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before ms this 1st day of March, A. D.,
1904. M. B. HUNOATE.
iBeal) Notary Public.
If you see a hat on the sidewalk,
don't fall to kick It.
The way to move real estate up Is to
keep taxes down.
There are April fool Jokes and Jokes
end sometimes the Joke on one man Is
Joy for another.
March, 1904, seems In some way to
Jifive succeeded pretty well In sandwich
lug Its Hon and lamb propensities.
The Ohio river went the emperor of
lAustrls several hundred persons better
rhen It came to washing feet on
Maundy Thursday.
To Judge by the recent reports from
Beoul, Corenns are not to be regarded
telllgereuts by Husslii unless found with
firms In their lunula.
Perhaps after all the man from Maine
was projected into the arena as a buffer
to make the selection of thi man from
Kansas more palatable.
f lower lumber prices produce a
bigger aggregate of building permits
the fight among the local lumber dealers
will be no great calamity.
As .the Chinese army Increases Its
Strength on the northern border, Russia
becomes more and more Impressed with
the danger of the "yellow peril."
By the way decorations are being
fconferred by the czar one Is led to won
der what he will consider to be due
Ilia first officer whose force wins a
lctory.
It will be noticed that the Illinois
tonvict who selected the name of a
statesman under which to be sentenced
gild not pick that of J. Ralph Burton
0t Kansas.
It Is greatly to be feared that after
the rebuff he has received In his fight
ver the Bennett will, Colonel Bryan
m ill be In no mood to acquiesce In a com
promise anywhere.
, " If it had been suspected that Governor
Jlulley would have a United States sen
Btor to appoint the slump to Hoch as his
successor in Kansas might not have
been so unanimous.
Coal miners of Iowa and Illinois may
e wiser after they have lost a sum
iner's work. John Mitchell generally
knows when a strike Is Justifiable and
he opposes this one.
It la to be hoped the pleasant rela
tions between the wooden nutmeg
state and Nebraska will not be severed
by the decision of the New Haven
Judge In the Bennett will case.
A lot of people have subscribed to the
Auditorium fund several times, but there
are also a whole lot more who ought to
contribute who have not subscribed at
alt It la time for them to step to the
front
It is strange that the most serious
objection the democratic party has found
to the candidacy of General Miles Is
that upon one very Important occasion
he did his full duty as an officer of the
United States army.
Tb distress of the World Ileruld about
the railroad assessment Is always acute
when republican state officials are to
make the assessment and always care
fully smothered wheu demo-pop officers
liave to face the music.
It Is easy enough to figure out the
money the scavenger law ought to bring
Into the county treasury, but no one
(would want to put up a bond to guar
antee that the money will come In in
ven half the amount.
-i
If the promoters of the Boer war en
terprise at the St. Louis exposition
would provide a "little Eva" act, show
ing the harmony between Boer and
Brttoe. General Pelarey might ap( ob
TIf DEMOCRATIC SITVATIVlt.
There Is little In the presort situation
lo ciicourngp dt'inftf-rat to hope for suc
cess In the coming presidential election.
In a recent Interview Mr. William K.
Hnrrlty of ppniiMylvnnlu. who whs chalr
mnu of the democratic iiHtional commit
ter when Mr. Cleveland was last
elected, fmnkly admitted that he did
not find the outlook of his pnrty as
hopeful ns it ought to lm. "There Is no
leadership to stir our fighting spirit,"
he declared; "we have no Issues sharply
enough defined to arouse Interest In
tensely In the coming campaign." lie
did not think that the trusts and the
tariff ns Issues would awoken much en
thusiasm, for the reason that most men
are employed and are receiving satis
factory remuneration for their work.
This observant and candid democrat
evidently realizes, . what many of his
party do not, that the democracy can
Justly claim no credit for anything that
has been done relative to the trusts,
but on the contrary made no use of the
one opportunity the party had to show
In a practical way the sincerity of Its
professed hostility to Industrial and
capitalistic combinations. It cannot ex
pect, therefore, that the people will
have any confidence In promises It may
make on this question In the coming
campaign. Bo In regard to the tariff
Mr. Harrity shows an astuteness not
common to his fellow partisans in say
ing that with labor generally employed
and receiving satisfactory remuneration
an attack on the policy that Insures
employment to labor will not awaken
much enthusiasm. The worklngmen of
America huve shown very conclusively
that they are not hostile to the prin
ciple of protection to our Industries and
a great many of them have not forgot
ten the distress brought upon them by
the tariff tinkering under the last dem
ocratic administration.
It Is an Interesting fact in the situa
tion that the so-called conservative wing
of the demrtcracy wants a candidate
for president who will have the support
of the trust magnates a man as to
whom the combinations can be assured
that he will not be. If elected, partic
ularly diligent or zealous in requiring
them to comply with the laws and pun
ishing them If they do not. Tills ele
ment Is planning with reference to a
generous campaign fund to be contrib
uted by the combinations and corpora
tions which are hostile to Theodore
Roosevelt. The radicals, on the other
hnnd, unqualifiedly avow a "trust-busting"
policy and there Is reason to be
lieve that they are sincere. At any rate
they cannot fairly be accused of any
Intrigue or dalliance with the forces
and Influences to which the party gen
erally professes hostility.
Meanwhile it is difficult to determine
which of the two factions has at this
time the better of the situation. It ap
pears probable that Judge Parker, who
Is supposed to stand with the conserv
atives, though nothing Is definitely
known regarding his views on any pub
lic question, will have the , New York
delegation to the St. Louts convention.
In that event he will be the strongest
cnndldate for the nomination, but the
radicals, with Hearst as their leader,
promise to make a much stronger show
ing In the national convention than was
thought possible a month or two ago
and may be able to dictate the candi
date, especially In the event of the "two
thirds rule being maintained. It Is an
Interesting situation for the student of
politics and undoubtedly will become
more so as the date of the national con
vention approaches.
rOMBBTI.IO RUSSIAN KXitlTY.
The semi-official newspaper at St.
Petersburg Is a vigilant and persistent
enemy of this country and has been do
ing all It can to create sentiment in
Russia hostile to the United States. A
short time ago It referred to our govern
ment as the real foe of Russia screened
behind Japan, remarking that "when
Great Britain has quite gone over to the
United States the rest of Europe will
realize the urgency of united action
against America." Its latest screed Is In
the same spirit, asserting that this
country Is the common rival of both
F.ngland and Japan and implying that
the United States Is aiming at obtain
ing the mastery of the Pacific ocean, to
the detriment of other nations and par
Jlcularly of England. It declared that
"sooner or later the European countries
will recognize that America Is their
mutual enemy" and suggested that
Russia and England should combine to
safeguard their Interests.
There would be no importance in all
this if It were not for the fact that the
St. Petersburg publication Is under
stood to reflect the feeling of those high
in the administration of Russian affairs.
MsslhIy even of the czar himself. It
Is this that gives significance to Its ut
terances and causes them to make an
Impression upon the European mind
which the ordinary newspaper could not
make. In view of this It Is Impossible
to believe, notwithstanding the friendly
assurances that have come from Russia
and from her diplomatic representative
at Washington, that there is not a very
bitter feeling of enmity toward the
United States In official circles at St.
Petersburg. It Is needless to say that
our government has done nothing to
warrant this feeling. American popular
sympathy is with Japan, perhaps even
more strongly now than before the war,
but the course of the government has
been absolutely fair and impartial and
will so continue to the end. This all
Europe knows and It Is not likely to be
greatly Influenced by Russian attacks
uion this country.
One of the first problems the new
superintendent of schools will be re
quired to meet will be the reorganization
of the High school, which has become
top-heavy and sway-backed by having
its pay roll loaded .up with the sisters.
cousins and aunts of former school board
members and politicians with a pull.
teCQ&lagle Aft J$fipx)ft Jbtf are jaera
square pegs In round holes In the High
school than In all the rest of our public
school system.
A UWD KT.Px.lRT RfCUItD.
While domestic trade for several
months past has ifot been so active us
during the corresponding period a
year ago, the statistics regarding the
exports of manufactures make a highly
satisfactory showing. Those for Feb
ruary were greater In value than In any
preceding February and formed also a
larger per cent of the total exports. It
Is also noted that for the eight months
ending with Februury the total manu
factures exceeded the total In the cor
responding period of any earlier year.
It Is pointed out that the fiscal year
1900 was the banner year In exports
of manufactures from the United States,
but from present indications the fiscal
year 1904 will show an even larger
total of manufactures exported.
This Is n condition which is especially
gratifying In the fact It demonstrates
that notwithstanding the efforts of for
eign manufacturers to head off Amer
ican competition our manufacturers are
not merely holding their own but mak
ing gains In the world's markets. A
good deal has been said from time to
time about the necessity of buying in
order to sell and while there Is un
questionably something In the proposi
tion, yet It Is seen that while our im
ports In recent months have not been
Increasing there has been a consider
able gain In the exports of manufac
tures. This fact would also seem to
confute the assertion constantly made
by the enemies of protection that the
tariff law is a hindrance to our export
trade. Indeed the experience of the
lost four or five years Is very con
clusively adverse to that proposition.
It Is evident that American manu
facturers have never been more active
and energetic than they are at pres
ent in seeking markets for their sur
plus products and certainly never more
successful. It Is noteworthy that within
the last eight years the value of do
mestic manufactures exported has
doubled.
pat as roi: go.
The Real Estate exchange has done
much good work for Omaha taxpayers,
but the position to which It has com
mitted Itself In opposition to the fund
ing of the county debt by n low-rate
bond Issue will scarcely commend itself
to the rank and file of taxpayers.
It Is conceded by the Real Estate ex
change that the county has for a num
ber of years post carried a very large
floating debt, which compels it to make
all purchases on the credit system and
compels it to issue warrants bearing 7
per cent interest. In other words, it Is
admitted that the county has constantly
kept one year behind In Its payments
and therefore pays from 5 to 25 per cent
more for what it has to buy, while at
the same time paying 7 per cent on evi
dences of Indebtedness Issued in the
shape of warrants. It is admitted that
It would be very desirable that the
County 'should be placed on a strictly
cash basis, but it Is argued that this is
not the time to try the experiment, be
cause there Is a good prospect of paying
the floating debt through the collection
of back taxes under the scavenger law.
In support of this fallacious assump
tion figures upon figures are piled up
without the remotest guaranty that the
collection of back taxes will pay even
one-fourth of the floating county debt,
which is estimated in round figures at
$ri25,000. While there Is no doubt that
the scavenger law will In due course of
time possibly two or three years bring
about the cleaning up of the delinquent
tax list, the most liberal estlmnte of the
amount collectible this year does not
exceed. $.r0,000, so far as the county Is
concerned.
It was to have been expected that the
proposed refunding of the county's float
ing debt would meet with strenuous op
position from every dealer In county
warrants, but we cannot comprehend
why anyliody representing the Interests
of the real estate owners should want
to continue the system that has every
thing to condemn and nothing to com
mend It. What the taxpaylug citizens
of Omaha need above till things Is n
system of financiering that will do
away with the issue of irredeemable
warrants and make every voucher Is
sued by the city,, school board or county
payable on presentation at the treas
urer's counter.
Former Senator Pettlgrew of South
Dakota has resurrected himself long
enough to denounce the state and na
tional policies of the republican party,
Pettlgrew was one of those who bolted
McKlnley in 18!K5 on the pretense that
the republican party had departed from
its traditional policy with reference to
free silver coinage, while pledging
fealty to all Its other principles, ret
tigrew reached his level long ago.
The Iowa legislature is being lm
portGned to launch the state Into the
consumption sanitarium business. It will
not take long for the promoters of this
benevolent project to come across the
Missouri river and attack the Nebraska
legislature. Nebraska, however, has
Just now more state Institutions than It
needs, to say nothing of more than it
can comfortably support.
Johnny Matter's friends are becoming
quite anxious over his peculiar behavior
since he was unhitched from his official
position. An explanation surely Is in
order and if the typewriter is lncapact
tated, they would be willing to try at
deciphering ordinary pothooks and
dashes-provided he supplies plenty of
dashes.
The Fryanlte organ of these parts ap
proviugly quotes the Lincoln News,
very candid republican paper. Inasmuch
as the News is reputed to be edited by
a former secretary of William Jennings
Bryan, Its candor, from the republican
point ot jlewt wou,ld baya to go Brpul
a strainer before passing as gospel
truth.
South Dakota democrats have In
structed for Hearst, first, last and all
the time, and afflnned the principles of
democracy as enunciated by Jefferson,
Jackson and Bryan. They could not
have done much more, except, possibly,
to read G rover Cleveland out of the
party once more. '
Former Judge Sullivan Is becoming
quite brash In making unseemly charges
against the supreme court In bis briefs
on appeal cases. When Judge Sullivan
was on the bench a mild newspaper
criticism of the court was enough to
bring on a big fine for contempt.
A Hooaler that Was.
Indianapolis News.
Senator Joseph Ralph Burton was an
Indtanlan. Let the emphasis be strong on
the "was," If you ploaae.
Jndffe Parker Discreetly Silent.
Minneapolis Times.
One thing highly In Judge Parker's favor
Is his discreet illencs concerning his pro
posed nomination for the presidency. He
has not Indicated In any way his willing
ness to be a candidate, but sticks faithfully
to his Judicial post. He Is not one who be
lieves In taking a swim In the pool of poli
ties with the Judlolai ermine as a bathing
stilt
A Doer of the Word.
Louisville Post (dem.)
The Montgomery Advertiser says "there
was a time when Theodore Roosevelt posed
as a reformer." Theodore Roosevelt Is a
man who acts, not a man who poses. He
does things and lets others talk about them.
In office in New York, Albany and Wash
ington he wus and Is a doer of the word.
Until the opponents of the president rid
themselves of false conceptions of the man
their attacks will all fall.
Admiral Dewey and the .Rroe.
Philadelphia Press.
The story widely circulated to the effect
that Admiral Dewey did not land at Sun
Domingo City when near there on the May
flower, because he discovered that Morales,
the preeident, wus a negro, la emphatically
denied by the admiral. He knew before
he started that the president of San
Domingo was a colored man. He did not
land because the Mayflower would have
had to paes through a narrow stream
over which the Insurgents were firing on
that day. Tt would hnve been a needless
and foolish rick, and was for that reason
avoided. Admiral Dewey says that he has
no prejudice against colored men.
Cost of Great Wars.
Boston Transcript.
It cost France over 2,000,(KK a day to
keep an army of 600,000 men In the field
against the Germans. The Austrian econ
omist, Shaffle, eight years ago declared
that a war Involving the continental powers
of Europe would cost France over $5,000,000
a day; Russia, 6,600.000; Germany, $5,000.
000, and Austria $8,000,000. The figures
would probably be larger today and If
made to Include Great Britain, the United
States and China the expenditure for
waste, destruction and death would aggre
gate nearly $40,000,000 every twenty-four
hours, or more than a million and a half
an hour. ,
Money Paid In Pensions.
Chicago Tribune.
Several readers .have asked for Infor
mation as to pension disbursements since
the close of the wur. The following table
gives by fiscal years the amount paid be
tween July 1, 18G6. and June 30, 1903:
1S 115 6(6.000 185.. $ 5.1i'2.000
81)7 !W.i)3B.WW
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18118 23,782,000
1887 75,oy.OJ0
1888 SSU.&to.OiiO
SH9 28.476,000
1870 28.340.01
1SS9 87,624,000
ISsW 106,936,0m)
18H1 124.415,000
1892 134.5s3.OlH)
2893 159,367.001
1894 141.177,000
18! 141,3!6,UU0
1896 139.4H4.0u0
141,13,000
1895 147,462,00)
18!)., 139.3f4.O0O
19n0 140.877. OX)
1901 139.323.000
1902 138.4RS.O00
19u3...' 137.T60,OjO
1871 34.443.0iiu
1872 2S,563,0Ot
873 ZS.aitf.OiJQ
1874 at.ow.ouo
1875 29.4.")6.(X
1876 28,257,000
877 27,93.0ui
1878 27,137.WM
1X79 35.121,000
1W 66.777.tM)
1881 50,059.000
1S82 B1.345.00U
1883.... 66.01 1.000
1884 55.419,000
It Is estimated that Commissioner Ware's
policy will add between $15,000,000 and $60,.
000,000 a year to the pension expenditure.
NO TH1IKAT TO PROSPERITY.
Futile
Attempts of Democrats
to
Create a Diversion.
Baltimore American.
Democrats both In and out of congress
are doing their best to belittle the Impor
tance of the Northern Seourltles decision
and to make the people believe that the
policy of the republican administration
In dealing with the whole problem of the
trusts Is thoroughly Insincere and un
worthy of any confidence. This sentiment
has been voiced In the house of repre
sentatives by Williams, the democratic
leader, who seems to consider the subject
as one only worthy of Jest and not en
titled to a moment's serious considera
tion. He has even gone so far as to In
quire whether the republicans Intended
to use the merger decision as a theatrical
political trick.
Republicans can rest content. They
hnve a right to claim all credit for the
paxsage of the Sherman anti-trust law,
under which this opinion was rendered,
and the views of the majority of the su
preme court of the United States are In
Una with those of the administration and
of all the party's leading statesmen. That
the Sherman law Is perfect, none will
claim, but It has blazed the way to legis
lation and to legal opinions which are a
permanent guarantee that there shall be
no restriction of legitimate business, no
repression of trade by combinations of
capital formed with such ends In view.
Democrats have quoted the words of
Attorney General Knox that "this gov.
ernmeut was not running amuck" against
trusts generally, as an indication that all
prosecution of the trusts would now halt
and the government remain content with
what has been accomplished, leaving
other combines to continue their busi
nesses as they sue fit. They know very
well that this Is about as far from the
truth as they could get. This administra
tion has no Intention of going Into a reck
less crusade against corporations of all
kinds, many of which are keeping wholly
within the law and the rights of which
no one can call Into question. On the other
hand. It will insist on observance of the
law, as it now stands, by all the trusts,
and those which, like the Northern Secu
rities company, bade It defiance, will be
called to account.
There will not be the slightest disturb
ance of the prosperity of the country.
The republican policies of the last eight
years having contributed In large meas
ure to such prosperity there certainly will
be no changes that might undo the good
work of bringing order out of the chaos
democrats left behind them. Republicans
know exactly where they stand and ex
actly what they want. They will Insist on
such a regulation of the trusts that will
make a dangerous monopoly Impossible,
that will keep the way to legitimate com
petition always open and that wfll make
lSba
ROtUD ABOPT MRW tOBK.
Rlsnles on Camn mt Ufa
In
the Metropolis.
It took a New Tork Jury less than two
minutes last Monday to agree on a verdict
for $75,000 against James N. Abeel for trif
ling with the affections of Miss Eleanor K.
Anderson. Abeel Is one of New Tork's
"bloods." About the time Miss Ooelet mar
ried the duke of Rocksburghe, Abeel repre
sented himself to Miss Anderson as J.
Ogden Goclet, Jr., and agreed to marry her
last fall. Abeel did not defend the suit.
Miss Anderson, dressed In black, appeared
In court and testified that while she wns
employed as telegraph operator at the
Grand Union hotel, earning $100 a month,
Abeel made her acquaintance under the
assumed name of J. Ogden Ooelet, Jr. As
the newspapers have told, she was Im
pressed by his name and by a letter pur
porting to be signed by J. B. Van Every,
vice president of the Western Union Tele
graph, In which "J. Ogden Ooelet, Jr.," was
Introduced to all employes of the company.
Then Abeel, who had sent her flowers and
letters from the Waldorf, gave her a
$100,000 check, which he afterwards got back
from her, and proposed marriage. She ac
cepted him, with the consent of her par
ents, and 'the two went to see Father La
velle at the cathedral rectory and made
arrangements to be married on November
2. Abeel disappeared the next day, leaving
his suit case at Miss Anderson's. This case
was produced In court. It contained a
shirt and other personal effects, and 100
'visiting cards Inscribed "J. Ogden Ooelet,
Jr."
The children of Thomas L. Watt, a mil
lionaire horseman and banker of US Fifth
avenue, entertained thirty of their society
friends on one Friday afternoon recently
at one of the most elaborate parties that
have been given for little folk hereabout
In many months. The affair was called an
"Indiun luncheon."
For the occasion the Wat mansion was
transformed into an Indian "reservation,"
In which real redmen, Imported from the
plains, presided and took charge of the
children. Every child was dressed In In
dian fashion, being clad In buckskins and
bedecked with paint, powder feathers and
beads. They presented a delightful picture
as the diminutive "braves" and "squaws"
assembled In the ballroom for a dance,
which opened tho festivities.
After the dance came the luncheon in
the dining-room. Overhead was lattice
work covered with vines, while about the
walls a canvas cyclorama represented an
Idaho plain. At one end was a tepee, with
a real campflre and kettle suspended over
it, and back of the Are est a real Indian
ready to serve bouillon to the hungry
guests.
When the "warriors" and their "squaws"
had entered In Indian file they squatted
in a circle In the center of the room, and
then one by one, entering a birch-bark
canoe run on a trolley, they were propelled
around the room until they reached the
tepee. Here they were served with bouil
lon In elaborate Mexican cups, and were
provided with silver spoons etched with
warlike. scenes. Then, with a hand-pnlnted
paddle provided for the occasion, they pad
dled back again. Ice cream was served In
tiny canoes, fruit In odd Mexican Jars and
cake In unique Indian dishes that had been
procured In the far west. Each child was
given his paddle and a cactus plant In an
Indian pot for a souvenir.
After the luncheon the children were
ushered Into the main drawing-room, where
each was provided with a bow and arrow
and told to shoot at any one of a hundred
presents suspended on evergreen trees In
the miniature forest. To hit a present was
to win It, and the tots soon proved them
selves good marksmen.
The old Brooklyn bridge Is oomtng to be
regarded with something like veneration by
New Yorkers. It has paid for Itself a
thousand times, end It still nobly bears a
weight of traffic five times greater than the
designers promised. Three hundred and
fifty thousand persons cross It dally; a
hundred heavy trains such as were not
dreamed of when the bridge was built are
constantly crossing and recrosslng, and yet
the old bridge stands the pressure without
a tremor. A half mile up the river there Is
a new bridge, costlier, heavier and designed
to bear twice the weight the old structure
does, but it does not give one-twentieth of
the service afforded by the old bridge.
When the new bridge was put In commis
sion, about six months ago, there was a
hope that it would relieve the old span of
at least half of Its great burden, but up
to date there has been no appreciable dimi
nution In the crowds which surge around
Park Row In the morning end evening
hours. Before the new bridge comes Into
Its fullest use It will be necessary to change
the direction of travel for at least half of
the population of Brooklyn, and this means
a rearrangement of the street car lines, a
matter which Is being agitated without
great results up to the present time. In
the meantime old New Yorkers feel like
patting the Brooklyn bridge on the back.
It Is doing Us work well, and for three
years there has been no recurrence of the
stories that It Is giving way to the tre
mendous weight of traffic.
Shamrock I, the challenger. Into which
Sir Thomas Upton put $30,000. is being torn
to pieces preparatory to going Into Junk
dealers' hands. From time to time efforts
have been made to sell the boat to private
parties to be made over Into a pleasure
boat, but, regardless of the fact that It
was offered at ridiculously low prices, no
sale was made. No one seemed willing to
assume the ownership of a once racer,
fearing. It would seem, that they would
In a measure, be bound to always make
some showing of speed. It was finally
decided to break It up. A Newark (N.
J.) firm paid $17,000 for the boat as It
stood In the shipyard at City Island. Prob
ably when the Darts are sold separately,
much more than this amount will be real
ised. Considerable aluminum was used
In Its construction, and this material, even
secondhand, should bring good prices.
One of the pests of New Tork Is the
scissors grinders. Most of these street
mechanics go around blowing bugles or
cornets, though Just why they announce
their coming In this manner no one seems
to understand, unless It Is that many of
them come from the Austrian Tyrol, where
horns are the order of tlie day for letting
people know there's someone around.
With true mountaineer energy these scis
sors grinders get out bright and early In
the morning, often trudging the streets
by T or $ o'clock. Their rasping bugle
notes, which arouse peaceful slumber, are
not conducive to the proper spirit that
should accompany morning prayers.
A touch of nature often makes Judicial
dignity unbend. A New York magistrate
who is notoriously afflicted with autopbobla
which Is to say that he always visits the
limit of the law on speeders was sud
denly cured when a young gentleman
named William Gould was brought before
him charged with exceeding the limit
In running his machine. "What have you
got to sayT" asked the Judge. "My baby
was sick and I was hurrying for the
doctor," said Mr. Gould. In two mlnutea
the young roan was out In the sunlight.
"The Judge told me he would do the same
thing himself," he explained.
A funny street scene occurred one after
noon la Park Row. A motorman got Into
an altercation with a cabman and the latter
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his lever out of the socket, he threw It at
the cabby. The heavy brass crank missed
the cabman, but smashed a window In the
vehicle and dropped Inside. The cabby saw
his advantage at once. Whipping up his
horse he quickly disappeared down the
Bowery, leaving the motorman helpless
to move his car. After fifteen minutes'
oongestlon another car came along and
bumped the helpless trolley back to the
barns.
T1IK IDEAL RAILROAD SEX ATOR,
Short Discussion on the Rise and Fall
of Barton of Kansas.
WllllHm Allen White, editor of the Em
poria Gazette, discusses In the Chicago
Tribune the latest political tragedy In
Kansas as follows:
The conviction of United States Sena
tor Joseph R. Hurton of a felony in con
nection with his official conduct will sur
prise no one in Kansas. Few of his sena
torial associates will be even mildly aston
ished. lturton'B character has been well
known In Kansas for twenty years, and In
the senate, while he has not been known so
long, he has been shunned by the decent
element there for two years, and his name
has been written among the impossibles.
For a dozen years before he went to
Washington as a senator from Kansas he
was a professional candidate for sena
torial honors. He had served a term or
two In the lower house of the state legis
lature, where he openly solicited bribes
and was charged dozens of times In the
newspapers of the state with being a bood
ler without the slightest resentment upon
Burton's part. Time and again perfectly
reputable and financially responsible news
papers have charged Burton with violating
every obligation of life, social, moral, po
litical and financial, and he made no at
tempt to bring these newspapers to the
bar of Justice.
His most ardent enemies promised
nothing more for him when he was elected
to the senate than that he would reform.
Ills election was due to the influence of
railroads In state politics. Every local at
torney for the Rock Island, the Missouri
Pacific, the Santa Fe and the Union Pa
cific who had any Influence was at Topeka
working for Burton. Peremptory orders
came out of Chicago and St. Louis In the
campaign which ended with Burton's elec
tion demanding that local Kansas railroad
lawyers support Burton or lose their
places.
A railroad has a right In politics for de
fense, but the railroads' campaign for Bur
ton was not defensive, but offensive. It
was a war of conquest.
Before Burton had been senator six
months he had alienated President Roose
velt by recommending Improper men for
federal office. Ills candidates were Ig
nored and the men whom President Mc
Klnley had named for Burton were In
continently thrown out of office.
To win a place for a follower Burton
forged a telegram from Congressman Long
Indorsing the Burton candidate to Presi
dent Roosevelt, and when confronted with
his deed by the president Burton tried to
laugh It off.
He allied himself with the beet sugar
Interest against the resolutions of the Kan
sas republican convention and In violation
of his promise to President Roosevelt to
stand by the administration In the cam
paign for Cuban reciprocity.
He worked a shell game on the president
by which Burton got Roosevelt's signature
to an Indorsement of a midway show at St.
Louts and tried to get the president to
write a letter Indorsing a patent toy, for
whose manufacturers Burton was an "at
torney." He has sustained his Kansas reputation
with remarkable consistency, and has
ended his political career by furnishing a
horrible example to young men who would
go Into politics as a means of profit. He
has been of no assistance to the railroads
that elected htm, because he could not be
trusted with any Important work, and his
connection with even a worthy minor
measure subjected It to suspicion. He was
always being searched for "the goods."
Summer Recreation for Senators.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
One group of senators will Junket to
Utah, another to the Isle of Pines, and In
a few days questions relating to other
localities on tourist routes will be sprung.
Hummer travel has become a very Irksome
senatorial duty.
Easter Lilies Given Away!
See Ad in Evening Paper
SroWmrYS-
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PKRIOSAL NOTES.
Dowio says King Edward has no religion
to spare. This Is taking a mean ad van tag.
The king couldn't say the same thing about
Dowle.
K. II. Hartiman, the railroad magnate,
has donated $11,000 to St. George's Protestant
episcopal church of Hempstead, N. T., to
have It remodeled.
Colonel Vincent Mnrmaduke, who was
commissioned by the president of the con.
federacy to go to Europe to buy arms and
ammunition to carry on the war, has Just
dlod In Marshall, Mo.
Walter A. Mason, for four years state
examiner of Insurance companies of Illinois,
has been elected president of the Commer
cial and Farmers National bank Of Buitl
more. He is only 82 years old and the
youngest bank president In Baltimore.
The reoent retirement of Sir William
llarcourt from publlo life In England re
calls the fact that he and the late Lord
Randolph Churchill were the principals lu
the most condensed debato ever heard In
the House of Commons. Irritated beyond
endurance at one session by the conduct of
Lord Randolph, Sir William leaned across
the table to where the former sat and
said: "You llUlo ass I" to which Churchill
retorted, "You d d fooll" and the debute
closed.
Barrett Wendell, the well known pro
fessor of English at Harvard, crossed the
campus the other day behind two sopho
mores. "What Is the matter with youT" he
heard the first sophomore say. ' "What
makes you so blue?" "Why," replied the
other, "I wrote home lust week for money
to get text books with, and here this
morning my father sends me, Instead of the
money, the boo. themselves. How In the
wor.: Is a fellow ever going to get on his
feet this rate?"
SMI I.I a I.IKES.
"What are the city dotectives doing
now?"
"Oh, we have them hard at work Inves
tigating each other." Chicago Post.
"But do you think," asked the visitor In
the local option town, "that prohibition
really prevents?"
"Well," replied the native, "It prevents
a fellow from getting the best of whisky,
but It doesn't prevent whisky from getting
the best ot h'.m." PMludnlpmu, -Press.
"It often happens that Investigations are
failures, does it not?"
"I should e-'iy ho," answered Senator
Sorghum. "Every once in a while an In
vestigation instead of quieting things turns
tip a whole lot of facts that you didn't
want known." Washington Star.
"Your honor," said the young lawyer,
"I demand Justice for my client.
"I'd be only too glad to sccommodate
you," answered the Judge, "but as the
law won't allow me to give him more than
six months I am practically helpless."
Chicago News.
"Of course,
luck."
a horseshoe always means
"Oh, yes, and If the horsn passes It
It up
hard
to you behind your hack it means
luck." Indianapolis Journal.
"I suppose." said the plain citizen to the
British official, "If his majesty's forces
get mixed up In this war In the east our
policy will be 'the sword In one hand and
the Bible In the other.'"
"No," replied tbe official, "the regula
tion uniform for service there will have
a large pocket for the Bible, leaving the
other hand free to operate a machine
gun." Philadelphia Catnollo Standard.
O, yes. sweet gentle spring la here
There la no doubt at that.
And Ethel now remarks to Tom:
"1 want an Raster hat!"
Somervllle Journal.
SONGS MY MOTHER SANG.
Italia Mitchell In Farm Journal.
I hear them In the whispering winds,
The forest's rythmic strain.
The chime of bells, that sinks and swells
The patter of the ruin.
I hear them in the vesper call
Of birds from copse and tree;
Each note prolongs the dear old songs
That mother sung to me.
I hear them In the ocean's voice,
Tho prattle of a child.
The dashing rill, the fountain's trill,
The tempest tierce and wild.
I hear them through the silent night,
In dreams that echo fre,
Since mmnry throngs with tender Songs
That mother sang to me.
I heard them win'ii a babe I lay
Upon her loving bn-ast.
And when a child their charms beguiled
My eager brain to rest.
I hear them now. uml some last hour
Across death's swelling sea
Mv soul shall wing, while angels sing
The songs she sang to me.
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