Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 25, 1903, Page 12

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Cwm———fim— Tuesday's snowfall was heaviest In Omaha, but a little of it fell on the un- Just also. e — It will be observed that Utah isn't worrylng much over this distressing problem of race suicide. “A long pull, a strong pull and a pull all togethel,” as they say at sea, will and the Omaha Grain exchange. It is not until the day after Thanks- giving that the mother of the foot ball halfback feels her deepest gratitude, e Colombia must bear in mind that the first column on the first page is dedi- eated to those who do something more than talk. et Army officers anxious for promotion eagerly await the time when General ‘Wood and Major Rathbone shall chance to meet alone. The Moros violated the provisions of the Bates treaty and the consequence ‘was precisely what the general told them it would be. Senator Millard ought to ;Ilnpm of that Omaha postoffice plum without needless delay. Why keep so many pa- triots in s spense ? eEessee—— Mr. Untermeyer is mistaken. What Nixon was really only Mr. Schwab's conception of a practical joke. Smm————— The prospective investor and taxpayer may very profitably remember that Ne- braska’s golden corn is mined without the expensive protection of state troops. . EET—— The Springfield and Rock Island ar- senals are turning out 350 of the new magazine rifles each week day. Sun- days we devoutly renew our prayer that nobdy will oblige us to use them., Ee—e— While the Omaba improvement clubs are making a concerted effort to induce the park board, the Beard of County Commissioners and the city council to join together for making Omaha more beautiful, the city council 18 being jwportuned to disfigure Omaha by granting permits for street corner advertising signs. S———— It I8 now up to the members of the supreme court to say whether the new revenue law is unconstitutional either in part or a whole. Should the court declare the whole law fnvalid the old law remains in force and a deficit of at least three-quarters of a million will be created in the state treasury by reason of the loss of income that was expected to have been produced under the new law, SEr———— A Chicago lightning calculator esti- mates the cost of the Chicago street car strike up to date to be $1,270,000. Among the items included in the estimate are: The vulue of time of the mayor and arbitration committee, $10,000; the value of lost time of citizens who had to walk, $1,000,000; the loss to the company's property, §4.000. Judged by these ig- ures, the mayor of Chicago must be a c¢heap wan, while Chicago foot passen- gers appear to be rather high priced. Kansas City grain dealers threaten the Great Western with a boycott unless they are given the same rate on grain.shipments from Kansas City to Minnespolis that have been given by the Great Western from Omaba 1o Mln?uwlh. Inasmuch as the dis- tance between Omaha and Minneapolis is at least 150 miles less than the dis- tance from Kansas City to Minneapolis, the imperative request would seem to be & plece of sublime impudence, but Kan- sas Olty has always been uoted for S i 4 . o 2T, CUBA IN THE SENATE. Cuba was discussed in the United States senate Monday, the particularly interesting feature of the debate being in regard to the resolution introduced by Senator Newlands of Nevada pro posing that Cuba be invited to become a state of the United States upon terms of equality with the states of the union. Senator Hale declared his opposition to the policy proposed by the resolution, as did Senator Lodge and Senator Platt of Connecticut. The Maine s ator remarked that we would not send such an invitation to Great Britain for the annexation of Canada, while Mr. Platt and Mr. Lodge expressed regret that the resolution had been introduced, the former for the reason that it might lead to misapprehension in Cuba and Porto Rico and the latter because it seemed a reflection upon our good faith. Mr. Platt expressed the belief that the resolution did not represent in any considerable degree the business or po- litical sentiment of the United States, He declared that the best interests both of the United States and of Cuba would be subserved by separate existence, saying that what this country had done for Cuba was for purposes of, friend- ship and not for aggrandizement. “We have®nade a glorious record in our re- lationship to Cuba,” observed the C necticut senator, “and let us not mar it.” There is no doubt as to the fate of the resolution and its rejection will have the approval of a very large ma- jority of the American people, who de- sire that the Cuban people shall have full opportunity to show thelr capacity for self-government under republican institutions. They have thus far done better than was expected, they appear to be very generally satisfied with their government and nothing more is being heard there of a desire for annexation. ‘Were congress to pass such a resolution as that of the Nevada senator, although it disclaims a desire to “annex forcibly, or to assert sovereignty over, the island, or to exercise any form of compulsion, the effect could hardly be otherwise than disturbing to the Cubans and menacing to the continuaunce of peace- ful relations. That it would be a very grave mis- take to anneéx Cuba as a state upon terms of equality with the states of the union no one who will consider the mat- ter intelligently can doubt. It would give the Cubans two senators and sev- eral representatives in congress. They would choose presidential electors. Obviously it would be most unwise and unsafe to give a people so widely dif- ferent from ourselves in nearly all re- spects and knowing #o little of our po- litical institutions the power to assist in making laws for our government and in determining the election of a chief magistrate. Besides, we should cer- tainly have another race problem on ur hands and one perhaps more troublesome than that we have now to deal with. These and other consider- ations that will readily suggest them- selves place Cuban annexation among the things to be regarded as utterly im- practicable if not impossible. As was said by Senator Lodge, we have all the control of Cuba, in a military point of view and a political point of view, that we can possibly desire. DOES JAPAN MEAN WAR? The latest advices appear to strongly indicate that Japan is about ready to open hostilities with Russin. The re- ported dispatch of Japanese war ves- sels, it is conjectured for the purpose of intercepting Russian vessels of war is manifestly a very significant circum- stance and if the surmise regarding it shall prove to be well founded the prob- ability of war ensuing is very great. Such a result would not be at all sur- prising. The conferences at Toklo be- tween representatives of the Japanese and Russian governments had no satis- factory outcome and it is believed to be hardly possible that the conflicting interests of the two powers can be rec- onciled and adjusted on a satisfactory basis. Both nations, while professing an earnest desire to avoid war, have yet been steadily preparing for a possible conflict and it is the opinion of. those most familiar with the situation that a Russo-Japanese war is a certaln event of the not remote future. It seems not unlikely that Japan has concluded that the time is at hand to make an effort to check Russia in adding to her Asiatie naval power and it will not be surpris- ing if further news from that quarter of the world is of a decidedly warlike character. Should a conflict come its effects would be far-reaching. MOKGAN DEPOSED. Senator Morgan of Alabama has been deposed from the chairmanship of the committee on interoceanie canals and succeeded by Sénator Hanua. Mr. Mor- gan, who held the position for many years, stated in openlng his speech in the senate in opposition to the course of the government regarding Panama that he did not regret retirement as chair- man of the committee and disclaimed partisanship in the conduct of its af- faigs, at the same time declaring that he had not and would not reverse his posi- tion on the canal question at the in- stance of any party caucus. The Alabama senator has been styled the father of the isthmian canal project and he has been a consistent and per- sistent advocate of the Nicaragua route, refusing utterly to accept any opinion, however eminent the source, unfavora ble to that route. Change in conditions and in public sentiment made impera tive & change in the chairmanship of the interoceanic cangl comuittee and the selection of Senator Hanuna for the position was a preper recoguition of his efforts in bebalf of the Panama route, as well as his suppaert of the action of the government. The Ohio senator re- cently sald: “The Panama situation is not a political question, not even a tech- nical question. The people of this coun- try want an isthmian caual built and want it built by the Panama route. v have accepted that route and they propose to stand by the president in the matter of constructing the canal.” The epeech of Mr. Morgan denouncing the course of President Roosevelt in recognizing the Republic of Panama conclusively shows that he was no longer suited to the chairmanship of the committee which will have charge of whatever legislation may be necessary to the carrying out of the Preat enter- prise that is now assured. Undoubtedly Mr. Morgan will persevere in his efforts to obstruct and delay the project, but he will be less potent than if he were at the head of the interoceanic canal committee. With Senator Hanna as chairman of that committee it may con- ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. es on the Current of Life in the Metropolis Back of the zeal of congressmen and sen- ators to adjourn the extra session is the potential influence exerted by mileage al- lowance. 1If the extra session should be continued up to the regular session, which begins December 7, members of congress could scarcely ask for double mileage, but an adjournment will furnish sufficlent ex- cuse for a haul on the contingent fund. Mileage allowance makes a tidy sum for members coming from points west. For Pacific coast members it amounts to $1,500. There is a congressional poet In Washing- ton who answers to the name of Smith. He hails from a Pennsylvania town of the mellifluious name of Punxsutawney, and, strange to say, in view of the native mod- esty which has prevented him from making fidently be assumed that whatever duty shall be required of it will be diligently attended to. ANOTHER OMNIBUS RALD ON TREASURY The contents of the river and harbor pork barrel, which is to be logrolled through congress at the coming session, are computed to aggregate the modest sum of $500,000,000. Announcement Is made from Washington that the river and harbor boomers in the east are confident of finding strong allies this session in the western congressmen, who are interested in the irrigation projects, and all the Mississippi valley states will be more eager for a river and harbor bill this year than ever before. In order to secure sufficient support for this omnibus bill, the work will be laid out on the installment plan, but the amount of expenditure for the coming year is not expected to exceed from fifteen to twenty million dollars. Omnibus bills that involve the expen- diture of hundreds of millions on the installment plan constitute the ' most plausible schemes for floating gigantic jobs under pretext of trifling immediate expenditure, The manifest object of the framers of omnibus bills is to tie up meritorious appropriations with ques- tionable appropriations and pull them through together by the combination of interests that have nothing in common except the mutual desire for making sure the passage and approval of.their schemes. Ratlonal and well digested plans for the Improvements and repairs of rivers and harbors that need fm- provement should encounter no opposi- tion in or out of congress, but schemes for dredging dry creeks and construct- ing costly dikes and docks, where no commerce is ever likely to require bar- bor facilities, is a most pernicious sys- tem of legalized waste and jobbery. Omnibus river and harbor bills and omnibus building bills should be dis- countenanced and discontinued forever.. Every tub should be made to stand on its own bottom. Every proposal for costly public improvements should be considered and promoted upon its merits. The president should be given a free hand to approve or disapprove each appropriation involving large ex- penditures instead of being forced to choose between approving bills that combine appropriations that are deemed essential with appropriations that are not much better than downright steals. Reconstruction of the Fremont-Colum- bus electric power canal plans is said 10 be in progress once more in New York, and the fate of the enterprise will, we are told, hang in the balance for one more week. As a matter of fact, the power canal will remain frozen until the thaw sets in on Wall street and confidence shall have been restored in industrial securities. The Chicago Great Western may not make a nickel out of the Omaha grain rate cut, but it is getting thousands of dollars worth of free advertising and an unlimited amount of credit that will insure for it a large share of the grain teattic when Omaha becomes a first- class grain market. Quite Correct. Chicago Inter-Ocean. The understanding s that all South American islands sold to forelgn countries must pass through the United States cu: tom house. Philadelphia Record. The price of crude ofl has been advanced five cents a gallon. Is the University of Chicago In need of money, or is it some churches that are to be endowed this time? Belated New Baltimore American. One of the members of the British Indus- trial and educational committee that has been making an investigating tour of the United States says that the American girl has no superior. But this will be no news to the American girl. Then Will Pig Fiy. New York World. The story that Mr. Bryan and his friends have agreed to unite upon Richard Olney as their candidate for the presidential nom- ination next year is just a trifle less start- ling than would be a report that they had declded to concentrate on Grover Cleveland. es in Order, Chicago Record-Herald. One of the new congressmen from Penn- sylvania is alleged to have been nominated because ho wrote a poem complimenting Quay. If this is so, we shall have to beg Quay's pardon. It has never been supposed heretofore that he permitted sentiment to figure In his business. Kiek A st Spelling Reform. Brooklyn Eagle. Filibusters are bad. Highwaymen are censurable. But spelling reformers, like pirates, can well be called the enemies of mankind. Devices to make entrance to knowledge of the English language easy are to be resented. The knowledge s de- sirable. But all history is proof that knowledge easy to obtain is soon forgotten, while that hard to acquire is permanently appreciated. T A S At A . 430 AL L RS st Nervy to the Last. Indlanapolis Journal The defiant manner fn which Tom Horn, Indian scout and fighter, met his death on the scaffold, shows there are other motives besides conscious rectitude that enable men to face death with composure. This des- perado ‘thought as much of earning the plaudits of his companions by not losing his nerve as & Christian martyr would of dying for & principle. Human nature is & queer compound. DR e e ST known his identity, his stanzas have been printed from one end to the other of the country. Here is one: “Said the Hite-atite-tite To the Goo-goo-loolite: ‘It's very apparent to me That somewhere back in These woods there dwells A horrible Ju-jub-fe.' " It has been estimated by Washington florists that the flower display in the two houses of congress on the opening day cost tully $10,000. It was rich to excess and old- timers say that with each succeeding ses- slon the aggregate cost of this tribute in- creases. Bingularly enough, says a Boston Transcript letter, the senators and repre- eentatives do not themselves encourage such extravagance; in fact, many of them have done everything possible to discourage it, but without great success. For the most part of the offerings came from their con- stituents, men and women working in the departments here on small salaries, who feel that some display of this kind Is neces- sary as an eviden of their continued gratitude to the patrons who have procured positions or promotions for them. A few of the more elaborate floral works come from organizationy, political and otherwise. For instance, while Mr. Heatwole of Minnesota was in the house he recelved regularly on the opening day of each ses- slon a beautiful floral gift from the em- ployes of the government printing office. He was chairman of the house printing committee, and in that position it had been poesible for him to do certain things which the printing office people regarded as im- portant. Floral gifts provided In this way, by contributions from & number of persons, do not tax heavily the resources of the givers. The real sacrifice comes when some poor clerk, working on a small salary and supporting a family, takes the better part of a week’s pay, or perhaps more, in order to let some man in congress who has be- triended him know that he is not ungrate- tul. A case in point was alluded to by a promi- nent western senator. Several years ago he obtained a place in the government print- ing office for a constituent. After a while the man went insane and his widow who thus became the sole support of a large tamily, was given a place in one of the, de- partments. The money which she earns will hardly keep herself and family supplied with the actual necessaries of life.~ She ltves very simply and often goes without clothing which she needs in order to pay docotrs’ bills and other extras. Yet this woman, at the opening of the session last December and again last week, placed on the desk of her senator for a few minutes’ a floral picce. Among the imposing and beautiful dwell- ings of public men in Washington none per- hape excels in“beauty of architecture the dwelling of Senator Eugene Hale of Maine. The residences of more than a score of great politicians are among the most mag- nificent In the world and many pronounce the Hale mansion the most pleasing of all 1t is of the colonial style of architecture, fronting 100 feet on Sixteenth street, with a courtyard iIn the rear. Tt is so large and imposing that visitors frequently mistake it for a public bullding. A Washington letter to the Chicago Rec- ord-Herald has this chunk of gossip: ‘“‘Miss Mae Wood, the voung lady who left her desk in the Postoffice department at Wash- ington to ‘settle up an estate’ In New York at the time Senator Platt was busy trying to get married to another lady, has been rudely called upon by the postmaster gen- eral to explain her ‘absence without leave." Dispatches from Washington say that Miss ‘Wood lived in a back reom of a downtown boarding house before she went over to New York and that since her return to the capital she has been occupying a suite of rooms at a fashionable hotel, hav- ing shown no intention of resuming work at her department desk. She declares, how- ever, that she will put up the fight of her life ‘If an attempt s made to deprive her of the clerkship she holds in the govern- ment's service, and it Is sald that she speaks as one who feels that the nation i under an obligation of some kind to go on paying her a salary whether she works for it or not. Evidently Miss Wood has in some way become possessed of an erroneous impression concerning the obligations of our glorious republic. It is always painful to see a lady working too hard for a lv- ing, but discipline must be maintained. If the lady clerks were permitted to run away at will for the purpose of ‘settling up estates” serious complications would soon follow. ‘Miss Wood must be generous and not exact too much from the depart- ment presided over by Mr. Payne." All arrayed in their Sunday-go-to-meetin’ clothes and wearing tall hats, the Michi- gan delegation in the house or representa- tives called on Speaker Cannon to see about thelr committee places. They found the Illinols man clad in a rather scrubby looking suit, with an enormous quid of tobacco in his cheek. Willlam Alden Smith as spokesman delivered quite an oration, dwelling on the glorles of Michigan and winding up with the fervently expressed hope that the wolverine state would not be neglected, Mr. Cannon arose and sald: ‘Gentlemen, I appreciate all that your elo- quent spokesman has said and 1 deeply feel the honor of this visit. I am sure you are all aware of the perplexities of my present position, and—" Here he shifted his quid and ‘concluded: “Oh, what's the use? Boys, I'll do the best I can for you, but let's cut out the speechifying." sald a fat and ruddy driver of one of the big wagons to & Washington Post man, “are beer swillers, and there are horses belonging to our company which will not leave the de- livery yards until they have had thelr bucket of beer in the morning and at lunch time. They have acquired a taste for the beverage, and they refuse to do their work until they have been supplied. Now, I say the horses acquired a taste for beer, but I guess I am wrong about that, for it is nry candid opinion that horses naturally love beer. They scem to have the same taste for it tbat hogs have for the ‘mash’ and ‘beer’ from the still-houses. It is a well- known fact that in running down and lo- cating illicit stills in the mountain disuYcts the revenue officers are frequently aided in eir work by watching the hogs, the razorbacks snifing the ‘my for two miles' distance. “Our horses fatfen on beer, and it is a noticeable fact that the ones d ng the ::tbnruup in the best piysi and can do the most hard driving. The horses draw the lne of stale beer. B — NOVEMBER 25 1003, Emphasis must be given to the fact that ' Royal Baking-Powder-Risen foods—light, delicate hot-biscuit, hot rolls, doughnuts, and crusts—are not only anti-dyspeptic in them- ut aid the digestion of other foods with which it, the_game, the givin Royal Baking Powder makes the food puddings selves, fi they assimilate in the stomach—the joint entree—important parts of the Th more tasty, more healthful. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. Feast. er flavored, and one of them will have to be powerful | STEEL dry In the throat before he will drink it, but give him a bucket of fresh beer and it will soon disappear, and he will neigh for more. Drivers, helpers and horses are al- lowed a liberal supply of the fluld by the company, and I would do without my mugs before I would see my horses go thirsty.” FREIGHT DISCRIMINATION, Foreign Buyer Gets Raten Home Consumers, New York Tribune. It cannot be denied that the highly pro- tected steel manufacturers make an un- pleasant impression on the public mind when they steadily and of fixed policy sell their goods abroad at a much lower price than they will give at home to the Ameri- can consumer. There are gome valid argu- ments for such sales, at least when they are incidental and exceptional. A “bargain counter,” when it will not interfere with general business, is legitimate. The manu- facturers must get a certain price for the bulk of their product. If at times they have a surplus which cannot be disposed of at regular rates, they naturally seek to get what they can for it where it will not hurt their regular trade. The American consumer may think that he is entitled te the benefit of some of these bargain Dealed The head of a “President’s church” ranks higher in the glare of pyblicity than other clergymen, and so gets more attention from the newspapers. So it was that a well-known Washington divine once felt called upon to send a message to news- papers throughout the country correcting a striking omission In one of his appeals to the Almighty. The incident, related by Collier's Weekly, occurred In connection with an important funotion at the national capital, at which Rev. Dr. Byron F. Sunderland, paster of the First Presbyterlan church-which then was known as the President's church, and with which Dr. T. DeWitt Talmage was)gales, but stability is nevertheless desir- €ubsequently assoclated—was scheduled to able. Kven he would suffer in the long run deliver the invocation. Dr. Sunderland pre- | by great fluctuations and attempts to work pared his prayer some days in advance, [ off gurplus stock at cut rates. But when and in accordance with a request promptly | the export business grows to enormous furnished a copy of it to a press assocla- | proportions and manufacturers find it tion. The latter sent the prayer In ad-| profiable to manufacture for sale abroad vance, subject to release on the appointed | vagt quantities of steel the year around day, to the newspapers through the length | a¢ cut rates, then the American consumer and breadth of the land, and it was set up | jag a right to complain of the discrimina- in type forty-elght hours in advance of its | tjon. When that discrimination is carried delivery. 1t was a brief but fervent ap-| further by a combination between the peal to the throne of grace for merey on | manufacturets and the railrouds his dis- a benighted world. tisfaction tends to bec t indigna- Suddenly Dr. Sunderland made a great ::U,: e b B el od K discovery. He had been reading over his | 8 The legality of Thursday s action of the prayer, and found at the eleventh hour!my;k Line and Central Traffic assoclation that an essential feature was missing. He | (i likely to bo tested. It made a cut of telephoned the press association office and | g0 por cent fn the frelght rates on all Ao ‘*,;_":“ SOt epslun.ug & hed over the | gomestic steel products shipped for export. Droadeast to newspaper oierg: "'t WeRt| It may be legal, but it is certainly wrong. g SWEPADEP OO The rallroads are common carriers, char- 0 Editors: In Sunderland's prayer, sent | yo;0q ynger American law to serve the In advance, after words divine mercy, in- s American people, The priviite manufacturer sert following: ‘Bless the president of the | 1.\ giecriminate against his own country- United States and grant Thy divine guld- e’ te, Bine ‘and’ {0/ all: thtes & men it he wants to. He only raises & 80 N aU- | uestion about the wisdom of tariff rates thority. 9 that enable him to do so. But the railroads The Dresidents preacher had forgotten | youy s hupiio duty. If they can afford to fo Intercedo for the president in the first | .. gicel at a certain rate the consumer FR05) oF e SIRloRL 1 in New York is as much entitied to the . benefit as the consumer in London. It is THSER XA NEW poum, said that the cut rate will be more than compensated for by increased tonnage. In that case let the domestic tonnage llke- wise be made more profitable, by the stimu- lus of low rates. It a reduction of one- third In freight rates between Pittsburg and New- York will swell the European consumption of American steel, the Amerl- can consumer can be trusted to see & cor- responding opportunity in the cut. It costs the rallroads no more to bring steel to the American buyer than to the exporter. It is not to be patiently borne that they should take advantage of his helplessness in being unable to get steel abroad to charge a freight rate on steel, from the place where he has to get it at a high price, which s 50 per cent greater than the rate at which they will carry The South Carolina Killer Drops His Gun and Takes Up the Bibly. Chicago Record-Herald. Mr. Jim Tillman, ex-lleutenant governor of South Carolina and one of that state's most prominent man killers, has taken ex- ceptions to a sermon that was preached a few Sundays ago by the Rev. W. L. Gith- ens of Beaufort. The preacher, it appears, sald some uncomplimentary things eon- cerning Mr. Tillman, who has written to him as follows: “I notice In the State of today what pur- ports to be an excerpt from a sermon deliv- ered by you on last Sunday, your text belng from the twenty-first chapter, eight- eenth verse, of the Gospel of St. Matthew, “WIIl you take as your text for the next Sabbath the seventh chapter, second and third verses, of the same gospel? “You are much decelved if you, like others of your thinking? feel that you rep- resent one-quarter of the Christian minis- try of the state, for I have letters to prove the contrar: “I heartily commend to your devout study also the fifth verse of the afore-men- tioned chapter of St. Matthew. “Your congregation might also read the fifteenth verse, The verses referred to read thus: “For what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again. “And why beholdest thou the mote that i8.in thy brother’s eye, but considereth not the beam that is in thine own eye? “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam ‘out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." It is encouraging to see that Mr. Tillman has put up his gun and adopted the Bible | as & weapon of defense. Let him go on studying Matthew, and after finishing with that book it may profit him to look through Luke, Mark, John and the others of the | New Testament. Also he might find it well to study the seventh verse of the ffth chapter of Becond Kings, and there is something in Exodus, twentieth chapter and thirteenth verse, that may interest him, Let Tillman be encouraged by all means to 0 on with his Bible study, so that the editors of South Carolina may go about réEBonably free from the fear of being shot from behind & pump or something equally serviceable. p Waltham $3.50 and $5 15 “ Not of an age, but for all time. ““ The Perfected American Watch,”" an illustrated book of inferesting information about watches, will be sent free upon request. American Waltham Waltham, Mass. Quality and Style First—Price Afterwards In all the fine leathers the ingenuity of the tanner can produce The De- catur Shoe for men has the distinction of belng one shoe in Omaha direct from - Maker to Wearer. that same steel the same distance for somebody else. What has the Interstate Commerce Commission to say of such dis- crimination, such unfaithfulness to the pri- mary ends for which American rallronds enjoy thelr corporate privileges, e— PERSONAL NOTES. Henr! Rochefort says Dreyfus fs to be tried again. Rochefort is getting to be as bad as the war correspondents in the far east. John Hyde statisticlan of the Agricultural department at Washington, who is now in London, 1is suffering from nervous breakdown, due to overwork. A movement is on foot in St. Louls to erect & monument to the memory of Bill Nye. If all for whom he made life more cheerful would contribute, it might be easily accomplished. General Reyes threatens that the United States may have to fight “the entire | Colomblan people.” ¥His phraseology Is somewhat more Impressive than the census reports from Bogota. William Archibald, of Newark, N. J., has been awarded the silver medal and diploma of the St. Petersburg Photographic soclety. His pictures that won the prize were photo- graphs of lightning flashes. J. Scott Harrison who has had charge of surveying the boundary line of the Yellowstone National Park, fs in Butte, Mont., and says the gigantic task, the work of elght years, has just been completed Professor Spencer Bassett, who said in a magazine afticle that Booker Washington is a very great man, has pald the penaity | of his rashness by losing his position as teacher of English in an obscure little North Carolina college. Supreme courts these days are wrestling with strenuous problems. The supreme court of Ohlo, has just solemnly decided that a hencoop Is not a chicken house, and the supreme court of Connecticut has a case before it which hinges on Ann's age. Representative James Kennedy of Youngstown, O., has been taking libertiess. ? with his boyhood friend, Representative - Hogg of Cblorado. Desiring to introduce Mr. Hogg to Representative Hedge of Iowa, Kennedy led his friend around to the Towan's desk. ‘“Hedge-Hogg,” wag his la- confe exclamation as the two met. Where the Lash Cuts. Chicago Chronicle. Delinquent youngsters in Denver are hav- ing a fine time of it. The juvenile court law permits the judge to hold parents re- sponsible for the behavior of their children, and the result is that frequently the parent is fined or otherwise punished instead of the child, There Is a certaln amount of justice in this, but what if the child has inherited his sin not from his parents, but from some remote ancestor over whom the parent had no control? It is hoped in such cases the judge will not be too severe. Some children have Inherited their propensities straight from Adam e Watches Watch Company, 21 . $5 and $3.50