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Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Henry Walters OF Baltimore has given TO
that city $45, 900 to build two public bath
houses.
That Private John Allen, NJ. c., once ex-
pressed preference for champagne as
compared to whisky is being used against
his election to the senate from Mississippi.
Chicago has begun a war on tuberculosis,
and as the appointment of sixty cow in
spectors Is part of the plan, it will receive
the hearty support of the common council
The latest New Hampshire absconder has
no small vices he has never drank, nor
smoked nor chewed; this kind of moral
young man only devours widows estates
and chews up banks assets.
Twenty-six OF the twenty mine fruit can
neries of California have formed a combine
and have given an option on their plants
and business to a trust which will hence
forth control the fruit business of the state.
Fort Scott, Kan, will give a medal to
every private and non-cCmmis5ioned officer
from the town who has served in the Twen-
tieth Kansas regiment in the Philippines,
the expense being betrayed by private sub
scrptions.
Ex-Judge Reagan, only surviving member
OF the confederate cabinet, said in a speech
before the Texas Daughters of the Con-
the southern people to be in the unicn
than out of it,"
The patient horse may be provoked to
kick. Down In New Jersey the over
wrought feelings OF mans faithful steed
got the better Of its judgment when an
automobile cab approached. In five sec
onds that cab was kicked into a scrap heap.
The editor OF the Manila American makes
this apology to his kicking subscribers:
For the benefit OF such readers we would
state that many cablegrams are received
from the United States but are suppre sed
by the press censor for good and sufficient
reasons"
Alexander De Witt, who lived in Pough-
keepsie, n. Y, practically upon the bounty
of his friends. for many years, died a week
ago at the age of 30 years and in his will,
which has just been filed in the Office of Sur
rogate Dorland Of Dutchess county. shows
that he leaves an estate OF $4,000 IN excel
lent securities.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

cent and cxpircs in the arms OF an apotho-
cary who has paid a license OF { 100 for the
privilege of putting him to death
His whole property is then Immediately
taxed from to 10 per cent Besides the
probate, large fees are demanded for bury
ing him In the chanccl; his virtues are
handed down to posterity on taxed marble.
and he is then gathered TO his fathers-to be
taxed no more
In addition to all this the habit OF deal
ing with large sums will make the govern
ment avaricous and profuse. and the system
itself will infallibly generate the base
vermn OF spies and intormers and a stili
more pestilent race OF political tools and
retanors of the meanest and most odous
description, while the prodigious patronage
which the collecting Of this splendid revenue
will throw into the hands OF government
will invest 1t with so vast an influence and
hold out such means and temptations to
corruption as all the virtue and public
spirit, even Of republicans will be unable to
resist"
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14


The campaign of the American forces
under General Lawton in the country
south Of Manila, where the insurgents
had gathered in considerable numbers
and We're mcnacing Manila, has been
characterized by the scvcrcst fighting
of the war. 1t Is evident, as the dis
patches indicate, that the best of tho
insurgcnt army was concentrated in
this section and that it was well
equipped for Il determined and dcs-
pcratc resistance. The American troops
fought, as usual, with splendid gallan-
try, but never before had the enemy
fought so stubbornly or SO well and the
American loss was consequently com.
paratiy"ly heavy.
The tuation suggests some things
that ought to have serious consideration
at Washington. 1t shows that the in
surgents are as determined now to carry
on hostiitics as they have ever been
and that they still have a strong aud
well equipped force. 1t also showed
that they are improving in fighting abil-
ity and that the idea that their courage
was waning was n mistake. 1t appears
to show pretty conclusively that if the
task of subjugating them is not TO be
prolonged indetinitely-int years rather
than months-the American army in
Luzon must be largely Increased The
present effective force probably does
not exceed $1,000 and such movements
as that of Lawton must rapidly reduce
it. 1t is hardly possible to realize the
terrible strain to which our soldiers are
being subjected in campaigning against
n desperate and willy enemy in II most
inhospitable climate.
If peace be not possible except by
subjugation the duty of the government
is to send a force to the Philippines that
will make an end of hostilities as
quickly as possible. Proper considcra-
tion for our soldiers how there de-
mands that this be done. They are do
ing their duty splenddl., but they are
not equal to the task that
is expected of them. They should no
longer be made the victims of a fal-
lacious optimism.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14
REVISION OF PENSION LAW.
Necessity for Restricting the Opera
tions of Pension sharks.

Philadelphia Times.
The next congress should make a very
| carefui revision of our pension laws. They
should first Of all be made entirely har-
| monious with themselves, and none will de-
mand that any meritorious pensioner shall
have his or her pension diminished below
the present standard; but we must face
the fact that our pension list will be very
largely increased because of our recent war
with Spain and our present war with the
insurgents of the Philippine islands.
Some 100000 soldiers were called to camp
and field and while comparatively few have
been killed and wounded in battle, many
have died of disease and very large per-
centage of those who have been in active
service in Cuba, Porto Rico and in the Phil
ippines. must return with seriously shattered
health from which many will never wholly
recover. We should be prepared for very
large increase at an early day Of our pen
sion list from soldiers whose health has
been permanently shattered by the nhos-
pitable climate of the West Indies and the
far east.
II Commissioner Evans could establish
one reform it would save the country tens
of millions of dollars in the future, as 1t
would have saved hundreds of millions in
the past. Congress should provide that no
claim for pension shall be made through
any other channel than the immediate repre-
sentative of the government. The pension
sharks have manipulated nearly every pen
sion bill that has ever been passed and
have invented and sustained, largely by
false testimony and often by deliberate per-
jury, pension claims which have cost the
nation hundreds of millions to this date, and
the whole pension attorney business should
be broken up.
The government should have pension
agents located in every section of the coun-
try, to whom applicants could present their
claims without the intervention OF an attor-
ney, and none should be recognized in any
case or be permitted to have any interest
in pension money. There is not an honest
pension claim that could not be established
by the agent OF the government, and all the
temptation to the perjury and fraud which
have so fearfully disgraced our pension sys-
TEN would be ended. The government
should give pension applicants ample oppor-
tunty to reach official agents. so that the
fullest justice would be done to any claim
without cost, and If that were done, the
government would not only be just to itself,
but also just to every honest pensioner, by
absolutely excluding from participation and
interest in pension cases all pension attor-
neys in establishing claims in the Pension
department.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14
TBE GOTEBYlJENT BETEyrE

Senator Allison said in Il recent in
terview that the revenue laws could
I hardly be modified during the next fs-
cal year and this view appears to be
| quite general. AS now indicated it Is
! practically certain that no reductions of
taxation will be attempted at the long
session of the FiftysiXth congress,
which meets in December next, and it
/ is believed there is very little probable
ity of such action at the short session.
If the pressure of revenues should be-
come excessive some partial measures
might be possible at the short session.
which will come to an end March t.
1901, but the probability is that the
whole subject of revenue will be left
for the Fifty-seventh congress-
1t is pointed out that as matters stand
the danger is wholly on the side of eX-
cessive revenue rather than insufficient
revenue so long rs business prosperity
prevails, and there seems to be every
assurance that it will prevail for sew
eral years. AS we recently noted the
revenues of the government for May
exceeded the expenditures and there is
very good reason to expect that in fu-
ture they will not fall materially if at
all below the present rate of cXpendi-
ture. Secretary Cages estimate, in
his last annual report, of receipts for
the current fiscal year, which ends with
this month, has been considerably eX-
ceeded, so that the deficit will be less
than anticipated by at least $4,000
0O0 For the next fiscal year. ending
June 30 1900, Mr.. Gage estimated that
the deficit would amount to $3O, 900 900
In recent article he SAID: 1T seems
certain now, barring always, of course
the happening of unlooked-for events
that the deficiency for the next fiscal
year will not exceed the estimate. In
fact, under the influence of revenues
slightly more favorable than those eX-
pected, there is probability that the
estimated $4,000 900 deficit nav he TOO
high, and it is within the possibilities
that there may be no deficit at all"
This shows how thoroughly results
have vindcated the revenue laws.
There is no doubt that but for the war
the Dingley law would have by this
time yielded sufficient for the expenses
of the government.
The advisability of continuing exist
ing taxation during the next fiscal wear
is apparent, because no accurate esti-
mate can be made within that time of
the expenses the new conditions NAV in
volve beyond the revenue which NAV
be derived from new possessions. But
If at the end of the next fiscal year the
revenues should equal the expenditures
and conditions should be such as to
admit of reduction of the latter, the
question of reducing taxation will be
earnestly pressed upon congress at the
short session. Surplus revenue for the
payment of bonds when they shall fall
due will of course be necessary, but
public sentiment will not approve Il
policy contemplating an accumulation
in the treasury in excess of such de-
mand. There is no serious complaint
in regard to federal taxation. With
general prosperity the people willingly
pay what the government requires of
them. But as soon as expenditures
can safely be reduced they will expect
and demand a reduction of taxation.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14
THE HIGH SCHOOL BUGBEAR

The owners of residence property on
streets abutting the High school square
are needlessly excited and alarmed over
the proposed landscape plan of the High
school grounds that contemplates the
lowering of the grade. The proposed
change is denounced in unmeasured
terms as Il piece of vandalism. Incl
dentally the idea is sought to be con-
veyed that the Board of Education has
entered into some kind of conspiracy
to force the tearing doWh of the High
school building within year or two
and saddle the city with n debt of
three-quarters of million when, as
they assert, the old building, which has
withstood the elements for nearly thirty
years, will with comparatively few re-
pairs stand the wear and tear of at
least another thirty years.
AS n matter of fact the Board of Ed
ucaton has taken no steps yet to de-
molish and supplant the High school
building with another structure. If
such thing Is to be done it will be be-
cause of the agitation begun under mis-
declaration of the fire chief that the old
building is a dangerous firetrap it viii
be impossible to satisfy the community
with any scheme short of a twentieth
century tireproof building. The more
the Mansard roof structure of 1872 is
examined and investigated the more
positive will be the conviction that it
is an utter impossibility 10 make it fire
proof.
With the absolute certainty a modern
metropolitan fireproof structure must
be erected for high school purposes on
the ground the landscape plan becomes
an essential part Of the general plan
to govern the architects in any design
they may make. That does not neces-
sarily mean landscape plan that
would disturb existing street grades.
The present level of the High school
grounds is twelve to thirty feet
above the level of adjacent streets. Is
there any necessity for perpetuating
that level merely for purely sentimental
reasons? The grounds are now sur
rounded by retaining walls two and
one-half to eight feet high. To keep up
the wall involves continuous expense
besides making pupils and visitors
climb steps when the approaches could
just as we'll be leveled down. When
graded down to the level of adjacent
streets the grounds will still be 100 feet
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

above the Missouri Is not that high
cnoughy viii the lcvcling down of the
grounds and the construction of tn,
foundations at an elevation of five feet
above the street grade mar the beauty
Of the grounds or dctract from the
sghtlncss Of the building?
AS we understand 1t, the Board OF
Education does not contemplate the lev
cling down of any part of the High
school grounds for the present except
that portion TO be covered by the new
building designed to become one of the
wings Of the structure that will cvcntu-
ally occupy the site of the present build
ing. such a change surely will not dis
turb the owner of any residence in the
immediate or remote vicinity and should
cause no alarm whatever.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

Reports from the various Nebraska
state institutions Indicate that the en-
ploycs are each carrying half-concealed
bricks i'll their pockets waiting for Il
favorable opportunity TO shy at some
fellow otiicc-hoder. Already consid.
cradle fusionist glassware has been
broken by flying missiles and the latest
shower threatens to destroy the con-
scrvatory of the Lincoln Asylum for the
Insane. Taking from the inmates OF
such an Institution the flowers which
the state provides to brighten up their
darkened intellects is decidedly little
business, but apparently none too small
to be overlooked
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

Retail stores on Farnam street whose
business shows comparatively little in
crease these prosperous times should
consider local conditions Perhaps the
noisy, rough granite pavement plays an
important part in causing the populace
TO shun the street, and the blame for
that should be placed where it belongs
the WorldHerald gang that bulldozed
Governor POynter into vetong the char
ter under the preteXt of economy when
the ringsters now make no secret of the
fact that the sole object was to revolu-
tionize the police commission as soon
as they can elect another popocrat to
the supreme court and thus give the
gang another chance TO levy blackmail
upon protected gamblers and keepers
of dives
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14
BALLAD OF APPLIED SCIENCE.
Elliott Flower in CT

Elliott Flower in Chicago Post
Oh, shrewd, indeed, was Martha Brown
A woman famed throughout the town
For wisdom quite beyond the ken
OF cen the wisest of the men.
Resourceful, earnest, one who would
Devote herself to doing good
Her words of censure came 10 be
A source of pain and misery.
There being lack of time to say
All that she would by light of day,
FOR adm0nitionS forCefu, deep,
She found herself neglectins sleep.
Her husbands welfare seemed TO her
TO call for lectures, lest he err
And yet, foIs Doth, try she might
She found she couldn't talk all night;
While he, in hopes her needed rest
Tbn M0utd tbdUrhs fUrfe her to leave uneXpressed
Remained away each night till late
oh, foolish man, who thinks he can
On woman voice thus place bant
on silly one, who thinks he may
Beat woman's tongue in such a way!
For. though at first it worked quite we'll
There came time when it befell
That voice with warnings shrill and tr1te.
Kept at him al. the livelong night;
Nor paused for breath, nor let him speak,
Nor showed a sign of growing weak
But ever ever loud and clear, N'
win marsh reproaches smote his ear
ii'SiIt' dIAIlOuSl ne found
HIS wife in sleep that seemed quite sound
No sooner was the light put out
Than all his faults he heard about:
Night after night he crawled in bed,
believing he'd escaped the dread
Denunciations strong and long
But always found that he was wrong.
And then In desperation he
Declared his willingness to be
The best Of husbands, If but She
AT night to sleep would !eave him free.
lBSbht' lSbt' puzzle puzzled yet, he asked at length
"A monographs beneath the bed:
touch the spring she simply said.
on, wise the woman of today.
w Who turns 1ls he her work with ease to play,
To do reforming by machine!
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

Not content to have added n regular
salaried special detective to the pay roll
of his office County Attorney Shields is
inundating the county board with ap-
proved bills for extra services of out
side detectives amounting to hundreds
of dollars. When it is taken into con-
sideratiOn that after the evidence has
been collected by these detectives at
public expense Mr.. Shields refuses to
file the complaints against the protected
law-breakers for reasons best known to
the hold-up gang, it is clear that the
taxpayers are enjoying an expensive
luxury in their popocratic county attor-
noY.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

In these prosperous times new stores
are starting up in the better towns
throughout the state. Omaha jobbers
say they have sold more opening stocks
the past six months than We're sold in
as many years prior. The people are
consuming and paying for twice the
amount of goods demanded one and two
years ago. This recalls the good old
days and it also recalls the numerous
trials in the district court of men
charged with buying goods on time,
selling them and decamping without
paying the jobber.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

If there was ever Il lingering doubt in
the minds of any that General Lawton
was fighter of the most aggressive
type the news from Manila should set
it at rest. Not only does he push the
men forward, but he goes in himself
where the Mausers are singing. He is
one of the finest types of the American
soldier. For commanders like him the
rank and file of an army will accom-
plish the seemingly impossible.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

The custodian of the Indiana state
capitol grounds has called the attention
of the Epworth leaguers TO the Keep
off the grass" signs and informs them
that the rule will be enforced. The
convention elsewhere in consequence.
Why not come TO Omaha? This city
will cheerfully afford them all the con-
yeniences needed for the big conven-
ton, including the freedom of the grass.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

With Lieutenant Colonel Picquart
cleared of all charges of forgery in con
nectiOn with the Dreyfus case the con-
cluslon will soon be forced upon us that
like Topsy, who simply growed, those
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14
Pursuit of the Bnndits.
indianapolis journal

Frontier history does not furnish many
more exciting incidents than the long pur-
suit now going on of Union Pacific train
robbers by a sheriffs posse, The daring,
endurance and fighting qualities shown on
both sides are characteristic of western
Americans, though it could be wished the
bandits were engaged in better cause.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

Having seen the good results of target
practice in the navy the army proposes
to give the men who handle the big
coast fortitication guns more of the
same kind of training When they are
brought up to the same state of eff
cheney as the other militant branches
of the service the United States will
have the finest collection Of marksmen
in the world.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

Bleeding Kansas can no longer claim
pre-eminence as cyclone generator.
This year at any rate that state must
yield the palm to northwest Iowa and
ger state.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

The new woman has entered another
sphere of usefulness. AT Cleveland she
implored non-unioD motormen to stop
work and thus support the great strike
Her last argument was in the shape of
a tender of cash, and it won. The
woman persuader will take rank pres
entity with the man promoter.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

1t should be the policy of the city to
curtail the cost of municipal govern
ment TO the lowest practicable limit if
for no other reason than TO make posi-
BILE an increase in the police force.
Property owners, taxed heavily to pay
the expenses OF the city, should not be
compelled to employ private watchmen
to guard their premises
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

Less than fifty people have directed
the Board of Education not to grade
down the High school grounds Il single
inch, nor cut the twig of any tree that
adorns the campus The other 1880
voters of Omaha are yet to be heard
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

Theoretically the creation of n tax
commissioner puts holders of smal
properties in the way of securing a re-
ductlon of the tax rate, Practically the
new deal has not proven so beneticent
as its supporters would have the people
believe. The trouble still is that the
biggest concerns evade their taxes alto
gether or get off with ridiculously low
assessments.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

Another heavy, widespread rain in
this section to make certain another
bountiful harvest. No one can form
close estimate of the value of these
rains to Nebraska business interests.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

Lincoln republicans are already in the
throes of convention politics. But then
Lincoln politicians would never be
happy if they did not enjoy campaigns
year.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

At one fell swoop the storm king has
blotted out an entire town in Wisconsin,
together with the lives of more people
than have been killed on the American
side in any of the most disastrous bat
ties of the war. In the role of life-de-
stroyer nature still holds undisputed su-
premacy over man.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

The premier of the new French cabi-
net is going to content himself with the
official title of minister of public in
struction. The war lords are not TO
have it all their own way.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14
Majority Go Broke,

Chicago RECORD,
The company which Is raising money to
buy up all the breweries may be success
full, but a great many individuals in the
past have gone broke trying to buy up all
the products of the same
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

Another party has started in search
of the north pole. When it is found the
scarchers expect to locate Charley Ross
and the Man who struck Billy Patter-
son
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14

The High school building was thing
of beauty twenty-five years ago when
Omaha had Il population of less than
10000 and when Twenty-sccond street
marked the western boundary of the
residence portion of the city. The thing
of beauty on the Capitol square has
been put in the shade by other struc-
lures and modern construction has rClc.
gated the Mansard style of architecture
to the things of beauty that have been.
But even if the High school building
was the most beautiful structure in all
America, its preservation and continued
use for any great length of time would
be wcll-nigh crime in the face of the
declaration of Chief Rcdell that it is
the most dangerous tiretrap in the city
of Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-14
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