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Usloro 1110 this 31st ouy of July, A. D. 190a. 1
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The month of August is given the full
limit of thirty-one days to redeem Itself,
Ana strange to say. tucre hub oeen no
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ii b a u-ino eany yci 10 go into aouDJe
oi'u i?iuo viva uu v iv- vavu uiuk I
Uoos not come off until next November. I
tpr than tiap for Its K ner ront honda la
to get annexed before floating its next
bond iSUC " ' I
It is a safe rule for park policemen,
as well as common policemen, not to
use their revolvers or clubs except in
elf-defense. I
A prominent Iowa lawyer and poll-
udan., also, to Chicago , last week. Aa
If Iowa were not good enough placo
tor anyone to die in.
. Perhaps that declaration of principles
at Denvor was not expected to 'go Into
effect until next year.
Charles M. Schwab ls reported to be
apparently in excellent health. That is
more than can be said of the securities
of his big steel corporation.
iue announcement; mat the recon
structed state penitentiary is now in
excellent condition must be highly
gratifying to the criminal classes.
The new regulations formulated for
the republican county committee are
manifestly designed to accomplish the
elimination of tho dark horse candidate.
It will bo remembered, too, that tho
antls also legislated their opponents off
the map whoa they postpoued the city
election and enacted their test oath
law.
The Board of Public Works will sur
prise itself ono of these day's by finding
some business to be transacted on which
all three of the members will be unani
mous. . - ,
Whatever comes out of the trouble in
me fcovurumeni printing omce, our
representatives ln congress must be en
couraged to stand fast in defense of
their sacred "leave to print."
Now if the merger magnate can only
get the United States supreme court to
reverse the decision of the federal cir
cuit court in the Northern Securities
case they will have all clear before
them.
The importations of iron and steel
into tho United States for the fiscal year
of 1903 out did all years since 1801. Tut
the table of exports of iron and steel
products will doubtless show that they
kept pace with the imports,
An eastern ' paper 'finds difficulty ln
determining whether the disturbance
heralded from Cuba was a bar room
tight or an iuclpient Insurrection. Jt
might have been both. Big Insurrec
tions have more than once traced their
origin to a drunken brawl.
The new state architect has been in
structed to make a summary of the
furniture needed for t'e equipment of
Ms ofllee. But the question that men
familiar with tho constitution of Ne
braska will ask Is, Where is there auy
legal authority for the employment of
a state afcliitct?
' What about the popullats of this Judl
cial district? Will they prefer to fuse
on republican candidate for district
Judge picked out by a sulf -constituted
committee of democratic lawyers, or on
republican candidates nominated by a
convention of . delegates, chofcen by
dtrvct vote of republicans at their
primaries? ' Or will they refuse to fuse
at all!
T'10 Urlf.ion of Judge Lorhrcn of the
United States circuit court' at St. Pnnl
adverse to tlie state of Minnesota In
fflInf)t ,he Nortllprn S0 urlties
company, while in no way affecting the
decision favorable to tho federal govern-
mont ju the raw brought against tlint
company under the Sherman anti-trust
, . . ImiKirtnnt. PunoclallV In the
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the Judges In the federal case. In the
oi'inlon of Judge Lo.-l.ren the Northern
sceutltles company has merely the chnr-
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nctcr of an Investor and ns such pas
A.mp all(i nla(ie no contrnct In
restraint of trade or commerce. That
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or commerce tne decision muses 10 re-
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gard as sufficient to warrant the Injuiic-
0 fc t, t f ,n tbe federal
case the Judges held that the Securities
comJ)any g a combination "whereby the
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competition between two or more com-
petlng and parallel lines of railroad en-
ln Interstate commerce," and that
therefore the niitl-trust act, as it nas
been interpreted by the court of last
resort, had been violated ana the gov-
j.
eiiimttui. uo -iiuui-u iu u ucuicb. x
thlg v)ew ls sound tne (Jedsion cf Judge
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IiOChren 18 manifestly wrong ana It IS
nmlhl. thnf At -tll rw art o-enerallv
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regarded. As was said In the federal
rather than the restraiftt of trade or
commerce, but it possessed the power
t0 d0 tno ,attpr an(1! bouid be judged
accordingly, 'inis view jutige locnren
ga,d fae wnjJ copl to reject.
Of course the state will appeal the
case. In an Interview Governor an
s.lnt RtatM that ha did not feel the
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that bv indirection results cannot be
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n i:uniNiii)ur:u n imu vui jano n ci c iu
tended to nrevent. and that the crea-
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tions of another state cannot be used
to accomplish here that which is against
the declared policy of this state." It
is said to have been admitted bv tlip
flttornor. foP the defendflnt that Minna-
gota had . Btroncer case than the federal
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wU1 hve to mado wl,th speclflc refpr-
t - iic iu bucu uiiuuuihuuud as iimt oi
the Northern tsecuritles company, for
otherwise a vast railroad monopoly, con-
trolled By few men, would become
possible. The Lochren decision is dis-
tlnctly favorable to such a monopoly.
POSTAL FUCi llfDlCTMMXTS.
v Sixtf en indictments. . bare been . re
turned by the grand Jury at Washington
against persons charged with fraud in
connection with the postal service and
it is announced that 'mora indictments
are expected. There is in this renewed
assurance of the determination of the
authorities of the Postofflce department
to strictly carry out the order of the
president to go to the bottom, sparing
no one who shal) be shown to have been
guilty of any offense. When the .in
vestigation began there was little
thought of what it would lead to and
what offenses would be disclosed. From
the first development, while there was
much incredulity, there was no disposi
tion to bide or smother anything. Those
charged with the duty of making the
investigation applied themselves to it
earnestly and no one can fairly ques
tion that so far as it has gone the in
vestigation has been thorough and un
sparing. The matter has been taken
out of politics by tbe manner ln w hich
it has been dealt with,
Still there are occasional intimations
frqm democratic sources that this postal
scandal may be utilized in tbe next
national campaign as a means of mnk
lng political capital against the ndminis
tration. A certain class of democratic
critics assume that because some offi
cials in the postal service have been
found to be dishonest all must be and
set up the cry of "turn the rascals out."
A prominent Pennsylvania democrat
said a short time ago: "How are the
rascals to be turned out of the Post
office department if not by the demo
crats?" The answer is given iu the In
dtctments already returned and in the
fact that every official found by the
Investigation to have committed any
offense has been summarily removed
The present administration is not re
sponsible for the frauds and irregular!
ties of postal officials. Its responsibility
Is to see that those guilty of these
wrongs are dismissed from the service
and where possible punished and this
du(y u being faithfully performed. No
fair-minded man can doubt that Presl
dent Roosevelt desires an honest public
service and every head of an executive
department ls equally solicitous in thii
respect. The president's order to the
postmaster general to go to the bottom
of the scandals in tha department ls
being obeyed to the letter.
There is no question but that the col
lapse ,of tne stock market affects the
west far less than it does the east. The
reason is that western people are not
so deeply Inoculated with the stock
speculation virus. In eastern communi
ties it is the exception when a man
with the meaus is not constantly play
ing with margins and the women are
ulo well seized of the mania, whereas
dabbling lu stocks in the west is con
fined to a comparatively small part of
tho imputation and indulged only in a
sort of experimental way. The west Is
intent upon building up and developing
legitimate industries and has not the
leisure class to 'be easily tempted by
the stock market. It is a good thing
that this broad difference fcUU exists
when the east gets shaky on a declin
ing money market, it leans upon the
west for support.
SPI'RIVCS bUXFAHTtSASHlur.
1. J. Dunn, lightweight champlou of
the democracy of Douglas county, has
issued a pronunciamento to all demo
crats within his hearing ln favor of the
Ko-called nonpartisan Judiciary bar
ticket. Mr. Dunn declares that n non
partisan Judiciary must be made up of
competent and worthy men regardless
of politics. Conceding this to be true,
democrats who are not familiar with
the inner workings of the coterie of
lawyers that made up the nonpartisan
bar association slate will want to
know whether only one out of more
than ono hundred democratic members
of the bar Is qualified for a place on
the bench when seven places are to be
filled, what democrats have to gain,
and by what code of political ethics a
partisan convention is Justified in nomi
nating capdldates of the opposing party
under pretense of nonpartlsanship.
As a matter of expediency, the demo
cratic Judicial convention might place
but one candidate of its own party in
nomination, leaving to Individual demo
crats the privilege of casting their votes
for any or all of the six republicans
who were nominated by the bar asso
ciation. But it la certainly a travesty
both on partisanship and nonpartlsan-
ship to ask a convention made up en
tirely of democrats, and professing alle
giance to the principles of democracy, to
nominate a ticket made up almost en
tirely of candidates who have never had
anything ln common with democracy,
would not subscribe to any of Its doc
trlnes, and have never professed to
favor nonpartlsanshlp on the bench. On
the contrary, these men have been pro
nounced opponents of a nonpartisan
Judiciary and had bad their names pre
sented to a straight republican conven
tion as candidates for a partisan -nomi
nation and, therefore, were ln all honor
bound by the action of their own party
convention.
If the democracy of Douglas county is
really bent upon delegating the priv
ilege of nominating Judicial district can
didates to the bar association, it Should
hnv rinno . Wnr f .f , J
bar nsssociation has acted. If the
champions of a nonpartisan Judiciary
are sincere and earnestly desirous to
divorce the bench from politics they
should have called a nonpartisan
nominating convention, or mass meet
ing, in which citizens of all parties and
no party cculd have participated, and
agreed upon candidates possessing the
necessary qualifications whose partisan-
ship has never been offensive or pro-
nounced. Such a ticket would have
been entitled to the support of all who
favor a nonpartisan Judiciary, but a
lon-slded nonnartisan ekfc nnmlrmrl
by one of the two great political par
ties, will be looked upon as spurious
and cannot in the nature of things com
mand enthusiastic support of" either lion-1
partisans or partisans.
fSTiBtSTUfO FACTS ABOVT SMBRABRA.
The competition for the normal school
location ls responsible for the compila
tion of some interesting facts, and fig
ures about Nebraska Information no
less interesting because embodied in
the arguments advanced in behalf of
one of the competing cities.
We have beard a great deal of North'
Platte and South Platte in Nebraska
politics and of the river counties and
the semi-arid region, but there ls much
misapprehension as to what these terms
really signify.
According to the last census Nebraska
has a population of 1,068,530. Of this
number 493,880 are south of the Platte
river, while 674,659 are north of It, the
excess of population north of the river
being 80,779. Notwithstanding this dis
tribution of population, the state at the
present time has, exclusive of the cap!
toi, fifteen institutions supported by
public revenues, of which eleven are
south of the Tlatte river and only four
north. For the state Institutions south
of the Platte the last legislature an-1
propriated f 1.707.005. while for those
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property taxea to supply the state
revenues north of the Platte river is
over ten millions more than that south.
The center of Nebraska's population
at the present time is computed to be
between Osceola, in Polk county, and
David City, ln Butler county, so that
one-half of the population lies on- each
side of a line drawn north to south be
tween these two counties. The
geographical center of the state, how-
ver, falls within the limits of Custer
county, but calculating the population
on each side of a line drawn north and
south through the geographical center,
only ahout lTO.tKKJ peoplo are found
west of 'it and about 808,000 east. The
character of tbe soil in the western
part of the state as compared with that
ln the eastern part of the state is such
that the population center Is hardly
likely at any time to approach much
closer to the geographical center than it
does now.
in nxing tne location of a normal
scnooi aesignea to accommodate the
largest number of people and to be most
readily oecessioie not only for the
present, but for the future as well, the
state board willl have to take into con
sideration all these pertinent facts. The
marvelous changes in Nebraska since
its admission to the union are apt to
be matched by .the changes of the next
quarter century, but the development
will be along definite lines that can al
ready be discerned.
Here is the latest authenticated fish
story that comes from La Crosse, Wis..
with affidavits sttached:
William Rena went Ashing last night in
the Mississippi and caught a large catfish.
The flah gave him a battle, and Renz. un
willing to let go, was drawn into the river
and drowned.
Another essay on ths risks and dan-
gem of the fisherman is due from Grover
Cleveland.
I
The advice of the Junior Yellow to
the Omaha improvement clubs to go
into politics this fall ls on a par with
its senseless and sensational vaporing.
For the improvement clubs to go into
politics would simply mean their con
version into political clubs and their
inevitable disruption.
Where Pattf Started.
Baltimore American.
Mme. Adelaide Paul's first fee for !n-
Ins was a pound of candy. She has been a
sweet singer ever since.
Sarprlse la Stare (or Him.
Chicago Tost.
Cnptain Pershing, who has been leading
the fighting In the Philippines; ls coming
home to rest. Evidently ha hasn't been
reading the papers.
Why Salt an Ammonia
Cleveland Plalndealer. ,
They have a surgeon out ln Indianapolis
who says that he is able to produce life
with salt, ammonia and alcohol. It looks
like a simple and inexpensive formula. Let
hltn go ahead.
Revives Some Memories.
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
The joyous visit of Admiral Cotton to
LlHhon recalls tho fact that there Is such
country as Portugal, and that Portugal
was once a very extensive land owner on
the continent of Amerlcs.
Boarke'a Belief.
Indlanaoolls News.
Bourke Cockran has returned to this coun
try with his American cltlaenshlp undam
aged In spite of the cable reports that he
was going to switch over and try for a seat
In the House of Commons. Bourke still be
lieves that congress Is good enough for any
bodythat can get elected.
And Practice It, Too.
Washington Star.
Of course the Department of Agriculture
means well in its plan for Instructing the
rural population as to the medicinal value
of various weeds. But every nighborhood
can furnish a quota of dear, old motherly
ladles who are thoroughly posted on the
subject.
Bia Future Cottaomta,
Pittsburg Dispatch
Congressman Mudd's compla' ,t that rural
mall carriers are displacing the rural post
masters who were "loyal to their congress
men" indicates that statesman's fear that
" tn0 march ' clv service reform keeps
on he will see the day when his name will
be spelled with one "d.
SOME ERRORS OP LABOR 15IOJTS.
Bad Blanders Jeopardise the Good
Work of These Ora;aniations.
New Tork Independent.
Errors and unfortunate policies that tend
to thwart the Just alms of organized labor
are 'clearly pointed" out by recent events.
To those who regard with intelligent and
itnatta interest the efforts of work-
wnllatn these blunders are a cause of
keen regret rather than of Indignation.
The worst of them Is tho hostile attitude
' unions toward the militia. This
nosuniy nas Deen-snown in mo siaie ox
New Tork at Schenectady and elsewhere.
In many towns of Indiana the enlistment
6t young men- ln;Tfte Sfayonal Guard has
been retarded, aikdweventea by a boycott,.
After the Evansvllle company had de
fended the Jail against 'a murderous mob,
the president of the Central Labor union
asked that the militia should be with
drawn because they were a menace to
the publlo peace. 1 Threats of a boycott
caused certain cowardly merchants of
Evansvllle to discharge five employes be
cause they had assisted as members of
the militia ln the defense of the Jail. In
Texas the unions have declined to permit
members who are also in the militia to
take the oath of allegiance required by
the new national - militia law. All union
men who are members of the militia com
panies at Austin have been required to
resign from the service or submit to ex
elusion from the labor organizations. It
Is said that this policy ls to be enforced
throughout the state. It ls reported that
union militiamen of Pittsburg who attend
the annual encampment this -year will be
dropped from their organizations.
This is a revolt against law and the
forces that preserve order. It is the pro-
motion of anarchy. It will tend to con-
Arm in many minds the assertion of Chi
cago a chief or ponce mat me real an
archists in America have joined the unions
and are striving to accomplish their pur
poses by means of them. Those who thus
stuck the militia virtually confess by their
action tnal mey expeci io gain ineir enus
by violence. But they are not a majority
of the organised worklngmen. We believe
that a Urge majority are loyal citizens
desiring to uphold the laws and to main
tain order by tne agencies lawiuuy pro-
. - . .hA. Their dutv now
TIUCU .ve
L, regtraln and reform their misguided
associates.
Proof that some union officers thrive by
blackmail and extortion excites public
opinion against the cause which good union
men have near at heart, we Deuevo that
the great mass of organized labor is free
from this stain. But the controversy in
New Tork between the builders and their
workmen has brought to light only too
much evidence that certain leaders and
agents whose action has already deprived i
their organizations oi x,w,ow in wages,
and who are now making a hopeless fight
against a fair plan of arbitration, have
been no better than thieves. The disclo
sures which have led to the Indictment of
three of these agents, together with the
revelations made at the pending trial of
the former treasurer of one of the unions,
seem to leave no room for doubt as to the
guilt of men who singly or in groups ap
pear to have extorted from employing
builders hundreds of thousands of dollars,
ostensibly as fines, but really as bribes to
pay for the exercise of their power over
the unions which they were authorised to
represent. It Is to retain this power, by
the exercise of which they have brought
foul disgrace, upon the cause of organized
labor, that they now oppose the arbitra
tion plan which ls designed to strip them
of it We do not overlook those who con
sented to pay the bribes: they should not
escape condemnation; but It should be re
membered that they were not the authors
of the corrupt propositions. The demands
were addressed to them, and in some in
stances failure to comply would have
caused great loss and possibly financial
ruin.
The unions that have been mlsrepre
sented. fooled, robbed and disgraced by
gents whom they trusted should make
ha'e to denounce this rascality and to cut
loose from everything savoring of corrup.
tion. This Is the way to deserve and re
gain the respect of the public. None of
these unions should wait for the public
prosecutor or the courts. Every one of
thera should make an inquiry of Its own
ascertain the facts and punish promptly
wherever treachery and guilt are -disclosed.
We believe that in these organizations
there are very few who are willing to
countenance extortion and blackmail. The
honesty of the large majority of their mem
bers should be shown conclusively to ths
public
TALK Or THE STATE PRESS.
Runhvllle Recorder: We suppose there
will be the usual effort made to galvanize
the populist party Into life again, but the
result will not be hazardous to predict In
state matters at least, though ln county
politics It Is always a matter of specula
tion. Falrbury Gazette: That fake story about
Mr. Illnshaw favoring only a 112 pension
for old soldiers, and which was sent out
from Beatrice by a political enemy, does
not down with those personally acquainted
with the gentleman. That ls not his
makeup at alt. He ls one of the most
liberal men to be found anywhere when
It comes to such matters. We know him
too well to swallow such stuff.
Norfolk News: If western Nebraska ls
successful In developing forests and irriga
tion ditches the entire state will present a
front to the commercial world that will
cut a considerable figure in a business
sense. The agricultural section of the
state has been gradually but certainly en
croaching on the "Great American desert"
through natural processes, and with a lit
tle artificial aid that desert will soon be a
thing of the past, even on the extreme
west.
Leigh World: It Is not often, and we be
lieve that it has never happened that Ne
braska has lost a crop on account of too
much rain. It has certainly been very wet
this year and still there is a good crop
of small grain and a fair prospect for a
good crop of corn. Taken altogether Ne
braska ls in luck, In many places the crops
are totally destroyed by the water while
In others they have dried out. We have
had plenty of rain but Nebraska Is still
doing business in the crop line at the old
stand.
The Ohlowan: Nebraska voters under
stand better than ever before In our his
tory the necessity of nominating compe
tent candidates with a record of uninter
rupted party fealty and moral integrity.
A man lacking qualifications must expect
defeat, no matter to what party he ad
heres, and one who employs his Influence
In behalf of incompetency Is an enemy of
his party and cares nothing for its suc
cess. The republican party ln Nebraska
owes It as a duty to itself to weed out
those unworthy members who eagerly sac
rifice the best interests of their party to
the remote prospect of a future political
nomination.
wayne Republican: Judge J. B. Barnes
of Norfolk seems to have no opposition for
the supreme court nomination. It is Just
a little peculiar this year, in all Instances
we have in mind there Is little rivalry for
nominations, the republicans have chosen
In advance of conventions, by process of
natural selection, an able man for each or
nee and the conventions nominate them
with a ring of good will and good speed
that will carry conviction with It. The
democrats have not even one candidate to
advance ln most instances. In fact the
whole situation signifies men employed in
something else than "office seeking," the
chief employment of popocratlo times.
Hastings Tribune: In view of the fact
that a new county office, was created by
the last session of the Nebraska loci si a
ture it is of great importance that this
subject be discussed early and thoroughly.
The newly made office Is that of county
assessor. It was originated for the purpose
Of giving the people a tax reform and
it should be made to properly carry out
all that it ls intended to be. This is an
offloe In which every taxpayer In Adams
county ls vitally Interested and when the
time comes for the selection of a man to
fill this office great car should, be taken
that no effort Is made to use the office
for the purpose of paying off political
debts. The cpunty assessor will be elected
for four years and cannot be his own suc
cessor. The one term idea In this partlcu
lar case will have a tendency to prevent
seekers for this office getting tangled up
In compromising position, and will give the
fortunate candidate the courage of his
convictions. This means that there will be
uniformity and impartiality in the assess
ment of all property. When the conven
tions are held the people should see to it
that none but coirpetent men are placed
upon the ticket for this new and Important
office.
Fremont Tribune: The address Issued by
the amalgamated populists of the country
from the altitude of Denver ls a matter
of greater interest than Importance. A
few years ago it would have been of po
litical Importance. .That was before the
populist party began to disintegrate and
lose Its membership to the two old parties
It has now gone so far In that direction
that what it may say or do Is not of polit
ical moment, though it is of some interest
as a matter of history. The Denver meet
ing, which resulted in the two kinds of
populists kissing and making up and their
agreement that henceforth all shall keep
in tne middle or tne road, embodlod its
agreements and conclusions In its public
manifesto. The first paragraph of that
document asserts the futility of under
taking to procure through either of the
old parties the reforms sought after by
real populists, and says: "The united
populist party should declare Itself em
phatically opposed to political affiliation of
either with these parties." In other words
tne rusionists nave joined the ranks of the
middle-of-the-roaders: or, better still, per
haps, the antl-fustontats have fused with
the fuslonists. The old Omaha platform
Is resurrected as the best vehicle through
which to express the alms and objects of
the rehabilitated and re-fused party and
true reformers evorywhere are cordially
Invited to assemble under that banner of
gloom ana pessimism.
PERSONAL, NOTES.
In accordance with the wish of the late
Senator ingalls his widow has placed at his
grave one of the huge ren oowlders with
which the Kansas prairies are strewn. The
stone weighs five tons and bears a bronze
tablet.
Inventory of the estate of the late Tom
Allen, formerly the champion pugilist of
the United States and for many years a
saloon keeper ln St. Louis, shows that he
left property valued at 1279.80.
Only three of the fifteen members of the
famous electoral commission of 1877 survive
x-Senator Edmunds, Senator Hoar and
General Eppa Hunton of Virginia the two
last having been chosen on the part of the
house of representatives. All of the five
Justices of the supreme court who sat on
thj commission long since passed away.
The press of eastern Cuba, commenting
on the serious Illness of General Bartolome
Masso. upon his estate near Manzanlllo,
reproaches the senators and members of
the rational congress from ths Oriental
provinces of the island for not having made
an effort to have a special act passed con
ferrlng a penBion on tne old veteran, who
not only served the Cubans In the field
but was also the last civic head of thel
"provisional government" during the last
revolution, fought for the Independence of
the island from Spain.
Charles Dumas, who has been honored by
the Society of Men of Letters of Paris with
the Sulty-Prudhomme prize, which Is equlv
alent to being made poet lauerate of
France, ls an exceedingly young man. Just
out of his teens. His poetical works have
the fire of genius and he seems to be pos
sessed of more than the average mental
balance for a poet. He la the rising poetical
star, and his recognition by so Important
a critical body as the society of which
Marcel Prevoat is president ls as grest
compliment as tbe bestowal of the laureate
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ARMY NEWS AND GOSSIP.
News of Oeneral Interest Called from
the Army and Navy neajlater.
This plans for the recall of troops from
the Philippines have changed. A mistake
occurred In the transmission of the cable
gram from Manila recommending certain
changes and Instead of three cavalry and
three Infantry regiments being brought
home it is now arranged to bring back
two regiments of each -arm. This keeps the
Fifteenth cavalry in the islands and holds
the Fourteenth cavalry In this country.
So, too, the Eleventh and Thirteenth in
fantry will come home and the Twenty.
eighth infantry will remain in the Islands.
The recommendation of General Davis from
Manila is now understood to provide for
three cavalry and eight Infantry regiments
remaining in the Philippines.
Secretary Root has decided not to aooept
the resignations of Lieutenants William L.
Westervelt, Seventeenth field battery; John
W. Kllbreth, Jr., Seventh field battery, and
Frederick U. Glgnoux, Thirtieth company
of coast artillery, until those officers give
better reasons than they have given for
withdrawing from the military service. He
believes that officers who have boen trained
at soma expense and trouble and are of
value on that account should not be al
lowed to leave the army without more
reason than their simple and unsupported
wishes. ThlB Is especially true In the case
of a graduate of the military academy, as
is Lieutenant Westervelt, who must have
obligated himself to have served his coun
try eight years at least. Of course these
officers may show good cause why their
resignations should be accepted, but as
matters now stand the department has de
clined to consider them favorably.
The Treasury department is enriched by
the sum of $103, represented by a brand
new bill of J100 denomination and 3, the
amount derived from the sale of a box of
cigars. The box of cigars was sent to
Colonel John L. Clem, quartermaster's de
partment, on duty at San Antonio, Tox.,
and contained, as well, the J100 bill. The
officer was very properly indignant and
referred the matter to the departmental
commander, who sent it along to Washing,
ton. The money and the cigars went to
the Treasury department In tho natural
order of events and the cigars were con
verted into money, and the total sum
placed to the credit or unclaimed funds.
The money and the cigars are evidently
the gift of in anxious contractor, who is
said to have admitted his desire to have
Colonel Clem smoke his cigars, but he in
slsted he knew nothing about the 1100 con
tained in the box. The only explanation
was that the messenger boy, who was era
ployed as a carrier of the cigars, must
have inserted the money secretly in the
box en route, as messenger boys are be
lieved to have a habit of doing.
It Is not commonly known, and evidently
known to a very few, that the Langley air
ship, which is awaiting practical test at an
unfrequented part or tne roioraac, is reany
military institution. Tnree years ago
Prof. Langley obtained from the War de
partment, on the recommendation or the
armv board of ordnance ana loriincanon,
an allotment of 150,000 from the fund re
served for the test of appliances or possi
ble use in a military way. This money
-.omnrises nearly three-fourths of the
amount which Prof. Langley has expended
in hi. nreoaratlon tor nignt. a military
commission made an Investigation of Prof.
t .-i.v- nlans and reported to tne Doaru
of ordnance and fortification Its faith in
the value of his theories. It was on ac
count of this report that the War depart
ment consented to baca UUigiey in me uo
velopment of his Invention. He has ren
dered conscientiously Itemized bills show
ing the expenditure of the entire sum of
the allotment, and it is probable that other
funds to which he has access nave
120,000 additional. The experience oi rror.
Lansley and the puDiicuy. ... - -
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or less trivial aim -- -
allsm has attended the projeci so wr, -Induced
other airship Inventors of less sci
entific reputation to write to the -V ar de
partment, and during me
this class of correspondence has visibly
increased. The board of ordnance and
fortification, however, will not take up the
lubject immediately. It 1. quit, content to
fet the matter rest with Prof. Langley and
to confine Its contributions w
to the 150,000 whlcn ians"" "
from the War department.
u. ...,n reneral has authorized a
new poster, based on the suggestion of
UeuteUt Colonel John Van R- Ho o
the medical department, now on duty at
nw. Tavenworth ana laieiy w
the surgeon general's office. The poster
bear, a neat and artistic reproduc ion of
the coat of arm. of the country with at
tractively colored letters. .......--
ous ornamenxauon ---,
khaki, with the regulation
bugle, the blast or "
the effect of giving " ..
word "Wanted." being the attractive in
troduction to the neea oy " TJ
corys of men within a prescribed age limit
and other qualification, of phy.lque and
character- It Is stated that tho... "with
some experience in numim,
pharmacy, clerical work, the handling of
tooliTnd care of animal, ar. particularly
desired, but any bright young man can be
enlisted, provided he is of good moral char
acter Is able to pass th. required physical
examination and ha. a common school ed
ucation." The poster also publishes the
rates of pay of the new grade, of th. ho.
pltal oorps.
Problem for Antipodean Politician..
Baltimore American.
Australia has a feminine vot. whose
numerical strength Is 8U).0u0, and at the fed
eral elections this year the women have an
nounced a platform whose object is to put
the country-, good government on sti-aiglit.
Now the politicians ate wondering If they
can manage about the purity in politics by
offering it to the lady voters a. a bargain
at S per cent mixture In government.
marked down from a hundred.
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A PLEA FOR PVBLIC OWNERSHIP.
Reflections on Conditions Confronting;
Producer. Who Pay the Freight.
Columbus Telegram.
It Is true that Nebraska farm
ers are getting fair prices for
grain and live stock. But say, brother
farmer, did you ever stop to figure out the
better price you might receive if only the
railroads would carry your produce to
market at fair freight charges? It is
worth thinking about, even when produce
13 bringing a good price Some day, we
hope not soon, grain prices will fall; corn
will sell In Nebraska for 15 cents a bushel.
It will be worth more, but that Is all It
will bring, because of excessive transpor
tation charges. It Is Idle to talk about
regulating freight rates by state laws. We
have tried that. Our legislature passed a
bill to reduce freight rates. It was a fair
and just measure. The courts killed It,
as they will kill many laws which the rail
roads oppose. The United State, supreme
court .aid we could put the Nebraska rate
law Into effect when times became pros
perous. Surely no one can deny that pros
perity has been with us recently. And
yet. Instead of getting action on our Ne
braska freight rate law, the people are
now paying higher rates on grain and
live stock shipment, than when the law
was enacted. Something ls wrong. There
ls a nigger In the railroad fence, and he
will stay there until the government .hall
buy a few railroad, and drive the colored
gentleman out by healthy competition.
Railroad advocate, try to scar, people and
prejudice them against government owner
ship of railroads by picturing the glgantlo
sum of money necessary to buy all the
roads. Well, who said It was necessary to
buy all the roads at once? The better plan
would be to buy for a starter a through
line from New Tork to San Francisco, and
one from the great lake, to the Gulf ot
Mexico. Give the shippers equitable rate,
on the through line, and let the states do
their best toward controlling th. rates on
local shipments. Competing lines would be
compelled to give equally low rates, or else
quit business. Gradually the government
could buy all roads ready to sell at a fair
price. Think about It brother farmer, while
you are gathering your crop. Figure out
the blood money you ar. paying to private
owners of railroads. Think about Itibrother
business man, whon you ar. paying ycnr
freight bills.
FLOATING FANCIES.
Mrs. Youngwed And what are these?
Uealer Salt mackerel, mum.
"Are they quite fresh?" Chicago News.
Mabel And did your grandfather live to
a green old age? ... ...
Ja-k Well, 1 should say .ol He was
swindled three times after he was seventy.
Boston Globe.
First M. D. What a lot of things have
been found in the vermiform appendix.
Second M. D. And look nt the money that
has been taken out of it. Life.
"I have been reading about some of th.
great men," said Mrs. Meekton. And Leon
Idas looked at her with joy in his eyes and
exclaimed: -Then you concede that such
things have betn." Washington Star.
"Walter, every time I com. ln here I get
the same potato."
"Well, you never eat it sir." Illuatrated
Bits.
"When a man has the tipper portion of a
wet bathing ault over his head and It won't
budge another Inch," remarked the ob
server of events and things, "that Is no
time to ask lilm to sing the long meter dox
ology." Yonkers Statesman.
Bobby Ma, you said that I wasn't to eat
that piece of cake in the pantry because it
would make me sick.
Mother Yea, Bobby.
Bobby (convincingly) But. ma. It hasn't
made ma sick. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Meeker Did you tell the cook that I
kicked ahout the roast?
Mrs. Meeker Yes.
"What did ahe sayT
"She said I might Inform you that there
were no strings tied to you and If her cook
ing didn't suit you you could take your
meals elsewhere. Cooking Club.
A Melting- Tale.
Mnry had a little w,
Ho playful and so callow;
But when the hent rem-bed 02
It turned to mutton t.-illow!
Cleveland Plain Dealer
MODERN I.OYEMAKINU.
Now York Herald.
I looked Into her eyes
And I held her hand
As I said, "My love.
I am yours to command.
To have and to hold
Till life has rrown old ' v
And has passed away likfl a tale that is
But she answered, "No,"
And withdrew ner nana;
"I am not your own;
Not yours to comraana;
The as. to obey
Hun riHsfled avavf
The new woman takes no command today."
So I changed my plea-
On my Knees 1 suea; .
She would and she wouldn't;
I wooed ana i wooea.
And with much ado
I won her: but, whew!
Walt till we're married, you'll sea who's
who.
Ayers
Hair Vigor
This is what Ayer's
Hair Vigor does: Re
stores color to gray
hair, makes the hair
grow, stops falling,
cures dandruff. Isn't
that enough?