TI1E 0MAI1A DAILY REE: MONDAY, FEBItUARY 13, 1905.
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Considering the way-below-zero tem
perature, Omaha's clearing bouse record
for the past week is eminently satisfactory.
While Ohio republicans are n fac
tional fight it Is gratifying to know that
neither side is as yet flirting with the
democrats.
The czar favors a zemsky zeabor, but
Russia will await the decision of the
bureaucrats before knowing how far the
czar will be permitted to go.
The dalai lama is said to be on his
way to St Petersburg. lie may arrive
in time to offer the czar sympathy, the
more effectual from experience.
Since the action of Illinois courts in
the suits against Iroquois theater man
agers,, the prospect is brighter for own
ers of "flretrap" excursion boats In New
Tork.
. Senator Mitchell at least has learned
that it is a wise man who can choose n
'rUaTfe ''partner," nnd ttuit. senatorial
honors do not always carry wisdom with
thorn. ' - '
The president's plea against race sui
cide must have found response at home
New' York City reports 2,500 more
births than deaths in the last three
months.
Missouri is expressing fear of a flood
to follow a sudden thaw, but even
thoughts of a flood will not repress the
Intuitive desire for warmer weather in
Nebraska.
Spain and Portugal see an opportunity
for having queens of the British royal
house. The balance of power logic seems
to be disappearing in Europe along with
the idea of tho divine right of klpfs.
Topeka hotel keepers are the first to
suffer by tho decision of the legislature
to investigate boodling churges, as the
lobbyists have all gone to Kansas City.
Hotel keepers at Lincoln take warning.
Kansas has no law against a legisla
tor soliciting a brlbo, so It is held in a
decision of the supreme court. This
should at least make Kansas voters
more careful in the selection of their
candidates.
Lincoln democrats are preparing to
conduct a vigorous municipal non-partisan
campaign, bat if any democrat
should be elected to any city office he
may be depended upon to perform at
every stage of the game as a democrat.
. Our Civic Federation reformers are
passing up a big opportunity. They
should file new charges of incompetency
At once against Chief Donahue because
the police of Omaha have not unearthed
a single wife to lay claim to "Blue
beard" llocu.
From now on, the censured legisla
tive liar will refuse to be reconciled to
Speaker Bouse and leave no chance go
by to aveuge his insulted veracity. We
imagine, however, that the speaker will
continue to discbarge his duty without
waiting for the aid or consent of any
popocratlc newspaper organ.
The Capitol Avenue market house has
been a losing investment not because a
public market bouse, or even a market
shed, cannot be made self-sustaining,
but because the city has adopted a
policy in relation to public markets that
Is designed to foster private market
bouses at the expense of the city.
, , , il . , ,,B
Jn promising to go to Cleveland In re
sponse to a subpoena in the Chadwick
case Andrew Carnegie is breaking the
precedent established by millionaires In
New York, who have bo far resolutely
refused to answer court calls which are
not absolutely mandatory. But Mr. Car
negie baa frequently shattered prece
dents before.
OCLF PORT COMPETITION
The movement of western products to
the ports on the Oulf of Mexico, which
has within a short time assumed Inre
proportions and promises to steadily
grow, Is causing alarm to the merchants
and transportation Interests of the east
ern ports and they are organizing to
fight this competition. At a meeting held
a few days ago in New York of dele
gates from the grain exchanges of the
principal eastern cities and from Chi
cago and intermediate business centers,
with representatives of the trunk lines
and steamship companies, action was
taken concerning the Inroads made upon
eastern traffic by the discrimination in
freight rates made by the gulf roads.
Resolutions were adopted setting forth
the serious menace of such discrimina
tion to the commercial centers repre
sented by the action of the southwestern
railways, which was characterized as
"unreasonable" and "unjust," and the
timely action taken by the trunk line
railroads in regard to the situation was
commended.
The preamble to the resolutions de
clares that "the interests vital to the
existence of the grain. business In the
middle western markets and the Atlan
tic seaboard are being Jeopardized by
the course of the southwestern railway
systems In Introducing. unreasonably dis
criminative rates of freight from the
territory directly tributary to the points
of accumulation and distribution in the
west" and that "the very life of the in
terior markets and the life of the Atlan
tic ports as ports of shipment, and In
directly even as ports of Importation, Is
being sapped by this unjust and per
sistent determination to divert to the
gulf ports the business which Is natural
to the middle western markets, thereby
causing an alarming decrease In the vol
ume of business passing through our re
spective ports of shipment." It was
urged that in consequence of this the
business with foreign markets of eastern
merchants and steamship companies has
been greatly reduced and it was resolved
to make a deternilried effort to correct
this condition of affeirs and if possible
restore to the eastern ports the trade
they have lost.
It is an exceedingly important and In
teresting commercial issue that is thus
raised and the outcome, which we will
not venture to forecast, will be of vital
concern to the vast Interests involved.
The diversion of traffic from the eastern
to the gulf ports has been very marked.
For example, there was shipped abroad
from New Orleans during the week end
ing February 4 nearly 2.500,000 biiBhels
of corn, while in the same time the ship
ments of 'that grain from the two ports
of New York and Baltimore were but
little more than half that amount The
shipments of corn for January from the
gulf port were considerably in excess of
those from both the eastern ports abov
named. The gulf grain movement has
been steadily growing for some time and
since the beginning of the current year
have been larger than from all the east
ern ports combined. Whether or not
this movement can be maintained is a
question, but what is certain is the fact
that Atlantic export Interests are fully
convinced that the time has arrived for
n determined effort to check. If possible,
the competition of the gulf ports. With
this In view those Interests are organiz
ing and are assured of the earnest sup
port of the eastern trunk railroads. It
Is a contest in which western producers
are very greatly Interested.
THE CART BEFORE 'THE HORSE.
The most important and most gener
ally desired amendments to the city
charts are the abolition of the offices
of city treasurer and city tax commis
sioner and the trausfer of the functions
devolving upon them respectively to
the county treasurer and county as
sessor. By this proposed change it is
expected a saving will be effected ag
gregating from $25,000 to $30,000 a
year.
Inasmuch as IIia nrnnnand nionmira
contemplates the collection of municipal
taxes and the disbursement of municipal
funds by the county treasurer and the
assessment of all property within the
city for municipal purposes by the
county assessor, the economic revolu
tion would naturally also include the
collection of all municipal taxes in
South Omaha and every Incorporated
town and village in Douglas county, and
the disbursement of all municipal funds
for South Omaha and the towns and
villages in Douglas county by the
county treasurer; and by the same
process of reasoning it will be incum
bent upon the county assessor to make
tho assessment for municipal purposes
not only for Omaha, but for South
Omaha and the towns and villa ires
within Douglas county with a view to
putting an end to wasteful duplication
and making the asssessment and collec
tion of taxes more uniform.
Obviously the attempt to effect these
changes by amendments of the charter
for metropolitan cities is like putting
the cart before the horse. Amendments
to abolish the city treasurer's and ity
tax commissioner's offices of Omaha
would not enable the county treasurer
and county assessor to perform the
function of city treasurer and tax com-,
mlssloner for South Omaha, nor would
these amendments provide such addi
tional compensation ' for the county
treasurer and county assessor as they
would Justly be entitled to for the addi
tional service to be performed and the
additional responsibility placed upon
them.
The proposed charter amendments, If
they were effective In every respect
would still leave wide open the ratio of
expense which the city should bear for
the additional clerical force employed
in the county treasurer's office for hand
ling the collection of city taxes and dls
bursement of . city funds, nor does It
make any provision for additional cleri
cal force and the ratio of expenses the
city is to bear for the preparation
municipal assessment lists by
county assessor.
These essential features must neces
sarily be engrafted Into a statute thnt
will apply to the government of Doug
Ins county. Incidentally, the altolltlon
of the city treasurer's office will also
necessarily devolve upon the county
auditor, functions not heretofore per
formed by him, and would make the
creation of an elective county auditor
Imperative. In view of these condi
tions, It seems to us that the proper
thing for the committees engaged in
formulating charter amendments would
be to formulate a charter for Douglas
county that will dovetail with the char
ter for cities of the metropolitan class
and the South Omaha charter.
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STATE CORPORATION CONTROL
A bill has been Introduced in the New
York legislature, the enactment of which
is thought to be probable, providing for
a stringent control of corporations in
that state. It Is stated that publicity is
the keynote of the measure. According
to its terms, every newly organized cor
poration, combination or association of
corporations that offers its shares for
sale to the public shall issue a prospec
tus which shall show the names and tho
addresses of the promoters, their com
pensation and the extent of the Interest
of the directors In the organization. The
estimated amount of preliminary ex
penses, the prices at which the stock is
to be sold, and whether there Is to be a
bonus of any kind to any person; tho
names and addresses of persons from
whom the property is to be acquired; a
description of the property and the con
sideration to be paid, and the dates and
names of parties to any contract relating
to a corporation must also be set forth.
There Is a provision which penalizes
directors, promoters and Incorporators
for any misrepresentation, either directly
in the prospectus or Indirectly by the
omission of Information when such
omission might tend to mislead the pub
lic. x
The bill is upon the line of recom
mendations made by the United States
Industrial commission and its advocates
urge that it would prevent "wildcat" in
corporation, of which there have been
many examples in the past ten years.
Under both English and German law,
upon which this measure is said to bo to
a large extent based, there are the strict
est requirements in regard to publicity
in all matters relating to the promotion
and organization of corporations and
there appears to be no good rvnson why
such a law cannot be made operative in
this country, though it must be admitted
that state statutes in regard to the reg
ulation of corporations have not gen
erally had satisfactory results. Tho bill
In the New York legislature is sound in
purpose and ought to become a law,
though of course it will encounter a
vigorous opposition from the Interests
that thrive by the methods which sueh a
law would do away with. It would be
well if every state had a statute of this
kind.
Tho reintroductlon of the quartermas
ter's supply purchasing depot bill, that
was unceremoniously rejected in both
houses of congress five years ago be
cause it carried with it a $50,000 ap
propriation is not likely to make Omaha
a quartermaster's supply purchasing
station this winter or next summer.
The bill that passed the senate in 1001
and was smothered by "Our Dave" In
the house could readily have passed the
ordeal because It carried no appropria
tion and simply dedicated the old
Omaha postofflce building, now occu
pied for array headquarters, to the quar
termaster's department and provided
for the permanent location of the r,rmy
headquarters in the new federal build
ing, which had ample room for the ac
commodation of all the departments
when that structure was completed.
Such a measure appealed for support
on the ground of economy, while a bill
carrying an appropriation repels sup
port because it entails additional, un
known and unknowable expenditure.
In his remarks on the subject of rail
road rate regulation when the bill was
up in the house, Congressman Sibley of
Pennsylvania incidentally declared "To
my mind It is the greatest subject, in
volving more of weal or woe to the
American people, than any since the civil
war." That it is a great subject no one
will deny, but we surmise that a decla
ration very similar in Import was made
by the same congressman from Pennsyl
vania about free sliver when be was
championing the cause of 16 to 1 as rep
resented In the candidacy of William
Jennings Bryan when free silver was
paramount in 1890. The same sort of
declaration was made by Mr. Bryan four
years later when militarism had sup
planted the other paramount issue, and
by Judge Parker recently as the saviour
of the constitution. The last great ques
tion is always the greatest of all.
The State Historical society Is said
to be eager to relieve all the counties,
cities and villages in Nebraska of the
care and custody of their public rec
ords after they have attained to the age
of twenty years. Whether these musty
documents have any except a historical
value, however, depends upon their na
ture and character. It may happen
that they would be needed occasionally
for some transaction requiring consul
tation of records of long ago, and while
they would doubtless be as Bafe in the
Historical society's keeping as any
where else, the right of access and use
of them without cost should by all
means be preserved for their real own
ers. The South Omaha Improvement clubs
are now taking a hand for the proposed
$250,000 sewer bond Issue without sub
mission to a vote of the people. Last
fall the Omaha Improvement clubs took
a hand against the $500,000 municipal
electric light bond proposition submitted
for ratification to the people. Improve
ment clubs are as bandy for fabricating
public sentiment in the Interest of pub
lic works contractors and public utility
monopolies as republican and demo
cratic ward clubs are for fabricating
campaign thunder.
If the legislature at Lincoln is to pre
scribe the rules ami regulations for fire
men serving in the fire department at
Omaha, why should It stop there? Why
not fix the working hours for .the police
men, too? Why not relieve the Board
of Education of its function of regula
ting school teachers and school Janitors?
One Is no more properly a matter, of
local government than the other.
It Just Happened.
Chicago Tribune.
Xt seems that the persons really respon
sible for the Iroquois theater horror hav
not been discovered yet..
Expert Definition.
St. Louis Republic
Th Missouri house of representatives has
passed a bill which classifies bribery aa a
shady business. The bill specifies aa bribery
th acceptance of compensation "under the
color of offlce."
I'nneoessarjr F.a-otlam.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The managers of the railroad systems of
th United States display an unnecessary
amount of egotism when they assume that
th people In their collective capacity could
not do what they ax doing. There are
plenty of successfully government managed
railroads In the world.
Regnlatlon that Herniates.
Cleveland Leader.
During the year 1904 'only 11,824 packages
of imported tea were refused admission to
this country. In 1893 the rejected packages
numbered 31,337, and the proof Bstraj to be
good that the tea Inspection law has done,
and Is doing, what it was meant to accom
plish. In other words, Importers of tea de
mand unadulterated goods and the tea in
spectors see that they get It.
School Fad Abolished.
Chicago Chronicle,
Th Chicago school principals who de
cided by a vote of two to one to recom
mend the abolition of. the vertical writing
fad hav followed somewhat reluctantly
the business men of Chicago who, a good
while ago, abolished the boys who were
afflicted with that style of penmanship. It
Is a pity that practical men of affairs can
not reach some of the other hobbles of the
publlo schools with equal directness.
I'p to the Senate.
Kansas City Times.
There is no question as to the govern
ment's authority to intervene in behalf of
the people. It is merely a question of pol
icy. And the people, democrats and repub
licans, are for the policy of intervention
proposed by the president. They have not
ben fooled, and they cannot be fooled. Pub
llo sentiment is expressed by the press of
th country, by the action of many business
organizations not controlled by railway In
terests, and by the legislatures of half the
states. This Is no time for the senate to
defy the people.
A Combine that Failed.
Philadelphia Record.
Further particulars of the embarrassment
of the Cordage trust show It to have been
due to the convict competition It aroused a
dozen years ago. Then It was cornering the
hemp market and holding binding twine at
fancy prices; when it could' no longer get
loans to enable It to carry its stocks of ma
terial and goods It succumbed. But the
farmers of the northwest had forced the
manufacture of '. binding twine In their
state penitentiaries. Since that time the
manufacturers of . reaping machines have
gone Into the twljie manufacture and the
Cordage trust has had no such control of
the market aa It used to have and at the
same time It hafl"to face the competition of
the penitentiary' factories which came Into
existence when It was holding up th farm
ers of the wheat states.
ORIENTAL CITV SCHEME.
Move to Transfer and Reform San
Francisco's Chinatown.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The promoters of the plan for the erec
tion of a model oriental city on the south
ern outskirts of San Francisco aa a means
of abolishing tho present Chinatown re
port that their scheme Is progressing. Their
plan contemplates the building of a strictly
oriental city, - with all of the best occi
dental sanitary 'Improvements and publlo
utilities, such as a modern sewerage sys
tem, refuse incinerating plant, electric
lighting plant, street railways, theuters,
hospitals and schools, on the southern bay
shore. It is also Intended to provide dock
ing facilities for the largest ocean freight
carriers and railroad extensions to permit
th most economical handling of freight
and passenger traffic. The company or
ganized to build' up this new oriental city
hopes to make one so attractive that the
Chinese will voluntarily migrate there from
their present quarters.
The present Chinatown covers sixteen
blocks and is owned by 660 different per
sons. It is at present appraised at $6,000,.
000. The owners are making no effort to
Improve it, drawing th high rents they
obtain from th Chines without attempt
ing to keep the property In repair. The
promoters of the oriental city scheme ex
pect to persuade th owners to accept
their preferred1 stock for the property In
Chinatown, which they will afterward mod
ernize by widening the thoroughfares, ras
ing all the present buildings, and erecting
In their place modern structures which will
b an ornament to the city and Immensely
Increase the value of th district.
A FOOLISH THREAT.
Railroad Literary Bnreans Working
Overtime.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
A pamphlet entitled "Legal and Commer
cial Views as to Conferring the Rat
Making Power on the Interstate Commerce
Commission," bearing unmistakable evi
dence of its corporate origin, Is now being
circulated In opposition to the president's
rate regulation policy. Passing th willful
misstatement of the title that anyone pro
poses to confer the rate muklng power on
the Interstate Commerce commission, when
as a matter of fact It la only proposed
to confer th power to fix a reasonable
rate in case of dispute, it Is Interesting to
turn to the quoted views of President
Lucius Tuttle of the Boston & Maine rail
road, answering a statement attributed to
Commissioner Prouty, that unless the gov
ernment exercises supervision the people of
the United States will be forced to pay
(40.000.0UO In rates more than they need
to during the coming year, says the rail
roads will make good by cutting operating
expense and that in no direction will the
knife be applied more vigorously than on
the biggest Item of expense th payrolls
of employes.
Mr. Tuttle Is foolish. In th first place,
no on needs to be told that the railroads
are today, operating their roads upon the
closest possible economy. Cutting the
operating expenses 140,000,000 would mean
the reduction of the earnings a great dal
more than th $i0,000,000 of excesaiva rates,
because It would mean Inability to handle
th buainess offered. In th second place,
th assumption that th people of the
country can ba scared Into perpetual sub
mission to corporate robbery by th threat
of a cut in wages is an Insult to th In
telliyvnc and Independence of the country.
If President Tuttle and his associates wish
to make th Iseua whether th railroad
or th government la to b supreme th
people ar ready to vote on that proposi
tion now.
BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE.
Minor Scene and Incidents Sketched
on the Spot.
Arrangements for the Inauguration of
President Roosevelt are well advanced.
There will be a big parade, a brilliant
spectacle on the east front of the capltol,
when the president takes th oath of office,
and the moat magnificent that ever marked
the Inauguration of an American presi
dent. An Inauguration Is properly divided Into
five parts, as the Incoming official makes
five separate appearances before the pub
lic. He first shows himself when he leave
the White House or. If he be not already
an Inmate of the White House, his apart
ment In Washington to be escorted to the
capltol. He drives in an open carrlago
and disappears Into the capltol to emerge
on the est front, where he takes the oath
of ofHco and delivers his Inaugural ad
dress. Ha then disappears Into the capltol again
and reappears accompanied by the con
gressional committee and rides down Penn
sylvania avenue again, followed by soldiers
and other organizations. Arriving at the
White House the president usually enter
'for a few minutes and then takes his posi
tion on the reviewing stand and the pa
raders pans In review.
The president's final appearance I at
night at the Inaugural ball, and this Is the
function that attracts pretty women from
all over th United States in their finest
gowns.
Designs have been made to make the
Interior of the ball room the most mag
nificent spectacle that has ever been pre
sented indoors. There will be a scheme
of decoration In electric lights, the colors
being gresn, crimson and gold. These will
blaze on almost every foot of space on th
wals and ceilings. There will also ba elab
orate floral end flag decorations. Th bunt
ing will be flreproofed.
Tickets to th ball will be $5 for each
person, and free tickets will be sent only
to the president and his family, to the
vice president and his family, to the mem
bers of the cabinet and to the ambassa
dors and ministers of foreign countries.
Diplomats of rank lower than that of
ambassador or minister will have to buy
their Uckets like th rest of th public
No carriage can be had the night of the
ball for less than $10.
One of the most interesting events of
the celebration of the anniversary of the
birth of George Washington on the S2d
Inst., will be the presentation by M. Jus
serand, the French ambassador at this
capital, on behalf of tho people of France,
to the congress of the United States, of a
bronze bust of George Washington mounted
upon a beautiful marble pedestal.
This bust is a replica of the original bust
mad by the famous sculptor, David
d'Angers, in th year 1823. All the ex
penses .were defrayed by publlo subscrip
tions and th bust was nreBented to the
United States In the nam of the people
of France. The sculptor was aided in his
work by General Lafayette, who, besides
being an Intimate friend of General Wash
ington, was a personal friend of the artist.
That bust was placed in the capltol at
Washington and was destroyed in the flro
of 1S6L
Recently it was ascertained that the clay
model from which the original bust was
cast was still Intact at Angers, the native
town of Sculptor David. A popular fund
was raised, a fresh cast of the bust made
and a marble pedestal provided for It.
They have been forwarded to Washington
in the core of th French ambassador, and
will be formally presented; to tho congress
of the United State on Washington's
birthday.
"That army and navy game is worse than
politics," remarked a visitor as he left the
Army and Navy club of Washington the
other night. "Between highballs," he con
tinued, "all that I heard were Inquiries as
to whether this or that officer In the two
services wasn't threatened with or wasn't
even then actually troubled with Jaundice,
nutmeg liver, aguecake, cirrhosis of the
liver, anasarca and a dozen similar dis
ease which would eventually compel gen
eral or captain or admiral or commander
or Muck-I-Muck So and So to seek retire
ment ftom active service or th cemetery.
All the chatter and gabble was made up of
Just so many speculations in Illness and
death. Promotion! Promotion! Promotion!
was the subdued chant of all the army and
navy officers present.
"The decision of th supreme court against
the Beef trust was hailed with delight out
In my country," said Mr. C. M. Lott of
Omaha, quoted by the Washington Poet.
"Though we are right In the heart of
the beef-producing section, and ought to
bo able to get our steaks and roasts at a
most reasonable figure, we are forced to
pay the same high prices that the com
bine exacts of the publlo In th most re
mote parts of th United States. Not only
this, but we are forced to put up with the
most Inferior cuts; all the choicer portions
are shipped away to eastern markets. Our
people are enthusiastic over the attitude of
President Roosevelt in this matter, and
hope that there will ba no turning back
in the fight until this most oppressive and
un-American monopoly has been forced to
abandon its unfair methods."
Washington men are noted for their po
liteness, especially In the street cars. The
women who enter a crowded car are al
most certain to find a seat, for th men
would rather stand up themselves than
see a woman passenger hanging onto a
strap. But a young senator, no less a per
son than Beverldge of Indiana, received
a lesson which even to that polite states
man proved a shock, and may cause him
to hesitate long before he relinquishes his
seat to a woman In a street car again. It
was a stormy day and Senator Beverldge
was on his way to tho capltol. The car
was crowded. Going down th avenue, a
young woman carrying an immense muff
boarded the car and made her way up th
aisle until Bha stood directly In front of
the Indiana senator. Instantly ha Jumped
to his feet and In his most exquisite smlla
offered his seat to the young woman. She
thanked him, but made no move to take
it. Instead, she put her hand in her muff
and drew forth a little toy terrier, and,
placing It In the seat vacated by the sen
ator, turned and smiled sweetly on him,
saying:
"Fldo Is so tired of being In my muff
that ha is so much obliged to you for
giving him a chance to rest himself In th
open air."
Senator Beverldge left the car at th
next corner.
A man went into the general reading
room of the Congressional library th other
day to get some specific data for a paper
he was writing. Ha told an attendant he
wanted to find out something about some
papal bulls, and asked If they had any
record of anything of the kind. He had
never been in the reading room before,
and (he did not know the limitations of
some of Its attendants. He selected a
desk and sat down. At th end of half an
hour the attendant returned.
"I think, sir," he said, "you may find
what you want here," and he laid before
him an Agricultural department report,
opened at an article on cattle.
Brlaht Baslnes Prospect.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Business failures In the United States for
January showed a falling off of $8,000,000
In comparison with th same month last
year. Small failure especially are few.
The prospect for continued prosperity was
never better.
STATU PRF.M OPINION.
Hastings Observer: One good hen I
doing more Just now to enrich the state
than that whole bewildering push down at
Lincoln.
Beatrice Express: Wipe out the bridge
graft and the state of Nebraska could build
several1 hundred miles of permanent roads
every year.
Norfolk Press: If the railroads have had
no lobby at Lincoln, let them prepire to
send one now. The passe of the statesmen
and the liberties of the people are assailed.
Kearney Hub: How tame the Nebraska
legislature would bo If Joe Burns should In
an absent minded moment go away back
and sit down! But that la not one of the
things that will come to pass.
Grand Island Independent: The house of
representatives at Lincoln has killed the
liquor dealers' measure to compel a re
monstrator to a saloon license to put up
a bond for the .costs of the proceeding.
It Is well. Now let It put the Bhreck bill
In the same grave.
Beatrice Sun: We notice that Senator
Jarkaon of this county is one of thoae who
declined railroad passes and paid their rail
road fare from their place of residence to
Lincoln. While mayor of Beatrice Mr. Jack
son declined to place himself under obliga
tions to the railroads by the acceptance of
passes.
Wakefield Republican: Th Republican
doesn't believe the new bill providing for
county option Introduced In the legislature
will be a good measure If enacted Into law.
Local option seems to work very well for
all concerned and should be lft strictly
alone. The county option bill should be
killed Inutanter.
Norfolk Press: It does one good to see
a railroad regulation measure driven un
der whip and spur, without even the priv
ilege of amending It. Nothing could indi
cate better the effort of public sentiment,
and nothing could demonstrate the more
clearly that tho corporations are power
less to control a lawmaker when he knows
that to obey thorn means. tho loss of his
Job.
Stockvllle Republlcan-Faber: Senator
Wllsey has introduced a bill for the relief
of raflroad men and shippers. The present
system of holding cars until full loads
are secured Is very Inconvenient for ship
pers and is the cause of train crews being
kept on duty an unreasonable length of
time. Senator Wllsey proppses In his bill
to remedy this. The bill should pass.
York Republican: A twine factory at
the penitentiary Is a proper thing, pro
vided the business is carried on by the
state. Anything that takes the labor of
the prisoners out of the hands of con
tractors is proper. Better that they should
be put to building stone plies and tearing
them down again than that Individuals
should be allowed to find profit in their
work.
Nebraska City Tribune: Advices from
Nemaha county are to the effect that
Hon Church Howe Is coming home to enter
the congressional race in the First dis
trict. We thought the Hon. Church had
declared his voice to be for "peace and
quiet." The First district fight promises
to be strenuous enough to suit the hu ilest
scrapper and our neighbor must have. re
newed his youth in foreign lands to be en
ticed into this mill.
Beatrice Sun: There should be a law
requiring companies offering medicines
"guaranteed" to effect certain cures to put
up a bond with the state to moke that
guarantee good. .The law should' also make
newspapers advertising these remedies
equally liable for their failure to do at
guaranteed, and for any damage to health
and comfort of the patient who Is in
duced by such advertisement to take th
medicine. The people are being system
atically robbed by the medicine companies
and newspapers are contributing their
share as enemies of the people In playing
Into the hands of th grafters.
Tork Republican: The reading public
will regret that it has heard the last of
Sherlock Holmes and the keen deduction
of his detective work. The publlo likes to
read such things. Detective stories have
always been attractive and found many
readers. And there Is nothing harmful in
th bright works of Conan Doyle. It is
unfortunate that the same cannot be said
of much of the detective literature that
has been written. Collier's Weekly In an
nouncing the last of Sherlock Holmes' ad
ventures. Joyfully Informs the reading pub
llo that It has secured the return of "Raf
fles," the gentlemanly housebreaker, and
the first Installment appears In the same
number. The literature Is a disgrace to
Collier's Weekly, with Its excellent edi
torial page and its comprehensive treat
ment of the great questions and events
that move the world. The creation of a
housebreaker Into a literary hero Is dan
gerous to the young readers of the coun
try and disgraceful alike to the mind that
does the work and the medium through
which it Is circulated to the reading publlo.
Columbus Journal: Representative Foster
of Douglas has Introduced a resolution ask
ing for the appointment of a committee of
three to investigate freight rates in Ne
braska and to report a bill to replace th
present dead "maximum freight rate" law.
Th resolution was unanimously adopted
and the committee appointed. We believe
that we voiced the sentiment of a large ma
jority of taxpayers when we said a few
weka ago that action along thts line was
the most Important that could be taken by
the present legislature. There are many
other important subjects for legislation per
haps, but the question of freight rates Is
fundamental. It goes to the pocketbook of
every citizen. If rates In Nebraska are too
high, and most people believe they are, the
stats should provide the remedy. If they
are not to high high, th investigation can
do no harm. And the committee to whom
is intrusted this important matter should
treat the railroads as partners In buslnest
i,t. hinnn nt Nebraska. Many ol
".in ,i ... -
the railroad abupes are duo V he fact
that legislatures have treated them cither
ns mnstere or as enemies. It In to be hoped
.v. r th atnto wll. unite in a
mm inn , ' ' " -
a -1 h ITnntpr resolution 1-ir
urmuiiii - - 0
be carried out to th letter.
PERSONAL XOTKJ.
Admiral Togo has rejoined his fleet and
there la a prospect of more work ahead for
Russian shtpbnllder.
A New Jersey young woman Is clearing
ab ut $2 600 a year n sing frogs In a twenty,
acre swamp. She can hardly croak at that.
The latest South American revolution was
confined to one city and lasted a couple ot
days. If Argentina were a little less Letljji.
American the affair would probably hffys
been called a riot. , '
Agitation for the better protection of mo
tormen has begun In New York, which ad
vertises the fact that they pre still exposed
to the weather. As usual, the metropolis,
where horse carr still linger In cross sireeta.
Is several laps behind.
radrrewpkl Is taking advantage of ths
popular demand for his autograph by
rharglng a fee, th proceeds going to a
fund to erect a monument for Chopin. One
dollar buys a plain signature and a few
bars of musls are added for another dollar.
The appointment of a tamer of "bad men"
as a peace promoter in New York City
comes none too soon for a community
where poster were stuck on house, fronts
offering $3,000 for the assassination of Tom
Lc, "mayor" of Chinatown. The western
buttlnsky Is sure of a busy time.
No one ever knows In advance how Sen
ator Spooner means to vote on any measure
which is before the senate. The Wisconsin
statesman is the hardt man In the senate
to poll. Wise newspaper correspondents
long ago learned to give him a wide berth
when making polls. It was time wasted.
Miss Laura Perkins of Belolt, Wis., has
sent a cold chill down the spine of many a
fellow taxpayer In that city. While many
are asking rebates for one causa or another,
she has written the. city clerk stating that
she observes that rhe assessors failed to
tax her on a few hundred dollars she has
In the savings bank and that if an error Is
made she desires to pay her full share of
taxes.
Judge McMlchael of Philadelphia Is a man
of conservative speech, though at times his
utterances on th bench do not seem to be
quite In harmony with the sentences he Im
poses. One day recently a man was before
I mm ciutrgeu wuu ujkius jus wuv u, viuirnt
blow in tne lace, ills nonor remargea
mildly: "For a man to do aa you hav
dona in my Judgment is un-American.'
Then he sentenced th fellow to sixty days
on the rock pile.
PASSIMG PLEASANTRIES.
McQueery I suppose your wife always
means what she says?
Henoeck Sometimes I wish she did. For
I Instance, when she says she wants "a little
money, she means ena wants a wnol lou
Philadelphia Ledger.
"I notice that a treat manv bachelors arV
advertising ror wives in some or tne east
ern papers."
"Yes. I suppose there has never been a
time when so many bachelors could almost
Dealer, i
The Mother So you and Jack have quar
reled, have you?
Young Brldo Yes, m-mamma, and ha
c-called me hard n-names!
The Mother (trying to soothe her) Never
mind, dear. He didn't mean It.
Young Bride Y-yee. he did! He s-sald I
was a rcg-regular icicle! Chicago Tribune.
"A New York woman," read Pa Twaddles
from his morning paper, "has developed a
Sassrionate liking for candles. She eats a
ozen of them in a day."
"Probably," suggested Ma Twaddles, "th
doctor had prescribed a light diet." Cleve
land Leader. .
"Doyoa think that 'your' boy Josh will
make a lawyer?"
"Well," answered Farmer Comtossel, 'If
he can be as persuasive with a jury as he
Is with me when he wants more money
there will be no beating him." Washington
Star. .
Uncle Josh You'v heard of them agri
cultural colleges, haven't you?
Uncle Silas Yes, but what do they
amount to? I read where one of them
graduated a lot of fellers the other day and
not one of them Is wlllln' to take up farmln
as an occupation.
Uncle Josh Well, that kind of looks as
If they'd learned a good deal about It. Suc
cess. Mr Nowcome I never got milk In bot
tles till I came here, Mrs. Oldseit. How do
you skim off the cream?
Mrs. Oldsett The way we generally do t
our house Is for the girl to forget it and
leave it on the back porch till It freezos.
Then the cream sticks out about two Inches
above the top, and sha Bklms It off with a
hatchet. Chicago Tribune.
PROGRESSIVE CONTENTMENT.
Philadelphia Standard.
I have no deaire for riches.
Mere money la nothing to me.
From all the annoyance of millions
I'm glad to be perfectly free.
Of course I'm In debt, Just a trifle,
I can't say "I don't owe a ceftt.'1
But were these few debts of mine settl
I'm sure I'd be really content.
A hundred or so would be ample
To pay every penny of debt.
If I only had thnt I am certain
I'd be In my glory, and yet
I wouldn't mind one or two thousand!
You see I am still paying rent,
And It 1 could be my own landlord
I'm sure I'd be really content.
It's nice to be quit Independent
And not have to work like a slave;
My tastes are the tastes of refinement,
" It Isn't my nature to save.
If I had a cool hundred thousand
Just drawing, say, seven per cent.
Or, possibly, six and three-quarter,
I'm sure I'd be really content.
I hat this base struggl for millions.
This longing for riches galore,
If I had a million, believe me,
I wouldn't be wishing for mora,
I wouldn't be hoarding It, olthr, ,,
I'd se It was properly spent;
If I could be free with my money I
I'm sure I'd be really content.
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Of course consumption can
be cured. Modern medicine
teaches it.1 No one longer
doubts it.
Babies have it. Young mothers
have it. The aged have it. None
are exempt.
For over 50 years doctors have
prescribed Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
for this disease. It quiets the cough,
controls the inflammation. If inter
ested, talk this over with your doctor.
Ma4 by tb . O. tyr Co., LwU, Km,
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