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ITIE OMATTA DATLY BEE: FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1003. i'0 The Omaha Daily Dee K. R08E WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pilly (without Bundsy), One year ImtW Hoe and Sunday, One Year Iliuattated Bee. One Year Sin. day Bee, One lfur fial.irHrfv 11,. r In Vnr $ no !. 2.0) lit Twentieth Century Firmer, One Yrar.. LOO DELIVERED BY CARRIER. pally ! (without Sunday), per rrY ,c 1 idly Bee (without Hunday). per werk..,.12c .alty Bw (Including Sunday), per wek..l7c unriay Bee, per ropy 00 Kvenlng Bee (without Sunday), per week sc Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per week ,0c Complaints of Irregularities In delivery shoald be addressed to City ClrculaUoa De partment! OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha city Hali Building, Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Council Bluffs 10 pearl Street. Chicago 1S Unity Building. New York-2328 Piirk Row Building. Waahlngton 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. ' Communlcatlona relating to news and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poatal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only -cnt atampn accepted tn payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exrhnnses, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas County se.: Georre B. Tsschuck secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number of full and complete copies of Tha Dally. Morning Evening and Sunday Bee printed during tha month of April. iuj, waa aa ionow. 1 81.T70 is ai.eoo t 32.50 ait.ooo 4 n, 32.220 1 SO.BSO ., ai,io I........ S1.330 I ., 81,GO ai.oao 10 V S1.U70 11 ...82,U30 12 ' 2M.lt O 13 Sl.RSO 14........ ai.SMO :. .si.ooo J7 S140 IS 81.B30 It StO.lSO JO 81.BOO 21 81,480 22 81,710 23 81,620 24... 81,(140 25 81,030 26., 37.1T0 27 81,070 2S 81,010 29 SO .81,5VO .81.1UO Total 050,800 Lens unsold and returned copies.... lo,4Sa Net total sales...-......' 030,087 Net average sales 911,331 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to oeiore ma. Lata let day of May. A. v. lvua. M. B. HUNGATE. (Seal.) Notary Public .General Miles is evidently getting ready to break Into print again. If the members of the Omaha base bull team would only go on a strike and . hit soraetliing the fans would enter no serious protest. Beginners in German are advised to steer clear of the list of official titles attached to the 'names of the party of visiting German agriculturalists. Once In a while injunctions are good things. For example, the Injunction to restrain Ike Ilascall and his three run ning mates from breaking into the next cjty council. . ' One chief trouble with these railroad mergers is that they dislodge a lot of high-salaried-officers and leave only a few big juices to be distributed among many claimants. If the merger magnates figured on holding the raciflc coast states out against President Roosevelt, his recep- tion there must admonish them to re- vine their estimates. Irrespective of business conditions, a little attention to the front yard will add greatly to Omaha's personal appearance In the impression it makes on out-of town. visitors during the coming season, The best tribute paid to McKlnley by President Roosevelt is to be found in his adoption of the policies of his Immediate predecessor and the completion of the work left unfinished by his assassins tion. Maybe the Douglas delegation ,to the late legislature did not know, that it was opening the way for Uascall and his co partners to ex to lid their term in the city council when they framed the thlr teen-ward amendment to the charter, and maybe It did. In its advocacy of Grover Cleveland to head the next, democratic national ticket, the Brooklyn Logle has gotten far enough to think it Necessary to de molish the third term bogie which it I cudgeling with a vengeance. Why this premature resort to unnecessary vio lence? The old corporation . combine in the council is desperate., Its members are beginning to realize that they are about to be pried loose from their grip and there is nothing they will not resort to to hold on to the places where they cari continue to serve their corporate masters. ' If misery loves company. Omaha can derive some comfort and connotation in Its affliction by . the strike epidemic which is ragjng Jmt ns furiously, or more so, In Kansas City, Denver, Toledo and scores of other American manu facturing and commercial centers as it 1b lu re. As soon ns the railroads of Wisconsin figure out how much increase in their taxes is worked by the new railroad tax law enacted by the Wisconsin legisla ture, they will rush into tho courts to have its enforcement held up on the ground that It is unconstitutional. If the new. law reduced the taxes, or even . left them approximately as they were. they would waive the point of uncon stitutionality. err?. cnrasKa puotOri-apners missed a great opportunity during their 6tate con ventlon In Lincoln if they failed to turn their cameras on tlit bunch of railroad tax agents tlmt have been letiieglng the State Board of Railroad Assessment to persuade tbeiu tlmt railroad property Is taxed too heavily lu this state. People everywhere would like to see the pic tures ot the men who have nerve enough to set up such a plea in the face of the Stubborn facta. ntsroxsminTirs or capital. At the opening meeting of the Ainerl- nn SihIhI Science association the ad dress which appears to have commanded the most attention, as bring especially pertinent to existing conditions, was that relating to the responsibilities of capitalistic organizations. The author of this address frankly admitted thtt the career of labor orgs niwit Ions "has not been marked by any such love of wisdom. Justice and fair dealing as to evoke our moral enthusiasm." He con tended that labor organizations are In their movement as distinctly a combina tion or trust as is the capitalistic move ment, that the two are like in object. But he pointed out that the thing to be sought on the part of both organized labor and organized capital is Increased respect for Jaw and Justice the final ap peal being to Justice. This is a view which all intelligent men must concur In, since without rec ognition of what is Just in the relations between capital and labor, what is fairly due from one to the other and from each to the general public interest, there can be no proper adjustment and no permanent Industrial peace. It ' will hardly be questioned by anyone famil iar with existing conditions that on neither side is there that Intelligent sense of Justice or that seeking for fair and equitable adjustment of differences which the situation calls for. There is In evidence everywhere that conflicts are on between employers and workers a disposition on the part of both to ig nore the fundamental principles of Jus tice and fair dealing and to prosecute an Implacable warfare. A spirit of ob stinate and relentless hostility charac terizes both sides. The idea, of concilia tion and compromise is nowhere really accepted by either party. Professions are made of a disposition to arbitrate, but when arbitration is seriously pro posed obstacles to it are presented. So far as the Interests of the general pub lic are concerned, they seem to be little considered. How" this state of affairs Is to eventu ote is a question that is troubling thoughtful men and the wisest ore un able to foresee the outcome. There are some who fear the gravest social and perhaps political disturbance before the conflict is ended, but there Is still rea son for believing that the intelligence and patriotism of the American people will find a way out of the difficulty that will conserve the ends of Justice and make make for industrial peace and the general welfare. The responsibility for capital In this emergency is cer tainly as great as that of organized la bor. Both should intelligently and dis passionately recognize their duty and their obligations and there Is ground for hope that wise and conservative counsel will yet prevail. M t7.1T CONTROL TUB PAClfiC. In one of his speeches In California, President Roosevelt said that we need to understand the commanding1 position already occupied by the United States and the infinitely more commanding position that will be occupied in the future by our nation in the Pacific, "This, the greatest of all the oceans, he said, "is one which during the cen tury opening must pass under American Influence, and, as inevitably happens when a great effort comes, it means that a great burden of responsibility acconi panles the effort. A nation cannot be great without paying the price of great ness . and only a craven nation will object to paying that price." In order to have control of the Pacific we must have a large navy and this the president earnestly advocates. He de clares that we must believe in a first class navy, that while we already have a good navy we must have a better one, He spoke strongly on this point at San Francisco, as he had done in previous utterances, and he found popular sent! ment there generally fh accord with him It was said years ago by one of our greatest statesmen . that "the Pacific ocean, its shores and its islands, will be the theater of the great events in the world's hereafter." It would seem that this prophecy of William H. Seward Is certain to be realized, that indeed the great game for the control of the Pacific has already opened and that the United States is in a fair position to win if It will take advantage of Its opportunities. That a larger navy Is one of the condi tions to the attainment of this is obvi ous. OJTg Cat'S- TOR COSQRATVLaTIOK. Notwithstanding the deplorable con sequences of the pending strikes, the people of Omaha have one cause for congratulation In the remarkably good rder that has been maintained and tho manifest disposition on all sides to ob serve the law. A week ago the air was full of rumors of impending riots and mob vloieuco ud many of our citizens were firmly convinced that the only way to preserve peace and good order was to put the community under martial law. 3 rent pressure was brought to bear m the loci! authorities to Invoke the governor tu summon the militia and the in junc tion proceedings instituted in the fedora! court w re admittedly designed to form u foundutlon for.auv appeal for fedotal protection through the regular army in tli" event such ' assistance should l-e deemed necessary. The first visit of Governor Mickey to Omaha in connec tion with the strike was in response to (ii-Uiamls for an Immediate call of the luilltta, but the governor neatly titlizt LU Invitation to offer his services In the e.ii'.u-ity of mediator ond peacemaker. i iiai an tnve irst alarms were groundless Is now quite apparent. Chief of Police !onahue has Just publicly it:ited that "the ktrikers continue to conduct themselves admirably. Ihey are giving the police departn out im trouble whatever and their deportrtent Is in every way satisfactory." This Is certainly creditable to the workingmen of this city not only tha strikers, but f the others as well, because tlioKe (ijlnide the latior organizations are often Incitwl to greater reck lesxn ess without the re straining discipline of their anions io hold them back. We realize that we are not yet out of th-f woods, but the example of lw lsrvance and orderly behavior 1ms been set and it is to be liopod tb.it. io matter how long the strike nay last or bow tense may become the dividing lines, the same spirit of obedience to law may prevail to the end. HALT 1.1 RURAL FREE DCLIVKRT. The discovery that the expenditures for the rural free delivery service ex ceed the appropriations for the current fiscal year has compelled a halt In the extension of the service, but this will be only temporary. At the beginning of the next fiscal year, July 1, the large appropriation made at the last session of the Fifty-seventh congress will be come effective and then new routes will be established, for which there is a large demand. According to a state ment of the postmaster general, there are now filed in the department 10,730 petitions for new routes and most of these will be established within the next year. At present there are over 15,000 routes and It is stated that when the entire country has been given the rural delivery service there will be 38,000 routes. While there has been a deficit from this service as a whole, it has not been so great as was expected and Fostmaster General Payne predicts that five years after the establishment of the service throughout the country it will be self sustaining. It. is. more than probable that this will be realized, but even if .it should not be the great benefit that It is doing the rural communities will abund antly Justify it. It would not be easy to over-estimate the value and the ad vantages of lural free delivery to the rural population, in its promotion alike of education, social and economic im provement There are none so blind as those who will not see. Employers who persist in their refusal to recognize trades unions seem to be oblivious of the stubborn fact that trades unions exist snd must Le reckoned with as factors in our mod ern industrial organism. To deny their exintence is about as rational as would be the dental by workingmen of the potential force exerted by labor-saving machinery and the revolution wrought by mechanical appliances in the produc tion of fabrics and commodities that were formerly produced entirely by band labor. It is again reported that Secretary Hitchcock is about to move upon the fences that are illegally enclosing the public domain of the western country. The secretary, however, counts without his hosts if be imagines that the land- grabbers will not try to Invent new ob stacles to be placed in the way. Their success in keeping the unlawful fences up this lo'ng hag encouraged 'many of them to believe that they can put off the day of removal indefinitely. The Canadian government has put an embargo on automobile excursions across the border bj announcing that it will . collect duty on every vehicle brought into the Dominion. American automoblllsts will now come to the con clusion that this country offers better scenery and Just as good roads as are to be found among our northern neigh bora and that the domestic gasoline sup ply is quite equal to the demand. Omaha is glad to be able to entertain the party of German agriculturalists who are studying industrial conditions In this country and trusts their visit will be both profitable and pleasurable to them. We count our German-American citizens among the most valuable of our own people and hope, that the tidings about us carried back by our visitors will serve to send still more recruits .to us from the Fatherland. In the Interval the people of Omaha must not overlook the fact thut the fight being waged by the Chicago Great West ern to gain an entrance into Omaha on the same terms' accorded other eastern trunk lines that use the Union Pacific terminals is of the utmost importance to the future of this city. It Is the ques tion whether we are to have an open door for new railroads or are to shut the gates in their faces. The suggestion is made that a chair of Oriental languages ought to be estul- llshed in the University of Nebraika to fit out students who may figure on careers in our new far-eastern posses sions. There are several branches of instruction nearer home that tho vtni verslty can develop to better advantage if it has any surplus funds at its 'com mand. The last days of congress, the last days of a legislature and the last dajs of a city council are always to be dreaded by the taxpayers as the period when recklessness, extravagance and Jobbery have full swing. To this gen eral rulo Omaha's outgoing city council la no exception. Expansion that Paid Well. Atlanta Conatltution. Verily, this country haa expanded It cost several times aa much to celebrate that Louisiana purchase" as we paid for the territory at tha outset. Yeralo on Trnaaon. St. Loula Globe-Democrat. A bold claim la mads thai Thomaa Jeffer son had help In writing the Declaration of Independence. Maybe Colonel Bryan didn't dictate tha Kanaaa City platform. Rnaala There to Star. Indianapolis Journal. If China will not open alanrhurla to for eigners and foreign trade, and Rnaala will. It seems highly probable that the indigna tion of the civilised world over the con tinued occupation of that country by Russia will nuletlv subside. Invhow. tha mnrh- j talked -ot evacuation will not be a reality. The soldiers may withdraw, but the Rus sians who are there for commercial pur poses will not. Possibilities nf Isjenetloaa. Minneapolis Journal. And now the employers of Omaha have been hit by an Injunction that restrains them from doing anything to Interfere with the purpose of the unions to run business to suit themselves. The temporary Injunction is evidently boundless In Ita possibilities. Appalling- Modesty. Baltimore American. Colombia must be only fooling. AH aha asks of the United States la an Indemnity of t25.000,noo outright, an annual rental of $1,000,000 for tha strip of ground whereon the canal Is to be constructed, and a recog nition of that republic's supremacy. Such modesty la appalling. The Joker l" Ills Sleeve. Ban Francisco Call. England and Japan are seeking to convict the cxar of all sorts of treachery in refer ence to his International relationships and ambitions. It Is not at all improbable that the ruler Of all the Rusnlas knew with whom he was dealing and played tha cards which his opponents hoped to hold. Experts on the Pall. Washington Post In his recent Interview tn tha Newark Newa Mr. Bryan nays "there la a tall of tha democratic party which ,wae very nearly pulled out aeven yeara ago. that Is Just aa monopolistic In Ita tendencies as tha repub lican party Is." He might have rounded off a really readable paragraph by adding that in the meantime hla enemies were pulling the leg of monopoly. , An Incident ot Prosperity. Philadelphia Record. President Ramsey of the Wabash railroad says It Is not the tight money market, but the high cost of labor and materials that has caused the suspension of work on the Little Kanawha extension. Some weeks ago several western railroads discontinued ax tensions and improvements on account of the cost of labor and materials. When tha buyers find the market too high for them. and begin to drop cut, prices are likely to come down to meet the vlewa of the buyers Larare Mlleaare, Small Investment. Springfield Republican. Tha consolidation of tha St. Louis St. San Francisco with the Rock Island system brings under the control of the Rock Island company over 15,000 mllea of line making alw.ut the largest railroad system under a single control in the country. . The Rock Island company Itself Is controlled by a small minority of the atock Interest, and thus presents the double feature of con trolling the most mileage through the smallest relative investment known in tha railroad world. MISTAKES OF COAL MAGNATES. Mr. Boer and Hla Colleasrnes Mlsjndge Their Audience. Collier s Weekly. Philosophers have said, from time to time, that folly dwells among the rich aa will ingly as among tha poor. It is a surprise, nevertheless, when We see men of wealth and education behaving like children. What does the notorious' Mr.' Baer expect to ac complish with his harrow defiance in the coal Investigation? ' Ulchard Croker asserted boldly that he worked for his 'own pocket all the time Croker was clever. He knew his audience. "He knew that he was meet ing the taste of Tils supporters, in a city largely composed of "Ignorant foreigners and their children. ' Btrt"' Mr. Baer and his fel low-coal dealers' r on trial before a higher public opinion. U IS no time for 'What are you going to do about HT" "Tha publlo ba damned.'M'To hell with reform," It Is my business,": "I do as I please," and I work for my own pocket." Such swag gering will not conciliate the large and in telligent body of men which, will ultimately decide how far we are to go in altering laws which make vast fortunes so easy. Mr. Baer and. Mr. -Parry are not talking to immigrants or to babies. They are talk. )ng to men who know their power and consider their duty, who follow the steps which other countries have taken toward socialism, and who are thinking profoundly about the fairest way of conducting democracy. Where did Mr. Hanna stand on these economic questions a doxen years ago? Or even Mr. RooaeveUT In those days, such a little , while ago, any effort at fairer distribution and mora equal op portunity waa looked upon aa anarchy. Mr. Carnegie haa apoken in favor of national ownership of railways. The recent elec tions in Chicago and Cleveland look toward municipal ownership of street railways. The trend is clearly toward reatralnt on private power. In tha serious Investiga tions which we are making, nothing could be more childish than cheap defiance. That attitude, however, seems to please tha little heroes of divine right. COLO ! EL IRISH'S BIG. FEE. Tries to Hold Is tha Repahlle f Snlvador for tMOMO. ' Washington Post. It appears that a $60,000 fee for Colonel John P. Irish, collector of euatoms at Ban Francisco, Is Included In the award of $600,000 rendered against and repudiated by the republic of Salvador. This does not invalidate the finding of the commission to whose arbitration Salvador submitted the case. There Is not and cannot be any excuse for Its failure to accept that award and pay It. But It is undeniable that the presence of such a fee in that half-million awarded to Colonel Irish's clients adds Interest to the whole question of making war, or warlike demonstrations, for the collection of private debts. The Des Moines Register-Leader, owned and controlled by a prominent and popular omclal of the treasury, says It Is believed that the United States will now do as Germany and Eng land have done with Venezuela, send a fleet to collect the bill. The Register Leader adds: "One item that Salvador especially ob jected to was an attorney fee of $A0,- 0(10 for Colonel Irish for his services at the hearing. It la said that it Is without prcoedt-nt that attorney's fees have been awarded by arbitration tribunals, and that In any event a fee of IfiO.OO is ex- torlnate. "In Iowa, where Colonel Irish is well known and highly esteemed, the value of his services will not be underestimated. But that he earned a fee of $60,000 as legal adviser of the claimants against Salvador may well be questioned. If the remainder of the award agalnat the little South American state Is on a par with this part of it, the commanders of the war vessels sent to compel payment should be in structed to discount the bill nine-tenths. "It Is worthy of note at the time Colonel Irish earned this $0,000 fea he was serving the government as collector of tha port of Sun Francisco at a liberal salary, and presumably devoting hla time and talents to the discharge of the dutlea of that po sition." There will never be a better time than now for our government to cut loose for ever from the bad custom of using ships of war for the collection of private debts. The Post has repeatedly demonstrated the utter Indefensibility of tha practice. It has not a single leg to stand on except pre cedent. If wa send out ahlps of war to collect Colonel Irish's $60,000 fee or any other private bills, tha Incident will not conduce to the building of a strong navy, HITS UP WASHIMJTOX LIFE. Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched on the Spot'. Considerable Interest and gossip have been arouard In the national capital over the proposed sal of tapestries presented to General Phillip 8herldan some twenty years ago. Mrs. Irene R. Sheridan, widow of the general, and General Michael Sheri dan, brother, as executors and trustees of tha estate, have decided to sell the tapes tries and have removed them from the Na tional museum. The tapestries are from the Plttl gallery at Florence. They are of Flemish design. In four pieces, and are said to be worth about 150,000. The late John W. Mackay, acting for a group of the famous cavalry leader's friends, purchased and pre sented them to General Sheridan. Now they are to be converted into cash. About tha time that tha tapestries were given to General Sheridan hla friends gave him as an additional present a deed to the brick residence at the corner of. Rhode Island avenue and Seventeenth street. In which Mrs. Sheridan and her daughters now reside. Mrs. Sheridan has decided to part with the house also, and recently sold it, for several thousand dollars more than General Sheridan's friends paid for It, to Glfford Plrchot, chief of the forestry di vision of tha Agricultural department, whose handsome residence adjoins It on the east. Tha sale of the house and t&peatrles became necessary In order to settle up the estate, which could not ba done until "Young Phil," the youngest child, became of age. He la a cadet at West Point, hav ing bean appointed by President McKlnley, and recently attained his majority. , Mrs. Sheridan will build a more commodious house la the neighborhood of the old one. "Is It solid gold?" The eager questioner was a country woman, a member of a large party which a railroad agent was piloting through tha east room at tha White House, relatea the Washington Times. 8he pointed to tha piano with the gold-leaf coating as she asked the question Tha guide attempted to evade the wo man's question by referring to the seals of tha thirteen orlglnal states which adorn the sides of the instrument, and explained that It la the 100O0th piano manufactured by a prominent American firm, "Is it solid gold?" the woman Interposed. Still the guide did not answer. "You will notice that there are thirteen settees In this room, one for each of the original states," ha continued. But I want to know whether the piano la solid gold," the woman Insisted. No. madam. It is not solid gold," the guide remarked with a alight display of temper. Huh!" the woman retorted. I ve seen calliopes that looked better and I'd hoped that It had -value to recommend It, When there's only one real piece of furniture in a a room of this size a person sort of expects that It'll be worth while coming to see. I can't find anything flno about this room but the view you get from the south windows." Charles H. Robb, assistant attorney gen eral of the postofQce department, has a fund of apt stories, which he tells with considerable effect. He waa asked the other day ' regarding the status of some matter In connection with the postoffice frauds. "I don't care to say Just at present. It might put me In the position of an old country justice whom I knew once. He nearly always had a strong opinion re garding cases that came before him. One day after he had decided an Issue ha walked downtown with one of the liti gants. The latter was asked by a friend how he had come out in eourt. 'We won all right,', said the old justice before the plaintiff had time to answer." The supreme court of the United States does business on an antiquated plan. While it la undoubtedly tha most dignified body of men In this country, if not In the world. It has Its peculiarities and they are strik ing ones. One of the traditions of the court prevents newspaper . correspondents from attending the session of the court in their professional capacity. Provision Is made for a representative of each of the great press associations, but the correspondents have to push and crowd in behind the rear railing with the hundreds of other specta tors. Usually they have to stand up, and if they are seen taking notes an attendant escorts them to the door. The result Is that the 300 or more correspondents have to depend on their memory for their re ports of proceedings In the supreme court room. There is another court custom which pre vents correspondents from seeing the opin ions handed down until they have secured authority from the judges who severally deliver them from the bench. This au thority Is not always given, the Judge ex ercising his own discretion about It. Not Infrequently the. correspondent has to go to the home of the judge to get the writ ten authority, and perhaps by the time he gets back to the capltol the office ot the clerk of the court Is closed. A tall, slim man boarded a street car In Waahlngton wearing a rather flashy look- ng getup, consisting of checked suit, tan shoes and straw hat with a flaming red band around it. The conductor disapproved of him audibly, saying among other things: Them dude makea me tired." He watched his passenger get off at the British consulate, but refused to modify his opin ion whep Informed that the tall man was Sir Michael Herbert. King Edward's am bassador to the United States. PERSONAL NOTES. Dr. Frank Gallard of Paris Is In Boston as a representative of the French govern ment to Inspect some of the textile In dustries of the state. "Nswport society spsrkles In smuggled gems." says a I'nlted States treasury off) clal. Then It certainly behooves Uncle Bam to make that set smart. President Roosevelt's campaign for 19M must be progressing very satisfactorily. Governor Odell says he cannot suggest any Improvement on Senator Hanna's plan. While the country rejoices over the cap ture of a distinguished Filipino "8ultan and several dattoa." there Is some curiosity to know what disposition was made of his wife and aeveral dittoes. The process of elimination In the newest Kentucky feud has been extended from men to political divisions. It Is proposed to divide Breathitt county among Its neighbors In the hope of obtaining peace. General and Mrs. Laurence P. Graham nf the United States army celebrated the sixty-second anniversary of their marriage In Waahlngton last week. They were mar ried at St. Augustine, Fla., during the Seminole war. ; Minister Leishman, reports that the grand vlxler'a Indigestion' and consequent Irascl blllty caused a temporary auspenslon of dlplomatlo relations with Turkey. Indiges tion usually causes a breach of gastronomic relations with that bird. Because Prof. John Wilson Dodge, In Uructor in music at Lawrence university, Appleton, Wis., wrote a comic opera, which with lu sixteen short-skirted chorus girls, made a hit at Ita premiere in his home city last week, he haa been asked to resign. After Hon. Grover Cleveland had con eluded his appreciation of the grandeur of newspaperdom every Journalist present threw out his chest and agreed with Emer eon that "Nature never sends a great man Into the world without communicating the secret to some other eouL" - -OLD-TIME SCHOOL DISC IPLIN B. Plon for Restoration ot the Itrtaaesi System of tho Hod. Brooklyn Eagle. Corporal punishment has almost gone out of the schools. This generation Imagines that It la wiser than Solomon and that the man who wrote "Spare the rod and spoil the child" would have edited hla copy If he could have aeen tha modern kindergarten and the working out of the Ideals of Froebel In practice. Ordinarily, the current schools get on better than did those where thrashing was the accepted portion of most of tha boy. The old fashioned teacher 'used to apply Solomon's rule to all boys Indiscriminately and he no doubt did a good deal of mischief by creat ing a sense of Injustice and provoking stub bornness. But When one reads the story of the 10-year old who set fire In a school closet for revenge on a teacher one wishes that that Infant had encountered the rod which the wise man recommended more frequently. This boy set fire to a eloeet In an empty room. ' It waa merely an ac cident that a teacher found It In time to prevent the destruction of the building and a panic among the children that would very likely' have caused broken bones If not loss of life. Fortunately the fire drill worked perfectly and the chtldren were on the street before the danger became great. Fortunately, too,, tha teacher who found the fire had her wits about her and closed the drafts before an alarm was given, so that the teachers were able to extinguish tha blase without outside aid. The spirit that prompted the boy seems to have been the sort of "pure eussedneos that used to yield to the rod. The matches with which the fire was started wore the re sult of smoking .cigarettes, a habtt which the boy had stopped. Cigarettes Justify thrashing a boy within an Inch of his Ufa If anything does. Out In Flushing a group of boys secured a holiday by smearing their school desks with ltmburger cheese and making the room uninhabitable. This was In a high school and the boys have been suspended. It Is e. question If a good sharp rattan would not have afforded a punish ment mora fitted to the crime and kept the boys at their work In the school also. No doubt, our fathers thrashed too much and too often, but It Is a pretty serious question whether we thrash enough. In- stlnctlve respect for authority Is one of the most valuable qualities which a child can have, and there are children who decline to absorb the Idea through anything lees pain ful than personal conflict. ROCKEFELLER'S OILT GIFT. Comment on the Prenosed Contrlbn . tlon to the Nebraska University. Mlneapolts Times. The Nebraskans are Inclined to look Mr. Rockefeller's proffered gift In the mouth the proposed contribution of $67,000 for a social and religious building on the campus of the state university is the donation re ferred to. Mr. Rockefeller's offer Is con ditioned upon the addition of $33,000 by friends of the university, so that the total sum shall be $100,000. The students are nearly all in favor of accepting the gift, residents of Lincoln like the Idea because It will add a handsome building to the attractions of the town, and possibly help the real estate market a lit tle, and Chancellor Andrews is in an affirm ative mood.- Throughout the state, how ever, there la much opposition. Not a single paper has printed a Una in approval of the scheme and many emphatically de nounce It. They give good reasons. The state of Nebraska Is able to support Its university In a proper manner, they claim, and there s no disputing that assertion. The oom- roonweqlth .should not .be under obligations to the. Standard. Oil monopoly and ac ceptance of the gift la especially distaste ful when the offer Is accompanied by an advance of a cent a gallon in the price of kerosene. ...... This trouble in Nebraska is a forcible re minder of the fact that Mr. Rockefeller la entitled to little credit for his gifts to edu cational purposes. With a profit of 100 per cent on Illuminating oil he can give a mil lion without feeling It any more than an ordinary man would feel the loss of a dollar and that Is a fair guage of hla ben evolence. More than that a slight advance n the price, as in the Nebraska case, will quickly make up for one of his ordinary donations.. . Mr. Rockefeller's money does a vast amount of good In an educational way, but n the final analysis It Is revenue raised by taxation. In paying the Standard Oil company prices that represent a profit of 100 per cent the people pay for the schools and churches that stand as monuments to Mr., Rockefeller's name, but we must re member that there are multi-millionaires that are not .willing to hand back to the public a share of their profits and by com parison Mr. Rockefeller Is entitled to much credit. SOMETHING KEW UNDER THE Sim. Comment on the Injunction Seeared by the Walters Union ot Omaha. Minneapolis Journal. The granting ot an Injunction by Judge Dickinson of the district court at Omaha, upon the application of the Walters' union now on strike, to restrain the Business Men's association from Interfering with the affairs ot the labor unions, Is a movement of some Interest. The association is charged with conspir ing to destroy the labor unions, and many specifications are made to form a baaia for the application without comment and the business men will have an opportunity to contest chargea of unlawful acts. Among these is named the employment of im ported nonunion labor which, .of course. Is not unlawful as the right of aa employer to employ labor when and where he pleases, whether the labor employed Is sub ject to a union or not. Is fully sustained by common law and many decisions of the courts and waa recently specialised by the Anthracite Coal Strlks commission In Its report as an unassailable right. Tha right to hire and the right tp employ laDor is Incontestable. So. Is the right of either labor or capital to apply for an. Injunction inconteatable. Labor unions have' bitterly denounced Injunctions Intended to keep them from encroaching upon tne ngnis oi nonunion men and employers, but they are at liberty to apply for and obtain. Injunc tions to restrain employers from encroecn Ing upon their own rights. The courts are open to them. The facilities sre theirs. equally with any other body of eltlaena. If the Walters' union of Omaha has surrered real Injustice. .It. has every opportunity to prove Its charges agalnat the business men and have the Injustice removed. The Waltham Watches The standards of time. 771 Perfected Amerkui Witch," ui Glustrie4 book of interesting information &otrt nkhts, will b sent free upon request. AmerkM WtUfum Witch CompAny, Wthtum, Mass, ASTHMA (ffl((l:li':.?)) St MM Plaao sat eke niili,i 4aia a aamsle tattle st the Skw-lee Oars fee mm gist lea -I bar tH4 a tnr eatbm tmt am trae trwa It for the srst lion la sma nn I e set knew feaar Caeaft foa . BAA AH tf. WOTT, Me. Stl S. InaaMa St., In , CaL TWTXVa irrfKDBXO owes teettiBMIala like tha a, UuHhm wWh full Midi of seal tin wa, aa ha 4 at Bvatoa Drua Co. TfcaM l.tat toMltMalals show moro smulno aa volnaurr rrtomxw of mroa of hrrt KM of ASTMMA, BnONCHtTIS. CATARRH Da notftVurTMn tkaa all sOmt o-aUa "nrmr saa anew la the awtr history ml thatr - rOB BAIan AT BEATON DRUG CO.. Ittti smnJ Farnant. TIUAX. BOTTLES fss T snaUt, nnatrald, br nd droentnsr the Elhne Drear Cn 100 Winiaust St.. Hew Terk City. wealthy packers, the railway oompa-les, nave ien ui restraining nana oi our t-v-ernment through the process of Injunctions to stop their unjust discriminations and monopolies. The public haa not objected to such restraining operations. No labor union haa denounced the process ao applied, but when injunctions are Issued to call the attention of labor unions to their duty of recognising their rights and insisting upon them only In relation to the rights of oth ers, they have objected. It Is this ethical spirit which Is sorely needed In this country by both employers and employed. The reorganisation of labor on the baals of peace and harmony must be the work of this ethical principle. Neither labor nor capital can aafely assume a posi tion of repudiation of law and duty. The Instinct of society for liberty wilt assert Itself over and above all tha assumptions of power by either capital or labor. If the labor unions choose to resort to the courts Instead of to the strike to have their griev ances removed, they will have made a large advance toward the permanent solution of the labor problem. Equally advantageoua will It prove to the employing capitalist to Beek paciflo relatione with hla employes through conciliation, conference or the ar bitration of the courts. SMILIlta I.ISJfC.. "Bragg says It keeps him busy these days ,pn trck of hU 'i1 obligation.' ----- j MU' ny raie no QOln t aleam IA hSV lkw& a l . .. una, siisaw Life true a.1 A n V fa I ah 'nnanclal obligations." Philadelphia "Lnev5r f.h5n.te J" m'nd," he asserted. How foollsh!'r she retorted. vujr luumnr ne asKea. ' Kiwi , , a " uA ,, , . , "'- .cjjiicu, muy Kina or a change would be an improvement." Chi- aH mTt Pftatf "Pa," said little Morrla. "why did the matt nut hla light under a bushel T" . - . """""i x aiier soma reflection; but I suppose that the buimel " j iioTii woureu. ixew Horn Bun. . ' Noah-1 didn't get as big a crowd In here aa I might." Chorus How was that? Noah Well, the people have heard that expression, ''Get In out of the wet," so often . that they thought I was foollna them."-Plttsbyr Chronicle. .. ' .. .(. . ; - ,-,,,,i .V- "He has been mentioned as a candidate for office very frequently." "Tea," answered Farmer Comtosael; "the only trouble Is that every time any body mentions him the other fellers laugh." ffHujiiiion oiar. 'Vxtrv 1" it,. K.lt , . J - f ..... ..v. u w ll IIP-. lU J . Al abouttthe terrible rumty-gumty-grah-rah "Alt In- Mrru ino uquiBillTV man. x uiun pay iiv re pi lea tn Doy. Buy na rtmf nrl raot 1 rl ....t wi i . DesJef. """"u .v vuargo nr. luff, man for votir mrvim r" k . 7 tor s wife. "I don't know." replied Dr. Soakum: "I haven t InnltmA him .in In T -. ... . ., Detroit Free Press. y. yea, ne naea to consider her very dainty and graceful." Ana aoesn ne mink ao nowT" 'Kn T k.Hf. .... 1. , - - w un, wiinf aspar agus the other day." Chicago Tribune. COWBOTS AND PRESIDENT. James Barton Adams la Denver Post , (The Hugo Breakfast) Hu.ht & huch.a,ntl Howdy d0-T6dd'1 The coffee's a-b'Uln' aa breakfas' la ready. Aa hot mm nltMh. ' 1 B Mtwn r tht'" tanker aa Scktn' dM WWn' u "evenly w. wmn uwi jou one umt was uuiHiuia Up there on the North range when you waa a-puncbJn' The oews same as us an, say, on the dqad It beat beln' President dldn t It Tod? Campln' an' roughln' it out on the ranges, Wearln' wool shirt a long Urns between change, Rldln' with boys that'd start somethln' doln' Tendln' toward Ita unmendable ruin If you should flash up a silk plug on your knob Like thls'n you wear In your President Job. Eh, TedT That's Wat I said! Have some more beef. Ain't It sappy an' tenderT Young virgin cow o' the feminine gender, Cut outen the bunch by Hell-Roarln' Tex, Who said you'd a hankertu' after the sex, A-meanln' the flirts - That's bundled In skirts An' wearin' them loud an' astonishln' socks Hid under their frocks; So loud you . kin hear 'em fer seventeen blocks. But I'm durn free to say We're all that a-way. An' ain't blaniln you fer a rubberneck play Jes' 'cause you're the Tonm a' the country an' not Supposed to observe what the girlies has got. Spill some more enfTee outen the pot. An' blow It a while If you find It too hot. Or take my sombrero an' fan It a epell--No etlket goes In this social corral. What! Goln' a'ready.? Oh, hell! what's your rush? Well, tra-la-la, Teddy , You're right In the push. An' every durn puncher thats rldln' thene plains Is hopln' you'll hang to the guvament reins Till cattle In hades gits lost In a bllizard An freese Into Ire from the horns to tha glxxard. Bo long, Ted, ol' son, Wish you luck on your run. Come ag'ln i When you kin You'll find us In.
