Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, April 17, 1905, Page 4, Image 4
THE OMAHA DAILY HUE: MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1203. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee E. BOSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. Dslly H" (without Rundav), on year. . 4 "0 Dally H A and Sunday, one year S W Illustrated rine year !M Sunday He, one year 2.5' Psr.irday He, on year 1-5 Twentieth Century Karmir, on yar... 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dallv Kee'wlthout Sunday), per ropy.. 2c Dslly He Twlthout Sunday), per week. . .l'-'c Dally Kee (Inrludlng Hundayi, per week..l.c Evening He (wltrxfit 8unday. per week 7c F.vnlng lie (Including Sunday), per wl; 12c Bundav He, per copy 6c Complaints of irrogtilsritl's In delivery should I, addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. ' Omaha The. Bee Building. Couth Omaha city Hall building. Twenty flfih and M trets. Cnunrll Bluffs 10 Pear! afreet. ' Chlrago IM0 Vnlty building. New York 2551 Pnrk Row building. Wasnlngtnn fiol Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and edi torial matter should b addressed: Omaha He, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, expren or postal orT. iL.nt.1,1 t,t 'I no lie II I nn nK l inn innj. m'lv 2-eent Mamns received In payment of mall Recount. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State, of Nebraska. Douglas County, ss.: Oeorp B. Trschuck, secretary of The Fee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual numl'T of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening nnd Sunday Bee printed during the month of March. 1H06, was as follows: 1 27.400 17 2N.0B0 2 2T.570 18 30.TO0 SH.OKO 1 30.900 H0.7UO 20 27.S80 $., 3O.0SO a 2S.1O0 2M.070 V, 27,080 7... 27.SO 23 27.1 t X 2l,SOl 24 28,B0 f 27.800 25 .....Sl.OOO 1ft IMt.lt&O 26 31.010 !..... .. 30.810 27 27.SO0 j2 81. UUO 28 2M.U1M J3 27t.'0 29 SM.OKU 14 ltM,aaO 30 28.100 16 ......BT.UftO 1 28.BSO 16 JI7.H40 Total 8US.OHO Less unsold copies 0,845 Net total sales SHlt.ailS Dally average 28.BBU GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 31st day of March, (Seal) M. B. HL-NGATE ' Notary Public. One swallow does not make summer and one day's street cleaning will not keep the streets clean. Superstitious Iowans will wonder at the nerve of Secretary Shaw In hiring a former grave digger to drive his ottl clal carriage. If the recent return of winter has ex terminated the Hessian fly Nebraska fanners can afford to buy their peaches from the south. Omaha has the distinction of being fhe only city In America that has built a market house and does not use it for market purposes. Governor Mickey has demonstrated thut as a farm fence builder he is peer less. It Is another matter, however, about political fences. It is to be feured Explorer Nansen will find a colder reception In Sweden than any he experienced while hunt ing for the north pole. When General Berge gtts his heavy field guns in range of the common enemy the earth will quake and Colonel Bryan's artillery will sound like little popguns. An elevator in the court bouse has been a long-felt want, but the engineer ing problem is the snway by which the elevator Is to be reached from the street. Utah Mormons have at least suc ceeded showing that all Mormons are not alike -and the reorganized church in Iowa owes fait. Lake a vote of thanks. Now that women are being called to testify those who hoped in vain for an early adjournment of the "Beef trust" grand Jury will have some place to put the blame. Why not attach a machine street sweeper to the teams hauling dirt through, our public thoroughfares and transforming asphalt pavements into mud rouds? If . the government does not soon call a genrral parliamentary election there will be a number of "stale" candidates in Great Britain for some of them have been' in iu.ti?o training for two years. Governor Folk has signed a "maxi mum freight rate bill." Nebraska can get onother lesson without expense as to what the' federal courts now think . of tlifl matter and the next legislature can act accordingly. Omaha wants all the interurban rail ways that con be successfully financed and operated, but promoters who want simply to acquire franchises to sell with out definite knowledge wher,e the money with which to build the roads is to come from are entitled to no encouragement. Won't the two baidlts captured by the South Outaha police please be accommo dating enough to admit having com mitted all the robberies and burglaries that have come off iu the two cities within the past few months? That would save a whole lot of trouble looking for the perpetrators of all these various crimes. President Alderman's request for en dowments of northern cash for the Uni versity of Virginia is said to be regarded in, tho south as worse- than a bid for Rockefeller bounty for a church mission fund. This qunstlon of tainted money all depends apparently on the geograph ical point of view whether it Is coming home or going a way. The worst thin we have seen almut Chicago's new mayor Is a reproduced photograph showing liliu posing before a camera In front of the double door of his own parlor, as If In the act of clinching an argument In the course of a speech. It 1 to be hoped that the photograph belles him and that he will turn out to bo more tlmu a mere poser. DEFEX8E OF POSSESSIOXS- It Is a significant fact that tip to the present time not a gun has IsM-n mounted by United States officers iu any of the Insular possessions of the government. There have been mapped out for all the Island emergency de fense plans and some work lias leen done under these plans, but congress has for years Ignored the appeals of the War department for money with which to fortify the outlying posses sions. It Is stated that the general staff of the army Is now considering plans of campaign for the protection of the Phil ippine Islands slid there Is a probability that the next congress will N caHed upon to make the necessary appropria tions for this purpose and will see the necessity of doing so. There would seem to be no question as to the expedi ency of providing for tjie defense of the Philippines, for while It may be admitted that there Is no danger of anjr country making any aggression against the archipelago, yet It would manifestly be a most grave mistake not to make provision for the adequate defense of those outlying possessions. It Is uni versally recognized that they are un der present conditions the most vulnera ble part of American territory and that in order to maintain our position in the far east we must place them in a posi tion which will render them absolutely secure. This will mean a considerable ex penditure, but whatever the cost may be it Is obviously necessary. Our posi tion In the far east Is not a matter of a few years. The United States is there to remain for an Indefinite time and in order to maintain Its hold and avert any possible danger that may arise It must have ample ability for defense in the Philippines against any foe that may in the future have to be met In that quarter. This Is so obvious a duty that it must be assumed as certain that congress will not neglect it. An appro priation was made by the last congress for the fortification of the insular pos sessions:, but it was insufficient, and a much larger appropriation will be asked from the next congress and probably will be granted. CHINA AS A MILITARY POTTER. It is not surprising to learn that the Chinese government Is contemplating an extension of Its offensive and de fensive resources and thus preparing to take a place among the military powers of the world. The example set by Ja pan has naturally created among the Chinese a spirit of emulation. It has encouraged them to believe that tf the Japanese, with tUelr essential charac teristics, are able, as they have proved themselves to be, to carry on n success ful war with a white race distinguished for its valor, there Is 'no reason why the Chinese cannot also be a military people and defend themselves against possible Caucasslan aggression. That this feeling has taken strong hold upon the people of China is altogether prob able and that it will be productive of a development of military Interest among them is to be expected. There Is not lacking In-the history of Chinese evidence that her people can fight. They are wanting In the Intense patriotism . and the . necessary courage which characterize "the Japanese, but they have some of the qualities of the latter and there is reason to think that under a proper course of instruction and discipline the Chinese soldier might become as brave and as loyal as the soldier of Japan. The foellng has long prevailed amon the educated Chinese, whose Inclinations are peaceable, that military service is something to be avoided. They are peculiarly a trad ing people, with a strong attachment for whatever is Industrial and commer cial. This Is in fact a part of their re ligion. They are changing their views, however, under the influence of western example. They are beginning to realize that the policy they have pursued for centuries will no longer serve, in their dealings with the world at large. Hav ing been brought out of their isolation and compelled to take part in the af fairs of the world, they , are beginning to realize that they must do as other nations and be prepared to defend them selves against aggression, If not indeed to become themselves aggressive. There can be no doubt that Japan is exerting a great Influence upon China in this respect. It is most natural that the statesmen of the latter country should see In what Japan has accom plished in the war with Itussla an In centive to military endeavor on the part of China. She would have no diffi culty In organizing and supporting a great army and the protection of her interests seem to require that she should do so. The Chinese government could secure the best iniHtary talent from the western nations to create and discipline an army and It would be absurd to'as sume that there is no fighting material among Its people. The report that the Chinese government Is preparing to cre ate an imperial army of 200,000 men and to construct a large navy is credible and pretfy certain to be realized. It simply means that China has learned the lesson taught by the example of the western nations. rOSSlBIB EFFECT OF EXCLUSION. Keceutly there arrived in San Fran cisco nearly a thousand Japanese, who came from Hawaii. It Is not against' American law for Japanese to come from those Islands into the United States and It Is quite probable that more of them will in future come from thero. It Is their privilege to do so and if any con siderable numtter should avail them selves of this right it will- undoubtedly Intensify the demuud thst is being made on the raclflc coast for applying the Chinese exclusion (willey to the Japanese. The San Francisco Chronicle, which is making a persistent tight for exclusion, says: "We do not care where they come from or how they get here. We see them coming by the shipload from some where and we want It stopped." We do not know to what extent the Chronicle represents Pacific coast senti ment in this matter, but It would seem that it has not given proper consideration to 'what stopping this immigration at present insignificant by applying the Chinese exclusion policy would mean. Can there be any doubt that If this were done It would seriously impair the cor dial relations between Japan and the United States relations that'liave been of material value to this country and If maintained are likely to be of much greater value in the future? Can we afford to make an enemy of that coun try, at the risk of having our trade with that part of the world seriously injured, In order to kopp a few thousand Japa nese laborers out of this country? These sre entirely practical questions which will have to be considered In connection with the proposed exclusion. We are seeking oriental trade. We are anxious to exterfd our commerce In the markets of that quarter of the world. Is It likely that we can do this if we Incur the hos tility of the dominating power there? We do not think so and we believe this will be found to be the view of a ma jority In congress whenever the question of Japanese exclusion shall be presented to that lnvly, as probably It will be at the next session. We cannot in this re spect deal with Japan as we have dealt with China and It would be a great mis take to try it. We need Japan's friend ship and good will now more than ever before. NOT ENTIRELY' bIS INTERESTED. Ought the rullroads to be permitted to run these seed corn special trains for the benefit of the farmers? These, potato (spe cial trains, these good wagon roada special trains? These special trains are equipped and operated at great expense. Are they not bribes? Is there not a subtile ulterior purpose to corrupt, the public, to pervert Its opinion, to lull the farmers to sleep, while the cormorant transportation cor porations cunningly accomplish their dia bolical purposes? Is It not time to awake to the outmge that has been so coolly and so treacherously plotted and In actual course of accomplishment? In Nebraska alone the railroad companies within a few months have thus been at an expense of tens of thousands of dollars. They are laying deep their plans to con tinue this1 lavish outlay. And then, too, Is it not all "tainted money?" Where are "the allied forces of reform" that they should overlook so glaring a moral bet? Lincoln Star. Our amiable contemporary Is trying to be facetious. The spring seed distri bution of the railroads is no more a piece of disinterested benevolence than their winter planting of railroad passes. The seed corn special trains, and the potato special trains, and the good wagon roads special trains, reflect great credit on the railroad traffic managers Just as the great homeseekers' excur sions reflect credit on the passenger de partments of the various railroads. They are Investments of railroad earn ings that bring back big dividends to the stockholders. The planting of good seed Insures better crops, and the larger the crop the bigger the railroad haul. The planting of good homesteaders increases the number of crop raisers, and an increase in the number of crop raisers increases the volume of railroad traffic both ways. Yet all the time, Jones, he pays the freight. The tens of thousands of dol lars spent for buying seed corn and seed potatoes and the other tens of thou- ;ands of dollars spent for improving the wagon roads are all first transferred from the pocket of the consumer and the producer Into tiie railroad treasury to be returned again In increased quan tity when the harvest is over. No be nevolence In that, is there? Traffic managers of eastern and west ern railroads, who have held secret con ferences In New York within the past few days, confidently expect to be able to settle the grain rate war between the eastern and gulf lines by an arrange ment of the division of rates to meet the cuts made by the gulf lines. While such au adjustment may be perfected by mutual agreement between traffic inunugcrs, it is not likely to bey of long duration, especially so far as It relates to the grain traffic ln the Missouri val ley. The east and west lines from Mis souri river poiuts to the Atlantic sea board are from 500 to 700 miles longer than the north and south lines from the same points to the gulf. It stands to reason that the gulf line roads can afford to haul grain at very much lower rates than the oust and vent lines and still make money. The only advantage the east and west lines have over the gulf lines is the return cargo, but it is only a matter of time when the gulf lines will be able to establish South American and transatlantic steamship connections thut will supply a large part of the re turn cargo, while the southern pineries will furnish profitable truffle In the ship ments of lumber to the prairie states. " By an act of the Pennsylvania legis lature Allegheny City, with a' popula tion at leust 20,000 larger than that of Omaha, is to be annexed to Pittsburg, ai)d the work of consolidation with sev eral suburban towns into the Greater Pittsburg will be effected within a few months. By this enlargement Pittsburg will move up in the list of American cities and take the seventh place, now occupied by Cleveland and Cleveland will fall back to rittsburg'a present po sition of eighth. By the census of 1900 the population of Pittsburg was 821,616, and that of Allegheny City 120,806. The population of Greater Pittsburg, on the figures of 1000, would, therefore, be 451,512, but Pittsburg has experienced a remarkable growth since 1000 and by the end of this year Greater Tlttsburg expects to boast a population of more than 500,000. This Is an object lesson for . short sighted people in Smaller Omaha, who stand in the way of Greater Omaha. V ....1-3 The Old, Old Story. New York World, The city gives a frunchlse to a gas com pany for nothing. The gas company sets Its own value on the franchise. Then It fixes the price of gas so that big dividends cun be earned on the value of the franchise the city guve It. The public Is heavily taxed on its generosity to the gas rom- puny. And yet Uire are people wbo oan not understand why there should b so much populat prejudice against public servloe corporations. I Perhaps It the Moaty. Chicago Tribune. The price of sugar has advanced. There Is no cause for .this, so far as known the government Is not Investigating the Sugar trust. Loyal to Her Owt, Kansas City Btar. Has any other state besides Missouri the sort of laws and courts that make it Im possible for a boodler to get Into the peni tentiary even after he has confessed bis crime? Demurrer Sustained. Chicago Record-Herald. Dr. Gladden says lawyers should not de fend people whom they know to be guilty of wrongdoing. But did a lawyer for the defense ever believe It was possible for anybody to be guilty? Value of TeachloK Obedience. Indianapolis News. Is there any re.ison why our schools should limit themselves simply to putting children through a certain course of study? We think nrt. tn our opinion, if the schools fall In discipline, If they fell In de veloping a spirit of obedience, they fall In discharging their most vital function and at the most vital point. And It seems to us that this failure la one for which the schools may very Justly be held responsi ble. For the very theory on which the state proceeds In this matter of public education Is that through education the children will be properly trained along the line of good citizenship. But they cannot be good citizens unless they learn to be obedient to the law. In some way, there fore, the schools must Inculcate this obedi ence. . Proper I'h ileal Development. Boston Transcript. Those persons who on rising In the morn ing and retiring at night go perfunctorily through "exercises" recommended for Im proving their physical conditions, giving two or three minutes to the performance, should listen to the finding of the Joint board of army and navy officers convened to consider the physical training of cadets and midshipmen. After careful examina tion of the methods of physical training In use at the military academy and at the naval academy and after learning of the results obtained, this wise board Is con vinced that in order to secure proper physical development of the average stu dent a minimum of time to be devoted tto compulsory physical exercise is two hours each week throughout 4he entire course. Now can you go to bed tonight with a clear conscience after simply making a few playful passes with your hands and stretch ing your neck a little? TnOPICAL, DETERIORATION. Strange Effect of Philippine Climate on Federal Officials. Pittsburg Dispatch. A quostion which spreads Itself generally over the fields of medicine, law, politics and military expansion appears to reaffirm n assertion concerning the effect of the Philippine climate which was a year or two ago denounced as an Invention of the mischievous antl-imperlallsts. First, American Medicine, a journal of the medical profession, states that mental deterioration In the tropics is a form of exhaustion that is recognized In the Phil ippines. On that basis It suggests that the United States officer who was recently sen tenced to forty years' imprisonment for embezzlement of $1,500 from the civil gov ernment must have been the victim of this mental deterioration on the part of the Judge. Then the Army and Navy Journal, confirming the theory of "mental ajA moral debility due to the enervating cli mate," wants the American judges In vestigated with ' regard to mental Irre sponsibility on the bench. Besides the unconscious humor of the earnest belief that Judges who administer salty sentences to United States officers for embezzlement must be crazy the dis cussion contains other features of Inter est. If despite former denials mental de terioration In the, tropics is so epidemic that officers cannot keep their hands oft the public funds nor Judges give them the punishment that fits the crime our great acquisition bids fair to be bothersome. By all means let us have the investiga tion demanded. No only of judges, but of officers and all others subject to the tropJ leal deterioration. Let us know whether the deterioration did not attack the Jingoes who started the annexation craze first of all. HEARS THE LAST ROLL, CAIX. Grand Army of the Repoblle Re ceding" Into the Shadows. . ;. Philadelphia Record. , The recent disbanding of a post of the Grand Army of the Republic at 'Glouces ter, N. J., because of the dwindling away of its membership has served as a vital reminder to many an old veteran of the civil war that the time is not far distant when the great order must pass away. Unlike most organisations of its kind tha Grand Army of the Republic cannot be re oruited frpm the dependents of its original members or from any source save one which Is constantly shrinking. None but soldiers, sailors and. marines who fought in the civil war are eligible, and when all of this dwindling host, survivors of a con flict which ended forty years ago, shall have answered the last roll call, no others oan take their places. The Grand Army of the Republlo was started lp. I860, the first post being or ganized at Decatur, 111., In April of that year by Major B. F. Stephenson and Cap- tatln John S. Philips, but its growth was not at first rapid. It was not until more than ten years later that General Grant became a member, being mustered Into Qeorge G. Meade Post, No. 1, of this city by ,Post Commander George W. Devlnny. The maximum membership was reached in 1S80, when It was 40b, 489. For the last fif teen years it has been steadily decreasing; not only this, but the rate of decrease has steadily grown. The annual death rate among members of the order In 1880 was ninety-three In aery 10,000. Today, having gone up stead-, lly through the Intervening years, It Is SS2 in every 10,000. In 1804 the member ship of the national body had fallen to 809,083; a loss, since the period of maximum membership, of aboflt 10,000 a year. In 1H04, according to the last annual report made at the encampment in Boston last year, the membership was 246,261, showing a loss since 1894 of mors than 12,000 a year. The flgurta for the membership of the Depart ment! of Pennsylvania for tha last ten years are: 18W. 44.101; 1WG, 86.878; 'l8M, 16,141; 1897. 83.129; vm. 90,987; 1899, 29,937; 1900. 29 044; 19PL 27.S76; 190. 26,608; J 903, 26,7631 1904, 2S.K& Philadelphia's member ship is now about 6,000. The separate posts now number 6,149, of which 624 are In Pennsylvania and thlrty-slx In this city. Employed in tha various governmental de partments in Washington at the time of the last annual report were 2,175 members of the order, of whom 226 are over 70 years of age, 787 between 66 and 70 yeara and 1.638 between 68 and 66 years. But If the Grand Army of the Republlo must, from the conditions set forth, soon cease to exist, It will be remembered, by at least one of the Institutions which have sprung from It. This Is the Sons of Vet erans, which is composed of the direct de scendants of men who were eligible to membership In the Grand Army of the Re public, and on the growth of which the same restrictions have nut beon imposed. BITS OP tVASHISa-TO LIFE. Miner Scenes aad larldenta Sketched oa the Spot. Washington dispatches announce that the Postofflce department has begun an Inves tigation Into the affairs of the American Maritime league, of which former Senator John M. Thurston Is president. The let terheads of the league name, as members of Its advisory board Ellhu Root, former secretary of war; William H. Moody, at torney general; William H. Taft, scrtary Of war; Benjamin F. Tracy and Warner Miller of New Tork, and other notables In and out of office. Since' the -authorities began to Inquire what kind of an enterprise the league Is they have not been able to find 8. Elliott Curtis and H. K. Pomroy, its organizers Mr. Thurston Is quoted as saying that the league was all right, and tho sums of $25 collected from persons all over the coun try in return for life memberships could be accounted for. He declares that there Is written warrant for the use of the names of those made officers of the league. l here does not, however, appear to be de nlal of the fact that many such names have been withdrawn by their owners. eome interesting results have been reached by the bureau of navigation In its study of the problem of desertion from the pavy. These are embodied In the following laoie: " v No. In Branch. Service. Busmen 15,751 Artificers 17 Engine room force 8273 Social 2,110 Commissary gil Mess servants 1,564 Deser tions. i.m 88 1.33S 116 48 363 3.235 Pet. 7.67 6.40 17.10 6.50 6.71 23.15 10.07 Totals 30,166 Commenting on these figures the bureau concludes: Flrst-That the trained fighting force of the navy the seaman branch Is not de serting as has been reported in the press of late; that those In this branch who do leave the service are principally recruits apprentice seamen; that the petty officers In the seaman branch, upon whom we must rely and depend, remain. Second That thoso who desert in the greatest number are In the engine room force principally coal passers; men en tirely untrained and unskilled, and who are not subject to the strict discipline that governs the seaman branch, Third That the percentage of desertions In the navy as a whole Is greatly In creased by the number of desertions in the messmcn branch stewards, cooks and attendants for officers' messes. This Is the only branch In the navy In which a man who Is not a citizen of the United States can enlist, and contributes but slightly to the fighting efficiency, the men being sta tioned for battle as mere passers of am munition. Desertion In this branch re solves Itself Into the "servant question," one which Is not wholly confined to the naval service. Despite all the electrical devices, warn ings, combinations, timelocks and other protection surrounding the millions of dol lars of the United States in the big vaults of the treasury, expert cracksmen and safe men would have an easy time get ting to the money but for the watchmen who guard the Immense treasure through the long hours of the night. In the day time the watchfulness Is exercised by reg ular clerks of t.ie financial establishment that Uncle Sam operates. The treasury watch force consists of seventy-nine men, Including two lieuten ants. Captain II. A. Cobaugh, the cap tain of the force, makes a total of eighty. The force Is divided Into two reliefs. The day relief, from 8 o'clock In the morning until 4 o'clock In the afternoon, consists of Just fifteen men besides the captain.. The duties of the men in the day are chiefly as doorkeepers. They have no responsibility In connection with the $1,176,500,000 of cash and United States bonds that are on deposit In the vaults. At all of the doors and entrances they are stationed to keep watch over the hun dreds of visitors, to preserve order, keep out peddlers, sharpers, swindlers and ticket sellers. The rules of the treasury prevent ticket selling and any form of canvassing or other molestation that will take up the time of employes. At 4 o'clock In the afternoon, half an hour before the busy thousands leave their desks for their homes, another relief comes on duty and remains until mid night. This relief consists of thirty-two men. Including one lieutenant. The mid night relief consists of exactly the same number of men, headed by a lieutenant, while at any hour of the night Captain Cobaugh is liable to drop In to ascertain how things are going and to receive report. Shortly after 4:30 o'clock every door In the big department Is closed except the main one, fronting on Fifteenth street. The doors are fastened with the Immense locks that have been upon them for so many years, and between these doors and. the outside Is a heavy Iron grating that Is securely locked. There Is not much attempt made to fasten the windows, as there would be some difficulty In getting to them except by climbing over the Iron fences surrounding the treasury grounds. Such a perform ance would , attract attention on the streets. With all the doors closed except one, doorkeepers are not needed, and the entire force of eLch relief, with the exception of a reserve of four or five men on duty near the main door, is stationed In the north pWt of the building, where all the money vaults are situated. Armed with the latest pattern 38-calibre army pistol and within quick reach of Krag-Jorgensen rifles, the watch force over millions keep silent vigil. There Is no chance to go to sleep, as each watchman must signal his presence at his post every fifteen minutes during the night, and the Ueutenait on duty keeps a record of these signals. If a man should go as long as five min utes beyond tha time for turning In his signal, some of the reserve men would start at once for his post and quickly make n Investigation. It is seldom that this occurs. t'aaeeonntable Perversity. j San Francisco Chronicle. Most sensible people believe that drag ging a long dress train along a dirty pave ment Is a filthy habit, and would be glad If the doctors, who say that It Is a souroe of unhealthfulness, could convince women that it Is a dangerous practice. They will hardly succeed, however, as there Is some thing Implanted In the breast of most of fenders which makes them reject the sug gestions of decency and common sense. A Simple Remedy. Baltimore American. It Is said that a number of subtreaaurlea In the west are suffering from a surplus of sliver. There are plenty of pat riot lo and public-minded philanthropists In every section of the land who would be only too glad to relieve the gpernment of any sur plus In any old specie, and are ready at a moment's notice to come to their country's aid. Clear Case of Discrimination. Washington Post. The Civil Service board of the Engineer ing department of the army has decided that an official must not be placed In a position where he Is required to give or ders to his wife or where she can give or ders to him. This looks like a clear doe of discrimination In favor of the arkiy. STATE PRESS COMMENT. Arapahoe Public Mirror: Governor Mickey has vetoed more bills, we believe, than any other governor ever did, but the fact Is patent that he had more Ill advised laws to work on. Custer County Republican: The news paper men enter Into a contract with the railroad compsnls as with Individuals to do a certsln class of sdvertlslng for them snd receive as compensation therefor transportation for themselves snd reduced rates for members of their family snd of fice help. It Is strictly a business prop osition snd the attempt to make It appear as a bribe Is without Just cause. Petwsburg Index: The Uncoln Stsr In sists that the reign of anarchy and con stitution breaking for which The Be has arraigned our lawmakers, excutlves and Judges Is an anarchy under which the state has waxed grent and therefore cannot be so bad after all. But would not Nebraska be making more progress and enjoying far greater prosperity under a regime of re spect for law and strict observance of the constitution? Friend Telegraph: The time has arrived In the politics of Nebraska when every can didate for legislative honors, regardless of party, must stand up before his consti tuents and pledge that during his term of ofTlco he will not accept a railroad pass or other valuable thing from any railroad cor poration. The time has passed In which the people can longer be fooled into sup porting the tools of corporations under the guise of standing by tha party. Stanton Register ((fern.): We cannot help but smile at the way the legisla ture tied Itself up with the railroads and by so doing released Senator Burkett from his pledge to vote for freight rate reg ulations. The legislative action Is all that Burkett needs to allow him to do as he pleases. There was nothing to regulate In Nebraska, consequently the national freight rates are all O. K., see? Perhaps the legislature will set up the plea made by a certain preacher In pioneer days when caught playing "penny ante" by members' of his flock. "Do not do as I do, but as I tell you," Is probably what the state law makers will say to Burkett Schuyler Free Lance: Another r'eoe of legislative anarchy la making six commis sioners of the supreme court In direct violation of the constitution and thus our highest court of Justice profits by such outrageous proceedings. We notice that N. D. Jackson, a member of the senate. Is appointed as one of the commissioners, which Is another violation of constitution as he Is forbidden to hold any other office of trust or profit during his legislative term. Resigning does not alter the In tent and purpose of the constitution. And In this case Jackson was one who as sisted In getting through the measure, which makes his appointment worse. When our supreme court Is made up of such timber we are getting in serious condition. Blue Springs Sentinel: The Omaha and Lincoln dally papers have contained nu merous supposed Interviews upon the authorship of the anti-cigarette bill since it became a law. One representative at Omaha, himself a cigarette fiend, going so far as to say that local tobacco manu facturers were connected with Its author ship. We will set at rest its author. ship for all time. The editor Is Its author absolutely. The section which the trust fought so hard to defeat, we sought eminent legal advice as to Its construction nnd constitutionality. We. have no hesitancy in saying that we believe the law will stand the test of the courts. The trust did everything in Its power to de feat the measure. It tried to steal it at every turn possible and even charged Its author with 'laying down" In order to alelnate Its friends in the senate. The bill was certainly one of the hardest fought measures of the session in the senate. where the fight was centered. Holdrege Progress: The last on fhe list of "has-beens" to embark In journalism is Mr. George W. Berr late fusion candidate for governor of Nebraska. According to the dally papers Mr. Berge will launch at Lincoln the Weekly Tribune. The daily I'lrsa uiou quotes Mr. ierge as declaring that the policy of the Tribune will be along the line of political reform indicated In his speeches during last fall's gubernatorial campaign. The Progress wishes Mr. Berge every success in his new undertaking; the field for hU proposed line of work is large and open and full of fascination so long as there are enough who will materially en dorse the course to make the work pay ex penses, but It does become exceedingly mo notonous and discouraging when chronlo offlceseekers of the party become so raven ous that they have no further Interest in the paper than to run it as a political slush mill during the campaign to further their own seltlsh ends. We hope that Mr. Berge may never encounter these breakers, that have wrecked nearly every reform paper In the state. "Ashland Gazette: We could not help taking note' of the unsusceptlbllity of the newspaper men to the seductive wiles of the pass In what we have personally ob served within the last twelve months. Last May the railroads carried the Ne braska Press association, consisting of editors and their wives, to the exposition at St. Louis entirely free of charge. At the exposition "bribes," otherwise called 'courtesies," were freely extended by the exposition management. In fact, they were given with a lavish hand. Admission to the exposition was free; all the attrac tions on the Pike were open without money and without price; rides on the In tramural railway were had for the mere asking, and a very liberal concession as to rates was made by the Inside Inn. But these things did not disturb the Indepen dence of the. editors. They went home, many of them, to regulate railway rates and taxation in a way not exactly to the liking of the railroads; they toll f ,h monstrous extortion of the ln-,i j... . . they spok of "graft" at Pt. I. ,. left the Impression that th wh I .xj . , . tlon scheme wss merely a rlnsi splracy to extort money from the iiin c nt and gullible public PKRSOVSI. SOTES. Mary Ann Crahtre. mother of Ia.i1 t,i . retired actress, died In New York on Tn. . day. During th ntlr. forty yars of t ;ss life of Lotta her mother always a.-., panied her. From the wild ton of Castro's drfUn rj which he Is hurling at the United Sun It Is sitjiarcnt thnt h has not heard t.i "Fighting Bob"' Evans Is In command , f a large fleet. It Is reported that with the president s party at Deep Red creek is a photogr.iphi-r who Is taking pictures "to Illustrate (, , article which the president will write con cerning the hunt." There's a treat In st,n, for the Xllsclples t the strenuous then. The Scots of Chicago are plaunliiic a rousing reception to James Dalrymplo, manager of the Glasgow municipal ralhv iv system, who has accepted Mayor Dunne's Invitation to come to Chicago and give ad vice on the plan for municipal ownership there. Mr. Dalrymple will arrive n.t month. v The Kansas City Journal observes, as a sure sign of spring, that "Tinker led .fr for the Cubs and osoned. Evers slammed a clean single to left and went to third en Ktlng's solitaire to the same place. KIIhk purloined second. Tfeffer sauntered on four wide ones, and the 'To Let' signs wore pulled down from all the bases." Perhaps one of the most important col lections of books outside of the library of congress, relating to the workings of the government. Is that connected with th office of L. C. Ferrell, superintendent of public documents, Washington. The library Is said to contain nearly 70,000 documents and maps, many of which are of gnat value. This Is how the New York bike cop Is now supposed to hold up the speeding au tomobile: "I beg your pardon. I really hate to do this. I wish It were my nlsht oft and another man were In my boots; but you will have to come to the station with me. You have violated the speed or dinance. You were going twenty miles nn hour. I tlmod you on my little stop-watch." Land Grabbers Face a Jury. Philadelphia Record. Senator Mitchell Is now on trial for land frauds. Both the congressman from Ore gon, a former land commissioner, a stute senator, a land office receiver and a clergy man are among the perspns awaiting trial at the present term of court, or are among the fifty eminently respectable citizens who have Just been Indicted, some of whom are from Oregon and some from Washington. This Is about as distinguished a lot of prisoners at the bar as have been seen In one bunch since the whisky ring and tho star route frauds. WHITTLED TO A POIST. "You paid thnt man a great compliment when you elected him to office." "Yes," answered Farmer Corntossel, "nn tho compliment sort o' started a hnblt. He has expected everything complimentary ever since." Washington Star. Mrs. Watkyns Mr. Harrison is very free In his speech, Isn't he? Mrs. Wylkvns I don't know. He never ventured to sav anything in any way ob jectionable to me. Somerville Journul. , Oil Magnate Ah, my boy, a millionaire s position is n hard one. 1 Skeptical Friend As to how? Oil Magnate If I hoard my wealth, they sny I'm a skinflint, and If I give money awny they soy 1 am trying to ease my guilty conscience. Louisville Courier-Jour nal. Relative Amanda Is trying to do some thing with her voice. Is she? Amanda's Father Yes; Jon't know ex actly what, but from what It's costing me I ifuspect she's having it treated for ap pendicitis. Chicago Tribune. "Here Is nn eastern editor who says you can buy today a whole gallon of kerosene for the price of one drink of boose." "I wonder If that's a plea for dearer oil or cheaper booze." Cleveland Plain Deuler. "We are constantly being misquoted by the newspapers," said the professor. "Yes," answered his wife. I am getting so thut every time I see a clever remark attributed to you I take it for granted that the Interview Is not genuine." Wash ington Star. 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