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THE OMAHA DAILY UEEt SATURDAY, EEliKUAKY 9, 1901. Tim Omaha Daily Dee K. ItOSUWATKH, Editor. PUULlBHKI) ISVKltY mousing. Tt.'iiMa oiMiacnttiTfnN. I Dally Hen (without Huminv). Ono Ycnr..J6 0o jjaiiy nee and I ml Sunday, Ono Year... R.00 iiiiisiraicu lice, una Ycnr Sunday Iiec. One Year 2.00 1.J0 Saturday Hee, One Year Twentieth Cntury Farmer, Ono Yenr.. 1.00 ucemy uce, one Year OFFICES. Omaha: The Hee Itjlldlng. South Omaha: City Hall Hulldlng, Twcn-ty-llfth and M Streets. Court .-ll Ulurfs: 10 Pearl Street. f'hlc.tgo. 1610 Unity Uulldlng. New York; Templo Court. Washington! 001 Fourteenth Street. COHUESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news nnd edi torial matter Rhould bo addressed: Omaha Hee, Editorial Department. HUSINESS LETTERS. .. Uuslnoss letters and remittances should bo addressed: The IJeo Publishing Com; pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Itemlt hy draft, express or postal order, n.'ivalilh in rii iino iuiiilalitnir Cnmimnv. Only 2-rent stamps accepted In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepted THE IJEE Pl'ni.ISIIINO COMPANY. statement" of cihcuiTation. Blnto of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: George H. Tischuck, secretary of Tho nee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and rnmplets copies of The Dally. Morning, Lvcnlng and Hunday Ueo printed during the munin 01 January, ivui. was as iohowb 1. i ssn.noo i S!(l,NS!0 ...... i!(i,ii;io .......S!(I,S!10 , 2(1,110 , sio.Nno 17 ssti.stio 2 3 4 B 0 7 8 18 19 20 21 22 23 ...,s:i,:ifo ....Ufl.flJiO ...,S!ll,7SCO .,,,s:ii,oro ....SKI.-llO ....SMI.HSJO ....Sill.lHO ..22(1,-110 ..vo.itHo 21.. 9 SUI.SMO io .ii.-mo 11 aii.isio 12 211,-1 1!0 13 S!ii,70O 14 2l,nno 15 sjo.ir.o ic s:(i,:is:o 25.. 1( 211,110 20 au.isso 27.. i 28... SB... 30... 31... ,1111,81.1 .SMI, I MO .IS!,770 .'JH.NKI .smi, ino .MI0.0S5 Less unsold nnd returned copies. . 10,017 Net total talcs.., san.iMS Net dally average 2,77l GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In, my presence and sworn to before mo this 31st day of January, A, D. JW1. M. 11. Hl'NGATK. (Seal.) Notury Public. Drop n penny In the fusion newspaper slot and get one of the llnest senatorial pipe dreams ever offered to the public. ', After the Investigating committee gets through with It, the holdup lobby nt Lincoln will probably appreciate how It feels to bo held up. A word to South Omahn Profit by Omaha's past experience nnd do not build a charter for a city of 2.",000 peo ple cut on a 50,000 population pattern. Omuha Is ready to provide headquar ters for the Southern Pacific nnd for that matter for any other railroad that may be willing to operate out of this city. The queen of Holland paid nil of the expenses of the wedding and also al lowed her husband n fut dower. This Is fully us good a thing, financially, ns marrying tin American heiress. Nebraska farmers and stock raisers nre sincerely thankful for the snow, which comes Just nt the right time. Watch for a bumper wheat crop when Nebraska's next harvest Is In. A railroad company proposes to dnm tho Platte river near Schuyler. The people along the stream have damned It for years, but the exercise has had no effect In Improving Its hnblts. Colorado's senate has extended Colonel Itoosevelt an Invitation to address that body before he returns cast. Colorado is nnxlous to make some nmends for the rowdyism shown tit Victor last summer. Tho latest proposition for a combina tion is for a combination of Auditorium nnd Ak-Snr-Bcn. If the union is pro nounced, however, it must bo for nil time to come without recourse to tho di vorce mill. As intimated In Tho Roe, the legisla ture Is not disposed to Impose capital punishment ns u penalty for kidnaping. Tho tendency of tho time is toward re ducing tho number of cnpltal offenses rather than Increasing them. Helen Keller, without sense of sight, heating or speech, has Just received n high promotion at nn eastern college be- cause of her proilclency In English. If Helen had nil her senses what would ho be a wonder or nn ordinary girl? Tho Nebraska blizzards which havo been raging In tho eustern papers are fearful to contenlplnte. As nothing of tho kind approached nearer than 500 miles of Nebraska, tho people of this state nro feeling quite comfortuble. Iowa republicans nro talking of get ting together nud acting harmoniously in tho coming cnmpulgn. If there was nny lack of barmouy last fall curious peoplo would llko to see Just how big n majority tho republicans hnvo when they get together. Tho love of the fusion reformers for union labor, so ardently professed when every campaign Is on, ulwnys brenks when subjected to tho test of legislation demanded In the Interest of union labor. Tho labor people should mark down for future reference the defeat of tho union label bill ut tho hands of fusion oppo nents. Tho -wings of tho holdup artists around tho legislature have been clipped by the exposure In tho house. The showing will probably also have tho ef feet of killing many meritorious mens tires, ns from now on nil an opponent of a bill will havo to do will bo to cry "holdup," uud tho fatal stab has been given. Had that bill for n branch mint nt Oinuhii been reported by the house com mltteo during tho long session of con gross, tho chalices would havo been good for Its passage. As It is, only three week remain to get It through both hoiiKo nud senate, it Is to bo hoped It has hot been reported back, as usual with ho many bills, simply to eompll- ment some member, nnd die on tho bllf lllo ut the expiration of tho sesslou. VUUA'S t'lXAXCUL OltUOATlUXS, Tho debts of Cuba tiro snld to bo n source of boiiic oinhnrrnsmnpiit to thu NVnfililiiKtoii ndnilnlstrntlon In connec tion with the (incHtlou of recognizing the lniienoniieiice 01 mi; milium i hu n t. . - i - it.. , i .1 nn... ernmoiit of Spain lesiied lntoropt-benrlng bonds to the iiniount of hundreds of millions of dollnrs to jny the expense of stippresHliiK Insurrection In Cubn, the Interest nnd principal of which made it lien upon the revenues of tho Island. These bonds tire largely held In l-'riuieo, Hpnln nnd Oernmny nnd the bondholders nnidu cfTorts while the pence treaty wns being negotiated nt Paris to have tlfo United States make provision for tho payment of that debt. They have not yet given up hope of obtaining some thing, ngunts of the bondholders hnvlng been sent to Washington hud Havana to endeavor to secure recognition of tho obligations by tho Cuban republic In the new constitution. Iteferrlng to this debt Incurred by tho Spanish government, Senator Frye, who wns n member of the pence commission, snld a few days ago that wc now owe It to Cuba to get Into the constitution by some means a clntiso plainly, positively and unequivocally repudiating thnt debt. "If this Is not done," said Mr. l'rye, "Cuba will start with a burden that will crush her. Cuba never can pay the' stupendous sum that was as sessed against her revenues." Ap parently tho Cuban constitution docs re pudiate this debt, the twenty-third sec tion of that Instrument declaring that the republic of Culm does not recognize nor will not recognize any debts or com promises contracted prior to the promul gation of the constitution, exception be- U(, ,nn,i0 0f tj, debtH nnd compromises legitimately contracted for In behalf of tho revolution and those which the rev olutlonary governments contracted, either by themselves or by their legiti mate representatives In foreign conn tries. These debts and compromises, It Is further provided, shall be classllled by the Cuban congress, which body shall decide as to the payment of those which In its Judgment are legitimate. It Is said that this provision would be approved by the Washington ndmlnls trntlon, the president feeling that those who contributed money to the support of the revolutionary nrmy should re ceive Just treatment by tho Cuban re public. Certainly none but the holders of the bonded debt which Spain fastened upon the revenues of Cuba Just before Span ish sovereignty In the Island was de stroyed will question that tho Cuban people are not under the least obliga tion to recognize this debt, contracted to maintain Spanish rule In the Island. It Is entirely nn obligation of Spain nnd tho holders of tho bonds, for which they paid n small fraction of the face value, must look solely to tho Spanish govern ment for their payment. Undoubtedly the TTulted States will sustain Cuba In refusing to recognlzo this debt should nn attempt be mudo to exnet payment. In regard to the debts contracted In behalf of tho revolution, however, nhd tho llnnnclnl Indebtedness to tho United States, It Is expected, and reasonably so, that provision will be made for their payment. The purpose to do this Is Implied In the section of the constitu tion above referred to, but It Is posslblo thnt our government mny ask a more explicit declaration. We do not believe there Is any disposition at Washington to place any obstacle in the way of Cuban Independence or to put any ex cessive financial burden upon the new republic, but simply to see that Cuba shull start right as an independent com monwealth and take her place honor ubly among tho republics of the world. ao irotD tnour tiw treaty. Nothing has yet been heard at tho Department of State Indicative of the purposes of the British government re spouting the nmended Ilny-Pauucefote treaty. Hut little more than three weeks remain within which Great Britain can unswer tho American pro posals. The supplementary amendments extending tho time for exchungo of rntlllcatlons carried It to March 5, so that no matter, says a Washington ills patch, though the senate bo In session nfter tho 5th, tho treaty falls If not disposed of by that date. It Is iwluted out that if Great Britain objects to tho proposed amendments nnd tho senate neither withdraws Its reeommeudatlons nor proposes others 'which nro unob Jeetlonablo within tho next four weeks, or If Great Britain Ignores tho mutter altogether till after March 5, that ends tho whole business. It Is suggesled ns possible that tho senate may, In executive scsslou, re quest tho secretary of slate to try to obtain further extension of time, but ns tho British government fully under stands tho situation It would seem safe to assume that It will announce Its do- clslon before tho expiration of the tlmo specllled In the treaty. Parliament will assemble next week nnd it is quite probable that tho British government will soon thereafter make known its position regarding the treaty. MUXKV IX CUICULATIUX The democratic assertion thnt tho gold standard would reduce tho amount of money In circulation appears hull crous In tho light of tho actual facts Tho circulation statement for February 1 shows an Increase In every form of currency during twelve months, wltl tho exception of the treasury notes, tho per capita being $2S.:i8, the largest In the history of tho country. On July 1 181)2, tho per capita was $.M.G0. At tho end of tho Cleveland administration thu circulation had decreased to $21.21 per onplta. It rapidly Increased when tho gold stnudnrd was made certain by tho election of McKlnley nnd reached 25.10 on July 1, 1898; $25.02 on July 1, 1809 $20.01 on July 1, 1000, nud has now reached $28.38 Tho general stock of money In tho United States on February 1 aggregated $2,400,1 IT, ooo, wiwe tno amount m cir dilation was $2,100,780,213. The net In creuso In tho hist twelve months was $187,030,758. Tho total amount of money held In tho treasury as assets of the government Increased soniethlng over $0,000,000, there was an lucreaso of $25,000,000 In gold nnd decreases of $, 000,000 In sliver dollars, nearly S'J.OOO. 000 In subsidiary silver, ?'J,000,000 In fulled States and $.","0O.00O In national banknotes. The largest addition to the currency during the yenr was In na tional banknotes, amounting to ?02,- 174,030. The Increase In. the circulation dur ing the last twelve months may not bo equaled In the ensuing twelve, but n growth In the supply of money keeping pace with the increasing demands of business mny bo confidently counted upon, Practical men will see in tho above figured ample Justillcntion of the gold stnudnrd. aiVlXU OMAHA A.llLACK EVV. The prlnclpnl complaint mutually en tered ngalnSt the proposed tax levy by those who Insist It Is always too high Is that it will give Omahn u black eve by discouraging Investment nnd depre ciating real estntc values. These satno 6bJector., however, Immediately rush Into print and give Omaha a worso black eye by constantly advertising It ns nppronchlng tho depths of despair, with bankruptcy staring It In tho face. In order to make political capital against tho party In control of the municipal government, their lnmcntn tlons are picked up by the local yellow Journals and spread broadcast. People outside of Omaha reading these walls of discontent, coming apparently from men Ident tiled with tho growth of tho city, are given the Impression thnt Oninha Is standing still or going back ward, when In fact it Is making forward strides more rapidly than ever before. Omaha can hnvo no worse advertise ment than the dissemination of wild nnd baseless charges of extravagant govern ment nnd ruinous taxation. If Omnha people porslst In asserting that they uro laboring under heavier tax burdens than those In any other city, how can they expect outsiders to do anything but take them nt their word? As u matter of fact Omaha's taxation Is burdensome only on real estate own ers. The vnst amount of personnl prop erty, merchandise stocks nnd business capital escape taxation almost entirely. Stocks of goods Insured for hundreds of thousands of dollnrs are listed for taxation at a paltry few thousand and the bank deposits, which run up Into tho millions, exceed the aggregate valuation placed on nil the personnl property ns sesscd In the city. Whnt Is n subject for Just complaint is not thnt taxation Is exorbitant, but that It Is unequal tinder our system, nnd tho demand should be for a more equitable method of taxation, which nlone will permit uently reduce the rnte. Knowing these facts to be true, would It not bo a good deal better to dlsctiRs them In the council chamber and In the commercial organizations In n serious mood Instead of Hying Into print with eel; less misstatements thnt do Omnha more Injury than all the extravagance f city, county and school district nd ministrations In the Inst ten years? i Clnclnnntl Just now presents a pe cullnrly Interesting spectacle for the moralist. A large body of reputable business men Is striving In court to se cure legal sanction to a proceeding which tho governor Insists Is clearly criminal nnd declares he will use tho ntlre police power of tho state to pre ent. Whatever tho decision of the court may bo at the end of tho legal hnlr-spllttlng contest now In progress, no one will doubt that the proposed meeting of professional pugilists will, If permitted, lack nny of tho essentlul ele ments of u prize light. While there Is nothing edifying In tho contemplation of respectable men doing nil they can to forward tho Interests of u band of bruisers nnd their followers, there Is some consolation in the attitude of Gov- rnor Nasli, who has positively declared that he will not allow the state to be disgraced by a prize light, no matter what It Is called. A comparison of tho expenses of our city government from year lo year would be u safer guide than u comparl son of its revenues, because when tho revenues have been short the expenses have forced overlaps. In all probability too, n comparison of the expenses would show a steady though lncrenslng figure, while tho revenue column Is going up and down according to tho pressure brought for a low tax levy. It must be remembered, also, that tho city govern ment, like other business establish ments, has less to do In times of depres slon, when no public work Is under taken, than In times of prosperity, when business Is brisk and expansion is lm perntlve in nil departments. Whnt the taxpayers have the right to ask is thnt the administration bo conducted on nn economical basis that gives them their money's worth for every cent paid In. Tho ministers of tho powers aro wait ing for the reply of tho Chinese to the demand for tho decapitation, of twelve of tho leading citizens of tho empire. If some of them adhere to previous stnteinenls China must proceed with the slaughter find' pay up tho Indemnity demanded, and tho sooner this Is done tho sooner foreign troops will bo out of China. Tho entire proeeodlug Is much after tho manner of police courts, which ascertain how much tho prisoner had when ho was searched and then lino him the limit. General Otis has been tendered nn other banquet In New York. Tho peo pie of that city should bo moro careful about throwing tho opposition press Into spasms. Thu editors have trouble enough with current events without btinclug up things which they had learned to forget. Aecordlug to German authorities, tho only soldiers and oltlcers In China who can bo recognized socially nro tho CJer mans. All but tho G'ermnns were thcro when there was lighting to do uud did It. Tho German ofllcers nre welcomo to tho social Held. After nil, n queenly bride Isn't much different from any other. Cabled tic counts of the wedding of WUhelmluu of Holland to the matt of her choice Imit ate that she conducted herself Just as would nit American girl under the sumo lrcumstaiieos. Mny she long enjoy tho bliss of the love that now blesses her life. A collection of nil tho fakes sprung about tho senatorial contest by the local yellow Journals since the convening of he legislature would explode them nil by self-contradiction. It Is ensy enough for Irresponsible fakirs to evolve sensa tions every other minute, but the public will go slow about swallowing them. Wnrr Unite of Wolfcrt's. lloston Transcript. David II. Hill may bo persuaded hereafter, but experience has taught htm the danger of being too previous. l-'nte of Illlls In Coiinre. Philadelphia. Ledger. Dotting a bill into congress Is llko throw ing a atono Into the sea. Putting tho bill through congress is llko getting the stone out again. Thuusntutn Aniln Millions, Chicago Post. Thirty thousand additional mounted men nro to ba sent to South Africa to help round up tho 6,000.000 Uoers who retuso to acknowledge they have been whipped. A Forgotten Hum. Minneapolis Times. Tho Agricultural department has Issued-a handsomo and Interesting brochuro on tho goat. Tho goat Is a vatuablo animal, but for general, all around value, the hydraulic ram Is best Rultod to tills section of country. A Dnnurrotin Coiuliliinllon. , lluffnlo Express. Tho disposition to combhio political and religious questions In tho Philippines can not bo welcome to American politicians, for It Is likely to bring religious questions Into American politics Insofar as they bear on the Philippines. 1'nyliiK the Price. aiobc-Dcmocrat. Drttlah army mortality from bullets and dlseoso In South Africa has reached 12.0SU, and tho number added last month was 830. Probably the war has cost 20,000 lives on both sides, u score that shocks humanity, as President Kruger predicted. llrrnklnu' Into (lit- A rxn m )' Baltimore American. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt Is determined that sho shall not be obscured by any other member of her sex. Mrs. Catt asserts that woman Is still under tho heel of man. Per haps It Mrs. Catt coutd borrow tho Kansas woman's hatchet sho could cut her way out. Another I'nlio Iiinsel. Indianapolis Journal. Tho enterprising newspapers have con talnod dispatches from Washington setting rorth without tho shadow of a doubt that General Miles would be "Jumped" by two other major goncrals In succession, In order that they might bo made lieutenant gen erals. Unfortunately, tho president seems not to have been Informed of theso plans, tor ne uas named General Miles. Extrn Session Imiirolinlile. Philadelphia Record. It Is not easy to reconcile the extra ses Ion talk of tho time with tho statement that President McKlnley has accepted an Invitation to crosH the continent early In May and to address the students of tho University of California on tho 16th of that month. Mr. .McKlnley would hardly ncreo to put so mailyr miles botween hlra nnd the federal legislature If ho should seriously apprehend n Bprjnstlmc session of a new congress. , Turn on the l.lulil. Philadelphia Ledger. It would bo Intcrestlnc to know whnt motlvo prompted fifty-five members of tho houso to vote against a bill to retire the Hawaiian sliver coinage and replace It with American coins. That vole was sufllclent to defeat tho bill ond thus delay the ex tension of our monetary system to this part of tho United States. Tho bill pro posed to redcom unworn coin at Its face value and worn coin at Its bullion value, which looks like a bargain, fulr to all parties concerned. FAME HPHKAIII.Vfi AllIIOAII. Hnre-ltnlsltiK IiKlimlrv CIvIiik Xe- Iirnnltu Iteptitntlon. Philadelphia Times. Nebraska has gone Into the Ilelglnn hnra Industry on a large scalo and finds it a very profitable one, Tho Nebraska Ilelglnn haro Is natlvo and to the marior born, be ing n Jnck rabbit whllo nllvo nnd running nnd a Uclglan hare after being killed, frozen and shipped to New York for sale. It Is said that a frozen Jack rabbit Is Just as good ns tho Imported artlclo and that ho stands the climate, far hotter. ' On the drouthy plains of western Ne braska, where corn nnd whent nre parched Into nothingness two years out of three, tho Jack rabbit breeds and Increases mightily In nil seasons, wet nnd dry. Tho winter cllmnto and cold Btorngo warehouses of Ne braska can be utilized lo nny nccessnry extent In freezing dead rabbits, and tho Ne braska ImltntorB of Teddy, tho mighty hunter, who begin their destructive careers ns rabbit hunters, aro to bo found In every neighborhood. Tho rabbits bring to the Juvenile hunter.; $1.50 per dozen, which leaves a good margin for commission and freight 'to dealers nnd railways, nnd 'carloads of the frozen cot tontails nre shipped to tho New York com mission houses, ono shipment of 40.000 to n Blngle houso being recently reported. Tho chnngo In namo from plain Nehrnskn Jack rabbit to Belgian haro occurs In transit. 1,1. NIC OK Till? OLD JAM 10. Methods of the White Mini In "llolnu" Poor I.o. Cleveland Leader. "Crazy Snake" nnd seventeen othor lead ers of tho recent Creek "uprising" In tho Indian Territory hnvo been arrested, and will, It Is said, bo tried on the charge of treason. This, It Is bslloved, will put an end to tho trouble. In nn Interview "Crazy SnaTo" says that ho sees no reason' for hla arrest; that the Indians bad no Intention of killing the whites; that they wero simply trying to get their rights, and that they would get Jus tlco beforo the courts, oven though tho "oil syndicate" was trylug to rob them of their hunting grounds. That Is only an Indian's way of express ing It. but It probably tells the whole story. The Indians aro guilty of nothing moro than an attempt to pr'otecl their rights and prevent the taking of their lands by white speculators. Tho Creek revolt, which was not much of a revolt, after, all, was simply a ropetl tlon of similar "uprisings" that havo oc curred In recent years, and It Is invariably found that whlto men aru ut the bottom of tho trouble. Whenever tho Indians revolt against the swindling tactics practiced by dishonest agents or resent the encroachment of whites upon their reservation n great huo and cry b raised und troops ara ordered out to suppress them. Usually tho sight of (ha troops maddens tho savages and leads them on to the commission of acts which aro deserving of punishment. A conflict occurs, the Indians iare whipped, and the vanguard of "civilization" Is pushed a little further Into the wilderness. These wards of tho, nation ore entitled to better treatment tbau they havo received in the past, and tho day may come when they will receive it. WHAT CAMFIMAS THINK. Expression f fnn Frnneli'o I'niier on tlm Itiillroiul Connnllunllon. San Francisco Chronicle; What tho pro prietors will expect from tholr pro consuls In charge of their various financial provinces Is that each within hla own Jurisdiction shall devise and execute tho means to this end, tho part of tho syndi cate being to require the authorities of each division of their empire to aid, upon request, In all reasonable tfays tho efforts of all others. In this, thorcfore, wo may confidently expect to reap ndvnntage In this state. Our previous ovorlords havo done tho best that lay In them to get Interest on their water capitalization. The dlfllculty was In extorting tho necessary sums from a population so limited. Tho history of the Southern Pacific company supplies proof, If any wero needed, that n territory can no moro yield continuous revenue to a trans portation company than It can continuously yield wheat to the farmer without tho necessary applications to renew Its fertil ity. This experlcnco of this company has doubtless been carefully noted by Its now owners nud wc may expect that It wltl not bo repeated.. There nro but two ways to put Southern Pacific stock on a dividend basis; one Is to double tho rato and tho other Is to double the business. The first Is Impossible. Tho traffic will bear no moro. It would promptly dwindles under Increased rates. Thoreforo, the good of tho property requires an Increase of business, of which tho most profitable must come from In creased population nnd diversified In dustries, which nro most effectually pro moted by better transportation facilities. Thcso tho new owners can give to an ex tent which was Impossible to tho former owners and wo shall certainly get them as fast ns equipment can bo provided and tracks properly Improved, not necessarily because tho new owners are public-spirited citizens, but tyccnuno they want to make money nnd are In a position to do It In this way and no other. San Francisco Coll: As the? commerce of tho Pacific ocean npprojichcrf-lilf bulk and In vnluo that of tho Atlan8a'n Fran cisco will approach tho lmpce of New York, and tho tranBportatl,B iHsjca across tho continent, having nn equlHntercst In both points, will , havo no Inclination to bo ndversc to our prosperity. Such Is the promise of the situation. It Is there fore Important that at this Juncturo thcro bo an early presentation of the enso of California and San Frnuclsco to the man agers of the now system. They should be lntormod of tho evils Imposed by the old system, of the unjust discriminations against us, of the extortion practiced upon us, of tho corrupting Influence of Southern Pacific politicians, of the handlcnp put upon producers, manufacturers and merchants by tho adverse freight rates Imposed. They should also be Informed of whnt Is needed In the way of reform. Tho abounding re sources and lnduatrlal nnd commercial ad vantages of j.ha state should be raado known to them, so that they may "Under stand how much of profit will como to thomsolvcfl by Increased trnfllc should they change tho policy of tho old company nnd trcnt tho stnto and tho city with fairness. To that end tho business men of the state should speak out. There Is nothing to be gained at this time by hesitation or by following tho promptings of fear. That would bo but a coward policy, and In Junc tures like this fortune favors the brave. Let us have In this Issue co-opcratlon In all parts of the state. The time has come to act. (1 11 It HUI.ATIONH WITH CI I1A. New York Times: The belief that our lato war with Spain was a war of humanity, begun nnd carried on primarily to relieve an Oppressed peoplo nnd ranko them free and Independent, Is one of the common er rors of tho time. Doston Globe: Keep your eye on Cuba. Rev. Dr. Hcpworth quotes a Washington ofllclnl as saying: "Wo nro only on the threshold of Cuban complications, and not even tho seventh son of a seventh son can tell ub where wo shall bo six months from now." Philadelphia Press: Tho position of the administration that congress must deal with tho Cuban situation, oven if an extra BCEslon has to be called, Is meeting with n hearty response from tho republlcnn news papers, No one of them has spoken on tho subject without agreeing mm wiu ono for the national legislature and that this duty must not be shirked. Indianapolis Journal: That Cuba owes nn lucstlmablo debt of grntltudo to the United StatcB nnd ought to make distinct recognition of tho fact Is certainly true, but It Is not so clear that It should be em bodied in tho constitution. It ought to bo quite as satisfactory In tho form of an In dependent resolution. A constitution should bo a declaration of fundamental and su premo law, not of Bontlmcnt. After tho n.vniutlonarv war this country owed as great a debt of gratltudo to Franco n Cuba ,ino in tho United States, but nobody thought of expressing gratltudo In. tho con ntitutlnn. nor. In fnct, was It over ex pressed by congress. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Thcro cannot bo tho slightest doubt that tho president Intends to carry out tho pledge of 1898 to the letter. The Cubans aro now, on the Initiation of tho president, engaged In the work of framing a constitution and when this Is finished It will bo submitted to congress. Tho cnanccs aro tnai congress will bo cnlled In npcclal session on tais account, so ns to givo prompt and rnrcful consideration to-'that Instrument, u con gress believes that n government on tho lines laid down In that charter win uo practicable and creditable, It will bo sanc tioned, and n government under It will go Into operation. Tho United States stands sponsor to tho world for Cuba. It omancl nalcd tho Island from Spanish oppression and will glvo It nn opportunity to set up la business for Itself. The United suites, however, will bo In a position of quasi- guardianship over tho Island nnd will ho hold, In n genoral wny, accountable to tho world for that Island's conduct. Of course eventually Cuba, by tho free voice of Its people, will ask for annexation, No sano Amorlcnn doubts this. Hut It will flrBt'hnvo an opportunity to try tho exporlment of Bolf-government nnd will bo backed up by tho United States In that rolo. POLITICAL DHU'T. Thoro aro 45,000 peoplo on tho pay rolls of New York City nnd they draw J4.000.000 a yrnr from tho city treasury. The spectacle of Orovcr Cleveland follow Ing tho hounds, mounted and dressed In rcgulntlon style, will havo a tendency to sootho tho grief cnused by tho ndjournmcnt of congress. The Indiana men who sold tholr votes have been punished by disfranchisement for terms ranging fropi ten to twenty years Tho men who bought tho votes, tho tempt ers, nro not llablo for punishment under Indiana's Jughandle law. Tom L. Johnson, who wants the nomlna tlon for mayor of Cleveland on the straight out democratic ticket, has retired from bus lncss and will devoto his Ilfo to democracy, according to an Intention ho has had In mind for somo time. Ho opposes tho extension of street railroad franchises nnd Is In favor of municipal ownership and 3-cent fares, General Catchlngs, the voll known con gressman from Mississippi, yf, out of congress on March 4 after a service of six teen years In tho houso. "My congresBlonul caroor has taken a big sllco out of my llfo," ho said recently. "I went Into tho house when I was 38 and now I am 54. I am going to resume tho practice of law and try to make some money." OTIHIlt LANDS THAN ol HM. of operations and absorb their property. There are now 3,21(5 religious houses In The results of tho census of German cities i'rance. They maintain schools, do wbrks taken last month show that the population 0f charity and havo n missionary role. In gains during tho past five years have boon nccordlng to tho government's stalls greater than during tho preceding five t'cs, their properties wero worth $10,000,000. years. Tho movement of population to the At prtsent such of thelf properties ns nro cities Is not less pronounced In thnt coun- held In their own namo are worth 220, try than In our own and Is duo to tho (same 000,000, while properties held In trust for cause the rapid development of manufac- them nro estimated at 1060,000,000. This tures. Ten years ago Germany had twenty- wealth Is a great temptation to a govern ono cities of moro than 100,000 population went with socialist allies, each, tho aggregate being R.SGl.OTti; In 1900 the number was thirty-two and the total Snakes nnd tigers cnuso moro deaths an population was 8,971,654, or a gain of nunlly In India, nccordlng to an official re 3,309,C"8. In tho first five years tho In- port, thnn tho Uocr bullets causo In South creasa was 1,350,S6I and In the second, 1,958,813. The percentage of population In rreaso of tho German cities wns 58.4. Her 1 In, tho largest city of Germany, showed a population of 1, SSI, 315 last month. In ton years tho city's gain has bcon 274.S09, of which 207,041 Is credited to tho last five years. Nuremberg has now a population of 200,731, which represents an Increaso of 60.C per cent In tho Inst flvo years and 82.6 per cent In ten years. Stettin has 209.9SS people, having gained 49,2 per cent In the last five j ears and S0.S per cent In ten years. Frankfort-on-Mnln has 287,813 people, rep resenting a gain of 60 per cent In ten years. Only ono of tho German cities shows n de creaso during tho last five years. Owing to what has scorned to bo nn In credlblo number of suicides In Paris for thln.JIme of year the local preis Is attempt ing to account for what Is termed an ep idemic by laying It nt the door of the gen eral retrenchment In nil Industries thnt Is snld to havo followed tho exposition nnd to tho fact that many provincials who found plenty to do In Paris last summer nro now without means or employment nnd nre un abto to return to their homes. A recent number of Figaro contained tho account of no less than fivo BUlcldes, which hnd been committed within twenty-four hours, most of them under particularly painful circumstances. Owing to tho statistics recently pub lished from the archives of the Palais dc Justlco nnd tho Prefecture do Police, tho subject Is deemed worthy of Immediate scientific Investigation, ns some s.iy It Is rapidly approaching tho proportions of a national calamity. According to thcso sta tistics there were no less than 27,000 sui cides registered throughout Franco In the fivo years ended January 1, 1901. Strang ling and hanging have accounted for no less than 12,500; the rovolvcr was used In 3,500 cases; suffocation by uso of charcoal was employed In 2,000; poison was used In 400 cases; 1,000 persons throw themselves from fatal heights, usually upper-story windows; drowning accounts for tho self Inflicted death of 4,500, while tho remainder Is said to havo obtained death through vari ous "Ingenious means." In the debate upon tho estimates In the Prussian Diet tho Polish deputies com plnlned bitterly of tho treatment of tho Polish population, especially of tho refusal to allow Polish children to rccelvo religious Instruction In their own language. The so called Polish danger, they said, was largely tho result of the government's own actions, No less than three ministers spoko on tho government side. Dr. von Mlqucl accused tho Poles of being tho aggressors und claimed thnt tho Polish policy of tho gov ernment was supported hy public opinion throughout Germany. Did tho Poles, he asked, renlly believe that they could do- prlvo Prussia of parts of hor territory? If they did not believe In tho restoration of tho Polish state, they ought not to separate themselves from tho Germans. Tho govern ment would gladly seo Polos appointed to official positions In other provinces, but not In tho eastern parts of the monarchy. Ho said that in his youth tho watchword was "Poland Is not yet lost. Tho Poles must understand thnt this position was no longer tenable. Dr. Studt, the minister of education, defended tho steps which have been taken to restrict the uso of tho Polish language In schools, and Ilaron von Itheln- baden mado n vigorous attack upon the Polish nationalist agitation. Ho cited ex tracts from Polish books nnd newspapers nnd from speeches mado nt Polish meetings to show that tho object of this agitation was nothing loss than tho separation of the Polish provinces from Prussia and tho es tablishment of an Independent Polish state Every effort directed towards this end, ho declared, would bo ruthlessly suppressed. In other wofdH, the government proposes to rnlso moro steam In tho revolutionary boiler and to sit on tho afety-valvc. A census Just tnken in St. Petersburg shows that tho population of tho Ilusstnn capital Is 1,439,000. Tho Increase alnco 1897 Is thus shown to bo about 172,000, which moans 13 per cent In four years. That Is cqulvnlcnt to 33 per cent in a decade, or moro than tho rato of gain In American cities llko Philadelphia, St. Louis and Dos ton, but a Uttlo under tho latest Now York record and fur below tho rate of expansion shown In Cleveland or Chicago. Hut St. Petersburg Is nn artificially located nnd ab normal city. Its stto Is forbidding nnd thcro is not the least probability Hint any thing moro than n small fishing or trading town would now bo located on the Neva If It had not pleased a most mastorful om peror to fix his cnpltal thore. Under such circumstances tho growth of tho Russian metropolis Is a rcmarkablo proof of the rapid expansion of tho vast Russian nation and also of the degreo to which tho world wido tendency toward urban centralizing of population affects oven thoso countries which nro most rural and least developed Industrially. Tho French ministry publishes In sup port of Its crusndo against certain religious associations two volumes of statistics show ing tho growth of tho religious orders bIuco 1850 and their present condition. Al lcglng that these orders nro a burden to tho fctato, active In politics and hostile to republican Institutions, tho ministry pro robes, It Is said, to restrict their sphere Saturday . . is our busiest day of the week ami it will save lotH of inconveuienoe if mot hers will bring the boys in early in the day. .Fust now we are prepared to hIkiw some exceptional values in advance light weight wool suits thnt are for the coming season and nre very handsome. There is a growing demand for these dainty Knits and yim can take your selection from the best styles of Europe or America. If you have overlooked this exhibit you cannot imagine what you have missed. Store open till 9 p. m. "sale closes then." Browning, R. S. Wilcox, Manager. Omaha's Only Excluilv Clothiers for Men and Uoyft. Africa. In 1899 ns many as 24,621 persons were killed by snake bites, the mortality from this causo being greater than In any of the four preceding years. Tho number of deaths caused by wild animals was 2,966, tigers killing S99, wolves 33$ and leopards 327, These figures are regarded as small In comparison with thoso of 1897, when 4,:S2 persons wore killed. Uengal suffers specially from mnu-cntlng tigers nnd leopards. In Upper Burma a single tiger Is credited with twenty victims In ono yenr. High rewards nro oltcrcd for tho destruction of mnn-eatcrs, but tho Jungle Affords them secure retreats. In addition to tho loss of human llfo thoro Is a great destruction of cattle. Some 89,240 cnttlo wero destroyed by wild nnlmals In 1899 and 9,449 by snakes. MAID IX VVS. Pittsburg Chronicle: "Toll me, Colonel, why do you havo so many lynching In tho south?" "I reckon, suh, It's because so few of tho scoundrels manage to escape." Philadelphia ltecord: They wore looking through tlio.llbrnry "If you had tho illvlno gift, whnt would you rnther write?" asked the romantic young woman. "Checks," replied tho sordid man. W nshlngton Star: "When you docs somo folks a favor." said Uncle Kben, "dclr gratltudo ain't so much fob do 'mejlt benefit ns It Is foh gtvln' 'cm n stnht nn' lcttln' 'em know whan to como nox' time." Philadelphia Press: "That's a funny thing. Soukley's bnby hnd tho hiccoughs last night, nnd Its mother gave It gin." "What's bo funny about thnt?" , "So different from Soakley. lie gets tho hiccoughs after tho gin." Philadelphia Press: "Did you got much of that old party?" asked ono highwayman of another. "Oot all he hnd," was the reply. "That Is right, lie who In worth doing at nil Is worth doing well." Detroit Journal: "How breezv!" w ex claimed. In unfeigned admiration, ns the child of luxury swept past us. "Yes. Bhe doesn't have to rnlso the wind for herself!" sighed tho tired shop girl, not unbltterly. Detroit Journal: Tackle I see the dnctot has healed your wounds so that there Is no scar. Half DuckWouldn't It Jar you? 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