Nebraska Advertiser
W. W. SANDIiRS, Vnov.
NEMAHA,
NEBR.
i TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.
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Ninety-six of the Filipino Btudantn
now in Uils country will complete their
four yonrs' conrHO In different colleges,
. technical and high schools next
spring and all of tlieso studonts who
PHsa tho required civil Bervlco examin
ation will bo given positions In tho
public service In tho Philippines.
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Announcement is mndo of a gift of
$110,000 which Is to defray the ontlro
oxpenso of tho construction and equip
ment of a now homo for Marquette col
lege, to bo erected on 4 Grand avonuo,
Milwaukee, tho donors being Mr. and
Mrs. Robert A. Johnston, of that city,
In conjunction with tholr son, Ror.
Robert Story Johnston, S. J., of Flor
issant, Mo.
Tho sixth annual reportof tho di
rector of education for tho Philip
pines, covering tho activities of tho ed
ucational work In tho islands for tho
year ended Juno 30, 190G, shows that
thoro aro now 3,1(50 primary schools in
tho islands with an average attend
ance of 375,554 pupils. Sovcn hundred
American and G.221 Filipino teachors
nro employed.
Twelvo million dollars is a conserva
tive estlmato of tho amount of monoy
spent In Pittsburg and Its. suburbs for
Christmas gifts during tho week. This
estlmato is mndo by morchants and
bankers. It was by long odds tho
greatest yoar In history for Christmas
shopping. Tho amount spent In Phila
delphia is twenty millions in Cincin
nati four millions.
Bocretary of State Root wants tho
administration bettor bqulpped to dis
cuss tariff questions with foreign
countries. Ho says tho dopartmont of
state is now lamontably weak in re
gard to expert assistance on this znost
Vital question. He has askod congress
to Increase appropriations so that tho
burenu of trade elntions can bo ex?
tended to meet presortt need's.
In a letter 'to tho employees of the
Bcurne mills of Fall River, Mass., an
nouncing the rogunr profit sharing
dividend, Treasurer Georgo A. Chase
has Informed the operatives that a
ten days' vacation would bo glvon
them In the summer of 1007 and that
a 50 per cent extra dlvldond would bo
pnld. la connection therewith. Tho
latter Is to bo computed from tho rec
ord of wagescarnod during tho pros
ent profit sharing terra.
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Figures Just compiled at Ellis Island!
Indicate that at the present rato of In
rcase 1,283,415 aliens may bo ex
pected to ntor this country through
the immigrant station on Bills is.
land next year. "Tho number of allons
who will land at Now York this year,"
Bald Immigration Commissioner Wat
chorn, "will approximate 1,050,000 per
sons, as against a total of 85.010 who
landed here In 19051 This shows an
Increase In tho Immigration of about
22.28 per cent. Using' these figures as
tho basis for an estimate of 1907, wo
nmy expect 1,283,415 aliens to arrivo
at Kills Island."
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Kvery scrap of evldonco regarding
the Brownsblllo incident Is bolng col
lected for the purposes of congression
al nnd political adoption. Unless indi
cations are at fault there Is going to
be more time spent In tho Senate over
the troops than on any legislation
oxcept Iho necessary supply bills. For
aker and Dick have organized to make
all the trouble possible, with a view to
discrediting the President and elimin
ating Taft as an Ohio possibility. Sen
ator Dick has already come out in an
Interview declaring that Forakor can
get the Ohio delegation if howants it
and the national campaign in that
state, which nlways begins early and
runs late, appears to bo already on in
f, earnest. Letters are coming to Fora
cor from all directions and myster-
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uud ilium mu uiuppeu oi startling rev
elations which are oxpected. Senator
Scott in West Virginia, whoro tho ne
groes hold tho balanco of power, has
attached himself to tho antt-admlnls-tratlon
movements and Spoonor gives
Judications of adding his knowledge of
the law for tho purpose of embarrass
! the administration. Culberson of
Tex, will defend the administration.
GRATITUDE.
Clerk Aro you g61ng to do anything for the policeman who rescued you
at tho fire and took off his own coat and put It on you?
Old Blllyuns Yes; I'll write him, thanking him for his uniform kind-ncsB.
Senator Warner, of Missouri, local
managor of the National Soldiers'
homo at Leavenworth, has fllod his re
port for tho year with tho war depart
ment Tho total attendance for tho
year was 4,119, of which number 298
wero veterans of tho Spanish war.
Tho average ago of civil war vetorans
was GG yoars; tho total number of ar
rcBts during tho year was 1,220, an In-
croaso of C per cent ovor offenders of
tho yenr beforo. About 13 per cent of
tho veterans attend church. Tho farm
Is not self supporting. It cost $15,500
to run It last yoar and" tho proceeds
amounted to $10,G77.21. Flour for tho
year cost $8,000; meats of all kinds
nbout $32,000; potatoes, C,G29; beans,
$5,000, and sugar $7,300. Tho average
cost of mnlntonanco per capita was
$1GG.51, a decrease of $1.72 ovor tho
previous year. Tho boor hall and
amusement room aro In good condition
nnd well conducted. A fireproof cur
tain Is needed In tho theater. Tho In
mates drew In round numbers a half
million dollars In pensions annually.
Most of them spend their monoy quick
ly, three have havo savings over $500
each; 34 havo savings of from $100 to
$500 and 97 have deposits of less than
$100. A new morgue Is needeed.
Abaut 700 tons of Ice were manufac
tured at a cost of $1 a ton. Tho Insane
word Is Inadequate. The death rato
averages 74 per thousand per year.
Rprosentatlvo Fowler of Now Jersey
formerly a Kansas man, claims thero
aro not enough small bills in circula
tion for tho Convenience of trado and
is pushing a measuro bofore tho com
mittee to remedy the trouble. Under
the national banking act no bank can
lssuo $5 notes lh excess of one-third of
ItB circulating notes. Tho other two
thirds must bo of larger denomination.
Mr. Fowler wants this provision wlp
ed out entirely. Then banks can issue
ns many small notes as they please.
Tho demand will regulate tho amount
issued.
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Sergeant Mingo Saundors will bo
tho storm conter of tho. attack by Re
publican senators on the recent ordei
of President Roosevelt discharging
without honor tho negro battalions of
the Twenty-fifth regiment. Saunders's
army record has been sont broadcast
and tho entire country will bo mndo fa
miliar with It. Whatevor can bo dono
through Congressional onnctment will
first bo tried In a bill for the relief of
Saunders. Republicans who havo cho
son to mako a direct lssuo with the
Presidont over tho executive order and
what they are pleased to term the ox-
ecutlvo threats are already assorting
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mui oaunners nas a oettor record as
a soldier than either Roosevelt or
Woods can boast. If nothing bettor
can be done for Saunders a bill will bo
urged giving him a pension for life at
the rato of pay ho received as ser
geant. If the Presidont vetoes tho bill,
an effort will be made to pass It over
his veto. Saunders's application for re-
enlistment is now pending before tho
President anT tho War dopartmont.
Thoso who havo been backing him
have taken it for granted that his ap
plication will be denied. In any event
Saunders's case will bo a precedent. If
ho Is restored to tho army, through tho
War department, other soldiers will
make application based on similar pre-
ai'iiuuiuii ui iacts. ii tne negro ser
geant Is denied tho privilege of re-en
tering tho army and enough votes can
bo mustered to give him a pension oth
er soldiers can claim tho same legis
lative consideration. It will then be
argued that tho service to tho country
Is merely one of degree but tho princi
ple involved is the same whether a sol
dier has served twenty-six years or six
years or two years. At no time during
either of his administrations has the
Ibbuo between tho President and the
Congress been so clearly drawn as
over the executive action In the
Brownsville affair. There havo been
innumerable occasions when the men
who nro now leading tho attack
against tho President were more Indig
nant than thoy now aro. But so long
as tho Presidont was backed by public
sentiment In his various policies look
ing to a regulation of corporations en
gaged in interstate rnmmerco it was
Impossible to mako any headway in op
position to him.
Mrs. James G. Blaine, jr., who se
cured" a divorce in record time in Da
kota, has returned to Washington. She
was mot at the station by a carriage
and drovo directly to tho homo of her
father, Rear Admiral Hlchborn. It is
announced that Mrs. Blaine will marry
Paul S. Pearsall of New York early In.
tho spring. Mr. Pearsall was a mem
ber of the "Rough Riders" and Is said
to bo wealthy. Mr. Pearsall spent the
greater part of last winter In Wash
ington, stopping at tho Grafton, and ho
and Mrs. Blaine were constant com
panions. Tho "heliotrope hollo's" re
turn to tho city Is the cause of gon
oral satisfaction In society clrcleo, for
since her debut sho has been a favor
ite in Washington.
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Old King Coal Is an expensive old
soul.
post; our sympathy, our love, our fel
lowship oxprcsed toward one nnothe-
or; our faith, our trust, our sorvlco
expressed In thought, and feeling, and
act, day by day as wo go through
life.
Then and then only, do our gifts
count. "Offer up thyself nnd thy
gifts shall bo accepted.
One dollar given In tho spirit of lovo
absolute does more toward tho regen
prntlon o fmanklnd than one million
given through prldo or lovo oT appro
bation of .men.
Only as wo give of ourselves Is any
other gift of value.
'The Chief Cause of the Poverty, Mis
ery and Degradation of the Eng
lish City.
The land of Great Britain has not
foeon valued for the purpose of taxa
tion since the year 1692. Two centum
ties ago hor great cities had not yet ap
peared. London was little more than
a village In comparison with its pres
ent proportions. Thousands of acres
! of land, now occupied by stately
jstructures, wero then farming land.
They aro still assessed as farming
land. In two centuries the valuation
of tho land underlying tho metropolis
has not been increased for purposes
of taxation. The local taxes, paid by
tho London landowners directly are
about the same today that they wero in
tho seventeenth century. Tho city ot
Now York, on tho other hand, revalues
Its land every year. In 1901 tho naked
land was appraised at $3,G97,G8G,935.
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via tins valuation taxes in excess of
($50,000,000 were collected for eltv nur.
;poses . This Is probably fifty times the
amount collected from the land of Lon
don, whose population Is twlco that of
New York and whose site values are
.probably not far from six billion dol
lars. The explanation of such an an
omaly? Thoso who own tho land in
Great Britain also control Parliament.
They form tho House of Lords. They
pass all laws relating to taxation.
Through this control they legislate in-1
,to their own pockets aMenormous sum
which, if land wero taxed as is dono
In Now York, would amount in London
alone to a hundred million dollars a
year. This is one hundred times tho
amount now collected from the land
owners. When we find such a control
of legislation by a class In America,
we call it "graft." It is against such
imisuse of government that President
Roosevelt, Senator La Follette, Gov
ernor Plngree and Senator Colby di
rected their energies in their struggle
for equitable taxation. But England
accepts this condition without protest,
or at most complains of it as class leg
islation. But this is not all. Local
taxes are collected from tho tenants
direct. They are paid on tho rental
value. Tho landlords nav nranMnallv
nothing. Thus the poor of London nro
mado poorer by a hundred million dol
lars a year than they would bo if taxed
as in tho city of New York. This ex
plains in part tho unparalled poverty,
misery and degradation of tho English
city. Frederic C. Howe. In Scrlbner.
President Roosevelt has determined
to Investigate charges against Senator
Warren of Wyoming. Ono charge al
leges that Senator Warren has fenced
illegally thousands of acres of public
domain. This will bo tho subject of
Investigation. It is assorted also that
Warren, for twelvo yoars, kept men at
work In his mercantllo and stock busi
ness at Choyonno, Wyo., whllo keeping
them on tho government payrolls in
Washington by fraud. Tho names of
Charles M. Smith, Hiram Sapp and S.
P. Tuttle, who wero carried on tho pay
rolls of the claim and irrigation com
mittees of tho Senate, aro mentioned
in this connection. It is further al
leged that othors wero glvon funds
through Warren's appointment who
rendered no service to tho government.
Finally, It Is charged that Warren on.
tered Into a contract with tho United
States government, while Benator In
1899, for the rental of a building ho
owned In Cheyenne for ten years, at
an annual rental of $1,200 In direct
violation of the rovlsod statutes. Tho
administration is concerning Itself at
this time only with tho question of
Senator Warren's alleged connection
with tho land frauds. It has develop
ed that the senior senator from Wyo-
mlng was tho, subject of a long report
mndo to tho Prestdent by tho Secre
tary of tho Intorlor, Mr. Hitchcock.
Senator Warren denies all tho charges
and oxprosses confldeuco that ho can
explain them.
The Intcrstnto Commorco commis
sion Is worrying as to whether molons
and potatoes are vegetable or fruit
The Ideals of the English and the
American City Compared.
There is an open-mindodness about
the best American cities that is not
found In England. Wo are roadM to
tako up now Ideas, to experiment with
ourselves, for wo havo no age-long tra
ditions that restrain nnd chain us to
tho past. Chicago willingly expended
millions for children's parks , play
grounds and gymnasiums. Boston dla
tho same thing. Tho city of Cleveland
has brought a 1,500 aero farm upon
which it Is endeavoring toreclalm its
workhouse prisoners and bring back
the poor and destltuto flotsam of tho
city to a proper adjustment with life.
New York, commercialized to the
core has spent millions on play
grounds and recreation piers.
All this is part of a generous demo
cratic sense that England lacks. It is a
sense which a city that measures its
life from tho rate-payer's standpoint
never can have. For the American
ideal, Insofar as it has ideals, is to
mako the city helpful. Tho English
Ideal is to make its helpfulness nay
its way by some means, or at" least to
bo very careful of the tax rate. The
one is democracy, tho other is democ
racy subject to tho curb of tho tax
paying class. And it Is a far easier task
for America to improve tho personnel
of tho official class than it is for Eng
land to break away from this rate
payer's conception of government.
which in many instances, seems very
sordid and mean.
Tho same thing Is truo In tho crow
ing demand for municipal beauty In
Anrerlca. Boston, New York. Phila
delphia, Detroit and notably Cleveland
are going in for tho things that make
tho German city so attractive. Our
cities are embodying their Ideals In
fine monuments, just as tho people of
the middle ages embodied their relic-
ions in splendid gothic cathedrals. We
are showing a willingness to pay for
fine architecture, for beauty in the
concrete. The English city, on the oth
er hand, Is the ugliest city in Eurono.
Frederick C. Howe, In Scrlbner.
President Hadley of Yale, savs h u
following President Eliot's advlco not
to ask for money except with a definite
Plan for its use and after an intima
tion that such request would be wel
comed.
Among ostentations dog lovern of
England the latest fad is a collar with
tho canine wearer's name pricked out
In precious stones, preferablv bril
liants. All jewelry, with tho exception
of such a collar and perhaps bracelets,
is tabooed. The bracelet is worn on a
front paw. Shoes aro no loneer tho
fashion, as they are said to disfigure
the dog's paws.
Pencils from slato dust moulded by
hydraulic pressure aro now mado in
largo quantities. They ar6 mnnli
more popular than tho solid cut slate
pencils. One factory last year made
25,000,000 moulded pencils.
Thirty-six policemen have joined
the London County Council sneclal
class for Instruction In Yeddlsh.
The groat artist, playing upon the
harpstrings awakens tho melody, of
good emotions.
SPLINTERS.
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Tho original man Is sincere.
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Righteousness Is success; all else is
failure.
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BillsDon't you wish that every day
was Sunday?
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It is easier to borrow a million than
to beg a cent.
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Reason Is a walking-stick; faith a
pair of wings.
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Credit is like Humpty Dumpty It
does not do to let it fall.
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An old man becomes "stove up
the samo as an old horse.
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The woman who doesn't like deli
cate flattery is deaf as a post.
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To appreciate good music you need!
not only a good oar, but music In your
soul.
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Tho secret of success Is to so plan
and work as to mako failure impossU
ble.
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The richest display of the outward
life may exist with pauperism in tat
Inner life.