Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 21, 1901, Page 6

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BTAT OF : Btate of u, Douglas County, George hick, secretary of T Publishing Company, being duly sworn Says that 1h i i actual_number of full and €omplete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the mouth of May, 101, was as follows: 27,450 27,080 27,250 27,140 47,000 47,746 20,740 27,080 26,780 20,740 %8, 400 20,580 27,810 20,880 4,080 27,070 20,920 7,050 27,478 7,080 27,680 27,200 2 . a. Net total sales... Net dally average. ... 20,805 GEO, UCK, Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this Alst day of May, A D, 190, M. B, HUNGATE, Notary Public VING FOR SUMMER. Partien leaving the city for mer may have The Bee n regularly by Bee Bunine person or by mail, rens will be changed an often as desired. e — e e ——— Hot air will propel an engine, but hot | alr has never yet built an air lne rail- road. The state supreme court has wound up for the season and the force pump com- mission will take a breath. C————— Mr. Stubbs of California admits that he is to be the whole thing on Harri- man's transcontinental octopus. e—— Denver wants pointers from Omaha for a half million dollar auditorium. There's nothing small about Denver. Drop an eagle in the slot. A new reform party has just been or- ganized at Kansas City with the Initia- tive and referendum as the keystone, Here is a chauce for Governor Yeiser, Now that the county has been redis- tricted the Board of County Commis- sioners will tind time for concentrating its attention on the equalization of assessments. e With $1,000,000 of his own and a wed- ding present of $100,000, young Mr. Clark of Moutana will not be forced to buy furniture on the Installment plan in order to start housekeeping. South Dakota's 8chool funds is the largest in the history apportionment of of the state—the legitimate result of re- publican prosperity. No sign shines i the sky for populism in this shewing. The Jersey City court is angry because the newspapers scooped it on testimony which the judge proposed to suppress from the jury. Judges have no license to go to sleep If they do not wish the press to beat them out. Democratic talk about running Justice Harlan for the presidency 1s strangely at wvarlance with the comments lately made by the same party through Its press and public men regarding the appolntment of the judge's son to a position in Porto Rico. President Mellen of the Northern Pa- cific announces through the Assoclated WHAT CUBA WILL ASK. The allied commercial associations of Cuba have sent a representative to Washington whose mission is to present information from the commereial con- cerns of Cuba which it is hoped by them will result in the adoption of a reciprocity tariff agreement with the island. The planters and business men of Cuba are particularly anxious to se- cure a reduction In the tariff on sugar and every effort will be made to obtain this concession from congress at its next sesslon. It s stated that General Wood favors a reduction and has recommended to the president that congress be asked to make a reduction not only of the tariff on sugar, but also on tobacco. He Is said to have pointed out, in a recent communication to the, secretary of war on the subject, that the financial condi- tion of the island makes a reduction of tariff duties on the staple products of Cuba almost a necessity and it is thought, that the president will recom- mend to congress that a reduction be made, President McKinley informed the Cuban commissioners that as soon as a government should be established in Cuba the question of trade relations be- tween the island and the United States would be taken up and undoubtedly this will be done. The matter is of vital concern to the future of Cuba. The island cannot develop and prosper with- out the American market for its sugar and tobacco. But as we have heretofore pointed out, there will be a formidable opposition to granting any special tariff favor to Cuban sugar and tobuc Al ready the sugar and tobacco interests in the United States are preparing to fight any attempt on the part of the planters of Cuba to secure a reviprocity agreement with this country and those interests will doubtless be thoroughly organized by the time congress assem- Dbles, while they may be expected to do effective work with members in the meantime, We noted a short time ago the ap- pearance of & pawphlet stron de- nouncing the proposed tariff concessions to Cuba. It is argued In this that the United States has done quite eunough for the island—"all that is either neces- sary to restore prosperity or fair to ou own taxpayers and our home Industries, all that is decent and honest toward our sugar producers in the states und in our new and pacitied possessions. Hawail and Porto Rico.” It Is urged that “with forty beet sugar factories representing ,000,000 or more In Michigan, Ohlo, New York, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minuesota, Illinois, Ne- braska, Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Wash- ington and California, we do not be- lieve the people of those states desice their senators and representatives to vote for either free sugar from Cuba or for geduced dutles thereon.” It is de- clared that “Cuba is ou an even keel now with our sugar producers and to say that her Spanish planters need reduced duties I8 deceptive and false.” This gives an idea of the opposition that will be made to any effort to give tarlff favors to Cuban sugar and to- bacco and the American interests di- rectly concerned will be very likely to have the sympathetic support of other Interests. It is obvious, therefore, that it will be a difficult matter for the Cubans to secure the consideration they desire for thelr products, though it is probuble some favor will be shown them. BOER SYMPATHIZERS IN ENGLAND. A pro-Boer meeting in London, at- tended by thousands of people, is at this time signiticant. It had been com- monly supposed that there were very few people in England who felt any sympathy for the Boer cause, but it ap pears that such are quite numerous and that they are willing to make them- selves heard. Perhaps they do not seri ously expect to accomplish anything. It is bardly conceivable that they believe they may be able to bring about any change in the policy of the government. That policy has behind it a strong par- llamentary majority, it 1s supported by the Influential newspapers of the coun- try and unquestionably a very large - Jority of Englishmen think that it must be carried out, Yet these Boer sympa- thizers are to be commended for having the courage of their convictions. Meanwhile the Boer cause seems to be holding Its ground remarkably well. The force in Cape Colony Is reported to be increasing and the fact that there are no reports of British successes Press that he has no thought of resign- ing. Mr. Mellen may rest assured that nobody suspected him of such foolish- ness. The a ge rallroad president does not resign a $20,000 job unless he bas & M0 Job in slght, manufactury of agricul- ents have held a meeting to ays and means of defending themselves agninst the big concern soon to be incorporated. It looks, however, that through its alilance with the steel combine the hig company has plowed a wide fiveguard around its preserve. o ———— It remained for a Denver man to dis- cover the veal object of the financial syudicates in buying up the railroads of the country. According to this au- thority all the roads in the country are to be bought up and sold to the gov- ernment for $10,000,000,000. This will probably be news to the magnates, An- other thing which is peculiar about the discovery Is where the great financlers expect to make a profit, as at the yrice paid for the voads so far bought the sum named would hardly be sufficient to purchase all the roads in the country. Woman sutfragists will receive very lttle encouragement from the proposed enfranchisement of white women in Ala- bamu as an offset to the negro vote. Under the fifteenth amendment to the federal constitution the right of citizens of the United States to vote cannot be dented or abridged by the United States or any state on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude. If suf- frage is granted to the white women of Alabawa, It must also be granted to the black women, and in Alabama black women outnumber the white wowen, shows that little If any progress s be- ing made toward ending hostilities. It is certoin that If the British were ac complishing anything of consequence the world would be told of it. The war has become astonishingly dull, from a military standpoint, but its effect is keenly felt in England by reason of in- creased taxation, and while there is no reason to expect any change of policy on the part of the government, it is quite possible that the sentiment in favor of a change will grow. Such meetings as that held W London Wednesday can hardly fall to produce that result. EmEmme—— WITHOUT POLITICAL IMPORT. The Russian ambassador to the United States has assured Secretary Hay that the action of the Russian minister of finance in Increasing duties on Awmerican products has no political iport and was in no way connected with any move ment in Europe antagonistic to Aweri can products. There was no suspicion that it had any such significance, yet it I8 obvious that its effect might be to lead other governments to adopt a like policy toward us, if we should tamely subwit to this form of tariff retalintion. Undoubtedly the Russian government has po thought of entering into any Eu- ropean combination against our prod- ucts, but in adopting a retaliatory policy that government Is furnishing an exam- ple to other countries that some of them may follow and this the United States is justitied in regarding as distinctly un- friendly. The matter appears to be recelving serlous conslderation at Washington. It was discussed at a cabloet , meeting Wednesday and Secretary Gage ralsed the question whether the action of the Russian government was not an In fringement upon the treaty rights of the United States, If such is the case, how ever, it appears that our government also violated the treaty in lmposing a duty on Russian petroleum. In that event this government wonld doubtless at once remedy the mistake, and it Is safe to assume that Russia would promptly recede from her position, so far as the last increase of duties is con- cerned At all events, the situation calls for careful and conservative treatment by both countries and this it will undoubt edly recelve. Neither country wants a tariff war and it should not be difficult to avold one THE COUNTY GERRYMANDER. For more than twenty-five years the affalrs of this connty were managed and controlled by a board of three commis- sloners, elected by the vote of the whole count Some twelve years ago the Board of County Commissioners was in- creased from three to fi and the anty was subdivided into five districts, each commissioner being elected by the vote of the particular district in which he resided. Under the general statutes governing county comissioners the district boun- darles may be changed not oftener than once every three years, but the law ex- pressly requires that no change in the district boundaries be m; unless every member of the board is present at the meeting wheg such change is voted. An- other section of the law requires that the county shall be resubdivided after overy national or state census has been taken and officinlly published. The present board of commissioners consists of three democrats and two re- publicans, Duriug the past elghteen months repeated efforts have been made by the democratic majority to force a redistricting that would insure a demo- cratic majority In the board of commis sloners for years to come. This scheme was spoiled by the absence from time to time of one or the other of the repub- llean members. In spite of the absence of both of the republican members of the board the democratic majority bas Just redistricted the county on lines that seemed to them to muke sure of the two democratic candidates in November next and the perpetuation of the democratic board for y to come, While there is grave doubt as to the legality of this gerrymander, it will, if ared valid by the courts, by means prove of advantage to its pro- moters. The law authorizing the redis- tricting expressly provides that no mem- ber shall be deposed or legislated out of office. In other words, every member of the existing board is protected in his right to represent the county on the board of commissioners during the en- tire term for which he was elect Under the gerrymander the First, Sec- ond and Third wards coustitute one dis- trict; the Fourth, Seventh and Eighth wards another; the Fifth, Sixth and Ninth another; South Omaha and Clon- tarf precinet constitute one district, and the remaining country precincts consti- tute another district. Inasmuch as Com- missioners Harte and Connolly both now reside in the same district, each will continue to remain in the board until their respective terms expire. Con- nolly's term expires with the end of this year, but Harte will remain a member of the board until the close of 1903. There would be no vacancy in the rst, Second and Third wards, or the First district, In 1002, and cousequently there can be no election for a commissioner from that ward this year, he district comprising the Fifth, Sixth and Ninth wards would be represented by Ostrom, who holds over until the end of 1902, heunce there can be no election In his district in 1901, This would leave the district comprising the Fourth, Seventh aud Ninth wards with a vacancy next year, and South Owaba aund Clontart with another vacancy. The upshot of the whole matter is that the republicans would have two hold- over members for next year and would be sure to elect a member from the Fourth, Seventh and Ninth wards this year. The democrats, on the other hand, would have one holdover—Hofeldt—and a fair chance for another in South Omaba and Clontarf. In any event Mr. Connolly has cut himself out of any chance of election. 1f the gerrymander is pronounced illegal by the courts he stands no better show by running in the Eighth, Third and Ninth, that con- stitute the district in which he now re sldes. Viewed from any standpoint the gerry- mander leaves very little comfort to the democrats for continuing in power in Douglas county for another year. London papers have from time to time printed statements that the United States had sent an ultimatum to Den- mark regarding the sale of the Danish West Indies, and their latest is to the effect that that country had been notified it must either sell or fortify the islands. Such storles are absurd. The United States has never been in the business of sticking its nose into the affairs of Euro- pean countries in this mauner, and no departure from this custom will be made. It is possible that Denmark b been informed that under the Monroe doctrine the, United States would object to the islands passing into the control of uny Eurcpean nation other than thie present owners. In fact, there is a standing notice to that effect posted on all foreign-held territory on this con- tinent. If the new traffic manager for the al- lled Harriman roads Is to manage the business on the basis which has pre- vailed on the Southern Pacific in the past, the community of interest may prove a detriment rather than a benefit to the west. ‘The Southern Pacific pol has been “All the trafic would bear,” and sometimes a little more, Ordinarily scolding from the bench Is nelther good policy nor good mauners, but there are times when it appears to be justifiable. One of them is the Minne- apolis case, where uunscrupulous pro- moters have reaped a harvest of $250.000 out of an lnvestment of wind and left no | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRI 21, only a small quantity of that to satisfy the claime of the duped creditors, The common sneak thief is a prince of moral- fets compared with such financial high- waymen as these, and if the Minneapolis court will only provide them with striped clothing for which the state pays and a steady job of hard work for a foew years, it will be dolug humanity a service, One hundred thousand people are wait ing for the chance to make 13,000 entries upon land to be opencd to settlement in Oklahoma. Someone s sure to be dis- appointed, but it remains for the future to show whether it is the few who get the land or the many who suffer tem- porary disappointment. Another Messnxe Awalted. Kansas City Btar. In the case of Captaln Rowan, who 13 charged with unnecessarily arousing the people In the Island of Bohol, the country will give the gallant messenger to Garcla the benefit of the doubt until he has bhad his hearing. Rivaling the Corn Relt, New York Tribune. The oil wells of Texas are pouring out floods of petroleum, and now asphalt has been discovered In that favored state. As- phalt will be in brisk demand for genera- tions. It is necded all over the world for pavements. Lucky Texas! A Pablic Calamity. Washington Post The accldent to the Ingalls will be a great hardship to those senators and representa- tives who had consented to take a trip on the transport at the government's expense. Perhaps the poor men will feel like paying their way to and from the Philippines. Between Two Fires. Baltimore Amerfcan One of the speakers at a New York col- lege hes been warning the graduates against the dangers of wealth. But, with the dangers of poverty as the other end of the dilemma, the young men will prob- ably feel that they should risk the chances of deterioration from too much money. | “Populistic Terroriam.” Chicago Chroniele (dem.) Unlike most democratic politicians, Perry Belmont is not afraid to say what he thinks, He declares that the party cannot hope for success unless it unloads Mr. Bryan. Ninety-nine per cent of intelligent democrats believe the same thing, but the popullstic terrorism prevents them from saying so. Free ade with Porto Rico. Springfield Republican. Free trade with Porto Rico seems to be near at hand. This is indicated in a call for a special session of the island legisla- ture to meet on July 1 for the purpose, ap- parently, of giving formal notice to Wash- ington that the revenues have been put in condition s0 as to afford support to the government without the customs duties on commerce with the United States. The Foraker act provides that when formal notice {s made of such a situation the president shall proclalm free trade with Porto Rico. It is a long way round In getting in touch with plain duty, but we are at last about there. Wireleas Telegraphy. New York Tribune. After the feasibility of sending a photo- graph or drawing over a telegraph wire had once been demenstrated it was natural that some one should try to do the same thing by wireless . telegraphy. And a fair degree of success bas attended the experi- ment. Of course, it would not be possible to transmit as far by this means as with a metallic conductor. Yet the system has its advantages. Occasions are likely to arise when it will be desirable to send from a yacht, merchant steamer or naval vessel, rather than a land station. Even though the demand for such service Is likely to be limited, it is interesting to know that it is possible. AMER S B REMACY. The Recognition of the Brotherhood Equality of Man, Paul Ploneer Press, We hear a great many boasts nowadays concerning the supremacy which our coun- try has at last won in the fields of manu- facturing and commercial exchanges. And, indeed, the triumps of inventive, adminis- trative and industrial genius in shop and factory, in mine and on railroad, in pro- duction and transportation—to say nothing of that other type of genius which has sought out and developed new mar- kets abroad—have been such as may well make every American heart swell with exultation. It the toad is happiest when he Is the big- gest toad in the puddle, much more may the country be deemed happy which finds itself “'supreme” among nations in the magnitude of its business transactions. There's a deal of satisfaction in being simply big. But let us not forget, in contemplating these wonderful advances, in glorylng over the still enormously increasing amount of our riches and in comparing our commerce with that of other nations whose former prestige we have taken to ourselves, that thero 1s a nobler supremacy than that which fills the exultant air of our marts and exchanges today and that such a nobler supremacy has been ours for more than a century. With the very first organization of our government our country stepped forward as supreme among the nations of the earth in the Iiberty it allowed the in- dividfial citizen, in the recognition of the brotherhood and equality of man, in the obliteration of privilege and in the open- ing of every door of opportunity on equal terms to all. Tt was this that gave to the Amerlcan republic the proud distinction among nations. Jt was this that made our constitution a beacon light to the world. It was this that attracted millions of aspiring men from Furope to our shores. It was this that gave us leadership even when our commerce was infantile in its proportions and when the thought of such manufacturing development as s seen in our land today had not entered the mind of man And finally, out of these free institutions —out of the soll of liberty and the air of opportunity—have grown all the fair crea- tions which today make us the foremost of peoples in the material things for which the world hungers. Under old world sys- tems this material development could never have been attained. It was because our souls were free that minds expanded, hands took on mnew eunning. Euterprise ever found viger to keep it company. American commercial supremacy today is the child of American liberty Let no American, then, forget the greater things for which his country stands, in gloritylng advances which are simply ma- terial and which fade to nothingness in the presence of institutions founded by a Wash- ington and which made possible a Lincoln Our worship of material success is already carried too far. We exalt our plutocrats beyond their deserts. They are not the best fruits of our social system—tlie best representatives of Americanism. Let us learn rather to put forward, as most worthy of honor, the men who are doing most to hold our people to the faith of our fathers, to purify our politics, to open new paths of opportunity for the workers whose only capital is brain and brawn, to make our homes still more the abodes of virtue and to banish from the temple of liberty the worship of the golden calf, 1901. PINGREE, HAZ Minneapolis Times: Ex-Governor Pin- gree was not always politic in his methods and the antagonism he aroused sometimes defeated his cherished plans, but he was a man of wonderful force and to him Michi- gan s in great measure ind tax reforms as have been Instituted thero in recent years. Chicago Tribune: It is easy to forget the faults of a man of such positive and creative character as Mr. Pingree exhibited intolerance resort to ab opposition, his too ready , his sometimes {ll-consid- attitude toward corporate aggression, that constructive capacity in municipal adminis- tration, and those democratic sympathies of which the great socfal centers of today stand In consplcuous need. Kansas City Star: The altrufsm dis- played by Governor Pingree was not super- fluous or untimoly in an age and time when the selfish Instincts of humanity are largely dominant. The eponsor of such principles and doctrines as he advocated 18 likely to become the object of misunder- standing, and to be judged as a secker for notoriety. In the case of Governor Pin- gree this Impression was discredited by the actual performances of the man. The measure of intention and ability in this world is achievement. Judged by this stand- ard, Governor Pingree attained an honor- able and worthy position dn the history of his state and country. Detroit Free Press: Mr. Pingree was a paradox. He had the aggressivencss of a has no place in our modern political school, he could be talked over to those who were his enemies at heart, and assist in further- ing the very schemes he was determined to thwart. He rejected his wisest friends for those who applauded his plans, even with disaster in sight. Under opposing impulses he would relentlessly pursue one set of offenders and as Aterminedly shield another. He stood fmmovably for civil au- thority as represented in his own magis- tr his will and condemn the judiciary without stint when it crossed his path. His zeal for, results sometimes marred his estimate of means, yet in his individual self, freed from the influence of his political entangle- ments, he was generous and considerate. St. Paul Pioneer Press eccentricities, of the narrowness of Judgment and his impetuous temper, Gov- to reform whatever he regarded as abuses, to smash whatever stood in the way of the ends he sought to accomplish. He accom- plished a great deal of good while mayor of Detroit by his aggressive policy in mat- ters of municipal reform. Transferred to the executive headship of the state he did not prove equal to the broader fleld of state administration. If his energy and courage had been guided by a broader Intelligence and a cooler judgment he would have been a successful political leader. But his tendency to radical and violent extremes was assoclated with an ignorance and an egotism which rendered him rather a mis- chlevous agitator than a safe leader. He himselt had come to the conclusion that his vocation was not politics, and was pre- paring, we belleve, to abandon public life when death put an end to his career. PERSONAL NOTES. The Dritish veteran gets his service medal without the intervention of a pension attorney. Admiral Schley, who s an enthusiastic Knight Templar, has promised to attend the annual conclave in Louisville next Au- gust. Viscount Wolseley has just celebrated his sixty-ninth birthday, being eight months younger than Lord Roberts, who, however, has mot been in the service so long as Wolseley. “Coin” Harvey, who has become a citi- zen of Benton county, Arkansas, is going to make the race for congressman in the Third Arkansas district. Harvey has come to the front as a promoter of an old-time fiddlers’ contest to be glven at Monteha, Ark. Paul W. Linebarger of Chicago, who has been appofuted a judge in the Philippines, is a native of Warren, I, where he was born in 1869, He graduated from the Lake Forest and Northwestern universitics and afterward studied in Paris and Heldelbers. An American “gentleman,” according to an advertisement which has just appeared in the Londou Times, “desires the services of an English lady of title as chaperon fot his daughter during a three months’ visit to England.” Of course he is on the scent for some semi-idlotic noble. John Morley, who s writing a “Lite of Gladstone,” gcts on slowly with the work. 1t took him a long time to sort out the vast accumulation of papers left by Mr. Glad- stone 1n Hawarden castle. By way of ex- plaining the slow progress he is making Mr. Morley says: “Imagine a life of nearly ninety years filled to the utmost capacity.” NO MENACE TO AMERICAN LABOR. Pacific Coast View of Trade with the Philippines. San Francisco Chronicle. We are convinced that the interest of American labor, and especlally of Pacific coast labor, demands absolutely free trade between the mainland and the Philippines under the protection of our navigation and revenue laws. The result of such a course would be the fransference of the greater part of an increasing trade, now aggregat- ing from $35,000,000 to $40,000,000 annually, to United States ships plying between United States ports. American labor would produce the majority of what the Filipinos would buy, the establishment of a genuine American port at Manila would largely in- crease our facilitles for trade with other ports of Asia, which would also be bene- felal to American labor. The only objection which it is attempted to urge against this is the danger of ex- posing American labor in our own country to the competition of the degraded labor of Asla. It is best to discuss this purely economic problem with entire frankness. 1t the Chronicle believed that free inter- course with the Philippines would be in- Jurious to American lgbor we would exert all our mental activities to devise some means by which we could honorably cut loose from the Philippines. Our present connectfon Is an unquestionzble damage to everybody. Labor in the Phillppines is of two kinds —that of the natives, whose competition no- hody fears, and that of the Chinese and Japanese domlciled there, which is doubt- less to be considered. It has heen claimed that the exports from the Philippines are mainly the products of Chinese labor. That 1s not true, and has no approach to truth Out of a population of 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 in the archipelago there are only about 70,000 Chinese, of whom the large majority are believed to be engaged in small trade from which they are crowding out the Filipinos, who dislike them as much as they are disltked here. The extension and en- forcement of our exclusion and registra tion laws would put a stop to their in- crease and their habit of returning to China to end thelr days would soon diminish their numbers as they are diminishing here It i tar easier to enforce such laws in those fslands than in this country, with the thousands of miles of boundary between ] us and Mexico and Capada. od for such | ~to forget his domineering proclivities, his | of ered opinions. Viewed as a whole, his public career stands out above these Inci- | dents as that of a man of that resolute | Roosevelt, yet, with a blind confidence that y, yet he would bend the legislative to In spite of his his ernor Pingree was a man of great force of character, who was animated by a desire and was courageous enough to undertake | | |1t was to be pald by the government and | such an element in the army is exceedingly BITS OF W HINGTON LIFE. Men and Even ved at the Natlonal Capital. This government of ours runs to big figures in most things. We have expanded in population as well as in territorial area. The “billion-dollar” congress of ten years ago now crowds the two billlon mark, and ho nation’s income malntains & comfort- able lead over the outgo. In the matter of figures, however, the Postoffice depart- ment leads the procession. Estimates for postage stamps—stickers that move the mail—for the coming fiscal year present an array of ornate round figures calculated to bewilder. Here is the oficial order: One- cent stamps, 1,300,000,000; 2-cent stamps, 300,000,000; 78,0005 H-cent stamps, 40,000,000, 4-cent stamps, 40,000,000; b-cent stamps, 70,000« 000; 6-cent stamps, 16,000,000, S-cent stamps, 20,000,000, 10-cent stamps, 30,000, 000; 15-cent stamps, 4,000,000; 50-cen stamps, $1 stamps, 60,000; $2 stamps, stamps, 5,000; 10-cent spectal delivery, §,000,000; total, 5,116,236, 000, Stamp books, twelve stamps each, 3,400, 000; twenty-four stamps each, 1,020,000; forty-eight stamps each, 452,000; total, 4,- 872,000 Postage Due Stamps—One-cont stamps, 6,000,000, Z-cent stamps, 15,000,000; 3-cent stamps, 500,000; G-cent stamps, 1,500,000; 10-cent stamps, 2,500,000; 30-cent stamps 12,000; 50-cent stamps, 9,900; total, 25,521,- 900, Panamerican Exposition Stamps—One- cent stamps, ,000,000; 2-cent stamps, 165, 000,000; 4-cent stamps, 4,600,000; 5-cent stamps, 00,000; 8-cent stamps, 4,000,000; 10-cent stamps, 4,600,000; total, 269,500,000, No comparison can be made of the stamps in books, as their printing and sale in that form is a recent innovation. Of the other stamps the following shows the increase of next year over last year: About 250,000,000 more 1-cent stamps than last year, 400,000,- 000 more 2.cent, 6,000,000 more 3-cent, 5,000,000 more 4-cent, 8,000,000 more b-cent, 7,000,000 more 6-cent, 4,000,000 more 8-cent, 4,000,000 more 10-cent, 500,000 more 15-cent, 130,000 more G0-cent, 10,000 more $1, 2,000 more $2, 1,000 more $5, 2,000,000 more spe- clal delivery. Attorney General Knox s youthful looking man that has occupled a cabinet portfollo in recent Years. In reality Mr. Knox s not an old man by any means—only 42 years—but he looks more like a boy of 18 or 20 than he does like a man of middle age. The other day he was taken for a boy by an old gentle- man who was at the Department of Justice to see the attorney general on business. Mr. Knox's office Is on the first floor of the building. The waiting room is on the op- posite side of the hall. The old gentleman had been sitting there for an hour or more to see the attorney general. At last Mr. Knox emerged from his office to go to some part of the bullding. The old gentleman mistook him for the office boy and, step- PIng up to him, sald: “Say, sonny, what kind of a fellow is your boss? I see you coming out of his office and presume you know all about him. I have a little business to transact with the attorney general and would like to get a line on Mr. Knox before tackling him." Mr. Knox's cherubjc face brightened and, with a merry twinkle in his eye, sald: “Oh, he's all right. Walk right in and it down until I return. I will then hear what you have to say. The old gentleman would have th, there sold himself for 30 cents. i The decision of the United States Supreme court, rendered some weeks ago, in the case of Captain Schufeldt, holding that he must pay the alimony which had been awarded his divorced wife, {s having an effect on an element of the army officers which, though small, has brought the general establishment under occasional discredit by the possible avoldance of small debts. The court held in a general way that officers could not hope to avold paying honorable debts by taking advantage of the bankruptcy act while still enjoying liberal compensation from the government for their services. Further effect was given by the decision of the department last week In rigidly disciplining an officer on the Pacific coast who sought to bave a bill for services rendered to him personally re- duced by conveying the Impression that the most the auditing officlals wou| orbitant, The department realizes,” says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat correspondent, “'that consider it ex- small. The occasional operations of oficers of this caliber and disposition has an effect upon the entire establishment. This it is the desire of the department and a ma- jority of the officers of the army to avold. Under existing conditions few tradesmen or others who have just accounts against ofMcers will experience dificulty in thelr collections in future. The new fire chief of Washington, a former newspaper reporter, Mr. R. W. Dut- E— cent stamps (In books), 86,- | PAYING THE STAGGERING PRICE, New York World: Tho British secrotary of war's statement that in the month of May 416 deaths had occurred among the 40,220 Boers in the “concentration camps’ fe & shocking one. This i& a death rate of about 126 per 1,000 per annum, which fs six times as high as the normal death rate of London. Mr. Broderick's admission s in itself an awful arraignment of British hu. wanity, Kansas City Star: Great Britain has fought a long and costly war in South Africa. There is much reason for popular dissatisfaction over the miscalculations and mismanagement of this war, but it is to be assumed that the time will hever come when public sentiment will approve an inglorious withdrawal of the troops. In the meantime il ought to be exceedingly dan- gerous for such unpatriotic demonstrations as that proposed for Fox ball, London. Philadelphia Record With Pretoria strongly fortified against assault there is no fear in that quarter of any superior force of Boers llke that which the other day practically wiped out 200 Australian mounted riflemen scarcely 100 miles from the Transvaal capital. The war in South Africa has become, on the one hand, a mat- ter of elaborate garrisoning and on the other a series of guerrilla raids. The Brit- Ish forces can only hold the chief towns and important military posts, without seck- ing to hunt down the elusive raiders. Un- der such conditlons the anticipations of an early peace seem entirely illusory. Boston Globe: In spite of so many and unmistakable warnings England still per- s in squandering lives and money in maintainiog the assumed pride and prestige and In the pursuit of a shadowy dominion over barren territory in far-off, sparsely= populated lands, ostensibly to secure new markets for British products. While thus expending money on unclvilized countries, whose commerce amounts to but little, England's industries are suffering at home. Worse than all, the war charges in Africa threaten to engulf the nation in debt, while 17,000 fighting Boers are still in the ficld and the war that was s0on to end threatens to be but just beginning. Even on the score of cruelty to animals alone the situation looks ghastly. Over 100 transports have first and last left New Orleans with 120,000 horses and mules and upward of $25,000,000 have been spent in the United States for dumb targets alone. New York Times: The results of the small fighting of the last few weeks seem to be fairly even. Aud this must be in- tolerable to the British. It shows that the war {8 not over. That is the sting of it. It does not give any prospect of an end of the dralo of men and money which the war has caused. It is still mecessary to keep a garrison in the two ex-republics some ten times as large as the total num- ber of their fighting men, still neces- sary to go on spending £2,000000 A week In conquering a country, the con- quest of which is 8o far from being visibly hieved. In two years more English monmey has been sunk in South Africa than can possibly be got back, directly or in- directly, in two generations. And it is made to appear that Great Britain has ton, has decided to use automobiles instead of horses for himself and his aldes to run to fires. The cost of an equipment using horses {s for each official about $1,000. Two wagons are necessary, one being used in reserve and two horses are assigned to cach assistant and to the chl n auto- mobile can be bought for this sum, and it {s cstimatad that the expense of operation and maintenance will not come anywhere near the cost of horses and the attemdance necessary for them. A careful report was made to the dis- trict commissioner on the subject, and it looks as if the change would lead to the proposal to substitute mutomobiles for borses in every branch of the fire depart- ment. The fact that the price of good horses has gone up considerably of late s having its Influence on the matter. Senator Joo Baliey of Texas has dis- carded the conventional clothes, long frock coat, white necktie, plaited shirt, large black sombrero hat and patent leather shoes which he insisted upon wearing upon all occaslons since he entered public life ten years ago. He was {n Washington the other day, togged out in the height of summer fashlon—light gray sack coat, with trousers to match; white vest, russet shoes, straw hat, lurld shirtwaist and & swagger necktle. Last winter he abandened the white necktle for a purple four-in-hand. This was the first concession he made to Washington society. Mr. Balley had never worn evening clothes in his life, and when he attended receptions and dinners he ap- peared in his long-tailed frock But much to the surprise of his friends he appeared at the theater one night last winter in the regulation evening clothes They marveled and wondered what the next move would be. When Senator Baliley walked along Penneylvanla avenue the other day, dressed in an up-to-date sum- mer suit, the people gazed at the Texan in great wonderment and pronounced him the “‘real thing." Wonders of th w Century, Detrolt Free Press, The lunatic asylum twenty-five years ago would have yawned for the man who would have suggested a railroad combin; tlon covering 55,592 miles, with a capital of $3,000,000,000 and an earning capacity of 10 per cent on that. But this is Mr. Morgan's latest accomplishment, and, while the figures are so large as to be hardly within the grasp of an average man, no great surprise is felt or expressed over his achievement. The mileage represents about two-sevenths of the entire rallroad mile- i age of the Unlted States. no enterprises on hand excepting the es- tablishment of British supremacy in South Africa. At least she has left herselt with- out the military means of prosecuting any other for an indefinite time to come. AMONG THE MIRTHMAKERS, 8mart Bet: Bibbs—No man knows him- “Gibbe—That's so. He would lose his best triend it he did. Chicago Post: “He'll never amount to anything as a golt player." “Why not?" “He 'calls himself ‘Willlam' “willfe." instead of Cathollc Standa Hi—Josh says that city feller gev him a hundred an' some odd doilars fur his horse. & 8i—You ain't heered the rest of it. When he took them dollars to bank he found they wus all odd. ‘Washington Star: “The politiclans don't talk as much as they used to about the gomy-hlndad son of toll,” sald the nelgh- or. “'No, answered Farmer Corntossel. “Bence golf got fashionable you can't jedge a man by his callouses any more." Detrolt Journal: Citizen—No, 1 don't care to buy the lots. ARt susss you don’t know how the and lle: Citizen—No, but T know how the average real estate man lfes. Puck: Friend—How much money did your defaulting cashier get away with? Bank Manager—Can't say. Friend (In astonishment)—What! Haven't you had_his books examined yet? . Bank Manager—No; he hasn't returned them yet. Chicago Tribune: “It fs sald that lob sters will be extinct In twenty-five yes remarked Hiland. “Oh, well,” replled Halket, who is very fond_of lobster, “let us nof worry about it. Let us look on the bright side. We may all dle before that time. Philadelphia_Press: “I belong to the Buffaloes,” confided the young man, with an air of mystery. “Oh, I thought perhaps i;"“ belonged to the Bears,” commented the young lady, with shy smile, “The Bears? I don't know what order that 18" “Why, bears, you Know—bears—they— they hug people sometimes. DOWN WITH THE SLANG HABIT. Denver Post. "Tis & hideous practice, this using of slangt A blot on the language we spiel! The bells of rang A more inexcusable peal! The mouths it pollutes of the old and the progressiveness nevar yet ung, widh its vilely contaminate touch! Makes a fiippant, degenerate slav tongue When It once gets into its clutch! It throws all politeness clear off of the track! Our delicate instinets it rips up the back! of the Young fellows just starting upon a career That promises honor and fame, Whose traill seems a smooth one, heavens are clear. Who holds all the trumps in the game, Fall into the habit so damnably rank, Thelr language 18 that of the slums! They, toy with the monster while trying to yan From the tres of dlstinction the plums, Thelr shining escutcheon of language they stain With the foulness of slang! us & pain! whose Oh! it gives A maiden as falr as the blush of a rose, A gem of the wex that we love, A model of grace from her block to her toes, Am sweet as a sprite from above, Wil riddle " her "chinning’ with” hideous ngs. With bum phraseology, t1il The language she so {nddvertently slings Would give a cadaver a chill! Each flower of speech Is attached to a burr Of slang. and that's just what's the matter with her! And even the old, whom we ought to re- vere, Knock our true veneration to wreck By giving the language we all hold 0 dear A chickeny alash in the neck! . The ones who as shining examples should pore, As models of good for the young, Lose respect for their training and every- thing goes As thelr “slang they off from the tongue. And though at their slang-riddled splelings we scoff They keep it a comin’ fire and never ring off! Oh! ye who belleve In the chasteness of speech, 8it down on this idiot faq! This slime-covered pebble that litters the beach Of purity; 11\’0 1t the gad! 1t all will” unite in & vigorous war, And hustle for all we are worth, We'll knock out the habit we all 80 abhor, Just make it get off the earth' 1f we all make & pass at the dizzey deal we— W'llb::;‘ we just won't do a thing to it!