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Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

keep out those who are not our friends."
This is a plain and fair statement OF
the nature of the provision and it points
out clearly the injustice that 1t works
to all those who have passed civil serv-
ice examinations and are relying upon
the good faith OF the government to
give them employment as fast as va
cancies occur in the public service. II
the thousand clerks In the census bu-
reau are given the preference the per-
sons on the eligible list win have TO
wait n very long time before getting
appointments. The wrong Of this is
apparent. Through the invitation of the
government thousands Of persons have
been led to devote their time to prepar-
ing for a competition and then to spend
their money for transportation to the
places where examinations are held. At
this price their names have gone on the
eligible list and 1t would manifestly be
a breach of good faith on the part Of
the government to virtually drop these
people who accepted Its invitation and
have shown their merit according to
the governments requirement, in order
to retain in the service persons who got
there through political favoritism, none
of the census bureau employees having
beer required to pass a competitive ex-
animation.
There Is no question that in this mat
ter the house committed a serious mis-
take and it should be corrected by the
senate, IL for no other reason than the
unfavorable effect of allowing it to
stand may have upon the party in
power. The republican party has al
ways stood firmly for the merit system
and cannot now afford to do anything
which would discredit its devotion to
that principle.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

The idea Of putting a cash value on the
Congressional Record affords the circula-
ton department a chance to get in its afH-
davit.
P%ittsburg policemen are striving onerget-
ically to capture the Biddle prize money.
They insist they gave the taxpayers a good
run for the coin.
The ping-pong craze in Chicago is assum-
ing a violent form. Between gas explo-
sions and the pail Of SCOT, residents turn
to any old thing likely to divert the mind.
Mr.. Rockefeller's OFFER of a bunch of
money to Harvard college produced q
seismic disturbance along the locality
famed as the midway of the worlds fair.
According to the showing made in the
courts, Elder Dowie gave evidence Of keen
foresight In selecting Chicago as his head
quarters. His operations as a green-goods
prophet lifted his assets from a cipher to
$1,000.000 in cash and property.
T.. u. u. McJimsey is considered to be
one of the finest political orators In Mis-
souri,. He is also q noted scholar and fire.
~uuently entertains his friends by quoting
page after page OF Emerson, and, II is said,
knows half OF Shakespeare by heart"
Victor Hugo's Tooth birthday will be
CciCBIdlOu N EdTIh Ou Ing GOIu VI tulo
month. A monument secured through pop
ular subscription will be dedicated, and
there will be elaborate exercises at the
Pantheon, where the author is buried.
The Minnesota Board Of Pardons de-
clined to grant an unconditional pardon
to the Younger brothers. Under the con-
ditional parole granted last year. the motor
ious highwaymen are practically footloose
- Il A. onNog,.AnN 80 unowa lhaNky than
they have earned.
Buffaloians are making heroic efforts TO
recover from the strenuousness of last
year. Instances are mentioned Of residents
taking the rest cure for four lays and
nights without being disturbed or missed.
Just now the only exertion sanctioned is
of q political character.
There is more than a grain Of truth in
the Jibes thrown at patient housekeepers
who bake bread. Bill Eye used to send
husbands to the table armed with an ak,
and Artemus Ward successfully defended
his wife's relations by hurting baked
''rocks'' at the ravaging mob. Lesser wits
are equally unjust, for the fault is not
with the h~ousekeeper. Only last week
New York onicials destroyed several tons
Of baking powder, which contained 29 per
cent Of ground rock. The revelation,
though long delayed, should divert I'M
seemly levity from the kitchen and send the
hot barbs into the baking powder man.
The Kansas City Star is waging a hot-air
campaign against a class OF strenuous law
yers known as Switches who are con-
spicuous In that town. A "snitch," ac-
cording to the Star. sis q cheap lawyer,
very frequently a young lawyer, a man OF
small practice and precarlous income, which
would probably dwindle to nothing were
he not excessively active in drumming up
trade. His speciality Is the individuals who
have suffered a supposed or real injury
to feelings, character or person, and his
method is to induce such individuals to
bring damage suits, or to threaten suits,
with the object OF extracting money from
the person, Arm or corporation upon whom
lies the alleged blame"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09
SECULAR SHOTS At THE PULPIT.

Indianapolis Journal: Bishop Fowler, :
his address to the Mississippi contereno
of the Methodist Episcopal Colored church
forbade the negro ministers to use bh
words in their sermons hereafter, ssyin
that they didn't know what they mean
and their congregations didn't know whs
they we're talking about. Thus anothe
Of the negro's cherished rights is ruthlessl
snatched away from him.,
indianapolis News; Rev. James De Nor
mandie Of Boston seems to have very litti
patience with the people who attempt b
improve standard hymns. AT last SUN
days service he said he would read Wes
ley's hymn, Jesus, Lover OF My Soul" .
Wesley wrote II, and not as II was foun
in the book used by the congregation, an
he added that in his opinion compilerB
hymn books. IL they did not like the origins
words Of a hymn, would better omlt
altogether.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat A Philadel
phia lawyer was one Of the guests at tn
annual dinner Of the Episcopalian club 4
Boston the other evening, and bluntly tol
the assembled ministers that too much q
the preaching heard in the pulpit nowadRy
is "dreary drivel," and that too many Of tn
preachers seem to be In the business be
cause they are paid to holler." He SAT
1t all so good-naturedly that the assemble
ministers, who perhaps thought they wer
not of that kind, appiauded him.
Portland oregonian. The Methodist
number nearly 5000. 900 of the 27.5O0.00
religious communicates in the Unitei
States, the Baptists coming next with abou
$500, 900. The Roman Catholics numbs
about 1900, 900. The Methodist Episcopa
church, the largest Of the Methodist com
munions, has about 5000, 900 Of communt
cants. The annual expenditures are nearl,
s24,0 o 900. 1t has $1,000 churches an,
nearly Il, 1000 preachers. There were onl!
5000 Methodists in the American colonies
at the outbreak Of the Revolution. Tn
Year Book announces that President Mo
Kinley was the first Methodist who eve
occupied the White House. Presidents Lin
coin, johnson, Grant and Hayes, who an
generally described as Methodists, wer
1ot communicates. 1t is a curious fact tina
while John Wesley held slavery to be thu
sum Of all villanies,' Whitfield used al
his influence to break down the provisions
hostile to the Importation Of rum AM
slaves into Georgia. and rejoiced in hi
success, himself purchasing slaves as Z
source OF profit to his darling orphan
asyium.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

The expense bill OF congressman who
attended the Mckinley funeral is a lit
tie over $4,000. If the senators had
been paying their own way the figures
would doubtless have been considerable
less. The congressional conscience can
stand considerable Of an awakening in
the matter Of these petty raids upon
the treasury, which are made every time
a party of senators or congressman at
tend a funeral or make a trip on any
sort Of semi-official business.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09
4 CIVIL SERKICE LsSuE.

The bill for the establishment of a
permanent census bureau, which passed
the house, contains a clause which is
meant to provide preference In the gen.
eral service for some thousand persons
now In the employ Of the bureau. This
provision was a subject OF strong critl-
clsm in the house and 1t has been con-
demned by friends Of the merit system
as In contrayention of the principle Of
civil service reform and an injustice to
those persons who have passed II sue
cessful examination for places in the
public service.
In the discussion of the provision in
the house Mr.. Gillett of Massachusetts,
chairman Of the civil service commit
tee, said: SHOULD the 1000 clerks who
are going to be dropped in the next
year be transferable to the other de-
partments in the place of men who are
could go thereY Those men who are on
the eligible list got there without any
favoritism. They have come from every
part of the country, just as these do,
but they got there by competitive ex-
animation and no matter what the quail
ity OF that examination was, there is
one fact about them which everyone
will admit, that they got there, not by
political favoritism or patronage, but
simply by their merit. Their examina-
lions were open to the whole country,
But II these thousand clerks whom we
have appointed get there. we all know
they get there not by open competition.
but because they are friends of some
congressman. In other words. we put
our faVorites in and We keep out all
those from the country who have com
peted and prevent their getting in. We
give preference TO our friends and We
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

One way to put a brake ON speculative
stock swindles is by the establishment
of postal savings banks. The mining
stock sharks find their victims largely
among the poorer classes, who are daz-
zled by big promises into turning their
hard-earned savings over to ~irresponsl-
BILE promoters. With al absolutely safe
place OF deposit furnished by the gov
eminent the temptations Of the over
credulous would be reduced without Inn
pairing the incentive to industry and
thrift.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09
BLASTS FROM RAM's HORN.
Flsttery is not worship.


Flattery is not worship.
A fad is a tag on a fool.
Ideals are more potent than prizes.
sanctiheation is not a shrinking process
Gain is not godliness, but goodness !
gain.
A white life does not come from a blAc
heart.
A clean city is impossible without coz
secrated citizens.
The best prayer for a Fathers blessin
is a sons obedience.
when worship is lacking In sincerity I
is not wanting in sin.
When the heart is full Of faith the hand
will be filled with good works.
Some people forgive by forgetting, bu
the true way is to forget by forgivinE.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

The irresistible current Of twentieth
century invention is full Of promise for
the democratic party. If the 100000
prize offered by the managers of the st.
Louis worlds fair for a ~navigable air.
ship brings about a complete revolution
in modes of transportation, universal
free trade viii be established and the
hydra-headed trusts will be IA dead as
the dragon slain by st. George. With
airships delivering the spices of India,
the perfumes and rugs of Persia, laces
OF Belgium. linens of Ireland, silks OF
Italy, wines OF Burgundy and rare and
precious things from every quarter OF
the globe without the aid or consent OF
the customs officers, import duties will
have 20 be abandoned as things Of the
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09
1aFoRWzRD MOVEMENT-, IDEA,

The leader Of what is known as the
forward movement" In Chicago, the
purpose OF which is TO draw people
away from saloons and low places Of
amusement and promote temperance
and morality, suggests as n means
for the attainment OF this object the
establishment of Christian vaudeville
houses, pool and billiard rooms and
bowling alleys. He found, as the result
OF a canvass OF a district In Chicago,
half a mile square. that on a Sunday
night there were only 1.214 persons in
churches and missions, while approx
mately $4,000 people were in theaters,
vaudeville houses and low places OF
amusement. This rather startling dis
closure Of the disparity between church
attendance and the number OF people
who visit places OF amusement on Sun
day led the forward movement" leader
to conclude that a remedy might be
found In the plan he suggests.
1t is a practical idea and perhaps If
put INTO effect would have good results.
A good many people who are in the
habit OF going TO objectionable places on
Sunday could possibly be induced to
patronize vaudeville houses. billiard
rooms and bowling alleys that were
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

The interstate m law can be
made to railroad rate making, but
how can 1t be extended to include the
transoceanic steamship combines to
raise traffic charges? Ocean freights cut
a figure in market prices as well as land
transportation, and they will have to be
reached eventually by legislation in
some form or other.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

The coal miners and operators have
done the sensible thing in settling the
scale for the coming year without a
strike. Past experience has evidently
taught both the mine owner and
the miner something. Employers Of
labor are more willing to listen
to reason and the labor leaders
have discovered that the man who
kicks up a strike where one can
be honorably avoided is not looked upon
with favor by the workers. A strike in
the coal industry at this time would
work great injury to the business inter
ests Of the country as well as to the
parties directly involved.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09
NERVOUS STRAIN OF CITIES.
A PIE for Rural RepOse Amid Urban
Activities.
Springfield CMass.) Republican.

Springfield Mass.) Republican.
Our grandfathers. born in placid soli-
tudes, were reared to few things more
exciting In their youthful days than a
green-apple stomach ache. But in these
times city infants are taken on trolley
rides before they reach the age Of one and
are introduced to all the excitement Of city
streets before the age OF 4, and by the
simple process Of experience and observa-
tion know at 5 more ways of being exter-
minated than their great-grandfathers did
at Is. They know about turning on the
gas. chloroforming a cat, getting run over
by a train or a street car, rough on rats,
breaking ones neck on q bicycle, being
electrocuted by a live wire, being blown
up In the street, being cut and smashed
in a railroad wreck, falling down an ele-
vator shaft, and all sorts Of things that
are seen or heard or read about in the
papers. Compare this fandango Of horrors
and excitements. with which city children
nowadays become more or less acquainted
at a tender age. simply because of their
environment, with the serene, almost
bovine, existence which their ancestors
in this country enjoyed only two or three
generations back, not only in childhood
and youth. but sven in maturity and old
| age ~ ~ IShAl AaDAN NboN NAAAAANA -
these times have nerves.!
The few great disasters that take folks
utterly unawares sometimes reap a big
harvest. but being the most adaptable erea-
ture to existence, a city man Is all the
time adapting himself to his surroundings,
and as his surroundings change. he changes
with them. He now looks out for the
snginS'' in a minute more than hts re-
moter ancestors did In a month. and he
does It with perfect Inconsistencies, fol-
the most part. Of the nervous strain upor
him. And his alertness and watehfuiness
grown with the development Of the age
doubtless save him from determination
But he Is all the time growing more
nervous and his children are growing more
nervous. In all these respects II WoulC
seem clear that the physical basis OF life
in cities u much less 10 be desired thar
the physical basis OF life in regions wher'
greater repose prevails. especially for tn
reAnng q oRa'a Si~A
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09
II ART OF TACT.
Emerson.

Emerson.
What boots II, thy virtue.
What profit thy parts,
While one thing thou lackest-
The art OF all arts?
The only credentials,
Passport to success;
Opens castle n parlor-
Address, man, Address.
The maiden IN danger
Was saved by the swain.
His stout arm restored her
To Broadway again.
The maid would reward him
Gay company come
They laugh, h laughs with themt
He is moonstruck and dumb.
This clinches the bargain;
Sails out of the bay;
Gets the vote IN the senate,
Spite OF Webster and Clay;
Has for genius no mercy,
For speeches no heed;
It turks In the eyebeam,
1t leaps to Its deed.
Church, market and tavern,
Bed and board, II will sway;
1t has no tomorrow.
1t ends with today.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09
paorrorioN OF PprLIo oFFlo1ALs.

Intelligent public sentiment favors
proper legislation for the protection of
public officials and there is no doubt as
to the power of congress to provide such
legislation. That has been decided by
the supreme court of the United States
in the case growing out Of the assault
upon Justice Field Of that court in the
summer Of 1889. The opinion of the
court, delivered by Justice Miller, con-
tains "a statement as to the power Of
the government Of the United States to
protect it's officers In the discharge Of
their duty which is so clear and en-
phatic as to leave no possibility Of
doubt as to the authority Of congress to
enact any proper law for the protection
Of the president and other officials.
The principle, therefore, embodied In
the bill framed by the house committee
on judiciary will be very generally ac-
cepted as sound, whatever difference of
opinion there may be respecting some
provisions of the measure. A score or
more bills for the protection Of the
president were introduced and 1t is un-
derstood that the bill Of the judiciary
committee embraces the best points of
these measures that were referred to it.
The committees bill is intended to
correct all the defects in the federal
laws that were made apparent by the
assassination of President Mckinley.
The penalties are made as rigid as pos
sibIe and the restrictions against the
operations Of anarchistic societies and
individuals are made as severe as in
the Judgment of the committee the con-
~stitution permits. Punishment is pro-
vided for persons who engage in con-
spiracies in the United States to murder
the rulers of other nations and provi-
sion Is also made to exclude from this
country persons who entertain beliefs
that are dangerous to the government,
Representative Ray, chairman of the
committee, says that in drafting the
bill interference with freedom of
speech and of the press was studiously
avoided and there is nothing in the
measure that would interfere with the
proper and legitimate discussion of
the views and acts Of public officials.
1t provides only against the advocacy
or teaching of the duty, necessity or
propriety of the unlawful killing or as
saulting Of officers of the government.
Under this bill a person may advocate
any change of our government by law
full and peaceful means, or may c~riticise
the conduct Of its affairs and get as
many people to agree with him as he
can, so long as he does not advocate
| the commission Of crime as the means
through which he is to attain his end.
A man may hold any theory he pleases
as to the proper form Of government
and he may do his best to persuade 9th.
ers to his views, and he may remain
entirely safe so long al he clings to
peaceful methods and does not urge the
commission Of crime. Repression OF
the advocacy Of violence and murder is
the purpose of the bill.
1t is not probable that the measure
will encounter any considerable opposi
ton in congress or the country, but
whether such legislation win restrain
assassins and monomaniacs from max.
ing deadly assaults on presidents and
other high officials is decidedly doubtful
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

In voting down the proposed increase
Of their own salaries the members Of the
United States senate want It distinctly
understood that membership In their ex-
elusive club is not to be degraded to the
plane OF q common occupation in which
the wages constitute the chief attrae-
NInn
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

The United States Civil Service com
mission is said to have 10000 names on
its list OF ellgibles to appointment in the
federal service. The applicant with
number 10000 must have as good 8
chance OF connecting with the prize as
did the purchaser OF q chance for Count
Oreighton's $500 check.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

A Kansas City physician states that
as a result OF the smoke nuisance the
lungs Of practically all city jewellers are
black with SCOT. Kansas City people
should send their lungs to the laundry
at least once in two weeks.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

A good indication OF the condition Of
the wage worker in Nebraska is found
In the annual statement OF the building
and loan associations In the state. Out
OF a total OF 110.OS5 shares in force
there is a decrease OF s.300 shares on
which dues are delinquent as compared
with the preceding year.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

No senatorial deadlocks have been re-
ported this winter from any of the leg
islatures in session, but that does not
lessen the popular demand for the cleo
ton Of United States senators by direct
vote Of the people.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

1t has been so long since we have had
q bullet-proof cloth invention that the
only conclusion is that the peace confer
ence must have been accepted In dead
earnest by the inventors.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

The governor Of every state should re-
issue President Roosevelt's order pro-
hibiting public officers and employees
from devoting their time to lobbying
bills through the legislature for their
own personal benefit,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

President Schwab of the steel COM
bine has been visiting so many mon
archs while in Europe that he is open
to the suspicion Of figuring on the form
alton Of a crown trust.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

General Eagan has been challenged to
aght a duel on account OF remarks made
by him which reflected on a Mexican
attorney. His court-martial experience
evidently had no effect In the line OF
inducing him to restrain his temper.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09
what Heiress Has the Price1
Eagle.

So long as quality marriages are to be
commercial there Is only praise for the
frank member of the British peerage' who
announces that he wants a rich wife, who
must pay s125,O 0O to him on sight and
whose age and looks will be forgiven. That
man is honest enough to succeed in other
employments than being a lord.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

A few more Texas spouters may be
had at ground floor prices. Applica-
tons should be made either to the Beau
mont gusher brokers or to the speaker
Of the house Of representatives. Wash
InRton. d.. @.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

The United States senate is doing it's
best to entertain winter visitors to the
capital. 1t is a dull day when T1llman
does not break out somewhere and the
star is having the best Of support.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

past. II the Hon. william Jennings
Bryan will only keep his eye on the air
ship he will again see the radiant star
Of hope twinkling across his political
orbit and the silver-lined clouds within
his reach.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

Two weeks Of uninterrupted sleighing
il not usually experienced In Nebraska.
The present winter has certainly fur
nished everyone with a taste OF his ia
vorite brand OF weather, no matter
what the brand may be.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09
Dubious Distinction.
St. Louis Globe-pemocrat.

There Is just one party on earth that
makes war on the health and comfort OF
soldiers for political ends, and that is the
democratic party OF the United States. No
other political organization would be will
ing to play 1t as low down as that.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09
skill as

Chicago Record-Herald.
The Filipinos show marked adaptability
to modern political methods. In one dis
trict where there were only eighty-four
voters eighty mine votes were cast.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

Iowa reports oil wells which furnish
the oil already refined and ready for
the lamp. Iowa is never satisfied un-
less 1t heads the procession.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09

1t has at last been made clear who
stole the famous Gainsborough por-
trait. Possibly some famous detective
will undertake to tell the world who
struck Billy Patterson.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-09
where Good Roads Are Needed,
Philadelphia Ledger.

The story Of the men who starved to
death while making a thirty-fve mile jour
ney on the island Of samar. though they
had four days rations with them, is a
vivid representation of the dificulties OF
travel in the Philippines.