in force from the gpening rather than held back until | and now the legislature 1s trylng to dis- cover just which five souls are left out of each prayer, or if the five skipped today are Included tomorrow. Nothing'so silly as this ever happens in our legislatures or in congress. How the clear-headed, sanc and unselfish lawmak- ers of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware, Mis- sour!, Kansas and many other states and territories must scorn these narrow, selfish and silly legislators of Hawaii! Let us be thankful that such lawmaking is confined to.the pative Kaoaka of the outlylpg districts. ~ Let us rejoice that mever in our congress or in any of our legislatures do -members allow personal considerations to dim their wide vision of public questions. These things may do for the uncivilzed and’' uncultured Hawallan: but they will receive the scorn and righte- ous denusciation they deserve from every chosen represeatative of Lhe states united .h,,J Nebraska's legislators rise above this feel- TALK OF THE STATE PRESS. Holdrege Progre: Though the present session of the Nebraska legislaturc bas well night served out its allotted time the revenue bill fs still under discussion, not withstanding that revenue revision was a paramount issue in the campalgn Wausa Gazette: While the proposed rev enue measure hns provoked much discus sion in the committee of the whole, but tew changes of any Importance have been made In the bill as reported by the special committee—changing the assessment back from February to April is, perhaps, the most {mportant one, and is regarded a de- clsive victory for the farmers. Friend Telegraph: The legislature has been grinding away since January on the problem of how to raise more revenue or how to make both ends meet and at the same time retain all the superfluous of- ficers that leglslatures that have passed on before bave created and at the same time add a few more. Doubtless this can be done by reaching for the taxpayer a little harder. Holdrege Citizen: It is well to remem- ber that mere logal enactment can't do the work that wholesome public sentiment should do. Laws are often left unenforced because popular sentiment Is opposed or indifferent to their enforcement. The only effectual way to rid society of many of the evils that confront us is to create a healthy public sentiment to the enormity of the evil rather than to leave it to legislation. Grand Island Independent: The bill presented In the legislature by Sen: tor Harrison putting a maximum on the per diem and mileage to be paid to members of the board of supervisors ought to pass. The councilman of a city of this class receives as a salary $100 a year and there are always a suficient number of good men to accept the office. The coun- cilman does at least half as much work as a supervisor. Bancroft Blade: The bill recently passed by the legislature which provides that in order to be admitted to the bar in Ne- braska the applicant must have attended a high school at least three years and put in three years in a law office and then pass the usual examination seems to be along the line of class legislation and favoritism, and the trouble is it is protecting a class of Individuals who are amply able to pro- tect themselves. Fremont Herald: The senate has passed the amendment to the present election law which provides that only those who are registered afliating with a party can vote at the primaries of their party. It re- quires the voters to state in addition that they generally supported their party ticket at the preceding election. Brady of Boone and Coffey of Boyd, fusionis against it. It will next be in order for a man to produce his photograph and mar- riage certificate before he can go into a caucus. Crete Democrat: The Democrat believes it is for the best interest as well as the duty of this state to be in evidence at the St. Louls exposition. It is the best part of the Louisiana purchase and for it not to be represented would cast a reflection upon us as a people, lacking in enterprise and spirit of emulation. The sum should not be extravagantly large, nor niggardly small, but. sufficient to erect suitable building and pay those in charge. It fs sald that $50,000 to $75,000 will be ample for the purpose. Blm Creek Beacon: It doesn't strike us that the proposed law to assess the road tax in cash 8 the best thing in all regards. A large percentage of men work their poll ax on‘the roads who wouldn't pay the tax, or at least would be very slow in doing so. Also, génerally & little can be saved by hiring a-man and a team to work one's poll tax each year. The present law is all right if the overseers would do the work in season when the ground is in workable order and put in a good day's work instead of beginning at 9 or 10 o'clock and quitting at 4 and soldiering then half the time. It would depend on the overseer, in any case, how much was done for the money. Alliance Times: The Nebraska legisla- fure has passed the unique bill of Senator Brown providing that all owners of land infested by prairie dogs shall be compelled to kill all of sald animals by November 1, mext, failing in which it shall be the duty of the road overseer to txtermlnll!l them, and for such service he is to receive | $3 per day and all necessary expenses inci- dent to their destruction, such expense to | be made a charge against the land in- habited by his dogship. Hereafter the principal requirement in the line of qualifi- cation for the position of overseer of high- waye will be his abllity to catch dogs Now give us a man to take hence a snakes. Arapahoe Mirror: There is a bill pend- ing in the legislature providing for prohibi- tion of pigeon shooting. Live bird trap shooting is a cruel, bloody and unchristian “sport.” It brutalizes those who engage therein and those who witness it. It be- longs In the same class with cock fighting. It 1s & “sport” that no human man should countenance, The pigeon has compara- tively little show for its life, and the spec- | tacle of fluttering birds ‘“out of bounds" | left to die in agony is not to be coun- ! tenanced by men of heart and brain. The bill prohiblting live bird shooting should | pass without a dissenting voice and vote. | That sort of “sport” belongs to the dark ages, along with the rack, the thumbscrew | and the stake. Clay Center Sun: A bill to abolish cap- ital punishment is before the legislature and it should pass. When and where did the Great Power that ushers man Into this world delegate to a jury of twelve men | to right to send him out of it? A man de- | liberately and premeditatedly taking the | life of another violates the law. Twelve | men deliberately and premeditatedly taking the life of another obeys the law. Why | this difference? But One can give life, and who but that One has a right lo take it away? What s the expressed ]HPH“(Lh tion of judicial murder? To rid soci of one who may take more lives? But | will not imprisonment do the same? As | imprisonment will rid soclety of the mur: derer, death Is unnecessary to accomplish this object, therefore éthe good of society | | In olden times was the most significantly ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK, Ripples on the Current of Life in th Metropo! The medical branch of the New York polico department discovered a rare disease afflicting one member of “ihe finest’ and followed the discovery with an equally rare notation on the unfortunate cop's ap- plication for retirement on a pension. | Patrolman John Eagan had served. twenty cars and the job agreed with him. He is florid, robust and weighs 238 pounds. The surgeons, however, probed bencath Johnny's healthy exterior and recommended his re- tirement on a pension ‘“because of per- manent disability due to obesity contracted on the line of duty.” I don't see just how Eagan could have contracted obesity in the line of duty,” Commissioner Greene re- marked, ““but I cannot go back of the sur- geons' finding. The law says I must retire & man on their recommendation.” Physiclans from the post-graduate and Roosevelt hospital are ihivestigating at the Seney hospital in Brooklyn the remarkable case of Joseph Robinson, who, after being pronounced dead by several surgeons, sud- denly awakened, ate a hearty meal and again elapsed into the first mysterious state. His limbs became rigid, his body cold, and, although every effort known to experts was resorted to to find if there was lite, they failed. Robinson, who formerly was an orderly in the Seney hospital, was found in an un- consclous condition at Fifth avenue and Third street by Policeman Maber. He thought the man had been drinking heavily and had fallen and injured himself. He was locked in a cell, and when a short time after one of the keeper's passed he saw Robinson lying full length on the floor. He called to him, and when he did not reply the keeper called an ambulance surgeon from Seney hospital. Dr. Beecher responded and immediately began working on the man. At the end of five hours he said Robinson was dead, his heart failing, it seemed, to pertorm any function. There was still color in his cheeks, and to make sure the man was beyond recall the surgeon placed a glass over his mouth. No molsture gath- ered, and the morgue officials were about to be notified when Roblnson suddenly awoke. There were seve; about him discussing his strange death. guess there must be some mistake,” he said. Thereupon he jumped to his feet and demanded to know where he was. The frightened policeman notified the sergeant and Dr. Beecher re- turned. After another examination of Robinson he sald he did not understand his pecullar state, but thought he had recovered. Rob- inson then ate a hearty dinner, fell into & sleep, and has not been awakened since. He was taken to Seney hospital, where a number of physicians are working on his case, “We bury our New York dead in no K than elghty: the Press. “Many of these are owned by private corporations, and they have en- riched their promoters. It oceurs to me that I should not care to go.into the “dead’” business for a livelihood. Burying the departed appears to be a church dut: that is, the church ought to own the cem- etery. If there were money in the resur- rection you would find certain classes of fellow citizens standing around the graves to sell white clothes for the dead to rise in. The James D, and Charles Stewart Smith family has grown immensely rich out of Woodlawn, whose 400 acres have been cut up into lots worth small for- tunes. This is our most fashionable bury- Ing ground, even being preferred to Green- wood. Kensico is beautifully laid out after the style of Woodlawn, and has 400 acres.’” “Times and manners of today” are dif- ferent from the times and manners of other days,” observed Joe Howard, discussing phases of life in New York. was read- ing recently,” he continued, ‘“the names of certain fashionable women who this week have sought the solace of retirement in an adjacent retreat. To my surprise, ten of the twelve women mentioned had been divorced and remarried. Two of them had interchanged husbands. One of them had as her companion a woman who recently married her son by her former husband. The whole set is made up of that kind of social mixture, which twenty | years ago would have attracted universal attention, but which today meets with not even e passing comment. No scene is more common here—not in Dakota, but here—than parties waiting for the judge’s signature to a decree of divorce, while their carriage stands at the door in order that they may rush to Jersey City or be- yond the state line into Connecticut, for the purpose of en immediate second marriage. How would that have been years ago The Chicago divorce has been a merry jest in comic columns and the vaudeville stage for a decade. If this signifi means @ blunted sensibility, a thick hide and a bellef that the community cares next to nothing for the severance of a tie which sacred of them all. In this particular city, where the wealth of the country Is | centralizing at an extraordiniry rate, noth- ing {s more common in our public places than the picture of divorcees, both sides well represented, generally remarried, and almost invariably to the co-respondent named, with whom they remain part and parcel of the unbroken soclal clrcle, and, 80 far as external apearances go, without the faintest blush or indication of embar- rassment. In circles where vast fortunes are controlled it would seem as if financial complications would follow divorce, but the children fall readily into line, live in- terchangeably with either parent, and, so far as may be judged, consider it all quite the proper caper.” S0 many cranks and beggars have stormed the pertals of 506 Fifth avenue, New York, home of Mrs. Russell Sage, that the maid who answers the door has provided a chain THE OLD RELIABLE Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE PERSONAL NOTES, Sir Thomas Lipton Is doing a good deal of bragging about Shamrock 111 Tt will be remembered that he did the same thing about the first and second Shamrocks. The average age of the sixteen new sen- ators s 52 2-3 years, with General Alger of Michigan leading the van at 67 and Disciple Smoot of Utah bringing up the rear at 41 Prof. Dall Osso, inspector of the Museum of Naples, has just ublished #n article in which he afirms that researches and ex- cavations prove that there existed a Pom- pell nine centuries before our era. According to a Chicago professor the four leading literary men of the country are Willlam Dean Howells, Thomas Balley Aldrich, Edmund Clarence Stedman and Henry Van Dyke—three New Yorkers and one Bostonian. Two fools are planning to cross Niagara Falls, one banging by his teeth to a strap attached to a roller on a wire stretched over the water, the other in a chair tied to the back of the first man. The fool killer will undoubledly be present on the occa- sion; certainly he cught to be. David B. Hill has accepted an invitation to address the Democratic Editorlal asso< clation in New York City on April 13, the anniversary of the birthday of Thomas Jefferson, and it is expected that he will outline his views us to the national and state policies that shquld be pursued by the democratic party. Two Nebraska schoolboys were sight~ seeing with their parents in Washington and were taken to the White House, of course. On returning to their hotel some one asked the boys: ‘‘Well, did you shake bands with the preside The younger of the two answered: “I don't remember, but I shook hands with the policeman at the And, say, Joe,” to his brother, “wasn't he a cracking big fellow, though?' POINTED PLEASANTRIES! “Fader, vot iss a high ideal?” asked Ifttie Jakey. “Ten per cent 2 month,” was the prompt reply. icago ! o Havel you discovered the perpetrator of :‘“;lgf"' ana red t}l:c dgucllw onut thing to show for our worl h.z: iace l‘ wh;l. lot of people llldu .u-pncfm " Tmisbehavior '~ Washington lll' Dunn—My . hlllhllld Il an awfully y-w aighab’ A} "Asiit—You don't say? Hrr: D:nn—-YBl. indeed. MI 'ill we g0 to theater he has to o out el loll‘olo see & man on business. -—D“rolt Free Press. Tell—Yu. he nlulllv got down on his me. Jel —Tha &el I should think he would have been afraid to spofl his trousers. Tess—Oh! first he asked me to lend him my handkerchief, and he spread that on the floor.—Philadelphia Press. “Well, well, Weary, you are quite a w'hmf “Four. Yery, best’ sult is all fa rage. M!u aod'omun have had the time of his t"Yal rag time."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. asked Miss Bluft. ly, I-aw—fall to compwehend youah aquewy,’ rejoined ~young Softed. “Why—aw—do 'you awsk?" ‘‘Because,” replied Miss B., “it has such a vacant look. “Is your face for ren “Weal A gentleman who was stopped by an old man® beg ing Tepited: “Don't you Know, 4ihat fortune kuocks at every “he knocked nd ever o “oplled the old man, at my door once, but I was 'out, s his daughter. '-hfl gentleman. Whatever a0 ““Why, misfortune. —London Exchange. SCOTCH LOVE SONG, ‘Walter Towers in Icou.llh Nlflflnl-l I rl.e flka mornin’ brisk fu’ o' lmllg an' my heart lu o' ‘Since I made the acquaintance, yo at Blinkbonny. was seen, onnie blus And 0”4 lasste wha v Her face s the fairest that eves An’ hlllhelume the blink o' her alt o ! thy nners and queen, She has &' the ma “nkmmny The lassle wha lives at Some say oor laird's dochters are bonnie and braw, A Guld save us,’ they're no' in the rinnin WI' caah eeksie peeksie, their chance would ma’, Wi the lassie wha lives at Blinkbonny. earth tak' a Let Africa's magnates o whang, > g Their queer gathered gear ne'er gi'es me & ang ; I work my day’s work, and at nicht sing e wha lives at Blinkbonny. There's mair honeyed bliss In a kiss frae my dear, Thln gver“was gotten frae gowpens o' Sae Blithely 1 mean through the warld to teer Wi the lasste wha lives at Blinkbonny. I trust na’ in riches, for riches may flee— Bound health's the best blessing kind heaven can gl'e is not the impelling force to judicial mur. der? Then what is? Revenge! Blood for | blood! A mob thirsts for the blood of a | victim, and soclety is so constituted, at this age, that it does the same. even May ing and do away with judicial murder Fremont Tribune: Senator Dietrich ae- | companied State Chalrman Lindsay to the White House Monday to confer with the president with reference to the naming of & candidate for appointment ae United States district attorney for .\'l‘bl’llk!-; Dietrich is making a hard fight for Lindsay and there is little question but that Lind- say should be appointed, if the wishes of | the rank and file, as well as the party | leaders, of Nebraska, are Lo be consulted But the president holds that it will be in advisable for him to make an appointment to which both the senators from this state are not agreed, and, in truth, it would be quite unusual. Senatorial courteey Is a very potent thing at Washington and Inas- much as a confirmation of the appolntment must be had after it is made, and the “courtesy” is carried so far, it is probable the appointment of either Bummers or Lindsay at this time would lead to un- pleasant things. Republicans of Nebraska hope Senstor Millard will recede from his position and will permit their wishes to o carried out 1o the appointment of Lind- -y | | | | | holt from her own savings, and now one must break a cable before entering the house. 80 long has this one slip of fem- ininity answered the daor that she has ! learned the friends and usual visitors and 10 one not properly qualified is allowed in~ side. Children’s Suits: Attractive, of course, and d that 15 the portion allotted to me AN ng my lassle Wha Tives at Biinkbonny eve eese in the Correct Styles; but we would lay stress on the fact that the suits we sell are well made. Some very dainty things in Washable Buits are ready now for inspection, and as they come in confined patterns an early sslection is desirable. NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS. - Hrowning Ying Go T v A 8. Wiles, Manager,