Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 1, 1903, Page 6

THE 0\[ AH \ DA m OMAHA DAILY BEE. B. ROBEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Bee (without Sunday e Year $4.00 Daily Bee and Sunday, One ¥ear.. 6.0 Diuetrated Bee, One Vear.. 200 Bunday Bee, One Year . 200 Baturday Bee, One Year . 150 Twentieth Century Farmer, One DELIVERED BY CARRI Daily Bee (without Sunday), per copy.. 2 Dally (without Bunday), per week..12c Daily Bee (including Sunday), per week.ifc Sunday Bee, per copy . Evening Bee (without Sunday). per week lc Evening Bee (including Sunday), per week .. 23 ...100 Complaints of irregularities in delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES. Qmaha_The Bee Bullding South Omaha—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-Afth and M streets. Councll Bluffs—10 Pearl Street. Cl 1640 Unity l!ulldln‘i New York—2% Park Row Building. Washington—501 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. 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PARTIES LEAVING THE CITY. rtle; any time may have T sent to them regularly Setitylag The Bee \B {Ofice, in person or by ma The Address will be changed as often as desired. Ep— All qulet once more at Oyster Bay. CEEEE—— Ohicago is celebrating because it is one hundred years old It certainly does not show its age. & the city at Bee by ness To the weather man--please dispose of your remnants at once and give us bright, clean goods for our carnival next week. ‘When it comes to a bold game of bluff, President Nash of the electric lghting company easily commands the Prize. emm———— -President Mellen's resignation from- the Northern Pacific means that he has encountered a promotion rather than a merger. 4 No little thing like an electric trolley **Wreck will prevent Senator Hanna from coming down the home stretch on elec- tion day in his usual form. Another question that is puzzling our state university regents is whether the people of Nebraska expect them to run & book store as well as a university, EE———— If Judge Vinsonhaler were only re- nominated for a third term and his democratic opponent in the fleld, how quickly the World-Herald would change its tune. Democratic hopes in Douglas county rest on keeping the republicans divided. No wonder the democratic organ throws A fit at every prospect of republican unanimity. Omaha is a poor place for a man to try to create a sensation by conjuring up an fmaginary attempt to assassinate No stampede can be created here by such a fake. ‘Work on the Morton memorial monu- ment is under way. The monuments which J. Sterling Morton left in the form of trees planted throughout the prairie states are towering higher all the time. E—— Mayor Moores was elected to his present term of office on a platform pledging him to municipal ownership for street lighting and he is determined to stand by his promise, no matter what any one else may do. — To make Omaha a great market town requires mills and factories, as well as raflroads. Any man with capital to in- vest in manufacturing enterprises may be sure of a warm welcome and sub- stantial encouragement. T When it comes to free advertising the best of the theatrical advance agents <an get several pointers from the en- terprising professors of Chicago univer- sity, who break into print so succes. sively snd so successfully. em——————— King Ak-Sar-Ben's universal sway s typically illustrated by his activity. this year. Out at the den he rules over Rome, at the street fair his dominion extends over into Arabia, and in his pageant he will again proclaim his sovereignty over fairyland. EE————— The chief of the inspection bureau is authority for the statement that of 200 es of imported foods looked into since July 1, when the law authorizing r_ 1 lnspection went iuto effeet, \10 cent have been condemned wnd re- Jected, The Yankee who used to pride ' on bis shrewdness in manufac- ‘wares to fool the foreigner will THRE PRESIDENT AND LABOR. It would seem that no fair-minded wan could doubt that President Roosevelt is friendly to organized labor. A little more than a year ago he publicly de clared that he emphatically believed in organized labor and there has since been no utterance or action on the part of the president to warrant any distrust as to the sincerity of that declaration. It an unquestionable fact that no presi dent of the United States has ever done more. in the Interest of organized labor than Mr. Roosevelt. What has become familiar as the Miller case raised a question in which the president had to decide between the demands of a trade union and the rights of an employe in the service of the government. It was question whether there should be discrimination in favor of union men in the public service, thereby closing the door to such service against nonunion men. W. A. Miller, the foreman in the bindery de partment of the government printing office, had been expelled from his union, “ which demanded that he be dismissed from his position. This demand was acceded to by the government printer. Miller appealed to the president, who ordered his reinstatement on the ground that the federal government could not turn down a man because he was not affillated with labor unfons and that if a man is honest and faithful and does his work satisfactorily he is entitled to continue in the employ of the govern- ment, whether he is a union or non- union man. The president took the po- sition that there could be no discrimina- tion In the public service as to whether an employe is a trade unionist or not, any more than in regard to a man's political or religious views. This attitude of Mr. Roosevelt has been denounced by some trade unionists as unfriendly to organized labor. A few organizations have adopted condemna- tory resolutions and there is evidently an effort being made, probably incited by political opponents of the adminis- tration, to make capital out of the mat- ter for use against the president in the next national campaign. To what ex- tent this may be effective it s impossi- ble to say, but Mr. Roosevelt is adher- ing firmly to his position. In a confer- ence with representatives of the Amer- fcan Federation of Labor in reference to the Miller case he said that he must govern his action by the laws of the land, which he s sworn to administer and “which differentiate any case in which the government of the United States is a party from all other cases whatsoever.” He pointed out that these laws are for the benefit of the whole people and “cannot and must not be construed as permitting discrimina- tion against some of the people.” We think that to all fair-minded and un- prejudiced men this view will be con- clusive. The laws of the United States apply equally to all citizens. They make no discrimination in favor of one class of labor and against another. The duty of the president is therefore plain and imperative. He has taken a position that is not only absolutely required by the laws, but is also in support of a vital principle of our government. “T am president of all the people of ‘he United States,” he says, “without re- gard to creed, color, birthplace, occupa- tion, or social conditions. My aim is to do equal and exact justice as among them all. Can there be any doubt that he will be sustained in this position by an overwhelming majority of the peo- ple? MBETING OF THE MUNARCHS. This autumn even more than last spring will be signalized by an exchange of visits among Kuropean heads of state. It is remarked that even in these days of constitutional monarchies the in- fluence of such visits Is not to be treated lightly nor their perfectly obvious re- sults ignored. The czar of Russia is now visiting the emperor of Austria- Hungary and the dispatches report a most cordial meeting between the two sovereigns, both of whom are deeply concerned in existing conditions in the Balkaus. Referring to the visits of tl German kaiser, the czar and King Ed- ward to Vienna, a writer observes that questions of foreign policy are so inter- woven with reyal prerogative that the personalities of the sovereigns concerned seem less pronounced where they are in reality most active. The Russo-Austrian policy in regard to Turkey might undergo an entire change without once revealing the directing hand of elther of the emperors interested. It Is not so, however, with the president of the French republic and the king of Italy, who are to meet later in the current montl, the latter going to Paris and at some subsequent time receiving a return visit at Rome from President Loubet. While the exchange of amenities be- tween these latter rulers will have no political significance, the meetings be- tween the others are naturally assumed to have a more practical bearing and to mean something beyond mere courtesy. It is the belief of certain English pub- licists that the whole diplomatic face of England's attitude in eastern, central, northern and western Asla would be- come less strained if the British and Russian forcign offices could get to- gether and by mutual moral recognitions and concessions decide upon some com- won, although not necessarily united form of policy. The coming meeting be- tween King Edward and the czar may have something of this kind in view. Of course Nicholas II, who Is accom- nnl!:htm«l In |~vmml to certain ;nunm with particular reference to Russian in tentions. It that this in formation will be given after the meet ing of the sovereigns. Meanwhile the eituation, at least so far as Macedopin is concerned, grows consequently there on the powers for decisive The meeting of the monarchs should be speedily followed by results of & pric tieal nature, is possible more serious and is increasing pres action “cHance at the GIVE THE PEOPLE A The ordinance introduced stauce of Mayor Moores to submit the citizens of Ohaha at the election a proposition authorizing city to issue bonds for the purchase of a municipal electric lighting plant should be pushed through the council without delay. The paramount issue in the municipal election last spring was munieipal ownership of public utilities. On that platform the mayor and eve of the council ted. Whatever may be the individual opin fon of the members of the council at this time, it is their manifest duty to redeem their pledges by giving the peo- in to to coming the o member were ele ple a chance to decide for themselves ‘whether they want to acquire a munici- pal lighting plant or whether they pre- fer to continue public lighting done by private corporations. .The contracts with the electric lighting company and the gas company will both expire by the end of 1905. The submission of a proposition to authorize the issue of bonds for a municipal lighting plant by the time the contracts with the gas and electrie lighting compa premature. ries expire is not There will be only election in 1904 and national will then monopolize the popular attention. To defer the proposition for a bond issue until the fall of 1905 would deprive the people of the opportunity construct or acquire the plant before the tracts for lighting expire. From every point of view, therefore, the ordinance recommended by Mayor Moores and in- troduced by President Zimman should commend itself to immediate considera- tion. TLet the ordinance be submitted at least thirty days before election. If the people have changed their minds and do not favor municipal ownership they can vote down the proposition to issue bonds. If they still entertain the same view they did last they should bhe given the opportunity to ratify the bond proposition at the com- ing election. one issues to con- spring FAST AND LOOSE METHODS. The fast and loose methods that pre- vall in the handling, disbursement and loaning out of public and private funds in the county fee offices call for radical reforms in methods of accounting. The disclosures of the unbusinesslike man- ner in which accounts are kept in the office of the county judge afford a strik- ing instance of the system, or rather lack of system, in the handling of fees and trust funds. The reports on file in the county audi- tor's office show that County Vinsonhaler has collected § fees during the three and years covering his first and terms. With the exception of $60¢ not a dollar of the whole amount has passed through the hands of the county treasurers, to whom by rights every dollar of money collected in fees should have been paid and whom warrants should have drawn to | pay the salaries of the county judge and the clerks employed in his office. Under the fast and system of accounting County Judge Vinsonhaler | has 1etained balances due to the county | and doubtless expects to do so until his second term shall have expired. While the report of fees collected in- cludes the moneys paid for the issuance of marriage licenses, Judge Vinsonhaler and his confidential clerks alone know how much has been paid in in marripge fees and how much has been sque out of bridal couples in the traffic pictorial marriage certificates. | The various fees paid into the county court are, however, a comparatively small fraction of the moneys paid into the counfty court. While Judge Vinson haler positively declines to furnish the information or submit the books and one-half second on bheen loose records that would disclose the amounts now held by him in trust for real es owners whose proper under eminent and for the widows and orphans whose | ato y has been taken | domain condemnation | heritage Is being probated in the court, | a conservative estimate places them at | from $20,000 to $30,000. While the may not require the county judge report to the county auditor the amonnt of trust funds held by him, the policy of concealment pursued by him in the of fice cannot be justified on any grounds. What is true of the collection and disbursement of fees and funds deposited for the benefit of litigants in the couniy | court applies with equal the clerk of the district the ister of deeds and the clerk. The only safe way for the conduct of public busiuess s to exercise all the precau tions and, apply all the safeguards that are required in the conduct of private business. . All fees from whatever source be paid directly into the connty ury and all salaries and disbursements should be made on warrants drawn by the clerk and redeemed by the treas- urer. If the fees of any office are in- sufficient to pay the salaries of the offi- cers and clerks the county ers should insist on law | | force to court, county shounld treas. commission retrenchment or panied to Vienna by his foreign wminis- ter, and Ewmperor Francis Joseph will discuss the Turkish problem and possi- bly definitely decide upon the course to be pursued by the two powers, subject to the acceptance of the other powers signatory to the Berlin treaty. "Russia and Austria have already pro- posed what they consider the Balkan #Muation requires and this bhas been practically approved by Great Brjtain, but Gegmany, while not absolutelydis- senting, \- expressed a desire 'to\be hold the monthly vouchers till the fees to meet them are in. The present method of collection and disbursement of fees by various officers not only af. fords no check whatever, but paves the way to peculations and the farming out of public funds for private gain. The sooner the Board of County Commis { im | tany | was, a but shatt "Y BEE: THURSDAY, OC TOBER 1, _1908. ,.1.._‘-.»ru' new organization is to fight all strikes, boycotts and other labor troubles in the The courts have the consola however, that they ean hardly be up with more labor litigation they have been carrying right courts, tion, loaded than along. The unexpected does not happen half often as the expected. It was to » been expected that the World- Herald would rush to the defense of Judge Vinsonhaler and seek to condone fallure to report the uncalled-for witness fees turned over to him by his Judge Baxter, and the un- collected witness fees during the three years and a half of his own term. Tt is safe to say that the unclaimed wit- ness fees in the county judge's office during the two terms of Judge Vinsonhaler, and covering a perfod of four years, would not amount to $20. To be sure, If ' Judge Vinsonhaler has not complied with the law with respect to unclaimed witness fees, it 1s for him to say that the amount was small. But it is interesting to see the editor of the local republican organ grow red in the face because he claims to have discovered that Judge Vinsonhaler has not paid to the county treasurer un- claimed witness fees which it is probable do not aggregate $280, The plea that the amount of uncalled for witness fees is comparatively small is very ingenlous, but whether the amount is $250 or only $25, the principle is the same. In fact, the smaller the amount the more reprehensible the fail- ure to file a report and to withhold the fees, as required by law. There cer- tainly can be no palliation for the fail- 8O his predecessor, no excuse ] ssociation the purposs of the TS OF WASHINGTON LIFE, Minor Scenes and Imeldents Sketched on the Spot. Plans and details of the new station in Washington have been made public and contracts let for some of the work. The location is northwest from the capitol, fully half a mile from the present depots. It will be reached by a tunnel through Capitol hill costing $20 per foot, or a total of about $1,0000. The depot building will cost $2,000,000, and the grounds, ackage and approaches $5,000,00. The total cost of the change is estimated at $8,000,000, of which sum congress contributes $3,000,000, The depot building will be faced with marble and will cover an area of 251,000 square feet. Three arched doorway feet high and 44 feet wide, will ocoupy the central portion ef the front and open into a vestibule 289 feet broad. Beyond the vesti- bule is to be the main waiting room, 210 feet wide by 150 feet long. Floors and walls are to be lined In white marble. The apartment will be lighted by a 1X-foot dome of glass and decorated with marble statues of herole palms A superb state entrance will be provided for the president and distinguished guests of the city. The state entrance is 1o oc- cupy the whole of the east end of the build- ing. This will consist of a sulte of rooms, including reception and retiring rooms, for the distinguished guests, and a number of smaller rooms for the use of the at- tendants. Leading from these rooms to the train is to be a long passage, brilllantly lighted. A driveway similar to that on the left side will lead to the state entrance. Back of the first floor of the main bulld- Ing is to be the ‘concourse,” a covered space, 760 feet wide and 13 feet deep, which will form a shelter for passengers as they form in line on thelr way to trains. All baggage will be handled in speclally pro- vided apartments directly under the con- raliroad ure to report the uncollected fees turned over by Judge Baxter to his successor, even If the amount was ever so small, and it is. more reprehensible when the misdemeanor is committed by a judge. The state insurance commissioners in national convention are trying to agree upon uniform legislation which should be sought in different states for the pro- tection of the policy holders and the course. Express wagons and drays will drive down an incline and unload in the baggage room Provision has been made for a barber shop, a swimming pool 26x37 feet, bullt of marble; Turkish and shower baths and a mortuary chamber, with accommodations for five bodies. A sub-basement has also been planned for the handling of southern baggage. In this basement there s to be an emigrants’ walting room 40x60 feet and baggage storerooms. Six elevators, 15x16 feet, will pass from the sub-basement to the regulation of insurance companies. As things now stand no two states in the union have reached the same solution in their dealings with the insurance in- terests. This condition has been largely brought about, unfortunately, by the pernicious interference of insurance rep- resentatives in legislation to bolster up weak concerns or to give one plan of insurance advantage over another. Uni- insurance legislation can only be insurance companies agree- their hands off the law- form achieved b; ing to keep makers, Remember that Judge Barnes was twice appointed supreme court commis- sioner by unanimous vote of the three supreme judges, including Judge Sulli- van. TIs not this pretty good evidence that he is in bvery way qualified for judicial work on the bench of our high- est state tribunal? i — Got There Just the Same. Chiodgo Post. No spider on a hot shovel ever had u liveller time than Governor Cummins in his efforts to make a protection speech and not touch either the “lowa idea’ or the ‘stand-patt Pockets for the Surplas. Baltimore American, styles by congressional tallors in chow pockets of vastly i Have the varlous Investiga- tions now in progress simply served to point the moral of how much there is in practical patriotism all Washington creased size. Progressive Modern Education, Minneapolls Journal Prof, Curme of the University of Chicago favors slang. By the way, what has be- come of Triggs? With other professors in the Chicago university advocating canni- balism and the encouragement of slang, Prof. Triggs is quite outclassed and will have to say or do something most extraor- dinary to attract attention again, Bewanre, ene, Beware, Louisville Courier-Journal. Commissioner of Penslons Ware makes a suggestion in his forthcoming report which will throw « damper on the ardor of the superannuated pensioner who has hereto- fore been regarded as pecullarly susceptible the charms of female loveliness. He proposes a law which shall hereafter pro- hibit the giving of pensions to women who marry soldiers after the latter become old pensione But under such a law when will such soldiers become old? Age is entirely a relative matter and in absence of a limit they may claim perennial youth The Anclents in Boston, Chicago Tribine. It is amusing to read that the committe mapping the line of marc a king the visitors ment, lest it should arouse iscences! This scems a when It Is taken Into & the manifold banquets »ston common, whence the to Concord and Lexing- that the get out of sight of the outh church and old North | old st and l!‘lll” volutionary patriots | To scriminate the first slight | costly though it | avoided Bunker Hill mor unpleasant ren little inconsistent it that b s redeon ton visitors spires of old church and the hall where the r planned all the trouble against the y e whe British success was gained '8 not seem just to the visitqrs. The might have been comforting to| them, for it recalls British bravery after repeated repulse and British su ss-—after Yankee ammunition had given out on When the Water Dropped Out, Chicago Chronicle Expert accountants selected the Asphalt trust's accounts in found that the ¢ 1 had never, from the day of its foundation, earned in st on_its bonds, “Errors mad concerning the con- dition of the different companies at the formation of the United States Shipbuild ing company” was the excuse assigned by the shipbullding management. In the Con- solidated Lake Buperior company episode nelther fraud nor deliberate misrepresenta- tion hus been alleged, yet the downfall of this undertaking is as complete as that of the others and the history of its rise and fall much more extraordinary. xactly seventeen months ago,” says the New York Evening Post, “the valuation placed by the market on the capital stock of the Con- solidated Lake Superior company was $50,- 000,000. Yesterday it was 388,000, the $28,000,- 000 preferred stock having fallen from 80 to 2% and the §74.000,000 common from % to a to examine | April, 1902, nee sloners takes this matter in hand, the sooner we will be able to repress fee office pilfering and periodic scandals, ——— According to the spokeswan of the federation of wmanufucturers’ and enr D quarter of 1 per cent. When the higher | tion to violations of the he | th la ch main waliting room The interior of the building s to be lighted by a semi-cylindrical dome of col- ored glass 100 feet high. ‘When congress meets lottery for the cholce scats. The newest and freshest member from the backwoods district may be the lucky man to have his name drawn from the box by the blind- folded page and to have first choice of all the seats in the great hall. The veteran of half a score of congresses, a man of power and note, may be the last of the long line and forced to content himself with a perch in the extreme rear. This is democracy with a vengeance, and, of course, it would never do for the aristocratic upper branch. There the senator who gets a good seat keeps it as long as he remains a senator. tiiere will be a size, frescoes and giant | Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE into the working of the office and several other bureaus. It is belleved that the change will not only dispose of the labor | troubles, but bring about certain economies which have been demanded for many years A man in public life noted for his brusque- ness was under discussion in eabinet circles, “There's one thing to be =aid in his favor, however,” sald Secretary Shaw, “and that is he never fmportunes the departments to get promotions for his friends." “That's readily explained,” commented Secretary Root. “‘He hasn't any friends.” — CARMACK AND THE NEGRO. Teunesee's Senator “Strips the Ques tion Stark Nake Chicago Record-Herald. Benator Carmack of Tennessee, who is advocating the repeal of the fifteenth amendment to the federal constitution, has opened his heart on the whole negro ques- tion in an article in the current number of the Nashville Olyphant Magazine. He “strips the question stark naked,"” to use his own phrase. How It looks when in that condition can bs seen from the following brief summary of his views. He belleves that: 1. The negro inferior race. 2. That white the negro. 3. Education will only serve to make the is—absolutely rpeaking—an man—absolutely—loathes Such men as Allison, Hale, Hoar, Cullom and others have sat all the way from ten to twenty-five vears at one desk. When an 0ld senator with an advantageously located seat drops out through death or failure to mecure re-election some other senator from the rear applies for his seat and gets it, the rule being, “first come, first served.” New senators are compelled (o take the less de- sirable desks in the rear of the chamber, to await thelr turn for a chance at better cnes. Thus in the senate there is a slow but steady movement from the rear toward the front of the chamber—a movement highly suggestive of the senatorial system based upon prerogative and precedence Even more striking is the method of as- slgning senators to places upon committees Here again prerogative Is everything. It the chairman of a committee dies or leaves the senate, the man of the majority po- litical party who has served longest upon that committec becomes his successor. The rule is invariable, though, of course, com- plications occasionally arise. 1f the senfor committeeman is chalrman of another im- portant committee, he may be compelled to surrender one or the other. negro more loathsome. 4. Stripping the negro of his political rights will, however, make him less loath- some, for the white man will then no Jonger be shamed by a ' divided sovereignty with a lower and Inferior race.'” In these four propositions you have the length and breadth of Senator Carmack's philosophy put up in pellet form, to take or to leave alone, as you will. In jusiice to the senator It should be sald that he does hot really believe that his program would, if put into effect, have ideal results He only contends that it “is at least the best tHat can be hoped for as a final and peaceful adjustment of the relations between whites cnd blacks in the United States.” The absolutely ‘“best’ would be, he maintains, ‘to gradually transplant the negro race into some other land, wheore, under favorable conditions, It would work out its own destiny."” Regretfully the senator admits that his ideal s unattainable. He might as well admit as much for his plan to repeal the fifteenth amendment, The one scheme is Just as crude, just as much of a quack nostrum, as the other. The average Ameri- There is perhaps no elevator in the world more exclusive than that provided at the capitol at Washington, D. C., for the su- preme court of the United States. That ele- vator can be used by exactly eleven people, and no one else would for a moment con- sider entering it except as the guest of one of these eleven privileged gentlemen. The fortunate eleven are the nine justices of the United States supreme court, the clerk and the marshal of the court. The elevator goes from the ground floor of the capitol to the main floor, on which is located the sn- preme court of the United States. It is|a small elevator, so that, with its conductor, three portly forms of justices of the su- preme court of the United States would fill It is one of the very latest designs of electric elevators and is finished in magnifi- cent style. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Yerkes ntly got after the retail cigar dealers for falling to observe the original package law, which prohibits the removal of clgars and tobacco, before sale, from boxes in which they paid the internal revenue tax The inspectors were instructed to see that this law was strictly en d, in order to prevent frauds in the way of refilling high grade boxes with infer Mr. Yerkes now to liquor | dealers and oleomargarine nts ob- serve the same requircments regarding the sale of those articles. He has caused a special notice to be sent out, calling atten- law governing the He has found a the part of some ged in the sale of proposes merch sale of distilled spl growing tendency persons who en lquors to refill with spirits bottles which | had once been filled and stamped, under the provisions of the internal revenue law. He says that while the re-use of a bottle for the purpose of containing spirits which had once been filled and stamped, withe it | destroying the stamp previously fixed to such bottle, may not result in a fraud upon government, it involves a gross viola- tion of the law and enables the oftender to impose upon the public by disposing of ap and inferior grade of whisl different in quality and alcohol strength from the original contents, at a price equal to the price of whisky of standard strength and quality represented by the stamp. The special agents are to see that stamp on bottles filled in bond are absolutely de- stroyed when the bottles are emptied. The same prohibitions are to apply In the sale of oleomargarine in quantities not exceed- ing ten pounds on are a_collection The multiplication of the government printing gested that the office might be adminis- tered with more gratifylng results if ft were placed in some one of the executlve departments. The dificulty over the status of Assistant Foreman Miller has of late emphasized this opinion and it is stated on good authority that the.president has con- cluded to place the office in the Department of Commerce. This will make Becretary controversies office in has sug- prices prevalled for the company’s securi- ties it was paying 7 per cent annual divi- dends on the preferred stock. In fact it pald such dividends as lately as last Sep- tember, when its preferred and common shares sold at T and % respectively.” Cortelyou the executive official in control of the office and lead to & number of changes In the method of administering the work of the printing office. This ac- tion Is the result of the conclusion of the special commitiee which has been looking can citizen will surely say that If the negro 18 not worthy of the ballot the thing to do 18 to make him worthy, rather than strive to keep him eternally unworthy. PERSONAL NOTES, Librarian Ballard of library of Pittsfield, Mass,, the Athenaeum has just secured of rare originals relating to Shay's rebellion, Governor Dockery of Missour! says he cut oft his monumental whiskers, where the little birds built their nests, in order that he might see hils chin, Julius Krutt Schmidt, jr., went to Yale as a freshman in a special private car, Guadaloupe. His father is fourth vies president and general manager of the Southern Pacific railroad, John Hazeltine, known throughout cen- tral New York as a philanthropist, has announced plans to take a colony of 1,000 Syracuse people to Monfana for the pur- pose of establishing a town, Peter Veregin, leader of the Doukhobors in Munitoba, is trusied by his followers with large sums of money, a good deal of which he carries about with him in cash A reporter who visited him In Winnipeg a few days ago found the leader in a poorly furnished room with thousands upon thou sands of bank bills scattered around Veregin has purchased 300 teams of hors and great quantities of farm machinery for use by his followers in thefr settle- ments. Over 800 stores, five complete flou:- ing mills and dry goods of all Kinds are also among his investments Rabbi Glazier of Des Moines, i piling a history of Jews in lowa s eded in tracing the first rrival of Jews in that state back to ., when a wandering band of Russians entered lowa . 18 com- He has n of Decorah, la, who w elected president of the National Norweg a Bocieties of the United States at the recent Minneapolls convention, cdits the Decorah Posten, a semi-weekly newspaper magazine published in the Norwegian language. The correct way to pronounce the name of Maeterlinck, the Belgian author and dramatist, I8 as though it were spelled Mahterlink, not Mayterlink, or Meterlink, as it iy variously called. The French pro- nounce it Mayterlink because the sound of “ae” {n French is “a,” but in Belgian French the “ae” is pronounced “ah.” LAUGHING GAS. “The Imperial Board of Health of Ger- many has issued a statement that total ab- stinence from strong drink fsn't injurious t hey'll. iever believe it in Germany.'— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mre. Ascum—Your boy is at colley ech? H"! retty bright, too, isn't he' Mrs. Malaprop—Yes, ‘Indeed. His profes- wor Bave he's & Feguiar geneais. Philadel- phia Press. now, Rivers—By the way, wedding? Brooks—Almost any wedding. The tracting Rarties are usually hlncl(h.? une. ‘Leatherst! what is a wood Chicago Cooper was writing his * Tales.” “I know they're old-fashioned mitted sadly, “they should have by ball trousers!" - Patlently. he tried to counterbals by war whoops almost as good as vells.—New York Sun. “Some people ey ‘)‘ou have more | than brains® said the Blunt person. il hope go,” answered Benator Sorg!| “Most everybody 1 run across is tr {rado off brains for money. —Washin tar. “Did Johnny entertain you nicely, Unela Abner. ‘while T was out?’ asked the niece the old man was visiting. “He did very wall” was the rather eon- strained answer. “He spent most of the time making me promiee to let him come to my funeral.” “Dear little fellow. He's so thoughttul.” —Chicago Record-Herald And now the foot haller strikes the earth With a strong and mighty thud, But rises again thick covered o'er With laurels, grass and mud. -Indianapolis Journal, A SONG OF HOPE, € W. Gillilan in Baltimore Americam Here's a think 1 guess you hadn't Never thought; 1f 80, you hain't been happy As you'd ought. It's a thought to make you glad, Fer a feller can't be sa When he sees th' things a-comin’ ¢ That he's sought. This is it: Th' Mortals go. ! All th' brighter does th' future's Some keeps harpin’ on th' Promise gro Wishin' chitdhood's joy mllht last— Hain't_got time fer ‘any sich a Bunch o' woe. An’ furder on we day since T been livin’ 1 have foun Lots an' lots o' hope an' sunshin® Scattere round Life's brimfull o' love an' light 1f a feller lives it right— Always got (h' hest time comin’, 11l be bound Ev'ry I ain’t been along th' road as Fur_as some, But she's kep' a gittin’ better As I've come. “Twill be better atfll, next year Sure as I'm_a-settin’ here- Faokin: back 111 see mome mountains I have clumb. 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