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14 THE OMAHA DAILY JJEE : SVNDAY 8 , 181M ) THE OMAIIA SUNDAY BEE , K. H03E\VATiU , Editor. PUBLISIIKD KVHUY MOIlNINO. TURM8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. TEKM8 OK SUnSCHirTION. Dally Hco ( without Sumlny ) , Ono Ycor.lfi.M Dally Hco , and Sunday , Ono Year 8.00 Hlx MJiiths J.W Three Months 2.00 Eumlav Hce , Ono Year 2.W Saturday Hes , One Year l.w Weekly Hco , One Year & > OFHC139. Omaha : The Ute Uulldlnir. South Omaha ! City Hall building , Twenty-fifth nml N streets' . Council muffs : 10 Peart Street. Chicago : Block Kxchango Building. New York : Templfi Court , Washington : 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and editorial mutter should bo addressed : To the Editor. Editor.BUSINESS BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittance ! should bo addressed to The Bee Publishing Com- pony. Omaha. Drafts , checks , express and postofllco money orders to bo made payable to the order of the company. TIIK HEE PUDMSH1NG COMPANY. STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska , Douglas County , S3. : George IJ. Tzschuck , secretary of Tho. Bee Publishing company , being duly sworn , says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally , Morning , Evening and Sunday lice , printed during the month of December , 1S98 , was as fol lows : 1 21,077 17.- . . 2.T T 2 2lmi 18 . 21,7410 3 21,081 19 . u , r Ht 4 21,1)70 ) 20 . & : I.HII ( : 6 21,22:1 : 21 . 2inmi : C SI.Hffl 22 . 2 , (111 7 2I.82S 23 . il70 ! 8 2.1,172 24 . 2t,7iH ; : 9 2ium : : 25 . -.21,200 10 21,103 20 . 23UO : 11 21.880 27 . 2.1,721 12 21in , 13 2iii2 : : 23 . 14 21,2011 SO . 211,407 1C 2lt2.- : 31 . 2.1,700 10 2i,8.-l : Total 7-10,000 Less unsold aid returned copies. . . . IBHOT Net total sales .7tOOI : > : s Net dally average 2t.r.71 : GEOHOE U. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presctnco this . " 1st day of December , Ik93. ( Seal. ) N. 1 . FEIL , Notary Public. People arc not oven to be allowed to Bleep without a reminder of the trusts , the nmnufui'turcrs of inctiillu bedsteads Imvlng now combined. The fast tralu fever threatens to be come epidemic In railway circles , but It is one of the few diseases upon whose upread the public will look with com placency. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Omaha bank clearings are making n race Multilist the record and finish the llrst week of the new year IW.U per cent in advance of the 18S ! ) record. Just keep your eye on Omaha and watch It grow. If the free silver lieutenant governor Is as fair with the republican majority in the fionatc in the matter of rulings as the majority has been with him in the matter of appointments they should be in harmony during the whole session. Governor ringree of Michigan is op posed to the annexation of the Philip pines and doesn't cure who known It. If the United States Is ti > go Into the an nexation business Michigan would pre fer to have a few slices of Canada tacked on to Its borders. The educational endowment left In Havana by the Spaniards Is not BO large as to plvo treasury olllclals any trouble in finding prolltable investment for it all. That even u few dollars was left is probably due to the fact It was over looked when the llnal cleanup was made. According to one of the American peace commissioners it was merely an understanding - standing that the United States would maintain the open door policy In the Philippines. This means , doubtless , that understandings tire no necessary part of the conditions of the peace treaty. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ It la eminently lilting that the school teacher should follow the Koldler into Porto Illco. If there Is anyone who can successfully light the lamp of learning In the island It should bo General Eaton , who started so successfully tho' name work among the frcedmen of the south at the close of the civil war. The governor of South Dakota , not being on speaking terms with the legis lature , sent his secretary over to read his message. The governor had all the advantage in the llrst round , for by the time the lawmakers had stood the lire of JtO.OOO words they were badly winded , while the governor sat In his corner ap parently as fresh as over. The home-coming of some of the sick from the First Nebraska demonstrates that these who have been demanding the immediate return of the regiment are not overly wise. These who are Boon to reach San Francisco come from the tropics and will reach here In midwinter. If such a change of climate does not prove disastrous It will bo fortunate. Among the numerous proofs of pros purity the returns from the smaller post otHces throughout Nebraska , all Bhowlng increased business In every department , are specially encouraging as Indlcatln that better times are general. The post- olllces In the little towns could not be making better exhibits If the business men and other patrons were not doing better business. Incidentally these re ports ought to explode effectually the delusion that the recent Transmlsslssippl Kxposltlou built up Omaha at the ex pense of the smaller towns In Nebraska. The remarkably effective f.'tin flro of the American navy during the late war started the Kuropeau nations to mak lug comparisons. The Kngllsh navy Is generally looked upon as the most effect ive In Kuropo and the Mediterranean squadron Is the crack section of the navy. The results of the year's target practice show that poorer results were ohratnod In practice with all things favorable than by the American navy In the battles of Manila and Santiago Uncle Sam has additional reason to bo proud of his boys. It Is the climax of liroof that man for man nnd eliln for ship the navy of the United Slates is Uie best lu the world. in C'f/H.I.V .iAV/\MT/O.VWr.S. ; . . . , . . . . There are many atinoxntlonlsts In Cuba , as there are also In the Culled States , and it l.s to bo expected that ns fioon as the time Is ripe for an active movement In favor of nnnuxatloii these people will start an aggressive camr paten. Undoubtedly an annexation propaganda Is already at work In a iiulet way , preparatory to n public agi tation both In Cuba and here. The Spaniards In Cuba are probably to a man strongly In favor of the United States retaining permanent possession of the Island and doubtless all Amcrr leans who nro there or who have interests - osts there are annexatloulsts. There Is an association In the cast that numbers among Its members some prominent and Inlluctitlal men whoso object is to promote - mote annexation and thcro can be no doubt that there tire members of congress - gross who favor the absorption of thb Island by this country. There Is In this a temptation which may put the honor , Integrity nnd good faith of the American people to the severest test. It Is therefore well to keep In mind the relations with and the obligations to the Cuban people which are of our own making. Congress made this declaration , which received cxecut live approval : "The United States hereby disclaims nny disposition or In- tcntlon to exercise sovereignty , juris diction or control over said Island , ex cept for the pacification thereof , and as serts Its determluallon , when that Is aci compllshcd , to leave the government and conlrol of the Island to Its people. " In his last annual message President Mec Klnley said : "As soon as wo are In possession of Cuba and have pacified the Island , It will be necessary to give nld and direction to Its people to form n gov ernment for themselves. It is Important that our relations with this people Bhall be of the most friendly character and our commercial relations close and reclpL rocal. It should be our duty to assist lu every proper way to build up the waste places of the Island , encourage the Industry of the people nud assist them to form al government which shall bo free and Independent , thus realizing the best aspirations of the Cuban pooc pie. " These utterances of the congress and the executive clearly define our reK latlous nnd obligations toward the pcoc plo of Cuba. Wo are their selfnpt pointed guardians , solemnly pledged to naintalu this guardianship only go long is It shall be necessary to establish icaco and order In the Island. Wo nro under the most sacred promise to aid them to form a free and Independent government. Our honorable duty Is to counsel and advise them In the task of establishing self-government , exercising only such authority over them as shall be required for the peaceful and orderly conduct of affairs. In view of this It is obviously the duty of our government and people to dis countenance any and every effort that nny bo made In behalf of Cuban an- icxallon. Every consldcrallon of na tional honor and good faith requires this. There will not be lacking plausible rea sons for annexing Cuba. It will be urged that the people are not capable of self-government , that an Independent state formed by them would be con stantly racked by internal troubles nudt that American interests there would not Je secure. All this may bo verified by experience. It is doubtless true that some of the Cuban people are not lit for self-government and it is a fact that the history of the Latin race does not warrant faith In the ability of men of that race to maintain stable govern ment. But we must not be guided In nir conduct by any such reasoning. The Cuban people must have a full and fair opportunity to realize their aspiration for self-government. If In the future they should find Independence unsatis factory and of their own free will should ask to be taken into this republic , we may then without reproach couslder the question of annexation. At present our course Is plain and not to pursue It would bo to discredit ourselves before the world and to forfeit the confidence of civilized mankind lu our honor and good faith. EDUCATION KOKTU AXD SOUTH. The people of the north and these of the south differ widely hi characteristics and methods , but In no particular Is this difference so > noticeable as In matters of education. In this the southern people are more nearly like those of European countries , though the percentage of people ple of European birth Is smaller south than north. In the north means are constantly being devised to bring a still larger percentage of the youth Into the public schools. In many states this Is car ried to the extent of compulsory at tendance , at least a siifllclent length of time to acquire the rudiments of an education. Nearly all the northern states have laws providing for the sup ply of free text books and other neces sary equipment for children of needy parents , so every child may have the opportunity to acquire an education , and some states , notably Nebraska , provide free books to rich and poor alike. In the south almost the reverse Is true. The children of the wealthy are educated In private schools , those of the poorer class of whites have as a rule Indifferent free school facilities sup plied for them , and the colored children are still more shabbily treated lu the way of educational facilities. In sev eral states a plan Is being agitated which , if It finds fruition In law , will still further curtail the opportunities of the colored children. It contemplates separating the public fccliool fund on the color line , the taxes derived from levies on property belonging to white people to be devoted to the education of white children , nnd that raised from property belonging to the colored race to the education of negro children. As far the greater portion of the taxa- bio property belongs to the whites , and In many sections where this preponder ance Is the greatest the colored people are numerically preponderant , this menus that the black boy and girl must grow uji In Ignorance. Such a law would strike at the very root of the free school system and Its advocates must bo devoid of nil concep tion of the value to the state of unlver- Ml education , In a country like ours , founded on universal suffrage , universal Intelligence | Is an absolute necessity. Stripped of all sentiment , which prompt * Iho man not utterly selllsh to desire the elevation of his fellows , the refusal to put j : the means of education within the reach of all Is shortsighted and will In the t end lead to the downfall of the minority i ; which withholds the boon. The southern people concede that those of the north and west are shrewd and aggressive as a rule , although they somcllmos charge that our only thought Is I for money making. The south Is recognized as generous to the point of prodigality , let all over the north n"nd west , In contrast with the south , the free schools , state colleges and universi ties t , to say nothing of private educa tional Institutions and those under the patronage | i of the churches , are abundant and common school education practi cally forced upon all. The north and west cheerfully tax themselves to sup port their schools and outside of all senti mental i ; reasons would not abandon the system. The now south commercially has l ; learned a valuable lesson from the ever active nor.th and west , resulting lu a development which amounts almost to an economic revolution. If it wishes to continue to progress it must turn again to the north and learn the lesson of uulversal education. AXOTUKll SlIATTFMfit ) UTOPIA , No Institution conceived by the human brain or builded with human hands Is permanent. The pyramids of Egypt are crumbling Into dust. Unbylon with Its colossal garden walls and gates of brass has j ; come down to us In the shape of ruins. No man can tell the spot where stood Carthage , the metropolis of the Phoenicians. Contemplating the vanity of all things terrestrial King Solomon exclaimed , "There Is nothing new under the sun. " The fate that has befallen the builders of ancient cities will overtake in | due time the builders of our modern sky-scraper cities , which In their turn are doomed to bo leveled down and ob literated , if not forgotten. Twenty-five years ago George M. Pull man , tue American palace car magnate , conceived the Idea of founding an indus trial city that was to commemorate his name and recall his achievements for centuries to come. Within less than two years after his death that life vlcam hr.s i been shattered. The soulleiss cor- whioh be Lad given vitality has taken advantage of a decision of the courts to dismember and dlsmantla the tovn of I'uUinun and allow It to be swallowed up by the greater corporation , known as the city of Chicago. Its churches , schools and public halls , its murkot house , pub lic library and dwelling houses are to bo put on the auction block to bo sold to the highest bidder. The town of Pullman will cease to bo In name as well as In fact and the experiment to which Gooigo & [ . Pullman had consecra'.ed his energy will pass Into history as n failure. And yet Pullman's model town was grand In conception if not lu realization. It was not exactly the kind of town that Edward Bellamy had dreamed about lu "Looking Backward , " but It was an at tempt to carry corporate socialism , or rather paternalism , to a point In * which the center of industrial activity is made congenial to the tellers by surrouudlug them with the comforts and conveniences ' i' of separate homes , the educational fa- duties and church privileges and amuse ment features of a city. But the expau- slon of greater Chicago and the demise of Pullman following upon the great Pullman strike , which struck a fatal blow to the Utopian idea , has swept the model city of Pullman from the map and substituted for it the every-day , commonplace mon-place humdrum of suburban Chi cago. ATTACKING CIVIL tfElCVICt ! IIEFOIM. In the house of representatives on Friday there was another attack on the civil service law and these who are op posed to the law , or to the broad appli cation It has been given , made n rather formidable showing of strength. In the committee of the whole a motion to strike out an appropriation for the civil service commission prevailed , 07 mem bers voting for It to 01 against. As stated by Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio , the leader of the anti-civil service reformers , this has been an annually recurring mo tion for the last twelve years , but It has never amounted to anything more than to show who are the spoilsmen and this Is all It will amount to In the present Instance. The regular appropriation for the commission will be voted nnd the opposition will simply have had another opportunity to go on record. The most aggressive opponents of the civil .scivice law as it Is being admin istered nro republicans. Mr. Grosvenor complained that the law had over reached Itself , that It had throttled the appointing power of the government and that It had been extended far beyond what was dreamed of when It was en acted. Mr. Hepburn of Iowa paid that when the law was passed It was esti mated that not more than 10,000 of the employes of the government could be brought under Its operation , whereas to day there are 72,000 persons In the classi fied service a very gratifying fact , for a large proportion of these men and women have got Into the service on their merits and not by reason of having a political pull. Another republican mem ber declared that "the law had grown steadily more odious with the people , " which may be true as to his constitu ents , but is not true as to the people at large. It should be unnecessary at this day to offer any argument In support of the policy of civil service reform , the bene fits of which to the public service of the country have been beyond computation , But It will not IHJ uninteresting to note the opinion of Governor Koosevelt , who as a former civil service commissioner perhaps knows as much about the workIng - Ing of the reform as anybody. In his message to the New York legislature , lu which he urges radical changes In the civil service law of that state , Governor Koosort'lt says that civil service reform methods have by long experience been proved to work admirably. lie said the application of the reformed system to the postal service has produced a very great improvement In the character of the work done. In the nary yards of the t nation the benollts resultant upon 11 taking the appointment and retention' of navy yard employes out of the fiands of local politicians and limiting thorn consequent upon fitness and good con duct only , Governor lloosevclt wild has resulted In an Incredible Improvement , not only In the character of the work- done , but lu saving of expense to the government. "Our present navy , " he fcald , "would not have been able to do Its duty lu the war with Spain In the way that It actually did had the gov ernment service In the navy yards not been put upon a merit basis. " This Is valuable testimony to the worth of the merit system and what Is true of the services referred to by Governor Uoosevelt applies to every other branch of the public service. The civil service reform policy Is firmly established and there must be no backward step taken In regard to It. TIIK Ol'tiN DOOll POLICY. However essential the open door pol icy lu the Philippines may be to Amer ican interests In other portions of the far cast , It Is entirely obvious that it will be of no advantage to our com merce with those Islands. That policy , as Is now generally known , means that the tariff to be put In force lu the Philip pines will bear equally upon the Im portations of all nations. No advantage will be given to the products of any country , not even to those of the United States. It means that the Philippine market will be exactly as accessible to the products of Great Britain , Fiiauce , Germany or any other country as It will be to the products of the United States. We deny ourselves any advantage and will collect the same duties upon the Imports from Ihls country as wo will collect upon the Imports from other countries. Thus , ns Mr. Carncglo has pointed out , the United States will be In no better position commercially , so far as the Philippines are concerned , than it was before the islands were taken from Spain. In IStHJ , the last year lu which there Is any record of the commerce of the Philippines , when all foreign na tions had the same tariff rates , with the exception of Spuln , which of course was favored against nil , the Imports from Great Britain amounted to $7,104,000 , from Spain $1,422,550 and from all other countries $2,404,450 , of which the United States sent $140,000. In Mr. Carnegie's opinion wo cauuot compete successfully with European nations for the trade of the islands. He says : "Tho manufac turers of Germany , France nnd Great Britain , the farmers of Australia and of the Baltic provinces of Russia , reach the Philippines at about one-half the freight cost that the American fanner has to pay upon his products or the American manufacturer upon manufac tured goods. " He shows that distance is in favor of these foreign countries and 1m declares that when President McKlnley agreed that the products of Europe , of 'Australia , of India and Ar gentine should pay only the same tariff In the Philippines as products of the soil , the mines and the mills of the United States , ho closed the door ef fectually upon American commercial f-Apr.nsion In the Philippines. There Is not a reasonable doubt that this will prove to be the case. The foothold that Great Britain has obtained In ' the Philippine trade she will make every effort to retain and there Is every reason to expect that she will succeed In doing so , while other countries having commerce with the Islands will not abate their efforts to enlarge It because , the United States takes possession of the Islands. If conditions Improve there possibly Americans will be able to sell somewhat more in that market than they have been selling , but no material expansion of our commerce with the Isl ands is to be expected under the open door policy. The expansionists profess to believe that the trade of the Philip pines will be very greatly Increased un der an American regime. That It will bo improved Is probable , but there Is no good reason for anticipating any sucli increase as the expansionists talk of and even If this were to be realized the share of the United States could not bo very much larger or very valuable. The worth of the Philippines to this country commercially will probably never repay the cost of maintaining peace and order there under American rule. Under the title "Railroad Control In Nebraska , " Prof. F. II. Dlxou contrib utes an article to the current Political Science Quarterly which purports to review - view historically and critically the at tempts at legislative regulation of rail roads In this state. To these familiar with the usually careful and conserva tive editorship of that periodical It mus > t bo a surprise that an article so one sided and so devoid of appreciation of conditions which confront railroad- ridden farmers and shippers In a prairie state should be given the endorsement which publication In a magazine of sclcntlllc standard Is supposed to con vey. Instead of describing impartially the relations of the Nebraska railroads to the public , Prof. Dlxou pictures them as the victims of constant legislative per secution. "The llrst blow at the rail roads , " he says , was struck In the pas sage of a statute In 1881 , fixing n max imum standard of freight charges. " But he Is forced Immediately to admit tacitly that the law struck no blow at all because it had beeu so cleverly con structed by railroad representatives that there was nobody charged with enforcing It and it remained a dead let- tor. tor.In In n similar apologetic view Iho law of 1SS5 , creating a powerless board of donothlug secretaries is held up as a compromise when , ns a matter of fact , It was a railroad measure pure and Hlmple put forward by the railroads to head off bills creating a commission really endowed with power to redress grievances nnd enforce orders. According to Prof. Ulxon it was the eviuJnt intention of the legislature that the secretaries should be men expe rienced in railroad matters. If FO the profefisor has apparently discovered something which no one in Nebraska was ever aware of , the only qualifica tion exacted of the secretaries sluco Iho cri'ittlon of the board having been 1 utter niilworvloncy to the railroads nnd complete oblivion of the rUhls of the people , lie oven llnds Unit the coinmlnj filon "undoubtedly accomplished some good during Its short life" something , however , Hint has not boon clulinod even by tliu commission itself. After n hnsty survey of tlio stops lend. 1111 ; to the enactment of the iniixlnuini freight rate law , we are asked to pan.se to consider the caused of tills suddenly developed hostility to railroads lu Net braska. These causes nre enuniorated us , llrst , the development of n public sen- tlmeiit favoring free coinage of silver and government ownership and opera tion of natural monopolies , of quasi-pub lic works and protesting against the growing power of the courts ; second , crop disasters ; third , mortgage fore closures. Not a suggestion of the extor tionate rates Imposed uiwn shippers over railroads built entirely by bond subsi dies. Not an Intimation of railroad Interference In politics and railroad domination of legislators and state olh- i Not a word about railroad defi ance of all law and their nppeam on every occasion to federal courts to up indefinitely every objectionable pTcco of legislation. Naturally then wo might expect an unqualified endorsement of the Brjwrr decision nullifying the Nt-liaska nml- mini late law and stipe rsedlug iho coutts In the power to regulalo rail toad rates given by the constitution ex pressly to the legislature. To bo to'd tint tlie decision contain ! * no now princi ple whatever , however , is certainly go'iiig rather far , for If so we must wonder why It shouldi have attracted Buch widespread - spread attenllon aud justified the author lu writing the article In < iucsllon. One point brought out lu this paper mUht possibly have Jet In a ray of light had its significance been grasped. It Is shown that the freight tariff In effect In Nebraska today is the Identical tariff put into force November 1 , 1SS" , nearly twelve years ago , without inodlliciitlou except Ui a few unimportant particu lars , lu other words , while the prices of farm products and manufactured ar ticles of all kinds have fallen from ItO to 50 per cent , the railroads are chargIng - Ing the same prices for freight transpor tation today that they charged twelve years ago. And lu the face of this fact we are assured by a writer who pro fesses to have studied the question thor oughly that the railroads have in no way contributed to the causes out of which has grown the demand for state control and regulation of rates. North Carolina Is taking up legisla tion designed to force the railroads to provide separate cars or compartments for whlto and colored passengers. When the Philippines are annexed nnd the habit of railroad travel cultivated nmoug the inhabitants congress will doubtless be asked to pass a law requir ing all cars to be divided Into separate compartments , not only for white and blacks , but for yellows , browns and half- breeds , ns well. One Form o * Atchlson Globe. After a man gets old the only kind of good luck'he has Is to wako up from a bad dream and be thankful that It was not true. A Pnylnic Graft. Philadelphia , Ledger. Thote fast Chicago roads are getting a good deal of free advertising , but It Is prob ably costing them moro than the same amount would if paid for In the regular way. No Iluckivurd Step * . St. Louis Republic. The record of expenditures for benevolent purposes last year In the United States was 125,000,000. A country that spends that much annually In such a cause can never go back ward. Ncvr Orcelnii Unit. Philadelphia Time ? . It's proposed In Greece that no bachelors shall be allowed seats In the lower branch of the national congress. This may bo be cause by their training they have less re gard for the speaker of the house. Obji-ot to HliMililK It I" . Kansas City Star. The dean of Westminster says that.If any one ls Indiscreet enough to offer to place a statue'of George Washington In Westmin ster abbey he will be obliged to refuse his sanction. The objection Is simplicity that 1' won't do to place beside the dust of Brit ish heroes the proud dUgy of the man who whipped them. Soldier * ' Letter * . Springfield Republican. Letters are being received in Nebraska from soldiers now at Manila , which had been opened after being mailed and parts of the letters cut out , when they wore re- sealed. It U said that the parts cut out evidently contained expressions of dissatis faction with the service there and desire to be mustered out. If a censorship has actually been set up among the troops at Manila we have como to a pretty pass , truly. But It has been Instituted a little too late to hide the fact that the American volunteers In the Islands have no stomach for the business of spreading the particular brand of liberty for which the American government now stands. MIMTAHV K.VI'KXSUS. Knormonn Coitt Involved In tlie I'ro- IIONIM ! Army IIHTOIIHC. Springfield ( Mass. ) Republican. In republics ft follows that the people have much more reason to bo Jealous of the Increase of the army , expense aside , than of the navy. The navy can hardly be turned with effect upon the people themselves ; It works beyond the coast line , and Its chief objective Is foreign nations. An army , how ever , con be turned with Immense precision anil rapidity against the people by the gov ernment controlling It. A navy can even bo Increased unnecessarily and not become a menace , near or remote , to popular liberties or established Institutions ; but an army In creased unnecessarily 'becomes ' by to much a danger and a curse. The English people afford Americans an excellent example. They have always been jealous of the military power. While build ing up a great navy , they have kept the standing army small , so that It cow con tains but 163,000 men for service through out the immense and much-dispersed em pire. The military experts and the generals fume each year and call for the army's In crease on continental lines , but the people resist the tendency with the characteristic Kngllsh stubbornness and suspicion of the militarism that reaches Into their homes. If the present British ministry should at tempt to Increase the permanent standing army four times after a very short , one sided and victorious war , It would bo over thrown In a month. Vet the American ad ministration has set out to quadruple the United States standing army , and , because of the enormous expense thus involved , bur den the people with the heaviest war budget known to modern civilized states. .MICI ! : i\ii .tiioTM AT run PI i.rrr. Minneapolis TNuuiir : The war over the roccnt election of n bishop In Inwiv has broken j out In a new upot. The Omaha illoccto refill * to acquiesce In the selection j : of IlUhop Morrison. Mranuhllc his sMaiilc ] nujesty U fairly cracking hi * cloven hoofs 'together ' In the excess of hlfl glee over the dissensions among the brethren. floston Tuinecrlpt ! Hev. Dr. 1'eters of New York says the churchts are leaving the people , not thi > people the churches. There are sections of New York City whltti con tain t nearly 00,000 people In which there Is not n single church. Ho remarks with nn emphasis applicable to other cltlw than New York that churches are moving away from the people who uccd them most. Brooklyn Uaglc : The Women's Christian Temperance union threatens to boycott u Congregational college In Oklahoma to which Adolph Busch , the St. Louis brewer , has given gome money , unless the trustees decline to accept the gift. Why do not the temperance women boycott Vassar college , which was founded by and named nttcr a good Baptist brewer of I'oughkcepsle ? Savannah News : The chaplain of the Kansas legislature ( populist ) varied his prayer the other day by praying earnestly j for the newspaper reporters present , that they might tell the truth and let the people know how hard the populist legislators were laboring for -the public good. On the eamo day the populist senate appointed as ofll- clal stenographer , at a good salary , a man who never studied stenography and who did not know ono shorthand sign from another , and who would not have recognized a type writer ( machine ) If ho had met one on the fit reel. St. Paul Pioneer Press : An organization of clergymen In Indiana has agreed that none of Its members will perform the mar riage ceremony for divorced persons. The result Is not a decrease In divorces or re marriages , but an Increase In marriages be fore magistrates. It is a question whether these gentlemen are doing more harm or good to the cause they wish to aid. By driving people to the magistrates' ofllccs for remarriage they are divesting the ceremony , In the eyes of many thoughtless people , of Its sacred character. The marriage which Is purely legal In Its form would naturally , one must suppose , bo all the moro promptly subjected to a purely legal dissolution. The evil of the divorce problem will never bo solved by such action on the part of the clergy. AM > OTHERWISE. The most deflntto Information obtainable about the movements of Dreyfus is ( hat he la ' not moving at all. Real strawberries are the first premature sign of spring to appear hereabouts. The prlso will qonvey the necessary frost. As Josh Billings would say , now look out for pports of a short Ice crop. The weather Is < oo severe to harvest It and the Ice Is too hard to cut. General Brultscheff ( O'Brien for short ) Is a Russian general and Baron Jahaun O'Kel ley von Gallagher Is an Austrian general. You can't lese 'cm. A Chicago policeman rescued from the maw of a cable train two women by bodllj lifting them from their perilous position. His magnificent reach Is the envy of the profession. The star-eyed goddess presided at a Ken- lucky function recently and among her as sistants were "Misses Snnthlno Parsong , Stnrro Mcnile , Goldlo Robblnson and Sunny Sanderson. " Bluegrass belles are bound to shlho In name at least. Admiral Dewcy promises to touch the but ton which will set In motion the machinery of Toledo's exposition , May 1 , 1002. This will bo an agreeable change for the ad miral. At present ho Is being touched every day for his own buttons. Conditions are Hpo for a largo crop of lltel suits In Chicago. Newspapers there are telling sotno awful stories about each other. Publishers are only restrained from grabbing each other's hair by the fact that there Is precious little hair to grab. Pcoplo who are perplexed and annoyed by the turn of affairs at Hello should put the blame where It properly belongs. The widespread papering of the Philippines with flaming soap posters was ample provocation for revolution. The natives promptly re sented Implied Insults. Current comment on the antics of the Omaha baboon Is to the effect that his effort to elevate the stage should bo com mended and cultivated. This Is a. wrong assumption. The missing link simply gave an exhibition of masculine realism , which Is not permissible on the stage. The Illinois supreme court has decided that lobbyists , whether known as legislative agents or attorneys , cannot successfully bring suit to recover claims for services from their employers. This Is for the reason that lobbying is against public morals and is entitled ito no legal standing. St. Louis grudgingly admits that Bos ton's new depot Is a big thing , but Insin uates that the Hub needs a big depot to accommodate the crowd anxious to leave the town. The town by the big bridge finds consolation for Us fall In a marked revival of Interest Inthe poets. Town foot pads now quote poetry as they go through the pockets of tb&lr victims. Boston supports out of the public funds an orchestral leader , a bandmaster , a pianist , an Instructor In the theory of mu sic , a teacher of singing and a municipal brass band. All these nro under the direc tion of a music commission. Not the least admirable feature of the work of this com mission Is the suppression of street musi cians whoso Instruments are out of tune. MO.\TA.\A'S IIUOM. The Stntc Attr.nctliiK Fnvornhle At- trillion In tlie HuHt. Philadelphia Inquirer. The time was when Montana was regarded aa a hopefut raining territory. Changes came and "Montana mines" was a byword to ex press anything that was playcil out and no good. The etato received a black eye through several of Its commercial and public trans actions and It had gradually como to be looked on us a desetred mining camp and a rotten political borough. The cloud Is lifting , however , and the regeneration of the state Is slowly but surely occurring. Through Intelligently directed plans for Ir rigation Immense tracts of valley and bottom tom land which have hitherto been regarded as unavailable for agricultural purposes on account of the arid quality of the self have been made productive. The same methods which enabled the Mormons to make Utah a land of milk and honey have been Invoked to eave mllMons of acres of Montana. Farms and pasturage cover vast areas which formerly were dry plains ; planters and cat- tlctnen are reaping the reward of their Intel ligent efforts. The result of this Is that farmers In the east are turning toward Montana moro and nioro each year. The sales of public and railroad lands for agricultural and etock purpoaes last year in that state amount to over a million acres , mostly to new set tlers , who are bringing money , machinery and stock Into the state. It IB , moreover , to a large extent u migration of Americans , for the percentage of foreign buyers Is very small. A good symptom Is that the land Is passing from the hands of corporations like the Northern 1'aclflc Into the hands of Indi vidual farmers and grazers. Nor have the newcomers remained satis- fled with things as they have found them. Communities nro organizing new irrigation and canal companies all the time and the best engineering talent Is being used to direct tlic-so affairs with the greatest economy. This means an additional acreage of arable rand and the juvcnatlon of Montana through an agricultural impulse. IIIA ! < TM TIIOM IIAM'K IIOIIN. Hope In a tonic for putloncc. 1'ubllc favor li a poor platform to tt&nA on , Kind words tahr lens tiroath ( him hnrah OUCH. A djfimoml IB worth moro than Its tet- tlngd. You can't mend your manner * with R necdlr. Tear will finally padlock the llpt of th mosMlucnt Infidel. Impatience kicks over the dinner pnll to get to the supper table. College diplomas do not go as tickets of nclmlsflon at the pearly gate. The prayer meeting promise not put Into practice odds a Ho to your guilt. Covctousnesg turns n man out of the warmth of his own house to stand shivering on his neighbor's doorstep. TIU I'li\SAVniIE9. Brooklyn Life : She Hut I never MV you nny enrournceincnt. lie Yes , you did. Didn't you tell m your father was wealthy ? Chicago Journal : Mrs. Trnccy Do you realize , my Ucur , that you have never dona anything to save your fcllowmcn nny mif- ferlnir ? Trucoy Didn't 1 marry you ? Cleveland Plain Dealer : "What an air of ownemhlp the bride n numcs ? " "Yes. Bho went through the marrlar ceremony as though It were her own iiai- ent rite. " Chicago Tribune : "They cay , " ventured the young man , "that It Is becoming- quits the thing for newly married couples to KO find pee Niagara l 'nll In winter. " "It must be a beautiful sight In winter , " she suld. " 1 should so llko to BCO It ! " Ills next trembling utterance settled it , and they are to start next wcok. Chicago Post : "Doscrlbe to me , " sh said , "what you would consider un Ideal wife. " "With pleasure , " ho replied ; "but itwill bo necessary llrst that you explain to mo what vou consider your predominating traits.1 Somervllle Journal : First Oosslp What makes you think she Is In love with him ? Second Gopdlp Well , I saw her pick a thread off his shoulder as she waa stand- In ? talking to him last evening. Cincinnati Enquirer : "Wlfo erer ralsa Cnln with you ? " asked the fat nmn. "Sometimes , " nald the thin man ; "but Bho docs such an artistic job of It that fho gets to admiringhciuelt and gets In a treed iiumor. " Chicago Post : Whllo she was getting- renny to go to church she had been saying things to him because he would not | t > , and she had been saying them with con siderable emphasis and rapidity. Ho sighed und put down im paper. "My dear , " ho. Bald , " 1 this a day of rest ? ' "Of course It Is , " , < he replied. "Then why not ? " ho nsKea. VMOX UP 111UK AND GRAY. ( Respectfully nnd sincerely dedlcatefl to Major General Nelson A. Miles and Major General Joscoh. Wheeler. ) United now and forever , As brothers wo clasp each hanfl ; The northern blue will over love The gray of the southern land. Side by side now nnd forever With brave , loyal hearts BO tm , The southern gray will always be The pride of the northern blue. The northern chimes with silver tones x Float from ocean's strand to strand , Greeted by the lovlnrc echoes From the bells in Maryland. Kind Heaven has joined the emblems , Weaving- the banner so true The Stars and Stripes with Stars and Bars , One Hag for the gray and blue. The cr.ay of beautiful morning , The blue from the starry way. Rising in glorious ilawnlns- Helled one color today. Und > r the shining arch of love Clod's angels nro marching through ; I Onn loving hand extends to us , The other's held forth to you. . They bring the wreaths of our union i Hoar the bells of heaven ring ! They chant our national anthem , They surround us as they sing. Dear Father In heaven , bless us ; To Theo wo will ever pray. O , God of our free republic , - . . BARNEY. Boston , Mass. A Cold Winter It depends a good deal in what part of this glorious and ex panded country you live as to whether you find it cold. But our trade up to now is con fined pretty much to those regions of the country that were in cluded on our map be fore Dewey , Sampson and Shafter had begun to enlarge our bound- eries. From Boston to Omaha it has been cold. It will be cold for another 2 months. You'll want heavy clothing. We've got it to sell. We have re duced our prices in or der to sell it quickly. This is your chance. We invite you to take advantage of U.