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80,40 26 ....as.830
10 30,830 2 .80,570
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12 30,S(M 28 80,40
13 80.S30 29 80.03O
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is ao.s7o a ao.uio
16 80,470
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lDf'3. . M. B. UUNQATE.
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Our Dare wants ' a ' federal appoint
ment. He docs not care what it Is so
long a It pays well.
It Isn't everyone who can, like (J.
Washington, extend his birthday cele
bration over three days Just because it
falls on Sunday,
If the city election had not been post
poned see what tine weather Ouiahtt
would be enjoying for Its municipal
campaign.
The railroad attorneys evidently knew
what they were about when they -took
the railroad tax case before the federal
court instead of Into the state courts.
Secretary Cortelyou's estimate of the
expenses of his departineut aggregates
only $600,600. Beside his associates in
the cabinet Secretary Cortelyou is mod
esty, personified.
Something must be wrong with the
senate that It should sit down on the
proposed Junket for a committee to In
restigate conditions In the Philippines.
It must be that the senatorial excursion
ists prefer to travel In Europe this year.
. The deadlock on the statehood bill
may ' not be an unmixed evil. No one
will be able to tell how muny question
able legislative measures it will have
crowded out by monopolizing time which
would otherwise be given to their con
sideration. And still not n word from the World
Herald reinforcing The Bee's demand
for legislative action looking toward the
recovery for the taxpayers of the money
lost by Bartley's peculations, Meserve's
absorption . of Interest eud the middle
man's graft on Stucfer's peculiar bond
deals. ,
The bureau of forestry in the Agricul
ture department will make further ex
periments in growing trees in the sand
hill section of Nebraska; Who knows
but what, some day Nebraska may be
come a lumber state as well as a grnlu
state. Stranger things than that have
happened.
, Andrew Carnegie will supplement his
library distribution by establishing au
Institution for the training and educa
tion of librarians. But the (lunation of
a hundred thousand dollars for that pur
pose can only be a starter. An up-to-date
library school could use that much
money every year.
Senator Tillman intimates sarcastic
ally that the logical outcome of the
president's policy with reference to the
negro In the south will be the appoint
ment of Booker Washington to a place
In the .cabinet. Perhaps. The consen
sus of opinion, however, would be that
Booker, Washington would be more In
plat in the cabinet than would be Sen
ator Tillman.
The frauchWed conwrutlnus who fixed
up the scheme to change the basis of
their assessment showed their hand too
soon. The fact that the scheme has
been blocked, however, for the present,
gives no assurance that It will not be
projected again if the opftortunlty seems
favorable while the reveuue bill Is on its
way through the two houses. This will
be a good thing for the local tax com
mittees to watch.
One member of the Nebraska legisla
ture wants to pass a bill providing for
the 'coloriug of all kerosene used for
lllnmlnatlng purposes. The fastidious
housewife will then tte able to make her
lamps match her furniture or carpets,
with appropriate shades for special oc
casions. For pink teas the lamps will
be filled with pink fluid, while St. l'at
rlck'a day will see the color changed to
green and the Fourth of July give a
chance for the careful blending of red,
whit and blue.
TlfK BVILDMQ OF yATltg.
The Jinrnl npprr.prlnllon bill cnrrloi"
$7!hm,(Kio for tlio bulldlnc up of the
American nnry. This Is not only for the
addition of new vcmw-Jn to the navy, but
bImo for the Improvement of its M-rson-ncl.
which is (jtiite as necessary as that
of adding now sliljis and new armory.
From the very legimiln? of tin upbuild
ing of our navy estaiIishnieut the great
objection has Ix-en to the one sreat ob
Jft t of providing It wllh sufficient nien
and that is the chief trouble today.
Whatever tin iiuinlier of !iip, the
necessary proposition Is to have the men
to limn and to equip tlieiu and unless
this Is at l.-iined there Is no use trying to
build up a navy. This consideration
has been rejK-atedly urged upon con
gress and yet up to this time that 1km1"
has not shown a proper understanding
or appreciation of Its Importance, lime
and time again It has been pointed out
that In order to have the sea power of
llie United States properly cared for we
had got to have not only more ships,
but a higher class of seamen, and that
this was to be attained only by n
piwess of enlistment and discipline
which could make our men superior to
any others In the world. It has been
the Impression that we were the great
est in the world. The experience In the
war with Spain seemed to Justify that
Men. But the experience of a later
tlate and the report of Admiral Dewey
show that Instead of our navy being the
greatest In respect to Its shooting. It Is
really third that Is. Inferior to both the
British and the Oermon navies. It is n
little bit humiliating to make such n
confession, . but It1 Is absolutely neces
sary In view of the facts. The United
States Is today the fifth nation in re
spect to sea power, nnd yet It Is the
second nation In regard to the necessi
ties for naval eqglpmeut. Both as to
our extended seaboard and our Insular
possessions this country has more need
of a great navy than any other nation
except (treat Britain, and even In re
spect to that -nation our naval necessi
ties nre hardly less great. In a word,
the United States navy should be as
great in all respects as that of any other
power on earth and we shall not be ab
solutely secure until such Is the case.
With ahundant resources for making
our navy all that we need It to, be, what
excuse can there be for limiting it be
low that of any other nation?
FURKIQN COAL IMPURTATWXS.
The removal of the tariff on coal has
not been followed by such an Importa
tion of that fuel as was expected, but
It Is to be by no means concluded that
the effect will trot be to bring a great
deal more coal to the American market
from abrcad than had heretofore come
here. Since the removal of the tariff
on coal the Importation of that fuel has
not been so extensive as had been
looked for. This Is easily accounted for
by the fact that a great deal of foreign
coal had been contracted for before the
duty was removed and that the whole
possible supply from abroad was en
gaged. But there has been a change since.
The removal of the duty has stimulated
the demand from abroad and now
English producers are looking more
than ever before to the American mar
ket. According to eastern papers Eng
lish coal operators have sent solicitors
to all New England points to ask for
contracts to deliver Welsh coal on this
side of the Atlantic cheaper than the
rates of soft coal now prevailing In the
east. They offer, according to the state
ments, to make contracts for a year and
are depending upon low ocean rates and
a decline In the price of bituminous
coal to enable them to make shipments
to this country. It Is said that many
New England manufacturers are mak
ing coutracts with the British coal men
for supplies which will last them for a
year or more.
The significance of this to the coal
producers of the United States must be
apparent. It Is of course absolutely Im
possible to Import sufficient coal to this
country to supply even one-tenth of the
demand. Everybody understands that,
so that the removal of the coal duty Is
not and cannot be the benefit it was
expected to be. Yet there is no doubt
that the Increased Importations of coal
which that legislation will stimulate will
have an effect beneficial to the Amer
ican consumer. The fuct appears to be
that, the appearance of British coal
solicitors In the east has already had
the effect of reducing prices In the
principal eastern markets and there Is
every reason to expect that this will be
felt throughout the country. At all
events the result of the removal of the
tariff duty on coal is a matter which
will receive very general attention as
having a lieariug upon other features
of the tariff.
TH& RAILWAY TAX IKJIUCTIOX.
The order of Judge Munger of the fed
eral district court Issuing a temporary
Injunction to prevent the city council
from making the municipal tax levy for
the coming year upon the assessments
fixed on the railroad terminals bv the
tax commissioner and the Board ot Re
view brings the Issue of enual taxation
of railroad property with other property
for city purposes further to the fore
front. While this action on the part of
the federal court was not unexpected. It
Is by no means fiual, but merely requires
the case to' be presented formally on Us
merits.
The opinion on which the temporary
Injuuctlon la based seems largely in the
nature of au apology, admitting the jus
tice of the contention that the railroads
would 'escape their due proportion of the
muuldpal tax burdens If the assessment
figures of the Ktate Board of Kiuallxa
tlon must be accepted, but hiding behind
legal technicalities and suggesting that
the proper body to raise the railway fig
ures Is the city council when sitting as
an equalizing board, and not the Board
of Review. Tbe shaky ground oa which
the railroads stand could not be more
clearly p.iluwtf i.u;.
The question of the conflict with the
constitutional guaranty of uniformity In
assessment and taxation of all property
within the Jurisdiction of the body lin
pos'iitt the same Is ontl-cly overlooked
and the fact that the system by which
the railroads ore attempting to peret
uate tax exemption wnn recently char
acterized by our own supreme court as
violating the most rudimentary princi
ples of Justice completely ignored. The
Injunction was granted on the presump
tion that the allegations contained In the
petitions of the railroads ore correct
when a trin.l on Issues Involved would
show that they are flatly contradicted
by the facts.
Under the circumstances the only
thing for the city to do Is to proceed on
the theory that Ms position Is Impreg
nable and that Its right to assess rail
road property through the same officers
as assess other property will be even
tually upheld.
As president of the Daughters of the
American Ilevolutiou, Mrs. .Fairbanks
objects to the use of the word Amer
ican In connection with the nationality
of our foreign born citizens and would
have us stop referring to them ns (Jcr-man-Americans,
Irish-Americans, etc.
The history of the United States, how
ever, shows that the nation owes as
much for Its existence and perpetuation
to the sons and daughters of other
countries who have giveu up tlieir na
tive land for our Institutions and who
are as patriotic and loyal as any
born here. Unlike the rich Amer
icans who expatriate themselves to get
entree Into the nobility of Europe our
foreign born people, although proud of
their Americanism, are not ashamed of
their birthplace apd there is no good
reason they should not continue to use
a name that clearly Indicates their
double nationality.
All this litigation over prize money
due to naval officers who participated In
the battles at Santiago and Manila
prompts the question again, why the
relic of prize awards should be main
tained In the navy long years after Its
abolition In the army. What good rea
son is there for paying naval officers
extra Is there for paying naval officers
army officer gets extra compensation no
matter how much valuable property of
the enemy he may capture? The whole
system of prize money should be abol
ished once and for all time.
The tremendous success attending the
MardI Gras at New Orleans this year
suggests that Omaha's Ak-Sar-Ben has
the foundation on which to expand
much further than It has ever gone.
The Ak-Sar-Ben festivities can compare
favorably with carnival exhibitions any
whese, and can and should be made a
drawing card reaching out over this en
tire section of the country from the Mis
sissippi river to the Rocky mountains.
From the complaints entered by the
fusion organ it is not clear that the fu
sion members of the legislature are right
on the question of railroad taxation not
withstanding all the platform declara
tions on which they were elected. As
we have noted above, the railroads have
no party politics. They would Just as
soon work through fuslonists as through
republicans.
The new public building bill provides
for the sale of the present federal build
ing in the city of Lincoln to the city at
a price not less than ?30,000. The bill
might as well have fixed the price at
$50,000, because It Is a safe bet that
with such a wording of the law not a
cent more than $50,000 will be offered. '
It is really amusing to have the rail
road tax bureau send out literature pre
tending to be In the Interest of the
farmer. The farmer of Nebraska knows
that If the railroads had any special
concern to relieve him from his bunions
they would not be ralsiug rates on every
thing he has to sell and buy.
Translating the Portent.
Washington Post.
There is an accumulation of reasons for
believing that the next democratic niiinnni
convention will not be a more ratification
meeting for popullstio plans.
Xovr Prepare to Shudder.
Indianapolis News.
When we think of the immense amount
of labor Involved in harvesting the Ice crops
that ripen every night this weather. It
makes us shudder with apprehension at next
summer's prices.
Fallen Despots.
Baltimore American.
Fickle, indeed, is the popular taste. Coal
is no longer the absorbing topic ot conver
sation. Even the coming spring fashions
are now commanding more attention than
the fallen despot of domestic comfort.
One Word Telia the Story.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
It was brought out incidentally in a par
liamentary discussion the other day that
Great Britain follows the United Btatea In
the use of bolters for Its warships. The
term "follows" tells the story In a nutshell.
The Camel and tbe Needle.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
' It ia recorded that Mr. Rockefeller re
cently recetved 18,000.000 In dividends from
the Standard Oil company. No provision,
however, has been made for enlargement
of the eye of that needle or reduction in
the aize of the camel.
Carelessness Illustrated.
8t. Louis Ulobe-Deraocrat.
Not a railway passenger was killed in
Great Britain last year. In this country
In three months, ending October 1, there
were 1,434 railway collisions, with a list of
148 persona killed. The contrast suggests
carelessness, not to say recklessness,
What Trnats Are Dolns.
Detroit Free Press.
They substitute one plant for many. They
reduce their clerical force by thouaands.
They have taken an army of commercial
men from the road. They hav tbe best
of labor-saving machinery, and yet, with
all these advantages, to say nothing of the
apeclal favora they receive In tbe matter
of transportation, they are charging the
exorbitant prices ia coal, meats, oils and
other monopolised commodities. The cut
ting of expenses and arbitrary Increase In
prlrea readily explain the fabulous profits
that pay a tithe in conscience money to
churches, universities and libraries.
in n't Be Taken Seriously.
Washington Tost.
Mr. Hobson finja fault because the news
papers don't take him more seriously. The
man evidently overlooks the fact that his
con'ributlons to the gayety of the nation
have been altogether voluntary and the
newspapers are edited by human beings.
Insurance Against Disaster.
St. Louis Rppubllc.
Admiral Dewey Is Justified in his In
sistence upon increased target practice In
the navy. Vnless a gunner can hit what
he shoots at, all the rest of his training
at the government's expense Is wasted and
his ship Is not an Implement of war. The
cost of target practice is a cheap Insur
ance against disaster.
Some Difference In the Game.
Minneapolis Journal.
King Edward complains bitterly because
the peers and peeresses did not take Inter
est In his effort to have a great ceremonial
opening of Parliament. The king la begin
ning to dlacover that a modern constitu
tional monarch is not even so Interesting
as bridge wblst. A monarch Is becoming
something that smacks of antiquity and
bridge whist and other things are very
modern.
Why Par ait All!
Minneapolis Tribune.
There Is a cynical flavor in the refusal
of the railroads to pay the gross esrnlngs
tax on rebates given to get business, re
bates being unlawful under the Interstate
commerce law and being penalized still
more severely by the new Elklna law. But
there Is something cynical, too. In the
simultaneous effort of the law to compel
railroads to compete and v prevent rt
bates, which are the most effective method
of competition. Railroad regulation by
law Is a sad tangle, anyway; and it la
small wonder that the railroads paid this
tax rather than to Invite any more of it,
especially as they seem to he in the wrong.
Why should an Illegal rebate be taken out
of the gross esrnlngs, any more than a
legal commission paid to agents to get
business?
Jl STICK SCOHES AGAIN.
Express Companies Mast Rot' Limit
Their Liability.
New York Tribune.
The recent decision of the appellate term
of the supreme court In this district that
the limitations with respect to express
company receipts of amounts of liability for
articles damaged or lost, stolen or destroyed
are not valid Is one of especial Importance
to those common carriers, any corpora
tions, with the aid of lawyers of experi
ence and ability, have been trying for
years to protect themselves from the pay
ment of heavy claims from customers by
restrictions of the sort which have been
declared to be without warrant ot law.
' To the great majority of people the find
ing of the appellate Judges will appear to
be just and right. If express companies
agree to transport packages ' for certain
sums tbey ought to be required to pay the
full value of those packagea If they fall to
deliver the property committed to their
care.
THERE ARB A FEW OTHERS.
English Not World Lang-nave,
Thonarh it Heads the Procession.
Chlesgn -Chronicle.
A British' eebnomlst-who has keen study
ing the declining figures of British trade
has suddenly discovered that English Is
not the "world speech" it was fashionable
not long ago to, call it. For a time we read
many essays practically inculcating the
Idea that it was quite enough to know
English to rule the commercial worW.
The newer gospel is saner. One reason
why the Germans have Tnade progress so
rapidly In selling their manufactures lies
in their recognition of the fact that people
like to buy In a language they understand.
German technical training Invariably In
cludes acquisition of freedom and ac
curacy In all living tongues.
It is true that English la now spoken by,
as estimated, 115,000,000 persons, Russian
by 80,000,000, German by 70,000,000, 8panlsh
by 50,000,000, French by 46,000,000. But
French remains the most popular language
of International Intercourse. It holds a
closer relationship to all other languages
than the English does, while Its kinship to
the English from one ot their common
progenitors, the Latin, keeps it the best
vehicle of scientific and professional
thought in transit from one language to
another. French ia the linguistics clearing
house. ' '
English is not the "word" language by
any means.
ABOIT A HANDKERCHIEF.
Southern Newspaper's Comment oa
Recent Commotion.
Charleston News and Courier.
The most pronounced display of very bad
manners that we have noted in a long tlmo
must be credited to tbe account of some of
the society people of Dallas, Tex. An en
tertainment baa been given In that city In
the Interest of the local kindergarten. Mrs.
Roosevelt, the wife of the president, was
requested to make a contribution. In com
pliance with this, request and without un
derstanding "what was wanted or what was
in contemplation aa an entertainment," as
Mrs. Henry C. Coke of Dallas explained the
other day, ahe sent a handkerchief to be
sold for the benefit of the Kindergarten as
sociation. As the story goes, the handker
chief "is cotton, machine hemstitched and
some assert that it could be duplicated in
any dry gooda store in Datlaa for 10 centa,
or three for a quarter." A majority of the
people in charge of the entertainment re
solved, after much heated discussion, that
Mrs. Roosevelt's gift should be returned to
her, "after it had been exhibited at so
much per look at the reception."
We agree with Mrs. Coke that Mrs. Roose
velt "did not receive fair play," and her
gift In aid of the entertainment at Dallas
was tar better than it deserved. There was
no reason in the world wby she should be
asked to make any aort of gift in aid of a
kindergarten fair anywhere, and particu
larly in a community which she has never
visited, and in which she ran feel no spe
cial interest. She was asked to make a
contribution to the Dallas fair because she
happena to ibe the wife ot tbe president of
the L'nlted States and ahe assumed doubt
less that It waa not the Intrinsic vslue of
tbe gift she made, but the gift Itself that
would be of interest to the Dallas people.
If the beggars felt otherwise they ought to
have stated In their letter requesting a con
tribution that no contribution would be re
ceived unless it was worth su much. It ts
not an evidence ot the beat breeding to
value a gift according to tbe price marked
oa the tag. The Texana ought to have told
the lady how much they would expect her
gift to be worth in dollars and centa.
The New Tork World says ' that Mrs.
Coke, "one of tbe foremost society women
of Dallas, waa the strongeat defender Mrs.
Roosevelt had." and that she said that
"those who criticised ber most severely
were northern wometl." Our only regret Is
that these "northern women" selected a
southera state In which te make a display
ot their native maaaexa.
HOI SD ABOIT NEW YORK.
Ripples oa the Current ot I. lie In the
Metropolis.
Turf Investment and grain gambling
srhemes have yielded the promoters at
least $5,000,000 within a year. As a means
of ridding suckers of their money these
plans are shown to be not only effective, hut
as swift aa betting on the wrong horse.
But they are not swift enough to meet the
demand. Henee a New Tork genius evolved
a mechanical contrivance warranted to "do"
the confiding public at a awlfter gait. It
was exhibited In a New York court
during the trial of the man who worked It.
The machine consisted of a copper box
about two feet square, with a false bottom.
Two genuine bills, wet with a "secret"
prepsratlon, sandwiched with tissue paper
and placed In an envelope, would be laid
in the bottom of the box and the cover
closed. Half a dozen batteries attached to
the box would then be set in operation,
the strange noises Impressing the victim
and making him believe that some strange
process was going on.
In the excitement the false bottom would
be allowed to drop over the first envelope,
lesvtng exposed another envelope In which
three genuine bills would be found. The
center bill would be supposed to be tho
counterfeit that had Just been made. The
prospective victim would be allowed to take
it to a bank, and, finding that it passed
muster, usually returned to get large quan
tities of green goods, which were palpably
frauds. By this means suckers were trapped
for $50,000.
Startling indeed Is. the declaration made
by Captain Langan, chief of the New York
City detective bureau.
"The trouble with the average case against
one of these syndicates," said he, "Is that
the great majority of their victims are
women who speculate without the knowl
edge of their husbands."
He was speaking of a concern on Broad
way that had Just been raided. It adver
tised the investment of money belonging
to other people on the races and guaran
teed.! per cent per week on money sent
them, and a quarterly dividend, according
to their profits.
The detectives add that more than one
staid and trusting husband would be as
tounded if the letters found In these places
should be made public.
"In the borough of Manhattan," says
Harper's Weekly, "the native whites, both
of whose parents were born in the United
States, now constitute only 18.9 per cent
of the population. Even of the native,
whites born of native parents only about
two-thirds were born in the etate of New
York. The largest contingent of outside
natives came from the New England states,
and, curiously enough, there were more
immigrants coming to the city of New
York from the southern than from the
middle and far western states. Not only
are the native-born children of native
Americans vastly outnumbered by those
who are foreign-born or the children of
foreign immigrants, but the racial nature
of the foreign element la materially chang
ing. Instead ot being almost exclusively
Irish and German, as it waa fifty, or even
forty, years ago, the Irish-born are now
fewer by nearly 21,000 than they were
twelve years ago, and the Germans fewer
by upward of 6,000. The increase of the
foreign-born during the last decade has
come almost entirely from Russia, Italy and
the Hapsburg dominions. As tbe birth rate
among the newcomers Just mentioned is
incomparably higher than that among the
native-born who were children of native
parents, it looks aa if, fifty years hence,
the native American element would dwindle
to a very small fraction of the metropolitan
population. They will doubtless continue,
however, to possess a greatly disproportion
ate share of the city's wealth. As for tbe
so-called Knickerbockers, they are likely
to be nearly extinct by tbe end of another
generation. Even now only a very few of
tbem can be discerned struggling painfully
on the surface of society rati nantes In
gurglte vasto.
The report of the Department of Health
makes some Interesting estimates about
New York's growing population. According
to the United States census, compiled In
1900, the population of the greater city was
3,437,202. The estimated population com
plied by the health department for th
middle of the year 1903, 3.732,903, shows
that the population since 1900 will havo
increased 295,701. The health commissioner
believes that the 4.000,000 mark will be
reached in a year. The death rate for the
third week ot February shows a percentage
ot 18.21, as against a percentage ot 19.62
for the corresponding week last year.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Senator-elect Smoot insists that his heart
beats warmly for his native land.
Robert Poole, who recently died at his
suburban home near Baltimore, had charge
of the work of building the dome of tbe
national capitol at Washington, as well as
the heavy iron castings and columns of the
treasury building.
James Hilton of St. Louis recently pur
chased a genuine De Vlucl Madonna for $9,
has been offered $15,000 for it, but holds
it at $60,000. Experts pronounce it a rare
gem, and one of those stolen from the
Vatican over 100 years ago.
The monster steamer Sedrlc did two won
derful things. It came across tbe At
lantic in high sess and galea without a
tremoi;, and a glass of champagne placed
on the sideboard of its stroking room did
not lose a drop the whole way across.
Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale of Boston
lately, in a public address, expressed his
astonishment and dismay at having heard
a man 80 years old say that be had never
read the conatltutton of the United States.
He did not venture to say, so far as re
ported, that tbe man was a citizen of
Boston.
Franklin P. Roberge, a veterinary sur
geon of New York, is suing the estate of
Robert Bonner, the horseman, for $100,000.
Roberge claima that he attended Bonner's
horses for twenty-three years without pay
ment, the horseman having promised to
give him $100,000 or leave him that amount
In his will.
William McAdoo, formerly a congressman
from New Jersey and late assistant secre
tary of the navy In the Cleveland adminis
tration, is now a citizen ot New York,
where he has built up a flourishing law
practice. During his congressional career
he ranked as one of the ablest men on the
democratic side, likewise among tbe most
popular..
An official of the state administration of
Maryland is the commander of the State
Fishery board. He receives an annual sal
ary of $1,600 and has the appointment of
seventy-five oyster measurers chosen from
the various Maryland counties on the
Chesapeake. Tbe duty of the oyster meas
urer is to prevent the marketing of very
small oysters.
New York crooks worked off twenty
three substitute bodies on local insursnce
compsnles and got the money. Burglars
looted a house in Chicago and carted the
gooda sway In wagons. Tblevee raided the
home of a Philadelphia policeman and se
cured, a few trinkets. It Is a pity so much
energy and courage should be wasted, or
at best only, poorly rewarded. Had the
get-rich-qulck fraternity organized a turf
Investment company or a grain gamblery,
they could have scooped ia thousands In
stead of pennies.
HUT FOR THE I.EGISLATl RB.
St. Edward Advance: If our State Nor
mal Is to be divided into several parts and
distributed throughout the state simply
to grstlfy the ambition qf a few politicians
why should 8t. Kdwsrd not have a part of
the pie 7 When Nebraska succeeds In elim
inating tbe saloon and politics from its edu
cational syrtrm we will have accomplished
an end far uiore Important to the general
good than the placing of prohibitory liquor
laws upon our statute books.
Schuyler Quill: A bill has beea Intro
duced in the house reapportioning tbe Ju
dicial districts of the state. It provides
for four less Judges In the state, on being
taken from this district and the district be
ing made smaller by cutting oft Merrick
county. If this district Is to stand the pro
posed reduction, which no doubt it can, the
bill should be amended so as to cut off a
few more Judges. Give fewer district Judges
and Increase the supreme court memberw.
Rushvllle Recorder: We cannot see any
Just reason why the Norfolk asylum should
not be rebuilt. The state cannot afford to
allow so much valuable salvage to go to
waste, and tbe needs of the state call for
the maintenance of the Norfolk asylum,
both on the score of economy and con
venience. It Is one of the few state in
stitutions established In the northeast
part of the state, and now an efficient
water works system has been built near It,
there Is no necessity to add to other in
stitutions and waste so much of the state's
money In devising new building schemes.
Falrbury Gazette: Everybody admits that
Nebraska has tbe best legislature that ever
assembled at Lincoln, and yet It begins
to look like the members were playing
"hoss" on the revenue question and on
railway assessments. Any plan which falls
to assess every dollar of property on an
equal basis Is a fraud and a humbug and
means political suicide for the members ot
the legislature who endorse It. Any as
sessment plan that favors any class ot
property, regardless of ownership, will be
a flat failure. And the people will hold
members to a strict accountability.
Wausa Gazette: Ons of the best compli
ments given the present legislature Is the
complaint et want of patronage made by the
Lindell bar. The management of that de
partment insists that the receipts for tbe
month are far short of what they have been
during previous serslons. While all the
present members are not strlotly temper
ance men, it is a gratifying fact that very
few, if any. Indulge to aa exoess. This is
but another proof that in politics as well
as in other pursuits of life the "boozer" Is
relegated to the rear and the clean, sober
and reliable man Is coming to the front.
Auburn Post: The present legislature
seems to be inclined to make a record
ot economy, which it should , do, but
many interests are besieging It tor large
appropriations. Among them is one for an
exhibit at the St. Louis fair and another
for a building for tbe State Historical so
ciety. The state has been in the show
business for a number of years paat at
some expense and it seems to the Post
that uow is a good time to stop the rtow
business and give us something that is
needed and will do the etate more good
than a display at St. Louis, and that is a
liberal appropriation for a historical build
ing. Auburn Post: A bill has been Introduced
in the legislature to reapportion the Judi
cial districts and curtail the number of
district Judges, This is a move In the
right direction and tbe bill ahould pass.
According to the bill, ' the First district
is composed of tbe counties of Richardson,
Pawnee, Johnson and Nemaha. The Fifth
district Is Gage and Jefferson. This di
vision has been made already by the Judges
of this district. Judge Stull has held court
lu these four counties for the laat four
years and Judge Letton the other two,
and no one has heard of either Judge
being overworked. It would be better Or
ail parties it the district was divided.
SPORTS OF GREAT MEN.
Love of the Cbaae aad of National
Gamea Uncooled by Fame.
Baltimore American.
The announcement that United States
Senator Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland
will rid in tbe financial support of tbe
Washington Base Ball club does not come
as a surprise to those who are aware of
that statesman's love for the national
sport. This love dates back to his boyhood
days when the young Marylander who was to
become so prominent in state and national
politics in after years was a good base ball
player himself, and though' he never took
a hand In a professional game, could hold
his own with any amateur in Howard
county. There is nothing about the sport
wht?h the senator does not know. The
secrets of the inshoot and the outshoot,
the up-curve and the down-curve, the
bunt, the hit-and-run, are ho mysteries to
him. 'He is as familiar with them as he ts
w)th the Ins and outa of political manage
ment. Rarely is a game' played at the na
tional capital which the senator does not
see, usually in company with other states
men ot more or less prominence, who take
this method of relaxation from the burden
of making laws for the land and listening
to constituents who are looking for offices.
President Roosevelt's sporting tastes lie
In another direction. Hunting big game Is
hla fad, and though in his recent southern
trip the bears refused to come within
range of his gun be has had great success
In the Rockies, and has written la a very
entertaining manner about those trips.
Nothing smaller than a lion, a bear or a
moose is large enough for him. Shooting
at birds finds no favor in hla eyes. Even
the wild duck does not tempt him. On the
contrary, ex-President Grover Cleveland
spends much of his leisure time in winter
banging away at ducks and partridges and
other email game. The rest of the year
finds him frequently sitting in a skiff wait
ing for the fish to bite. He la a lucky fish
erman, too, and has become so fortunate
at it that he can Justly be called the Izaak
Walton of America. Not a few American
statesmen, whether it be to their credit or
not, find their amusement la the alluring,
but oft expensive, game of . poker. Chief
Justice Fuller is credited with spending
much of his leisure time reading fiction of
the dime novel variety such as "Old
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Sleuth, the Detective; or Piping the Jones
Falls Mystery." There Is also a member
of tbe cabinet whose tastes lie In the same
direction.
George Washington loved the fox chase,
and not Infrequently took his aeat at tne
card table among hla Mends. In England
golf and cricket are the sports, of states
men. Emperor William loves 'the boar
hunt and doee not mind the element of
danger it possesses. So It is evident that
these men who have risen to prominence
In the world's affairs have not allowed the
cares of state to drive from their veins that
sporting blood which came at their birth,
and which will remain with tbem as long
aa they live.
POINTED REMARK".
"I don't see why you should resent being
called a eeir-made m.n."
"Because I believe In fair piny," answered
Mr. Meekton. "I won't eee the credit taken
away from Henrietta in that manner."
Washington Star.
Timid Lover Your parents seem to have
gotten over this dislike for me.
"Yes. When we first met they were
afraid It might lead to something." Brook
lyn Life.
Blobbs I still have the first dollar I ever
earned.
Blobbs Sentiment? (
Blobbs No; counterfeit. Philadelphia
Record.
"Can you support my daughter In tht
manner to which ahe has been accus
tomed r"
"I'm not quite sure ns to that. I did
pretty well In the conservatory last night,
but who held her last?" Chicago Post.
"Look at the way baby's working his
mouth," exclaimed Mrs. Newman. "Now,
he nronnaes tn nut hla font In It "
"H'm," repllecf her husband, grumpily.
"Hereditary. That's what I did when I
proposed." Philadelphia Record.
"Professor." Inquired the thonshtful mem.
ber of the class, "don't you suppose there
will come a time when all the coal and all
the coal oil stored away In the earth will
have become exhausted T"
"Certainly," said the Instructor.
"What will we do thenT"
"We shall be playing harps, Z hope."
Chicago Tribune.
"If you don't pay me my salary," said
the leading lady, "I shall denounce, you
from the stage.
"All right." answered the manager, plac
idly. "Let's fix a date and I'll advertise
it. Maybe it would make a hit" Wash
ington Star.
Barnes I never saw such an eater as
Vllklns is. His Jaws are on the move
nearly all the time.
Howes Yes; it Isn't his fault, buf' the
doctor's. The doctor told him to take a
drink of whisky before eating. Sob ton
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WAITING.
John Burroughs.
Serene I fold my handa and watt.
Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea;
I rave no more 'gainst time or fate,
For lot my own shall come to me.
I stay my haste I make delays,
For what avails this eager pace?
I -stand amid the eternal ways.
And what is mine shall know my face.
Asleep, awake, by night or day,
The friends I seek are seeking me;
No wind can drive my bark astray.
Nor change the tide ot destiny.
What matter If I stand alone T -I
wait with loy the coming years,
My heart shall reap where It has sown,'
And garner up Its fruit of tears.
The waters know their own and draw
The brook that springs in yonder height;
So flows the good with equal law
Unto the soul ot pure delight
The stars come nightly to the skyi
The tidal wave unto the aea;
Nor time, nor apace, nor deep, nor high,
Can keep my own away from me.
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