THE OMAHA DAILY 11EE: TUESDAY, MARCH 17. 1903.
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complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
month ot February, iswo, was u
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11 80,UA'J
12 30,040
13 B(,40
14 30.5TO
25 ...81.0HO
29 ...31.BSO
27 81,H
28 81,780
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Less unsold
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ind returned copies.
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Notary Publlo.
Never mind. Greater Omaha will be
marked on the map before the next
federal census la taken.
The senate votes on the canal treaty
today. If It also votes a nnai adjourn-
uient no tears will be shed.
Now if the legislature had not stepped
In to postpone our city election, it would
be all over but the shouting.
It's really too bad that discovery of
coal in Omaha's back yard could noi
have come a little earlier in the tea-
ion.
New York City is moving for a muni
cipal electric lighting plant Municipal
ownership keeps pushing to the front
In all parts of the country.
When resident Boosevelt reaches
n, .n is .nonrded the entertain-
for him last falL the
K., .h. f.nn win have had a
e .,,.,1
Looking further forward, a far-sighted
person can see the destruction wrought
by the floods paving tho way for an-
other big river and harbor bill logrolled
tbrough the next congress.
When a legislator champions a meas
ure until it gets half way through the
legislative hopper and then abandons it
or helps to make It harmless by amend
ment, his constituents can draw their
own conclusions.
A nephew of Susan B. Anthony has
been nominated for mayor by the
republicans of Leavenworth. That will
doubtless be gratifying to the equal
suffrage leader,, but not half so gratify
Ing as if the nomluce had been a niece.
The lawyer who is supposed to get a
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..uuvi,ir. ire uuv ui whj du.u .
United States ot tue property anti
rights of the Panama Canal company Compare these figures with the rall
wlll probably be free to admit that the roai assessments of the two states. In
practice of the legal profession can be
tnado to pay.
v.nriir ,,1.. ..... iv
J. 4 k...l. 1.1 ,.tr tn. tto ca.
uu,T,m ul
tabllshment of new mills and factories.
More mills and factories wo 1 d mean
" ,. , 7; , . ..J
w m-
and prosperity.
'Governor Peabody of Colorado Is
Mnulating tho example of President
Roosevelt as a peacemaker between
warring employers uud employes. If
the Colorado miuers maintain their
itrlke record they will keep the chief
rxecutlve busy.
,If there is uo ground for complaint
that tax burdens have been unequally
distributed in Nebraska, whr was it
orcesKiirv for the remiblicans to make
une Ikmi of the camuaisn a i.roinlse to
revise tiie rverue laws In the direction
f more exact equality?
And now it has been discovered that
tho Third ward la fiolng back on the
L-lty administration. The favorite ar-
ralgnment of the city administration of
the past was that it represented the
bums and vicious classes and for proof any of the rights of the Southern Pa- our trade relations with certain Kuro
the ateadfast support of the Third ward cine under the Central Pacific lease, pean ' countries and may bring about
was cited. Is ft possible the antis huve
now amalgamated with the bums and
lawless elements?
The IJncoln Journal quotes as a
measure of prevailing prosperity fig
ure complied by the New York Fluau
rial Chronicle, which show that the
net earnings of the railroads of the
United States increased from 1800 to
!VJ2 by f23.000..iNli It forwta to any,
however, that property with double and
treble nt luconve alio doubles
trebles In value. Yet peculiarly
enough the railroads of Nebraska are
puylug la taxes actually less In 1002
than. Uity did la ISM.
SHAMCLISS nSTBA TALVF thk rt.vrLK
If any man or set of men should de
liberately eoncott a scheme to set the
town on fire or blow up Its public
bulldltiRs with dynamite the community
would rise up as one man to have them
thrown Into prison or lynched, but when
men set about deliterately to undermine
nnd destroy self-government, the peo
ple tamely allow them to proceed with
their devilish work. And yet this Is
precisely what litis been going on at
Lincoln fur the Iiut sixty dnj9 under the
leadership of John N. Baldwin, the head
pusher of the most rotten lobby that has
ever lnfcsud the state eapltol.
V'Ucu the legislature convened Its
members were for the most part dis
posed to do what is right and Just by
the people. Nine-tenths of them doubt
less entcrd the eapltol with the sin
cere deMn .to give the people relief from
exist Ins i buses and protect them from
oorjiorato aggression and exaction, but
the machinery set In motion by John
N. Baldwin and the allied corporations
has completely demoralized the legls
ture and makes self-government a farce.
Men who hart! enjoyed the confidence
nrd lespect of their constituents, too
weak or vulnerable to withstand cor
porate tf uiptatlon and corporate bull
dozing are now championing corporate
rapacity In the halls of legislation and
brazenly Asserting that the railroads
huve been ta(d too much In the last
ten years, when every man, woman and
child knows that the railroads have
connolled the state boards of assess
nieur In Nebraska ever since the state
board was organized. It Is a matter of
record that the railroad assessment of
1SS2 more than 50 per cent higher
than that f 1W2, which was dictated by
the railroads. Is It ' not an Insult
to the Intelligence of the people
to assert that the railroads have
been taxed too much In the last
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l " Mjun n bibuu iu rrnnuu
that with a mileage many hundreds of
mllpa cwntor iha rnllmnrfa nt Vnhpo.Vo
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$1100.000 less than they did In 1890?
It Is a mutter of notoriety that the
state boards of twenty years ago and
the stnte boards of ten years ago did
not pretend to assess the railroad fran
chises, which constitute by far the most
valuable part of their taxable assets. It
is a matter or notoriety that the state
board of 100:: did not assess the rail
road franchises and Auditor Weston
ntid T-vat.urcr Stuefer so testified be
fore the. Mipreiue court. It seems al
most incredible that In the face of these
facts men elected to renreaent tha rxn.
r)(J Bhould not onlv chamnlon nnd le-
feml co,Iloratl. ghirklnir in the twist.
hl)t ,nject Jnt0 tne new. revenue jaw
provisions that they must know will
perpetuate this Iniquity.
The only excuse so far given in de
fense of the undervaluation of railroad
property Is that other property, notably
personal property, has for years been
d at 'culously low figures, and
sPeclal 8tre88 ,a ,a,a upon the as8e88.
ment of llTe on 'arm and
honwboM goods in the home. A com
padsou of the assessment of this class
I of property and railroad property In
otuer dates may be instructive. Take,
for example, the assessments of per
sonal property In Nebraska and 111
mois:
Nebraska, 1902. Illinois, 1902.
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S-B
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a $
a
t n
S3
c
e.
Cattle $4.30 $ 25.S0
$ 4.66 3 22
80
Sheep
.67
1.03
7.02
8.42
.69
1.24
10.69
11.04
88.17
8.92
10.57
8.45
Hogs
.18
42.12
61.64
468.43
60.64
73.56
6.20
63.45
60.20
440.85
Horses
Mules and asses. 1.69
Steam engines... 73.08
Safes
10.09
12.26
44.60
62.85
Billiard tables...
Carriages and
23.00
wagons
4.58 ' 27.48 4.60
Watc has and
clocks
1.69
10.14
, 16.32
128.88
1.47
1.88
17.35
7.S5
JO
Sewing machines. 3.78
Pianos .....21.48
86.75
Melodeons and
organs 4.98 29.88 4.07 20.35
1902 the total railroad mileage in 111-
lnols was 10,407 miles, assessed at $8,-
223 per mile, which Is emiltl to 141.123
nptrtQ. value, or an aetrreirate value of
I .
!MLs,oi3,210. Nebraska has C.704 miles
Or railroad, assi.'xsed at S4.4G1 ner mile,
WLU-U. multiplied by C. would give an
-M,al VR,ue or -,mu Per nine, or an
I II LI LT rrLTM 1 1 V H Mil- fir I.Hl.Tli.f 'riJ. A a.
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sensed by the Illinois standard, which
is i nmlttedly low. the aggregate value
or Nebraska railroads would be $234,
227.0(H) and their aggregate assessment
would be $48,507,027,
With such figures before them tho
champions and defenders of the pres
ent system of railroad tax assessment
uo Lot nave a root to stand on.
171 s kkexe-harriman cuatcst.
The contest between James It. Keen
and E- Harrlnian for the control of
tne Bto-'k of tne Southern Pacific rail-
road, is the most interesting mutter
Ju now In the railway world. A few
days ago Judge Lurton, In the United
States circuit court at Cincinnati,
granted a temporary injunction re-
straining the transfer or disposing of
the lease of the Central Pacific by tbe
Southern Pacific, or the disposing of
I The Injunction also restrains tho Union
Pacific from voting any capital stock of
the Southern Pacific.
It appears that what the Keene fac-
tlon object to Is the employment of
earnings in new construction, epeclallj
011 the Central Pacific, whose result
must be to turn traffic that way, to the
I Injury of the southern route. They
are understood to claim that Harrl -
I nin'a object la to put the Central
I first class condition .from earnings
or I the Southern Pacific's entire system and
I then turn that road over to the Union
I Pacific lu such conditlou and on such
I terms that the southern Hues will
I unable to compete with It The San
Francisco Chronicle says In reference
to the contest that the sympathy of the
people of California should be wholly
with Harrlnian, for the reason that the
Central and Union Tacltlc roads form
the natural and most direct highway
for "commerce passing between the
most Important section of the Taclflc
coast nnd the most Important sections
of the eastern states. The order of
Injunction requires the defendant to
show cause on April 1 why a perma
nent Injunction should not Issue and
the result Is awaited with a- great deal
of Interest not only by the companies
concerned but also by that portion of
the public which will be affected.
STILL OBJ&CTIXQ.
A week ago It was reported that the
Dominion government had sent a sec
ond remonstrance to the Imperial au
thorities regarding the American mem
bers of the Alaskan boundary commis
sion. Three days later the Canadian
premier, In a speech, fn the House of
Commons, said he regarded the treaty
providing for the commission as a dls
tlnct victory over the position pre
viously assumed by the United States,
declaring that "decision or no decision,
one result of the commission would be
the best possible education for the
American and British people on the
points contended for by Canada." He
found fault, however, with the com
missioners appointed to represent the
United States as not being "Impartial
Jurists of repute." lie urged that the
British commissioners should be men of
that character, the best to be found in
the empire.
The Imperial authorities are ap
parently giving no attention to the re
monstrances of the Dominion govern
ment and reports from the Canadian
capital state that the feeling there Is
that the imperial authorities are so de
termined to keep on good terms with
the United States that even at the risk
ff vonbonltiry fmnAHol aortf I niant In
v i' vunvinuik - nui o nil , u
Canada they will give Canada', case
away. The attitude of the Dominion
government In this matter is character
istic of its entire course in dealing with
this country a course of objection and
obstruction, often of the most irritating
nature. Its protest against the com
missioners appointed by the president
of the United States is most extraordi
nary and it Is not surprising that the
British cabinet has disregarded it. The
commissioners Secretary Boot, Senator
Lodge and ex-Senator Turner are men
of ability, In every way qualified for the
duty Imposed on them. They are men
whose public career Justifies confidence
in their Integrity and their selection
was assurance that the president be
lieved them to be conscientious and
upright as well as capable. It looks
like impertinence, to put it moderately,
for the Dominion government to pro
test against men of the distinguished
, er J Ton
international conlty or that govern-
ment to imply, as Its protest does, that
these eminent American citizens can
not be depended upon to decide accord
ing to the facts. Of course they be
lieve that the American contention Is
riffht. It was not to bo expected that
the president would select commission
ers who believed otherwise, or who
had given no consideration to the ques
tion. But if Canada can iustifv her
contention, if she can show valid
reasons and substantial grounds for her
claim, she will find that the American
commissioners are not beyond belnir
convinced. ,
The fact is that the talk 'about the
Canadian case being given away simply
means that there Is no confidence In
the claim of that country. Some proml
npnt men of the Dominion were on
P8ed t0 the treaty providing for the
commission. pne present talk Is to
prepare the popular mind for a defeat
'that Is felt to be Inevitable because of
the weakness of the Canadian case.
MAT ASSC C0KVKSSI0X8.
It Is quite probable that after .this
country has concluded a reciprocity ar
rangement with Cuba of which there
now aeuma in ho fn rnrnhlo npnruidn
snmn nt !. Pumtuign -a-m ..i.
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like commercial concessions.
It has al
ronilv luurn nnnmtnwl V,n rar..on
proposes, in the event of the ratification
of the pending treaty, to ask the Cuban
I uuv Wiaico (UTriUUirUll lUl
IamsI ITn iiul (J a 4.. 1. M
Identical privileges. It Is pointed out
that otherwise German traders will be
placed at a disadvantage and of course
the traders of other European countries
would be In a similar condition.
It is therefore to be expected that all
those countries will seek to secure from
Cuba the same consideration which that
reoublio shows to the United RttM in
the matter of the tariff and Just what
the result of such a movement might
n " is not easy to foresee. A recent
1 . . .
Berlin dispatch says that Germany's
position is to 00 uennea clearly, so that
the United States may not complain
when Germany gives other nations pref-
erentini treatment, mis sounds a lit
tie like a thrent, although it may not
be so intended. At all events the es
tabllshlng ot close commercial relations
with Cuba through reciprocity will be
very likely to have some effect upon
important changes.
" la intimated that The Hague
tribunal may yet le cheated out of its
opportunity to arbitrate the Venezuelan
claims by the prosjiect of an amicable
arrangement between President Castro
and his Euroiean creditors. The Hague
arbitrators ought to fix up some kind of
1 a rule to prevent the withdrawal of
In I controversies nee' submitted, except bv
of J It consent. If It does not want to hold
I the sack.
I Senator Stewart of Nevada, as chair
be I man of b committee on Indlau affairs.
I is said to be in favor of breuklng up
all the reservations and glviug the
white man a chance to take up the land
by purchase or otherwise. Senator
Stewart will hnve his efforts actively
seconded so far as the western reserva
tions are concerned by the land grab
rings that even now let no chance go
by to separate the Indian from his
share f the public domain. If the
laud grabbers are only let. alone In their
Ingenious schemes they will have the
reservations broken up without waiting
for congressional legislation.
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The new machine wants the legisla
ture to enact a law that will authorize
Inquisitorial test oaths at the primary
elections by which" It Is proposed to as
certain how men voted at the last elec
tion. Why not extend these Inquiries
to elections before the last, for ex
ample, to the election of 1900, or the
election of 1901? How many of the
anti-machine or new machine men sup
ported the city republican ticket three
years ago? liow many voted the re
publican legislative ticket two years
ago? How many of them supported
the republican candidates for the school
board a year ago?
Governor Cummins of Iowa gives it
out that the platform on which he will
run for a second term will contain the
same declarations as to the tariff and
the trusts as the platform on which he
was originally elected and which was
reiterated by the last republican state
convention In Iowa. Not only this, but
he declares himself In favor of incor
porating the Iowa idea Into the next
national platform. The Iowa Idea will
furnish texts for a great deal of dis
cussion yet.
Members of the Douglas delegation
who bound themselves by an Ironclad
agreement to vote as a unit have at last
discovered that It will not be practical
for them to play the role of the three
guardsmen. "One for ull and all for
one" Is a very pretty play In a stage
scrimmage or In a romance, but men In
public life, especially men In a repre
sentative capacity, are held Individ
ually responsible for their acts and can
not bide behind each other.
President Francis of the Louisiana
Purchase exposition will have to hurry
back from Europe to get ready to pro
ceed with the dedication exercises and
share the honors of the occasion with
President Roosevelt. On account of
the limited time Mr. Francis will have
to notify the crowned heads who have
failed to be accorded interviews that if
they want to see him they will have to
come over to St Louis themselves.
Carnegie's Expanding Collection,
Boston Transcript.
Mr. Carnegie, is apparently not satisfied
with his unique collection on the North
American continent. He is going to finance
the Paa-Amerlou, Transcontinental rail
road, with the 4eslgn, ultimately, to give a
library to every village In Acre and Para
guay. . A deep., schemer Is Mr. Carnegie.
and as indefatigable as Mark Twain's col
lector of echoes.
Government by Injunction.
Minneapolis Times.
Government by Injunction is carried
step too far when It la used to prevent a
wife from exercising her natural right to
pull her husband's whiskers when he
not acting right. A man who wears a long
and flowing beard should be good to his help
meet or take the consequences without a
murmur.' The Injunction granted In a re
cent case should be dissolved.
Restricting- Senatorial Debate.
Baltimore American.
We take H that If the sonata should
adopt a cloture rule It will be mild In
character, looking to nothing more drastic
than a limitation ot debate when any mem
ber, or set of members, undertakes to carry
out a program such as Quay and Morgan
put Into execution during the regular ses
sion Just closed. In such a case a cloture
rule would be a national blessing, and It Is
earnestly to be hoped that Mr. Allison's
suggestion will bear fruit In the form of a
reasonable regulation for limiting debate
In the senate.
Breaklnsr tha Bonds In Rossis.
New York Tribune.
If the decree of the czar granting his
subjects freedom of worship Is carried out,
the Jews of that country will have had
double cause tor celebrating the feast ot
Purlm, which occurred yesterday. The feast
commemorates the time when Mordecal,
with the aid of Queen Esther, delivered the
children of Israel from the Persian perse
cutor. Wherever there are Jews the feast
Is celebrated with song and merrymaking
and the reading of the Book of Esther. In
the realm of the czar tbe Jews have, In
deed, small cause for rejoicing, but even
there tho Purlm celebration is a time for
joyous festivities. If the Imperial decree
shall havo tbe effect of making the burden
of the Russian Jew lighter. If It shall break
the bonds whoch have bound him down to a
condition worse than blavery, Purlin will
from tiow on bave a deeper significance
for him, the czsr will be remembered as a
liberator, and emigration from Russia will
be diminished.
PEHSOSAL OTKS.
Colonel William F. Vilas has presented
to the Grand Army Memorial museum at
Madison, Wis., an oil painting ot himself,
by request.
Captain W. S. Cowles, brother-in-law of
President Roosevelt, has applied for sea
duty and Is to be tbe first commander of the
magnificent new battleship Missouri.
A Pittsburg young woman was suffocated
by tbe crush In a street car Friday night.
As tbe conductor bad already collected hei
fare, the company has managed thus far to
control Its grief.
For tho sum of $1,000,000,000 Lieutenant
Hobson offers to build a navy for Uncle
Sam that will make him master of the seas
at least until some other nation shall
double tbe appropriation.
C. C. Calhoun, a young man, is the most
envied lawyer In Kentucky. He succeeded
In having Kentucky's war claim of $1,323,
999.35 allowed by congress and has returned
to Louisville with the certified check In bis
pocket. He gets 10 percent, or more than
$132,000, tor bis work. He was a poor man
up to tbl time.
In accordance with the will of Jefferson
Kearny Clark, who died In St. Louis four
years ago, a handsome monument Is to be
erected in Bcllefontalne cemetery In tha
city to perpetuate tbe fains of his father,
Oeneral William Clark, the northwestern
pioneer. The monument will overlook the
Mlcalsslppi river at the point where Gen
eral Clark and Meriwether Lewis debarked
from their celebrated exploring trip to tbe
, mouth of tbe Columbia river.
1IIST9 FOR TUB I.EfiULATI RK,
Friend Telegraph: The grafters who de
sire the Job of Inspecting traction canines
at $5 each have another scheme to get Into
a fat job. Thla bill should be burned with
Its fathers and would Improve the thresher
service about as much as inspection Im
proves tbe quality of illuminating oil.
Norfolk Tress: The snme thing that has
happened In all previous sessions will hap
pen at the end of this session of the legis
lature. Bills of all kinds will be up for
hurried consideration, and many measures
that ought to be killed will slip through.
It Is a mistake to limit the pay or timo
of tbe legislature.
Tobias Express: We have examtned the
new revenue hill and we believe It will
be a big Improvement upon the old law.
Of course there are some things In it
that we do not approve of, but we do not
expect a law that will exactly suit every
body, and doubtless some of these objec
tlonablo features will be eliminated be
fore It becomes a law. It should at least
be passed and given a trial.
Howella Journal: A few weeks ago It
looked as though there was some chance of
our state legislature passing a law provid
ing for tho assessment of all property,
both real and personal, at Its actual cosh
value. Under tbe present law it Is hardly
possible to procure a just assessment. There
is but one way of righting this matter, and
that Is tbe assessing of all property at Its
actual value. When this is done tbe farm
ers, the business men, tha railroads and
the capitalists will all be forced to pay
their Just share ot taxes. As the railroad
lobby has lined up in opposition to such a
measure there is no danger ot Its passage
at the present session.
Pender Times: Tie legislature has pissed
a bill which the governor has signed that
provides that in order to become a lawyer
you must attend a high school at least three
years, and put In three years In a law
school and one year in a law office, or
three years In a law offlee, and of course
pass an examination. This law is certainly
uncalled for and It Is not creditable to the
law-making powers that It was enacted. It
Isn't schools, but brains, that make a law
yer, just the same as In any other calling.
Higher education is. all right, but not es
sential to become a good, honest lawyer.
In a few years It will require a college ed
ucation to become a drayman.
Geneva Signal: The legislature Is wind
ing itself up rapidly and possibly the state
will feel relieved when the end of the
string Is reached, although thus far this
legislature has averaged far above the av
erage. The constitutional limit for the In
troduction of bills expired some days ago
and the members must now dispose of the
ones already written. The revenue bill,
the passage of which will, It accomplished,
constUute the Important work of tbe ses
slon, Is now engrossing the energies of the
house and thus far the members have stood
almost solidly for the bill practically In
tho form reported by the committee. It
really looks now as thouga il.e bill might
pass.
Holdrege Progress: The Burgesc bill,
known as house roll No. T73, pioviding for
tbe manner of purchase of county supplies,
such as stationery, blankbooks and blanks.
should be passed. It is in the line of aeon
omy and will prevent the Jobbery which has
prevailed In many counties in the past In
the matter of awarding contracts for these
supplies. In tbe past tne big city offices
have come in and gobbled up these con
tracts because the small home printing es
tablishments have not been equipped to
furnish all the supplies. Under the provis
ions of the new law much of the stationery
and blanks would be done at home at as
low a rate while the other work such as
blankbooks would be submitted to legiti
mate competition and result In a saving to
the taxpayers In each county.
Ord Journal: One of the bills that Is be
fore the legislature that should become a
law Is one providing for tbe appointment
of matrons in all county jails where thero
are female prisoners. The matter of a
selection Is left with the county board,
and the amount of the compensation Is also
fixed by them. It would seem that any
man would realize the necessity ot such
measure, and the desirability that women
prisoners should be taken care or oy
women, and as there would be no expense,
except when the matron was engaged, It
could not be high and besides In every
town there are women of character wno
would be glad to care for the unfortunate
at a minimum fee In order to neip mem
In other ways. Besides In many cases,
the placing of women in Jail under the care
of men who sometimes nave me care 01
jails would tend to make them worse In
stead of better.
Springfield Monitor: Now would be a very
good time to have the legislature pass a
law and make the proper appropriations to
put In bridges over the Platte river wnere
they would be most advantageous to the
traveling publlo. By all means the bridges
should be built and kept in repair by the
state and not have the burden fall on
the county or counties where they are
located, as at the present time. The people
over the state are more or less oenemea
hv these bridges. and there is no good reason
why a few should be taxed to accommoaaio
tbe many. The washing away of so many
bridges this week by the floods will cost
thousands nnd thousands of Qonars to re
place them and will mean a great deal to
the people where they afe located. Whcthe'
or not this county Is callea on 10 neip re
build the Louisville bridge, the Monitor
thinks tbat something should te aone at
once to have the state take this matter in
hand.
Table Rock Argus: The new revenue bill
has been before the house this week. Fifty
or more amendments bave been offered to
the bill, but most of them are being xillea
off as fast as they come up for endorse
ment of the house. The bill provides for
the election of a county assessor, who shall
appoint deputies with the approval of the
board of commissioners, sumcieni to ao
he work. This is a radical change from
the present system, and must be tried be
fore Its merits or demerits are fully known.
Some honest taxpayers have been lea to
think the new bill is aimed to Increase their
taxes, but the object of the bill Is to un
cover property hidden by the tax shirker,
and make all property In Nebraska bear
Its lust proportion of the cost ol govern
ment. According to the valuation in the
auditor's office, Nebraska is not worth as
much by several million dollars as It was
ten years ago, wnen an wno am ai
familiar with conditions as they exist in
our stats today know, that there never wan
a time In all tbe yeasr of the past wnen tbe
material wealth of Nebraska was as great
as It is today, and under a fair, honest,
equitable assessment this wealth will pro
duce sufficient funds to meet toe aeniauui
of the state government on a reasonable
levy. This la the object of the present bill,
and It ought to be passed
BssUkel Joy ot Anticipation.
St. Louis Olobe-Domocrat.
Colonel Bryan' refusal to regard himself
a being a candidate for the presidential
nomination Is not to be construed otherwise
than as a condescending relinquishment ot
an anticipated rapture.
BITS OK WAMIHGTO I.IFK.
Minor Scenes Incidents Sketched
ti the Spot.
The Queerest contribution on record to
tho Treasury department's conscience fund
waa received last week. It Is an old
fRshloned watch with a gold filled case and
Swiss movement. With It was this note'
Such at. I have I give unto you for the
conscience funl. Tbe money I gsve for
the watch Is more than I consider I owe
tho government." The timepiece Is worth
only a few dollars. Secretary Shaw does
not know what to do with the contribution.
A watch cannot be turned Into the general
fund and Mr. Shaw does not know whether
he has the authority to sell it and turn In
the proceeds. That question Is being looked
up by the department's solicitor.
A newspaper photographer at' the Whits
House asked Senator Hanna, when he
walked out of the building one morning, to
permit his photograph to be taken with tho
White House executive offices as back
ground. "Oh. none of that for me," ths
senator said, as he prepared to dodge Inlo
the door of his carriage. "The last Usui
the Gridiron boys got hold of me they pre
tended to Xtray my head and presented a
photograph of Senator Hanna with ths
Whit House as the central figure ot his
aspirations, eto. Oh, no: I don't want to
give anybody any fresh opportunity to sup
pose that I am in lore with the White
House as sn adornment ot my picture. If
you'll Just go out to Pennsylvania avenue
I will make no objection to the photograph."
A novel bargain sale of real money fresh
from the presses of the government took
place in a Washington business house one
day last week. It was an advertising dodge
and it worked well. One thousand new
one-dollar treasury notes were sold for 90
cents each. The sale lasted Just two hours
and all tbat time the line of would-be pur
chasers of "good money st reduced rates"
was over a block long. No person was
allowed to buy more than one bill at a
time, but theiv was no limit placed upon
the number of times each person might buv.
In consequence, the line was of tbe nature
of an endless chain. As each 90 cents was
handed to the cashier, a bill of sale was
made out and a dollar bill was wrapped up
like an ordinary purchase and delivered to
the customer.
Six candidates for the position of snake
catcher to the division of reptiles and
batrachlans of the National museum pre
sented themselves before the Civil Service
commission and were examined as to, their
knowledge of snakes and called upon to
prove that their prowess as snake-charmers
was not mythical.
The fortunate one ot the six who strove
for the peculiar berth In the government's
service will have the scientific title of "aid
in perpetology" and will receive a compen
sation of $00 a month.
One of the candidates was a young man,
not more than 20. Several were middle
aged, and one, a bewhlskered and bewild
ered countryman, laid claim to the office on
account of the presentation of a photograph
showing his body covered with snakes.
Orders have been posted in several de
partments of the government notifying em
ployes that they must pay the debts they
incur for the necessaries of life 0? lose
their jobs. Some clerks make a regular
practice of buying on credit from grocers
and merchants, pushing It to the extreme
limit, and then falling to pay. Their sa'
aries from the government are not subject
to seizure so tbat the creditor has no legal
redress against this debtor and must lose
his debt unless the head of tbe department
In which tbe debtor is employed compels
blm to pay or leave the public service.
Trouble on this score has been com mo a lu
Washington, almost from tbe foundation ot
the government.
An old employe in ons of the depart
ments tells In the Brooklyn Eagle how
President Jackson stopped long enough In
hla fight on Nicholas Biddle and the United
States bank to help a landlady collect a
board bill from a 'long-delinquent debtor.
He occupied a position of responsibility In
the Navy department, where the man who
tells the atory Is now employed. He was a
person of fine address and a smooth talker,
and he had no difficulty In running up a
heavy bill with the landlady. In ber des
pair she finally went to the Whit House,
where she was ushered into the presence
of the presldert. She told her story to htm
and the old hero of tbe battle of New Or
leans listened attentively. When she had
completed, her tale of woe he said:
"Have Mr. Blank give you his rote at
sixty days for tbe entire amount of his en
debtednesa to you and when tbat I done
bring it to me."
Tbe landlady followed the president' In
structions. Mr. Blank promptly signed tbe
note, though wondering what she wanted
with it, for he knew no bank or note shaver
would discount his paper. She took tbe
note to the president, who read it care
fully, expressed his satisfaction, and then
took up bis good gray gocae-nuill pen and
endorsed It. In those day the bank did
not send out notices to the makers of notes
of tbe date those Interesting documents fell
due. They waited until the day ot doom,
as it were, and then sent their collector
out to hunt up tbe victim and get the
money. So when Mr. Blank's note tell due
the bank collector called on him and Jogged
his memory. Mr. Blank received blm af
fably, and smilingly said:
"My dear sir, I am not prepared to take
that note up today; tbe best I can do is to
renew It."
"I don't think that would suit your en
dorser," blandly remarked the collector.
"My endorser?" exclaimed Mr. Blank in
surprise. "Why, man, there is no endorser
on tbat note."
"Oh, yes there is," replied the collector.
"Here's the note, look at It and see for
yourself."
Mr. filank took the note and as he caw A.
Jackson scrawled across It In old Hickory's
well known rugged hand he nearly fell out
of his official chair. Recovering himself
with an effort he said:
"I think you are right. I will pay the
amount before the three day of grace ex
pire." And he did. So much for the right kind
of an endorser.
It Isn't every clothier that has as many lines of sack sulfa ut a
single price as we have at
$15.00
Others From $10.00 to $25.00
And this is also true of our top coats.
SO CL0T1UXQ FIT3 LIKE OURS.
svwms
THE OLD RELIABLE
Absolutely. Pure
THERE 15 NO SUBSTITUTE
RIGHTS OK STREET TRAFFIC.
SlarniOaat Decision Rendered by the
Federal Clrcntt Conrt.
Chicago Chronicle.
What ar the rights of tearaa and pedes
trians on the streets S3 against the street
cars? A recent case In St. Louis raises the
question. It should have a definite answer.
A citizen of St. Louis riding In his car
riage with members of his family attempted
to cross a street on which a trolley car wa
approaching. He did not get across quickly
enough; tbe motorman could not stop tha
car quickly enough; the result was a col
lision and wreck with personal Injuries to
the owner ot the carriage aud hla family.
The ease was tried In the United States
courts. It was recently decided by the fed
eral court of appeals for the circuit over
which Judge Caldwell presides.
The case turned on the main question of
contributory negligence. Did the driver of
the carriage fall to use rrdlna.'y care and
prudence In trying to drive across the
tracks ahead of the car? Did the motor
man exercise ordinary care and prudence
In operating his car at the street crossing
where carriages and pedestrians were fre
quently passing?
Tbe court held tbat the street cars have
no exclusive rights In the streets of the
city. Tbe citizen has tho same rights aa
the street car company at the crossing.
Each must use this right as not abusing It.
The citizen must not unnecessarily obstruct
and delay the car. The motorman must not
recklessly push his car across the Inter
secting street without regard to the teams
and pedestrians on the track ahead of hhn
This Is the local law everywhere.
LIVES TO A LAUGH.
"Pa," said the small boy, "what is the
ghost of a smile?"
"A ghost of a smile," pa sadly replied,
"Is something that Is found In empty bot
tles." New York Sun. ,
Algy So you asked old Jones for his ,
daughter's hand? What did he ray?
Ferdy He said, "Take her and let me be
happy." Puck. .
Mr. Muggins Mrs. BJones Is a. pre4ty I
shrewd shopper. Isn't she?
Mrs. Bugglna Yes indeed. Why, I have
actually known that woman to get a bar
gain at a churcn lair bmurt Bet.
"Have you the tlme7"
"No. but I hear the newsboy crying the
6 o'clock editions of the evening paper."
Then it must be a little past 4. Kansas
City Journal. . . . .
Jones It's a mistake to ' judge a man
by hi clothes.
Mr. Jones That' so; he might to bo
judged by hi wife' clothe. Detroit
Free Pres.
Josh I a'pose 611a Is mad at the feller
thet sold him the horse.
Hiram I dunno why he should be. It
yer look at the horse yer won't blame
anybody fer sellln' him Judge.
"Ye," Miss Wooby was saying, "my
eldest sister married one of the Van den
Uilts of New York."
"You don't say?" replied Miss Pepprey.
"A first cousin of mine married one of
'the Joneses of the United State." Phil
adelphia Press.
"Very few children are educated at home
nowadays."
"No," said Miss Cayenne; "it Is dif
ficult now to find a child more than ten
years old who doe not feel convinced
that It know more than It parent."
Washington Star.
KILLARNEY.
Balfe.
By Klllarney'a lake and fells,
Em'rald Isles and winding bay.
Mountain path ana woodland dells.
Mem'ry ever fondly strayB.
Bounteous nature loves ail lands.
Beauty wander everywhere.
Footprints leave on many strands.
But her home Is surely there!
Angels fold their wing and rest,
In that Eden of the west.
Beauty' home, KUlarney,
Ever fair. Klllarmy.
Innlsfallen's ruined shrine
May suggest a paaalng Klgb,
But man's faith can ne'er decline,
Buch God's wonders floating by
Castle Lough and Ulena Hay,
Mountains Tore and Euale Nest,
Still at Murkross you rr.uct pray.
Though the monks are now at rest.
Angels wonder not that man.
There would fain prolong life' span.
Beauty's home, KUlarney,
Ever fair, Kllltrney.
No iilace else can charm the eye
With such bright and varied tint;
Ev'ry rock that you pass by.
Verdure brolders or bscprlnt.
Virgin there the green grass grow.
Ev'ry morn spring's natal day.
Brlght-hued berries daff the snows.
Smiling winter's frown away.
Angels often pausing there.
Doubt If Eden were so fair,
Beauty's home, KUlarney,
Ever lair, KUlarney.
Music there for echo dwells,
Make each sound a harmony;
Many volu'd the chorus swells.
Till it faints In ecstai y.
With the charmful tints below
Becms the heav'n above to vie,
All rleh color that we know,
Tinge the cloud-wretitnt In that SKy.
Wins of angtla so might shin,
Glancing back oft llsht divine,
Heutuy's hme, KUlarney,
Ever fair, Klllrney.
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