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Wfl. M. B. HL'MJAiH.
Charley Crow Dog la said to bo the
first Indian to rob a postofflce. Prob
ably ho won't be "the last.
There Is nn available balance of $3,500
In. the Omaha library fund. Here la a
chance for a persuasive book agent
Not until wo hear from the high school
debater will wo know precisely what
should hare ' been done about the
Isthmus,
The city election in South Omaha Is
till four months ahead of us, but there
is already much talk and some specula
tlou at to the probable outcome.
Six weeks hence thero will be another
opportunity for the Board of County
Commissioners to adopt New Year's res
olutions to turn over a new leaf.
The morning that the Dreyfus case is
reopened is the morning a wearied pub
lic would prefer to oversleep, much as
it sympathizes with the captain. r
If this thing keeps up there will not
bo enough room in the city hall for
Mayor Moores and President of the
(Council Ziiuman at the same hour of the
day. ... ,.. . , T ' - '
The man who writes merely, "En
closed find check." expresses quite as
much sympathy as he who prates of
how hjs heart Is wrung by others' mlS'
fortunes.
Tho hand which Servla's new king is
now extending in ostentatious friend
ship to Uncle Sam Is a trifle too freshly
stained for the old gentleman to seize
it with real comfort.
Some inquisitive people would like to
know why Police Commissioner Broatch
burned those Via Walker checks instead
of depositing them in the archives of
the city. ,
tiermany proposes to establish four
more consulates la the United States,
and it Is worth noting that two are to
be la the gulf states, where a few years
ago the' commodities Imported from Ger
many would not have paid the salaries
of the consuls.
'' Members ot the British Parliament
while in Taris, were entertained with
Isolds XV. dances by ballet girls, and
at a luutbeon immediately thereafter
"expressed desire for closer relation be
tween France and England." So, then.
It la to the danseuse. rather than the
diplomat, we may look for the peace of
the nations.
William Jennings Bryan's conference
with Croker in I-omlou is apt to place
Mr, Bryan in the position of one who
aa gone to England to find out if he
had best run for prestdent of the United
States. Obviously the doctrine of doing
things "without the aid or consent of
hny other nation on earth" is suffering
decline.
General Beyes comes toproposo that
th United States accept the Panama
canal concession from Colombia without
paying a cent to the, Republic of Colom
Ma. Had f.'olonibla refrained from play
lag a game of holdup, and accepted the
f JO.000,000 Ikjuus offered by Uncle Sam
there would have been no occasion for
tieneral Keyes to pay a vUlt to tb
United State.
After a thorough investigation of con
dltlona lu the Cripple Creek mining dls
trlct (ieneral Bales has adId the Wa
department that lu Ms Judgmeut ther
Is nothing in the bltuatkm to warrant
the calling out of regulars. The hyster
leal people that denounced President
Roosevelt for refusing honor a requl
ttlon for regulars before the Colorado
authorities Lad uitide u effort to sup
prc turbaleute with the help of thti
Colorado National Guard realize
that they have gone tff fcalf ciskd.
KW IXUiS ITJtmxiO-iJiS.
TUfTerorw,. w i,,tu, roni.n.
cans In the Empire state has causal
ew York to be placed in the doubtful
Hut for next year's national election, but
these differences having beu adjusted
nd harmony restored, there Is good
reason to believe that the stato will be
republican next November. Last week
Governor Odell and Senator Piatt had a
conference with lYcsldent lloneevclt
the result boln that the two New York
leaders reached an absolute agreement
politically and will work in perfect uni
son with each other and with tho presi
dent Tha coj Terence is said to have
been wholly satisfactory and the prom
ise Is that riatt and Odell will together
put forth their very best efforts to thor
oughly organize the republicans of the
state for next year's campaign.
There has been talk of a considerable
opposition in New York to Mr. Koose
elt and some have ventured to predict
that he would not get the delegation
from his own Mtnte in the republican
national convention. There is nothing
to wurfant this in what was said by
Odell and I'lutt after the conference.
Both .declared that tho president will
have tho unqualified endorsement and
hearty supiort of Euipiro state repub
licans. Senator I'lutt is quoted as say
ing that tliero will be no contest over
control of tho state convention and its
delegation to the national convention
will be solidly for Hoosevelt Of course
In tho corporations that are understood
to be unfriendly to the president and
re aupposed to be laying plans with a
view to compassing his defeat there are
some republicans, but tho number of
such, is not so lurgo as to warrant any
feeling of apprehension in regard to
their course. Moreover, it is quite pos
sible that there has been some exag
geration respecting the opposition of cer
tain flnaiarlal interests to Mr. Hoosevelt.
White should these interests become
notably aggressive the effect might be
to Induce a large portion of the inde
pendent vote, which In New Y'ork num
bers several hundred thousand, to sup
port the republican national ticket. The
feeling Is very strong thot If corpora
tions make war upon the president, be
cause of his expressed determination to
enforce the laws, they must be de
cisively rebuked by the people.
The democratic success in New York
f'lty by no means assures the state to
hat party next yeor and now that re
publican differences have been adjusted
nd the leaders have pledged themselves
to work together for the success of the
party, it is strongly probable that New
York will be in the republican column
in 1IHMA
A fUTlLK MfSSlOX.
The special representative of Colom
bin who is lav Washington for the pur
pose of proposing tha Panama be re
stored to Colorr'jia and of offering to
our government all the canal conces
sions asked, iu the treaty that was re
Jected free of cost will find his mission
utterly futile. "No consideration, it is
entirely safe to say, will bo given to
ny proposal he may make involving
a change from existing conditions. It
ought to be obvious to so intelligent a
man as General Reyes that our govern'
ment cannot recede from the position
it has taken in regard to Puna inn and
to say the least it is not complimentary
to this government to assumo that it
might be induced to change its attitude
and allow Colombia to force the seceded
state back Into tho union: Were the
United States to do this It would be
subjected to the ridicule and reproach
of the civilized world and would' lose
respect everywhere,' even on tho port
of the Colombians themselves, tho more
intelligent of whom can hnrdly seriously
expect anything but failure for the
Reyes' mission.
Colombia, according to the statement
of Its special envoy, is now willing to
give the United States all the conces
sions asked for in the treaty which its
congress rejected without the payment
of a cent The mercenary and greedy
politicians of that country are too late
with their offer. They were given aui
pie opportunity to replenish the bunk
rupt national treanury and do their
country an inestimable benefit. They
rejected it and now realize the great
folly of having done so, but the awaken
lng will do them no good. Thero Is no
tempatlon In Colombia's offer to give us
all we desire without charging any
thing for it. The United States wants
to pay for whatever it gets, but It ob
jects to being hloekmalled as tho Co
lombians sought to do. Our govern
ment has negotiated a treaty with the
new government of Panama, the first
article of which pledges the United
States to guarantee and maintain the
new republic. That pledge will cer
tainly, be faithfully fulfilled. Although
the United Stutes undoubtedly coul
have securefl ail the concessions pro
vided for in the treaty for a much less
sum of money than It U proposed to
pay, yet this country will give the Re
public of Panama the same amount that
it stipulated to pay Colombia, thereby
placing the new govenunent on a sub
stantial basts financially.
The representations which. Genera
Reyes is authorized by his government
to make to our government will . o
course be listened to respectfully, but
acceptance of them is quite Impossible,
It seems that he hopes to obtuln the sup
port of the) South and Central American
governments. In this he Is also doomed
to disappointment. Few of them hav
any sympathy for Colombia aud these
will hnrdly take a poeltlon hostile to
the action 'of the United Stutes. Tl
idea that any of those countries are ap
prehenslve that this nut Ion may seek
aggrandizement at their expense ap
pears to be eutlrely buselea. At any
rate none of them lias indicated such
feeling. As to the Colomb an threat of
forcible uieasj'-es agaltiht Pauatua it is
to be regarded as mere bravado, since
Colombia must fully understand tha
she will not be permitted to attack the
new republic or In any way imperil the
enterprlw for the rarrylng out of which
lanama aeciami its iroiopomienc.
The calamity that has befallen the
families of Omaha's gallant firemen who
perished In the Ninth tdreot fire suggests
the propriety of life iusuranca for every
member of the fire department mod
eled after the compulsory life Insurance
system that has prevailed 1n Germany
or all classes of public service employes
during the past fifteen years. While the
city charter permits the granting of pen
sions to the widows of firemen who have
lost their lives in the discharge of duty,
life Insurance that would cover all cases
f death would be far preferable.
Under tie German system of compul
sory life insurance the government pays
one-half of the premium and the In
sured pay the other half. Assume that
the average age of insurable firemen U
3y years, policies insuring their lives in
standard companies could readily be ob
tained at a cost of $30 per $1,000, or
from $75 to $so per annum for
policy of $2,300. This would lnvolvo an
verage premium of $73 per annum, and.
If the city were to pay one-half the
members of the department would be
required to contribute $3 per month
from their regular wages.
These policies would be a valuable
sset for every flremau and afford a pro
tection to bis family, not only so long
as bo remained in the department but
fter he leaves the service, if he saw
fit to keep up the policies at his own ex
pense. Estimating the total membership
of tho fire department at 125, the cost
to the city would bo equal to $375 a
month, or $4,500 per annum, a sum that
the taxpayers of Omaha would cheer
fully contribute for the protection of
the families of men whose lives are de
voted to fighting fires at the risk of life
nd limb. On the otheF hand, the de
duction of $3 per month from the sala
ries of firemen would be no serious hard
ship, especlully to the class of firemen
ho have not yet contracted marriage.
In nny event, the suggestion is worth
considering. The scheme cannot, per
haps, be put Into effect without some
additional legislation In the way of
mendments to the charter, but that
would only be a matter of time.
When it comes to the game of politics,
that much caricatured individual, Mark
Hanna, Is not to be outdone by any man
In the land. On Tuesday last President
Roosevelt entertained a delegation of
labor leaders at luncheon at the White
House, and on Thursday morning Sen
ator Hanna entertained the same labor
leaders at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in
more regal stylo. The courtesies of the
smooth plutocrat did not stop with the
umptuous breakfast. He kept close to
the labor men in the corridors of the
Waldorf, and introduced them to -captains
of Industry, millionaires, governors
and political celebrities, so thot when
the. labor men left the hotel to take, the
train back for Montana they were con
vlnced that the best friend tiiey had ou
earth was the peacemaker from Ohio.
The unqualified condemnation by the
Real Estate exchange of the ordinance
granting a ten-year franchise to a firm
that Intends to disfigure the streets of
Omaha with street corner sign poles will
uieei wllli the geueial approval of oil
classes of citizens. There la absolutely
no excuse for granting such a concession
to unybody. The only compensation the
ity Is to receive Is free street signs on
the advertising poles and on buildings
occupying street corners. This does not
mean that the company is obligated to
paint, or fasten street signs on every
orner, but only on such as they may
see fit to occupy with their poles, that
will be ornumented with advertisements
that may not only offend the eye, but
shock the moral sensibilities.
Chicago Is now wrestling with the
question whether the city has authority
without a specific grant of power from
the legislature to establish municipal gas
and electric lighting plants that would
sell light to private consumers. Inas
much as Chicago already owns and op
erates an extensive plant for electric
street lighting, its right to dispose of
part of its product to private consumers
could scarcely be called in question. It
is a foregone conclusion, however, that
any attempt to 6iipply electric light for
private consumption will be' contested
by the public lighting corporations until
the supreme court of Illinois affirma
tively decides that the city may do for
Itself and its citizens what It is author
ized to do through private corporations.
If Mr. Harriman keeps on building
cut-offs and boring tunnels a few years
longer Omaha will be absolutely midway
between New York and San Francisco
aud Los Angeles. Twenty years ago the
distance from Omaha to Sun Francisco
was 1,700 miles, while the distance to
New York was 1,500 miles In round fig
ures. Now the distance from Omaha to
Sun Francisco Is only a fraction more
than 1,600 miles, and by tho time the Los
Angeles Hue, which Is now more than
2.1HJ0 miles distant from Omaha, is com
pleted that city will le within 1,500 miles
of Oinuha.
Seven state governors have to divide
honors with two race horses at the Live
Stock exposition in Chicago this week
But then, it is wholly a live stock show
with no distinction between kinds.
The governor of Utah may well bear
lu mind that the safest place for a min
ing strike conference la outside the
guard lines and upon an eminence com
manding a view of both camps. .
Ixrnl Robert prefers to resign as com-
insuder-in-chief before that ortVe ceases
to amount to ' anything; hence his ill
health is not so much of on inconven
ience after all.
Better Keep Out.
Portland Oregonlan.
Japan Is In danger of being nagged Into a
war with Russia, as waa Franc Into th
disastrous war with Oermany thirty year
or mora age. Tb tslani emptr nds to
tak Poiint tf her wle men now as never
before If wof Wit a) rtiteela Must rem, It
wmiM be mit Unwise f the weaker power
to precipitate It.
Tee rrlui t Wauite.
Tom n Tnptc
An unnercemu-y II la a mistake; lies art
too useful to squander,
"Have, Satkla' with Met"
Washington rrwl.
Tha restoration of th canteen In tb con
gressional committee rooms Is proving so
satisfactory that It Is quite prohabl th
faver will be extended to U rmy.
Ronaaet for Engineers.
New York Tribune,
That Utah "cutoff" across many mil of
Salt Ink la undoubtedly a marvel as a
railroad exploit Our American engineers
are of this spirit th harder th task th
mora eager they are to tak It up.
Shaking; ke ( beatant Tree.
Minneapolis Times,
Again we are told that Porflrlo Diss Is
about to surrender the presldonoy of Mex
ico, It will take a physician's certificate
that th gentleman Is In artlculo mortis
to convince the world that anything of
tha kind la about to happen.
Not Worth the Price.
Kansas City Journal.
Th conviction Is growing among Amer
ican , cities that national political conven
tions ar not worth the guarantee de
manded for them. The time may come
when the big conventions will esteem it a
favor to be entertained.
A Satisfactory Sit oat Ion.
Fhlludelphla Press.
There Is a strong disposition on the part
of every democrat In th country to hav
his exclusive presidential nomination and to
repudiate every other democrat's candidate.
This is a very satisfactory situation If it
only continues.'.
"It Pay to Advert!."
Indianapolis Journal.
This Is the day ot tha press agent. The
services of this functionary, formerly con
fined to theatrical syndicates and corpora
tions, are now In demand in every enter
prise. The latest field for th press agent fa
found in th advertising of cities. Philadel
phia Is about to spend 2100,000 In calling th
attention cf the country to herself, and At
lanta, Oa., has already spent immense
amounts for space In well "known publica
tions. No matter what you have to tell a
dog, a canal or a city It pays to advertise.
A Refreshing; Innovation,
Tjoiilsvuia Courier-Journal.
The heirs of the late William L. Elklna
are certainly notable exceptions, as heirs
go nowadays. The rule is that a man Is not
allowed to devise his property to charitable
purposes If his kindred can prevent it. But
Elklns left a codicil to his will for the es
tablishment of a Masonic orphanage for
girls, and althougk the codicil was legally
Invalid because executed within thirty days
of the death of the testator, the family Is
determined that Its provisions shall be car
ried out. It Is refreshing to find a family
which concedes that a dead man had any
right to devise his property as he chose.
It
Was Maanlftrent, Rat-
United States Investor.
The United States Steel corporation was
the chef d'ouvre of the new school of
finance, and, viewed In the light of more re
cent events, one cannot help admiring the
sweep of power Which must have been In
the minds of its projectors; control the ore
deposits; manage every process from mining
to tha highest finished product; have as al
lies great transportation corporations, and
realty and construction companies; solve
the problem of reajotlon'in the iron, and steel
industry and make it a substantial gentle
man, receiving a steady Income from year
to year, Instead of being in the position
either of a "prince or a pauper." It was
magnificent, but time has shown that It was
not economics.
.BiC'I.E SAM'S LITTLE JOKE.
Lamentation of Cement Barkers En.
Based In the Holdup Business.
Detroit Free Press.
The man who wilfully deceives a guile
less, confiding trust la no gentleman. And
yet that Is the grave charge against Uncle
Sam. The government is building a $3,000,000
dam across Salt river, Arlx., and expects to
us 200,000 barrels of Portland cement In
the work. The estimated coat of cement
was $3 per barrel. But the cement trust
unexpectedly discovered that It couldn't
supply the cement at less than 29 a barrel
The government didn't rebuke the cement
trust nor murmur at the price. Th gov
ernment simply started in to build a 2100,-
000 cement plant of Its own.
Now enters th humorous element. The
cement trust heard that its confidence had
been betrayed. It had been given no op
portunity to come In and explain how it
had unintentionally overstated Its first bid
It had been tricked. To Washington ruf
fled cement kings ar flocking from all
parts of the country to protest against
this "Injustice." Congress is to be avked
to pass a law "preventing the government
from competing with manufacturers." Ob
viously th government has no right to
offer the slightest resistance to private par
ties engaged in a perfectly legitimate hold
up business. Obviously when the govern
ment feels that it Is being shaken down It
may ba allowed to expostulate quietly and
politely attempting to appeal by purely
argumentative method to th generosity
and patriotism of the cement magnates.
Beyond this the government cannot prop
erly go.
BORHOWMO TROVBLE.
Peool with Overripe imaginations
Proas la " Things."
. Philadelphia Press.
There are people who are already bor
rowing trouble over tne responsiDiinies
nd burdens which the United Btates will
assume In accepting a pncurai f"""-"
torate over Panama and entering on the
DromDt construction of the canal. They
conjure up visions of untold difficulties.
If a nation were to be Influenced by that
timid and hesitating spirit It would never
do anything. No great undertaking Is ever
projected wlttout risk of obstacles and
enmnllcatlons. The American people long
since determined that an Interoceanlc ranaf
should be constructed and that, It should
be under American control. That enter
prise from the first haa Involved hasardr,
difficulties and the possibility pf compile
tlons. Had It been carried forward under
th Colombian treaty with divided authority
It would certainly have presented dellcat
and troublesome questions.
Th Panama affair. Instead of complica
ting It, haa greatly simplified the problem
and mad th pathway much plainer.
OIT OP THM OHUI.ViRVij
Alfred Miles, a fnmous tailor of Bond
street, Ixindon. died recently, leaving
fortune of l.W0,tiu. Mr. Miles, who was
nou to many Americans, was fond of ro
uting how n aiarieo uuKiuena vonie sin
?rara ago with a capital or jtiat sm. .
-v.irlt. i.Un of aJvfrllHlntr with him wa
to nrliit handbills and persuade cabmen
to leave them In their vtlilclrs.
Bedbugs, although they kept a family
fmm leen and ruined fumltur. could not
aava William C.Safford any part of his
rnt fi.r aiurtmrnii in the Motel Iverne
Beacon street. In the fashionable Back Ba
district of Bton. Judsre Forsalth gave
Judgment for th mount In dispute fl, 2
and refuaed to consider a counter claim of
U (ft) made by rJalTora tor loaa m rem am
Am in ViU rliUia. None of'tha Insect
waa introduced aa a witness, but friend 01
Kaftord teUtt.xl that bdbua r uncora
nouly numerous u in noiei.
BITS or WAMinOTO.l LIFE.
Mlnr a.a Incident Sketched
th Spot.
During President Cleveland's serond term
end while republican omnia hernia wer
dropping Into the basket Mark Twain was
Ifvrellnf abroad and became Interested In
the fate of an Amerloan consul located
at a German port. The consul bad ex
tended experience In th service, an ex
cellent record, and for these reasons alone
wns entitled to reappointment. Twain em
bodied the facta In a characteristic letter,
whrch he addressed to llttlo Ruth Cleve
land, knowing that th letter would reach
the family circle. Th ruso worked well,
for the consul was undisturbed. An lncl-
aeni or similar tenor Illustrating the em- I
oacy of a child's pleading, comes from
Washington In connection with the nomina
tion of John C. Pollack for Judg of th
federal bench In Kansas. The Kansas dele
gation was spilt over the Judgeship. Sena
tor Long and representatives Murdock snd
Campbell were backing Judge Pollack, who
Is a member of the stat supreme court
The fight grew hot and charges sgalnst
Pollock were laid befor th president. It
was asserted that h had played poker with
and won money from many members of th
bar. But ther were other charges of a
nature highly distressing to Pollock's fam
ily. The president told th delegation to go to
the capttnl and ballot till they could agree
on a man. They went While they wer at
work "Cy" Leland, Kansas republican
leader, dropped In at the White Hous and
began to talk to the president about the
Pollock case. He told the president how
distressed the Judge's family was over th
charges against him and showed th presi
dent a letter which th Judge had received
from his little daughter, Lucille, 15 years
old. who Is in Topeka. The Judge Is In
Washington. Th letter read:
Dear Papa: Why don't you go to the
president and see him? I know he will not
believe all tha nasty things said about you
after you talk to.jilm. It Is a shame for
those men to say what they hav about
you." v
After reading the letter the president rang
his bell for his secretary.
'Loeb, I want you to send in th nomina
tion of John C. Pollock for that federal
Judgeship In Kansas," ho said:
Turning to Mr. Leland the president took
from his buttonhole a beautiful rose.
"I want you to personally give that ros
to Lucille and tell her the president of the
United States sent It to her," he said. "If
our children have faith In us there can be
no rreat wrong In any cf us."
Persons who hav found it difficult to
decipher the hieroglyphics on Uncle Sam's
mall boxes, which show the hours of col
lection, will appreciate an automatic ar
rangement which an Inspiring inventor Is
JUBt now endeavoring to persuade the Post
office department to adopt for Us boxes
inrougnout tne length and areadth of the
land.
A disc revolving Inside the box bears
near Its edge the hours of the several dally
visits of the mail collector
ture at the side of the box Is so arranged
a to permit only one of these hours to be
Seen at a time fmm thlx mitcMn TK. nnnn-
Ing of the box by the postman causes 'tho
aiso to revolve and In the little aperture
ppears the hour of the next collection.
The thing Is exceedinalr slmole and aa
th figures on the disc are -large there can
be no difficulty In determining the question
wnen win this letter I am about to mall
nan on its journey to Its destination?"
On the 6th dav of next month Chnnnrev
Pepew will formally onen the Kejutnn nf
dlnner-glying In Washington by entertain
lng that other hannv rranm. Thnmn c
Piatt, and the latter bride. Corcoran
house la to be lavishly decorated for the
occasion. It would appear that Mia. Piatt
looks forward to cutting a good deal of a
social figure, for she I laying in quite a
nupply of winter dresses. Before her mar
riage she dressed simply, but soma of the
coniections in her post-nuptial trousseau
are said to be of an elaborate character.
- - - -. . . i. ....... .j , . L. . ,W A w. i.
had pulled out all tha stops and was gor
geously speaking on Cuba.
'Cuba Is the land of perpetual flowers."
he said, "of stately royal palms, the Bo
hemia of the dreamer, generous In tropical
fruits, the home for the painter and for
the poet, the paradise of the islands of the
sea one long, harmonious, brilliant, Inde
scribable mental melody."
He stopped for breath.
"Hey, Bill," whispered Representative
Ruppert, "better roll another pill or you
can't keop It up."
Senator Culberson wanted to get an ex
tract from a report of the committee on
foreign relations printed In the Congres
sional Record, and aa a public document.
Senator Cullom objected because the ex
tract was too long. He suggested' that It
be printed as a publlo document, but not
in the Record.
"Well," ss id Senator Culberson, "I guess
I shall have to take what I can get."
Senator Tillman hopped up. v
"Hold on," he said to Culberson, "you
can beat that If you read it here It must
go into tha Record, and the objection of
the senator from Illinois won't be any
good."
PERSONAL KOTES.
Ther Is hope for tha south when we see
that Hon. Hoke Smith and his adversary
fought with their fists instead of revolvers.
Mme. Wong saw a font ball game while
she was back In Connecticut and politely
refrains from expressing her opinion of It
aa a game of civilisation.
J. Wayne Ames Is dead at Gypsum City,
Cal. Mr. Ames was known over a large
section of the west and especially In Kan
sas, as tha exact double of Abraham Lin
coin. He was a newspaper man nearly all
hla life.
Dr. A. Koch, the professor of Journalism
at the University of Heidelberg, not only
lectures on Ills subject, but makes hi
pupils write editorials, reports, correspond
ence, bqok reviews and criticisms of enter
tainments.
After eight years of valuable service as
librarian of th Cambridge, Mass., publlo
library. William I R. Qlfford is about to
sever his connection to accept the position
of librarian of the Mercantile Library as
sociation at St. Louis.
Chicago receives meekly, though It is not
cast down, th criticism of a foreigner who
stood regretfully In front of one of the big
skyscrapers and remarked: "The first
story Is Roman, th second la Greek, the
third la Greco-Roman and the fourth Is
catch-as-catch-can."
On a steamer over from London the other
day there was only one "eligible man" and
fifty-five unmarried women among the
cabin passengers. We should like to se
the ktnd of man who would be considered
eligible after he had been discussed by
flfty-flv women.
The, four-ton bronze statue of th lata
Oovernor H. 8. PIngTea of Michigan that
will l erected In Detroit by the people
of that stat will arrive In- Detroit on Fri
day or Saturday of this week. It waa
completed at the studio of Rudolph Belt
wars, the sculptor, In Indianapolis.
Th Hawaiian delegate to congress,
Prince Kalaulauoale, was chatting with a
friend, who said to him: "You people In
congress don't ero to be accomplishing
much In th way of legislation at this extra
session." "No, w'r not passing many
laws." said "Princ Cupid," as he Is called.
"but look at th mlleag som of u draw
MAIOIXO THE PIBLIC LAUD.
Operations In Lo.l.Lna, Cheeked by
Grand Jnry.
New York Mall and Express.
It Is estimated that the United Plate
government now has left lon.OOO.Ota) acres
of land on which, with Irrigation and other
Improvements, men might live. Some of
It Is very good land. Indeed, If it has water.
Most of It Is poor compared with the
fSti.OO.OO acres cf public land that h:n
been sold or given away In forty years.
Never In th history of the world has
such a vast domain been distributed n
this. If th Romans, after conquering
Oaul, had divided all the land equally
among the Inhabitant of th Italian penin
sula It would have been a small trans
action In real estate compared with this.
And th United States did not give this
land merely to Its own children. It handed
It over freely to Jew and Qentlle, to Its
cltlsens and to the stranger within its
gates.
The homestead and pre-emption laws did
not operat swiftly enough In th disposi
tion of this land to suit a great many peo
ple. Therefor tha desert land law, the
timber culture hct, the pensioner's widow
and commutation provisions, were got up,
to make th land go faster. It has gane
much faster even than was anticipated.
As things now are, It Is a matter of serious
doubt whether more land has not been
taken in the last five years In excess of
actual and bona-flde settlement than has
been taken legitimately.
The way In which this vicious principle
has worked Is Illustrated by the Indict
ments Just found by a United States grand
Jury In Louisiana. Under the "commuta
tion clausb" of the homestead law, various
large lumber corporations have sent the
poorest sort of hirelings upon valuable pine
lanus, wnere tney nave gone tnrougn tne
form of settlement upon homesteads. The
law provides that a settler may get a title
to his whole homestead after only six
months' residence by paying 21.35 an acre
In sash. Instead of getting It free by stay
ing on It five years. These Louisiana pine
lands are worth much mora than 11.25 per
acre and a cheap man's hire for six months
on every quarter section. The pretended
settler Is a dummy he turns hla home
stead, when title Is obtained, over to the
corporation.
The big , companies have by this means
possessed themselves of many thousands
of acres of valuable timber. A prearrange,
ment of the kind Is unlawful, but It is very
difficult to prove th prearrangement. This
method has now resulted in 220 Indictments
In Louisiana which is but a beginning.
If congress Is at all responsive to the
public demand It will stop up all these
land leaks at the regnlar session. The
timber culture law has been repealed. The
desert land law should be, too, and the
commutation clause of the homestead act.
The law should be adapted to Irrigation
conditions In the arid beltwand a stop ab
solutely put to the obtaining of land by
any other than actual and bona-flde agri
cultural settlers.
DEMOCRATIC ABERATIOH.
Danger of Opposing (he Administra
tion's Panama Policy.
Indianapolis News (Ind.).
It would not be surprising If the demo
crats, as Is rumored from Washington,
were to array themselves as a party
against the Panama canal. There have
only been hopes, not acts, thus far that
tho old axiom that the democratic party
could be relied on to' do the wrong thing
was no longer true. The temptation In
the present case. If rumor be true, is too
strong for that party, and unless th un
expected happens it . will go off " into a
mulish opposition to the country's interests
Just in time to bruise the popular hop
that it had awakened to sanity and been
so rehabilitated tha". it might become a
real factor In publlo affairs.
Look at the situation! Here we have
been for years trying to build an isthmian
canal. We worried Great Britain and were
regriy n renudlH.te our treaty with her
If we wer not allowed absolute and ex
clusive control of any canal. It was given
to us. Then, after long debate, we came
into the room of the Panama canal under
the threat f the Nicaragua route. Then
we were "held up" this great nation
made sport of by a petty South American
republic that proposed to blackmail us
and make us a laughing stock before the
world, after w had so truculently de
clared that we and we only should bulid
the canal. Then here comes the revolution
by which. Panama swings free from the
blackmailers and seeks our protection, and
the way of the canal lies open to us.
At this Juncture comes the democratic
party, and, like the mugwumps, proposes
to palaver about purity and legality, and
that ort of thing. When we devised the
greenback a a bitter war neceaslty the
democratic party took the same course.
Its reverence for law wa shocked to tho
center. Th nation must die. If noed be,
but It must not, by all that was hply. us
this pestiferous paper device to save Its
life. Wn did use it as a war measure.
Then, having crossed the bridge In this
fashion, aud no longer needing the struc
ture, we proposed to tear It away. We will
return now, we raid, to the era of real
money. "Never," shouted the democratic
party, "that flimsy piece of paper Is real
money." So now, when we have found
a practical way to build tha canal the
democratic party shows signs of being
shocked In Its reverent Instincts for purity
and legality, and threatens to do Its bet
to cripple us. Well, If It must be so. It
must. We "reckon" this America can han
dle Colombia and the democratic party at
the came time, and build th canal Into th
bargain.
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PROBIXt TOO DEEP.
Crwel rrery la th Bowel ef the
Shlphnlldlnar Treat.
Philadelphia North American.
If the methods of Samuel Unterraey-,
counsel for the c mplulnlng bondholders In
the Shipyard trust Investigation, are to
bo tolerated, what in th world Is to be.
come of the eminent financiers who wrecked
that corporation? Mr. T'ntermeyer be
trayed a brutal desire to get at th fact
In the cas He Insists ujKn asking ques
tions which no one who acknowledges th
astute Intelligence and palrlotlo enterprise
of Mr, Charles M. Schwab and other gen
erous distributors of watered securities
can fall to regard as Impertinant. More
over, this obstreperous lim ot t!K law
frame his Interrogations In Ungvar,
proper enough, no doubt. In t'i Tiit.l4
courts, but shocking beyotn'" .aoa'AT to
the respectable, exponents of Mn Cnaccv
At the hearing on Tufsrar lrt he
charged that Mr. Schwab h4 tried to
"bribe" Ixiwls Nixon . to agre to the
Schwab plan of reorganisation. Heretofore
Mr. Untermeyer has shown repeatedly a
discourteous determination to find out who
loaded the Shipyard trust down with crush
ing Issues of stocks and bonds; ha has
manifested a reprehensible curiosity to
know who profited by these Issues; ht has
even ventured to intimate that ther waa
a conspiracy to defraud Investors. But this
talk of a bribe must be regarded as outsld
the limit.
When a political worker offers i4n "un
convinced" voter 25 or 210 for his vote, that
Is a bribe; when an anxious litigant save
his case by handing 226 or 2 to a Juror,
that Is. a bribe; even when a few thousand
change hands over a little matter of legis
lation th transaction may still be called a
bribe.
But wheip a multl-mllllonalr suggests
that he is. willing to pay ten tlms their
market value for bonds if th bondholder
will agree to sign away th Interests of
Investors who have trusted him that Is a
"business proposition."
Mr. Untermeyer ought to know that HI
Shameless disregard of the true meaning
sf words and his dense insensibility to the
privileges of able financiers will get some
body Into prison if he is not checked.
MIRTHFUL REMARKS.
She I iuw you, sir, with that horrid
widow! And I shall send back your pre
ert.i ot cice.
lie Cbr.'t send thm to m. Send them
to the widow. Town Topics.
A man recovered a verdict for 220,000 froiii
a railroal for the Ions of his legs. "Lucky
nog, said tne pauper. "'Poor fellow " said
the millionaire Saturday Evening Post.
Mrs. Buxton That hateful Mrs. Knox
made a very mean- comment upon my
age today.
Mr. Buxton Did she say yoa wer get
ting old?
Mrs. Buxton No, Indeed. She said I "still
looked quits young." i'lil aielphia Press.
"But," they expostulated, "this Is really
none of your business."
"That's why it's so interesting," she re
pliedChicago Post.
Crabshaw Tou say you wish your Christ
mas present to he a surprise, and yet you
state exactly what you want me to get
you. Now, now can that be a surprise?
Mrs. CrabshawIt will be, my dear, If I
get It. Smart Set.
"The figures show," said the statistical
boarder, "that there IS only one divorce In
25,000 marriages."
"That's the reason, perhaps," suggested
the aoubretta at the opposite side of the
table, "why a divorce has such a decided
advertising value." Chicago Tribune.
"See here!" cried the unfortunate man
who had married a widow, "It's so hard
for me to pleao you, I suppose you're for
ever comparing me unfavorably with No. 1.
You'd like to get back to him wouldn't
you?"
"Oh, no," she replied sweetly. "I'd rather
get forward to No. 8." Philadelphia Press.
"What did you expect Whn you married
me?" he demanded. ' "'
"Very little," she replied poutlngly, "only
that I would be permitted to do Just as &
pleased." Chicago Post.
The single man may seem to he
Quite free from care and trouble,
Until some day he ascertains
That he has got a double. '
Yonkers Statesman.
AT THE CORKER GROCERY.
James Bartort Adams In Denver Post.
These strikes throughout the country that
are paralysing trade
And causing stiff ring in the poorer ranks
Are the result of cunning schemes adroitly
planned and laid '
ThrouKh selfish alms by aaitatlng cranks.
Ere long a flow of Hood will drenth our
sorely stricken land,
For fratricidal war we'll surely see.
And capital will feel the blow of labor's
miKhty hand
I heard It at the corner grocery.
The people are. becoming tired of Teddy's
Iron rule,
They think he Is too strenuously gay;
He's haughty as a Janitor and stubborn as a
mule
And kicks like one when things' don't
come his way.
A great revolt Is sure to com among th
rank and file.
And Urover In the chair again we'll see;
Th democrats will take the reins and run
things fer awhile
I heard It at the corner grocery.
Fair Canada will soon be ours, annexed by
roroa or arms.
We'll capture, her as easy as you please.
Then soon again the country will be rlf
with war's alarms
We'll scrap with Johnny Bull upon th
ecus.
His mla-lity men-of-war we'll crush, they'll
alnk from sight before
The ship that bear th banner of th
free.
And every foreign power will give old
Urieln 8am the floor
I heard It ut the comer grocery.
Tho trusts will soon be throttled, corpora
tions be no more,
The men of millions forced to divvy up.
And every hlch official who la rotten to the
core
Will whin for mercy like a beaten pup.
Diahonest politicians to the cross-arms w 111
b huuK.
Elections from rascality be free;
Then will the opening odo of the mlllenlum
be sung
I heard It at the corner grocery.
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