Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 10, 1901, Page 4

4 THE ©MAHA DAILY BEE o ER, EDITOR. Y I\IOR.\'IA\"I: E. ROSEWA' PUBLISHED TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION Daily Bee (without Sunday), One Year.$6.00 Daily He nday, One’ Ye . lllustrated Hee, One Year Bupday Bee, One Yeat , One Year ¢ fAtury Farmer, Ore Year JFFICES. gmaha: The Bee Bullding 9 South Omaha: City Hall Bullding, Twen- Ay-nfth and M Streets Counell Blufts: 10 Pear] 8treet. o0: 1610 Unity Building ork: Temple Coart shington: 51 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi. torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Edjtorial Department BUSINESS L Business letters and be addressed: The He vany, Omaha REMITTANCES, Remjt by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Hee Publishing Company. Only 3-eent stamps accoptod In payment of mall decounts Personal checks, exeept on tarn excnanges, not acceptad VUBLISHING COMPANY wentieth ¢ TERS jttances should re iblishing Com- STATEMENT O CIRCULATION State of Nebraskn, Douglas County, as, George B, Tzachick, secretary of The Tee Pubiishin mpany, being duly Sworn, Sayvs that t) actual _number of full and complets cople The Daily, Morning, Evening and Bee printed durink| the month of M , was as follows: | 27 450 18, 27 o0 1 L3T,140 18 19 27785 26,7400 27 vde 26,700 20740 "o 26,530 27,000 20,500 20,210 5180 25,010 26,070 43,008 10,187 Total v Less unsold and veturned coples Net total sales X Net dally average ‘oia 20,805 GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK, Subscribed fn my prese and sworn to before me this Alst day ot May, A. D, 1801 M. B_HUNGATE, Notary Public. Just wait for Nebraska's 1901 corn crop. Texas' oil output will not be a marker, Where is our conscientlous county at- torney while all these protected prize fights are being pulled off In South Omaha? —_— rnor Savage wants it distinetly | understood that he has no lenlency for real bull fighting and no patlence with sham bull fighting. G The people of South Carolina may never realize what a change they passed up to acquire a double deadlock on two United States senatorships. —_— Bernhardt promisek to visit America again. Several of our American actors and actresses would be glad to visit Parls as a guaranty of equal profits, A New York jury has returned a ver- dict of acquittal on eharges of playing ®olf on Sunday. Members of the local Country club way now breathe easier. Seuatop Dietrich will pay bis own way on hig forthcoming trip to the Philippines. The question is, Will Con- gressman Mercer pay his own way any- where? Better pay up all your debts before the end of the month rolls around and avoid having a surplus of stamped check blanks left over after the stamp tax cowes off, Towns all around us are preparing to celebrate the Fourth of July just a8 if the Declaration of Independence were still unimpnired. Here is work for our Bryanite friends. Now that the Nebraska waves in the federal pit counter are beginning to move, Interest in the game will be re- newed both by the ins and the outs. There are always more outs, however, than ins. e ——— The new oil company of which Towne, Bryan's late assoclate, is to be head boss is to be capltalized at $2,000,000, Think of Towne getting mixed up with the money power to this alarming ex- tent. How can he hope to extricate himself? E——— That no fight is ever won until it is over is being again illustrated by the contest waging in lowa for the re- publican gubernatorial nomination.. A lively canvass may be looked for frem now on right up to the time of the con- vention meeting. There is really no great hurry about sranting franchises and rvights of way for suburban rallways before the pro- posed power canal has materialized, un- less indeed the applicants furnish a guaranty bond to have the road in operation within the next two years. epg— The great railway consolidation does not seem to have decreased the demund for railway presidents, while the supply appears to be getting shorter. Railway promotions just now are faster than army promotions, with all the stimulus of the late wars and subsequent reor- ganization, S———— It must not be forgotten that the bad condition of down town pavements arises fn part at least from the repeated relaying of street rallway tracks. If the cost of paving repairs is to be assessed on benefited property owners, the street allway company should be presented with a bill for its share, e Postmasters’ salaries continue to go up almost invariably on re-ratings based on the bisiness transacted at the vari- ous offices throughout Nebraska and lowd, and the whole country for that matter. The re-rating was usually in the other direction before the repub- liean administration took charge. Notlce is relterated by semi-official authority that no man need consider himself eligible to a fusion reform nomi- { promise of an | eiliation was refused by the employers, THE MACHINISTS STRIKE. When the muchinists’ strike was in augurated three weeks ago today there m (o believe that 1t would not be protracted. Many employers through- | out the country had, in advance of the date fixed for the strike, conceded the demand of the International Association of Machinists for a uine-hour work day | without any reduction in wages. Other | employers agreed to the demand as soon as the stri was entered wpon, Thus there seemed to most favorable | arly general settlement | of the issue without any rious dis- | turbunce to the industrlies affected | Now the situation is changed aud a | prolopged contest threatened, in- | deed appears to be inevitabile, involy- | Ing, not only the machinists, but allied | workers in the metal trades. The man ufacturers of the Metal Trades' tion have declared war on the Asso tion of Machinists and the laiter hus! defiantly accepted the challeng At a meeting of the administrative coun- | ¢l of the wanufacturers’ nesoclation u | resolution was adopted declaring null | | was 1 nssoctin and void every agreement existing be tween the association and the wachin ists and a convention of mewbers of the association will mect tomorrow In | New York to take further action. The | manufacturers charge that the machin- | ists have violuted the agr et e | tered into between their organization | and that of the machinists, o year ago, | in regard to arbitrating all disputes | between employers and employes: this | nent, stated by the manufac | turers, being (hat pendiug arbitration | there should be no strikes and lock- | outs, ‘The wanufacturers now declare | their purpose to detormine the dondi l tions under which their work shall b done and that while no discrimination | will be made agalost unfon men, they will bave nothing more to do with the | International Assoclution of Nachinists, | The reply of the latter organization | is 1o less decided and uncompromising It declares that its demands will not be moditied and that labor will not be resumed until a shorter work day is an uccomplished fact, It i asserted by the president of the associntion that | it did all it could get a satisrac adjustment by pacific measures, offe to accept any decision reached by arbi- | tration that would cover the guestion nationally, but that every effort at con Thus the issue is clearly defined and | a prolonged coutest, which may lln’ul\n'= hundreds of thousuuds of wen ew ployed in the metal industries, appears unavoidable. To what extent sympa thetie stribes may be innugurated it is impossible to foresee, but it is by no weans improbable that there will be many such, A dispateh from Bridge- port, Coun., states that a sympathetic strike, which will probubly have the effect of tying up all the factories In that eity ewploying uvsion wen and putting 15,000 operatives out of em- ployment, is likely to begin today. It is quite possible that such mauifesta- tions of sympathy with the machinists will become general_and that the con- filct will ultimately become the most formidable this country has ever ex- perleuced. It is a wost unfortunate situation, thut may prove to be pregnant with danger to the business and prosperity of the country. The metal industries have for several years been highly pro: perous. The export of their products has been steadily growing. A pro tracted strike of the workers in these industries wust ipevitably injure the export trade and it other industries b come invelved the cousequences to general business will serious, The situation warrants the vest appre- hension. &l WHO'S WHU IN OMAHA. The controversy over Fire Chief Redell seems to have created a great deal of confusion lu the minds of ordi-| narily well informed people coucerning the government of Omaba and the func- tlons devolving upon the various de- partents, Under the charter, which defines the powers and duties of all our municipal officers, the government of the city of Omaha devolves upon the wmayor and city council and five elective officers— the treasurer, comptroller, police judge, city clerk and tax commissfoner. The mayor is the chief executive otficer and couservator of the peace and Is directly responsible for the enforcement of law aud order, The charter émpowers the mayor and council to ereate such oftices as they deem necessary for the etficlent management of the affairs of the city, but the charter expressly exempts from this provision the fire und police departments of the city, whose government is vested in a board of 1 and police: commissioners, of which the mayor is the bead. In other words, the responsibility for the goverument of the | fire and police departments Is exclu sively vested In the mayor and police commission. The relations of the eity council to this board are practically the same as those the council bears to the library bourd and the park cowmission, | The councll levies taxes for the support of the fire and police departments, just as it levies taxes for the maintenance ot the public library or the public parks. The were fact that wmembers of the library board and wembers of the park board are subject to contivmation by the council before they can cxerclse their official functions does not give the council supervisory powers over the employes of the park commission or of the public library board, The coun cil has no more power to appoint, pro- mote, discipline or dismiss the city libravian than it bas to exercise that authority over the landscape artist and otber employes appointed by the park bonrd and paid out of the funds raised by the council. For the same reason the councll has no right to interfere in' the government or discipline of the fire and police departments, notwith stunding the fact that the mouey ex nation for state office this year who has fafled to dig up to help pay the ex- penses of the last Nebraska fusion cam- palgn. This precaution is simply to pre- vent aspirants frow, pleading ignorance when asked to produce the receipts for pended under the direction of the police commission is raised Ly the council. The misconeeption as to the powers of the city council to interfere in the government of the fire and police de partments doubtless avises out of the confusion created by former coutests | pat | liness any attention | | | | THE as to whether the governor was vested | with the power to appoint the poliee commission or whether that power lodged in the mayor and council, Since the supreme court declared in favor of | howie rule all contention as regards the | title of the present commission puerile. 8o loug as the present charter remalns unchanged the police and five | departments will remain subject to the supervision of the mayor and police comission RUSSIA RAISES DUTIES Russinn governwent Las again bt American exports to that country It has fnercased the duty on bieycles | manufactured in this country 30 per cent, which would seem to be intended o exclude them from the Russian mar- | ket, and it has put up the duties on! some other articles imported from the United States. Doubtless it will be claimed that this is done for the vro tection of home Interests, as was done | when duties were increased on some Ameriean products after the decision of the secretary of the treasury that Rus stan sugar fmported into the United Ktates must pay the countervatling duty which our tarlft imposes on sugnr upon witeh an export bounty is paid. We | do not know to what extent the wmanu- | facture of bleyeles is o “loonin Ruse st Perhaps the industey needs to be | nconraged by greater protection thau It has recelved. If so Inercasing the duty on bleyeles is legitimate. But it appears from the St Petersburg dis- ) that the Increase applies only to the Awerlean article. This is diserim ination and may properly be obje It is au unfriendly aet to Ame teade of which we muay justly complain and of which we ought to complain it we would not encourage other govern ments to adopt a ke poliey toward us Perhaps our government will not feel called upon to give this renewed evi- dence of Russian commereial untriend Perbaps it will tuke the view that it is a matter en- tirely within the rights of that govern- ment and therefore not to be called in question. But at a time when the sub- Jeet of checklug Awerican competition by tariff diserimination is belng very rnestly agitated In Burope the ex pediency of taking uotice of Russia's action way well be serfously consldercd, If we have nothing to say in regard to diserimination on the part of that gov- ernment we shall be barved frow plainig iu the fodeviug its | Wi is The om- | nt of other countries | ample. J Rev. John Willlams has an imaginary grievance against The Bee for the alleged suppression of his communica tion assuring the public that the pro- posed South Omaha bull fight would not conflict with the aims and objects of the Humane soclety, of which he is an officer. The only tangible excuse for his last outbreak In the World- Herald is that the letter In guestion was juserted on one of the inside pages of The Bee instead of the outside page. ‘The trouble with Rev. Willlams, as well #% with a great many others fond of tilts with the press, Is that he takes every subject discussed as personal be- tween Dbimself avd the editor. With | them, when The Bee discusses any pub- lic issue, it does so as voicing purely personal ideas or whims instead of as the exponent of public sentiment re flected through the medium of th editorlal pen. It is singular that Rev. Williams and the other people who dissent from The Bee direct their shafts at Rosewater. Why don't they address them to Hiteheock or to the unknown and unknowable editor of the other yellow journal? em———— Can it be that the course of Prof. Hervon in the abandonwment of wife and children appeals specially to popu- lists for sympathy and support? Here | we have the Independent, the recog- nized organ of the populists iu this state, publicly indorsing Prof. Herron when nearly every sober-minded observer has nothing but condemnation for him. It tells us that Prof. Herron has arrvived at the logical result of the theorles of soclalism because, accepting the prem- ises of soclulism as true, no other con- cluslon could be arrived at. “Prof. Herron huving accepted the premises of socinllsm as true bhas the courage to practice them,” it says with uncon- cenlgd admiration, “wherein he rises above the average socialist and in so far be 18 to be commended, Prof, Herron is the most brilllant, scholarly and logical socialist that has ever ap- peared in the United States.” We do not believe the American people sub scribe to such leadership whether they follow the populist political vagaries or not vom all indications M preparing to usk the people of Nebraska to select thelr supreme judge this fall on the issue of the correctness of the decision of the United States supreme court in the fusular ¢ A Judge of the state supreme court has about as much to do with the rulings of the United States supreme court as a mem- ber of a city council has with the ac tion of congress, but then that will make no. difference. Visiting Americans in London seem to think they have been specially com plimented because King Edward re- celved them just as he would an, pany of friends. That's perfectly proper. If King Edward will only come over to this country fop a little pleasure tour we will go him one better by try g to show Lim a little more attention than is usually devoted to ordinary Buests, ——— J. Sterling Morton of Arbor Lodge will soon be thrown into the shade. Emperor Willlam proposes to go into the tree planting business on an im perial scale, His latest fad Is the em bellishment of the famous Avenue of Victory by planting a double row of statues of monarchs, generals and statesmen on this monumental thor- oughfare, Soothing Syrap f Kansas City Star. The oytcry among a certain class of OMAHA DAILY BE I 1ly [of a | with the wages of the men | that the towels supplicd in the shops free Britons about belug Americanized ought to exery & soolhlog lnfduei Qb those alarm- [TONDAY 1 to howl | country by 1505 in the United States who | about the absorption of this English capitalists Chasing Proaperity. Indianapolis News Kx-Senator, Pettigrew is Investing heav- In Wyoming oll flelds. On the whole the ex-senator {5 disposed Lo take a very cheerful view of things at present | hey Emulnte ¥ Hoston Transc These Arapahos Indians, who are sald | to be arming, may be simply preparing to celebrate the Fourth. The most peaceable citizen is apt, about this time, to go loaded to the muzzle wil Reducing he o Washington Post King Edward is striviog to wake a record for cconomy and has reduced bis personal expenses by disppnsing with the servic of twenty-four chaplains. This will leave bim with a force of one dozen and the poor man will not have to do his own praying Silence Most Becoming. [ Chicago Chronicle, Senator Tilman does not know cxactly how (o extricate himself from the situation in which he is placed and he is looking up precedents. He will find (hat there are practically unbroken records for a thousand years back to the effect that when a man makos a fool of himself tho best thing to do is 1o « in the hope that othes peo plo will fo Staying on the § Minneapolis Tribune The manufacturing industry of the United States has been growlng at an unprece- dented rate, but the growth of the farming industry has substantially kept pace with it The census of 1890 showed 4,564,601 farme under cultivation and that of 1500 shows 5,700,000, An increase of more than 1,100,000 farms in ten years is doing pretty well, considering the current complaint of the tendency of young men to lcave the farm and flock to the clties Philanthrophy Labor. Philadelphia Press The strike in the Dayton Cash Register company, like the Pullman strike saven years ago, has abruptly destroyed the value large amount of literature, written by college professors and others, intending to show how works could be managed in order to avold all friction and conflict with labor. In the cash register works, as every one knows, every possible arrangement was made for the comfort of the men, the high- st wages were paid and every effort was made to link the prosperity of the works These works have just been' closed, after a seriea of petty confiicts, which began In the demand of charge should be wash d at a unfcn lavn dry; mext, an issue as to & change of wages when wood was substituted for a metal base, and, lastly, a long dispute over wages in the foundry, where some of the men had | been earning from §5 to $8 a day, and where the unfon insisted on the rule that no men employed should earn more than $4.50 a day. A dispute finally arose as to the em- ployment of three men. which the com- pany offered to submit to arbitration, whereupon the men gave a three hours' ultimatum and left their benches. The works are closed and are likely to be clossd for some time to cowe. PILLARS OF OUR PROSPERITY, Too Firmly Placed to by Furope. New York World The uselesstess of Europe’s carping at Amerlcan prosperity and imagining how by some cammercial or political league of all Europe it can be checked, is apparent by a reference to the pillars by which that pros- perity 1s supported, The United States has 7 per cent of the world's area and 5 per cent of Its popula- tion, and its population {8 Increasing faster than any other country's Its total wealth far exceeds that of any other nation—is at least fifteen billions greater than Great Britain’s—and it is dis- tributed per capita more evenly than any other nation Its money investment in colleges and schools of all grades and the number of puplls attending them are equal to those of any other two nations combined. It has 41 per cent of the world’s total ratlroad mileage, and 12,000 more miles than the trackage of all Europen countries put together. It produces more gold than any other part of the world save Africa, more silver than any other country save Mexico, and coin annually about one-fifth of all the world's metallic money. It manufactures every year a greater total product than England, France and Germany combined It produces 80 per cent of all the world's cotton, cottonseed and corn, 40 per cent of all its stcel and other mineral products, 33 per cont of all its coal, 30 per cent of ull its iron and all its graln, and 25 per cent of all its wheat. These are the pillars of our Temple of Prosperity. Europe could not even shake them. Re Distnrbed [ REMEMBER FLAG DAY, Up With the Starry Banner and Let Tt Flutter in the Hreeses. Cleveland Plain Dealer. The American Fiag assoclation, an or- ganization which Includes among fts offi- clals such distinguished soldiers, sallors and statesmen as General Miles, General O. 0. Howard, Rear Admiral Schley, Rear Ad- miral Cherardl, Vice President Roosevelt and others, has fssued an urgent appeal for & general celebration of the first Flag day of the twentieth century. The sssociation was formed in 1897 from veteran, military, patriotic and historical societies in the United States “to promote reverence for and prevent the desecration of the flag of eur country,” and the object of its present ap- peal I to secure “the widest possible rec- ognition of the day, and a general and pa- triotic celebration.” Flag day is the 14th of June, & week from | heta ! in | 142 to next Friday. That date has come to be con- sidered Flag day, becausc' on that day in| 1777 congress enacted: “That the flag of the thirteen Unfted States be thirteen | stripes, alternate red and white; that the | union be thirteen stars, white In a blue | flold, represanting a new constellation.” The number of stripes having been in- | creased by the admission of new states, | and other admissions being probable, the | original thirteen stripes were unchangeably restored on April 4, 1515, when It was enacted by congress: “That from and after the fourth day of July next, the flag of the United States be thirteen horizontal stripes, | alternate red and white; that the union be twenty stars, white in a blue field, and that on the admiseion of a new state into the | union one star be added to the union of the flag; and that such addition take effect on the fourth day of July next succeeding such admission.” Since that change in 1815 twenty-five stars or sovereign states have been added to the union, making forty-five in all, Flag day is observed in most of the public hools, Leing so required by law In some states, and appropriate exarcises take place. The assoclation urged that the celebration be made general and that alt citizens “join in making the celebration of Flag day an event In this first year of the new century, | and see to it that the stars and stripes with il they mean shall on June 14, 1001, greet the rising and salute the setting sun, from every church edifice, school and publte bullding, and also from every private dwell ing, however bumble, throughout the entire land" | without | are | stories’ of the gainful and other callings | and exceedingly useful tuition of after life JUNE 10, 190 Future of San Fran Mr HIIl of the Great Northern has mad an cxplanation of the purnoses of himself and his colleagues in entering upon the struggle for the North Pacific that reeulted jn such a tre- mendous excltement in Wall street. He ieclared emphatically: “It is vot a fght between one section of city or road and another. It is a big Question of traffc de- velopment: it is a question of the commer- clal and industrial development of the country at large. Our competitor is not in New York nor in fan Francisco; she is on the high seas. Our problem s to get of the commerce of the Pacific and bring it acrose the Pacific and across the United States Instead of allowing it to he diverted around the globe via the Sues cvanal or Cape Horn." By way of making his view of the situa- tlon more clearly understood he went on to say our population is doubling every thirty years: that from the landing of the Mayflower down to the close of the cfvil war we had grown to 35,000,000 und since that time have Increased hy 41,000,000 and tha it is probable within thirty vears more we shall have in the neighborhood of 150,000,000, Of that vast number of peo ple ho estimates that not more than 50 000,000 can find support from manufactur- ing or commerce, because machinery has %0 increased power in such industries that thera is not room for the employment of more than one-third of the population Thus the remaining 100,000,000 people must find support from the sofl in one w nother. Having laid down those propositions and supported them by an elahorate array of statistios, Mr. Hill went on to say of the increastng number of cultivators of the s0il: “Where will they go? Not to New England, with its rocky and unproductive hills, New England, to use a term In physics, is filled to the saturation point Nor will the south take much of the in crease, with the exception of the Latin fnflux from southern KEurope. No, the great increase will be in the valleys of the Ohlo, Mississippi, Missourl and west- ard, the fertile prairies of the great cen- tral west and beyond, wheraver Irrigation fs possible. Now. then, what will these 100,000,000 on the land of the west produce? ames J recently ¢ or the West Food, will they not? They will produce the three great staples of traffic, food, fuel and | shelter, but food in the the main From the employment of £ large & num ber of people tn the production of food stuffs from a fertile soil under a tem perate sky there will result an enormous production, much more than fs needed for American use, and cousequently an enor- mous market will have to be found for the | surplus. That market, Mr. Hill says, will be found in Asia, for the Asfutics will saon do most of the comparatively small amount of manufacturing they require and will never be rich enough to demand much in the way of luxuries. Their great demand will be for food and as a consequence there will be un i{mmense traffic between the great west and the Orient. The only ques- tion in the problem, he added, is whether that trafc shall first be carried to the eastern ports of (he United States and thence shipped to the Orlent by way of the Suez canal or by way of Cape Horn, or whether it shall be taken direct to Pacific ports and shipped thence to Asia As to the part which he and other raflway magnates are playing ‘n the evolution of commerce Mr. HII said: “After all {s sald wo railway managers are largely automa- | tons in the shuttle. We must move as na ture and commerce dictate. We succeed only as we obey the groat natural laws and the public Interesis. As between roads and magnates 1t {s a case of survival of the fittest. Who s the fittest —which road, | what route? That which geography, gravi tatlon, climate, production, population commerco and progress solect, control and support. The others must pass from view.' While there may be differences of opinion concerning some of the statements of Mr HIlL, it will hardly be denfed that in the main his forecast ix as accurate as ean ba drawn from present conditions It is certainly a wonderful prediction that the will fill up within thirty years, and yet It may not be far wrong. All the signs of the time point to the conclusion that this country fs to be marked by extraor- dinary developments all round the Pacifi ocean, and {n the course of them the Pacific acean states of the union mugt recelve an enormous stimulus In every department of industry and commerce, const west 5 STATE POLITICAL FIELD, Table Rock Argus (rep.) P. Davidson of Tecumseh would make good timber out of which to construct a republican candidate for judg: of the supreme court. Able, clean, encrgetic, he has a host of friends in all rts of the state who would like to see him thus honored Wayne Herald (rep.): Governor Savage | seems to be making just the kind of a gov- ernor the fusionists do not like. Now, really, | that's too bad, but Mr. Savage is one of | the sturdy husbandmen of Nebraska and | the pops will be obliged to accept of a good | thing whether they like it or not. Wiakefiold Republican: Senators Dietrich and Millard have divided the federal pat- | ronage of this state belween them, so far as does not conflict with the rights of con- gressmen, on the line of the Platte river. It is announced that officers now serving will be permitted to serve out their terms, and on the expiration of their terms it is the intention to uppoint new men. Whether | this will be done or not remains to be seen, but rotation in office fs a good general prin- ciple to follow and usually satisfactory to the public, if not to the individual who hap- | pens to be holding the office when the time to rotate out of it comes along. Holdrege Citizen (rep.): Governor Sav- age has given out In positive language that “'soft snaps’’ must go and that people who are filling them must get out of them and o some work for a living. This is as it snould be, for there is no more reason for | the state having positions for people for whom it has no work than for private in- dividuals to employ more men than they | need. It is too common In official life to provide position for some favorite who has done some work for the party or demands some recognition for some reason. This seems to have been prevalent under the late administration in this state and it is to be hoped that the present governor will stick to his announcement and clean out tbhe ureless hangers-on on the pay roll in our state institutions. COMMENCEMENT SEASON. 8, Outpouring Through the Open Doors of Schooly and Col Philadelphia Ledger. During the present month many thou- sands of young men an4 women will leave our universities, colleges and schocls to enter upon the careers for which they have long been preparivg. Good prepara tion for the serious business of ecarning @ living and making one's way in the world, the tagk set before the great ma- Jority af graduates, is more desirable now than it has ever been, for the reason that we are educating more people In propor tion to the general population than fo merly. The federal commissioner of edu- cation, in his report for 1898-04, presents a statement giving the number of students in highcr education to each 1,000,000 per- sons in the United States, from 1872 to 189 It shows a very substantial in- crease for each cluss of students repre- sented. The commissioner says: ““As weuld naturally be expected, by far the greatest increase is shown {n the col- ump devoted to graduate students, the ratio having increased from five students in 1872 to seventy-four in 1806."" The table presented included all under- graduate, colleglate and technical students | universities and colleges for men and for hoth sgxes, in colleges for women of the highest grade, and in schools of tech- nology. The ratlo as to law students rose during this perlod from 49 to 163: medica ; theology, 84 to 114. Such would be the natural result of the fncrease in the number of the universities, collvgen, professtonal and technical Institutions, their increasing endowments and the grow- ing wealth and prosperity of the country, reference to the normal schools, academles and public schools. Intelligent competition {s not as flerce, however, as these statements seem to indicate. The opportunities, the demand for educated men and women, are vastly In excess of those of former years; but the ratlo of in- crease of educated persons to increase of opportunities cannot be given ow flelds opening. Tha recent territorial sc- cessions we have made are presenting op portunities in what would in Europe be called the coloninl service There Is net only room in “the upper but at other landing places in the house of success, One does not fail if one does not arrive at the top floor. The old fashioned injunction to young students to emulate George Washingion was rather discouraging than otherwise, 8o far as it was an injunction to become famous. Fired by such appeals, young men have gone fo college to learn how to become rafiroad presidents and to perform other impossi ble achievements. These illustrations are soon dispelled by the rough, disciplinary During the pext few weeks from 150,000 to 160,000 young men and women will pass from our higher institutions of learning into the professions and business lite. A far greater multitude will depart from the tngtitutions of lower grade. The com- mencement season |s of trapscendent im- portance to them all, =il | omg PE IN THE PHILL Etchings of People and Events in the Thousand Isles. A Kentucky younk man who is an oficer in the Philippines writes of the lessons in English which the American soldier {s | glving the senoritas “The wife of the commanding ofcer of the island of Panay was up at a little place called Thajay, which is one of the coolest places In the islands, spending the hot term. The joking spirit of the American soldler was very much In evidence at this | place, where the soldiers wore giving the | Spanish senoritas lessons in English. The | s wife was one morning strolling | ong the street when she met a young woman whom she knew quite well and said, ‘Good morning, senorita,’ to which the young woman replied, ‘Good morning, you are a d—n fool.' The American woman was, of course, surprised and asked the other woman where she had learned that and war informed that one of the soldiers had told her that it was one of the finest compliments that could he paid in the English language. Another time the of- ficer's wife met another young woman and sald, ‘It s quite hot, isn't it, senorita,’ and the answer came back, ‘Yes, hotter than h—1' Another soldier bhad become A teacher and another woman a student of the English language.’ Americans epjoy the strut and ornate regalia of potentates fu comic opers and regard them as burlesques on the real thing Yet the comic opera article can scarcely equal in dignity, strut and apparel of tho Sulu hoss coddled by Uncle Sam. Fred- erick W. Lddy, correspondent of the New York Times, who accompanied the Taft commission on & tour of the islands last April, thus sketches the sultan as he ap- peared In royal state: “The sultan led the way up the ship lad- der. There was no mistaking him. Layers of gold lace covered the shoulders and breast of his black frock coat. "His famous | $10,000 pearl shoue over his heart in a set- | ting of gold with diamond points, facing on his black fez flashed with dia- monds. He came ungloved, that the sun | might play with its rival in minfature that dazzled from bis hand. White duck trous- ers of modern crease, tan shoes fresh from the maker, and gold-bowed spectacles com- pleted the outward adoroment of Sulu's ruler. “Stripped of these trappings nothing ap- peared to distinguish the sultan from his retinue. He would not win a prize on his face, figure, or bearing. Of medium stature, pitted skin, his heavy upper lip drawn fre- quently back to display a set of unoven teeth blackened by betel; dull, uncertain eyes of the kind incapable of firm gaze, and the stoop and plodding step of a man grown old without the help of years, present both the first and the abiding impression of him. His grand attire was an object of beauty compared with that of the following he brought aboard. His advisers and council had decked themselves out in costumes similar to the gaudy display on the early morning flotilla, but coutact dispelled illn slons so thoroughly that it seemed a pity that they had not stald far enough off to prevent inspection in detail. As for the | And the | But { And all that was chewir The gold | s ment ought Asiatic frontier at le eration they gave the in its earlier days.” to give the people on the the same consid ansmissouri reglon doing resorts A Detroit boy the Philippives muse to tell th and hopes and his song This place ain't the Campus Martius And it ain’'t no sunny Helle ever and dagos a And everything else 1s vile But It's mighty good (ru for me, And some of us cocky recrufts ‘or we're learnin’ to have some manners well as to shoot some shoots the soldier act in 0 the wayward At Tome his thoughts pations. Hear fond imate B, Rut | think more often than's hes Of the busy old town by the river And 1 get an allegone feelin’ That the dag piite down to my liver, it atn't, Bl you can gamble; 'm longin' {o hear from Wot's happened the 1t Got another steady, 1 yu AR S n kind t worryin' round inside And last night ~wouldn't this jar you?l= 1 1aid on my knapsuek and erfed! Was 1 homesiok? Not for u minute, i1 certatnly acted queer my bosom bik shupers of heer of pangs and emotions Was Clancey's Kin 1 over forglt ‘em? Well I you could savvy the booze You get in thix cursed country You'd soonor go sober than use. So. when | sigh for a Clancey Four of ‘em made a peck And every one with a collar An inch and a half round the neck hardly, How 1 long for cold slaw or a pretzel, Or a toothful of eaviare, How 1 long for a weiner, an alive And that black old Awsassin clgar: A‘venl old garbage vard stinker— 1 don't ltke Mantla cheroots Something (o taste suits me batte Something that burns like old boot Good-bye, BIL, old socks, T feel bettor, I've reached the end of my page. Get a mave on and write me letter. What's the latest song that's the rage? There's u hu profundo with eelic Singin’ T Attle Girls in Rlue,™ He might ring me in, If he knew {t, For that v geczer foel The Pennsylvania senate has voted to ape propriate $10,000 for the erection of a mon- ument to Andrew L. Curtin, “the war gov- ernor.” Colonel M. T. Herrick and James Parme- len, two milliogaires of Cleveland, 0., have glven Mrs, Booth-Tucker a large tract of geound for the Salvation army farm pear that eity Charles J. Devlln of Topeka carries life insurance than any other man in sas. The amount is $714,000. He has cles in all the leading companies. premiums ageregate $30,000 a vear Willlam H. Newman, who has just been elected president of the New York Central Ratlroad company. began his raflroad carcer as a switchman, won his way up in the service of various companies and now, at the age of b4, has reached the top of the ladder. Bismarck fs growing to be the Parls of America. The wives of the farmers in North Dakota have cut-glass fingerbowlt on their dining tables and no one but an occasional guest from the east makes the mistake of drinking from these glittering receptacles. A Alfred Davies, an English member of Parlfament, now on a visit to this coun- try, constantly reminds people of Dickens' immortal Pickwick. He fs short and stout 05 years old, with a round face and mos benignant smile. Put him In tights anc garters and he would be Plckwick to the life. President McKinley has foformed Senator Lodge that he would not be able to keep his appointment to visit New England this summer, except perhaps for & few days in Boston and Cambridge during the time of the Howard commeucement. Mrs. Mc- Kinley's poor health s the cause for this change of plans Rev. Dr. John Watson (“Ian Maclaren") and others, according to the Congregation- alist, recently dined with W. S. Caine, member of Parliament. Mr. Calne offered o glve £50 to a hospital fund through the man who would make the best pun on bis name within five minutes. Brains cogitated for awhile and then, just as the time was about to expire and Mr. Caine thought he was to escape, John Watson said: “Don't be in such a hurry, Caine.” e—— TART TRIFLES, more Kan- poli- The Jud Vigitar—Don't_you think it's hard on ‘vour daughter to run that grain drill Jut ‘on the prairie every day?” Western Farmer—Why, T didn’t think it was anything unusual for a girl to do plain wing. Hoston Transcript: Bertha—Fred Hart is going to marry Beeste Light. . ilth—You don't mean it! For mercy's what could he have seen in her? tha—That's what I say. Do you know, : he must have courted her over the telephone Detroft Free Prexs: Parke—After twenty years of married life, how do you mansge as ever? Yes, about as well. | understand t as well as the first three weeks we were engaged Philudeiphta | Press: that woman?" asked the editor “The president of the Woman's Rights club," replled his assistant. “She ‘was miking a kick because we referred to her ‘atrong-minded person right. Be careful to call her minded person’ in the future. Chigago Post “ather,” the small boy, “what fs polygamy The old gentleman made sure that his wite was lisiening before he answereil, Polygamy, he sald, “ls the name given to a method of acquiring trouble by whole- le.” Who was sald A man can here indeed! the meanin Puck: First Rural Visitor plek up lot of informatls Becond Rural Visitor- ¥ fust thing | Jearned Pan-Amerlcan The wa of bodyguard, the possession of a ragged un dershirt and tight drawers, whose appeals | for the laundry had pever been heeded, de noted perhaps some measure of prosperity denled to those who came In the buff from the walst upward and the loins downward but it was less attractive, for the naked showed at least well-knit frames and sin ews fit for any task “Two articles of attire furnished the na- tive lis chief concern, a turban and sash belt. No one lacked in this respect, even the dignitaries in complete modern shiladelphin Press 11e—1 know I'm late .1.!u” Yon Nee, | was detained a couple of ru by un ol friend who fust got bhack Town after @ long absence hud 1o ell hi all 1 knew hhe Canapplehiv)-1 why that should have kept yon don't wee long. rer pa “Why, George, Cleveland Plain ' nd as you positively vou didn’t call on promised you woule M m going to notity him & wireless telegraph!” sults girding themselves with the latter, | and the most scantily clad of the body guard of cutthroats crowning their murder us faces with the colls of cotton prints which the Mohammedans wear as their dis tinetive hadge Everyone in the hody guard had thrust within the folds of his sash a boroug or holo, with wooden scab bard and sinucas hilt, on which he alws Kept his eve and often his hand halt expecting a command to prepare action, and relishing by anticipation cholce treasure of heads that might (0 bis lot if chance should ofier & mage.'" o the fall rim The New American of April utters a pro- | longed howl about the delays in malil sery fve o and from the mainland. No mall was gent out from Manila between March 27 and April 20, causing great inconven fence to all clusses. Bays the American Muplia and the Philippines are no milit camps. Peace has been | red by force of arms and strategy. | must now be maintalned by trade and encouraging agricultural and industrial elopment. This is possible only by the fosteriug care of the government and that | care doesn’t mean mall on month out | of Manila. Even If busincss reasons did not demand a more frequent mail the American citizens here are entitled to greater consideration than they ive trom the Postofce department Instead of ammunition and arms let us bave more frequent malls, The govern | the Every about vV ashington Star e Fxomething wise girl 1 don’t know ab e, “In ca ex the husband his dyspepsia we caoking. it that of ine chance answered Miss Ca mpatibility 1t Ky to hlame her for rd: “Muary 1 the girl's sternly, “‘wh ime Aid leave last night Catholle Stand mother, ruth YOur young mu " ok, ma, her thing?" ex- Well in' he aske Ella Wheelar Wil your work and Whatever whatever its worth No mattér how Homeone will sneer And scoff at vo FOr the target art has a And wherever you chunce Though clase be your alm to th fame. Though the hou vlays And a smiting w Bome there with an the ucting bo (vt has @k Alr i imb seen m it rche trong er, Pong | 10’ hear, ir best endeavor broad expanse, o hit bull's-eyd Wil never wdmit it » while the artisf rld udores him nuuied ate 5 him ty spire, landing small ofitime nding en niche 1erve yon: ¢ who pass your way Your COUFARE OF SWerve you fdle wiil flock by the Temple of AF¢ fust the pleasure of gasing 11 elimb to the top and do not step, Though they may not be all pralsing With many And th