Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 16, 1903, Page 6

i 4 S e ————ar R ————— THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 16, 1003 THE OMAHA DAILY Bz!-: PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. llnll.v Bee (without Sunday), One Year..$4.00 iy Bee and Sunday, One Year Illustrated Bee, One ¥oar Bunday Bee Ohe Year Baturday Bee, One Year. ageesegasseses 300 Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy Daily Bee (without Sunday), per week Daily Bee (Including Sunday’ Bunday Bee, per copy.......... Evening Bee (without Sunday Evening Bee (including Su: week Com e deiivery ahould be addressed {5 City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bulldini South Omaha—City Hall ty-fifth and M Street Chletge ST R G 0| Tnit; ullding. Now Fork-22% Park Row Bullding. Washington—501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edl- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order yable to The Bee Publishing Company, Iy 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mall accounts. 'ersonal checks, except on aha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. stac TATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. te of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: George B Tachuck. secretary of 'The Bes Publ ing company, baing duly sworn, says lata SO G it BATY S Erening en 2nd Sunday, Bee rinted during the month of August, was as follows: Sulldml. Twen- "y my_presence and sworn to t'day of August, A. D. 1903, M. B, HUNGATE, Notary Public. PARTIES LEAVING THE OITY, Parties leaving the city at any time may have The went to regularly by motifying The Bee Busines office, in person or by mail, The address will be changed as often as desired. e —— For once King Corn was saved by the clouds. 8t. Nicholas will soon begin to inspect the chimneys. ‘We are coming, Father Ak-Sar-Ben, more than 1,500 strong. All things considersd, Nebraska has fared very well with the premature equinoctial. It is to be hoped that the Irrigation congress will turn on more water than the Mining congress and a good deal less gas. | Now that the political. campaign 1s fairly opened an advance in the price of hen fruit is reported by the commis- slon merchants. H It may not be gemerally known, but it is neverthecless a fact, that an emi- nent Nebraskan once filled the position of consul Kanenl at Beyroot. Refer- ence is had'to the late John T. Edgar, one of the most prominent merchants of 708, Omaba in the Before Omaha embarks in an active anti-grain rate discrimination campaign it will have to organize the Commercial ub on the same lines on which the XKansas City Commercial club has fought its campaigns, You can't win battles with Quaker guns. ee——— The long h#ul and the short haul amd the haul all together is whht the AN EXCELLENT IDEA Governor Vansant of Minnesota, in an address bofore the Chicago Press club, sald that his state has an idea, which he explained as follows: “In obedience to law lles the safety of the state and the nation. Minnesota pledges herself to stand by her idea until it applies to every foot of her territory and to every individual fn her broad domains.” He urged that public officials can best serve the people by compelling strict obedience to the law by all classes, re- gardless of station and influence. When violations of law by tion: powerful corpora- he declared, or men of great Ith and influence, go unchallenged, thén contempt for law follows. ‘o maintain its dignity and to make force- ful and true the saying that law is no respecter of persons, should be our in- dividual aim. Bellef in the enforc ment of our laws and in the integrity of our courts is our greatest shield against lawlessness and anarchy.” Every. good citizen will admit that this is a most sound and excellent idea and Governor Vansant has shown in practice that he most earnestly be- lieves in it. To him belongs the credit of having inaugurated proceedings against the Northern fiscurities com- pany and he has shown as the chief executive of Minnesota a firm deter- mination to enforce the laws. It is a gratifying fact that this “idea” is not confined to Minnesota, but is very gen- eral and has recently been growing in force. Leading public men are con- stahtly urging that the safety of the country depends upon the enforcement of the law. We have in the presidency a man who profoundly believes in’this and who has repeatedly urged it with characteristic earnestness and vigor, We are glad to believe that there are few if any of our state executives who are not In full accord with the view of Minnesota's governor. There can be no doubt that the very great majority of our people will unquali- fiedly approve the position of Mr. Van- sant. Corporations and combinations that seek to override the law may dis- agree with him, but they constitute a small minority. Enforcement of law 1s essential to public security and soclal order and it is well to have this strongly impressed upon the minds of the people and of public officials. PRESIDENT WILL INVESTIGATE. President Rocsevelt will make a per- sonal investigation of conditions at Ellls island. He very properly desires to see for himself whether these are adequate to the care of the large num- ber of Immigrants now coming into the country and also to ascertatn what further reforms, if any, may be re- quired to insure the security and the right treatment of aliens arriving here. The Interest in4his matter thus mani- fested by the president will be heartily commended by our people generally and especially by those who were them- selves immigrants. There have been from time to time, though not very recently, reports re- garding the treatment at Ellis island of immigrants which was a reproach to that branch of the public servic Shortly efter Mr. Roosevelt became president he Instituted an inquiry re- specting charges against some of the officials of the island, with the result that they were displaced and the new officials instructed to make needed re- forms and improve conditions as far a8 practicable. It Is the understanding that this has been done and at any rate there has been no serious com- plaint for at least a year past regard- ing the treatment of immigrants. It is possible that there is room for further Improvement in conditions there and it is for the purpose of informing him- self as to this that the president will visit the island. There should be pro- vided every necessary facility for the proper care and protection of the peo- ple who come to our shores. They should be made to feel on their arrival that they are among friends and -that they are not less secure here than they rafiroad traffic managers are working i would be in their native land. for, and Omaba business men may as well unflerstand first as last that the trafic managers will not change their policy until they are obliged to. —— —— TRUST KEUEBIVERSRIPS. A statement from Trenton, N. I., makes the slgnificant showing that forty-five New Jersey corporations have It is rather late in the day to uncork | €°h¢ 1nto the Lands of recelvers since the correspondence between Bismarck | {h€ beginning of the current year. The and Emperor Willlam 1, before the iron | 2687egate anthorized capital of these | chancellor had become a prominent | “OrPorations is given as $80,340,000 ~nd | figure as an imperial premfer, but it |thelr known assets $1,501,377, more affords interesting reading awnd fllus- |than balf of the capitalization .of a trates forcibly the main springs of |IN€le corporation, the United States affinity that held the two men together, | Shipbullding company; perbaps the most excessively overcapitalized of any of the The bill to erect a quartermaster's,corporations drganized under the laws swarchouse in Omaha passed congress |of New Jersey. When application was in February, 1902, and the announce- | made for a recelver for this company ment that the plans are nearly ready |its fraudulent character was very clearly will create gratifying surprise. People | shown and it is not to be doubted that famillar with Uncle Sam’s habits did [ most if not all the corporations for which not expect the drawings for the build- | receivers have been appointed were of ing to be begun before 1010, or there. | llke character, though on a less apbi- abouts. tious scale. The men who organized the shipbuilding company were not 1f 8t. Louls has neglected to Invite the prince of Wales to the World's falr, that fact should not keep him away from the country. He knows that he is always welcome in Chicago.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Omaha extended a most cordial in- vitation to the prince of Wales five years ago, but for reasons that have never yet been divulged his royal high- ness did not delgn to put in an appear- unce at the Transmississippl exposition. —————— It is all right for fhe mayor and coun- cll to grant a right of way for the pro- posed Eighth street viaduet, but it is all wrong to obligate the city to pay for the electric lights above or below the viaduct. The raliroads can well at- ford to pay for these lights, so long as they do not pay their full proportion of city taxes ou the grounds, streets and tracks, and even if they 41 pay eity taxes un the actual value of their prop- erty as they should, the privileges granted and the saving of damages for actuated by any sense of conservatism or moderation. Their scheme was to pluck the public to, the fullest extent possible and seemed to be earrying it out with a fair degree of success until a dissatisfied and doubting stockholder asked for a receiver. How much the promoters got out of the deal is not stated and possibly never will be, but it can be confidently assumed that they were generously repaid for their labor. The other corporations in the list given were capitalized for a milllon and less and their liabilities are shown to exceed $18.000,000, very little of which, of course, will ever be paid, most of the companies having practically no assets. Referring to this showing the Phila- delpl Ledger remarks that these cor- porations, the great majority of which were mere paper balloous, have ylelded to the laws of trade “The consolida- tion of productive industries,” says that opment. The bogus combinations, with millions of paper obligations represent- ing nothing but present losses and un realizable hopes, have run the course that has been run in similar periods of speculation time and time again, and have reached their end without any out. side interference. flow many other overcapitalized corporations, organized and conducted In diregard of sound eco- nomic principles and the laws of trade, are awaiting receiverships it is impossi- ble to say, but it is safe to say there are still some such and that the list of them will be considerably enlarged be- fore the end of the current year. The examples already furnished should be instructive and useful in warning in- vestors against the securities of all com- binations which do not in the most un- mistakable way show that they have a substantial basis, that they are founded upon a baeis of actual capital and busi- ness. Great conservatism in this re- spect is now being shown by the invest- ing public and it is a good policy to cling to. TRYING TO READ OFF COMPETITION Fifteen years ago Omaha owned and operated its own fire alarm telegraph, under supervision of the chief of the fire department. In due time the mayor and cruncil were persuaded that it would be better and cheaper to substi- tute the telephone for the fire alarm telegraph. The municipal fire alarm system wae thereupon thrown overboard and a contract entered into with the telephone company to ring all the alarms for a fixed price per annum for each telephone instrumen That contract has been renewed and re-renewed from year to year, with a gradual increase in the number of telephones and no ma- terial reduction in the price. And now the telephone company has submitted a five-year contract for rati- fieation to the fire and police board a la Nash, under the pretext that a good deal of time and friction will be saved in the periodic negotiations for renewals. As a matter of fact, the proposed five- year contract is nothing more nor less than a scheme to head off competition, as well as municipal ownership. While there is grave doubt whether the Board of Fire and Police Commis- sioners has any more right or authority to tie up the city for five years in the proposed contract than it would have to incur a debt for the city in the erection of fire engine houses without, the con- currence of the mayor and couneil, there is no valid reason or excuse for board had exclusive authority to incur a lability way beyond the term of its members. If the board bas authority negotiating such a contract even if the | to gake a five-year contract, it could with equal impunity make a fifty-year contract. ! It will be pointed out, however, that a clause is, embodied in the contract au- thorizing the city at any ilme to acquire the telephone wires and plant at an ap- praised valuation under eminent do- main process. That s, however, merely a blind. The right of the city to acquire the entire telephone system by purthase is inherent through its charter, but the purchase would neces- sarily include the value of the franchise, which might be appraised for hundreds of thousands of dollars. It ix questionable whether the city would want to buy out and operate the entire telephone system even if it found it to advantage to own and operate its own fire alarm system. The one is a service performed for private patrons, the other would be a public service per- formed for the entire community. For the present the telephone company has an absolute monopoly of both public and private telephonic service, and it should be content to have its contract renewed from year to year at its own figures. There is nothing to be gained by the city in forestalling telephone competition or foregoing thé benefit of new inven- tions by tying itself up for five years, and we do not comprehend on what grounds such a contract would be justi- fiable, In discussing the character and ex- tent of the supervision exercised by the several states over railroads within their jurisdiction the Interstate Com- merce commission in its annual report points out the fact that thirty out of the forty-five states of the union have exerted ' control over railways througa commissions, while fifteen are without commissions. State rallroad commis- sions are found to be of two general classes, the weak commissions and the strong commissions. Of the thirty com- misslons existing in 1002 twenty were strong and ten were weak. A study of the rallroad statutes during the last twelve years indicates a slight distrust of the ability of coqumissions as at present organized to control the situa- This distrust s tion, doubtless well founded. The fact that one-third of all the state commissions are classed as weak, which means elther venal or in competent, irrelevant and immaterial, affords conclusive proof that the dis- trust in commissions is due either to | their lack of efliciency or lack of in- tegrity, or both The assessment of Greater Chicago, which has just Leen completed by the Board of Review, shows an increase of $18,150,554, over the assessment of last year. Commenting on the work of the assessment board, the Chicago Record. Herald declares that although the new revenue law of lllinols has justified itself already, this is only the beginning of a great reform which is sure to pro- duce better results later. The most powerful stimulant toward tax reform is publicity. The publication of the as- sessignt roll affords the best possible the cost of publishing such lists would be a mere bagatelle compared with the benefits to be derived. It will take a good many political mathematicians to figure out how a straight republican candidate, nominated by democrats, can, under our election law, have his name inserted on the offi- cial ballot as a democrat, or democratic republican. Under the law the name of no candidate can appear on the official ballot more than once, consequently the three straight republicans endorsed by the democrats as nonpartisans will have to be designated as republicans with the group of republicans and therefore they cannot be voted for by making one cross mark over the democratic col- umn. For the same reason the two re- publicans who were rejected by the re- publican convention and nominated by the demoeratic convention as nonparti- #ans will have to muster with the straight democrats. With more than sixteen millions in sight for irrigation reservoirs and canals, the lrr!gltlon congress should have no difficulty in devising plans and finding locations where the money can be spent. Em——— Where to Put Your Tru Brooklyn Eagle. Now the farmers want a trust. The best trust for them f{s trust in elbow grease. It Is the man who works his muscles and not his politics who gets ahead in this country. Hint to Rural Mail Men, Chicago Tribune. The rural mail carriers want higher sal- aries and better roads. Uncle Sam might drive a good bargain with them by in- creasing their stipends on condition that they spend a portion of the increase in putting wide tires on thelr wagons. Modern Warrior Caricatured. Chicago Chronicle, How grim old Bismarck would laugh if he could know that the sculptor who is creating the national monument in the Berlin cathedral has represented him as a knight of the middie ages. The deslgn is almost as ridiculous as that first suggested of depieting the iron chancellor as a Roman senator In toga, sandals and other acces- sorfes, A Wide Diffefence, Truly. Boston Herald. When the public stops to compare -the several scandals that are now being brought to light in the varlous govern- mental departments at the nation's capital with the moral rectitude of the father of his country for whom the capital was named, it realizes what a sorry differenca there is between Washington, D. C., and Washington deceased. The Divine Disconte; Saturday Evening Post Beyond question the “workingman' is dis- contented. Nor ‘will this discontent de- crease. On the contrary, the more he has, the more he'll want. His appetite will grow with what it feeds on. This republic was started by just such men, was started for the purpose of creal ing ever more and more of them. Th: eagerness for better pay, for better treat- ment, for better surroundings, whether that eagerness be In the capitalist or in the street cleaner' s proof that the republ'c | is still doing business at the old etand in the old way. And the more or less tur- bulent wrangling' over the division of the fewards will not cease until we have that silent peace Wwhich means elther desola- tion or despotism. Growing Publie N Chicago Tribune ¥ One of the most trylng things that the beauty loving vacationist has to endure on his return to urban haunts is the presence of his old enemies, the sign board evils. During his absence he had half expected that the medicine maidens, the clgar en- chantresses and the whisky glants might have faded away or been wiped out by some enterprising woman like the one in a distant town who recently stood by and washed out a sign painter's work as fast as the man painted it in. But, on the con- trary, during absence all of these figures seem to have taken on fresh coloring and greater proportions, while their commercial smiles have lost none of thelr irritating quaMty. Of course the number of people who decline to use sensationally advertised goods is small, but there is springing up a feeling among consumers that an article that is coarsely advertised must lack fi ness of quality. However this may be it Is certain that a eity must lack the first essen- tials of beauty as long as ugliness holds high carnival on its slgn boards. EXPORTATIONS FROM THE GULF, St. Louls Globe-Democrat. Galveston, llke New Orleans and the other ports on the gulf of Mexico, has recently attained great importance as an exporting point. For the twelve months ended with August 31, 1%3, according to the grain-inspection department of the Galveston cotton exchange, there were exported from Galveston 16,096,636 bushels of wheat and 4,462,565 bushels of corn. For the twelve months which ended with August, 1902, Galveston's exports of wheat were only about half as great, or 8,686,504 bushels, while no corn was exported from that port in that year. Here are gains on which Texas' blg port is to be con- gratulated. What I8 true of Texas Is true of New Orleans and nearly all the other points along the gult co New Orleans' ex- ports of wheat and corn in the fiscal year 1903 were 32,257,278 bushels, as corh- pared with 31150068 for New York, which has hitherto\ usually stood at the front. The fact that New Orleans has got shead of New York 4n its grain shipments Is a matter of vast conse- quence. It shows & drift toward the gulf of much commerce which untfl recently has been going to the Atlantic coast. The loss by New York is shared by Boston, Philadelphia, Batimore and the other ports on the Atautic seaboard. The grain has come to the ports from Pensacola to Gal- veaton. A like condition s reported from the Pacific coast. The ports.of that section of the country are increasing their activi- ties with considerable rapidity. The coun- try's forelgn shipments, that s to say, are being more, widely diffused than was the case untll & few years ago. New York, which s 8till far ahead of all other points in forelgn shipments, is losing some of its former lead. The other ports of the At- etting some of the trade which once went to New York, and from ali of them Is now being diverted much mean ‘or procuring the assistance of the v ule so as to correct inequalities, In Illinois, as in Nebraska, however, there 18 still room for improvement with paper, “upon a basis of actual capital injuries to man, beast and vehicle are [and busivess, has been a success, be- well worth the cost of & few are lights. cause it is in the line of rational devel- regard (o publicity. The lawmakers seem to fight shy of the expenses of publication of tax assesswents, whereas trade which they would have received un- der the old conditions. The ports in the Missiesippi valley are handling more and more of the export trade of this quarter. Galveston's big gain In grain exportation {n 1908 tells a story of a great change in the direction of the trade currents in the west which will soon assert Itself with much greater prominence than it does now. | BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE, Miner Scemes and Incldents Sketched the Sp The large and varied assortment of hu- man suckers who snap up every balted hook that drifts their way keeps a bunch of postal officials on the jump chasing the fakirs who operate through the malls. The amateur sucker with brains enough to in- duce headache does not squeal when taken in. As a general rule he takes an hour oft with the automatic kicker and quits. But the habitual sucker always expects to get the better of the deal, and instead of going off to some lonely sand dune for praverful exerciso Indulges In a wild roar and appeals to the government for help Several pathetic “hollers” have reached the Postoffice department from women who belleve they are good looking appealing for revenge on a colony of fakirs. The fakirs proposed to get up a gallery of beautles for the St. Louis fair. Mayors of cities were requested to nominate from three to twenty candidates, whose photographs were to bo displayed In the collection. When the names were forwarded to the companies, agents were sent to call upon the nominees and solicit the portralts, as well as a fee, to “defray the expenses” of framing and oth- erwise preparing the pictures for exhibition. By promising that the galleries would oc- cupy consplcuous positions in their re- epective state buildings, the agents en- countered little difficulty in collecting from $2 to $5 each from the nominees. Most of the soliciting was done more than a year ago, since when the women who gave their photographs and their money have heard nothing from the compantes. The legal branch of the Postoffice depart- ment has not determined whether fraud orders can be lssued, but inasmuch as the malls were used in interesting mayors of cities to make nominations of “types of beauty” and for the distribution of litera- ture it is believed that this can be done. Issuance of fraud orders against the com- panies, however, will not satisfy the women who have been separated from their photo- graphs and money. “The prize beautfes” wowld like to know what disposition 1s to be made of the photographs in the event the gallery movement fafls. Consternation was created In their ranks by the suggestion that the pictures may be used in patent medicine ads. ““Considerable Interest attaches to the trip of the torpedo hoat destroyers to the Asfatic station,” says the Army and Navy Register. ‘““The present plan is to have these ships leave Norfolk or New York about October 16, accompanied by Baltimore and a colller, which, if necessary, will tow them. It is intended to send on this trip Decatur, under command of Lieutenant L. H. Chandler, who will be in charge of the flotilla; Bain- bridge, Lieutenant G. W. Williams; Barry, Lieutenant N. E. Irwin; Chauncey, Lieuten- ant 8. E. Moses, and Dale, Lieutenant H. I, in addition. Take Your Feet Out of Prison CROSSETT $5 SHOE $i.0 *Makes Life’'s Walk Easy. It is planned with one idea in view —the comfort of the wearer, There’s correct style and unusual durshility LEWIS A. CROSSETT, Inc, NORTH AMINGTON, MASS. If your dealer does not keep them, write me —1I will teld youw who does. PERSONAL NOTES, Even vast wealth has its disadvantages. John D. Rockefeller recelves more anony- mous letters than any other man in the whole country. Tolstol fs 75 this week and in such good health as to have apparently entered upon a new lease of life, much to the regret, probably, of General Procurator Probye- donostseft. George W. Crawford, the negro who was graduated from Yale last June and won the Townsend oration prize, has been ap- pointed a clerk in the probate court at New Haven, Conn. Harry Ziegler, a resident of Philadelphia and a member of the life-saving guard at Atlantic City, saved fifty-two lives during #ix weeks of the season at that resort. Zlegler is a strong and daring swimmer. Manager Brady of a Boston theater, who recently fafled to secure as many red-haired girls as he wanted for & particular play he was producing, has invited all the red- haired maldens in the modern Athens to attend a matinee performance. He offers free admission and a box of caramels to all who accept his invitation. Living quietly on a farm in the little town of Viola, Del., is George McKlilligan, one of the few survivors of that band of men who have gone down In history since the battle of Balaklava as the “thin red line.” There Cone. This incident of sending the torpedo boat destroyers to the Asfatic station fs likely to attract much attention abroad, since it will be regarded there as having a political, as well ag a strategic signifi- cance. Tt f« understood the proposition to send these boats to Aslatic waters came from the general board of the navy, and it 1s not known in the department, or at least it is not admitted there, that the orders regarding the destroyers have any special meaning. beyond the desire to furnish Rear Admiral Evans with some useful swift craft which can be used in shallow waters on occasion. At present the Asfatic fleet is destitute of boats of this kind, and if they are of value In home waters, they are des- tined to be of equal advantage abroad. In- cidents of this kind, however are under- stood to be regarded with much interest by i keen European observers.” The district government has granted the formal = permit to the Phila- delphla, Washington & Baltimore rafiroad, as the Pennsylvania road is known here, to contruct the twin tunnel under the United States capitol bullding and the adjacent blocks and streets. The permit had been held up for several weeks because of a difference between Major Blddle, the engineer commissioner, and the rallroad engineers in regard to the motive power to be used to propel cars in the tunnel. Major Blddle insisted that electricity should be used and the railroad men wanted to be allowed to use steam. Electricity was finally agreed on. The tunnel will be 2000 feet long, be- ginning at the intersection of Massachu- setts avenue and First street, Northeast, going under Capitol hill to New Jersey avenue and D street, Boutheast. The total cost of the work will be approximately $500,000. One of our commercial agents In Germany reports upon a system of lighting rallway trains by electricity which he considers the best solution of the problem. This method enables each carrfage of a train to be 1ighted separately and independently of the others, The report says in part: “Each car is supplied with a small dynamo which is at- tiched to the axle of the car wheels. This dynamo drives the necessary current for screating light Into the lamps while the train is in motion. Simultaneously a small battery is charged with electricity from the same dynamo. This battéry then serves the purpose of keeping up the current while the train is stopping at stations. Generally speaking however, the lamps should be fed as long as possible directly from the are several living who went to make up “The Noble Six Hundred,” but so far as Mr. McKilligan knows he is the only one remaining of the Ninety-third Highlanders. The estate left by W. B. Henley, one of the most successful of modern writers of story books for boys, amounts to but $5,000, although his books have had an enormous circulation. Lack of an international copy- right 1s blamed for his want of success in accumulating property. His books were more largely read in the United States than in England, but he derived no profit from their sale here. Wolft Welssmann of Hoboken, N. J., celebrated 108 birthday on Wednesday. He had spent the day electioneering downtown and on his return home drank a couple of goblets of wine and smoked a pipe. Smok- ing, however, he says, does not agree with him and he intends to abandon the habit. He was born at Kishineff, Russia, but left there in 1824 on. account of the persecutions to which his race—the Jewish—were subjected. —_— DOES NEW YORK WANT IT? That City Has Had Only Ome of All Presidential Conventions. Philadelphia Bulletin (Rep.) The republican national committes will be called upon toward the close of the year to choose the time and place of the next presidential convention, and St. Louls, Chicago, San Francisco, Baltimore and Pittsburg are reported as likely to submit thelr claims for the honor. Some of Presi- dent Roosevelt's friends, however, are said to be considering the question of urging him to use his influence in having the con- vention held in New York City. It is con- tended that as New York may once more be a doubtful one in 194, the presidential campaign will be strengthened there by the enthusiasm which flows from a great gath- ering of the foremost representatives of the party. It is a peculiar fact that in the long history of presidential conventions, New York has had but one, and that was held when the democrats nominated: Horatio Seymour for the presidency in 1868. The republicans have seldom even serfously considered a proposition to hold a conven- tion there; of their four conventions in the east, three have been held in Philadelphia and the other in Baltimore. If Philadelphia shall not make an at* tempt to get the next convention, it will be freely conceded here that there is really, no city in the country which is more en- titled to it than New York, so far as all the facilities for sccommodating such a dynamo In order that the battery may be | body are concerned. It would hardly be spared. During stops and when the train | possible to make complaint there as re- is going At a slow rate of speed up steep | ards halls, hotels, provisions for comfort, grades the lamps are always fed from the | and the transmission of news of the pro. battery. The accumulators are charged | coedings. The objection may be raised that | while the train Is in motion, and this is | it might be injudiclous for Mr. Roosevelt's the case by day as well as by night."* friends to put him in the position of ask- ing for the selection of his own state for “LETTING THE SOUTH ALONE." the conventfbn, but as he is now practically sure of belng nominated without opposi- tion, no matter where tha convention m be held, there would be no ground for arguing that the president would be trying to score a point against a rival candidate Tt would be something of a novelty for a North and East Talk Too Much for Southern Comfort, New York Independent Congressman Livingston of Georgla rts that the democrats may make the race | republican national convention to assemble question an issue in the next campalgn, as | in New York City, and it would in all| the president’s letters and conduct do not | llkelihood be far moroe desirable to hold it | suit the people. He says | there than in St. Louls, which Is pushing “If the north and east will let the south | hard for it, but which the exposition will make the most gvercrowded city in the union during the greater part of next sum mer. alone the whites and the negroes will ad- Just matters and maintain satisfactory and harmonious relations.” | And earth will wear | Warmed oniy “Let the south alon: ‘Who has meddied | with the south? What could the north and cast do? Have they forced any offensive legislation through congress? Have they invaded the south with hostile hosts? Have they interfered with the free utterance of southern opinion or with the enactment or enforcement of southern I Have they not invited the most unbridied southern orators, like Tillman and Graves, to speak before their largest assemblies? Have we in the north and east done anything more than In a restrained and perfectly proper way to express our opinion about lynching and grandfather clauses and the suppres- slon of the negro vote? We take it, for granted that freedom of speech up here, if not in the south, is quite permissible and ought not to give offense to anybody. Cer- tainly “letting the south alone” ought not to mean the denial of free speech in other parts of the country. Wé Have the St Baltimore American. Phe English tradesmen are trying hard to retaliate just America's act of 1776 by issulng an effective declaration of Brit- jsh independence of American commercial tyranuy in certain lines, but in vain. The American tradesmen are ublguitous and irresistible. HIGH SPEED TRA Chicago Record-Herald After a recent run of 131 miles in 127 min- utes, including stops, which was made on the Lake Shore rallroad by the Twentleth Century Limited train, it was stated that at times and for short intervals a speed of more than 100 miles per hour was attained It is also on record that a New York Cen- tral engine ran a single mile at the rate of | miles per hour. These and other fast runs claimed by the rallroads, or by the press for them, have led the public to believe that a speed of 100 miles per hour matntained for a short dis- tance is not only possible but is not re- markable. By a series of experiments just completed, however, the Pennsylvania Rail road company has apparently shattered the popular belief as to the present limit of the speedabllity of 4 modern passenger train 1t wus shown that one of the fastest en- gines owned by that company was unable | under the most favorable clrcumstances to excecd %.1 miles per hour The experiments were made on a twenty- five-mile stretch of track, which was in perfect physical condition, and with & slightly descending grade. At the foot ot the grade was one mile of dead level tra A chronograph used was one of great curacy, the track being equipped with « tric eircuit breakers connected with a r cording apparatus spaced by steel taja measurements. The trials began with u. engine hauling eight coaches and running the entire twenty-five miles down grade (, attain highest speed before the record apparatus was reached. With each failure to attain a speed of miles per hour one coach was cut off fron the train. The final trial was made wii the engine alone, with the result as abovs stated. There is good reason to doubt, therefo that a speed greater than miles por hour has ever been attained by a railronl train, — WAIFS OF THE WITS, Tommy-—Papa, which are the walking del ates? ommy’s Father—Those men that just went by in carriages.—Somerviile Journi| “It does look," said Uncle Eben, when a man gits a reputation foh h sharp an' unscrupulous citizen, & 1o o people wants to tie to him In hopes he'll rob somebody else foh deir benefit. -\ ington Btar. “I could never understand,” said the pli fogey, “what is the great attractionlin autonioblling. “Porhaps, bandaged h gravitation. in' a replied the beginner with the ead, “it's the attraction of —Philadelphia Pres; “How did I look when you proposed 1o ™ Fou looked as it ‘You looked as you were takin, first Tide In an automobile. " ot Press. Detroit Free She—This paper says there's a trolley | line in one of the western towns that em. ploys only Indlan conductor ”r{‘o:‘:‘zfi(l‘t:e"hf that ,:ln su case whera ul & braves deserve the fare.' Philadelphia Ledger. 4 Young Doctor (with youthful misgiving: ) —Where is you boasted Drogresss A ey dle as ever. Old Doctor—Doubtless, But 1t costs them more than it ever did before.—Puck. “Great Scott!" ejaculated the regular cus- tomer, logking at his bill for the month. ‘do you charge me all that for waxing my mustache once a day?"’ Do you think,” retorted the barber, “you can o around looking Itk the ‘smporor German, Ut 1th costing you some- thing '~ Chicago Trivune. " yave you any S-cent stamps? inguired e y. “‘No, ‘ma'am.,” replied the drug clerk absent mindedly, “but we have so‘mcthlwlz Just as good.'” “Ha, ho! Force of habit! That's whe I gaught you!” “‘Not at’all, ma'am. I can give you tw) twos and a one."—Philadelphia Press, —— NOW ONCE AGAIN. James Barton Adams, in Denver Post. Now once a n the breezes sigh a seml- mournful tune, And frost begins to gather on the whiskers of the moon, The stars look down with colder eyes, the heavens grow more gray, And fleecy clouds that smell of smow up in the ether play. The birds hold consultations in thelr lan- guage uweet and bright Discussing the arrangements for thelr an- Aoa nual loumrqrn flight, campers _from the mountains come, all tanned by wind and . And °‘:lln“\lnl falry stories of their carnival ¢ of openwork heathing of a more And once again the ho desl, enign Gives place to shapely close woven line, And shirtwaists ventilated at thetr northery, altitudes No longer charm the eyes of nature's curios, the dudes 'X‘hruufih fleecy silk w the malden's arms, hite as the liiy's soul, o1 Save whero a powdered spot denotes the . presence of a mole, No longer switch attention from the faces sweet and fair— They're _sepulchered in warmer goods of more substantial wear. Now once again the Willieboy discards the neglige Of stripes and figures loud enough to call the time o' day. And Panamas and "fawncy straws are in the ciosets hid And tender brains are covered by the soft Fedora lid. The summer cane is lald aside with tender loving care For stick that is more suitable for chilly autumn wear. And fce-cry girls are shaken off that Willieboy may lead A mo ubstantial brand of girl up to the oyster feed. Aye, once again on every hand we ses un- doubted sign That flery summer has sustained a fracturs of the spine. And Tndian summer, tinged with gold, eft- soon will claim’ the front Of Nature's great wide-spreading stage to do_fts_little stunt. Then old King Winter, stern of face, with vhiskers dripping snow, Wil bring a change of program in the changing season show. «a frigld face of cold austerity, by the struggling sun and coal man's grins of glee. BROWNELL HALL, OMAHA, A Boarding and Day Scheol for youns women and girls. 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