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Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-25
Hard Hitting Wins.

COLUMBUS, April 24-The base ball sea-
son was opened here today with a parade
by the Columbus and Toledo players, fol-
lowed by an interesting game at Neil park.
The game was characterized by hard hit
ting. Attendance, 1900. Score:
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-25
Postponed Games.
st. Paul at Milwaukee.
Standing of the Teams.

Games today: st. Paul at Milwaukee
at Kansas City, Louisville al
Toledo at Columbus
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-25

out: BY Patten, 3: by Tannehfll /: by
Wolfe T. Left on bases: Washington, S;
New York, Time: 2:lO Umpire Con-
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-25
RETAIL TRADE IS IRREGULAR.

Labor Troubles.
NEW YORK. April 24.-Bradstreet's to-
morrow will say:
Trade and industry progress well, de-
spite drawbacks in the shape of numerous
labor troubles, and cool backward weather
conditions in some sections. Retail trade
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-25
DrooklYn is shnt Out.

BROOKLYN, April 24.-Timely batting in
the seventh and eighth innings enabled the
Philadelphians to shut out the Brooklyns
here todaY. Attendance. ZOO Score:
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-25
CANADA.
Totals, Canada. $50. .21S, 462 ...... 1O.E

+Balance paid in cash. sNot included in
totals because of no comparison for last
year.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-25

Regular and supplementary mails close At
foreign station haif-hour later than closing
time shown below Except that supplemen-
tary mails for Europe and Central Amer.
lea, via Colon, close one hour later at 100
eign station).
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-25
NEW YORK.
WASHINGTON.
Washington ..........

New MSSnIE5FGH Y6FG .:.:...:..o :..::.:.o Il
Earned runs: New York, 1. Two-base
hits: Ryan. Williams. Stolen base: Fultz.
First base on balls: on Tannehill, L Struck
Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-25
NEBRASKAS DEFEAT INDIANS
Wilson Makes the Longest Hit Ever
seen on the University
Grounds.

LINCOLN Neb., April A.-(Special Tele-
sram.)-The Nebraska Indians stood an ex-
Cornhuskers a beating, but bad work in
the field in the fourth inning, supplemented
by two slashing drives, gave Nebraska a
lead OF four runs and settled the issue in
their favor The aborigines outbatted their
adVersaries. but their hits were not
punched. Longanecker, a new CoTnhusker
pitcher, was given an initial trial and held
the red men safe, regardless OF question
able support Wilson the slugger Of the
the university administration building, the
first time the feat was ever accomplished
in thirty years OF ball playing on the
campus. The same teams viii be opposed
tomorrow The score today:
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Books and Authors
RRowNIne,s oHscuRlTIEs

IS
Your avowed Browningite rarely adj
mits that there is single syllable in his
masters poems which is beyond his COM
prehensicn He has the key and looks
thru the veil Of language unto the vision
and meaning Of the poet himself. Brown
ing himself explained his own method.
To those who charged him with obscur-
,ity, he used to say that, as poet, he
had become weary of old symbols and he
had cast them away and adopted new
set. Instead of taking the rose as a
symbol Of redness, he went out of his
way to select another flower which would
equally well express redness, no matter II
the majority aof people had never heard
oftsit irss their lives. This system he APP
piled in other directions. Browning, how
ever, when the frequent ellipses in his
Language are considered offers no exege-
sis himself and the reader IS left to fill
up each hiatus. This is certainly pos
sible bysfamiliarizing oneself with Brown
ing,ss style. It Is no more difficult then.
than are many passages in classical
Greek Brown1ng's poetry has been called
z"the shorthand Of poetry" and the com
parison is not inapt. Browning did not
want some Of his poetry to be too easy to
read and he made it enigmatfcal. But
Browning certainly, was not always OBJ
scure. The story that Douglas Jerrold
tried to read, "sordello,'' and, feeling his
mental faculties collapsing, shrieked 20
God, I am an idiot!'' is in doubt exag-
5gerated. Browning declared that "Sor-
idello'' was the clearest and most simple
poem In the English language. Some
people have halted at the Bells ano
Pomegranates'' series; but it is really
worth while to expend some hard study
on it, "Pippa; passes" for instance, 81
much gold Will be forthcoming.
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A SUFFERER FROM NEWsPAPERITIs
lola, Kan, Register.

they remembered the pride of his father
and mother-new asleep on the hillside
when he became the editor of the Courier
and how out of its earnings they had built
their home; and-"and the short of it isl
said Mr. Greer, with. tears filling his eyes,
Il have found. out there are some things a,
man owns that he cannot SELL - .,srs
B All Of which may sound "to the Creeks,
|, foollshne But a man who has once
wrapped his heartstrings around a news
paper will understand it perfectly easy.
It Is one CT the peculiarities of the news
paper business that a man who is in it
for the love Of it comes to look upon the
paper which he owns almost as if it were
living personality, with perceptions and
sensibilities and emotions of its own. In
deed, the public share in this feeling to a
certain degree because they commend
and criticize and discuss-and cuss-a
newspaper by its name, often without any
allusion at all to its editor, as if it had a
conscious identity quite apart from that
of the man who owns controls it. But
to the editor himself this feeling is many
fold intensified. And the reason is not
hard to comprehend. When a man puts
the very best that there is of his heart and
mird into newspaper for twenty years.
when he has given to it all the energies OF
his nature when he has coddled, it along
thru periods. of depression as father
might nurse a child in its illness, when he
I had defended it against attacks and has
/ felt at the same time it was defending him
what wonder is it that he should come
to feel after while that it is bone of his
bone and flesh of his flesh, and should find
| it nearly as hard to sell as would be one
of his children?
1t is just about twenty years now, since
| Edward Greer became owner of the Win
| field Courier. And every true newspaper.
man will understand perfectly well why ne
Iscannot sell it-and will honor him because
\ he cannot. ~s.~
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THE Low KANSAS CITY TONGUE
Kansas City Star.

hat. - The only thing to do then is to
smoke EN- Flatten the Lead
In every day English the policeman
sought ito advise. his brother officer that
in the event of a negro reaching for his
hat when he was fleeing from arrest; the
best plan to pursuettwould be. to aban--
don the pursuit by foot and after draw
ing his revolver send a bullet after him.,
as the piece of lead would travel much
faster than his own pedal extrelnitfes
There are two ways for the man who is
known in police parlance as the hobo"
to get into the city and likewise two ways
for him to get out. Upon his arrival he
either 'Iights', or BLOWS in In order
| to get out he must either "f1y the COOP
Eof throw his feet" While in transit he
either "rides the blind or hits the rods
The, former is accomplished by taking
passage on the front end or platform f
| a baggage ear, which has no front door
and hence is blind. The latter consists
| in stealing q, ride by sitting 'on the rods
| under a passenger. coach and thus avoid
| ing the eagle eye of the ever present flag
man or brakeman.
Nearly every class of prisoners who
climb the stairs at Central police station
| and advance to the sergeant's desk have
| name that is peculiar only to the, sta
| ton itself. A crazy man is called a
| Sack a drunk Sleeper" "a person
| well dressed a silk stocking" man
wearing a. long-tailed coat IAN ankle
beaten"
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Z, A story went the rounds of the news
papers few days ago to the effect that
George Clark, ex-secretary Of state, had
bought from E. P. Greer, the Winfield,
Kan, Courier. A day later there fol-
lowed j dispatch that the deal was off.
And thereby hangs very interesting and
significant tale Of a man and a newspaper,
which, we trust, all the people at Interest
will pardon the Register for telling.
Some weeks ago, thru a friend at Win
field, Mr.. Clark made Mr.. Greer an offer
for the Courier. After due consideration
the offer was accepted and Mr.. Clark went
to Winfield to close the deal. Arriving
there Mr.. Greer met him in the office Of a
mutual friend and stated to him his I'M
Outstanding Of the offer. Upon being
answered that his understanding was cor
rect, he replied: 1.-THE paper is yours, :"
and arrangements were then made for an
other meeting at 10 o'clock the next day
to draw up the necessary papers.
The three men met at the time agreed
the next day, and they did not draw up
any papers. For the first words of Mr..
Greer were: George, It's all off. I can't
do it. - And then he told why. He had
thought at first that he could sell the
Courier as easily as any other property
that he owned. He had large interests
elsewhere that took most of his time and
he could Civ ebut little personal attention
to his paper, and SO he had concluded to
sell it. The offer Mr.. Clark made was all
he thought it was worth. But when the
papers were ALREADY to sign and he began
to realize that he was on the verge of ac-
tually turning the Courier over to soma
one else, he didn't feel comfortable. And
so he talked it over with his wife. They
recalled the way in which he had started
as 'devH'' in the office thirty years ago,
and learned his trade, and the slow steps
by which he had been able to make and
save enough money to buy the paper; and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-22
THE MAGAZINES

Everybody's Magazine for August (New
York: The Ridgway Thayer Coz has
among It's more interesting features an
illustrated paper by F. Marion Crawford
on Pope Leo's Successor, the College
of Cardinals and the conclave in which
he names the prominent candidates for the
succession and tells very interesting things
about them Mr.. Crawford has been Sc
lected to be the official biographer Of Leo
XIII. He is a Roman Catholic and was
a. close friend Of Leo. He thinks there is
no possibility of electing other than an
italian to. th:e rapel throne and he says
the same motive which brought about the
election of Leo XIII. will, doubtless, pre-
vail in the coming election-the choice OF
a teacher and master Of doctrine in order
'tto demonstrate, not only the patibility
Of dogma with advanced civilization sci
ence and modern institutions, but also the
direct dependence upon Christianity Of all
that Is really good, true and Beautiful In
modern progress" There are seven cap
itaI short stories, a notable illustrated pa
per on "Gunfire: the Fleet Footed Queen
of the Turf" by G. e. Trevathan, and a
paper Of deep interest to housekeepers on
1.-THE Housekeeper's Last Stand" telling
about new union among domestic SER
wants in New England. The series OF ''Lit-
tie Stories Of Real Life, is enriched by
four good ones.
Masters in Art, Carpaccio, Boston: Bates
and Guild company, AZ Chauncey street.
vittore Capaccio 145O-22), a leading
painter Of the Venetian school, was a won
derful painter Of street scenes, fetes and
pageants, as well as interior views in Venice
while many notable paintings illustrative
of medieval legends, are among the
fruits of his industry. A dozen photos OF
examples of his art, appear in this mum
ber with biography, expert opinions of his
art and descriptions of his works. The
Illustrations include the 'tSt. George and
the Dragon, = for which Ruskin expressed
such profound admiration.
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That lower and more vicious class of
human beings who inhabit the north end
Of Kansas City and who pass in and out
of the police station month in and month
out. protesting to the desk sergeant and
pleading with the police judge, form a
race of people who are well nigh distinct,
and who have a language Of their own.
Among the negroes a police officer is
known as tde law His approach upon a
crap game in an alley is heralded with the
warning, Here comes de law. He's born
in de timber and knows how to handle it.
If he bounces de locust off'n yo' haid yo'll
have to spread decream for de judge in
de mawnin'.
Whensthis one expression Is translated
it explains a great deal Of slang used in
Kansas City below the dividing line, Fifth
street. When he spread the alarm that
sent the negroes scurrying in all directions
from the crap game In the alley and gave
his timely warning he said IN calm, polite
English, IA police officer Is approaching
our midst intent upon placing US under
arrest for violating the city ordinances
In his hand he carries heavy. black club
which is nodded from piece OF black
locust timber. Should he strike you on
the head with the club and take you to po-
lice headquarters you will be celled be-
fore the police Judge in the morning to
explain why you should not be fined and
be, sent to the workhouse."
This same negro was caught andt sent
before the police judge one morning, but
on an entirely different charge from
shooting craps. In explaining his appear
ance in police court he made clean
| breast of 1t and threw himself on the
| mercy Of the court: 70 honah, It was
! like dis. that. run away from that offsah
and he catch me. I took sack Of coal
and when see him a-cumin' took a
duck.
when the Judge had fathomed the mys-
| tery Of how the negro took a sack OF
coal and a duck he laughed and gave the
negro a small fine. No sooner had he
reached the holdover than he chuckled
| to the other victims and said: x suttinly
did spread de cream dis mawnin'."
Two police officers who had become in
oculated with the. slang were talking a
| few nights ago when one Of them voiced
! this expression: Whenever you see him
reach up and get his lid you may know
that he has joined the rabbits. He's done
wrote to you and run out from under his
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-22
No Time for Excuses.

There is. no doubt. lesson for judges,
prosecuting attorneys and juries in the
present outbreak of lynching, but it is
dertake to excuse the crimes Of nobs
because officers Of the law have been lax.
The people in democracy are not respon-
sible for an occasional lapse Of duty in
one of their chosen officers, but they are
responsible if almost everywhere their
prosecuting attorneys are easy-gofng and
their judges careless. In a democracy the
people get about the kind of officials and
about the sort Of administration they de-
serve The disposition to regard public
office as private snap, the leniency to-
ward corruption. whether in the bribe-
taker or the brive-giver. the Discrimination
of the business man to take part in
maintaining in purity that law and that
government without which he could not
do business for a day are in the last
analysis responsible for lynching, insofar
as failure to enforce the law promptly is
a cause of lynching.
At a time like this 1t is especially I'M
fortunate that anyone, no matter how
good his intentions, occupying a position
of eminence or authority should say any
thing that might be construed as de-
Tense or extenuation of lynching. That
abominable breach Of the law, no matter
how much justification there may pos
sibly be Of it in individual cases, is in nc
need of defenders at this time. Its robust
condition and aggressive attitude demand
repression. All friends of law and order
must regret that Bishop Keane OF Wyom-
Ing saw fit yesterday to defend or at least
excuse Wyoming lynchers who did not
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Wyndham's Triumph.

The British house of commons did an
extraordinarily good thing In legislation
yesterday when by vote of BIT to 20 the
Irish land bill passed it's third reading.
1t is not likely that the lords will offer
any serious opposition for the measure
is too overwhelmingly sanctioned by the
nation There was no overlooking with
amendments and the all-important bill
passed in a remarkably short time. Even
John Redmond declared yesterday that
while the bill was defective in some fea-
lures, it would, II worked in "a reasonable
and moderate spirit, bring to Ireland the
blessings. Of peace and prosperity
Apparently the most important amend
ment which was rejected was that of
John Redmond, proposing to lower the
minimum purchase price. of land men
toned in the bill.
In brief, the bill offers a bonus Of $780,
100000 to the landlords to bring about the
purchase of 100000 holdings by the ten
ants. and pledges British credit to the
amount of s5oooOO,O00 to s6oo.oOooOo to
finance the transaction, the probable pc
Rod of purchase from the landlords being
fifteen years, and the period of tenants
irepayments 6sh years. There will also
be "a saving in the cost of Irish admins
tration Of s1,25o.0OO annually .
| English and Irish statesmen alike have
long declared that the fundamental evil
from which Ireland has been suffering is
Irish landlordism. That has been a great
curse, OF course, but there is no deny
/ ing that along with it is the outrageous
treatment of the Irish people by their
powerful neighbors from the time
Hadrian ". granted a bull to Henry III.
in the year 1155, making him present OF
Ireland without a shadow Of a title to it
except the hypothesis that God hae
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fetal to a high school pupil with no college
future than Latin. algebra, geometry physics

AuSuA y t'Aoh AoIiAs nA6Opld, 6culuctty, puyclco
and chemistry.
IL a four years course were to be prepared
for boys and girls Whichs was destined to At
them as we'll as possible for entrance to Hfes
work. the farm. workshop or office, what
studies would we Offer? Could we require
them to study assiduously on Latin during the
whole course. or would we neglect aritil-
metic, grammar, geography or physiology for
algebra, geometryor chemistry, or talk SER
iOusly of introducing some of these higher
studies in the eighth grade,sor OF shortening
the whole course to three years? "a large en-
tphatic "a q. answers all OF these questions.
If our one object in the high school was to
prepare Its pupils for activity fimmed iately
after their graduation we would do very diff
ferent from what we are doing now. But
the high school eventually enter some. uni
yersity and consequently we must keep our
course up to the requirements of the uniyer-
sity no matter what happens to the 80 per
cent who have not the privileges of the
others.
Are we tied up to the university? Must we
conform to the requirements set by the uni
versity? 1t is the mission of our teachers
in our schools to prepare boys and girls for
higher education, or for better, happier
life with what instruction we should and can
give them Truthful answers to such ques-
tons will be interesting and must be forth
coming If we are to do our best for the chill
dren of the present generation. Would q
Ought & man connected with the State Uni
versity, as Mr.. Northrop is, to be on the
board?
tgsss- George v. Kinney,
Principal Alden School.
Melaca July 90 1903.
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Chicago Is Not aBluffed. .

The city of 3Chicago does not appear to
have been Frustrated by Judge Grosscup's
opinion that the ninety-nine year fran
lature Of Illinois are still binding and will
be binding for more than fifty-fsve years
yet on the people of Chicago. Mayor Har-
rison has declined to act on Judge Cross
cups suggestion that q compromise be
brought about by the purchase If the
companies rights, and the city continues
to stand firm IN it's position that either
the companies must surrender all alleged
rights under the ninety.-nine year fran
chises or fight the dispute out in the courts
before there can be any negotiations as to
future relations between the city and the
companies.
The latter had begun suit for an in
after July 80, as if the franchises had ex-
pired, but on Monday a truce was agreed
upon until Nov. 3d. During that time the
companies will be permitted to continue to
operate as in the past, and, on the other
hand, the companies are not to press the
Injunction proceedings Notwithstanding
Judge Grosscup's. high opinion OF the-Na-
lidity of the ninety-nine year franchises
! it is noticeable that the, companies do moi
act with that bodness and assurance they
would assume If they felt that they were
on firm ground.
| There seems to be something radically
wrong somewhere about any franchise thai
gives the use of streets for SO many years
for more than three generations, to any
corporation for any purpose. 1t is worth
while to say that in some quarters it Il
held that on a trial as to the validity Of the
franchises, Judge Grosscup might not sup
port the opinion he set forth in giving in
! structions to the receivers. AS admins
traitor Of AN fnsolvent corporation it wa.
the judges duty to do his best to conserve
the value Of the property, but sitting as
Judge of the question whether the people
Of Chicago are to be bound hand and foo
for fifty-five years yet by an act of tn,
Illinois legislature forty-four years ago
he might be constrained to give a decis
ion that would be the contrary of the opin
Union Traction interests.
/ But. whatever the outcome of this high
ly interesting Chicago tangle, there can b.
no doubt that it will be valuable as !.
warning to- other communities that ar
! thinking of hobbling posterity
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q +
ON SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT. BY Samuel Tray,
tures.' Illustrated by H. G. Laskey. Bos-;
ton: Lothrop Publishing company. Price 81
net: $1.15 postpaid
This story will be better appreciated if.
the former story Of Mr.. Clover is read
first In that story Travers is found talk
ling "a trip. around the world at a cost of
$50, in order to prepare himself for news
paper work He got a large amount Of
and when he got home he was
given regular assignments on a Chicago
daily. The present volume relates his
career and advancement to feature writ
ing and to special correspondent during
the troubles with the ghost dancers on
the Sioux reservation several years ago.
Subsequently there is lively work with
regulators and vigilantes in Wyoming, and
taste of tragedy Travers was reported
killed in the rustler war, but he turned up
all right, bronzed by sun and wind and
storm. He then with staff, reported the
republican national convention at Mime
apolis, and was subsequently promoted to
the position of managing editor Of the
paper he had so faithfully served
The author, Sam Clover, is no stranger
to newspaper men in Minnesota. He has
written a book of adventure Of deep in
terest and shows the real thing in news
paper work, which, If a man takes it up
in earnest, hezwill find most exacting iii its
demands on his mental and physical re-
sources; upon his courage and pluck, while
stimulating his ambition to succeed. The
author incidentally gives a very thrilling
account Of the ghost dancing and the
death of old Sitting Bull.
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THE NONPAREIL MAN

dinner" he said to himself .It will be
just the place. to build a store building for
one Of my clients who has decided to come
here
started down town again. To his amaze
ment he found store building on the lot
and a team loaded with goods backed up
in 'front.' Several yoke of oxen were be-
ing driven away. They had just finished
hauling the building on the lot. The man
who owned the building had bought the lot
and moved the structure on during the
noon hour.