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THE NORTHWESTERN. BENsCIlOTItn * OIUHON. E<l» »n<» Palm LOUP CITY, • • ^ —---r?-1 - -n When we are yielding the peaceable fruits of righteousness, it will not be difficult for us to remain unyielding to the tempter. None of the Pullman cars owned by .'he company is now idle, and orders *or more, which cannot be met, are be ing constantly received. Great Britain imported last year about 250,000,000 pounds of tea, of which 55 per cent came from India, 37 oer cent from Ceylon, 7 per cent from China. The champion sneak thief lately did t neat trick in Greenwood, Iowa, About two hours after hie release from jail he sneaked into the prison and stole his photograph from the rogues’ gal lery. A curious find is reported from one of the Chlncha Islands, oft the coast of Peru. In a bed of guano an old ship’s compass was lately dug up, which, when cleaned, was found to be in working order. The case of the •n&trumcnt is brass, and it bears the engraved inscription "Jno. Warren, Uhepeside, City of Lrondon. Maker. 1699.” The compass has been sent to a museum in Lima. The test-point of a sermon Is not Its climax, but the minute after It is Snished—as the preacher announces the closing hymn. If the hearer says to himself, "The sermon is done,” then is that sermon a failure. But if the hearer says, “It Is time now for the sermon to begin in my daily life,” then is that sermon a success. A discourse is but a string of idle words until it becomes incarnated in some living soul. Albert Foss, of Tasw’ell, Ind., re cently filed affidavits against six so ciety girls who gave him a public kiss ing. Foss is a music teacher and boasted at several parties that he had never been kissed by a girl. The six girls laid for him on the street and kissed him until he cried “enough.” He was greatly mortified and went be fore a justice of the peace and caused the arrest of the girls. They were re leased on bail. One hundred feet from a manhole, with all escape cut off, three work men, who were digging in a sewer in Nineteenth street, New York, made a rush to safety when an explosion of naphtha gas occurred, but the flames swept over them, and they were com pelled to lie on their faces in thick mud to escape being burned to death. They were unconscious when found by Policeman File, who bravely entered % the sewer which but a moment before had been spouting fire. Reapportionment of representation in Canada after a new census is a simpler matter than in the United States. When the Dominion was formed the rule was adopted that the Province of Quebec should always have sixty-flve members of the Lower House of Parliament. The population of Quebec, divided by sixty-flve, fur n'shes, therefore, the basis of repre sentation for the other provinces. Under the new apportionment, while Quebec remains stationary, Ontario and the Maritime Provinces will lose representatives, and British Columbia ind Manitoba will gain. "I made no money by my hymns,” said a feeble old man of seventy-seven, a resident of the Isle of Wight, whc was recently examined in bankruptcy proceedings. This was the author ol “There’s a Friend for Little Children.’ Misfortune had overtaken him. and he seemed to be utterly without resource —nntil Christian England heard of his plight Then subscriptions were ev erywhere started and funds contribut ed for his relief, and now he may look forward to peaceful years. A hymn that sings its way to hearts and con sciences is not necessarily profitable to its author; but if we could measure. In money, ltif worth to humanity, how rich he would grow! Kncke’s lfttle comet, named after the French astronomer who first discov ered its periodicity, is now on one of its every three-and-a-half-year visits to the earth’s gaze. No other known comet has a period so Bhort, and prob ably, in consequence, none other has a recorded history so large. Many oth er comets are domesticated, so to speak, celebrating occasional old home weeks of their own. Twice had a well known astronomer hunted down a comet, only to find that a rival comet hunter was a few hours ahead of him. The third time he was confident the prize was really his, and the news of the new discovery was circulated. “I think,” wrote his friend, “you will find it is my comet of six years age come back.” So it was, and the dis gusted reply came by wire, “Why don't you keep your comets chained up?” Among all the noble and magnificent benefactions credited to American men of wealth in recent years, we know of none more wisely and worthily be stowed than that of the late Lewis El kin, of Philadelphia, who left the bulk of his fortune of $2,000,000 in trust to create a fund for the benefit of dis abled women teachers who have taught in the public schools of that city for 25 years, and have no means of sup port. The fund will provide the bene ficiaries with an annuity of about $400 each. The bequest is noteworthy be cause it is almcat without precedent. TOE Dll MILLER LETTER Norfolk Institute for Insane Splendidly Managed by Dr. Ttrl, STATE FINDS—WHERE THEY ARE Report of tho Semite Committee Ap pointed to Make an Investigation of the Management of Our State Institu tions— What They Found. Lincoln, Nebraska, Oct. 10, 1901. During the past few years our state institutions have been the source of much scandal from one cause and an other, and at times the people of the state have been very much incensed over the reports which in too many cases have been too true. The scan dals have completely stopped, and, on the contrary, these institutions are the source of much favorable comment. At tention is especially directed to the In sane Asylum at Norfolk, which re cently was visited by a most disas trous fire. Dr. George L. Miller of Omaha visited that institution some time before the fire and gave the fol lowing letter to the Omaha World Herald, which was published in that paper the mornng of October 4th. The letter reads as follows: Norfolk floscl.nl for Imitnr. Omaha, Oot. 1.—To the Editor of the World-Herald: i was much gratified to read In the World-Herald a few duys ago what I previously knew to be true of the Hospital for the Insane at Norfolk. I was a guest of Superintendent Teal for a day at that institution a short time ago on his invitation, and am much Indebted to him for the opportunity given me to see all Its Inmates and to observe, under Superintendent Teal’s zeal to afford me information, not only the superior char acter and plans of the great hospital, but to the uttermost opportunity to see with my own eyes one of the ^best appointed and most humanely and intelligently con ducted asylums for the care, and also for the cure, of the victims of wrecked reason that I ever saw. Not a manacle, not a crib, not a straight-jacket nor any other of the barbarous devices which 'n humanlty begotten of ignorance and the love of power over the defenseless, which I know to be In full swing of operation In similar institutions not far from Omaha. The reason for the absence of these Instruments of torture at Norfolk Is that its Intelligent and well instructed superintendent knows that they are un necessary and cruel ns means of restraint, and do more harm than good. I’nder the control of kind and competent attend ants. and with simpJo comfortable means of restraint, the wildest patient at Norfolk knows no such thing as violent treatment. Nor is violence used In resaut ment in that superb Institution. For iT stance, I calbd upon one of the most dan gerous of his patients who, as his at tention was turned front ldnt for a mo ment, struck Hr. Teal a full blow In the face and caused his nose to bleed gulte freely. I)r. Teal did not vield to his nat ural impulses to knock down his irrespon sible assailant, hut smiled upon him and walked away to repair damages. Had this thing happened in some hospitals for the insane of which 1 haw detinite infor mation the patient would have Iteen beaten by amateur pugilists, choked, kicked and manacled. Dr. Teal's steadi ness in dealing with the wildest of his patients, his humanity and interest in them and tits intelligent adherence to mental sanitary treatment, with not so much as a suggestion of force beyond gentie and firm restraint, furnishes a I high example and splendid proofs to the ■ people of the state of the reforms that j nave come In tin* treatment of the insane. : Drs. Teal and Voting and the house as sistants in the late disaster to the Nor folk hospital must command the admira tion of everybody for their coolness and courage. The result Is shown in the sav ing of human life and suffering and much property. Norfolk should retain the great hospital. No doubt about it. No finer location was ever seen than is the Norfolk locution for such an institution for healthful im munities. for beauty of site and view and for natural drainage. UEORGE T,. MTI.T.vr, Such splendid testimonials from such men as Dr. Miller cannot do other than give the public confidence In the conditions as they exist in our state wards. The Trettitiirrr'e Mtnteuifiit. State Treasurer Stuefer has made public a statement showing the where abouts of the funds entrusted to his keeping as state treasurer. The report is for the month of September, and states that the funds are In regular depositories and drawing interest for the state. Mr. Stuefer had a balance on hand of some $260,000. These funds, the state treasurer says, consti tutes the balance on hand and he fur ther announced that he was then nego tiating for the purchase of interest bearing bonds to the amount of $180, 000, since which time these bonds have been bought. In his report he makes an item of over $4,000, turned into the treasury, as interest money paid on the funds of the state. It might he well to mention that not a dollar of the state money is deposited in Mr. Stue fer‘s bank at West Point. On the whole, the state treasurer has made a remarkable record in the management of the state’s money. Since January 1. 1901, Mr. Stuefer has Invested over $900,000 of these permanent funds In interest bearing bonds, and by so doing has kept the money so busy that it could hardly have found time for a deposit anywhere but in the state treasury had Mr. Stuefer desired it Otherwise. Report of Senate Committee. During the dosing hours of the leg islative session everybody was so busy with the odds and ends and with the senatorial contest that some matters which should have been presented for consideration were left untouched. Among the most important of these waa the report of the chairman of an Important committee of the senate bearing on the manner in which the taxpayers wire preyed upon by the late fusion administration. It was the intention to submit, the report to the legislature and ask that a special com mittee be appointed to conduct a searching Investigation, with a view to requiring those who have feasted at the expense of the taxpayers to step up to the desk and settle their bills. In the rush of business at the do-e it watt found impossible to carry in,- plan for an investigating committeoe into effect, so the report was held back, and is herewith published for the first time. It was information of this diar >cter which prompt 'd the incumbent republican board of public lands and buildings Governor Savage to make the sweeping general order re quiring all officers and employes, ex cepting the superlntandents. to remove their families lrom the institutions forthwith. The report reads as fol- 1 towt:: Senate Chamber, Lincoln, Neb., March 14, 1901.—To the Honorable Members of the Senate: Report of the Penitentiary. Not In many years have the taxpay ers of Nebraska been imposed upon more extensively than during the last two years. In nearly every state in stitution many people were maintained at the state's expense who were neither inmates nor employes, and, as a matter of fact, had absolutely no business there. I have made an in vestigation as thorough as circum stances would permit, and what I have already ascertained is proof conclusive that the most shameful methods were practised by those in charge of state institutions, in some instances due to pressure from those filling state offices. Mr. Spence, the bookkeeper at the penitentiary, who is a democrat and who was bookkeeper during the ad ministration of Warden Hopkins, or for the last two years, reports that Warden Hopkins kept in the neigh borhood of twenty people, mostly rel atives. at the penitentiary at the state’s expense, and not one of whom was on the pay roll or had any right there. He appointed a relative steward of the institution, a young, unsophisticat ed fellow, who knew practically noth ing of the duties, and by reason of his incompetency there is an abundance of evidence to show- that the state was preyed upon by dealers from whom he bought goods, which accounts in part for the large amount of deficiencies and unpaid bills. It is reported by this same bookkeeper, too, that during the last fusion state convention a prom inent fusion politician from Holt county named Harrington brought down a large delegation of politicians in the interest of Howard, his pre ferred candidate for treasurer, and had Warden Hopkins board and shel ter them at the penitentiary at the state's expense until the convention adjourned. Warden Hopkins kept seven or eight of his family, and sometimes more, at the penitentiary all the time he was there. In addition to this he brought two nieces from Iowa, and they attended school here and made their home at the peniten tiary. A school teacher who taught school near the penitentiary made her home there for about six months, pay ing her expenses thereat to Warden Hopkins, of which amount he turned over to the state $1S, or at the rate of S3 per month. Certain convicts were tacitly required to perform work for private individuals, for which neither they nor the state received any pay. These are only a few of the offenses committed at the penitentiary during the wardenship of Mr. Hopkins. Other reports of a very serious nature have reached me. but as I have not had the time to make a thorough investigation into them I have refrained from incor porating them in this report. Industrial Hrliool for Hoys. Many irregularities are reported at the Industrial School for Boys at Kearney. Altogether there were twen ty-two people maintained at this in stitution who were not employed by the state, and who were either rela tives or friends of the management or of state officers. The superintendent maintained his wife- and five sons; the bookkeeper had his family of four there; the chaplain had his wife, father and son; a teacher named Vos berg had two grown daughters; Mrs. Taylor, the cook, had one grown daughter; another teacher had a grown son and daughter, and the gar dener had a grown daughter. InduMrinl Nchool at (imevii Secretary of State Porter had his sister, Mrs. E. S. Philbrook, appointed as matron and caused his aged mother to l>e kept there as a charge on the state for the last three years. The lat ter's physical condition was such as to require a great deal of attention, and the result is that while Mrs. Phil brook was drawing pay for rendering services to the state, she was. in fact, devoting the major portion of her time to the care of relatives. There were other irregularities at this institution, but of minor importance and I will not here make mention of them, though it Is a matter of economy that these er rors should be given attention and cor rected. IIchspltxI for State fnrura *1* Insane at Hasting*. Thore is every reason to believe that | shameful fraud has been practiced by | the management of the Asylum for the Incurable Insane at Hastings. The claims presented for payment to the auditing department from this institu tion for the last three months in 1900 aggregated within $865.70 of the entire amount for the first nine months of the year. During the first nine ■ months the total expenditures were $34,4i3.G4; and during the last three months the expenditures were $33, 557.88. Upon investigation I diseover | ed that from the 6th to the 31st of December hills were rendered against I the state for 11,132% pounds of butter I at 15c per pound. This act stands en I tirely without precedent in the history of the asylum. Not alone was a vast quantity of butter purchased, but much of it was unpalatable and unfit even for animal food. Bills were ren dered during the same period for up wards of $6,000 worth of clothing without any good reason why such a surplus should be purchased. The clothing furnished is pronounced by reputable merchants who examined the samples, and who are competent judges, as to quality, far below the sample in finality. Superintendent Steele for one and one-half years kept his brother at the asylum at the expense of the state, and gave hirn room and hoard with no right whatever to do so, and for which the state received absolutely no compensation. Startling reports are made of occurrences at this institu tion. hut I have been unable to go further than to consult the official ■documents and question witnesses as to the quality of die butter and cloth ing In question. It is due the man agement, and it is due the tax payers of the siate that these reports and charges be investigated to tne bot tom A man must have a whole lot of egotism to get up on the fence and lay claim to more of the eartli than God intended for his neighbor. HIS FAVORITE POLICY THE BUFFALO SPEECH NOT A NEW DEPARTURE. William McKinley flat! Been an E»rnP»t and Pc ruts tent Advocate of the Right Sort of Reciprocity for the Fast Eleven Years. Mr. McKinley’s speech at Buffalo had barely ceased whsn some papers began to misrepresent It, the purpose being to make it appear that the Pres ident had changed his views and was no longer in line with the economic faith of his party, but was urging to ward the opposite belief. Here Is an example: “The name of President McKinley was given to the highest tariff this country has ever known, the tariff that was repealed by the Democratic con gress of 1893-4. McKinley being the chairman of the Ways and Means committee that reported the bill. That was the high water mark of tariff leg islation. There was no thought of reciprocity then except such arrange ments as might be made with the South American states. This was Mr. Blaine’s idea, and it was not favored by the party and formed no part of its policy. “President McKinley in his speech fully committed himself to reciprocity, which means tariff reduction and free trade in special cares. We are to grant trade advantages in considera tion of reciprocal advantages. The scheme is not new. since all nations practice it, and since, aso, we have already negotiated several such treat ies. The president would, however, make It the general policy of our gov ernment. "If such a policy is inaugurated and carried out there will be material tar iff reductions. A re.ctprocity treaty with Germany, after that nation shall have stiffened its tariff laws in accord ance with the rates proposed, will make an nnmense difference In thi customs duties and In the prices If this country for goods of Qprmat manufacture. It will be Uie samt with France and Italy and Austria.— Newark (N. J.) Advertiser.” It Is quite possible that ignoranc* rather than craft is at the bottom 01 the above. Ignorant one must be tc say that reciprocity "formed no part’ of the Repub.lean party policy in 1890 when It was in pursuance of the au thority specifically contained In the McKinley act then pas ed that th» group o-t reciprocity treitles which the Wilson-Gorman act destroyed were ne gotiated, conflimel and put in opera tion. In March, 1896, a Republican news paper published within three miles o; the "Advertiser’s” office put at th« head of its editorial page a ticket and a platform, both of which were kept standing until after election in Novem ber. The ticket was M.Klnley and Hobart, and the platform was: 1. Protection to American industry l. Gold the standard of all currency. 3. Educational limitation for immi gration. 4. Renewal of reciprocity. In the St. Louis patfo.m the=e four planks were prominent, and Mr. Mc Kinley was elected thereon. How er roneously then to speak of his recent advocacy of recip.ocity as a depart ure! In the "Advertiser’s” definition, as in those of other anti-p.otection pa pers, the distinguish ng features of reciprocity, as understood and prac ticed by the Republican party, Is omitted, to wit. that the articles to be freed from duty are such as are not produced here or on which, for some reason or other. Protection is not needed. We commend this dis tinction to "Tariff-reform” editors who seem to have overlooked it, and would suggest that they be not too precipitate in claiming the President as a convert to any policy that will be injurious to American Industry and labor. WILL CONTINUE PRESIDENT M’KINLEY'S POLICY. "It shall be my aim to continue absolutely unbroken the policy of Presi dent McKinley for the peace and prosperity and honor of our beloved coun try.’’—President Roosevelt on taking the oath of office. Roosevelt on Protection. Here again we have got to lemember that our first duty is to our own peo ple; and yet that we can best get Jus tice by doing justice. We must con tinue the policy that has been so bril liantly successful in the ps , and so shape our economic system as to give every advantage to the skill, energy and intelligence of our farmers, mer chants, manufacturers and wage work ers: and yet we must also remember. In dealing with other nations, that benefits must be given when benefits are sought. It is not possible to dogmatize as to the exact wav of attaining this end, for the exact conditions cannot be foretold. Ir the long run, one of our prime needs Is stability and continuity of economic policy; and yet. through treaty or direct legislation, it may. at least in certain cases, become advan tageous to supplement our present pol icy by a systam of reciprocal benefit and obligation.—Vice President Roose velt in Minneapolis speech. First, a Cut In Wage*. "I do not believe that the American people will take off the tariff,” said F. A. W. Klechefer, first vice-president of the National Enameling and Stamping company. ‘‘They would only be taking the bread out of their mouths. In dustries like the steel and cotton goods manufactures, where automatic ma chinery can be and Is used, could stand It. but we could not. We use automatic machinery in the manufac ture of some of our goods, but the na ture of many of them still requires a good deal of hand labor, and in these lines we would come into competition with the cheaper labor of Germany, our principal competitor. The first thing that would follow a reduction of the tariff would be a cut In wages. This would follow whether we could compete with foreign manufacturers for the domestic market or not. Men receiving |2 a day would be cut to 75 cents. The time may come when we will be able to hold the domestic mar ket without the aid of a tarifT, but we cannot do it now.”—Milwaukee "Wis consin.” Protection in Colorado. Take away protection and Colorado has enabled hundreds of mines to work that would otherwise be idle on account of the load proposition. Mine owners realiie this, and it accounts for nine-tenths of them being with the Republican party. To advocate Dem ocracy and free trade means ruin to them and the crippling of a great in dustry. Again, give this country free trade, and the Cleveland panic would be a pigmy to the stagnation that would come upen us, and Colorado would be affected in the same propor tionate degree as the east. And still we have a few papers advising the peo ple how to vote and at the same time advocating free trade.—Durango Her ald. Congreu la Responsible. "Tnke the tariff out of Congress, out of politics and give it to an ex pert commission. The average Con i gressman cannot mister the tariff." So say tome, but our ablest tariff scholars have been and aro Congressmen— Maine, Kelley, McKinley, Aldrich, Randall, Dingley, Payne, Hoar, Cul lom, Henderson Dalzell, Orosvenor and a host of others. Such men could hard ly be got to serve on a permanent com mission. nnuary for 'Km Agnln. The Ohio Democrats, by insisting on tariff revision, proclaim that they want to return to hard times.—Moravian Palls (N. C.) Yellow Jacket. The first iron nails made In this country were hammereo In'* shape at Cumberland- R. f, ’o 11T7, MRS. IDAL ROSER,! Grand-Niece of Ex-President James K. Polk, Writes to Mrs. Piukham Sayings «• Dear Mrs. Pittriiam : —I have been carried for nearly two years, and so .’ar har© not been blessed with a child. I bare, however, suffered with a com plication of female troubles and pain |ul menstruation, until very recently. MBS. IDA I«. ROSER. '• The value of Lydia E. 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