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Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26
THE IOWA COWBOY.

John B. Kaye in Boston Journal.
When the land was wild and the country
And the crop fields only, fenced around,
When snakes were plenty, and horses few,
And the pastures without mete or bound,
The farmstead cowboy-boy indeed
The youngest worker, and by that grace,
With only his own bare feet for steed,
The truant cows to their lurking place.
His sight was keen, and the ~tell-tale track
OF the spotted COW with the broken hoof,
or the tender-footed heifer's rack,
One light, three heavy, would leave him
In the dust or sod, and point the way
Tina the grazing herd had strayed at will
And lead to the spot where they dallied
In some sheltering grove. or beyond the
II the day were spent and the cleaning fell.
And the breeze stilled down at even-tide,
Trained was his ear for the leaders, bell,
Pulsing, the air DER the country side'
NTffSs rob ShSsoos sob ds KS Here. eSHe' herer'
No clucking COW bell save his own,
Sob as 1t might filled his soul with cheer
All that wore feathers, down and wings,
Fish Of the brook, four-footed things.
Tadpoles, snails, well-digging crays
Ants, and tumble-bugs and toads,
Crickets, hornets, bats and bees,
He had sought out their abodes
And could tell you the names, of all the
trees;
They were his chums, were all OF these.
Old-time cowboy. long grown .grayl
Bounding bronco and buckskin suit
Fringed and mounted In brave array,
with a cartridge belt and a gun to shoot,
Were not the outfit, then, when you
Were in the business. You'd 10 wear
A wheat-straw hat-was the crown burst
through
Ana sp' o2e s saapen Rias } }o hold P 'smm' thersl
Old-time cowboys! not as. OF yore
Comes 10 your ears the sound of bell,
Telling you of the herd once more,
Yet you may hear a deep-toned knell
Sounding out meath a village spire
Now and then, and here and there
Telling it's tale to the sunsets FIRE,
Leading some brothers spirit where
All the herded joys of his future are.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26
Meat and Muscle.
Chicago Chronicle.

SHlCdkO SnIOIlCiCs
At q recent pedestrian contest a vege-
tartan won in the international match from
Berlin TO Dresden.
The distance is 125 miles. The winner
walked 1t in a little more than twenty
seven hours. His competitor, a meat eater,
fell behind an hour and forty-1ve minutes.
The vegetarian has also beaten the famous
run of the Greek from Marathon to Athens,
who covered 14O miles in twenty-seven
hours.
While proof is still lacking that an ex-
elusive vegetarian diet is the best muscle
maker, data are accumulsting which show
that meat ia not indispensable and that
health may be promoted by diminishing its
consumption.
The Greeks, who were in their golden
age the most graceful as we'll as the most
stalwart athletes, ate little meat.
While the federal court enables the
American beef combine to keep up the
price OF beef, Americans can better AFFORD
to experiment with a vegetable diet as a
muscle maker,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26
Tu,r srIRTLINo coNnITIoN


According to the railroad tax bureau,
"the most startling condition Of af-
fairs prevails in Nebraska that ought
to be remedied without delay" The
thing that ~startles the tax bureau figure
jugglers is the discrepancy between the
returns Of the census enumerators OF
1900 and the precinct assessors Of the
same year. We are told that the cen-
sus enumerators have returned 226,944
more horses, 1,O5O,S33 more cattle, 1904
more mules, 1884 more sheep and
2,460, 031 more hogs than were returned
by the assessors.
We concede that this is very startling,
but not much more so than was the
discrepancy of owe 10000 between the
real population of Omaha and the popu-
lation returned by the census takers of
1890. AS a matter Of fact, the census
taker has big eyes and often sees
double. He is not over-particular and
often tries to fill out space by guessing
when he cannot get correct informa-
ton. When the census enumerators
look at a herd Of cattle or inspect a
drove of hogs or sheep they mentally
figure out how many there might be,
but when the assessor comes TO check
up the figures guessed at by the enum-
orator he ind that they were far from
correct.
may be that the enumerators and the
assessors did not take the census at
the same time. The assessors did their
work in April and the enumerators did
not begin until June or July. Hun
dreds of thousands of cattle. hogs and
sheep might have been and doubtless
had been slaughtered or exported.
Assume. however, that the startling
condition of affairs which the railroad
tax bureau has discovered was abso-
lutely true, how does that justify the
failure of the railroad assessors to take
into consideration the value of the fran
chises of the Nebraska railroads in max
ing their assessments8 These fran
chises are worth over $500, O00, 900, and
no amount of pe~ttifogging can hoodwink
the people into believing that they
should not be considered part of the
assessable property Of the railroads.
The startling discovery that millions
Of money invested In bonds, stocks and
mortgages or deposited in banks fail to
be returned for taxation through the
precinct assessors affords by no means a
justification for the differentiation Of
railroad property. Lands, lots, mills,
factories, business blocks and residences
are all returned for taxation, whether
the money lenders, mortgage holders or
stock spectators make returns or not.
There is no way for visible property
to escape the tax gatherer. Why
should not the railroads be taxed in
proportion to the value Of their prop
erty? For the past eight years prop
erty in town lots and the improvements
in the cities have earned little or no
income for their owners Much of the
town property has been absolutely con-
iscated by taxes, but yet the owners
is the law. The railroads, on the other
hand, have been prosperous and enor-
mously productive. They have doubled,
trebled and even quadrupled in value
within the past three years, but their
assessment in this city is lower by sew
eral millions than 1t was ten years ago.
Surely this is a startling condition of
affairs that ought to be remedied with
out delay.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26
OUTLOOK FoH DEMOCRATIC UNITY


The speech of Mr.. Cleveland in the
interest of democratic unity does not
appear to have made much of an i'm
preston upon the party In the direction
intended. 1t has been much discussed
by democrats in Washington and so far
selves there is no indication that the
speech has met with general favor.
There are some, of course, who accept
1t as wise and sound counsel, but the
majority of democratic representatives
are not satisfied with the u%tterances of
the ex-presldent. Perhaps the prevail
ing view has been best expressed by
Henry Watterson, whose comment ON
Mr.. Cleveland's speech was a caustic
arralgnment of the ex~-president's record.
The Washington correspondent of the
Springfield Republican finds some evil
dences that the much-hoped-for demo-
cratic unity may fail when put to the
test. He says that the disposition of
some southern democrats to insist upon
even a general endorsement of the plat
forms of 1896 and 1900 is an unpromis-
ing omen for the future. 1t is true there
is a growth of feeling even among the
southern democrats that Organism has
been carried far enough, but as yet
as to warrant confidence that the de-
mocracy can be harmonized before the
next national campaign, at least in the
way advised by Mr.. Cleveland. who
in his characteristic way gave the
Bryanites some pretty sharp slaps. This
their leader did not fail to take notice
of and what he has said in reply album
dainty shows that whatever political in
duence he still possesses is to be exerted
with all possible vigor to defeat the
reorganization movement. There is no
doubt that Organism has very consid-
erably declined and there is good reason
to expect that 1t will continue to lose
ground, yet it is still a force to be reck-
oned with, as Mr.. Cleveland and the
other r~eorganizers will find. 1t is the
aggressive, fighting element of the party
and is not to be easily vanquished.
The dlmcultleS In the way or harmo'
nizing the democracy are so great, SC
nearly insuperable, that it is hardly
possible the task can be accomplished
within the next two years. The an
~tagonistic factions are as bitter, or ever
more bitter, toward each other thar
either is toward the republican party
How is 1t possible to bring together
the Clevelandites and the Bryanites
How shall the democrats who believ,
with the ex-president that the part
should be relieved from the burden o.
: issues which have been killed by thu
DEGREES OF the American people" be in
duced to harmonic with those VIII,
raised those issues n insist upon ad
t herring to themG Cleveland and Hi
could meet and exchange APPARENT.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26
PLAIN STATEMENT OF FACT.
Nothing to Arbitrate in the Alaska
boundary Question.

New York World.
Concerning the Alaska boundary, Sir Will
frid Lau. Ter, the Canadian premier, says:
I'VE are perfectly willing to submit the
question to arbitration, but SO long, Of
course, as the United States maintains that
there is nothing to arbitrate, the menace
of open conflict on the disputed ground
must continue to exist"
The only question is the question
whether the Russo-Britlsh treaty of 1926
means what 1t says, 1t states that the line
shall ascend the Portland hannel" to the
ffty-sixth parallel, shall thence run along
the summit Of the mountains, parallel to
the coast" to 141 west longitude, and then
follow that meridian to the Frozen ocean"
but wherever the mountain SUBMITS are
more than ten marine leagues from the
coast the boundary, In the treaty's exact
words, Shall be formed by a line parallel
to the 'sinuosities' of the coast, and which
shall never exceed the distance Of ten
marine leagues thsrefrom."
What is the boundary We bought from
Russia in 1867. There was no question"
then or for years afterward. Every map,
British, Continental, Canadian and Ameri-
can, agreed practically upon the boundary.
Even the British admiralty chart for the
use Of the royal navy, corrected up to April,
1898, showed the true boundary. After
the Klondike was discovered Great Britain
took up the Canadian claim to land within
the thirty-mile strip.
That the United States has nothing to
arbitrate" is not a menace Of open con-
hict," but a statement of fact. II Canadian
officials should invade Vermont, open a Gus
tom house at Burlington and argue their
right to the northern half Of the state, we
should reply that we had nothing to
arbitrate, but would that reply, or the in
vasion that provoked 1t, be the real act of
aggression?
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26
Iowa's Grade Of CoIoneIs.
New York Tribune.

New York Tribune
The State Association OF Auctioneers In
Iowa is said to have decided that no person
devoted to that loquacious and vociferous
calling has a just claim to be addressed
as Colonel until after he has entreated bids
at a thousand sales or more. In some other
states OF the Union the title Of colonel Is
like the quality Of mercy, and is not
strained by an association Of auctioneers
or any other board Of revision, but dropeth,
as the gentle rain from heaven, upon the
man beneath; 1t also resembles the gentle
rain in that 1t falls alike upon the Just
and the unjust.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

Missouri republicans have added their
enthusiastic endorsement of President
Roosevelt to the swelling list of similar
testimonials. State after state is wheel
Ing into line behind the president. as
fast al conventions are held. This I'M
broken republican front presents little of
encouragement to the opposition.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

Nebraska's weather may not be all
that finicky persons would wish, but
compared with the brand being served
out in other states 1t seems excellent.
Colorado is sweltering in the embrace OF
a hot wave, while Michigan is having a
Inowstorm. Indiana is entertaining tor
nadoes and Iowa and South Dakota are
suffering from wind and rain, while Ne
braska enjoys June weather as near per
Iect as Il van be made.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26
AncIent. but Enectire.
Chicago Chronicle.

ChANabO ChAuhiNiNs
observant people will be disposed to
doubt the reports OF anarchist plots against
the life OF King Edward. 1t invariably
happens that when royalty is about to be
placed on public exhibition the police dis
cover a sanguinary plot. In this way the
police establish a great reputation for zeal
and vigilance while royalty enjoys re-
doubled demonstration of loyalty and en-
thusiasm at the hands OF Its subjects. The
device is so old that It might seem stale,
but 1t continues to be as effective as ever.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

How will the populist delegates ex-
plain to their constituents the capltula-
lion at Grand Island? That ignomini-
Ous surrender to the minority faction Of
me fusion combine is not likely to prose
satisfactory to populists from principle,
and certainly VIII not suit those who
are populists for revenue only. The
democrats may be relied on to monopo-
lize the pie.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

1t might aid in arriving at a just as
Sessment II the county commissioners
were TO investigate the packing house
and stock yards values for themselves.
The returns made by the county assess
DTS for the hve packing houses are
ridiculous. and the compromise offered
Is equally so. Figures on the stock
yards have not yet been made public,
bat the value OF the plant can easily be
Ascertained. II is unfair to go after the
public service corporations alone and let
The private corporations escape.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

Bryan wasn't the issue at Grand
captured the chance. It's a mighty for
lorn hope, however, the Little Giant
has been called to lead.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26
BREEZY

Chicago Tribune: Editor On surprised
Is this all you could get out of that populist
Reporter (who has Just handed in his
copy)-Yes, sir; all that's fit to print.
PHILADELPHIA Press; "Dh YOU hear about
Jenkins getting married TO a young ac-
Eyes, and she must be a very young
a%c tres TOO" ',
"I understand he's her first husband"
Philadelphia Press. Hardhead-well,
every man has a right TO his opinion.
Pepprey1Yes, but the trouble Is he can't
be made TO realize that there may be a
wrong to II. .-
New York Sun: First Man Cat summer
resort)-Look here, sir, are you aware that
1 am engaged to. that young lady you went
Second MAXWELL, what OF 1t? So am 1.
Detroit Free Press: ~Clara-shal I write
out to visit her?
Clarence-No; the last time we wrote, you
there.
Chicago Tribune: The bahfed villain OF
the play turned frightfully pale.
81 feel" he exclaimed, las II 1 were
All. right" said the soubrette, with a
sly wink at the audience. up to the
roof and have one on the house"
Boston Transcript: Mrs. Abie-yIow Mrs.
Cutie did run on about the Perkinses!
talks so about other folks.
Mrs. Cain-Neither have l; it's perfectly
disgusting! But what Mrs. Cutie said
about the Perkinses was awfully interest
ing.
Washington Star: Mandy" said Farmer
Corntossel, Il don't like to complain, but
the dinners, you're givin' our summer
well, Hiram, It's kline o. hard 70. tell
jes' what. to do. When | was .gettin' up
to me and threatened to leave because
they wasn't gettin' plain country fare. as
advertised. t.t.' .. -.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

cordial greetings, but Bryan did not
even condescend to acknowledge the in
vitation to meet these democrats. The
advocates Of reorganization will continue
their efforts and may make some prog
ress, but the unity they desire is from
all present indications far in the fu-
N,,ro
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

Fusion In Kansas has resulted in con-
fusion. Old line populists of the Sun
flower state announce their intention Of
voting the republican ticket instead Of
supporting the hybrid affair headed by a
democrat. Quite likely Nebraska popu-
lists will find the needs of their case will
be met by the Kansas solution.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

The railroads of Nebraska claim to
pay 1874 per e of the entire taxes of
the state. By rights they should pay
1t least Is per cent. Their market
value. at the lowest estimate. exceeds
300.OO0,000. Appraised at one-sixth
that amount. they are worth $5O,OOO,OOO
for taxation purposes, but they have
been returned for only S26, 800 600.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

over his head as he walked by the onoials.
But when be was taken before the Board Of
Special Inquiry the palm Of his hands and
hie fingers aroused the suspicion that he
was a man and the medical stan was asked
to set all suspicious at rest. The o~flclalS
cut away the supposed woman's fine blonde
hair. which was worn long and carefully
dressed, and, to further prevent deception,
dressed the intending emigrant in his proper
attire.
On the haif.demolished wall Of an old
Broadway building sat four workmen the
other afternoon, their feet dangling in air,
While the men were prying bricks from the
wall with the help Of steel bars. Below,
on the opposite side of Broadway, stood a
gaping crowd. stopped, probably, by the
sight Of the rope strung from each work.
mans waist to a point on the fire escapes
Of the adjacent building, one or two stories
higher up. So obvious was the purpose OF
the ropes that a curious foot passenger ex-
pected comment upon the rarity OF the sight
rather than on the need Of the device. In
Just thirty seconds, however, six persons
were heard to explain: THE ropes are to
catch them In case they fall" and nothing
else was said.
Mayor Low OF New York has outlined a
plan whereby he constitutes himself the
fountain head Of news concerning municipal
departments. After July 4 It is his inten-
tion to talk to the afternoon newspaper re-
p%orters once a week. on Thursdays, to the
extent Of half a column. taking the munici-
pal departments in rotation and making
public all matters OF interest concerning
them and the progress and efficiency of
their work. II he shall find that there is
sufficient public interest in these half
column talks he will designate two days a
week, Mondays and Thursdays, the former
for the morning newspaper men, the other
day for the afternoon paper reports, and
continue his municipal talks.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

The life of a hobo is certainly a hard
one in Kansas and Nebraska these days.
Food is plenty, but so is work, and to
secure the first he must do the latter.
These are certainly evil days for the
professional tramp and the professional
agitator.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

THIIduVIpHId INVNVEW
The cost OF the coal strike at a close
estimate Of money loss in wages to the
miners, loss Of profits to the owners OF
the mines and carriers and loses Incurred
by consumers and related industries, Is
81, OOO. 900 for every work day. II II were
possible to apportion the loss between the
active parties In dispute no doubt they
would be soon ready to agree upon terms.
but It is known at the outstart that the
bulk Of loss will fall upon innocent and
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

helpless third parties and the suffering thus
inflicted is counted upon as an element Of
pressure in bringing about an ultimate ad-
justment. The remedy by which the masses
may be protected against warning combins-
lions or warning classes remains yet to be
dawfa.d
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

II college students persist in seeking
sound bodies through work as section
hands, the Jerry may yet become a
social ornament as well as an industrial
necessity,
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26
Pass Up the Discount.

Secretary Root states the cost Of the war
in the Philippines to be Sl7O,0oO.O O0- The
democratic editors who have placed II at
$500, OOO, 900 will please notice and ailo"
the discount.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26
Provocation and Results,
ChicaRo Tribune.

Lincoln Monday Of Knoxville, Tenn was
a member Of the Ninth United States in
fantry and served in the philippines. Four
men made insulting remarks about the
and now one of them is dead and the
other three are dying.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26
The Glad Hand Awaits.
Washington Post.

President Roosevelt is accepting a great
many invitations from the western munich
p~alities. His second edition OF "The MN
ming Of the West" is evidently going 10 De
an exhaustive affair.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

OF this total $3.50, 1O6 is represented
nv land. buildings and machinery, real
estate in the fullest sense of the word
but the assessor for Douglas county re-
turns this property for taxation pur-
poses at 500, lila. The tax representa-
tive of the packers offers to compromise
with the county on $262,331. as being
one.sixth of the fair valuation of pack
ing plants. Without considering the
nearly 100000 of cash and sundries
returned by the census one-sixth Of the
fair valuation of the real estate of the
Ave packing plants amounts to $973,1s4'
or more than three and one-halr times
the figure at which the packers oner
to compromise. And the cash anu
sundries" still have a taxable value.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

Twenty hours of deadlock didn't pre-
vent the populists from coming to the
democratic terms.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

Trust Smasher Smyth is again a sacri-
fee to harmony; but he's getting used
to Il.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

Bryan's eloquence is of some service.
1t saved him from being a sacrifice on
the fusion altar.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

According to the returns made by the
census of 1900, the five packing houses
at South Omaha have invested a total
of SIS, 1896, AIS, which is divided as fol
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

Empty seats are of no consequence at
fusion conventions. Delegates are voted
whether they are present or not.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26
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Philadelphia Press: Hardhead-Well,
every man has a right 10 his opinion.
Pepprey5Yes, but the trouble Is he can't
be made TO realize that there may be a
wrong to It, -
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

New York Sun: First Man Cat summer
resort)-Look here, sir. are you aware that
1 am engaged to that young lady you. went
out walking with this morning?
Second MAXWELL, what of 1t? So am J..
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

Chicago Tribune Editor On SURPRISED
Is this all you could get out of that populist
convention?
Reporter Cwho has just handed in his
copy)-Yes, sir; all that's fit to print.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-26

'iT Understand he's her first husband"