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before me this first day of July, 1806.
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W II Kit OIT OP TOWS,
gabscrlbere leaving; the city tem
porarily ahonld k( The Bee
Dialled to them. It Is better than
dally letter from home. Ad
dreaa will be chanced as often as
requested.
At any rntn, the Omnha bnse bnll play
eri were pennant winners once.
Isn't It a lutht-r long wmt for the Au
ditorium bt'twcen tho pure food show
and the burse show?
Tho donio-jiojm thfuuten to resurrect
their poor ninn In the well for the com
ing Nebraska campaign. Well! Well!
Well!
Secretary Shaw's compliments to Gov
ernor Cummins. Hud the messenger
only Intel time to wait, he might have
carried ttit answerback, with him.
Portsmouth hotel men iit least owe a
ote of thanks to the prac commission
era for prolonging their conference to a
point where profits are tangible.
Lord Mllner and Lord C'urzon are both
out of office, but the former Is more en
titled to sympathy, as he has no Amer
ican fortune to comfort blm In his hour
of eclipse.
Our yellow local contemporaries seem
to have dropped that Kansas City water
works report like ft hot cake. It must
have proved more than they wanted to
prove by it.
Those who think the president Is play
ing favorites should remember that be Is
suggesting no more to Russia and Japan
than the I'nited States conceded tfi Spain
and Mexico.
Now that former Statistician Holme
oas surrendered there may be a demand
for flrst-cluss accommodations in Mon
treal by a number of prominent resi
dents of New York.
If the signal service corps will only
burry up and report for duty at Fort
Omaha In time, King Ak-Sar-Ben may
press it Into the service aa an auxiliary
to his royal entertainers.
jnat reminds us mat i tmaha has a
market house, but no market In it to
peak of. No other city In the country
would let such an Investment lie dead
when it could easily be made profitable.
The Scotchmen who are searching for
Spanish gold sunk with the Armada
may expect to be as fortunate as the
Americans who seek to recover the
wealth sunk by Spain in the Philippines.
South Omaha people are now demand
ing new pavements, too, and they will
have to have them or else when they
take an outing over Omaha's , smooth
streets they may not want to go back
borne. i
.With a Lincoln man as governor of the
one, another Lincoln man collector of
customs and an Omaha man consulting
engineer, It 1 "up to" Nebraska see
that the Panama canal is ready for bust
nebs ou schedule time.
, While the court U about it in deciding
the question whether the county commit
alouers are to be elected this year
might as well save time and trouble ty
decldlug also whether, whenever they
are to be elected, the candidates should
be nominated by the voter of the county
at large or only of the district.
The "antia" have reluctantly come to
the conclusion that the best thing for
them to do Is to wait for the republican
county committee to be called together
by Chairman Cowell. They may console
themselves, however, that the majority
will treat them Just as liberally as they
would have treated their opponents were
lUa condition, revvreeU,
1-JClFW INTLVENCES.
There lire some Influences working for
peace Unit do not come tinder general
nntire, because they are not often re
frtml to in the iifws of the day and
when they nre It Is in so brief a way ns
to attract llltle attention. It was noted
it short time ago that the Husslan gov
ernment hud authorized auother domes
tic loan of $K,mmi,kio. Of course the
government expected that this loan
would be promptly subscribed. It has
not been, the public, according to the
latest information, taking no Interest in
It. It Is stntod that In view of this the
government decided to make It a forced
loan, by directing the banks and the sav
ings Institutions to take up the bonds
whiiji the public does not want. The
fact Illustrates the straits to which the
government has been reduced In order to
obtain money. It can get nothing
abroad for carrying on the war and Its
own 'people will not subscribe for Its se
curities. Therefore It Is forced to exer
cise Its arbitrary authority and compel
the banks to come to the rescue.
A high financial authority at t. Pe
tersburg was recently reported to have
deelnred that it will be Impossible, owlns
to the exhaustion of funds, for Hussla to
continue tlje war. It was stated tbjit
the resources of the treasury are so
nearly exhausted that It will soon have
to abandon the poycy of artificially sup
porting the price of Russian securities
In foreign markets. It may already
have reached this point. Judging from
the late decline in those securities In the
European money markets. It is pointed
out that the alcohol monopoly is now the
one aource of Income that stands be
tween 'Russia and bankruptcy, that she
has nothing else left to pledge, with the
possible exception of the state forests
and mines and the unknown amount of
wealth held by the state church assets
which would hardly prove available for
borrowing money abroad. Another fact
of no small significance Is that the com
merce of Russia has been very materl-
lly reduced since the war and will in
evitably suffer further if the conflict con
tinues. In addition to this the crops are
bad and there Is Impending famine in
large part of the empire. Indeed, ac
cording to Russian papers hunger al
ready stalks In the land.'
Japan has no more money than she
needs, but conditions there are not as
serious as In Russia. Her last domestic
loan was lhrgely oversubscribed. Rhe
had no difficulty In finding a market
for her foreign loan. Her foreign com
merce has increased since the war and
n the internal business of the country
is said to be prosperous. Japan's re
sources are not Inexhaustible, but she
has not yet reached the end of them
nd her people are far more ready to
sslst the government financially than
re the Russian people. Undoubtedly
Japan needs and desires peace, yet she
appears to be In very much better con
dition to go on with the war than Is her
enemy. To what extent the influences
noted are operating In behalf of peace
it Is Impossible to say, but it Is hardly
to be doubted that they are receiving
Rome consideration, at least at St Pe
tersburg.
A STRONGER ALLIANCE.
The new or amended Anglo-Japanese
treaty of alliance, which It is understood
has been signed, is thought to be broader
In scope iu some respects and much
stronger in its terms than the former
treaty. That agreement pledged Great
Britain and Japan to aid each other in
the event of a combination of powers
against either and the well-known effect
of this has been to preserve neutrality
respecting the far eastern war. But for
this allluuco it is more than probable
that Russia would have been able to
obtain assistance from her ally and pos
slbly also from Germany, -perhaps not
directly, but In some way which would
have operated to the disadvantage of
Japan.
While there is no authentic informa
tion as to the terms of the new treaty
there seems to be no doubt that a closer
and more .comprehensive alliance has
been effected. Referring to It a Tarts
dispatch says that 1: is regarded as
largely governing Japan's attitude rela
tive to concessions and that before sign
lug it Great Britain probably insisted
that hostilities be concluded as soon as
possible. This is very improbable, for
were Great Britain disposed to bring
any pressure upon her ally she would
have availed herself of the opportunity
since the meeting of the conference,
This she has refused to do and It 'la
most unlikely that In signing the new
treitty the question of ending hostili
ties was considered. The alliance Is
manifestly of very great Importance to
both countries, serving to protect Japan
from a combination of powej-s and to
safeguard the great interests of Great
Britain lu the far' east.
TAVORS rKOKRAL SVPERriilON.
Another man prominent In the lnsur
ance world has pronounced In favor of
federal supervision of life insurance
companies. Mr. Ryan of the Equitable
Is of the opinion that the general gov
ernment should have practically the same
supervision of life Insurance companies
as It has over national banks. He Is
quoted as saylug that "the officers and
managers of these companies have in
their keeping a trust of the luost sacred
character and they should not object to
furthering the beet Interests of their
business." This Is the view of nearly
all the life insurance men of the coun
try who rnve tupretised.tbemselvea on
the subject.
Although the American Bar asaocla
tion did not act upon the report of the
majority of its insurance law commit
tee. referring the whole question of In
surauce law to the incoming commit
tee, the report presented strong reasons
for federal supervision and regulation of
life Insurance companies. It was as
serted that the officials of the leading
companies favor the proposition and the
report said: "A federal regulation re-
quiring an accounting of the ue made
of the immense sums accumulated
through the prudence, sacrifice and thrift
of millions of policyholders will prevent
Improvident and improper investments
nd extravagant management." There
was a minority-report declaring that the
inslness of Insurance Is" not Interstate
commerce and therefore that the regnla-
lon and control of the business is be
yond the powers of the federal govern
menta view by no means conclusive,
although finding some warrant In de
cisions of the supreme court of the
United States.
It Is seen that this question is com
manding a great deal of Interest, not
confined to insurance circles, and we
venture the opinion that the very gen
eral Judgment is favorable to federal
supervision and regulation of life in-
uronce companies, it is expected that
President Roosevelt will again give the
subject consideration in his next annual
message and that some action will be
taken regarding it by the next congress.
IN THE CACHE OF IRRIGATION.
It is Impossible to say to what extent
the cause of irrigation will be benefited
or advanced by the action of the con
gress which met at Portland the past
week, but some of the resolutions
adopted are to be commended and ought
to have results. One of these urges the
federal congress to enact such laws as
will enable the government to exercise
the right of eminent domain when neces
sary to enrry out the purposes of the ir
rigation law. We take it that there can
le no question aa to the advisability of
this. Ia carrying out the great under
taking of arid land reclamation "It is
manifestly necessary that the govern
ment shall not allow any removable ob
stacles to Interfere with the work. An
other declaration favors the encourage
ment of private enterprise in Irrigation,
so long as It d,oes not interfere with the
work of the government. This also can
be approved.
Another and quite Important resolu
tion says that In order to encourage beet
sugar production in the United States no
further concessions to tropical islands
should be granted and also advocates
federal legislation in behalf of the sugar
Industry. This is directly aimed at the
concession made to Culm, which has un
questionably been unfavorable to our
beet sugar interest, while it has not as
yet brought compensating advantages to
this country in exports to Cuba. It Is
true that we are soiling more of our
products to the Island republic than be
fore the reciprocity arrangement, but tho
increase has not been what was ex
pected, while Cuba is profiting greatly
from the advantage it enjoys In the
American market. As to federal legis
lation in behalf of the beet sugar indus
try none is now needed if the industry
is safeguarded against destructive com
petition. Given proper protection and a
fair field and there can be no doubt that
it will make steady progress.
DISHGVRING OMASA.
, great many forces 'and factors have
been set to work In the movement to
beautify Omaha, but In urging our peo
ple to improve their premises with a
view to the beauty of the whole city,
have we not neglected to protest loudly
enough against the disfigurement of the
city by property owners who look only
to their Immediate profit? All. that may
be accomplished by months and years of
constant agitation for beautifying
Omaha may be offset and undone in no
time by a few selfish Individuals whose
eye for beauty is obscured, if not alto
gether missing.
The great disfigurement of Omaha has
been Its large number of unimproved va
cant lots and one of our greatest prob
lems haa been to mitigate their unslgbt-
llness. We have gone on the theory that
anything that will hide or cover up a va
cant lot Is to be welcomed as an im
provement One result la that our prin
cipal streets have been lined with hide
ous billboards that ought not to be tol
erated at all. The billboards, however,
are only temporary and will give way to
more permanent structures In the course
of time, but we are now threatened with
the erection, almost in the heart of the
city, of a lot of shacks that would dis
grace a village and which are put up not
for a year or for two years, but to stay
as long as the rental Income will tempt
the owners to keep them there In spite
of the growing value of the real estate.
Vacant lots would be far preferable to
some of these building disfigurements.
The only question Is whether the pub
lic is helpless against such abuse of the
right of private property. If an organ
ized movement is demanded to promote
the beautifying of Omaha, an organized
remonstrance would surely be justified
against the disfigurement of Omaha.
Jt Is to be noted that the delegates
from Douglas county to the democratic
state convention were named by the
democratic committee without bothering
to submit them on the official ballot at a
primary election, although the regular
primary Is to take place In advance of
the convention, and the delegates could
Just as well have been chosen then. But
these delegates presumably will go down
to Lincoln and vote a resolution into the
platform proclaiming their undying alle
glunce to the cause of the direct primary.
Now that the powers have notified
Turkey that they will take over the ad
ministration of the finances of Mace
donia, the sultan may Insist that they
make up any deficit whim shall occur
The work of making tax collectors podu
lar In the land of the great Alexander
will be Interesting.
The suggestion offered ly Mr. Ryan
that all the New York Life insurance
companies be investigated is a reflection
upon those Insurance commissioners of
western states whoae records show that
they never passed an opportunity to
draw fees for that work.
People who secured right to enter land
on the Uintah Indian reservation lay
that UtUa ef. the laud 1 worth tha
trouble of complying with the law. In
Its return to Investors the government
lottery offers fpw advantages over those
under private control.
Statistics compiled for the counvajp
show that there is one teacher for every
seveqty-two pupils of school age. Omaha
does considerably better than that by Its
school children and also considerably
lwtter than the average by its school
teachers.
The correspondent who sees a similar
ity between the positions of the contend
ing armies now and Just previous to the
battle of Ltao Yang must be fixing it so
that there will be an opportunity to com
pare the work of Linevltch nnd Kouro-
patkln.
Medical officers of New Orleans and
Louisiana are to be presented to the
grand Jury for suppressing cases of yel
low fever until the disease passed be
yond control. New Orleans should stop
the fever before starting further trouble.
With the municipal expenses of New
York up so high that they are no longer
source of pride to the Inhabitants,
It would look as though the days of
'Boss" Tweed could sometimes be re
called without a shudder.
Seeklna; a Bargain Rate.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
From the Russian viewpoint there Is too
IlttUj difference between the price of peace
and the coat of was.
Freaslaa; Uwioa to Make Good.
Waahlnarton Post.
Tom lAinon Is resisting- a' suit the pur
pose of which la to Induce him to make a
start on his promise to return some 17,000,-
000 ef the money he admits having- taken
from the American Investing- public
A ghlnlnar Eaample.
New Tork Evening Post.
The late Jacob L Oraene fne neaelv
thirty years president of a life Insurance
company, left an estate appraised at a
little leas than 156.000. His helra must think
bitterly of him for not having had a genial
salary-raising director.
I.ooka Wise and Winks.
Philadelphia Record.
Good and wise Kaneko! When aaked to
tell what the prospects are he looks sig
nificantly up at the wind-driven clouds.
Everything la dark and stormy. But bv
and by he winks. "Tomorrow?" Ah. the
aun may be flooding the world with glorv
on the morrow, says the enigmatic and
optimistic baron.
The Doctora How They Agree,
Chicago Chronicle.
Oreater love hath no man than that
which la displayed by the medical gentle
man for hla esteemed contemporary. The
cheerfulness and unanimity with which the
doctora have fallen upon the Inventor of
he latent coneumntlon cure and dnhhed
him a donkey or a dreamer constitute an
other tribute to the unfailing solidarity
which obtains among the Kaculaniana
They present a united front against any
of their number who thlnka he haa die
covered something and who Incidentally
rets Into the newsnanera without navlne-
the usual advertising rates.
One Item of the War's Coat.
Baltimore Herald.
PU T hundred thnniuinil m.n V. t,...
killed and wounde4 in the Russian-Japanese
war. Here are a few flrurna to heln
us realize what this meana. Six hundred
thousand casualties equal:
Nine hundred Iroquois theater disasters.
Seven hundred and fifty Blocum, disasters.
Two hundred and forty Johnstown floods.
Ninety Galveston floods.
Twenty Martinique catastrophes.
The total population men. women and
children of Baltimore.
Three times the population of the states
of Idaho and Nevada combined.
Three times the population men. women
and children of the Boer republlce, which
resisted the whole power of the British em
pire for over two years.
DEGRADING THE BAR.
Instance of Greed at Both Ends of
the Line.
Baltimore American.
The law Is one of the greatest profes
sions. Few have such far-reaching Influ
ence, directly and Indirectly. A large ma
jority of the atateamen of the country
are furnlahed by the bar, and many of
tne blggeat enterprises are shaped by Its
members. It la singular, therefore, aa
disclosed by president Tucker In hla an
nual addresa to the Bar association, that
there ahould be both at the top and bot
tom elements that aerloualy effect the
credit of the bar. Mr. Tucker quoted
Preeldent Roosevelt concerning the de
vious devices of certain great lawyers
employed by corporations, and he also
spoke of the ahyaters, whom the bar haa
always had with It. but who have largely
Inoreased of late years. Both evils are cal
culated to bring discredit on the profession,
but the worm at the top can gnaw deeper
than the microscopic Insect at the bottom.
It Is difficult to Imagine any remedy ex
cept time for the degradation of their pro
fession by htgh-claaa lawyera. It Is the
duty of a lawyer to make use of the law
In every legitimate way for the benefit of
his client, and It la exceedingly difficult
to draw the line between that which Is
legitimate and that which transcends the
bounds of honor and honesty. It la thla
Inability to dlatlngulah, and the fatal In
fluence of a certain laxity In business hon
esty, which leads such men to make a
sordid and baae use of their talenta. They
deprive themselves of the esteem of their
fellow men and of the honors they might
earn, while they degrade their profession
and so pervert the law as to make It a
ayatem of legerdemain, Instead of a great
aystem for the equal protection or-men.
Their Influence moreover extenda much
farther than the community In which they
practice. A false standard la aet up which
Inspires the younger generation of prac
titioners. The noble Ideala Instilled Into
them while atudenta are In many Inatances
displaced by the Impression that trlrkery
and sophistry are the factors which bring
aucceaa.
It is encouraging to note that compara
tively there are not many great lawyera
who proatltute their profeaston, and that
an awakened aenae of conscientiousness,
a restored atmosphere of normal honesty,
win weed tnem out and place the ma
jority of them on an uncomfortable pin
tiacls. Thrra need be no fear In such i
country as this of any long lapse of com
mercial morality. As to the curbstone law
yera, the same difficulty In distinguishing
them occurs., It ia eaay enough to point
them out, but when It cornea to asperating
them from their brethren. It la almost Im
possible to draw the line of demarcation,
They are usually too shrewd to defy the
rules of court, but their methods are none
the less reprehensible, and as they are not
specially shame-faced, these become widely
known In the community. They give the
bar a black eye, because people are, aa a
rule, thoughtless and more apt to perceive
the defects than the merits of a system.
The shysters do harm a great deal In the
aggregate but not half so much as those
higher up. wbe ought to act an example of
I kAfuif end nrohttsv ,
ROIXD AROl'T HEVr YORK.
Hippies on the fnrrrnt of Life In the
Metropolis.
The story telegraphed from New Tork
last week detailing the discovery of eerret
tunnels and secret slalrs and doors In the
former home of Samuel J. Tllden In Orani
ercy park proves to be a fake of the kind
common In New York when there Is a
dearth of real thrillers. Put It served to
awaken memories of '78 and of the
Tweed regime and suggested the secret
Iveness of that past master of political ma
chinery. The secret passage ways and
tunnels were air shafts for the furnace
and for ventilating purposes and the secret
stairs and doors, so called, were put In to
facilitate the paassgo of Mr. Tllden's valet
to Mr. Tllden's bath room.
The razing of old buildings where the
western terminal of the new Manhattan
bridge Is to be has caused some striking
discoveries. This part of the old city of
New York Is Invested with much historic
Interest. A few years ago there were
standing In U quaint dwellings of Putch
design, more than 200 and In some In
stances even 250 years old. Half a doaen
skeletons have been found In cellars and
courtyards since the work of demolition
began. Some of these are supposed to be
of persons who mere killed In the draft
riots of lfi3.
In the last three weeks on the tipper
east side. In a riot near the edge of tho
river, a gang of Italian laborers has
struck three trensure troves. Two Iron
pots that had been burled under the foun
dations of a colonial mansion contained
about jno copper half pennies of the reigns
of George I and George II. Some of these
proved to be rare and have been bought
by cojn dealers and collectors at round
prices. Prior to this a pot containing
twenty gold pieces had been unearthed In
the same locality. These are thought to be
guineas of the time of the Georges. But
the Italians who found them at once de
camped and have not been seen since by
their employer. So elated were they with
their good fortune that they left behind
them nearly $300 in wages due them.
The magnificent hotel bar rooms which
mere a feature of Broadway life a decade
ago are being driven from the field by the
boudoir buffet. Old-time, hotels, like the
St. Nicholas, the New York, the Metro
politan, the Morton house, Union Square,
Coleman and others, that made New York
bnr rooms something to talk about a few
years ago, almost have gone out of ex
istence. Barkeepers and mixers of epeclal
drinks that made them famous either have
gone to another sphere or Into other busi
ness and there are none to take their
places. To cite the most conspicuous ex
ample, the famous elliptical bar in the Hoff
man house, which Edward S. Stokes made
the talk of two continents, has been taken
away. The, collection of expensive paint
ings, so famous that a special view hour
each morning was appointed for women,
has been dispersed. What was once the
most magnificent bar room in the world
Is now a very commonplace cafe In com
parison with tho more modern New York
hotels. There Is a small bar room In an
other part of the hotel which bears about
the sam,e relation to the sumptuous Stokes
menage as a pushcart does to a pony car
riage. This Is true of all the big hotels.
The waiter and small table have put the
barkeeper out of business. In many of the
new boudoir bars If a customer steps up to
the small bar and orders a drink he la
asked to take a seat at one of the tables
and a maiter will carry the drink to him.
This usually Involves a tip to the waiter
that approximates one-half the price of
the drink. The old-Ume barkeeper com
plains bitterly at the Innovation of the
foreign' waiter in the bar room or cafe.
When the nubile schools open next
month there will be 80,000 more children In
attendance than there are accommoda
tions for. In this respect New York haa
every year much the same experience that
Phi ade nh a has. The surplus can oe ac
commodated at school only on half time,
and this In face of the fact that there is
room for some SO.Qpo more sittings than
there was a year ago. Unfortunately some
of the new school houses are In borougha
or nelghborhooda where they are not greatly
needed The number or new pupus
throughout the city Is estimated at 28,000.
Exciting In the extreme m-as the chase of
an alleged pickpocket that began on the
"L" atatlon at Third avenue and One Hun
dred and Forty-ninth atreet. was continued
on the tracks of the elevated structure,
down a steel pillar, along a street through
a crowd that feared to Btop the fugitive
and ended In the Subway station, where a
pursuing detective saw his man dash aboard
a south-bound train and escape.
Detective Sergeants Buesser and Bchulng
saw two men acting suspiciously, they aay,
on the "L" Btatlon and started to arrest
them. Both the men Jumped on the tracks
and ran northward. They were In Imminent
danger of being run down by an approach
ing electric train.
Schulng succeeded In catching Louis
Grossman of 5 Rlvlngton street, and drag
ging him back to the Btatlon platform;
but Buesser was after a younger and more
agile man.
Detective and fugitive dashed along the
elevated structure, and when the fleeing
man saw that he waa being overhauled he
calmly crawled out to a pillar and, deaplte
Bueaser'a threata to shoot, slid down the
steel girder to the Btreet below, with the
detective In close pursuit.
Gaining the street, the man dashed
through a crowd of onlookers. At full tilt
he dashed down the steps of the Suburban
station, and most opportunely found a
south bound train Just about to atart.
Buesser appeared Just In time to see his
man disappear.
Grossman refused to give the name of
the man who escaped. Two other men m-ho
were said to be professional pickpockets
were arrested at the elevated atatlon at
One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street and
Third avenue by Detectives O'Rourke and
Kilklea of the Bronx bureau.
The "regeneration" of Coney Island Is no
longer a necessity. About forty years ago
the place waa a desert. Later It began to
be a resort of the cheaper kind. Then big
hotels afforded accommodation to all sorts
of people. Gradually railroads advertised
quick and easy transportation. Other ho
tels drew other people. The Ullmores and
Levy of music hall fame took hold. Cheap
and nasty houses of entertainment began
to give the place a bad name. The hotel
service was fair, the railroad service poor
and the cheap and nasty places were giv
ing the laland a bad name mhen capital
loomed up. Little by little It bought the
entire resort. New management took hold
of the hotels, and It mas evidently but a
question of time when the sore spots would
be rriuuvrd and the Coi.y of the put be
a thing of memory only. In the end Coney
will be a place for transportation and en
tertainment. A few thousands would have
bought the whole Island and all there was
on It a few years ago. Now millions would
be needed. Regeneration haa come of Itself.
Had you been passing by the Herald,
Square theater, New York, at the right mo
ment recently you would have seen two
Chinamen vigorously contending for a
bundle of laundry. When the, war was
over there were two Celestials In flight, a
policeman In possession ol the scattered
wash, and an actor cursing the coincidence
that brought his regular laundrynian on
the soene Just at the moment when he had
negotiated a temporary wash, with ft tern
i Dorarv I&un4rymiu.
THE RAILROAD At THE rEOM.K
Falls City Journsl: A law making the
managers of railroads personally responsi
ble for the loss of life snd property In
railroad wrecks would help a great deal
to reduce the number of such accidents.
It Is the anxiety of the management to
save of- make money which la the cause
of a great many m recks.
Friend Telegraph: On account ef a re
fusal of the rallroada to pay their taxea
last year an addition of 1 mill haa been
levied on all property In the County this
year. While the railroads seem to be
milling to run the polltlca of Saline county,
to run Its legislators, they are unmilllng
to bear their proportion of the burdena ef
taxation mhlrh usually fall to the mhlte
man. and the toxpayere are not only asked
to pay their taxea for thle year, but to
rut up that mhlch the railroads have re
fused to pay.
Lincoln Journal: The suggestion made
by The Omaha Bee that the county con
ventions In Nebraska would do well to
Instruct their delegates to the state con
vention to vote for a resolution calling
upon the Nebraska senators and repre
sentative to aupport the railroad pollry
of the prealdent la very much to the point.
Nebraska Is vitally Interested In tho suc
cess of the president's program and a
specific declaration from the state con
vention at this time mill be notice to the
"news bureaus" that the efforts to In
fluence sentiment here by specious pleas
might as well be discontinued.
Central City Nonpareil: Senator W. H.
Harrison of Grand Island addreaaea an
open letter to the republlcana of Hall
county this meek, advising them to take
a decided stand against the free paaa evil.
He prophesies that the forthcoming state
convention will undoubtedly adopt a plat
form containing a plank pledging the party
to the passage of an antl-pasa law and
suggests that the delegates to the con
vention be Instructed to that end. When
as practical and experienced a politician
as W. H. Harrison declares his position on
this question In euch unmistakable terms
as are contained In this letter thero can
be no doubt as to the ultimate outcome jf
the Issue. The pass must go.
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jPF.RSONAL NOTKS4
Tom iAwson's name appears upon tho
delinquent tax list of Back Bay.
The count of graveyard voters regis
tered In Philadelphia stands at 60,000. The
Quaker City Is noted for Its hatred of
political crookedness elsewhere.
This Is the hardest blow yet. The con
ference colony at Fortsmouth Is reported
to have tired of our American summer girl
In hardly more than two ahort weeks.
An eastern woman described her husband
In her divorce petition as a "street angel,
but a home devil." There is no better way
of acquiring comprehensive Information
about a man than by living with him.
A Cincinnati judge haa decided that a
man mho haa worked all day Is "entitled
to some aupper, and a hoj supper at that,
mhen he gets home." Occasionally the
menu may be varied mith a hot roast.
Prof. Bersen, the celebrated German as
tronomer and president of the Madrid ob
servatory, will 'take observationa of the
forthcoming solar eclipse from a balloon,
which will ascend 10,000 feet from the town
of Burgos.
Dr. M. V. 0'8ulllvan. senior surgeon In
St. Vincent's and the Woman's college and
fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons,
Ireland, la making a tour of thla country
studying hospitals, and from here will go
to Melbourne, Australia.
Time brings with It some curious flip
flaps. A Chicago lawyer who was expelled
from Michigan university, as a student, for
kidnaping the toastmaster of the freshman
class, has now beeri Invited to that Institu
tion as an Instructor In Ita law department.
While the emperor of Germany doea not
fall to transact a large amount of public
business during hla various voyages for
rest and recreation, he is said to be, when
on his yacht at sea, a very different man
from the ruler of a great nation living In
state at Berlin.
It Is pleasing to note that while wlvea
are cutting out the word "obey," hus
bands manifest greater reverence for the
marriage pledge, "You old fool." ex
claimed a Chicago wife to her husband,
"Jump Into the lake and drown your
self." He obeyed.
If courts keep on grinding out rules at
the present rate automobile drivers will
soon be without any rights at all. A New
York court declares that the doctrine of
contributory negligence doea not apply in
the case of a pedestrian 'run down by an
auto. In that judge's bailiwick pedestrians
need not cross a street on the jump.
Sir Chentung Llan Chang, the Chinese
minister, has been advised by cable of the
appointment at Peking of special repre
sentatives of the varioua branchea of the
government who will vlalt the United
Btatea and Europe to make a cloae atudy
of government aystems. Moat prominent
of theae officials Is Tung Fong, viceroy of
Hunan, who during the "Boxer" outbreak
in 1900 bore a prominent part In the pro
tection of the miaslonarles.
Assuming: Too Much Risk.
Chicago Record-Herald.
When the president needs exercise or a
good vacation It la doubtless all right for
him to take long fast rides across country,
or to go into the wilds to ahoot 1-ara and
catch coyotea with his hands. In these
things there la plenty of compensation for
the comparatively amall risk. But when
he wants to Increase hla knowledge of sub
marines the best thing fof him to do Is to
study the designs with the aid of an en
gineer in his library, or at the most to ex
amine the works In dry dock.
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STEEL AID COf'R ETE TIE.
Experiments nlth nnd Cost nt I'rlnrW
pal Substitutes for Wood.
New York Tribune.
Within the Isst few days some usrf.il In
formation about tiro kinds of railway ties
haa been made accessible to the general
public. Though It la not as complete aa
could be desired. It Is now possible perhaps
for the first time-to compare the cost of
the principal substitutes whlcb. have been
proposed for the wooden tie.
In Ita latest Issue Knginenlng News glvea
a description of one of the many forms of
steel tie mhlch have been invented. It la
the tie now being manufactured at one of
the Carnegie mills in rittslmrg for ex
perimental service on the l'ennsylvanla
road. As It melghs K4 pounds, or one-thirteenth
of a ton, It Is easy to estimate Its
cost pretty accurately by consulting the
quotations for steel rails. With the latter
Belling at from i-'i to l- a ton. steel ties
could not be had for much less than Jl
apiece. The next preceding number of En
gineering News contained a letter regard
ing reinforced concrete ties from Samuel
Rockwell, assistant chief engineer of the
Lake- Shore road, m hlch Is giving them an
extensive trial. From that communication
U appears that. Including labor and ma
terial, these ties could be had for about BO
cents each. In respect to coat alone, the
advantage mould seem to be mith concrete.
Durability must also be considered, how
ever. The cheapest article of a given class
la not always the best . When It really be
comes advlsbale to adopt something In
place of the wooden tie it mill doubtlesa be
nedessary to revise the foregoing flgurea,
but the cheapnesa of concrete must be die
regarded until something Is known about
Ita lasting qualities. A few weeks ago a
aliort paragraph maa printed by many
nemspapera to the effect that a number of
concrete tlee m-hich have been on trial on
the I-ake Shore road had been removed
because they mere disintegrating. Taken
by Itself the fact mas unpromising. Mr.
Rockwell, horn-ever, shows that it m-as not
representative. The few ties mhlch did give
signs of breaking up had been In exception
ally unfavorable situations. Either they
were near Joints In the rails or else they
had been sandwiched in between groups of
m-ooden ties, miiose greater elasticity ex
posed the rigid concrete tie to special
strains. Moreover, the Lake Shore road
illll haa about three thousand more of
theae tlea In place, and Borne of them mere
laid fully three yeara ago. When they are
arranged In continuous succession, aaya Mr.
Rockwell, they seem to meet all the re
quirements of heavy service. It thua ap
pears that the case has not yet been de
cided adversely to concrete, aa might have
been supposed.
An enormous variety of steel ties haa
been tried In the last twenty years. Some,
If not all. of those m-hlch have failed have
failed because of an Incidental feature,
and not on account of an Inherent fault.
Those which were Introduced on the North
ern railm-ay In France proved disappointing
because tho rivets worked loose. The so
called Carnegie tie, mhlch has already had
a trial on a road tunning from nttsburg to
Lake Erie, needs no rivets, and thus far
has proved satisfactory. It Is clear, then,
that the contest between steel and concrete
Is still open, and that a final Judgment may
not be practicable for years.
MIRTHFll, REMARKS.
"What do you think of government own
ership?" "It Is a great Idea," ansm-ered Senator
Sorghum. "I don't see how all that prop,
erty could be sold to the government mith
out some influential people securing big
commissions." Washington Star.
Mrs. Gabble No, Indeed, I don't have
that woman doctor any more.
Mrs. Queery Why, I thought you liked
her.
Mrs. Gabble Oh, she got to be .hateful,
8he used to keep the thermometer In my
mouth nearly all the time so that I couidn t
say a word, while she monopolised the con
versation. Philadelphia Ledger.
"My!" suddenly exclaimed Henpeck, mith
a start, "I must have been dreaming."
"Why?" snapped his wife.
"Why, I haven't heard you say a m-ord to
me for fifteen minutes." Philadelphia
Press.
"Let me aee," said St. Peter. "You're
the man who had a phonograph say your
prayers for you, are you not?"
"Yes, sir," admitted the applicant for
admisslson.
"Well, you'll have to stay out, but we'll
let your phonograph in. Methuselah and
some of the old-timers have never seen
one." Pittsburg Poet.
"Last Sunday's collection was mlsersble,"
said Rev. Mr. Sharpe, "but It furnished me
with a" text for next Sunday's sermon."
"Yes?" said the vestryman. "And mhat
will your text be?"
"The poor we have always with us."
Philadelphia Ledger.
"O, George!" exclaimed the fair maiden,
as he grasped her hand, "you are too
strenuous Did yon notice how you made
my poor finger crack?"
"Yes, Dora," said George, full of con
tlon, "l noticed It. And It didn't seem to
hsve the right ring about It, either, did
It?"
Later, hom-ever, he found a may to make
good that deficiency. Chicago Tribune.
AX ART MASTER.
John Boyle O'Reilly.
He gathered cherry stones and carved them
quaintly
Into tine semblances of files and flowers;
With subtle Bkllf he even imaged faintly
The forma of tiny maida and ivied towers.
His little blocks he loved to file and polish;
And ampler meana he asked not, but ae
splsed; All art but cherry atones he would abolish.
For them hla genlua would be rightly
prised.
For auch rude hands aa dealt with wronga
and passlona.
And throbbing hearts, he had a pitying
amlle;
Serene hla way through surging years and
fashions,
While heaven gave him his cherry stones
and file!
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