Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 24, 1901, Page 6

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L47,050 7,700 27 840 27,90 27,040 P 27,000 37,650 47,780 27,400 27,640 27,500 STATEMED Btate of Nebraska George B, Taschuck, Publishing Company, Bays that the act omplete coples « gvening and Sund the moith of April, cereenes 29,000 20,100 L.27,900 Lees unsold and returned cople Net total sales Net dally average.. . GF B, Ti prosence and sworn to Y of May, A. D, 191 H_HUNGATE, Notary Publ Bubscribed 1‘" myy before me this ist ¢ re me this & e, The festive footpad should take due warning and steer clear of Nebraska's doughty governor. The strike of the West Point endets against the superintendent of the mili- tary academy has been declared off. What are the county commissioners golng to do about Nsting the juterstate terminal bridge as part of a railroad for taxution purposes? S eral Funston s stated to have Lived on a diet of snails during bis ex pedition to capture Aguinaldo, but the food had no effect on hix pace. It is to be feared the Omaha black- gmith who recently forged u meal ticket and was bolting down his dinner when | arrested may land behind fron bavs. e——— Governor Savage and King Edward have had narrow escapes on the same day. The king got away from the Sham- yock and the governor from the sand- bag. ——— Perhaps our Bryanite friends are pushing the McKinley third term fake along as an excuse for tryfog for a third nomination for their silver- tongued silver champion. —— The Philippine commission has passed an appropriation for the vumhllwhuwnt of a weather bureau. It 1s hoped that a better brand of weather may be served the Filipinos in the future. Since the prop Omaha have had an opportunity to fig. ure up the cost of running a wmetropoli- tan clty government they are wishing they bad not opposed annexatlon. Here Is a tip for Omaha capitalists: As much and more oil Is to be struck In judicious fnvestments In labor em- ploying enterprises here in Omaha as in speculative sand lots in the Texas oll flelds. 'he chalrs formerly used In Owala federal building are to be sent to Philadelplla. They ure so com- fortable the authorities evidently think would be better appreclated there thun avywhere else, Half a milllon hogs killed and packed at the leading western centers during the past week, together with the pre- vailing high prices of the animals, tells one of the principal veasons of the pres. ent prosperity of the west. the The king of Italy could not have as gensational an escape on short notice as England's ruler, but he did well un- der the clrenmstances when he saved his life by refusing to step out and be crushed by an elevator, Royalty is get- ting plenty of free advertising these Aays. —_— he prompt trial and conviction of the officers and men concerned in the com- missary frauds in the Philippines will have a tendency to put a check on get- rich-quick operations conducted at the expense of the government. The court- martial, ke the modern rifle, is quick fire and usumly goes straight to the mark. South Dakota women have a good fdea of equalizing the burdens of hu- manity. One who possessed an undesir- able husband and a case of asthma pro- poses that If South Dakota will provide her with a divorce Omaha should fur. nish the means of curing the other com- plaint. This is certainly a faie proposi- tion from the humanitarian point of view, The Transmississippl Commercial con- gress is called o meet at Cripple Creelk July 1620, The commercial con- gress did its greatest work for the west when it gave the Transmississippi Ex- position a boost, but it can still do more to further the Interests of this section of the country. If the delegates are se- lected from among men familiar with the wants of the west and with practl- | the THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1901 BINDING THE REPUBLI To bring the republics of the western hemisphere into closer political and comme I relations, to foster among th bes n the effort of American statesmen. Pan-American unfon and the safeguard fng and promotion of the mutual inter- ests of the republics of this hemisphere and his labors in this direction, If there was hoped from them, have been fruft- ful of good results. The present year promises to mark a decided fmpetus to the movement for binding the American republics more closely togethe Practical results of the highest importance are reasonably to be hoped for from the Pan-Amerfcan exposition at Buffalo and from the con- of Mexico next October. The former should and doubtless will exert a de- cided influence In a commercial way upon the relations between the United States and the countries south of us, It fs an object lesson which canuot full to make n and abiding lmpression upon the representatives of those coun tries as to the Industrial and commer- cial streugth and the ener and enter. prise of the American people. The con- gress will deal with political and eco- nomie questions which concern the in- terests and welfare of all the American republics. It is confidently believed that the deliberations of this congress will make for the preservation of peace. establishment of more intimate intercourse and the betterment of rela- tions generally between the Independ ent countries of this hemlsphere, These events afford the United States an opportunity to assure the southern repiblics of its friendship, of its earnest desire for their progress and prosperity and of its porpose to continue to pro- tect them against all danger of foreign aggression. As was said by Senator Lodge In his address at the formal dedi- cation of the Buffalo exposition: “To you of the central and the southern con- tinent T believe that the American peo- ple and the government of the United | States would say, If they could speak Wllll a single voice, that they desire nothing %o much as to strengthen all the bonds which connect them with your republics. We desire that nm should regard the United States as your best friend. We seek no extension to the southward. We desire nothing that Is yours. We ask only for your friend- ship, for your commercesand for your good will. * * * You have your own countries and your own gevernments. We wish you peace, prosperity, an In- creasing population and growing wealth.” That volces the sentiment of the whole American people and it will e for the welfare of the people of the southern republics if they shall be in- duced to understand and appreclate it. It is Impossible to overestimate the significance and importance of the movement for strengthening the bonds between American republics and foster- ing friendship and good will among them. It contemplates peace and progress In this hemisphere and secur- ity agalost old world aggression. In this movement the United States will take an active part until the end sought shall be attained. deep DO EXPOSITIONS PAY? The formal opening of the Buffalo ex- position prompts the Chicago Tribune to exclaim, m panles and from world's fairs, good Lord deliver us!" that by bitter experience Chicago has found out its wistake and seldom brags of 1843, According to the Tribune, Chi- cagonns sinned against the light a dozen vears ago in the face of the experience of Philadelphia, whose progress was re: tarded, not accelerated, by the Centen- nial exposition. Unmindful of what Chicago suffered,” it continues, “Omaha had an exposition to advertise and bulld up that city. The result was just what might have been expected—stimulation followed by depression. While Omaha in sackcloth and ashes was sitting amidst the rulns of its exposition, Buf- falo began planning to have one. Nor Is that city alone In its unwisdom.” There Is absolutely no ground for the assertion that expositions carry in their train disastrous depression. There Is no ground for the assertion that the World's fair proved as ruinous to Chl- cago as the panic of 1803, As a matter of fact it saved Chicago from the worst consequences of the panle of 1893, When the panic of 1803 struck Chicago like a eyclone, the World's fair saved it from ruin by bringing in $200,000,000 in money, distributed among its wage- workers, merchants, contractors and manufacturers, Without this colossal enterprise Chicago, Instend of increas- Ing its population by 500,000, would have had a setback In 1893 that would have pliced it behind St. Louls in the race for commercial supremacy The World’s fair made Chicago a world’s city. The reaction following the exposition did not affect its reputation abroad; nor did it cause a general stam- pede of population, gave Chicago the momentum that ac- five years. panic of 1803, fair or no fair. not pecullar to Chicago. mto sackcloth and ashes when its ex position was dismantled. The phenomenal success achleved face of war, but in the it capital. With the upward trend prosperity so general all over the coun try the relapse followlng th close. We have no doubt it will be s with Buffalo and St. remain as favorable as they are now. Expositions may not benefit the in cal ideas for securing concerted actlon, this great section will be the galner by the meetin; dividuals who contribute n friendship and good will, has long | The name of James G. Blaine is insep- | arably associated with the policy of [1f at all, their indemnity claims and al lias not yet been accomplished all that | gress of republies to be held at the City | Pointing backward, the Tribune declares | The World's fair complished in three years what without it would have taken more than twenty- The heavy drop in real es- tate prices was bound to follow the Tt was It is not true that Omaha had to go Trans- mississippl Exposition was not only a It was a substantial benefit to the city by advertising Its enterprise far and wide and bringing to Invigorating young blood and new of Omaha scarcely felt the effects of exposition’s Louls If conditions labor and money in proportion to the sacrifice inve they ment for the communities where are held and the country at large. DETERMINED TO SQUEEZE (HINA 1t appeared t practically settled that none of the powers ¢ it Great Britain will agree to reduce materially, e stated that the United States will continue to urge a reduction the offort seems quite hopeless, The de termination of most of the governments to mercilessly squeeze China 18 evi- ntly fixed and the Chinese govern- ut itself is to some extent to blame for this, in having promptly agreed to pay the amount demanded, if allowed sufficient time in which to do so and permitted to make certaln changes in taxation. It was manifestly useless, after this assent of the government to the demands, to urge their reduction, China has admitted that she can pay | the Indewnity In course of time under the conditions she proposed, but there is no doubt she will find the task a very difficult one, Her envoys have declared that the country is fmpover ished and it Is already carrying a heavy burden of debt. The Japanese war left China with a debt of about $300,000,000, on which the annual interest is §: 000,000 It s stated that nearly an equal amount goes to pay other fu ~gn obligations. The Imperial revenue amounts to about $30,000,000, that it the debt of the empire is increased 7,000,000, the amount of the in- | demnity asked by the powers, it would eat up the whole present imperial reve- nue, Of course it is proposed to in- erease the revenue by perhaps doubling the customs duties and possibly by re forming the methods of collecting the internal taxes, but it is by no means certain that the anticipated results from this would be realized. It Is quite possi ble that increasing the customs would result in a decrcase of importations, since 1t would necessitate raising the price of goods, which would check con sumption. As to the internal taxes, it will be found very difficult to get more revenue from them than they now yield, for it is agreed on all hands that the people cannot stand any increase of tax ation, Our government is still taking an active interest in the matter, but so far as the amount of indemnity is con- cerned there appears to be no prospect of its accomplishing anything. Upon that point most of the powers seem to be immovable MERITED PUNISHMENT. The military authorities at Manila are disposed to make the punishment fit the crime in the case of officers found guilty of fraud in the commissary and quarter- master departments, Three of the con vieted men, all of them In the volunteer gervice, have been given a dishonorable dismissal from the army and sentenced to Imprisonment. There is no doubt that these offenders deserve the punishment. When the frauds were first reported there was some exaggeration as to their extent, the investigation having shown that only a few men were involved and it 18 noteworthy that no regular officer is connected with them, or at any rate no charge has been made against a reg- ular officer. It does not appear that the govern ment has suffered any great loss from these frauds, which consisted of the sale of quartermaster and commissary supplies to private individuals, but the erime 18 not to be measured by the amount of the government's loss and evidently the military authorities at Manila have not been influenced by that consideration. The investigation, which was promptly instituted when the frauds were reported to General Mac- Arthur, has been thorough and there has been shown a determination to “let no guilty man escape. | though it The constitution of Nebraska requires | that every person or corporation shall pay a tax In proportion to the value of his, her or its property and franchises, That provision contemplates that cor- porations shall bear their proportion of the burdens imposed for the malinte- nance of municipal and county govern- ment. It does not simply require the assessment of real estate and personal property, but also of the franchises which have value in proportion to the earning eapacity of the property of the corporation. In most cases the property of corporations has been undervalued and no value whatever has been placed upon franchises. This i why the tax rate is so high in Omala. —_—— Faith Healer Dowle, who is creating such a stiv In Chicago just now, stopped in Omahba for a few weeks nearly twelve years ago, when he first marked his ar- rival In this country from Australia, and gave an exhibition of his alleged divine powers, A long list of names was given out of Omaha men and women supposed to have heen cured of ineur able diseases by his miraculous touch. Of course his Omaha cures have long since gone back to the old condition and to regular means of relief and wonder how they could have been such easy vietims of deception. The wonder 1s that Chicago has tolerated the Dowle charlatanism so long. Taking Indians from the reservations to testify In the federal court for al- leged violations of laws that are never enforced continues to be a profitable in- dustry for United States deputy mar- shals. When a deputy marshal can eol- lect & cents a mile each way for serving a writ while traveling on a railrond pass he can afford bring in cowboys from distant points who have cut down saplings and Indlans who have cat up eapers, Before Omaha people have had the first real tussle with the jce man along comes the coal man with the announce- ment that next winter's prices will be the same as prevailed during the later months of last season. Some people are fearful that others will have a pleasant dream. ) Reports of the various boards to the United Presbyterian assembly in ses- made, but as a whole they are a paying | slon in Des Moines show that with cur- ’ | stimulus of better times, and | | to have been to rent expenses paid a surplus remains in the treasury of each. The church, as well as secular organizations, feels the The man with a full stomach is not only a hetter give but is in better humor with his Maker than one with an unsatistied appetite, The Bee belleves In democ public schools—that every boy or girl attending them should be on precisely the same level ag eve other, To dis- criminate between them because one set wears uniforms and another does not is class distinetion repugnant to the very principles at the foundation of Me public school system, Get an Ax. Indianapolis New: Certain people that do not like to ses their opinfons discredited still maintain that the prosperity of the country is not real. There is no argument for people that insist black is white. n& Good Work, Baltimore American The Daughters of the American Revolu- tlon in Connecticut have prevented the desecration by the trolley fiend of the his- torle ground where General Putnam made his famous leap. The patriotic socleties are doing good work in snatching patriotic ntiment from the clutches of modern business fconoclasts. Sin of Specu! Washington Star. James J. Hill's remarks on the sinfulness of speculation are very convincing. Mr. Hill 1s one of the people who can afford to pay cash outright for anything they hap- pen to want in the way of stocks. His ad- vice makes it clear that the only way to be sure of a profit in stock transactions is to be rich enough not to need it. A Chenpst aetion. New York Evening Post. Admit that, providentially or otherwise, England is committed to the work of a ploneer of clvilization, and you have prac- tically glven to the ploneer race a roving commission from the Almighty to subjugate and rule all less civilized nationalities And, mark you well, civilization is defined from the meridian of Greenwich. Take the Boers. “They are a pastoral people. A pastoral community is delightful, certainly, but impossible in Cheapside.” That 1s, the tolerable on the face of the earth is to be measured by the possible in our respective Cheapsides. A satirist could hardly fnvent a more bitter irony. Danger Point to Industry. Philadelphta Press Prosperity never lasts long after the mil- lionalre railroad managers begin to fight and labor begins to strike. Good times are no accident. They never come, ag an- other good thing does, “'without observa- tion.” They have to be worked for. They rest on a balance of profit, peace, indus- try, efficiency and expansion. All have to work to get them. Any small group can destroy them by needless difference. Rail- road rows or strikes fast bring panfes The tides of the ocean of business, finance and industry are at high flood. A very little folly will begin the inevitable ebb. Decay of (he Rubber Trast. New York Commerclal. The rubber trust has been conspicuous among industrial combinations for its in- ability to control its market. The rivalry of Independent concerns has been sharp from the begiuning. Last year it was com- plained that the trust was “holding an umbrelia” over the independent concerns, which were getting a great part of the trade at prices just below those fixed by the combination. Efforts were made to get the Independent concerns into a com- bination, which the rubber trust was quite willlng to finance, but the independents insisted on retalning their independence and rate-cutting proceeded. This probably explains the very disappointing character of the report of the directors. The com- bination paid 3 per cent in dividends on its 8 per cent preferred stock, and nearly all the money for this came out of the surplus brought over from last year. The net in- come for the year wes only one-fourth of 1 per cent on the preferred stock, to say nothing of the common stock, and the re- less than half as large as they were a year ago. The effect of the combination seems fncr e the severity of the competition. DY hing Pop RAC OF IRELAND, Intion of the Island 1t Stgnifies, ) Republici The population of Ireland by the recent British census was announced yesterday in London as 4,436,546, being a decrease since the previous census of 5.3 per cent. This represents a continued performance, with little abatement from previous decades, of one of the most moving tragedies of his- tory. In the year 1501 the British census found persons in Ireland. The popula- tion increased steadily up to 1841, when it reached the figures of 8,175,124, spread over the island, with a density of no more than 251 persons to the square mile—much be- | low the present density of population In Massachusetts, In the decade from 1841 to 1851 camo the great Irish famine, and since then progress toward solitude and the peace to the empire which it alone will apparently bring, has been as follows Decline Year. Population, per cent, 1841 8,175,124 X % 11.50 .66 140 910 5.3) yeurs During the entire period of sixty this unhappy country has lost all that would have been gained by natural in- crease and nearly G0 per cent of the parent stock besides. It is as if all the children born since 1841, among a hardy and prolific race, had emigrated and half of those then lving had died These are the conditions of a living death. The normal and healthful state of human existence is to be found only where population is cither multiplying or being strongly maintained. Where there is de- cline, and particularly where the loss from emigration or otherwise falls chiefly upon the youth, there we shall find industrial stagnation, a feeble public spirit and the soclal loneliness which leads to despair. Retrogression in population means retro- gresslon in pretty much everything that makes life worth living The marquis of Sallsbury congratulated England the other day that home rule had not been concedeh Ireland. 1f it had been, be said, the empire would have met with firing from behind while facing the Boers. There properly remained one more word for him to speak—a word of further con- gratulation that if the chalns of English dominion were not reducing this island to a state of loyalty they were at least begin- ning to clank against the bones of a living skeleton fast verging to the state that can glve no further trouble The land which is thus going down to solltudo Is as fertile as any existing in the temperate regions of the earth, and nowhere can there be found a more de- lightful climate. No single famine of halt a century ago is responsible, for nature in the long run here invites with all Its power and not repels. The depopulation of such a country is a phenomenon of the time 80 amazing and tragie as to compel universal attention and questioning. It is plainly for the imperial might and vanity of England to furnish the explanation so manifestly called for, James O'Connell, who strike of the machinists, fs 4 He was born at Minersvill apprenticed to the trade the age of 15 Patrick Jerome Gleason, better “Paddy” Gleason, mayor and autocrat o Long Island City in the old days, is doad Better men have died, but few more pleture esque characters have lived in this genera tion. Thomas E. Raleigh, city attorney of Can ton, Mo., is but 23 years old and is probably the youngest man occupying such an im- portant position. He is well known throughout northeastern Missouri as a wit and orator. Work has been begun on the Iibrary building which Secretary John D. Loag is to present to his native town, Buckfleld, Me. The building will stand near the spot where his father kept a country store for many years. The most astonishing sample of reform in sight {s the prosecution of the owners of grading outfits for tering their loads on the streets of Chicago. Things have come to a pretty pass when graders cannot glve street sweepers a run for their money. A cousin of the late Henry Ward Beecher celebrated her h birthday at Burling ton, Conn., Friday of last week. She docs not pride herselt upon reading without spectacles, but is a little vain of tho fact that she has never required the services of a dentist, Don Carlos de Bourbon, son of the late count of Caserta and husband of the prine cess of the Asturias, has privately asked the Italian government to allow him to sottle in Italy with his wife, as popular hostility has made residence in almost impossible Dr. Laborde of Paris has concelved the idea of administering music and gas at the same time to a patient in the dental chair. Small phonograph transmitters are placed one in each ear of the subject, who drops off into pleasant dreams, with none of the ordinary symptoms of distress The cornerstone of the monument to be erected to General Forrest in Memphis, Tenn., Is to be laid on May 30, which will be the last day of the Confederate Veterans annual reunion. The monument is to stand in Forrest park, and the city of Memphis will spend a large sum in beautifying the site. directing th vears of aKe Pa.,, and machinist of at known as publi Spain ONE SOLDIER IN A THOUSAND, rate Standing Army for n Large, Stre us Nation, New York Tribune. The reorganization of the United States army, with a strength of 77,287 enlisted men, has this week been announced. We do not venture to hope that it will alto- gether put an end to the ridiculous chatter about militarism. There is nothing harder to suppress than folly. Indeed, it may be that the announcement will give a certain stimulating fillip to that particular kind of nonsense. The changs may be rung upon the fact that the army fs thus made three times as large as it was a fow years ago, and lurid pietures may be painted of those 77,287 men terrorizing the great centers of industry and subjecting the aver- age citizen to the condition of a scrf. In itself 77,287 is a considerable number. But in comparison with that which repre- sents the population of this country it is in- significant. It is smaller than that of the population of any one of fifty cities in the United States. As applied to the army, It means just one soldier to each 1,000 citi zens. One soldier to a thousand! What sort of “milltarlsm” Is that? Compare, or rather contrast, it with the ratfo of army to population in other countries. France, our great sister republic, has in her stand- ing army in time of peacn one soldier to every seventy-two citizens; Italy has one to every 100; Germany follows, with one to every 107; Austria-Hungary has one to every 125; even little Belgium, whose neu- trality is guaranteed, has one to every 130; Russia, with her vast population, has one soldler to every 140 subjects, and Holland, the land chosen for the scene of the Inter- national Peace congress, is prepared for war in time of peace with one soldier to every 175 of her people. Great Britain has long been one of the least army-ridden states of Europe, yet even she has one soldler to every 22 citizens. In Japan the proportion 1s one in 330. And if we come to neighbors maintaining larger standing armies, proportionately, than we, Chili's ratio being one in 330 and Brazil's one In 550. So the fact is that with this increase of the army this country remains by far least glven to “militarism” of all important na- tlons in the world—and, indecd, so much less glven to it than the least militant of all other comparable powers as to be quite out of comparison with it. One soldfer in a thousand! It {s one land in a thousand that can be confent therewith! EXCLUDING THE BOSTON YACHT, ew York World, In the controversy between Mr. Lawson, the owner of the yacht Independence, and the New York Yacht club the sympathies of the public are instinctively with Mr, Lawson. The public reasons that, whatever the technicalitles, Sir Thomas Lipton's challenge i3 to all America; that the New York Yacht club is custodian of the America’s cup for the yachtsmen of Amerfca; that its sole desire should be to send against the British challenger the best yacht which America can bulld; that Mr Lawson of Boston is right in refusing to safl his candidate, Independence, under the flag of the New York Yacht club, since he is not a member of it and does not wish Boston to be deprived of any glory which might come through Independence. Let us sce how the facts are related to the public instinct. The yacht America was bullt by a syndi- cate headed by and inspired by John C tevene, the founder of the New York Yacht club. The America was not built by or under the auspices of the New York Yacht club, and the famous cup it won on August 22, 1851, came into possession of the New York Yacht club only by deed of gift, dated July 8, 1857. That original and only binding deed of gift was conceived and written in the true, the broad spirit. It simply provided for the salling of the best obtainable American yacht against any foreign aspirant for the cup. In that epirit the cup was defended twice, in 1885 and again in 1886, by vachts flying the flag of the Eastern Yacht club—the Puritan and the Mayflower—and in 1887 the cup defender Volunteer sailed as the joint representative of the Eastern and the New York Yacht clubs. But In 1887 a new deed of gift was drawn up—a preposterous, illegal proceeding. This contained a clause most offensive to the democratic spirit of this country and of the original donors of the cup, who were the only persons having a right to fix con- ditions, The new condition made the Amerfca's cup not an American cup, but a New York Yacht club cup. This proceed- ing would find a paraliel it at some future time the trustees of the Carnegie free public Mbraries should make a new deed of gft excluding every one from the libraries except the trustees themselves Clearly, then, the public instinct is sound Mr. Laweon is right, and the New York Yacht club is showing & spirit unworthy of this city, unsportsmanlike, un-American. It s trying to make these races no longer international, but New York Yacht eclub affairs. I | te our own hemisphere we find our southern | | lights ten feet | ings retouched and new carpets and TS OF W NGTON LIFE s rved at the Nntlon's Capita The grip of the office holder on the na tion's provender has long been a source of wonder to the disinterested and of envy to the fellows outside the breastworks Few dio and nome resign” is an adage containing more truth than poetry, and the passing years add to its strength. A cab net officer, quoted by the New York Times, who recently decided to retrench somewhat in his department by dropping expensive bureau clerks, soon discovered that he was up against the official grip. The tenacious hold of his intended victims so oxcited his admiration that he abandoned his eco- nomical policy. The number of men who hang on to government jobs that are no longer useful or necessary is quite largo. The cabinet officer referred to mentioned 1 sentry who was found in 1868 marching up and down all day and all night in front of the house where Seward had been at- tacked in 1865, the order to post a guard there not having been countermanded Sarlier than that he had been told by an old resident that long after the capitol grounds had beon enlarged and the old taken down, two gates remained, with a man and a guardhouse loft as before, the man to lock the gates at 9 o'clock at night, and then to sleep In the guardhouse until the gates were to be opened by him in the morning. The gates were useless to keep anybody out, for there were no fences run- ning up to them, the grounds having been advanced several hundred feet west and the fonces abolished. Even so late as when Charles 8. Falrchild was secretary of the treasury there were gates across Treasury avenue, west and south of the Treasury building, and a lodge and watchman at each nd of the avenue. But it had been many rs since the gates were locked, the watchmen had nothing to do but watch or sleep or smoke, and afterward draw their pay. Tho watchmen were withdrawn, the gites were carrled away, the lodges were sent to the scrap heap or the junk shop. and now the street formerly locked up I« a highway preferred by drivers who desire to avold the trolleys on Fifteenth street. A new system of ventilation s being installed in the great hall of the house of representatives. Three years were spent in preparing the plans, and it fe belleved the new system will supply an abundance of pure air for the statesmen of the lower | house. The process of purification, as de- scribed by a New York Sun correspondent, i to draw the air into the capitol by means of a fan twelve feet in diameter. After being moigtened to a proper degree | the air will be forced through ducts to an alr chamber to be constructed under the floor of the house. Heretofore the ventila- tion has been accomplished by means of a large number of afr ducts under the floor, running in many different directions. When the old floor was torn up the ducts were ( found to be filled partly with filth of all kinds, including sweepings, paper, tobacco, cigar stumps. ete., which had been thrown down the old ventilatore, and which it had been impossible to remove. The new ar- angement provides for an air chamber under the entire floor, which will be trom two to five feet in helght, according to the . | West WEST POINT TR Probable Cause of he Militey i The mutiny of probably indirectly the hazing troubles at titution 1t seems to he stermined attack on the su perintendent ot commandant, 1 L it 18 alleged, he made with the cadets concerning hazing and failed to ob- serve ft. They went so far as to train a cannon on his house. Of course, thera can be compromise with mutiny, and ringleaders will, fn all likelihood, be sul jected to exemplary punishment, but this does not relieve the commandant of blamae, The grievances of the cadets must either have been very serious or the disaipline ex tremely lax for them to resort to such desperate tactics. The impression derived from Investigations was that the commandant was not the proper person to placed over these embryonie soldiers vie concerning hazing wor with those generally held by enli and It seemed as though he cither d have the confidence of the cadet firm hold upon them which is usually « sidered ®o necessary in the army. and t lesser extent {n the common schools of th country. That he was forced by vestigations, and the subsequent slons in congress, to change his and maintain more rigld discipline, account for the impression of the ca that he has not kept faith with them re garding hazing It 18 exceedingly difficult has charge of young men to alter with succoss his system of management, o pecially when that system has lax as the discipline at West Point, shown by the testimony before tho vestigating committees. The cadots are apt to view such a chango at first with aston ishment and subsequently to resent it This appears to bo what has happened at Point. Tho cadets naturally clude that what was proper six months ago 18 proper today, because the same com mandant permitted it, if, Indecd, he did t direct it. With a new commandant th restoration of discipline would be a simplo proposition. Th being no previous r lations or understandings between him and the cadets, there would be no ground for personal enmity. The present commandant 18, doubtlees, a good soldier, but ha does not seem to have tho gifts required for the best administration of such a post Last Ruett Aendemy Point cadets fs t of the recent a because an agreen no the the hazing His irinnce htened ws ople 1 th these discu methods may . for one who been s TR ART 18, Philadelphia ¥ tradictory anima wide experienc You men are « “remarked the lady “SBome of you get dr wuse you're happy and a_whole ot n because ‘you're unhappy. What's a poor rl to do? Detroit Journal 5 common Courtesy ? warmly The salesperson lost her temper at on You didn't ask to be shown anything but 2-cent prints!” retorted tho latter. Why am 1 not shown demanded the woman Pittsburg, Chronlcle Sho clothes on,” sald an obgerver man who sat next £he's wrapped up chiefly in herself, 1' the latter hasn't of the many balict Chicago Tribune: “It's a durned shame!” slope of the floor. It will be lined with glazed tiles and can readily be cleaned. The floor will be double and rise from | the speaker's desk to the rear like the | floor of an amphitheater. On that floor will be set the rises for the rows of desks and seats. The former will be solid from alsle to aisle, made of mahogany and highly ornamented with bronze. In the | legs will be set ventilators, and at the bick of the rises will be others. There will be no flat ventilators as formerly, and it will be almost imposeible for members | to expectorate into the new ventilators. Under the gallerfes will be constructed an air chamber similar to that under the floor of the house. The old benches will bo replaced with opera chairs of hand- somo design with ventilators in the legs. The galleries have never before been ventilated. The fmprovement will neces- sitate a reduction in the seating capacity of one row in each gallery, but the seats will be much more comfortable. Pro- vision will be made for drawing off the impure alr as it rises to the cefling. Among other improvements at the capitol will be a complete change from steam power to electricity, and hereafter all machinery and elevators will be operated by electriclty, The roofs of the senate and the house chambers will be changed by substituting an additional row of sky- I wide on each side, which will lght the galleries, now quite dark, and give much additional lght on the floors. Seats will be provided for 400 members of the house. The interior of the house chamber will be sumptuously fitted up; the walls will be newly frescoed, the ceil- ma- hogany furniture installed. Arrangements will be made by which summer furniture, consfsting of cane-seatod chalr and mat- ting may be put in on May 1 during the long sesslons. The swinging doors, now of green baize, will be of heavy mahogany and plate glass. Mahogany tables, chairs and lounges will replace the old red plush articles which have done duty so long In the lobby. In fireproofing the wing formerly occu- pled by the Congressional library, Mr. Wood, assistant architect of the capitol, will make a chamber fourteen feet In height, which will overlook the city and be well adapted for restaurant purposes Ihnulfl congross determine to remove the restan- rants from the rooms they now oceupy in the basement. Mr. Wood contemplates plac- ing above the double roof ono of copper. If this is done an arrangement will be made to maintain streams of water con- stantly flowing over the copper roof in summer to keep the chamber cool. | ungrateful dear,” about our trip when w At _the top of the exclaimed Goodman ( | led him away from the ‘What 157" asked the The judge bindin' ‘me over fur dred dollars, as #f T wuz a chea Fur a man of my reputation, b'gos to have been a thousan'! Chicago Tribune: ‘“‘Rey older member of the firm, spell ‘which? ** W, h, |, That's ‘what I older memb « out of the word he nrong, as the officer courtroom officer hu hob L it ort olds “how said do the you . h,"" responded the other. thought,” rejotnad the vertly scratching a 't had written Clevelund Plain_Dealer: “1 see New York man stole of the doctor who attended him. “Perhaps ft was poetical Jjustice b doctor's drugs may have destroyed the Goit of the thief's stomach that the coat Washington Star: * a wonderfully strong marked the physician, “But he Is always complaining of some atlment.” “Yes. Nobody could take so much medi cine unless ho had a wonderfully strong constitution.” 'hat man must have constitution,” " re Philadelphla Press: Mrs, Clanc fully)—~My husband was wan o bearers at Callahan's funeral Mra. Casev (spitefully)—Aye! fiftted fur the job he was He's carryin’ the bier that some win fur. 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