Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 25, 1903, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, JUNE 25 1903. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLINHED EV RY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Yeor..$4. Daily Bee and Sunday, One Year........ § 1llustrated Bee, One Year. 3 ¢ Bunday Bee, One Year.... 2 Baturday Bee, One Year. < L Twentleth Century Farmer, One Year.. 1 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. aily Bee (without Sundny), per copy aily Bee (without Bundgy), pet week a 120 Bee (Including Sunday), per week..17c Bunday Bee, per copy..........oooooi e Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week. 6c Evening Bee (including Sunday), per week . Complaints irregulari be addressed to City shoul partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding. Bouth Omaha—City Hal "$unaing, Twen- ty-fAfth and M Streets. Council Bluffs—10 Pear] Street. in Circulation De- CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Rditorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, expresa or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company, niy d-cent stampa accepted in payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on EQUAL TAXATION—-GUVERNMENT OWNERSHIP. BOUTH OMAMA, June 24 1908.-To the Your fight for squal Editor of The Bee: taxation has been a subject of much | terest. But has not your every appeal the authorities who have power to enforce equal taxation been turnéd down by them? character If he were not to insist that these nien shall be dealt with as the law requires. Tt is well known thut from the beginning of the investigation the It be made regardless of Whatever any n- to | president bas desired that thorough and complete, who might be hurt Are you not forcibly comvjnced that the [mamper of the administration may have transportation companies hold the balnce of power in all these bodles td whom you Then, in the last analysis, 1s it not evident that any ap- peal before said authorities f6r équal thxa- tion is but an appeal to the rallroad power Do you say, then, that you have addressed your appeals? for lenfency? | will noxt appeal to the electors of the stal to elect a legislature that will ‘cerrect the That accomplished, would be much It 18 very improbable, though, that the end can be accomplished in that wa for the simple reason that a large per- centage of the electors are not taxpayers, hence they will not become: nterested in the matter and will not elect such a legis- lature. There is a question, however, becomé interested, rectly affected, which, in which approximately all electors should readily because they are di- it consummated, thought in regard to it, from a political ipoint of view, It is certaln that Mr. Roosevelt wanted no skimming of the surface, but a probing to the bottom and the officials conducting the investi- te | gation were made fully aware of this. Now he s no less desirous that those who are charged with having betrayed thelr trust and with being gulity of dis- honest practices shall be made to an- swer for their offenses. That he will firmly insist upon those charged with the prosecution of these men faithfully performing their duty 18 not to be doubted. The present administration 18 in no- wise responsible for the offenses which v, lists put up their ticket first, the demo- erats might be stampeded into naming none but straight dyed-in-the-wool democrats for M1 the places, leaving the populist nominees to hold the sack, and it the democrats went through the forms ahead of the populists, the latter might decide to claim for a populist the particular nomination coveted by the democrats, The simultaneous conven tlons prevent either party from taking undue advantage of the other in the dark. No goods are to be delivered to the other fellow until the consideration 18 in hand. In God we trust. Over 50,000 rallway employes injured and nearly 3,000 rallway employes killed by accident on American lines in one year s a stupendous showing of reck- lessness or negligence or Inadequate ers and employes. Yet these are the figures in the belated statistical report of the Interstate Commerce commission safeguards on the part.of both employ- |, would be the true solution of the railroad tax problems and many others. 1 refer Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accept THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. SBTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: George 1. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bes Publishing Company, being duly swol that the actual number of fu plote coples of The Daily, Morni Evening and Sunday Bee printed during th month of May, 103, was as follows of transportation lines. time s ripe for action. You can be & pow- erful factor in hastening Iits consumma- tion If you will. Will you? ERNEST IRELAND. The campaign for tax reform and equal taxation has only reached the skir- mish stage. A decisive battle will be the investigation has disclosed. to the government ownership and control | Ponsibility 18 to ferret out the wrong- It will come. The | doers, purge the service of them and see that those amenable to the This it 1s dolng and will continue to do so long as there are prosecuted. Hs re- law are for the year ending June 3, 1902. Surely the slaughter of the innocents at home should claim our serious attention equally with the butchery of the perse- cuted abroad. e charges to be Investigated. No gulity | < While the democratic and populist man will be allowed to escape, it can | State conventions will be held this year confidently be afirmed, who can be in different cities, to make a show of ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. ' les on the Current of Life In the Metropolis. The man in the box is the hit of Broad way. The bars are crying for more of him Not since the gambling machines were pulled out and sent to Junk has there been such a nickel eater. The first Bromdway hotel to put one In the bar wasn't a bit | enthusiastic about it. The proprietor set it there to oblige a friend. Pretty soon a vine bu happened in “What Is this game?" he wanted to know. “Just a new weighing machine,” said the bartender. “Drop In a nickel and it tells your welght.” “And plays a tune?’ asked the man. “No, just tells your welght." “1 can got that done for a cent on the ated station,” sald the wine buyer. ut what's the horn?" “That's where the welght comes out," explained the bartender. “A ticket with my fortune on it?" ““No, it tells your welght.” finally,” said the wine man “But.say, you're the poorest demonstrator I ever saw. You couldn't sell gold pleces for coppers.” The man got on the machine, put in a nickel, and instantly the voice shouted, “One ninety-six." The bar room woke up at the sound. It was distinctly a phonograph volce, but the suddenness and volume of the answer were catching. Men fought for a chance to spend their nickels and the cigar counter was made busy with the changing of larger coln| BAILEY AND THE LEGISLATURE, Kansas' Constitution Insulted by State's Executive, the Kansas City Star. The statement that Governor Balley his executive clerk have been busy for | some days poring over the constitution and | the supreme court reports in search of au- thority for an appropriation by the legis. lature for the benefit of the flood sufterers appears to be misleading. What they seem to have been seeking—and with great eager- ness—is ‘a construction of the organic law which will justify the governor in refusing to recommend such legislation The whole performance calls to mind the case of the fastidious gentleman who in- sisted upon an Introduction to the woman whose Ilife he was called upon to save before he could venture upon the task of rescue, Common sense and iIntelligent judgment denote only one course of hehavior for the governor. That ls, to include Kansas in the cry for ald which he has found it en- tirely constitutional to make to other states. Governor Balley 1s that he and reported as saying appropriation, constitution any warrant rational and axiomatic Kansas an opportunity time of need out of its coplous resources for the decen Ayers Hair Vigor Probably you know how it always re- stores color to gray hair, stops falling, and makes the hair grow. Then tell your friends, 4.0. Ayer Co. Lowell, Mass. DR. BRYAN'S HOPES. will make no recommendation to the legislature on the subject of a relief He is unable to find in the policy of giving to help itself in He has not hesitated, on the other hand, to send up a cry of distress to the country and to encourage and receive the charity that has been offered by sympathetic com- Willing to Prescribe, but s to the Reanit. New York Mail and Express. Bryan says in the Commoner this week that the silver issue was subordinated to anti-imperfalism in the Kansas City platform “‘because fmperialism was a heart disease.” And though the country has grown ruggeder and ruggeder in the cardiao region during the last three years, he is sure that it is going to have the same Uncertatn G| Mr When the nickel goes in and the weighing | munities remote from Kansas. 20,900 fought when the people are thoroughly [held to an accountability. President independent action, it must not be sup- L i malady In 1904, and that it will be neces- aroused and exasperated over their be- Roosevelt has acted as there was every | Posed the fusion scheme has been aban- apparatus is set in motion the thing which falls to the welght of the person on the There were strong and sufficient objeo- tions under the circumstances to the a sary to put the silver medicine aside again in order to administer, or attempt to ad- minister, another anti-imperalistio pill to & very reluctant patient. In spite of his confidence in his own pre- scriptions, Dr. Bryan declines to predict democratic victory next year. It seems that the country resolutely declines to take his medicine. And as it continues to become Samuel Simon, 17 years old, of 153 Suffolk more vigorous, more solid, more powerful l;:;;vt.onwnp }?rrnlm;d mfnrla Magistrate year by year without it, he sees no reason a charge of petty larceny. De- PERSONAL POINTS. to hope that it will ever be willing to take tective Cohen accused him of teaching e RN ft . Nor Ba he i sight lnyhorl: who 1s small boys to pick pockets and steal purses able to hold the patient while he forces One of the boys, Samuel Blumenthal, § the medicine down. years old, was arrested Baturday night at The most that he can venture to hope, Avenue A and Fifth street, charged with he says, is that “an adherence to right will stealing a pocketbook from Lizzle La bring eventual triumph.” Bryan Is war- Patenl, a pretty cigarette girl. ranted in his confidence in this broad prin- ‘Who taught you how to pick pockets?" ciple. But he seems to be beginning to asked the magistrate. recognize the fact that it is working Bam, there," sald the boy, pointing to against him all the while. If he gives up Btmon, 1904, a8 he now seems to do, when does he reason to expect he would act and the [ doned. They both meet at the same position he has taken will be firmly |time and the conference committees will matheatned, be as busy as ever. We advise the tele- plone company to get the wires between Grand Island and Columbus in good working order. trayal by their chosen public servants. The agitation for equitable rafiroad tax- ation has already culminated in substan- tial victorles for the peopla in many states, notably Michigan and Wisconsin, where the iniquitous policy of under- valuation has been overthrown by’ con- stitutional amendment and by legisla- tive ennctments. If the raflroads are impotent to stem the tide of popular sentiment in those states where they were as firmly entrenched in power for years as they now are in Nebraska there is every incentive for keeping up the agitation in Nebraska until the wrong is righted. Government ownership of railroads scales releases a cylinder which drops Into & phonograph. The cylinder has the three or four words of the man's weight, the phonograph utters them and they are car- ried by the horn right to the ear of the man on the scales. ceptance of help from Kansas from any source but fts own abundance. But to sup- plicate ald from others and then make the lame excuse that it would be unconstitu- tional to permit Kansas to make provision for its own needs shows a lack of nerve and pride and self-respect that no Kansas constitution, whether framed at Lecompton, Wyandotte or Topeka, ever contemplated. THE BANIS OF EXCHANGE. The American and Mexican commis- sions that are in Europe for the purpose of presenting to the governments abroad a proposition for a basis of exchange Where Wil D6 6" cokl siFlke, and. the for the silver-using countries, With a|...10rs accordingly will have to find some view to establishing settled conditions | other excuse for putting prices up this and avoiding the fluctuations that are|vear. 8o injurious to international commercial relations, have thus far et with such favor as to warrant the expectation that| 1t s hoped that the mildness of June will their mission will be successful. The | not cause the dealers to feel that they must commissioners found much encourage- | False the cost of July and August ice in ment in London and secured the co-op- | °Fder to e’ even. Worry for the Coal Man, Boston Globe. FEEBNEREEBESLES The formal installation of Rev. Langdon O. Stewardson as president of Hobart col- lege took place on June 17, Prof. W. E. Olivet of Baltimore has been appointed instructor of modern languages at the naval academy, Annapolis, Md. Hamilton Wright Mable of New York made the address at the 100th anniversary of Bradford academy, located at Haver- ‘otal. . sesises Less unsold and returned coples. Net total sales . Net uverage sales. GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this Slst day of May, A. D. 193. %) HONGATE, (8 ‘Notary Publc. Settlement Deferred. Washington Post. It appears that the postoffice scandal mongers are trying to madden Madden. Perhaps it is the. high price of coal that prevents Old Sol from warming up his summer furnaces. An ordinance regulating the speed of balloons over Lake Manawa will be in order at the next meeting of the Council Bluffs council. The Irish land bill has not yet run the gauntlet of Parliament, but the track is being gradually cleared of obstructions, 80 as to obviate possibility of mishap coming under the wire. Douglas county populists should have claimed representation in their state convention on the vote cast for the populist nominec for mayor in Omaha at the recent city election. ——— Colonel Bryan had a speclal envoy extraordinary from Nebragka at the last Iowa democratic state convention, but the fate of the mission does not seem to have warranted repetition. eaeee———14 ‘forts of the corporations to unload the may be among the coming reforms, but it is altogether too remote to afford any rellef for the present generation. Government ownership of raliroads would involve the acquisition of prop- erty capitalized at more than ‘twelve billion dollars, or more than double the amount of the national debt of Great Britain and four times the highest notch of our own national debt.. If the pros- pect of electing a legislature in Ne- braska that would solve the railroad tax question in the interest of the people is not promising, how much less promising is the prospect of electing a majority in both houses of congress that would take the railroads out of the hands of the corporations and place them in the hands of the government. If the rail- roads can prevent efficient regulation by congress, blocking government ownership. Government when' it does come, will come either by political revolution brought about by tidal wave of socialism stimulated by corporate aggression and domination .or through the voluntary and concerted ef- railroads upon the United States by ex- eration of the British Foreign, Colonial and India offices, which cannot fail to prove a most valuable assistance to They are now in Paris, where it is expected they will remain several weeks, going thence to Berlin, St. Petersburg and The Hague, meeting at each of these capitals finan- them on the continent. Making Fun of the Dead. ‘Washington Post. Certain editors are writing humorous articles over the proposition to make Adla Stevenson the democratic presidential nomi- nee. It is not funny at all, but pathetic. Another Reason for Winning. Philadelphia Press. J reason why Sir Thomas Lipton clal experts appointed by the respcctive | ghould not have America’s cup 1s that governments., he will quit if he gets it. We should There appears to have been manifested |&reatly miss him and his multitudinous in England, among the leading finan- clers, a very great interest in this move- ment, as was to have been expected in view of the enormous British interests involved in the establishment of a sound Shamrocks. Truth and the Trust. Baltimore American, When trust magnates are put under oath and compelled to tell the truth, they prove how necessary it is that laws be passed and uniform system of monetary reform | for the better regulation of the business in China and other silver-using coun- |methods of these great combinations. tries. a | commissions careful consideration. would seem that with Great Britain in accord with the proposed monetary re- Germany and Russia, which have large interests in the far be disposed to further any form France, east, will ‘Whether an equal degree of in- terest will be shown by the continental h 1ll have no difficulty in B2 ¥ | countries to be visited remaius to be ownership of “railroads, seen, but there is reason to expect that |officials may soon be “fired’" from the Post- » they will give the suggestions of the Making Good Scores, Too. Chicago News. It is now announced that about fifty more office department. . Mr, Bristow's firing ap- 1t | Paratus appears to be gaining in effective- ness, both in muzzle velogity and weight of matter thrown. Secret of Succeas. Philadelphia Record. The proprietor of a medicinal prepara- tion says he started in business by making ":-low long have you been picking pock- ets?" "About two or three days." The boy then told how he and another boy were taught to pick pockets, open chatelalne bags and steal watches on women's dresses, Bimon was held in $1,000 bail for exam- ination. The Blumenthal boy was sent to the rooms of the Children’s soclety. ‘With the decision of the corporation coun- sel that police sergeants must not lock men up who refuse to pay their cab bills, one of the finest “grafts” ever enjoyed in this city comes to an end. For years the cabmen of New York have used the police stations as clubs to force timid patrons Into paying excessive rates for cabs. For some unex- plainable reason desk sergeants have al- wi been perfectly willing to abet these frauds by locking men up on the com- plaints of cabmen. This has been especially noticeable in the Tenderloin, where the blotters will show hundreds of men locked up every year on the complaints of cabmen. Three times out of five the willingness of the sergeant to lock a man up on. these flimsy charges has resulted in the victim meeting the de- mands of the cabmen to keep out of trou- ble. For years the best lawyers have main- tained that the collecting of a cab bill was & matter for civil procedure, but until the corporation counsel's office made its recent decision "sergeants paid no attention to these opinions. hill, Mass., recently held. Colonel Willlam F. Fox, New York' state superintendent of forests, has gone to Europe to study the forestry systems of France, Germany and Italy. Dr. Kurt von Mutzenbecher, who was at o German em- bassy at Washington, has been appointed acting manager of the Royal theater at one time connected with ‘Welsbaden. M. Thopiteau, French deputy, to tax all games of hazard to the extent o 8 per cent of the sums at stake. M. Thopl teau estimates that the tax would bring in an annual revenue of £400,000. At Kufstein recently a monument was unvefled with great solemnity in honor of Joseph Madersperger, the reputed inventor of the sewing machine, who was born at| Becond Bchool Girl-Because I di Kufsteln in 1768 and died in Vienna in 1850. M. Andre Charadame, one of the most eminent jouinalists and publishers o France, one of the editors of “L’'Eclair,” s visiting St. Louls, from which city he will go to California and thence to the Orfent. The governor general of Canada has just presented to:Miss Georgina Pope the Royal Red Cross in recognition of her nursing proposes really expect his heart disease to strike? s |In 19087 In 19127 Does he imagine that this great and progressive nation will have more than the dimmest recollection of either his 18 to 1 policy or his Philippine scuttle policy five or ten years from now? As ssues they will be as dead then as the allen and sedition 11ws and the Dred Soott decision. IN JESTING MOOD. 3 folks say college gl Tom_ Rambler married a college girl and he has had to support himselt ever since.—Boston Transoript. First Bchool Girl—Wasn't that your father? Wonder he didn't speak to you. not speak to him. Pa s too much of a gentle- man to recognize a lady befors she recog- nizes him.—Boston Transcript. Billings—Some make good wives. Rounder—Rot! 3 It was a promoter that did me.—Chicago News. Why aidu't you sla) s—1 Al services in South Atfrica. She is the first woman in Canada to become the reciplent of this honor. Bir Frederick Pollock, the famous Eng- lish lawyer and law writér of London, has cabled his acceptance of an invitation to exclaimed, over the breakfast table. 1t cute?" e should Philadelphia Publié Led Tess—The idea of his trying to kiss you, m y —the first time.—Philadelphia “What a tiny egg you've got there ‘ute!” he replied, when he had opened say, 'rather, ger. Isn't it s chic."— As bad debt collectors, the federal courts with ‘their contempt attachments beat any private concern ever ‘organ- ized. Witness the case of the city of plan promising to insure a change from existing conditions in the direction of stable conditions. A great deal of con- fidence is therefore felt that the efforts of the commission will be crowned with The Cook—Would you mind giving me a recommendation, ma'am? The Mistress—Why, you have only just come. “But ye may not want to give me wan when 1°do be leaving."—Life. his remedy In a kitchen. 'A few years ago he adopted the plan of putting most of his profits Into newspaper advertising, and to this policy he credits much of his succe He now has an establishment with six changing thelr securities for government bonds. When the time comes that the syndicates and billionaires who now own the rallroad systemps of the United read a paper before the annual meeting of the American Bar assoclation, which will be held at Hot Springs, Va., August 2% to 2. Mrs. Anthony, widow of the “Brave Bill" People who are interested In the problem of trying to determine who is the meanest man in New York will ind an interesting candidate in the man who drove up to the Beatrice and its bondholders. Oyster Bay 1s preparing a big blow- out for President Roosevelt on his re- turn howe for the summer. As it is a little out of the oyster season, a clam- bake may have to play the star role. According to current. report, If the principalship of the Omaha High school were left to the puplls who have gradu- ated from that institution under its pres- ent Incumbency, it would not be filled by Mr. Waterhouse, South Omaba is to be cougratulated upon the outcome of the bond election. The ratification of the propositions to, fssue bonds for funding the floating debt and for the erection of a high school building, and the rejection of the city hall and sewer paving bonds, affords gratifying evidence of the good business sense on the part of the people who par- ticlpated actively in the contest. ‘With only half a dozen automobiles in scorching operation, the jangle over au- tomobile speed appears to be slightly premature. For the present at least it does not matter whether the horseless machine runs twelve knots an hour or seven kuots. A speed of three knots on North Sixteenth street and several other pock-marked thoroughfares would be States find it more profitable to convert their stocks and bonds into government certificates they certainly will not hesi- tate to do so, and will easily overcome all obstacles to accomplish that end. § In the meantime sincere tax reformess will not waste thelr energy’ dldmoriag for government ownership, but will do all they ‘can'to compel the raiiroads to pay their just proportion of the taxes. The assumption that a majority of the voterg In” Nebraska will remain indif- ferent because they are nontaxpayers is baseless and erroneous. Out.of 240,000 voters of Nebraska more than 90 per cent are taxpayers and their failure to assert themselves through the ballot-box within“the past four years is due chiefly to the repeated fallure of self-styled: re- formers to keep their pledges. But Q’Q time {8 not distant when men who are success. It is to be expected, of course, that some difficulties will be encountered. The problem is by no means a simple But whatever obstacles there are in the way of its solution are believed not to be insurmountable, while the ex- pediency of establishing a stable basis of exchange between the silver-using and the gold standard countriés is uni- one. versally admitted. Referring to the movement a leading financial journal says that there Is noth- ing in the proposition that ought to dis- turb the most ultra gold man and adds: “Our own interest in the matter con- Pt cerns our commerce and the promotion business relations We wish to see Mexico go to the gold standard be- elected will be compelled to keep:thelr{cause that will mean greater contént- pledges. Unless all signs are flm".& ment and a larger volume of business, of more Intimate with the silver countries. the legislative campaign of 1904, OFFENDEHS MUSI BE PROSECUTED. Those who have been impatiently-de- manding action on the part of Presi- dent Roosevelt, looking to the prosecu- tion and punishment of persons charged with breach of trust or dishonest prac- tices as postal official, will undoubtedly the small cloud visible in the political {forelgn and domestic, in that section, horizon portends a political hurricane in | @14 We would be glad to have China given a_ray of hope that her depressing currency status will not continue in- definitely. We have learned to value the gold standard for ourselves and we are confident that the sooner it is the universal standard the better it will be for the whole world, if the change is ef- fected without financial convulsion.” As the proposed reform would require no compounding vats of 100 gallons capacity New York Tribune. Sir Thomas Lipton sald the other day that 100 proverbial reasons boded success for his third attempt to lift the America's cup, but that, should he fail, he would be found at the starting line a year hence with Shamrock IV. To find the date of any given Shamrock in the twentleth century, add its original number to 1900; thus, Sham- rock XXIII, 1923 LABOR LEADER OR LABOR UNIONS, Mayor Sullivan Advises His Fellow Workers on Strikes. ladelphia Public Ledger. There was some derision when George P. Sullivan, the trades union candidate, was elected mayor of Derby, Conn., but Mayor Bullivan's advice to labor unions, published in yesterday's Public Ledger, shows an amount of hard sense that will serve him in any capacity. Mayor Sullivan is the labor leader of his city, and was elected to office through the efforts of the Central Labor union, of which he was formerly president. The counsel, therefore, of the “plumber mayor” s free from the taint of hostility to unionism. The walking dele- gate, he says, will soon be a thing of the past; he is more or less of a ‘‘grafter,” often levying tribute upon both unions and employers, and sometimes betraying his own organization. Even when he Is honest he causes needless trouble, enlarges the cleuvage between capital and labor to the detriment of both, and he and his fellow high-salaried officers are a grievous burden bridge entrance in an automobile at about 6:30 o'clock the other night, when traffic at that point was unusually congested. He stopped his machine in the middle of the roadway and shouted to a newsboy to give him a base ball extra. The boy handed up a paper which the man proceeded to read without paying for it, never heeding the remarks from drivers behind him. As soon as he had learned the result of the ball game he handed the paper back to the waiting boy, pulled the lever of his machine and drove away. The boy chased him, but the machine was too speedy. Then the po- licem: on post on the roadway sald he was sorry he hadn't arrested the blankety blank lobster for blocking the road. The most sumptuous cigar store in the city 1s on Broadway in the hotel district. The place has been open for several months and is really an advertisement for a Cuban tobacco company. Only imported cigars are sold and the prices are high enough to suit the extravagant. The store takes in the ‘whole ground floor of an office buillding and on the tiled floor are expensive rugs. About the store are easy, leather-cushioned chairs, which customers are invited to use. The managers of the store say the cigars they sell are kept In the same temperature as they enjoy In Cuba. This is done by keep- ing the cigars in humidors bullt in the store. For taking the starch out of men who have grown over-reckless from power there s nothing that quite equals one night in the tomb prison. Frequenters of the criminal court buildings have noticed this In a number of cases in the last few years. Al Adams dodged the tombs for a long Anthony, whose coolness the night that the battleship Maine was destroyed in Havana harbor made him famous, has been pro- moted. She now holds a clerkship in the permanent Census Bureau, with a salary of $900 a year. The Order of the Bauten Crown, which the king of Saxony has recently conferred upon the prince of Wales, 1s & decoration of high distinction, which was founded in 1807 by King Frederick Augustus, to com- memorate the creation of Baxony as a kingdom by Napoleon. The new physiological laboratory and marine aquarium just completed for Prof. Jacques Loeb at the University of Call- fornia 1s regarded by experts as the finest of its kind in the world. Rudolph Spreck- els gave $25,000 for the bullding and no ex- pense has been spared In its equipment. The countess of Carlisle is undoubtedly the most radical woman in the British isles, not only on the drink question, bu in other things. Burely blessed, Oh! Horrors! One day an old maiden from Gloucester Met a gentleman cow, and he toucester. Though she wasn't much hurt it played hob with her skirt. ©Oh! think of the anguish that coucester! —Philadelphia Press. THE LONG ROAD OVER THE HILL. Willlam Young in Scribner's Magazine. Copse and meadow and wimpling stream, And voices calling to flocks ti ray d the loitering herd and the plodding team, And the hamlet, fair in the dying day; Blossoming orchard, branching wide, A rose gray tow er, a dusky mill, mur- muring low by the waterside— fAnd the long road over the hill. on, my soul, wilt thou farther fare? ero is plenty, and here is peace. beyond compare, Are these, secure In their tranquil lease, ‘Who take, with thanks, what the god: i She would like to abolish oW ¢ | Flower and fruit of the field they till— And tarry, content, while the travelers go By the long road over the hill. all titles of nobility, and if her husband and relatives did not insist upon her using her title, which is very old, it is sald she would have dropped it long ago. On November 15 King Christian of Den- mark will celebrate the fortieth anniver- sary of his accession to the throne. He hopes to have around him all his six chil- dren—Crown Prince Christian, Queen Alex- andra of Britain, King George of Greece, Dowager Czarina Dagmar of Russia, the duchess of Cumberland and Prince Walde- mar—and many of his thirty-two grand- children and twenty-two great-grandchil- dren. Never the call to strife they hear— Never the din of the mofling throng; But htha blithetul greetings and songs of chee: Praise at matin and at even song; These, and the mill wheel's drowsy hum, Pipe of bird and babble of rill, And the tinkle of bells, when the slow kine come To the hamlet under the hill. And thus for aye would I have them bide— Wholly happy and simply wise; Never to dream of a boon denfed, Far adventure or vain emprise. Never a foot from the fold should stray. But 1 would be the traveler still Who looks and envies—and goes his way— The long road over the hill change in the monetary systems of the | po, t H; fon. On that b time. He had been a bold defler of the law be satisfied with his letter to Attorney VRO & SEMESHAE unlon,. On that troukiing, extra hazardous at any time of the day or night. — A man who pretends to know what he is talking about declares that the va- rious insurance companies have spent $330,000 during the last twenty years to defeat or pass legislation at the Mls- sourl state capital. The insurance com- panies certainly spent nowhere near that amount in the same time on Ne- braska lawmakers. They didn't have to. Nébrakka legislative boodlers ‘have Genernl Knox, in’ which he'says that “every effort must be exerted to bring offenders to punishment by: the utmost rigor of the law.” The president sug- gested the appointment of speclal coun- sel to assist the district attorney, so that the prosecutions can be promptly and actively entered upon, and this"has been done. It is therefore safe tp say that there will be no delay in bringing before the courts the men agal whom indictments have been foynd d any =at yvet gotten up to the Missourl tarift of charges. The outcome of the South Omaha bond election 18 instructive and suggestive. The fact that only one-fifth of the voting population could be induced to go to the polls shows the marked indifference of the nomproperty-owning class in elec- tions that do not"directly concern theni. It also demonstrates that In times of general prosperity the homeless wage- workers-are not disposed to assist hoom- ers in plastering mortgages voon the town, whereas in times of cowimercial depression the unemployed could be de- pended upon to vote in favor of every proposition that promised to give them an opportunity for employment, regard- less of the effect in increased Lurdens wpon the property owners. others who may yet be indieted. . There are former officlals of the Postoffice de- partment implicated by the investiga- tion who may escape prosecution be- cause of their cases belng lpn-ed by the statute of limitations, but these can- not escape public .opprobriung. if the charges respecting them are shown to be true. Y It 18 remarkable that there should have been any doubt as to the determi- pation of the president pot only to have the Investigation of the postal scandal made most thorough and searching, but to require that those a ble to the law should be vigorousiy prasecuted. conyulsion. sary to perform the work. state nominating gold-standard countries there is Involved in It no possible danger of financial e—— The cost of making the assessments for taxation purposes in Douglas county for ‘the year 1903 will aggregate nearly $16,000, or about $10,000 more. than it should be under the new revenue law, which substitutes for the precinct as- sessor and county assessor such a num- ber of deputies as may be found neces-| émplover grants these, that is recognition In the near future the city tax commissioner's office will be merged with that of thé county assessor and the whole work of assess- ment for Omaha, South Omaha and the incorporated towns and villages, as well as the country precfhcts, made under tife supervision of one mamn; both as a measure of economy as well As to Insure uniformity of appraisement. eT—— The selection of the same day for the conventions of Ne- braska populists and Nebraska dewo- | girike commission in its general considera- crats is only another evidence of the | tion of the relations between employer and brotherly love and mutual confidence in | Worker which these reform allles, now de- question of ‘“recognition” of the union, which is at the bottom of numberless costly strikes, he says “The recognition of the union clause, which trade organizations are so persl: ently attempting to force Into thelr labor contracts, amounts to nothing. In my opin- fon, it is chiefly for the benefit of the walk- ing delegate, to be used by him as a lever to widen the breach between capital and labor, forgent trouble and incidentally earn his'salary, if nothing more. When the em- ploye asks union wages and hours and the enough. Recognition further than this ca not, with justice, be asked. " A Danlel come to Judgment! If the unions get what they want, 1s not that the real recognition? And another bit of wisdom will surely be put in practice in time—the proper kind of union is one where the of- cers serve without pay and where “each local union is supreme in its particular field.” That Is the way to let employers of labor settle differences with their own em- ployes without the interference of those who are not acquainted with local condi- tions and have not the same vital interest in stopping strife. 1t will be noted that this n direct line with the recommenda- tions or Intimations of the Anthracite The magnitude of present day operations prevents that direct personal contact which was once the rule, but the No one can have & Kkeener seqsie of the | termined to go It alone, hold one an-|'next thing to personal contact is' negotia- fiagrancy of the offenses cl agalnst | other. The separate conventions in dif- the former postal officials that have | ferent towns are only for.effeet, as the tion between the employer and the repre- sentatives of the workers directly con- cerned. This is home rule; it is common been indicted than Mr, Roosevelt and it | expectation is that the same candidates | .. "onq Mayor Sullivan proclaims it in would be utterly inconsistent with his [ will be nominated in each. If the Popu- | a way that commands attention. / for years. His power wi tremendous and he and his friends had laughed at the idea that it could be ever broken to the extent that he, the man of millions, could be sent to jafl. When Adams finally had t0 0 to the tomby he had an appeal from his conviction pending, and he swaggered into the prison with & bold laugh on his face and & boast on his lips. He w scarcely recognizable the next morning, haggard had he become during the night. His spirits was completely gone, taken away, by one night in a tombs cell. 8o It was with Parks, the labor agitator, the other night. When his bondémen falled him, he roared deflances as he went across to the tombs. A yellower-faced, meeker man never came out of the old prison than S8am Parks when he was re- leased the next day, and he hasn't uttered a deflance since. 8o It has with many another man. The alr of the musty old tombs, for the old prison is still used, is not conducive to high spirits and is a great leveller of pride. tice to the Clam. Washington Post Charles Emory Smith declares that Gov- ernor Pennypacker “has no more sense of humor than & clam,” but fails to enlighten us as to how and when he acquired his prejudice against clams. Polnter on Polints. New York World One misplaced comma sent the Massachu- setts excise law wrong, another threatens & Nebraska prisoner with the gallows, Law framers should mind, besides their P's and q's, thelr punctuations. 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