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betore nit. this 2eih day of February, A. Ii.
mi. i M. B. HUN GATE,
(Seal.) ' Notary l'ublio.
The teamsters won out in their Kan
tag City strike, la team work, they evi
dently excel.
Mayor Moores' veto pen has seen some
hard usage, but It has not yet lost Its
diamond point.
It la to be noted that the railroads
always revise their freight rate sched
ules up never down.
To listen to those Interested, an Im
perative emerRency exists for every bill
on the legislative files.
Is It not about time for the Washing
ton papers to ring off on that "promi
nently mentioned' Nebraskan?
For ways that are dark and tricks
that are vain the paid corporation lobby-
Inu at Lincoln beat the heathen Chinee.
With a street to- bo named for him
'.n the city of Lincoln, Governor Mickey
m certainly, pn the highway to enduring
. tome.' j,,.. ,
, The report of the coal strike commls
slon is about to be rdade public but the
uear approach of warm weather has
' slackened the consumer's Interest in it.
If the value of an electric light fran
chlse pipe-lined through conduits is to
be measured by the gross receipts for
one year, why not the same pipe line
for water and gas? ' '
It's a sorry day when the railroads I
have not a good excuse for delayed
trains. If It Isn't a snow blockade it's
a bridge washed away, aud In a pinch
It'a merely too heavy traffic.
When King Edward acknowledges
that Pt, Patrick's day resolution adopted
by the upper house of the Nebraska
legislature, how,, the other lawmaking
bodies will turn green with envy.
In the protracted game ot chess
played before the supreme court by
Bishop Itonacum and Father Murphy
tbe ordinary rules of the game are re
versed. Pawn takes the bishop.
It la currently, renorted that "Our
Dave" Is coming back home by the
limited to pay Postmaster Etter of South
Oiuanu the $W0 he generously borrowed
to defray part of his campaign ex
penses.
Judging by their pluus for the next
carnival, the governors of Ak-Sar-Hen
appear to disagree with Governor
Mickey as to the propriety of danclug
and other "hot time in the old town"
features.
l ne- railroads may not be aide to
agree on the meaning of the Klklus law
but they have no trouble In agreeing on
the meaning of the legal loopholes
through which they evade their fair
hare' of taxes.
Well defined rumors in circulation on
the streets of Seattle credit ex-Governor
Savage with receiving the following
message:
Father, oh. Father, come home to us now
Tbe clock in tbe steeple strikes twelve
Tbti legislature Is about to adjourn,
Aud tbe cigar box is still on the bbclf.
Missouri's legislative Investigators
have succeeded in getting u couple of
refractory witnesses In contempt of the
house. Nebraska's legislative investi
gators have uot. succeeded In getting
hold of any one who knows anything
be refuses to tell. That's the difference
The; Commercial club committee en
gaged In push I tig the telephone rate bill
expresses coutideuce thnt with two
members from Iou;!ns county on the
Semite anting committee tne measure
will be properly looked after. Hut what
about th house, sifting committee, on
which the telephone company bas half
of th Pouglaa couuty representation?
CANAL QVKSTIOX DlSPUSKD VT.
The ratification of the treaty with
Colombia dlsitoses of the canal ques
tion so far as the United Ktatcs Is con
cerned. The convention litis yet to be
ratified by the Colombian congress and
there Is no doubt that this will Ik- done,
although some opposition to the treaty
lias recently Ix-en shown In Colombia.
This, however. Is not likely to prove at
all serious.
The act authorizing the president to
acquire tht proicrty of the Pnrmma
CiiuhI company and to negotiate with
Colombia for the acquisition of terri
tory and the concession to the United
States of certain rights and privileges
In connection with the canal, provides
that when these things shall have been
accomplished the "president shall then
cnuse to be excavated, constructed and
completed, utilizing to that end as far
as practicable the work heretofore done
by the new Pp. un ma Cnnal ci-uipany of
France add Its predecessor t-o'iipnny, a
ship cnnitl from the Cnrlblieini sen to
the Pacific ocean." For this and oilier
specified purposes the president Is au
thorized to employ such persons as he
limy deem necessary. The act also
creates an Isthmian canal commission
of seven members, "who shall be nomi
nated nnd appointed by the president,
by and with the advice and consent of
the senate, and who shall serve during
the pleasure of the president." At
least four of the commissioners shall
lie learned and skilled in the practice
of engineering nnd at least one must be
an officer of the army and one an offi
cer of the navy. In addition to the
commission the president Is authorized
to employ In the canal service any of
the engineers of the army- at his discre
tion and likewise any engineers in civil
life, with any other persons necessary
for the proper and expeditious prosecu
tion of the work.
It Is yet to be determined under what
conditions the canal shall be completed.
The president Is to decide whether the
waterway shall be built under the
supervision of the government or
whether It shall be Intrusted to private
capitalists and completed by contract.
It Is the Impression that the project
will be taken care of by a numbr of
separate contractors, it being under
stood that the plan under consideration
Is to divide the route Into a cumber of
sections and call for bids for the work
to be done In each division. This plan
Is proposed as a precaution against
jeopardizing the whole structure by giv
ing the entire work to a single con
tractor or syndicate of builders. It Is
said that several syndicates have al
ready been formed with a view to ob
taining the contract for the construc
tion of the canal. ,
The Spooner act authorizes the secre
tary of the treasury to borrow $130,-
000,000, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, for canal expenditures, this
being outside the $40,000,000 to be paid
the French company and the $10,000,000
to Colombia, which sums will-come 'di
rectly , from the treasury. The act
provides that ; appropriations for the
construction of the canal shall not ex
ceed in the aggregate $iri5,000,000. but
it is very doubtful if that sum will be
sufficient to complete the work. It is
more likely to. reach $200,000,000, for
undoubtedly difficulties will be met
with the cost to overcome which can
not now be estimated with any degree
of accuracy. But once undertaken by
the United States the construction of
the canal will be completed at whatever
cost.
TAKK IIO STEP BACKWARD.
The- attempt to pipe-line through the
new revenue bill an Ingenious scheme
that would nullify the ruling of the
supreme court on the assessment of the
franchises of public utility corporations
should be resisted and defeated by the
legislature. These corporations -ap
pealed to the supreme court from the
assessment of the tax commissioner of
Omaha and the court laid down as the
basis of franchise taxation of this class
of corporations the value of their stocks
and bonds after deducting therefrom the
assessed valuation of their .tangible
property.
This ruling was on all fours with the
declsiou rendered by the circuit aud
supreme courts of the United States and
should by rights be applied to the valu
otlon for taxation of the properties of
all corporations enjoying franchises as
common carriers. The proposition to
set aside the supreme court decision and
adopt a new basis for the assessment
of the property of one or more of these
public utility corporations Is wrong In
principle and wrong in practice.
The taxpayers of this city, as repre
sented through the Omaha Real Estate
exchange, were forced Into the courts by
the franchise-holding corporations and
for uenrlv two years were compelled to
carry ou the eoutest at great expense
and an Immense amount of hard nrk
It was confidently exacted that the
legislature would extend the principle
i.. , i . .
am uowu uy me supreme court de
cision for the taxation of public utility
corporations to the railroad companies,
telephone companies and public carriers
of every description in the assessment
of their properties for state, county and
municipal purposes. Whether the legls
lutiire adopts or rejects this mode of
taxation, for railroad aud telegraph com
:"". ii crnaiuiy would ih repre
hensible for it to deprive the rank and
tile of taxpayers of Omaha, I.nolu and
every other town of the benefits that
have accrued to them by reason of the
supreme court's decision.
It is conceded on all hands that the
franchises of corporations that enjoy
the monopoly of supplying cities with
gas. water, electric light, street railways
uud telephone constitute by far the most
valuable asset of these 'corporations,
which are stocked aud bonded any
where from five to fifty limes the value
of their tauglble property. The assump
tion thut the gross receipts of these
corporation for a slugle year would
represent as aejic as jtu t tk fraacbJae
value of these corporations Is unwar
ranted and absurd.
The most conservative estimate of the
loss which the city of Ouiahn alone
would sustain by a change from the
lasls laid down by the supreme court
to the basis proposed by the public
utility corporations would be $."o.h a
year In taxes and thnt amount would be
saddled upon all the other taxpayers.
The loss that South Omnlia, Lincoln and
other towns and cities In Nebraska, that
do not own gas, electric lighting or
water supply plants, or street railways,
would le proportionate, but eveu If the
loss was trivial the principle Is wrong
and should be resisted at all hazards.
It Is equally' wrong with regard to ono
class of franchlsed corporations as with
another, equally wrong whether applied
to telephone, gas, water or street rail
way companies.
If the cities of Nebraska are to be
compelled to liear the burdens which in
Justice should be borne by the railroads
they certainly should not be made to
bear also In addition thereto the burdens
that have been Justly imposed by the
supreme tourt upon public utility cor
;xrntloiiK whose profits all come from
the special privileges they enjoy In the
respective cities.
EFFECT OA' THK MvyET MARK IT.
A good deal of Interest is being mani
fested in eastern financial Circles as to
the possible effect upon the money mar
ket of tne coming payments on Panama
canal account. The auioiint Involved is
$."0,KiO,OUO, of which $40,0110,000 will go
to the French owners of the canal and
$10,000,000 to the Colombian govern
ment. It Is not yet certain when these
pnyments will be made, but It is thought
the time Is near enough to give them
claim to consideration as a factor In the
money market. This money Is to be
taken from funds In the possession of
the treasury, in the form either ot cai-li
or of bank deposits. It is not to be ob
tained by n sale of bonds, the author
ization given by the Spooner act to the
secretary of the treasury to borrow re
lating wholly to supplying the money
for constructing the canal.
It Is pointed out that to withdraw the
$."0,000,000 from the cash In the treas
ury would not leave a safe working bal
ance and a part of the amount will have
to be taken from the government tie
posits with the banks. There has been
some fear expressed that in the present
condition of the money market any con
siderable withdrawal from the banks of
government deposits might have a bad
effect, but the Financial Chronicle does
not take this view, saying that the mar
ket's cash resources should be strength
ened, at least temporarily, by what the
treasury pays from Its cash on hand,
since this would be held and used by
the domestic banks receiving it until
gold exports shovld absorb It. It seems
quite certain, however, that the pay
ment of this money, if It shall require
a large withdrawal of the government's
deposits, must somewhat aggravate the
existing rather unfavorable conditions.
A SUIT AGAINST TtiADKS VSIONS.
The strike of street car employes at
Waterbury, Connecticut, has attracted
very general attention chiefly because of
the lawlessness that marked It, which
made necessary the calling out of tbe
militia. There is another phase of the
conflict, however, which Is of Interest
and this Is the civil suit for $20,000 dam
ages brought by the street railwny com
pany against the union of street car
employes and the several trades unions
that aided the strikers, principally in
the way of a boycott
We believe this is the first suit of the
kind in thU country, but there Is Eng
lish precedent In the recent famous
Taffvale case, in which a railroad com
pany obtained heavy damage from
labor organisation on account of Injuries
to It resulting from a strike.- In that
case Judgment was rendered against the
labor organization on the ground that
Its agenta had caused acts In themselves
unlawful to b.e committed to the Injury
of the company. The English court de
clared that a strike In Itself was lawful,
hence no damage could be claimed slm
ply because of a strike; but If lu prose
cutlng a strike the union or Its agents
enrry It ou by unlawful means, then
the union may be sued and mulcted In
damages if tbe charges of unlawful con
duct le proved. It was also held that
a conspiracy to Injure an employer by
unlawful means exposes strikers to re
prisals of this character In the courts,
It appears evident that the suit brought
by the Waterbury street car company
Is an attempt to establish the English
precedent in American jurisprudence,
therefore the result will have' great aud
general irterest. It Is probably a safe
prediction that the company will not
win. ,
AsslHtant Attorney tieuiral Heck In
his argument for the government in the
Northern Securities case make. it plain
that the merger deal Is st.nply a cleverly
concocted ruse to get around legal ob
stacles iu the way of absorption of com
peting railway lines. It would le Inter
esting, simply as a matter of informa
tion, to know what lawyers worked the
scheme out for the merger magnates
and how long It took them to perfect It.
Members of the city council re kl.-Knly
vote overlaps in spite of the' plain pro
vision of the chatter that renders them
and their bondsmen liable for expendi
tures In excess of available funds.
Sooner or later the taxpayers will muster
courage enough to protect their interests
by instituting suits against the bonds
men, thus putting an end to the periodic
raids on the city treasury in the inter
ests of frauchlsed corporations.
The Interior Nebraska cities aud towns
are gradually awakening to the Iniquity
of railroad exemption from muulclpul
taxation. The tax-shirking of the rail
roads plies the burdeus up ou the other
property owners In every one of them
Tbe mora they lowlt Into lh facta the
more sure they will be to Join In the
demand for local assessment of railroad
properly for city and town purposes.
According to Senator Money of Mis
sissippi, the PostofVce department has
made the people of the south hate Uie
administration by reviving the race
Issue. The fact Is, however, that the
democrats of the south have themselves
revived the race Issue and If they did
not have that as a pretext for antag
onizing the administration they would
devise some other excuse.
Having put the canal treaty through
the senate with such dispatch,, the sena
tors will be wondering why they didn't
do It before the regular session ad-
ourued without necessitating a call for
an extra sitting.
Small Chunk of Coal Troth.
Philadelphia Press.
If anybody Imagines the proposed tax' on
coal would be paid by the operators he Im
agines a vain thing. Tbe tax, like any in-
rcase In the miners' wages, would be paid
by the consumers.
A Few Needed Lessons.
Chicago Record-Herald.
It Is claimed that tbe railways of Great
Britain didn't kill a passenger last year.
If this Is true It might pay some of tbe
Americans who are running railroads to go
over there and take a few lessons.
Plenty of Fan at Home.
Detroit Free Press.
Frankly, we do not believe the reports
that the president is greatly annoyed be-
ause the special session of the senate
delaying his hunting trip. It Is Just
juch fun for Mr. Roosevelt to tree a
senator as to tree bear.
DlTlslon of Property In Banks.
Indianapolis Journal.
In 1876 there were 208,486 owners of the
05,000,000 capital of national banks. The
average share being worth $100, the average
number of shares to each holder was 24.1.
Only 767 persons held more than $50,000 of
stock. The report this year shows that
there are 330,124 shareholders and $673,000,
000 of capital, or 20.4 shares to each share
holder. That Is, while the capital stock
has Increased 34.6 per cent the number of
shareholders has increased 58 per cent. This
means that the division of property bas
gone on faster than tbe Increase In
amount.
Have Yon Got Yonr Share f
New York Tribune.
A current circulation of $30, barring a
tiny fraction, for every mad, woman and
child In the commonwealth is probably the
best showing ever made by any nation
the price of a cow or a spring overcoat for
everybody. Its distribution is a trifle Ir
regular, bat. that Is like the sea's level,
always In a state of disturbance and rectifi
cation. Those who haven't got their share
of the $30 are not forbidden to hustle for It,
and for those who have more the get rich
quick concerns stand ready to redress their
balance with neatness and dispatch when
ever they are so minded.
Btandlaar for the Foil Cradle.
London News.
No ruler, ancient or. modern, . has ever
hazarded so audacious an utterance as
President Roosevelt's shirt-sleeve lecture
to American women on account ot the lazl
ness which leads them to eschew matrl
mony and the jeacUig of. families. Only
those who are awjira what a woman citizen
of the trnlted Stat& can be when she likes
will appreciate the recklessness ot a states
man who, not content with fighting bears
In tbe Rocky mountains, must needs pile
the Pelion of tbe black problem upon the
Ossa of the trusts, with a view, apparently.
to attacking' the goddesses in Olympus
itself. The divinities of Dana Olbson have
already remarked that President Roosevelt
at any rate practices what he preaches
Judging by photographs, his family seems
to be as lusty, and in the cast of the boys,
untidy, as any philosophic backwoods
man need desire. It is, moreover, remark
able that most of the more strenuous per
sonalities In the political arena have been
of recent years men of domesticated tastes.
Gladstone. Disraeli, ' Chamberlain, Lord
Salisbury, the kaiser and tbe ciar are only
a few of tbe nr.mea which immediately sug
gest themselves to the advocates of
"Home, Sweet Home," as opposed to the
club for women ot celibate aspirations
But it Is not against the men that Presi
dent Roosevelt brings hi accusation.
WHO'S WHO 13 COWGRF.SS.
"Hlstorlar' Document of Cnlqne Ii
portance.
Philadelphia Ledger.
A recent refined criticism ot tbe tendency
of contemporary literature discerns that the
writing of history, properly so described,
has ceased. It has been supplanted by
biography. That is to say, there is now
adays little Interest in the large currents
of events; no one Is occupied with tbe
philosophy of progress; men, rather than
epochs or movements, are studied, and his
tory has become an elaborate curiosity of
personage.
Viewed in the light of this tendency,
the Congressional directory is an historical
document of unique Importance, containing
as It dooe biographies of the notable figures
who wrestle In the arena of national af
fairs. A new edition of this Invaluable
compendium affords the student access to
sources at once illuminating and enter
taining. Biography loses nothing by being
self-Indicted, and when the autoblograph-
crs are Ingenious with the fresh candor of
the American politician we may reason
ably expect a series of memoranoa ricn
In elements of the picturesque which ac
cordingly we find ia this little regarded
publication.
The Congressional Record may rurnisn
the text of an occasional act. display the
motive and Intention of legislation and even
trace the political history of the nation.
bin what fact noted iu Its pages s nines
with the Interest attarhlng to .the Infor
matlon. now first Imparted to an eager
world, that the wife of the member from
Carrollton. 111., is Interested In philan
thropy? The tourh of reality Is laid upon
an event which might, on a merely casual
view, be passed as of slight significance
In the broad course of human history
when the fact emerges that an "all-day
downnour of rain" fell In Arkansas on
the fateful day that sested a new member
from that commonwealth In tne rirty.
eighth congress. Vast Illumination falls
upon large questions of national policy
when It la learned that another new mem.
ber was Interested In athletics when be was
In colloce: International affairs are trans
figured In the great white light of the fact
that a modest gentleman from Iowa was
IniDortuned for yeats to run for congress.
but persistently refused; .while the colossal
Interests of epoch-making treaties shrink
Into Insignificance beside the consldratlon
that Ohio now sends as a congressman
man who since lSSU has been engaged la
the manufacture of flannelette undergar
ments at 8anduiky, Clyde. Fremont and
Tiffin.
These are the original sources to which
the future historian will turn to fill out
adorn aud vivify the barsa outlines of bis
couatrjr's story.
BITS OF WASHISOTO LIFE.
Selection of flormnn as Leader rata
Crept an the Rrynn Door.
Major John M. Carson, the dean of Wash
ington correspondents, in a letter to the
Philadelphia Ledger sketches the trend of
sentiment among the democrats In congress
on Dryanlsm as manifested In the election
of Senator Arthur Pue Oormsn as leader of
the minority In the Vnlted States senate.
Mr. Carson Is thoroughly posted on political
events at the national capital. Is an ac
curate and unbiased chronicler of events
and his statements will prove Instructive if
not pleasing to tbe bourbons ot tbe west.
He writes as follows:
The selection of Arthur rue Oormsn,
Immediately upon his return to the senate.
as the democratic leader, has been heralded
as a heavy blow to Bryan and Bryanlsm,
and as Indicating a change of feeling on the
part of the senators of his party. It does
not Indicate that. It Is a matter of course
manifestation of a sentiment which bas long
existed.
"Senate democrats are not Bryan men,
and have not been for a long time. Nat
urally, In the Interest of party harmony,
they have refrained from giving public ut
terance to their feelings, and hence It may
have been assumed that they were still
Bryanttes. The average democratic sena
tor wants harmony, and, while he is rad
ically opposed to Bryan, he does not think
it necessary to drive Bryan's friends out
of the party by saying unpleasant things
about their leader. Yet, when the occasion
arises, as when Gorman was chosen for
leader, the democratic senator does not
hesitate to take action which is highly
disagreeable to the Bryanttes.
'When the Fifty-seventh congress ad
journed there was hardly a Bryan man In
the senate certainly not a single out
spoken Bryan man. It remains to be seen
whether among the new senators there are
any who are Irretrievably committed to
Bryanlsm. One or two of them come to
Washington with the reputation ot being
devoted to the Nebraska man, but It has
been observed that a very short experience
In the senate Is all that is needed to trans
form a Bryan man into an opponent of
Bryanlsm.
'When it is said that the democrats of
the senate have not for a long time had
any use for Bryanlsm, it must be remem
bered that among these senators are come
who were formerly noted as among the
most rampant defenders of the Chicago
platform of 1896, If not of the Kansas City
platform of 1900. Senator Bailey was one
of the strongest defenders of free silver
few years ago. Senator Carmack, even
after his election to the senate, wa under
stood to be violent on the subject of Bry
anlsm. Senator Daniel is the man who
was put forward as the silver candidate for
chairman at tbe Chicago convention, when
Senator Hill was defeated. Senator Du
bois came over to the democratic party on
the free ' sliver question, as did Senator
Teller. Senator Money claimed the honor
of being the original Bryan boomer.
VA year or more ago Mr. Bryan came to
Washington, as had been his custom, to
instruct the party leaders on his views of
public policies. He bad often done It be
fore, and bad always been listened to with
attention. In 1900 when he paid his regu
lar visit to Washington the senators of his
party deserted the chamber arid swarmed
out Into the marble room, eager to shake
him by the band and assure him of their
devotion. But in 1902, for the first time,
Mr. Bryan met with a distinct shock. Some
ot tbe democratic leaders in the house re
ceived his Instructions as of old, and there
was little, if any, change there. But when
be went over to the senate he met with an
entirely different reception. .
"Democ ratio senators refused to listen to
him. It was not only the men who had
supported him simply for the sake of regu
larity, such as Pettus and Clay, who took
this attitude, but even bis former stalwart
supporters, such as Dubois and Carmack.
Mr. Bryan went bock to Lincoln and never
since then bas be held a levee In tbe
marble room.
"Almost at that very time leading sena
tors were conferring with New York demo
crats, with a view to reorganizing the
party, dropping Bryanlsm and carrying the
state. It was in these conferences that the
Parker boom originated, in consequence of
the Impression that Judge Parker would be
the gubernatorial candidate thaf. year.
When the congressional campaign was organized-
Senator Carmack secured . the
selection of James M. Griggs of Georgia aa
chairman.
"This move was rather a surprise to some
who bad watched the steady repudiation of
Bryan by the senators, for Griggs had the
reputation of being a Bryan - man. The
selection wasf made advisedly, however.
Orlggs conducted tbe campaign, as far as
he could, on tbe tariff and trust Issues, and
showed as strong a desire to get away
from the Issues which had wrecked the
party as any senator could bave wished.
He went even further than Carmack, for be.
dropped the Philippine Issue as well as "the
silver issue, much to the Tennessee sena
tor's surprise and somewhat to his disgust.
'Bryan was Ignored throughout the cam
paign and such speeches as he made were
delivered, not at the instance of the com
mittee, but the the Invitation of private
clubs.
'It Is not too much to say that for a year
past there bas not been a single out and
out Bryan man In the senate. Even such
men as Senator Tillman, while undoubtedly
folding their old opinions, have acquiesced
n the elimination of Bryan from senatorial
councils, and have made no protect against
It. Such men as Bailey, formerly among
bis strongest supporters, have taken the
lead in his elimination. The determined
attitude of the senate democrats has In
fected tbelr colleagues In the house to a
considerable extent.
'All this is not to say that Bryan s In
fluence among the people who followed
him Is In any respect decreased. Senators
do not always represent the rank and file
and among the western supporters of Bryan
the old Bentlment may be as strong as
ever. It certainly Is as strong as ever
among some of the men In the house of
representatives. But it Is a certainty
that Brvan cannot control the fenate, or
even secure Its attention. He knows it. i
and he stays away. I
,"The election of Senator Gorman to the i
leadership, therefore, did not represent any i
change In sentiment or policy. He would
have been the leader a year ago if he had
been In the senste. What it did represent j
was desire on the part of the democrats .
to secure a capable commander." I
DellalB a Philosopher.
Philadelphia Ledger.
A correspondent asks us what a philos
opher Is. We can't define the thing, but
we know one when we see him. A citizen
of New Jersey takes a vacation of six
months every year. Asked the reason, he
said: "Well, you know, when a man's
dead, he stays dead so long."
"shakes PROPER DICT'!
t, PLEASING
i w
THE OLD
Absolutely Puro
THERE, iS tW SUBSTITUTE
A BIOGRAPHER'S BLl'NDEnS.
Assault on Good Rama of a Western
Character Vigorously Resented.
Philadelphia North American.
The sister of J. B. Hlckok, alias Wild
Bill, a noted frontier fighter of the last
century, has written a letter to a Chicago
paper, taking strenuous exception to sev
eral statements In a biographical sketch ot
her picturesque brother, written by a per
son pretending to have been bis intimate
friend. Tbe writer of the Bketch appears
not to have known .even the right name of
the untamed hero of the Wild West, but his
errors in that matter are of little impor
tance. What the sister resents most
sharply is a gross misrepresentation of
Wild Bill's disposition and fighting method.
Evidently the biographer rehearsed one
of tbe old tales ot Bill's handlness with a
pair of six-shooters and pictured him in the
act of putting twelve bullets through some
nefarious person's left eye In two seconds,
for the late Mr. Hlckok's sister declares
with some asperity that there are plenty of
people in Illinois who knew him and "who
would not for one moment believe that be
would Bhoot a man twelve times when once
was sulTlolent."
The natural presumption is wholly against
the biographer and in favor of hie critic.
No man was so destitute of Judgment as to
empty both his guns unnecessarily, and
leave, himself practically disarmed at any
stage of the proceedings In a frontier de
bate, could have achieved the eminent posi
tion which Mr. Hlckok occupied at the
Round Table of the Wild West. Like the
gentleman referred to in California's eple
poem. It would have been said of him: ,
In his bloom he went up the flume
In the days of Forty-nine.
The late Wild Bill pervaded the frontier
from the Rio Grande to the Cheyenne for
fifteen years, the crack of his gun waa
equivalent to a notification to the coroner
wherever It was heard and It Is not
recorded of him that he was a squanderer
of ammunition. He was an efficient agent
of moral regeneration in Abilene and other
tough towns and it Is self-evident that he
never could have effected any of the mu
nicipal reforms which history attributes to
blm had he been so shiftless as to shoot, a
man twelve times when once waa sufficient.
PERSONAL MOTES.
Dr. William A. Munn, former president
of the Colorado State Medical society and
recently the head of tbe Board of Health, of
Denver, is dead.
Urael Zangwlll, when asked recently what
special outdoor pastime he loved the most,
replied characteristically: "All forms of
locomotion except baloonlng."
"Prince Albert Kakailimoku Kumulakha,
last descendant of King Kamebamrha of
Hawaii, Is dead." Peace to his name, which
Is safe from the obituary poet, anyhow.
A girl in New York saved a man's life by
snatching him from In front of a locomotive.
Then sho violated all the traditions ot
romance by disappearing unidentified, In
stead of falling In love with and marrying
the man.
It is of current note that every man who
sat at Lincoln's council table bas been dead
for years past but John H. Reagan, Jeffer
son Davis' postmaster general, who is get
ting along toward the 90-year mark and is
one of the briskest of Texans.
A fund is being raised In Tennessee, at
the suggestion of Col. Jeremiah Baxter
through the Nashville News, for the pur
chase of the Andrew Jackson relics at the
Hermitage. The Ladles' Hermitage so
ciety has made the first contribution ot
$250 to the fund.
The public reception to ex-Speaker Hen
derson on his return to Dubuque is to be of
a non-partisan character. The date has
not been set as yet. Colonel Henderson
will be met there by a committee composed
of leading members of both parties on his
arrival from New York.
The state ot New Hampshire still re
tains the ancient custom of an annual day
of fasting and prayer by the governor's
appointment. Governor Bachelder and
council have this year designated Thurs
day. April 23, as the day. Saturday. May
2, has been appointed by them as Arbor
Day in the same state.
Consul George Sawter went to Guayaquil,
Ecuador, to take the post left vacant by the
death of Thomas Nast. Arriving there, he
discovered that yellow fever was raging and
Immediately took passage bark to the
I'nlted States. On landing In New York he
found that another office had been seeking
him in his absence. While still at sea be
had been nominated by President Roosevelt
as an atmlMnnt appraiser of merchandise at
the port of New York.
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SMILINO REMARKS.
D Style Was Eve a Bummer girl?
Ounbusta Well, not exactly; but she wni
very prominent In the Fall. New York
Times.
Blngs What are you going to do with
that stick ot dynamite old mnT
Bangs I'm going to blow a poms plaster
off my breaat. Indianapolis Newa.
"Well, I see the New York police gets it
In the neck this time."
"What do you mean?"
The latest order obliges them to wear a
fresh collar every day." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"Doea your wlfa favor woman's suf
frage?" "I don't know that she does," answered
Mr. Meekton. "There's no use of her dress
ing up and going to the polls to vote when
she can send me." Washington Star.
"What you need," the doctor told him, "Is
more sleep." . .
"1 know It." said the haggard man, "but
how am I going to get It? There's a bshy
on the floor above u that's cutting teeth
and a family with a phonograph on the
floor below us." Chicago Tribune.
-Pshaw!" cried the newly arrived spirit;
"you ancients had no great captains of In
dustry. Take our Beef trust for Instance.
See what It has done."
"Oh, I don't know," replied the Shade of
Noah, quietly. "I cornered ail the live
stock In the worid at one time." Philadel
phia Press.
Aunt Fannv And you can spell lots of
big words now I suppose?
Grade Yes, but I can't always spell them
the right way. New York Times.
Angrily the agriculturist glares at the
ram which has butted him through tht
side of the barn. .... ,
"Drat ye!" he exclaims; "drat ye! Id
sell ye to the butoher this very day If It
wasn't I could wait another week and get
40 cents a pound for ye as spring lamb. '
Judge.
MOHtiAJT'S ADDRESS TO THE SENATE.
8. EJ. Klser In the Record-Herald.
I come not here to talk. You know too Ml
The story I would tell you. But this ditch.
The bright sun rlsea to his course and
Yon dUch'a banks! Ha sets and his last
beams . ... .
Fall on that ditch not Nicaragua s ditch,
Of which I would that I might say a word.
If I had but the time ano gin oi ipwu
But that Ignoble hole of Pasmnau t ip
That reeking, foul and fever-haunted rut.
Dug past some doien paltry -villages,
Strong In some hundred odors, only great
In that strajige spell a debt.
ITaxh hour mv ahosta
Of Its dead victims haunt the thing,
Cry out against it: nut mis very uw
An honest man. my neighbor I nam
An honest man.
name no
names-
Cried: "Rise! Rise, Morgan,
say a word
Agaln'thls crime thla shameful thing! Sit
not
In servile silence! Are you speecniess,
dumb.
That Hghtful protest may not pas your
I kno'w a? better course I that speak to ye
I told you of It once. A pleasant way
Full of all beauties and of easy grades,
Of sweet and quiet scenes, with here and
there
A tall volcano throwing aahea out
In graceful showers.
VTnw T Inved
That glorious scheme! Younger by forty
Thanyou behold me now, I took It up
To descant on Ms fair advantages i
And win your ravor lor ii. in ran anon.
..Inn
That r-leaslng fad of mine was slain! I saw
The friends that I naa won aewen-. uui
here
I rise, at last, from silence to rry Shama!
Have ye good ears? Then I will open my
mouth and speak! '
I have few words, but I can say them o er
and o'er;
You shall not stop me ere I say my piece.
For I can sleep and talk If needs must be,
And eating still declaim!
YW here t stand
And here ye sit and read the while I talk
Of that which- needs no honest praise or
mine , M
Whv. but Its very name should be a charm
To win you to Its favor!
And once again .
Hear me. ye walls that echo back the
words .
I've said and still will say: Again I swear
That Nicaragua shall be ditched!
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