THE OMAHA DAILY . BEE: MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1903.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.:
George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
ays that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
the month of September, !Su3, wag as fol-
1 SIMM
I 20.2T0
2O.3T0
4 O.STO
S 20,550
241,705
I J 20.820
t 20.370
. f 20.200
10 20,150
II . 20.220
12 20,310
13 1.. 241,435
14 20,020
15 24, BOO
' Total
16 SS.O.IO
it sh.bio
. 1
jg 2H.S70 I
..2,8o
20 20,44 I
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23 2H.B80
24 IB,lilv
26
26
27
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, ,20,20a
..27,240 1
ft " I
to 20,040 I
..802,230
Less unsold and returned copies.... ,40
Net total sale 852,744
Met average sales 2M,424
GEORQEt B. TZSCHUCK.
. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
Before ma this Svtb day of September, A.
D. 1901 M. B. H UNGATE.
(SeaL) Notary Public.
- Those war clouds have evidently taken
a permanent - lease on the northwest
corner of the oriental horizon.
In tho matter of attracting public at-
tentlon and public interest foot ball
comes In ahead of politics this year.
Where Omaha can advertise Itself to
best advantage is by having ita streets
and thoroughfares put In good condition
ana Kept in repair.
Only 1,500 votes cast in the republican
school board primaries. Plainly there
must be an Issue before the people will
take a lively .Interest In a political con
test The democratic candidate for indicial
position never make any pledges ot
political apnolntmentg because nobodv
uspecU that they will have anv tsolltl-
cal appointments at their disposal
The Ohio situation cannot be so pre-1
carious from the republican standpoint government has at all times and under
When Senator Ilanna takes' a lay off in all circumstances shown a most cora
the midst of the campaign to attend the mendable desire to settle these matters
Civle federation meeting in Chicago.' . I
wuai a leiung demonstration of tho
efficacy of prayer Chicago would ha vo
if Dowio and his Zioa host should sud-
denly make up their minds to locate in
Rew yrk and relinquish all thought of
returning to the World's fair city;
Omaha wants a grain market where
the corn and weat and, oats raised in
the surrounding states . can be stored
and exchanged. If it goes about it the
. right way the local grain market can be
established and built up just as was the
live stock market
A surplus of $7,000 is reported out of
receipts of some $43,000 at the state
fair at Lincoln. This is a good showing.
When the fair was at Omaha the re-
celpts went much higher, but the man.
agement managed Jo eat them all up in
xnenses ana sometimes mnro tnn
. If Lincoln has given up its opposition
to an electric trolley line between the
state capital and Omaha there is noth'
ing longer to prevent- the capitalists
who have been Drofesalnz to be so eager
to launch the project from Koine ahead.
Whv wt ti.pr Tr ten balnea.
without further delay?
I L I J '
Colonel Bryan declares emphatically
In bis paper that he never advised the
ttomlnatlon for the presidency of Olney
or any other democrat who failed to
support the ticket actively in 1SD6 and
1000. Colonel Bryan, however, has been
supporting gold democrats for all sorts
of other offices aud only recently en
dorsed a bolter as democratic nominee
for United States senator from Ohio.
The difference is in degree rather than
in kind.
The whole question of reform in rail-
road taxation in Nebraska could have
been settled in favor of the people if
the supreme court had decided the rail- mall fraction. As we have said here
road tax cases a year ago along lines of tofore, it is not to be doubted that the,
equity and Justice, instead of giving the
railroads the decision on technicalities
of pleading. With that record before
them how can the overhnrdenl tax.
payers expect to improve conditions by
re-electing Judge Sullivan, who helped
the railroads get J nut what they wanted
The Nebraska Independent files up at
The Bee's statement that the populist
vote iu this county has dwindled down
to a mere corporul' guard. That Is the
natural cue for a populist paper whose
life depends upon the rescue of the!
party from complete disintegration. But
how does it explain the fact that the
100 votes allotted to Douglas county in
the last populist state convention were
cast by Just two delegates on the
ground. IIer is a poser that fails te jibe
with its claim of double the number of
populist voters in Omaha than ever be
fore. v
JllXiK BAKlftS AtlD JVOOt SVLLIVAll.
BERTRAM, Neb., Oct. 14. Ifi3. To the
Editor of The Bee: As 1 have thought of the
mm ark a of Judge Sullivan at the Columbus
democratic convention about Judge Barnes,
who hns become practically an nssoclnte
Justice there by the approval of the Hon.
Judge Sullivan, that he knew him to be
Arc able man, an honorable man and a
gentleman, and worthy of being his oppo
nent, disqualifies all of the accusations of
the democratic press-. Either the Judge or
the preps has misrepresented the man.
If the press charge are true. Judge Sul
livan ts as favorable toward the railroads
aa Mr. Barnes, and I would prefer the
statements of Sullivan to the democratic
press on a question of politics for the
reason that he could not speak any way
disparagingly of a man with whom he has
been personally associated for four years,
where so many others, who know Judge
Barnes outside of politics, speak of him
the same aa Mr. fin 1 Ivan does.
I find no one finding fault with him
only a few democratic lawyers and none
even of his democratic opponents who are
not political wire-pullers and I find that
the accusation that are hurled against
Mr. Barnes are more Injurious to Mr. Sul
llviri than anything they can say for Mr.
Barnes. For the words of Mr. Sullivan
disprove all of the statements we find In
the democratic- rress; knowing. Judge
Barnes to be worthy therefore, he advised
his adherents to wage nothing but an hon
est and clean campaign. .
These are my views of the two candi
date who I think are honorable and able
men. . GEORGE FARNER.
This Is a fair tsnniple of the letters
so far received with reference to the
state campaign In Nebraska 'and a fair
illustration of how the two opposing
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cauuiuuiei xor nupieme juuge BiriKO iue
general public. Judae Sullivan- has en
Jnruvl Tn,t(TA Rornoi 11 urnrthw if
confidence and support of bis party and
no one has said anything bo far to dis-
va(a, k'uiiKHU 11U luliOU t UV
profess the same party allegiance.
There ccrtaiuly is no more reason for
mnV rfirMltlltaa tl V.lf A .rratnuf T.iitrrA
came than there is for any democrat
to vote against Judge Sullivan. With
the 'election ' simply a test of party
strength between the standard bearers,
tho success of Judge Barnes as. the
nominee of the majority party is as
sured.
TUB BOUNDARY DCCIHtOir.
Will the decision in the Alaskan
boundary case, In which the Canadian
government obtains a certain concession
from the United States, be satisfactory
to our people? It is perhaps absolutely
unnecessary to go into all the details
of the issue between the two govern
ments. They have been gone over so
repeatedly that it seems quite unneces-
sary to go over them again. We take H
for granted that the average American
will assume in advance that every ver
dict of his country in the case will be
absolutely correct and straightforward.
It is wholly useless to discuss the
question in view of the decision of the
court favorable to the American conten
tlon. Nothing more could be required
to Pr0Te thftt the attitude of our govern
ment has always been absolutely correct
aDU ProI)er
"Whatever may have taken place la
lne pa81 ro against our rair ana
nonoraDie piay in respect to . tnis con-
troversy, the admission must be that our
by way of honorable arbitration.
While this Dresent commission la not
. board of arbitration, but simhlv
body clothed with authorlty-to deter
mine certain controverted oolnts in con
nection with the claims of Canada and
the United States in regard to boundary
rights in a designated territory, it is
still a body whose judgment will have
a very great bearing upon the ultimate
settlement of the issue. The Importance
of this issue is fully recognized by both
countries and -cow that it is practically
adjusted it is a reasonable expectation
that other questions between the two
countries will be amicably settled within
the near future. The real obstacle to
the settlement of these questions was in
the boundary dispute and that matter
having been practically disposed of
there is no further excuse on the part
of Cunada 'or- prolonging controversy in
'r""' v" ' " " u"n:cl1
we two countries
It is therefore reasonably to be hoped
that the decision of the Alaskan bound
ary commission will be immediately fol
lowed by action, possibly in the recon
venlng of the high Joint commission,
r8Ult ,a a complete and perm
nent settlement of all issues between
the United States and the Dominion.
DOAO T US Hi OVTT.
Every good citizen, whatever his poll-
tics, roust regret the fact that there
has been wrongdoing in some of the
departments of the government. It
should be, aud we are inclined to be
lieve it Is, the sentiment of, all good
citizens that every person in the service
of the government should under all clr
cumtttances observe absolute integrity
in all relations and be unqualifiedly
honest iu their duty to the public, whose
servants they are.
We believe that the very great ma
Jr'ty I" the public service do this and
that those who do not constitute a very
skater number or our public servants,
whatever capacity employed, are ab
"olutely honest aud upright in the dis-
tharge or their autles. We believe that
the public service of the United States
U as a whole administered as honestly
as the public service of any country In
the world. We think that facts will
show this beyond controversy, in spite
I oX recent developments which It must
I be admitted are a reproach to the coun
I try
What we desire to emphasize is that
the men in the various department of
I the administration are dolug their full
duty in connection with whatever faults
aud abuses may. exist in their respective
departments and are manifesting a most
I earnest purpose to correct and prevent
1 any and all improper actions or unlaw
ful conduct No reasonable man will
- 1 be surprised at the fact that in a public
J service embracing hundreds of thou
sands of person there should be a few
dishonest and untrustworthy. It is aim
ply inevitable. But tho adnilnlstratlou
is using every practicable effort to rid
the public service of unreliable persons
and in this the president and the vari
ous heads of the departments are en
titled to the confidence of the country.
that Hunanr wolf.
"Children, go to bed, or the wolf will
eat you," is the usuul way by which the
nurHe puis the Juveniles to sleep. "Slip
under our bed quilt or the machine will
eat you up," is the admonition of the
combine of which Secretary Burgess
and Superintendent Tearse are the wet
nurses. The credulous Juveniles who
hnve been buncoed so many times by
the cry of "wolf will doubtless im
agine that they have had a narrow es
cape from being eaten up, but it strikes
us that the last performance ought to
be an eye opener to the lnmbs of both
sexes that have been repeatedly fright
ened out of their wits by tire false
alarm.
For months the combine that ex
tended the term of Politician Tearee for
three years arid raised the salary of
Politician Burgess, who had never
earned more than $80 a month in his
life, to $2,100 a year was plotting and
scheming to re-elect a few friendly In
dians and inject several friendly tender-
feet into the board upon whom they
could rely implicitly in milking the tax
payers to their hearts' content
Forty-eight hours before the repub
lican school board primary the alarm
of "(Jet under cover, or the wolf will
eat you," was sounded for the benefit of
the unsuspecting political infants by
the juvenile yellow, whose proprietor
transplanted a near relative, from one
of the graded schools of Kansas City,
paying $40 a month salary, to a post
tlon in the Omaha High school at $80
month. "The friends of the public
schools must be on guard," cried the
sensational bunco steerer. "The ma
chine is lubricating its running gear
and will swoop down upon the school
board primaries with a elate. The only
way to beat the machine is to vote the
following five names: Theodore II,
Johnson, Howard L. Krelder, James W.
Maynard, John II. Vance and Ellsworth
A. Willis." The day after the primary
the senior morning yellow announced in
big headlines, "The machine slipped
some cogs. The machine was given
somewhat of a Jolt at the republican
primaries held for the purpose of nomi
nating candidates for the Board of Edu
cation. ' But one of the candidates in
dorsed by the machine won out John
L. McCague."
Now, everybody familiar with Omaha
politics knows that John L. McCague
has never been directly or indirectly
identified with the dreadful machine.
Everybody who attended the school
board primaries knows that the horrible
machine put no ticket in the field and
that the only sample ballots in circula
tlon were printed on the colored slips of
paper peddled by the school janitors,
schoolma'ams and the candidates put up
by Burgess' and Pearse. The so-called
machine, had. pot even thought of inak
ing a contest There has not been for
years any attempt at political manipu
lation of members or employes of the
school board, except by the combine on
the inside, which wants to perpetuate
itself in power for the benefit of rela
fives who are foisted upon the public
schools regardless of merit or quallflca
tions.
And yet there are hundreds, if not
thousands, of people in Omaha who
allow themselves to be treated as chll
dren and frightened by these political
nurses into slipping under cover by the
mere threat that a hungry wolf has his
nozzle at the bedroom door ready to eat
them.
Booker T. Washington explains the
general migration of negroes from coun
try to city, a migration that according
to census statistics is more .marked
proportionately with them than with the
whites, by two reasons, first the bet
ter schooling facilities for negro chll
dren, and, second, the batter police pro
tection. But those two factors are just
as sharply drawn between whites in
city and country as between negroes
in aud out of the cities and their in
fluence should work uniformly without
respect to color or race. Vhese expla
nations may hold partly good in the
south, where the color discrimination
is unchecked, but they do pot hold good
in the north, where colored children
attend the same schools as the white
children and police protection is not
needed. The suggestion that a more
potent reason is the better wages ob
tainable in the cities may be pertinent,
as also the greater variety of diversion,
because the negro must have recrea
tion and amusement At all events,
Mr. Washington's explanation does not
cover tli who'e ground.
A convention of representative cattle
men from eighteen states is to be held
at Denver during the present .week to
discuss the independent packing bouse
project as a competitor to the Packing
House trust. The plan of organization
contemplates the raising of more than
ten millions of capital by stock sub
scription at the rate of $1 for every bead
of cattle owned by the ranchman. If
all cattle owners could be enlisted
Texas alone would contribute $9,000,
0U0 to the fund aud Kansas and
Nebraska would drop in several mil
lions more. The promoters of this
scheme evidently believe that lndepend
ent packing plants will increase the
value of each head of cattle at least $2,
but we apprehend that all would de
pend upon the management of the inde
pendent packing bouses and their abil
ity to secure stock yard facilities and
transportation on the same terms at are
now enjoyed by the packers' combine.
The way to take the public schools
out of politics is to enact a law forbid
ding candidates for the school board
from having their names filed tinder
ny party designation and divorce all
school board elections from political
elections. When that is done we may
have nonpartisan school boards.
The awful condition of the streets of Chi
cago which haVe not been recenOy re-
paved Is accounted for rty President Lynch
f the Board of Public Improvement, Who
say that the early cedar pavement rotted
out from the bottom In a few years and
that the blocks were torn out of place and
stolen by people of various neighborhoods.
who used the lumber supply for firewood.
The fact Is that the cedar block pavements
were laid under a rascally system of
graft" Chicago Chronicle.
Misery loves company." Omaha will
have reason to congratulate itself that
Its experience with bad pavements is
only a repetition of what Chicago has
ndergone and is still undergoing. Both
cities have been taught a costly lesson
that should not be forgotten at least for
one or two generations. (
Three weeks ago President Johnson
assured the patrons of tho public schools
that the school board was out of poli
ties4. But with the school house Janitors
and other school board employes under
orders to hustle at the republican pri
maries it would indicate that the school
board is still in politics up to its neck.
Hot Spots on the Sam.
Detroit Free Press
If Sreel common drops much lower during
the Roosevelt administration, it will require
force to keep the New York Sun from se
ceding from the union.
Punishment Kiln the Crime.
Washington Post. '
An Ohio negro has been sentenced to
fifteen years in the penitentiary for steal
ing 40 cent. Serves him right for stealing
that much real money Instead of swiping a
few minions' worth of Steel stock.
Aad the Vail Tumbled.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The latest story about Admiral Cotton is
that, when he arrived at Beyroot and the
vail sent to ask hi intentions, he replied
that he had no Intentions, no policy and
no blank cartridges." The last clause
struck the vail a peculiarly significant and
order was restored at once.
Sapply of Backers Exhausted.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Wall street financiers depended on the
rule that suckers fcre being constantly
brought Into the world. But they slipped
up by forgetting that the supply of one
generation may be exhausted before the
next crop get into the market.
. A Dlar for the DlgglaKS.
Springfield Republican.
It has not yet been learned who fired the
shot that did not hit Magelssen of Beyroot,
nor does anyone now care to know. Our
navy has got In its work, however. Min
ister LeUhman, w'th two war ships at hi
back, has forced the sultan to grant per
mission to a certain Dr. Banks to excavate
ruin In Mesopotamia. , This I another
great diplomatic triumph, and, besides, It
proves the inestimable value of a navy
wnen dealing with the Turk.
VALIB OP VOTING MACHINES.
Time and Mosey Saved by' Their Cse
la Indtataapoll.
Quickness, accuracy and almost instan
taneous return were Impressive results
of the use of -voting" Wchlnes In the mu
nlcipal election at .Indianapolis last Tues
day. Ten machines were used In a many
ward districts, but sq distributed as to teat
their operation among different classes of
the voting population. How well the ma
chines performed their work Is related by
the Indianapolis Journal:
"When the polls closed Tuesday evening,"
say the Journal, "the manager of the press
bureau had a messenger stationed at the
third precinct of the Thirteenth ward and
within sixteen minute after the close the
messenger rod up to the bureau on Illlno's
treet with the result of the vote from this
particular precinct.
"In the sixth precinct of the Twelfth
ward sixty vote were oast In the first
fifty-two minute after tho poll opened.
One voter who could not .read or write
voted in eight seconds. Several voters
oast their ballots in three second each.
"In the eighth precinct of the Thirteenth
ward eighty vote were cast In one hour,
FrediStolts, 82 year old, voted In ten sec
onds. .
"In another precinct sixty-eight vote
were cast In forty minutes. In this pre
cinct the average time consumed by each
voter while enough were waiting to keep
the machine busy was twenty second.
"In the eleventh precinct of the Sixth
ward the average time of each voter wa
one to one and one-half minute.
"In the thirteenth precinct of the Third
ward the average time wa five to thirty
seconds.
"In the seventh precinct of the First
ward thirty-two votes were cast. In the
first hour sixty-nine were cast.
"In the twelfth precinct of the Thlr
teenth ward fifty-seven vote were cast
the first half hour and 104 In the first hour,
"The longest time consumed in furnish
Ing returns from voting machines after the
close of the polls was forty-five minutes
and thirty seconds. This was the time con
sumed in the Third, Tenth and Twelfth
ward.
'In the eighth precinct of the Thirteenth
ward the result of the vote was known in
twenty, second after the poll closed at
p. m.
"The election officers appeared to think the
machine were a eucccess and were well
satisfied with ' them. One special feature
noted by the officer wa that the machines
tended to "straight" voting instead of
scratched tickets. It wa also noted that
in many instances where special lnstruc
tlon were not given the voter forgot the
school commissioner. Sometimes, it was
observed, a voter would manipulate the
machine for a straight rather than try to
vote a scratched ticket, fearing he would
become confused and vote wrong. 'Where
voters could not read they were required
to make affidavit to the fact, and the clerk
would thn help them out."
Editorially, the Journal say: "There
havci been numerous elections, city"7 county
and township, in Indiana since the adoption
of the Australian law, In which there have
been enough mutilated ballots to have
changed the result, had they been counted
and In all of theae case It ha been a que
tlon If the will of the majority ha not been
defeated through Ignorance or carelessness.
With the machine there can be no ballot vl
tlated by distinguishing marks, and it
mechanically Impossible for the voter to
vote for two Candida tu for the same office.
The very worst he can do I to neglect to
vote for some candidate he had intended
to vote for.
"Another advantage lies in a considerable
saving of expense. Not only can the duo
bar of officers required to condupt a pre
clnct polling place, be reduced, but they
will draw pay for but one day, Instead of
for two or three days, a under the old y
tem. The expense of an election are re
duced more than half, and In most case a
much a two-tbirda. The machine will pay
for themselves In a very few elections, and
afterwards result In at great saving to the
people, for they should Wat many decades
with, proper care.'
JtDCiB JOHS H. . BAHMCS.
Madison Chronicle: Judge Barnes baa
made an ideal supreme commissioner, and
has been voted for that position twlcs by
Judge Sullivan. Such being the case he
Is in every way qualified to occupy with
credit to himself and the party the office
of Judge of the supreme court, and you
should see to It that your ballot reads
for him on election day, November 3.
Leigh World: Everything seems to be
coming right for Judge John B. Bitrnes,
the republican candidate for supreme
Judge. The democratic press Is calling him
a corporation tool and a rogue, and yet
he Is gaining strength In the popularity of
the people every day. We would not be sur
prised If that democratic mud slinging
would help him to gather a few more
votes.
Wayne Republican: The lion. ' J. B.
Barnes of Norfolk, the republican nom
inee for the supreme Judgeship, hns found
a staunch friendship In the old timers of
the state, who, for the first time, per
haps, have met him, although their ac
quaintance has been forming for thirty
years. Select from those who have lived
In the state any great length of time
all the prominent Jurists and Judges, sift
them again through your memory and se
lect those whose every impulse was for
the welfare of the state and the vicinity
of his home, for the welfare of every nan
and the correct training and education of
his own family. Judge Barnes 1 still
among the uppermost. By these tests of
cltiienshlp we must select our public men.
What are their personal InfluencesT What
Is their home life? Is their public career
gauged by anything leas than their pri
vate life? In Judge Barnes, who has twice
been appointed to the supreme court com
mission, has held untarnished through
these years his good name In the discharge
of public trusts, we have a candidate who
is entitled toVvery vote of loyal cltlsens
regardless of party. It takes more than
sneers of fuslonlsts that he Is a railroad
man to convince those who know him well
that he Is not a man endowed by his
Creator with capabilities to treat all men
fairly, and a judge must on oath treat rail
roads as fairly as other litigants. We would
disdain to vote for a man so biased that
he could not accord Impartial Judgment to
all, even If one of the litigants were the
most oppressive to mankind.
Pender Republio: The talk of certain
of tho fusion pap.!rs that Jude Borne
is disqualified from serving upon the su
preme court because he had served faith
fully and well certain monled interests
as their attorney, Is a little out of Joint,
So far as fuslonlsts are concerned. It Is, as
the lawyers say. "stare decisis" or "res
Judicata," and the judgment Is against the
position taken by these papers. Judges
Sullivan; and Holcomb eHtled the question
against them when they" twice appointed
Judge Barnes as their associate upon the
supreme bench. If they had appointed him
but once there might have been the excuse
f lack of Information, but this Is entirely
removed by their reappointing him after
he had already served one term with them,
The supposed objection now raised existed
at the time of his appointment and If
there wa nothing in them then, there ts
nothing In them now. Furthermore, he Is
better qualified now than when first ap
pointed. Hi experience upon the supreme
bench ha better fitted him for the duties
of the office. The argument against Judge
Barnes stultifies Judge Sullivan. Judge
Sullivan knew Judge Barnes had been
railroad attorney and he knew whether
or not .that fact was an objection to him
as supreme Judge, and he decided that it
was not. When Judge Sullivan ha given
Judge Barnes so distinctive a certificate
of his qualification in all respects for
service upon the highest tribunal in the
state, why should republican waver, in
the least, in their support of their candl
date, or why should they be deceived by
partisan "nonpartisan Judlolary" talk?
Syracuse Journal: Judge Barnes had tne
qualification to make a good supreme court
commissioner, or Judge Sullivan would not
have voted for him. The same qualifica
tions are required for judge of the supreme
court. , , ' .
GOBBLING UP TIMBER L.AXDS.
Valuable Portion of the Publlo Do
mala doing- te Speculators.
V Chicago Record-Herald.
The federal timber lands law provides for
the sale to pioneers of government forest
lands In quarter sections at 12 50 an acre. In
the twenty-five years that this law has
been on the abitute book the total sale of
timber land have amounted to less than
7,000,000 acre. In the fiscal year 1303 alone
the sales were 1,706,618 acres, or over a
quarter of the total twenty-five years'
sale.
These figure tell a startling story of the
rapidity with which some of the most valu
able portions of the public domain 'are being
gobbled up," and they furnish at the same
time a most eloquent argument for Imme
diate amendment of the timber land law. If
the land were passing Into the hands of
actual settlers, or if the government were
being paid a reasonable price for them, all
would be well, but such Is not the case.
The sand are going to speculators for a
song.
Commissioner Richards of the general
land office takes occasion In his forthcom
ing anniml report to discus the situation
and to lament hi helplessness under the
existing law. "There la no doubt," he I
quoted a saying, "that the law I being
taken advantage of by (peculator, who are
getting rich at the expense of the govern
ment and of the men for whose benefit the
law wa primarily passed."
He describe how a carload of people will
leave Michigan for Oregon. Shortly there
after the land office receives claims for
quarter section In number exactly corr
ponding to the number of paasengei' on
the car. Each claim 1 accompanler1. by a
$400 check. Investigation show that none
of the claimant was ever known In hi
home town to have ivA at any one time In
his life. Nevertheless the patents must be
Issued, for the law only requires that the
claimant must have seen the land and pos
ess the price. Before long all the claims
are transferred to some one syndicate or
corporation.
One remedy that has been suggested Is to
apply to the timber claims -the features of
the homestead law, which make actual
residence a requirement. But the commuta
tion clause of the homestead law is Itself
proving too liberal, and the whole subject
of ths land law la In great need of Inves
tlgation and practical reform.
PERSONAL KOTKS.
The higher Booker Washington c'lmbs
the more bHckbat are aimed at him by
his own race.
Grover Cleveland lain exce'lent form. He
can run In and out of Chicago without
crossing the Harrison wires. '
' Senator Allison may not be skilled In ths
science of music,' but none of the band
masters can excel hin In sounding a key
note.
There Is no end to objection. Some
farmer are against the free rural mall
delivery because they have to Invent ex
cuses every time they want in go to town
and loaf at the store.
The Ame. lean minister to Sweden is given
credit for being the beat shot ia that coun
try. H can hit ths fleetest bird on the
wing and his office In Stockholm has many
trophies of his prowess as a hunter.
The arbitrator in the Alaskan boundary
dUput meet at 11 o'clock and adjourn at
1 for lunch; then reassemble at I and ad
journ at 4 for lunch. The mornings and
evanlngif soeia t fcs rsaenred for steal.
ROlD ABOl'T KW YORK.
Ripple ea the C'arrenfof I. If la the
Metropolis.
Faith curlsts In New York are much
perturbed over the decision of the state
court of appeals, which penalises failure
to call regular medical practitioners In
alt cases of illness of minors. Believers
the power of prayer over disease are J
In
bitterly denouncing the decision and say
they will raise a fund to get the best
possible counsel to carry the case to the
federal supreme court.
Nearly three year ago one J. Luther
l'lerson, av resident of White riains, was
fined IbCO, with the alternative of 500 day
In Jail, for criminal neglect. He had re
fused to furnish medical attendance In the
case of hi Infant child, who was gravely
111 of pneumonia. Being a Christian
Scientist, or Faith Curer, he did not be
lieve In doctors. He trusted entirely to
the efficacy of prayer. The child died.
Plerson was prosecuted under that section
of the penal code which say that a charge
of criminal neglect may be sustained
against any person "who omits without
lawful excuse to perform a duty by law
Imposed upon him, to furnish food, cloth
ing, shelter or medical attendance to a
minor." The Jury returned a verdict of
guilty. This verdict was reversed by the
appellate division, which stretched the
term "medical attendance" to cover more
than the framera of the statute Intended
that it should. In other words, the ap
pellate division held as guilt lee those par
ent who permit sick children to battle
gainst disease unaided by the resources
of medical science. The court of appeals
has now In turn reversed the appellate
division and Plerson roust either pay his
fine or go to Jail.
There was to be a wedding rehearsal at
the home of Sarah Golsler In Jersey City
Tuesday night, and the young woman was
radiantly happy In anticipation of her mar
riage to Walter Odell next Wednesday.
She worked hard all the morning putting
the finishing touches to -her wedding gown,
When she finished she exclaimed with Joy:
"Oh, mamma, won't Walter feel proud !
of me for this?" and she held the gown
out at arm's length. v ,
But Mrs. Gelsler made no reply. She
smiled feebly and turned away. Her heart
was breaking with grief, for she had been
told half an hour before that Odell was
dead. She feared the shock would kill her
daughter. The sight of the wedding gown
juct finished, only intensified her grief and
she strove In vain to hide her tears.
The young woman embraced her mother
tenderly as she tried to make her feet
happy.
"You shouldn't cry, mother. You know
we'll never leave you after we're married.
We'll be here every day," and she tried to
laugh the tears away.
Mrs. Oelsler strove to keep them back,
but the girl could see that there was some
thing wrong. She begged her mother to
tell her what it was. Mrs. Oelsler hinted
that Walter might not come that evening.
She said he was ill and that she had Just
received word. She gently stroked her
daughter's hair as she let out the fatal
secret, and when the- girl was told the
worst both mother and daughter were
overcome. Walter Odell had committed
suicide at his home, 887 Union avenue,
Bronx. He Vas found dead early Tues
day morning with a gas tube in hi mouth.
The shock wa too great for the young
woman to bear. For three year ah had
been the promised bride of Odell. She
would not believe that he was dead. She
decided to find out for herself.
Mrs. Oelsler and her son accompanied
the girl to the home of her dead flanoe.
When she saw the coffin the young woman
collapsed and It was feared her heart
might give way.
There are now about sixty.'- first-class
hotels in New -York. The addition of the
fifteen new ones will increase the number
to seventy-five. If these seventy-five hotels
were piled on top of one another they
would make a structure 750 stories high
taller than the Tower of Babel. Or, to
look at it in another way, if they could
be conglomerated into one huge composite
hotel It would be twenty-seven stories high
and cccupy a ground space of seventeen
acres, more than four city blocks, includ
ing the intersecting streets. This great
building would cost $78,000,000, have 22,500
bedrooms and accommodate 60,000 gussts
daily. I
James Henry Smith, formerly of this city,
but now of New York and known among
his friends as "Silent Smith," I planning
to have a novel house party when his new
Fifth avenue mansion Is completed next
winter. Every man who turned a spadeful
of earth, laid a brick, drove a nail or
daubed a brush on the house Is to have an
invitation. Even the bricklayers' clerks,
the hodcarriers, will be cordially Invited to
come and bring their wives. It will not
be an exclusive affair at all. Mr. Smith'
other friend will have invitation and
there will be quite a coming together of
air kinds of society. Mr. Smith has no
notion of patronizing the worklngmen by
giving this party. He thinks the men who
build houses have some equity In the com
fort to be derived from them. .
For the use of the underground rapid
transit railroad 00 more car have ar
rived In New York. They are more roomy
and lighter than those In use on the ele
vated roads, . and different from them In
other respects. The woodwork of the In
terior is of a lighter shade. The windows
are much larger; the entire upper sides of
the cars, In fact, are of glass, except the
parrow framework. There are no mirrors.
The cars are forty-two feet long, about
two fe longer that those In the elevated.
The door are much larger than any seen
now on city rairoad. The seating capacity
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The great variety of style In Decatur shoes
enables the sportsman to satisfy his longing
for the real thing as well as the devotee of
the ball room.
' Direct from the maker to wearer.
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Is fifty-two passenger te the car, against
forty-eight in tho "L" cars. The advan
ttiKo of tho subwsy car la in their greater
width, depth and the comfortable arrange
ment of tho seat.
Aluminum rooking utensils are being
pushed by many of tha big shop In New
York. They are brought out In shape as
attractive as the finer silver, copper and
gold lined cooking vessel used In wealthy
households. The stew pans, terrapin dishes,
coffee urns and teakettles of aluminum
have now such beauty of contour and fin
ish that they seem almost more appropriate
to the dining room table than to the kit
chen. And particularly I thla true of the
Individual omelet pans and holders for
delicacies that require to be served In tin
dish In which they are cooked if their ex
cellence Is to be preserved. Half the bat
tle In winter-time cookery Is to have
things served hot. The new aluminum
conveniences provide this advantage for
housekeeper who rannot afford ths ex
pensive silver utensil.
A new thing in the way of apartment
house leases has made it appearanoe. It
author Is a patriot and a Christian gentle
man who take all the measures within his
power for the protection of hi tenant. ;
A lady connected with the operatlo stag
desired a suite of . apartments. . He ac
cepted her as a tenant, but Inserted a
clause in the lease to the effect that as
soon as one of the other tenant recorded
a complaint of her vocal gymnastic, she
wa to take up her muslo roll and de
part. i
lacle Sam Strnaar Box.
New York Tribune.
Uncle Sam's cash balance In the treasury
at the end of September touched the high
water mark in that repository, being IJIO.
370,699, largely ' loaned out to banks, thus
continuing Its activity, but good On call
whenever wanted.. So long as Dame Co
lumbia Is able to keep the aforesaid uncle
out of Wall street hi financial condition
promises to continue prosperous, with no
need to borrow money for housekeeping,
unless a new democratic administration
were to come In and make necessary the
expedients of the last one. ,
rOI.HTBD PLEASANTRIES.
"There Is no such thing as luck," said the
sturdy, self-reliant person.
"I can't contradict you," answered the
patient sufferer. "Ail I can say I that If
there is I haven't seen it. "-.Washington
Star. -...',.
Fweddy I got an Insulting note' from
Rup-glen this mawnlng. He says I'm a
dahned fool. .
Cholly Nw mind Ruggles. He's one of
those deucedly frank fellows, don't you
know. Philadelphia Press.
"I could die waltslng," remarked the
awkward young ' man Just because bo
thought that the proper thing to say.
"I wish you would," returned the girl,
who wa having a difficult time keeping her
toes out of his way. Chicago Post.
"I asked Titewadd to lend me a five yes
terday." "Did he faint?"
"No. but I did."
"How was that?"
"He lent me the five." Cincinnati Trib
une. Friend How did you get your first case?
Doctor Why, I think the man didn't
know it. New York Times. -. ,
An the musician's cy there wa a gleam
of Joy.
I"ls it possible," asked one of the by
standers, "you can take any pleasure in
hearing a girl play 'Hiawatha'?
"Yes," he answered .through his
set
teeth.
'She ' Is murdering
It!" Chicago
Tribune.
Bride (disconsolately) Half my wedding
presents are cheap plated things.
Mother Never mind, my dear;- no one
will suspect it. I have hired two detectives
to mako themselves conspicuous watohlng
them, Newprk Weekly. . . i, ; (. f-. ri-,, i ,; j
"What? You -married!" exclaimed the
girl who had just returned from a six
months' soiourn at , the summer resorts.
"Why, you said one time that you would
never be any man's slave."
"True," replied the newly made bride,
"but what has that got to do with my get
ting married?" Chicago New. .
THE BIRIAL OF FREE SILVER.
'
W. D. Nesblt in Chicago Tribuns.
("I think that free sliver will not be con
sidered at the nationul democratic conven
tion in 1904." Reported utterances of W. J.
Uryan.)
Not a speech was heard, not a funeral
word, , ,
As the corse to the ramparts were hur
ried; Not even a cheer the grim stillness stirred
O'er the grave where free silver was
burled,
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W burled It darkly no one -know when
And nobody looked at the casket.
But there U a hint It was bundled again
Into the familiar wast basket.
No useless coffin inclosed Its breast, '
Nor bier did the mourner fix,
But they laid it away to It long, long rest
On the platform of Nmeieen-Six.
Few and short were the prayer w said.
And we spoke not a word of sorrow.
But we steadfastly gased on the face of
the dead
And bitterly thought of the morrow.
We thought of the fellow who'd fix the
plank
On which we should do our campaigning
And the golden cross, with a muttering
clank, -
Lent emphasis to eur complaining.
Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's
gone, .. . i
And press down the thorns en our forehead-Still,
you were great, good old Sixteen-!"-One:
Those who dispute this are horrid.
Now It's at rest, In the peace of the tomb
Safe from all quibbling and Jibing;
We may but say, through the rifts In ths
gloom:
That "now Is fc)e time for subscribing."
Slowly nd sadly w laid it down
And we wept aa we gated upon that form
And thought of the beautiful thorny crown
That had pierced the Chicago platform.
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