Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 19, 1903, Page 4

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REMITTANCES. & Remit by draft, express or postal order gayasie 1 The Bee Publishing Compihy. nly 3-cent stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts, Personal cnecks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebrasks, Douglas County, ss. Taschiick, sect! of The Bee Publshing Comphny, being duly sworn Bays that the werual number of full an gomplete coples of The Daily Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of September, fol- wi 16. EERNEREBERESES Nn total sale GEDMI l TZICIIULIL Bubscribed in my and sworn to Pr fore mo this 30th da; (E ember, A. g.ma. .io L&;m. Seal.) 'wotary Bubile. e ————— Those war clouds have evidently taken & permanent lease on the northwest corner of the oriental horizon. Ce—— In the matter of attracting public at- tention and public interest foot ball comes in ahead of politics this year. L ______J Where Omaha can advertise itself to best advantage is by having its streets and thoroughfares put in good condition and kept in repair. resmemamea— Only 1,500 votes cast 1m the republican school board primaries. Plainly there must be an issue before the people will take a lively interest in a political con- test. The democratic candidates for judicial positions never make any pledges of political appointments because nobody suspects that they will have any politi- ¢cal appointments at their disposal. e The Ohlo situation cannot be so pre- earlous from the republican standpolnt whién Senator Hanna takes a lay off in the midst of the campaign to attend the Civie federation meeting in Chicagos % e < 'What a telling demonstration of the efficacy of prayer Chicago would have i Dowie and his Zion host should sud- denly make up their minds to locate in New York and relinquish all thought of returning to the World's falr city: E——— Omaha wants a grain market where the corn and wheat and oats raised in the swrrounding states .can be stored and exchanged. If it goes about it the right way the local grain market can be established and built up just as was the live stock market. ] A surplus of $7,000 is reported out of Poceipts of some $43,000 at the state fair at Lincoln. This is a good showing. ‘When the fair was at Omaba the re- ceipts went much higher, but the man- aggment managed to eat them all up in expenses and sometimes more, too. m——— « If Lincoln has given up its opposition to an electric trolley line between the state capital and Omaha there is noth- ing longer to prevent- the capitalists who have been professing to be so eager ~to Jaunch the project from going ahead. ‘Why don't they get down to business without further delay? E—— Colonel Bryan declares emphatically in bis paper that he never advised the nomination for the presidency of Olney or any other democrat who failed to support the ticket actively in 1896 and 1900, Colonel Bryan, however, has been supporting gold democrats for all sorts of other offices and only recently en- dorsed a bolter as democratic nominee for United States senator from Ohio. The difference is in degree rather than in kind. The whole question of reform in rail- road taxation in Nebraska could have been settled in favor of the people if the supreme court had decided the rail- road tax cases a year ago along lines of equity and justice, instead of giving the raflroads the decision on technlealities of pleading. With that record before them how can the overburdened tax- payers expect to improve conditions by re-electing Judge Sullivan, who helped the railroads get just what they wanted? The Nebraska Independent flies up at The Bee's statement that the populist vote in this county has dwindled down to & mere corporai’'s guard, That is the patural cue for a populist paper whose life depénds upon the rescue of the party from complete disintegration. But how does it explain the fact that the 100 votes allotted to Douglas county in last populist state convention were by just two delegates on the Here 18 & poser that fails to jibe clalm of double the yumber of populist voters in Omaba than ever be ” JUDGE BARNES AND JUDGE SULLIVAN. BERTRAM, Neb, Oct. 14, 1803.—To the Editor of The Bee: As I have thought of the remarks of Judge Sullivan at the Columbus democratic convention about Judge Barnss, who has become practically an assoc Justice there by the approval of the Hon Judge Sulllvan, that he knew him to be an able man, an honorable man and @ gentleman, and worthy of being his oppo- nent, disqualifies all of the accusations of the democratic press. Bither the judge or the press has misrepresented the man. If the press charges are true, Judge Sul- livan is as fayorable toward the railroads as Mr. Barnes, and I would prefer the statements of Bullivan to the democratic press on a question of politics for the reason that he could pot speak any way disparagingly of a man with whom he has been personally assoclated for four years, where so many others, who know Judse Barnes outside of politics, speak of him the same as Mr. Sullvan does. 1 find no one finding fault with him— only a few democratic lawyers and none even of his democratic opponents who are not political -wire-pullers—and I find that the accusations that are hurled against Mr. Barnes are more injurious to Mr. Sul- livan, than anything they can say for Mr. Barnes. For the words of Mr. Sullivan disprove all of the statements we find in the democratic press; knowing. Judge Barnes to be worthy therefore, he advised his adherents to wage nothing but an hon- est and clean campaign These are my views of the two candi- dates who I think are honorable and able men. GEORGE FARNER. This Is a fair sample of the letters 80 far received with reference to the stite campaign in Nebraska ‘and a fair illustration of how the two opposing candidates for supreme judge strike the general public. Judge Sullivan has en- dorsed Judge Barnes as worthy of the confidence and support of his party and no one has sald anything so far to dis- credit Judge Sullivan with those who profess the same party allegiance. There certainly is no more reason for any republican to vote against Judge Barnes than there is for any democrat to vote against Judge Sullivan, With the election simply a test of party strength between the standard bearers, the success of Judge Barnes as the nominee of the majority party is as- sured. THE BOUNDARY DECISION. - Will the decision in the Alaskan boundary case, in which the Canadian government obtains a certain concession from the United States, be satisfactory to our people? It is perhaps absolutely unnecessary to go futo all the details of the issue between the two govern- ments. They have been gone over so repeatedly that it seems quite unneces- sary to go over them again. We take #t for granted that the average American will assume in advance that every ver- dict of his country in the case will be absolutely correct and straightforward. It is wholly useless to discuss the question in view of the decision of the. court favorable to the American conten- tlon. Nothing more could be required to prove that the attitude of our govern- ment has always been absolutely correct and proper. ‘Whatever may have taken place in the past to militate against our fair and honorable play in respeét to this con- troversy, the admission must be that our government has at all times and under all circumstances shown a most com- mendable desire to settle these matters by way of honorablé arbitration. ‘While this present commission is not a board of arbitration, but simply a body ' clothed- with authority-to deter- mine certain controverted points in con- nection with the claims of Canada and the United States in regard to boundary rights in a designated territory, it is still a body whose judgment will have a very great bearing upon the ultimate settlement of the issue. The importance of this issue is fully recognized by both countries and-now that it is practically adjusted it is a reasonable expectation that other questions between the two countries will be amicably settled within the near future. The real obstacle to the settlement of these questions was in the boundary dispute and that matter having been practically disposed of there is no further excuse on the part of Canada for prolonging controversy in regard to other matters in Issue between the two countries, It is therefore reasonably to be hoped that the decision of the Alaskan bound- ary commission will be immediately fol- lowed by action, possibly in the recon- vening of the high joint commission, that will result In a complete and perm- anent settlement of all issues between the United States and the Dominion. em—— DUING THEIR DUTY. Every good citizen, whatever his poll- tics, must regret the fact that there has been wrongdoing in some of the departments of the government. It should be, and we are inclined to be- lieve it is, the sentiment of all good citizens that every person in the service of the government should under all cir- cumstances observe absolute integrity in all relations and be ubaualifiedly honest in their duty to the putlic, whose servants they are. We believe that the very great ma- Jority in the public service do this and that those who do not constitute a very small fraction. As we have said here- tofore, it is not to be doubted that the, greater number of our public servants, in whatever capacity employed, are ab- solutely honest and upright in the dis- ‘charge of their duties. We believe that the public service of the United States is as a whole administered as honestly as the public service of any country in the world, We think that facts will show this beyond controversy, in spite THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: sands of persons there should be a few dishonest and untrustworthy. It is sim- ply inevitable. But the administration is using every practicable effort to rid the public service of unreliable persons and in this the president and the vari- ous heads of the departments are en- titled to the confidence of the country. THAT HUNGRY WOLF. “Children, go to bed, or the wolf will eat you,” ig the usual way by which the nurse puts the juveniles to sleep. “Slip under.our bed quilt or the machine will eat you up,” is the admonition of the combine of which Secretary Burgess and Superintendent Pearse are the wet nurses. The credulous juveniles who have heén buncoed so many times by the ery of “wolf” ‘will doubtless im- agine that they have had a narrow es- cape from being eaten up, but it strikes us that the last performance ought to be an eye opener to the lambs of both sexes that have been repeatedly fright- ened out of their wits by the false alarm. For months the combine that ex- tended the term of Politiclan Pearse for three years and ralsed the salary of Politiclan Burgess, who had never earned more than $80 a month in his life, to §2,100 a year was plotting and scheming to re-elect a few friendly In- dians and inject several friendly tender- feet into the board upon whom they could rely implicitly in milking the tax- payers to their hearts' content. Forty-eight hours before the repub- lican school board primary the alarm of “Get under cover, or the wolf will eat you,” was sounded for the benefit of the unsuspecting political infants by the juvenile yellow, whose proprietor transplanted a near relative from one of the graded schools of Kansas City, paying $40 a month salary, to a posi- tion in the Omaha High school at $80 a month. “The friends of the public schools must be on guard,” cried the sensational bunco steerer. “The ma- chine is lubricating its running gear and will swoop down upon the school board primaries with a slate. The only way to beat the machine is to vote the following five names: Theodore H. Johnson, Howard L. Kreider, James W. Maynard, John H. Vance and Ellsworth A. Willis.” The day after the primary the senior morning yellow announced in big headlines, “The machine slipped some cogs. The machine was given somewhat of a jolt at the republican primaries held for the purpose of nomi- nating candidates for the Board of Edu- cation. ' But one of the eandidates in- dorsed by the machine won out—John L. McCague.” Now, everybody familiar with Omaha politics knows that John L. McCague has never been directly or indirectly identified with the dreadful machine. Everybody who attended the school board primaries knows that the horrible machine put no ticket in the field and that the only sample ballots in circula- tion were printed on the colored slips of paper peddied by the school janitors, schoolma’ams and the candidates put up by Bui apd Pearse. The so-called machine had pot even thought of mak- ing a contest. - There has not been for years any attempt at political manipu- lation of members or employes of the school board, except by the combine on the inside, which wants to perpetuate itself In power for the benefit of rela- tives who are foisted upon the public schools regardless of merit or qualifica- tions. And yet there are hundreds, if not thousands, of people in Omaha who allow themselves to be treated as ghil- dren and frightened by these political nurses into slipping under cover by the mere threat that a bungry wolf has his nozzle at the bedroom door ready to eat them. Booker T. Washington explains the general migratioy of negroes from coun- try to city, a migration that according to census statistics 18 more marked proportionately with them than with the whites, by two reasons, first, the bet- ter schooling facilities for negro chil- dren, and, second, the better police pro- tection. But those two factors are just as sharply drawn between whites in ¢ity and country as between negroes m and out of the cities and their in- fluence should work uniformly without respect to color or race. Phese expla- nations may hold partly good in the south, where the color discrimination is unchecked, but they do pot hold good in the north, where colored children attend the same schools as the white children and police protection is mnot needed. The suggestion that a more potent reason is the better wages ob- tainable in the cities may be pertinent, as also the greater variety of diversion, because the negro must have recrea- tion and amusement. At all events, Mr. Washington’s explanation does not cover the whole ground. A convention of representative cattle- men from eighteen states is to be held at Denver during the present week to discuss the independent packing house project a competitor to the Packing House trust. The plan of organization contemplates the raising of more thau ten millions of capital by stock sub- scription at the rate of §1 for every head of cattle owned by the ranchman. If all cattle owners could be enlisted Texas alone wduld contribute $9,000,- 000 to the fund and Kansas and Nebraska would drop in several mil- of recent developments which it must be admitted are a reproach to the ecoun- wy. ‘What we desire to emphasize i8 that the men in the various departments of the administration are doing their full duty in connection with whatever faults and abuses may, exist in their respective departments and are manifesting a most earpest purpose to correct and prevent any and all improper actions or unlaw- ful conduct. No reasonable man will be surprised at the fact that in a public service embracing bundreds of thou- llons more. The promoters of this scheme evidently believe that independ- ent packing plants will increase the value of each head of cattle at least $2, but we apprebend that all would de- pend upon the management of the inde- pendent packing houses and thelr abil- jty to secure stock yard facllities and transportation on the same terms as are now enjoyed by the packers’' combine. e— The way to take the public schools out of politics is to enaet a law forbid ding candidates for the school board ~ MONDAY, from having their names filed under any party designation and divorce all school board elections from political elections. When that is done we may have nonpartésan school boards. The awful condition of the streets of Chi- cago which have not been recenyy re- paved is accounted for /by President Lynch of the Board of Public Improvements, who says that the early cedar pavements rotted out from the bottom In a few years and that the blocks were torn out of place and stolen by people of various neighborhoods, who used the lumber supply for firewood. The fact is that the cedar block pavements were lald under a rascally system of “graft.""~Chicago Chronicle. “Misery loves company.” Omaha will have reason to congratulate itself that its experience with bad pavements is only a repetition of what Chicago has undergone and is still undergoing. Both cities have been tanght a costly lesson that should not be forgotten at least for one or two gencrations. Three weeks ago President Johnson assured the patrons of the public schools that the school board was out of poli- ticdh But with the school house janitors and other school board employes under orders to hustle at the republican pri- maries it would indicate that the school board is still in politics up to its neck. Hot Spots on the Sun, Detrolt Free Press, 1f Steel common drops much lower during the Roosevelt administration, it will require force to keep the New York Sun from se- ceding from the union. Punishment Fits the Crime. ‘Washington Post. An Ohio negro has been sentenced to fiftgen years in the penitentiary for steal- ing 40 cents. Serves him right for stealing that much real money instead of swiping § few millions’ worth of Steel stock. And the Vali Tumbled. Philadelphia Inquirer. The latest story about Admiral Cotton js that, when he arrived at Beyroot and the vall sent to ask his intentions, he replied that he had no intentions, no policy and “no blank cartridges.” The last clause struck the vall as pecullarly significant and order was restored at once. Supply of Suckers Bx Pittsburg Dispatch. Wall street financlers depended on the rule that suckers are being constantly brought into the world. But they slipped up by forgetting that the supply of one géneration may be exhausted before the next crop gets into the market. sted, | A Dig for the Digsings. Bpringfield Republican. It has not yet been learned who fired the shot that did not hit Magelssen of Beyroot, nor does anyone now care to know. Our navy has got in its work, however, Min- Ister Lelshman, w'th two war ships at his back, has forced the sultan to grant per- mission to & certain Dr. Banks to excavate ruins in Mesopotamia. - This s another great diplomatic triumph, and, besides, it proves the inestimable value of a navy when dealing with the Turk. eV VALUE OF VOTING MACHINES, Time and Money Saved by Their Use in Indfenmpolis. Quickness, accuracy and almost Instan- taneous returns were jmpressive results of the use of. voting ‘mdchines in the mu- nicipal election at ddlanapolis last Tues- day. Ten machines were used in as many ward districts, but «q distributed as to test their operation among different classes of the voting population. How well the ma- chines performed thelr work is related by the Indianapolis Journal: ““When the polls closed Tuesday evening,” says the Journal, “the manager of the press bureau had a messenger sthtioned at the third precinct of the Thirteenth ward and within sixteen minutes after the close the messenger rode up to the bureau on Illino's street with the result of the vote from this particular precinct. “In the sixth precinct of the Twelfth ward sixty votes were cast in the firat fifty-two minutes after the polls opened. One voter who could not read or write voted in eight seconds. Several voters cast their ballots in three seconds each. “In the eighth precinct of the Thirteenth ward elghty votes were cast in one hour. Fred Stolts, 92 years old, voted in ten sec- onds, “In another precinct sixty-elght votes were cast in forty minutes. In this pre- cinct the average time consumed by each voter while enough were waiting to keep the machine busy was twenty seconds. “In the eleventh' precinct of the Sixth rd the average time of each voter was one to one and one-half minutes. “In the thirteenth precinct of the Third ward the average time was five to thirty seconds. “In the seventh precinct of the First ward thirty-two votes were cast. In the first hour sixty-nine were cast. “In the twelfth precinct of the Thir- teenth ward fifty-seven votes were cast the first half hour and 104 in the first hour, “The longest time consumed in furnish- ing returns from voting machines after the close of the polls was forty-five minutes and thirty seconds. This was the time con- sumed in the Third, Tenth and Twelfth wards. “In the eighth precinct of the Thirteenth ward the result of the vote was known in twenty seconds after, the polls closed at 6p. m. ““The election officers appeared to think the achines were a succcess and were well satisfled with them. One speclal feature noted by the officers was that the machines tended to “straight” voting instead of scratched tickets. It was also noted that in many instances where special instru tions were not given the voter forgot the school commissioners. Sometimes, it was observed, & voter would manipulate the machine for & straight rather than try to vote a scratched ticket, fearing he would become confused and vote wrong. Where voters could not read they were required to make afdavit to the fact, and the clerks would then help them out.” Bditortally, the Journal says: ‘““There have beea numerous elections, cit¥, county and township, in Indfana since the adoption of the Australian law, in which there have been enough mutilated ballots to have changed the result, had they been counted, and in all of these cases it has been a ques- tien if tha will of the majority has not been defeated through ignorance or carelessness. With the machine there can be no ballot vi- tiated by distinguishing marks, and it is mechanically impossible for the voter to vote for two candidates for the same office. The very worst he can do Is to neglect to vote for some candidate he had intended to vote for. “Another advantage lies in & considerable saving of expense. Not only can the num- ber of officers required to conduct & pre- cinct polling place be reduced, but they will draw pay for but one day, instead of for two or three days, as under the old sys- tem. The expenses of an election are re- duced more than hglf, and in most cases as much as two-thirds. The machines will pay for themselves in a very elections, and afterwards result in a great saving to the people, for they should last many decades Wwith proper care.* ' 5 . OCTOBLB 19, 1903. JUDGE JOHN B, BARNES. Madlson Chronfole: Judge Barnes has made an fdeal supreme commissioner, and has been voted for that position twice by Judge Bullivan. Such being the case he is in every way qualified to ocoupy with credit to himself and the party the office of judge of the supreme court, and you should see to It that your ballot reads for him on election day, November 3. Leigh World: Everything seems to be coming right for Judge John B. Barnes, the republican candidate for supreme Judge. The democratic press Is calling him a corporation tool and a rogue, and yet he is gaining strength in the popularity of the people every day. We would not be sur- prised if that democratic mud slinging would help him to gather a few more votes, ‘Wayne Republican: The Hon. J. B. Barnes of Norfolk, the republican nom- ee for the supreme judgeship, has found a staunch friendship in the old timers of the state, who, for the first time, per- haps, have met him, although thelr ac- quaintance has been forming for thirty years. Select from those who have lived In the state any great length of time all the prominent jurists and judges, sift them again through your memory and se- lect those whose every impulse was for the welfare of the state and the vicinity of his fiome, for the welfare of every man and the correct training and education of his own family, Judge Barnes is still among the uppermost. By these tests of citizenship we must select our public men, What are their personal influences? What 1s their home Iife? Is their public career #auged by anything less than thelr pri- vate life? In Judge Barnes, who has twice been appointed to the supreme court com- missioh, has held untarnished through these years his good name in the discharge of public trusts, we have a candidate who Is entitled toevery vote of loyal cltizens regardless of party. It takes more than sneers of fuslonists that he is a railroad man to convince those who know him well that he is not a man endowed by his Creator with capabilities to treat all men fairly, and a judge must on oath treat rafl- roads as fairly as other litigants. We would disdain to vote for a man so biased that he could not accord jmpartial judgment to all, even if one of the litigants were the most oppressive to mankind. Pender Republic: The talk of certain of the fusion papers that Judge Barnes 1s disqualified from serving upon the su- preme court because he had served faith- fully and well certain monled interests as their attorney, s a little out of joint. 8o far as fusionists are concerned, it is, as the lawyers say, “stare declsis” or ‘‘res Judicata,” and the judgment is against the position taken by these papers. Judges Sullivan_and Holcomb tled the question agalnst them when théy twice appointed Judge Barnes as their assoclate upon the supreme bench. If they had appointed him but once there might have been the excuse of lack of information, but this is entirely removed by their reappointing him after he had already served one term with them. The supposed objections now raised existed at the time of his appointments and If there was nothing in them then, there is nothing in them now. Furthermore, he is better qualified now than when first ap- polrited. His experience upon the supreme bench has better fitted him for the duties of the office. The argument against Judge Barnes stultifles Judge Sullivan. Judge Bulllvan knew Judge Barnes had been a rallroad attorney and he knew whether or not that fact was an objection to him as supreme judge, and he decided that it was not. When Judge Sullivan has given Judge Barnes so distinctive a certificate of his qualifications in all respegts for service upon the highest tribunal In state, why should republicans waver, in the ledst, in their suppert of their candi- date, or why should they be deceived by partisan “nonpartisan judiciary” talk? Syracuse Journal: Judge Barhes had the qualifications to make a good supreme court commissioner, or Judge Sulllvan would not have voted for him. The same qualifica- tlotis are required for judge of the supreme court. GOBBLING UP TIMBER LANDS, Valuable Port of the Public Do- main Going to Speculators, » o Chicago Record-Herald. 'The federal timber lands law provides for the sale to ploneers of government forest lands in quarter sections at §2.50 an acre. In the twenty-five years that this law has been on the stutute books the total sales of have amounted to less than In the fiscal year 103 alone the males were 1,765,618 acres, or over a quarter of the total twenty-five years' sales. These figures tell a startling story of the rapldity with which some of the most valu- able portions of the public domain ‘are belng “gobbled up,” and they furnish at the same time a most eloquent argument for imme- dlate amendment of the timber the lands were passing into t actual settlers, or if the government were being pald a reasonable price for them, all would be well, but such Is not the case. The lands are going to speculators for a song. Commissioner Richards of the general land office takes oocasion in his forthcom- ing annual report to discuss the situation and to lament his helplessness under the existing laws. “There is no doubt,” he quoted as saying, “that the law is being taken advantage of by speculators, who are getting rich at the expense of the govern- ment and of the men for whose benefit the law wae primarily passed.” He describes how a carload of people will leave Michigan for Oregon. Shortly there- after the land office receives claims for quarter sections in number exactly corre- sponding to the number of passengers on the car. Bach claim is accompaniéd by a $400 check. Investigation shows that none was ever known In his e $400 at any one time in his life. Nevertheless the patents must be issued, for the law only requires that the claimant must have seen the land and pos- sess the price. Before long all the claims are transferred to some one syndicate or corporation. One remedy that has been sugeested Is to apply to the timber claims -the features of the homestead law, which make actual residence a requirement, But the commuta- tion clause of the homestead law is itself proving too liberal, and the whole subject of the land laws 18 in great need of Inv tigation and practical reform. FERSONAL NOTES. The higher Booker Washington c'imbs the more brickbats are almed at him by his own race. Grover Cleveland 1sTn exce'lent form. He can run in and out of Chicagc without crossing the Harrison wires. Senator Allison may not be skilled in the | sclence of music, but none of the band- masters can excel him In sounding a key- note. There is no end (o objections. Some farmers are against the free rural mall delivery bécause they bave to invent ex- ocuses every time they waut 1o go to town and loat at the store. The Ame: ican minister to Sweden is given credit for being the best shot in that coun- try. He can hit the feetest bird on the wing his office in Btockholm has many trophies of his prowess as a hunter. The arbitrators in the Alaskan boundary dispute meet st 11 o'clock and adjourn at 1 for lunch; theu reassembie at 2 and ad journ at 4 for Junch. The mornings and ovenings svam to be reserved for meals. { | 1s ffty-two passengers to the ca forty-eight in the “L" cars. The tage of the subway cars 1s in their greater width, depth and the comfortable arrange ment of the seats, ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. m the Current of Life in the Metrop: Falth curists in New York are much perturbed over the decision of the state court of appeals, which penalizes fallure to call regular medical practitioners in all cawes of iliness of minors. Believers in the powet of prayer over. disease are bitterly denouncing the decision and say they will ralse a fund to get the best| possible counsel to carry the case to the federal supreme court. Nearly three years ago one J. Luther Plerson, a. resident of White Plaing, was fined $600, with the alternative of 500 days in jall, for criminal neglect. He had re- tused to furnish medical attendance in the | case of his infant child, who was gravely | il of pneumonia. Belng a Christian | Scientist, or Faith Curer, he did not be- lleve in doctors. He trusted entirely to the efficacy of prayer. The child died. | convenlences provide this advantage for Plorson was prosecuted under that section | housekeepers who cannot afford the ex- of the penal code which says that a charge | pensive silver utensils. of criminal neglect may be sustained | against any person ‘‘who omits without lawful excuse to perform a duty by law Imposed upon him, to furnish food, clnm-\ Ing, shelter or medical attendance to & minor.”” The jury returned & verdict of gullty. This verdict was reversed by the appellate division, which stretched the term “medical attendance'’ to cover more than the framers of the statute intended that it should. In other words, the ap- pellate division held as gulltiess those par- ents who permit sick children to battle against disease unalded by the resources of medical sclence. The court of appeals has now in turn reversed the appellate division and Plerson must either pay his fine or go to jail. Ripples Aluminum cooking utensils are being | pushed by many of the big shaps In New | York. They are brought out In shapes as attractive as the finer silver, copper and £01d lined cooking vessels used in wealthy households. The stew pans, terrapin dishes, coffee urns and teakettles of alumitum huve now such beauty of contour and fin- 18h that they seem almost more approprinte to the dining room table than to the kit- chen. And particularly is this true of the | Individual omelet pans and holders for delicacies that require to be served in the dish In which they are cooked if thelr ex- cellence 1s to be preserved. Half the bat tle In winter-time cookery is to ha things served hot. The new aluminum A new thing in the way of apartment house leases has made its appearance. Its author is a patriot and a Christian gentle- man who takes all the measures within his power for the protection of his tenants. A lady connected with the operatio stage desired a sulte of apartments. He a cepted her s a tenant, but Insetied a clause in the lease to the effect that #00n as one of the other tenants recorded a complaint of her vocal gymnastics, she was to take up her music roll and de- part Uncle Sam's S$tro New York Tribune. Uncle S8am's cash balance in the treasury at the end of September touched the high water mark in that repository, being $40,- the home of Sarah Gelsler In Jersey City (370,609, largely ‘loaned out to banks, thus Tuesday night, and the young woman was | continuing its activity, but good on call radiantly happy in anticipation of her mar- | whenevor wanted. 8o long as Dame Co- riage to Walter Odell next Wednesday. |lumbia fs able to keep the aforesaid uncle She worked hard all the morning putting |out of Wall street his financial condition the finishing touches to-her wedding gown. | promises to continue prosperous, with no When she finished she exclaimed with joy: |need to borrow money for housekecping, “Oh, mamma, won't Walter feel proud unless a new democratic administration of me for this?" and she held the gown |were to come in and make necemsary the out at arm's length. expedients of the last one. But Mrs. Geisler made no reply. She smiled feebly and turned away. Her heart | was breaking with grief, for she had been told halt an hour before that Odell was dead. She feared the shock would kill her daughter. The sight of the wedding gown ruulem "Suftorer. just finished, only intensified her grief and there is I haven't ‘seen L7 #he etrove in vain to hide her tears. g The young woman embraced her mother tenderly as she tried to make her feel happy. ‘ou shouldn’t cry, mother. You know we'll never leave you after we're marrfed. ‘We'll be here every day,” and she tried to laugh the tears away. s Mrs. Gelsler strove to keep them back, but the girl could see that there was some- thing wrong. She begged her mother to tell her what it was. Mrs. Geisler hinted that Walter might not come that evening. Bhe sald he was Il and that she had just | te received word. She gently stroked her daughter's hair as she let out the fatal secret, and when the girl was told the worst both mother and daughter were overcome. Walter Odell had committed suicide at his home, 887 Union avenue, Bronx., He Was found dead early Tues- day morning with a gas tube In his mouth. The shock was 0o great for the young ‘woman to bear. For three years she had been the promised bride of Odell. She would not belfeve that he was dead. She decided to find out for herself. Mrs. Gelsler and her son accompanicd the girl to the home of her dead flance. ‘When she saw the coffin the young woman collapsed and it was feared her heart might give way. There was to be a wedding rehearsal at POINTED PLEASANTRIES, “There I8 no such lhlnl as luck,” sald the turdv. l f-reliant person. wered the in that it hington note from says I'm a les. H s one ot ows, t you Fweddy—I got an insulting R&nlru’ (?ll mawning. He Cholly—Naver mind Ruj those deucedly frank fel know.—Philadelphia Press. “I could dle waltzing,'' remarked the awkward young man just because ho thfl-l‘hl lhnt the proser lhlnn‘ tn u wish you ‘woul e girl, Whu was haying a dlfllc\llt llmo keenln‘ her toes out of his way.—Chicago Post. o 1 nnked Titewadd o lend me a five yes- rda ¥ lmi “he faint?” “No, but 1 did." +How was that?" “He lent me the five."~Cincinnati Trib- une. Friend—How did you get your firat case? Doctor—Why, 1 think the man didn't know it.—New York Times. o“" the musician’s eye there was a gleam oy. 1s it possible,” asked one of the by- standers, You can_take pieasure In hearing a girl play ‘Hiawathi 7 angwered throuzh teeth. ' his set “gho i murdering Tribune. 161" —Chicago Bride (dllconlulncl)')—Hl‘t my wedding presents are cheap plated Mother—Never mind, my dear; no one will suspect it. T have hired two detectives to mi ko lhemlelv consplcuous watebing them—New Xork Weekly: o (o v oo There are now about sixty, first-class hotels in New York. The addition of the fifteen new ones will increase the number to seventy-five. If these seventy-five hotels were piled on top of one another they would make a structure 760 stories high —taller than the Tower of Babel. Or, to look at it In another way, if they could be conglomerated into one huge composite hotel it would be twenty-seven stories high and cccupy a ground space of seventeen acres, more than four city blocks, includ- ing the Intersecting streets. This great building would cost §76,000,000, have 22,600 bedrooms and accommodate 50,000 ts datly. “What? You -married!"” exclaimed the ml.ld one time that you would y man's -lnva led t) made bride, y “but what hupa that got tn do with my get- ting married?"—Chicago News. THE BURIAL OF FREE SILVER, W. D. Nesbit in Chicago Tribune. “I think that free milver will not be con- sidered at the national democratic conven- tion in 1904."—Reported utterances of W. J. Bryan.) Not a speech was heard, not a funeral Wo! ma corse to the ramparts were hur- James Henry Smith, formerly of this city, but now of New York and known among his friends as “Silent Smith,” is planning to have a novel house party when his new Fifth avenue mansion is completed next winter. Every man who turned a spadeful of earth, lald a brick, drove a nail or daubed a brush on the house is to have an invitation. Even the bricklayers' clerks, | the hodcarriers, will be cordially Invited to come and bring their wives. It will not be an exclusive affair at Mr. Smith's other friends will have Invitatigns and there will be quite a coming together of all” kinds of soclety. Mr. Smith has no notlon of patronizing the workingmen by giving this party. He thinks the men who build houses have some equity in the com- fort to be derived from them. Not a\\.n @ cheer the grim stiliness stirred Oa{’ l‘hi‘ grave where free silver was uried, We buried it darkly—no one knows when— And nobody looked at the casket, But there is & hint it was bundled ‘agsin Into the famillar "ul. basket. No_useless coffin inclosed its breast, Nor bier did the mourners fix, But they laid it away to its lon long rest On the platform of Nineieen-Six. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a_word of SOFrow, But we steaatastly gased on the face ot And bitteriy thought of the morrow. We (hou{h( of the tellows who'd fix the On Which we should do our canpal And the golden cross, with a m i clank, Lent emphasis to our complaining. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit tbat's An ynu down the thorns on our fore- s, Oyou were groat, ®ood old Sixteen-49- Those who dispute this are horrid. Now it's at rest, in the peace of the tamb— Sate from ail' quibdling ‘and b We may but ssy, through the 125 e gloom: That “now Is gge time for subscribing.” For the use of the underground rapid transit railroad 200 more cars have ar- rived In New York. They are more roomy and lighter than those In use on the ele- vated roads, and different from them in other respects. The woodwork of the in-| terior is of a lighter shade. The windows are much larger; the entire upper sides of the cars, in fact, are of glass, except the parrow framework. There are no mirrors. The cars are forty-two feet long, about two feg longer that those In the elevated. The afors are much larger than any seen now on city rairoads. The seating capacity Blowly and sadly we laid it down And we wept as we gazed upon that form And thought of the beautiful thorny erown That plerced the Chicago platform. 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