Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 27, 1903, Page 7

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 190. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE B ROSi’WA’iIR. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Bee (without Sunday), One Year.$4.00 Daily Dee and Sunday, Oné Year...... $% Illustrated Bee, One Year.... L3 Bunday Bee, One Year.......... o 1) gaturday Boe, One Year...............l Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. 1.0y DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Hee (witnout Sunday), per copy— 2c Dally Bee (without Bunday), per week..12 Dail (Including Sunday), per week.lic Bunday Bee, per copy........ Evening Bee (without Sanday (ncluding Sunday), ), per week Evening per waelk poRiveiaksoinain .10 Complaints “of irregularities in very hould be addressed to City,Circulation De- artment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Buildin South Omaha~City Hlllfiulldlnl. Twen- ty-fifth and M streets. Council Bluffs—10 Pearl Street. Chicago—1640_Unity Building New York--23% Park Row Buflding. Washington—01 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Hee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES, Remit by dra’t, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company, Only 2-cent stamps accepted in payment ot mafl accounts Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, George B. Tzachuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly eworn, ®ays that the mctual number of full and complete coples of The Dally Mornin Evening and Sunday Bee printed durini the mouth of October, 13, was as follo'f 2,800 1. P 18, 1 Bee EEBEREUREBEY Less ‘unsold and returned coples Net total sales. Net average sales. GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and worn to his 4l f October, A. D., fagore me this At A B HUNGATE. It was a sad and memorable Thanks- giving day for Omaha fire-fighters. President Roosevelt supplied a very good example by spending Thanksgiving day with Mrs. Roosevelt. ———— The nearer General Reyes of Colombia gets to Washington the more he won- ders why the deuce he is going there. e ] The whole city may well be thankful that the flames were not permitted to reach the:cottonseed oil in the neighbor- ing basement. Sttt rting Governor Peabody of Colorado will re- tire at the end of his term, perfectly confident thut of trouble he got all that ‘was coming to him. Mr. Meiklejohn will depart again for Mexico In the middle of December. Mr. Mercer departed for Minneapolis more than two weeks ago. | AEE——————— Experience is the best teacher, even '§f the lessons taught are most costly. 1t is to be hoped that Omaba will profit by the lesson of its latest fire. - —— "Thio success of Its bloodless revolution shows how thoroughly San Domingo las mastered the art of amusing itself without really hurting anybody. Cpm—e— Just as further evidence of interna- tional comity tlie tnsslan government is about to build a raliroad from Siberia directly through to Peking. X ng from the testimony given in the mond pool room case, Mr. Dunn's efforts to suppress gambling in Omaha do not seem to be altogether impartial or disinterested. —ee Every little while something occurs to remind us that courage approximating hievolsm iy not contined to battlefields, and that tidelity to duty is still a char- acteristic of the American. The empress dowager promises much to her gods if they will quiet trouble- some provinces. Unfortunately the gods appear as reluctant to accept this par- ticular woman's pledges as is mankind. The gap between the market price of cattle and hogs in the stock yards and the market price of beef and pork at the buteher shop is widening from day to day and nobody can explain why or wherefore, Under the agreement entered into be- tween the Chicago Street Rallway mag- nates and their striking operatives the Uhleagh Street Railway force is to re- main en a peace footing for the period 7of ond year from November 25, 1003, To & man up a tree it looks very much a8 if the promoters of the Bioux City, Homer & Southern Railway company, who propose to connect Sioux City and Omaha by electric trolley, are chiefly Dbent on securing a valuable right-of-way through the Winnebage Indian reserva- tion from congregs with a view to mar- keting the franchise, The parental school recently estab- lished by the Chicago Board of Educa- tion has sent in a requisition for a $200 chicken coop. It is to be presumed that the next requisition will be for an in- cubator and teachers of chicken culture will be reckoned among the speclalists that go to make up the variegated corps of twentiet ntury educators. The golden spike In the last link of rail on the first transcoutinental rail- way, driven by Leland Stauford, May 10, 1869, was a wilestone on the high- way of national progress. The comple- tion of the cutoff across the Great Salt lake, although of comparatively less mo- ment. necentuates the colossal strides in twentieth century railway engineering that is balked by no obstacles whether they be in the shape of granite-vibbed mountains, titanic auyons or even great RUSSIA'S PUWER IN THE ORIENT The reports regarding movements on the part of both Japan and China which appear to threaten hostilities with Rus- sia make Iuteresting recent statements regarding the latter's military and naval power in the Orient. This is already formidable and Russia’s preparations for a possible conflict are still going on. Ac- cording to late advices Russia intends to put into Manchuria 300,000 troops in ad- dill“’ to those she now has there, a force mearly or quite three times as strong as the entire active army of Japan, the total strength of which, not counting reserves, was three years ngo a little over 167,000, Since then the Jap- anese army has been somewhat increased and at present numbers probably not less than 200,000 men, with reserves that would bring the total war footing up to ahout 630,000, Bstimates of the force that Russia proposes to have in Man- churia place it at between 400,000 and 600,000, In addition to increasing her military strength in Manchuria Russia is constantly strengthening the positions that she has occupled in that region. Tussia’s naval power in Asiatic waters is alto somewhat formidable, consisting at latest accounts of eight battleships, four heavily armed cruisers and six fast unarmored cruisers, with a number of smaller craft of various classes. Japan is. fnferior to the Russian Asiatic fleet in battleships. having but six first-class vessels of this type, but her individual) ships are belleved to be somewhat su- perior to those of Russia. “In armored cruisers Japan outclasses Russia, but has no vessels closely corresponding with the fast Russian cruisers, though having a larger flept of swift cruisers of smaller tonnage, while far ahead in mis- cellaneous craft. It thus appears that at this time the two powers are pretty evenly matched in military and naval strength and if China should throw a large force into Manchurla a very un: comfortable situation for Russia might be created. There is not much to be ex- pected, however from the reported Chi- nese movement, China being in no con- dition to carry on extensive military op- erations, having neither money nor a dis- ciplined army. The Chinese government is really helpless, so far as the opera- tions of Russia in its territory are con- cerned, without foreign backing, and this China is not likely to get. ‘What the facts show is that in the event of war between Russia and Japan each 18 well prepared to strike heavy blows and to make the conflict very aec- tive and destructive while it lasts. WILL CONTINUE IN SESSION, The decision of the leaders of the house of representatives not to adjourn the extra session unless the senate either passes or rejects the Cuban bill will doubtless have general public approval, The senate plan was to bring the special session to a close and let the Cuban legislation go over to the regular ses- sion, a vote to be taken in the senate | December 16 on the bill passed by the house. In insisting upon remaining in sesglon the leaders of the house urge that they are slmply eémphasizing the purpose for which congress was called and they are well justified in taking this position, Although no barm would result from deferring action until the middle of De- cember, still there is no good reason why the senate should delay until that time, The matter is fully understood and there is no necessity for further discussing it. If the democrats of the senate desire to discuss the tariff, let them wait until the regular gessipn, when they will undoulitedly have ample opportunity to gratify their desire. The extra session of congress was called for the specific purpose of considering leg- islation to make effective the Cuban reci- procity treaty. The people want thi§ matter disposed of and the house has performed its duty. The senate should act and the house leaders are right in determining that unless there is action by the senate there will be no adjou ment. THE EDUCATIONAL TEST. The reintroduction by Senator Lodge of his bill providing that no forcigner above 156 years of age who cannot read and write shall be permitted to land in this country promises a renewal of the Imigration restriction agitation, and it is by no means improbable that som such measure as that of the Massachu- sotts senator will he passed by the pres- ent congress. The fact is recalled that a measure applying the educational test was vetood hy President Oleveland, who xpressed the opinion that the ability to read and write “In and of itself af- fords a misleading test of contented in- dustry and supplies unsatisfactory evi- dence of desirable citizenship or a proper apprebension of the benefits of our in stitutions.” He further said that in his Judgment it is safer to admit 100,000 immigrants who, though unable to read and write, seek among us ouly a howe and opportunity to work, than to admit ‘one.of those unruly agitators and ene- mies of governmental econtpol who ean- not only read and write, “but delights in arousing by Inflammatory speech ‘the flliterate and peacefully inciined to dis- content and tumult.” This view is not less wike and sound today than when uttered seven years ago. It remains true that the edu tional test affords no preof of physical or moral worth, " The fact that a for- elgner coming here is able to read our constitution affordr. no that e is not in sympathy with anarchists. Such persons have come to this country for no other purpose than to preach the assurunee doctrines of anarchy. The simplest edu- cational- test, on-the other hand, might exclude an honest and industrions man who would aid in the development of our resources and make a law-abiding aud useful citizen. As the Philadeiphia Record remarks, there s a class of wost lmportant work golng on in this land that native labor will not perform. “If mills and work- shops sbould Mwit production the idle employes could not be persusded to dig great tunnels, to grade railroads *and perform other rude labor now done by industrious immigrants.” The statistics of immigration show that there is not so large a number of illiterates from abroad as s commonly supposed, but unfortunately many people accept state- ments of the anti-immigrationists with- out investigating the facts. Moreover, those in authority are constantly labor- ing In behalf of restrictions, as the pr ent general commissioner of fmmigra- tion appears to be' doing. 'The educa- tional test would keep out some immi- grants, but it would not sift the bad from the good. Under its application some of the best immigrants might be excluded and the least desirable ad- mitted. THE LESSONS OF THE FIRE. The destructive conflagration through which four gallant firemen lost their {ives and several hundred thousand dol- lars' worth of property was destroyed teaches a most impressive lesson. First and foremost, we are admonished that Omaha needs more efficient fire-extin- guishing machinery. No time should be lost by the mayor and council in con- cluding negotiations for a first-class fire engine and a modernized hose cart. It goes without saying that the best ma- chinery is in the long run always the cheapest and the fire apparatus that has stood the test of hard usage is the safest as well as the best. Another legson taught by the Thanks- giving day fire is that we must have safer construction and more vigid i spection of warehouses and storage buildings. Building inspection should not begin and end with new buildings. All the old buildings whose construc- tion is not known to bhe fireproof and safe should be examined and inspected and such as are not safe condemned to be pulled down, or made safe by their owners where reconstruction is possible. Last, but not least, the mayor and council ‘should dose no time in passing the leng-pending ordinance wproviding for the inspection of explosives and their storage within the city limits. The imperative need of such supervision was pointed out by The Bee four years ago, when two firemen lost their lives by an explosion, that could doubtless have been prevented by frequent in- spection of the premises where large quantities of gunpowder had been siored, % The ordinance introduced four years ago was defeated on account of the differences that had arisen between the mayor and council over the provision making former Chief Redell chief in- &pector in addition to the duties already devolving on him. The ordinance more recently introduced, creating the office of inspector of explosives, was pigeon- holed because it increased the city pay- roll, and more particularly because cer- tain ipterested parties exerted their in- fluence with the council to prevent what they termed “the needless interference” with their business. It was pointed out furthermore that ample protection is already provided for against the storage of low grade pe- troleum and other explosive oils by the state oil inspectors, who are presumed to test all explosive oils stored within the city or on the market in retail houses. As a matter of fact, state oil inspection has for the most part been a farce, and at best it does not include the most dangerous of explosives. State oil inspectors have, moreover, no au- thority to compel owners of warehouses and storehouses who handle explosives to limit the quantity stored or to en- Yorce regulations relative to the handling of cxplosives on the streets while they are iy transit ffom one struc- ture to another. ‘While the ealamity by which the four brave fire-fighters lost their lives was not caused by an explosion, the fact that a considerable quantity of ex- plosive material was stored in the buijd- ing naturally warrants the presumption that other lives might have been lost if these materials had been reached by the fire. The Omaba Real Estate exchange ex- hibits good Lorse sense fn declining to commit itself to Mr. Maxwell's organ- ized lrrigation program before it has fully investigated its scope and alm. Omaba and Nebraska are vitally inter- ested in the proposed extension of the area of cultivable land by irrigation, but no plan or scheme for the reclama- tion of arid lands should be endorsed without sufficient proof that its design is for the promoiion of the general wel- fare rather than for the promotion of private or corporate interests, The Prize Kid, Louis Globe-Democrat At the age of 15 days the Republic of Panama signed the isthmian treaty. Panama is entitled to a front seat at the baby show. Now Post Your Bets, Indlanapolis News. With Cleveland as the regular democratic candidatéand Bryan as a third party nom- | inee betting would be lvely as to whether ud or Bryan would poll the most Baltimore American. No person except Roowevelt could get the presidency next year, and no republican is sufficlently foolhardy to try to.beat him to it. The democrats, of course, will pre- sent an opposition candidate, but it is merely & matter of form. Graclous Condescension, Indianapolis News. The Northern ESecurities company an- nounces that it wiil obey its own interpre- tation of the court’s decree concerning the fll:gality of its action in acquiring the stock of competing rafiroads. For this concession to the prejudices of the statutes Mr. James J. Hlll should receive due credit social an eap M Philadelphia Record. The principal interest that attaches to the returns of the election in Ohio is the evilence they afford that democrats repu- diste soclalism and the cheap money delu. sion. Tom Johnson was beaten by the largest plurality ever given agalst a can- didate for governur In that state because ey, he chose to endorse the Kansas Cit platform and because he fnvited Bryan to come Into the state and tdke the stump. Tra for a Third Ran. New York Tribune. Bryan is not so sure a quitter for the third run as he thought he was a while ago. His visit to England and near pros- pect of seeing Croker seem to have put a new splice in the main brace of his aspira- tions. Should he run again, he would have the great political advantage of being able to see the end from the beginning— the bottom of the same old ditch, growing to look more and mote ltke home to him every time he tumbles into it. Regulating Contingent Fees. New York Sun. Sanator Hale of Maine has introduced a bill fn congress declaring void all contracts heretofore made between claimants before tho Spanish Claims commission and thelr attorneys, and providing that the commis- #lon shall fix the allowance of each attor- ney at not more than 15 per cent of the award made to his client. Mr. Hyle wants to have the agtorney’s fee in each case paid direct from the treasury to him amd the awards of the claimants made payable only to them or their legal heirs. The adoption of such a system would protect unwary claimants from dishonest attorneys and agents and provide that, for a little time at least, the money disbursed by the govern- meat would be In the hands of the persons for whom It was Intended. WE KNOW HOW TO DO IT. American Enterprise and Vim Drives the Busjness Band W Detroit Free Press. Armerican enterprise has encountered no serious difficulty in capturing forelgn busi- ness by golng after it for keeps. Yerkes got the great underground contract in Lon- don in the face of opposing capital and prejudice. An American contractor got the enormous Westinghouse contract over there for the construction of the biggest plant of its kind In the world after English con- tractors had, thrown up their hands and declared it a human impossibility to do the work within the time limit fixed by the corporation. Young Americans were placed in command In every department of the work and it was completed before the stipulated period expired. Our steel rails, locomo- tives and agricultural implements have found a great market abroad, especially in Russia. American shoes are popular in London, American watches sell well all over the continent and American stoves are in demand wherever stoves are used in Europe, Within a brief time Spain, through her young king, who is a veritable business plunger, has ordered from this country gun lathes and electrical equipment, the outfit for the largest brick plant ever erected in the world, and the machinery for a huge cement plant. All this is the more notable because we so recently had occaslon to whip Spain, and in doing so destroyed her navy. We are shipping saw mill machinery to Sweded and now the Lorain Steel company is to put in the en- tire electric trolley. system for the city ot ‘Wolverhampton, western England, fur- nfshing everything cven to American oper- This reprefents in itself a stupen- gregate of business and has added importance in e fact that it portends a far more remunerative grasp upon foreign trade. This nation @id not have to sub- sidize ships In order to get the business epecified. Contraetors and material men have no trouble in shipping their goods, and the profits become a part of our cir- culating medium. { When our trade and our production demand a Jarger outlet than is furnished by Eurepe and Asia, to say noth- Ing of an expanding fleld in South Africa, our manufacturers and merchants will de- scend on South America. When they do they will know how to get the market; a far easler undertaking than to sell in Germany and England and Russia and France and Spain and Sweden and In other countries what they make respectively for themselves or coujd buy nearer home. As contended for In a recent article dealing with foreign trade, the one problem is to get the business. Private enterprise can be velied on to furnish transportation just as.fast as there is a demand for it. OFPOSITION TO SENATOR SMOOT, {RIORS Case Against Him Sald-to Have Fallen to the Ground. Philadelphia’ Public Ledger. The opposition (o Senator. Smoot of Utah; fancles itself to be a moral move- ment. In point of fact, it is an attack on the best Interests allke of morafity and of religion. It Is the good fortune of religion to be guaranteed freedom in this country. The right to hold what- soever religious opinion his mind and consclence recommend to him s assured every citizen of this land in the Bill of Rights. The genius of the nation cannot allow the prohibition of the holding or practice of any form of faith, nor can it tolerate discrimination between citizens on the ground of religious opinion or practice. It is true that if any detail of the prac- tice of particular form of religion is deemed inimical to public order or common morality it may not rely upon the consti- tutional guarantee for immunity. Accord- ingly, the federal government has found means to force the abandonment of polyg- amy by Mormons, The admission of Utah to statchood was made conditional upon the giving up of a practice so repugnant to the consclence of the country and so op- posed to its soclal order. But congress did not dream of covenanting with -the disciples of Smith and Young that they should relinquish their religion—childish as this may seem to those outside the fold of “Latier-Day Saints.” It was nqt sug- gested when Utah was admitted a state that, aside from the matter of polygamous marriages, there should be any discrim- ination against them in the councils of the nation. This is what the enemies of Senator Smoot are asking the senate to make. He declares that he is not a polygamist, and no proof is offered that he is. He affirms clearly and in the most positive terms his guiltlessness before the law of the land and his loyalty to it. As for religious oaths alleged to be in contradiction of his al- leglance to the government, he denies ex- plicitly ever having made any; says positively: “My first allegiance is to my country.' The case opposition a seems perfectly clear. Senator Smowt can attack him only on the ground that he s a Mormon. Bpt, in a republic like ours, whose citizens live in the en) ment of religious freedom, this does not—and it is a happy fact for every other form of faith- that it does not—constitute a mo- ment's objection to him. Senator Smoot can no more be excluded from the senate op the ground that he 1s a Mormon than other senators could be because they are Baptists or Presbyter- fans. A Mormon congressman from Utah was expelled from the House of Represent- atlves a few years ugo, but not on the ground of his religion; it was ascertained that Mr. Roberts was a bigamist. The case against Mr. Smoot falls to the ground in the absence of evidence that he has been a party to unlawful marriages. It would be a deed hateful to the cause of religlous freedom and fatal to it to expel Reed Bmoot trom the senate because of his religious views. The to . TS OF WASHINGTON LIFE, Minor Scemes a cldents Sketehed on the Spot. Another bunch of trouble has been handed to the Postoffice department, a branch of the government already overstocked with that annoying article. As is said of the oll magnate, “He as has, gets,” so with a department having a surplus on hand. Peo- ple delight in passing up that which is not convertible into cash or utilized in a horse trade. Texas has been somewhat back- ward in contributing to the postoffice pile, but makes ample amends with a belated idyll of Lone Star life. It came in a letter to Fourth Assistant Postmaster Bristow from the sheriff of the county whereln the postmistress complained of is doing business, and reads: “We don't set up any claim that our manners are all they should be, but we'd like to be reasoned with and helped along. The postmistress here is a worthy woman, all right, and there ain't a thing against her character, but she certainly is rude and hasty. One day last week the mayor, being some flushed up and careless, re- fused to remove his hat and bow on asking for the official mail, whereupon his hat was shot oft and plumb ruined, and he left the postoffice so swiftly and undignified that it told against the standing of the town ““There’s another thing we don't think is fair. The postmistress won't let niggers and greasers come In the office under any | consideration. We aln't overfond of mig- gers and greasers ourselves, but it is sure distommoding for the leading citizens to have to go to the postoffice personally to get the mall, just because this lady don't like to see anything but a gentleman. We don't like to appear fault-finding and pleayunish where a lady is concerned, but this one I'm telling about s sure arbitrary and abrupt, and we'd like to have her toned down some." An inspector has been ordered to investi- gate the case and report upon it if after an Interview with the lady his physical con- dition shall be such as to enable him to communicate with the authorities at Wash- General | ington, The Washington correspondent of the Boston Transcript discourses on the new blood in the house of representatives in this wise: “The new house contains not only a large representation of new men, but among them many young men who are apparently beginning a political career of considerable promise. This general youthfulness is shown by the number of western states which are in considerable part repre- sented by native sons. Mr. Francis M. Eddy, a member of the last congress, was the first man Minnesota had cver sent to congress who was born within the limits of that state. This time another of the nine representatives is a native Minnesotan, having been born there in 18%0. Of the other representatives, two were born in Pennsylvania, one each in Ontario, Illinois, Massachusetts, Sweden, Ohlo and Wiscon- sin. One of the senators was born in In- diana and the other in Norway. “California for the first time has four representatives born in that state, the old- est of whom I8 not yet 44, while the young- st is 3. All the older men of the deloga- tion came from the east, one from Wiscon- sin, two from New York and a fourth from Scotland. Senator Perkins was born in Maine and Senator Bard in Pennsylvaiia. Of the two senators and three representa- tives from Colorado, which has been a state since 1576, none was born there, The \hr"ee ll:m-o “statesmen” were born in 11li- nois, Pennsylvania / : oy Pty la“and Indiana, respec- “It is a singular thing that in so old a community as Iow, of the eleven repre- sentatives and two senators but three were born in that state, and one of them, Mr. Hedge of Burlington, relates that he was bora in the Territory of lowa, June 24, 18H, Allison came from Ohio and Dolliver from West Virginia. Hull and Hepburn were also Ohloans. The four representatives and two senators of Malne were all born in that state. In fact, in most of the old states native sons seem to be preferred. Both Massachusetts senators and ten of the fourteen representatives were born in Massachusetts. But one representative of Nebraska was born in that state, Mr. Hitchcock of Omaha, and he is but 44 vears old. The Neyadans all migrated th and, according to the census re- turns, they are among the very few who remain. Both North Dakota ' senators were Horn in Illinots, and of the South Dakota senators one came from New York and the other from New Hampshiro, Texas exhibits among the southern states the Breatest evidence of being ‘a new cog- munity. Nelther of its senators was born In the state, and but half of its representa- tives. The young state of Utah has a native son in the senate in the person of Reed Smoot. None of the representatives or senators of Wyoming or. Washington were born in the state they now represent This shows how much of the country fs y “I may be wrong,” said the woman with the broom and pail to a Washington Post man, as she began her work in the corri- dor of the Treasury buflding, “but 1 fully bLelieve that . some of these cigarette smokers would strike a match on the graves of their mothers. Some smokers here can't get out of the bullding before they begin to scratch matches, and the don't care where the mark is left either, nor does it glve them any « n where the burned end of the match falls, Then, with snapping eves and flushed | cheeks, the really hard-worked emvloye of | Uncle Sam began her work of cleaning up, and as the writer looked around he could | see the “blazed” way on every hand, evi- derfce that the mateh strjker had been there ! before—the cabalistic Brown tracks were everywhere visible, on the side of the walls the door entranc Oytside the marble bullding the match-striking guild had blazed the way--on letter lamp | posts, sldes of bulldings, door jums, tree | boxes—everywhere th eye rested the marks could be Armed with tte and a match any old place Is ough to make the necessary fric- en church edifices are not too sa- ored when the hurry-up call Is Issued for a light; in fact, there Is no place too sacred nor one too much out of the way for th match-striking fiend. Tt is & curious fact, however, that the habit once so exten- | sively and universally indulged in-striking a match by drawing It across the gable end of the pantaloons—has abyut gone into disuse. It is the seldomest thing that « smoker is seen to get a light in this way boxes Just as the house was about to take a vote on the Cuban reciprocity bill Congress- man Hildebrant of Ohlo rose to a question of personal privilege. In answer 10 a ques- tion from the chair he sald: ¢It concerns me as an individual and no gentleman who wishes to keep the membership of this body clean will object.”” Dead silence followed and everybody felt sure that some story of boodle or bribery was about 10 be sprung. The Ohlo member gravely sent a resolution up to the clerk, who read in his usual dreary monot “Resolved, that one additional laborer be employed in the bathroom of the house during the Fifty-elghth congress.” There was a sigh of relief on the republican #ide, followed by a laugh all around. A group of congressmen presidential politics in a committee room when one of the members said: “Here iy Hanna ready o enter upon & new six-year term March 4, 196, but be will never begin were talking HE coat of the season is the Kirschbaum Belt Coat. Made for men who appre- ciate rich materials and fine, hand tailoring. Cheviots and Scotches in fancy plaids, mixtures and dark, solid colors. Inquire for Kirschbaum Over- coats (Warranted)., -everywhere. At good stores $12 to $30, Identify by linen label inside breast pocket of coat. New Style Book free, if you'll write for it. * For Sale in Omaha by Berg, Swanson and Co. T S T O TSR R TR ¥ S AR R that term. You remember Garfield, an- other Ohio man, had been elected to a slm- flar term, but instead of belng sworn in as senator he took the oath as president. Mark me, history - will repeat itself.”’ “But Hanna s for Roosevel,” was suggested. “Yes, and Garfield was for Sherman,” sald the first speaker wsignificantly. GROWTH OF THE FARMS, Rapld Progress of the Agricaltural Population In Wealth, New York Tribune. Remark is made, in a somewhat complain- ing tone, that, while forty years ago the | farmers owned 5 per cent of the wealth of this country, now they own only Il per cent. The idea scems to be that they are thus unjustly dealt with, ang & sacrificed to manufacturing and comme clal Interests, We cannot see that the point is well made. Upon the face of the case, it is natural and inevitable that as a country of varied industries grows in wealth the proportion of wealth represented by agriculture will decline. That does not mean that the actual amount of such wealth declines. It means simply that othor great industries are being developed. There was a time when practically all the wealth of this country was agricultural As soon as men started factories and built | ships those cnterprises represented a part of the country's wealth, and so the per- centage of agricultural wealth declined, although the actual amount of agricultural wealth greatly increased. The question Is not, therefore, what pro portion of the wealth of the nation is held by farmers, but rather whether the actual amount of wealth held by them is lncreas- ing at an appropriate ratio. To take the perlod of forty years already referred to, it 1s to be observed that in it the population of the United States has increased Ly 110 per cent. At the same time the number of farms has increased by 185 per cent; the value of farm property, including buildings, has increased by 160 per cent, and the value of farm implements and machinery has in- creased by 209 per cent. 'The first com- plete report of the totdl value of farm products was made in 1870, we can reckon the increage in that value for only thirty years. In that time the was 142 per cent These figures indfcate, therefore, that agriculture is making more rapld progress than is the population of the country. In number of farms, in value of farms, in value of implements and machinery and ue of total products this is, In propo tion to its population,. a greater farmin &0 increase Waltham country today than it was forty years ago. In that fact there should be ample en- couragement for farmers. 1f other In- dustries have grown still more rapidly, that I8 no ground for complaint by the armers. On the eontrary, it would have been bad for the farmers if these other in- dustries had not been developed, to make markets for agricultural produce. If, after that consideration, farmers stiil think man- ufacturers have an undue advantage over them, the remedy Is in their own hands. It they will make the same use of the powers of combination and of #féftine ap- plication that other industrialists have made, they will have no ground for com- plaint of being outstripped. PERSONAL NOTES, Philadelphia fs said to be about to spend $100,000 in advertising itself. Geronimo, the venerable Indlan chief, has embraced Christiantiy and has folned the Dutch Reformed church at Fort 8ill, Okla The New York Horse show receipts show a falling off in the collections in the dress- making trade are somewhat slacker than year ago. Lilluokalani comes back every year to get that $200,000 for crown lands seized. Perhaps a counter claim quite as old could be put in against the queen of the canni- bal fslands for misslonaries made cullnary use of by her ancestors. Amos Martin of Princeton, Pa., I8 the oldest citizen of the Keystone state. Within a short time he will celebrate his 107th birthday. He s a Scotchman by birth and has lived in western' Pennsylvania for more than seventy-five years. He 15 a shoemaker by occupation and up to a fer months ago worked at'hig trade. Ex-Senator Turpfe of Indiana is neerly 77 years of age, and although somewhat of an invalid, be loves work. Last winter he read Blackstone cntire, notwithatanding he had read it many times before. Iie Is foud of the old classics, and ‘fs always dy with apf quotations from his favorite authors. He considers the Bible the best English class Bquadron Sergeant Thomas O'Keefe las just been honorably discharged from the Fourth United States cavalry after being twenty-nine years in the service. The offi- cors und private of Troop G presented him with a watch as a token of thelr regurd Sergeant ('Keéfo hus been honorably dis- charged six times, each time as o ser- geant, but always came “back to the army galn,” This time he means (o vemain out Watch¢s : Old friends to trust. ““The Perfected American- Waitch,”" an illustrated book of interesting information about aalches, will be senf free upon request. American Waltham Watch Company, $3.50 and $5.00 We are the new men’s sh‘oe store that guarantees satis factory wear from every pair fitted in the stor WE KNOW HOW TO FIT FEET. 1521 ra