Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 28, 1901, Page 6

HE OMAHA DAILY REE: FRIDAY, JUN THE ©OMAHA DALY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. SUBSCRIPTION ay), One Year. .$6.00 Jie Year v 8.0 dllustrated Bee, O r 2.0 Bunday Bee, One \'c‘-u 2 ”r urday Bee, Une Year..... URD. Foond ?h (" tury Farmer, One Year.. 1.00 OFFICES: O ha: The Bee Bullding. flc't’t‘t‘(.hm’lmnha City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M streets, ouncil Bluffs: 10 Pearl Street, 140 Unity Buliding. New York: Temple Court, Jashington: 1 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department, BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Umaha. REMITTANCE! Remit by draft, express or postal order, yable to The Hee Publishing Company. nl. accepted In payment of rsonal checks, except on Omubi or eastern exchanges, not accepted, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. PPl s br i oo STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, s George B. Taschick, secretary of ‘The Hee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual numver of full and gomplete coples of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed durln the month of May, 191, was as follows 16 RMS OF (without Sun Chicugo o — EEEENEREREEELEY Total . Less unsold and returned cople Net total sale GO, CHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to Yefore me this 3ist day of May, A. D, 1901, M. B, HUNGATE, Notary Publlc. PARTIES LEAVING FOR SUMMER. Parties ieaving the city for the summer may have The Bee sent to them regularly by motifying The Bee Business office, in pe: The shirtwalst letter cavrier is upon us, but he still delivers the mail in wrappers, A little more of this hot weather and Omaha's traction companies will be fused even before they are consolidated. Speaker Henderson has had an in- terview with King Edward. The spenker seems to have found one king to count for more in England than four of them in Washington. — A large number of Nebraska sheriffs are in Chicago attending a sheriffs’ con- vention. A few years ago they were so busy foreclosing mortgages they had no time to attend conventions. e———— A New York man has been sued -for $225,000 and says he does mot know what the trouble Is all about. Accora. ing to his statement he would be a com- petent juryman to sit on trial of the case, Nebraska's penitentltary has gotten along without a fire for three or four days. What 1s the matter? Are there no more prisoners in the pen who want to earn a pardon by turning in a fire alarm? Hall has destroyed the crop on the farm of Emperor Willlam. The dis- patches do not state whether he had any hall insurance, but the nelghbors who were more fortunate will probably help him out. The campaign for an equitable tax assessment 1s the most popular cam- palgn that has been waged in these parts for some tlme. Every taxpaying citizen is directly affected by the eva- slon of taxes by the great favored cor- porations. — We note that even the popocratic statesmen cannot forego the temptation to fire off thelr annual Fourth of July oratory notwithstanding thelr insist- ence that the Declaration of Independ- ence has been abrogated. The repub- lie still lives. E—— Des Moines wants to secure the next soverelgn grand lodge meeting of the 0dad Fellows' order. Nebraska delegates ought to take hold with thelr Iowa neighbors and help the movement along, Reclprocity between Iowa and Nebraska would be a good thing on such occu- slons, Reports of Unlted States consular agents in Spain show that country Is waking up and slowly but surely be- coming more prosperous, It the spank Ing administered by: Uncle Sam pro- duces such a result the Spaniard should be thankful instead of nursing his wrath to keep it warm, If the park bhoard contemplates ar- ranging for musie in the parks this year now Is the time to start the band a-playing. We are satisfled the street rallway company and the proprietors of the park privileges would get thelr money back If they agreed to defray all or most of the expenses, St. Touls proposes to make the first start toward making a presentable ap- pearance as a world's fair city by the creation of the office of smoke inspector., It remalns to be seen, however, whether Inspection of smokestacks will do away A CONCILIATORY POLICY. Both Judge Taft and General Mac- Arthur are in favor of a conciliatory policy toward the Filipino leaders who have been In Insurrection against the United States and it 1s understood that their view Is approved at Washington. | Many of the Fillpino generals who were | charged with violations of the laws of | war are now In the hands of the Americans, having surrendered or becn aptured, but none of them has been | even tried for thefr alleged offenses, Among them s Sandico, sald to have been the author of the proclamation calling for the massacre of the foreign- ers In Manila, the responsibility for which was placed upon Aguinaldo. Callles, who surrendered a few days ago, had made a worse record for violating the rules of civilized war- fare than any other of the Filipino leaders, yet when he gave up his sword it was returned to him by Gen- eral Sumner and it Is sald that he is now rendering every assistance to the Americans, Aguinaldo, while still held in captivity, Is recelving conslderate treatment. A few of the captured lead- ers who continued to ald the insur- gents whenever opportunity offered, were deported to Guam, but if this can be regarded as punishment there was nothing of severity about it. Mabini and the others are doubtless faring as well In Guam as they would have done at Manila and they are unable to do any mischief. Those who have taken the oath of alleglance to the United States and are showing good faith are not likely to be called upon to answer for the offenses they have committed. Two things are pointed out as In the way of the summary punishment of the Insurgent leaders who have been ac- cused of violating the rules of civilized warfare. One is that most of the| charges of inhuman conduct are hard to prove and generally turn out, when proved, to be the work of frresponsi- ble subordinates and not of the ac- cused generals. The other Is that these leaders are men whose Influence with the people Is so great that thelr sum- mary punishment would retard the work of pacification. It s suggested, howe that the latter reason would not welgh in the end If it were not sup- ported by the first. It is not to be doubted that the lenlency which has been ghown by the American military authorities has been promotive of pa- cification and it has not involved any sacrifice on the part of this governwent. Such being the case, there is every reason why the concillatory policy should be continued and undoubtedly It is the inteution to continue it. This does not necessarlly mean that flagrant abuses and outrages, of which the evi- dence Is clear, should be allowed to go unpunisbhed. It simply means that in the case of Insurgents who surrender and against whow there are charges which it would be difficult to prove, it 18 expedient to exercise a spirit of lenlency. It is true there is a possi- bility that some of these leaders will prove recreant and take an unfair ad- vantage of American generosity and magnanimity, but this should not later- fere with a policy whose general effect is 'shown to be beneficlal. R —— HENDERSON HIGHLY HONORED. Speaker Henderson has visited King Edward and he found the British sover- elgn frank and agreeable, Mr. Hender- son learned that the king looks for more cordial relations between the English- speaking nations and the speaker of the United States house of representatives came from the interview impressed with the bellef that this country bas no bet- ter friend in the world than Edward VIL. Mr. Henderson says that “Eng- land may be depended on in any ordl- nary controversy which may arise be- tween the United States and the rest of the world.” It has never been doubted that the United States has a good friend In the present British soverelgn. He hae al- ways shown a cordial feeling toward America and Americans. But in the event of this country wanting the aid and support of England In a controversy with the rest of the world, it is not the king who would determine whether or not support should be given. He would | exert a intluence, unquestionably, and therefore hig friendship is to be desired, but the soverelgn does not make British policy. As to closer relations bétween England and the United States, that will | depend upon British interests. At pres- ent those interests require that the re- lations between the two countries shall be as intimate as possible, but no one can confidently say that this condition will contlnue indefinitely, The finan- clal and comwmercial bonds between the | countries are of a nature that prom- ises this, but there may be important changes within a generation. The assurance which Speaker Hender- son glves will certainly be well received in the United States. Americans ar glad of the friendship of all nations, They understand, however, that there is a measure of selfishness in such ex- pressions, even when coming from Eng- land. SAMPLE OF TAX-SHIRKING JUGGLERY. The East Omaha bridge I8 assessed in | Towa at $17,000 on the presumption that the actual value of the Iowa end of the bridge 1s $70,000. The example of Iowa Is cited as an excuse for a still lower valuation in Nebraska under pretext that the more expensive section of the bridge is on the Iowa side of the river. As a matter of fact this bridge could not be duplicated for $500,000 and the Iowa assessment was juggled by the that it i« part of a rallrond. Why should the county commissioners countenance such an imposition when the law ex- pressly provides that the state board has power to assess only such roads as ex- tend through two or more counties AN INTERNATIONAL TRUST There {8 projected an International trust to control the salt of the world. | On first thought this would seem to be an utterly impracticable scheme, yet it Is stated that ®he National Salt com- pany, which has its headquarters in New York, has been working on a plan to combine with the Canadian Salt company and the Salt Union of England and that the matter is now practically ready for closing. The proposed inter- national combination, if the scheme sue- ceeds, will lave a capital stock of at least $30,000,000 and a total production of 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 tons of salt an- nually. It is stated that outside of the savage countries and Russia it will sup- ply the entire world with salt. Not only will the combination's markets, says the New York Sun, include the countries of the western hemisphere, but they will also include continental Europe, Africa and Japan, China and other Asiatic countries. That such a plan can be successfully carried out may well be doubted, though In this day of combinations al- most anything is possible and a trust to control the world's supply of salt may prove to be not impossible. SIMPLIFY THE COURSE. The Rev. John Willlams is fond of taking a tilt with The Bee over imagi- nary differcnces on issues that should be discussed from the broad standpoint of public welfare and public utility rather than from the personal point of view. The public schools will always be a proper subject for discussion and will always afford a field for suggestion and speculation for improvement. There can be honest differences as to methods of instruction and the effect upon pub- le school puplls. In the main, we con- cur with the opinion of Mr. Willlams that our graded schools are not up to the full standard In the elementary branches of education. We realize that the High school is a sort of educational hothouse in which flowers and frults are forced beyond the natural growth. But the fact that the boys who are destined for mechanical work and business life drop out before they graduate affords proof that the law of the survival of the fit- test operates with equal force in all de- partments of human endeavor. The drawbacks of our top-heavy system can be overcome only by more thorough teaching in the graded schools and sim- plitying the course of instruction in the High school through omisslon of studles that are purely ornamental or superfl- clal. J. Plerpont Morgan has given $1,000,- 000 to Harvard and the president of Yale announces the subscription of a total of $2,000,000 to the bi-centennial fund. This Is truly the age of great gifts for ‘education. The _ public, through taxation, is furnishing millions upon millions for education of the wmasses In the public schools, while men of means are donating It to the cause of higher education in a maunner un- precedented. If the coming generations are ignorant it will certainly not be the fault of the present one, which Is pro- viding for the future. Among the potent factors upon which Chicago real estate brokers rely for a marked improvement of real estate val- ues are clean asphalt paved streets, stone or cement sidewalks, an addition of small parks, improved street car serv- fce, the abatement of the smoke nul- sance and reduced cost of fuel for manu- facturlng purposes. All these factors for the improvement of real estate val- ues In Chicago may be depended on to raise real estate values in Omaba. Last, but not least essential, is a reduction of tax burdens. Packing house statistics show that Omaha, Kansas City and St. Joseph have each increased their killings of hogs this year as compared with last, while almost without exception the big centers of the Industr further east show a decrease, This is not only en- couraging to the packers whose faith In the west has induced them .to put thelr money in here, but it demonstrates that the country tributary to the Mis- sourl river is to be the new seat of the kingdom of hog and hominy. The proposition to substitute a tax on business sales for the present personal property tax would require careful study before It could be intelligently acted upon. The question is whether the volume of business constitutes a just basis of taxation, when It is known that sonie institutions with small sales make | large profits and other institutions with large sales make small profits. Kansas sends word that it needs no New York men to help harvest the crop, but if the metropolis has a few hired girls to spare they will be cheerfully recelved. The Kansas men can handle the wheat all right, but they want some one to make It into bread while the flower of Kansas femininity is busy on the lecture platform, The Chicago papers announce with ap- parent satisfaction that the “pull” for favored school teachers is to be abol- ished in the near future by the Chicago school board. The ‘“‘near future” In Chicago probably means the same dim and distant period that it means in same style of persuasion that convinced the East Omaha precinct assessor that the Nebraska end was returnable at §4,000. The amazing thing is that the with the smoke nulsance, Inspection does not always Inspect. The Commercial club Is expected to do more for Omaha than merely to ar- range for picnies and excursions, In other citles commercial organizations are taking a stand to prevent an in- crease in freight rates by threatened reclassification. Omabha should stand up for its rights as well as its com- petitors, / representatives of the East Omaba bridge should have the face to protest agalnst an assessment of $17,000 in Ne- braska, when It should by rights be not less than one-sixth of $2530,000, or at least $40,000. Another feature not to be overlooked is the thinly velled attempt to take more than $1,000,000 worth of property as- sessable in this county out of the as- sessment roll and convert it Into mileage under state apprafsement on pretext|allow promotlons frowm awmoug the | Omaha—when Gabriel blows his trum- pet in the morning. The frelght agents' convention is fa- vorably considering the proposal of adopting the “Omaba method" of com- puting the cost of handling freight. This system shows a higher cost than the ones now in general use and has proven handy wherever the roads have been forced to meet demands for a decrease in rates, While naval officers are discussing the pro and con of a system which will |.promise to be rich, thus cutting off the “Men bebind the gun: deck they might exam General Chaffee, and from privat to the quarter ¢ the record of He is from the ranks up has been a credit to himself, his professton and his coun try. On the border in trying times of Indian uprisings, in Cuba and in China, where he operated beside the best sol- diers of Europe, there has never been occasion to make excuses for him. The activity of the Commercial club in any direction that tends to promote the growth of Omaha is commendable, but nothing the Commercial club has done or could do would help Omaha | more in the eyes of investors than the | reduction of the tux rate by stopping tax evasions and compelling large cor- porate concerns to bear thelr proportion of the tax burdens, All except two of the volunteer regi- ments are now home from the Philip. pines and these two are enroute. The volunteers are not only home as prom- ised, but their places in the Islands have been filled by regulars without any fu: or straining. Thix Is a source of gratl- fieation to the country, but a disappoint- ment to the opposition politiclans. Now Will You Be Goodt New York World. A manufacturer of cigarettes is quoted in the west as saying that 100,000 New York women are smokers. It he is quoted cor- rectly as least one cigarette-maker s a liar. The Offensive Grafter. Kansas City Star, About the only way to make the doctrine of expansion offensive to the people would | be to give the American “grafter” free rein In hogging grants and concessions In | the mew insular possession of the United States, A Political Divorce, Philadelphia Ledger. The straight-out democrats of Kansas have refused an invitation from the popu- lists to combine and form a new fusion party under a distinct name. They prob- ably argue that they have fused with the populists In the past under both the old titles and galned nothing by it, so there Is little to be expected from the old game under a new name. Battle Royal in Prospect. Chicago Post. Western merchants are preparing to show to the members of the Interstate Commerce commission that, through combinations of different rallways, frelght rates have been advanced by unauthorized manipulation of the various classifications of commodities. Thus the necessity for the commission is demonstrated annually, and also the neces- sity for additional transportation laws. Good 014 Law in B Detroit Free Pres Even the gentus of speculation cannot get the best of the good old law of supply and demand. There was a slump in wheat as soon as it was known from the government reports that the prospective crop was to be & big one, and what helps keep the prices down 18 the fact that the forelgn harvests prospect of wealth because of their misfor- tune. Same Old Story. Chicago ‘Chronfele. It should not beforgotten that the Fourth of July will sweep down upon us this year as formerly; and find us just as unprepared as we always have been to do the things we insisted on the day following the last Fourth of July should be done be- fore the mext Fourth of July came around. In other words, the coming Fourth of July will find our foresight, as usual, hanging on the coat-talls of our hindsight. Spare Us the Peerless. New York Sun. State Senator Wright of Nebrasks, a Lincoln man and bank president, tells a Kansas City Journal reporter that ‘‘today Bryan is worth $150,000, and is rapidly adding to the pile. He made $50,000 last year lecturing and with his pen.” We must decline to accept these figures, Even if they are true, Colonel Bryan will never put the dollar above the man. But fond faith clings to him. Surely there must be one Bryanite leader who has not taken a free pass and jumped aboard the Jugger- naut of Capital. Joe Bailey 1s gone. Towne and Hogg are gone. Pettigrew Is gone. Jim Jones s a director of the American Cotton company. But Bryan, the tribune of the poor, the harpoon of the octopus, the Brutus of the money power— please don't take him away! WIill nso- leut wealth spare nobody? Pension Sherks Turned Down. Philadelphla Press, The refusal of President McKinley to re- move Peunslon Commissioner Evans, despite the tremendous pressure brought to bear against the commissioner by the shyster pension attorns not the reputable men engaged in that business—is one of the most creditable acts of the administration. A great deal of money has been spent by the attorneys is working up opposition and they have even gone so far as to declare that the national committee promises to have Evans removed, but that proves to be, like s0o many of their rejected claims, a “fake.” The soldiers never had a better friend {n the pension office than {s Com- missioner Evans, himeelf a soldier, and all storfes about his being In the slightest de- gree Intmical to the true Interests of the veterans are bosh. Commissloner Evans has proved the right man in the right place, despite what certaln “professional soldiers" may eay to the contrary, NEW RECORD IN EXPORTS. Remarkable Increase iIn Trade in Five Years. New York World. The fiscal year (1901) closcs with the cur- rent week. It will make, as the advance reports of the Treasury department show, a new and remarkable record in the coun- try's foreign trade. Our total exports for the year will ex- ceed $1,600,000,000 in value. This will beat the export record of the last precediog fiscal year (1900) by about $110,000,000, The meaning of these high-water-mark figures is that since 1897—or say within five years—our exports have increased in value almost exactly one-half. Since 1889 they have doubled. Well worth noting is the distribution ot this unexampled increase in our sales of merchandise to forelgn. countries. Europe and North America (which means Ci da) take almost the entire increase of the fiscal year just ending. Europe alone has taken $115,000,000 worth more of our exports than it did in the previous year. To Asla—the much-talked-of Orient, with its “magnificent markets” and its enchant- ing “open doors”—is the only serious des crease In our exports recorded. Asla bought $15,000,000 worth less of ue last year than the year before, i Foreign 13 not the lesson of these figures so plain that he who runs may read? Reclprocity treatles with European countries, already | our best customers, will evidently pay us better than & policy of adventure in Asla, Talk About the Crops New Yor This is the time of year when everyho “‘talks about the weather” and its probabl effect ou the crops farme raising them, the rallway managers are to trausport them, the fnvestors fu way securities whose largely pend on them, the bankers who poney to move them and the spe who gamble in them In fact, every person in the United States 18 directly affected by the success or failure of the harvest, for, notwithstanding recent expansion of manufactures, this is still in the main an agricultural countr and the prosperity of all other classes largely ¢ pends upon the purchasing power of those who till the soll Until tha recent boom in exports of man ul tures occurred 5 per cent In value of our exports was furnished by agri- cultural products, and they still represent more than 66 per cent of the total, with a tendency toward a higher ratio with the docerasing volume of the last few months in manufactures. Before comment- 1ng upon the outlook for the growing har- vest ft will be Interesting to glance at the appended statement of the values on the farm of the principal products raised last year: the who ral incomes alues. Per Acre Corn $0.03 Hay 1 Cotton 1 Wheat Oats .. Potatoes Tobaceo Barley ... Buckwheat ... (about) Total value......... Many persons will be surprised to note the relatively great money value of the grass crop. Owing to the military demands from South Africa and the Philippines we exported last year $1,000,000 worth of hay. Ordizarily it does not cut much of a figure in the exports under its proper name, al- though a large quantity of it 1s exported in the thirty-odd million dollars' worth of live cattle we ship yearly, in the thirty millions of beef products and in the six millions of butter and cheese. Just now the winter sown wheat 18 being harvested, the ripening line extending northward day by day, and the yleld is expected to be brilllant. The latest report k Herald issued by the government stated the area planted at 28,000,000 acres, an increase of 0,000 as compared with last year, and the average condition as 57.8 per cent, as agalost $L.7 per cent one year ago. The spring sown wheat will not be out of dan gor from insect and weather perlls for six or seven weeks yet. Last year this crop met with bad weather, which knocked about 00,000,000 bushels oft the anticipated yleld. Probably as a result of this the area sown this spring was but 15,000,000 acres, a decrease of 1,200,000, while, as noted, about 2,000,000 acres more of winter wheat was sown. The condition of spring wheat At the time of the government report was most promieing, being 92 per cemt, as against 87.3 per cent a year ago. While the government makes no forecasts as to probable yleld, experts, taking the official data as a basis, figure out a total harvest— barring accidents—ranging from 600,000,000 bushels to 700,000,000, as agalnst an actual yleld of 522,000,000 last year. Corn is stlll being planted in some parts of the country, and the government monthly report lssued July 10 s the earliest In which statistica of acreage and condition of this cereal are reported. The growth throughout the great corn belt has been retarded by unusually cool and wet weather this season, but the recent higher temperatures have doubtless improved Its growth, and mccepting current estimates of area planted and given favorable conditions during the next three months the yleld should be as ‘large as last yea: was 2,100,000,000 bushels, third largest ever harvested. Corn now commands abeut the as a year ago. Our export have been growing, and last year were nearly $90,000,000, but as & very great part of the crop s converted into pork It is safe to say that it figures for nearly another $90,000,000 in the hog prod- ucts shipped abroad. Wheat Is about 6 cents a bushel lower than the price cur- rent a year ago, and this s accepted as foreshadowing a bountiful crop. Prices for this universal staff of lite, however, are not fixed by domestic supply and demand, but by the world’s needs, and the indications for our surplus. DISASTERS IN GROU Effects of Solar Agitation on the Earth, Minneapolis Journal, The first year of the new century has been characterized by an unusual number of physical disasters and this month of June, especially, has not been one of calm beauty like that of the fair goddess from whom it is named. Cloudbursts, floods, torpadoes, severe thunderstorms, deadly lightning strokes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other cataclysms are re- ported. The Abbe Moreaux, a great French as- tronomer, last month detected a mass of sunspots on the ecastern limb of the sun's disc, the whole group being about 50,000 miles across and showing symptoms of violent agitation; In other words, it was a big solar storm area, the first develop- ment of such form of solar energy since the minimum sunspot period ended last February. For the next four or five years we shall have the period of sunspot fre- quency and it is not surprising, there- fore, that our entrance upon that maxi- mum period is signalized by visible and tangible manifestations of the effects of solar agitation. Science has shown that the period of maximum frequency to mini- mum and through minimum back to maxi- mum s from nine to a little over cleven years. In the maximum period the mag- netic needle reveals the coincidence be- tween great solar storms aud magnetic disturbances on the earth. At the moment of the development of a solar cyclone the magnetic instruments in every observatory are simultaneously thrilled with magnetic vibrations. Thus the physical forces, being correlated and convertible, if one of them is In abnormal agltation the others are Iikely to be involved also. Hence we may look for magnetic disturbances on our earth of an extraordinary character, breed- ing cloudbursts, violent storms and tor- nadoes and other forms of disturbance far more frequently than in the minimum sun- spot perlod. From records of observation kept with care running through a number of years, it 1s known that there fs a periodicity of nspot appearance and that the carth's atmosphere i distinctly affected by the spots in the maximum period: Old Galileo himself wore out his eyesight by his as- siduous gazing at these spots, We can charge to the sun much of our diecomfort and tribulation, but he visits the earth with such abundant and whole- some benficence that we err in complain- ing of what may seem to us his malevo- lence, but which is really a necessary process for the sanitary good of the world at large. The most effective medicine is often the most disagreeable to take. PERSONAL NOTES Manifested Ex-Mayor Danlel D, Whitney of Brooklyn, now in his 83d year, i president of an in- surance company, director of a bank and proprietor of a wholesale grocery store. Creditors of the duke of Manchester who have been obliged to compromise their clalms evidently think they bave been bun- coed in the matter of the American fathers in-law. i In a church at West Kensington, London, a notice was lately posted announcing the sale of five pews. One of the “advantages” of theso pews, ran the notice, was that “the contribution box is not passed to them.” Colorado is getting frightened ove prevalence of consumption in the state. The Colorado Medical society has been in- vestigating and finds that the dlsease w not formerly indigenous there, but has be come so through Infection from fmported cases. James E. Campbell, formerly governor of Ohlo, s0ld his home in Hamilton, that state, and will go to live in New York, where h will practice law. Mr. Hoadley, his prede- cessor as chief exccutive of the Buckeyo state, 1s already established there as a lawyer, Cardinal Martinelll has excellent mand of the English language, hut ously enough, speaks it with a strong Iris accent. This arlses from the fact that he was taught English by a priest who until he took up his abode in Rome had lived all his life in Galway. Frank Eddy of Minnesota, who prides himself on being the homeliest man in congress, has had a brand of cigars named after him and some patent medicine man wants his picture as a recommendation for uses in mdvertisements. The congressman now thinks he s eligible for a place In the New York Hall of Fame. “Hardly more than a year ago,” says the Minneapolls (Kan.) Messenger, “this paper contalned whole columns of blography, poetry and condolences dealing with the death of a minfster's wife In thls county. The preacher was married again the other day, whereupon we regret all that poetry.” Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, who some years ago bought Redemption Rock in Princeton, Mass., where Mrs. Rawlinson was ransomed from the Indians by John Hoar (the first of the name in this country) in 1676, has presented the property to John Hoar, son of the late Sherman Hoar of Concord. m- n the LIFE IN TH thus far point to a good foreign demand ] PHILIPPINES, Etchings of Men and Events in the Thousand Islands. Prof. Fred Atkinson, superintendent of Manila schools, has returned to Manila from a tour of the larger lelands made to determine the educational needs of the people. In an interview in the Manila New American Prof. Atkinson reports he found the natives anxious for schools and for learning the English language and belleves he could profitably employ 1,000 teachers in addition to the number already engaged. What struck him more forcibly than any other characteristic was the local pride of the people In thelt own communities. The smallest barrio was the only spot on earth 1o Its own people and when the subject of schools came up every barrio wanted to bave the best school. He stated that this feeling was not confined to the better class, but permeated all classes. They have been advised that they will be expected to do their little part in providing an education for their children. While the government will supply school books and English teach- ers free, the munieipality will be called upon to supply furniture and to pay the salarles of the native teachers. Many school bulldings in the provinces are now-occupled by the troops. This will be adjusted in time 'and other bulldin will be provided where there has never been a school. In Jolo there s & fine school in ope: tion under the direction of a Moro teacher who speaks English fluently. Among the puplls are Moros, Chinese, Tagalogs and Viscayans, and the institution is in a flourishing condition. The members of the ruling class are the only ones who attend school. They have strong objections to their sufects recelving a liberal education and this condition will retard the introduc- tlon of the public school system among the Moros. In the Viscayan districts on Mindanao it will be necessary for native teachers to be educated in English and sent to those localities In the interfor as it will not be very secure for American teachers for some time. It 1s properly understood among army teamsters that the only ways to start a mule are to bulld a fire under him or to swear until the atmosphere is blue. Mule drivers, like poets, are born, not made. On the whole, Missouri men are supposed to handle a mule a little better than any- body else. When General Otis was in command in the Philippines, relates the Washington Star, a raw Missourl recruit was set to driviog a refractory mule team. | His appoiutment was unfortunate, because he had “hitched on to the Baptists” just before joining the army. The roads were | almost impassable, and the rest of the teamsters were literally bombarding their charges with oaths. The Missourian held his peace, albelt In impotent rage. At last one of the wheel mules balked and refused to advance a step. The driver used every endeavor to urge the beast along, but to no purpose. At least he roared out solemnly, “0 Lord, you know where this mule ought to be as well as anybody. The whole army knows where he ought to be. He knows where be ought to be. I know where he ought to be, O Lord, and it he doesn't move in a minute I intend to say so, by gum!" “One of the curious customs among the soclal uppertendom of the Spanish at Ma- nila,” says Harry K. Montgomery, & recent arrival from Luzon's capital, “is their method of courtship. When the young Spanish grandee wants to do the thing about right he dons a faultless sult of clothes, gets out a light bamboo cane and waxes his mustache. Without the latter his case would be hopeless. He goes to the home of his lady love and takes his staton on the walk where she can see him from her window. He struts up and down for her inspection, twisting his idolized mustache, twirling his cane and going through gestures calculated to set off the offering to the best advantage. The lady may not even deign to look at him. In fact, he hardly expects her to untll he has gone through his monkey shines & num- ber of times to prove his sincerity. It may be months before he receives the en- couragoment of a smile, but when It does come his raptured heart repays him for his labor. After a while, say six months, the senora may drop a rose, a fan or her per- fumed lace handkerchief. He selzes the prize with the avidity tkat a half-starved miner reaches for a golden nugget where he expected none. But the bird s not yet within the suitor's grasp. Not by a long ways. At this point the dutiful pafents of the young lady appreclate the fact that mat- ters may become serlous some time in the future and they begin looking up the young man's pedigree—and bank account. They never think of Inviting him to see thelr daughter until these facts a rtained with & fdelity that would do credit to a mercantjle agency. His standing having been ascertained, the bulldogs are tled up and the warders sheath thelr swords. “The coast s now clear and the lovel may fetch out his mandolin or guitar an |send sweet melpdy along with the moon- light isto the bedchamber of his sweet- heart. At the end of the year or twelve months if he still remains falthiul and refrains from prosecuting his with undue haste he may approach girl parents and plead for a personal with her. This Is getting to close qua and a favorable answer means that girl has mado the same plea to her | ents, The young people are permitted meet in the parlor, but not alone. parent or guardian s always on hand seo that the proprietles are thorougl respected and this sort of vigllance s nev relaxed until they have plighted thei troth, The lover cannot take his sweet heart to church, theater or even to the refined, elevating Spanish sport known as the bull fight until his matrimonial in tentions are spiked down and welded. A person would think the rigorous custom would deter aspirants, but it doesn't. They accept the conditions eagerly and face then like martyrs “It 18 considered quite the proper thing indeed, as an evidence of good taste, for well-dressed young men to stand in the parks and along the residence districts for the purpose of looking at the women as they pass by. If they audibly express their opinions about the gayly dressed butterflies, #0 much the better; the butterflies expect it and would feel that there was something lacking In their makeup If they falled to excite remarks. No one dreams of resent- ing it as an impertinence. The filrtation, however, extends no further, and If the youth becomes enamored with any of the specimens a protty day brings forth the only way he can call one of them his own is by pursuing the tedious course I have Just describea.” —_— MARRIAGE AND TEACHING. ' A Protest Against Artificial Discr| ination. Chicago Record-Herald. The echool management committee of the of Education has followed the ex- amplo set by Omaha and other educational centers as far as it dare and reconimended a partial proscription against married women teachers. The married teachers al- ready in the schools are not to be affected, but it is proposed that if any of the un- married women enter the state of matri- mony their connection with the schools shall cease by that act. A report of the committee's meeting sug- gests an_explanation of its policy as fol- low The dropping of teachers who get married would leave places vacant for the cadets who are coming out of the normal schools In hundreds and for whom positious cannot be found at the present time." But it such reasoning had anything to do with the decision of the committee its logic Is in meed of repalrs. For If there is an obliga- tion to take care of the cadets and if teachers must be discharged to fulfill 1t there can be no stopping with the married teachers. We m inaugurate a system of fixed short terms and rotation in afice as & substitute for the present eystem, with !ts indefinite tenure conditioned on capacity and good behavior. Of course, however, the cadet has no such clalm as we have imagined, and Is more a public debtor than a public cred- itor, while the proper attitude to assume toward the married teacher may be de- termined by a very simple principle. ot olementary justice. The one essential fact to consider is that she has earned the right to teach, and that her title is In nowise affected by her marriage. Probably in a great majority of cases the young women who get married expect to give up ‘their places, but those who wish to keep them for ‘prudeniial reasons should certainly be allowed to do so. Their motives may be highly laudatory, they cannot be discredil- able and they lte wholly outside the province of 'the board and its committees. The marriage, in fact, 18 as 1i{tle' the buisi- ness of the board as the marriage of any young man s the businees of his employer. It it counts against women it should count against men. There can be no Jjustfiable discrimination in such a matter. The teacher has an indefeasible cliim in her fitoess which Is already recognized by her previous employment. She may be exceptionally well adapted to her work, the kind of teacher whose loss would be sert- ously felt. In that case it would certainly be good public policy to retain her, and in any ovent there can be no reasonable as- sumption that marrlag® must disquality her. It subsequently family cares interfere with her efclency, Ineficiency may then become the ground of her discharge, but that is a very different thing from making marriage itself a cause of forfeiture. LIGHT AND BRIGHT. Chicago Tribun ‘an 1 buy insurance here?" ‘asked the visitor to the great fire insurance office and the gay young clerk told only the truth when hé answered, “Not on your life.”” Brooklyn Lifs & supercillous Did_you ever notice expression Upnos Chicago man visit- fon. " n Star: “Do you think the pos! umed by your friend s eor- Tect one lawyer. “I don’t know,” answered the other sentmindedly. “He is one of the best players in our club and while he may look a iittle awkward sometimes, I wouldy ( undertake to criticise him.” Chicago Tribune: — “Thirteen dollars and a half seems a high price for such a com- paratively short trip,” said the man with the traveling bag in his hand. ““We thought people would rather pay that. than $13," ‘Teplied ‘the agent of (h steamer line with an explanatory and apol ogetic cough. Philadelphia Pre Doctor—You _must et your mind off your business for a while hy not take a rest in the country. Mr. Wallstreet—That wouldn't do me anv good, When the summer breczes bl w around the farm 1'd be sure to see (he wheat rising and falling. Chicago Pos Kind lady, kin yer give & pore deservin” man a bite to eat?" ‘Here's & good plece o' cherry ple for you; sit right down on the doorstep and enjoy it." “Oh, lady; yer means well. but edtin' pleas- b cherry ple with th' stones In ain't no ure—it's work, downright work." Puck: Little Elmer (who has an inquir- ing mind)—Papa, what Is irmness? Fror. firoadhead—The exercise of will power, my son. Little Elmer—Well stinacy? Prof. Broadmind—The exerclse of won't power, my. son. sir, what s ob- Washington Star: I understand that Milton got only & few pounds for ‘Paradise Lost, ' said the literary friend. “Well,” answered Senator SBorghum, we- riously, “I don't see what he could expect 1 have glanced through ‘Paradise Lost' There is no way In which it could posaibly influence votes.™ Denver Times: He was thoroughly happy when he entered the front door with a package In his hand and exclaimed: “I've got something here for the woman I loye better than all the world." “John," she said, sadly, “i don't object to extravagance ordinarily, but I do object to You buylng expensive presents for the But then, you see, she judged him by hi appetite, not his heart " Vs THE LESSON. Frank L. Stanton In|AlIllllA Constitution, Once Borrow came, with eyes of wondrous And ;!:n with me the dreary strokes ot > 11, And, dreaming not of any perfect rest T'luia my weeping taco on her sad bre But when the Morning Iit the world again-- A w;)lrkld ll‘ seemed where hot tea o 0 rain. A v Chastened and strong, I felt my moul's Ana "6 “Witn 8 nd 8o w orrow sed to pertect Peacs! P 3 ” e