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0 THE OMAHA DAILY ITEE: THURSDAY, JAN IT ATI Y 20, 1003. The omaha Daily Her L ROSEWATKR, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVIiRY M UN I NO. TERMS OF H-H8"RH'TION. Pally p (without Kunrlayi. one Year.. 14. " Imlly Hce nml .-Jurt.lii y. one Year 1" Illustrated ltee. m- Ytar !!.' Bunriuv Hee I irif Vmr K.'" ! HKturiiHy in, (me Year 1 I AWentletn century farmer, une ieur.. i.w DELIVERED 11Y CARRIER, pally Ree (without Sunday), ppr ropy.... 2c Daily pee (without "undayi. per weck...l2o Jjally Bee (Incoming Hiimi&y), per wwk. .li: Bunday Hee, per copy fx- Evening Hee (withoit Bundayi. per wfk o Evening Rcp (Including Sunday), per WWk .". 10e Complaints of irregularities rn delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICER. Omaha The P.ee Building. Pouth Omaha-City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth anil M Streets. Council muffs 1" Pearl Street. Chicago-ltK'i fnlty Building. New Yiirk Park: Row Building. Washington iiOl Fourteenth Street. 'O E R EB P N D EN C E. Communication relating ti news and ed- Jtorlal mattpr ahnuld be addressed: Omaha iee, Edliurlal Department. STATEMENT. OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska. Douglas County, iw.: George H. Tzsrhiick. s-eretnry cif The Ree publishing company, being duly swum, says that the actual niimlur of full and complete Kippn of The Imllv, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of December, jaiz, was as roiiows 1 n3.2HO 1 31.124) 8 ai,47 4 ai.ooo 1 31,0 tO ai.Moo 7 2S.OOO 1 3O,lt0O 30.000 10 ao.ltfiO 11 3O.000 la SO.ttTO 11 S0.04O 14 2S,a2 it 3I1,III 17 30.S20 jg 30,4110 ao.swn 20..... 30.TSO 21. 28, TOO 21 30.HOO 23."" 30,(M 24 30,000 25'"" 3.-r.O Zs!!!ll!1 30.M30 l 30,870 2h! 28.KH5 2 30.71MI 30 32.M20 U 3O,870 it so.tno Total lsi unsold and returned ooplea. .UB2.U4I1 . 10,181 Net total sales IM2.4- Net average sales 30.4MU GKORQE R. TZ9CHITCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 3Ut day of Dei-ember, A. D. aSH'2. M. IS. IM iNUA Ih, (Seal) Notary Public. Whenever Hasoall approaches the end Df his string you may look for Has rallty with a big It. If this keeps on, the Omaha police force will soon tliave more detectives than patrolmen on duty. Councllmen who tske frivolous vaca tions will be given a permanent vaca tion after the first week In May. To the list of western Industries flour ishing under the sun of prosperity that of bank robbery will now have to ' be ddcd. Senator Teller's title to represent Colo rado In the House of Ixrds has been declared clear. Senator Teller Is classed by the corporations as a safe man. Social note Mr. Johii N. Baldwin of Iowa Is keeping open house at Lln eoln during the session of the Nebraska legislature. Continuous refreshments. William McKlnley was born at Niles, O., January 2fl, 3843. People should not allow themselves to be confused as to the date because the Canton celebra tion' was bold two' days iflicnd of time. ITie lower house of congress has passed a bill granting to the states con trol of original packages. If the bill becomes a law, Kansas and Iowa prohi bitionists will le able to catch their medicine coming and going. A chance to get solid with the su preme court commissioners by rushing Into print In defense of the commission Is npt to be lost by the far-seeing law yer who hopes to 'have a case appealed to the highest court some day. If the bill to purify elections Intro- fluced by Htpresentatlve (Silbert of Omaha will accomplish what Is prom Ised for It, it should pass by all means There Is a long-felt want for an In fallible primary election purifier. Minnesota lawmakers are memorial! mg congress to take the tariff off of lumber. If the present fuel situation lustlfles the removal of the coal duties, perhaps It might be made to cover also taking the duty off of cordwood. President Hoosevlt's judgment In ac cording President McKlnley the place In American history ranking In Impor tance next to Washington and Lincoln will be affirmed by the sober sense of every thoughtful American citizen. The responsibility for the terrible New Jersey railroad wreck in which twenty-two lives were lost Is placed with unanimity uimhi Engineer I'avls It Is noteworthy also that Engineer Davis U dead ami, can not deny his guilt. The strike leaders are ready to talk business with President Burt, but whether President Burt Is ready to talk business with the strike lenders Is still problematic. Up, to date Mr, Burt has led them a very pretty dauce wlthou talking bv.slucxs. Kansas woineu nuffiagists thluk they nave found the sympathy they have been weklng lu the present legislature or .thut state, wtjlcli they hope to persuade hi to msglug a suffrage bill for tbeni. , This should be notice enough for Carrie Nation to prepare to go home and exchange her lujttleax fur a ballot. Our Swedish-American citizens who have undortakru to rr.lse funds for the relief of distressed Swedes In the home ouuutry are making good headway, over $20,tiO having already heyn seut from Chicago ulone. The object is not only a most worthy one, but we may lie sure the Swedes would not call for help from abroad unless the Necessities of the case were most urgeut. Our public spirited citizens without regard to nationality should do r.U they c:-u to encourage thU laudable movement KSLH.HTKSlSa THE PEOI'LfT. In his letter to the Omnha Bcnl Kstnto rxcliMi;n John N. Baldwin calls atten tion to the fact thnt the railroad com panies of Nebraska huve within the past year !iM'iit a groat deal nf money to oiiligbten the iHM.ple of thin state as to railroad taxation and tax reform. Tills voluntary contribution on the inrt of the railroads to the sum of human knowledge Is said to have atfprepated $.tfi,(H), which If properly dlstrihuted along each line was dmihtless exrH-cted to take the tilace of the distribution of railway valuations which railroad -sensing boards have Itm-n presumed to make, but have never made. According to Mr. Baldwin, who Is doubtless well Informed on this point, a very large block of the inllrond educa tional campaign fund was apportioned among more than lira) country news papers and a few thousand dollars ex IM'iided for bulletins, circulars and per suaders. The unaccounted-for balance Is naid to have Ihcu put out for carry ing primaries and paying the campaign assessments for candidates In the Sec ond congressional district. With so much light diffused at the expense of the railroads for the Infor mation of the people, every member of the legislature should be convinced that It would lie a great injustice to make the railroads of Nebraska pay any more taxes than they have been paying In the past or are willing to pay In the future. Such a course would compel them to (llsp'nse with the services of Mr. Baldwin's retinue of ready writers and legislative persuaders, besides put ting their auditors and accountants to a great deal of trouble to cover up the expenses of the oil-room department and subsidies distributed to Influential or handy men of all parties along their lines. THE AMRlVATi CASK. The treaty relating to the Alaskan boundary dispute provides that It shall be submitted to a commission of six Jurists, three appointed by the United States and three by Great Britain. According to reports from Washington the agreement is recognized as one of Secretary Hay's most notable diplo matic triumphs. According to the cor respondent of the New York Tribune, it Is particularly gratifying to the offi cial world at the national capital, since it is identical with the proposition sub mitted by the secretary of state in 180t and rejected by the British members of the Joint high commission appointed to settle all outstanding differences be tween the United States and Great Britain. It is evident, however, that there Is some dissatisfaction with the treaty, a resolution having been Introduced In tho house of representatives by Mr. Jones of the state of Washington de claring that the United States should entertain no proposition looking to a new Interpretation Of the treaty of 18i between Russia and Great Britain fix ing the Alaskan boundary line, and "that the officials of this government should notify Great Britain that It will absolutely refuse to entertain or consider any other interpretation of said treaty than that accepted by all parties for more than fifty years, and that the United States proposes and Is prepared to maintain its rights under the Interpretation until after the dls covery of gold in the Klondike." It will doubtless be found that this resolution reflects the general feeling on the Pa cific coast, so that a vigorous opposition to the ngreement may be expected from that quarter. It Is said to be the understanding that the treaty was drawn up after a thorough consultation with the leading members of the senate of both parties and that an effort will Ik made to secure ratification before the cud of the present session. It Is not probable, however, that this can be done, particularly If there should be a stout opposition on the part of Pacific coast senators. The American case rests wholly on the express delimitation of the boundary given in the treaty of 1825 between Russia and Great Britain and upon this our government has firmly Insisted Tills treaty was undisputed for half a century, or until the discovery of .gold and the Increased wealth of Alaska gave the Canadians an incentive to claim territory that was In American IMissesslon, under an interpretation of the treaty letveen Russia .and Great Britain that had never before N'en thought of. There are abundant facts showing the speclousuess of the Cana dian position. THE MKLMEY A X X IVERSART. Today Is the sixtieth anniversary of the birthday of William McKlnley. I will l widely observed, not by public demonstrations, but by such celebration as will duly honor the anniversary and give opportunity for renewed eousldera tion of the 4-areer and the charade of that distinguished man. There has already been given to the country, lu eloquent words. President Roosevelt's estimate of McKlnley and It Is a con tribution to the eulogies upon the martyr presldeut which every American should carefully read. ' , The place to , be assigned to William McKlnley, .among the statesmen who performed illustrious service for the republic, may be left to the future his torian. We of" today ned only record our ns-ogultion of his wisdom, his patriotism, hi fuith in the people, his devotion to the public welfare, bis te lief in the greatness of the country' destiny aud his pleudld iersonal ex ample. Coming from the plain people, 110 man ever In American ixibllc life took a deeper Interest In them than McKlnley. Therefore from the l'gln- ulug of his public career lie was the champion of the policy which he bellved necessary to the welfare of labor, to the Improvement aud eUvatlon of the wage earner. What he did 4o this respect unquestionably gave hlui his highest and strongest claim to the affectionate 1 reniemlira ice of his countrymen. Our ftreat Industrial development during the past dozen years bears testimony to his ulsiloiii: the prosperity of the coun try attests the soundness of the policy he advocated with such masterful force and ability as to give Mm the unques tioned leadership among protectionists. This place history must accord him, whatever jMisitiou It may assign him to in other respects. William McKlnlcy's patriotism was manlfirted In his boyhood, when he entered the union army, and grew with the years. It uas not a boastful or obtrusive patriotism, but It was of that nature which gave him n profound sense of the greatness and dignity of his country and made him feel that this republic was to Im-coihc the leader In the work of civilization, In the ad vancement of popular liberty and In the promotion of peace among the nations. Thoroughly American in all his sympa thies, he yet felt that as one of the great family of nations it was our duty to cultivate the friendship and win the respect and confidence of other countries. Thus under his guidance the foreign policy of the United States. In war and In peace, was conservative nd careful, and while firmly Insistent upon maintaining American rights and protecting American Interests, never of- cnslve. At no time In our history was tbe foreign policy of the government more wisely and judiciously conducted than during the McKlnley administra tion, with the result of very greatly In creasing the Inhuence pf the United States. McKlnley was a man of peace and accepted war only when it became In evitable. Whether or not the best wis dom was shown In what followed war time will determine, but that William McKlnley acted from a conscientious conviction of duty none can doubt and the jKipular Judgment approved his course. As a statesman, whatever be his rank among other great Americans, he was ever aotuatcd by the highest motives. As a citizen he was faithful to every duty, leaving to his country men an example In every way worthy of emulation. LBT THE BOARD lltlVQX&lDKR. The Board of Educntlon should con vene In special meeting without delay to reconsider the resolution passed nt Its last session embodying its budget for the ensuing year and cnt the tax levy demanded from 2..1 mills to 2 mills. Analysis of the expenditures of last year shows that the estimated Increases In the various Items for school main tenance are out of all Justifiable propor tion. In addition to this. In order to conjure up a pretext for an excessive tax levy, the board has overstepped the law, which limits Its appropriations in any one year for new buildings and sites to $2o,HK). There certainly has been no such In crease In the school population and the demands on tho public schools to call for a draft on the taxpayers for $T0,000 more this - year than was expended altogether On the schools last year, In cluding goodly sum for construction. It will not be claimed that a reduction of the school levy to more reasonable proportions will impair the efficiency of our schools In the least, while the com plete abandonment of every part of tho retrenchment program leaves no legiti mate room f(jr demands for sulary In creases. If the members of the board want to keep in harmony with public sentiment they will get the school levy down to 2 mills and take the credit for It. When Hascall ran away from last week's meeting of the city council to break a quorum and Whitehorn kept away from tho council altogether, every body conversant with the situation knew It was by command. The failure of these councllmen to put In an ap pearance at the last meeting must, therefore, be ascribed to the same In fluence. But Omaha surely does not elect city councils for the benefit of any frauchlsed corporation or any individ ual. Its taxpayers have a right to de mand and expect that councllmen will transact tho business ,of the city or re sign. There Is absolutely no excuse for such scandalous performances as have been witnessed In this city within the past sixty days. There Is a limit to popular endurance. If there is money enough In the police fund to Increase the force It was the plain duty of tho police bo..rd to rein state the men laid off under pretext of insufficiency of funds. If these men are guilty of any misconduct as police officers they should have been arraigned on specific charges and if convicted on credible testimony should have been dropiNpd for cause. That, at any rate, is the spirit of the law. But the re form police board does not appear to be governed by law, but by caprice. The Nebraska legislature Is not tho only law-making Isjdy In America that is pestered by a corporation lobby ex pressly hired and paid to corrupt and debauch members, but nowhere In Americu are uiese corruptloillsts so brazen and audacious, and nowhere else are men imported from neighboring states to dispense railroad refreshments and railroad instruction to the legisla tors. There Is only one John N. Bald win. And now San Itomingo lias volun iccreu 10 rerer to 1 lie uajrue court a disputed claim of an American concern for whose arbitration the United States government has been pressing. Mem lers of The Haue tri'iunul are in no danger yet, however, of being over worked. Inqalry l.onar Drawn Oat. Baltimore American. The various Investigations into tbe coal yroblea alii ioilU be &uihil torn tUns net summer, but If they arrive at any re stilt, these results may be put In cold stor age for use next sinter. Mlaanl the latraret. Washington Toet. The Indicted Chicago coal dealers have all filed into court and admitted their Innocence. The responsibility for the high prices, therefore. Is still at large. Troubles nf the Rich. St. Louis Olobe-Pemocrat. Despite the possession of vast rkhee Mr. Rockefeller Is not a contented man. He longs for a good appetite, a cure for nervousness, a panacea for Insomnia and a chance to make more money. Driving: n (iood llararaln. Louisville Courier-Journal. According to the canal treaty, Colom bia Is to get $10,000,000 down and 1250, 000 a year rental for the territorial con cession to the United States. Colombia seems to have driven a pretty good bar gain. If she had It she could well afford to pay the Vulted States that much money to dig the canal. Promotion of Jnitue Day. Minneapolis Times. The appointment of Judge William R. Pay as a Justice of the supreme court of the United States will be generally con ceded to be a good one. As practicing lawyer and Jurist Judge Day enjoyed many years' experience prior to his appointment as assistant secretary of state. Becoming chief of that department and afterward commissioner to the Paris conference at the close of the Spanish-American war, he had an opportunity to demonstrate his ability and to grow and broaden. One Year's Ilnslness Failures. Philadelphia Press. The proportion of men In business who failed In 1W2, according to Bradstreet's, was the smallest In twenty years, which speaks well for the country. The failures In the entire country decreased 675, as compared with the preceding year. In the south the failures increased 15 per cent, while they decreased In other parts of tho country as follows: 7.4 per cent In the middle states, IS per cent In tho eastern states, 6 per cent In the west, 18 per cent In the northwest and 6 per cent In the Pacific states. Of the 11.068 failures In the United States and Canada, 10,289, or 93 per cent, did not have to exceed 15,000 capital In any case, and 76 per cent of the failures were due to. the faults of those falling, tho remainder being due to circumstances beyond their control. Does "III" Mean "SIcltT' Harper's Weekly. There are slgoa of an existing propen sity to constrain the partial withdrawal of the word "sick" from tfte American lan guage In favor of the word "111." News papers In their headlines and elsewhere speak nowadays of "a very 111 man." It used to be "a very sick man." Why (he, change? "An 111 wind" Is a satisfactory use of language, but "an 111 man" grates on the ear and sounds like an attempt to Im prove on a usage that, had no perceptible defect. They say this new whim Is a euphemism imported from England. A correspondent of a Boston paper discusses and disapproves It, protesting not only SRalnst the uae of the unwarrantable ad verb "Illy," but against the "growing use of the "word '111' In place of the homely word 'sick'." This Boston protestant, quoting Websti'r, finds that Shakespeare, with hardly an exception, uses "ill" to mean mental, moral or Impersonal disor ders. "Ill at ease." HI advised." ill bred," "111 fares" are all nt and familiar uses of a good and Industrious little word that has plenty of legitimate-work of its own to do without being constrained to figure as a feeble substitute for "sick." ISOLATION OF JURORS. Pronoaneed a Relic of Barbarism by Massachusetts' Attorney General. Boston Globe. Attorney General Parker shows a pro gressive mind in his report, banded to the legislature, touching the antiquated rules of procedure with Jurors In criminal cases. He believes that Isolation of Jurors is a sort of relic of barbarism which quite leaves out modern Investigations in psychology. Its tendency la to distract the normal processes of reasoning, to cause mental and physical uneasiness and to prevent the concentration of attention to the evidence and issues before them. The traditional court usage in criminal cases Is to treat the Juror as though he had come to court to be bribed and per verted, rather than to lend his ear to an impartial trial. The dread of confinement, therefore, tends to Induce a Juror called for qualification to express such vlewa aa may excuse htm from serving. Men are excused from jury service be cause they say that they are opposed to capital punishment, but It is more likely that their dread of confinement for several weeks Is at the bottom of R. Mr. Parker doea not believe that such restraint as is commonly practiced Is necessary to deter interested parties from corrupting jurors, who as a class are men In whose integrity we can generally Impose Implicit faith. The whole spirit of proper court pro cedure has been greatly modified by modern psychological research. Th pessimistic view of crime and criminals has given way largely to modern civilization. It Is pleas ant to feel that we have an attorney gen eral who realizes It. STOP REBATES ON RAILROADS. Measure Drilcnrd to Suppress a Con- mon Evil. Philadelphia Press. The bill to amend the Interstate com merce law, which Mr. Elkln Introduced In the senate, is one that mlgtt well be con sidered and passed at this session of con gress. It provides for the punishment of those who receive aa well aa those who give rebates, as recommended by Attorney Gen eral Knox. That clause alone, If placed en the atatute books, would do much to stop tbe wholesale nullification of existing laws by both the railroads and certain large shippers. The Interstate Commerce commission had no difficulty in getting testimony laBt year to show that erery railroad shipping goods east from Kansas City and other places violated 'he law and secretly cut rates and gave rebates. But not person was punished. A dishonest railroad man by pursuing that course may force all of his competitors practically to do the same thing. The ahippers, who are chiefly to blame, abould be-punished as well aa tbe railroad who give the rebates. There might be some hope then of stopping this grchi Injustice. The bill provides for the punishment of corporations by Ones Instead of -Imprison ment and fixes rules for obtaining injunc tlons to prevent discriminations, although there should be such punishment Inflicted as would make injunctions unnecessary. The measure does not provide for all tbe needed legislation on this subject, but that Is where the senate haa tor years failed to do anything. The desire has been to se cure a bill covering all of the points on which legislation is required and as a re sult nothing has been done, and nothing will be done If that policy is pursued. This bill covers a few polnrs to which there can be no objection. . Pass such s bill and leave the contested points for a separata measure.. Then something may be accomctlaaed, IKK. Minor Scenes anil Incidents sketched on the Spot. It Is generally conceded by Washington correspondents that Senator Matthew Stan ley Quay is boss of the situation In th-' upper houRP so far as concerns tho omni bus statehood bill, and can, if he wills, pre vent consideration of other matters until BITS OK WASIIIM1T4I1 a vote Is had on the measure. Rut n vote!rn,lv )h, ipnn.i,i.,i , ,v,. cannot be forced while any senator wlshi to prplong the conversation. Mr. Quay Is not as urgent in pressing the measure to vote as he was the fore part of the week and the reason Is explained by the Wash ington Post, which says: "Upon the desk of Senator Nelson of Minnesota there is a big book. A queer light shines In the eye of the North Star state senator as he totes the book to the senate chamber every morning, opens Its broad pages, smoothes out the same and studies complacently the delicate band of saffron-colored ribbon which marks the page In which he Is bo keenly Interested. "One of these days there will be a lull In the statehood debate, and Mr. Quay will demand a vote, since nobody la ready with a speech. Then and there Mr. Nelson will lift the blp: book with its band of broad saffron ribbon and address the chair. He will send to the clerk's deHk to have read the mighty tariff speech which made Sen ator Quay famous some years ago in con nection with the Wilson bill. "It will be several days thereafter before the opposition orators need worry them selves about filling time to prevent Mr. Quay from reaching a vote." The auction of White House furniture that has been discarded since the remodel ing of that building proved a disappoint ment so far as the prices brought by the articles were concerned." There was very little competition at the sale, with the result that many good bnrgnins were secured. The glass gas shades were sold at 15 cents apiece and a loree bookcase went for $1.50. Tho billiard table, which was purchased by President Garfield, brought forward a number of bidders. It was in a dilapidated condition. Accom panying It were two old battered cues marked "C. A. A." and "C. A. A.. Jr.," the Initials of President Arthur and his son, who were fond of blllards. Gas fixtures of ancient design were knocked down at insignificant figures and a number of mirrors were sold cheap, owing to the old-fashioned manner In which they were mounted. An 8,000 chandelier, con taining 4,400 pieces of cut glass adornments, was saved from the hammer by Colonel Bingham, who ordered the piece Bent to the capitol. There were also chandeliers taken from the Hast room, which were superseded by electric fixtures. A large sideboard, beautifully carved, which was used In the White House dining room for hnlf a cen tury, drew only a fair price, whiln a high mantel of antique deslgu brought almost nothing. There were twenty barrels of smaller ornaments, brlc-a-brac, etc. Win dow frames, grates and other furnishings of like character were sold at low prices to contractors, who will dispose of them to collectors of curios. Representative Mondell of Wyoming made a speech on Irrigation in the house. In the course of his speech he said: "You must remember that we Inherit as a people, as viewed from an Irrigation standpoint, a very extraordinary rule for the use of water, that rule under which the bucolic owner of a few rods of reed bordered shore along the lower courses of some great river system largely controls Its destiny, from its birth amid the snow clad mountains, in its meanderlngs through rich and fertile agricultural regions, past mighty cities, to where It flings Itself Into the bosom of the briny deep." "Hoop-la!" shouted "Uncle" Joe Cannon. Colonel Theodore Bingham, superintend ent of public buildings and grounds in Washington, in his report to congress, asks for an appropriation of $110,264 for the White House for the coming year, agalnnt $35,000 for the present year. The report says: "The recent changes In the White House have resulted In a building far more expensive to maintain than formerly. Tho character of the new fittings and new fur nishings Is such that repairs and replacing will be more expensive than before, and It will be more expensive to replace specially designed silver doornobs and escutcheons, silver and gilt hinges, etc. Hardwood floors and tiling will require extra labor to keep In order. More help will be needed In the laundry, owing to the large family which occupies the White House and the large amount of entertaining done." Washington is a paradise for the unfor tunate blind. Not far from the rlty. In one of the attractive suburbs, Is one of the most perfectly appointed colleges for the education of the blind In the United States, or perhapa in the world. In the congres sional library there is a reading room set apart for the exclusive use of tho blind and stocked with books printed in raised letters. Attendants are on duty at all times to care for thoso who pa'ronlze this section of the library. Once er-eh week an entertainment, generally a muslcale. Is held. As he sat In his seat the other morning Senator Tillman thought of something. It was Just after Dolllver had delivered the tariff Bpeech which caused such consterna tion on the republican side of the chamber. Tillman walked over to the Iowa man and said: "Dolliver. do you know what Aldrlch says about you?" "No, what Is It?" "Ho says you remind him of a mass meeting and that all you need is a greased pole and a merry-go-round to be a county fair." Dolllver flushed up and looked over toward Aldrlch, but on reflection let the matter drop, not being quite sure, perhaps, that the southerner was telling the exact truth. A young and enthuhiastlc reporter went to see Senator Quay a few nights ago about some phase of Pennsylvania polities. He found the senator reading In hlB library. There was some general conversation. Just as the reporter was ready to spring his first question. Senator Quay asked: "Do you like to play poker?" "Sometimes I play," the reporter con fessed. "Well," said the senator, "then you'll like this little poker story by Eugene Ware. I think it li one of the best I have seen." He banded a book to the reporter, who, out of politeness, read a page. "Ah," said the senator, "1 see you are Interested. Take the book along and read It at your leisure. Good evening." When the dazed reporter got outbide he looked more closely at tbe "little" poker story by Ware. It was fifty-nine pages long. When John D. Long was secretary of the navy one of his subordinates was a dapper little man whoso name closely resembles Skeeters. He was rather blbulously In clined at times, so one morning when the secretary found It necessary to dlstiila somebody for drunkenness te embraced the occasion to deliver a temperance lecture, being a teetotaler himself. "Of course, Mr. Skeeters.'" he eald, "you do not drink." "Oh, certainly not, Mr. Secre tary." was the reply "only for medicinal purposes. I generally take a little toddy at meal times." "And what does Mrs. Skeeters say?' said the secretary reproach fully. "Generally she says. 'Skeeters, here's your toddy,' and that's all." SKM'.rrill 4K A I. IKK WORK. Importance of tvolrilna; Mistakes at the Start. O. S Mnrdon In Success. Forcing young people into the first situ ations tfcey can p vslhly fill, regardless of aptness. Is n wrorg tint Is often Irrepar able. In many cas.-s society as a whole Is to blame, for poverty knows ns higher law. but when barints nhlo tr do ilifTor. dren's future no condemnation can be too si rong. I know a number of young people having marked aMIity in certain lines who are probably capable of making great reputa tions, but who are being held back by . parents who do not happen to think It wise or prudent for their children to strive to rxpr.-ss what the Creator has locked up I within them, and so they are cramped and - unhappy. It Is serious business even for a I parent to stifie a tiod-glven ambition, to j dampen a divine aspiration. If a decld-d talent has been put Into a child a parent . should think many limes before taking the responsibility of countermanding the Cre ator's order. Every child comes Into the world with sealed orders from the Infinite hand and even the fondest parent cannot certainly read the secret message written within that bit of clay. The child has certain In alienable rights which even the parent has no right to question or to try to modify. Selecting a life work Is serlou9 busi ness. It should be done only after care ful study and test of aptitudes, fitness and tastes, by both the person choosing and those hsvlng authority with him, un less his bent speaks so loudly In his blood and his dominant faculties are so Impera tive In their expression of choice that he cannot mistake the calling for which he Is fitted. It is everything to a boy or a girl to get Into Just the right place, where the highest and noblest faculties will find a healthy and delightful exercise instead of the lowest and meanest. To do the kind of work for which one Is fitted by nature, and to do It to the best of one's ability, la working along the lines of one's strength, which Increases with every well directed effort. PERSONAL NOTES. Apostle Reed Smoot Is a good talker. This Is fortunate, as the senate is In great need of some more good talkers. Leonard Roeder, the oldest citizen of Illi nois, died at Qutncy on Wednesday. He served In the German army under Blucher, at tho battle of Waterloo. Thirty-one huge and exceedingly strong Havana cigars are the daily allowance of King Carlos of Portugal, the biggest and fattest of all the reigning monarcbs of the old world. The duke of Manchester, Cincinnati's lovely Bon-in-law, was greeted on his ar rival In New York the other day with an attachment for his baggage and an unpaid Jeweler's bill. The attachment pained the duke, but it didn't touch Papa Zimmerman. R. H. Milward, the Birmingham solicitor who drew up the marriage settlement be tween Miss Vanderbllt and the duke of Marlborough, has been sentenced to six yearB' servitude for misappropriating trust moneys. His embezzlements amounted to $420,000. A genius In Germany has invented an appliance to measure mental fatigue. Un less It will register the cause In letters so large that he who looks may read, It will not contribute much to the sura of human knowledge. People afflicted with the tired feeling do not need a machine half a much a a high ball or similar confection. The long-promised biography of Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfleld, Is to be pub lished this year. The name of the author Is not announced. It is not, at any rate, Lord Row-ton, who by the terms of Dis raeli's will Is In possession of all the per sonal documents and correspondence. It Is Intimated, however, that to many of them access has not been refused. , Senator Hoar heard the other day that an old lady in reduced circumstances had a fine portrait of Daniel Webster. The sena tor, who owns the largest collection of Websterlana In the country, hurried to the address given and shortly owned the paint ing, which is from the brush of Chester Harding, well known In art circles sixty years ago. He thinks It Is one of the finest portraits of Webster In existence. Congressman Crumpacker of Indiana, while In Indianapolis recently, secured for one of his constituents a position in the file rooms of the state capitol. He re quested tho man to come on at once. The constituent hastened to Indianapolis with the avidity a Hoosier usually displays when there is an office in Bight, but he carried with him a satchel full of filea of every variety that a machinist could devise. Brigadier General Edward M. Hayes, Just promoted from the colonelcy or the Thir teenth cavalry regiment. Is the officer of longest commission In the United States army. He entered tne service aa a Dugier In 1855, when but 13 years old, and has risen step by step from that rank. Ho served during the rlvll war and achieved consider able distinction in later Indian troubles on the frontier. He has been wounded a num ber of times. A good many of Congressman Shattuc's colleagues have felt the sting of his ready wit at times, and few care to engage In repartee with him. The Ohio man who went down to defeat last fall told some friends last week that be had purchased two bird dogs, giving $1,000 apleco for them. This gr.ve a fellow member a long sought opportunity and he said: "Well, Shattuc, If you're rich enough to pay $1,000 apiece for dogs it's about time you retired." V THiats- sa Always erv neotr noir j?-IKY MI Ay CI Mldll pik fal,lng- Jmm ROM4X4K ASH I'OI.ITll'JJ. Deplorable Death of a CMvnlroa Soldier of Liberty, 8t. I.ouls Olobe-tVinocTAt. Tbe South Carolina tracedv. In which Narclso O. Gonzales, editor cf tbe coltitn 1 bla State, was assassinate 1 by Lieutenant ' Governor Tillman, recall the earlier move ! ments for the freedom of Cuba, and lncl- dently shows the vast assimil.tt tog powei which Amerlcnn life has over nil the ele ments of the country's population. Am brose Jose Gonzales, the father of the mur dered editor, was the second In command In the first filibustering expedition ever sent from the United States to Cuba, that which, under the command of Narclso Lopez, landed In that Island In IS 19. Gon zales was with Lopez In two expeditions, but was not with him In that of hm, in which Lopez was captured and executed by the Spaniards. Seeing that there was no chance, at least at that time, for wresting Cuba from Spain, Gonzales, who was n native of Cuba, settled In South Carolina, Identified himself actively with that state's Interests, entered tho confederate army In lSfil, and served through the war, being Joe Johnston's chief of artillery at tho surrender In 1865. In one respect did the younger Gonzales, who was born Just before South Carolina seceded, differ from the rest of tho South Carolinians of education, character and balance. Through his father be Inherited a devotion to the Interests of Cuba, but he wanted Cuba to become part of tho United States. For a short time he had a connection with the rebellion which began in 1895, serving under Gomes In 1S9S, when the Americans were driving the Spaniards out of the Island. He was active In the social and political life of South Cnrollna, and belonged to the conservative element of its people, that which was represented by Rutler and Hampton In tho senate In the latter dayB, and which was assailed by Tillman, the present senator, who led tho revolt which overthrew the old regime and put an entirely new order of men in con trol In the state's local aud national af fairs. Gonzales had a foreign sound to thoso ac customed to the Anglo-Saxon names, but there was nothing foreign about the man whom South Carolina's recent lieutenant governor assassinated. The in wspaper which he published at South Carolina's capital was conservative, sane nnd thor oughly American In tone. Ho himself stood with the Ingredient of tho population which gave that state its leading place In the days when it was a powerful force lu the politics of the country. No more pub-llc-aplrlted and patriotic person could be found In the country than this son of the old Cuban insurgent of hnlf a century ago. No Smith, Brown or Jones was more thor oughly assimilated by the Americanizing influences of his environment than was this man with the Spanish name, whose first in troduction to the great mass of his coun trymen was through the tragedy whi,ch ended his life. There are no lines of de marcation in the populace of the United States, The men of the second generation of residents in this country, and In many Instances those of tho first generation, tho naturalized citizens of foreign birth, are usually as thoroughly Infused with tho American spirit as are the descendants of those who came over in the Mayflower. FLASHES OF Kl . "Patience." snM T'nio n.. .i. - virtue If a man doesn't gilt up his regular ,n ortier to ttn'l to lt""-Washmg- .. nev" could understand why a Woman puts anything 011 her face. Hlie deceives no one but herself." rave "Isn't that enough'. Brooklyn IJfo. " "I've been told," mild the amateur, "that that?"8 aCtr' WhU U 5"U thlnk ot tnlB world." Chlengo Post. "Is theatrical life, expensive?" 'Well, It tnkes unite a figure to go upon the stage." Detroit Free Press. Elderly Bultor-Don't you think you could learn to love me? Elderly Maiden No; I don't think so. ' Elderly bultor Well, I guesa you are too old to learn. Detroit Free l'retis. "What would you do, .'or Instance, If you round you had a gathering on the back of your neck?" the skeptical person Inquired "Command It to disperse," snl.1 tho mhni healer. Chicago Tribune. She looked up from her paper In aston ishment. "Here's an Item," she said, "about a rlrl who has a second perfectly developed mouth In her cheek." "Now. there's the only girl I ever heard Of," ho returned, "who was worth klslng on the cheek." Chicago Post. A POOL'S WISDOM. E. P. Larken In Longman's. He loved to watch the swallows swim Iw down across the reedv pool, While brown birds sang their evening hymn, Tho man who was three-parts a fool. He loved to hear the summer sea With smiling treachery kis the shore; Or, on a lonely rock nnd free, To face the wild waves' bestial roar. Red gold he worshiped with the beat Of striving, greedy sons of men; Skyward the llelds lay. In the West, In which ho tuught and found Ills gain. He loved the scent of nutumn trees, The soft, wad sound of winter snow. The whispering of the summer breeze. And the spring's footfall sweet nnd blow. Life was to him a varying dream, A pageant struiiKc, nov. itiim, now fair; The very city's self did seem The casket of Home Jewel rare. And so he dreamed tbe years away I'ntll he left tbe lower school. Learning his lessons In his play. The man who was three-parts a fool. e't fi x .-iv .-V.-'i3... J' it v - , W J 1 . t -J mr 'A grow. Checks MM