discussion or m
PANAMA (ANAL
SENATORS HAVE THEIR SAY RE
GARDING BIG DITCH.
Impression Prevails That the Govern
ment is Spending Too Much
Money.
WASHINGTON—The senate spent
four hours Thursday in discussing the
Panama canal emergency appropria
tion bill and when it adjourned the bill
was still under consideration. There
were set speeches by Messrs. Teller,
Scott and Morgan and they were fol
lowed by a general debate in which all
phases of the controversy were ex
ploited. including the question of sal
ary. the control of the Panama rail
road and the necessity for general leg
islation on the canal subject.
Mr. Allison, chairman of the com
mittee on appropriations, expressed
the opinion that congress
should take up the question of
salaries in connection with other canal
legislation. He also said that the
status of the Panama railroad should
be made the slubject of legislation.
* Messrs. Teller, Scott and Morgan
expressed dissatisfaction with the
conditions in Panama, but all indi
cated a dtermination to support the
supply measures necessary to secure
the work on the canal as undertaken.
Mr. Teller advocated a sea level;
Mr. Scott spoke in favor of the San
Bias route as preferable to all others,
and Mr. Morgan expressed the opinion
that before the Panama canal is com
pleted another canal will be necessary
to do the business required.
A separate bill regulating the issu
ance of bonds for the canal and plac
ing them on the same basis as other
government bonds was passed without
debate.
During the day Mr. Elkins made a
statement from the committee on in
terstate commerce expressing the
opinion that the committee would
j present a report within a reasonable
time.
Wyoming Land fop Settlers.
Representative Mondeli of Wyoming
introduced two bills. One provides
"that the public land laws be extended
to embrace lands within the ten miles
square ceded to the United States by
the Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians
by agreement ratified by act of con
gress of June 7, 1897.” This tract of
land lies adjacent or surrounding
Thermopolis hot springs. He also in
troduced a bill that the general provi
sions of the homestead laws be ex
tended to and over the surveyed land
in townships 49 and 50, ranges 105
and 108, within the Yellowstone forest
reserve. There are quite a number of
settlers in this portion of this reserve
and the bill is designed to give them
4 the opportunity to obtain title to their
b holdings. These “squatters.” so termed
are occupying some 12.000 acres all
under cultivation, and it is. as said,
the puriiose of the Mondeli bill to give
them the opportunity to perfect their
title to the lands upon which they
have settled and created homes.
CANT HAVE A RECOUNT.
Request of Would-Be Mayor Hearst
Not Granted.
ALBANY, N. Y.—The court of ap
peals in a decision handed down in
the New York City ballot box case
sustains the contention of counsel for
Mayor George B. McClellan and de
nies that of attorneys for William R.
Hearst and his colleagues on the mu
nicipal ownership league ticket.
The court holds, as was argued by
Former Chief Justice Parker and his
associates, that the courts have no
power under the election law to order
by mandamus the opening of the bal
lot boxes, and a recount and recanvass
of ballots.
NOT DISTURBER OF PEACE.
German Chancellor Defends Emperor
BERLIN—In the reichstag Prince
von Beulow, the imperial chancellor,
replying to the criticism of the social
ists. that Germany’s foreign policy was
calculated to disturb the peace of the
world, repelled emphatically the asser
tion that the German emperor, who
for eighteen years had given so many
proofs of h’ 'tonest love for peace,
was in a-.y ,,ay a disturber of that
peace.
Bold Theft of Diamonds.
PASADENA. Cal.—Diamonds and
oiher jewels valued at $15,000, were
stolen, probably by a sneak thief from
the rooms of Mrs. James Morgan at
a hotel here Friday evening. .Mrs.
Morgan, who is a wealthy widow from
Chicago, left for dinner at 0:15 o'clock,
and returned to her apartments just
an hour later, to find the jewels she
had left in their case in a top
drawer, stolen. The door leading to
her rooms was net lacked, but the
hall was patrolled bv a watchman.
C~p n Pat* War at an End.
CHICAGO—F.vecutive officials of
western railroads settled the grain rate
war at a conference when the Chicago.
Milwaukee & Pt. Paul agreed to cancel
its through edrn tariff from the Mis
souri river to Liverpool and all roads
assented to a tost 4-cent differential in
favor of the gulf ports and against the
Atlantic ports for six months. The St.
Patti and some othc lines held out for
a 3-cent differential, but the gulf roads
would concede only half a cent under
the figure in force previous to the rate
Tawney Holds the Purse.
WASHINGTON—The addition of a
republican members to all the import
ant committees of the house has en
abled Speaker Cannon to solve the
problem of committee assignments in
a manner most satisfactory to both
parties in the house. Only two impor
f tant chairmanships were vacant, ap
propriations and public buildings and
grounds. In filling the former the
speaker followed precedent and looked
^ to the whole house for the available
material. Tawney of Minnesota was
chosen chairman of appropriations
William.
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THE COMMITTEES.
Nebraska Fares Well in the Assign*
ment
WASHINGTON — Nebraska farea
well in committee assignments of the
first or important class, as committees
have npw come to be classed in con
trast to those of less or least import
ance.
Western Committee Places.
Following are the committee assign
ments for Nebraska:
Hinshaw—Indian affairs, merchant
marine and fisheries, patents.
Kennedy—Irrigation of arid lands,
war claims.
Kinkaid—Insular affairs, Pacific rail
roads.
McCarthy—Public lands, expendi
ture Department of Justice.
Norris — Public buildings and
grounds, labor, election of president,
vice president and members of con-*
gress.
Pollard—Industrial arts; expendi
tures and accounts.
# For South Dakota:
Burke—Interstate and foreign com
merce. Indian affairs.
Martin—Public lands, public build
ings and grounds, expenditure in De
partment of Justice.
For Iowa:
Connor—Library, labor, public build
ings and grounds.
Cousins—Expenditure in Treasury
department, chairman; foreign affairs,
naval affairs.
Dawson—Pacific railroads, naval af
fairs.
Birdsall—Judiciary, merchant ma
rine and fisheries.
Hedge—Coinage weights and meas
ures. postoffice and i>ost roads, levees
and improvement of Mississippi river.
Hepburn—Interstate and foreign
commerce, chairman.
Hull—Military affairs, chairman;
militia.
Hubbard—Insular affairs.
Lacey—Public lands, chairman; In
dian affairs, reform in civil service.
Haugen—Agriculture, war claims.
Walter I. Smith—Appropriations.
For Wvoming:
Mondell—Irrigation of arid lands,
chairman: military affairs.
Nebraskans Satisfied.
Most generally the Nebraska mem
bers are quite satisfied with the judg
ment of Speaker Cannon. There are
a few little heart-burnings in the dele
gation. but "by and large the delega
tion has come off the committee
field with honor. Two extremely in
teresting fights were made for major
committees—Hinshaw for appropria
j tions and Pollard for agriculture.
Pollard lost out because the president
had a candidate in the person of Will
iam H. Cooke, who comes from the
president’s own district on Long Is
land. Pollard put up a game fight and
would probably have won. but Mr.
Cocks had a letter of recommendation
from the White House on file and
Pollard lost. In some particulars Pol
lard is better situated than older mem
bers. He gets accounts and industrial
I arts and expositions.
GORDON IS NOW OUT% OF IT
President of Howard University Ten
ders Resignation.
WASHINGTON—President Gordon,
of Howard university, has tendered
his resignation to the board of trus
tees. This action is the culmination
of the recent revolt of students at
the institution who objected to cer
tain views entertained by President
Gordon on the subject of the negro
and which led to differences of opin
ion between'him and certain members
j of the faculty. Action upon the resig
nation will be had at an early day.
THE BABY OF THE SENATE
Burkett of Nebraska is its Youngest
Member.
WASHINGTON — The Washington
Post, which has always been an admir
ing friend of Senator Elmer J. Bur
kett, recently published the following
story on the remarkale rise in public
life of Nebraska’s junior senator. Ed
gar C. Snyder, a well-known newspa
per man. is the author.
A plowboy at ten.
A student of an Iowa college at sev
enteen.
A graduate at twenty.
A school teacher, a lawyer, and a
i racmbcr of the house at thirty.
A United States senator at thirty
| seven.
This is the remarkable record of EI
I mer Jacob Burkett, who in January of
this year was elected for a six year
term, commencing March 4. 1905. to
' the upper branch of the nation's legis
lature.
To be a United States senator is a
distinction worthy the ambition of any
American citizen. To be the “baby”
member of that great legislative body
is a rarer distinction.
Queen Lil's Perennial Claim.
WASHINGTON—A petition from ex
Queen ! illuokalani asking for the pay
ment of $10,000,000 to her was pre
sented to the senate by Vice President
Fairbanks.
New Petroleum Company.
BERLIN—A new petroleum eom
nany with a capital of $1,325,000 has
been formed with the object of work
ing 10.000 acres of oil lands in Han
over and 6,000 acres in Galicia.
B'-’amist Hoch Must Hang.
SPRINGFIELD. 111.—The supreme
court handed down its decision iu the
case of Jo''ann Hoch. convicted of
murdering his wife. The judgment of
t!'e Cook countv criminal court is af
firmed and Hoch will hand February
23.
A WDoping Post.
WASHINGTON—A whipping post
for the District of Columbia will be es
tablish • if conare^s should enact a
measure' which Reorerentative Adams
of Pennsylvania has Introduced.
Lord Lieutenant a Second Time.
DUBLIN — After an interval of
! twenty years, the earl of Aberdeen
was s vern in as Icrd lieutenant of Ire
land fir tie second tint?. Jame^s Bryce
was aNs s-vjm in as chief secretary
j for Ireland.
CONGRESS THIS WEEK
WILL NOT DO MUCH
BOTH HOUSES WIL ADJOURN ON
THURSDAY.
Philippine Tariff* and the Panama
Canal Bill Will Be Uppermost
in Discussion.
WASHINGTON—The four days be
fore the holiday adjournment will be
dedicated in the house to further dis
cussions of federal court of insurance
and to completing the enactment of
the Panama emergency appropriation.
Tljere are many members with desire
to talk about insurance. Speaker Can
non has concurred in the general
view in the house that the president’s
message furnishes as good a basis
as anything else for this debate. Many
members will not wait until Thursday
to return to their homes for the hol
idays.
Committee work will progress dur
ing the debate. The ways and means
committee will continue its hearings
of the Philippines tariffs and the ap
propriations committee will begin the
preparation of the District of Colum
bia appropriation bill. The statehood
bill is to be perfected, but will not
under the present plan be brought into
the house until January 4, when it is
expected to constitute the first busi
ness..
The senate will meet the wishes of
the house for an adjournment for the
Christmas holidays on Thursday next.
Meantime the senate will probably
content itself with comparatively little
■work unless there should be difficulty
in agreeing with the house on the
terms of the Panama canal emergency
appropriation bill. That measure will
go tQ a conference committee early in
the week and there will be a united
effort to reach a conclusion before the
holiday adjournment. The action of
the senate in attempting to eliminate
the bond provision and make a sep
arate law of^t will probably be the
principal bone of contention in the
conference committee.
Senator Gallinger will make' an effort
during the week to have the merchant
marine bill niade the unfinished busi
ness. not with a view of securing con
sideration of it before Christmas, but
with the end in view of having it in
position to be pressed when congress
reconvenes.
PROPOSES TO LEAD FIGHT
War on Practice of Trading in Priv
ileges at Chicago.
CHICAGO—John .1. Hill. Jr., who has
led the fight of the Chicago board of
trade against bucket shops for the past
ten years, resigned his position with
the announcement that he would de
vote his time hereafter to fighting the
practice of trading in “privileges,”
which now goes on daily in the smok
ing room of the exchange after the
close of the regular session, under the
sanction of the directory. When trad
ing in privileges was resumed here
last October, under cover of a favor
able decision by Judge Gary. Mr. Hill i
opposed it. but 50 much pressure was
brought to bear on him by the market
report committee that his activity in
the matter was curbed. Mr. Hill now
proposes, however, to give up the pos
ition which has paid him $500 a month,
in order to have a free hand in sup
pressing the trade in privileges.
WHERE THE SUGAR COMES FROM
One-Third of It From Hawwaii, Porto
Rico and Philippines.
"WASHINGTON—A report of the bu
reau of statistics on the sugar brought
into the United States during the year
1905 shows that of the I150.00U.000
worth of sugar brought in during that
period, $50,000,000 worth came from
Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Philip
pines.
This shows a decided increase above
previous years. The value of sugar
imported from Cuba this year is also
far higher than the value of the
amount imported last year, though the
quantity was about 300,000 pounds
less.
Pat Crowe Must Stay.
LINCOLN—Pat Crowe will have to
remain in Nebraska to stand trial on
a charge in connection with the most
sensational kidnaping that ever oc
curred in this country. At least Gov
ernor Mickey is not ready to turn him
over to the Iowa officers until the ends
of justice in Neraska are satisfied.
Thirty Jaos in Car Which Burns.
KEARNEY—About thirty Japanese
railroad laborers narrowly escaped
cremation at Amherst at an early hour
in the morning. All escaped without \
serious injury, however, except three, j
one of whom was badly burned and '
taken to the hospital at Grand Island. :
Senator Millard Draws Big Card.
WASHINGTON—All Question of ;
Senator Millard's drawing the chair
manship of the senate committee on
Panama canal was ended Friday when
it was announced that he would be
given this position. It was further
stated that he would be dropped from
the committee of interstate commerce
largely because the duties of the two
committees will be so heavy at this
session as to make it almost impossible
for a man to serve on both. Senator
Crane will be chairman of the com
merce committee.
May Get $50,000 Barracks.
WASHINGTON—The secretary of
war, at the request of the management j
of the Western branch of the National
Soldiers’ Home located at Leaven
worth, Kas.. transmitted to congress
an additional estimate of $50,000 for
the construction of a combination bar- i
racks. This building is desired to re- i
lieve the cramped and crowded condi
tion of the home, where it has become
necessary to utilize the basement of j
the present building for sleeping quar
ters.
■W
SHUDDER WITH HORROR
Russian Pooulace Believe the White
Terror Has Returned.
ST. PETERSBURG—A shudder of
horror has convulsed Russia. The
government claims i3 has given battle
only to the “red” revolutionists, but
the populace generally believes that
the ‘white terror” has returned. Al
ready the leaders of the proletariat or
ganization who escaped capture Satur
day night at the Economic society,
and even men of the rank of Prof.
Milukc.ff. are in hiding from the police
who are hunting them down. The
government evidently anticipates a
battle royal and has made its disposi
tions - accordingly. It fully under
stands that the proletariat will give
blow for blow in answer to the whole
sale arrests.
The workmen’s council and the
League of Leagues Saturday night is
sued a declaration of a general strike
to begin immediately and consequently
by an imperial ukase published this
morning all governors general, gover
nors and prefects throughout the em
pire who ar.e cut off by telegraph are
clothed with most dictatorial powers,
being authorized without consulting
St. Petersburg to declare a state of
siege, and if necessary, even martial
law.
NOT SO MANY POSTOFFICES
Rural Free Delivery Has Done Away
With a Number.
WASHINGTON—The annual report
of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Peter V. Degraw savs there has
been a decrease of 757 in the number
of new postmasters commissioneed as
compared with previous year. The
actual number of postoffices in the
United States at the close of the fiscal
year was: First class, 275; second
class,* 1,258: third ciass. 4,120; fourth
class, 62,478. Total. 68,131. This, the
report says, was a reduction in the to
tal number of offices of 3,492 fourth
class postoffices during the year by
reason of the establishment of rural
free delivery.
MAY HOLD UP NOMINATION.
Many Senators Opposed to New Com
merce Commissioner.
WASHINGTON—The senate com
mittee on interstate commerce consid
ered the nomination of Franklin Lane
of California to be a member of the
interstate commerce commission. It
was known to members of the com
mission that there was opposition to
the confirmation of Mr. Lane, and
therefore it was referred to a subcom
mittee which will hear all objections
and report to the full committee. No
formal protest against the nomination
has been made, although it has been
declared by certain Pacific coast sena
tors that they believe the appointment
should have been given to a republi
can. .The same view is held by many
pastern senators, and It is predicted
that the nomination may be held up
For some time.
It was stated that Senator Cullom
desired that no action be taken until
he could consider the case. The nom
ination of Lane is to succeed Commis
sioner Fifer. who announced that he
would resign on account of ill health.
His health has been better recently
ind it is rumored that an effort will be
made to have him withdraw his res
ignation and continue to serve.
TURKEY HAS KNUCKLED DOWN
fields to the Powers and Fleet Will Be
Withdrawn.
CONSTANTINOPLE—Turkey last
night formally surrendered to the de
mands of th powers £nd accepted the
scheme providing for financial control
af Macedonia. A communication to
this effect was handed by the porte
to the Austro-Hungarian ambassador.
Baron von Calice, and the question
which has been the subject of dispute
For eleven months was closed. The in
ternational fleet will promptly be with
drawn.
RAILROADS IN PHILIPPINES.
Bids Opened at War Department for
Concessions.
WASHINGTON—Bids were opened
it the insular bureau of the war de
partment for concessionary grants to
i>e made by the Philippine government
’or the construction, maintenance and
operation of railroads in the Philippine
islands, as provided by act of congress.
It is estimated that the railway lines
which are to be constructed in the
Philippines -will have an aggregate
mileage of about 1.233 miles. Lines
ire to be constructed on the islands of
iuzon, Panay. Negros. Cebu, Leyte
ind Samar.
He Lost His Roll.
NEW YORK^-yLouis Popkin. who
laid he is a jewelry salesman of Kan
sas City. Mo., reported to the police
hat he had been robbed of about $1,100
n cash. Popkin said the money was
:aken from under his pillow- at his
lodging house in Clinton street the
other ni^bt.
Mulford Gets Six Years.
MANILA—H. B. Mulford of Omaha,
formerly a major in the Thirty-ninth
regiment, United States volunteers,
who was charged with falsification of
ocmmeicial documents and embezzle
ment while manager of the American
onk here, has been sentenced to six
rears’ imprisonment.
Omnibus Building Bill.
\\ ASH1NGTON—The house commit
tee on public buildings and grounds
lecided to press an omnibus building
Itill at the present session.
Would Lease Land to Settlers.
WASHINGTON — Representative
Lacey of Iowa, introduced a bill per
mitting grazing privileges on public
lands to homestead settlers and hold
?rs of small farms in semi-arid and
arid regions.
To Re-Establish Canteen.
WASHINGTON — Representative
Morrell, Pa., chairman of the house
fomraittee on militia, introduced a res
olution to re-establish the army can
teen.
DEPOSED NEBRASKAN
HAS A HEARING
POSSIBLY HE MAY BE RESTORED
TO PLACE.
A Mighty Protest From Cattlemen in
the West Against Levying a Head
Tax.
WASHINGTON—T. I.. Mathews,
who was recently dismissed from the
position of United States marshal for
Nebraska, will have a hearing at the
hands of the attorney general on Mon
day. The decision reached' by the
president that Mr. Mathews should be
given a hearing was accomplished by
K. B. Schneider.
Cattlemen Protest.
The cattle interests of the country
and particularly from the transmis
souri section are out in mighty pro
test against the contemplated action
of the secretary of agriculture and
Chief Forester Fifford Pinchot in levy
ing a hear, tax on cattle grazing on
f rrest reserves. A delegation of Co'o
raoo eattlei. ta in Washington and
had an interview with Secretary Wil
son today i rotesting against what
seems to them an outrageous tax,
namely 10 cents on all cattle below
100, 20 cents cu all cattle ab .ve 100.
it is stated that if this tax is levied it
will take out of Colorado alone $lu0,
000, and a very considerable amount
also out of Nebraska and Wyoming.
Senator Patterson, who is great'y op
posed to tne measure, sail todty that
the tax is a species of patei nalism ot
the most \ icious kind and that the
payment of it cents per r.e*1 fir cat
tle grazing on forest reserves, which
up to this time have been open to the
general public, is higher than the taxes
paid by citizens of Colorado by many
per cent. Gifford Pinchot insists that
the tax is just and it is thought the
secretary of agriculture will take the
same position.
Oppose Reduction of Tariff. -j
Twenty-five members of the house
met in Congressman Mondell’s com
mittee room for the purpose of plan- i
ning a fight against any reduction of
the Philippine tariff duties on beet
sugar and tobacco. Nearly the whole
of the Michigan delegation was pres
ent. as were Hogg, Bonynge and
Brooks of the Colorado delegation.
Mondell of Wyoming and Kinkaid of
Nebraska. These twenty-five members
by no means represent the opposition
to the bill reducing the tariff duties
between the Philippines and the United
States. The conference was hastily
called and while nothing definite in
the way of a program of opposition
was mapped out, those who were pres
ent were emphatically against the
proposed reduction. It can be said of
Judge Kinkaid that he did not seek to
represent the Nebraska delegation. Ex
pecting. as he does, to have a big fac
tory erected in his district, he stated
that he only spoke as a member of
the Nebraska delegation and was op
posed to the contemplated reduction
in sugar and tobacco schedules, but
he refused to say as to what length he
would go in his opposition to the bill,
as he thought the delegation would
take the matter up and discuss the
same as a delegation matter.
CONTEST FAR FROM OVER
W. R. Hearst Says He Will Keep on
Fighting.
SANTA BARBARA—W. R. Hearst.
who arrived here, when asked aotit the
decision of the court of appeals of New
York refusing to order the opening of
the ballot boxes, said that was only
one of many avenues along which his
counsel was working. "The contest Is
by no means over,” said Mr. Hearst.
DOWN AND OUT.
Vice President Perkins of New York
Life Resigns.
NEW YORK'—Two indictments af
fecting the life insurance situation in
New York Wednesday overshadowed
the legislative committee investiga
tion. While the committee was in
quiring into the conduct of the Pru
dential Life Insurance company and
the Metropolitan Life Insurance com
pany, George W. Perkins resigned as
first vice president and chairman of
the finance committee of the New
York Life Insurance company. He
was succeeded as vice president by
Alexander E. Orr. president of the
New York City Rapid Transit com
mission, and as chairman of the
finance committee by John Claflin,
head of the H. B. Ciafun company.
South Dakota Bills.
wV'SHINGTON — Representative
Martin introduced the following bills:
To increase the limit of the cost of
the Deadwood public building from
{200,000 to $207,000: to set apart cer
lain lands in South Dakota as a pub
lic park, to be known as Battle Moun
tain Sanitarium park: to establish
mining experiment station to aid in
the development of the mineral re
sources of the United States.
Rate Legislation Slumbers.
WASHINGTON—Railroad rate legis
lation will be allowed to rest until
after the holidays. Members of the
house committee on interstate and for
?ign commerce have agreed to take up
ind dispose of less important measures
than those affecting rates before the
recess. In the senate also there is a
disposition to let rate legislation slum
ber for the time being. The members
of the interstate commerce committee
in that body have decided to hold but
one meeting a week before Christmas.
Nebraska Wheat is Good.
Vt ASHINGTON—The crop reporting
board of the bureau of statistics of
the Department of Agriculture finds
from the reports of correspondents and
agents of the bureau as follows:
The newly seeded area of winter
wheat is estimated at 31,341,000 acres
an increase of G per cent over the
area sown in the fall of 1904. The
condition of winter wheat on Decem
ber 1 was 94.1, as compared with 82.9
in 1904, 86.6 in 1903 and a ten-year
average of 91.5
STILL TRIMS HUSBAND’S HAIR.
Aged Millionaire Keeps to the Custom
of His Poverty Days.
In Brooklyn there lives a millionaire
well along in years, with a wife from
whom also youth has long since fled.
From the old days before wealth
came to them the couple retain one
custom which has passed, as the years
have flown, into a sort of sacred rite.
The old lady cuts the old gentleman's
hair. Once a year the millionaire
goes to «. barber shop and has his
scanty locks trimmed. That sets the
style for the 'ensuing year. When he
comes home the wife carefully stud
ies the cut, and after that it is her
work of love to reproduce it until
another year rolls around and the an
nual visit to the barber takes place.
The old gentleman also shaves him
self.
Economy in the matter of barbering,
which was first a matter of stern ne
cessity, is now the one little thing that
the couple refuse to give up out of the
days of poverty. As they are a child
less couple, there is nobody to hector
the old man into engaging a valet.
Really the old man has his hair cut
more often than is necessary, for
sometimes when the worries of wealth
and social duties are more than or
dinarily oppressive the good wife will
say: - “Come dear—come up to my
room. I want to cut your hair.” And
’while the scissors snip the old couple
.laughingly go back to the old happy
days of youth and struggle once more.
MADE FORTUNE ON RACE TRACK.
One Man Has Won Where Thousands
Have Come to Ruin.
Frank England, a Jersey City man,
37 years old. says that he has won a
.fortune of $150,000 by betting at the
race tracks. He started with a capi
tal of 75 cents and has accumulated
a sufficient sum to keep him in com
fort for the rest of his life. That’s
one case; for that one we will ven
ture the prediction that there are 100
instances where men have started
with a fortune of $150,000 and wound
up with 75 cents as a result of gam
bling on horse races. Every dollar
that Mr. England won came out of
some other man’s pocket. The man
who starts with 5 cents capital, who
engages in legitimate business and
who by good management and thrift
succeeds in collecting a sum equal to
that w'hich Mr. England possesses
benefits the community. He helps to
create wealth, while the gambler who
wins has merely enriched himself
entirely at the expense of others.
Shy On Table Etiquette.
‘Table etiquette in country hotels
Is a study in itself," remarked the
traveling man. “Every town seems to
have its own code of ethics and it’s a
difficult matter to keep up with the
various forms and observances. I had
to stop over in a little Connecticut
town on my last trip and put up at the
only hotel in the place.
“There was no fault to find with the
dinner. There was an abundance of
well-cooked food and I reveled in
dishes so dear to my infantile days,
reserving a gap for a slice of the real,
old-fashioned pumpkin pie. which was
made a feature of the bill of fare.
“The waitress passed and repassed
me, but made no motion to remove
my plate and trot out the luscious pie.
My patience gave out at last, and I
almost grabbed her as she flew by and
haughtily demanded my portion.
“ ’Y’all through?’ she snapped. ,
“ ‘Yes.’
“ ‘Then why didn’t ye stack up yer
dishes so’d I know?"
“And as a rebuke for my lack of
table manners she brought me a stingy
slice.”
Stories Told of Prof. Park.
Prof. Park, so long the especial
light at Andover Theological Semin
ary, when a young man studied in
Germany. His acute mind made him
the terror of the professors. The emi
nent Dr. Tholuck, after being driven
into a corner in an argument with
the young American, exclaimed, “Now
I am sorry that Columbus discovered
America.”
When Prof. Park, at Andover, was
asked by a student the reason for the
tower of Pisa, he quickly answered:
“No doubt the contractor did not pay
his men promptly, so that they were
compelled to put a lean on the tow
er.”
Prof. Park was very particular to
call his students by name. One day
he met a man by the name of Jones.
Not wishing to betray the fact that
he could not recall his name, he said:
“By the way, how do you spell your
name?” The student with some sur
prise, exclaimed: “J-o-n-e-s. Is there
any other way of spelling it?”
Keep a Stout Heart.
A man can not always be cheerful and
gay.
There are so many crosses that must
be endured.
But all ought to bear with what patience
we may
The stubborn afflictions that can not he
cured.
Of all earthly lessons to bear and forbear
Par excellence is and well worthy the
learning:
It fits one for life and fits one to wear
A crown in the land for whose joy we
are yearning.
Then let me not faint though my bur
dens be sore.
The burdens I bear toward the home 1
am heading;
Let courage he mine that I utter no roar
Because all the way it is pretty hard
sledding.
The journey at longest is not very long
And. living in hope of a blessed here
after.
I'll go at my task with a heart full of
song -
And turn all my groans into outbursts
of laughter.
—Milwaukee State Journal.
Pathos Between Lines.
John Mitchell, in a description of
one of the historic coal strikes of the
last century, said:
“There is a story of the privations of
these poor people that has a grim pa
thos in it. Its pathetic rather than its
humorous side makes the story worth
repeating.
“A child’, during the strike, goes to
Mrs. Simpkins on -Monday morning and
says:
“ ‘Please, ma'am, my mother sent me
for the loan of your marrow bones to
make soup with.’
“ ‘Tell your mother.’ Mrs. Simpkins
replies, ‘that Mrs. Murphy has them
to-day. and Mrs. McDevitt is promised
them for to-morrow, but she can have
them on Wednesday if she'll return
them promptly, bein’ as I want to
make soup myself on Thursday.' ”
INDICT CHICAGO AND ALTON
Charge of Ten Counts for Paying Re
bates.
CHICAGO—The federal grand jury
returned an indictment against thpl
Chicago & Alton Railroad company,
John N. Faithorn and F. A. Wann.
formerly vice-president and general
freight agent, respectively of the
railroad company.
■The railroad company and the two
ex-officers are included in on indict
ment, in which there are ten counts,
against-the company, and against each
of the two men. The general charge is
that the railroad company, with the
sanction of the two offices paid ille
gal rebates to the packing house firm
of Schwarzchiid & Sulzberger, for the
purpose of procuring shipments from
the concern, and also with the same
object, gave free transportation to the
employes of the concern.
The indictment which was returned
is based on testimony given to the
grand jury by B. S. Cusey, traffic
manager for Schwarzchiid & Sulzber
ger who has appeared before the jury
on two separate occasions. Cusey was
one of four employes of the packing
house firm who were indicted some
time ago for soliciting rebates. All of
them plead guilty. Cusey. with two
others was fined $">.00 each, and Sam
uel Weil, one of the vice-presidents of
the company, was fined $10,000 by
Judge Humphrey.
Three specific violations of the law
against the granting of rebates are
mentioned in the indictment. The rail
road company is charged with having
refunded $1 per ear on forty-four cars
of dressed beef shipped from Kansas
City to various eastern points in De
cember, 1903. A similar rebate is al
leged to have been paid on twenty
three ears of dressed beef shipped
from Kansas City in January, 1904.
ANNOUNCE THE ENGAGEMENT
Alice Roosevelt Will Wed Congress
man Longworth.
WASHINGTON—Formal announce
ment was made by the president, and
Mrs. Roosevelt, of the engagement of
their daughter, Alice Lee Roosevelt,
to Nicholas Longworth. representative
in congress from the first district of
Ohio, one of the Cincinati districts.
Coupled with the announcement of the ‘
engagement is the additional an
nouncement that the wedding will
take place about the middle of next
February.
WRITES LETTER TO MICKEY
Iowa County Attorney Fears Pat
Crowe May Get Away.
COUNCIL BLUFFS—In reply to the
letter from Governor Mickey of Neb
raska, stating that he would not honor
a requisition for Pat Crowe until the
Omaha officers are through with the
alleged kidnaper. County Attorney
Hess has written a second time to the
executive at Lincoln. Mr. Hess re
quests the governor to forward the
warrant from Council Bluffs to a' judge
of the criminal court at Omaha, or the
sheriff of Douglas county, with in
structions for turning Crowe over to
Sheriff Canning of this city whenever
it becomes apparent that the prisoner
will be discharged from his confine
ment across the river.
Governor Mickey's assurance that he
will grant the desired requisition pa
pers whenever the Nebraska proceed
ings against Crowe are concluded does
not entirely satisfy Hess. He thinks
the warrant should be at Omaha ready
to be served at the moment fcrowe is
released, as it is believed here he will
be after the scond haring.
ROOT FAVORS CHANGE?
Comments on Defects of Present Dip
lomatic Conditions.
WASHINGTON—Secretary Root be
fore the senate committee on foreign
relations said consuls should be as
signed to stations where they could
do the most good just as the officers
of the army and navy.
To reward good work appointments
should be made for only the lower
grades, leaving th higher places to be
filled by promotion of the best con
suls. One of the chief evils of the
present system was that elderlv men
who had failed in life were continually
being showed by the influential friends
into the most, important consular posi
tions over the heads of the men who
had being doing good work, but who
were away trom home, and being out
of sight, were out of mind.
Neck Broken by a Fall.
NEBRASKA CITY—As Fred Rade,
a retired farmer who lives at one ol
the hotels in this city, was on his way
home ho fell into an open cellarway
and broke his neck, dying instantly.
Nebraska Elopers Are Married.
CINCINNATI, O.—Carl C. Ayers and
Miss Athea Stratton, eiopers front
Fairbury, Neb., were married here.
Both are 21 years of age. according to
the affidavit made to the marriage li
cense clerk.
Cutting Down Southern States.
WASHINGTON — Representative
Bennett, New York. Introduced a bill
to cut down the representation of
southern states in congress because of
the disfranchisment of the negro vote.
The bill reduces the number of repre
sentatives from 386 to 351.
Exporting Mexican Pesos.
MEXICO CITY—Owing to the high
price offered for silver pesos their ex
portation begins again, a million dol
lars going out. and a million dollars
ordered for London account.
Order Against Rebates.
HARRISBURG, Pa.—Insurance Com
missioner Martin notified all life in
surance companies doing business in
Pennsylvania that they must file writ
ten agreements abolishing giving of
rebates, dismissing agents who do so
and refusing to employ such agents
for three years after dismissal.
Wisconsin Refuses.
MADISON, Wis.—The state senate
by a vote of 18 to 15 killed a resolu
tion for investigation of insuranco
and public service corporations.