Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 29, 1901, Page 6

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The addrcss will be changed Omaha never does things by halves, not even in registering the temperature, = ] There need be no apprehension about Nebraska's political crop. Hot winds caunot blast it. —— | Nebraska needs a great many things, but it needs nothing so much as a re- vision of the constitution. municipal tax reform may be summed up in three words—revise the constitu- tion, As soon as the state of Nebraska per- fects its title to the state falr site we may expect at least oie bullding to be destroyed by fire each year. The attorneys of the tax-shirking corporations have their nerve. The county commissioners will need all their nerve to resist thelr blandishments and hard luck storie ] The biggest gold brick on record is to be sent from Britlsh Columbla to the Glasgow exposition, The owner might sell it to a Nebraska milllonaire if the scheme were only worked just right. e While The Bee does not approve some features of the Bouth Omaha street fair, it would deprecate any attempt on the part of Omaha to improvise rival enter- talnments to draw away its patronage. We are reminded that the coming Fourth of July-is the first of the new century and has special claims for ex- traordinary celebration. The century year should be & record-breaker on pa- triotism. — The champlon rifle shot of the world i udvertised to be ome of the attrac- tious at the Deadwood celebration. The wviun who makes such a claim up in that country may have trouble in mak- ing good. — One of the big 'varsity boat races has been decided and the others will soon be things of the past. The higher edu- cation of America's young men will thep take a rest untll the foot ball sea- son commences in the fall, — The coronation of King Edward is definitely fixed for some time next June. With his parllamentary allow- ance and the proceeds of his wine sale he should certainly be able to get his crown burnished up by that time, ————— York county farmers have more wmoney than they can find profitable in- vestment for. In ome little town In that county the farmers have $50,000 on deposit in the bank. Farming in Nebraska is certainly a profitable busi- ness, The Britlsh navy is to follow the lead of the army and feed Its men exclu- sively upon British beef. This means that the United States must supply an added amount of the meat which the general public must have and they will get the best of the deal, eTE——————— I'he duke of Manchester has compro- missed with his creditors and with the aid of Papa Zimmerman's barrel expects to shine In English soclety from now on. Amerfean ‘hélresses should hereafter In- Hlst upon getting the discount upon for- elgn poblemen before the wedding ceremony 18 performed. ‘The honest taxpayers of Omaha have @ right to demand that the county Board of Equalization shall do its duty lmpartially and. fearlessly. They have a right to expect that the board will tirmly resist the pressure being brought upon its members by the pald attorneys and salaried officlals of the corporations whe persist in shirking their fair propor- tlon of the tax burdens. . \ | | exceptionally | tween the two countries disturbed THE OMAHA DA ILY BEE: SAT 'RDAY, JUNE 29, PRICT Count Cassinf, Russian nibassador to the United States, who is on the way to Europe, sald before leaving this coun- try that the so-called tariff conflict be- tween the United States and Russla is really an inslgnificant matter, but he thought it would be a pity to have the friendly relations be- in the remotest way. Of course the am- bassudor lays the responsibility for the friction upon our government. We ®hould have necepted s conclusive the declaration of Russla's finance minister that his goverument does not pay any export bounty on sugar. The sugar- producing countrles that were repre- sented In the Brussels conference two years ago to consider the question of abandoning export bountles on sugar held that the Russian system of taxing sugar for domestic consumption and re- lleving it of taxation when exported was in effect a bounty, but now that the United States government takes this view of the matter Russin makes re- prisal by imposing discriminating du- ties on American products. Again when our Treasury department, complying with the requirements of the tariff law, fmposed a duty on the products of Rus- glan petroleum because Russia had put a duty on American petroleum, that government retalintes by Increasing the duties on certain American products. This can hardly be regarded as an in- significant matter. On the contrary, it 1s quite serions, not so much from tha trade point of view as in the principle involved. We have a tariff law that is mandatory upon the secretary of the treasury. He is required to do certain things and must comply. He has acted strictly fn conformity with the law as construed by the law officers of the gov- ernment. Regardless of the fact that there was an appeal to our courts the Russian government made haste to re- tallate, which was a distinetly un- friendly proceeding, justly so regarded in spite of the nsseveration of the Rus- sian finance minister that it was not %0 lntended. It Is the discrimination that hurts, for the reason that our gov- ernment has not discriminated against Russian products. We collect the coun- tervailing duty on all imported sugar upon which an export hounty is pald, 80 that the beet sugar of Russia com- ing into this country is on an equal footing with the sugar of Germany, France and other countries. There is no discrimination in the matter. Rus- sla, however, discriminates against American goods and thereby does this country an Injustice, This has been clearly set forth in the statement communicated to the Russian government by the American Depart- ment of State. It seems somewhat doubtful, however, whether it will have the desired effect. All the reported ut- terances from Russian sources indicate a determination to adhere to the policy adopted unless our government shall recede from its position. This can be done only by authority of congress, so that it is probable existing conditions will continue indefinitely, with, the pos: sibility of the commercial friction being aggravated. Meanwhile German and “nglish manufacturers are dolug their utmost to seize the opportunity which is offered them. e— MUNICIPAL LEAGUE NO. 2. About elght years ago a number of well-meaning citizens 'of Omaha, who were desirous of pruning out vice, de- stroying corruption and inaugurating retrenchment in the city government, banded together. into a Municipal league. This league managed to at- tract some attention by agitating im- practical reforms and stirring up the cesspool of vice and In due time fell to pleces without having accomplished any substantial result. While doubtless en- listed in a good cause, the promoters of this movement falled to comprehend that lasting reforms cannot be effected by resolution and that natural vices can- not be abolished by crusade. They also overlooked the fact that the searchlight of publicity turned upon flagrant abuses and corrupt practices is more effective in eradicating evils than periodic meet- ings of reformers who never came in contact with the elements they are seek- ing to repress or stamp out. Suffice it to say that Omaha's first municipal league proved a complete failure for want of popular support and intelligent direction. And pow Omaha is to have a second municipal league, with the same pro- gram carried qut by some eminently reputable citizens and some not quite so reputable who profess to be alarmed and distressed over the dreadful condi- tion of our municipal government. For the benefit of these gentlemen we print agaln a portion of the recent contribu- tion of Comptroller Bird 8. Coler of the city of New York, entitled “Mistakes of Reformers,” which commends itself to thelr careful consideration: At the very outset, municipal reformers make a fatal m'stake. Admitting their per- fect honesty and nobility of intention, thelr actions invariably prove their utter ignorance of the work they bhave under- taken. As a ruly they h little or no goneral knowledge of the vast soclal, polit- fcal, industrial and economic conditions and problems involved In the regulation of all the rs of a great city. A slight dis- turbance at one point has revealed to them the fact that the water of & pool is foul and unclean. They promptly eelze sticks acd pol disturb the pollution below the face, turn some of it up to the light, scatter the polson, then retire to the safe seclusion of their individual respectabllity, leaving the disturbed water to settle back to its former condition, The professional reformers, when they enter politics, present platforms bullt of stale platitudes which, reduced to their substance, mean something like this: “We would suppre mbling and the soclal avil, eradicate vice of all Kinds, enforce all Sunday laws, make the city good and irtuous by force, reduce expenditures and taxation and conduct the public business honestly and economically.” The first three propositions are impos- sible to a very large extent umtil human nature Itself is changed. The absolute forcement of the SBunday law s not de- sired by nine-tenths of the population. The Afth is absurd, and the others may mean anything or nothing; therefore the entire platform of the professional reformer is a mistake, or a mass of uureasonablene fmpossibilities. Mr. Celer has hit the mail squayely on the head. Munielpal leagues cannot purify the municipal atmosphere any more than Its members could through the machinery of existing political, so- clal and commercial organizations. Any member of the knows of dishonest methode or corrupt practices in local government can read fly strike a blow for reform by making public what he knows and demanding the prosecution of offenders. Rumors and mere gossip concerning alleged mis- couduct of public officials aré too fre- quently eirculated for political effect or out of personal malice. Such indefinite charges will scarcely furnish sufficient ammunition for a reform campaign. In any event, the league must for the present deal with men now in office. The next city election does not occur until March, 1903, POLITICAL STRIFE IN CUBA. It is stated that since the accept of the Platt amendment by the Cuban constitutional conventlon strife has reigned within the republican and na tlonal parties over a movement that had for its purpose the indorsement of the actlon of the delegates In accepting it. While both parties signified thelr ap- proval of the amendment, it appears that the nationalists took this action with the understanding that later th party will use all possible legal means to effect the repeal of the amendment. A dispateh from Havana says the party will co-operate towards the establish- ment of the republie, but, faithful to its program and revolutionary ideals, and understanding that the Platt amendment curtails Cuban independ- ence and limits Cuban sovereignty the party will employ all legal means In Its power to obtain its repeal. Fur- ther, until this repeal is obtained, the national party will oppose any inter- pretation of the amendment tending to pervert the purpose set forth by its actual wording, namely, the main- tenance of Cuban independence. The republican party s in favor of obsery- Ing good faith and undoubtedly has with It & majority of the people. The radicals of the national party delude themselves if they serlowsly think they can obtain a repeal of the Platt amendment. That has been made, by the vote of the constitutional con- vention, a part of the Cuban consti- tution and there it will remain. What- ever legal means may be employed to get rid of it will be unavalling and It Is safe to say that no party in Cuba will undertake to effect such a purpose by revolution, which would inevitably result In destroying in- dependence and forcing the United States to assume a protectorate over Cuba, maintaining a sufficient mil- ftary force there to preserve peace and order, or make the island American territory. The radical politicians and their fol- lowers in Cuba constitute a small mi- uority and their number is not likely to increase. They are actuated by an ambition for political power rather than by a patriotic desire to promote the in- terests and welfare of their country. This must become more and more ap- parent to the Cuban people and as it does 80 the ranks of the radicals will decline. The purpose of the Platt amendment is to make Cuban inde- pendence secure and it will grow fin popular favor as this comes to be bet- ter understood. But in any event its repeal is out of the question. ice Rallroad trafic officlals make it a business to keep posted on crop con- ditions and the probable ylelds of grain. The managers of the roads in the wheat belt of the west and northwest have been comparing notes and the result is the prediction that this year's crop of wheat will be many million bushels larger than last. Nebraska is one of the states which shows up in the front row and on top of that has a corn prospect coming up apt to ralse the record. . China still bas some tenants it would be pleased to get rid of. The powers have decided to remove their troops at Pekin, but have sald nothing about moving out of Shanghal. The present occupants of those quarters, judging from past experiences, will stand off the writ of ejectment to the limit. When China furnishes board and lodgings and pays the bills, as it has done at Pekin, no particular incentive presses for the foreigners to move into thelr own prop- erty. Nebraska has furnished over 2,000 horses to the Britlsh government dur- ing the past year. The South African war, coupled with other demands, has furnished a market for about all the horses Nebraska has to spare and enabled the horsebreeder to make good money for the first time in several years. Douglas county has been awarded 144 delegates to the next republican state convention that will nominate one can- didate for supreme judge and two for university regents. Are there 144 repub- lican lawyers ln Omaha willlng to be drafted for a trip to Lincoln on a hot day In August? No proxles go. Payment of a poll tax as a condition precedent to the exercise of the right of suffrage might be very desirable, but the proposition would meet with great opposition because it would be regarded as the entering wedge for property qualificatious as a basis of suffrage. — If it is true that South Omaha tailors ecan make Mexican boleros at one-tenth the price they cost In Spain this may be an opening for a new Industry, At that price no Mexican bull fighter could afford to be without an assortment bear- Ing the South Omaba trademark. —— Work Makes Them Move, Philadelphia Ledger. With her abundant barvests bas plenty of use for tramps, tramps find they have no use braska. Nebraska but the for Ne- Can't Get Away from It Baltimore American Sucan B. Apthony, at the age of 81, has Just seen her Orst horse race and ber first A proposed league who | expression of the sight was a statement that the creations in which present were arrayed took her broath away. After all there 1s no real repressing of the eternal feminine —_— Whereln Reform s Needed. Boston Transeript Wo still continue to hear about smoke- less powder. After belng rained upon by | the emudges proceeding from the combus- | Hon of bituminous coal, we are led to think that what the world really wants Is powderless smoke. — Decorous Wit of the Hab. Boston Herald Many think there has been a great waste of time and money in some of the foreign missionary flelds. Still others insist that every effort along those lines has been for the good of the world and that cannibals {even are made better by having a mis- | slonary In their midst —— Vacations ns an Investment. Boston Transcript The etatement that Americans spend | from $400,000,000 to $500,000,000 annually on account of their summer vacations is prob- ably not wide of the mark. It Is Interest- ing in 80 far as it is indicative of the vaca- tlon or recreation fdea. People generally are coming to recognize that there Is a limit to physical and mental resistance and that, as Longfellow so aptly put it, one must “play the part of an unstrung bow." The man who drops the working habit, gets near to nature's heart in re- axing, temporary exemption from business stress and strain, {s the sensible man. And undoubtedly as a people we are looking on summer vacations more and more as a profitable fnvestment, GETTING OUT OF THE GRAVEYARD, Assanied Happiness of Bryanism in the Cerements of Death, Brooklyn Bagle (Ind. dem.) With Bryan out of the way would come a readjustment—the party would at once begin to harmonize with modern conditions. He remains as an obstructionist, keeping tho face of his party turned to the past. He cannot become president himselt and ho will permit nome but a republican nominee to have an opportunity. When he says that his interest centers in prin- ciples he has free silver in mind. When he protests against the south be- coming plutocratic, he objects to progress there. When he prates about imperialism, he means that he would strangle American enterprise in the markets of the world, And when he sets his face against re- nization he means that the Bryanisms not be shaken oft with his consent. Ambitious, mistaken, fatuous, impossible, he will tolerate no forward movement. He stands at the gate of a political graveyard, keeping his party among the tombs. He worships at the shrine of the fathers, in direct communication with thelr ghosts. He can recall no material proposition fn- debted to him for birth which has not been buried at the polls. He is the melancholy and hopeless embodiment of causes lost, dlscredited, repudiated. There is literally Do aspect of the desperate democratic case which would not becomé at least a little the womea | Irrigation Plans. San Francisco Call Several state cogineers and members of ongress met in Cheyenne lnst week to formulate some plan for securing funds tor Irrigation A careful reading of thelr conclusions discloses the fact that, however unwil- lingly, they abandon Senator Carter's posi- tion, cease to look for an appropriation In the river and harbor bill and turn to the public domain as the source of revenue for the bullding of irrigation works. The outline of the measure they propose provides that all moncys received from the sale or disposal of public lands in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Kaneas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Da- kota and Washington, beginning -with the fiscal year 1903, with exceptions covering cost of land administration, shall be re- served for the benefit of the state or ter- ritory in which such lands are sold, to be an arid land reclamation fund, to be used by the secretary of the interior for the examination, survey and construction of reservoirs and other irrigation works. ‘The sale of lands in the states named will not produce much revenue, and when sold the revenue ceases altogether, but the “disposal” of lands by leasing the stock ranges will produce approximately $10,000,- 000 a year, and it will not cease with the first year, but will be continuous and prob- ably increase as the pasture 18 permitted to recover and the land carries more stock That meeting of frrigators might as well have used the phrase, “Sale or lease,” for leasing is the only other method of dis- posal of the public domain, and the gov- ernment s already leasing the grazing lands in the Indian reservations, very bene- ficially to the lands and to the Indian funds. Not only does this irrigation plan cover the land leasing, which the Call has so long advocated, but it covers the detall of that plan which we have sug- gested by making it optional with the states and territories concerned whether they will accept such a law or not. The meeting proposed that any of the states or territories desiring to avail themselves of the provisions of the act shall enact laws accepting its provisions and organize and maintain a state engiueer's office, with authority to plan and make estimates for reservoirs, to be pald for out of the reclamation fund. As another important de tail they propose that such works belong to the state and may be sold only to the actual consumers of the water. This 18 to prevent their alienation to specula tors in drouth and famine, and properly holds them for the use of the land irri- gators and tillers for whose benefit they are built. 1f o sold the proceeds are to &0 back into the arid land fund, to be used over again for reclamation purposés. That is an excellent provision, for if homestly administered it creates a revolving fund that may be used over and over agaln to develop and store water. The junction s now fairly made between the irrigators and the stockmen. The pur- pose of each class can be forwarded In ono bill, and the greatest step taken In the interest of the west since the railroads were built can be accomplished. The coun- try will be relleved by this determination of the west to use the public domain as & producing asset to provide Irrigation In preference to putting another load on the sinful shoulders of the river and harbor bill. The progress of aridity will be ar- rested by leasing the stock ranges and making it to the interest of the leaseholders to renew their forage, thereby restoring the vegetable protection to the molsture in the soil. The deep springs that have been drfed up by destruction of the ranges will again become affluent and the run-oft of streams will recover its regularity, 8o this policy will not only get money for irrigation works, but will also conserve the water to fill them. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The rapprochement between France and Germany which has lately taken place is a serious subject of comment at St. Peters- burg. As was to be expected, one result has been to helghten the prevailing anti- German sentiment. Notwithstanding the re- cent exchange of courtesies between Em- peror William and the czar, the animosity of Russlans for the German people 18 as in- tense as ever. A significant instance of this 1s to be seen in the movement against Ger- man ccmmercial and Industrial enterprises in Russia, There has lately been a strong teeling of opposition to all foreign indus- trial companies in the empire, but this movement has been more particularly directed against German concerns. The amount of capital {nvested in these German industrial and commercial enterprises fs, according to recent estimates, $90,000,000, as against $65,000,000 for English com- panics, $110,000,000 for French companies and $160,000,000 for Belgian concerns. It is now stated that an imperial ukase will shortly be lssued for the purpose of limit- more prontising should he open the ceme- tery gate and let the party out. Even Binbad the Sallor finally got rid of the Little Old Man of the Sea. PHILIPPINE CIVIL SERVICE, Explanatias, Enact Judge W. H. Taft, head of the Philippine commission,;fnd; who fs to be the first ci governor of the islands, has written a let- tor to Willtam Dudley Foulke of Indian- apolls explaloing the civil service law which will be entorced throughout the Islands with: the igauguration of civil government on July 4 next. Following is an extract from the letter: “I belleve that the clvil service law, which was ‘the fifth law we passed, is a stringent as any law which has been pas: in the United States. * ® ¢ o It hag never bben suspended for a moment. It Was, of course, Impossible to make a olvil service law applicable the next morning after it passed, for the reason that it takes a considerable time to adopt the necessary rules and to prepare for the necessary ex- aminations. We provided that, with the exception of soldiers, every person who might be temporarily appointed to a etvil position in the islands between the time of the passage of the law and the certificate by the civil service board that it had eligl- ble lists for the needs of all offices, should be considered temporary appointees and should be required to pass competitive ex- aminations successfully before being ap- pointed. The establshment of provincial governments presents another question of civil service, and we met it by providing that after March, 1902, all provinclal offi- cers, except the governor, should be se- lected under the clvil service law by pro- motion and by competitive examination. The commission 1§ a unit in thinking that the civil gervice law {s all important here. Without it, we: should be overwhelmed with nondescript persons eeeking employ- ment, and political pressure would be brought to bear to have appointed in these islands all the persons who had made fail- ures In the states. We did not extend the act to the school teachers for the reason that school teaching is a profession, and as the selection of them through the super- intendent 1s made by consulting the heads of colleges and universities, it was possible for him to secure good evidence of the fit- ness of the person applying, but as soon as our first batch of teachers have been se- cured, vnder the great pressure for teach- ors in these islands, we shall extend the elvil service law to the teachers as well 1 desire to add that in our clvil service law and in carrylng it out to the letter, we have had the assistance, sincere and ac- tive, of both the president and secretary of war. We have not been obliged to make & slogle appolutment at the request of the cretary or the president. They have assisted us when we called on them for advice, but that is all, and they have had us understand that they were in sympathy with our purpose In making the law ef- fective. A8 it 18, we have not heard of any complaint of it from any source. As an earnest of the sincerity with which the law was put In force, 1 should like to call your attentlon to the fact that every man who was appointed between the first week of September, when the law was passed, and the first week of March, when the machinery was all ready for operation, was required to pass a competitive examination unless bo had been a volunteer soldier, and that 700 appltcants took the first examl- nation, a very large proportion of whom were temporary appointees. It was sug- gested and urged that we ought not to require such appolntees to puss a com- petitive examination, but we were firm and as a result a great many worthless ap- pointees abandoned the idea of taking the examipation and went home. “We have secured quite a number of employes of the Clvil Service commission to asslst us in perfecting the machinery and Mr. Proctor of that commission has been exceedingly kind and displayed & great deal of interest In helping us mlong. “You ask me what the friends of civil servica reform in the states can do, and all that I can say !s that you will strengthen us, I think, by having the fact generally understood (hut the law has never been suspended since It was a and that no attempt has been made to evade its provisions ing the action of these foreign enterprises, first step to their final suppression. Morocco {8 one of Europe's many night- mares, never quite 8o obstreperous as Tur- key, yet llable at any moment to become more #0. The alightest disturbance in any part of Europe is enough to make states- men cast anxlous glances toward Tangler. It was among the {ssues stirred up by the Spanish-American w The conflict with the Boers had no sooner broken out than the.eternal problem of the land of the set- ting sun made another brief appearance. In May of last year it cropped up again on the death of the grand vizier, and from then till now the French operations on the eastern and southern frontiers have kept it rumb- ling. Morocco used to be the pioneer of tern clvilization. Five hundred years 0 the youth of Europe flocked to fts Shores to learn its sciences and marvel at its arts. Today it is in the grip of what is probably the most hideous despotism to be found on the earth. It is a perpetual Ar- menia, blasted for the jealousies of the powers. The sultan lives at Marakesh or Fez, far away from the European settle- ments, and little of what goes on in the in- terior reaches the ears of the outer world. Tax collecting is the one state industry, varied with massacres and pillage when the Sultan, or, his Circasslan mother, or the grand vizier finds an Insuficlency of rev- enue. Nowhere is the art of extracting blood from a stone so near an exact science in Morocco. The pitiless exactions ralse a yearly crop of revolts, Perhaps not more than one-fifth of the territory is under real subjection to the sultan. With civilized government it might be made a prosperous and contented country. It ‘“‘teems with potential wealth,” if the unanimous teati- mony of trained observers is to be be- Neved. Gold, copper, Iron and lead are kpown to exist in payable quantities. The soll ‘“‘could produce enough grain to feed halt Europe.” Yet It remains in a drowsy, anarchical ‘state ot decrepitude—its soll un- tilled, its mines unworked, its people ground down to furnish the means for the usual pleasures of & Mohammedan ruler—a nation not so much dylng as committing dally sulcide. oo An order has been Issued by the civil governor of the province of Barcelona, division of Catalonia, in Spain, making compulsory the registration of all for- elgners In that province. All forelgners must present themselves at the consula of thelr respective countries and obtain from the consul certificates to the effect that they have attended personally before him and have satisfied him that they are citizens of his country, which certificate they should then present in Barcelona at the office of the civil governor, and in other towns and villages at the bureau of the mayor, In order that names, descrip- tlons, occupations, birthplaces, regletered. Forelgners arriving in Barcelona will be required to carry out the formalities men- tioned in the order within twenty-four hours after their arrival. Any contraven- tion of the order will be punished by a fine of 500 pesetas and, If thought desira- ble, by expulsion from the province. Much trouble may therefore be avolded by per- sons who desire to visit the province of Barcelona this summer If they provide themselves with passports at home which may be presented to the consuls of thelr respective countries upon their arrival in the pravince in question. e owing elosely upon the establishment of a regular steamship line between Odessa and the ports on the Porslan gulf, and the augmentation by new and swift salling steamers of the line between the Levant and the ports of the far east, the Russian Steam Navigation company has entered the fleld as an oil carrier on a large scale from Batoum to Vladivostok and other far east ports, The latest accession to the company's fleet is an English-bullt tank vessel called the Meteor, which has just arrived in Odessa barbor, where It s attracting con- siderable attention on account of the pe- cullar feature it possessed of belng at once a tank vessel for oil in bulk and am to Odessa. The vessel's carrying capacity is over 5,000 tons of ofl in bulk and it s able to make sixteen knots. Three vessels similar to the Meteor, but containing fur- ther improvements, which will facilitate thelr particular dutles, are now being con- structed in England for the Russian Steam Navigation company. . The German military authoritics evl- dently do not Intend to be caught in the same fix as the British government was at the outbreak of the Boer war in the mat- ter of ammunition and supplies. A new department of the military administration has just been organized, whose special busi- ness it will be to see that all the arsenals and workshops are provided with the proper supplies, machinery and materfals. It has hitherto been the custom for each of the military factories to purchase everything it needed Independently. In future all purchases will be conducted through the new dapartment. The object of this change fs not only to secure uniformity of prices und a ‘more perfect supervision over the quality of the goods supplied, but to cen- trallze the responsibility and to have a bureau where, in the event of a sudden erisis, exact information as to ways and domiciles | and last places of residence may be duly | ordinary cargo vessel. The ship will thus be able to take ofl to the far east, where, belng so constructed that the tank parti- tions are easily removable, it will be able to take on a general cargo and return ( means may be procurable on the instant. POLITICAL Senator Depew is about to make his an- nual pligrimage to Europe, where rulers hold their jobs for life. Some democrats are talliing of going south for a candidate In 1804, States that give the votes should get the usufruct. Another ‘plan of overcoming the negro vote of Alabama is to give suffrage to white women. It is endorsed by Senator Mory ‘Though the incident is nearly a year old, it is claimed by Kansas City papers that| the labor demonstration of July 4 in honor| of Senator Clark cost the Montana tes- man $2,000. The fusionists have reached the parting of the ways. Senmator Butler, populist, avers that the democratic party is *‘full of mossbacks” and the democrats of Kansas say their former partners are ‘‘canned lob- sters. The new congressional apportionment of Pennsylvania is arranged so as to give the democrats three and the republicans twenty-nine districts. This is a shade better than the democratic gerrymander of Missouri. It is inferred from Sepator Foraker's re- marks at the Ohlo republican convention that he regards the election of a republican legislature a most Important one—for Sen- ator Foraker. He will probably stand for re-election. The Pennsylvania legislature has jolned the has Leens, but will not soon be for- gotten. Among the last bills passed was one allowing county officers to pocket fees not exceeding $5,000 a year In addition to their salaries, although the state constitu- tion expressly declares that in counties contalning over 150,000 population all county officers shall be paid by salaries. But “what Is the constitution between friends?" Mayor McGuire of Syracuse, N. Y. & Bryanite of two slashing def ays he has enough of the political husks to last a Mtetime. “I followed Mr. Bryan loyally in 1898 and 1900, the mayor says, “but 1 shall no longer be a political ally of the man who led to two inglorious defeats. The talk of nominating him agaln in 1904 savors of insanity. 1 do not belleve that he could carry a state in the unfon. Our candidate for president in 1904 will be a man who stands for true democracy, not DRIFT. shall | Pen Ploture for Women. “ I am 5o nervous, there is not a well tnch in my whole bod{ 1 am so weak at my stomach, and have indigestion horribly, and palpitation of the heart, d I am losing flesh. This headache and backache nearly kills me, and yos- terday 1 noarly had hysterics; there is & weight in the lower part of my bowels bearing down all the time, and pains in my groins and thighs; I can- not sleep, walk or sit, and I believe I am_diseased all over; no one ever suffered as I do.” This is a description of thousands of cases which come to Mrs. Pinkham's 1aboratory for advice An inflamed and M. Jomwx Wrrtsams, uleerated condition of the neck of the womb can produce all of these symp- toms, and no woman should allow herself to reach such & m{xflm of misery when there is absolutely no need of it. The subject of our por- trait in this sketch, Mrs. Willlams of Englishtown, N.J., has been entirely cured of such {llness and mi by Lydl:i E. Pinkhan's V‘mhl':%om- und. P"No other medicine has sudh a record for absolute cures, and no other medi- cine s ‘‘ just as gcod.” Women who want a cure should insist npon getting Lydia E. Pinkham's Ve ble Com- pound when they ask for it at a store. HOT WEATHER MIRTH. Brooklyn Eagle: Miss manages his automobile so skillful Ifeve he could write his name with {t! Ottinger—Oh, yes; I guess he could easily make his auto-graph. Honrlques—He iy T be- Detrolt Free Press: Penelope—I'll just ruin my complexion going in bathing o much. Perdita~I wouldn't care. notice it. No one will Washington Sta De pust froo life actin' hahd to please, Eben, “runs de riesk o' habbin' him at his word an’ quit tryin'. dat goes sald Uncla folks take Cleveland Plain Dealer: “Say, just look at the moon! She seems to have lost all her_curve.” “Perhaps she's cultivating the straight front!" Philadelphin Press: “What are you dolng there?" cried the farm dog as he observed the hen in the coal bin. ““Oh, 1 thought this was a good time to lay in coal," cackled the hen. Brookiyn Eagle: Clty Boarder—Tell me aid you ever buy a gold brick, Uncle Josh? 'nele Geehaw of Hay Corners (disguste edly)—~Naw. But hev bought lots of bricks 1 thought was gold. Chicago Tribune: “Yes,'" sald the pale, stoop-shouldered professor. “I am {n- structor In Latin, Greek, the sclences, English composition, -blology and higher mathematios.” “Why, you're a regular college Pooh Bah, ain't you?' exclaimed his admirirg but slangy relative. The French patriot beat n Dieu!" he cried. “After all mv gervices to my country, to be denled the boon of belng voted a public enemy? Mals parblen!" Toutefols, en avant! Eau de vie, garcon! One may still clash with the police by getting drunk and dis- orderly. Detroit Journal: breast Pittsburg Chronlcle: Doctor—What's the matter with that appendicitis case? Assistant Doctor—Well, he says he's an up-to-date patient with an up-to-date dis- ease, payin' an up-to-date price, and he won't have a tralned nurse who can't sing anything newer than ‘Juanita.’ “QUO JURE" Why, oh why, does your dark face follow me 80, Ever and always wherever I go? It comes to me In the twilight's soft gloom, It looks out at me from my lonely room. It flaxhes on me from the starry skies, And in cach lovely flower I see your dark eyes, 3 It gleams mid the white of the ocean's spray, 1t 1ooka down on me from the storm clouds A Rray, 1t smiles’ up at me from each laughing atream, And by day and by night it haunts every dream; On the bedeh, in the park, at the ball or the play, From the birth till the death of each weari- ome day Your face is before me and sees just how ain Are my efforts to hide all this heartache and pain. And I know, those eyes, Avproval, reprinch, displeasure, surprise— By what right do you come to pass judge ment on me? You are nothing to me and never shall be. I am hing to you and I would not be, oh, %0 well, every look of n 8o by what right, T ask, do you follow e ARLETTE WOLCOTT. Bryan democracy. Omaha, Neb. For one day only, SA'’ TURDAY, your choice of any soft hat in the store (except Stetson) for $250 gach This shapes qualities that $3.50. includes all the new and nobby sold at $3.00 and Don’t you need a hat? SATURDAY ONLY Browning, King & Co Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R. S. Wilcox, Manager.