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Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21
FINANcINa TIE CITY DEBT

Proposals have been invited by City
Treasurer Hennings for the purchase Of
S4s4. 600 Of renewal bonds of the city Of
Omaha. bearing interest at 4 per cent
semi-annually, and payable at the eX-
piration Of thirty years. The proposed
issue OF bonds has been authorized by
vote Of the city council, the proceeds
thereof to take up outstanding bonds of
an equal amount due during the pres
ont year.
while the refunding Of the municipal
debt has become imperative there is n
grave question as to the advisability Of
issuing a thirty-ycar per cent bond
when bonds payable in twenty or even
ten years are negotiable. The credit
OF the city OF Omaha has been improv-
ing from year 10 year and will con-
tinue TO improve in the coming years
by req son of its increased growth in
wealth and population. Although the
interest rate has temporarily been ris-
ing in the financial market within the
past twelve months, the city will as
sumo no risk in an issue of bonds that
would mature In 1913 or 1923. No pre-
cedent for an issue of thirty-year city
bonds exists prior to 1900
There is a very fair prospect that the
state of Nebraska would ten years
hence be willing to invest its surplus
permanent school funds in Omaha re-
funding bonds at per cent, or at the
very highest at from 3k to 315 per cent.
Within the past year several hundred
thousand dollars of the permO uent
state school fund have been invested
at those figures, and the city's bonded
debt could readily have been refunded
at 3 per cent this year were 1t not for
the fact that the constitution requires
the permanent school fund to be in
vested in United States or state securi-
ties. Within the next five years at
the farthest we may look for amend
ments to the constitution that will
validate the investment of the perma-
nent school fund in approved bonds of
ANSbAdshh municipalities, as Wei Us III
approved county bonds.
From every point of view, therefore
the issue of thirty-year bonds would
seem to be injudlcious and undesirable
at this time, In view Of the fact that
the bonds have not yet been negotiated
we would suggest that the resolution
authorizing the issue of these bonds be
so amended as to reduce the period OF
expiration from thirty to ten years, OF
to authorize bids for two series OF
bonds. payable in ten and twenty years
incidentally. 1t would seem to us also
advantageous to have the competitive
field enlarged, so that parties who are
disposed to bid for small blocks OF
bonds, say from $4,000 upwards, shall
have an equal chance with those who
are bidding for the whole issue or the
bulk Of the proposed issue.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21
SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT.

washington Post: An Indiana minister
Is attracting some notoriety by preaching
sermons I'm his sleep. thus reversing the
old custom OF preaching while his congre-
CATION slept.
Kansas city Star: one Of the mos,
touching incidents OF the flood was the
case OF the Armourdale clergyman whose
barrel OF old sermons was destroyed. A
great wave Of sympathy will go out to this
unfortunate man from Methodist preach
ers all over the country.
Chicago Chronicle: Clerical gentlemen
who assume to sit in judgment upon other
clersymen, not even Of their own denomina-
ticn, need TO be reminded that there is an
eleventh commandment, which is Of great
value even though it was not craven on the
snaitic tablets. 1t reads; Mind your own
business"
Indianapolis Journal: The last Of the
Spanish Catholic dignitaries Of the Philip
pines has resigned and will soon leave the
Islands. The vatican has Americanized the
Roman Catholic clergy Of the islands very
quietly, but none the less thoroughly. And
1t is impossible to overestimate the effect
OF this change on the problem Of govern
ing the archipelago.
Phlladelphia Ledger: Rev. p. w. Bilder-
back, pastor OF the Fourth Methodist Epis-
copal church. has introduced a new feature
for his Sunday evening service that OF a
choir Of thirty young men whistlers. The
choir made its first appearance the other
night before a large congregation and
whistled several selections. Some of the
boys in the gallery Joined in the chorus
Springfield Republican: They have been
having a 1ong-continued drouth in New
England, which led Rev. DIR. withrow OF
Boston to preach last Sunday on the ques-
tion OF whether or not 1t Is right to pray
for rain. He argued that It is right to
ask the Lord to save perishing crops, as
suring his hearers that IL they did their
part the Lord would do HIS. As heavy
rains have fallen In and about Boston
since Sunday, the assumption is that the
reverend doctors congregation went i'm
mediately home and began praying
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21
INTERNATIONAL OBLIGATIONS

Not a great many people have an in
obligations. Comparatively few have
a correct idea of what is meant by the
comfy of nations. This is shown in
the appeals that are made to our gov
ernment, whenever anything occurs
abroad to arouse popular indignation
here, to formally protest and even to
interpose with u view to preventing the
recurrence of such an event, although
it may not in the remotest degree affect
any American interest. There have
been many instances within the last
twenty years of the popular misappre-
hension in this respect and doubtless
there will be more of them in the fu-
ture, though undoubtedly public en-
lightenpent respecting international
obligations is growing.
1t should be perfectly obvious TO
everybody of ordinary intelligence that
it is not the duty nor the right of one
government TO interfere In the internal
affairs of another. Every nation must
be permitted to administer its own af-
| fairs without question from another ma
! tion so long as the consequences of
rights or interests of any other country
| The United States, for example, would
vigorously resent any attempt on the
part of a European government to call
] FOR fhn
! lynching of negroes or for any other
outrages In which only our own citi-
zens were concerned by protesting
against such occurrences. We should
: tell any government doing this to mind
its own business. Similarly European
government would be fully justified in
resenting interference on our part in
fits internal affairs, so long as no inter
est of ours was involved.
1t is certainly desirable that this
should be p~ore generally understood,
! that our people should have a clearer
comprehension of international obliga.
tiOns and of that courtesy and consider
alton which is meant by the term com,
! llN OF uullOnS. W mic InOSe IN OT1Clal
authority may reprobate as strongly as
any other OF our citizens outrages in
foreign lands that arouse the indlgna-
tion OF civilized mankind. they are con-
strained not 10 give official expression
to their feeling when no American in
terest is affected. 1t is not TO be
doubted that President Roosevelt and
Secretary Hay are In most hearty sym
pathy with popular feeling regarding
the Kishinen ntrocity. but they could
not commit the government TO a recog,
milton Of this sentiment without en-
dangering the friendly relations with
Russia and at the same time placing
the Uaited States in an unfavornblc
position among the nations. For our
own welfare and security Il is necessary
that the government shall not under
take to interfere IN the internal affairs
Of any other nation, save where Amer.
lean interests or the rights OF Ameri.
can citizens are directly concerned aud
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21
Forecnst on the Crop.

ST Louis GIObe-DemocTHI'
A conservative estimate is that the whea1
crop Of 1903 will reach n total Of 74oWo,oC
bushels, as compared with 67o,oOo,OOo In 1902
74s 900 900 in 1901 and 522 900 in 1900 This
is a very happy condition and will please
the country. with such heavy wheat
Weld as 74O,OOOOOO bushels the country
would be assured OF cheap bread but oi
course, a great deal will depend on the corr
crop. This is two or three months too early
10 figure on the corn yield with any conn
dence. The latest indications In the corn
growing region. however, were favorable
despite the cold weather and the ravase'
of the floods.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21
THE WANDERERS.

w. d. Nesbit in Chicago Tribune.
las a bird that VANDERBILT from her nest,
so is man that VANDERBILT from his
place Proverbs, wills.
What is the call the wild birds hear,
Too subtle for our ken?
What hail comes to the fallow 6eer
From distant brake or glen?
Is II the same that soft and clear
Goes out to wandering men?
What is the call that minds the bird
OF its long vacant nest?
Is II upon the echoes blurred
By vagrant breeze cdressed,
Just as the signing, voiceless word
Which tells men Home Is best?
What puts the music in the call
Which comes to them afar-
BY mountainsde or city wall,
Meath pine or deodar-
The music that bids one and all
Turn where the home things are7
None knows the mystic call which comes
To man and bird and beast,
AS Weakening as throbbing drums
When warfare long has ceased
Insistently II sings and thrums
To great ones and the least.
1t may be but a rustling tree
Which sings II with Its leaves,
1t ay be that the signing sea
The summons softly weaves;
But what and howsoe'er 1t be
The call each one receives.
It is the melody divine
The music OF the spheres
That clear in cadence, faint and fine,
Comes sweetly to our ears
A song of infinite design
Through Gods unnumbered years.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21
A DIVORCE CRUSADE.
New Movement by CIergymen ana
LaymeI of various Churches'
Boston Advertiser

New Movement by CIergymen ana
Iaymen of various Churches.
Boston Advertiser
T,asnsirinR OF securing uniformity among
the divorce statutes OF a state and OF secur-
ing a national law. eminent clergymen ana
Ia vren have formed an organization among
themselves TO see what can be accomplished
nv their own personal efforts to check the
divorce evil. They are not ndulglhe IN
oratorical flights in rallment against
divorce. nor in bitter and YituperatiVe de-
nunciation through press and pulpit; they
are striving by their own personal lnnuehce
10 secure an agreement among the churches
not to remarry any person who may nave
been divorced 80
In the movement are included some Meth
odists nearly all Catholics, a few Prespy-
tsrisns high church Episcopalians, stray
ITnIyersalists and Christian Scientists. The
leaders in this movement believe that as
long az marriages within the church pre-
dominate so heavily over marriages with
out that the church may have some in
Auence TO repress the freedom with which
diyorces arc now secured, and with which
the divorces remarry. Rev. DR.. Pardow' a
Jesuit. who is directing the church union
against divorce, presents starting array
cf statistics, showing the great extent 10
which the divorce curse Is ramifyinC
throughout the country.
II Is estimated that there are 100000
children in this country today who are the
offspring of divorced parents. And the ef-
feet OF broken homes, disregard OF parental
authority. and more or less prevalent
misery must have a debasing effect upon
the minds of children thus afflicted During
the last twenty years there have been $685.
ZIG divorces During the same period
Europe. with It's population OF SsOOOoOOo
had only A4Sn divorces The United States
with a population one-hfth that OF the pop
ulation of Europe. has had 80 per cent more
divorces This proves that the divorce evil
is not characteristic OF the times, but more
OF a national disease.
| Or. Pardow believes that the church can
PARTLY prevent remarriage Of divorced peo-
pie. but he finds that the great power OF
| coming to the rescue OF the country In the
| prevention of divorce has been removed
| from the church TO society. The religious
| penalty of the church does not seem 10 act
/ as a deterrent toward checking the evil IN
the slightest degree. The only hope lies In
social ostracism OF the guilty This course
IL arbitrary. but II is the court OF last re-
/ sort and clergymen and laymen are united
/ that II must be invoked. II II ever comes
about society must be very different from
what II is now. '"rhe best society" Is
made up mainly OF divorces.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21

England, I never smoke cigars. what do
you smoker" was the surprised qucr,
Bacon" was the prompt reply.
Those who accompanied the liberty bell
from Philadelphia TO Boston say that there
was less demonstration over the prccl5u,
relic in New York than in any other pla.,
along the route. As one Of the party puts
Il: "The bell passed through the mctro,.
oils like a consignment OF structural iron
Requests were received from nearly every
town and city between Boston and Phil.
adelphia 10 allow the people 20 seo the
relic, but no such request came from New
York So II happened that while 10000
baseball dervishes gathered at the bulletin
boards no single person in New York dlt
honor to the symbol OF American frce.
DOM"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

During the great strike of hotel waiter,
In Chicago some of the millionaire guest,
waited on themselves. They had not for.
gotten the training of their early life.
Oscar 8. straus president of the Civic
Federation, has been chosen as the third
arbitrator in the arbitration Of San Fron.
cisco railroad difficulty involving 81 600 Oot
OF wages.
Don't pay 100000 a pound for radium
when you can get Il good article of no.
lonium that will answer household and
kitchen purposes Just as well for only
2,50O,0OO a pound.
A unique question has arisen in Brook
lyn. 1t is whether women BARRIERS shall
be admitted INTO the Master BARRIERS asso-
citation. 1t is thought that II they do gain
entrance II will be by very close shave.
The Rock Island railroad is probably the
only road in the country which EMPLOYS a
woman as boss of a section gang. This
road finds that she can make the men worl,
hard. 1t would be interesting to know how,
much her husband weighs.
The new king Of servia says he is deeply
touched by his elevation to the throne, and
as he demands an increase of the ''civi'
list" which means salaries and perquisites,
it looks as II the servian treasury was
about to be deeply touched, too.
The chambermaid who was discharged
from an Indianapolis hotel for refusing to
make Booker T. Washington's bed has lost
her suit against the hotel company for
damages. She will have to be satisfied
with her collection of loving cups.
In his early days Sir Thomas Upton de-
MED himself almost every pleasure except
that of amassing fortune. Calling one day
on consul on business matters he was
offered a cigar by the official. mo, thank
YOU" said Sir Thomas (then Mr) Upton.
Although ] am the biggest smoker in
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21

even in such cases great care should be
taken TO respect every obligation. Moth
ing could be more unfortunate for us
than TO be regarded as a people ever
ready to meddle in the affairs of other
peoples. SO far as the expression Of
public opinion is concerned, that is a
matter over which our government has
no control II is not less effective than
declaration OF official opinion and It
does not involve responsibility or i'm
peril friendly relations with other gov.
ernments.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21

An indignant protest should go up at
once from every hamlet in the country
against the iconoclastic decree of the
superintendent of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad putting an
embargo upon rice throwing in the rail
road stations belonging to that corpora
ton. This ill-tempered railroad official
must be some crusty old bachelor who
has been thrown down as a discarded
suitor Oh the matrimonial market anj
has no just appreciation of the beauti-
full custom of showering the departing
bride and groom with rice-a custom
handed down from generation to gener-
alton, SO that no happy honeymoon can
now be started right without the orien-
tai breakfast food accompaniment. IN
less the obnoxious anti-rice throwing
order is rescinded, no self-respecting
bridal couple can afford to patronize
the road. The blacklist and the boy
colt are the proper weapons with which
to sretaliate and the prosecuted wedding
parties may safely count upon having
public sentiment and sympathy on their
side.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21

1t is said that st. Anthony spent
three years of his life in trying to
evolve the problem, how many angels
can stand on the point of a needle. SO
we need not be surprised If it takes
three times three years for the embat-
tied ecclesiastics who are engaged i'm a
wordy war over the divergence between
the Anglican and Roman Catholic
churches in the World Herald to reach
conclusion that does not conclude.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21

The principal object which the Keene
faction seems to be trying to accomplish
in its fight with the Hartman interests
over control of the Southern Pacific is
to divert TO New Orleans traffic which
now goes through Omaha over the
Union Pacific. In a nght turning on
this issue Mr.. Hartman can count on
the support of public sentiment in Ne
braska and all the other states traversed
by the Union Pacific.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21
DOMESTIC PLEAsANTRIEs.

Employer-A raise? What have you
heard that warrants your belief that We
could pay you more wages7 ,,...
Clerk-t-er-heard Edith say yes last
night, sir-Indianapolis News.
First Citizen-what do you think Of this
idea Of an army of the unemployed march.
ing to Washington
Second Citizen--Thats nothing new II
happens every four years.-New York
Weekly.
80 you quarreled with your wife?"
mo, sub; she quarreled wild me
Don't you ever answer back?'
ledge" replied the witness, I'm 40 years
oldv-Atlanta Constitution.
Tess-Yes, my enga cement ring is lovely.
but the jewelers. name isn't on the box Il
Jess-That doesn't signify that 1t isn't a
Tess-Of course not. but II don't know
the jewelers. name how am l TO find out
how much George paid for it7-Philadelphil
Press
They say that men don't propose
wonder why It is?'
these days that man gets out Of breath
trying to keep up with her."-Chicago Post
Poor man." she said. STOPPING over the
victim who had just been dragged out from
under her automobile, have you n wite7"
NO" he groaned, this is the worst thing
that ever happened to me."-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
Bridesmaid-You poor. frightened darling.
You looked scared to death at the altar.
Bride-Yes, George trembled so l was
dreadfuly afraid he'd lose courage and
run away.-New York Weekly.
Mrs. Meadows-Yaas. Hiram got rid O.
thet brindle COW thet useter steal her own
milk
Mrs. Korntop-Dew tell? I s'pose he tuck
most anything he could get for her.
Mrs. Meadows-He jest got double wat
he paid fur her; sold her TO thet new man
from the city ez n er."-Phila-
delphia Press.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21
KEEP EvrRL.STirsLY At n

All the schooling and education in the
women out of our boys and girls unless
they have the get-up and grit in them
individually TO sail In energetically at
each task and the perseverance to go
in life are due to the fact that people
become too easily discouraged and lack
the self-reliance to use the well-worn
phrase of President Roosevelt, ito keep
thought in another favorite expression
Of the president, when you play, play
hard! But when you work don't play"
One good purpose that all these an
that Il affords the opportunity to give
Il whole lot of advice ostensibly for the
benefit OF the young men and young
women emerging from their school days,
but in reality more suited to their
grown-up brothers and sisters who have
been out of school for years and need
to be admonlshed periodically against
falling into the rut OF inactivity. No
matter how long we have been engaged
in the pursuit Of worldly affairs, we are
all at the commencement of the next
task in front of us, and to Tickle it sue
cessfully and win out with flying colors
we need the same goad to spur us on
as the youthful graduate with his
freshly signed diploma in his hand.
1t is not for any of us, then. to say
THAT is good advice for the beginners,
but we have gotten past that stage"
The same rules of conduct that are re-
quired to start the beginners out right
are just as necessary to keep them right
all along the after-course. We must all
keep cverlastingly at it, from COM
mencement day till the very end.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21
NOT A PARTISAN MATTER,

The Philadelphia Ledger, an indepen-
dent paper that Is able to consider pub
lie matters without the prejudice Of the
partisan, says the efforts which some
radically partisan organs are making TO
smirch the national administration by
holding it responsible for the postofflce
scandals should be condemned by the
country's wise, just Judgment" So It
Will be, there is every reason to be-
iieye. 1t may be admitted that Post
master General Payne has not at all
times been as judicious and discreet re-
garding the investigation as he should
have been, but it is not astonishing that
he should have hesltated TO give full
credence to some of the charges II
cannot be shown. however that he has
put any obstacle in the way Of the in
quiry or has at any point In its progress
failed 70 give necessary support to the
officials who are prosecuting 1t.
30 far as the national administration
Is concerned, there is nothing to show
that the president has not from the out
set taken most earnest interest in the
/ investigation. 1t was the understand,
ing that when 1t was instituted he gave
directions that 1t should be made
thorough and on his return from his
trip, after learning what had been dis
closed, his order was to go to the bot
tom. regardless Of who might be hurt
Certainly nothing more could be asked
aHd this order is being faithfully car
rlkd out and viii be 70 the end, tol
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21

President Cleveland insists that there
is not a political leader of any promi-
nence endeavOring to advance any
movement TO nominate him in any
state, so far as he is aware. This must
be quite shake-dOwu for the self-es-
teen of some of the eminent democrats,
to say nothing of several well known
democratic newspapers that have been
laboring under the delusion that they
were engineering the Cleveland boom.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21

Why should the Central Labor union
have an official paper when every
labor organization has free access to
all the daily papers for everything of
legitimate news value or general public
interest? In the recent strike period
The Bee issued a special invitation to
the representatives of the Business
Mems association and of the labor
unions to state their case to the public
through 1t as a medium and no official
statement issued by either party to the
contest failed TO secure prompt publica-
tion in this paper. An Official labor
organ has never been known to do the
cause of labor any substantial good, but
on the contrary has more often brought
it into disrepute.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21

One Of the veracious Washington cor
respondents has unearthed a plot to
drag Adlai Stevenson out as candi-
date for the presidential place on the
democratic national ticket. Adlai will
be only on the verge OF rs when the
next president is nominated. His old
age ought TO command for him more
veneration and respect
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21

should any Official attempt to evade or
disregard It he would undoubtedly ne
summnrily dismissed The partisan or.
gans that are trying TO smirch the ma
tional administration I'm connection with
this matter will exert no influence with
fair-nlinded men.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21

The new telephone company down at
Lincoln gives it out that it will install
a plant that will be a novelty in its
way. If it supplies a service that viii
do away with the answer, Lines
busy" it will be a novelty Indeed.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-21
Boom in higher Education,

New York Tribune.
How many cloistered halls OF institutions
of learning in the United states are now
rising or soon to be built! To use COM
mon word, the universities and colleges
the schools Of every kind, and the libraries
are now 1ourishing all over this republic
with boom" never surpassed or even ap-
preached. Enormous business buildings OF
all classes are seen in our centers OF trade
but culture and the highest forms OF edu-
eational development are not neglected.