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    THE OMATIA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY. JANUARY 21. 1903.
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The third big:, new grain elevator for
Omaha la now In sight Let the good
work go on.
It was hardly necessary for China to
affirm that It would be neutral. What
Is wanted Is for belligerents to recog
nize Its neutrality.
Representative Dodge's primary elec
tion bill prescribes a test oath more
odious even than that embodied in the
Gilbert test-oath bill passed by the last
legislature. Cut It out
Senator Smoot on the witness stand
declares he has no sympathy with polyg
amy, which ought to be true, seeing how
much trouble the Institution has caused
him since he was elected to office.
Now that a British steamer has been
condemned by Japan for transporting
contraband of war, Great Britain may
insist that allies should treat each other
with a degree of courtesy not accorded
strangers.
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President Loubet Is said to have been
a mechanic In his younger days, but he'
surely never had a more difficult Job
than building a cabinet out of the
heterogenous material from which he
must choose.
Omaha now counts among its citizens
a Knight of the Order of Wasa to keep
company with Its Count of the Holy
Roman Empire and its distinguished
Bearer of the Iron Cross. Nothing Is
too good for Omaha.
The German emperor and the Russian
czar now have opportunity to show
which has studied the labor question to
the greater advantage by bringing about
an amicable settlement of the strikes
which are in progress.
Austria and Russia have agreed upon
plans for governing Macedonia. It may
be easier to secure the approval of Tur
key than of tho Macedonian insurgents,
who are now piling up arms for a fight
and may want to use them.
Lincoln republicans have fixed upon
February 7 and 14 for their direct pri
maries to nominate candidates for city
offices. They will take no chances by
waiting for the legislature to enact a
new primary law for them.
If Wisconsin legislators carry out
their promise to send LaFolIette to the
senate of the United States President
Roosevelt will be assured of one hearty
lieutenant In. the upper branch of con
gress when he tries to adjust the rail
road problem. ' ' i
It Is to be noted that the World
Hera Id's uncompromising opposition to
the supreme court commission has be
come really vehement since the supreme
court which la vested with the appoint
ing power, passed from fusion to re
publican control.
St. Petersburg employers say the
question of an eight-hour day Is one to
be settled by the goverumeut, while In
America every oppoueut of a shorter
workday Insists it Is something the gov
ernment should let alone. And both are
striving for the same object after all.
On one thing, fortunately, all our
charter revisers are agreed. They all
admit the uselessness of the Board of
Public Works as now constituted and
the need ft the transfer o its functions
to some authority that will promote pub
lic Improvements when demanded in
stead of blocking them.
Senator-elect Burkett says be is op
posed to the government doing anything
Yvhich private Individuals can do. That
tneans, probably, that he h opposed to a
parcels post. Wa apprehend, however,
that the people of Nebraska, by a large
majority, would prefer to have the ex
greet companies' monopoly broken up.
vstTixo ron opposition.
A few days acr a conference of prom
inent raiiroad oincials was held in New
York City to discuss proposed legisla
tion affecting railway rates and accord
ing to report twenty-nine systems, com
prising practically every railroad In tho
country, are twing merped Into a con
crete unit for the pecluo purpose of
overcoming legislation at Washington
having for Its objpet rnte repulution. It
is stated that the alliance Is to be of
fensive and defensive, but largely the
former. The report says: "The deter
mination of the railroad companies to
act as a unit In the flsht to prevent the
legislation has already buried some of
the Individual antagonisms which have
existed for a long time between presi
dents of different systems. The
combined power of the railroads of the
country In Washington Is held to be
greater than that of any other combina
tion of Interests. With all of their en
ergy and power concentrated upon a
single purpose, they are counted upon
to make a fight that will test the
strength of President Roosevelt."
Without giving full credence to this
report, ft can bo said that It Is by no
means Improbable, In spite of the fact
that some of the men who attended the
conference have been understood not to
be averse to further legislation In the
direction recommended by . President
Roosevelt At all events It Is well that
the leading railroad men should confer
and let the country know Just where
they stand In regard to this most Im
portant question. If they Intend to
nnite in fighting against additional leg
islation for remedying abuses that they
admit exist, and which they profess to
be unable to correct the sooner the
public Is assured of their Intention the
better. There Is no doubt as to the at
titude of the national administration
and It Is fully approved by the people.
There Is every reason to believe that
there will be no departure by the presi
dent from the position he has taken.
The disposition shown In congress Is to
comply with the views of the president
If the railroads are determined to resist
the public demand represented by the
president let them so declare without
delay. The people want to know defi
nitely how the railroads stand In re
spect to this vital matter whether they
are willing to have existing abuses cor
rected or propose to have perpetuated
conditions that are admittedly Injurious
to the general welfare.
SEW JERSEY UORPORAfluy LAWS.
New Jersey Is known to tho country
as the foremost trust-making state. Her
corporation laws are peculiarly liberal
and ha-ve been taken advantage of by
the trust organizers to a greater extent
than those of any other commonwealth.
From this the state has derived a larr
revenue and the new governor, Edward
C. Stokes, is desirous that this source
of Income shall not be . disturbed. In
bis Inaugural address he pointed out
that more than three-fourths of the in
come of New Jersey came from corpo
rations domiciled there and he raised
the question whether or not this rev
enue can be maintained in its present
volume, saying that other states are
competing for Incorporation business
and that the rates in those states are
cheaper than are New Jersey's.
Governor Stokes said that legislation
for revenue only Is unsound and should
never be encouraged, but honest legisla
tion, which safeguards the rights of the
public, and thereby attracts capital and
enterprises and produces increased In
come, is New Jersey's aim- The. state
"does not compete in any race between
states for revenue where the inducement
to Incorporation Is laxity of law." He
urged that not only should the rights of
investing stockholders be protected, but
also the obligations of the corporation
to the state and to the people at large
should be efficiently enforced. He rec
ommended the appointment of a com
mission to revise the corporation laws,
with a view to eradicating any abuses
that may have crept In and bringing
them into accord with more advanced
conditions.
We do not know that the corporation
laws of New Jersey are any more ob
jectionable than those of some other
states that have foUowed her example,
but there is no doubt that they can be
improved and ought to be. That state
is to a very large extent responsible for
the great corporations of which there
is so much complaint and while she has
found profit In It a great deal of Injury
has been done to the people at large. It
is time for a change of policy in this
matter.
ASIATIC LABOR.
The feeling of hostility on the Pacific
coast to Chinese and Japanese labor ap
pears to be as strong as 'ever nnd has
recently shown itself in an aggressive
form. Referring to this the Sun Fran
clsco Call remarks that tho time has
come when the good name of California
requires that the mobbing of Chinese
aud Japanese shall cease. It points out
that those people are there in the ex
ercise of their treaty rights and stat
utory privileges and says that these
treaties and statutes are made by the
constitution the supreme law of the
land. "If that law is wrong it may be
amended or repealed." declares the
Call, "hut it would be a cowardly con
gress that would repeal it or abrogate a
treaty at the behest of mobs." To do
this would be to turn the country over
to mobs.
In regard to the employment of Asi
atic labor, the San Francisco paper
says it is necessary to the great fruit
growing industry of the state. There
are many large fruit growers who Insist
that the increasing scarcity of this re
liable and adapted labor Imperils the
whole fruit interest. "Here then Is an
industrial condition that must be faced
nd a problem that must be solved. If
mobs refuse permission to the Japanese
and Chinese to lalxir, the fruit Industry
must contract and perish down to the
proportion in which white labor will do
the work required to maintain it" It
would seem from this that there Is an
awakening, at least In California, to the
disadvantage of excluding Asiatic labor
when there is not sufficient white labor
to supply the demand and undoubtedly
the difficulty which the fruit growers of
that state are now experiencing will be
come more serious as their industry
grows. No change of sentiment on the
Taciflc const in regard to the keeping
out of Asiatic labor is to be expected,
but It ought to be practicable to protect
the employment of such labor as is al
ready there from tho Interference of
mobs and It will be a discredit to Cali
fornia if this is not done.
EXECVTIYK HESPOXSIBILITT.
The proposition to confer upon the
Board of Fire and Police Commissioners
the power of enforcing the laws of the
state and ordinances of the city cannot
commend Itself to nil who desire respon
sibility for law enforcement centered in
tho executive, whether the executive
functions devolve upon the governor of
a state or the mayor of a city. Such a
scheme is, moreover, in conflict with the
principle of home rule, unless the police
commission is made elective the same as
the mayor. To confer upon a police
commission appointed by a governor and
responsible to the governor only, the ex
clusive power to enforce the laws within
the limits of the city would practically
make the governor the chief executive
of the city Instead of the mayor.
The proposed change would, moreover,
create confusion nnd frequently tend to
defeat rather than promote law enforce
ment. A board of police commissioners
could not act individually, but must act
collectively In giving orders for law en
forcement Consequently, every order
would have to be given by a majority of
the board at regular or special sessions
of that body. This would be found a
hindrance to prompt law enforcement in
case of sudden mob violence or unfore
seen disturbances and spontaneous out
bursts of lawlessness, unless the commis
sion could delegate the power to exer
cise its functions to the chief of police
and leave to him discretionary power of
action In all emergencies calling for po
lice protection.
In plain English, the proposition to di
vest the mayor of executive authority In
the enforcement of law would make the
chief executive of a city a mere figure
head when by rights he should be what
the name implies the head of a munici
pal government, responsible for the
maintenance of peace and good order In
the city nnd for prompt and decisive ac
tion In the suppression of lawlessness in
any and all emergencies.
It goes without saying that nothing
would gratify the people of Nebraska
more than the enactment by the legis
lature of sane and well matured laws
that would effectually curb the power
Of trusts and prevent extortion, discrimi
nation and favoritism on. the part of
public carriers, including railroads, ex
press companies, telephone and tele
graph companies. It goes without say-,
Ing, also, that members of the legis
lature will make no political capital by
the introduction of anti-trust, bills and
anti-railroad bills they know to be un
constitutional or impracticable of en
forcement In other words, the people
of Nebraska are not likely to be im
posed upon by any grandstand play
under the flag of anti-monopoly. We
already have on the statute books very
rigid anti-trust laws and a maximum
rate law has never been repealed, al
though it has been made inoperative
by the decision of the supreme court
declaring unconstitutional the State
Board of Transportation, acting as a
railroad commission. Manifestly the
legislature does not need so much to
enact new anti-trust laws and new rail
road regulation laws as it does to amend
the laws now on the statute books so as
to make them effective under the Inter
pretation given by state and federal
courts. Is the number of members In
the present legislature sufficient to make
up a majority' of the two houses willing,
and ready to do this? .
The executive committee of the Civic
Federation, which assumes to speak for
all the men and women who are enrolled
in that organization, has Issued a mani
festo defending the Jug-handle compro
mise with the brewers and saloon keep
ers. This is Just what might have been
expected. When the aforesaid executive
committee roads the response to the
manifesto in next Sunday's issue of The
Bee it will discover that it has not
mended matters much by Its explana
tion. One great weakness or Governor
Folk's code for the government of pro
fessional lobbyists If applied to Ne
braska would be that it would fail al
together to touch the legislative cor
ruptionlsts who are part of the per
manent population of Lincoln. The
dangerous lobbyists in this state are not
all Imported from outside of the
capital city.
Complalut is made because St. Pet
ersburg newspapers published only the
admitted facts regarding the firing upon
tho winter palace. Frobably the com
plainants are in the habit of reading yel
low Journals, who would have proven
the guilt of a dozen different people be
fore the smoke cleared away and taken
it all back in the next edition. '
It Is a laudable movement organized
by the students of the State university
to prevent cheating In examinations, but
a lamentable situation that should re
quire an organized effort to repress such
an abuse. If a student starts out cheat
ing to get through college, what will he
not resort to to get through life after
he emerges from college!
A ('ODirtiitonal Hagaboo.
New Tork Tribune.
The "special srin" Is the bugaboo
which now haunts the dreams of congress
men. The time is coming, however, when
congress will get over this fear and realize
that the preaent short veaslons are not long
enough te transact the public bualnaaa with
the cars and thoroughness It requires.
When this realization comes It will no
longer be tiecewary to hold the special ses
sion In terrorem over congress In order to
secure legislation which tha people demand.
A Roiit that Pays.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Terhars turning Erlstow out of a $4,000
Job Into one paying I'.B.OOO was a kind ot
"kicking upstairs;" but. If so, we know
quite ft number of people who would be
willing to submit to that sort of humilia
tion. Sarrasm of Poabter.
Philadelphia Ledger,
it is discovered that people are going back
to the farms that the movement which
built up the cities at the expense of the
country is reversing Itself. Statistics are
given, but as they are mere guesswork It
is not worth while to consider them. If
people are going back to the farms, per
haps it Is because the rural trolley cars are
heated and offer losn eportunlty to the
microbes of pneumonia than do the town
cars.
"Imaginary Grievances."
Minneapolis Journal.
The general traffic manngcr of the Santa
Fe railroad tolls the cattle shippers that
their grievances are all Imaginary. They
are like the man who tells his wife he was
going to the dentist to have an aching tooth
pulled. She Informed him confidentially
that he had no toothache. It was aJl Imagi
nation. "Then I guess I'll have him pull
my Imagination," he retorted. It may be
Imagination with the cattle shippers, but It
hurts and they won't te happy until they
get It pulled.
la There a Connecting l.lnkf
Chicago Chronicle.
Considering that Mrs. Chadwlck has ha
bitually asserted that she was a blood rela
tive of Mr. Carnegie, and considering that
Mr. Carnegie has for the last two months
positively refused to contradict her asser
tion or to tell what he docs or does not
know about her, the public can but regard
it as significant that he should repay any
one who has lost money through her fraud
ulent use of his name. Wealthy people
will certainly consider that he is setting
them a bad example.
THE SPOIL OF WAR.
I'sefnl and Valuable Property Cap
tared at Port Arthur.
Cleveland Leader.
It appears by reports sent by the Japa
nese government to its legation at Wash
ington that the Russians did not succeed
In so completely wrecking their fortifica
tions, ships and stores at Port Arthur as
to prevent the victors from gaining' valua
ble spoils of war by the fall of the fortress.
Tho official reports Indicate that four Rus
sian battleships are considered to be In such
condition that they can be raised, repaired
and made available for service. Two cruis
ers are also counted among the vessels
which can be fitted tor Japanese use, and
there are fourteen gunboats and torpedo
boat destroyers in tha same condition.
(Thirty-five small steamers are so little
damaged that they can be used ' without
much loss of time or outlay of money for
repairs. The battleship Sevastopol seems
to be deemed a total wreck.
The immense importance of such addi
tions to the Japanese navy as this report
Indicates needs no explanation. The four
battleships will undoubtedly require months
of hard work to put them in condition for
service, , but In the end they promise to add
at least 60 per cent to the fighting strength
of the Japanese line of battle at sea. It
will make a vast difference, a few months
hence, in the naval power of Japan.
The spoils of the forts also prove of great
value, for they include 646 guns, of which
fifty-four are rated of large caliber, and
Over 82,000 projectiles for artillery. There
are more than tt.000 V rifles, some 84,000
pounds of powdr,i besides two and a quar
ter million cartridges for small arms; not
much for such a garrison aa Stoessel com
manded, but still an addition to the military
stores of Japan which is worth taking into
account. Over 1,900 horses will be prised
by a country poor in such animals.
Clearly the taking of Port Arthur, terrible
though the price paid Indubitably was, has
proved a rich and memorable triumph from
every point of view. .
POLITICAL DRIFT.
-Dispatches from the capital of Missouri
give the Impression that Mr. Nledrlnghaus
and Mr. Kerens do not speak as they pass
by.
After an absence of six years Thomas H.
Carter comes back smiling as senator from
Montana. Thomas belongs to the tribe
you can't lose.
A Colorado man is trying to get the legis
lature of his state to pass the ten com
mandments; but the legislators are tor the
most part agreed that it Is folly to place
upon the statute books laws which public
opinion is not ready to uphold.
Pennsylvania's Capitol commission renews
its assurances that the building will be
completed for the original appropriation of
$4,000,000. With the memory of Philadelphia's
city hall in mind, Keystoncrs hesitate about
accepting the promise at face value.
On President Roosevelt's forehead there
still remains the red mark of the violent
fall from his horse only a few days before
his great victory on November 8. Few
were awaro at the time of the seriousness
of the accident or how miraculous was the
president's escape from death.
For the first time in its history a presi
dent of the United 6tutes Mr. Roosevelt
is to be the gtiest of the Friendly Sons of
St. Patrick at their annul dinner In New
York City on March 17. The Friendly
Sons are not a political organization,
although many of the members are power
ful politicians. They are an organization
which cares for, iC necessary, poor Irtish
gentlemen and gentlewomen.
Thomas Lawson halts between knocks on
his former friends to define an alderman.
"An alderman," he gays, "is a person into
whose mouth good things are perpetually
going and none coma out. Ills shoulders,
like some city streets, are widened at the
expense ot the corporation. Rut an alder
man has his redeeming qualities, lie
always has wisdom, for he has a wine
tooth and he always has something good
about him his digestion."
There are now In the senate Ave men who
have at one time or another held important
positions in presidential cabinets, and each
is a lawyer of enviable reputation. Philander
Chase Knox gave up the attorney general
ship that he might sit in the senate with
Siuator Penrose as representing the state
of Pennsylvania, Henry M. Teller of
Colorado sat at the table of President
Arthur's official family as secretary of the
interior. Redfleld Proctor of Vermont,
Russell Alexander Alger of Michigan and
Stephen Benton Elkins of West Virginia
aJl have served as secretaries ot war Alger
under McKlnley and the two others under
Benjamin Harrison.
Senator Thomas C. Piatt of New York
has a record that la probably not equalled
by any man in tha country, and certainly
by no senator or representative In congress.
Senator Piatt has been a delegate to eight
national conventions In succession, begin
ning in 1S78 and down to 1K04. For twenty
eight years he has been going to the na
tional conventions of his party and par
ticipated In the nomination of Hayes and
Wheeler, Garfield and Arthur, Dlalne and
Licgan, Harrison and Murton, Harrison and
Reld, McKlnley and Hobart, McKlnley and
Roosevelt and Roosevelt and Fairbanks.
Only two of the eight nominations has he
seen defeated at the poll.
OTHER LAXD3 THA Ol R.
The lat great labor war In the German
mines took place In l.?. Then about 100.
000 men went out In Westphalia and the
Rhine provinces and. although the strike
was settled In less than two weeks, there
were fatal collisions between troors and
the populace, flres were extinguished In
many forges an,l factories fod the whole
empire, felt the disruption of notmnl con
ditions very severely. Intervention by the
emperor brought about concessions to the
miners and industrial pe"- Now the coal
mining Industry of Germany is on a far
larger scale. The socialists, radicals In
all matters pertaining to work and wages,
who were comparatively weak In 1?, are
the largest political body In Germany. They
cast over ..0).ui) votrs In iyX5, and they
are full of aggressive confidence. Another
very serious phase of the strike which be
gan this week Is the fact that (Jerman In
dustries are Just recovering from the de
pression caused by the financial crisis of
1001. Captains of Industry In the German
manufacturing and mining districts are not
In the mood to submit gracefully to a long
blockade of business In the most Important
productive centers of the country. Nor is
the government less anxious to avoid such
disaster.
The recent reorganization of the Rrltlah
navy has directed the attention of Cana
dians to the old questions of naval defense
and the propriety of Canada contributing
something toward the expenses of the Brit
ish navy. A long article on the subject ap
peared recently In the Montreal Herald,
one of tho leading liberal papera in the
province Cf Quebec. The writer says that
when the matter comes up at the proposed
Intercolonial conference, tho Canadian rep
resentatives may be expected to express the
country's readiness to meet all natural
Canadian requirements in a natural way.
He adds that Canadians would cheerfully
bear the coat of maintaining Halifax and
Equlmalt. They would also bear th charge
of building and maintaining ships of such
size and number as are essential to the
proper control of the waters In which Can
adian trading vessels ply. But It Is not
probable that In 1906, any more than In
1902, Canadian ministers would assent to
the suggestions of a cash contribution for
the maintenance of a service which Is
chiefly the affair of Great Britain, whose
very existence depends upon it.
The first railway built In China was a
toy affair presented to the Chinese emperor
in the '60s, In the hope that it might
commend Itself to the Chinese government.
But the emperor and the mandarins looked
askance at such a revolutionary Idea, and
the Hong Kong Dally Press says It was
not until late In the '70s that permission
was reluctantly wrung from the author
ities to construct a railroad from Shang
hai to Woosung. The first section was
opened in 1876 and it was much patron
ized by the natives. But the Chinese gov
ernment closed it to traffic in October the
following year, tore up the track and re
moved the rails and equipment to Formosa,
where everything was allowed to rust. In
1S96 the provincial authorities were al
lowed to build a line from Shanghai to
Soochow, and in 1898 the first section,
terminating at Woosung, was opened to
traffic. In 1900 a concession was made to
a British and Chinese corporation to extend
the railway from Soochow to Nanking,
which absorbed the pioneer line. This
was recently transferred from the Chinese
Imperial administration to a board ot
British and Chinese commissioners, and It
constitutes the chief available asset in
operation of the British concessionaires
In China, Since the first concession for
railways i China was made to the Brit
ish the Japanese have constructed a com
plete system throughout their Islands, and
their activity at home is doubtless influ
encing the Chinese government to favor
them now' by 'awarding them the canceled
British concessions.
It is estimated that at the present Urns
there are 13,000 to 15.000 men in Glasgow in
enforced idleness. If the district about
Glasgow Is considered the number is from
10,000 to 25,000. Nearly every line of in
dustry Is represented In this army of un
employed, but probably the greatest num
ber are from the building and kindred
trade. Not sines 18S6 have there been so
many unemployed. In Glasgow 3,500 have
applied to the city government for relief
by seeking employment in its service. These
applications have been made in response
to a scheme of the city government for
the relief of the most necessitous and de
serving cases. The stagnation in business
is well nigh universal.
Under Peter the Great Russia gained
much territory from Sweden, and pushed
her boundaries aouth and west at the ex
pense of Poland and Turkey. In ths reign
of Catherine the Great, late In the eigh
teenth century, Russia took a leading part
In tha disruption of Poland, gaining 180,000
square miles and 6.000,000 Inhabitants. The
Crimea and extensive regions adjacent were
wrested from Turkey. Under Alexander
I., In 1809, Finland was added to the Rus
sian empire. In 1812 Turkey ceded a wide
strip of territory down to the Pruth, Geor
gia, In the Caucasus region, had been ac
quired In 1S01, and in 1813 Persia gave up
extensive and rich districts south of the
Caucasus. Most of the Polish territory
which had originally fallen to Prussia was
given to Russia, in 1815, by the congress
of Vienna. In 1828 Russia added part of
Armenia to her realm. The Caucasus tribes
were gradually overcome until their con
quest' was finished In 18G4. Russian acces
sions of territory In northern Asia came
through exploration, settlement and mili
tary force. The Paclflo was reached by
the middle of tho seventeenth century, and
In l'H Russia was established on the banks
of the Amur. In 1784 a permanent settle
ment had been made in Alaska, and sotm
that region was under Russian control. Its
sale to the United Statea was the only
great cession of territory which Russia has
made in modern times. The Amur region,
on the Paclflo goast, was ceded to China
in 1858. In central Asia the Russian troops
occupied Samarkand in 18G8, and Khiva
was subjugated In 1873. Kliorkaud was an
nexed three, years later, and by 1884 the
conquest of the Transcasplan region was
finished. At the close of the Turkish war
in 1878 a slice of Turkish Armenia, became
Russian.
Statistical returns Issued by the Prussian
ministry of the Interior show that there
has been, during ths laat thirty years, a re
markable decrease In the birth rate In all
Prussian towns with populations exceed
ing 100,000. From 1S75 to 1S80 the average
birth rate per thousand of the population
of Lerlin was 45; from 18S1 to 1885. 3S; from
1884 to 1890, 34; from 1891 to 1895, 81, and
from 1896 to 1900, S8. Ths birth rate at Bres
lau decreased from 43 In 1875 to 36 In lno,
and at Krefeld from 46 te 30 during the
same period. There has been a similar di
minution in the birth rate of nineteen other
Prussian towns, while no increase In the
birth rate in any Prussian town la recorded.
It is noteworthy, however, that while the
birth rate has decreased tha marriage rate
In all the Prussian towns la still aa high
as It was thirty years ago, and In some
cases is higher than at any time since 1875.
rhaagea for tha Better.
Baltimore American.
Nogl says that Stoessel Is a gentleman
and is to be treated as such. This is a big
Improvement on the days when captives
were led in chains to exhibit their humilia
tion and the vanity ot their victor as a
public show.
JERSEY'S REVERIE TROH TRI STS.
t ablnihlna- Boast of a Fall Till front
Ialoas tonrre'S.
Chicago Chronicle.
Edward C. Stokes, the new governor of
New Jersey, stated some facts In his In
augural address which are of interest to
people ouUlde of his state.
Congratulating the people of New Jersey
on their good fortune, he stated that at the
closo of the iast fiscal year ths balance In
their state treasury w as over C91O.0UO. The
ordinary receipts fir the same year, he
said, amounted to more than $i.9X:.0i.
The point of the governor's congratulation
lay in the fact stated by him that "of th
entire Income of tho government not a
penny was contributed directly by the peo
ple," and that ricarlylTS per rent of It
"came from railroads and the business com
panies domiciled in cur state."
These business companies, ns we all
know, are mostly companies originating
outside of the state and doing most of their
business elsewhere. The big Fteel corpora
tion Is a conspicuous example. Hy way of
formal compliance with the law those com
panies have offices In New Jersey which are
within easy reach of their main offices. Just
across the river In the city of New York.
These companies are the source of most of
the revenue of which the people of New
Jersey Indirectly contribute only a trifle.
Happy people! Governor Stokes reminds
them that the revenue of which they con
tribute not a penny directly not only suf
fices to meet all tho ordinary expenses of
tho state government. Including thoss for
charities and education, but also to develop
"a magnlfllcent road system, embracing
one-third of tha macadam or state roads of
the United States."
The people of New Jersey have reason to
feel about as comfortable as a certain
suburb of Chicago which gets enough out
of race tracks and a lot of saloons to cover
nearly all its public expenditures.
Governor Stokes' Inaugural Is a shame
leas confession of Jersey selfishness and of
a purpose still further to share its Incor
poration laws not for the good of the gen
eral public, but to get the utmost revenue
out of them and by making tho trusta at
home otherwise In New Jersey.
LI.ES TO A SMILE.
Mr. Iss-What did you do at your Audu
bon club today? "
Mrs. Wise We passed a resolution con
demning cukoo clocks. San Francisco Call.
.,"Botll ' ,hn(,e Jimson boys are so versa-
ii.?K l.(?nww?rk8.wltn Ws hands, the other
with his brains."
"Yes. one can do many things, the other
m.ake"?ut. ,0 do many People." Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
"Oh, Dick, Pick, you ungrateful boy! You
are going to tho bad in spite of tha careful
training 1 have given you."
"Wen, father, If I'm departing from It
aoesn t that prove that you didn't train me
In the way I ahould go?" Chicago Tri
bune. Higglns Chewing gum again? What do
cnj'oy ltt Surely, you cannot really
Wiggins I don't chew gum because I like
it, but because It is good for dyspepsia.
Higglns But wouldn't It be pleasanter te
have the dyspepsla?-Boston Transcript,
"Dear father," wrote the young lawyer
Who tinit itimr hnn n... kl. -v., , '
great city, "congratulate me today I won
my nrst suit.
"And," he continued, to himself, "It's a
lucky thing the cards ran as they did, or I
. mine, ciumes. Cleve
land Leader.
"Senatorial courtesy is a great thing "
said the dignified maji. '
"Yes," answered Senator Sorghum; "so
long as they don't carry It so far as to re-
COAL WOOD COKE KINDLING
Se" f.he b??t h, Cooking Coal-clean, hot. lasting.
22ki2,ng8' Hann?' herldanrWalnut Block. Steam Coal.
Best medium grade Is Illinois Nut $6; Egg and Lump $6.25.
KrKeaalr9. 2nd '""jaces-Cherokee Nut ,$5.25; Lump
ff'-fs? hot burner-Missouri Nut, large size S4.GO: Lump '
j 8caTton-the best Pennsylvania Anthracite mined.
Ii?d.riahJ hardes and cleanest Arkansas Anthracite.
All coal hand-screened and weighed over any city scales dealred.
COUTANT & SQUIRES, ,4Q6Te,Ae983TowT
Our Genuine
ark Down Sale
M
of Men's, Boys' and Children's Wearables is
meeting with meritorious success while we
make no extravagant assertions, you will find
a great part of our many lines of merchandise
reduced in price
25, 33 & 50
(An especially good time to buy an overcoat
for next winter).
Besides the generous mark down on our
Suits and Overcoats. We've a lot of $3 and ?
punts that we are selling at a special price of
33
Boys' Sailor Blouse Suits that sold for 3,
$G, ?7, $8.50 now
$3.50 and $5.00
Child's 2-piece $0.50 Suits, ?5 Child's 2-piece $3 Suits, $3.50
50c and up to $ 1 Winter
odds and ends.
fcbc, 73c and $1 Skating
at... .....
Men's Winter Cops at about half price.
"NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS."
R. S. WILCOX, Mgr.
i' In .
Ui;Uf if
CBEAM
Improves the flavor
and adds to the health
fulness of the food.
quire us to sit and listen to onn another's
speeches ail the way through. Washington
"I wonder rstw much Lushman enjoyed
his ocean trip?"
"Oh, he's dead sore. He paid ths top
notch price for a saloon paffase, thinking
that was the only way he could get any
thing to drink." Philadelphia Ledger.
Adam considered his advantages.
"At any rate." he remarked, "1 never had
to wear anybody's cut down trousers."
With a happy smile be watched Kve fix
over a fig leaf pair tor little Abel. New
York Sun.
TUB OLD WATER WAGON.
James Barton Adams In Denver Post.
It started on its mission at ths dawning of
the year,
Now the water wagon's standing; In the
shed,
'Twaa bright and newly painted and It
wheels were all In gear,
Now lis gaudy tints are fading in the
shed.
Many penitential fellows clambered up Its
shining side
And sat them down all eager for a long
and pleasant ride.
But they were with sober pleasures fa
too quickly satisfied,
And the wugon soon was backed Into the
shed.
How proudly It went rolling with Its
precious load on boajd,
Now it's standing there neglected In the
shed,
How gaily on the breezes Its triumphant
trumpet roared,
Now it slowly gathers cobwebs In tha
shed.
Its banners fluttered proudly on ths air of
mountnlnlnnd,
A more attractive chariot the breezes never
fanned
As rolled It onward close behind the Pro
hibition bund.
Ere a lack of custom backed It m the
shed.
We have ridden on that wagon many tunes,
both you and I,
That old wagon that Is standing In the
shed,
We have ridden till tha roadway got Un
comfortably dry.
Then abandoned it and sent It to ths
shed.
And, perhaps, througk force of habit mora
than any great desire
To escape the liquid monster with the
breath of bourbon fire,
We will ride again that wagon now. with
rust on every tire.
Standing silent and Inactive in the shed.
Caps and Tarns, A
Tams
25c
31. 1111 I II)
Ma
aa f f
50