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THE OMAHA PAIIi' MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1902.
'nm umaha Daily Bee.
E. ROSEVTATER, EDITOR.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.:
Oenrge H. Tsurhiirk,- secretary of The
Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
aaya that the actual number of full and
complete coplea of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
month of November, 1902, waa aa follows:
1 lr7 1..... 88,435
1 20,400 17 80,000
t 8J.OOO JS., .80.8T0
4 SlltVO " " 18 30,040
1 41,OMS 10 80,e0
84,sso n so.eao
7 81,210 ' n 81,410
80,840 21 ZM.310
... SH,7S U 80,930
10 81.80O St 81,000
11 SO.OTO M 8 1.OO0
13 80.700 27 80.7S0
U 80,820 28 8 1, ISO
14 80,780 28 81,480
U 31,810 SO ..88,475
Total 32.10
Leas unsold and returned copies.... ' 8,237
Net total sales .vaa.078
Net average sales SO.T50
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before me this KOth day of November, A. D.
Iu2. M. B. HUNOATB,
(Seal) Notary Public
And that reminds us that those busi
ness men Juries no longer seem to hare
the call.
All the portents for the Colorado leg
islature Indicate a I blockade that will
bo anything bat peaceful.
At all events, the controversy over the
beginning of the century no longer over
shadows the advent of the new year.
Jt Is to be hoped that the Impending
drawing of the district court Jurors for
the year 1903 will prove a more profit
able Investment than the Auditorium
gift enterprise.
It would seem that Missouri would
be above such a thing, but a strong
effort will be made to. pass a "Jim crow"
street car law at the coming session of
the legislature.
Colonel Watterson Is now addressing
himself to the Monroe doctrine, but
' without the same success as when tack
ling the Four Hundred or dressing down
Urover Cleveland.
Governor Savage's recommendation to
the legislature for the creation of a
board of pardons will exemplify the o'd
raw about locking the stable door after
the horse Is stolen.
If Mr. Frlck makes himself under
stood, there is so much doing every day
in his own business that he positively
will not bother himself with running
of the billion-dollar Steel trust
Having apparently choked off the
power franchise ordinance that
promised speedily to give Omaha cheap
power, the eagerness of the council to
pass the free-for-all blind has noticeably
abated. .
A contractor willing to put up money
to get out of his agreement to supply
the county with anthracite Is In a para
doxical position. Aa a rule the aspir
ants for county contracts would be
willing to put up money to get them.
The Union Pacific lockout haa already
worked' Incalculable Injury to Omaha
and Omaha business interests and Its
prolongation only makes matters worse.
It Is high time for the officials of that
railroad to get down off their "nothing-
to-arbitrate" stand.
It Is now beginning to dawn upon the
citizens' committees and Commercial
club committees, that are trying to sug
gent charter amendments, that It will
be unsafe for them to proceed without
first securing the gracious consent of
John N. Baldwin of Council Bluffs.
Mouth Omaha baa had a sunerabun
danco of Chriatmse mutton but South
Omr.ba in not responsible for the ex
travajtsnt stories sent out by yellow
Jwi.raal fakirs to eastern newspapers
iMiLilig the alleged roasting of B.CQO
tivttfi within less than half an hour.
W. J. Bryan has reached the city of
Mexico on hi a tour of recreation, but
bo bad not passed out of the railroad
depot more than ten minutes before he
delivered himself of a discourse on free
silver. Fortunately for the Mexicans
Bryan cannot spout Spanish as fluently
as a Texs's spouter spouts the burning
fluid.
The census for 1000 credits the city
of St. Joseph with about the same popu
lation that It credits the city of Omaha,
but the mortality Hats for 1001 and 1002
show that Omaha bad 1035 deaths
against St. Joseph's 672, which affords
the most conclusive proof of the enor
mous Inflation of the SL Joseph census.
Nobody haa evr claimed that the cli
mate of St Joseph is more salubrious
than that of Omaha, and as there have
been no epidemics or unusual fatalities
In Omaha within the last twelve months
the divergence In the number of deaths
In the two cities represent the correct
ratio of their respective populations.
PBffsDr BovscrttTS cocrsk.
The course of President Roosevelt in
regard to the Venezuelan affair, while
disappointing to the German govern
ment and perhaps also to the other, Eu
ropean governments concerned, has un
doubtedly strengthened foreign reioct
for hi in and Increased confidence in the
clearness and soundness ,of his Judg
ment The request of the allies that
Mr. Roosevelt should act as arbitrator
was a notable tribute, attesting com
plete faith In his Integrity and sense
of Justice. It Is a no less distinguished
mark of high consideration for Mr.
Roosevelt that the European govern
ments accepted his , proposal tu submit
the controversy to the arbitration of The
Hague tribunal.
The German foreign secretary has
pointed out that the course of the presi
dent is In, strict accord with the view
he expressed In his last annual message
respecting The Hague court and . one of
the French members of that tribunal
has expressed the opinion that Mr.
Roosevelt's attitude saved the court
from extinction. In a letter of congrat
ulation the . distinguished Frenchman
speaks In hearty commendation of the
president's services In reminding the Eu
ropean governments ,of their luty and
says: "Honor to your government,
which has understood that amidst the
general abstention someone had to
awaken the others from their lethargy
and lead them forward . In the way of
Jnstice and progress." That the earnest
stand taken by our government in favor
of submitting the Venezuelan issue to
the International court ,of arbitration
has given a stronger position to that
tribunal Is not to be doubted and the
value of this is great
Enlightened and conservative public
opinion in this country approves the
course of the national administration In
the Venezuelan matter. .It has been
wise, prudent and In entire accord with
the duty and obligations of the United
States, continental and international. It
succeeded because the Eo rope an gov
ernments .were compelled to realize the
high and honorable v motives that
prompted It There are some who think
that our government should have urged
arbitration before .the European govern
ments adopted coercive measures, but
that would have been futile. The
Venezuelan government was not dis
posed to seriously consider arbitration
until the war vessels .of Great Britain
and Germany appeared on Its coast
Only when Castro found that the for
eign governments were In earnest did
be conceive a real desire for arbitration.
President Roosevelt and his advisers
have made no mistake In this matter
and their course has been distinctly
helpful to' American influence In Europe
and should strengthen the claims of the
United States to the confidence and good
will of the southern republics.
HOPEFUL BUSINESS OVTLOOK.
While stringency will probably be felt
in the eastern money centers for sev
eral weeks yet the strong expectation
of .another prosperous year seems to be
in all ways warranted. It Is not now
anticipated that the settlements usual
at the opening of the year will be at
tended with any critical tension, which
haa for several months been a marked
feature of the financial situation. It
has materially depressed prices In the
stock market but without .any disturb
ance seriously affecting actual values.
Many of the ablest financiers regard
the check which speculation has re
ceived aa auspicious to an .Important
degree for the substantial business of
the country In the coming year.
Great stress is properly put upon the
existence .of general confidence In con
ditions and prospects of Industry, as In
itself a fact of immense importance. It
Is manifested in plans and contracts al
ready perfected for even greater expen
ditures In railroad construction than
those of 1002, Immense as the latter
have been.,. The dominant note In the
business world is. actual preparation for
extension, for activity and for larger
operations, but free from chimerical and
hazardous undertakings. The industrial
horizon is unusually devoid of those in
dications of apprehension and contrac
tion which mark the change from pros
perity to a period of depression.
At the close of the year the volume
of production .and exchanges is enor
mous and unprecedented, and the de
mand for all staples, agricultural and
manufactured, unslackened on a scale
of high and remunerative prices, while
the tendency to higher wages Involves
the distribution of a larger share in
1003 to the 'wage-earning population
always a satisfactory sign. With solid
credits In all legitimate undertakings,
and with. an abundant supply of sound
money, there Is every reason for courage
and outreachlng enterprise.
TROM PAD A rt TlfC BAT.
It has been given out from under the
hat that the republican members of the
Douglas county delegation will resent
any attempt on the part of represent'
tlve citizens or committees of the com
mercial bodies to formulate amendments
of a political tendency to the city char
ter. It has also been given out under
the bat that the proposition to Increase
the number of councilman would be re
garded as a political amendment and.
therefore, cannot be discussed without
special permission. At the risk of being
ruled out of order The Bee proposes to
discuss this Question not from a polit
ical point of view, but from the stand
point of good government and the pub
lic welfare.
When the present charter was framed
five years ago Omaha was divided Into
nine wards, with one councilman for
each ward and nine councllmen-at-large.
making In All eighteen councllmen. The
abolition of the ward councllmen was
made la the Interest of a measure of
economy and had no political bearing
whatever. By restricting the selection
of counrilmen-at-targe within the ward
boundaries and limiting the number of
wards the charter of 1&& virtually gave
the city nine ward councllmen. Experi
ence has shown that ward councllmen
elected at large are In no respect su
perior to men elected from their own
words.
The consensus of opinion now Is that
nothing has been gained and a great
deal has been lost by the change from
eighteen to nine councllmen. The differ
ence In the amount of councllmanlc sal
aries Is comparatively trifling and does
not offset the drawbacks of a close cor
poration council practically ruled by five
members. It certainly is much easier to
get up a combine of five than a combine
of ten and eighteen member?, or even
fifteen members could be counted on to
render a great deal more efficient serv
ice to the various Interests and localities
than is now rendered by nine members.
In this respect the experience of Omaha
does not differ materially from other
cities of equal or larger populations.
The weakest feature of our charter Is
Its lack of elasticity. The division of
the city Into nine wards regardless of
area or population has been a sort of
stralghtjacket The twentieth century
charter for Omaha should be framed on
broader lines. The present subdivisions
of voting districts is based on a pre
sumed maximum of 300 voters, which
doubtless will be continued until the
voting machine takes the place of the
present slow process of balloting, but
there Is no excuse or good reason for
assigning six precincts to one ward and
eleven precincts to another.
What is wanted is not merely uniform
voting districts, but uniform voting
wards with an average of six voting
precincts to a ward. Such a recast
would divide Omaha Into about twelve
wards. A fair and safe makeup of the
city council would be one councilman
from each of the twelve wards and six
councllmen elected at large regardless
of location, the entire number so sub
divided as to tenure as to enable the
city to elect one-third each year.
These suggestions have not yet been
submitted to John N. Baldwin and we
realize that without his permission we
shall not be able to induce the delega
tion to consider them. The rank and
file of the citizenship of Omaha will, we
feel sure, however, be disposed to enter
tain the proposed change without re
sentment and regardless of whatever
political consequences It might have In
the dim and distant future.
ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION.
The bill passed by congress making
provision for an isthmian canal author
izes, the president to appoint a commis
sion composed of seven .members, at
least four of whom shall be learned
and skilled In the practice of engineer
ing. It also provides that the compen
sation of the commissioners shall be
prescribed by the president until the
same shall have been otherwise fixed
by congress. The, commissioners are to
serve during the pleasure of the presi
dent These will be desirable positions
and there are many applicants, so that
the president Is, likely to find the prin
cipal difficulty In selecting from the nu
merous' capable men available.
Perhaps the fact that there are so
many applicants is due to the expecta
tion that the commission to be appointed
will be as liberally compensated and
otherwise provided for as the existing
commission, created three yars .ago.
The act authorizing this commission ap
propriated $1,000,000 for salaries and ex
penses', more than two-thirds of which,
according to an official statement, has
been expended. It Is understood that
the chairman of the 'commission. Ad
miral Walker, has drawn $15,000 a year
as his salary and each of his associates
on the commission has drawn $12,000
a year. It Is charged that employes un
der the commission, many of them sons
of army .and navy officers and of mem
bers of congress, havo been receiving
compensation beyond their availability
for any practical purpose. In short
there appears to have been a lavish out
lay .of public money by the commis
sion, although every- cent may have
been spent strictly within the lines of
the law.
Congress -will .doubtless endeavor to
get full information in regard to the
expenditures of the existing commission
and meanwhile the disposition is to pro
vide against extravagance on the .part
of the commission to be appointed. A
bill Introduced by Senator Morgan pro
poses to fix the salary of the commit
sloners at $5,000 a year and undoubtedly
most people will agree with the Ala
bama senator that this. Is fair compen
sation for a position whose duties will
not be particularly onerous or exacting
and which will be of long tenure prac
tically a life office to a man over 60
years of age. Another provision of the
Morgan bill which will be generally ap
proved Is the requirement that the pay
ment of money on account of all ex
penditures, except for the salaries of
officers. Is to be made by paymasters of
the army under all the legal obligations
and all the penalties resting upon them.
The construction of an isthmian canal
will require the expenditure of proba
bly not less than $200,000,000 and It
may amount to considerably more than
that It la a large sum even for this
wealthy country and there cannot be
too many safeguards against waste or
extravagance.
Omaha will be In evidence at the St.
Louis World's fair. More than a year
ago the exposition managers sent to
Omaha for their head electrician and
now they have picked out an Omaha
man for head gardeuer. Whether the
St. Louis exposition will import its head
guardsman from Omaha is problematic.
There are yet a few men willing to
wear gold braided caps and blue coats
with brass buttons left In. aud arouud
St Louis.
Senator Vest's views on the trust ques
tion strikingly Illustrate the Incapacity
of traditional democracy for dealing
with the subject. After declaring that
the Shormau trust act exhausts the
constitutional powers aud is utterly la-
efficient he lays It down that states
rights would have to be sacrificed In
order to adequately amend the constitu
tion, and states rights are dearer to the
southern heart than the natural rights
of man.
The annual report of the Union Pa
cific shows that the outstanding stocks
of that company aggregate $203,C(,207
with a net funded debt of $248,008,000,
making a total capitalization of $451,
707,207. As all these securities are
quoted on the market at or above par
It Is reasonable to assert that the value
of the railroad property embraced In
the Union Pacific Is equal to its cap
italization. The same report gives the
aggregate amount paid out as taxoa by
the company for Its fiscal year, 1002, at
$1,300,700, which Is but slightly over 3
mills on the true value of the property
reflected by the capitalization. What
other property Is there In the states
traversed by this road. that gets off with
a tax of 3 mills on its valuation? What
audacity for railroad officers to pretend
that they are contributing in taxes their
full share of the cost of government
The report of the commissioner of
patents shows no traceoble tendency of
the trusts to stifle Invention. The trusts
are Just as eager to get hold of a good
thing in the shape of a patent as any
business firm or corporation. But then
the trusts have enough to answer for
even If this accusation is disproved.
The New Hampshire constitutional
convention has adopted an amendment
providing that no "one "who Is not now
a voter" shall In future vote or hold
office in that state "unless be Is able to
read and write the English language,"
but It Is to be observed that It contains
no grandfather clause. -
It Is greatly to be feared that members
of the military family of Governor
Mickey will not have the same oppor
tunities to disport themselves publicly
In festive regalia as have been enjoyed
by the staff artists to the present execu
tive. Heartless Sqaeeae of the Poor.
Boston Post.
Kerosene oil can be bought in Boston to
day for 15 cents a gallon. 81x months ago,
before fuel began to be scarce because of
the coal strike, It was sold for 10 cents a
gallon. As people began to use It more
generally for heating purposes, the price
was advanced, a cent at a time, until when
the greatest distress prevailed It was put
up to 14 cents, and now. In view of a con
tinued fuel famine, it is made . 15 cents.
What is the cause of this increase of 50 per
cent in the price of an article of universal
necessity? Crude petroleum, from which
kerosene is made, was never so cheap. The
development of new oil territory has
brought down the price of the raw material.
The cost of manufacture is the same as be
fore, or less. In a time of distress among
the poor, kerosene at 10 cents a gallon
would be a blessing and would save lives
that are now sacrificed to insufficient
warmth.
A Nat lost of Readers.
Minneapolis Times.
Whether the' people of the United States
read too 'much or too little they do read
and there are statistics to show It. Leav
ing out of account the enormous circula
tion of tho newspapers and magazines, the
country press, of tremendous Influence, the
trade and class papers and the unclassi
fied periodicals, the book consumption
alone is sufficient to stamp this nation as
a voracious one in a literary way. Tour
hundred thousand copies of one popular
novel have been sold, 350,000 of another, a
book for children haa passed the 100,000
mark and several novels have reached a
circulation near or beyond 100,000. These
books of great papularlty are invariably
works of Action; many of them of the his
torical class.
Grand Army of Titles. '
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The American people live and move and
have their being in an atmosphere of harm
less shams, many of which take form as
titles and dignities. They are pure wind
and mean nothing at all. There are Judges
who know nothing of law. There are doc
tors of Uws, medicine, theology and philos
ophy who never even passed through the
primary school, to say nothing of accumu
lating university degrees. There are col
onels galore, generals not a few and a cap
tain here and there who doesn't know the
difference between a repeating rifle and an
Australian's boomerang and never smelt
gunpowder except on the Fourth of July.
Manufacturers la Mad Race.
Rochester (N. T.) Herald.
We can hardly account for the recent dis
position in manufacturing quarters to throw
discretion to the winds and force prices to
the straining point The 10 per cent ad
vance in wages cannot Justify the Increase
In the price of finished products by 10, 20,
80 and 40 per cent. The effect of these ris
ing prices will be to force a crisis and aa
economic disturbance will again be precipi
tated. The pace set by the steel trust and
tho coal trust and the beef trust has been
taken up in other quarters, probably under
the theory that If It is to be a game of
grab, why, they might as well go In and get
what they can out of It.
I'aadalterated bread.
Philadelphia Press.
The Standard Oil company Is credited
with explaining that the increase of nearly
5 cents a gallon In the price of petroleum
is due to the increased demand tor oil for
heating purposes. This furnishes no reason
excepting the desire of the company to
Increase its enormous profits. But it can
not be charged to the tariff. This is one
trust that owes nothing to a protective
tariff. .
Does Ik Coaaanter Beaeltf
Chicago Record-Herald.
The cost of beef to the retailer Is now
from 4 to ( cents cheaper than It was three
months ago. So say the men who control
the market. Has this welcome reduction
been noticeable in the price to the con
sumer T It so it will leave him more with
which to meet his coal bills.
A! OlVtK OK FHEVKSiTIOJI.
Seleatia Medlelao Striking Featare
of Social Prosjreas.
Medical News.
In looking over tha history of the search
for a means of cure, one is struck by the
great value of the ounce of prevention.
Keeping the germs out is In every way
preferable to dealing with them after the
have once entered the body. This fact set
entiflo medicine is impressing more and
mors deeply on the minds of the p iblic au
thoritlea and the people, and their response
in the form of provisions for improved pub
lie and private sanitation Is one of the
striking features of tha social progress f
the jreasut lla. AU the mors etUlgbt
ened nations, states and cities of the world
possess organised departments of health,
which, with varying degrees of thorough
ness, deal with the problems presented by
the Infectious diseases In the light of the
latest discoveries.
' Fifty years ago the term preventive
medicine was unknown. Today it repre
sents a great body of well attested and ac
cepted principles. It has cleaned our
streets; it has helped to build our model
tenements; it has purified our foed and our
drinking water; it has entered our homes
and kept away disease; It has prolonged
our lives, and it has made the world a
sweeter place In which to live.
PROSPEROUS AND GEXEROll.
Macniacent Fond Sabsrrlhed by Mrn
hers of tho Methodist Charch.
Chicago Tribune.
On the evening of December 81 there will
be an impressive scene In Trinity Method
ist Episcopal church In Springfield. Mass.
Bishop Fowler will be present. W. D.
MacDowell, secretary of the Methodist
board of education, will also be present.
Neither of these two men, however, will
get the Interest and attention which will
be given to a third man who, three years
ago was a presiding elder of excellent rep
utation but of no great renown. That man
Is Edmund M. Mills. On the evening of
December SI, In Trinity church, at mid
night. Dr. Mills will make the announce
ment that he has raised the last dollar of
the $20,000,000 Methodist thank offering
fund.
For three years Dr. Mills has been giv
ing the thank offering fund his whole time.
His headquarters are said to look like a
bank and a mail order house put together.
The amount of speaking, writing and con
ferring which Dr. Mills' methods required
has been tremendous. The executive offi
cers of the Methodist church all have a
push and dash which the promoters of
Texas oil well companies look at with
envy. Seldom, however, has any Methodist
officer been able to look back at three years
of greater accomplishment than those
which Dr. Mills Is now rounding out.
The ends to which the Methodists will
apply their $20,000,000 are interesting. There
will be about 18,000,000 applied to educa
tion. Syracuse university and Ohio Wes
leyan university will get over $1,000,000
apiece. Education being thus aided, there
will be about $8,000,000 set aside for church
Indebtedness. There will also be a large
sum for hospitals and another large sum
for retired ministers. Such, at any rate,
are the statements that have been given
to the press.
The most significant fact with regard to
the people who have contributed to the
thank offering fund is that they are of the
rank and file. Dr. Mills has reported few
gifts of stupendous size. This Is where tho
giving power of the Methodist church Is
explained. The members of that church
are neither the sediments nor the froth of
the modern world. They are mainly peo
ple who work hard, have steady, regular
Incomes, live temperately and spend little
ostentatiously or superfluously. It Is from
such people the money can be raised. It is
from sucn people that the Methodist $20,
000,000 has been raised. Of course, money
Is more plentiful now than It used to be
for people In the social position of most
members of the Methodist church, and $20,
000,000 In 1902 Is a smaller sum than $5,000,-
000 would have been In 1872. This has to
be remembered. Even so, however, the
present $20,000,000 is a great achievement.
The Methodists should have congratula
tions front their neighbors.
MOHROB DOCTRINE OCT OP DATE.
A Wattersonlan. Blast Acalast a Cher
ished Institution.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
None of the conditions that made the
Monroe doctrine a national safeguard re
mains to menace us. The greatest calamity
that could happen to mankind would be a
war between England, Germany and the
United States. Considering what we are
doing in the Philippines, and have done
and are going to do in China, considering
what our commercial Invasion is doing in
Europe mindful that a strong power may
propose and accept what a weak power
durst not mindful of the advantage of
close, friendly Intercourse with England
and Germany why should we permit an
unseeing Jingoism born of a kind of Super
stition to stand between us and a better,
clearer understanding with England and
Germany not only as to the Monroe doe
trine, but as to all our fiscal and- tariff
relations? .
The Courier-Journal is an aggressive,
progressive American. It Is a democrat
devoted to home rule, free trade and sailors'
rights. If fighting be the alternative, it Is
Jingo to the .core. It adores the bunting!
It dotes on the bird! It fully comprehends
the power of the great republic. Whilst
Europe doubted, we were for giving Europe
its belly full of demonstration. Europe
doubts no longer. England and Germany
recognise us to the limit That placates
ns. That makes us liberal, expansive, gen
erous. Truth to say, after all, we are con
scious of a sneaking kindness for both
John and Hans. Let us, therefore, at least
come to a parley and see whether we may
not reach some working agreement. We
shall be no worse off after than before,
being sure In advance that, if we want to
fight, the fight should be pitched on high,
noble, defensible ground, and whatever elss
betide. It should not be forced upon us
by some fool with a gun, nor yet by sense
less, undlscrlmtnatlng clamor over a "doc
trine" we ourselves whistled down the
wind when we set up our eagles in the
Philippines and carried the flag Inside the
sacred walls of Pekln!
In short and In fine, we cannot hope
to gobble up the earth. We want markets.
We want amicable. Intelligent neighbor
ship. The Latins are doomed, Spain dead,
Italy dying and France down with an In
curable disease, our two allies, our best
friends, are our business rivals, England
and Germany, and we should shape our
foreign policy accordingly on Just princi
ples of give and take, of live and let live.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Time is money. A venturesome nan can
get $1,000 by staying four rounds with
Jim Jefferies.
Secretary Wilson will have to do some
subsoillng in the Philippines. Ths rice
crop this year Is a failure.
8. Morris Pool, who gets out the Patent
office Official Gr.iette every Tuesday, has
been employed in the Patent office since
1887.
Nearly 10,000 letters for Santa Claus He
unclaimed In the New York postofflce.
There is a beginning of a good mall order
business for some one.
Now that Lord Rosslyn, who, by the
way, admits that be la no squealer, has
been advertised by being fleeced, be will
be properly taken up by New York so
ciety, Illustrating the sage saga which
says: "Thsre are stranger pets In our
social sets than are seen in Central park."
Something over a year ago tha German
emperor Issued bis flat against French
champagne and ever since then only Ger
man brands have been served at the im
perial table. This ukase was not grate
fully received by army officers, who at
their regimental dinners drank French wine
from bottles disguised In Oerman labels.
It is even said that on one occasion his
imperial majesty dined with the officers of
a regiment snd drsnk the prohibited liquid
without knowing ( It
ROfXD ABOIT HEW YORK.
Ripples oa tho Car rent of Life la the
Metropolis.
An organized attack on the traction com
panies of New York tor more cars and
more room for passengers has reached pro
portions decidedly Irritating, to penurious
corporations. The movement was started
by a woman's club and Its objoct is to se
cure Increased means, of conveyance as well
as diminish the danger to person, clothes
and morals under present- conditions. It
has Interested the governor of the state,
the mayor of the city, tho Board of Alder
men, the railroad commission, the presi
dents of the live boroughs, the law officials
of the city, ministers, labor unions, hundreds
of private citizens and forty-seven lawyers.
As Is customary when a corporation Is up
against it, the street railway people are
ready to knuckle down, provided the city
authorities relax certain laws and grant
increased police protection.
The policemen of tha Broadway squad are
looking for a blonde young woman who
has been buncoing them, relates the Sun.
The squad, as is known, guards the cross
ings on Broadway and la the public escort
of every lone woman. A lone woman who
appeared two weeks ago at Broadway and
Twenty-third street and was escorted
through a maze of vehicles, suddenly
gasped and Clutched at the aide of her
dress where a chatelaine bag might hang.
"Are you HIT" asked the Broadway cop.
"Yes! No!" she said quickly, "but my
purse has been stolen. What shall I do?
How shall I get home? Oh, officer, I live
in Brooklyn. Can't you please lend me a
quarter? I'll return It to you tomorrow."
This particular cop handed over the
quarter. He thought no more about It un
til Saturday, when he overheard two of bis
fellows comparing notes in the Tenderloin
station house and telling each other bow
they had each lent a quarter to a good
looking blonde young woman who had been
robbed of her purse.
. Other members of the squad were asked
If they had met the woman and most of
them admitted they had given a quarter to
a woman answering tho- description. The
only member of the squad reporting at the
Tenderloin station who got the best of the
woman was Ed McCabe, who guards the
Thirty-second street crossing.
He got the lost pocketbook tale with a
couple of tears on the side. He also got
the "brace" for the quarter. He told the
woman he didn't think be had a quarter.
He put his hand In bis pocket and drew
out a single nickel. The woman glared at
him and told him he ought to be dismissed
for Insulting a woman. Then she de
parted. "I had more money, but I didn't flash
it," said McCabe. "I always keep a lone
nickel to steer off touches. I get so many
on my crossing that I wouldn't have any
salary coming if I fell for them all."
"And dlvll a wan of us paid a clnt for bis
yellow shield," said one of the fifty-seven
roundsmen whom Colonel Partridge made
police sergeants Just before his retirement.
The old price was $4,000, If the last quo
tations are to be trusted. Fifty-seven at
$4,000 Is $228,000 that nobody will get. The
fifty-seven shook hands, pinched them
selves and sang In chorus: "Is It a
dream? Then wakin' would be pain. O, do
not wake. Let me dream again."
Among them were grizzled veterans 'of
the force who had entered into five or six
previous examinations and had always been
turned down In spite of their fine records,
because they would not give up. Sergeants
George R. Holahan of the Dekalb avenue
Station, Brooklyn, and Robert E. Dooley
of the Coney Island station were promoted
to be captains and seven captains were
transferred.
During the noon hour, when the crush at
Fulton street and Broadway is at Its worst,
relates the Evening Post, a little old
woman rushed In front of a cab waving her
umbrella frantically at a car that had Just
started after taking on a passenger.
The conductor rang the bell, fearing the
woman would be caught in the crush of
vehicles, and the car stopped so suddenly
that the one following bumped Into it.
Reaching out to help the woman on the
car, the conductor was not a little "Jarred"
to see her stop near the car and address
a young man who was on the platform.
"How are you, John?" she asked.
"Pretty well, Aunt Louise," replied' the
passenger.
"And how Is Mary?"
"So-so."
"And has Minnie got over the mumps?"
"Pretty nearly."
"Step Jively," broke In the conductor,
recovering from his surprise.
"Oh, I don't want to get on the car,"
blandly replied the little old woman.
At a vicious bang of the bell the car
lurched forward and the old woman ex
claimed: "Such impudence! These conductors
seem to think tbey own the town."
HEROISM OP TODAY.
Aa lastaaeo Proving- tho Spirit of
Knighthood - still arvtves.
Saturday Evening Post.
In an age of materialism, when at times
It seems as if the world forgot many of
the cardinal virtues and was only Inter
ested In gaining its own selfish ends, every
once in a while some humble person does
that which appeala to the emotions and
shows that, tha spirit of knighthood still
survives. When a man or a woman risks
his or her life, not for any personal ad
vantage or-for fame, but because it Is a
matter of duty, then we know that heroism
lsiot dead and that the great opportunity
will always produce the one person re
quired for the emergency.
A few weeks ago General Chaffee sent
to the War department an official report
calling attention to the heroic conduct of
Alice Kemmer, an army nurse' then on
duty In the Philippines. Nurse Kemmer
had been granted leave of absence and was
about to avail herself of a well-earned rest
from official duties when two soldiers were
taken down with smallpox and removed to
the isolation hospital. Alice Kemmer bad
never had one of the most dreadful dis
eases with which poor humanity Is af
flicted, but she did not falter. For two
long months she devotedly nursed these
men back to health, living all those weary
weeks with them as their sole companion,
the weather Intensely hot and her sleep
so broken that never at any time during
that long period was she able to have more
than two hours' rest. Probably Alice Kem
mer, army nurse, thinks ahe has merely
done ber duty and cannot understand why
General Chaffee should lavish on her such
unstinted praise, but that Is the way of
heroes. They do what Is required of them
because It is their duty to do it, and tbey
think neither of themselves nor of any pos
sible reward that may come to them. It
is probable that this devoted woman will
gain no material recompense for the sub
lime act of self-reounclatloo, as the gov
ernment of the United States Is singularly
niggardly In Its recognition of beroes In
humble places, but she will not bo uncon
scious of the estimation In which she Is
held by ber fellow countrymen, and tha
example that she has set may bo an inspi
ration to .men and women; to soldiers at
the front and to soldiers In the greater
army of peace, who sometimes, growing
weary under the heat and burden of the
day, will find renewed hope and courage
when they recall the story of Nurse Kern-
mer.
TALK OP THK STATE PREi.
Norfolk Tress: There v.ill be no inaugu
ration ball and frills when Governor Mickey
takes his seat. That's the best way to
start a business administration.
Lyons Sua: Although not yet officially
Installed, Governor Micxey ht ma-le it
clear that he has well defined convictions
and that he Intends to remain tsuo te them.
Beatrice Sun: The president has an.
nounced that there would be no disposition
of the district attorneyship of Nebraska
until the senators agree on a man. Now,
if Mr. Summers can keep the senators
disagreeing he will have a dead cinch.
Grand Island Indrpendent: It is pretty
much Governor-elect Mickey's own busi
ness whether be wants a ball or not In on
nectlon with the Inaugural exercises. Tho
people of the state are not much Interested
anyway. They are not concerned unless it
were in the reduction of a slitht item nf
expense, for which, again, they would not
care a rap ir the ball were held for the ben
efit of a few of the upper crust of tho cap
Itl city. But the man displays nervo.
Geneva Slsnal: The Signal hopes that
Governor Mickey will movo with caution In
making cbanaea In tha hnaila nf it Inati.
tutlons, and It Is moved to express this
nope Decause or the rumors in regard to
the alleged probability of the removal of
Dr. Beghtol from' the superlntendency ct
the Kearney school. We have no personal
acquaintance with the doctor or knowledge
Of the success Of his aunprlntrndoncv but
we have heard only the most flattering re
ports in connection with bis work at the
school.
Wood River Interests: Lincoln swelldom
is greatly cast down over the announcement
that there will be no Inaugural ball this
year. Governor-elect Mirkev la a irir
Methodist and dancing, card playing and
omer devices supposed to ensnare and
lead from the paths of rectitude the young
and frivolous will not be countenanced by
him. We may not agree with tho gov
ernor In his conclusions, but if them's his
sentiments and convictions we admire his
spunk in saying so and staying by It. We
don't have much use for the man that
ran' a w . a . rr- . . . . ,
- ' v - -uu ui'. iuu uiauy nit' u nave
angle worms for back bones.
Callaway Queen: Governor Savage has
- t..t . . . . .
i. i uuais 10 ma conclusion tnat a par
doning board would be a good thing for
this state. This writer is of the same opin
ion, and more than a year ago made the
suggestion In print. It the coming legis
lature wants to do something worth doing,
let It appoint a committee of five to act
as a pardoning board, said board to meet
at least twice each year for the purpose
of looking over and passing upon petitions
for pardon, the member of said board to
draw pay only for actual service, or for
service rendered during these meetings.
The Judgment of five men is better than
that of one In a case of this kind, and
the extra expense to the state need not
be anything great. It's a good thing, and
should be pushed along.
Central City Nonpareil: There Is some
unnecessary commotion over the fact that
Governor Mickey declines to lend his pres
enco to the Inaugural ball proposed by the
Lincoln Commercial club. No ote will re
spect him leas for the action; consistency is
a Jewel so seldom found in modern poli
ticians and officeholders that It Is positively
refreshing to see a governor who takoa his
religion down to Lincoln with him and re
mains true to bis convictions of what is
right and wrong regardless of criticisms
and jeers. A publlo offlcUl should be al
lowed to live his own private life In con
sistency with his personal convictions; his
official acts are publlo property, but his
private life is his own. It Mr. Mickey did
not believe In dancing before he was elected
he acts verv nroDerlv In diacountMnanoinv if
now, even if by so Jo'nj ha Is compelled to
aisarrange the plans of the leaders of Lin
coln's bon ton social set.
FADING SMILES OP 10O3. '
Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Sometimes I
think eo hard It makes me tired."
"How thoughtless."'
Washington Star: "Da really useful
man, said Uncle Eben, "Is de one dat lets
his money he p Mm talk when be goes
aroun' sayin' 'Merry Christmas' to da do'
folks." "
Yonkers Herald: The Chorus Girl Ho
told m my future home would be In
heaven.
The Soubrette I always told you you'd
be a star some day.
Chicago Post: "And what Is there so
remarkable about her?"
"She doesn't think she could Improve on
the training of other people's children."
Philadelphia Press: "Whose do you con
sider the brightest children you know?"
"What!"
"Iflxcuse me. I didn't know you were a
family man. I mean the next to the bright
est." Boston Transcript: "Why did you leave
your former position?" asked the house
wife. "I didn't like tho table," answered tho
domestic. "They seemed to think they
'could treat me as it I were a domestic."
Brooklyn Life: He I was afraid that,
after all, you wouldn't be able to manage
that rope ladder from your window.
She f wouldn't have been able to If it
hadn't been for papa.
Chicago Record-Herald: "Eplctetus said
all philosophy lies In two words, "restrain'
ana ansiain.
"Well, Eplctetus might have had It flg-
uru uui xi njni in nis oay, nut in thes4
times philosophy seems to be pretty fully
expressed In the two words, 'gain' and -retain.'
"
OMAHA.
Omaha, queen of Missouri's broad valley;
Hall to thee, Omaha! pride of the weat.
Minerva like, sprung from ths loins of Ne
braska, '
Armored and furnished from sandal to
crest.
Midway between the cold waste of tho
northland
And the plains of the Aztec, with sunlight
aglow;
Midway between the Atlantic's wild surges
And the deeper i'aclflc's mure moderate
flow. ,
In old times the cities that grew Into
grentiif-is
Were bu led close down by tho ocean
wash? I sands,
That the t.,ip of the sea might bring to
their portala
The tribute and trafflo of far distant
lands.
But now the same skill that erst fashioned
the mainmast
And bulldcd below It the deftly shaped
keel
Haa graded the land for the speedier
, steam car.
And laid for Its pathway a network of
teel.
Has tunneled our mountains and traversed
our valleys;
Has truaseled our lowlands and bridge
spanned our streams.
Till there's scarcely a village or hamlet eo
lonely
As not to be roused by the engine's wild
screams.
Far better than ocean's best mast-crowded
harbor
Are the grand fertile prairies that gird
thee around
The corn lauds, the wheat lands, the old
bison stock lands,
And the silver and gold lands that make
up thy bound.
Far better than trafflo with German or
Britain,
With blood-thlraty Turk, or with heathen
Chinee,
Is the t rattle that springs from the hills
and the valleys
Of this pvace-blessed, home-dotted land
of the tr-e.
men nun m luo quern 01 liesuri s nruaq
valley;
All hall to Omaha! pride nf the rest.
From castle to cottage frout iiroadstreet
to alley
God l.U It, and may It forever bo
bla1. L, . AXTsXU
lIouy creek, la.