Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 28, 1903, Page 14

E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION Blly Bee (withSut Buhiday), UN8 Yeor..$. y Bee und Sunday, Uiie Year.... trated kee, Une ¥ day Bee, Une Year. , Une Y ntieth Century Farmer, DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Bily Bee (without Sunday, per copy ly Bee (without Bunday), per Week ear, Hee, per cupy hing Bee (withyu Bindgy,, dning Bee (nbluuing S Ry per 4 10 ek ‘ b Cobmplaints of lrregularities In de It Ifbo addressed to City Cireulation & ment. OFFICES The Bee Luildi [Bout onu—«fh) Hall carth And B Strests — y g hfw fil‘mdm Row Funaine. ashington—501 Fourteenth Street. o, (‘ORREBPOTDENCF mmunieations relating to new| T Tmattet SROUIA be fudresned: Rditorial Department. REMITTANCES. Omal Remit by draft, express or postal order, ble to The Bee Publisning Company, Inly 2-cent ot Mo ha THE accou or e BE cheak o, o xchanges, not A ‘ gl?fll.lk:lAl & SO NY. lToA‘TEl:ENk'I; oF l:lmlcuu;nu.\'. o , Douglas Coun Fahehiioh, seuterars of 't Bos being duly sworn, ual_fumber of full and he Dally. Morning, Ilvm‘ly vrlnlrfl auring the , 1903, was as follows: ning th o SERPNERRBEDBEES unsoid and FeTirned dopies. total sales. . ; GEORUJE B. sz('HUL‘K! Bubscribed In et and sworn to fore me -m"m\’a!"’%?"ufi-, A D. 198, B, HUNGATL, (Seal.) Notary Public. ridge arbitrary. Under the clrcum he Kapsas lawmakers could lose. pring. Hetan, ong remain a statesman out of a job. roclamations Qog days. nemorable. Pacific cable. Ee—— Bt. Louis before he goes home. in 1004 on one of the expohition lagoons. its nelghbors. That is why the Russian Jewish petition. ewougb under his jurisdiction around. cles are enforceable against fire but no against water. imem— ‘With one set of people ¢ cannot possibly. please them all. Bu the others will have to be. e The judge of the supreme court o a declares he will carry his case to th Uhited Btates senate. By the time th senate convenes every one will forgotten about the aggrieved judge. esemEsweee— According to White House authority port that the promised tariff plan n has been framed under the supervisio: of 1004, With us In Nebraska the troubl rid of those whko have outlived thel peefulness or never had any. continuance of ofielal service. 2¢ | 12c per week. .1ic sorsaa B8 r week. 8¢ | (lding, Twen: and edis tampe accepted in payment of | "} except of 28,400 8t. Louls is now trying to unload its It might come up to maha to get information how to do it. There is really no geod reason why e cannot demonstrate our Fourth of uly patriotism without maiming sowmes cés the best thing do was 0 bring thelr extra session to a speedy e __ _____} Those Cornell crews must have been mmune from the typhold epidemic that ged among the students at Ithaca this emgve—— Emperor Willlam s a pretty good poli- 1If he were foot-loose and located n these United States he would not b ———_} It is to be hoped that Peter Kara- orgeviteh will give us a rest with his and pronunclamentoes ntil we are through persplring in the S Independence day, 1008, will be made President Roosevelt will kchange salutations with Uncle Sam’s brown children in the Philippines by Bir Thomas Lipton is expected to visit If he| not careful a promise will be exucted from him to try for the America’s cup S ——— When the govérnment of a nation finds itself In an indefensible position it does not like to be reminded of it by government will decline to receive the ey Becretary Cortelyou is discovering that one of the princlpal duties devolving upon him as head of the new comnerce department is to explain to persistent | office seekers that there are not places to ygo It will probably tun out that the poople whose houses burned in the Topekn floods fared better than those whose bulldings were simply washed away, asmueh as the insurance poli- ling for his | resiguation and another set calllug on him to stay, Postmaster General Payne a# long.as President Roosevelt is satis- fipd to keep Mr. Payne in the cabinet New Mexico deposed by the president a result of charges flled against hiwm have Jowa republican state platform of President Roosevelt is unfounded. tarift plank that President Roose- yolt will stand on will be promulgated by the republican national convention ey Down in Arkansas the attorney gen- of the state has given an officinl to the effect that school di- canpot legully resign thelr posi- fgiall the other way-iot t0 prevent #chool directors from resiguing, but to get [ pulsory resignation in certatn ehierg: endles would be more advantageous to the welfare of the schools than com- GOVYERNMENT SELF-IXNSCRANCE, Among the problems that will presént themselves for solution to the American | people in the very near future is govern- ment self<dnsurines. Up to a compara- {ively recent period the fidelity and in-| tegrity of public officers-—national, state and municipal—was guaranteed by per- sonal surety bonds. The establishment of bond guaranty companies which for | a consideration assume the risk of maks | ing good losses that may be incutted | through dithonest custoédians of public | funde tas almost entlrely superseded | the persoual bond surety systemh and | wived the way for a monopoly of the | guaranty insurance business. As a natural consequence the guaranty | corpany bonds have become a spe-ific tax dpon public officetd, who in (urn hive stcceeded In miany instances in shifting the bond insdrance exvonse from their own shoulders to the general public In Nebraska, for example, the last stnte treasurer secwred appropria- tions through the legislature to cover his bond insurance premiums in excoss of the whole salary to which he vas evntitled under the provisions of the con- stitution. The precedent established for the Lenefit of the Inst state treasnrver will doubitless be followed by succeed- ing state trensurers unless, indeed, the courte ghould dectee this practice to be in contravention to the constitution. A still more radical departure wns teken by our late legislature in the Onmha charter amendient bill, which requires the city to pay not merely the cost of the city treasurer's bond, but also of the bond of every other city officlal, elective or appointive, inclading the members of the police and fire de- partients. It does not require a stretch of the fmagination to foresee that the evolu- tion from personal liability bonds to guaranty company Iinsurance must - | evitubly lead to the assumption on the part of the states, countlies And ~ities of the expense of insuring the faithful- ness and honesty of all public officers at the public expense. If it is right and proper for the state to repay the state treasurer for the cost of his insurance prewium it is equally proper to refand to the governor, the supremeé court Judges, the state officers, state ngents and state employes the premium on their guarunty bonds. If it is right and | proper for the state to bear the expense of guaranty bonds for officers who fill every branch of the state government it I& equally proper for the counties, cities, villages and school districts to defray the obligation inecurred by their officers in the shape of bond insurance preinfums. Whben that stage is reached we will be forced to nsk ourselves whether the #tates, counties and cities should not asrume the whole risk of integrity in- swrance through the creating of an in- surance fund by deducting a fixed per- centege from the salaries of all public officals and the establishment of bureaus of inspection and audit tbat will guard against undue risk. While government self-insurance would donbt- lexs be strenuously resisted by the znar- dnty bond companies and might he in- popular with some office holders, it would have the support of the {ax- peyers. The impoaition of a trizinl salury tax, graduated according to the size of the income, would be no hasd- €hip on office holders and would work no injustice to anybody. The fact that guaranty insurance is now levied achi- trarily by what may be considered an fnsuronce trust 18 within itself a niost forceful argument in favor of govern- ment self-insurance—national, state and | 1unicipal. It is a step that will force itse!f upon the country sooner or later as & matter of public necessity. EEE—— 4 AMERICAN RESPONSIBILITY. There i8 no principle of American public policy 8o universally acquiesced in by our people as is the doctrine de- clared nearly eighty years ago by Presl- dont Monroe, but there are thoughtful wen who see in the scope that has been given to this doctrine, in its development | by events not contemplated when it was enunciated, the possibility of future trouble for the United States. In his address to the gradwating class of the Yale law school, Mr. Whitelaw Reid considered the Monroe doctrine in the light of the present situation of the American continents and of our present necessities. He sald we will certainly not abandon the doctrine, “but we may find, If nobody is opposing us, that per- | haps its extension quite so far beyond the original purpose of Mr. Monroe and Mr. Adams, as the fervor of our patriots has carried it, may prove to be attended with wholly unnecessary inconvenlence to ourselves.” The turbulent and revolutionary Spanish-Ameriean governments ecommit | offenses of one kind and another against | foreigners. They run in debt and fail | ilo pay. Shall the Monroe doctrine, asked Mr. Reld, be construed into an | international bankruptcy act, to be en- forced by the United States for the benefit of any American republic ngainst all European creditors, or, on the other hand, is it to degenerate Inté an Inter- national collection agen maintained by the United States for the benefit of Juropean powers which may bave just clnims against American republies? It would seem to have been clearly demon- strated in the ease of Venezuela that t t f e 3 k n try a collection agency, nor will it shield any southern republie in the refusal to pay Its just debts, the extent of our interposition going no farther than the safeguarding of the territorial integrity of those countries. This raises the there is no Intention to make this coun- | more re from Eu Reld, do te from us than they are Tp . How far south, sid Mr. ve mean now, in'the twentieth lenge to fight for it? Mexico, Aré within our proper sphere of influ- Americhn continents it may some day less respongibility.” It is not to upon the application doetrine in this hemisphere, embraces every republie, which agalnst foreign aggression welfare, E———— THE OTAER SIDE OF BOODLING. corruption uncovered in so many sece tions of the country. effect,” he declares, ‘“the cause tions of large capital and small con- without regard te the law or the right. for a single minute.” The Bee—that the bribe giver of the servants. trusts reposed in path of duty and of rectitude. givers are nlso furnished. make fish of one and flesh of the other. L — ] 4 HOPEFUL OUTLOOK. 18 hopefulness for the future. ple. people endorsed, there was not much danger that public opinion in this coun- try would becowe so lax that troubles between labor and capital would be- come vitally dangerous, though they be ever so threatening. Such an expression as this from a wan like Judge Gray is in a high de- gree reassuring and there is in existing elrcumstances and indleations substan- tial support for his view. There has been within tbe past year abundant evi- dence of the influence of public opinion upon conflicts between labor and capital rected. The potency of this influence is more fully recognized today than ever before by both capital and labor and it is reasonably to be assumed that each will be more careful in future to regu- late their course with reference thereto. They will hereafter give more consider- ation, there Is reason to believe, to the public interests. So far as organized labor is concerned there is certainly being shown a very decided tendency in this direction. The more Intelligent and sagacious leaders are inclined to innugurate reforms in methods and to repress that spirit of hostility which has too commonly been allowed to dominate the organizations. On the whole the outlook as to relations between labor and capital is encouraging. century, to push the Monroe doctrine and hold ourselves teady at any chal The Guit of the Caribbean sea and the waters of both oceans about the lsthimus ence and must be forever dominated by this republie, but “townrd tha rest of the ptove more convenient for us to assume be doubted that Americans genernlly feel that there should be no limitation placed of the Monroe that it however fe- mote, but it & by no means improbable that events of the future may produce a modification of the present view of American regponsibility in this respect and lead to & general acceptance of the fdea presented by Mr. Reld, that the application of the doctrine should not be extended beyond that portion of the southern continent which is within the legitimate ephere of Influence of the United States and the protection of in vitally necessary to our security and The editor of one of our wmost pro- gressive weekly journald calls attention to what he pleases to term “the other side of boodling” as suggested by the “The foolish little rascals who are getting caught are the is to be found in the proclivity of corpora- relonce to buy legielatures and contracts If they did not exist, if they did not pay the money, if they did not work their schemes, boodling would not live This Is simply restating in new phrases what has been repeatedly exposed by is the prime requisite for the production of the bribe taker and that the wholesale | corruption work is for the most part carried on, if not directly by, at least| in the interest of the great corporations whose members profit by the betrayal public The corporation seeking a franchise prefers to put up a big round sum for the councilmen rather than to pay a reasonable royalty to the city. The corporatio@ bent upon evading its taxes would ratheér hand the money over to the assesgor than pay it into the public treasury. To procure legislation they have no right to ask, to secure con- tracts that do not belong to them, to get possession of the public domain without color of law, the corporations are ever ready to hang up tempting prizes to lure the public officer from the 1t is well that the bribe takers shall be exposed and brought to justice, but the task is incomplete until a few strik- Ing examples of punishment to bribe “The foolish little rascals” are but disciples of “‘the big bold rascals” and it will not do to Judge Gray, president of the anthra- cite coal strike commission, sald in an address a few days ago that one lesson he had learned and which he hoped the country has learned, from events which made the strike commission necessary, He de- clared that there Is no trouble so menac- ing or dangerous in the conflicts be- tween labor and capital that it cannot be peacefully and righteously settled by the common sense of the American peo- In regard to the commission he said he had been personally impressed with the fact that if a body of seven such arbitrators, appointed by the presi- dent from widely divergent sections of the country, could hear the testiwmony given at their hearings and could arrive at a judgment unanimously which the public opinion and common sense of the and there has been hardly an instance | where this opinion was not properly di-| In granting an honorary degree to the new Chinese minister, almost immedl- ately on his arrival in this country, question whether, in saying to Europe rolations to Europe. 1 we should apply the Monroe Stiil another important consideration |tive of his ne to those republics which are |the Amberst evidergly has an eye to busi- that there must be no aggression against | ness that othe:f colleges will do well to the southern republics, we do not be- | observe. Not come morally responsible for the proper | tion the dee) conduet of the protected states in their | educational t any ose will ques- learning afd the broad Nfication: 5§0l the re- ns the officlal/ representa- vernment he wjll be largely teadby Chinese stuMafs comlng to w:nl ;“ whe#lligbe governed 5 d & clplent, bu , AN THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY JUN _28, by his advice tn the selection of the institutions in which they should enroll themeelves. It is safe to say that with the degree just conferred on him as a reminder Amherst will be on the list of recommended colleges that s kept on file at the Chinese embassy. Capmpesr— WHO I8 TO PAY THK OVERDRAFT? The district court for Lancadter county Las, after exhaustive deliberation and serious cogitation, drawn a black line through the constitutional amendment by which the reégular sessions of the state legislature were extended from forty to sixty days and the pay of law- makers was increaned from $3 to §5 per day. While this deciglon 18 by no menns final, it will hold good until re- versed by the supreme court, and state auditors will be restralned from isening warrants to membeérs of futufe legls- latures in excess of $120 for each regu- lar session. Whether this will discourage inen who have an ambition to shine in the halls of leglelation from becoming candidates for legislative honors {8 problematic. In the light of past experience with Ne- braska leglslatures, salary does not ap- pear to be o much of an object as an opportunity for making a collection of pasteboards that entitle the holders to free transportation on the railroads, free telephone communciation, free telegraph messages, free rides on the street cars, free theater seats and free drinks, with incidental opportunities for securing lucrative corporation jobs. The more serfous aspect of the Lan- caster court decisfon is its bearing on the creation of a state treasury over- draft. TFor nine consecutive sessions of the legislature 133 members have, so declares the court, drawn out of the state treasury $180 each in excess of the constitutional pay lmit. The over- draft for each session, therefore, would be $23,940, or a total of $215460, ex- clugive of the overdrafts of the various lleutenant governors who have presided over the nine succeeding legislatures since and including 1887, How the state is to recover this over- draft and how many of the 1,179 ex- members of the legislatures who have been overpald can be induced to dis- gorge is the question. In the meantime the edict of the Lancaster court will afford another plausible argument for the railroad tax agents to explain away the constantly increasing state debt and the unreasonableness of charging up the deficlency to the undervaluation of the rallroads by the state boards of railroad assessment, etm——— PUNISHMENT FOR PEONAGE. The courts in Alabama and Georgia are dealing vigorously with those found guilty of the crime of peonage. In the federal court at Montgomery, Ala,, to which nearly a hundred indictments were presented by the grand jury, a prosgperous planter who pleaded guilty to eleven Indictments for peonage was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in each case, to be served concurrently, In Georgla three men who were tried in the United States court at Macon for holding ‘a negro in involuntary servi- tude for debt were fined $1,000 each. In imposing sentence the judge sald: “In view of the fact that it is the first erime of this kind which has ever occurred in Georgia, and because of the frank con- fession of the young men, sentence is imposed in order to convince the public that the purpose of the court is to warn and deter others from a-like crime.” That these examples will have this effect is reasonably to be expected, but there should be no delay in prosecuting others who are under Indictment and no leniency in punishing the guilty as the crime deserves. The government should vigorously continue the investl- gation which the men in the secret service have been ordered to make until the system of peonage has been com- pletely stamped out. This atrocious method of re-enslavement has been practiced, 8o far as appears, only In two states—Alabama and Georgla—but it is quite probable that there have been cases in other southern states. At all events 1t is possible to put an end to the eriminal system and It I8 the de- termination of the Washington authorl- ties that this shall be done. judges can be depended upon to falth- fully enforce the law and in doing so they onght to have the hearty commend- ation of everybody In the south who Is capable of understanding the helnous | character of the crime of peonage. The federal Andrew ;"nrnogla has not yet re- sponded to the plea of Andrew D. White for §14,000,000 to endow professorships and scholarships for the promotion of the study of history, eivies and politics in twenty-five American universities. An edition de luxe copy of Mr. White's address should be sent to Mr. Carnegie's address under special delivery stamp. It now transpires that Judge Hook, who has recently been appointed as the successor of Judge Caldwell on the cir- cult benech, will not resign from the district bench until he has been con- firmed by the senate as a wember of the higher federal court. Judge Hook goes on the theory that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. The Colored National Immigration as- soclation will ask the next congress to appropriate $100,000,000 for carrying colonies of negroes to the republic of Liberiu. Ten chances to one the con- gress after the next congress would be asked for an appropriation to pay the return passage of the expatriated. e o ] Former Postmaster General Smith need not have felt it incumbent on him to explain at such length his version of the Tulloch charges. No one except a few rank partisan opponents has shown the least disposition to attach any odium 1903. oh the Qemocratic national ticket 1§ vetoed on the famillar ground that Mis- souri I8 sure to go demoeratic anyway and there Is no use planting balt where there are no fish to catelh. 1f Mr. Folk had only thought of it he might have solected some doubtful state for his operations agninst the boodlers. PR — The Best Treatment. Chicago Tribune. Fot a Fourth of July lockjaw the best treatment is to lock Johnny and his toy pletol In separate apartments about the middie of June. Contlnud the treAtment until July 8. Long May He Wave. New York Tribune. We 6we a debt of gratitude to the Domin- lcan republic for adoraing the roll of the world's rulers with the picturesque and melodious name of President A. Wos y Gil Long may he wave! Prospect of a Standoff, Philadelphia Press. It Bryan is able to forve the next demo- ctatlc natlonal convention to stand on the Kansas City platform there will be a greater number of democrats than ever before who will prefer to go off and stand on thelr Jignity. Mxperts in Their Line, Washington Post. The Natlonal Dancing Masters' associa- tion, In session at Newport, has approved a new dance to be known as the “Double Cross.” There are a lot of postoffice poli- ticlans who can give the dancing masters pointers on the ins and outs of double cross. Great Roost for Exiles, Chicago Chronicle. Major Gourley, the flery Canadian ora- tor, who wants to see the United States wiped off the map, will get small sympathy from his compatriots. What would Can- ada do without the American embessiers, boodlers, swindlers and all-round scound- rels who find a refuge there and pay lib- erally for the protecilon of the grand old union jack? Young Oli People ot To Loufsville Herald. People quit growing old at 0 half a cen- tury ago. They quit it when they ceased thinking themselves old at 40, ceased dress- Ing old at 40, not to speak of drinking themselves old at 4. The young man of 50 or 60 yoars now wears the natty sack tweeds or serges that his son or grandeon wears, tipped off with a jaunty hat. He goes to base ball, the races; he keeps up with the procession and s all in for & good time in moderation, heaithfully. The young woman with him in white, or colors, with the gay hat, who has the manners of a youthtul, but self-respecting girl of 0 in the ‘last century, is his wife, perhaps a grandmother, but none the less young and happy yét. They feel young, they dress young, they belleve themselves young—by the Great Horned Spoon, they are young! ¥ Tonnage of Admirals, Philadelphia Record. It appears from the recent discusstons | over the enlary that when an flagship he adds just fifty tons to its welght. This arises from the necessity of providing for the Juxuries of the officers at the expense of the fighting capacity of the ship. The regulation allowance for lu: urious quarters on a battleship la 350 tons, but when an admiral steps on board spe- clal allowance is made for his private ac- commodation, including two bath tubs for his u As the number of admirals shall increase with the enlargement of the navy and with the provisions for early retire- ment from the service, it will be necessary to provide more and more luxurious quar- ters on board the floating palaceés. It {s not strange that there should be so much enthusiasm among the Coburgers for a great nevy. But think of a Decatur or a Perry requiring two bath tubs on his ship! ————— OREGON'S PAUL REVERE. Leslie Matlock Rides Before the Heppner Flood and Saves 700 Lives, San Francisco Call. Longfellow has immortalized Paul Re- vere, who made the mad night ride to Lex- ington, ¢rying to the farmers Ao warning of the coming of the armed enemy. By that midnight cry they wera enabled to prepare for the Invader, and had It not been for Paul Revere “the embattled farmers” could not have “fired at Lexington the shot heard round the world.” The incident is among the herole events that are fondly referred to In the literature relating to, and inspired by, our revolution. Every American lad has felt his pulses qulcken and his heart beat higher when he has read the story, and there has been born In him the wish that some day, some how, there may come to him the opportunity to imitate Paul Re- vere. To all such it may be sald that op- portunities are numerous. The lad who feels his spirit erying out in warning that bad habits, sloth and evil ways are march- ing down upon him to tle his hands lnd‘ weaken his moral purpose and destroy his | manly Independence has a Paul Revere op- | portunity. The night rider s within him, crying with the volce of conscience. It he heed he is the warning and the warned, and the decision he may make to arm himself against the Insidious enemy and strike for liberty and morality may In kind affect the world as aid the shot fired at Lexington Not only In this self-affecting senfe doex the Paul Revere snirit ind many opportuni- ties, but In the other mense. In the form of Paul's own Action ar affecting others. there are many occasions upon which his brave Initiative may repeated. When the wall of water fell upon Hopp- ner, the hapless Oregon town, and gentle Willow oreek, tranaformed into a torrent, | rose to be the dreadful agent of death and injury to the sleeping people, Leslfe Mat- 1ock found within his ribs the spirit of Paul Revere, Far down the canyon was the Ore- gon town of Lexington, where 500 people slept, unconsclons of danger. Matlock sprang upon his hotse and put spur to out- ride the flood and save 500 lives. nine miles Behind rose the pursuing wall of It mathered wreckage as it ran, and water. bore upon its crest the floating timbers that made it more dangerous and deadly. The road was dark and stony, and his horse leaped bowlders and ruts, urged forward by the voung Revere of Oregon. Ahead hundreds slept 'n the path of Geath. Be- hind howled the flood as over the rough road he spurred. If he could not outrun the destroyer and save others he was doomed, for his safety, ltke theirs, lay In the horse's speed and sureness of foot. No more piti- less enemy ever urged forward a deliverer, and no soldler was ever chased by surer death, 1t his beast tripped or falled. At last he Aashed into the single street of Lexing- ton, erying “To the hills!" and the roused people fled to safety, and not a life was lost, though in & few minutes only two houses were left of all the homes In which 500 slept when the dellverer came. But this Paul Revere of Oregon did not stop at the rescue of 0. Remembering that stfll far- ther down the canyon the hamlet of Ione stood in the road that death was riding that night, before the waters came upon him he of the postofice scandals to Mr. Bmith. ] | Henry Watterson's suggestion » Joseph W, Folk for the presidential ,. found & telephotie a%d warned the sleepers PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. Csar Nicholas will be pained to learn of the Indignities heaped upon the colored eiti- zens of Alabama It 1s & fairly safe guess that life insur- ance agents are not falling over each other In trying to do business with King Peter. Milwaukee sent $1,000 tu the rellef fund for suffering Kansans. If the state needs further reliet all it has to do is to pull the cork. The sudden return to this country of J. Plerpont Morgan shows “undigested securities” sorcly in need of assimilation, Oom Paul Kruger, summering at Mentone, 18 obliged to chame camera flends with a club. In that attitude the G. O. M. pre- wents a striking ploture, An irreverent Missourl editor classes Benator Bill Stone as “a sinker.” Geo- logleally the classification Is correet, but Gumshoe Bill's experience with baking powder proves him a ‘‘raiser." There 18 much idle talk about Boston sinking. Doubtless the Hub has a few sinkers, but while the sacred codfish holds its honored perch there is no danger of getting beyond the water lifeline. The Balt trust having promptly pald its fine of $1,000, with equal promptitude levied the fine on consumers. It is a rare day in June of any other old month when a pinched combine falls to shift its troubles. Although the waiters Ir Chicago are doing business at the old stands, a count of spare change shows they burned the tips behind them. Just what they accom- plished by striking becomes a sorrowful mystery. An anclent junketing bill recently ap- proved by the governor of Pennaylvania contains the remarkable credit of “$157 for liquors returned.” Evidently the patriotic Inwmakers had too great a load to assimi- late the surplus. Do cartoons pay? Is not the question. What do cartoonists get? is a more In- structive one. John T. McCutcheon and hix dog, 8o long attached to the Chicago Rec ord-Herald, goes to the Chicago Tribune on July 1, and is sald to be slated for a salary of $20,000 a year. The fact that A 'longshoreman whipped seven New York policemen and that lls Athletio wite subsequently Whipped the ‘longshoremen is accepted as convinelng preof of woman's prowess in the mauling art. Strange to say the woman has not been offered a place on the force. George Madison Randolph, a lineal de- scendant of Pocahontas and the Randolphs, lives in St. Louis, He clalms to be seventh tn descent from the famous Indian maiden Miss Marlon Somers West, the highest salaried woman employe of the District of Columbia government, and for sixteen yeats In the englneer department has just dled at Washington. ———ae ANNUAL MISFORTUNE. Duty of Doctors During ihe Fourth ot July Gunnery, Amerfoan Medicine. The annual Fourth of July nolse and slaughter are beginning earller, continuing lohger and growing more frightful cach year. Officers, and especially the health officers of citles, should ponder well the article published on “Fourth of July Teta- nus,” by Dr. Wells in American Medicine, June 13, 1%3. In Chicago theé health com- missicner a month before the craze should begin. alrcady reports during the five pre- ceding wi seven deaths from tetanus due to firearms, toy pistol: c. In last year's entire season there were only twelve, and in 1801, when the mayor's proclamation was enforced, the number was reduced to four. It had been twenty-four in 1900. Health officers should issue popular directions how to treat such wounds, Dr. Reynolds has done. The Journal of the American Med- ical Asgoclation says that the greater num- ber of cases follow bad treatment of phy- sicinns, who do not act with scientific thoroughness. '“The responsibility lles with the phyeiclan who first sees the wound.” The selling or use of the @eadly and mis- named toy pistol should be punished. And one day 1s enough! If mayors cannot he made to do thelr duty as to this single day let them rigorously prevent criminal folly from beginning & month or two before and dragging on for a month after the fatal day of “celebration, Ideal Vacation Trip, Kansas City Star. It is possible to make a delightful and extensive excursion trip at this time of year for the moderate cost of 10 cents. All that ix necessary is to sit out on the ve- randa after supper and look through the advertising pages of one of the inexpensive magasines. In # few minutes, if there are no Interruptions, one may be hundreds of miles away amid the cool breezes and splendid scenery of the Rockies, or reclin- ing comfortably in a steamer chalr on the deck of an ocean liner, or casting a line in one of the wooded northern lakes, or bath- ing In the surf that thunders down the beach on the north coast. ——— Too Much Style for Comfort, Detroit Free Presa, A Bouth Dakota college president Is on trial charged with immorality, said im- morality consistirg in having used beer In making a Weish rarebit. What erime wil! they charge against him if it 0 shown that his wife uses brandy in meking mince ples? Polar fhip at Tromsoe. TROMSOE, Norway, June 21.—The polar ship America, with the Zlegler expedition on board, arrived here last night from Trondhjem. It is taking on board 20 dogs and five ponies and will sald this afternoon for Archangel and thence to the polar rezions. there are some | 1 GRASPING THE IMPOS Searching for the Primal e of ANl Things. Kansas City Journal Gold and silver have long been coneid ered as the most costly of the preclous Sclentint Po motals. But thorlum, barium, uranium radium and polonium, in rareness and value, are farther above gold and silver | now than goid and siiver are above t baser metals, lead and iron. Tiny tubes containing a hardly appreciable quantity of barfum cost $5,00 each. An atom of polo- | ntum welghing fifteen one-hundredths of o | grain cannot be extracted for much less thun $7,500. The cost of getting these new found metals has 8o far prevented the com plete discovery of their wonderful proper ties. They all possess the quality of emit ting thelr power perpetually without ap parent diminution or loss, and so scientists claim that they are approaching to the dis- covery of the primal cause of light, heat and force The great progress which has been made during the last ifty years in unraveling the mysteries of nature has aroused the pop- ular belict that the mind and energy of man are capable of almost all things. What our fathers once attributed to witcheraft and miracles we assign to the reasonable or probable operation of human agency. 1f there is a seemingly real and Inexplicable communication from the epirit land, we deny the actuality of the ghost, and charge it ‘to the trick of some clever clairvoyant It a deluge sweeps down a river valley, we do not ascribe the cause so much to the vivlence of the elements as to the obstruc- tlons of bridges, dams and embankment: which railroads and cities have erected. A drouth 1s looked upon as a misfortune, due to the Inactivity of ralnmakers. The plague or a pestilence is pecullarly the fault of careless doctors and sanitary Inspectors, and is remedied by hunting down and de- stroying germs =o Infinitesimal that they cannot be seen with the microscope. Earth- quakes and cyclones are rated among the correctable disturbances and Inconvent- ences. Deserts have already been abollshed, motntalns removed, continents divided and oceans spanned. 8o it is now very natural for the mind of man to seek for more diffculties to conquer and remove. Bince we can mpeak ncrost the Atlantie without any othér medium than the ether, why not try to communicate with the iIn- habitants of other planets? Bince we have proved that the heart, when the body ls dead, may be made to beat, why not recom- nize it as a scientifically established faet that life i eternal, and then strive to held communion with the invisible forms of all those who once breathed and walked upon the earth? Since the necessaty power fe simply a matter of mechanical construe- tion, why not let the human species unite and push back the frozen wones, moderate the troples and regulate the tides, the winds, the seasons and the weather? Thess would be grand undertakings, but no more daring than the efforts of the little body of sclentists who are now pursuing thelr search for the primal ¢ause of all things. ——e e DOMBESTIC PLEASANTRIES, “Does the course of true love run smooth- er than it aid?" “Well, yes—ever sincé pa began to be troubled with corns,” answered the girl..~ Chicago Post. He—Look, look! I think that man out in the breakers is drowning! S8he—Oh, heavens! and I have left my camera at home!—Judge. 8-ern Father—So, Sir! You marry my daughter, do you? Terrified Young Man—Y-yes, sir; but not any worse than she wants to marry me.— Chicago Tribune. want to “I'm glad I met Henni ‘s wife. ::sz, glad you met that womai o) I now understand something that has often pusgled me. I used to wonder what was the matter with him."—Tilus- trated Bits. Hobo Charley—Say, loldy, If dat dawg bites mo he dies, see? Lady—1 believé you; I don't see how he could recover.—Baltimore American. Little Jim—Your gran'pa is awful old, ain’t he? J Little Bob—Yes-giree! Why, he's so old that he can't remember _the time when he wasn't llving.—Chicago Post. "1 have heen reading about some of the great men,” sald Mrs. MeeXton. And Leonidas looked at her with joy In his eyes and exclajmed: “Thien you concede that such things have been 7 '—Washington Star. “And now, dear,’ sald the delighted youth, “when may I speak to your father?’ ““You don't have tn, Georse.'' renlied the sweet young thing who had just nccepted him. “He told me today that ji you diun speak to me tonight he'd speak to you to- morrow."—~Philadelphia Preas. ‘““Ihen you've been to Niagai A “Yes. 1 was quietly married last Tues- day week and the next day we renched Niagara. Soon as we got there I started out to see the falle with my wife.” agnificent, eh?" You bet. You should have seen all the other mon turning around to look at her as she passed.’~—Indlanapolis News. DECLARATION OF IN EPENDENCHE. In_seventeen hurdred and seventy-six, On the Fourth of July, the paper wur signed; me-fix men Ald their names affix, Thelr lives, their fortunes, their honor did bind. . “We have suffered long."” themse brave men said, For themselves and thelr countrymen speaking, “And repeated petitions we have made, In humble terms falr treatment seeking. “Rut only the answers of injury came. To n cand'd world we submit the facts o And put on the gullty prince the blame Mhat is earned by a cruel tyrant's acts. Y ““We will not longer such rule endur Henceforth we are free, :ndependent states. By the power of right do we make sure Of our friendships and of our hates. DERIAH F. COCHRAN. Omaha. 1 would not now be working self and children.” but it provides for old age- impart— telow. That right Leslie Matlock saved To him camé a Paul Revere op- y, and, thoughtful of duty ana thoughtiess of himself, he grasped it and Won like & hero. Strongest in the World Suarplus $75,000,000, “If 1 Had Not Opposed Life Assurance at hard labor to support my- said a young widow last week— If men were less careless in providing for the unexpected— there would be fewer such sad instances in Omaha-—~ Life assurance not only protects the widow and orphan— It lifts a load of worry from a man's shoulders and gives him a confidence in the future that nothing else could The Equitable Life Assurance Society. H. D. NEELY, Manager, Merchants National Bank Building, Omaha.