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    THE OMAIIA DAILY REE: THURSDAY. APRIL 6. 190o.
Tiie Omaiia Daily Bee.
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Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
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(Seal) M. B. HUNGATE.
Notary Public
The new councilman has Just about a
year to make good It be bopea for reelection.
Omaha still maintains its reputation as
the best stepping-stone for railroad men
In the west.
John Maynard Harlan and William
Jennings Bryan can exchange pointers
on the "third battle."
By waiting a few weeks-Councilman
Dyball finds that be falls Into a $1,500
job Instead of a 1000 Job.
Now that Colorado bas a new supreme
court, It la not too much to hope that It
will eventually bare some law.
President Roosevelt has already travr
eled a long distance, but so far has failed
to reach "the enemy's country." ...
Governor Mickey has done very well
with bis veto pen as far as he went
but be didn't go quite far enough.
Omaha can get along very nicely with
out any prize fights, whether they go by
the name of "athletic carnival" or "fistic
exhibition." ' '
' " "
From present indications Chicago law
yers aspiring to the bench will be the
first to enjoy the fruits of victory won
by the democrats.
Patriotic Japanese have evidently
been "smoking up," to judge by the
large amount of money received from
the tobacco monopoly.
The Union Pacific Is to issue $100,000,
000 more preferred stock. This will give
the tax department more work to show
bow the money was spent without In
creasing the value of the road.
While the packers may not have at
tempted to make the serving of sub
poenas on employes impossible It is not
charged that they have reduced the pay
of any man who escaped service.
South Dakota is discussing the ad
visability of a rallroauTfrom the Black
Hills to the Missouri river, to be con
structed by the state. The seed of "pop
ulism" seems to be striking root
It would have been next to a miracle
it the new Omaha charter bad left the
city without a muddle of some kind.
Patched quilt charters are always pro
ductive of conflicting provisions that
have to be settled la court
If biennial elections are really de
creed It means that we are to put all
the political eggs in one basket and it
will become all the more Important for
the people to rouse themselves and see
to It that they are not broken.
An Austrian attache with the Russian
army has been lost Thus Is another
argument furnished the emperor for in
stating that military commands be given
in the German language, for the attache
may not recognize the Russian word for
retreat
One Orleans farmer has been taught
the advantage of patronizing home in
dustry. He shipped a hog weighing 850
pounds to Kansas City and packers re
fused to buy It because it would not go
through their machinery. If be had sent
the porker to 8outh Omaha It might have
been used Jo advertise the resources of
the state; but Missouri Is not advertising
Nebraska.
South Omaha, In a presidential elec
tion, casts over 5,000 votes, but here
we have South Omaha threatened with
a mortgage bond plaster on the author
ity Of leas than 1,000 votes In a word,
not one In five favored the bonds enough
io go cat and vote for them. When
the taxes pile up higher perhaps the
people who have to pay them will wake
VP 4Mt of their sleep.
A RhCESSARY ARHAXQKMEXT. ,
There has been a good deul of criti
cism, chiefly from democratic sources,
of President Roosevelt's action in regard
to Santo Domingo. The agreement en
tered Into has been denounced as Ille
gal and as being entirely outside of the
powers of the president. On the other
hand7 those who support the action of
the president insist that the arrange
meat with Santo Domingo is entirely
within his constitutional powers and
that pending the final action of the sen
ate on the protocol that document is In
the status of a treaty In course of ne
gotiation and that It Is entirely within
the power of the administration and In
accordance with well established prece
dents for a temporary arrangement to be
entered Into.
The members of congress 'who re
turned a few days ago from Santo Do
mingo expressed the opinion that the
arranjfrment which has been made Is es
sential to the preservation of tranquillity
in the West Indian republic. One of
them said that the reason for this con
clusion In not a desire to have our gov
ernment gain a foothold In the island or
for any advanced application of the
Monroe doctrine, but because a qunsl
protectorate Is necessary to secure peace
In Santo Domingo, aid its people and
prevent complications of a most serious
nature. The conditions there for many
years have been deplorable and would
continue to be If something were not
done by the United States to establish
and maintain tranquillity. Then there
was the danger, which was Increasing
from day to day, of foreign complica
tions. European governments were
threatening an aggressive course toward
Santo Domingo and there Is every rea
son to believe would have adopted It If
our government had done nothing to as
sist the Dominican republic. What
President Roosevelt has done Is simply
to acquiesce In the proposal" of the
Dominican government to nominate a
citizen of the United States to receive its
customs revenues, turning over 45 per
cent to the government for its own sup
port and holding the rest in trust for the
creditors until further action can be
taken by ratifying the treaty or other
wise for a definite adjustment of the
matter. The foreign creditors of the
republic and their governments appear
to be content to wait for a more defini
tive mode of final settlement They are no
longer threatening aggressive measures
for the collection of claims and there Is
no present danger of a seizure of Santo
Domingo custom houses by European
powers, as was freely talked of a short
time ago. For the time being at least
the Island republic Is protected against
foreign aggression and there Is also very
good assurance that peace will be main
tained within its borders, enabling the
people to carry on their Industries and
to realize the prosperity which the fer
tility and productiveness of the Island
make possible. There Is no actual pro
tectorate over Santo Domingo. Our gov
ernment has assumed no direct responsi
bility for the payment of the obligations
of that republic.. It is simply assisting
the Dominican government to meet Its
debts abroad and thereby avoid foreign
complications and to preserve domestic
tranquillity. , President Roosevelt very
earnestly believes that It Is the duty
and also the interest of the government
of the United States to do this and he
baa the support of those who under
stand the conditions in Santo Domingo
and are capable of considering the mat
ter In a nonpartisan spirit
WHERE OUR VELEQATION FELL SHORT-
While' the Douglas delegation to the
legislature succeeded in securing the en
actment of several Important measures
that will prove beneficial to its con
stituents, the most Important of these
beibg the amended city charters for
Omaha and South Omaha and extension
of eminent domain power to the school
district its failure to secure results in
several other directions is disappointing.
Among all the bills introduced In the
legislature there were four in which
Omaha and Douglas county were most
vitally concerned, namely, the legislative
apportionment bill, the constitutional
amendment to allow Omaha to make its
own charters, and, most important of all,
the commodity rate bill and the terminal
railroad taxation.
The legislative representation of Doug
las county was fixed in 1887, when the
entire county bad a population of about
60,000, and on that basts it still remains,
although the population of the county
now aggregates nearly three times the
population on which its representation is
based. An ' equitable apportionment
would entitle this county to at least
thirteen members of the bouse and five
senators, instead of nine members of the
house and three senators.
It is now agreed on all bands that
Omaha can never have satisfactory local
government so long as the charter mak
ing power remains with the legislature,
of which more than nine-tenths have no
interest in common with Omaha. Ten
years ago the proposed constitutional
amendment to confer upon Omaha char
ter making power was defeated by the
manipulators for public utility corpora
tions. . This year It was defeated In the
bouse after its passage by the senate
merely because It had reached the lower
house almost at the close of the session.
It Is amazing that only two out of the
nine members of the Douglas delegation
are recorded In favor of the commodity
rate bill on it final passage In the bouse,
where It lacked but two votes of receiv
ing a majority. Every person familiar
with the subject must realise that a re
ductionof 10 per cent on three or four
commodities, Including grain, cattle, lum
ber and agricultural machinery, would
hate been of great commercial advan
tage to Omaha aa a distributing center.
It Is known to all men that local rates In
Nebraska are almost exorbitant
although the through rates are, in the
main, reasonable.
Aa a result it costs as much, or more,
to ship a carload of grain or cattle to
Omaha from points 2j miles west of
Omaha as it does to ship these commodi
ties to Chicago. A reduction of this rate
would have enabled Omaha grain dealers
and cattle buyers to rehandle these com
modities In competition with Chicago,
whereas high local rates and low
through rates work In favor of the long
haul and against Omaha.
The same Is true with regard to the
shipment of lumber and agricultural Im
plements out of Omaha Into the Interior
of the state. With high local rates and
low through rates our lumber dealers
and agricultural machinery dealers are
compelled to bill their shipments from
the lumber camps of Minnesota or
Arkansas and from the implement fac
torles at Undue, Mollne, Mansfield, Cam
den, etc., direct to their branch houses,
rather than from their warehouses at
Omaha, so as to avoid the short haul and
got the benefit of long haul rates. In
this way vast quantities of these heavy
commodities simply pass through Omaha
or do not even touch Omaha In their
trans-shipment to the towns in the terrl
tory tributary to Omaha. Whether the
commodity rate bill would have passed
the senate even If It had gone through
the house is problematic, but at any
rate, the Douglas delegation In the house
should have been unanimous for it In
stead of recording Itself by more than
three-fourths In opposition to the meas
ure.
As to terminal railway taxation, that
was one of the planks In the platform
on which the delegation was elected, yet
no serious effort seems to Have been
made to push the bill and no member of
the delegation showed any disposition to
take the lead In a vigorous fight, with
out which the right of Omoha to require
the railroads to bear their equal share
of municipal taxes with the owners of
other city property can never be es
tabllshed.
THE CHICAGO ELECTION.
The election of the democratic candl
date for mayor of Chicago again attests
the strong popular sentiment there in
favor of Immediate municipalization of
thetreet railroads, which Judge Dunne,
the democratic candidate, advocated. In
1902 the voters of Chicago pronounced
in favor of municipal ownership of the
street railroads by 124,504 to 25,987. The
following year an enabling act was
passed by the state legislature which
authorized the purchase of the street
railway property and unexpired fran
chises by the issue of certificates of in
debtedness, provided the people voted In
favor of it on a new referendum. They
did so by an overwhelming majority.
Two other questions were submitted to
referendum: Should the city proceed Im
mediately under the act of the legisla
ture to acquire the railroads and fran
chises, or should the franchises be
extended o give more time for prepara
tlon? Again there was an overwhelming
majority In favor of immediate action
and against extending franchises.
Now the voters of Chicago have once
more declared that they want prompt ac
tion on the lines urged by Judge Dunne.
If the street railways will not accept
the city's price he is for condemnation
proceedings at once, regardless of con
sequences from a fight in the courts.
Speaking of the election the successful
mayoralty candidate said "It is the great
est victory municipal ownership ever
won in this country," and he pledged
himself to give prompt obedience to the
popular mandate. He pointed out that
It will be years before the city will come
Into possession of all the street railway
franchises, but be predicted that the day
will come when the people will control
all of the street railway systems of the
city. That the result of the Chicago elec
tion will stimulate municipal ownership
sentiment elsewhere Is altogether probable.
THE POWER IN THE EAST.
After an experience of more than a
score of years with Japan as a rival in
the markets of China, there seems no
good reason for the apprehension which
some profess that that country will ulti
mately dominate tile oriental markets
and Bhut out this and other countries.
Neither in cotton textiles nor in any of
the varied branches of the iron and steel
industry have we anything to fear from
Japan, provided the competition be on
fairly equal terms. It Is nonsense to as
sume, remarks the New York Journal of
Commerce, that Japan is aiming at any
thing else save the establishment of
equality of commercial opportunity in
the Chinese markets. She could do no
more If she would and It would be doing
her far less than justice to assume that
she would do more if she could. Nothing
bas been so characteristic of Japanese
policy in all the years since she emerged
from feudalism and came within the
field of International Intercourse as the
absolute good faith with which she has
observed all her engagements and the
perfectly Intelligible direction of her pol
icy. So far as the question of dominating
the North Pacific is concerned, that Is al
ready done by the United States and
there is every reason to think always
will be. Undoubtedly there would have
been danger to this domination bad Rus
sia succeeded In maintaining her bold
upon Manchuria, but now that her hold
has been broken and cannot be renewed,
American Influence in the North Pacific
will continue to be stronger than that
of any other nation. What Japan seeks
In eastern Asia Is precisely what the
United States seeks a free field and no
favor, the open door for trade and a
chance for the best equipped Industry
and the most efficient business methods
to reap their due reward.
When the electric lighting bond propo
sition was before the people the manager
of the electric lighting company, If we
remember right offered to supply the
city with arc lights of undefined candle
power for $05 per lamp, If the contract
was extended for five years from Janu
ary l, loos, which would have been four
years from January 1, 190U -Vow the
electric lighting company asks for an
extension of its contract for four years
from January 1, 1008, at $73 per lamp,
or $0,000 more a year for floo lamps than
last year's offer. Capitalized at 0 per
cent, the ftl.OOO a year represents $100,
000. So far as we know, there has been
bo advance in the cost of electric sup
plies the price of labor or the cost of
fuel sffice last fall's election, and no
valid excuse for the proposed Increase In
the cost of electric lamps.
During the now historic electric light
bond campaign, in which more than
$20,000 was distributed by the electric
lighting monopoly to convince' the people
of Omaha that a municipal lighting
plant would be a poor Investment, one
of the arguments nsed was that the Issue
of half a million dollars of electric light
bonds would prevent the acquisition of
the water works, and people were given
to understand that as soon as the water
works were acquired the city would
fabricate its own electric light at the
Florence pumping station at compara
tively small expense for perhaps one ad
ditional steam boiler and half a dozen
dynamos. To expedite the long-looked-for
acquisition of the water works Howell's
water bill No. 2 was railroaded through
the legislature, whereby the water board
was given increased powers to enable It
to take prompt possession of the water
works as soon as the people shall have
voted the bonds to pay for the plant. In
asmuch as the supporters of the water
bill confidently predict that we shall be
In full possession of the water works
within less than twelve months, what
excuse would the council have for the
proposed extension of the electric light
ing contract for four years?
The clinching argument In favor of the
biennial election law, by which the
terms of Judicial and county officers
have beerf extended one year, was made
by Lawyer Lysle Abbott an attorney,
who admitted before the senate Investi
gating committee that he had been hired
by the term extension combine for $300
to use his talents and tongue to convert
the legislature and the governor to the
scheme to whlpsaw the constitution and
rob the people of local self-government
and Mr. Abbott earned his retainer, In
the lower as well as the upper stories of
the state house.
Governor Mickey has signed the bi
ennial election bill, which is of very
questionable constitutionality. This Is,
however, only a link in the chain of
legislative, executive and judicial an
archy for which Nebraska has become
noted within the past two decades.
Over in Iowa they do things slightly
different They first submitted the con
stitutional amendment to make elections
biennial to the people and after It had
been ratified the legislature simply
pussed a law to carry it Into effect.
A Chsnga for the Better.
Philadelphia ledger.
The municipality of Madrid Is establishing
bakeries in order to stop the bread riots.
How times chance! In former days, when
Spaniards asked, for bread, the government
gave them bullets.
The, Shuddering; Fad.
Washington Post.
E. Benjamin Andrews rushes to the sup
port of . Representative Hull and fairly
shudders when he thinks of the Japanese
peril. It seems natural to have Prof. An
drews shuddering again.
Life Duty Neglected.
Chicago Tribune.
If Mr. Bryan had been attending faith
fully to business Instead of gadding about
the country with a lecture on the value of
Ideals, he might have saved Mexico from
the deadly bright of tho gold standard.
Shamed by Contrast.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The statistician tells us that in all the
United States, outside of cities, there are
but 3,000 ' mjles of macadamized roads,
while in France alone there are 130,000
miles. If ,we spent more of our energy
In building good roads and less of It In
boasting of our superiority to the rest
of creation we could better stand com
parison with the rest of creation.
Advantages of a Lon Keck.
Chicago Chronicle.
The Chicago university professor who
announces the discovery that a man with
a long neck derives Increased pleasure
from eating and drinking on that account
has merely revived the great scientific
theory laid down by "Artemas Ward"
forty years ego when, In one of his hu
morous lectures, he 'said: I never wouldcd
I were a bird, but I never drink a glass
of beer without wouldlng I were a giraffe."
Scientific. Minds and Things.
Chicago Chronicle.
Prof. Coulter's remark that "the scientific
mind never accepts a thing as the truth
unless It Is first thoroughly tested, no mat
ter what the Source of the Information may
be nor how high the authority that sends
It forth," must be taken with some allow
ances. Scientific minds have accepted all
sorts of things in one 'age and have rejected
them In another. There are few principles
In science which have stood the test of
time as the ten commandments and the
sermon on the mount have done. It la
Just as reasonable to say that these things
are true because they are divine as It is
to say that theyendurs because they, are
true.
Just Taxation of Franchises.
Leslie's Weekly.
No rational person will question the Jus
tice and equity of a franchise tax law such
aa that passed at the instance of Mr.
Roosevelt when he was governor of New
Tork, and since favored and upheld by
Governor Odell. This particular law hus
been bitterly opposed by wealthy corpora
tions, and Is now under consideration by
the United States supreme court, but what
ever disposition may be made of it there,
the principle Involved Is entirely sound and
righteous, and is bound to prevail. The
tax officials of Baltimore have recently
taken up this problem of franchise taxation
in a way that promises excellent results
for that municipality. The appeal tax court
of that city has declared that the Consoli
dated Gas company assessment on ease
ments In the public streets of Baltimore
shall be $S,uOO,OuO, and taxable at the full
realty rate of about 13 instead? of the "se
curities" rate of 30 cents per 100, as here
tofore. The reasoning of the court In this
case is that a corporation which finds a
franchise granted by the city so valuable
as to be able to sell stuck issued against
the franchise at, say, l0,0u0,000 should not
protest . If this la considered prlma-fac-le
evidence of a real value and hence bjih&hs
able as real estate. This decision will be
tested In the higher courts, but It Is so
elearty Ija the Interests of fairness and Im
partiality thai It la dlfflcultato Wwi that
it can be broken down. '
BITS OF WASHIXGTOS LIFE.
Mlaor Scenes and Incidents Sketched
on the Spot.
An esxentlal duty Imposed on traveling
representatives of the Treasury department
Is to preserve an air of sweetness and
cleanliness by bathing. This wholesome
command Is conveyed by an official circu
lar, and as the government foots the bill
it is assumed your Uncle's faithful servi
tors will obey. The circular Is an Instruc
tive document, as are all official deliver
ance of Secretary Bhaw. After citing the
new statute, passed at the last session of
congress, which says that only actual trav
eling expenses may be paid. It makes an
enumeration of the Items which may be in
cluded In an account. The new rule differ
from the old one In only one particular.
That particular Is the addition of the
words "reasonable allowance for baths."
Before the new circular was filed chiefs
of division began discussing the question
whether under the rule they will be per
mitted to approve hotel bills containing a
charge for room and bath, or whether, In
order to get a reasonable allowance for
baths, the employe will have to swear that
ho went to the public bathroom, and then
and there did pay the sum of 25 or 60 cents,
as the ease may be. They also speculated
as to whether the secretnry will think it
necessary that the traveler should be al
lowed the luxuty of at least one bath per
day. ' v
The question whether It would be accord
ing to rule to have a room with bath arises
from the fact that the strict letter of the
rule appears to limit a hotel bill to $5 a day
"for board and lodging." There Is no
question In their minds but that a man
may under the rules pay 15 a day for his
lodging and hla meals and. 50 cents per day
for baths taken In the public bathroom, but
they are unable to decide whether a man
may pay 5.26 a day to a hotel for the prlv.
liege of having a room with a bath at
tached.
Government experts at Washington are
trying to determine, In the nearby expert
ment farm, whether or not drug plants can
be grown In the I'nlted States upon a com
merclal scale. The experiment farm Is sit
uated on the Potomas flats, Just outside
the city limits of Washington. In a test
garden, conducted there by Dr. Rodney T,
True, physiologist In charge of drug and
medicinal plants Investigations of the Ag
ricultural department, large plots have
been laid out for the culture of opium
poppy, nightshade, belladonna, licorice.
capsicum, caraway, anise, coriander, bur
dock, dandelion, foxglove, pokeweed, mul
lein, lobelia, tansy, gum plant, boneset.
fleabane, blessed thistle ana Jlmson weed
"The growing of drug plants," explains
Dr. True, "If practiced In the United States
sufficiently to supply the demand would
give employment to considerable areas of
fertile soil located within easy reach of
transportation lines.
"This class of land Is now devoted to
other crops. The returns from drug plants
to the farmer, I believe, however, would
be much greater. Whether or not such Is
the fact Is now to be determined by actual
experiment.
"The best method of procedure must
also be established by experiment. Every
possible labor-saving device Is to be em
ployed for the purpose of reducing cost
to a minimum. As yet, however, our ef
forts are hardly begun.
"As a result of Buch study of the sltua,
tlon as has thus far been made, the south.
ern states, it would seem, offer the best
advantages for the prospective grower of
drugs. The long season required by many
such plants, the low price of labor and
the usual low price of land needed are
found there."
The highest paid woman In the govern
ment service Is Miss Estelle Reel, who Is
superintendent of all of the Indian schools,
She Is very handsome and distinguished
looking and not much over 30 years of
age. Though she has headquarters at the
Indian bureau In Washington, most of her
time Is spent in traveling about all over
the country, her task being to Improve the
management of and the educational meth
ods adopted in the day schools, boarding
schools, kindergartens and other establish
ments maintained by federal authority for
training the minds and bodies of our youth
ful aborlginles. MlS9 Reel's power In such
affairs Is well-nigh absolute and she has
Instituted many Important reforms In the
schools. Her pay Is $3,000 a year, plus trav
elling expenses, and she earns the money,
Women cut an important figure In the
Treasury department, where thousands of
them are employed in the business of
counting money. Experience has proved
that aa money counters they are much
quicker and more accurate than men not
to mention the fact that their percentage
of honesty, so to speak, is much higher.
Not a little of the paper money returned
to the treasury for redemption has been
partly destroyed in one way or anothei
chewed up by puppy dogs, torn to bits by
mice, laundered in nightshirt pockets,
burned In stoves or what not. Buch cases,
when particularly bad, are referred to Mrs.
Brown, who Is a miracle worker In this
line. She will take a few fragments (un
recognizable to the ordinary eye as rep
resenting money), which have been recov
ered from a mouse nest perhaps, and piece
them together In such fashion aa to iden
tify them as parts of bills of ascertained
denominations, which thereupon are re
placed by refund to the owner. But her
strong point Is burned money, and the
wonders she sometimes accomplishes In ex
tracting value from a few pinches of
ashes and charred paper are almost be
yond belief. It is a kind of work that
is not always agreable, however. A "wad'
of notes from a drowned man's pocket or
recovered from the stomach . of a too
greedy goat Is far from pleasant to handle.
Benator Cullom groped his way Into the
sub-basement of the Treasury department
a few days ago and, placing a package on
the chief clerk's desk, said It contained
money which had been found In the rafters
of a building In Dixon, 111. He said the
owner thought It was worth about $1,000.
Miss Brown, chief expert of the redemp
tion division, looked at the mass of crum
bling gray paper and at once said she
would give that amount for It. Some of
the notes were dated as far back as 1862,
the whole amounting to several thousand
dollars.
The odor of sassafras tea circulates
around the private office of Acting Secre
tary Adee in the State department, Wash
ington those days. Two months In the
year Mr. Adee drinks tea, but in March
and April he brews sassafras by way of
spring medicine. He has a tiny brewing
outflt tucked away In his desk and when
the thirst comes upon him he boll a little
water and makes him a cup of tea. And
no matter what weighty International
problem Is under consideration, Mr. Adee
sets It aside for a few minutes when the
time for such refreshment arrives.
Relief Dnlrd at Home.
Philadelphia Press.
Under the parcels post convention with
Great Britain, which has Just gone Into
effect, the rate has been reduced from 11. SO
a pound to 12 cents. But the domestic rate
on fourtb-clas matter Is 1 cent an ounce.
To send a pound puckage to Nw York
costs 4 cents more than to st-nd the same
package tq London. JmO miles farther
away. But congress furnishes no relief In
duinetitlo rates because the express coro-
jianlta profit by the present ar ran, em at.
PERSONAL XOTES.
C. M. Blair of Montana, who has Just
sold S00,on0 pounds of wool, Is described
as one of the largest sheep owners In the
world.
Patrick McCarren, formerly the demo
cratic boss or Brooklyn, bas suffered1 such
an eclipse that he Is being Irreverently re
ferred to as "Kouropatniacarren.
Preparations are being made In leading
European capitals to receive Emperor
Menellk of Abyssinia, who is going on a
tour the coming summer. It la expected
that Rome, Berlin, Paris and London will
vie with one another In giving the dusky
potentate the time of his life,
Sir Frederick Treves, the English sur
geon, has practically abandoned hla pro
fesslon. "I gave It up because there wa
too much to do," he explains. "Performing
big operations every morning mokes exist
ence rather trying. I got tired of my du
ties; they bored me to death; so, after
six and twenty yeArs of practice, I retired.
To perpetuate his memory In the mind
and hearts of the people of the city which
has been his home for half a century)
George A. Grund of Kansas City, Kan
has given his entire fortune of more than
$100,000 for the erection of a hotel, which
is to be the property of the city. The only
conditions are that the hotel shall Jtlway
bear his name nnd that a life-size portrait
of himself shall be placed in the foyer,
Work Is to be commenced at once.
A clay model of Miss Alice Cooper'
statue of Sacajawea, the Indian woman
who guided Lewis and Clark across the
mountains in 1S05, has been shipped to the
Lewis and Clark fair grounds at Portland,
In its completed form It will be a bronze
figure of heroic size, and will be placed In
the center of the Columbia court, the cen
tral plaza of the exposition. Sacajawea
was one of the three slave wives of Tous
saint Charbonneau, a French Canadian
voyager, who acted as Interpreter for the
explorers. She was a Shoshone Indian.
W. W. Rockhlll, the newly appointed
American minister to China, and a well
known eastern traveler and1 author, says
that the present population of China, in
stead of being, as it Is usually given, nearly
450,000,000, Is probably not much over 250,
000,000. The census of 1741, which Mr. Rock
hill considers more trustworthy than any
other, shows 143,000,000. Considering the nu
merous devastating famines and wars of
the succeeding 150 years, the natural an
nual increase would be small. Far from
being overpopulated, many portions of
China could support a greatly increased
population.
A MATTER OF HEALTH
WHAT 19 StCCEISS f
The Bright and Dark Side of
Ambition's Goal.
Chicago Tribune.
In the battle of life, which too often
takes on the guise of a battle of death
the laurel of the victor Is Intertwined with
the cypress of the vanquished. Here is
the consideration which gives the gold coin
of success its obverse, leaden side.
A preacher of the gospel of success as
cended his pulpit the other day and spoke
as follows: "There is another fellow try
ing to get the prise that you are after.
Unless you knock him down he will knock
you down and the prize will be his."
The large proportion of truth In this
philosophy cannot be gainsaid. The rungs
of the ladder we climb are some of them
our own achievements, but others of them
the living bodies of prostrated rivals.
Even in altruism there Is competition.
The patriot who would serve his country
serves It only In the disappointment of
others, perhaps equally patriotic, who com
peted with him for position and power.
It Is therefore a constant temptation to
look not so much toward achievement as
toward victory, not so much toward doing
a thing as toward preventing somebody else
from doing it. Universal nature, red In
tooth and claw, shows all animals living
by preying on one another, and man cannot
altogether disentangle himself from his
clay.
It is the particular glory of America
that Its two greatest men achieved their
greatness more by being great In them
selves and less by trampling on others
than did the national heroes of the old
world. Washington deserved well of the
republic without deserving 111 of any of
his fellow-citizens, and Lincoln's magna
nimlty and his surpassing gentleness
toward his enemies were alike remarkable,
Chase criticised Lincoln savagely, but
when Lincoln was urged to crueh him out
by refusing to appoint him chief Justice he
replied: "I am not In favor of crushing
anybody out," and Chase got the appoint
ment. A similar saying proceeded from
him Just after his re-election: "So long as
I have been here I have not willingly
planted a thorn In any man's bosom."
"Willingly" is the test word. It Is in
evitable that there should be thorns. Life
Is strife and strife means thorns. The sue
ccssful man Is obliged to reflect upon the
lacterated bosoms he has left behind him
But his success in the Lincoln meaning of
the word falls of completion if he has
planted thorns "willingly."
MEMORIAL, DAV OBSERVANCE.
Prohibition of Sporting; Events Com
mands Commendation.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
We confess to & feeling of admiration
for the legislature of Nebraska because
it has enacted a law prohibiting all man
ner of "sports" on Memorial day and
thus seeks to give to that commemorative
anniversary something of the seml-sacred
character It was designed to possess when
it was set apart. While many differ, and
their Individual opinions are not questioned
in free America, aa to specified days of
worship, though all must obey the law of
the land, there lives no one with soul so
dead that he would dispute as to remem
bering with flowers the patriotic dead. It
Is a day when all sects and manners of
American peoples can Join In unison of
homage to the memory of those who saved
the nation. The seizure of the holiday by
youth and the unthinking for athletic
sports and other diversions may well be
discouraged. It robs the anniversary of
Its significance. The Nebraska law
trenches on nobody's liberty. The man
who would not subscribe to It is not a
loyal citizen fit to enjoy the protection of
American law and Institutions. With all
the solid admiration a large portion f
the people retain for Grover Cleveland
how much popular respect did he lose
when he went fishing upon Memorial day?
If there were scales to measure popular
judgment Mr. Cleveland would be amazed
at the balance.
The President and the Senate.
Leslie's Weekly.
The senate has done some things re
cently to baffle the president, but If that
body has read American history it knows
that in a fight between the president and
the senate the people are usually on the
side of the president. Tills will be unques
tionably true In the case of Theodore
Roosevelt. When the senate passed the
vote of censure on President Jackson that
body supposed it had effaced the executive.
Not only did the whlgs vote for the cen
sure, but the Calhoun element of the dem
ocrats and others of their party whom
Jackson had offended, aided with them.
Tot the censure was expunged from the
senate journal before the end of Jackson's
service, and hebeuame far stronger with
the people than he ever was before. The
senate, on account of Its hostility to Jurk
son, refused to confirm the nomination of
Van Buren as minister to England, and
the people retaliated by making;. Van Buren
vies prealdsut and president.
Absolutely Pure
OAS K0 SUBSTITUTE
SMALL FACTOH1E9 iMPORTtNT.
They Preserve the Industrial Ecnn
omy of Town and t'lty.
Engineering Magazine.
The effect of Cheap electric power in
couraging and conserving small Industrie!
has already been well demonstrated, par
ticularly abroad. In several region!) vn
the continent Its Introduction has i,t.
served the industrial autonomy of lurna
groups of villages threatened With extinc
tion by the very forces more conspicuous!
active In the United States. Since the ex
istence of a small Industrial center mr.iin
Increased prosperity in nil tho realm
about It, the value of such a policy t I'm
community Is all the more evident.
In caring for small industries and ile
veloplng local resources continental Ku
rope is far ahead of the United Slates.
In France, Germany and Switzerland them
has been a keen Interest In presprvlnn
manufactures against Inroads of central!
zation, and a good many electric plant,
both large and small, have had this aim
In view. The task Is rendered easier by
close governmental control of transporta
tlon. In America, on the contrary, tlm
tendency toward Industrial centralization
is at present very strong, and almost
wholly uncontrolled. Each census shows
worse conditions In this respect, wlthoiir
compensating advantages. It is sma'
glory to have rapidly growing cities f .
by depletion of the rest of the country,
when at the same time economio waste Id
Increased. ,
The practical problem to be solved Is tr
make the nonurban regions Industrially
more useful; and as already pointed out,
electric power distribution and communis
cation gives at least one efficient decen
tralizing agency.
LIGHT AM) BRIGHT.
"Haven't you srot anv toothnloks?" askeil
the tourl.it in the Arizona restaurant.
"Toothpick? queried the cashier,
"What's the matter, didn't the waiter give.
ye a fork? Philadelphia Cathtilio Stunt
dard.
'Where does this car stoD?" asked the
passenger who had been running wildly In
order to find the right crossing.
Wherever the motormnn cnooses," an
swered the conductor, cheerily. Washing
ton Star.
"Then." said the reporter. "I'll say sevn
eral pretty songs were rendered by Mlsa
Forklngham. '
"(J! replied tne nostras, "you mustn
sav 'rendered.' 1 ou see ner ratoer manij
all his money In lard." Philadelphia Press.
"What's the difference between a JbdsoU
dler and a Russian?"
"Junt as much as thri Rnsslarl 'ten maka
It." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
nnnnn ttn friend In hotel bedroom) Let
me in, Jim; I can't find the keyhole.
Tagson can a oenooy. i jusi gu in mji
self and don't know where It Is, either.-
Detroit Free Press.
ita T rnt nn aealnst a trolley accident)
coming home this evening.
Bhe you oon i wyi . t.
He Yes. I got a seat. Philadelphia,
Ledger.
Which." said the man who used to be.
tn. n 1ol,utlnir Hnrietv. "exprclses tna
greater influence love of reward or fear ot
punishment7" , .
"Love of reward, answered the member
of the grand Jury. "Nearly every Investi
gation of graft shows that the fear of
punishment is scarcely in evidence at all.
Washington Star.
SUCCESS.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Tt Is not stopping when the flght Is won;
It IS HOI reliriK llfil iu io 'j
But it is pressing ever on and on. 1
It is not ceasing when the gamo Is played
xin inMin. hands when, one task has ito.. .
n .
Th. lunrol withers and the bay will fadl
When the lust hill Is climbed, the last sontj
pennea, . , .
The last nail driven, the last girder laid.
One prize achieved? Ahead then glows thaj
He who'would win must make the further
nnnnt.
fliicr.PHs Is his. who. wearied and perplexed.
Still ever onwara to new goais nas
nreased.
Who sees each day more misty height
climb.
Who feelB each day new thrllllngs
hreaat.
Who does not count the loss of thought
time
That brings him step by step up to hla)
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