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

THE OMAHA DAIIL FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 1908 THE OMAHA DALY 7BE_!-‘: BDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING B. ROBEWATER TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally Bee (without Sunday). One Year ly Bee and Sunday, One Yoar Ilustrated Bee, One Year . Bimaday Bee, One Year Saturday Bee, One Year Twentleth Century Farmer, One Year DELIVERED BY CARRIER Datly Bea (without Bunday), per copy, Pefy Bee (without Sunday), per week. .1 aily Bes (ncluding Bunday). per week..170 Bunday Bee, por cops he Evening Bee (without Bunday). per week 6c Evening Bee (ncluding Sunday), per week N p 100 Complaints of irreguinrities in delivery #liopld be addressad to City Circulation De partment OFFICES. Omaha—The Bea Bulldin 8outh Omaha—City Hall ty-fifth and M Streets. Counctl Blufts—10 Pear] Street Chicago—1M0_Unity Bullding. New York—22% Park Row Building Washington—601 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating o news and edl- torfal matter should be addressed: Omahe Bee, Editorfal Department REMITTANCES. 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Bee Rallroad expansion is the order of the day in these parts. ‘While grain markets require elevators, grain elevators alone do not make grain markets. President Roosevelt proposes to in- vade the enemy's country south of Mason and Dizon's line next winter. There is harmony in the Omaha musi- eal unfon now that the National Federa- tion of Labor has gone the sympathetic. It {8 all symphony. A gy Nonresidents who want to educate thelr children in the public schools of Omaha should be compelled to pay a reasonable tuition for the privilege. The attitude of the Russian bear to ward Turkey i& unchanged, and the atti- tude of Johnny Bull remindé one of the enraged bully who rolled his fist in his pocket. President Stickney’s estimate of the value of the Union Pacific terminals at Omaha might prove of some valie for Tax Commissioner Fleming and the new county nssessor. Plans and specifications for the live stock men’'s campaign against the Beef trust will be opened in Denver next Thursday. Whether the campaign will get beyond the opening of the plans and specifications is not yet divulged. A Before Omaha becomes a great grain market it must enlarge and multiply its flouring mills, breweries and distilleries mnd establish glucose factorles and cereal mills to consume the grain raised by Nebraska, Jowa and South Dakota farmers. ’ The failure of the Panama canal treaty will enable Senator Morgan of Alabama to take his revised edition of canal speeches out of cold storage and serve it between executive sessions until the adjournment of congress in the mid- dle of next suwmmer. Heaven helps those who help them- selves. If Owmaba business men are in dead earnest about matching Kansas City as a grain market they must put their shoulders to the wheel and not de pend on President Stickney. and his Great Western road to do all the pro moting. A candidate for a rural postoffice in Alabama has made a direct offer of $0 to Postmaster General Payne as a bonus for his appointment, and the unsophisti cated Alabaman was forthwith re quested to put up a bond for his appear- ance at the next term of the federal court or go to jail. That Fremont power canal man had his wires crossed when he announced that “the president of the Omaha elec trie lighting company is in N York trying to vitalize the power canal into action. Mr. Nash is in Omaha breaking the seal of his profound secret prize package to the city council. ——— Down in Kansas City the wmachine does some pushing behind the car of progress.” At last Tuesduy's public im provement bond election there was a city employe in charge of each precinet of each voting district and eity employes were on hand checking off the vdters at the polls to make suré that the city *{ he I HE MEANS TO BE KING. | King Edward manifestly intends to be | more thar a mere figurehead and to i have something to say in regand not only [to the way in which imperial affairs «hall be managed, but also as to the men | who shall conduct them. There has been a notable development in the char- acter of the ruler of Great Britain since his accession to the throne. Before then was universally regarded as a man | of very ordinary capacity, a genial gen- | tleman and general good fellow, with a | tondness for pleasure and especially for the society of women, but without any { capability for the affairs of state. He ! had never exhibited any interest in poli- ties and it was commonly supposed had only the most superficlal knowledge with international matters. He has shown that he was very much misunderstood and underrated. Almost) from the day of his accession King Ed ward has manifested the liveliest inter- {est in the political affairs of the great empire over which he rules and exhib- ited a knowledge of its international re- | Intions quite equal to that of any British statesinan. Moreover, he has shewn not only a keen conception of Britfsh obli- gations, but also a fine judgment of policy and expediency in dealing with other nations. He understood that the true course of Great Britain was to cul- tivate friendly relations with all the powers and to promote in every practi- cable way the perpetuation of interna- tional peace. How well hé has worked in this direction is a matter of common knowledge, earning for himself already the title of “the pacificator.” He brought Germany into closer friendship with England and followed this by creating better relations between his country and France. In both cases King Edward overcame, through his personal influ- ence and remarkable tact, long-standing ill-fecling, so that today these nations are on better terms than for many years. In regard to the United States King Edward has always shown the most triendly disposition. In these respects he hag shown that he meant to be king, and the results have been in the highest respect benefi- clal to his country. He is now manifest- ing in a still more decisive way his sov- ereign will and authority. He is assert- ing himself in regard to the domestic af- fairs of the empire and especially in the jmportant matter of the appoint- ment of cabinet ministers. While this is a prerogative of the king, it is noted that it has not been exercised for many years—indeed, never during the long { reign of Victoria—so that it is a depar- ture of more than ordinary interest. King Edward has already demon- strated that he is by no means an ordi- nary man, as he was generally thought to be when he ascended the throne. There is reason to think that he may yet do great things for the vast empire of which he is the sovereign, very CARE FOR, CIVIL SERVICE LAW. There ave allegations from time to time that the cfvil service law is not be- |ing duly respected and carried out by public officials. The charge is one that should command .gerious attention, be- cause if there is any substantial foun- dation for it the danger to that policy should challenge the earnest attention of its friends and supporters, and none more so than the authorities at Wash- ngton, who'are looked to as the most careful and consistent of the conserva- tors of the civil service reform policy. No man has been more earnest and per- sistent in his devotion and advocacy of the reform than President Roosevelt, and It is not to be doubted that he is still sincere in his belief in the eflica of the merit system. There have recently been some inti- ! mations of laxity on the part of the ad- ministration in enforcing the civil serv- jee rules. It has been alleged that in certain quarters the merit system has been ignored and persons have been ap- pointed to the public service without re- gard to the law. There 18 no positive proof adduced that such is the fact, but the mere statement is sufficient to chai- lenge public attention and to invite in some quarters criticism of the adminis- tration as not being faithful to its prom- ises and to the record of the president in regard to the principle of civil service reform. The disclosures in the postal inves- | tigations have admittedly shown a laxity for which it is impossible to find any satisfactory excuse or justification. They have bheen, according to all present showings, of the most culpable nature. Men charged with important duties have betrayed their trusts and vielated sacred obligations. It is a deplorable fact, which every good eltizen must deeply regret. But it shonld not be per- mitted to wmilitate against the principle of civil. serviee reform, for it has not | been shown that to any important extent that principle is involved in what has taken place, It is perhaps true, as al leged, that there have been some viola- tions of the civil serviee aet, but these hiwve begn on the whole so insignificant a# not to have any great importance In thelr bearing upon the reform in gen- oral, What seems to be a safe conclusion is | that these disclosures will have the ef- fect of not only establishing a stricter method in regard to the business of the Postoflice department, but also of a thorough observance of the civil rvice reform prineiple, and its possible value in these respects canuot easily be overestimated. It is not to be doubted that President Roosevelt is as earnestly devoted to the principle of eclvil service reform as he has ever been and that he will be no less careful in the future than in the past in enforeing it. more Not very many years ago the late | fidentially assured ing offer to Judge Petet & Grosscup, who now occuples the position of United States cirenit judge, to act as counsel for the Northern Securities company in its celebrated contest with the govern ment, which to be decided by the Ubited States supreme court. this fall. How much the Hill-Morgan syndicate has offered to Judge Grosscup as an in- ducement to resign his life position on the circuit bench has not yet been dis- closed, but we ventu to express the opinion that the sum will exceed a good many times $25,000. is REORGANIZE THE COMMERCIAL CLUB. The Omaha Commercial club has done much since its organization to promote the commercial and industrial interests of this city and state. For all the meritorious work it has performed the community has given it unstinted praise and grateful recognition. It will be admitted, however, by all unprejudiced business men that the Commercial club could have done much more for Omaha in the past had it not been ham- pered and handicapped in the unre- strained exerclse of its proper functions, 80 as to ‘be able to grapple as a unit ‘with all the power "at its com- mand with every obstacle in the way of Omaha’s commercial advancement. It is an open secrct aleo that the effi- clency of the club has been minimized by chronic defects in its futernal or- ganism and makeup. The problems with which Greater Omaha is con- fronted demand, in our judgment, a broadening out of the club on metropol- ftan lines. This can be accomplished only by, reorganization planned to meet the needs of the present and future. Commercial bodies, like bodies politie, need frequent regeneration to stimulate their vitality. The Omaha Commer- clal club in this respect is no exception It has much to learn from the commer- cial clubs of rival cities that have sue- ceeded in securing concesglons and im- proved facilities from railroad corpora tions and checked impositions and dam- agigg discriminations against jobbers, producers and consumers, The keynote of reorganization for the Omaha Commercial club was sounded by the Real Estate exchange. we do not believe that the club member- ship could be yxtvmlod to 5,000, it doubt- less ean be increased by many hundreds | of wide-awake active men concerned in Omaha’s progress. The future usefulness of the Commer clal elub can be promoted as a potential factor in extending Omaha's trade and enlarging Omaha’s industrial but its power for good must depend much more on the character and caliber Im' its executive committee and the ea- pacity and absolute loyalty of the man entrusted with the active propaganda by which the club expects to enlarge the radius of its aclivities and fight the battles of Omaha against commer- cial rivals and enforce fair treatment from railway traffic managers. Such a reorganization involves radical changes and the courage to make them. Unless the buginess men of Omaha have the nerve and the publie spirit to undertake this task the Commercial club might as well be dishanded. Church members of Springfield, Til., are worked up over the announcement by the State Board of Agriculture that the Illinois State fair will be kept open next Sunday. Inasmuch as many of the local churches conduct dining halls and restaurants on the grounds those in charge of these refreshment concessions have asked their pastors what to do in the matter of keeping the places open on Sunday. Why church people engaged in exposition concession ventures should ask questions that would put the minis- ters in a disagreeable dilemma is past comprehension, —_— The South Side Improvement club has adopted resolutions urging the mayor and councll to submit a proposition for bonds for a municipal lighting plant. Inasmuch as the mayor and councll are pledged to municipal ownership of pub-| lic utilities, any further delay in the introduction and passage of the ordi- nance will justify popular inquiry as to whether there is any impediment in the way. The Willow doubled is now bushels Springs. distillery has its capacity this summer and in condition to a day, or 1,250,000 Dbushels in the 812 working days of the year. Now, If the Whisky trust would plant half a dozen more distilleries in Omaha this city would get a fair start | for a genulne grain market, time we are con- by grapevine dis. patches from New York, by way of Omaha and Fremont, that the only thing in the way of the immediate con- struction of the Fremont power canal is the straitened condition of the money market and several other things not yet divulged. or the steenth Hootlng at Gent Saturday FEvening Post The ridicule the airship man meets is the same kind of ridicule that hooted at Ful- ton, Stephenson, Morse, Bell and Marcon! Injunction. Chicago Record-Herald. An injunction restraining a Chicago firm from paying debts is’the latest thing in the injunction line. Get your application for an injunction in early and avold the rush. Warn to Combines. Chicago News This announcement that President Roose- It is much concerned because he welghs 220 pounds and Is still gaining welght should serve as a warning to illegal combines. If the president feels that he s In need of exercise he knows where' he can be v an ks, United States Circuit Judge MeCreary was induced to resign kis life position 1 the federnl hench to accept the posi tion of chief counselor of the Santa Fe ruilpoad ut a salary of $25,000 a year. sens favorable to the bond isste would | Following this example the Northern be brought-out. Securities company has made a tempt- Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph Bankers are, of course, in business for the profits, just as are grocers, clothiers and other merchants, and wil attempt to con- duct thelr business to earn the greatest amount of money with the least risk. They are within their rights in attempting to sell bonds at high prices, but when the sale of the bonds tends to reduce the volume of the While | sphere, | digest 4,000 | circulation at a time when the banks them- selves are clamoring for a greater volume the secretary is entirely right in checking them with the means he has at his com- mand A Cineh on Vietory. Washington Post. We can imagine no program more likely to glve the republican party a sixth suc- cessive vietory and the democratic party its sixth successive defeat than the plan mapped out by Senator Carmack—a cam palgn for the repeal of the fifteenth amend- ment Desperation of Dem ey, Kansas City Journal The report that the democratic manage are skillfully working to involve the tlonal administration in embarrassing con troversies with organiszed labor and with the Grand Army of the Republic s entirely plausible. Democratic. managers are des- perate enough to resort to any kind of trickery na- Oh for the Manila Way. Pittsburg Dispatch Franchises are let to the highest hidder at Manila, with the reservation that com- petitors may have equal use at fair rates. There are times when an ordinary Ameri- can may almost wish that he were in- capable of self-government If that is the only way to secure an administration that looks out for the public Interests. Sizing Up the Sardine Crop. Philadelphia Record One of the vigilant American consuls in France writes that owing to a fallure of the sardine fisheries of the Mediterranean there may be a market for the sardines of Maine. But the Maine herring, cured with cottonseed oil and put up in neat French boxes are anythinggbut sardines. Forelgn lovers of sardines are to be decelved neither by the labels nor by the taste of these coarse substitutes for the delicate flsh of the Meditarranean. The Grind of Monopoly. Springfield Republican The price of coal at tidewater is to go up | another notch in the first of next month, and this in the face of a production o large as to bring about a glut in certain sizes of anthracite and compel a restriction of work. Under competition such & condi- tion would bring lower instead of higher prices. But monopoly prevails here, and monopoly of a kind which does not hesitate to mark up prices as peopla become more greatly In need of coal, and to keep them up by any degres of reduction in produc- tion which may be necessary for that pur- pose Carrie Nation in New Role. Chicago Tribune, Carrie Nation has proved that she 13 honest and earnest, and although her methods are none the less to be condemned, | she certainly is entitled to the credit . of | sincerity In her mission, hopeless as ft ie. | Her transfer of her property in Kansas City to that city as a home for women | and children who have been deserted by | drunken husbands and fathers—property | which she says she acquired only by long years of economy and hard work—and the careful manner in which she has made the transfer dnd provided for the mainten of the home prove that this much mabgned | woman has been thoroughly in earnest | though unfortunate in method. Her gift Is a noble act of individual charity and many an inmate who will find refuge within fts | walls will have cause to remember Carrie Nation with gratitude. There Is something of the pathetic In Her own words: “I guess the people will Yéemember the home long after they 'have’ forgotten about Carrie Nation, that obstfépérous old woman with the ax. " nce | NO ROOM FOR ARGUMENT. Useless Appeals to the President tor | Special Favors. Chicago Tribune. The long letter of the Chicago Federation of Labor to President Roosevelt needs no lengthy comment. Its receipt will be ac- knowledged, it will be placed on the files of the executive office, and will slumber there with many other silly communica- tlons, There are men who would like to have the government deny employment to non- unionists. There are others who would like to have it do likewise as regards | Roman Catholics. Tirere have been, and perhaps still are, men who would “put none but Americans on guard’—who dis- like to see in the service of the government cltizens who were not born in the United States. The individuals who sought to pro- scribe American citizens because of their birthplace or their religion appealed to the people to sustain them, and they met with defeat. It s clalmed now that American cltizens who do not see fit to join organiz tions which are commendable when they do not meddle with affairs which do not concern them ought to be proscribed. If the question is taken before the people they will dispose of it in short order. They will tolerate no discrimination and no fa- vored classes. It 1s useless to go to the president in the matter. The laws he has taken an oath to execute are the laws enacted by congress and not those framed by groups of private citizens, whether known as labor unions or by some other name. The unions go beyond bounds when they attempt to legislate for { other than their own members, AN ATTACK ON MOTHERS. Views of a the Care of Ohi Philadelphia Press. The mothers who toll, and there are few who do not, are not the proper persons to bring up their own children, according to { Charlotte Perkins Gilman, in Success for September. She maintains, in vigorous language, that children cannot be properly reared by a mother who has to do house- | work. She thinks that the baby would be better if relieved of the influence of a mother who as “cook, laundress, chamber- mald, seamstress and nuree’’ represents “the lowest kind of unskilled labor,” and has not time to care for the little oncs. The remedy, as suggested, is to have public nurseries which employ skilled nurses to do the training. The writer say “As it stands at present, the home Is, In many respects, a most unsultable place for ehildren, and the mother, In many ways, is an unsuitable person to have sole charge of them. Why? Because the home-nine homes out of ten—is a workshop, and the mother—nine mothers out of ten—is a toll- ing house servant. The grade of labor Is the same, hired or married.” That is where a grave mistake is made. The grade of labor may be the same, but there is something wanted besides labor in rearing that young child. The mother's love cannot be supplied by hired labor. While she may not have such time to devote 1o her children as would be best for them, she can yet watch over them and teach them much that no nurse would do. There are exceptions. Children in some cases yould be better in an institution than at home, but those are exceptions. With- out a home and home iufluences a child grows up feeling like a stranger in the world Thousands of children are now in in- stitutions, but no more should be put there than is necessary. Day nurseries are use- ful in many cases, but there can be no satisfactory substitute for the mother in caring for young children. l | that ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. % on the Current of Life the Me Patrick Ford, editor of the Irish World, recelved a lotter a few days ago'from Dr. Thomas Addls Emmet of New York City, now in Dublin striving to discover the re mains of his grand uncle, Robert the Irish patriot and martyr. Dr went services of tw Emmet Emmet eminent physicians and an antiquarian for th purpose of examining two bodies in two different cemeteries in Dublin, which are claimed by various peo- ple to have been the burial place of the patriet. Toward the middle of last month a grave in 8t. Michael's cemetery, Dublin was opened and the skeleton of 4 man was found at a depth of six feet Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet purposes have every doubt cleared away before ac cepting or rejecting the skeleton, which is being examined In- London by expert Should the examination not establish the fact that the skeleton is that of the patriot, a grfave in Glasnevin o will opened. Old Irish families maintain he was burfed In Glasnevin, whi legal authorities give St. Michael's place cométery be that some as the There are many native New Yorkers who seem to think that local engineering skill is setting a new mark by moving the great %-ton columns for the Cathedral of St John the Divine, As a matter of fact there is a single monolith fn Central park which has been brought from Egypt that is not only heavier but fs at least twenty feet longer than any of the cathedral columns This is ‘the obellsk in Central park. It was quarried more than 3,60 vears ago in honor of Thothmes IIL It is sixty-nine feet two Inches high, has a base seven feet elght inches square and weighs 220 tons. Tt is a mystery to engineers of today how the anclent Egyptians quarried, tra ported and raised it of the Board of Health show sulcide in New York is increasing in much greater proportion than the popula- tion. In 1902 therd were sulcides. Of this total occurred in the boroughs of Maihattan and the Bronx, whero ten years ago, in 1592, the number was only 1. From the figures collected by the department it appears that the death rate from suicide Statistics has Increased in Manhattah and the Bronx | from 14 per 100,000 inhabitants in 1892 to 22 per 100,000 in 1902, Of the 7i2 who took their own lives in 192, 19% were women. One of the startling facts in this table is that the percentage of female suicides is greatest among native born women. One of the pop- ular beliefs which the statistics of the Board of Health for 1802 destroy is the al-| leged fondness of Italians for the knife. In the five years, from 1897 to 192, only seven Ttallans committed suicide by the knife, while suicldes of Germans by this means numbered forty-one and of Americans fifty- four Lilllan Russell, who now appears on the stage In man’s clothes, practiced in male attire at her summer home and thus tells of her sensations: “Talk about the free- dom of men's clothes,” she sald scorn- tully. “Can’t sit down comfortably or yow'll bag ‘em at the knees. Better not sit down at all—bag all over. If you stand any wa excepting like a fool-wax-taflor's dummy you spoll your creases. When you sit down ou hitch ‘em up at the knees and show ir fancy hose. Of course not—I am dressed as a man. I found it a little diff- cult to acquire the manly stride and «tupid way of standing. I feel as if I were pulled by wires when I have to make those stiff, awkward gestures that it seems are pe- culiar to mankind Take it all in all, T feel in men's clothes like & trussed bird, Comfort? Give me my trafling skirts, corsets and all the rest of feminine fol-de-rols every time. However, I suppose I'll get used to trousers—and top hats. At first I was painfully aware of my extremities, and felt horribly aware of my bending at the knees. A woman little reai- izes the actual moral support of a trailing gown until she is shorn of flowing draperies and is thrust on the public attired in con- sequential—trousers. 1 am glad I wear a frock coat,” murmured Miss Russell medi- tatvely. k 1t is only the most persistent gadder who keeps pace with the novelty craze set by Fifth avenue shopkeepers. In a window near Thirty-second street there is a cock- tall set with red cherries blown into the pleces 80 as to give the effect of realit; There are pretty little creme de menthe sets, with a small bottle and glasses in cut glass, or with decorations In gold, which go into the library or den, or even the drawing room, with the coffee after a small dinner. Different kinds of glasses have been growing recently, and champagne glasses are fourteen and sixteen Inches tall, the shallow, bowl-like cup on a quaintly- shaped stem. Other glasses which have ac- quired height are for cordials. These, which are in Bohemian glass in red and gold or | green and gold, stand eight and ten inches on their slender stems. In these progressive times, when from twenty to thirty steamers leave the port of New York day after day, it is inter- esting to note the pleasure felt In the hurry, the bustle, the confusion of each salling by thousands who nelther know nor care for any Individual on b They are there for the fun of the thing. :The departure of a first-class steamer is in- deed an event. The ship and its equip- ment may have cost anywhere from $1,00,- 000 to 34,000,000, a There may be aboard any- | where from 50 to 3,000 human beings. With flags flying, steam whistling, operatives shouting and all on the qui vive, there is an hour of hurrahdom that creates en- | thusiasm in the crabbiest heart and sends | blood jumping in the shriveledest veins. | To see, to be part of it, to “jine” in all this, 18 & perfect delight to hundreds who never think of a theater and wouldn't know the most famous actor from the most | illiterate coal heaver. Nor is the excite ment confined to these cosfiy lilustrations | of naval architecture, To the de- parture of a coaster means much. There is a curlous cargo, a lot of forelgn pas- sengers, more noise and bustle, greater con- | fusion and less formality, Into it all men plunge full of inter To them it | means “one more. Some meet the cap- tain and take “just one.” Now and then & friend Is accosted, with the usual result, but generally speaking the “gang” is there for the single purpose of personal, sclfish enjoyment many A commuter from Cos Cob was relating his shopping experiences. “The other morning,” sald he, “my wife raised the ‘window and called after me ‘Lafayette, be sure and bring home some clothes pins.’ She slammed the window down and 1 had no chance to ask her what kind or how many “There is but one kind," interrupted the man who gets on at Noroton. ““That is the old-fashioned wooden head with two legs, that straddles a line. They have been trying to improve on them for & hundred years, but haven't succeeded.” “That's the kind I asked for,” continued the Cos Coblan. “The groceryman answered: ‘Yes, sir; how many? Wil 100 do” That sort of got me. They must at Jeast be § cents apl T wouldn't whittle one out for a dollar. “Thunder, no.’ 1 said ‘I haven't that much money to biow in on to Dublin last June and enlisted the | | was his whilom thatch? 10 cents.’ T nearly fell dead. boxes,’ I sald. Now, how in Bam Hill can | they make them at any such price? Machinery,” said the man from Rye Falling from the elghth floor of a build Ing in course of erection at 2 West eenth street, a and tu ent, ped fingers | the form Eight elghty in his worker, it two rushed to his mangled | Qistance of about \ing three somersaults Joseph Hunter, an with a slight laceration A score of workmen cellar, expecting to find Instead they found him calmly ex | amining his cut fingers. To convince them | that he had escaped without injury he 1 a jig. Then he went back to work | the top of the bullding | | teet de tron danc has a leader in He selc a sub-leader precinct. These latter aptain for every city hlock ok captain must know every on that block; who he is; how he it he is Independent in politics times kicks over the party trac how he intends to vote may be pending. personal Tam many can secure a census of the city, po- litically, in twenty-four hours. The weak spots uncovered, the uncertain demo. be spotted and means taken to hall district cach | The v votes | and at and especlally | the election th | By this a each as. in | perfect aystem crats can | steady them | The aistrict knowing his distriet know it, he s not | at headquarters | dlans of 80 well an leader prides 1t he regarded Some of Tammany have mapped that they can election by two or three votes, even in cases whera the majority on ona side | or the other may run into the thousands e —— 00 MUCH WIND AND WATER. himselt does with these their on not | favor guar- territory forecast Largest Wreck in the Trust Line ar Developed. Springfield Republican A $100,000,000 trust is to be sold out for |a clatm of about $5,00.00. Such appears to be the case of the Consofldated Lake Su perior company, whose directors, laboring {for months to raise money enough on | bonds or more stock, or in any other avail able way, to pay off a loan of $,000,00 from the Speyer syndleate and provide some | working capital, have at last given up the task in despair and told the Speyer lenders to realize on their note as best they can. | What Speyer & Co. will do, presumably, | | Will be to sell the securities of the Con = y and its eub-companies, | { which they hold as collateral for the loan, note, and with these | for the sum of the | securities will go the ownership or control | | of the Consolidated concerns. These com- prise railway, steel, ore mines, paper, power jand other enterprises centering about Sault | | Ste. Marie, Canada, which have largely been closed down, owing to the trust's lack | of capital, throwing thousands of men out of work. This is about the largest wreck in the trust line o far developed. The Con- | solidated Lake Superior company was or. ganized in 1897 under a special Connecticut charter, and Is capitalized at $117,000,000 ot common and preferred stock, of which a trifle over $100,000000 is outstanding. Tt paid 7 per cent dividends on the $25,000,000 of preferred up to September of 1%02. The pre- ferred stock sold last vear as high as 80 and the common 36. Their present quota- | tions are 4% and %. It is said that the| stockholders have put $30,000,000 into the | company, practically all of which they will lose. Philadelphia investors are chiefly affected. It has remained for the trust era to produce the extraordinary spectacle of the sale under the hammer of a concern capitalized at over $100,000,000 to collect a note of 1-20th part of that sum. PERSONAL NOTE! Secretary Chamberlain was all right untl he became 80 well known that people called him “Joe.” Unless Mr. Hay has some extra cards op his sleeve the caral game with Colombia will have to be declared a draw. A daring Frenchman {s coming across the Atlantlc next May in an airship. Prof. Langley will meet him on the banks of the Potomac with an automoblle. Right Rev. Mgr. Peter Joseph Schroeder, rector of the University of Munster and formerly of the Cathollc university at Washington, D. C., has just died in Ger~ many. Mrs. Shaw, wife of the secretary, will spend the winter In Washington, after a summer spent in Europe. Her eldest daugh- ter, Miss Erma, will make her debut into Washington soclety during the winter. Second Lieutenant Crispulo Patajo of the Philippine scouts, the first of the natives of Luzon to wear the uniform of the United States army, has arrived in San Francisco from Manila on the transport Sherman. It is claimed that by the use of the X-rays hair which has become gray is restored to its natural color. But gray hairs are hon- orable and not often unbecoming. Who, for instance, would exchange his frosty but Kindly crown for the brick dust red that Rev. James J. McKeever, a Catholic clergyman of Newark, N. J., announces that hereafter he will give a gold medal to any member of the local, fire department who will save a life. Father McKeever de- aided on this action after learning how a fireman lost his own life a short time ago while attempting to save a child Princess Serge Beloselsky of Russia, a daughter of General Whittier of the United States army, has amazed everybody by an- nouncing her intention of going with her husband to Siberia and living there quietl working for a living, until they can make enough to return and pay thelr debts. The princess enjoys a high standing at the Rus- sian court Thirsty members of congress at the next session will be somewhat incommoded be- of the fact that no liquor will be in the capltol building. Washington fully izing what this incon- means, are doing what they can to make hip pockets popular, so that the legislators may be able to carry with them a reasonable supply of wet goods, be cause sold tailors, venience Your Child's Eyesight You are responsible for the sight of your child. Wateh out for frowns, for squints and when he reads or looks at a picture hook does he hold it too near or too far? These little things grow faster than th child and ir mi cases can be overcome if discovered in time. HUTESON OPTICAL CO,, 213 South 16th Street, Bleck ve me two | | Pu, COPENHAGEN HAS ITS TROUBLES. cation of Names a Problem f Legisiative Sol Chicago Inter-Ocean sometimes think that our troubles greater than those of other people perhaps natural, but it is not true. Other people have trou- bles besides which ours are trival Take, for example, the little matter o common names. The man who consults the Chicago directory for the purpuse finding the address of some particular Johg Smith or William Jones or James Brow:) is too prone to imagine that the difculty he experiences is exceptional. He feels, i a sense, personally outraged because there are so many John Smiths, Willlam Joneses, and James Browns. But he would not think so if he under- stood the difficulties that beset the per- #on who consults the Copenhagen city directory. There afe in that place no fewer than 60,00 Hansens, and about as many Nellsens, Jorgensens, Jensens, Petersens, and Christiansens. Inded, the duplication of Copenhagen has become a problem for legislative wolution. Attempts have here- tofore been made to Induce those bearing the common names ‘referred to, and those only a little less common to adopt others, and lately the means of making such changes have been so simplified that one may get a new name, legally, in Copen- hagen at small cost and with little loss of time, but nevertheless, the vast majority of the people hold back The Danish government has iately pub- lished a pamphlet which gives 1,00 names not now In genernl use. as a suggestion to We This exactly names in | the ¥ansens, Nellsens, Petersens, Christian- sens and Jorgense parllamentary enactme oftense punishabla by fin imprisonment for anybody to bear these names, will be necessary before the present difficulty can be abated. In this country the Smiths, Joneses. Browns, Johnsons, etc., may multiply at an alarming rate, but there fs as yet no me- but t or it seems that a muking it an | cessity for making a campalgn against | them BRIGHT A ‘D BREEZY. 1uThey say a man is known by his associ- ates “Yes, or {f he fan't known he is at least suspected by them IKansas City Journal. Biddleford is a hard drinker, lan't he?" No. 1T should call him an easy drinker.” ~Cleveland Plain Dealer. The doctor got out his instruments, and the patient watched him interestedly. “Docter,” said the injured man finally with a whimsical smile, “don't you think this §a a_case for absent treatment?” Chicago Post ) ’ “Have you heard of the new tunnel hor- ror?" “No, what s it? “The photographers’ trust is takin light pictires of the passengers at fh ‘ment the train is going through. Record-Herald, flash- o mo- —~Chicago Smarticus—What is the difference tween a cat and a match? Bpartacus—Give it up. Smaricus—One always lights on fts fest and the other on its head.—Philadelphia >ress. be- ) “After all, it's the wise man change his opinfon.” “But the wisest men simply can't do it." "l\;’h.\‘ not?" “Because they've been dead for years. Philadelphia Ledger. i who can “You love your country, don't you?" said the llh;\crr‘e ftateaman. “Certainly,” answered Semator Sorghum, “but I'm not losing m\y Mead and t';hu- chances on suffering ibe pangs of unres quited affection. &thl“‘l"n“fl‘ll' Mutation. SUMMER. Same old strolling On the shore; 8ame old breakers, Same old roar; Same old sunset, Same old moon; Same old story, Bame old spoon. AUTUMN. Same old parlor In the town; Same old father, Same old frown; Same old nonsen: “Precious pearl; Bame young fellow, Different girl. ~New York Times. R —— i ANOTHER RECORD BROKEN, New York Sun. Is there no breakless record? And can nobody make od, substantial record obody else can break? Each year since man's creation For glory or for cash, He hits some previous record And knocks it all to smash. In every field of action Man does the best he can, And has his record broken . By some succeeding man. His muscle, mind and money Exert themselves to make A record that no other Competitor can break. ‘The record is a wonder The latest and the best, But somehow something hits it And breaks it llke the resi. 8ix thousands years of record, Stretch backward fo the firs With no one guranteeing A new one not to burst Is there no breakisss record Is there no powes Lo muke A record that no other \ Power has power (o hreak? — _ ___ e OMAHA, A Boarding and Day women and girls. Special course requir: ing two vears for high school graduates, also prepares for any college of to. women. 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