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Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-20
Level Up INSTEAD or DOWN

The Bee has been asked TO express Its
views on the proposed legislation giving
graduates of private and dcnominational
colleges in Nebraska the same right to
teachers certificates that is enjoyed by
graduates of the State university.
The Bee has always stood for the
highest standards of efficiency In the
public schools. II believes that uniform
ity should exist in the requirements to
teach in the schools of the state, but II
also believes that in establishing uni
formlty we should aim TO level UP in
stead of to level down.
Admission to the teaching corps of
the state should be through only one
door and that n stringent examination
covering the subjects defined among the
necessary qualifications. The authority
TO issue teachers certificates should he
vested in n central examining board on
the same plan that bar admission is con
trolled by bar examining commission.
Uniformity certainly cannot be accom-
plishcd when the power to grant certifi-
Gates Is vested In hundred independent
authorities, making il easy for teacher
to pass muster In one county and diff
cult in the next.
When uniform teachers examination
Is provided the next step will be to cut
off all other avenues of entrance. Put
the graduates of all schools and colleges
on the same footing by requiring them
to measure up to the same test. The
graduate of the states normal school or
of the State university with all the ad-
vantages conferred by those institutions
certainly should he as well fitted to pass
the examination as those who have pre-
pared themselves by home study or Sc
cured their instruction in private normal
schools or denominational colleges
There Is no more reason why graduates
of any college should have certificates
emitting them to teach in the public
schools without examination than that
ileged to practice before the courts with
out the usual bar examination.
Whatever legislation is enacted will
reference to public school teaching
should be framed with a view to i'm
proving the quality of instruction 10y
strengthening the tests prerequisite tC
the issuance of certificates rather thar
to throw the gates open indiscriminately
to everybody who manages to posses.
himself of a college sheepskin.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-20
PrepOstc rOus Notions About Mars.

Most chmerical and preposterous OF all
the visionary things that have been said
about Mars inhabitants are those that re-
late to Signals" between the two planets,
The dark streaks, dubbed canals" upon
the Martian surface, invisible to all but q
favored few observers, are OF an average
width OF thirty miles, and the "oases" have
no greater average diameter than 13O miles
What, then, must be the stupendous scale
OF the signals" to be successfully flashed
earthward, 1t is true that swift winged
light, journeying more than 10000 miles
a second, could cross the spatial abyss dur
ing a perihelion opposition in little more
than three minutes, but what toleratior
would the advanced civilization" Of Mars
exhibit toward the scientific Nero wht
should cause the gigantic confagratioI
necessary for communication with terres
trials-and that, too, in the absence OF al
ineligible celestial cipher!
In moments of perfectly steady terres
trial atmosphere the Yerkes telescope
greatest of its class, might glimpse, as {
mere spcck upon the perpetually cloudles
surface OF the moon, an extensive group o
great structures like those OF the Chicago
exposition, and might also recognize th'
absence Of the tiny dot upon their remova
and that is all. Yet the perigee distance
of our satellite Is only 2?l 900 miles, Will
that OF Mars is 5000, 600 miles, or 16
times as great. Surely comment is unneces
sary.
II Is regrettable when gifted minds sue
cumb to sensational temptations. "Evel
the worthy Homer mods" says Horace; bu
II is particularly deplorabe when investl
gators OF creation are lurel from stabl
processes by wild visions Of domination
over nature Babel Is still potential as a
object lesson and credulous readers vii
do well to ponder upon the famous Moo
Hoax" cleverly fosted upon the publ
nearly three quarters OF century agt
Whatever may be the celestial develop
ments Of future years. It is quite safe t
assume that the period Of inter pla netar
| signaling" has not yet dawned.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-20

The bill for the gathering of industrial
and agricultural statistics by the as
SCISSORS has been favOrably reported in
the senate. Some measure of this kind,
which will contain provisions compel
ing the assessors to comply with the
law, will be of vast benefit to the state.
Private statistics do not carry the
weight, no matter how accurate or how
much care Is exercised in their compila-
ton, that attaches to those gathered by
the public. In addition to that, the
gathering of such statistics is too large
an enterprise for private individuals or
corporations, but the state, with the
machinery at its command, can collect
them at comparatively little expense.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-20
Consumption Not Hereditary.

The most encouraging feature of the dis
cussions at the Canadian congress was the
preponderance of opinion that tuberculosis
was not hereditary. majority of the
members agreed with Sir William Kingston
that man or woman could not transmit the
germ of the disease to offspring. The die
tum will probably be combated by scores
Of people who can recall cases which seem
to prove the Unbeatable quality beyond u
doubt, but whether the opinion is absolutely
sound or not II is we'll calculated to relieve
much mental distress and that is a bless
ing. The whole doctrine of heredity as II
has been preached of late years has been
developed beyond all reason and has read
like a stern decree OF fate to thousands who
should never have flashed their heads with
the nonsense.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-20
CuBA's INGRATITtDE.
Makes No reference TO the United
states In Its New Constitution.
GlObe. Democrat

In the constitution just framed in Cuba
there is no reference whatever to the
United states According to the document
Cuba expects its dealings with this coun-
try to be just the same as with Spain or
any distant nation, But in the order call
ing the convention General Wood declared
that one OF it's purposes was to provide
for future relations between the United
States and the Cuban republic. As the
constitution approved by the convention is
entirely silent on this point 1t remains for
this government TO define it's former re-
quirement. Some of the Cubans say the
relations OF their republic with the United
States can be declared by resolution. Others
are opposed to taking even this step. Some,
perhaps, are waiting to hear what this
government wants. Upon this point they
will not be kept in suspense. What Is
asked is something different from absolute
silence or a piece of blank paper
The Chattanooga Times remarks that
UNLESS the relations OF the two govern.
ments shall be fixed and fixed right there
will be incurable trouble between them
before the Cuban republic shall have
reached the second year" There are other
democratic papers that think this the time
to settle the relations between the United
States and Cuba in manner that will
leave no room for misunderstanding. Cuba
Is almost contiguous territory, the gate
way to the Nicaragua canal. the Gulf OF
Mexico, the Caribbean and the eastern coast
OF South America. Its former disturbed
conditions involved us in war. This coun-
try is entitled to firm assurances that the
disorder OF the past shall not be repeated
Cuba will get all the freedom IL can sus
tain. But this country has rights In the
matter that must not be flung away or left
to chance.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-20
HOW TO ELECT SENATORS.
Protest Against the Practice
of Dcadiocking Legislatures.


The Wisconsin legislature has asked con-
gress to submit TO the states a constitu-
tional amendment providing for the election
OF senators by popular vote. The present
method of election has not worked badly
in Wisconsin. Under IL men have been
elected who have as a rule enjoyed the full
respect and confidence OF their constituents
and who would have found 1t as easy to get
n nominate in convention as in a caucus.
Legislative deadlocks have not happened
often Yet there is strong sentiment
among the people of the state in favor OF
a change in the method of choosing sena-
tors This being the case. how much
stronger should that sentiment be In Ore
gon, Montana, Nebraska and Delaware,
whose legislatures have for weeks been
vainly endeavorlng to choose senators. IL
the last two legislatures do not arrive at q
conclusion in few weeks neither Delaware
nor Nebraska will be represented in the
senate when congress shall meet In special
session to consider the Cuban question.
That will not please the citizens OF the
states in question. They will regret that
they were not permitted to select at the
polls last November the men whom they
wished to represent them in the senate.
Two causes are working together to create
in the public mind the belief that the pres
ent method of electing senator's must be
abandoned. One Of them is the greater fire.
uuency of legislative snarls and tangles,
which leave states unrepresented The
other and more potent cause is the growing
conviction that better men, who will not
look OH themselves as far removed from
and not answerable to the people will be
sent to Washington when senators are
| chosen by the people at first hand and not,
as now, at second hand
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-20

THE NEW COMPLICATION ~ CHINA.
The decision of the administration that
the American troops in China shall not
participate in the campaign projected by
Count Won Waldersee Is what was to
have been expected from the attitude Of
this government since the beginning OF
the Chinese trouble. The efforts of the
United States have been constantly di-
rected to securing peace in China. II
was necessary to send troops there to
cooperate with the other powers when
the foreign legations were in danger.
As soon as practicable after the danger
had passed the American troops were
withdrawn, except such number as II
was deemed necessary to maintain at
Pekn as Il legation guard.
As was said by President Mckinley
In his last annual message, our declared
aims involved no war against the Chi
nese nation. I'VE adhered to the legiti-
mate office of rescung the imperiled le-
CATION, obtaining redress for wrongs
already suffered, securing wherever pos
siblc the safety of American life and
property in China and preventing II
spread of the disorders or their recur-
renee" These aims. set forth in the
circular to the powers last July. have
been kept constantly In view. There
has been no departure from them and IT
may be confidently assumed that there
will be none. The United States will
not engage in a war against China
under existing conditions.
The question whether our government
should endeavor to dissuade Germany
from undertaking the projected often
sive campaign is regarded at Washing
ton 1t appears, as a serious one. Mani
festly It Is, since anything like inter
| position on our part might be resented
| by the German government and in
volve us in trouble with that power
But 1t would seem that Germany, hav'
| ing the most friendly relations with
the United States, would not refuse tC
consider a statement of the views OF
this government in the interest of peace
Not to do SO would in effect be al
avowal on the part of Germany tC
push China to war and the natura
Judgment on this would be that Il
meant purpose to seize Chinese ter
ritory.
A dispatch from Minister Congel
states that he had protested to the
representatives of the powers agains
the proposed military expedition, bu
they declined to consider the protes
on the ground that they had no au
thority to in any way influence mill
tary operations. Their specific duty, o.
course, is to negotiate for "A settlemen
with China of the conditions submit
ted by the powers, but it would seen
that they should not be powerless t.
influence military operations whicl
would certainly interfere with th
work they are authorized to do. Th
new complication in the Chinese stu
alton is certainly grave. II Walderse
persists in the proposed campaign it 1
conceivable that 1t may have the mos
serious consequences But If 1t b
true, as reported, that the imperia
court has agreed to innict the punish
ments demanded by the powers, thu
removing the chief obstacle to negoti
ations, the German government may b
induced to direct Waldersee to aban
don the proposed campaign.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-20
INSIST THAT ALL MUST DIE.
MOnstrOus Demand of Foreign EnyOys
In China Roundly Denounced.

North American.
Three Chinese officials who incurred the
displeasure of the foreign ENJOYS by being
patriots were requested by the emperor
to commit suicide by one OF a number of
methods which he suggested as appropriate.
They meditated on the matter found all
the methods Objectionable and respectfully
declined to get off the earth Seeing that
suicide was distasteful to them, the EN-
peror withdrew his request,
Whereat the ENJOYS OF the enlightened
nations which adopted The Hague conven-
tion for the promotion OF civilization fume
and rage. They spurn the emperor's sug-
gestion that lighter punishment be in
flicted upon minor offenders and insist that
all must die. II any distinction Is to be
made they say let IT be by subJectinB
the chief offenders to torture and Killing
them by quartering or other ingenious chi
nese methods
This seems incredible, yet Is seriously
reported from Pekin and not questioned
wear ago IT would have been thought i'm
possible that the diplomatic representatives
| of Christian nations should tolerate any
preventable cruelty, yet here they are urg'
| ing with cold ferocity the quartering OF
high officials OF a nation with whom they
are negotiating for peace
Have all the white people in China been
| turned into ravening wolves by the orgy
of murder pillage and rapine that has
been surging around them? Let us hope
that the American minister has not gver
! his sanction to the monstrous demands Of
the Pekin butchers.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-20

Councilman Lobeck voted against the
tax levy as fixed by the city council, but
he is busy promising Sixth ward people
another fire company. How would he
ever carry out such promise If his vote
i'm the council had been endorsed? Nc
one disputes the need Of fire station
in the neighborhood of Twenty-fourth
and Ames, but If the mayor and a ma
jority Of the council had listened to the
Lobeck arguments the creation of new
fire companies would have been put of
much longer.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-20

Russia will sooner or later discover
that 1t must do as other nations have
been forced to do before, either close
the universities and cease educating Its
people or liberallze its government
Education and absOlutism in govern
ment can have no co-eXistence. The
great universities of the empire are the
hotbeds Of political agitation and VIII
continue to be until the people are ac'
corded their rights.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-20
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NEBRASKA Is GROWING.

One cannot glance through the papers
printed in Nebraska without being i'm
pressed with the fact that the state Is
more prosperous than 1t has ever been.
The signs are lot confined to one town
or even to a few, but are universal.
During the past six months many of
them have either made or contracted
for public improvements, such as water
works. electric lights, new school build
ings or other public structures, while
the cry is almost universal that the de-
mand for dwelling houses is in excess
of the supply and school accommoda-
tions are taxed to the utmost. Scarcely
Il paper but contains notices of business
buildings or residences contracted for or
contemplated. These things cannot be
accounted for, as in the early settlement
OF the state, as the work of the tOwnsite
boomer. The country has passed that
stage and present building Is the result
of legitimate demand.
The building activity and the mood
for improvement Is not confined to the
towns by any means, as testified by
those in attendance at the late lumber
mems convention held in this city.
When the town lot boomer subsidies the
towns in the rural districts grow as the
country grows and bring business op-
portunities In the wake, and no faster.
| In fact, having been caught in the boom
collapse, the merchants and otler bust
| i'm hn l. alt
to be behind than ahead of the country.
| The seasons have been favorable, the
| soil has produced abundantly and prices
have been good. The Nebraska farmer
and business man have gotten out from
under the incubus of debt and both are
showing their faith in the land which
has prospered them by improving the
cities and the farms, opening up new
avenues for business and making botl
more desirable places In which to live
Nor are those who remained steadfas
to the state during the darker days
which have passed alone in the process
sion which is daily making Nebrask,
greater and better state. Railroad
officials in other states again have oc
casion to consult the emigrant tariff
!, sheet to Nebraska points and the plat
forms of depots in country towns ar
again strewn with the household effect
of those who are coming in to shar
the fortunes of Nebraskans, Land
! which have been idle are being bough
up by the newcomers and will soon b
drawing their tribute from the east am
; the nations beyond the sea. At n
I time since the first settlement of til
l state have the skies of Nebraska locke
? brighter or the prospects been bette
J for continuance OF growth In POI
! ulation or in material advancement
e Those of the old guard who remain ar
= anchored and those who are coming ar
. of class seeking permanent home
I and not the restless element which
I always found on the frontier only I
{ move on again when settled condition
!. overtake them. They are not patl
n finders but home builders, Each ha
n his place and use. Tile pathfinder Ia
blazed the way and moved on. III
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-20

The appropriation for the st. Louis
exposition has passed the house and
little If any opposition Is expected In
the senate, With S5,O00,000 from the
government, the people of st. Louis
should be able to produce an exposition
that will be credit 10 the city and the
nation, especially when this Is supple
mented by $lO,000.O00 of home capital.
Omaha had only tithe OF that amount
and organized an exposition which cast
into the shade all predecessors, except
the Columbian Worlds fair. IL st.
Louis will only inject the energy into
it's enterprise which was exerted In
Omaha it will have great show.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-20
Why Not wood.

PUbTIC IeUBCf.
General Wood may or may not be en-
titled to the promotion given him by the
president, but there does not seem to be
much validity In the principal objection
that is being urged to his confirmation. 1t
is said that, II promoted now, he may, POS
sibly. be in command of the army for a
period OF fourteen years. Why not? He
would still be under the control OF the
president as commander-in-chief and be
liable to degradation or removal for i'm
proper conduct; so that there does not APP
pear to be much danger threatened by this
abstract possibility. Military nations, when
they find a good man for the head OF the
army. keep him there without regard tC
length OF service. but then the armies o
those nations are not usually managed or
political principles.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-20
GOOD DEAL OF NONSENSE
,,ou, "BIood Purifiers" and "Tonics."

Ahout "BIOOd Puri1ers" ana "TOnics.'
Every drop OF. blood, every bone. nerve
and tissue in the body can be renewed In
hut one way, and that Ia, from wholesome
food properly digested. There Is no other
way and the idea that medicine In itselt
can purify the blood or supply new tissues
and strong nerves is ridiculous and on
mar with the fol-de-rol that dyspepsia or
indigestion is a germ disease or that other
falacy, that q weak stomach which refuses
to digest food can be made TO do 80, by if-
rltating and iniaming the bowels by pills
and cathartics,
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets cure indiges-
tion. sour stomach, gas or bloating after
meals because they furnish the digestive
principles which weak stomachs lack. and
unless the deficiency OF pepsin and dastsss
ia supplied II Is useless to attempt TO cure
stomach trouble by the use OF "tonics'
! "pills" and "cathartics" which have ABB
solutely no digestive power, and their only
effect is to give a temporary stimulation
One grain OF. the active principle In Stu
arts Dyspepsia Tablets will digest 5000
| grains OF meat, eggs and similar FOODS ana
| experiments have shown that they VIII do
| this in a glass bottle at proper teInpera-
| ture, but Of course are much more enec-
| tive In the stomach.
| There Is probably no remedy so univer'
| sally used as Stuart's Tablets because II Is
not only the sick and ailing, but we'll peo-
pie who use them at every meal 10 insure
perfect digestion and assimilation OF the
| food
People who enjoy fair health take Stu
arts Tablets as regularly as they take
their meals, because they want TO keep
well, prevention is always better than cure
and stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets do both;
they prevent Indigestion and they remove
II where Il exists. The regular use OF one
or two OF them after meals will demon
strate their merit and efnciency better
than any other argument
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-20

Ill-luck appears TO follow the an
nouncement of wonderful discoveries
by Nicola Tesla. Since he stated he
had observed signals made by the in
habitants of Mars a leading theosophist
has come forward with the statement
that it Is impossible, because the IN
habitants of that planet are of too low
an order of intelligence to perform such
a feat Ordinary mortals can now
sleep peacefully at night without feal
of missing the next message the people
of Mars send.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-20
Near-siahted Economy. .

TTUIIuUeTpHIH ITVH7-
West Point has been refused by congress
the tools needed to learn a soldiers trade.
Field artillery has been revolutionized In
the past decade and a still greater has taken
place in the armament of forts, but West
Point is still provided with the pieces Of
a generation ago. Congress has refused
the appropriation needed to give the young
men who become our officers a knowledge
of modern weapons This is essential
knowledge. 1t can only be learned at a
school and 1t is denied even when the ap-
preparations are reaching their highest
figure in time OF peace Worse policy could
not be proposed or more certain to defeat
the object for which West Point exists.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-20
Our Consul to Pretoria.

V"0'
For our part, however, we have had tes-
timcny much more important than that of
Mr.. Hit, who after ALL speaks from mere
belrsay and not from personal observation.
Two or three Boer officials Of high rank,
who have only recently left South Africa
and Who previously had actual knowledge
as to Mr.. Hays relations with the people
of the Transvaal have assured the Post that
bis behavior has been correct and satisfac-
tory scrupulously fair and dignified withal.
II gives us pleasure to make these facts
public and to say. in addition, that we be-
lieye the Boer assurances in question were
given TO us in absolute sincerity.
Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-20
vuCToRIA,s FAvORITE BIT OF VERSE

(The following quaint verses appearet
I'm an obscure Scotch paper
and il is said that of all the panegyrics aht
tributes in prose or verse ever written U
her they pleased her most.)
SIZE NODDIT TO ME-
I'm hut an aud body
Iivin up In Deeside
In "A tWa -roomed bit hoosie
WI n toofa' beside:
WI my coo an my grumphy
I'm as happy's q bee,
But I'm far prooder moo
since she noddit to mel
I'm nae sac far past wit
I'm gay trig an hale,
Can plant twa-three tawtes,
An look after my kale;
An when oor queen passes
| rim DOT to see
Gin by luck she micht notice
An nod DOT to me!
But I've aye been unlucky,
An the blinds were aye DOOM
Till last week the time
% her Veesit cam roun,
| waved my bit apron
As brisk's | could dee, ,,,
An the queen lauched fu' kindly,
An noddit to me!
NV son sleeps in Egypt
it's nae ease to frelt-
An vet when / think OF,
I'm sair like to greet
She may feel for my sorrow,
She's a mither, ye see;
An may be she kent OF
When she noddit TO mel