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6 THE OMAHA DAILY HEE: THURSDAY, OCTODEIt 30, 1002. 'niE umajia Daily Bee E. nOSEWATEU. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. JDelly Bee (without Sund.iy;, One Year. .14.00 Uuliy Ben una Sunday, Un Year .M Illustrated ll . One t ear w fcurmay tee, one Year it W Katuruay Uw, une Year '.t wentieth Cei tury Farmer, Une Year.. LiM LEL.1 VKKED BY CAKiUEH. pally Bee (without Sunday;, per cony... 2o Laliy Bee (witnout buiiuuy;, per weeK...liic L'aliy Bee (itjciuuiiig Bunuuy.i, per week.. lie bunday Bee, per copy 6c Evening Bee (without Sunday), per weeK be livening Bte unciuiiing bumlayj, per ween 19c Complaint! of Irregularities In delivery Should be addressed to City Circulation L tiarUnenL OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Boutft Omaha city Had Building, Twen-ty-lillh and M btreets. Council Biuita 1(1 Pearl Street. Chicago Iimv unity Buliuing. Nw ors Win Park Bow Building. Washlnttiun 6ul Fourteenth Btreeu CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omulia live. Editorial Uepartment. BUS1NEHH LKTTEKS. liuslneKS letters and remittance should be addressed: The Bee i'uouinliig Com Jiany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, ayable to The Bee Publishing Company, inly 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mall accounts. I'ersonai checks, except on Omaha or eastern exenange, not accepted. THE BEE FUBUaUlXsC) COMPANY. STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION. 8tat of Nebraska, Dougias County, as: George li. lasuhuuk, secretary ol The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number of full and complete copies ot The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Be prlnteu during the month of September, HUM, was as fol lows: 1 30,130 16 S1.1BO i o,to 17 at.oao t 80,600 18 81,140 8U.S10 .. IS Sl.lttO 1 81,670 20 V1.4SO 80,420 U 211,070 1 2,s70 22 31.UOU t 0.80,000 23 34, GOO 0 80,700 24 824140 10 81,050 25 81.2O0 11 80,820 28 30,770 11 81 ,200 27 80,030 IS SlJtOO 28 20,025 14 2S,6tM 29 UO,UO U 81,060 20 81,kOO Total 028,220 Lass unsold and returned copies.... to, 144 Net total sale ,...tl8,osi Net dally averago 80.002 GEORGE D. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my prestnee and sworn to before me this 80th day ol September, A. V.. 1902. M. B. HUNQATE, (Seal.) , Notary Public. The coal miners obserie Mitchell day bow. They will celebrate Roosevelt day later. Colonel Bryan Is again headed for home to be' on the spot with a message of sympathy for David B. Hill when the returns come In. President Koosevelfa Thanksgiving proclamation la out. Now let Ezra I tell us why Nebraskans should be un usually thankful. If you are not registered you cannot ote. If, jou have not registered, you are only one more opportunity coming and that Is Saturday next. It's easy for the city council to puss resolutions asking for extensions of afreet railway facilities. Getting the ex tensions, however, Is not so easy. The students of Michigan Agricultural college have not yet asked for arbitra tion of their differences with the faculty. They demand of the latter uncondi tional surrender. A man who would resort to the impor tation of Iowa repeaters to sccuro a fraudulent nomination would not hesi tate to resort to the. same means to pro cure an election. A little thing like the council overrid ing his vetoes does not discourage Mayor lloores. A council meeting without a few vetoes to override would not seeiu like the real thing. An eight-hour shift ou the police force may be a good thing, but It can't be worked without more policemen. And the more policemen, the more money needed to pay the bills. University of Nebraska Seniors will choose between Tom Reed and Mark Twain for commencement orator. They are bound to have a Joke either on them selves or on the orator. It hasn't been many weeks since the Cubans took charge of their government and yellow fever In already reported there. Cuba must begin to feel again like home to the Cubans. No doubt the Bouth and Central Amer ican countries are marvelously rich in resources, especially In revolutionary re sources, which are the only ones which their peoplo have shown any Industry In developing. ' Blowing bank safes seems to be a profitable Industry these days when the banks are overflowing with money. t was not so attractive an occupation be fore republican polities turned the tide of prosperity In our direction again. Bouth Omaha's city ordinances are now accessible lu a bound volume offi cially compiled. We have for years been advocating a compilation of Omaha's city ordinances which no ouu can now toll anything about. It costs money to prepare such a book, but It Is money well spent. tThe republican party has always stood (or an honest ballot and a fair count. The republlcuus of Uuiuhu will not coun tenance fraudulent registration, repeat ing or voting by the endless chain, whether these lawless pruetices are In the Interest of candidates of their own party or of fusion candidates. Associated Tress reports of yesterday's lection in l'orto Rico show that the Islanders know how to work the Mercer chemeA The Porto Rlcaus are not quite so badly hampered as the Mercer bosses are by a strinjent registration law, or they would find it difficult to equal the record of the latter. BEHtVOLtflT ASSIMILATION. The air of benevolence with which President Hill surrounds his great rail road corporation, in the process of assim ilating their substance is well calculated to bewitch the farmers, provided there Is to be no going behind the returns, no looking uuder the surface. To a large con course of North Dakota farmers Mr. Hill proclaimed the other dny, no doubt with sonorous oratory, that the suprrnie object of his road was to secure pros perity for the northwest. He had ex patiated upon the glories of agriculture at great length and in a strain Implying that his own corporation was not in tended to be selfishly gainful, but that it was an institution conceived solely in benevolence and altruistically operated for the behoof of the farmers who are absolutely dependent Upon it for trans portation. Mr. Hill, however, was significantly silent upon the history of the vast monopoly he has built up aud espcclully upon the manipulations, operative and financial, by which this has been ac complished. He was especially silent upon those methods by which lately competition throughout a dozen states has been slaughtered by the merger of the three mammoth systems of the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Burlington and at the same time their capitalization has been enormously Inflated. The northwestern fanners pay the freight, notwithstanding the benevo lence of Mr. Hill's intentions. It might have marred the unalloyed bliss of the occasion If they bad Inquired of Mr. Hill how bis paramount yearning for their prosperity "was to be gratified by doubling the fixed charges of the Burlington as he has done, upon which they must pay dividends. He volun teered no explanation of any such In congruous element In his eleemosynary plan. ' 1 ' "' ' ' But Mr. Hill did Incidentally confide to his hearers the circumstance that as the case stands his road does pay, in ad dition to fixed charges, 7 per cent on its stock capitalization. He might have added that it pays profits of enormously more than 7 per cent, for the official re port of his company, Just .made public, shows that during the past fiscal year it made a special contribution of $2,000, 000 to the fund for permanent Improve ments, a special allowance of $1,700,000 under the head of maintenance and that the Income account does not disclose the full Income of the various properties owned and controlled, which Is far greater, leaving a further sum of $2,600, 000. In short, after paying this aggre gate sum of $tt,300,000, after In addition paying operating expenses and 7 per cent dividend, there remained a surplus of $2,110,000 for the last fiscal year verily a big benevolent enterprise of Mr, Hill's, but for one thing, viz: that the farmers pay the whole bill out of their own pockets. The benevolence of. that portion of Mr. Hill's scheme represented by the 2,418 miles of Burlington system In Ne braska was during the same time ex emplified by Beating the state out of more than one-half of the taxes Justly due, thus compelling the great body of the taxpayers to bear this burden. The full facte show that Mr. Hill's corpora tion Is benevolent. Indeed, but benevo lent chiefly to Itself. STRorH.V TUB AST1-TBU8T LAW. There are some who hold the opinion that the Sherman anti-trust law ex hausts he power of congress over monopolies. This Is not the view of Attorney General Knox and it is Inter esting to note that his position Is in dorsed by various officers of the ad ministration. Mr. Knox said In his Pittsburg speech that the power of con gress Is not exhausted n this law, but that the anti-trust act of 1800 may, under the existing constitutional grants, be, amended and extended "and thus remedy Its defects and so' effectively regulate national and foreign commerce as to prevent the stifling of competition, the regulating of prices and the restraining of national and international trade." He pointed out that If that law exhausts the power of congress over monopolies the American people find themselves hopelessly Impotent, facing a situation fraught with the most alarming possi bilities, with which neither the federal nor state governments can deal, but he declared that when the currents of mo nopoly evil Sow out over state lines and cover the country It will not do to say that the evil Is beyond the national leach. Chairman Knapp of the Interstate Commerce commission Is among those who-concur with the attorney general. Mr. Knapp says the anti-trust law is defective and that a law can be drafted which will fully protect the Interests of the public aud at the same time, penult agreements to be made to limit competi tion. . He is Quoted as saying: "So far as I am able to reach conclusions satis factory to myself, I am of the oplnlou that no legislation upou this subject Is so much needed, or will prove so salu tary, as that whfch would bring the federal statute Into conformity with the wise and well-grounded rule of the com mon law. The fundamental departure from that rule lu the Sherman act Is, In my Judgment, the cause of Its utter failure as a remedial measure. So far from accomplishing Us intended purpose It has indirectly aided In many cases forced the very result It was designed to prevent" He expressed the belief that had the commou law rule been ob served iu the Sherman act and in kin dred legislation by the states, we should have today a greut deal more actual competition than exists. The agreement of these able lawyers uikiu a subject to which they have given movt careful consideration Is important and should exert some Influence. The Sherman anti trust law certainly has not accomplished whst It was Intended to. There Is competent opinion that It Is de fective. The duty of congress Is to remedy the dttfecta and to provide that adequate protection against monopoly which this law was intended to give. It is the opinion of the attorney general of the United States that the law of 1800 can be extended so as to prevent the suppression of competition and the restraint of trade. He believes that the constitutional power of congress Is ample for this purpose. It Is expected that President Roosevelt will recom mend legislation on the line Indicated by Mr. Knox and the people will look to congress to give this supremely Im portant matter prompt and earnest, con sideration. GOOD WORDS tVR THE BEST. While the consciousness of duty well performed is all the reward to be ex pected, a newspaper as much as an In dividual is glad to have Its efforts ap preciated and approved. The receipt of the following letter Is therefore specially gratifying to The Bee: CINCINNATI, Oct. 27. To the Editor of The Bee: I am Just home from our Omaha convention and take this first opportunity of writing and telling you how much we appreciate the splendid work by Tbe Omaha Bee In reporting our conventions. It Is with pleasure that I transmit to you the formal vote of thanks of the conven tion for your work. Tour reporter de serves special recognition for his gentle manly care and management of that work, and I am very glad Indeed to be able to tell you how much we appreciated him and his work. In the name of the convention, 1 thank The Bee for Its uniform courtesy, for its full reports and for Its generous treatment of our people while In Omaha. Very truly yours, I BENJAMIN LYON SMITH, Corresponding Secretary American Chris tian Missionary Society. The Bee not only makes It a point to give all the news promptly In the most readable form, but always stands ready to co-operate In every movement making for the advancement of Omaha or the general public welfare. In the Christian church convention It recognizes the or ganization of great religious and moral factors, and as a newspaper takes pride in having contributed to its success. MERCER AlfD THE CLERKS. The clerks employed In railroad head quarters, railroad freight houses, banks and Jobbing concerns in Omaha and the clerks employed In the packing houses at South Omaha, regardless of party, are counted on to cast their ballots next Tuesday for David II. Mercer. A large number of clerks who affiliate with the republican party were Importuned, or dragooned, Into voting the Mercer ticket at the republican primaries by their su periors under the pretext thrtt It Would benefit their employers, and the same reasons will doubtless be advanced for them to cast their vote for tbe non resident congressman at the election. Now, what has Mercer done to merit the support of wage-workers and es pecially of clerks? As a member of con gress Mercer Is allowed $100 per month for clerk hire, but Instead of paying out the salary allowance he has pocketed the $1,200 a year and saddled upon the secretary of the committee of which he Is chairman the work that would de volve legitimately upon his clerk, with out paying him a dollar for this addi tional work. In other words, Mercer has forced the secretary of his committee to work over hours In doing work for which congress has set apart an allow ance for a separate clerk, and by so do ing has deprived some deserving citizen of his district of an opportunity to earn a fair living. On the principle that an Injury to one Is an injury to all, Mercer has wronged every man who works for wages as a clerk and at the same time perpetrated an Inexcusable fraud upon the govern ment by signing vouchers for clerk hire which he has put In his own pocket Had Mercer carried out the act of con gress in good faith by employing a clerk, a man out of employment would either have been able to find a position at good wages or would have bad an opportunity to take the place of the man chosen by Mercer for the position in 'Washington. What would be thought of a state officer, county officer or city officer who would force his clerks to do double work and then sign vouchers for clerk hire he did not pay out and pocket tbe money? Why should a man ' who is drawing $5,000 a year for five months' active work and seven months' recreation not be satisfied with - his salary? Why should be rob another' man of the oppor tunity of earning an honest living? Will the clerks of Omaha and South Omaha endorse such downright meanness and dishonesty by their votes? Will they stultify themselves? Is it not their duty to assert their manhood and Independ ence by administering a telling rebuke at the ballot box? County Circuit Attorney Folk of St. Louis, who has achieved a national rep utation as an unrelenting prosecutor of municipal boodlers, has served notice on all whom It may concern In the city of St Louis that he will prosecute and send to the penitentiary all perpetrators of election fraud. Mr. Folk defines his po sition as follows: Charges have been made that fraudulent voting will be attempted at the coming election. It will be my duty to prosecute every offender against whom erldence can be secured and it might be well to remind those who would vote unlawfully, and Judge and clerks of election who would make false returns and counts, that the punish ment Is Imprisonment in the penitentiary for not leas than two years. The sanctity of the ballot Is the basis of government by the people, for It Is through tbe bal lot the people speak. The debauch ers of sanctity are not confined to any political party, but operate In all parties from venal motives. They have no politics except In name, for there Is no politics tn crime. They are not demo crats, they are not republicans, they are criminals and as criminals they will be prosecuted if they throw the gauntlet down lh tbe face of the law and public decency. The first step toward securing subur ban electric tramways has been taken by the county commissioners. The board has granted a franchise and right-of-way to William Hayden to construct, operate and maintain a system of subur ban railroads to facilitate travel and traffic between Omaha and the neighbor ing towns and cities. The terms of the franchise are bo extremely liberal that Mr. Ha j den should encounter no diffi culty in securing all the necessary cap ltal required for building an exteuslve system of suburban railroads over all the principal country roads in the county. " Mercer's literary bureau Is now trying to Impress the public that the reason he has not established a home in Omaha Is because he Is too poor to do so and Is picturing the modest quarters lie occu pies In Washington In language designed to excite sympathy. When he bad him self written up in tbe Washington Tost a few months ago to tell what a great man he is regarded away from home he described" hla Washington home In this language: 4 ' Mercer finds his chief relaxation In travel. To him travel Is almost a passion. While he was a bachelor he traveled far and wide and since his marriage In 1894 the two have sojourned In about every civilized country. Some three years ago they spent several months In Europe, journeying all over that continent from Greece and Italy to Norway and Russia. They have souvenirs and brlo-a-brac from every quarter which fills their residence In this city, Siberian bear skin, rugs from Alaska, Ivory carvings from Japan, brocades and embroidery from China, tap estries from Turkey, a rare white alllga to.'e skin from Java, a marble bust from Italy which closely resembles their little daughter, being a few specimens. The latest collection of trophies is from the Philippines, where Mr. Mercer traveled extensively last summer In the course of a trip, starting 'east from New York and continuing east till t be had touched San Francisco and again reached Washington. That's the kind of a poverty-stricken wanderer Our Dave really is. In the tabular statement printed In Tuesday's Issue of The Bee, making a detailed comparative exhibit of Ne braska railroad assessments by coun ties, an error appears In the column showing what the railroad assessment of Washington county should be. The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha road should be assessed In that county $109,210.70, Instead of $16,021.07, add the assessment of all the roods $300,307.20, Insteud of $157,000.47. A fact has Just presented itself, al though no attention Is paid to it, which a few years ago would have been re garded as of immense importance. It Is that the price of silver, which has been steadily falling, has now reached the lowest point In tbe London market known In the history of that metal. It seems to pass unnoted even by Colonel Bryan. If that Northern Securities merger is really the beneficent aud benevolent un dertaking Jim Hill would have the pub lic believe,' the Griat Northern rail way magnate should be in demand to extend his benevolent activity through out the land. Strange that other sections do not seem; to realize what they are missing. :.;. Effect pf Prosperity. Indianapolis Journal. As one result of. the financial manage ment of the republican party the annual in terest on the national debt Is $6,000,000 less than it was before the war with Spain, not withstanding the issue of a war loan of 1200,000,000. -j Monopolisms; the Graft. Chicago" Chronicle. The coal trust has advanced the price of anthracite to the dealers, but will not allow those tradesmen to advance the prtco to the consumer. The trust believes that In such matters l can work that side of the street Itself. Good and Bad Sense. Philadelphia Ledger. England is simply amazed at the good sense shown In this country in handling the coal strike, while we are not even aston ished at the bad sense of England In hand ling the Irish question, but Just accept it as a matter of course. Union o Crown Wearers. - Baltimore American. Mr. Carnegie's idea of a crown trust of all the rulers of Europe to repel the Amer ican industrial invasion Is original, to say the least. But there Is one feature without doubt in It; if the rulers accept his invita tion and form the, trust they will look to the Inventor of the idea to finance the en terprise. . Grown tn Pnbllo Favor. Indianapolis News. Nn man in nubllo life has grown mors in popular appreciation than Senator Hanna. At the outset of his political career ne was supposed to be a self-seeking, arrogant po litical boss, who depended largely on money to win his ends. He was pursued by the cartoonist and his character mtsrepre nfori and malla-ned. Gradually, by reason largely of his position on labor questions and his Interest In the civic federation, men have come to hold a Juster view ot nis character. He is now generally recog nized as one of the intellectual leaders of the republican party, and no one is more eagerly listened to. Pineh ot the Harvester Trnst. Philadelphia Record. Notice has been given on behalf of the recently organized Harvester trust that prices are to be advanced 25 per cent, so that farmers who have hitherto paid $100 for s machine must hereafter pay $125. At the same time, the managing force of tbe trust Is to be so reduced and reorganized that not less than $500,000 a year will be saved by this process alone. By such sim ple devices this new Industrial combination expects to obtain 4age dividends on its $65, 000,000 of liberally watered capital stock. No doubt It will do so for a season; but Its peculiar field Is wide open, and large profits must in tbe end breed fierce competition. i Activity ot the Lane Bandit. Minneapolis Journal. The frequency and the success with which railroads are held up and robbed suggests the importance of providing bet ter protection by the railroad companies for the persons and property which they transport. Thla is emphasized by the tact that a Northern Pacific train has just been robbed and the engineer killed by one lone bandit In Montana. The probabili ties are that those lines of transportation which provide the most security against such attacks and can furnish the public the greatest assurance of safety will profit sufficiently by public knowledge of that fact to more than pay for all the extra expense incurred.. Train robbing does not always Involve loss or danger to tbe pas sengers, but it is not conducive to tbe popularity ot any Use. BITS Or WA9IIIKGTOS LIFE. Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched a tbe Snot. The tendency of people troubled with a surplus to "burn money" has taken s firm grip on Uncle Sam and he is doing a stunt In that line unrivaled In magnitude and economlo results. While the average mortal burns money for Individual pleasure, your uncle does It to save coal bills. During the top-notch price ot coal which prevailed during October the bureau ot engraving and printing was kept warm by burning each day about $40,000 worth of retired bonds, paper money, postage stamps and like evidence of wealth Issued by the gov ernment. As an offset to this costly heat the bureau credited up a saving of $150 In coaL Beginning with July, 1901, following the repeal of tbe stamp tax on bank checks, telegraph and telephone messages, and aug mented this last July by the repeal of all stamp taxes, the treasury has been redeem ing the revenue stamps remaining In the hands of purchasers throughout the coun try. The stamps have been shipped In wagonloads, a considerable portion of the bulk being made up of the blank checks upon which the stamp was Impressed. Car loads and tons upon tons of this stuff have been shipped to Washington and stored in the treasury. During the fall large numbers of settle ments have been made, enabling the re moval of the stamps represented by the payments. As fast as a wagonload of stamps was released It was hauled over to the bureau and shoveled Into the big Incin erator built solely for this purpose. In the latter part of September, while the process of destruction was going on, and while the officials of the Treasury depart ment were racking their brains to figure out a fuel supply for the various bureaus, the engineer at the bureau of engraving and printing was seized with an Inspiration. He suggested the utilization of the wagon loads of stamps and stamped checks for the purpose of producing steam. The thing was tried. While the officials who ordinarily are charged with the duty of witnessing the operation of burning the stamps stood by to see that the stamps all went into the furnace, the fireman and engineer experi mented. It was found that about two parts ot coal to one part of stamps and checks made a combination producing splendid re sults. And so, day after day, the big wagons transported boxes and bales of stamps and stamped checks to the bureau and the stokers sandwiched a layer of several thou sand dollars' worth of government securi ties between a few cents' worth of coal. At the end of the month It was ascertained that an average of a ton of coal dally had been saved through the use of the high grade fuel, a total saving of $150 for the month, estimating coal at $6 a ton. Elliott Woods, superintendent of the capttot at Washington, declares that the building Is bubbling over with wit and humor, prompted by the coal famine. He mentions some of the suggestions . for fuel which he has received from visitors: "Storing the heat from warm debates;" "the seasoned timber from which cabinets are selected;" "planks from political con ventions;" "some of the dried old fossils in the senate;" "logs which are rolled by all members;" "the protected cradles ot our Infant Industries." and tbe "Steps which are always taken to remedy all mat ters." - More than 900 chrysanthemum plants are on 1 exhibition at the flower show opened at the Agricultural department building this week. They embraoed 122 varieties. All were propagated in the hot houses of the department and many of them are triumphs of the gardener's science and skill. Tbe largest and handsomest plant Is mis named Black Hawk, for the blossoms, which are twelve inches in diameter, are white with a pink center. A bunch of this va riety was cut and sent to President Roose velt. Tbe Japanese minister, Mr. Takahlra, has been one of the most enthusiastic visi tors at the exhibition, the chrysanthemum being his national flower. ' Washington is flat mad. Housekeeping apartment flats are springing up In all quarters, but chiefly the northwest dis trict. More than forty large flats have been completed since January 1, 1901, a score of others are in course of construc tion, and several others, larger still, sre planned. Tbe rapidity with which these flats, when ready for occupancy, have been filled has been remarkable. Heads of families have had themselves booked for quarters In the new ones months before their completion. The rents are about the same as those ot tbe houses previously occupied by tbe flat ters. It is clear, however, that tbe flat is the cheaper at the same rate, because in it there Is no expense for heating or water. and there are economies In other directions. Washington has Just found these things out. Consequently the flats are full, with a constantly increasing demand for more. The site of the new Hay flats is at the corner of Connecticut avenue and L street, in the fashionable quarter of the capital, only four blocks from the White House, and less than three from Colonel Hay's own residence on Lafayette Park. The building will have a frontage on each street of ap proximately 250 feet, and is to be eight stories high. The floor space Is to be cut up Into nearly 600 rooms, grouped ' into ninety-five suites of five-room flats. FLOUTING HOME RULES. New Ohio Municipal Coda Only Goes Halt Way in Self-Government. Chicago Tribune (rep.). Now we have Ohio playing leading lady to that great star in ripper legislation, Pennsylvania. What ripper legislation means can bit seen in Philadelphia and Pittsburg politics. What the regulation of municipal affairs from a state capital means can be aeen in Chicago's west park board. Experience and reason, facts and theories, the record ot the past and the spirit of the present, all cry aloud for home rule for great cities. Does tbe new Ohio code conform to this cry? It not only does not conform to It. it violently disre gards and flouts it. Interference with municipal governments In Ohio by the party tn power In the legls ture has hitherto taken the form of special legislation. The supreme court has de cided that such legislation is unconstitu tional and there must be a uniform muni cipal code. Ths legislature has enacted such a code, but has incorporated In it provisions which are subversive of the principle of local self-government. First, the mayors of all Obit cities are removable by the governor. If Illinois were under that law Governor Yates could keep on removing Chicago mayors until the people of Chicago were willing to elect some one who suited him. Surely this is a queer way of keeping municipal admini stration out of politics. ' Second, all Ohio cities will have hoards of public safety, which control the business affairs of the police and fire departments and will act as civil service commissions: By ths forbearance of tbe state legislature the mayors will appoint boards ot publlo safety, unless note the playful, bantering spirit of the legislators of the Buckeye state unless the common councils fsll to confirm his appointments by a two-thirds majority. In all elites, therefore. In which ths mayor cannot command a two-thirds majority in the council the power of ap pointing the boards of public safely will pass to the governor. Coming at a time when people were be ginning to hope that the government of Cities Was about tn K withdrawn from state and national complications and banded over to normal rational, local in terests, the Ohio code is such a plucky attempt at reaction that It mlaht almost be called Insolent. State control of cities means state politics In cities, and although state politics Is necessary and desirable In state affairs, t has been proved time end araln that In municipal affairs It means corruption. No other Issue Is pos slble. The state and the municipality 1 ve utterly different spheres. To combine them Is to bring In confusion and ruin. It Is all well enough to say that the cities are part of the states, snd the whole, being greater than the part, must be supreme. This Is superficially true. The cities are creatures of the commonwealth. They havs such distinctive characteristics, tin and their problems and possibilities are so remote rrom tnose or the country districts, that s declaration of modified InriennndenM Is Inevitable. The American colonies were a part of the British empire. West Virginia was a part or Vlrrinla. the Balkan states were a part of Turkey they are not so now. in tne case or the large American cities revolution Is not necessary. Neither, of course, is complete separation. All that the Illustration used means Is that the progress of events often hraaka ainiter old ties which have ceased to be convenient and useful and have come to he irksome and dangerous. Ths urban centers of American life must hart, free nlav. Ttiair development demands it. They must havs nome ruie. state politicians who refuse to be converted by arrnments will be eon- verted by votes. PERSONAL, NOTFC. Did the salt trust dissolve becsuse there was too much water T Lieutenant James Powell, who has Just died at Conneaut, O., was a direct lineal descendant of the Stuart kings of England. Captain Rowan, the man who "carried the message to Garcia," is so sick of ths subject that he Is sorry he ever carried IL Dr. Frank Strong, who has Just been in stalled chancellor of the University of Kan sas, Is the author of an excellent biog raphy of Benjamin Franklin. Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles, who Is on his way to the Philippines, was robbed at a hotel In Hawaii ot a valise containing money. Jewelry and valuable papers. Prof. Frederick Hlrth. teacher of Chinese at Columbia university, told his class the other day that the Chinese language Is not particularly difficult of attainment, but that they must not expect to chat with their laundryman In a few weeks. It Is not generally known that the shah of Persia has four sons now in Europe receiving their education. They sre mild and Inoffensive, with hardly enough spirit between them to declare sn opinion, such is their fear of their royal parent. Private letters from Sorrento bring the Information that F. Marlon Crawford's health Is giving his family much anxiety. Tbe novelist recently had a serious hemor rhage, it is said, that left htm in a weak condition. He recuperated rapidly, how ever, and since his condition has been more satisfactory. Congressman' Robert W. Davis of Florida was out hunting south of St. Augustine a day of two ago when a large black bear took to hunting him. The congressman took a shot at bruin and then fled, but the bear was gaining snd the fugitive climbed' a tree Just in time to save himself. He re mained there several hours before help came and scared away his pursuer. Old Hugh McLaughlin, the Brooklyn po litical boss,' laughs at a published rumor that he covets the chair now occupied in the United States senate by Thomas C. Piatt. "No, no," says Hugh. "Here I sm a man of some Influence they say sometimes that I am 'the whole thing' but I would be up against a hard combination in the senate Piatt and Hanna and Quay. Oh, I guess not." General Bragg's transfer from ths con sulate, general at Havsna to the consulate general at Hong Kong will not Involve any loss to htm of tbe emoluments of office, the salary at both posts belDg identical. The social prestige of the American consul at Hong Kong is greater than that of tbe cor responding official at Hsvana, snd this would be a compensation for the disadvan tage of a residence so far from home. General Dewet, the sturdy Boer leader, carried his Independence with him to Lon don and showed it In marked fashion during his interview with Colonial Secretary Cham berlain. Tbe latter addressed him as "Mr. Dewet," whereupon the warrior from South Africa corrected him by saying "General Dewet." Almost Immediately afteria Mr. Chamberlain repeated the "Mr. and Dewet said sternly, "General or nothing." Then the susve Chamberlain followed Lord Kitchener's example and recognized the military status of his visitor. On the 81st of this month a dinner will be given In the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, to John Fritz, the Ironmaster and Inventor of Bethlehem, Pa., that being bis eightieth birthday. Mr. Fritz, is a native of Pennsylvania, began life as a black smith and has been Interested directly tn nearly every important step in the Iron and steel industries. From 1869 to 1893 he was chief engineer and superintendent ot the great forge and armor plant ot the Bethlehem Steel company, fie is thought to be the only survivor of jFhose who In troduced the Bessemer steel, process in the United States and tbe leading men In that , Industry today are pupils of John Fritz. AND COMFORT Good looks and cbmfort arc combined in our overcoats. They are dressy and durable. They are luxuriously trinv med and handsomely finished. And they are not costly $12 to $35 R. S. WILCOX, Manager. F.LIKABBTH CADT .ST4NTON. k V. Minneapolis Times: Ths csuss of women's suffrage has lost a mighty cham pion in the death of Mrs. Stsnton, hut what seems to us more than thst, thi cause of clean living, of sweet womanli ness, of high Ideals, of pure government has lost so advocate that shall not soon be replaced. Indianapolis Journal: Compsrsttvely few women. It Is true, have gained the right of suffrage for which she battled most strenuously, but In other lines the advance has been greater and more rapid than even she could have hoped. Laws have been modified, property rights eousnzfd. educational opportunities widened" lod avenues ot industry opened to wonen to sn extent that could hardly have seemed possible fifty years ago. v . , Chicago Chronicle: Mrs. Stanton did not succeed la completely converting American womanhood to her conviction that the bal lot Is a cure for all evils. But whlleinock tng with only partial success upon, thst obstinate lock the concussion of herfyow relaxed the rivets on many othet closed doors. There is not a woman 4fho hat succeeded in law, medicine. Journal ifirn, tho arts and sciences, higher education trede and commerce but feels or ousht t feel grateful to this American matriarch. Indianapolis News: Fulfilling all ef ths privileges and meeting all of ths duties In life this noble woman had still ths greatness ot mind and character to adopt all women as her slaters In a very Intimate sense snd glvs her Ufa to their uplifting. She lived long enough, in her ripe ld.g, loved snd honored and ecbgnlxe'd, to he comforted with the acknowledgment thst most of her Ideals were sound and. true. Surely she.wss blessed ss she lived Snd ss she died leaving a memory that jblesses those that corns after her. :T . Minneapolis Tribune; Mrs. Stanton, was ens of the noted group of women-, including. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stews and Mrsjrulls Ward Howe, who seemed to combine ths qualities that fitted ber to shine hoth in the domestlo circle and In publlo life.. .Bhej married at a comparatively early ago. : Her. children clustered about her knee. Blx ot ' them were at her bedBld when she paaiod away. Yet shs found time to do much literary work, to occupy herself with pub-, lie questions and to 'be a leader in move- Springfield Republican: Mrs. Stsnton's ' horns life was all that the most exacting ' advocate of "womsa's sphere, ,thehomo' could desire. She ia4 seven chtylren and: six sre living. Tbeedfrs Stanton is a well known literate and 'Journalist- resident In Parts. Margaret .Livingston Lawrence JsX'U known as an, authority and teacher. In . physical culture, long at the Teachers' col lege, in New York City. Harriet Stanton Blatch is a prominent figure , in English philanthropy and social labor, altogether, no life can have been mots. fully. JusUfled and, perhaps, none more fruitful in, gifts to humanltk, than that ot Elizabeth Cady Stanton. - ,.. FLASHES OV FUN. Judge: Thome How about that oil stock you bought7. Was it a good tningT . Bramble No, i was. Somcrvllle Journal: Hicks His table manners are very bad, aren't theyT Wicks Yeo, but you know be boarded for five years. ' New' York Pun: Teach ajwNow, Johnny, what do we learn from' the pacable ot the prodigal son? ' .'.V . '. . :, .vh- Johnny Why-errl appose it '.teaches w . not to be a calf. ''' ... "';" . Judge: Madge What does she mean by saying that men are not' as chivalrous as - MaxJoneIsnmjnse trmrwerittr years ago she used tfr-gwi a seaa J Somervilla Journal; The worst thing about telling a funny story to a man - is that you have to listen patiently afterward while he tells you a story that he thinks . is funny, too, t . ., . Washington Star: "Dftt were a very excltln Jackpot I won las' night on bluff," said Mr. Erastus Pinkly, a fce. tilted his cigar and dropped his hat ovr his eye. "Did you raise de opener? .asked Mr. James ColUflower. , "No, suh; I opened a razor.'. Philadelphia Catholic Standards "It's almost Impossible, dear, to a house days," he said, "so' io protect myself I . -must ask you" "Ask me what?" interrupted his bride-to-be. "To agree not to seek a divorce until the expiration of tbe first year's lease." Somervtlle Journal: Ethel Maude asked me to go to luncheon with her yesterday, but I couldn't. . Alice Why not? Ethel I didn't have my pocketbook with me. , , Chicago Record-Herald: "I I have come," he began, addressing her father, "to to suggest to you that a union of our families would" "I am not In favor of unions," tho testy old captain of Industry Interrupted, "and I wilt not submit to arbitration. Good morning." MORN, NOON AND NIGHT. In the morning of life the youth goes BDroaa, With confidence grand and sublime. And he says, as he enters on life's busy road, "To the top of Fame's hill I will climb." In the noonday of life the man looks around. On those he has passed in the race; And he thinks no one else like him can be found. For honor, for glory, for place. In the evening of life the man meditates On all he has done, said and seen; And this is the verdict he mentally states: "Oh! what a darned fool I have been!" Omaha, Neb. J. N. CAMPION. LOOKS I.
