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Colonel Bryan's $0,000 barn must be
counted among the products of republi
can prosperity.
A monument to McKlnley tn Paris
would certainly be a fitting counter
piece to the monument to Lafayette In
Washington.
With five candidate! for mayor
soliciting their support. South Omaha
voters will have no right to complain
of having no choice,
Nebraska cornea In again for another
prize in Andrew Carnegie's free public
library bulldlBg distribution. Beatrice
Is to be congratulated.
A hardware combine Is being pro
jected. If any one wants to break It
up, ho will first have to break Into the
combine to get the utensils.
The absorbing toplo of the hour Is the
absorption of all the Council Bluffs
street car lines and motor bridge by the
Omaha Street Railway company.
Somehow or other the Iowa legisla
ture Is managing to get In full time
notwithstanding- the fact that it boa
had no senatorial deadlock to protract
Its session.
The compulsory tree planting ordi
nance has gone by the board, but that
does not prevent anyone from planting
trees to beautify his premises and Im
prove the city's appearance.
' The success of the dental students In
holding their own against the medics
ought to augur well for them to exert
a strong pull when they came to tussle
with the teeth of their future patients.
Having placed the political dynamite
where It would do the greatest execu
tion and touched the fuse with a match.
Mayor Kelly of South Omaha has dis
creetly departed for a few days' vaca
tion. ' Now that the date for the republican
state convention has been set, it should
be safe for the fusion managers to re
convene themselves and order the bills
posted for the two-ringed political
circus.
If Senator Tillman would only accept
star engagement In the British parlia
ment, the British lawmakers might be
given an exhibition of the real thing
In forensic pugilism instead of a tame
imitation. Secretary Wilson wIU be the only re
maining member of President McKln
ley 's first cabinet after the retirement
of Secretary Long. The agriculture de
partment must be rooted to the soil
more firmly than the other departments.
The final passage of the bill repealing
the war tax will relieve Omaha brewer
ies of at least 100,000 annually In stamp
duties after July 1 of the present year.
That ought to enable them to celebrate
the glorious Fourth with patriotic
fervor.
American occupation is said to have
transformed Havana from a yellow
fever pest-hole Into a habitable city of
healthful conditions something that
was not accomplished by all Spain's
centuries of possession and government
What more will Uncle Sam be asked to
do for Cuba?
Figures complied by the Stats Board
of Health showing the location 6f re
ported smallpox cases indicate that
Lancaster county, with the city of Lin
coln, has nearly half as many cases as
Douglas, with the cities of Omaha and
Booth Omaha. This does not reflect
very badly on Omaha's local health an-
taortttoc
LEAU1XQ INDIAN LAUDS.
The experiment of civilising the In
Oliiii by waking a fanner out of him
which was partlnlly stirrcssftil In the
Indian territory is llnble to prove a dis
mal failure on the Indian reservations
of Nebraska and the Iiukotas.
The Choctaw, Creeks, Cherokees and
other tribes transplanted from Florida
and Georgia Into the territory set apart
for them west of the Mississippi before
the civil war seemed well adnpted to
the pursuit of agriculture and cattle
rnislng. They cultivated the lands al
lotted to tueui and built up prosperous
settlements ttlnt compared favorably,
with those of the early white pioneers
of Texas and Arkansas. Their success
however must bo attributed to the fact
that they did not sublet all the farming
and stoekralslng but Individually did
their shnre of the farm work.
That was doubtless the design of con
gress also in authorizing the subdivision
of the Winnebago and Omaha reserva
tion lands by allotment to the respective
niemliers of the tribes. Unfortunately,
however, the privilege of leasing thelf
lands to white settlers threatens to sub
vert the object to be attained namely
making self-supporting farmers out of
the Indians. The leasing of the reserva
tion lands has opened the way for spec
ulation by a land-lease ring which by
standing In with agents and traders baa
managed to obtain control of many
thousands of acres sublet at high profit
white tenants while Indians, having as
surance of a fixed Income from leases,
become mere drones. Without incentive
to work they squander their patrimony
and ore no better off In point of civili
zation than if they bad continued in
their semi-savage state as blanket In
dians who had to bo supported by gov
ernment rations.
The demoralizing effect of periodic If
rfot constant idleness Is becoming ap
parent to every body who comes in con
tact with these spoiled and despoiled
Indian landlords. The source of the
evil is the dishonesty on the part of
the agents and the greed of traders and
speculators who impose upon the In
dians at every opportunity and seek to
enrich themselves out of the land rent
als that rightfully belong to the In
dians and should be set apart for their
exclusive benefit. It is an open ques
tion whether Indians who are broken
in as practical farmers should be al
lowed to subdivide their allotments for
the purpose of leasing them and getting
them cultivated through white men.
SUUTTMQ OUT OCR lit) ATS.
Secretary Wilson says that the new
German meat act, prohibiting the Im
portation of meats containing boraclc
acid, which Is to take effect October 1,
will cut off most of our trade In pork
with Germany. A dispatch from Berlin
says that the action taken Is simply In
the interest of health end that If our
agricultural department can demon
strate to the German Imperial health
offlco that boraclc meat is not delete
rious "no political object' will stand In
the way of admitting It from America."
It appears that heretofore German
scientific authorities have held the ap
plication of boraclc add for the pre
servation of meats to be entirely harm
less, Which suggests that perhaps
agrarian Influence has obtained control
of the Imperial health office.
Whether or not the agricultural de
partment will undertake to demonstrate
to the German health office that boraclc
acid as used by American meat export
ers is harmless remains to be Been.
Perhaps the department will deem It
sufficient to point to the opinion on the
question heretofore given by German
scientists. It is proposed by Secretary
Wilson, however, to protect American
consumers against the Importation of
articles in the preservation of which
boraclc acid is employed and It is quite
probable that this course will affect
some articles brought here from Ger
many. It is in the nature of retalia
tion, of course, but the Germans cannot
reasonably complain If we accept the
decision of their imperial health office
and act accordingly. The right of the
German government to safeguard the
health of Its people cannot be ques
tioned and equally that government can:
not object If ws do the same upon its
authority. Our government therefore
should carry out the announced inten
tion to bar Importations, at least from
Germany, containing applications of
boraclc acid.
Mianvhlla It la tinted that the Chi
cago meat packers propose to Ignore the
German market completely. They say
that the meat trade with that country
is not considerable, the greater part of
the American trade with Germany in
the packer's line being confined to lard.
An unpleasant feature of this new plan
for excluding our meats from Germany
In that it reflects upon the wholesome-
ness of what constitutes an Important
part of our exports and is thus liable to
Injure the trade In other markets.
GfllST rvB THE 8MCT MILLS.
Now that Judgment has been rendered
by the police court in the Bowler case,
it may not be out of place to say that
the frenzied and flamboyant outburst
of indignation over the action of Chief
Donahue for sanctioning the release of
Bowler on the evening after be had
been arrested was Inspired solely by
political malice. The editors and papers
that made this Inflammatory outcry
against the chief of police knew very
well that there was nothing out of the
ordinary In the proceeding, but they
wilfully made It out as an awful con
splracy between the mayor and chief of
police.
These knights of the yellow Journal
knew the chief of police had requested
the clerk of the police court not to ac
cept the bond offered by Bowler until
h could verify his suspicions that the
pawn tickets found on the person of
Bowler represented stolen property.
They knew that after the chief bad
discovered that these pawn tickets sim
ply represented some articles of small
value belonging to Bowler that be re
vised bis reojutttt and permitted Bowler
to go to his home for the night. Inas
much as the man hnd a family and was
not likely to leave the city.
The mayor had no more to do with the
releaso than the man lu the moon,
neither hnd the influence of any ward
politician, black or white, as has been
asserted In the attempt to smirch the
chief and rouse the population to mob
violence, but any Incident that will fur
nish pitch for the political pot of the
sham reform gang Is regarded as grist
for the smut mill.
KKASOXS FUlt STATEHOOD.
Mr. Rodey, delegate In congress from
New Mexico, presents In a communica
tion to the N'ew York Tribune some
cogent reasons why Oklahoma, Arizona,
and New Mexico should be given state
hood. He says of Oklahoma that the
showing made before the bouse commit
tee on territories proved that the terri
tory hos every qualification entitling Its
people to a state form of government.
It contains half a million of Intelligent,
energetic and enterprising citizens of
the United States, raises and exports
more live stock and farm products than
any other equal area in the country and
has as fine cities and towns and as
good a system of public schools as can
be fonnd In many of the states. The
revenues of the territory are more than
ample to support a state form of gov
ernment Arizona has a population of
about 175,000 and Mr. Rodey describes
them as people of the kind that make
the best citizens. The territory has not
less than f 200,000,000 worth of property
to tax for the support of a state govern
ment with rich mineral resources
awaiting development
New Mexico naturally receives the
most extended consideration from Its
delegate and he makes out a strong
case. The territory contains a popula
tion of not less than 830,000, "more than
three-quarters of whom speak, read and
write the English language and more
than three-fifths of whom are of the
best people from the states." The tax
able property of the territory Is valued
at 1300,000,000. It has a comparatively
small debt and would, when admitted
to the union, be the lowest taxed com
munity In the nation. Mr. Rodey
states that New Mexico 1b first in thu
nation in the number of sheep it pos
sesses and raises and In the number of
pounds of wool it produces annually.
It is second in the nation, as a cattle
grower. In other respects It ranks high
and its undeveloped resources are very
considerable. Mr. Rodey points to the
fact that New Mexico has been under
the territorial form of government since
1850, and has been a part of the public
domain of the United States for fifty
five years. He urges that Its people
possess every qualification for state
hood that can possibly be required, that
both political parties have promised
them statehood in their platform re
peatedly and that there Is not a case
of national neect on record equal to
that of New Mexico.
Mr. Rodey pertinently asks, "are citi
zens of the United States to be taxed
without representation forever?" The
people of these territories are practi
cally unanimous in desiring statehood
There is good reason to believe that their
admission into the union would contri
bute to their material development If
they have the necessary qualifications
for statehood as the facts presented to
the bouse committee attest it Is mani
festly unjust to the people of these ter
ritories to keep them out of the union.
Political considerations should have no
bearing on the question, but if per
mitted to the advantage should be with
the party that admits them to state
hood.
Lincoln is wrestling with the school
tax problem as well as Omaha. The
first step In the direction of an In
creased revenue has been taken by rais
ing the liquor license fee from $1,000 to
$1,500 a year and by abolishing the
license to druggists in order to put
on end to the drug dram shop. Whether
the new departure will result In an In
crease of revenue remains to be seen.
It Is pretty safe, however, to predict
that it will not squelch the drug store
dram shop. The druggists who do a
land office business In medicinal Intoxi
cants are not likely to give up their
lucrative business unless they are prose
cuted under the Slocumb law for every
unlawful sale they make.
An alarm has been sounded from
Washington over the discovery that an
attempt is being made to arrest the
hand of the president before he ap
proves the bill engineered through con
gress for a railroad and wagon bridge
franchise between South Omaha and
Ieke Manawa for the exclusive benefit
of speculators and brokers In franchises.
We apprehend, however, that the prop-
ertv owners and business men of South
Omaha will not be very much distressed
if this hot-air project should fail to
materialise.
Joseph Chamberlain has gone through
many a hard fought political battle but
he Is now encountering a new form of
partisan warfare in the curt criticism of
the cut of his clothes by the profes
sional Journal of British fashion. Only
one alternative remains for Chamber
lainhe must either order a new suit
or beat an lgnomlnous retreat
Cultivating: Cablaet Tiur.
Chicago News.
Iowa Is to prohibit Sunday base ball and
toot ball games If tbo boys of that stats
are allowed to spend their time la frivo
lous amusements tbey will nerer grow up
to bo cabinet officers.
Graver's Head, la Level.
Indianapolis News.
Bines oz-Prosldent Cleveland said the
republican party knew bow to get together
at convenient times, tbt republican proas
has discovered that ho Is an acute observer
and s profound political philosopher.
BvtSeaea of Baaiaeas.
Indianapolis Journal.
Now that a largo number of railroad cor
porations which are all either con leased or
implicated violators of the Interstate com
merce law relative to out rates have been
Jjadjotad, ihs touatrr hertevee that $hs
nresldent Is In earnest, while th demo
cratic press is Ignoring the movement
against the roads.
"And the tat fame Mark."
Indianapolis News.
It Is a new sensation tor tbo railroads to
feel the Injunction's blunt end.
I nrevvarded Heroes.
Washington Post.
Another lot of brave life savers have sac
rificed their lives. Tbey leave families,
which will cot be pensioned and which In
a short time will have been entirely for
gotten. Only official heroism, with the
press spent paraphernalia, pars dividends.
Good Time Unit Fighting;. '
St. IjouIs Qlobe-Democrat,
The peace talk In South Africa Is wel
come to the world. After all the years ot
war and all the sacrifices of men and
money the Boers seem to bs still able to
maintain the conflict for an Indefinite
time, while there Is no evidence that Ens
land will ever consent to grant them the
Independence which they ask. Some sort
of a compromise ought to be agreed to by
both sides. The stags bas been reached
when nothing ot consequence can be ac
complished by further1 righting. Peace on
the best sort of terms which can be ar
ranged Is the thing which both should
agTee to.
A Chance Widely Favored.
New York Evening- Post
Senator Hoar evidently does cot at nil
appreciate the condition ot public- senti
ment on the question of changing the
method of electing senators. He sneered
st the recent action of the house of rep
resentatives In passing unanimously tbo
resolution for a constitutional amendment
as "halt a jeko" and Intimated that all the
signs of popular support represent only the
activity of "some one man or some few men
somewhere." The truth Is that the feeling
In favor of the change has been growing
steadily among Intelligent and thoughtful
men during tbo last dozen years until a
great many who at fit's t opposed the Inno
vation have come to favor It.
New Philippine Enemy.
New York, Tribune.
Oeneral Chaffee's recent order of In
structions Issued to Als command in Ma
nila says that about 1 per cent of the rata
caught and examined by his experts were
found to have the bubonic plague, and lays
down the lines on which the campaign
against the noxious animals must be pur
sued. To each barrack or other Infeated
building four men are detailed to distri
bute poison In small tins or saucers about
9 o'clock at night, 100 or less to each man,
and the dead rodents are to bo gathered
up before daybreak and deposited In a
tank containing a diluted solution of car
bolic- acid. Besides the sprinkling of still
disaffected Filipinos, it is evident that we
have another enemy In the islands, the
extirpation ot which Is In no wIbb to be
construed as a plcnlo, but is rather a seri
ous crusade against a foo mors terrlblt
than an army with banners, and of produc
tive energies which In tbo end leave It
always the victor.
PILLS FOR THE THIRSTY.
Capsules of Oeaalae Boose Re
lieve Theatrical Droath.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Prohibition flings Its hands Into the air
with a despairing scream and resigns the
world to the drink demon. For the demon
now presents himself la the guise of pills.
His fertility In concealment and disguise
Is almost as great aa -that of the parent de
mon, ot the cloven Hoof, who, as medieval
legends assure us, would take any shape
from a black dog, or a humpbacked cat, to
his own proper or Improper self, with a
tall and bat's wings. We have the drink
demon In bottles, in kegs, lurking at the
bottom of what prohibition calls sherbets,
and other people call punches, brewed with
tea, burned with coffee, soaked into candy
and cake, served as sauce with pudding
and with fowl as gravy, mixed with soup,
diffused through patent medicines, and now
moving Itself aright as pills.
These pills are the Invention of a man
in Blnghamton, where they have the Insane
asylum, and are said to be a highly con
centrated form of Intoxication. A man can
carry several homicidal sprees In his vest
pocket and keep ecstacy with him during
tho long and otherwise exhausting hours
at the theaters. The pills are compressed
whisky, treated something like liquid hy
drogen and other liquefactions that are
read about In chemistries and never soen,
because It is of no use to see them. In this
case there is a practical gain In compres
sionpractical to the maker and dealer
and the search of satchels and trunks by
tho moral police at the border of prohibi
tion states will be given over, because pel
lets enough to lead a man to repudiate his
grandmother may be carried In one's
gloves. The globules are dissolved In tho
mouth, like certain other drugs, and things
thereafter begin to happen. The smug
gling of sin into hitherto respectable play
houses and other places of entertainment
Is henceforth easy, and prohibition Is in
tho final throes of resignation.
PERSONAL, NOTES.
Senator Epooner prefers a place In the
senate to a cabinet portfolio.
William Muchfuss has gotten his cams in
tho papers by raising a row in a New Jersey
sanitarium.
Dr. W. Seward Webb will not run for
governor of Vermont. He prefers to run
Its railroads.
Algernon Sartorls, a grandson of General
Grant, baa been offered a commission as
lieutenant in the army by President Roose
velt. The king of Portugal, already a success
ful painter, is now publishing a meritorious
book, which shows what good work a king
can do when be has plenty of leisure.
Hydesaburo Ohashl, a Japsnese student
now In bis second year at Harvard, baa dta.
tingulshed himself by writing some very
promising English verse. He is 23 fears
old and the son of wealthy parents.
Raphael Beck's painting of President Mc
Klnley delivering bis last speech at the
Pan-American exposition has just arrived
at Waahlngton from Buffalo, and will bo
bung tn the capltol for several weeka.
D. E. Reardon, a Boston architect. Is
totally blind. Nevertheless ba baa designed
many of tho handsomest bullQlngs In that
city and has just completed the plans for a
six-story apartment house to be erected by
the Perkins Institute for the Blind.
Charles E. Llttlefield. the Maine congress
man, la a typical Yankee. Early Sunday
mornings he may bo seen striding to the
capltol, where he knows that Page, tbs
restaurant man, will bave aome fresh bean
baked In the exact way N'ew Englandera
care for them.
Arthur P. Yates, the official photographer
of tho New York Central railroad, at the
requeat of Cornelius Vanderbllt, bas photo
graphed tho aword presented to Washing
ton by Frederick the Great, now at Albany.
A picture will be sent to Prince Henry of
Prussia, as ha expreased a desire to have
one.
Stgmund Zelsler's 300,000-word speech at
Wilkesbarre, Pa., last week, which broke
the Pennsylvania record, waa not tho first
time this gentleman has accomplished such
a feat. He once argued a caaa in Chicago
for ten consecutive days, four hours a dsy,
bis speech containing half as many words
aa ro la the Bible.
Altogether
Hchuyl
Governor Savage's letter to the Kearney
Hub has reopened the Hartley controversy.
While we would wish that the subject
might be forgotten, we cannot refrain from
expressing our sentiments In regard to the
controversy, especially sloce Oovernor Sav
age persists In being a candidate before the
coming state convention.
Tho governor's attempt to Justify him
self by attempting to Incriminate Editor
Brown Is about as puerile as the argument
that Bartley was more sinned sgalnst than
sinning, what the publlo would like to know
is who sinned sgalnst him? Was it the
prosecuting attorneys? Was It the wit
nesses that testified against himT Was it
the Jury that convicted him? Was It the
Judge that sentenced him or was It someone
else that took the boodle and left Bartley
with the sack to hold, as the governor seems
to Intimate In bis letter to Mr. Brown.
It seems that the First National bank
ot Kearney sinned against him to the
smount of $6,000, but it would require sev
eral such sinners to get sway with foOO.OOO.
Who are the other sinners and what Is the
amount of each transgression measured In
dollars and cents? The honor that Impels
men to not disclose all the facts and ex
pose everyone that may have profited by
Bartley's defalcation Is simply tho honor
that Is said to exist among thieves. The
masses of people consider a man of the
Bartley type mors dangerous to the stats
than tbs safe blower, the train robber or
WHO SHALL, BE FIRST!
Sonelbtns: of How Kicked X p by the
Diplomats.
Washington Poet.
All Jesting aside, and coming down to
atern responsibilities and facts, wo want
to add to the general chorua our own lit
tle pipe, and say that something very
swift and strenuous must be done in this
matter of official precedence. Ws refer,
of course, to treat functions, such as
banquets, luncheons, receptions and so forth.
It has been borne In upon us that any
further delay in this respect will bo dis
astrous in many ways, Society especially a
society as eager and as inexperienced as
ours cannot wait upon the slow, laborious
processes of evolution. Society wants to
know where It standa, and to know in quick
lunch time.
The visit of Prince Henry bas raised
many Issues ot almost unendurable poig
nancy. Do the ambassadors sit or walk
In front of our own supreme court, cabi
net officers, senators, representatives, etc?
It Is said that tho ambassadors sre per
sonal representatives of the emperors, kings,
monarcbs and so on In whose names they
speak, and that, consequently, they must
come next to the president himself. On the
other hand, it is claimed, that our govern
ment Is a sort of trefoil that is, a trinity
composed of three squat forces. The presi
dent Is not bigger than congress or the
supreme court. Ho cannot make laws or
Interpret them. Congress legislates; tho su
premo court pronounces upon the legality
or tho righteousness of the work ot con
gress; the president csn only execute laws
enacted and defined without the smallest
reference to his suthorlty. Why, then,
should foreign envoys take precedence ot
the legislative and judicial representatlvea
of our government? Either one is ss potent
as the executive. The two combined can
transform the president into a mere futile
puppet How shall we arrange this prece
dence? For our part, looking on at the gaudy
pageant as we do with good-humored
and philosophic Impartially, we really do
not care. If ws were a chief Justice or a
leading senator, wo should be willing to
stand In the east room, for instance
next to the Pompellan cuspidor, and let
the British ambassador warm hts back
at tho best brass coal-scuttle by tho great
American fireplace. We shouldn't think ot
making an Issue. Because we take a
loose and easy view of things, however.
It need not follow that these prodigious I
questtons should be left to settle and sd-
Just themselves. On the contrary, the?
State department is bound to rise to the I
situation. Tho whole country Is anxious. I
Official circles sre In a state of gooseflesh.
The bulwarks are tottering to their fall, and '
the smart set actually gasp ior guidance.
Why cannot Mr. Hay detail one of bis bright
young men everyone of them knows all
about It to make a list?
With tho exception of some thirty or
forty aesthetic understrappers, the American
people don't cars a cent, so long ss the
sliding scale is right.
FOREIGN BORW AMERICA.
As Illostratlou ot ( the Democratic
Character ot Onr Instltatlone.
Baltimore American.
Tho death ot ex-Governor Altgeld ot Illi
nois calls attention to tbo opportunities
afforded in this country for clttiens of
foreign birth. Nothing more pointedly Il
lustrates the genuine democratlo character
of our institutions than tho rise to emi
nence of so many persons who emigrated
voluntarily or Involuntarily from other
lands. In commercial and nonpollttcal walks
of Ufa all cltlxens are naturally on a par
ity, and success, aa a rule, comes to those
who deserve it. This may be aald to be the
rule the world over. When competition Is
given full sway, without discriminating
restrictions, the best talent usually wins,
and national origin Is sn element to con
alder only insofar as national characteristics
Influence the individual character and ca
pabilities. When it comes to public and
official preferment, however, the prejudice
of birth, whatever of It there might be,
would naturally assert Itself. If there really
were a prejudice against foreigners, ws
would not put them to rule over, us, though
we might tolerate their success In other
fields.
It Is undeniable that In- other countries
the ultlander la not looked upon with en
thusiastic favor. Ha succeeds only against
great odds, which may augment the honor,
but does not console the less fortunate.
What are the opportunities, for Instance,
for an American-born English subject? The
exceptions which prove the rule are so few
that the number of Americans who hsve
been allowed to rise to distinction there In
publlo affairs is exceedingly limited. The
list is easily recited from memory. Sines
the days when Judah P. Benjamin, once
attorney general of tho confederacy,
achieved renown ss a British barrister,
there bas been no American to follow him.
Two or three Americans bave sat in Par
liament and about as many have received
the honor of knighthood. That nearly ex
hausts the list. Germany, France, Russia,
and the other European countries make
scarcely any showing at all. Even the right
to acquire cltlxensblp In them Is all but
denied. There are no general rules ss with
us, but the privilege Is considered a mere
matter of grace, generally made depend
ent on the whim of a boms secretary or
like official.
Contrast this with conditions here and we
find that no barrier la set up against the
naturalised cltlxen either legally or by cus
tom. The field Is open to all, with do
favors. Short of the presidency, s foreUn
born cltlxen Is eligible to any office. The
cumber of those who bave come forward to
claim and to recelva political honors Is
legion. There can ba no cry ot "America
for Americana" which does not Include the
sobls Americans of foreign-birth. -
too Defiant
er Sun.
the horselhlet. And if we are rightly In
formed, only tho statutes of limitations
stand between him and a trial and probablo
conviction on another similar charge. The
governor was particular to Impress the
fact on Mr. Brown that a moral obligation
never outlaws, but we must infer that be
waa not thinking of Mr. Bartley when he
stated that fact
We have been waiting patiently for some
attempts at reimbursement by Mr. Bart
ley, hut three months have passed since
be was given bis liberty and we have seen
no indication ot anything of the kind and
tbo general public has become satisfied that
the crack of doom may come, but a settle
ment by Bartley, never.
Bartley's brass In attempting to run tbs
republican party of Nebraska since his re
leaae, surpasses anything ever heard of an
ex-convict. His threat of wiping names
off the republican slate because they may
not suit him would seem to Indicate that
he thinks bs bas the republican party In
his breeches pocket with that splendid
boodle. Now we think the best thing Mr.
Bartley could do for himself and bla coun
try would be to go away back, sit down, and
keep hla mouth shut.
All tbo senators and governors In the
United States, may Indorse tho governor's
act in pardoning Bartley, but no avowed
friend of Bartley can ever be elected gov
ernor ot Nebraska.
'ROrKD ABOt'T HEW YORK.
Ripples on tho Carrent ot Life la the
Metropolis.
The commissioner of parks has vetoed the
original suggestion of a site near Grant's
tomb for St. Gauden's status of General
Sherman and has chosen the plaza at the
Fifth avenue entrance to Central park. The
location is one of the most conspicuous In
the city. Here the status will face some
of the finest residences on Fifth avenue and
be looked down upon from the Plata, Savoy
and New Netherlands hotels. The Municipal
Art commission will view the statue and
decide whether it comes up to the city's
artistic ' requirements, and if it does the
base will be set up immediately. There Is
no doubt the commission will accept tbe
statue, which In Paris was pronounced a
piece of art work of the highest excellence.
The statue will be erected In time for an
unveiling; In the latter part of May. That
will be eleven years after tho money was
raised for tbs statue and the contract
signed with Mr. St. Gaudens.
In ten out of fifty-two death notices ap
pearing in a New York newspaper the hour
set for the funeral services was S p. m., or
thereabouts. That is to say. In one In every
five funerals the services were to be held at
night.
A New York undertaker whose attention
waa called to the matter said to a Sun re
porter that the proportion of night serv
ices Indicated in this list of announcements
was below tho average; that probably one
fourth ot the funeral services held In this
city were now held st eight snd that this
proportion was Increasing.
"This custom of holding the funeral serv
ices at eight," he said, "which Is followed
not so much by people of very limited
means ss by tbs comfortable and well-to-do,
has come into its present extensive practice
largely within the last ten or twenty years.
"It is peculiar to New York, though In
recent yeara funeral services have come to
be held to soma extent In other cities at
night, following the fashion set by New
York In this as in other things, or prompted
in more or less degree by tho samo reasons
that have lead to its practice here.
"Tho primary purpose of holding tbs
funeral services at night is to enable the
friends and relatives of the dead mors con
veniently to attend. Business men and
others who would find it practically Impos
sible to attend funeral services by day csn,
of course, attend them at night.
"In tho case ot tbe death of one who
might bave held membership In various
social or other organisations, the holding ot
services at night enables the attendance ot
surviving members, who otherwlso might
be quite unable to come at all In the day
time, or who could not come without what
might be a serious loss In time."
The lata husband ot Hetty Green, Edward
H. Green, was 82 years old. He lived a
very quiet life. Sometimes hla name ap
peared in tbo newspapers as "Hetty Green's
husband," but little waa said about him be
cause little was known. He was a tall,
finely appearing man. He waa once six feet
four, but in his later years stooped consid
erably. He cams from Bellows Fails, Vt.,
and kept hla horns there after bis marriage.
Mr. Green went to Manila when a young
man, and after seventeen years In the
Philippines cams back to the states with
nearly $1,000,000. That was Just beforo ths
civil war. He became a member of the
Union club In 1880, and lived like a man
with a million. He got the name of "Spend
thrift Green." He becams a familiar figure
in society snd on tbe street. He met Har
riet H. Robinson, daughter of E. M. Rob
inson, tho greateat ship owner in the coun
try. Robinson died just beforo tbe close ot
ths war, leaving Harriet 19,000,000. A year
later she and Green were married. Green
lost bis fortune in Wall street In 1884, at
the time of tbe Marine bank failure. After
Green's failure be and hla wlfo did cot live
together.
"I used to be able to pick up all the old
brass I wanted at its metal value," said s
dealer In antique furniture to the Evening
Post tbs other day. "When my stock ran
low I would send out a man, or would put
on a shabby suit and go myself, making tbe
rounds cf the junk shops, and I would
gather up a fine lot ot real old andirons,
tongs and candlesticks not tho flimpsy, lac
quered staff that passes for brass now, but
solid old brass, with that rich, dull polish
that modern counterfeiters of antique brass
can't Imitate.
"But now it Is bard to find half a dozen
old brass pieces In ail the junk shops In the
city. Tbe trouble is the womenfolk have
found out wbers we get these things snd
tho Junkmen bave discovered tbe value.
"I went down Avenue 0 the other day In
my periodical searoh for old brass snd I
recognized ths carriage of one of my custo
mers standing In ths middle of a block. Go
ing around ths corner into a dingy, dirty
Junk shop. In an old tumbledown stable,
thore was ths woman rummaging around In
that place for old pieces of brass, while bar
carriage waited around the corner. In an
other Junk shop, a few blocks away I found
three women, who had come from tbe upper
West Side to search tbeae dirty boles for
old brass."
Tho foreign born parents of New York are
rapidly increasing tbe population of the me
tropolis. Statistics gathered by tho Fed ra
tion of Churches snd Christian Organiza
tions in 1900 show that ths high percentage
of New York's foreign bora population is
certain In the Interval of 1900-1910 to
greatly affect the Increase of New York's
population. Ths city of tho Vnlted States
of over 100,000 persons which bas the high
est birth rate (Fall River) is tho city hav
ing tbo largest percentage of foreign bora
population. New York la the second city of
tbe country In percentage of foreign bora
and the particular nationalities which have
settled la New York during ths last decade
in largest numbers ar the nationalities
which ths federation's studies show to have
the largest number of children. Ths na
tionality figure of New York show that
there are more Slavonic males under 21
years of axe In the. New York of today
than of any other people. They outnumber
the latins by over 11.000. the Teutons by
nearly 12.000, the British by over 20.000 and
the Scandinavians over twelve-fold; snd ths
number of Slavonic men over II years of aa
exceeds every slngln nationality In New
York except the Germans and Irish.
PHI V ATE PFXSIOV BILL.
Extent of the Business nf Congress la
Ihat Line.
Chicago Tribune.
At Its session last Saturday the house ot
representatives passed 229 private pension
bills. At the short session of the last con
gress ths houe passed 707 of thees bills In
four sittings. Last Saturdsy s work wss
above the average. To put through these
229 bills took only 110 minutes. It will be
necessary to work even more rspldly than
this to meet the demands of would-be pen
sioners. There have been Introduced at this
session 6,673 of these private pension bills.
The bills put through last Saturday were
not discussed. All the house knew about
them was that tbe committee which had
them in hand recommended their passage.
It Is, of course. Impossible for members to
look Into these bills for themselves. They
bave to depend on a committee. But it la
doubtful whether the committeemen have
time In which to do It thoroughly. The
beneficiaries of these bills, mors than half
of whom are on the pension rolls, but de
sirs larger pensions, while the remainder
have not been able to get on the rolls, havs
as a rule made previous unsuccessful ap
plications to the pension bureau. That
bureau has the time snd ths facilities for
making full Inquiry In these cases. It baa
better opportunities than a committee of
congress has, and yet time and again the
findings of the bureau, white tn accordance
with pension laws which do not sin through
a lack of liberality, are overruled by con
gress. The natural effect ot thla la to inun
date congress with these private pension
bills. Congressmen should prsy to be de
livered from this class of legislation. Ths
senator or representative who geta a pri
vate pension bill through for a constituent
gets no special thanks from anybody. He
who falls to get such a bill through for a
constituent is likely to Incur his 111 will snd
that of his relatives.
The running of a separate pension bureau
by congress adds to the work of congress
men and also swells the pension expendi
tures. The bills passed by the house at
the last session carried an annual appro
priation of $120,000. Tbts does not seem
large when compared with the total ex
penditure for pensions, but a large part of
that $120,000 was voted to persons who do
cot deserve It. The congressional pension
bureau Is undlscrlmlnatlng snd extravagant
RAKER YEAR FOR INVESTORS.
Activity and Intensity at Indostrlowa
Americans.
New York Commercial,
The inventive genlua of Americans ran
riot during 1901, and tbe records ot the
patent office show that mors patents were
granted during that year than In any pre
vious twelve months. The total cumber,
of patents Issued was 27,292 for designs,
trademarks and registered labels and prints.
The business of the bureau was, in every
sense, a record-breaker, and It stands aa
emphatic, evidence of the inventive power
of the American people.
The patent office expended $1,207,885.62
during the year, and tta receipts were
$152,012.62 In excess of tbe expenditures. It
now has to Its credit in the treasury vaults
a fund amounting to $3,829,471.07. It Is cer
tainly a self-sustaining bureau ot ths gov
ernment. In proportion to population more patents
were Issued to citizens of Connecticut than
to those of any other state In the union,
one having been Issued tor every 1,198 ot
her citizens. Following Connecticut In order
comes the District of Columbia. Massachu
setts. New Jersey, Rhode Island, Colorado
and New York. In the territory of Alaska
the ratio was only one patent to every 81,
796 of her population. This Is decisive tes
timony as to the ingenuity of the Yankee,
to whose energy and industry so much ot
ths nation's prosperity Is due.
LIXES TO A I.Al'G II.
New York Sun: Knlcker Somebody has
said that some architecture la frnsen music.
Bocker Well, old man, that cottage of
yours must be rag time.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Dawson Is one
of tho most devoted fathers I ever knew."
"How so?"
"He's so proud of his children. Whv.
say, he often lies awake half the night
trying to think up clever things that he
can credit them with saying."
is yours?" asked her father.
"A secret society, sne repnra.
"But what la Its object?"
"Oh, Just to have secrets from the other
girls.'1
Washington Star: "This man," ssld the
phrenologist's assistant, "has no bumps on
tils head whatever."
"In tnal case, replied me pnrenomim
from the next room, "get a hammer and
raise a few. We've got to have something
to work on In order to charge a fee."
Chicago Tribune: American Multl-Mll-llonalre
I am sensible, count, of the honor
you do us In making this proposal, and
shall Interpose no obstacle In tha way Of
my daughter'a happiness. You have spoken
to her of this, I presume?
Count Povlon de Hnkkavlsnek (on his
dignity) Ees eet necessary to splk to se
daughtare at all, sare?
Cleveland Plain Dealer: "I see that Dr.
Rainsford says 'Don't marry on less than
$10 a week.' That let s me out."
"How so?" , .
"The girl I want to marry can't earn thit
much."
rhlnann Post: "Do your children take
after you?"
"Hometimes." . .
"Sometimes! What do you mean by that?"
1 1 1 1 -1 1 ...... tHuu'rA nmi.htv mv wlfM
says they do, hut nothing seems to be said
about It si any omrr um.
nailimore Jliurinnu. it r.m i. i-ii-in. ,
business Suzem. the lawyer, worked yes
ttmiay," said Mr. Oowanus to his partner,
. i M,..nltv .flur YTujitAr.
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"What fll'l ne on; .
-JIOOU II I OB ,111,,,.,! ' O,,., liailurJ
out neat circulars advertising cheap rates
for proceedings In bankruptcy to all the
BOYLESS IOWSI.
St. Nicholas Magazine.
A cross old woman of long ago
Declared that she hated noiSs;
"Tbe town would be so pleasant, you know.
If nnlv thre were na bovs."
She scolded and fretted about It till
Her eyes Krew neavy as lean,
And thn, of a sudden, tha town grew still;
Kor all the boys had fld.
And all through tha long and duaty street
There waan I a boy lit view;
The base ball lot where they used to meet
Waa a sight to make one blue.
The grajis was growing on every bsse.
Ann ine pain mm 1110 runners ronuej
For there wann't a soul In all the place
Who knew how the game was played.
The cherries rotted and went to waste-
There was no one to climb the tress;
And nobody had a ainais taste,
Have only the birds and bees.
There wasn't a messenfrer boy not one
To speed aa sucn meseengt-rs ran;
If people wantod thlr errands done
They sent for a messenger man.
There waa little, I ween, of frolic snd
noise;
There was less of cheer and ralrth;
Tbe aad oM town, since It lm kid its boys,
Waa the dreariest place on earth.
The poor old woman bKsn to weep.
Then woke witn a sjnoen scream;
"Dear me!" she tried; "I bave been asleep.
And O, what a horrid dream!"
