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Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

places a supplied choir may be installed
In a meeting house and not reverse its
colors nor darken its prediction for sim
plicity.
The vested choir appears to be gaining
to almost the point Of a vested RIGHT.
There are reasons wholly untheological in
Its favor. II all the members OF the choir
wear the same hue and cut Of tunic there 4,
less distraction caused among the vor-
shippers by their presence. A variety OF
bonnets on the soprani and att benches
lures many a sensitive being away from
prayer book and hymnal to millinery and
mantua-makers Nariegated scarfs and
neckties among tenori and bassi dazzle the
young OF both sexes and make for world
illness, while the white Rarment worn by
one and all suggests other worldliness.
There is undoubtedly an esthetic arsu-
ment, moreover, in favor OF the white tunic.
White is more becoming to most complex
ions than any texture containing a pigment.
for white and black are not c%olors, but only
light and shade. White also is the mos,
beautiful of symbolism. II is the emblem
Of innocence. II tsstefullv drsped 1t may
even symbolic the angenc array Of organ
pipes with an unseen but imaginable st.
Cecilia at the keyboard.
The churches with vested choirs are
likely to have larger congregations, per-
manent and transient, then churches with
out vested choirs. For now as, formerly
many to church repair not for the doctrine
but the music there. Good singing is =
potent ally for doctrine.
Did not Luther sing the reformation to
success? Now comes the time to reform
the singing and 10 that end a vested choir
is as regular army officers leading volun-
teers TO victory.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

navigation. That these bridges neces-
sarily constitute part of the main lines
Of the railroads for which they were
constructed is an ~indisputable fact, but
the railroad projectors have treated
these bridges as separate from the rail
road proper and have capitalized them
Independent Of their main lines. The
Union Pacific bridge at Omaha, for ex-
ample, was bonded for s ,J00,000, al
though its original cost did not exceed
half of that sum.
Having enormously o~vervalued and
capitalized these bridges, the railroads
have for many years lmposed,a special
bridge toll upon all traffic that crosses
the Missouri river and by such policy
assumed a Just liability for special tax
alton. For nearly twenty years the
Union Pacific bridge at Omaha collected
30 cents for every passenger and $40 for
every carload of freight conveyed across
Il. Within the past ten years the bridge
tolls have peer reduced by one-half, or
So per carload and % cents per passen-
ger. The bridge tolls across the Mis-
souri, at P~lattsmouth have been the
same as those at Omaha, the only differ
ence being that they do not appear on
the freight bills because the bridge Is
merely an extension of the Burlington
system and the bridge tolls are absorbed.
Whether the bridge tolls are high or
low, just or unjust, the main question Is,
Why should not the Missouri river rail
road bridges be treated as separate prop
erty from the main lines so long as the
railroads persist in separating these
bridges from their main ines by special
charges2 If Missouri river bridge tolls
are justified, why should there not also
be special charges at every tunnel which
railroads have built through the noun
tains of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and
Nevada?
The Missouri river bridges have long
ago paid for themselves, but even if
there had not been a dollar paid off on
the original investment, Is 1t not right
and reasonable that these bridges
should be separated for purposes of tax
alton SO long as the railroad companies
see ft to separate them from the main
lines for the exactlon of a special bridge
toll? If these bridges have become part
of the main lines for all intents and pur-
poses, why should the roads persist in
treating them as special properties that
must earn interest upon the capital in
vested in their construction, or, worse
yet, upon capital borrowed on the
strength of the ability of the railroads
to levy tribute upon the traffic of the
Transmissouri country?
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28
NOT A TRUE "RECORD."
How the Organ of Congress f. Edited
for Political Enect
York Mail and Express.

New York Mail and Express.
The Congressional Record is not at pres
ent conducted for the benefit Of the people
who pay for It, but for the convenience ana
Interior political purposes Of the members
OF congress.
When an average representative In the
lower house, for instance, is permitted by
Speaker Henderson to make a speech, he is
perfectly we'll aware that he will not be
reported in the newspapers. The papers
have a great many things to publish, and
have no room for the average congress-
mans remarks. The member does not ex-
pect to influence the house. He knows
that 1t is Influenced by other consldera.
lions than those which the chance repre-
sentative can bring forward In a set speech.
What he wants TO do is to get his re-
marks before his constituents in the most
impressive way. He does not even expect
them to read his speech, but he wants
them to know that he made II, and to
suppose that 1t Is Of consequence. So he
does what the rules permit him to do ana
the practice of the house ENCOURAGES him
In doing-he takes his speech out OF the
report OF the regular proceedings In the
next days Record; he cuts out its worst
passages and adds to it's leaden stupidity
various brass ornaments OF rhetoric; he
pulb a llllb anu u bedulllul pOtllChl eAtThCL
at the head of it; beneath this he places
his own name, with It's prefix OF Honor
able" and his various congressional attri-
butes. in displayed lines, below this; he has
printed all by itself in a subsequent num-
Der Of the Record, and then, under his
frank, he has II circulated all over his
district.
His constituents get the idea that their
representatives address is being honored
with especial prominence and distinction In
the Record. It seems to them 10 be de-
tached and put forward because It was
deemed too important for inclusion in the
ordinary routine. They are impressed.
And the representatives. object is accom-
plished. so far as that speech can accom-
plish 1t.
The Congressional Record is by this prac-
tice perverted from its true purpose. It's
report OF the proceedings OF congress ought
to be a true and complete record, from which
the people, or the few men who look into
things and form judgments for them, can
tell Just how much Of the wheat Of actual
sense and information is mixed up in the
chaff OF buffoonery, bluff" buncombe and
laundering that make up four-hfths Of the
talk in congress. The Record ought not to
be a mere trick to impose on the electors.
II should be full, honest, accurate and abb
solutely literal and downright in It's picture
Of the public proceedings of congress.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28
Chunks of Useless information.
Philadelphia Record

Camille F1ammarion, the well-known
French astronomer, has announced the fact
hat 1000, 0O0, 900 minutes since the begin
ming OF the Christian era had elapsed on
Friday last at 6:10 p. m. Nobody probably
experienced any sensation whereby the
billionth minute OF the Christian era could
be Differentiated from any hat went be-
fore or that have come after. The man
who knows how many commas there are in
the Bible or how many times the article
"a is repeated in Shakespeare will doubt
less seize this chunk Of French astronom-
ical wisdom with gusto.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28
VESTED CHOIRs.
in Thei Favor Overcoming
LIturEIcaI Objections.
Chicago Chronicle.

Chicago Chronicle.
Despite the high and austere intent Of
Wesleyanism and Calvinism and without
detracting an iota from the essential stand
ards Of either there is a manifest reaction
in favor OF supplied choirs among con-
gregations hitherto averse by tradition to
liturglcal associations.
Classic denunciations OF prelacy by puri-
tanism are still read with interest and
pleasure, but chiefly for the sake Of the
style. Millions prose was never as popu-
lar as his poetry; 1t grows less so every
generation. But when Milton writes even
prose, even prose CLOSED over and over
with once fresh but now stale Latin and
Greek compounds; when Milton piles up
epithets until a verbal PeliOn surmOunts a
verbal ossa, he will continue to be read
more or less. perhaps less. But while
Milton will always command homage he
will not always be convincing. Without,
however. reinstatlng prelaey In unprel-tisal
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28
GOSPEL OF
Becoming q Marked Characteristic of
American Life.
Saturday Evening Post.

Saturday Evening Post.
One reason why nobody has written the
standard book upon American customs and
manners, and a possible explanation why
we wait vainly for the great American
novel, is the fact that American life is in
such a constant condition Of change. II
one were so gifted as to catch an absolutely
accurate picture OF the nation this year,
one would find next year that II was out OF
date and untrustworthy. This refers not
so much to conditions OF commercial pros
perity or to fluctuations OF political feel
ing, as to the small ways of daily life.
Never has there been. in the history of the
world, a country where individuals and
whole communities nave been so full OF the
passion for self-improvement as we are.
Among the ideas which we have half got
hold OF, and which we are likely to take
up with increasing enthusiasm within the
next few years. is that OF the advantages
and delights Of privacy. We have been
domestic without being especially private.
We never make much OF a point OF pulling
the curtains at nightfall across our sitting
and dining room windows, and when We
first possessed piano lamps with broad UNI
brells shades we put them at once into the
front bay window, so that the passers-by
might enjoy them. Formerly We used to
crowd into summer hotels, and the nearer
our chairs stood to the chairs Of our fellow
guests the happier We we're. II there is
a trace Of eIaggeration in all this the
reader will perhaps pardon It, because 1t
heightens a contrast. Nowadays each one
Of us longs for a small cottage in the
country where he may plant his own vine
and hg tree. We screen our front porches
with flowers and awnings. Soon II may
happen that some one will rescue the back
yard and make Of IL q pleasant garden.
Slight as the evidences OF II are, the
change Is begun. In America, that 10 al
most the same thing as completed.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

The idiotic gable about 1000 Ameri-
can journalists who will be in Omaha
when the mex National Editorial as
ISOLATION assemblies would be amusing
IL 1t were not so deceptive. At the re-
cent gathering OF this so-called National
association at Hot Springs, Nebraska,
with it's 600 newspaper publications, was
represented by two men and the press
Of other states pro rata. A Photographic
view of the whole assemblage pub
lished by the st. Louis Globe Democrat
shows a great majority to have been
women, with a sprinkling of men and
some Juveniles, and 1t is exceedingly
doubtful whether the number of these
junketeers will exceed one-tenth of one
thousand.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28
Costly Experiments.
Portland oregonlan.

IUIIIdHu UTeBOnIaH,
Germany was never a bright and shining
light in colonial administration, so that
the details Of her deficits in China afford
no cause for surprise. Figures OF this
sort, however, are practically valueless. as
the benefits of colonial trade do not appear
In governmental balance sheets to offset
expenditures. Few departments Of gov
ernmental expenditure pay their way. We
ne er get back directly what we spend for
police and fire protection. canada costs
Great Britain money, but it comes handy
in war time.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28
Let In Plenty of Sunshine.

You may go about among nine-tentbs Of
the comfortable homes in almost any civil
ized country and find that the sun is
counted by the typical housewife her es-
pecial foe. Sne does not allow him even
to peep into her parlor. that holy Of holes,
where her best furniture and her finest
carpets and c~ostliest hangings are-oh, no!
Science has clearly shown that sunlight
properly used decreases mortality. Both
physically and morally we should let the
sunlight have free right Of way into our
lives. II we let 1t into the physical sphere
1t will find its own way into the moral.
There is no such thing as too much sunlight.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

The Omaha gusher. better known as
the World Herald, emits a whole volume
of vapor and gas exhorting public
spirited citizens of Omaha to emulate
the example of New Orleans, Mobile
and other southern cities. The plan
proposed by the gusher is very sim-
pie. Each and every individual liv-
ing in Omaha, South Omaha and
Council Bluffs must wea a metal
badge in the buttonhole Of his, her
or it's jacket, overshirt or shirtwaist
as an evidence of membership in good
standing, and when any of these people
come in front of a fence they must pull
themselves across by the boOtstraps OF
stocking fasteners.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

Each succeeding decision of u SUI
preme court on questions of vital public
Importance brings new converts to the
demand for an early and effective re-
casting of Nebraska's outgrown con-
stitution. The necessity for a more up
to-date fundamental law conforming
more nearly to the new conditions with
which the state is confronted after more
than twenty-five years of growth and
progress is becoming more and more
imperative, opening the eyes of the
people to the urgency of immediate
action. The Bee has for years been
consistently calling for constitution re-
vision and it's agitation is sure to bear
fruit before very long.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

The brilliant genius that edits the
Omaha double-ender makes a most pa
thetic appeal to the citizens OF Omaha,
South Omaha and Council Bluffs TO
emulate thu enterprise and push of Mo
bile, Ala. When 1t Is borne in mind that
Mobile, after 200 years OF public spirited
push and enjoying all of the natural
advantages Of a great seaport, has
managed to arc a population Of
scarcely $1,000 and cuts absolutely no
figure In the clearing house record. the
value OF this suggestion must impress
itself on intelligent tri-city business
aen. \
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28
sAssAFRAX TEA.

ID. Nesbit in Baltimore American
some folks takes their bitters-
Made OF don't NOW what
Saws II tones the system
An helps out a lot
some folks likes their tonics;
But 1 think, b'gee,
g nothin' in the springtime
Good as sassafrax tea.
Course. l know the doctors
SAYS at irons good ~,
But they charge for TENN
An it's understood
they won't cure nobqqy.
'Thout they get their fee.
Sb1cksl You take your doctorst
IN take ~sassafraX tea.
Soon as / feel rusty.
gets spade an. AK
Then hunts a boiler
Where they's sassafraN,
Rue lie roots, then strain EN-
SWeeten. II s. be
You like a.. Then It's READY,
Drink your s~assafraA tea
II amt got no posters,
Tellin' what n does
Fore an after takin
Best that eve was.
Nor no testymOnyuls,
But. you bank on me-
Knock that tierd feeltn
With some sassafrax tea
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

The bill granting to the Omaha North
ern Railway company an extension of
three years in which to construct the
road across the Omaha and Winnebago
Indian reservation has passed both
houses of congress and now goes to the
president for his signature. The pro-
moters of this air line railroad have Sc
cured the right-of-way through the
Indian reservations under pretext that
they have the capital to build a rail-
road, but the fact that they have log
rolled a bill through congress to give
them three years more time within
which to complete the road clearly
indicates that this is simply a specula-
tive scheme for unloading a franchise
to some syndicate yet to be organized
or to some existing road that is willing
to pay a bonus for preventing the con-
struction Of a competing line. Whether
such enterprises deserve encouragement
is extremely doubtful. If there was a
long felt want for the road there ought
to have been no trouble in meeting the
conditions of the original bill within the
time prescribed in the charter. If the
air line is simply an anchor thrown to
windward it should never have been
given a charter.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28
TAXATION OF MIssoORi HivrR BRIDGES

TAXATION or MISSOURI RIYER BRIDGES
The Burlington road has Invoked the
power Of the courts to enjoin the com
missioners of Cass county from levyfng
and collecting a special tax on the rail
way bridge that spans the Missouri river
at Plattsmouth. This action revives the
old issue OF railway bridge taxation that
has in years past caused so much vex
alton and bitter contention.
1t is a matter OF history that all Of the
bridges across the Missouri have been
erected under separate charters granted
by congress under the assumption that
the Missouri river 10 a n~avigable stream
which cannot be bridged without the
permission OF the national authorities
because such structures would impede
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

The call for the populist state conven-
ton which has Just been given to the
public ofhciaIly apportiOns 12S delegates
to Douglas county, where the populists
scarcely muster 800 votes, while six OF
the biggest populist counties, namely.
Butler, Buffalo, Custer, Dawes, Hamil-
ton ana Saunders combined will have
only l29 delegates.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28
Good Business Policy.
Buffalo Express.

Secretary Shaw is to be commended for
ruling that government warrants and
checks may hereafter be paid after simple
Endorsement guaranteed by the banks pre-
senting the paper for payment. Heretofore
not only endorsement has been necessary,
but the check or warrant had to be ac-
companied by a certificate showing the au-
thority Of the indorser. The change is in
the line Of good business policy.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

When the telegraph and electric light
wires have been placed under ground
and the billboards are taken down to
stay down the danger in u public
thoroughfares during hurricanes will be
materially lessened.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

The struggle for the control of the
eggs Of the country has become so fierce
that artificial egg layers Al well as
artificial egg hatchers will be put in
reQuisition.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

A new code of laws Of ancient Baby
lonia has been unearthed and deciph-
cred. II Is safe to say that they are
Just as applicable to present conditions
as some OF the dead letter laws we
still cherish on our modern statute
books.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

J. Pierpont Morgan's exploits are be-
coming so famous that over in Europe
the apprehension is cropping out that
his venture may he an effort to perfect
q merger of all the royal crowns
handed down to present owners from
medieval ancestry. That would be a
crowning achievement.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

II the reverend senators want to keep
up to the pace that has been set for
them by pugilistic and fractions mem
bers they will have to invent a few
new forms of violent outbreaks that Will
each in succession produce a climax in
senatorial sensationalism.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

limit somewhere. And It may come to the
point where the people OF the United states
who share in neither monopoly profits nor
stock-juggling will be compelled to combine
against the combinations.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

A wise American mule will make the
most of 1t while the Boer val lasts.
There's no telling how soon his services
will be again in such great demand
abroad.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

These Christmas tales found as few
credulous people to swallow them in
Denmark as they did in America, where
no n even professed to believe them.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

The Incorporation Of canal power
companies is the latest fad, but all of
the power canals projected up to date
still remain on paper.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

Is it not about time for the valiant
Henry Watterson to make another up
roarious charge upon his phantom imam
on horseback? 2"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28
Joe Saved His HAIR.

Baltimore American.
Joseph Jefferson declines to take any
chances with osculatory females who are
delighted with his performances. Mr.. JEFF
ferson is too old to take UP the piano as
a livelihood.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28
Provoeation for a Kick.

Boston Transcript.
1t is pretty discouraging for a court Of
Justice to hand down a decision against
a shirt waist at this time Of year and with
a hot wave said to be within arms reach
At that
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

Give Senator Jones of Arkansas credit
for n good trait. He seems to realize
when he is beaten and to be willing to
subside while his star is in eclipse.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

The rule against talking too much is
a good one as well for the ordinary lay.
man as for the military officer in high
rank.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28
Taking On a Bracer.
Philadelphia Ledger.

We are not afraid Of any nation, but
We are going to spend SIS. OOO. 900 on new
warships to keep our courage W.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

Another move on the South African
chess board is about due.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

South Omaha politicians are clamor-
ing for voting machines. Haven't they
had them all Of the time?
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28
BREEZY

Detroit Free Press: He-I know It! / feel
It'll You have been flirting with some other
man.
she-But. my dear. I was SO lonesome
without you.
Philadelphia Press: ''They have two serv-
"Huh, that's nothing. We usually have
two in our house, one going and the other
coming
Chicago Post; The one-night-stand ira
That" said the Joker, as the ~tragedian
strapped on the boards, lis a good nlustrA-
ton of a h~am-sandwich."
Washington Star: 'what do you think
will be the outcome of this isthmian canal
'Weii," answered Senator Sorghum, with
the air of a man who weighs HIS opinions.
81 think l can guarantee you some very
fine opinions"
Boston Transcript: Edith-What makes
you look so downcast. Ruth? There must
Ruth-Tell you the truth, Edith. my mar
ried life has been a disappointment Be
after Charley; but now it doesn't appear
that any of them want him. / should ne
so happy II one or two OF them would only
try TO steal him away from me.
Philadelphia Press. Whenever I'm in
cIined 10 lose my temper" said the phllo-
sophie man. II Just think to, myself: oh,
there's no use getting mad.
$50 do J." replied the eXcltable person.
"and that makes me all the NADER
Chicago Post: Things are very badly ar
ranged in this world
"How sO?" u,,
why, the man with the money usually
lacks the digestion and the man with the
digestion seldom has the money.
An Oklahoma poet has Improved on POOR
Richard. He says;
Early to bed and early to rise
Does very well for sick folR ana guys 40,
But it makes a man miss all the run u'
And Joins the stins that have gone to the
skies.
Go 10 bed when you please
And lie at your ease
disease.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28
sTArEMENT or ARTICULATION.

state OF Nebraska, Douglas County, SIS:
George b. Tzschack. secretary OF The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
complete copies OF The Daily, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
lhe month of March. 1872. was as follOMn:
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28
one Remedy In sight.
Baltimore Sun.

At the present rate In ten years almost
everything people eat, drink or use will be
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

Chicago Post: The one-night-stand ira
gedian went out to advertise his own show.
That said the joker, as the tragedian
strapped on the boards, 'fs a good illustra-
ton of a ham-sandwich."
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

Net total sales o ,b13
Net daily average. ............... 29,277
GEO. B. TZSCHUCK.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this 31st day of March. A. ID.
1902. GEORGE RASMUSSEN,
CSeal.) Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

Philadelphia Press: ''They have two serv-
ants"
'Huh, that's nothing. We usually have
two in our house,; one going and the other
coming"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

Detroit Free Press: Hell know It! / feel
I'll You have been flirting with some other
man.
she-But, my dear. 1 was SO lonesome
without you.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-28

PHILADELPHIA Press. whenever I'm in
cIined 10 lose my temper" said the philo-
sophie man, II Just think to myself: Oh
there's no use getting mad
$50 do l." replied the eXcitable person,
land that makes me all the nader"