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10 TIIE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER, SO, 100C. Tim Omaiia Daily Bee E. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. paily Re (without Sunday), on year. j I 'ally Bee and Buadsy, one year J' illustrated Ho. on, var 1 Ml KtBudrYayHSe?nnVmr"::::::::::::::::" IK PELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Hp, (without Rundayi. pr weea...2c Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week.. 17c Evening- nc (without 8undy). per week, so Evening Re (with Sunday), per week. ..loo Sunday flee, per copy 6 Adaress complaints or irruiriue m delivery to City Circulation department OFFICES. I Omaha The Bee Building. South Omsha Cltv Hall Building. Councll IilulTa 10 Pearl street. K;alfoTi5n,ir)mBeUUfeBir,.. Building, Washlnrton tfll Fourteenth street, CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new and ed itorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Iepsrtmeni. I REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, MvbKU In Th t nn TiiKllahlnff ('mtunr. 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Ae Areas will be ekaaged ftea at reqneatea. For the next few days all roads lead (ho I.' Til. .I.-.. I to the King's Highway. Engineers on the Suez canal can now testify to the fact that "there's a nolo In the bottom of the sea." In demanding of iu teachers that they agree not to marry for five years Chicago is not giving enthusiastic sup port to the movement against race sui cide. President hoosevelt starts to Wash- Ington today. Press correspondents will jnmedlately resume their wonted actlv- ties, as the "cabinet situation" Is still )pen. The proposition to transplant the rVoodmen of the World headquarters :o Council Bluffs is viewed from the p of the Lnion raclflc bridge as an smotlonal bluff. Former Captain Carter's actions on air wuiH-Be biuuu bimmv U1H a Drilliani itrategist was lost to the United States irmy when be took the road that led to the penitentiary. Nebraska is natieutlv wnitino- fop th PhlladelDhla syndicate that controls th- patent for converting cornstalks Into wall paper, wrapping paper, waterproof cloth and confetti to make good. The decline In customs receipts at Manila may only mean that Filipinos are beginning to produce more of their supplies at home something not neces- sarlly calculated to cause alarm. Judge Vlusonhaler's anxiety to return to active law practice ls not half as great as is his anxiety to dictate bis own successor In office. Oan anybody explain why? Can anybody guess? In announcing her lntentiou to make her visit to Japan strict private Miss mi vrwutriiij ituuib w Bie some thing of the country without having it first officially prepared for Inspection. Whatever may be thought of the ac-1 ceptance of tainted money for educa- tlona) and benevolent institutions, the first annual report of the Carnegie library of Booth Omaha shows that It ls a phenomenal success. I It ! "up to" the Bengalee to prove w.msejves mors poweriui in tneir boy. eott than the Chinese. But with all of Its "commercialism" Great Britain gen- erany cirr.ei out i coiomai policy, re- gardlesa of native protect. Negro suffrage ls to be the sole po litical lasiia nf Marvlnnd itemrvrit M year. Sympathy for the "little brown brother across the sea" will probably not be a salient point of the Maryland mH,. .i,, .h.- The testimony of jucob II. Rchlff shows that even at the height of the excitement of speculation there was at least one man ln New York who could not see bis way clear to act as aaent for both buyer and seller in stock deals, In drawing a comparison between railroads and other highways Richard Olney evidently forgets that under the alleged founder of democracy the gov- ernment superintended the construction of a post road a common highway serosa the Allegheny mountains. The Iowa idea as expounded by Lea- lie M. Shaw ls that the American people need more elastic currency, but, to a man up a tree, it would seem that a currency that has expanded by more Ihan $200,000,000 within the last five year is more elastic than an India rub - bet auayeudur. FOR FEDERAL QCARAATME Early In November a conference will be held t Chattanooga, one of the mat ters to be considered being that of fed eral quarantine. It la said to be the Intention of the aouthern business ei- changes, boards of trade and chambers of commerce to ask the aid and co- oration of similar institutions and of business men generally of the north . t n,pr ran nn dnnr.T flint onrt ln,re cfln no aoum Hint a request of this kind would be readily ... . complied witn, ror tne enure country . inttrM.A n thi nueatlnn nf nrotior 18 lnteresiea in tne question or proper and adequate quarantine protecuon tor the southern ports and it is now very generally recognized that such protec tlon can be given only by the federal government. One of the promoters in the south of e movenJent for national quarantine , says mat u aione can soive uie i"B neMlm rt knenlnir out of the aouthern ' " ' ' r ports the yellow fever Until the public . .h.11 h.ro ilwtrnvwl thn fevpr at large snail nave tiostroyea tne wer Infection-carrying mosquito and thus re- move all danger of an epidemic. He expresses the opinion that another year ftf mind rected ounrantlnes will make .... . , .. conditions truly deplorable. The move- ment in the south contemplates bringing this subject to the early attention or anA Jr i. pTiwtpd that there w 1 1 - -- i will be no no serious opposition to action for establishing national quarantine. rrobftb'y Bome of tt southern sen- ators and representatives will be found now ag jn the past objecting on the ground that it would Infringe state rights, but after tne isew uneHns ex- perlence such argument Is not likely to . . . . f . curry uiuvu rinu km m ... - conclusively established tbere Is that looal authorities are not competent to deal wisely and successfully with an In vasion of disease and besides are usually not prepared for it Such an epidemic as that at New Orleans is more than a local perH and should never be left to the Inadequate treatment of the local authorities. ALlEA LABOR LAW VIULATIOKS. Proceedings have been instituted against a number of persons in New York charged with violating the law prohibiting the importation of contract labor. It appears that the Department of Commerce and Labor has been en- gagod ln nn effort to secure a more strict enforcement of the contract labor law, which there Is renson to believe has been extensively violated in recent years. One officer of the department expressed the opinion that violations of the law are not very numerous at pres- ent - while flnother remarked that the case found ln New York is one of a nu merous class. lie said there can be little or no doubt that the act is being continuously and persistently violated la " very shrewd way all over the country. He had been informed that many immigrants on arrival at once take trains for distant parts of the country and go to work there without any delay or search for work, pretty clearly indicating that they were under contract before arriving. It is further stated that in many cases it has been found that the contract to come here nd worfr WB. oniT nominal or was nnrafullv v!1m1 ftfl In PflRAl whAI-A nion nrnf.HM, mrBv . hftTA Wn tnM hv friends that if they would come over they could probably get employment ln this country. It appears that ln all such cases the doubt has been resolved favor of the government Tne ,aw aalnst allen labor contracts Bhould r,gid,T enforced- n ls a necessary now as when it was enacted. 11 was aeinanaeu iy uie iaci mat Thou sands of laborers were constantly brought into the country under con- tracts that practically made slaves of them. Eastern manufacturing centers and 'mining districts were flooded with contract labor, which was becoming a danger economically and socially. The law was passed to put a stop to this and to a very great extent it has been successful. It ls shown, however, that labor under contract is still being Im ported and this calls for greater vigil ance on the part of the authorities. That they realize this ls indicated ln what ls done to enforc te law, TBS MARYLAND CAMPAIOW. The democrats of Maryland bave un- qualifledly declared that the only issue in this year's campaign Is that of negro suffrage. They are fighting for an amendment to the constitution that would disfranchise practically every col ored voter tn the state, expecting thereby to Indefinitely rjenetuate democratic control. In this the are nursulne: the C0UrBe na, beon adopted y, geT. 6ral southern states, but they have a ,es plausible reason for it, since there ls no dflncor of n1Irro no,ltlofll domin. tlon ln Maryland. The colored vote in that state does not constitute a very large percentage of the total and a T"00 of " l" dtm0,ra!1,?- Moreovr- it has not been increasing rapidly In . 7 "B,," of tD Political machinery of the state rikOAIir it ao Howl.,. V. . I v a. .. 1 iuc uniiwiiin- pnriy, unuer tne leaner eblP of Mr- Gorman, proposes to firmly mtreUth lt8elf DT taking the suffrage "waT from tne colored citisens, itie refublUans have accepted the u,ue nA wlu mal-e most earnest and determined fight to save Maryland from I a policy whose Injustice all fair-minded men must admit. They have already in uncompromising terms denounced the scheme of disfranchisement and shown nP the fallacy of the democratic claim I that there is danger of negro dotnlna- I tlon ln the state. The republican ulat form declares tbat the constitutional amendment to be submitted to the voters ls but the culmination of a nlot long meditated and careiully planned to I keep Marylaud under the control of the political party now dominant and as now organlted, regardless of the oeo- pie's wishes, and, at the same time to 1 insure to the men who make up the political organisation now in power per- perual control of their own party, and through it of the state government "a control to be used In the future, as it has been in the past, for their own selfish ambition and fraudulent alms and purposes, without rgnrd to the fair fame or vital interests of the state." It Is also declared by the republicans that the proposed amendment affects the right of suffrage of many more white men than there are colored voters In the state, Imperils the franchise of all cltiiens of foreign birth or parent age, imposes an Insulting and unending restriction on all of the young men of the generations to come and opens the way and provides the opportunity to Jeopardise the right to vote of any or every citizen of the state. It is fur ther snld that the proposed amendment would enable partisan election officials to prevent white men from voting by an educational test, thereby more surely securing democratic control of the state. It seems hardly possible that a propo sition against which such an Indictment can be made will be approved by a majority of the voters of Maryland. The dojnocrats have an advantage In their control of the election machinery, but even with this there Is renson to believe the scheme of disfranchisement wili be beaten. FR1VA1E RESIDEKCB PARKS' Within a quarter of a century pri vate residence parks have been estab lished in a number of American cities, notably in New York, Boston, Philadel phia and St. Louis, and it is to be hoped tbat in the no very distant future Omaha will emulate their example. Ex perience ln several American cities has demonstrated the impossibility of main taining public thoroughfares exclusively devoted to beautiful homes. Euclid avenue in Cleveland and Wabash and Michigan avenues ln Chicago afford striking Illustrations of this fact The origin of private residence parks may be traced to prosperous home builders who sought to establish beauti ful homes on the most desirable resi dence streets. Just about the time the home builder got nicely settled and be gan to swell with pride over his ex clusive surroundings someone bMllt a saloon on the next corner. Then came a row of flats across the street then a boarding house moved in next door and finally a big livery stable, with its varie gated odors, was erected right behind bis home. Aggravated- by the change of sur roundings, the prosperous citizen aban doned bis beautiful home, selling it at a great sacrifice. Then he and some other prominent citizens got together and bought a whole vacant street' sev eral blocks in length, put handsome gates at each end, restrictions on the property and again erected beautiful homes. The sign over the entrance gates was "Private." But in due time an' enterprising real estate dealer con cluded that this excluslveness made the street on each side especially desirable for rows of big flats, the rear ends of which were backed right up to the rear of the private residences. Then a street car line went down one of the rear streets, a saloon went up opposite one of the exclusive gateways and another and bigger livery stable faced the oppo site one. By that time the private street was hemmed in on all sides and the aristo cratic home builder vas in despair. Then came the solution of the matter in the shape of a great private resi dence park, with its elegant homes, sur rounded by lawns, trees and artificial lakes that are forever dedicated to the Joint use of the home owners within the limits. Our amlaLle contemporary, the Fre mont Tribune, never opens its mouth about Douglas county politics without putting its foot in it. In its anxiety to butt in, it accuses The Bee of choking at a gnat and swallowing a camel In refusing to support Charles Leslie for county Judge on the ground that Leslie ls not qualified for the bench as a prac ticing lawyer and supporting Jules Lumbard, who ls less qualified. This accusation Is slightly at variance with the facts. Conceding that Jules Lum bard ls Just as well qualified for a seat on the bench as Mr. Leslie, bis aspira tions carry him no further than to the bench occupied by the police magis trate ln darkest Omaha. Up to this hour The Bee has, however, not ven tured to urge Jules Lumbard's election to that office. The contention that Leslie represents the will of the repub lican party expressed through the off! dally conducted primary Is also slightly erroneous. Out of more than 7.000 re publican votes registered at that prl mary only a fraction over 2.000 were cast for Leslie, while his opponents re ceived nearly 5,000 votes. A few mouths before his retirement from office as state treasurer Joe Bart ley negotiated amicable relations with bis expected successor by loaning him S30.0D0, but Casey failed to come to the bat and when Bartley turned over to Meserve a shortage of over $600,000 was uncovered, exclusive of the $30,000 edvanced to Casey to keep the lid down. Moral Why does Vlnsonhaler want to name bli own successor? We are gratiUed to auiiounce that the public lighting companies have come to the rescue of Omaha with an offer to relieve It from the menace of total dark ness by the prepayment of their royal ties. This generous tender is a most sagacious Inspiration, as It will enable the public lighting companies to absorb the royalties before New Year. A prominent New York capitalist tes tifies that directors of large corporations have little or no control over the execu tive officers. This ls not announced when a new company is neing rorui with a lona list of directors, whose J names are placed on the rolls to Inspire the confidence of the public, but it la doubtless true, nevertheless. f leae rind to the l'elet. Cblcaao Inter Ocean. Whatever may be thought of Mr. fitlck ney'B views. It cannot be fairly said that he does not state them frankly and clearly. Dilated (oaeolatloa. Portland OreR-onlsn. Judge rarker seems to think that It was the republican campaign fund that de feated him last November. The Judge's no tion as to the power of money In elections Is something extraordinary. Aire Well. New Tork Sun. Polllver Is on suard. -Iowa Dlspatc. Then the country Is safe and the watch men on the walls can go to sleep. Bo long as the Hon. Jonathan Prentiss Dolll ver of Fort Dodge Is on guard nobody can carry off these United States. MakltiK the nest of It. Kansas City Star. The fugitive contractors, Oaynor and Oreene, after having unsuccessfully fought extradition, announce that they are "now ready to face the courts of the United States." "Was your wife willing to go " asked the minister of the aged widower. "Wlllln'?" was the reply, "wlllln't She was obleeged to." British Companies Ratlins; la. Boston Transcript. Acting on the assumption that Americans want honest life Insurance, several of the British companies are said to be making plans for a more active campaign than they have ever before waged on this side of the Atlantic. They should be apprised, however, that we already have a number of very honest companies, not all of them with headquarters In New York. Roosevelt's Place In History. Leslie's Weekly. The president has added more to his country's prestige and power among the nations than any of his predecessors. . He has made the name American as proud a title to the person who bears It as the name Roman was to the dweller on the Tiber In the days of Caesar and Trajan. In the his tory of the world-embracing events of the early years of the twentieth century the name of Theodore Roosevelt will always hold a conspicuous place. A Pertinent Inquiry, New Tork Tribune. The Interesting statement made ln the United States circuit court at Chicago the other day by A. B. Btlckney, president of the Chicago Great Western Railroad com pany, that the rallspads are at the mercy of the packers, who gave the railroads to understand that If they wanted their busi ness they must haul meat at the packers' prices, naturally suggests the query: What would have happened had the rail roads made the reply to the packers which they made without hesitation to the small shipper? Profits of Municipal Ownership. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. According to United States Consul Ma hln, the Knglish city of Nottingham has made a net profit of over $300,000 In ten years from Its underground wire conduits, and $1&S,1S1 of that sum was paid Into the city treasury for the reduction of local taxation. The contribution to lower tax ation from this source during the past fiscal year was 29,19. The net profit from the municipal street railway system last fiscal year was In excess of $100,000, and $T2,99T was paid into the general treasury for taxation reduction. The city gas plant, which sells gas at 00 cents per 1,000 cubic feet to ordinary consumers, yielded a net profit during the year of over $150,000, $181, 395 of which was turned Into the city treasury for general purposes.. It Is notice able that the United States consuls In Eng land are making frequent and generally very favorable reports of the working of municipal ownership undertakings there, and they are becoming quite a feature of the Washington government's daily con sular publication, which ls giving them a ready circulation. THE GOOD FELLOW. Valuable Advice to Tonaar Meat Packed In Few Words. Indianapolis News. In his little talks to the people as he might call them John D. Rockefeller has said a good many interesting and valuable things; nothing ranking higher In both qualities than that ln which he said, speak ing to young men he generally speaks to young men "Don't be a good fellow." It Is doubtful If more valuable advice to young men was ever packed Into fewer words. It Is of equal value to men at all times of life, but Its additional value to young men Is that at their stage of devel opment the generous Instincts outrun dis cretion. Like puppies they think every body ls kind and honest and they are ready to make friends on sight. The perversion of this fine impulse ls to be a "good fel low." This ls to give rein to a virtue until It becomes an amiable weakness, and thence degonerates Into a vice, the center of which ls the grossest selfishness. Sel fishness 'Is the rich bed and muck heap In which most If not all forms of sin have their root. A peculiar danger of the sin of the "good fellow" is Its unusual quality of self-deception. It lulls Its victims Into the belief that he Is really very noble, broad, unprejudiced, democratic, generous; no stingy, old self-centered curmudgeon who denies himself, and perforce everyone else, this, that and another thing. And that ls Just It; there Is the fatal assump tion that undermines the whole foundation of character. In one of his plays Bernard Shaw pic tures hell as a place where everyone Is a "good fellow." Every want and wish Is gratified; more than, "no sooner said than done," It Is, no sooner wished than con summated. The result ls "hejl" Indeed. The utter satiety, the awful soul-sickness that comes from this wallow of self-indulgence makes Indeed "the smoke of torment that ascendeth forever." Heaven, on the other hand, he pictures as a place where will rules, where choice Is exercised, where there Is attainment. Whatever be thought of this. It Is certain that the "light that Ughteth every man that cometh Into the world" shows that this earthly life means denial, subjection, discipline, the substl tutlon of will for desire, and that there Is no happineas without It And as Pastor Wagner aald ln one of his sermons ln the News this effort Is constant; one that can never rest on victory or, rather, In which there never ls victory. There ls no place or time where one may cease rowing to use a familiar simile and drift. The cur rent ls constant and life consists In mak Ing head. As soon as we cease this we cease to live. Now Mr. Rockefeller's warning against being a "good fellow" cuts to the very core of aU this; touches the mainspring and vital principle of all Ufa. Being "good fellow" Is simply the envelope of circumstances that surrounds everyone la his dally relation to the world of little things which means life. Myron Reed said: "Life la Just simply doing common chores; there Is so much going to bed, so much getting up and so much making a living." . Thus this existence fraught with eternity addresses ltaelf and appeals at first sight. If It beguiles Into being "good fellow" (good fellowship is some what different). It starts the blight that will la time overspread all the growth of life. OTHER L.AXD9 THAI OVR9. The agitation In Oermany caused by the high prices and the diminished supply of butchers' meat, due to the closing of the frontiers against Importation, Is assuming national proportions, and Is winning the support of great municipalities, such as Berlin and Cologne. At a recent meeting of the Berlin Municipal Council, the sec ond burgomaster. Dr. Relcke, disputed the statements of the Prussian minister of sgrlculture. General von Podblelskl, and showed from statistics that a serious scarcity of meat prevailed, and that prices had risen to an amount which, so far as the masses are concerned. Is almost prohibitive. He had received dosens of petitions from petty officials and others, who declared that heads of households were no longer in a position to buy meat for their families. The government, he said, would ultimately he compelled to listen to the representations of the cspltal of the empire. Various other speakers, In cluding Herr Singer, the socialist leader, expressed the opinion that the present meat rates would vastly Increase the numbers of the social democracy. It was reckoned that the average meat consumption of a family of four persona In Berlin had hitherto been BOO kilogrammes per annum, Involving an expenditure of Z70 marks. In view of the rise In prls this expenditure was now Increased to 890 marks. A reso lution was Unanimously adopted appoint ing a committee to consider and report upon the situation, and upon the expedi ency of petitioning the government In favor of opening the frontiers. A Russian eolonel of artillery stationed in Tashkent declared recently that the an nouncement of Lord Curson's retirement from the Indian vlceroyalty must have been welcome news to the Russian politic cal and military staffs in central Asia, and no less gratifying, he was convinced, to the Asiatic department of the Foreign office at St. Petersburg; but all, he added, would be Infinitely more pleased If Lord Kitchener were also returning to Europe. "At Teshkent," said the colonel, "Lord Kitchener has latterly been regarded as the British military proconsul, who, with an extension of his chief command. Is destined to cut the Oordlan knot of the Afghan question by suppressing the "buffer state' and making the British, Indian and Russian frontiers ln central Asia con terminous." The removal of the "buffer," he proceeded to argue, was a certain eventuality of the near future. Its con tinued existence Imperils the good rela tions between the two empires, and that peril ls not unlikely to become acuta within the next few years. England's attempt to remove the "buffer," he said, would prob ably throw Afghanistan Into Russian arms; Russia's attempt to accomplish the same task would have Just the contrary effect. 'The Hungarian Crisis and the Hohen- sollerns" Is the title of an extreme Pan Oermanlst tract that has Just been pub lished ln Berlin. The anonymous author argues that Hungaty can never be a really flourishing and Independent state until it has shaken off the Hapsburgs and Installed a Hohenzollern prince as king ot Hun gary ln their place. To the German em peror, he says, would fall the task of sav ing the German-Austrlans from being over whelmed by the Slav races. The latter, he adds, would not be Influenced by senti mental consideration of the Emporer Joseph but would extend the Hohensollern domain from Hamburg to Trieste and Istrla. Hun gary, like Rumania, under the indepen dent Hohensollern prince, would also stand as a bulwark against Slav encroachment In southeastern Europe, and would have the noble mission of annexing Macedonia as tar as Salonika. The pamphlet, the cir culation of which has been forbidden ln Austria and In Hungary, ends wKh art ap peal to the German emperor to complete the work he began by his phllo-Magyar toast at Buda on September 20, 1607. On the other hand, a Hungarian Journal, pub lished for the Independents, declares, on the authority of "an Austrian ex-minister," that the Emperor Francis Joseph's resist ance to the Hungarian national demands Is chiefly due to the German emperor, who exerts decisive Influence ln all questions likely to affect the efficiency otthe mili tary forces ot the Triple Alliance. Far from being a friend ot Hungary, says the writer, the Emperor William la a sworn foe to Magyar national aspirations. M Germany, declares a European paper, needs larger battleships. It says the Russo Japanese war has shown that, with the help of telescopic sights, it ls possible to Are with success at a distance of 6,600 yards (6,000 metres) or more. This Is on the assumption that you bave the right guns. Guns of the largest calibre are es sential. To carry these, and to give them a stable platform, large, battleships are necessary. This Is why the English are building the Dreadnaught, of 18,000 tons, with ao armament of twelve 12-Inch guns, the middle artillery being entirely dis pensed with. The newest Japanese battle ship, N, is to have a displacement of 19.- 000 tons, and carry four 12-Inch, twelve 10- Inch and twelve 4.7-Inch guns. With such vessels the new German battleships of the O class, with their It, MO tons displacement and their armament of four 11-lnch, four teen 6.7-inch, and twenty t.46-lnch guns. can bear no comparison. Beyond all doubt Germany must Increase the displacement and armament of her battleships. The Russian newspapers, enjoying the temporary relaxation of the censorship, are full of stories of the maladministration which ls directly responsible for the recent anarchy ln the neighborhood of Baku. They say that the Tartars have been op pressed ln every way, but chiefly by arbi trary dispossession. Finding no means of redress, the mountaineers have for years resorted to brigandage as a Justifiable means of livelihood, and have been encour aged tn this belief by the neglect or Ina bility of the Russian authorities to punish crime. The oil region has been systemati cally parcelled out among the original owners of the soil for purposes of black mall, which every one had to pay unless he wished his property to be destroyed or himself to be murdered or held to raneoa. The recent labor strikes, it is explained, had the dual effect of stirring up discon tent against the government and of stimu lating the racial differences between Tar tars and Armenians. In commenting on the crimes of Chinese laborers In Bouth Africa the London Chron icle declares editorially that something like a reign of ter.or prevails ln the Johannes burg district. Scarcely a week now passes without news of some mutiny, outrage, or murder by the "Indentured laborers." Elaborate police precautions are being takun, and the authorities have even gone to the length Of supplying magistrates with arms and ammunition tor discretionary use by farmers residing In the neighborhood of the mines. What a commentary Is here on those wondrous pictures, limned by fluent and disciplined pens, of the Idylllo life lived by Inoffensive Asiatics In the delectable compounds provided for them by the thoughtful and philanthropic mine owners. And what a reflection on the "Imperial" statesmanship which permitted these degraded serfs to be brought to South Africa and dumped down on a col ony won by the British flag by So many sacrifices! Like Individuals, governments reap what they have sown, and the present ferment In Johannesburg Is the natural re sult ei Ike "Labor Ordinance.". SENATE THE WHOLE THING. Prekleua of Rate Resolution Must Re Soiree: There. Baltimore American. Representative Tawnsy of Minnesota, one of the leading young republicans of the house cf representatives, while In Washing ton a few dsys ago expressed the opinion that the next congress must pass a ntllfoad rate legislation Mil. 'There must be, rate legislation at the next session," he said. "There Is a general demand for It. But." he added, "I think that If the house passes another rate regulation bill before the sen ate has acted we will become the laughing stock of the country. When the senate has once passed Its bill we can act In the house In less than a week." ( Mr. Tawney's statement, taken in connec tion with the announcement of Senator Dol llver of Iowa, that there will be an honest effort made to pass such a bill as President Roosevelt wsnts outlines a promising pro gram. Senator Elklns. the chairman of the Interstate commerce committee, has called a meeting of that committee for November 16, at which meeting the bill will be drafted which Senator Elklns hopes to make a law. Senator Dolllver has announced that, at the rlak of disagreeing with a majority of the committee, there will be a bill drafted by him and several colleagues which will go much further than will Mr. Elklns' bill. There Is then the certslnty of a full debate on the subject In the senate and ef a square test of strength. The bill which 8enator Dolllver and his followers will press will represent, not perhaps all that the rate regulators of the western states would like, but all that they hope to enact Into law. The bill reported by. Senator Elklns will represent all or nearly all that the friends of the railroads will concede. Both sides will expect to make concessions, and the bill that Is finally adopted by the senate as the compromise between the Dolllver and the Elklns measures will be the bill that will become a law. This program practically 'excludes the house of representatives rrorrt all part In the making of the law, although under the constitution It Is co-ordinate In legislation with the senate. But as Mr. Tawney ad mits, the house does not seem to be consid ered by the senate when Important bills are framed. "In the last half dosen years," says Mr. Tawney, speaking out of his own personal recollection, "we have passed six or eight bills of prim Importance which the senate has completely Ignored." He might have added all the tariff bills that the hntrse has framed In the last twenty years. So he ls probably right In suggesting that It Is a waste of time and dignity for the house to pass a rate regulation bill. The senate will pay no attention to It, but will debate the subject ln Its own time and way and will finally send to the house the measure which It deems proper And then, as Mr. Tawney remarks, ."when tne senate has once passed Its bill we can act In the house in leas than a week." It Is a simple program and saves the house much time and trouble. POSSIBILITIES OF OIL FIKU One More Invention Heeded to Blase the Way. Chicago Chronicle. Anyone who has caught a whiff of the "exhaust" from the gasoline motor of an automobile will have strong prejudices against the use of oil as a fuel unless some method of perfect combustion oan be found to do away with the odor. Anyone who has observed the black, greasy smoke from crude oil fuel will have the same prejudice, based upon the effects of par tial combustion. The use of oil as a fuel is contingent upon the invention of a method for com pletely burning up oil fuel Instead of con suming only a relatively small part of It and throwing forth the rest to poison and pollute the air In the vicinity. Oil fuel will not become popular we may even say that It will not be practicable until odor and smoke alike are disposed of. When that shall have been done the field for oil fuel will be practically limitless. When crude oil can be burned in ordinary domestic furnaces, In kitchen stoves. In heaters and beneath steam boilers In man ufacturing plants with the same freedom from dirt and odor as Is possible with an thracite coal the oil fields of Kansas and Indian territory will rival, If they do not supplant, the hard coal region of eastern Pennsylvania as the source ot national fuel. In the middle west the advantages of oil over coal ln price, compactness and ease of transportation will quickly give the liquid fuel an advantage over the solid It Is safe to say that If oil were as cleanly and easily handled as hard coal half the steam plants of Chicago would be burning it within six months and the other half would be making arrangements to put It In. The matter of relative expense alone would Justify the change. The whole thing hinges upon the Inven tion of a practicable device for perfecting the combustion of the oil. Smoke and fumes must be eliminated from the propo sition. When that Is accomplished an oil well will once more become , the synonym for riches that it was when "Coal Oil Johnny" Steele was giving diamonds to bootblacks and when the figure of the day was the man who had "struck lie." The problem . ought to be no Imposing one to American Inventors, stimulated, as they should be, with the knowledge that fame and fortune await the discoverers of the practicable odorless and smokeless oil burner. (lard Jot to Hold. Chicago Record-Herald. The young man who took about 6160,000 out of the state treasury of Indiana was known among his friends as a good fel low." The "good fellow" reputation ls a hard thing to live up to. Browning, King tk Co CLOTHING, rURNISHINOS, AND BATS For life's bat tle clothing Is the beat equip ment Beau Brummel. i Fliteenth and j Douglas Sts. Brawajr mi ttm trmm HEW WW w POLITICAL DRIFT. Senator Foraker makes the Welkin ring with a locomotive bell. Flora, Ind., a town of t,ono peor'e. Pr Its mayor 6T-0 a year and expects him to work overtime. Some Pennsylvania bankers are resenting the double touch of Senator Penrose. The plum tree has been shaken to a standstill. President Roosevelt's admirers In New Tork City are agitating the question of naming a prominent thoroughfare after the chief magistrate. Events In New York City Indicate that the state Insurance commissioners did not learn enough about life Insurance methods to canoe hesdache. Senator La Follette Is said to have gath ered In 630,0ii0 from his summer lecturing tour. The Wisconsin reformer Is laying up fuel for hot campaigns to come. 'Thllonophy, my boy," says Senator Piatt. "Is the cureall for every evil life has." strange Isn't It, how the great speclflo falls to act on fall suits? Governor Folk says he Is not a saint and never posed for one. The fact that he pays railroad fare when he travels naturally causes reopln to look for the halo. Several New Tork sssembleymen, who voted to keep Judge Hooker In office hava been vigorously kicked over the fence by their constituents at recent primaries. Tom Tlatt reached Kansae City, In a sul phurous frame of mind. He had to stop there long enough to permit a change of locomotives, and the delay riled his usually sunny temper. Washington will extend the glad hand to President Roosevelt on his return to the White House today. Oyster Bay achieved too much publicity during the summer. From now on Washington will occupy the center of the stage. Governor Hoch ls striving to screw down the lid In Kansas City, Kan. -As the local authorities refuse to sit on It, the governor has begun proceedings to oust them from office The fear ls growing that Hoch Is suffering from water on the brain. By cancelling an old contract and ad vertising for new bids, Philadelphia got work done for 6350,000, which was to cost I7M.000. Still there are people In the old town who regard public economy as a melancholy symptom of public decay. New Jersey shows a gain of 250,000 In habitants lit five years. The remarkable fact that corporations pay their taxes In New Jersey without a kick or an In junction ls an Irresistible attraction for people studying the phenomena taxation) LIKES TO A SMILE. "I tell you." said Galley, "we had a hot old time last night." "So?" replied Bailey, "what was the csu;e of It?" Cold bottles." Philadelphia Press. "Are you going to betray the people after they put you into office? "My dear sir." answered Senator Sorg hum, "you misapprehend. The people did not put me Into office. And shall I go back on the men who did?" Washington Star. Boy Say, mister, you're losln' your smoke. Automoblllst Tnanks. You can have It. Judge. Penelope was unraveling the shroud. "How foolish!" they cried. "Why don't you pick the other women's dresses to pieces instead?" Gladly accepting the hint, the time until Lys returned seemed short indeed. New York Sun. "What do you think of the simple life!" asked the earnest friend. "It Is a fine Idea," answered Senator Sorghum, as he lit a perfecto. "We do the real living and let the producing puhllo furnish the simplicity." Washington .Star. "He reminds me of a postage stamp that you've carried In your pocket too long," "As how?" . . "He's so badly stuck on himself that he Isn't worth 2 cents for any practical use." Cleveland Leader. "Now, the trouble with Jlgsby," said the man who knew him. "is Just that he doesn't pay any attentions to details " "Don't you believe It," Interrupted New Itt, "he was the only man at a certain summer resort last month and he was kept busy paying attention to detail after detail of girls "Philadelphia Press. "Do you belleve.lt Is true that half the world doesn't know how the other half lives?" "No. They're building all the apartment houses with air shafts now." Record Herald. BACK TO N ATI' RE, S. E. Klser In the Record-Herald. I. We may deem him great or suppose htm wise Who sits at his desk through the busy day And rules where the temples of commerce rls.. And r.iaks as only a master may. His garb ls rich and his hands are white And his brow Is high and his mien U proud, But now and then, if his heart is right, He longs to flee from the noise and crowd, ' To feel the sod yield under his feet, To breathe where the air has the tang of moss, . . To bare his throat to the wind and sun And leave hla taska for a while ur.dotte. Forgetting gain and disdaining loss. II. We msy give him praise who ls faithful HeWservs for the bread that bis dear We may deem 'his love and his patience fair For his hopeful heart we may call him His daughter's graces may give him pride. He may boast of things that his son achieves , ,1 . . And nvarve her faith who walks at his Content with believing what he Jel'". But now and then. 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