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VKPll EC A TISO CLASS UATHtD.
In Mh rit'cch at the Iroquois club din
ner Mr. Koosevolt said that tlic great
nnd most dangerous rock lu the course
of n ii y republic Is the rock of class ha
tred. "It meant disaster and ultimately
the downfall of the republic," declared
ihe president, uud he suld that uo true
patriot will fail to do everytuiug In his
K)ver to prevent the growth of any such
spirit lu this country. This utterance
iK'fore a democratic organization must
have been regarded by some of them,
who remembered the course of their
Btaudard bearer lu the presidential cam
paigns of IS: Hi and 1!kn), as lu the na
ture of a rebuke.
In those campaigns one of the most
conspicuous features of the .speeches of
the democratic candidate for president
was the appeal to class hatred. This
was especially prominent In 18!0, wheu
the candidate never let pass an oppor
tuulty to tell the producers and the wage
naruers of the country that they were
being oppressed nnd trodden under foot
by the men of capital nnd the corpora
tions. In the hundreds of speeches made
by the democratic leader this was u
dominant note, delivered with all the
force and eloquence of which he was
capable. He Indulged less freely lu this
kind of appeal In the campaign of !(,
but toward the conclusion again made it
prominent in his efforts to win .the popu
lar support. lie denounced capitalists
in unmeasured terms, sweepingly charac
terizing them as "plutocrats" whose per
sistent purpose was to plunder and op
press tlie people. He could see nothing
meritorious or commendable in the
moneyed class. They were only vam
pires feeding upon the pcojMo and seek
ing to -deprive them of all their rights
and liberties. There was not so much
of this In the last presidential campaign,
but the democratic candidate was finally
led to make, ki modified form, an ap
peal to class hatred. '
It was a flue compliment, unquestion
ably, which the democratic Iroquois club
paid to Mr. Roosevelt, but it does not
warrant the assumption that the presi
dent Is in any respect In sympathy with
the democracy. His deprecation of
The May house cleaning at the county clnf18 hatred was a distinct rebuke to
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hospital hug not yet been concluded.
that party, whether so Intended or not.
Ro far as railway regulation is con
cerned the position of the president Is
In accord with what prominent repub
licans have urged for the past quarter of
a century or longer. He did not acquire
his views on that subject from the demo
cratic party, which Is entitled to very
little credit for the federal legislation we
have relating to railroad regulation. The
Now that it has been otlicially declared f,frort t0 olnlm- Mr- Ksevelt ns a con-
that there is 110 polygamy iu Hawaii one VPrt to tno democratic vpw regard to
Mr. Metcalfe no longer contributes to
the editorial page of the local popocratle.
organ. That's very evident.
aiIMaisasaasssssassssssssavBsaaaBBsssasaas
Roosevelt to Chicago Iroquois braves:
"I will not rim (over you) again." Chi
cago Iroquois; "Three yells for Roose
velt."
AXD THE HASI) VLAlll).
W henever John X. ltaldwiu tills up on
terrapin ou toast, soaked in Widow Cll
quot's champagne, his eloqucuce takes
the roof off the banquet hall. Such a
Ioutaneous outburst of Haldwlulau
magniloquence electrified the - delegates
to the railroad coiigress at the banquet
given to visiting foreign railway dele
gates by the American railway section
bosses, in plain view of the White
House, Just as President Roosevelt re
turning from his bear hunt,, was about
to re-enter the national capital.
On this festive occasion, Iowa's ora
torical cataract fairly outdid himself,
and that is saying a great deal. Rivet
ing his telescopic eye on the late la
mented Nebraska legislature, his mega
phone voice sneerlngly and Jeeringly
pointed to the Omaha dentist who had
the temerity to Introduce a commodity
rate bill, designed to make a horizontal
cut of 10 per cent in local freight rates.
That brought down the house, of course.
"Just think of it, fellow railroaders, n
dentist, who"liad not cut his ruilroad eye
teeth, trying to make rates without even
consulting my Lincoln oil room under
study. Surely that capped the climax!
The man docs not even know the differ
ential density of the population of
Omaha and Council Muffs, let ulouo the
differentials between .Iowa and Ne'
braska freight rates. The wretched tooth
carpenter does not concede my exclusive
franchise to fabricate revenue laws,
governors, congressmen and senators
for the people of Nebraska. Gentlemen
of the railroad jury, what Is your ver
dict? Shall we revoke his annuals, or
shall we have him disfranchised from
now on and forever?"
This Baldwlnlan sally was greeted
with most vociferous applause.
And the band played.
business which hut proved such a sourco
of revenue to th steam roads can be re
tained by resorting to motors, which can
be more cheaply operated than electric cra.
"tartlnar the TloUoiu.
Boston Transcript.
By writing a life of James Watt, Mr.
Carnegie made art adimlrable opportunity
for Ills sermonizing. Watt's father lost
his fortune, so that the future Inventor
started with nothing as Mr. Carnegie
s'artcd. The boy had no classical educa
tionneither did Mr. Carnegie. A host of
other correspondences can be traced ex
haustively, except as to millions by hundreds.
Sew
cause of a possible congressional Junket
hag been eliminated.
oeneral Greeley should recall the
weather clerk at ouce. He has turned
politician and has leen blowing hot and
cold on the same day.
railroad regulation Is utterly absurd. In
view of what the republican party has
done on the subject and the attitude of
some of Its most prominent men for
years. The vital difference In regard to
this question between the democratic
party and Mr. Roosevelt Is, that while
the former would Inaugurate a revolu-
. Hig speech on the railroad question tlonary policy which could not fall to be
puts Secretary Taft among those diplo- destructive and disastrous In Its conso-
mats who bPlieve It to be the best diplo- quences the president seeks only such
tuacy to speak out plainly.
John ?. Baldwin will do well to pa
tronize home Industry the next time his
Jaw needs a mending. Omaha dentists
have a rod iu pickle for him.
legislation as will be Just and equitable
in it operation, protecting the people
against abuses and doing no Injury to the
railroads.
PEALiyas ix 'fctches-"
A few days ago the supreme court of
That Hungarian police ottleer who the United States rendered a decision
tampered with the mails of an American which is of special interest to those who
Inspector may make the Magyars glad speculate In grain and provisions. The
for once that they are still united to se before the court Involved the right
Austria. of the Chicago Board of Trade to con
trol the use of its Quotations and prevent
If the Hon. r. Crowe does not soon by contracts with the telegraph cotn-
come in and give himself up as per his panics their . delivery to bucket shops.
teiepnonic newspaper Interviews, he The opinion. of the court was that the
will lose his reputation for being a man quotations belonged to the Board of
Trade and were entitled to the protection
of the law as Its exclusive property. Un
der this decision the so-called bucket
shops will not be able to obtain the quo
tations of the Chicago board except un
der contract and it was held by the court
that refusal to furnish them did not con
stitute a monopoly in restraint of trade.
But the most Interesting feature of the
Judicial opinion relates to dealing lu
"fntnres." The . Board of Trade was
characterised as n great market where
through Its 1,800 members Is transacted
Of big word.
If Admirals Togo and Rojestvensky
want undivided attention for their bat
tle In the China sea they will take erne
to postpone It until the American tornado
season has passed.
The arrest of Jesse James! Jr., on
charge of collecting usury on short time
loans suggests that the father's plan of
connecting with other men's motley was
braver aud 110 more hazardous.
The sort of advertising Oklahoma la a Un' I,nrt of tl,e ruln flnd Provision
receiving these dayg u such h to n wine or tne worm ana it was stated
atteutiou to Its creat resources thrr,n.rh thnt n majority of the court was not pre.
the list of nronertv destrove.l hut thnt 10 umt 1,10 transactions or tne
is nut the kind of advertising that nv nni ,'"nllie gamming, -people win
ciiuruvur 10 Kueciim tne iuiure nnu TO
The United States can svmnathize make agreements according to their
with Germany, as It has been only a few Prophecy." says the decision. "Specula
years since It, too, wus accused' of try
ing to extend Its sway over all the earth
not firmly riveted to some hrst-rate
power.
tlon of this kind by competent men la
self-adjustment of society to the prob
aoie. its vaiue is wen Known as a
means of avoiding or mitigating catas
tropheu, equalizing prices nnd providing
Booker Washington says that if each for periods of want." It Is needless to
white man should uae his personal ef- say this Is very different from the com-
forts to elevating one negro the race mon Idea regarding this form of specu
question would be solved. But there lation. which views It as irauibllne mire
are some white men who need elevating and simple and therefore necessarily
as well. harmful in Its effect. Whether nr tint
the onlnlon resnectlnir It of the hlirhest
When the president of the Fontanelles judicial tribunal will chanire the nomilnr
returns from his trip to Washington to impression is a nuestion. but certain
The rivers and harbors committee of
congress has started on a junket dowu
the Ohio river by boat to study the
present and proposed government im
provement of that stream. Government
engineers have surveyed the Ohio for
a nine-foot channel from Pittsburg to
Cincinnati without encountering serious
engineering dilllculties, and on outlay
of nearly $2,000,000 has already been
authorized by the last congress for the
proposed improvements. Inasmuch as
seven-eighths of the membership of the
house is made up of lawyers, a personal
Inspection of the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers is not as likely to contribute to
the fund of information possessed by
congress regarding the feasibility of the
proposed deepening of the river chan
nels, as it Is to afford the committee
on agreeable spring outing, with Its at
tendant receptions and banquets at the
various cities that are located along the
river banks. Probably one reason why
the river and harbor committee has not
been disposed to divert any of the funds
at Its disposal for Missouri river Im
provements is due to the fact that ti
Junket up and down the Missouri
would not be very entertaining.
When Chief Kiely's Inaugurated policy
of transferring police officials from one
district to another lends to a few addi
tional changes, the most Important step
will ' have been taken toward lmbrovine
the service. The police department Is
equal to the departments of other large
cities, and la Just as successful In its
work; but th undevlatlng object Is to
make It always better. Study of the
situation leaves the Impression that some
officials, when retained for considerable
time In charge of a district lose Interest
In their duties or become more or less sub
ject to the influences around them. St.
Louis Republic.
The police reform just Inaugurated In
St. Louis has been advocated by The
Bee for Omaha these many months, as
the most effective and practical means
for protecting the police from the con
taminating Influence of continuous con
tact with the vicious and criminal
classes.
BALLOT ASD BABIES.
Woman's Club Leader t ttera-
Battle Cry.
Washington Post.
A fatally bright Idea has become fixed
In the feminine mind an epoch-making
thought that has run like wildfire through
the country, Inflaming the fair sex with Its
novelty, reasonableness and force. It seems
to be the key to freedom. This Idea, full
of portent to us all, Is crystallised by a
leader of women In this battle cry:
"No ballot, no babies!"
The author of this slogan Is Miss Anna
Shaw, an orator cot renown, and an un
questioned leader of her sex. Whether the
Idea originated wtth her or was suggested
by a man, some traitor who hoped to curry
favor with the enemy, we do not know.
But It Is too latu now to bother with the
origin of the movement. It Is enough to
know that It is afoot and growing with
alarming spread. The women are rising
as one nian. Those who do not care a rap
for the ballot are being dragooned into the
fight. They are browbeaten by their mil
itant sisters until they dare pot turn back.
They havo enlisted for the war. Some of
them, we are Informed, called attention to
the fact that the Joan of Arc In this rase
is a Miss, and Is thereby dlsqualllli-d ; hut
their objection was answered by the argu
ment that the war relates to the future,
and not to the past. Mothers are pardoned
past delinquencies, but they must observe
the rules of war hereafter.
Only a second'a consideration Is neces
sary to show plain, mere man that he is
up against the most terrifying movement
of modern times. The demand for suf
frage by women cannot be waved off with
a patronizing smile. We have always said
that wheu the women reached the deter
mination that thoy actually wanted the
ballot they would get It, but we did not
dream that they would couch their demand
In such terrible form. The alternative they
offer Is no alternative at all. It Is down
right savugery, conceived with typical fe
male cunning nhd subtlety.
We have suppressed this news until the
last moment, In the hope that a way would
be found to circumvent the difficulty that
confronts mankind. But there is no relief
In sluht, and the truth is out. The re
sponsibility rests upon the. president. It was
he who went out of his way to counsel
the mothers as to their duty. They have
returned a stupefying ultimatum. What
will President Roosevelt do 7 Will lf stu
pidly attempt to make a fight, or will he
grasp the hopelessness of the case, and Im
mediately call a special session of con
gress for the purpose of conferring the
suffrage upon women?
An extraordinary occnslon has arisen.
Everything else must give way pending the
adjustment of this new and calamitous sit
uation. The president has done well to
curtail his bear hunt In order to hurry
home. Now the question Is, What will
he do?
POLITICAL IIBIKT.
Thrifty legislators rn New York state are
said to have saved front $;:r,Oi0 to 40.(i0
e.ich out of a session salary of t.,VX.
William R. Heeret. the modern demo
cratic prophet, has secured Judgment for
IS.439 against Charles A. Towne, Tammany
congressman and tribune No. 2 of demo
cratic truth.
C. B. Andrews, a member of the Arkansas
legislature, has been arrested and Jailed
on the charge of accepting a bundle of
tainted money for his vote and Influence.
He admits the money looked good to htm.
Jennings riummer of Charleston, Ind., a
bachelor, aged 6f, committed suicide a few
days ago. After pondering over the sub
ject for six months he concluded that life
was not worth living under republican rule
and deliberately hanged himself.
Sam B. Cook, former secretary of state
of Missouri, has entered suit against the
St. Louis aiobe-romocrat for t2fti,nno dam
ages. . The Globe-Democrat charged that
Cook made a false afflduvlt, thus mortally
wounding the tender sensibilities of a Mis
souri politician. Mr. Cook Is now out of a
Job and doubtless needs the morfey.
The governor of Indiana has made it a
rule thnt no man who drinks shall be ap
pointed to office, anil his appointees have
extended the rule to those whom they, In
turn, choose. In all the cities where boards
of metropolitan police commissioners are
appointed there Is now a strict enforcement
of the saloon laws and the laws against
gambling.
P. Tecumseh Sherman, son of tho late
General William T. Sherman, has been
nominated to be state labor commissioner
of New York. Mr. Sherman is 8J years old
and a lawyer by profession. A republican
of decidedly Independent attitude, he has
been Identified with several reform move
ments, and on occasion has not hesitated
vigorously to criticise his own party.
Mayor Berry of Chester, Ta., Is utlrrlng
up the question of free passes for public
officials on the trolley lines. He says he
does not see any difference between free
transportation and a free barrel of flour
or a free suit of clothes, and there really
Isn't any such difference ns would prompt
the average official to reject the flour or
the clothes any more than he rejects free
passes.
One of the most remarkable episodes In
the municipal life of America has just
occurred in tho city of Philadelphia, the
City of Brotherly Love, dubbed by one of
its own citizens the "City of Fraternal
Filching," and christened by a magazine
writer the "City of the Corrupt and Con
tented." For the first time since the ma
chine reached Its assumed autocracy the
bosses have been brought to bay. They
have been compelled at least to halt In
their scheme of making a new lease of the
gas plant to a private corporation for seventy-five
years for a present JCii.ono.aoo,
when at the lowest calculation the profits
of the city for twenty-one years remaining
of the existing thirty years' lease would
produce about $.15,000,000. Advertisements
for bids for the lease are now appearing In
the local papers.'
otiifr 1. nn tha otns,
SPEED OF BATTLESHIPS.
Houieseeker' excursions from Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to
Nebraska are all right, but homeseekers'
excursions from Nebraska to Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Alberta, British Columbia and
the Puget Sound country are oil wrong.
Nebraska should be good enough for
every man, woman and child within Its
borders.
lue czar seed not have waited for
Washington to say Baron de Rosen
would be acceptable as ambassador to
this country. The United States gener
ally looks to principles rather than men
and all Russian officials are In the same
class.
protest against railway rate regulation,
he may be expected to call a special
meeting of the club to resolute In the
same tenor.
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Two Of Nebraska's present congress
men stepped from the district bench to
the halls of national legislation. With
such examples, no wonder the First dis
trict republicans are showing preference
for judicial timber.
Democrats will meet lu Lincoln June
15 to name a candidate for congress, but
by thut time the name of the successor
of Congressman BurWett will have been
already promulgated two weeks by the
republican convention.
Presldenj; Stlckuey couiplulus that
railroads enjoined from inuklug cut
rates on grain are paying elevator fees
iu ueu tuereor. neu tne people are
trying to secure evidence against secret
rates and similar affairs one Stlckuey Is
better than a dozen "Tom" Law sous.
iuo opinion gives dealing in rutures a
legal status, whatever mar be thought
of It from an economic and moral point
of view.
Referring to the decision the New
York Journal of Commerce remarks:
"This defense of trading in futures on
the exchanges and boards of trade of the
country as legitimate and useful In es
tablishing and giving stability to prices,
coming from the highest Judicial author
ity In the nation, ought to have the ef
fect of silencing the Ignorant and shal
low criticism which has tended to give
an ill-repute to cue of the most Important
agencies In the complex devices of mod
ern trade." Still there ore a great many
people who wIM continue to think that i W.T:7.278.
this form of speculation Is In nowise
benefit. lal and that It would lie better for
ttade if It did not exist.
William Jennings Bryan is to have a
formidable rival ou the Chautauqua stage
and Tom I.awson Is his uuiue. Lawson
is a genuine trust buster and his debut
on the lecture platform will be made
at Ottawa, Kan., July 7.
President Roosevelt will have an op
portunlty to reciprocate when Secretary
Taft takes his projected trip to the
Philippines, though It Is a trip which
can be but little curtailed no mutter how
much the lid may shake.
Forget Itf Xot This Yearl
Chlcigo News.
If the railways thought that the fasclna
tlona of bear hunting would drive the rate
question from the president's mind they
must be sadly disappointed.
Down to Hard Pan.
Washington Post.
r-eopie are always ready to kick a man
when he Is down. Banker Plgelow Is ao.
cused of having stolen tt.cvo.uu), when the
books show that his shortage Is only
In the light of the terribly fatal col
lision of a passenger train with a dyna
mite car, The Bee respectfully renews It
suggestion for an ordinance for the rigid
The Coming Motor.
San Francisco Chronlcbi.
The gasoline motor built for the t'nion
Pacific Is attracting an unusual degree of
attention, and by many competent railroad
men It la regarded an a solution of the
troubles which the advent of the electric.
lines have threatened the steam roads. The
I prediction is r.ow made that the suburban
TXIOS PACIFIC STOCK ISSIE.
Speculation on the t'se to Which the
Money Will Be Pat.
San Francisco Chronicle.
By a unanimous vote of the holders of
a substantial ir.ynrtty of both the com
mon and preferred stock of the corpora
tion it was agreed at a special meeting of
the stockholders of the Union Pacific Rail
road company, held on last Friday at Salt
Luke City, to Issue an additional $100,000,000
of preferred stock. Nothing was said at
the meeting concerning the purpose of tho
Issue. Even a query made by one of the
Salt Lake stockholders as to the manner
in which the proceeds of the new Issue
were to be expended was allowed to go
Into the minutes of the meeting unan
swered and without protest.
It is understood, however, that the
money Is to be devoted to the improvement
of Union Pacific properties, and, possibly,
to the construction of extensions which
will carry the system from seaboard to
seaboard and thus place It on an equal
footing with the Gould system when the
Western Pacific and the Wabash-Pittsburg
lines are built. It Is now admitted that
Union Pacific Interests have amicably de
cided to allow Gould to carry out his sea
board to seaboard program without fur
ther obstruction, .which means that there
will be no more opposition to the building
of the Western Pacific, the most Important
of all his through line extensions.
One of the Union Pacific projects, toward
which a part of the new stock Issue will
be devoted. Is the boring of the great
tuwnel through the Sierra to get rid of the
enormous grades over which every train
crossing the range at the summit must
now lie hauled and the costly system of
snowsheds which, in Its present condition,
the Central Pacific must maintain to pro
tect the winter traffic. Previous estimates
of the cost of this enterprise have ranged
from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000, A New York
dispatch, which comments on the good
impression made on Wall street by the
action at the Salt Lake meeting, now esti
mates the cost of the tunnel at $20,000,000.
This is probably excessive. However,
should the Sierra tunnel absorb $30,-
000,000 of the new stock Issue, there
would still remain $80,000,000 for new road
construction. Some of It will doubtless
be epent for feeders to the system In this
state; but the bulk of It la likely to be
spent In the construction or in ootalnlng
control of a line from Omaha to the east
ern seaboard, for the Indications are strong
that Harrlman and his associates have
reached the reasonable conclusion that
the line will have to be extended some
day from ocean to ocean to enable tt to
meet future transcontinental competition
on the most favorable terms and that
there Is no better time than the present
to do It, In all probability, the policy or
an Independent line from seaboard to sea
board will be ultimately adopted by all
the transcontinental systems In self-de-defense.
The abandonment of the ob
structive policy toward Gould's plans ot
railroad extension and the prospective uses
to which the big Union Pacific stock Issue
Is to be devoted are, therefore, among the
moat significant and Important railroad de
velopmenta of the times for the Pacific
coast, and particularly for California.
America's Heavy Sea Fighters Travel
Itapldly.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The recent speed trials of the ships In the
North Atlantic squadron disclosed remark
able capacity on the part of the Missouri,
whose record, while not officially stated
Is believed to have tacen considerably over
eighteen knots an hour. Fast steaming
was also done by the other ships In tho
squadron, with the single exception of II10
Alabama, which seems to have fallen away
below Its previous achievements, owing
to a foul bottom. It Is gratifying to know
that our heavier sea fighters can travel
rapidly and that while they are on paper
Inferior In speed to ships of smllar rating
In European navies, they can still go fast
enough for nil practical purposrs. We do
not build our battleships for the purpose
of making the maximum In speed. If we
had that purpose In view we would armor
them less heavily and reduce their gun
equipment, two salient features of Ameri
can construction methods which are Just
now beginning to appeal to the European
admlralltles. In the qualities of offense
and defense our battleships have always
exceeded those of Europe, save only In tho
one particular of speed. That quality Is
most essential to a battleship when It l
necessary to reach a designated point
within a given time, or when the pursuit
of a beaten enemy is requisite to -mplete
a victory. But as a general rule the ex
treme of high speed is less to be preferred
than the armament and armoring which
render the attainment of that extreme impossible.
BLOTTING OCT A N AMIS.
One of the Penalties of Dishonesty
a Visited, ( pun a. Hanker.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
When u committee of the American
Bankers' association removed the portrait
of Frank G. Bigelow from the group of lta
former president and scratched his name
from the stationery of tho organization It
did an act that must sting the Milwaukee
embezzler to the quick.
"Ills remembrance shall perish from the
earth and he shall have no name In the
street," wrote the holy man Job of a de
spised enemy.
And we behold the association of Ameri
can bankers trying to wipe the remem
brance of Bigelow from the earth and to
render him nameless In the street.
Such acts as this make men smart moat,
and despite the vision of penitentiary doors
looming dark before him, the physical dis
comforts of penury and the depressing
thought of his disgrace, this prompt and
conspicuous act of his former associates
to blot him from thoir memory hurt
Bigelow as nothing else could hurt him.
He sees In the action the obliteration of
every trace of the days when he ranked
among the country's most honored men
and held the office of which he was
proudest. He la not to have the consolation
of knowing that his name lasts among
those who once respected him. He Is re
pudiated utterly aa a thing loathsome and
unclean.
The approaching niff triage of tho German
crown pri'UM again directs general atten
tion toward that young man's character
and ability. As usual In the case of royal
personages, It Is difficult to form a Just
estimate, owing on the one sldo to deroga
tory reports, spread obviously In part for
their sensational value, nd on the other
sldo to sycophantic laudations, probably
equally untrustworthy. Judging solely
from the snapshot photographic reproduc
tions of him which have appeared In the
German periodicals, and which In such
cases are certainly not the least valuable
human documents, the crown prince Is a
calf-like youth, without the burden of
many Ideas. But In contradiction of this
Impression comes a pen picture of hlin en
titled, "The heir apparent." from his violin
master In Bonn, with whom the crown
prince lived while attending Bonn unlvers
ity from ISiH to 13. This estimate makes
him out nothing of a roisterer, but as pre
ferring the society of serious minded older
men to that of his fellows. Nothing ap
pears to bo said of his nblllty as a stu
dent, which leaves the Inference that he
has none. He is described once more as
passionately fond of outdoor sports, nnd as
of a reserved nature and as a shrewd Judge
of men. As for religion, the obliging vio
lin master calls him "a good. God-fearing
Christian, who 'knows nothing and wlnhes
to know nothing of the teaching that seeks
to gnaw nway the groundwork of faith." "
The composite picture at least indicates
that the kaiser will have a successor loss
Interesting than himself.
Prussia's policy, Innugurnted under Bis
marck, of devoting a largo fund a year
or two ago Increased to 2(X.0Xl,nno marks
to tho purchase of Polish estates In Posen,
has likewise borne fruit. The Germans
now own In that province 70 per cent of
the large estates nnd about one-half of the
small holdings, although the Polish popu
lation Is Increasing faster than the Ger
man. But the Polish proprietors have Just
now been roused Into forming a union for
the purpose of neutralizing the progressive
Germnnlzation of the country, and have
combined patriotic endeavor with sound
business Instinct by purchasing several
large estates from the landed German
aristocracy. Altogether, the Poles, In both
Russia nnd Germany, display at the pres
ent moment nn amount of political and
economic sngnclty of which the history of
Poland has shown too few examples.
King Leopold of Belgium may not have
a reputation among the courts of Europo
that exalts him to a high social plane and
dazzles the elegant courtiers and butter
files of fashion that flit about thrones, but
lie certainly has some hard-headed business
ability that ranks him well up among the
world-famous "captains of Industry." He
has made money In the Congo Free State.
In fostering the enterprises of his little, but
fertile kingdom he has exercised a vigor
ous Initiative nnd displayed a genius that
are worthy of both study and emulation.
He has waxed rich from personal ventures
that evidence their merit nnd the wisdom
of their conduct by results. King Leopold
has now instituted a new plan of commer
cial "Invasion'' that Is to have no limit
and Is designed to bring the products and
the manufactures of Belgium to the inspec
tion of the whole world. It Is no less titan
a floating Industrial exhibit that will visit
aH the principal ports of the world, carry
ing Its Insinuating message of commerce
and, clothed with the official authority of
the kingdom, Insisting that the nations
come and see what Belgium has to sell. It
will be a perpetual "state fair," but Instead
of asking the peoples of the world to come
and see Belgium will take it to their doors
for their convenience.
The Italian railway system, with the ex
ception of the Sardinian lines, comprises
only about 6,000 miles of road, employing
in the neighborhood of 100,000 men. The
roads are owned by the government,
though they have been leased out to pri
vate companies for the last ten years, the
notion being to get rid of the burdens Inci
dent to government control. This has
worked well and the government Is now re
suming the management of them. Thoy
will be undor the immediate direction of a
railway committee so organized and au
thorized as not to bother the government
much. Operatives will have their own
committees likewise, so that it is hoped
strikes may. be In a great measure pre
vented. Better management all around la
promised, faster trains and more of them,
but no reduction In fares or freights. Gov
ernment ownership of the roads there has
not done all that was expected of it by its
advocates nor made the flat failure pre
dicted by its adversaries. The new plan of
administration proposed looks like a Judi
cious one from a business point ot view.
The final results of the first and only
Russian census, taken eight years ago,
have Just been published, and furnish some
interesting and Instructive statistics. It
appears that the Great, Little, and White
Russians form 66 per cent of the total pop
ulation of tho empire. Of these, only 30
per cent of the males are able to read or
write, and 9 per cent of tho females. It
should be noted that any one who can
make a signature la counted as "literate."
Of Russians proper who have received a
middle-class or higher education, there are
less than per cent among males and
less than 1 per cent among females. That
Is to say, about twelve persons In every
1,000 are what Is known In Russia aa
"fully literate," a term full of suggestions
aa to the meaning of "literate" In the
census returns. The figures of this point
Same Old Melancholy long,
Chicago Chronicle.
After all the car and solicitude thit
have been lavished upon that squalling In
fant, the beet sugar Industry, It Is dis
couraging to learn that the American Beet
Sugar company Is In despair because of
the meagerness of the net returns of the
business. Evidently the only way to
nourish the beet sugar youngster Is to re
plenish the nursing bottle at the United
States treasury.
SMALL POTATO JOURNALISM
Lincoln Star.
One of the biggest exhibitions of news
paper sniallnesa was the work of the
Omaha World-Herald in rutting out of the
Associated Press report all mention of Mr.
Rosewater and Senator Burkett traveling
aa guests on the piesldent'a train. The As
sociated Press rejort, veraclously record
ing the events of the day, of course noted
the presence of thae gentlemen on the
train; the one a senator of Nebraka and
the other the foremost editor and a con
spicuous citizen of the state, townsman of
the World-Herald. If there la another
newspaper in the United Btates small
enough to make a blue pencil stab under
such circumstances, it is too small to have
been hitherto visible to the nuked rye.
The pettiness of the thing ia the more
notable because of the contrast with Mr.
Rosewater's presence and attitude at the
recent Metcalfe testimonial banquet. His
emarks on that occasion, the retirement of
the long-time editor of the World-Herald,
a rival sheet, were generous and In the
spirit of good fellowship.
The response Is prompt and characteris
tic. Such smallnesa really approaches the
SublUu.
fifty Yecrs tho Standard
EM
Uade from pure cream ot
tartar derived from grapes.
are given only for Russians proper, but
probably hold good for tho population at
large, as the more highly cultivated races
of the outer Russian empire are about
balanced by the dozen or more tribes which
are practically savages.
A Manchurlan correspondent of a London
Journal, writing 011 the subject of the bat
tle of Mukden, says that there will doubt
less be curiosity to know to whom the skil
ful strategy of the Japanese ought to be
attributed. He says that by many occi
dental writers Field Marshal Marquis
Yamagata Is spoken of as Japan's Mollke.
By others Field Marshal Marquis Oynmn Is
honored ns the Wellington of the nation.
But Oyama and Yamagata, be declares,
represent a sentiment; the sentiment of
Satsuma and Choshu respectively. There
remains to Japan this relic of old times,
that the two most renowned Samurai clans
of tho military age must furnish flguro
heads for every great enterprise of war.
The two marshals are remarkable men, but
to any one crediting them with strategical
genius their own answer would be a large
laugh. If, on the other hand, a Japanese
publicist were Invited, he says, to nsslgn
the praise for recent victories, be would,
probably after considerable hesitation,
name Lieutenant General Baron Kodama.
LAIGHIG I.HF.S.
"I always like to bear a man say what h,
means." observed Mr. Sllptung. "without
any verbology or circunilocatlon." Chi
cago Tribune.
"Whv does every actor want to play
'Hamlet?' "
"Because In 'Hamlet' the ghost walks
every night." Cleveland Leader.
Cordelia I had six offers of marriage last
month. Whnt do you think of that?
Elvira I think a man with such bulldoir
tenacity Is worthy of a better fate. Phila
delphia Inquirer.
Mrs. Knlcker iHow long will you be
awa;- this summer?
Mrs. Boeker I don't know. I shall stay
$1,(HK) nt the seaside and $W() at the moun
tains. New York Sun.
"Do you not love." said the cadaverous
boarder, "to explore the unknowable? To
wring from chaos the secret of Its In
dwelling entity?"
"Yon Just bet 1 do!" answered the
stenographer, smiling sweetly. "Will you
please pass the hash?" Cleveland Iealcr,
"Talking about Inventions," said the
business man. "I have a little machine In
my place thnt would make me a millionaire
if I could oulv keep it going all the time."
"What Is It?"
"A cash register." Philadelphia Press.
"Hollander used to be the most spiteful
mnn I ever knew."
"What changed him?"
"Why. he built a spite fence to annoy
his neighbor and one day the spiteful thing
fell, over and crushed all the spite out of
him!" Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"So the engagement's broken off?"
"Yes. It seems she told him one evening
that She wasn't beautiful enough to be his
wife, and he didn't deny her statement
quick enough to suit her." Philadelphia
Ledger.
D'Auber It Sketchlelgh much of an
artist?
Smenrltt The Illustrator? T"Jo., he coptej
everything. Couldn't draw his salary with
out using tracing paper. Cleveland Leader.
TUB BONO OB" THE! THRCBII.
He clears his throat' with a sip of the dew
That lies on the leaves when the day is new,
Now mounts to the swaying pinnacle high.
Where naught Intervenes 'twixt him and
the aky.
Now, lightly swung on the top of the tree,
His musical notes come fast and free.
How he pours them out In the air of May,
Gurgle and whistle and roundelay!
Is this the shy bird we saw in the brush,
The bird so far-famed by the name of
thrush.
That revealed no Blgn of his wide renown
In the sharp, quick chirp and the flush of
brown?
the ground he scratches
they fill their
When down on
and hox8
With his modest mate, as
crops,
No loud-sounding notes expose them to
harm.
No hint does he give of his musical charm.
But the impulse of song commands his
wings,
And high In the free-flowing air he sings,
Well pleased with the thought that his
mate can hear
The song of ills heart, the voice of his eheer.
Omaha. BERIAH F. COCHRAN.
Browning, Ming & Co
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