TTTF. OMATTA PATLY BEE: WEDNESDAY, AriUL 20. 1003.
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Subscrlbrd In my preaerica aid awora
to befora ma mia lat y et Arm,
(fiai ROBERT MUNTBK,
Wotary Jpuouo.
WHEN OCT Cr TOW,
t a beer there tit alty taaa,
ataraurlly abaald Vt
maUaA t Ikaaa. Addrwsa will Im
aaaejadl a f tea ma . .
Got your moving ran engagedT
The weather man must have failed
to receive hi annual base ball pasa.
Secretary Taft accompllahea more
work for the government than all bla
critics conibined.
A local milliner advertlsea "Merry
Widow" hate "by the grose." Why
not by the acre?
It will be noticed, perhaps, that no
favorite eon 'la claiming any of the
Taft votes on the second ballot at
Chicago. ' ' "
What the governor of Colorado, who
la an ordained Methodist lalnlster, said
to the governor of Nebraska la not
recorded:
A Montana minister who was Sued
for $16,000 had to pay $8,000. The
jury must have allowed the customary
clergyman's half rate.
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If an excuse for the European visit
of the battleships la necessary, Uncle
Sam might dig tip one of his old claims
agalDst the sultan of Turkey.
An automobile collided with a team
of mules In Chicago. The chauffeur
Is iu the hospital and his machine la
In the repair shop. Score for ths
mule's. '
'The Northern Pacific Is arranging
to spend fl.600.QOO for Additional
freight cars4o handle Ita growing bus
iness. The panic cannot face the croy
prospect. ' ' ' ." S 4
Russia ?v,!S decided to buy five bat
tleships from' foreign 'countries. Rus
sia's next outlay should be tor ths pur
ciiHntj of some ' sailors from foreign
; countries. :r.-
With the untimely death ot the Due
de Chaulnes generous sympathy will
x go to the American girl thus widowed.
The duke's past may well be interred
with Ms bones. t
Report from Caracas state that
President Castro of Venexuela Is seri
ously ill. Perhaps that explains why
he has not yet whipped this country
as he promised.
It Is srgued that Jack. London can
not run for the presidency on the so
cialist ticket because he Is not in the
country:', He will run Just As well, or
better, while absent.
The battle Hue dq the battleships in
the senate shows most of ths votes la
favor of additional battleships tor
coast protection to come from atates
without any coast line.
!
Mr. Bryan thinks a newspaper
should publish both side of an. rgn
meet. Well, he might let Judge
Parker write ft few democratic" edi
torials for the Commoner.
A aotluiy for the suppression Of ua
neceosary nslst is being organized in
Denver. Rather' suggestive, isn't it,
with the democratic national convsn-
. tlon scheduled for that city la July?
The Omaha 'Automobile elas is re
viving activity. The most popular
thing this club could do would be to
put automobile driving through our
crowded city streets on ft safe aid sane
basis. - 0
Winston Churchill, a member ot the
newly-formed British cabinet, was de
feated tos elation to Parliament from
th Maa.-lif iter iltrkt - Ua, is a !
politician who kcos ot what district
L la a favorite aga . .. s
Tresldent Jtoove!fB latest meaaae
to fongreas Is a reminder thai the l?r
Islatora have not take, full advantage
of tbelr opportunities In what he
den me of vital public concern. Coup
led, with thla application of the spur to
rndnce greater activity, la an acknowl
edgment of commendable action by the
congrese on some of Ma former recom
mendations.
The message at the same time dis
closes a smaller difference between the
president and the congress on the leg
islative program than the epponenta
of the administration would have the
public believe. The president's recom
mendation that a, tariff commission be
appointed, preliminary- to , a special
aeaston by the new congress to revise
the tariff, accords with the sentiment
of congress and wilt doubtless be com
plied with. The: president urgee an
emergency currency measure, aa a
temporary precaution against financial
flurries until a reorganization of the
system may be provided for In accord
with a plan to be reported by a cur
rency commission. While prospects
Are not encouraging for legislation
prdvidlng for an emergency currency,
congress will probably comply with the
suggestion for a currency commission
to study the question and report to its
next session. While some house lead
ers have opposed the establishment of
postal savings banks? the sen die com-'
mlttee on finance has favorably- re
ported a bill looking to that end which
is likely t5 become law. The child la
bor law demanded for the District of
Columbia is ft local proposition that
may be adopted or deferred without
particular effect upon the country at
large.
President Roosevelt admits 'that no
consensus of opinion has been reached
about two ot the measures previously
and again recommended. One aims to
curtail the abuse of the power of in
junction and the other to amend the
anti-trust law so as to give larger con
trol by the national government over
corporations in interstate commerce.
While the president presents strong ar
guments to support his position, con
gress seems disposed to take more
time than Is possible at the present
session for more deliberate considera
tion of these problems.
Altogether, the president's legisla
tive program has been quite liberally
accepted by congress and when ad
journment comes next month still fur
ther progress will- surely have been
made, so. that the republicans can
again go before, the country with a
record of achievement against which
but little just complaint can be made.
UR. BRTAy AyD TBK KAST.
Much of that part of the United
States east of the Alleghenlea formerly
designated) by Mr. Bryan as "the en
emy's country," is, according to all re
ports, still a stranger to- him." Many
democrats in New York and New Eng
land still cherish the hallucination
that Mr. Bryan may be Induced to
withdraw at the Denver convention if
be is shown that his nomination would
mean simply another democratic de
feat and that the party might, under
some other candidate, be reorganized
and strengthened. The Washington
correspondent ot the Boston Tran
script, la the course of a long discus
sion of the anti-Bryan sentiment in
the east and the prospect of securing
the nomination of another candidate
than Mr. vryan at Denver, quotes a
'leading democratic United States sen
ator" as follows:
Within the laat faw days I am pcrauaUed
to belleva it la possible to force Bryan to
abdicate. No man who has. been taken up
by tha democrats of tha east ran be nomi
nated. If 'the program tbat.haa beab ar
ranged goee through Johnson will "fall
outside tha breastworks," a martyr to the
eauae. Ha will have made it poeatble for
tha party to rid itself of Bryan aa preal-
dential candidate. The eastern democrats
expect Bryao to name th man. They have
reason to belleva they know the name of
be mQ he will pick it he does have to get
out.. This man will (be satisfactory to the
democrats of th east Indeed, Mr. Bryan
could hardly pick a candidate that would
hot be sattefaotory to tha so-called anti-
Bryan people. They are willing to aocept
anybody but Bryan. If Bryan ahould be
compelled to get out of th way and ahould
t.ame th candidal, and th man pkked
ahould be elected, Governor Johnson and
Judge Gray would go Into th cabinet. Bo
yeu ae they would get their reward after
all.
After quoting other eastern demo
crat it IS further explained that the
program ot the anti-Bryan men will be
to have a heart-to-heart talk with the
Nebraska leader and convince him that
the hope of the party tor the coming
campaign and for the future depend
upon his self-erasure. The plan has
even tone so far that the easterners
have about agreed that they will allow
Mr. Bryan, after they have Induced
him to withdraw, to suggest the can
dldate to be named. They have not
however, had a sufficient enlargement
of the heart td agree to let Mr Bryan
write th platform. r ' ,
Th most significant feature of this
plan is the emphasis It places on the
fact thst the eastern democrats do not
know Mr. Bryan.' Immediately after
th defeat of Parker la 1904, Mr
Bryan issued a clarion call, through
th Commoner, to the Bryan democ
racy of the nation: .He announced his
purpose to beglc at work upon a re
organization' ot the party's demoral
laed tore, with a view to placing th
real democracy la th saddle agal
snd to wrest control from "the old
Parker gang that aided la betraying
the party in 104." He baa carried his
plan out to the letter. Wb.ll be may
hav to fight to secure hU own notul
aatloe, b la in absolute position to
prevent th success of aay rival. Th
Denver convention. In alt human prob
ability, Will name Bryau on W Iiry
platform." Those-' eaetera dcLfcTaU
ho are figuring on Ms abdication, at
time when be holds the whip hand,
do not know the man.
railway ratks and wagkjj.
It is natural for railroad employee
to protest against, wage reductions,
but it does not follow that wage reduc
tions are the necessary consequence of
rate regulation. Although there has
been a great deal of rate regulation in
the last few years, the wages of rail
way employes have, it anything, in
creased at the same time.
Railway employee should remember,
aIbo. that the abolition of the rebates
as been equivalent to increasing the
freight ratea, the rejult being that the
actual cost to the shipper of transport
ing commodities Is in many cases more
than it was before the rate law was
enacted, notwithstanding the. un
changed appearance of the tariff
sheets. ,Thls, of course, refers chiefly
to interstate rates because local rates
between Nebraska points have already
been reduced 15 per cent by the Al
drich bill, and as to this part ot the
traffic the only question is whether or
not further reductions would be war
ranted.
That question will have to be passed
cn by the State Railway commission
after thorough investigation of all per
tinent facts, among which the views of
the railway employes should be given
their due consideration. -
Wrest jy ccb a. -While
the elections in Cuba will not
be held until next Tebruary, convinc
ing evidence ia accumulating that the
Cuban patriots are preparing already
to do business on the old plan as soon
as the American army of occupation
shall have been withdrawn. As a pre
liminary to the withdrawal of Amer
ican troops, Governor Magoon has ap
pointed Pino Ouerra as major general
of the Cuban army and has announced
plans for the reorganization ot the
native forces. The rural guard,! num
bering some (,000 men, is to form the
nucleus of the force, which may be
Increased, if needed. The commander
of the old rural guard. Major General
Alejandro Rodriguez, protests against
Guerra's promotion and the - natives
are rapidly dividing into factions with
the nnsettllng prospect that they will
be at each other's throats at the earli
est favorable moment.
Trouble has already broken out In
Cardenas, where the poll list, which
the mayor has entrusted to govern
ment employes to publish, has been
seized by one of the political factions
to prevent its publication. In. other
provinces and districts the factions
are with difficulty kept from engaging
in open conflict for every advantage
that may be used in the election pre
liminaries. ' As a result the business
men of the island are renewing their
appeals to the authorities at Washing
ton not to withdraw the American
forces.. - Every .practice In which .th
i , . . j j4 r ' ...
native politicians are now indulging
threatens future insurrection, and the
growing business interests of the
island feel alarmed over the outlook.
Wrhl!e great progress has been shown
in . Cuban affffalrs under American
rule, the situation Is still far from
satisfactory. The annual taxes amount
to about $40,000,000, the tax rate be
Ing heavier than in any country in the
world, with the possible exception of
Italy. This is due in part to the ex
travagance that marked the Pal.ua ad
ministration. Governor Magoon has
succeeded in holding expenses down to
a minimum, but it is generally feared
in Cuba that as soon as the affairs are
restored to native handa the old ays
tent of extravagance, graft and loot
will be re-established, with the factions
ready to fight for the plunder.
In brief, it appears that Governor
Magoon is disposed to believe armed
force necessary to preserve domestic
peace in Cuba. Those most familiar
with tl" situation contend that if an
armed orco is necessary it must be
an American force, as neither of the
Cuban factions will submit to rule by
the other. . .
tHt PULICK BOARD QVKSTIQtl.
OMAHA. April 27.
To the Editor of The Bee: I read with
much Interest your editorial on "The Park
Board Question" and fully agre with you
that the butting In of Judge elected by
th votes of four counties la an Indefensible
Interference of th right of th community
to manage it own lntereats. If this con
elusion ts correct, and I belleva It i. what
about th Folic rommlaalon, appointed by
solitary office-holder, th governor, who
was elected by the whole state and who Is
absolutely unidentified personally with our
city and Its affairs. Is that defenalble?
JOHN ROBICKT.
The position flf The Bee on 'The
Police Board Question" ia well known
nd has not changed. The Bee was
th active factor in the winning fight
for home rule which was, later nulli
fied by thefalse friends of home rule
who procured a supreme, court de
cision . re-establishing the governor
appointed police boards. Th case for
home rule In police management waa
further supported ' by the argument
that In no other way could the local
option feature ot the excise lawa be
fully executed, and that the Police
board's control of the fire department
was also purely of local concern. The
supreme coutt, however," decided oth
erwise, basing ita decision on th rule
ot law that the exercise of the police
power ia a state function and that Its
administration by governor-appointed
officials Is not an Infringement of "the
right of th community to manage its
own in (crests." This' is where th
Police board la different from the Park
board, or from the Water board. The
latter are vested with the admlnistra
tlon of property lntereats only and
hav nothing whatever to do with th
enforcement of atate lawa. Th case
tor a home-mad pak board is ua
questionably atronger than th rase
for a home-made police board.
The effort of the railroads to ue the
ruling of the Interstate Commerce coin
mission, giving Lincoln the same rates
as Omaha on lumber from the south,
to raise the rates for both Lincoln and
Omaha does not look like a square
deal. After putting up a case .for the
continuance of the existing rates, it
would seem that the only thing to be
done to comply with the equalization
order would be either to reduce Lin
coln ratea to the Omaha' basis or to
raise Omaha rates to the Lincoln basis,
or perhaps to strike ft bsppy medium
by raising Omaha rates half wsy and
reducing Lincoln ratea the other half.
Official health reports show that th
death rate in Manila Is 6.81 per thou
sand among . the Americans, 16.35
among the Spanish and 48.91 among
the Filipinos for the last quarter ot
1907. While the rate . is alarmingly
large, owing to the prevalence of chol
era. It shows that it may be reduced
rapidly when the Spaniards and th
natives adopt American methods of
sanitation and modes of living.
If Nebraska people have spent ap
proximately $1,500,000 for automo
biles in twelve months, aa indicated
by the number of machines registered
with the secretary of state, that fact
ought to be advertised far and wide.
An agricultural state that keeps up
this pace in spite of a severe financial
panic must be in pretty good condi
tion. .
The Congressional Record gives up
considerable space to a verbatim re
port of an outburst of humor in the
senate the other day, when the mem
bers in discussing the naval appropria
tion bill Indulged in a lot of comment
about buying supplies for the "horse
marines" and the "sea dogs." The
senate is Kout humorous when it is
most serious.
Democratic members of the South
Omaha city council have suddenly dis
covered that there are too many Jobs.
It is to be noted, however, that this
discovery is made only after the city
administration has passed Into the
hands of republicans and out of the
reach of the democratic ple-biters who
had previously been holding the jobs.
The senior class of the Omaha High
school has cleared. $400 from a fair
which is to be put into some memorial
gift 'to the Bchool. In view ot the
Lincoln statue experience, the commit
tee of art critics should be invited to
sit on the proposed souvenir before
instead of after its purchase.;
I
The Water board attorneys have
found three reasons why the United
States 'supreme "court should consent
to . review the , decision of the lower
courts in the .w.ater'" works appraise
ment case. Ani: one of. the three
reasons will do. ' . .
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RlchmondPeareon Hobson predicts
that Mr. Taft, if nominated at Chicago,
will be defeated. Hobson, it will be
remembered, also predicted war' be
tween the United States and Japan.
Hobson furthermore is a democratic
member of congress from Alabama. -
The statement that the rarefied air
at Denver makes it impossible for an
orator to speak longer than five min
utes is going to make a atrong argu
ment for holding more political con
ventions at Denver.
The Interior cities and towns are
now getting ocular evidence to dis
prove the threadbare assertion of the
railroads that whatever Omaha would
gain by terminal taxation would be
takeq away from them.
Nw Buckle To.
Wall Street Journal.
.jOnly aa you surrender yourself to your
work can you lift youraelf and your work
to th level of a larger life.
MUM lavfwl.
Washington Post.
The committee of arrangements In charge
f the Deliver convention should not neg
lect to provide sufficient stall for 'dark
horae.
A Cheerfal Pract.
Indianapolis Newe. ,
While Mrdiclne Hat's attention la dis
tracted over the disappearance of a boy
who waa aitppoe to have been carried
off by an eagle, maybe spring will be able
to settle down to stay.
v Ntra, I artvalled Show.
' ' Ronton Ttanicript.
The new national park which the presi
dent .has created by proclamation In south
western titan, seems to combine all our
Old-faahloned curiosities In a bunch. In
th designated territory are three natural
bridge, aaveral mamruuth caves and cliff
dwellings In abundance.
Canada Balks mt tba l.aad.
1 Baltimore American.
Canada objects to continue as a dutiful
dumpiug ground for the mother country.
Th latter Is finding that the poet aptly
summarised ' the situation . when ha made
Canada explain that, while "guest I am
In my mother's houae. I am mlatresa In my
own." . It la not the first time In history,
by the way, that the mother country has
laid too great strain on tho feeling
of her colonial children.
Colaael Brjraa's "Model ewsnaper."
St. Louis Republic.
' As an experiment worth trying. Mr,
Bryan recommends newspaper editorial
page so divided that the champion of one
party In tha columns on the right-hand side
can Join iaauss with tha champion of the
other party In the R-fi-hand columns. Thla
might be in. Improvement . on the non-
partnership of some so-called Independent
papers now. But theiV -would be nothing
to prevent them fiat calling the sporting
editor Into consultation. With hla knowl
edge, gained from observation of how eon
testa ar pulled off so as to leave nothing
to chanoe, there would be o difficulty
In deciding la advance which of th two
champlona weuld b left under tha ropes
a the result ot gentk-man's agreement.
regulating tha hardness of lUa hUUug and
lu Ulspuaai of 10 rcctul.
til A R ACTfCIt SKETCH OS" TATT.
William Allea White's Tea rietare (
th Wir Seeretary.
Amprtrsn Magnslne for May.
"Often an Illuminating squint at a man
may be had by looking at nis ooynooa;
and th boyhood of William Howard Taft,
which began In Auburn, a aubvjrb of Cin
cinnati In 14, When h waa seven year
old. was th rolltrklng. fighting, dream
ing animal boyhood of th average Amer
ican boy, who has hooka and brooks around
him. and 1 torn in hU heart to declda
mhlch tempt him moat. In his eArly teena
he reaembled the type of tall.J rawboncd,
lubberly, aqueaky-volced, "milky-eyed,
ahork-headed, big-footed boy who laughs
at himself mor than at any one else;
and Taft' whole boyhood career la epl
tomtaed In the fact that a dosen or en
men now In their late forties or early
fifties scattered over thla planet remem
ber th honorable secretary of war. not
as William, not even a Will, certainly
not aa Willi and not as Bill, but as
old Bill' Taft. Tb elimination of Wil
liam signifies that he waa not a prig; th
ellmlnaton of Willi indicate that he was
not a alaay; tha elimination of Will goes
to show that he was hot a lovely char-a-
ter, and Bill proven that he waa no
coward, while 'old Bill' makes It definite
and certain that he was well beloved, and
V at proves that he was effective. Impul
sive and kind. These traits, then, form th
foundation upon which the man Is bullU"
An Illuminating story of Taffs visit to
Russia laat year Is thus related:
"The next day th,ame large man
slipped gently out of bed at ( o'clock and
groped around In th dark of the murky
morning looking for his trousers. H did
not make a light for fear of waking hla
wife. Prodding quickly but softly through
th dusk, falling easily over th con
cealed furniture of th room, Jia was get
ting - well along toward a half -dressed
stag without waking hi wife to aak
her where thing were packed after the
fashion of Americana of hi class when
In drawing on his trousers his only pair
ot black. trousers hi Sunday trousers if
you must know the truth,, pressed and
rather unfamiliar he lost his balance
and fell, sticking one foot through . u
trouaer knee. A man weighing 240 pounds
can put considerable force and emphasis
into' a Jab of his toe when he trie to
catch his balance with It, and the hoi
loomed up dark, gloomy and peculiar. He
couldn't bring himself to waken h!a wife,
Ha knew that she waa tired and needed
th sleep. So he called a bell boy and
asked him to hav the trousera mended.
They were his beat trousers, the only pair
her had that would 'go' with his black
clothe, and he had to rid two hours in
a sleigh and meet by appointment At t
O'clock the cxar of all the Rusnlas. There
was nothing to do but to wait for' the
bell boy's return with the rended garment,
When tha boy cams, he brougt such a
botch Job that the fat man grinned and
tackled U himself. Bjbt he was in a hurry.
and his hand were strong and clumsy
and sip went a second tear squarely across
th knee. He looked at the hopeless wreck
moment .and then rose, hunted for and
found & black sock, snipped off the foot,
drew th black stocking up over his knee
to cover th whit underclothing, put on
his torn trousers, got into th rest of his
clothing and marched proudly out to th
lelgh and met the ccar as America's
reprcsentatlve-r 'gentleman unafraid.' '
Here is a part of Mr. White's slseup of
the republican candidate:
"Taft belongs to that elasa of Americana
who when occasion requires can hook up
their wives' dresses in th back and lace
their own shoes'. And this doe not mean
necessarily that -the Taft ar 'poor, but
honest.' They ar th kind f people, wh
most of their live hav lived In a house of
nine room a, ton an income ranging from
$2,009 to $6,000 a year, with on or two ser-
vana, a hors and buggy, and a child In
college. Th Independence of America ia
In that class. F"or the man who .does need
valet la not much awed by a king. It
Taft should be elected president of this re
public he would never cease to be In th
heart of him a strap-hanger, a commuter,
not of th city, with its eras wealth and
biting poverty, not of the country but a
suburban president, th first of hi type.
Our presidents hav been curloualy reflect
ive of our national life. A considerable
minority of the men whom thi nation haa
elected to the presidency sine th civil
war Lincoln, Grant, Hayes. McKlnley
hav com from th farm, Cleveland waa
village-bred; Roosevelt was city-bred. Har
rlson got his beat training from tha inland
town. But this new type 1 of American
from 'the suburban community,, who as
boy knew both swimmlng-hote and pave
ment, who roamed th wood and fought
th north-end gang, who waa afraid of
neither cows nor eewa-that is a new type
of man in American politics a type that
must become more and mora prevalent aa
the country grows leas and leas rural and
mor and mor urban." .
Mr. White's conclusions are summed up
in tha following paragraphs:
'What kind of a president, all things
considered, will ha make? Assuming" that
th facta hereinbefore set down ar correct.
it la obvious that first of all we may ex
pect a president who will work hard for
he has but two meals a day and tolls
without resting from ten until six every
day; then we may expect that he will work
hard vtth a kind of self-ef feeing spirit;
then that he will work hard, unaelflahly
and without much Initiative. For ho haa
rarely iron from beaten patha, though ha
hits shewn that'he tan go alone. Th great
things he has done In this world hav been
don at, the desk. He I no orator aa Bru
tua Is. He will say little and do much.
"Th tlmea demand, not a man bearing
Dromlssa of new thlnga, but a man who can
finish tha thinaa begun. Such a man ii
Taft, a hewer of wood, who haa no ambi
tion to link hla name with new measures,
but vlio. with a steady hand, and a heart
always kind, and a mind always generously
Just can clean off the desk.
"lloosevelt knowa the desk- Is cluttered
up. He knowa that It may take alx or
elaht year merely to get down to th ma
hogany under thlnga now pending. But th
American people, know that aome way thla
muat be done before tha nation can g
further. And hence, in (hp Mississippi val
lev at least. thr is a belief that the man
who can mak th Hepburn railroad law a
much a part of our common Itf as th
'postal regulatlona, who can grind th
rough edgea off tha Sherman law through
tha courta. who can finish the canal, and
deal with Cub kindly, honestly, and
firmly, who can lead the brown men of
th Islands further into the light, la this
big. hard-working, soft-hearted, fair
minded, unselflah man, Taft. He can Clean
tff the desk." t
Allen Workanea Homeward Baad
Springfield Republican. -
The re-migration of alien workmen out
of employment continues aa large aa at
any time since tha panic the figure for
the year to data standing well over 200,000
while immigrations during the same time
haa amounted t considerably less than 100,
000. Th wonder 1 that so much labor should
still b coming thi way under uch con
dltions of alack employment aa ar re
flected by tb extraordinary emigration
figure. Meantime, the transatlantic steam
ship agenta at New Turk report Indie
tlon of reduced volume of American
tourist travel lo Europe this summer. Peo
ple of means are not engaging steam
sbip accommodations In advance to th
teut urvlesl at Uil Umi In rcnt year.
;abing"
Tb csty Bakizg Pow.cr mfo
viiih Eoy&l Gnp3 Cream of Tartar
ESu3 frca grapes
Insures healthful and
delicious food
home every day
S&fegftsrdj yo:r
aisia ui p
ft . a
BIIIVIMG MOSEY.
War Hage Snap foe Powder and
. Ball Makers.
Metropolitan Magaiine.
In the "future we shall slay one another
at Incredible distances. An enormous
cannon has Just, been placed on the coast of
Havre, which, with one well-directed shell,
can sink, at a dlBtance of twenty kilometers.-
the most formidable armored cruiser.
The Oeimans. on their part, have Installed
in th port of Willemshoefen, a Krupp can
non which cost the trifling aum or 79,ono,
every hot of which cost I1.650.' $7 for
th projectile, $185 for the charge which ex
pel the shell and $838 tor the checking ap
paratus. This gun cannot firs mor than
nmety-five shots before It Is completely
aeless. Because of the repeated action ot
th explosives, erosions are made In the
bore, which destroy the quality of the steel,
and th piece can nd longer be uaed without
danger of bursting. If we consider that
after the deflagration of the charge tho
projectile remains In th gun only about
tha fiftieth part of a second, wo can see
that a cannon rendered useless after ninety-
five hots has not yielded more than two
seconds of aetlve service !-$79,0OO for two
seconds; that gives the makers of the gun
a wa ot $2,370,000 a minute; 82,aoo, n
our. Here lies the wealth of the steel and
powder merchants.
I
A COSTISIOV S JlHOn.
Nervy Fellow Criticises Judicial 4a-
allna of Jastlce.
Kansas City T!ms.
A brash Brooklyn man who was sum
moned as a Juror thla week hanaea tni
communication to th presiding judge?
Tour Honor: P.eplylng to your circular
which I herewith return to you. properly
filled out, would say that I do not car to
serve aa a Juror, for the reason that to me
the present method of juggling with the
law, splitting hairs and granting appeals
on any pretext la not the proper adminis
tration of Justice and to tske tho time of
twelve business men, which to them la
valuable, compel them to alt on case In
which they are not intereated, and after
they hav rendered a decision to the best
of their ability to hav an outside Judge-
differ with them on some slight pretext,1
granting a stay or an appeal. Is dishearten
ing to the juror, and for the above reasons
I trust I will not be forced tCserv as a
Juror."
Th Judge very properly denounced l lie
unfortunate fellow fcr his lack of appro-
elation of th fine technical points of the
law. "You are not fit to be a ciuseu,
much less a Juror," he exelalmed. 'iner
will be widespread approval of the 3udg
In thus upholding, the law majesty and
mystery. It was absurd that an Ignorant
layman should venture to vole a criticism
of th delays and complexities of Judicial
nrocedur. What did he know aoout it
and what business had he lo aay anything,
anyway? Such presumption should not go
unrebuked. Certainly not.
, I'KRSON AL, NOTES.
Everv time Frank Gould talk of the
Vurse of money" a good many men have
a turning desire to tell him how to get
rid of the curs. .
irirf Lieutenant Thomaa E. Solfrldae,
field artillery, ha been permanently de
tailed for duty with the signal corps, with
station in Washington. Ha Is an aeronaut
of some note, and hla entire time will be
occupied with thla subject.
The late Bishop T. U, Dudley of Ken-
tucky declared that h was indebted to
a mountaineer of that state for the most
ungrammatical sentence he ever Heard.
This Is it: "Them three Miss bisro are
thre of as pretty a gal I ever seo."
Judge Loving, the slayer of Theodore
Estea. In whose memory a monument was
unveiled by Virginia -women on cdnes
day, haa' resigned as manager of the Vir
ginia estatea of Thomas' F. Ryan, and will
remove. with his daughter to a distant
ata.t. . . l ' . '
Prof. Leopold Schroetter, th cele
brated larynologlst, to whom In 18S7 fell
th duty of telling Jimperor Frederick ot
Germany, while he waa still crown prince,
th fatal character of the illness from
which he waa suffering died suddenly In
Vienna, after delivering the inaugural ad
dress at the International Congress or
Laryngologlvts.
V..KeJuln Wellington Ke, of Shanghai,
China, aon of the Chinese eecretary of
foreign affairs, has been elected editor-in-chief
of the Columbia Spectator, the
university dally paper. He will hav
charge of the paper all next year Kee
for two years haa been a member of t..e
varsity debating team and waa lnbtrumcu
tal In defeating the Cornell team recently.
The extensive sale of
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ia owins to their perfect
Hi
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Powder
for every
food against
Bosptatc it line I svu
m t mm
CORPORATIONS NEED WATCHING.
Waralaa Aaalnat Moaopolles of Wfit.
era Water I'swer,., .
"Wall Street Journal.
The public ts disposed to forget-altogether
too quickly the warnings which their rep
reaentatlves In office gave out from tlni
to time against private or corporate en
croachment on public rights And proper
ties. Less than sixty dnys ago th presi
dent of the I'nlted States In hla waterways
message sounded a noto of' alarm against
tho quiet and stealthy efforts that were
being made by certain corporation to
alienate public lands In state and federal
Jurisdictions wherever .there was any de
sirable water power to control. President
Roosevelt then said:
"Among these monopolies, as the report
of tho commission points out, thcro Is nor
other which threatens, or has ever threat
ened, such Intolerablo interference with tha
dally life of the people as the consolidation
of companies controlling water power. I
call your special attention to tho attempt
of the power corporations, through bill
Introduced at the present session, to escape
from tho possibility ot governmental regu
lation in the lntereats of tho people"
Here is a case In which publicity would
serve as a sure prevontlv of efforts to
filch from the public not only Its property,
but Ita right of control over such proper
ties under federal law which It is proposed
to enact through methods that will not
bear tho light ot day. The constituents of
rcpresenMlves In congress can head off
any of these project by letting their rep
centatlves know that they are holding them
realKinsible for the defeat of these attempts
to got property, and'., privilege from. .the.
public on terms that ignore .tha right of'
i the people In their own estate.
BltlUHT AM) BltfcfclY.
"Heie, Walter," cried Jth Buest ln the
cheap restaurant, "this food is simply
vile and 1 don't proMwn to pay for it.
"Where's the proprietor?"-
"He's gone homo to lunch, sir, ' replied
thu waiter. Philadelphia Pits. '
"You should rriuko a speech so full of
thought that It will cimnul your eolloaguea
(o aoandon. their errors," sid tlm earnest
cltlsen. '
"My friend." answered 8ona,tor bor
ghum, "this busineMS Is politics, Mt muntal
science." Washington Star.
Mother (despairlngty)-r-I am worried about
Tommy. This I the third 1 Urn I hav
caught him stealing tho Jum.
Father tfacetiouely) i- "ee- A ort of
syrup-titious tendency Baltimore Amori
can. ' '
inventor When will "the 'company b on
its feet again T s
Krivr When it is out' of my hands.
Harper Weekly. . ,. .-, ., , ' J
"It doesn't seem to'mw that yonr'-freta
are awept," remarked Urn stranger, -i
"Not swept!" exclaimed the. itidignaqt na-
..11,1 . 1. ' .. & .,.,, V. ..... u a .W.I'II.
live. wny, mci .it nvn -
Ing thorn at the rate of forty miles an, hour
right now." Philadelphia Lodger.
Sparrow You're rather late In gsttlng
back from the south. . t '' .
R.iVitn I huted to .break away, old chap.
The farmers down that way are actually
letting the cherries spod on tu wees. ,
Hpurrow v ny, now sinew
Robin Prohibition Bas queered th cock
tall business. Puck. -
"That young doctor Is a queer contra-dti-tloii.r'
- ...
"In what way?" . . '
"He has an exceedingly good temper,
and yet he I lacking in patient. BtUU
inore American. "
"My clork over there t tha liquor
counter." said the proprietor of th larg
establishment, "is a believer In o;cuit
phenomena."
-fin i ee," replied the customer. sS h
noted the clerk deftly making a bottle up
Into a package. "At this very moment I
observe he is engaged ll llrtl-wrapplng.
Philadelphia Press. - -
TUB EARLY BIRD.
WherV he was
Just a Utile lad,
ti. inv. t.-i lie in Ito-d:
Alss! To him his fathers voir
Was but a thing of dread; :
For hla father called at aunrlev
"Wilas! rtSammy! Charlie! Fred"
in,l hli little 'heart would ,0ft
rebel
As he covered up hi head.' .... . .'
Now. ho himself is father, -. - m
And lie rlsa with the sun,
And up a newer stairway call -;
His children, one by on; (
Ah! How he glories In It . .
As lie shouts: "Clot up, be mHi'Kl,
Os jrlae I 11 come and bring you
With my big. stout, walking stick.
Theae fathers.. Ah, these fathers.,' '
Alas! They soon forget . .
How good the bed at sunrise leels , -To
Silas. Sam and Fred; ,-
How i.arful is the voire that shoutst '
"(Jet up, g' t UP. bo quick. " 1
But tliey don't forget the fetching powra
Of the big, stout, walking fcttfkr
Omaha. BAYOLL NE TRELEJ.
vr: tv sfft f
purity. '
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