Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 5, 1901, Page 6

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B, HUNGATE Notary Pubiic — e PARTIES LEAVING FOR SUMMER, ieaving the city for r may bave The Bee to them reguinrly by fying The Hee Business ce, in person or by mail. will be chauged Subscribed fn my before me Parties ot The ad an oite Train robbery is hy all odds the best paying industry in the Dakota bad | lands, small boy and the big man have had their celebration nd the coroner, the surgeon and the fire underwriter can put in the next few weeks figuring up the results. Tl Kansas City glories in a city forester who sports the suggestive name of Pigg. It is clalmed for City Forester Pigg that he has saved nine hundred trees within the city limits of the metropolls on the Kaw by watering the roots. The profits of the Kabnsas City Ice trust during the months of June, July and August are estimated at $240,000. How much the Kansas City coal dealers® combine expects to rake In during the months of December, January and Feb- ruary has not yet been computed. ——— Pension Commissioner H. Clay Evans has weathered the tempest and survived the high temperature of the closing days of June. The chances are ten to one that he will be found at the head of the pension bureaun by the time congress convenes the first week In December, The coal combination is taking advan- tage of the hot weather to make arrange- ments to put up the price next winter, While the present temperature prevails the average cltizen does not think he will ever want any coal, but the com- vine managers can afford to smile and walt. General Gomez pald a visit to Presi- dent McKinley and states that his pre- vious fmpressions and opinions were strengthened as a result of that visit. The Cubans, who were only too glad to avail themselves of his leadership and follow his advice when there was fight- ing to do, will do well to follow It now. His entire career shows him to be as strong a counselor is he is a soldier. With his retirement from service that portion of the popocratic press which 18 inelined to be falr Is beginning to admit thut General Shafter was a soldler of | more than ordinary merit. The trouble | with Shafter was that he possessed none of the elements which make for popu- larity. He was not spectacular, but he was persistent. Those who know him best and who have been thrown in con- ot with him wost hold the best opin- ton of him, The wave of speculution which swept over the country is having its legiti- mat sult. Several of the banks in the east which have been identified with the speenlative interest have been closed and it would be nothing surprising if When values are inflated | funds are apt to he loancd vecklessly on securities whose legitimate value will not protect the loan. There Is nothing in the situation whieh s likely to affect the general business of the country, as everything Indlcates the great bauking Institutions are being conservatiy wanaged, by speculation The statement of the state treasurer shows that he has invested 87 T of the permanent school fund during the past six months, ns against $280,303 by his predecessor during the corresponding perlod last ye Not ouly have the in- vestments almost doubled, but the re- ceipts show almost as large an ncrease, While these I receipts are gratify Ing it P a serlous problem in state finay The money is only of use to the schools of the state when it can be Invested and with the restrictions thrown around its investinent there is necessirily a large amount of the money idle all the time, very legislature in opens ) | consume | to Import any | But | articies shie las he years has been appealed to for relief, but it has not heen given. The time s rapidly approaching when it will be necessary to cease piling up the money or provide some weans of making it earn something, REATER FUTURE FOR AGRICULTURE It is the opinion of Secretary Wilson, expressed in a speech before the Na- tional Farm near Doylestown Po.. that the United States and its island possessions will in time produce prac tically all the agricultural products they In the fiseal year just closed the value of agricultural products im ported into this country was over $420,- 000,000, The largest Item n this was which $101,141,408 in was fmported, cretary Wilson said that the United States is better adapted | to the production of heet sugar than is Germany, Fi Austria, Russia or other countries exporting sy Improved processes have been invented this country and he predicted that within ten years, including the new possessions, school sugar, of value nnee such cane the tes will not find it necessary sugar. But just here the ste fteelf whether, it we ur o preferential duty, as Senator Lodge and others say should be development of our beet sugar | will g That is obviously matter for serious consideration. The same question applies to tobaceo. Wilson pofnted out that im proved processes of cultivation brought about by the Department Agrict certaln kiuds United =t question sugg give Cuban st done, th industry on, a | | Secretary | of tobaeco which | bitherto been i ported aud he thought In the near future the United States would grow sutlicient tuba to the home demand will the developuent of this indus- try continue if we give Cubau toba o preferential duty? It should be un- Ve o to supply | derstood that in the production of both sugar and tobacco Cuba has by no wweans reached the Hmit, and with lib al tarift concessions could In a few ars send to the American murket two thre t the amount of those retofore sent. Can we show tariff favor to the sugar and to- baceo of Cubia and go on developing our own industries? Secretary Wilson ¥ or nes belfeves that we shall soou produce the tes required for ur own use, while as to coffee, Porto | Rico, Huwall and the Philippine islands will supply the demand of this country and also all the spices that our people require. We are inclined to think that the secretary of agriculture Is too suan guine in regard to tea, but the island possessions will probably in time sup- | ply the American demand for coffee, the importation of which last year amounted to over $52,000,000, Secretary Wilson remarked that the United States is the only country in the world that could, if forced, exist suc- cessfully without importing anything outside of its own borders. here is no doubt of this and as the Philadelphia Press observes, It Is a fact some other nations, now uttering threats against the United States, may well take to heart. ‘That there is a greater future for agriculture in this country will not be questioned, but all that Secretary Wilson predicts will hardly be realized 80 soon as he appears to think. AS A BUSINESS PROPOSITION. Mr. Funkhouser, chairman of the com- mittee on finance of the Board of Edu- cation, who procured the passage of the resolution urging the district court to call a grand jury to investigate well- detined rumors, scouts the idea that he was Influenced by political motives. Mr. Funkhouser declares that “the reso- lution is a purely business proposition and has unothing whatever of a moral | crusade about it. The board wants the money from fines which should come to It under the law and which it has good resson to believe now pockets of individuals.” Indirectly Mr. | Funkhouser Intimates that his “well- defined ruwor'” has reference to the sus picion that gamblers and fallen wonien are still paylng fines for the plying of thelr vocatlons, but no money Is received therefrom by the treasurer of the Board | of Education. | Assuming that Mr. Funkhouser's sus- plclons were well grounded, what action ean the grand jury take that would place the alleged contributions of gam- blers and fallen women in the school board treasury? Under the law, all money derived from fines and licenses | belongs to the school fund, but such fines can be imposed only by a court of | Justice. No fine can be imposed unless the law-breakers are brought into court | and trled and convicted on specitic charges. If any money has been col- lected by city officials or Individuals claiming to act for them, the parties im- plicated may be punished, but there is no process of law by which they could be made to disgorge, and even were they disposed to do so there Is no process by which money lawlessly procured could be turned over to the school fund, Mr. Funkbouser doubtless also knows enough to know that the city eannot 1i- cense gambling or prostitution, hence no money can be legally gotten for the school fund or any other fund by licens- ing proseribed occupations. As a business proposition the calling of u grand jury prowises no tangible re- | sult for the school board, although it wight offer a tempting opportunity for | a political fishing excursion, It Mr. Funkhouser's well-defined rumor resolution is designed to revive the practice of periodic fines upon the keepers and inmates of disorderly houses he certainly cannot accomplish thar pur- pose by the grand jury route. That can only be brought about in one of two ways First, by lodging complaint agalnst the owners, keepers and inmates of disorderly houses in the police court, or by bringing pressure upon the mayor and council to revive the old system of peviodic fines through the instrumen- tality of the police. Whether such a re- vival would meet with the approval of the reform element of the city Mr. Funkhouser claims to vepresent is doubt- ful. There Is a decided senthwent in this comwunity against indirect leens. Ing of that which is prohibited by law, even though the revenue may be up- plied to the malntenance of the public schools, As & business proposition we could—if Mr. Funkhouser and his associates on the finance committee are in earnest— point to two or three channels that would yleld a revenue of §10,000 or more | to probe luto “well-defined rumors?” | He especially | Herbert and McLaurin.” goes Into the | THE OMATA and decrease the school expenses some £10,000, which is equivalent to increas- ing the revenue, It is a matter of notoriety that a heavy traffic in lquor 18 being «d on in Omaha by parties who are paying $10 a year instead of $1,000, under the guise of selling liquor for medicinal purposes. It 1s also a watter of notorfety that the sale of liquor without a license is car- rled on lcense orts that cannot be legally | , but can be legally fined for selling without a license | If the school board will take that| class fn hand it can very readily in- cresse the revenues of the school fund | several thousand dollars a year. Ou the other hand, the school board cain, by pursuing business wethods, de- | ase its expenditures very materially by a strict observance of the law which limits school attendance to persons be tween the ages of five and twenty-one yea It is safe to assert that several | hundred children under five years of being taken care of in kinder- rten schools at the expense of the | school fund, ' There are thousands of dollars squan dered annually on fads that could be with without crippling the efticiency of the public school Would | not the course poluted out be wuch more | effective in replenishing the school treas- | ury than the calling of a grand jury | dispensed —ee A NEW POLITICAL SOUTH. A recent address by Hon. H. A. Her- bert of Alabama, who was secretary of the navy in the second Cleveland admin- Istration, on political conditions in the south, has received a good deal of at- tention as indicating a democratic revolt in the south. The address was in large part a plea for independentism in south- ern politics, Mr. Herbert declarved that there was need of freer thought and freer action in the south, that the time has come when no man should support the nomine of his party unless the platform and the man are such as he approves. If the party puts out a plat- form and nowinees which a man does not approve he should reject them all. mentioned the growing readiness to revolt among the Ala bama newspapers and commended those which refused to stand by the demo- cratie platform and ndidates in 1806, Former Representatve Springer of Illinols, who at oue time was prominent in the councils of the democratie party believes that a political revolution is | pending in the south. Referring to Her- bert's address he said he considered it the keynote for the organization of a unew party in the south. “The time is rapidly approaching,” said Judge Sprin- ger, “when there will no longer be such a thing as a solid south. The movement, which has been gradual, to amend the state constitutions so that the negro will be eliminated from politics is respon- sible for just such speeches as those of He thought that now that the south Is getting back politically to her old moorings there will be witnessed a gradual division among the Intelligent white voters and that ele- ment which believes in the doctrine of protection will eventually drift into the republican party. There is undoubtedly a very consid- erable sentiment among southern demo- crats hostile to the doctrines to which the democracy was committed In the last two national campaigns. These men want the party to return to its early prinelples and cast aside wholly the populistic doctrines it has embraced. Then the number of southern democrats 1s large who upprove the policy of ex- pansion, believing 1t to be in the Inter- est of the development and prosperity | of the south, These endorse the policy | of the national administration, as Mr. Herbert did in his address. They re- alize that the new democracy, commonly | described as Bryanism, is not only un- progressive, but reaction and that its success would so unsettle and dis turb things as to put a check upon na- tlonal advancement and perhaps destroy much that has been accomplished. Any | extensive revolt, however, 18 not likely in the near future, because those who | are prepared to muke it are held in line Dby the race question and that is far from settlement. Meanwhile there seems lit- tle reason to expect that the south will not remain solid, though it may be hoped that through the influence of such demo- crats as Mr. Herbert the party in that section will be led to repudiate the financial and political heresies to which the democracy has been committed In recent years. Those who have been prone to harp on the statewent that the Cubans bave re | celved no benetit from the American oc- cupation of the island are blind to the facts. Aside from the establishment of | schoots, the carrying forward of public works and various other measures oue striking example of what the United States has accomplished is shown In the health veport. Up to the present time there has not been a solitary case of yellow fever in Havaua this summer. Such a condition is unp dented, It| is due solely to the sanitary weasures | taken by the United States nullmrllh-.\.l | The South 1 A wan who shot his | | companion believing he was a deer hus | | been acquitted of the criminal charge. | | This class of accidents has become so | common that many sta laws putting them in the swme class as other acts of which cost human life. The rallway man who care lessly causes loss of life is held to be gullty of murder and such acts us shoot- | | ing a wan under the lmpression that e Is a deer are no less crimin es have passed curelessness of the Baltimore American, In the present state of rapid transit it 1s well for everything to give railroad trains the right of way, for cyclists to yleld prece- dence to trolley cars aud for mere pe- destrians to go without further loss of time into training as ekillcd acrobats Dealing with 1 Philadelphla Record. The people of the United States man- aged to get along for pearly 100 Enrth fer Ra | ness and enterprise, perh | endl | thinking of these horrors of the cold, be | had to be affixed | but it is well to keep in mind that more DAILY BE that they will fail in the mext 100 years, or that they will be less successtul | in dealing with Asiatics than they hn\.-} been In dealing with Africans and abo- | riginal Americans | Get Into the Bandwagon. Washington Star. | Considering the superiority of this coun- | try's manufactures and facilities for agri culture, together with its commercial bold- the best thing for England to do i to consider the ad visability of etting unnexed FRIDAY, Expanston Not n Theory, Loulsville Courler-Journal, A New York estimate is that the July disbursements of interest and dividends will aggregate about $120,000,000, against $100,670,000 a year ago and $54,000,000 two years ago. Expansion, in every sense, Is a condition and not a theory In this coun- try now, Wenry of th New York Evening that the South ased to be popular. It seems to b and to be calliug endlessly for men and money. That naturally produces pression of party spirits, but we do not sce how they can be elevated by such absurd attempts as Lord Salisbury's to cheer on his supporters. Go Awny, Fat Man, New York Sun. That blot on the landscape, the man with the handkerchiet tucked inside his collar, Is once more with us. He is a terrible ex- ample of what suggestion can do. The wost composed person Lecomes hot and uncom- fortable in his presence. At this season of the year far be it from us to have men about us that are fat. They nearly all have the habit, oh, Post It s Afiican war has o clear Cooling 1o Think Baltimore American Think of the north pole! Think of the lands where the unfortunate people have to break their way through snowdrift Think of the wretched passengers of a vessel threatened by fcebergs! Think of the hungry explorers, who, starved and freczing, have to break their milk with a wedge and thaw out their food supply with dynamite! Think of the suffering business men who have been locked up in their own refrigerators by burglars and been frost- bitten in August almost to death! And, About. content. Comfort, after all, depends very much on the way you look at it. Another Dead Issue. New York Tribune. Ex-Senator Pugh of Alabama is the latest southern democrat of prominence to declare that “imperialism,” the Kansas City plat- form's “paramount” {ssue, will never do service in a second presidential campaign. But he underrates the versatility of demo- cratic platform makers it he imagines that the miscarriage of 1900 will seriously em- barrass the resolutions committee of the! next democratic national convention, to| which is confided the duty of discovering an equally new and “paramount” rallying cry for the struggle of 1904, sfonary Idea of Loot. Chicago Post. Dr. Reld “ventures to expound the ethics of 10ot.” Woe venture to say that he 1s not qualified for this task. He fs evi- dently ignorant of the subject from what- ever point of view it might be studied. He is, moreover, in abvious need of a re- study of the gospel be professes to carry to the heathen. e do not go to mission- arles for an exposition of the permissible horrors of war. Mr. Reld knows nothing of International law. This is conclusively demonstrated by this proposition of his: “To confiscate the property of those who were enemles in war may be theoretically wrong, but precedent establishes the right.” Discrimination In Army Honors, Chicago Chronicle, Although General Funston has been richly rewarded for the capture of Aguinaldo, it appears that others who rendered Impor- tant service in the matter have been ig- nored. The claim that s set up in favor of Lioutenant Taylor, who first located the insurgent leader, is a strong one and should recelve some recognition at the hands of the authorities. In this connection it is worthy of remark that the promotion bestowed upon Funston for the apprehonsion of a Fliipino fugitive whose Influence was on the wane was the same as that which a grateful government gave to the soldier who planned, executed and won the greatest pitched battle ever fought, that of Gettys- burg. George G. Meade was made a briga- dier general in the regular army for a vic- tory which put an end forever to offensive operations by the southern confederacy. Funston's performance seems rather paltry in comparison. TAXES HERE AND ELSEWHERE, Conditions in the U in Forelgn Ca ited States and ntries, Baltimore American, One part of the war revenue act passed in 1898 which, in conformity with an act passed by the last congress, became in- operative July 1, Js that relating to the tax of 1 cent and 2 cents upon cer- tain receipts and on bank checks. This tax has become objectionable more on ac- count of its annoyance than upon any other score. The fact that a 1-cent stamp to every telegram and receipt for a freight package has been re- garded by many Americans as a constant irritation. This country, they say, 18 too rich to bother the people with a tax of 1 cent. It has not heen so much the ob- Jection to paying the tax as to the loss of time and the worry connected with the payment. This feeling is an fllustration of how favored a country, In the eyes of the people, is the land in which we live. In England and on the contiment such a tax attracts no atteniion because the people are accustomed to pay it year by year and its repeal is mever expected. The octrol for instance, in France is quite as annoy- ing as the payment of 1 cent on a bill of lading In the United States. Every turnip or cabbage that goes Inside the gates of Parls must pay a small tax and in the Italian towns American tourists may see a soldier poking his bayonet into a cartload of vegetables to see what the farmer has The United States has not yet reached the point where it is necessary to im- pose what we may term grinding taxes, Wars may come, and not only 1-cent tax, but even heavier burdens may be necessary. Affer the civil war and up to late in the 70s taxes on bank checks were imposed. but after the resumption of specie payments, {n 1570, conditions be- came easier. The reduction in taxes laid for war pur- poses as provided for by the last con- | gress will, 1t Is estimated, amount next year to about forty million dollars. The people fn the smaller continental countries would be astonished if their burdens were lightened to this extent. Citizens in all rich countries object to many taxes, the idea being more or less common that the government must manage to get along without worrylng its people. Americans have the richest and most favored land in the world and for that reason it would a years with the experiment of carrying on a highly successful government, although the lines were strictly drawn between su- perior and Inferior races. It is not likely seom that, as they are becoming more and more prosperous, it is only falr that a greater proportion of their surplus should be applied for public purposes. { reached the tremendous total of $1 JULY 5 UNCLE sAW'S IROUS YEAR, Co. n of the National Finances | Quite Finttering, Chicago P In spite of the Chinese necessarily affected certain bra our trade, and in spite of the littl war with Russia, the uncer prevailed in Cuba and other unt ditions, the fiscal year which e turday was undoubtedly the ful and prosperous in the financial and commercial hist Our a mestic exports will be shown by the officlai statement public to hay disorder vinty ward ot nation ry soon to be made 000, while the balance of trade in favor the country will be the heaviest ¢ corded. For the was Just cess of the n reements retary ngress, government as remarkable. There | receipts over dish amounting to about $£76,000,000. Gage, in his Deeember report to ¢ estimated tho surplus for the year at $80.- | 000,000, but even the lower ure actually | realized represents the largest surplus yielded by any year of the last decade ex cept one. The secretary points that the excess would have been even larger had not his department hought nearly $15 000,000 of bonds in the open market. T purchases have strengthened the financial situation by preventing an undue accumu- lation of {dle capital in the government vaults. The available cash balance in the treas ury on the final day of the fiscal vear was | $175.088.000—an unprecedented amount— | while the etock of gold fn the vaults stood At nearly $500,000,000. The department's transactions during the year were as fol- lows: Recelpts from custome, $238756,- T41; from fnternal revenue, $305.214,411 from miscellancous sources, $41,547,157 total, $585,648,309, Expenditures for elvil and miscellancous purposes, $122,286,050; for the military establishment, $144.543.- 612; for the navy, $§0,80,706; for Indians $10,804.975; for pensions, $120,321.620; for Interest, $22,310,654; total, $509,947,206. Mr. Gage had estimated the custom celpts at $245,000,000, but they fell short of this amount. Internal revenue and miscellaneous receipts. on the other hand, | exceeded the respective estimates. T!\l‘: outlook for the present fiscal year. it fs | hardly necessary to say, fs extraordinarily | bright and encouraging. While the repeal | of certain war taxes and the reduction of others scem to foreshadow o loss of $10,- 000,000 {n fnternal revenue receipts, the secretary believes that the great pros- perity of the country will, by Increasin, the income from customs and miscellane- ous sources, yleld a surplus for 1802, treasury year | ex- out re- ETHICS OF © SE LOOT. Misstonnry Defense of Missionary Ex- actions. Chicago Tribune. In explaining his ldeas of “The Fthics of Loot" fu the July Forum, Rev. Gilbert Reid says: “When it became evident that the forelgn ministers would not take into account the losses of Chinese converts the missionaries boldly approacked the local authorities, who in turn offered to fudemnify those among their own people who had suffered through thelr adherence to the Christian faith. * * * Looting, extortion and blackmailing existed, but the charge cannot be laid at the door of American or English mission- aries.” It 50 happens that a report just filed in Washington by General Chaftee furnishes more definite information on this subject. This report shows that Mr. Reld has under- taken too large a contract in his sweeping detense of the missionaries. It appears that General Chaffee, upon the recom- mendation of Minister Conger, complied with the request of Rev. E. G. Tewksbury, an American missionary, by furnishing the latter with a detachment of American troops to exact money and lands from Chi- nese for the depredations they had com- mitted upon the native converts. Mr. Tewksbury confessed that he did not know how many converts had been killed or how much property had been destroyed, but he compelled various villages to contribute a total of $12,000 in money, the deeds for ninety-six acres of land, and permission to bulld nineteen chapels and establish twenty cemeteries. Lieutenent Guiney, who was in charge of Mr. Towksbury's detachment of troops, re- ports that “this money was collected by the men who did the damage from inhabitants who are now and always have been peace- ful.” He adds that the head men of the villages in some cases collected several times the amount demanded and probably kept the surplus for themselves. Thus the expedition appears to have added one wroug to another. When Mr. Tewksbury was asked to glve the mame of every Chinese convert making a claim for damages, with the amount claimed, he replied that he “did not know the men whose property had been destroyed, mor their whereabouts, but he thought he could get the names from some of the native members of his church who were assisting him in collecting money. This {s too Indefinite to be satisfactory. It is difficult to sce any essential differ- ence between Mr. Tewksbury's plan of se- curing indemnity and that of the soldiers who took things they coveted for thelr private use. In both cases the power to take rested upon the threat of force, and in both cases there was no certainty that the persons from whom money was ex- | torted were Boxers. Mr. Tewksbury ap- pears simply to have utilized the presence of the allies to get hold of some valuable | real estate and concessions for the use of the missions. According to Rev. Gilbert Reld’s ethics, this kind of acquisition may not be called looting, but it is difficult to find any other name for it. JOBS WORTH WATCHING, Doings in ppines Provoke Insinnating Remarks, Manila New American Wherever Philippine products can he utllized, such as lumber, hemp, tobacco and $0 on, prices being satisfactory, they should | be utilized by the government, and they undoubtedly will be, but the so-called | “lumber men's bill" is too absurd to be serfously considered. Uncle Sam will buy| his lumber for roads, bridges, harbors bulldings and public works wherever he pleases. The Philippine commission will, | of course, give that measure and all similar ones its quietus promptly. It would be worth & journey to Washing- ton to learn what the American administra. tion and the American congress would do | it the announcement were mad: that the Philippine commission had passed “an act making compulsory the use of native lum- ber grown in the Phillppine fslands in the construction of all roads, bridges, harbors, buildings and public works hereafter con- structed in the Philippine archipelago.” And there are alleged American news- Papers that treat such a proposition serl- ously It would be interesting to know what the some-time-to-he-completed suspension bridge has cost to date. It hasbeen hinted that a court of inquiry into that wretched business is certainly in order, While about it, such a court might also report on that | government ice plant, which originally was | to cost $500,000, and the cost of which has run into millons. The recklessness, the Ignorance and the extravagances that have characterized both these public works are a discredit to the United States, as they bave quietly become a scandal, notably among European residents. WASHINGTON ¢ . Men and Events Observed at the Na- tional Capital. Mr. John Albus of St. Joseph, Mo, be- lleves with John Adams In- the inalienable right of petition. He knows what e wants, but instead of golng for it personally he re attractive petition plan kovernment departments at Washington | . 1t is sald, produce a series of more complete, compreliensive and porfectly prepared iudorsements for any applicant for foderal office than those submitted on be- Balf of Mr. Albus, who seeks the honors | and emoluments of the postmastership of ot re t. Joseph. Mayor Coombe of that city in- the public that lists and letters wre beautitully in morocco In a volume thicker than an unabridged dictionary and are filed with Asslstant Postmaster General Bristow. liey cmbrace 90 per cent of the republican voters of St. Joseph, every newspaper—ro- publican, independent, democratic, agricul- tural and religlous—in the city, sixty of as Wide opinfons in the state and a majority of all the republican political organizations in the ity and state. . personal indorsements fnclude those of every class in our city, from the mil- louaires, who are more numerous in St. Joseph than in any other city of its popula- ton (100,000) in the world, to the trades. men of cvery kind-—bakers, butchers and blacksmiths." for, he “Some murmurs were heard at the time of the dismissal of certaln cadets from West Point about the determination of irritated patrons of the unfortunate young men to insist upon having them reappoint- to the Military Academy,” writes a correspondent of the New York Times. “It was intimated that with an opportunity to appoint from the districts affected by the dismissals the refected men would be sent back to West Point by their patrons in Congress. It the reported threats were ever uttered by the members mentioned, those members, whether of the senate or the house, had forgotten the law. It is a fact that hitherto members of the house of representatives have been accorded the privilege of fudicating candidates for West Point and the proteges of such members wero apt to allude to the appointment by “their members" of congress. But the fact was overlooked that while the representa- | tive was allowed to present a candidate for the academy, the nomination did not be- come effective until the president had ratified it. The law was amended in June, 1900, 80 as to Increasn the number of cadets at large to thirty and in the last essfon it was further changed so to provide two additional cadets at large from each state. The intention was to af- ford senators a chance to name two each from a state, but the whole number of cadets is to be appointed by the president. As a matter of fact, the appointments are mado by the secretary of war, but the sec- retary acts only as the clerk of the pr dent in making the appointments. So, while there may be senators who think that by renaming young men who have under- £one punishment for violation of the rules ot the academy they will be within the law, the nominations may be turmed down by the president, on the advice of the secretary, who in turn may accept the advice of the Academic board in rejecting cadets whoso admission might be preju- dicfal to the maintenance of authority by the head of the institution. It is custom, and not law, that permits the representative to name a candidate. The law only pro- vides that a certaln number of cadets shall be named from congressional districts and from the territories and for convenience the member of congress in the district titled to name has been accorded the privi- lege of suggesting & person to receive ap- pointment. Senator Hoar, the venerable Massachu- setts statesman, has won his fight against & Washington street rallway company for the abolition of large cars which, while they were the delight of the riding public of the national capital, were unfortuna enough to make more nolse than smaller vehicles of the rall. They disturbed the slumbers of the senator and when Mr. Hoar discovered this fact and made a complaint to the commissioners of the district hun- dreds of other residents along the line traveled by the cars made a similar dis- covery regarding themselves. Connecticut avenue, one of the fashionable residence thoroughfares of Washington, rebelled against the cars. Senator Hoar Introduced a resolution fixing the size of the street cars that could be operated in the district and it was passed by the senate. Then the commissioners took up the matter and practically ruled the cars out of service, notwithstanding that they were the finest of their kind that were ever operated on a surface street rallroad. The company in uestion did not fight for a retention of the cars, It recognized the uselessness of dolng #o0. It simply arranged for their sale to companies of other cities and when they have all been sold and shipped away they will be replaced by the little old-fashioned motor car With a trailer attached that is neither handsome nor comfortable. PERSONAL NOTES, Booker T. Washington, president of the National Negro Business league, announces that the lergue will hold a national con- vention in Chicago on August 21, 22 and 23. General Wood has been made a member of the Academy of Sclence of Havana. The academy is one of the most exclusive or- ganizations fn Cuba. It is limited to forty members, and each member is selected for | 1ite. General John Basil Turchin, who dled at Annpa, T11, the other day, was a veteran of the Crimean war, who, coming to this country during the war of rebellion, be- came colonel of the Nineteenth Ililnois volunteer fnfantry and was later given command of a brigade under Buell. Among the passengers who landed from the City of Pekin at San Francisco a few days ago was Loo Chin An, a Chinese com- missioner of commerce. Loo Chin An has been commissioned by his government to visit the United States and examine into its commercial history and methods. Confidence men and pickpockets are dolng a land office business at Niagara Falls this scason. It |s a great place for the slick and the smooth and they flock there like flies to a sugar barrel. Any kind of & gold brick that fancy hankers for may be had there at prices to suit your pile. When a London lad was asked what the Lord bad made he replied: *The earth, the sea and all the tindummies.” Not un- til the examiner had exerted his mental faculties until he was almost a wreck did he solve the riddle, “all the tindummies" was shorthand for “all that in them is. On learning of Adelbert Hay's melancholy fate the elass to which he belonged decided to abandon an claborate program which had been arranged in connection with the university exercises. Secretary Hay heard of this Intention and Insisted that every thing should go as had been intended, say- ing his son would so desire. The class con- sented and only one or two minor changes were made In a life of Pasteur, published in Parls, attention is called to the fact that the man who was destined to revolutionize chemistry came fourteenth in the lat of twenty-two candidates at his high school in Dijon, and was marked “‘weak” in chem- istry. His researches in regard to the disease of silkworms are sald to have been the means of saving France a sum equal to that pald to Germany as the price of peace. A QUAKER CITY ROAR. Protest Agninst ¥ Wenther that “Good for Corn'" Philadelphia Record In the bottest hour of one day last week A eteaming, gasping, wrotched dealer on change offered consolation in the remark that the weather was “‘good for the corn What & man may say can have no real effect on the weather (except, of course, in the case of Senator Tillman, whose violenco of language can ralse the temperature 10 degrees in as many minutes); yet it s oxasperating to an overheated man to be forced to recognize the indubitable fact that In the economy of the universe man- kind is found to be of less importance than the corn of the fiald. Of the utility of corn there can be no question. Without it hun- dreds of Kentucky distilleries would be re- duced to idlencss and men would become the helpless prey of every wandering snake. Corn is the Kansas substitute for coal and the basis of many a corner In the Chicago markets. Still, however {mportant corn may be In the mysterious economy of things, man does not lke to be reminded of bis inferfority in hot weather, when his nerves are all unstrung. It would be an interesting change in affairs if the buman family could be trans- terred to & world where man would bo the pet of nature; where the weather would be tempered to meot his needs, regardloss of the effect on crops, and where he would not be required to work so har for a meal to destroy his appetite. Novalls was thought to be crazy because he predicted that moomer or latér man must make a desperate resolve to leave a world fn which he Is degraded by ¢he need of excessive toll to win unsatisfactory bread, and in which nature is sharp of tooth and red of fang, unjust and merciless. There fs little reason to think that man any such measure of self-respect as to refuse lite even on mature’s hard terms. That he is a poor-spirited creature and meckly sub- missive 18 shown by his pitiable attempt to extract a graln of comfort fn the midst of bis sufferings by the reflection that what wilts bis collars and takes the stiffening out of his backbone may be good for tbe corn. EQUAL TAXATIO! Most Serious Problem the Republio M Face. Chicago Journal. Cleveland's picturesque and virile mayor, Tom L. Johnson, told the national soctal and political conference in Detroit that he had committed himself to the cause of equal taxation and had forsaken every- thin else to devote himselt to securing that one reform. That is rather a large order, but there can be no doubt in the mind of anyone who knows Mr. Johnson that, even though he accomplishes noth- ing {mportant in his endeavor, ho will at least make 80 much noise that the country will have to stop its ears to avold the sound of it. It cannot be denled that, as Mr. Johnson says, the inequality of taxation Is the most serious problem the republic must tace. It is notorious and incontrovertible that the burden of taxes, in the citles par- iticularly, as witness the assessors’ returns made public in Chicago, and In the country generally, is made to rest most heavily upon the people who can least afford to sustain it, In this city the man who owns one lot is assessed at an almost infinitely Jarger sum proportionately than the man who owns milllons of dollars worth of income producing real estate; and those who possess the greatest amount of personal property are invariably those who escape with the smallest porsonal property tax in proportion. The facts are not to be explained away by any ingenuity or tergiversation. Our ex- isting system of taxation is infamous in its inequalities and intolerable in its injustice. But we fear that attempts to square it with justico and equality by alteration of the revenue laws will not succeed in the future any better than they have suc- ceeded in the past. The ingenuity of man has never been able to devise a law that the ingenulty of man s not found a means to evade, nor will it ever be able to do s0. A stream cannot rise higher than its source, even a stream of flowing human Intellect. The only hope for a remedy of the con- ditions complained of with so much justi- fication {s in an awakening of the pu conaclence that will compel an awaken'ng of private consclenc BREEZY REMARKS. Detroit Journal: Or, to speak more strictly, perhapa, it is the doctors who love the lh(nlnx mark. Judge: Wife—T somehow just feel in my bones that we will go to Europe this sum- er. " Husband—In which bone do you feel it 7 T Pife—Wall, T don't exactly know, but 1 guess it's my wishbone. Baltimore American: She froze him with k. ‘&cholvurln , but kind-hearted, tha poor man controiled his stiftening lips fong enough to TThe fos trustll get you, If you don't watch out! uck: “I understand that Jenkins took y-third degree?” o Ulin Wite says 1t must not occur aln, o Ry ‘Washington Star: “She has an admirabls " remarked one woman. ‘She never indeed an admirable trait," an- swered the other. “Any one who keeps per- tectly quiet and lets others monopolize lh’. conversation cannot help being esteemed. b 4 the. Yes. Matd—Our fceman fs Journal Indianapolls Jou fa—Our leerann picked up 400 pounds of 1 carried it two squares today. Mrs, Jinks—That's wonderful, fsn't 1¢? Mald—No, ma'am; he weighed it himself, Philadelphia Press: “Here's a_correspon- dent who asks: ‘I8 it proper for a woman to pick her teeth in public? "§t's’ proper enough,” replied the snake editor, "but when the' average woman ha to elect a set she usually prefers to do so very privatel THE SUMMERTIME, From every fleld and woodland coma The notes of Nature's sweet-volced cholr The anctent oak and glant elm Are clothed again in rich attire. The buds of every flowering shrub Have opened Into gorgeous hloom. And every breeze that stirs tho leave Is laden with a rare perfume The broad expanse of fallow ground, Responsive to refreshing rain And genlal warmth of summertime, s now a sea of golden grain With tireless process moving on, A myatic fabric Nature rears, A cell to cell and luch to inch o4 She adds through all recurring years. H. C. WILLIAMS. Omaha, Neb, Your Hair Perhaps your mother had thin hair, but that is no reason why you must go through life with half-starved hair. If you want long, thick, dark and heavy hair, feed it with Ayer's Hair Vigor. . All druggists. J. €. AVER CO., Lowell, Mass.