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As an educator, Cecil Rhodes will ap
Jpear In a posthumous role.
They now have "gentlemen rough
rldera" In New York. It was thought
heretofore that every rough rider had
to be a gentleman.
As a cattle raising state, Nebraska can
pee at least a silver llulug to the marked
lse In the price of beef and meat prod
ucts all over the country.
The government of railroad rate
tnajcers by Injunction seems to have
escaped the usual fervid declamation
gainst government by injunction.
South Dakota tooth carpenters are
falling upon each other over the en
forcment of the new state law. When
dentists disagree who shall decide?
It is noticeable that William Allen
(White's name Is not among the list of
(nests at the complimentary dinner to
genator Thomas C. riatt No explana
tions necessary.
Before Santos-Dumont attempts the
circumnavigation of St Louis he had
etter apply for a franchise to the boo
lle council of the city that made a
French king famous.
While the smashup of a savings bank
In 8t Paul is perfectly natural, the
breaking into Nebraska country banks
With burglar tools has a tendency to
rouse suspicion.
The revenue cutter service may be
placed on the same basis as the navy,
M regards the pay of officers, but that
.will not make the temptations equal
between patrollng the customs lines at
home and basking In foreign ports.
President Roosevelt is expected to
make his oft-postponed visit to the
Charleston exposition this week. lie
max lie sure of a iviniini -
, . - . ..v.vviu. lllUJ
1 1 the people of South Carolina, who would
J like if it were possible to expunge the
' Whole Tillman episode from the record.
X -
1 v Tho executors of Cecil Rhodes' estate
t4vrt to divide the surplus auioug them
pelves on a sort of tontine plan, so that
'p iPHe last survivor will scrape in the
j- iwnle jackpot. That Is the only sugges-
tlortiwe have that the late South African
fkreihler may have been a devotee of the
great American game.
At the annual banquet of the Amer
ican Philosophical society Trof. Perelval
fW. LoWoll of Flag Staff. Arix., discussed
the evolution of Martlau topography. If
the topography on the planet Mars has
ny resemblance to the topography of
lArisona no disemboweled spirit will
iwant to be transplanted from the earth
to Martian fields of bliss.
Under the bond purchase policy of
Becretary tiage the bonded debt of the
United States was reduced by $01,000,
000 in less than twelve months, it is
afe to say that no other country lu the
(world has reduced its debt in anything
like the same proportion in the same
length of time. Neither has the Uuited
States been In the debt-reducing busi
ness except when republicans were at
the helm.
Prince Henry's royal entertainment In
America has made the mouths of all
princelings and dukeiinga water, and it
Is but natural that uiauy of them are
preparing to Invade America in expect a
lion of having a royal good time with
our billionaire, millionaires aud other
I untitled nobility. Nobody will, there
fore, be surprised at the announcement
That the prince of Wales is contemplat
leg a junket through the United States
It and with the personal sanction of his
Uai pomposity, King Edward VIL
EXCESSIVE FlllE 1SSURAHCE RATES.
The remonstrance entered by the Com
mercial club against the proposed ar
bitrary advance of 25 per cent In fire
Insurance rates upon all mercantile rinks
In this city and state will not only have
the unqualified approval of merchants
and manufacturers, but of all classes of
citizens.
The proK)sed advance In Insurunee
rates cannot be Justified on any rational
grounds. According to the olilclnl re
ports filed with the state auditor during
a period of seventeen years, from 1RX.1
to 1!00 Inclusive, the aggregate amouiit
collected In premiums from insurance
buyers of this state exceeds fl'S.IXKI.OOO,
while only a fraction over $12,(100,000
has lxen returned In payment of losses,
leaving over $15,000,oiO of surpjus to
pay agency commissions, expenses and
dividends.
The average rate of premium to each
$100 risk during that period was $1.58,
while the average ratio of loss for every
$100 risk has only been G7 cents, an
average loss ratio to premiums of 42.0
per cent, leaving 67.4 per cent of the
premium receipts for expenses and
profits. Computed by the standard lire
Insurance charters, the average yearly
profit of the fire insurance companies
on Nebraska business for a period of ten
years over and above Iosbcs and ex
penses was 18 per cent On the basis
of the universal mercantile schedule, a
premium rate that will yield a profit of
5 per cent above fire loss and legitimate
expenses, Nebraska has contributed 13
ler cent toward the losses aud expenses
Incurred In other sections of the coun
try. From a strictly local standpoint the
proposed advance of 25 per cent on mer
cantile risks Is equally indefensible. In
October, 1803, the fire insurance under
writers ordained a flat increase of 20
per cent on Omaha rates on the grounds
of an insufficiency of the water supply
and inefficiency of tho fire department
After a protracted fight a reduction of
10 per cent was made in 1890 on busi
ness risks, while the former advance of
20 per cent was dropped on dwellings.
That left the mercantile rate 10 per cent
above the rate of 18!)3, notwithstanding
the fact that the fire risks have materi
ally decreased by reason of enlarged
water supply, iucrease of the fire-fighting
force and Improvements of fire ex
tinguishing apparatus. There has also
been a marked decrease of risk by
reason of the extension of the fire limit
and the erection of fireproof and semi
fireproof buildings in the place of fire-
traps.
The discrimination to which the un
derwriters have subjected their policy
holders west of the Mississippi river is
utterly Inexplicable. Official Insurance
statistics show that for years the fire
loss in the eastern and middle states has
been much higher than in the western
states, and yet the premium rates ex
acted in the eastern states are much
lower. The western states . have for
years paid an average premium rate far
In excess of the average rate for the
country at large, while the New England
and middle states have been receiving
their insurance at much below the gen
eral average, although their loss ratios
have been much higher than in the west
In the year 1000 Nebraska's loss ratio
was only about 150 per cent of the New
York ratio, yet its average premium rate
was nearly 100 per cent higher. While
policy holders in the western states dur
ing 1000 were paying an average rate of
$1.03 the policy holders in the New
England states paid $1.08 and the policy
holders in the middle states paid an
average rate of only 83.5.
The most striking exhibit of the rank
injustice about to be inflicted on Omaha
is shown by the ratio of premiums to
losses In New York City and Omaha.
In New York City in 1000 it required 90
per cent of the premium receipts to pay
the losses, while in Omaha It required
less than 30 per cent Yet New York is
exempt from the 25 per cent advance
In rates, while Omaha is made subject
to the increase. Froth any point of view
the proposed advance is not only ex
cessive, but almost extortionate.
SOUTH ERy RACE PREJUDICE.
Race prejudice seems to carry the
southern people to the most absurd ex
tremes. About twelve months ago the
city of Atlanta accepted a generous gift
from Andrew Carnegie for a public li
brary building. The donation was made
on the condition that the city appro
priate five thousand dollars yearly from
public taxes for the support of the li
brary. The library building was re
cently completed and opened, but at the
outset a contention has arisen over the
drawing of the color line.
It appears that the library board had
made a rule that no negro should be
admitted to the privileges of the li
brary. Thereupon a committee of col
ored men headed by Frof. DuBols called
upon the board to ask quite deferentially
whether their people could not enjoy
the privileges of the library, inasmuch
as the money for Its maintenance was
raised by taxation. The board promptly
and peremptorily turned down the re
quest Whether Mr. Carnegie will be
willing to InterpotH? on behalf of the
colored people, or whether be can effect
the revocation of the negro exclusion
rule Is problematic.
In marked contrast with the course of
the narrow-minded Atlanta library
board Is the policy pursued by the pub
lic library of Baltimore. Nineteen years
ago a magnificent public library build
ing, the gift of Enoch Pratt, was opened
to the public on the express condition
Imposed by the donor that It was to be
free to all citlzeus, regardless of sex,
age, race or previous condition. Ap
prehension was entertained at the open
ing by the librarian that some trouble
would arise from the Irreconcilable race
distinctions. For some weeks the li
brarian remained on guard all of the
evening in expectancy of a collision, but
one evening be saw a white woman
seated by a table quietly reading and
on the other side a negro man reading
aa quietly. After such visible proof of
THE OMAHA
the possibilities of maintaining order
between black and white, bent on solf
educatlon, the librarian concluded that
he could safely go home and leave the
room to the attendants.
But times nppenr to have changed fof
the worse rather than for the better.
Race hatreds and prejudices are more
Intense In the south today than ever
before and public educators and literary
men as well as politicians have fanned
it on by magnifying the faults of one
race and exaggerating the virtues of
tho other. The natural sequence of ap
peals to the over-strung pride Is mani
festing Itself In these examples of In
tolerance. RHODES AS A PHIL AM TIIHODS T.
The publication of the will of Cecil
Rhodes sheds a new light upon his
character which will have a tendency
to modify the general opinion regarding
him and to relieve somewhat the dark
side of his record as an empire builder.
It shows Rhodes to have been a man
of really generous Impulses and with
ideas of philanthropy that were at
once unique and broad. Even while
actively engaged In extending British
power in South Africa and employing
methods to that end which the better
Judgment of the world has condemned,
it appears that he was deliberating on
a plan of philanthropy which Is strik
ingly original, thoroughly Catholic In
spirit and far-reaching In purpose.
The inspiration of this remarkable
plan was the desire to bring into closer
relations tho English-speaking people
and to strengthen friendship between
them. He had boundless faith lu the
race to which he belonged, believing
firmly in Its ultimate destiny to control
the world. He had no Interests in Amer
ica, but he understood this country better
than most Englishmen do and whatever
his opinion of American institutions he
had an admiration for the character, the
energy, the enterprise and the progres
sive spirit of the American people. He
conceived that the most effective way to
bring the Influence of these qualities to
bear upon Englishmen would be by as
sociating Americans with them in one
of the great educational institutions of
England, and the provision he made
for doing this is most liberal. Students
from every state and territory in the
United States may obtain scholarships
In tho great university of Oxford. In
this respect Cecil Rhodes was more lib
eral to this country than to his own.
Another evidence of his broad spirit Is
seen in the provision for German
scholarships.
The fortune left by Rhodes Is not so
large as it was generally thought he
possessed. Rarely, however, has wealth
been devoted to a purpose so commend
able, as the greater part of his fortune
will be given to the promotion of, for
no object could be more worthy than
that of strengthening friendship be
tween two great nations speaking the
same language.
THE QUESTION VF COMPETITION.
Addresses were delivered during the
past week by two members of the In
terstate Commerce commission in which
the highly Important question of com
petition was considered. Commissioner
Proutv. who discussed the cause of the
steady advance in freight rates, declared
that we are face to face with railroad
monooolv. He denied the contention
that railway competition does not reduce
rates and that no danger Is to be appre
hended from the removal of such com
petition. He affirmed, on the contrary,
that no important reduction of general
Import has been made in the published
rate during the last decade which was
not mainly due to railway competition.
In regard to the proposition that rail
way competition should be maintained
by law and combinations prohibited by
statute, Mr. Prouty asserted that such
a remedy never can be made an effective
one. He said: "When there is some
competent tribunal, clothed with the
power to Inquire whether a railway rate
is just and to make it Just if found un
just, the danger of combination largely
ceases. You and I might prefer compe
tition, but if, in the very nature of the
case, competition cannot be had, we
must take the only remedy available."
Commissioner Knapp, discussing
equality of opportunity in the use of
tra-nsnortatlon facilities, said that the
potent agencies by which 'distribution is
now so rapidly and so cheaply effected,
which so combine and intensify the
forces of production, are fast altering
the conditions and changing the charac
ter of industrial development, lie de
clared that the end is not yet that the
time is fast approaching when corpora
tions will absorb all important under
takings. "When these agencies of com
merce are increased in number and ca
pacity, as they will be; when speed is
doubled, as It will be, and quadrupled,
aa It may be; when the whole United
States shall have reached the density of
population now existing In Great
Britain, how can Industrial competition
possibly survive?" It may be thought
that this Is a far look into the future
and therefore need not cause any pres
ent anxiety, but the fact that there is
a very powerful movement in the direc
tion Indicated by these intelligent and
careful observers may well arrest the
public attention and Induce serious con
sideration of the new order of things.
There are able political economists
who insist that competition will survive,
that the efforts which are making for
its suppression cannot be wholly suc
cessful. They contend that present con
ditions are to a very large extent viola
tive of natural economic laws aud there
fore cannot be long maintained. It is,
in their view, an unnatural development
instead of being a legitimate and orderly
evolution. This view may be sound, but
however ably and earnestly urged the
magnates of transportation, the great
captains of Industry and the kings of
finance .refuse to take any notice of it.
The problem, presented is a difficult and
perplexing one,'' puzzling the wisest but
one thing seems Vlear. If the suppres
sion of competition1 fan not be prevented,
if it U indeed inevitable that all impor-
DAILY JIEE: SUNDAY,
tant enterprises and undertakings are to
be in the hands of corporations, then the
strong hand of the government must
control and regulate the corporations
for the) protection of the people. This
must le done If the corporations are not
to be permitted to control the govern
ment aud the sooner there Is legislation
for this purpose the better. If the lim
itations Imposed by the federal constitu
tion are found to be too narrow that In
strument should be so amended as to
give congress the amplest authority to
provide for the control aud regulation
of coriwratious by tho government.
REFOKMIXa Aftir TURK C1TT.
The efforts of the present adminis
tration to reform Greater New York
have been marked by some Interesting
Incidents, but the most remarkable cir
cumstances and one altogether uulque
In municipal experience Is the re
volt of policemen against the sys
tem of protection to saloon keepers and
others which prevailed under the Tain
many regime. Police captains In por
tions of the city have endeavored to
maintain this system, particularly In
regard to the excise law, which requires
the closing of the saloons on Sunday.
The practice has been for the patrol
men, under the Instructions of their of
ficers, to pay no ntteutlou to violations
of the law and to report that It whs
being complied with. For this protec
tion the saloons of course paid lib
erally. Last week the patrolmen refused to
obey the Instructions of their officers In
some of the districts and the revolt bus
since spread, so that It Is probable the
law will be fully observed today and
perhaps thenceforward during the Low
administration. The patrolmen who
have taken this course are fully sus
tained by the administration. In a pub
lished statement a few days ago Mayor
Low said that the situation is the di
rect outcome of the perfect understand
ing and complete co-operation between
the mayor, the police commissioner and
the district attorney. He declared that
no patrolman nor any police officer will
ever bo allowed to suffer by the admin
istration for doing his duty, that is, for
enforcing the law, regardless of instruc
tions to the contrary by his superiors.
"The administration," said the mayor,
"Is determined to secure, If it can, a
police force that cannot be deflected one
hair's breadth, either by bribery or
political Influence, from the even en
forcement of all laws." The district
attorney is preparing to prosecute sev
eral captains and other police officials
charged with corruption In connection
with the protection system.
Meanwhile the saloon men are talking
retaliation by proposing that every store
and place of business open contrary to
law shall be shut up. It is understood
that an attempt will be made today to
accomplish this. The Low administra
tion seems to be doing fairly well In
carrying out its proposed reforms, but
it Is finding the task decidedly difficult
and Is making a record for some extra
ordinary tactics and expedients.
The bulletin issued by the New York
Bureau of Labor cites as a device to
enforce the accountability of parties to
labor disputes a case in Brooklyn in
which the acceptance of an arbitration
decree has been guaranteed by the de
posit of a forfeit of $10,000 by each
side to the controversy. The employers,
who happen to be a large shoe manufac
turing concern, put up their money In
the shape of a bond, while the employes
have raised a fund by a weekly 5 per
cent assessment loaned to the firm at 6
per cent interest The objection to
treating with unincorporated labor
unions on the ground of their irrespon
sibility and the objections of the labor
unions to incorporation on the score of
legal complications are thus both
avoided, while the strengthening char
acter to the trades union of an interest
in the suspended guarantee fund is read
ily discernible. Whether this safety
valve can be attached to arbitration of
disputes in the larger labor field will
have to await experiment
The recent democratic primaries In
Arkansas are being generally com
mented on as an object lesson in the
choice of United States senators by di
rect vote. While these primaries could
not give a certificate of election, they
are substantially equivalent to It be
cause the democrats are In unmolested
control and every member of the legis
lature recognizes the popular mandate
as binding. But would It not be better
to have the senators chosen regularly at
the polls with ballots cast by all eligible
voters rather than at a party primary
participated in only by members of the
dominant political majority? Even if
the Arkansas system should be adopted
by all political parties in every state In
the union, granting its superiority over
the prevalent system of legislative log
rolling, it would not sutlsfy the con
stantly growing demand for direct pop
ular election of senators by virtue of a
constitutional right rather than by the
precarious favor of party organization
managers.
Former Secretary of Agriculture J.
Sterling Morton ventures to contribute
to the collection of political epitaphs for
Senator Jones of Arkansas that "as a
circulator of garden seed at the ex
pense of the general government Mr.
Jones has been one of the most efficient
statesmen of the day and generation lu
which he lives." Having presided four
years over the government seed distri
bution bureau, Mr. Morton ought to
know, but in giving out these garden
suss boquets he ought not to forget "our
Dave."
The annual conference of Latter Day
Saints, now holding session in the Salt
Lake tabernacle, has proclaimed to all
mankind that the Mormons Parry to the
world the olive branch cf peace, but
no reference was made to the palm
branches of polygamy that crop out here
and there In the valleys of Jehosaphat,
Gllead and of the river Jcrdan and on
APHIIi 0, 1902.
the borders of the salty lake that lies
In the shadow of the tabernacle.
And now It transpires that Marconi
borrowed his Invention of wireless
telegraphy from Prof. Lodge of Bir
mingham university, who more than
eight years ago expounded the princi
ples, tlint have been patented by Mar
coni, In lectures in Ixmdon and Oxford.
In the meantime Frof. Slaby of Berlin
also claims to be the original Inventor,
and the battle over aerial transmission
has only just begun. '
The British War office has definitely
ordered the construction of an airship
to carry from five to seven soldiers. Un
less General Kitchener chnuges his mil
itary tactics It will take a good muny
airships to pick off the Boer sharp
shooters Unit are decimating the British
army in South Africa.
Looks that Way.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Captain Christmas appears to have been
playing what we believe the vulgar desig
nate as "the double cross."
Cause and Effect.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Perhaps Colonel Watterson's antipathy
to General Funston can partially be ex
plained by the fact that the latter's repu
tation as a hero Is largely based on water.
Something Like a ( Inch.
Baltimore American.
J. Pierpont Morgan says that a "mm
munlty of Interests Is dolna: what vou likn
with your own property." A few people
thought it meant to charge what you liked
tor something that nobody else sold.
Ckllilll.c Trnatfnlnesa Abroad.
Minneapolis Times.
Certain Council Bluffs citizens claim to
have lost $9,000 on a fake foot race not
long ago and some of them have expressed
a yearning to tell the grand lurr all about
it. It is hard to believe that there Is so
much childlike trustfulness and confidence
within walking distance of Omaha.
Question and Answer.
Ioul8vllle Courler-J nlirnnl
"What," asks the Washington Pout "ha.
become of the old-fashioned woman who
ueea to tell her husband to save his mojiey
that she did not need an Easter hnnnet ?
"You may search me!" quoth despairingly
tne Missouri man who has been arrested
for marrying thirteen women In the hnne
oi nnaing tne right one.
Thievery Lnder Another Kame.
Chicago Chronicle.
A return to a common butter dish, to the
rejected castor, with the salt, pepper, mus
tard and other supplies, Is predicted as a
necessity enforced UDon refltfturAfitK nrl
hotel' keepers by the souvenir fiends who
carry on tne "individual" butters, salts,
etc. If there be no remedy found fnr thi
vulgar mania society mav be dri van ff ttiA
old style of having all the food in a single
aisn in tne middle or the table, everybody
grabbing for himself. The innvenir mini.
affects chiefly the pretentious, the well-to-
ao ana tne professedly honest A few doses
oi quick policemen with snin-shot cam
eras might prove a cure.
A STIDV IN FIGURES.
Marvelous Strides la American Mann,
fart a res.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The latest census bulletin relates to
manufactures in all the states and terri
tories. It Is a truly remarkable document.
Since 1850 the population ot the United
States has Increased two and one-quarter
fold. In the same time the capital in
vested in manufactures has Increased nine
teen fold and the value of manufactured
products thirteen fold.
There are now five and eae-half times
as many wage-earners as in 1850, and the
amount paid In wages la ten times as
great. The value of products per wage
earner has increased from $1,065 In 1850
to $2,451 in 1900.
The gross value of products of all manu
facturing and mechanical industries In 1900
was $13,040,013,638, an increase of $3,667,-
576,355, or 39 per cent, over the product
reported in 1890. There were in 1900 512,726
manufacturing establishments, with a capi
tal of $9,874,664,087, employing 397.730 sab
iried officers and clerks, and 6,321,087 wage
earners, or workmen. There was paid out
In salaries and wages $2,330,273,021. Of
the wage-earners, 4,120,716 were men and
1,031,747 women.
In 1850 there were only 123,025 manu
facturing establishments, with a total capi
tal of $533,245,351, and the value of the
entire product amounted to $1,019,106,616.
In the decade ending with 1900 the num
ber of manufacturing establishments in
creased from 355,415 to 612,726. In this in
crease Illinois made as notable a record
as any state ot the union, the number of
manufacturing establishments Increasing
from 20,482 to 38,360, and the capital In
vested from $502,000,000 to $776,829,000.
As the value of materials used In. manu
factures in 1900 was $4,641,717,228, the net
value of products was $8,388,409,055. This
represents the intrlnslo addition to thi
wealth ot the country from the manufactur
ing operations of the cessus year.
GREATEST WEALTH LOWEST DEBT
Notable Distinction of the 1'nlted
States Among World Powers.
Minneapolis Times.
When the great civil war to disrupt the
union closed in 1865 tbe debt of the United
States that is the debt for which the
states that did not secede were liable-
amounted to $78.25 per capita of the total
population. By 1901 tho debt had been
reduced to $13.45 and, while the interest
charge in 18t5 was $4.29 per capita, in 1901
it was only 28 cents.
In 1901 about half our outstanding bonds
bore only i per cent Interest and these
were quoted at 109, whereas, in 1865, the
lowest rata of Interest was 6.20, and this
upon a small fraction, a large part being 6s
and even higher.
The London Daily Mall has Issued Us
Tear Book for 1902 and In it places the
United 8tates at the head of tbe five great
powers in point of wealth, while in the
amount of indebtedness this country Is at
tbe foot of the list. The following table
will show the wealth and the Indebtedness
as figured out by our London contem
porary: Nation Wealth. Pebt.
United States ...4;ie.3uO.0iio.0il0 221,OdO,0O0
United Kingdom.. 11. If 16.011O.OOO 7'6.&i0.0)
France .6u.Oiio,ax l.UB.OM.ouo
Germany S.uoI.Oirt.Ouo 61.ou,ou
Russia .4J5.UU0.O,0 711.0U0.OJ0
Tbe table of percentages is even more
interesting. The indebtedness of Prance is
about 12 per cent of its wealth, of Russia
about 11 per cent, of Germany 8 per cent.
of tbe United Kingdom ( per cent and of
the United States less than 1 per cent.
In tangible wealth that Is, money in
circulation tha United States on February
1 had a trifle Ism than $2,260,000,000, this
being aa increase of about $69,000,000 in a
single year and raising the circulation per
capita to $28.77, the highest ever recorded
in tbe history of tbla country.
These figures need bring no blushes to
the cheek ot any Americas us lest, Indeed,
the blushes should be those of modesty.
TOPIXAR ELECTION OF 8ENATOI19.
Sore Remedy (or the Growing Evil of
Legislative Deadlocks.
New Tork Evening Post.
The truth Is that the feeling In favor of
electing senators by popular vote has been
growing steadily among intelligent and
thoughtful men during the last doien years,
until a great many who at first opposed
the Innovation have come to favor It.
The success of unfit men In securing
election to the senate through legislatures
by wirepulling or corruption, when they
might not have succeeded. If they had been
forced to go before the people. Influences
some although It Is a fair enough reply
that unfit men are occasionally elected gov
ernors by the use of the same methods.
Others are Impressed by the Injustice of a
system which enables a party that Is In the
minority on tho popular vote to lecure tho
senatorshlp through its control of the leg
islature, as has repeatedly happened In
Connecticut: that state having more than
once gone for a democrat for president, and
yet on tbe same day, under the town sys
tem of representation, elected a legislature
which chc.se a rrpubllcan senator.
But the strongest argument for tho pro
posed change is that it would always re
suit In an Immediate choice, whereas the
old system often delays for many weeks,
and sometimes prevents It altogether, while
practically wrecking the session of the leg
islature. Delaware has now no senator,
because neither In 1898 nor in 1900 could
the legislature reach a choice. Three years
ago the legislatures of Pennsylvania, Utah
and California also ballotted for senator
without result until their terms expired,
and one seat from each of those states was
vacant In the following session of congress.
The legislatures of Montana and Oregon
used up nearly two months in filling va
cancies, a year ago. and the legislature of
Nebraska almost three months. Five years
ago the Oregon legislature not only failed
to elect a senator, but the controversy over
the matter prevented the organization of
the body and action of any sort. This was
an extreme rase of legislative paralysis
from the mixing of state and federal func
tions in the members, but there Is never a
senatorial deadlock that does not harm the
Interests of the commonwealth which Its
lawmakers are chosen to guard.
As the tendency toward deadlocks has
grown steadily of late years, and as there
seems no prospect that It will disappear,
the practical American people are steadily
becoming converted to the idea that the
only way to escape the evil is to remove
the cause by having senators elected at
the polls. Theoretical objections and
threatened evils will not avail to arrest
the present movement toward a change In
the method of choice.
PERSOXAL AM) OTHERWISE.
The Btate of New York appropriated
$100,000 for the erection of a monument to
President McKlnley at Buffalo.
By diligent work and fostering care it Is
probable the victims will realize 50 per
cent on the plunges of Detroit's financial
plunger.
King Edward looks forward to the coro
nation as a hard day's work. A great many
people will sympathize with the king in
his opposition to work.
A bunch of Captain Kldds 'hurled money
Is said to have been.,dug up recently under
Anthony's Nose, cftr Pcekaklll, N. Y. It
will go hard with Anthony's Nose if the
report is credited.
It is hardly necessary to explain that
the beer strike In Cincinnati is not a strike
of beer drinkers. ' "While the sparkling
Rhine murmurs through the town there
will be no drouth -or thrist unslaked In
the famous gap In the hills.
A feature of the Patrick murder case in
New York City generally commented on is
that there was not a woman connected with
It from start to finish. It is clear, there
fore, that the eons of Adam can work up
troublo without calling in their sisters.
Claims for damages aggregating $1,800,
000 have been plied up In tho courts
against the New York Central railroad on
account of deaths and Injuries caused by
the Park avenue tunnel collision. It's an
111 wind that does not blow the lawyers
some good.
It is reported that the appropriation for
lighting the torch of Dame Liberty in New
York harbor was knocked out by Congress
man Joe Cannon. Joe has reached the
sere and sedate age which Insists on el
derly dames pulling down the blinds when
the shadows lengthen.
"Ideals," "For Practical People." Is the
title and subtitle of an ambitious monthly
publication launched at Albion, Neb., by a
company headed by Wllliard F. Bailey. In
form it is the size of the New York Ledger,
Is generously Illustrated, well printed, and
the contents of the Initial number Include
historical reminiscences, stories, musical
compositions and other matter suited to the
home circle. The first number Is In every
respect a creditable production.
life
Agents
Catechism
Q. What is a Renewal
Contract?
A. An arrangement by
which tbe agent who
writes the business can
secure a permanent in
come therefrom.
Q. Do I forfeit this in
come if I leave tha
service of tbe company t
A. You do with some
companies, but not with
the Equitable.
Q. But suppose I
should die?
A. Tbe Equitable pays
It to your heirs for the
full number of years.
Q. Do I bave to writ
any large amount of busi
ness each year?
A. Yes, In some com
panies; but tbe Equitable
pays you for wbat you do
be it great or small.
Q. Where can I get
such a contract?
A. If you know your
business apply te
II. D. Neely,
Mamjer for Nebrstka,
Merchant! National
Bank Buildior. Omasa
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BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN.
H works beet who worries least.
A bard heart Is apt to be brittle.
Faith alone lifts the fog of the. future
Brightest hojee dawn on cl.irkest days.
Endeavor counts for mure than essays.
It does not make heaven a fact to call
earth a fiction.
Straight running makes better speed than
tbe swiftest circling.
No amount of pruning ever made peaches
grow on fence posts.
The more we look up tho less we need
to look out for oum-lvcs.
When grain ripens by moonlight the soul
will be saved by culture.
The greater a man's treasure the less he
will complain of his taxes.
Trlde and Ignorance are the babes that
help one another to get lost.
You cannot sop up tho sins of tbe week
with a solemn face on Sunday.
SF.Cl LAH MIOTS AT THE l'l Ll'IT.
Brooklyn Eagle: An Illinois minister has
had to resign because he Is so homely that
the women won't go to bis church. Which
proves that Illinois has got past the ag
where It takes Its gospel as a penance.
Baltimore American: A western minister
says that the serpent which tempted Eve
was a man in disguise. Statistics ot tbs
population at that time place Adam under
considerable suspicion If this assertion be
correct.
Chicago Post: A New York preacher
wishes to have a brass band In his church
because he believes In the "Christianizing
Influence of good music." He bas scripture
for the cymbals, but how about tbe trom
bone and snare drum?
Brooklyn Eagle: Some good church folks
are having cold shivers because Mormon
ism Is growing. Let it grow. It le as good
a religion as most, and the polygamy branch
of It is not flourishing In these days. For
reasons inherent In feminine human nature
It never can flourish, and the Mormons are
not trying to make It flourish.
Chicago Tribune: Mr. Mangasarian
doesn't ask much. He only wants the
churches to abolish baptism, communion
services, public prayer, congregational sing
ing, tbe Sunday school and the evening ser
vice. This permits them to retain the
preacher, the pipe organ and the contribu
tion box, and everybody, we hope, is prop
erly grateful.
DOMESTIC V I. E A S A X T HIES,
New York Hun: Stella So Mabel's mar
ried! Who's the happy m:n?
Bella Don't think there is any.
Chloneo Post: "So you approve of the
Woman's club?"
"Yes. I lind that my wife gets all tho
debating that she wants there, und so wa
have leas of It lit home."
Somervllle Jourmil: Hicks My wife has
such h cold that she can t sprnk aloud.
WicksConsratulate you, old man!
Puck: The Hostess There's one thing
that can be wild for Mrs. Talkington she
never retails seundal.
The Caller No?
The Hostess No wholesale exclusively!
Baltimore American: "Mamma s:ys sha
has a desire to be burled from this
church," remarked Mrs. Sezzit, as they
left the Easter service.
"That so?" snld Mr. fleszlt. "I'll see to
morrow what open dates they have."
Cleveland Plnln Dealers "I suppose your
wife had a new Easter hat?"
"Of course."
"Couldn't wear It on account of the high
wind, 1 Imagine?"
"No, the blow almost killed mother."
Town Topics: "He mine!" implored the
duke,
"I am not an heiress!" the young girl re
plied, wonderingly.
"No, no, no! It Is for love I would
marry !" protested his grace.
"But, I am not nn actress!" exclaimed
Genevieve, her perplexity deepening.
rOSSlDLY YOU KNOW HIM.
Elliott Flower, In Brooklyn Eagle.
Quaint and careless Didn't Mean-to Is the
beet lntentloned lad
Who has ever worried parents or has ever
made them glad
Or Bad.
Though his name, of course, Is foreign,
why he may be foreign, too,
Yet the startling things I tell of him, ts
may be known to you,
Are true.
He Is always In some troublo, but he never
Is to lilanie;
If his mother tries to scold him, why he
loudly will proclaim.
His name.
He may hurt his little sister, he may ruin
all his clothes.
But he just recites his name again and for
excuse he knows
It goes.
X believe he lives In Nowhere Land, al
though his name's Chinese,
For no other would of trouble never give
his friends surcease
Or peace.
But perchance I may be wrong. In this (to
err we are prone).
So Just study him and tell me if the kind
of lud I've shown
Is known.
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