Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 9, 1901, Page 6

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Btate of Ncbraska, Douglas County, #s.: George B, T ick, secretary of The Bee Publisiing o 3, being duly sworn, says thut the tual number of full anda complete ccples of The Dally, Morning, Evening Sunday Bee prinied during the month of June, 191, was as (ollows 1 20,050 16 8o 1 3 18, 20,160 ‘ 19... 26,040 6. .00 L2040 6. 5 [ 10 1 1. 1. 1 " 1 Total Tess unsold and returned coples Net total sales Net dally aver . 28,072 GEO. B CHL Subseribed I my presence and sworn to before e this 3th day of June D. 1501 M. B, HUN —_—— PARTIES SAVING FOR SUMMER, Parties ieaving the eity for the summer may have The Bee nen notifying then regularly by Bee Business King Corn 1s eausing greater anxiety to the railrond kings than all clalists and anarchists, Pierre Lorillard, the horsey New York multi-millfonaire, will be remembered ehlefly as the paternal progenitor of Plerre Lorillard, jr., and Plerre Loril- lard 111, The three great rallway combinations have divided up the coal transportation enst of the Mississippi river. The small boy and the hired man still have the privilege of carrying it into the house. Porto Ricans are said to be clamoring lustily for free trade, but the principal beneficlaries of free trade between t'« United States and Porto Rico will be the Tobacco and Sugar trust magnates. — The rivers and harbors committee is on a tour of investigation. Before the members prepare another appropriation bill they should wore accurately measure the flow of senatorial clo- quence, Omaba's exposition contingent at Buf- falo I8 preparing to transfer its experl- ence and enterprise to St. Louls. When a man once embarks in the show busi- ness he Is never satistied with any other vocation. Dairy products for export are to be fnspected and branded by the govern- ment, certifying their purity. The consumer at home must contlnue as heretofore to take his chances on get- ting butter or axle grease. —_— Kansas rallroads are complaining they cannot cars enough to handle the wheat crop. It is no nse to look north for help—the Nebraska roads will soon have all they can do to handle their own troubles In that line. —_— Robert Finkbine, who was the active supervisor of the building of the lowa state capitol, is dead at his home in Des Moines, In the building he leaves behind him a magnificent monument, honestly constructesl and all paid for, It has discovered been orlginal order to Dewey to attack the Spanish fleet at Manila is unsigned and the fdentity of the man who wrote it is that the unknown. There Is no doubt about what happened as the result of the order, however, From present indieations Omaha s destined to retain for the present sea- son at least-the distinetion of being the only city to make an exposition a pay- ing lustitution The attendance at Buffalo, while on the increase, Is still disappointing, ’,' — The lm.lldlluz permits Issued up to July 1 indicate that more than $1,000,000 will be expended for store houses and dwell- fngs in Omaha during the present sea- son, but the question is, Will these im- provements be visible on the asscssment roll in 19027 — Property owners on Harney street, between Sixteenth and ‘Pwentieth, should make haste with their petitions for replacing rotten wooden blocks with asphalt pavement, It is doubtful whether they will get another chance for repaving the street at $1.50 per yard within the next ten years. — Wil Nebraska never cease to rub it in on the calamity howler? It Is now an- nounced that, instead of being a bor- rower from the east, Nebraska banks have actually loaned over §1,000,000 to New York., The popocratic orator must hunt up a new song, the one ahout the “poor, poverty-stricken farmer" will not answer this season, for it is from the rural districts that this surplus money comes, the so- | OUR AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS. The mainstay of our export trade is leultural products. The foreign de- mand for these, as shown by the report Just lssued from the Department of Agriculture, has been steadily growing and there Is reason to belleve that it will continvie to grow. The facts pre- sented by this report, covering the last | s, are highly interesting and instructive. The best customers for our agricultural products are the United Kingdom and Germany, but there is a wide disparity between these, the former taking three times as much ng the latter in the last fiscal year. With the excoption of a single year we sent more agricultural products to the United Kingdom in 1000 than ever be- | fore and more to Germany than In any other year. These are facts worthy of attentive consideration in connection with the question of commercial relations with those countrie The United Kingdom will not need less of our agricultural products this year than it did last year and the probability Is that German, will require more. Nelther country can | therefore afford to do anything that will reduce the imports of our products. | We have already referred to the bread- stuffs deficit in Germany, which accord- Ing to a report of the American consul general at Berlin will be almost un- precedented. Such is the alarming char- acter of the situation that a number of propositions looking to rellef are under | conslderation. The one measure that would be most beneficial, however, a reduction of the fmport duties on grain, is not among these propositions, but it is safe to say that the demand of the agrarians for an increase of dutles will not be heeded, That would mean dearer bread for the German consuiners and the government will hardly venture to in- | erease the cost of 1tving to the German people. In some of the other European coun- tries the situation is not very much bet- ter than in Germuny. France, Belgium | and Italy, as now indicated, will need as much of our agricultural products this as last year, when the aggregate value of their importations was upwards of $73,000,000. In of these coun- tries will the grain production of the present year be beyond the o up to it, und they must look to this| country to supply the deficlt, It Is noteworthy that the most striking gain in our agricultural exports disclosed by the figures of the last five years was in the Asiatic trade, which rose from about $6,000,000 in 1896 to nearly §23,- 1 000,000 1n 1900, It would seem to be a safe conclusion from the facts of the situation, as now presented, in which there is not likely | to be any important change, that so far as exports of our agricultural products ar neerned they are not likely to| suffer from any adverse European legislution. The agrarian agletion for higher import duties on breadstufls will hardly be heeded under existing circumstances. e THE REASON WHY. The Bee seems to be displeased with the recently organized ‘‘Municipal league” to the extent that The Bee editor prints a letter alleged to have been written by a taxpayer ila which The Bee's position {8 upheld and the organization of & *‘tax- payers' league' suggested. Why will not the Municipal league Afll the bill? This organization has been set on foot by & body of reputable taxpayers.— World-Herald. The letter purporting to have been written by a taxpayer s genuine and can be inspected in this office by any one doubting its authenticity. The Municipal league will not fill the bill of a taxpayers' league for the rea- son that some of the reputable taxpay- ers In the league enjoy well established | reputations for tax shirking and tax fighting. One of its leaders, for exam- ple, appeared before the county board to protest against the increase of the assessment of the South Omaha stock yards, While this was perfectly legitimate by reason of his profession us an attorney, he would cut a sorry figure in a taxpayers’ league in de- manding an equitable assessment of corporations that have been under- valued by assessors and equalizers. The very fact that no one in the Munic¢ipal league dared even to whisper against the rank favoritism exhibited by the assessors affords abundant proof that the league cannot be depended on to fight the battles of the taxpaye A PERPLEXING QUESTION. Representative Dalzell of Penns; vania, who Is & member of the ways and means committee and a leader of the re publican side- of the house, has been talking on the subject of concessions to Cuba. He spoke of it as one of the most tmportant questions that will come be- fore congress and sald that it will have | to be dealt with broadly, What the | course of procedure will be he did not venture to say, but he expressed the opinion that there will be a great deal | of embarrassment in adjusting the wishes of the Cubans to our local con- ditlons, He thought may expect to find a great deal of sentiment in this country favorable to the generous treat- ment of the Cubans consistent with our own Interests, Mr. Dalzell sald the difficulties In the way are readily apparent. “The Cu- bans will ask a market for their sugar. If we can, as Secretary Wilson, of the Department of Agriculture, asserts, pro- duce In this country from beets raised by our farmers all the sugar we con- sume, there Is a problem right away. The beet sugar industry s extensive and growing. The farmers engaged In ralsing the beets and the men who turn the raw material into the finished prod- uct by the Investment of capital in man- ufacturing plants will insist upon pro- tection. Then there are our own cftl- zens who will want less restricted com- lald down in the republican national platform last year and up to the point where it does not conflict with the prin ciple of the American protective tariff The more this question of comm il relations between Cuba and the United States 1s considered the more perplexing it becom The fact is very generally gnized that the industrial and com- al development and the prosperity as well as the maintenance of peace and order in the island, depend upon the marketing of its staple prod- ucts in this country. If the Cubans can- not profitably dispose of their sugar and tol o in the American market they cannot do so anywhere. And in or der that they may sell them profitably here they must have a preferential tariff. Senator Lodge has expressed the opinion that the preference need not be very great to enable Culm to success- fully compete with other countries from which we fmport sugar, But, as we have heretofore pointed out and as Representative Dalzell sug- gests, there is our domestic sugar indus- try to be considered and also our tobacco industry. Can ®o on developing these, until they reach a production equal to the home consnmption, as pre- dicted by Secretary Wilson, it we make such concessions to the sugar and to- baceo of Cuba as will allow them to be profitably marketed in this country? The future political relations between Cuba and the United States have been practically settled. The commercial re- latlons between the island and this country present a problem that it seems safe to predict will not be so easlly disposed of. we SHOULD BE DISCOUNTENANCED. The announcement is wade with a grand flourish of trumpets that Gov- ernor Savage and his staff will attend the South Omabla street fair on Wednes- day, which is to be the rved letter day of the carnival. For the good name of the state and his own reputation it is to be hoped the governor will not take part in the orgles that have characterized this brazen at- tewptsto pander to the vicious and liw less classes, Omaha and the state have already been lowered in public estcem by these exhibitious, The advertisement of the bull tights has provoked decidedly un: favorable editorlal comment in the press of the country. The Chicago Record, for example, in a half-column editorial Saturday, denounces the South Omaha Jamboree In terms that are, to say the least, not very flattering. That journal declares that the clty of Omaha appears to be drifting rapidly toward the point where it will be wiped off the map of civilization, and recalls the fact that Omaha was hard hit by the last census and is not likely to recover prestige by exhibitions of the Spanish bull tight order. While it is true that the bull fight proved a farce, this fact does not relieve Omaha of the stigma of trying to trapsplant to its soil an exhibition of brutality that is repugnant to Anglo- Saxon Ideas of sport. “There should be no place on Auierican soll for the Span- ish bull tight.” The Chicago Tribune on the same day also devotes considerable editorial space to the South Omaha carnival, winding up as tollows: There are thousands of men and women as well who will pay a large sum to see a reckless man risk his life, and if there is a show of blood about the exhibition in some way it s likely to be even more popu- lar. Under the smooth surface of modern civilization still sleep the brutal passions which were gratified when men fought with oue another or with wild beasts at Rome. It needs only an opportunity like that of this farcical bull fight at Omaha to bring them to the surface again. It {s small wonder the Cubans and Filipinos cannot understand why the United States authori- tles should object to cock fights, The truth of the matter Is that the sham bull fights are the least offensive feature of the South Omaha fair. The protection guaranteed to pickpockets, crooks and skin gamblers to ply their vocations, without police interference, in the crowded streets and extemporized dens of vice is more reprehensible. It was an evidence of sublime assur- ance on the part of the promoters of the South Omaha carnival to ask the chief executive of the state to participate in such an exhibition and indirectly make him an endorser of the scandalous show. You always have to go away from home to find out the news. According to the Omaba correspondent of the Lin- coln Journal the campaign waged by 54'“!(- Bee against the corporate tax shirk- ers Is Inspired by a desire to depose Commisgloner Ostrom from the chair- manship of the republican county com- mittee in the Interest of the alleged can- didacy of Frank Moores for congress. The man who discovered this wonderful plece of news probably does not know that a new committee will be elected by Douglas county republicans not later than September. Another thing that this wonderful mind reader has not dis- covered is that the campalgn for raising the corporation assessment was begun long before anybody could foreshadow what position any particular member of the county hoard would take with re- gard to a revision of the assessment re- turns. New York Is greatly agitated because the chief of the weather bureau pre- dicted a continuation of the hot spell and its papers proceeded to belabor that otticial. Prof. Moore caunnot help it if the climate of the metropolis is unpleas- ant. Instend of worklug themselves into unnecessary perspiration the New York editors should come west to the land of hog and hominy, where the weather Is hearable, even during the hot spell, Having devoured everythMg green in sight in the Red River valley the festive grasshopper has put In an appearance merclal relations with Cuba. It is not to be expected that the Cubans will ad- mit our dairy products, our flour and meal, our machinery, agricultural Im- plements, boots and shoes and clothing into thelr country upon less favorable tariff terms than we give them for thelr staple products.”” Mr, -~ Daisell stated ltlut he favors reciprocity upon the lines In full force in northern Minnesota and extended the skirmish line to the bor- der of North Dakots, while the geewhopper band plays “In This Wheat By and By." In spite of trade restrictions the trade of this country with Germany In agri- cultural products shows a wonderful in. crease for the past year, The result THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY JULY 9, 1901 €hould convince the Germans that in putting up the tariff on what they are compelled to buy abroad they are only Injuring themselves. Year by year Germany I8 becoming more and more dependent on forefgn countries for its food supply and the United States s | increasing its exportable surplus, Ger many better make up its mind to trade even The mortality statistics of the Fourth of July celebrations are not yet com plete, but the returns up to date show the gratifying fact that the number of maimed and Killed in the year 1001 is from 33 to 50 per cent less than during the preceding year, That is not saying very much for our cjvilization, however, as it still exceeds In number the men that were killed anud wounded on the American side during the entire Spanish war, SE— Ohlo democrats are having a serfous time trying to figure out what they be- lieve. They are all willing that Colonel Kilbourne shall offer himself up as a sacrifice on the ticket. They are un- decided whether Tom Johnson's radical- Ism or John McLean's conservatism shall be thelr rallying point. By nature they sympathize with Johnson, but the temptation of the McLeau barrel |s potent. There 1s not enough left of the demo- cratle party in Iowa worth bothering with and democratic papers are forced to put in their time mixing in repub- lican polities or remain idle. The repub- licans do not mind it, and if the demo- crats get any enjoyment out of it they are welcome to continue the mixing. One Blessing for Cuba. 8t Louls Republic. There has not been a death from yel- low fever In Cuba this vear. That is a sort of fudependence to which the Cubans are unused. Cruelty to Chicago News. There was mo cruelty in the bull fight at South Omaha except such as was inflicted the Spectators, on those who bought tickets and sat through the show. Peace Through Extermination. Baltimore Amerlean The Boers have deoided to accept no terms except independence. The British are determined to pursue the war until the Boers submit. So the question has re- duced itself to the survival of the fittest, vorites of the Hatchet. Kansas City Star. Mrs. Natlon, the Kaneas smasher, de- Iivered the address at the Elks' Fourth of July celebration at Crawfordsville, Ind. Mrs. Nation sald that she was in great demand, but felt that “the poor, lost Elks" needed her most. Plugsing a Dig Leak. Globe-Democrat. As long as the United States Postoffice department {s required to expend more than half its entire revenue in carrying second-class matter at a loss of $56,000,000 & year it ls useleas to hope for a proper development of postal facilities in this country. Art in Mustca! Critl Buffafo Express. Not long ago a convention ot musiclans denounced ragtime as out of harmony with the eternal musical fitness of things. Now the Indfana music teachers in con- ventlon pronounce the Moody and Sankey hymne to be “rot.” What sort of musical criticlsm 1s it that expresses itself with such & word? Cinch on Three Great Nece: New York World. Mr. Morgan's soft coal “combine’ ls the logical supplement to his hard coal ‘“com- bine," his fron and steel “‘combine” and bis transportation “combine.”” And we shall soon confront the condition of a small group of men—the Morgan group—in abso- lute control of the prices of the three great necessaries of our civilization, coal, iron and transportation. Keep in the Open. New York Sun. On July 1 ten boys and a man were killed by lightning under a pler, where they had fled from the rain, in Chicago. On July 4 & man and his wife and three children were killed by lightning at McKeesport after baving taken shelter under a tree. Science and experience both say emphatically that when caught out in a thunderstorm the satest place 1s In the open. Comparative Blgne Minneapolls Times. Before the United States gets too uppity and biggity about its annual trade it might be well for us to remember that Australla last year had a total trade of $525,000,000, nearly half of which was lmports. With a population of 5,000,000 this would show the extraordinary per capita of $185. In order to equal this the total trade of this country would have to be very nearly $14,000,000,000 —a tidy sum even In these days when bil- lions are talked of with a glibness that would have made Croesus stare himself blind. A HOPELESS BOURBON, Midsummer Impatience of a Demo- cratic Foghorn, New York World, William J. Bryan is relterating in briet speeches and reprinting in large type his unalterable devotion to the “principles’ of the Chicago and the Kansas City platforms. He predicts that the democratic party will take no backward eteps,” but whether it does or not he will, ltke John Brown's soul, g0 marching on,” to the sound of his own volce demanding “free silver at 16 to 1, now and forever, world without end.” “1 am fighting on,” he said at Roanoke, Va, “not so much to win, for I would rather die fighting for right than win fight- ing for something else.” What keeps Mr. Bryan so terribly cocksure that he was right and is right? Are the great Amerlcan people fools, or, like the siuner of the hymn, knowing the right do they still the Wrong pursue? Twice In presidential elections and six times in other electlons the American peo- ple have repudiated, rejected, jumped upon and kicked out the free silver and cheap money delusions, Are not these great and repeated majorities quite as likely to have been right as are Mr. Bryan and his dis- solving populists? Events have proved Mr. Bryan to have been wrong in every one of his arguments and prophecies on this subject in 1896. The country has under the gold standard more money of all kinds than ever before, and it is all good. It has greater prosperity, higher wages, higher prices for farm products, & vastly larger export trade, with diminished public and private debts. Mr. Bryan may choose to go on fighting forever in the last ditch of a back-number lost cause, but unless all present signs are misleading he will not again have the dem- ocratie party at his back. POLITICAL TALK IN TH Kearney Hub (rep.): J. H. Edmisten has been telling the dear people again about the troubles of the populist state central com- mittee, of which he has been sole proprictor for several years. If Mr. Edmisten would mind directing his remarks to a pollceman the public would doubtless appreciate | Hastings Tribune (rep.): In fixivg the time for holding the republican state conventi | the state central committee made a wise move in setting Wednesday, August 28, us the time. This will give the candidate about eight weeks in which to make their campaign and that will be time enough—in fact it will be just about right. Kearney Democrat: It bas been mad | public that Judge B. C. Calkins of Kearney will be a candidate for the republican nomination for supreme judge. As it is generally conceded that the eupreme cout of the state should be non-partisan, and when Judge Norval retires there will be v republican member of the supreme bench, it is therefore concluded that the republi-ans will fn all probabliity elect their candidat 1 and, if so, we would be satisfied with Julge Calkine. Minden Gazette (rep.): Now committee has fixed the date for a state convention it behooves the republicans of the state to cast about and select the very best man that can be chosen as a candi date for supreme judge. No man can nominated and elected just because he fs a good republican and a good fellow. That part of it is all right, but in addition he must be thoroughly qualified from a legal standpoint and one whose character is b solutely unassailable. There such men in Nebraska, and most of them are found In the republican party. Let us nominate one of them and the work of electing him will come that much easier. Schuyler Sun (rep): The republican state convention which will meet in Lin coln August 28 has an important work to perform and that is the nomination of tho right kind of a man for supreme judge. It should nominate a man who has no questionable past, a man whose legal attaloments are already respected by the bar of this state and a man who will not be afraid to canvass th people know what manner of a man he is The Sun had in mind Judge Dickinson of Oma! when the above sentences were written. the supreme court from giving biased opinions as any man that could be named from the bar of this state, North Platte Telegram In an Interview which the State Journal had with Senator Owens of Cozad the information was given out that the western portion of Nebraska | 1s in favor of Judge H. M. Grimes of this | city for supreme judge. For once, at least, the senator must have had his finger on the | public pulse when he made this statement, that the | forsso far as this part of the state is con- cerned the republican party is a unit for “consummation so devoutly to be wished. Since the judge first occupied a seat on the bench in this judicial district until now no Judge has ever been ro generally satisfac tory to the people. His acute legal mind his absolute fairness, his prompt manner | of disposing of petty sults, hls ability to | dispense justice and at the same time | please the litigants, has won for him the respect and friendship of the people of his district, and it he should recelve a nomination at the hands of the party for supreme judge of the state, he would poll more votes in’ this part of the state than any other candidate ever received for any office in the glft of the people. PERSONAL NOTES. a The Deutschland averted a terrible finan- clal panic by bringing its cargo of mil- Ionaires saftely into port. The sultan of Turkey is sald to be much affected by the death of ome of his wives Naturally; it breaks the set. The philanthropic undertaking of Mr. Ginn of Boston for putting up fireproof and sanitary tenement houses for the poor is probably by way of atonement for his name. The emperor of Japan has an allowance of something like $2,000,000 a year to keep up the imperial establishment. He has also a large private fortune, having invested in stocks and real estate. By the will of the late Jacob S. Rogers of Paterson, N. 4., the bulk of his estate, estimated at not far from $10,000,000, 15 given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. His nephews and nleces are glven $25,000 aplece. More demosrats than republicans, it 1s sald, voted o gainst the calling of a consti- tutional corvention In the state of Vir- ginla, but the proposiion prevailed never- theless and its adoption will make more difficult hereafter republican contest for control. There does mot seem to be any proba- bility that American royalty will set the tashions in this country. The sultan of Sulu, the only monarch who reigns under the Stars and Stripes, wears neither col- lars nor cuffs with his dress suit, and he does wear a skull cap set with diamonds. John E. Russell of Massachusetts, whom President McKinley, when they were both in congress, once described as the “golden- sheep rhepherd of Leicester,” has returned home from a two years' trip abroad, which he took with his family for the benefit of his health. He Is still far from well and his physiclans have forbldden his taking part for the present in political life, The directors of the Alexander III museum in St. Petersburg have defied the holy synod In its ban against two paintings by Repin. One is & portrait of Count Tolstol, barefooted, in the dress of a peasant. The other 18 n symbolical picture called “Get Thee Behind Me, Satan.” Tho exhibition of these paintings was prohibited in Moscow, yet they have been bought for a natlonal art gallery. In some men's lives there comes a time when the heart grows weary and life is hardly worth the living. Take that stren- uous Cricago printer, for instance, whose generous heart throbbed and thrilled for womankind, He supported two wives, main- talned two homes and worked two jobs. But just as soon as wife No. 2 found that wite No. 1 was getting more than half the earn- ings she squealed, had him thrown into jail and sent to the penitentfary. Now she ia obliged to rustle for a llving herself. Thus ingratitude imposes its own penalty. M. Flammarion, the French astronomer, has prepared and submitted to the French Astronomical soclety a novel scheme for re- forming the calendar. He proposes that the year shall begin on March 21, and that the months shall be named after the car- dinal virtues. In order to make the year exactly fifty-two weeks long he would make New Year's day (and, in leap years, the day after it), a hollday, and would not consider it a part of the week. Thus the dates of the days of the week would not alter from year to year, but would be in- variable. The Philadelphia Record says: “At the conclusion of Wu Tingfang's address at the Fourth of July celebration in Independ- ence square there was a pretty little cere- mony not down on the program. One of the young women geated on the platform passed small American flag to the dlstinguished Chinese diplomat, with the request that he write his autograph on one of the white bars. A fountuln pen was forthcoming and Minister Wu graciously complied. The in- cident was witnessed by others and in a are plenty of | state and let the | This man will do as much to save | BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. Scenes and Incidents Noted at National Capt | Rear Admiral A. 8. Crowninshield, chiet of the Bureau of Navigation, Is determined to break (nto the roll of heroes of the late war. The admiral considers himself a naval | tactictan of the first rank, having achieved | Ereat distinction as a member of the fa- | mous strategy board which regulated the war and made and unmade heroes accord- Ing to plans and specifications. His re- admiral. There seems to be a few anony- mous honors lielng around In Washington which the admiral covets. One of these is the authorship of the dispatch “Capture or destroy the Spanish fleet,” signed by Secretary Long and sent to Admiral Dewey after the declaration of war. Secretary Long referred to this dispateh at the dinner | glven him by the Massachusetts club on the 3d inst. He sald: "My name was at the bottom! Glorious dispateh! 1 should | rather Ike to have the credit of it. But it is not mine. 1 have heard that some one, wanting to get into the graces of President McKinley, described him as the author of It. He never once saw it until 1 took it in and showed it to hlm. Then others have | glven me credit for writing it. 1 did not write 1t."" Then he told of his conversa- tlons with Admiral Crowinshield and othe ers and how they all agreed that the thing | to do was to strike as quick and hard as ible. The dispatch was prepared and 18 Mr. Long's account of it: rowninshield did not prepare it. Who Some subordipate clerk in his de- Who? God only knows. But As tor me, T should not have 1 should have | | aia? partment he didn’t. used the word ‘commence.’ said ‘The war has begun.’ Aside from that |1t 15 a mighty good message. I think we can pardon that word. What do you think of the rest of It? ‘Capture or destroy the | Spanish fleet. Use the utmost endeavor.’ | And, by the way, Dewey did. The dispatch came in to me. I took it to the president, saying to bi ought to go.' We heard not a word more." Now comes Crowninshield with a demend | for recogmition as the author of the dis- patch. Secretary Long, he says, was made aware of the authorship and the admiral proposes to take the secretary by the ear and glve him a heart to heart talk on his return to Washington. “I prefer to wait until Secretary Long returns to Washing- ton next week before telling the circum- stances of how the dispatch was written, he safd. He wanted to verify his recollection of the matter, “Ob, no,” replied the admiral, “my recollection s perfectly clear on the | subject and there are others who were at the White House on the day it was written who will remember all about it.' ““There was an officer of the line put on the retired list the other day,” said an old- time messenger at ghe Navy department to a Washington Star reporter, “who got him- scit into an odd pickle one morning '‘way | back yonder in the '70s:by taking & shower bath, ‘This officer was a fine sallorman. to serve under and the men were mighty fond of him. But he had one kiok. ' That wa his opposition to the practice of tattooing. He was ‘first luff' or executive officer ot the ship at the time I'm speaking of, and, while he was particularly easy on his crew, he certainly had a habit of coming:down on ‘em like a thousand of brick for the tattoo- ing business. There were a lot of men in the crew that did tattoolng and the first luff kept an eye on them. He didn't want any of the new young chaps in’the service to get themselves marked up and when he caught the lads with new bunches of ink on their persons he invariably berated them soundly and had the tattooers to the mast There was no regulation then, there Is now, against tattooing, and o the execu- tive officer couldn’t punish the, tattooers, but he always lectured them pretty soundly, at that. But he couldn't stamp out the practice. Tho yo.ng fellows entering the service as landsmen weren't a little bit con- tented until they'd got themselves marked up like the old flatfeet; and right down to the present day, when there's a strict regu- lation against tattoolng, the. lads blow in a good part of thelr wages, particularly on the China ‘station when their ships are on the Japan coast, in getting the expert Jap tattoolst to needle them up. “This executive officer, however, consid- ered the practice foolish and barbarous and idiotic, as it no doubt is, although I've got the Ink scattered over a great deal of my old frame. 1 remember that, while I was attached to the ship of which this officer was the ‘first 1uff,' T went ashore at Naga: sakl, Japan, one afternoon, and came across a Jap tattooer, whose work was high grade. I had a small vacant space still unmarked on my left forearm, and, being a good deal younger then than I am now, and a bit under the saki, I doubt not, at that, I had this Jap tattoolst needle me the American flag and the Irish emblem Intertwined on that vacant space. Well, the next morning 1 was dolng my stunt on deck, with my sleeves rolled up, ‘and that ralsed bit of tattoolng showing raw on my left arm. The executive officer caught sight of it and he rounded on me instantly. ‘“ ‘Well, you ought to have thirty days in some lubbers’ jall,’ sald he to me. ‘An old Jack ltke you getting himself scraped up like auy beachcomber after all your years in deep water! You ought to be ashamed of yourself."” “I felt pretty sheepish, of course, but I told him that T wouldn't ha' had It done if it hadn’'t been for a bit too much of the rice wine on the afternoon before; but he only snorted and walked aft. “Well, only two mornings after that this kindly ‘first luff' showed himself up and got ward was promotion to the rank of rear| was asked It this meant that he the terrible laugh from the whole #hip's company for'ard. The officers had rigged up a shower bath on the after deck, under which, with only a pair of small trunks on, they'd stand when they got up ou the hot mornings to get cooled off. The apparatus had only been up for a couple of days, when, ou this morning that I'm speaking of, the excoutive ofMcer, who was an ex- ceedingly absent-minded man, pranced out, Wwith his little pair of new trunks and, turning the water on, stood under the shawer, gasping and enjoying himself. It was about an hour after ‘all hands’ in the morning and all the men were on deck Well, when they saw the ‘first 1uft’ stripped that way, there went up a shout from that sbip's company that sounded like & home- ward-bound roar. “For the executive officer was just one mass of fine tattooing from his neck to his middle. It was all Japanese work—dragons, cagles, snakes, dainty garden scenes and all that sort of stuff, in all of the Japanese tattoner's colors. Hix arms had all kinds of adders and pythons and hoa constrictors colled around them, and all in all, I don't belleve any of us in the crew had ever seen a man, for'ard or aft, so completely tattooed up as that ‘first luf’ of ours was. When he heard the tremendous laugh the executive officer looked up in surprise, and when he saw the whole ship's company foing nothing dut staring at him with grine, he turned as red beet, looked at hime self and hustled for his room at the gallop. He looked pretty sheepish and red when he emerged about half an hour later in uniform, but he took it all good paturedly and that afternoon said to me on the quiet: ‘ ‘You lads for'ard have got it on mo syre enough, but 1 had those imbecile things needled on me when I was a pin-head of & cadet, thinking it was fine. Anyhow, it's not & e of doing as I do, but of doing a8 I say “I could only grin in reply and he snorted and then grinned and went aft “From then on until the windup of tha cruise be never sald another word against , ‘Mr. President, 1 thiok this| tattoolng.” He sald, 'All right, sign it." MIDSUMMER SMILES, Chicago Tribune: “Have you got all your preparations completed for yoir summer vacation?” “I belleve #0. The boss saye I needn't come back.” Brooklyn Life: “I never could ses why they always called a boat ‘she.’ “Evidently you have never tried to steer one.” New York Press: Sympatheticus—Don't You feel sorry for people who have to work n such weather as this? Cynicus—Not at all. If they dldn't work they'd all be fn the penitentiary. Detrolt Journal: “Aha!" crled the vil- lain, “the plot thickens!" “No doubt,” muttered the low comedian, “the frost out front has had someth.ng to do with tha Philadelphia Pres: “Doctor,” sald the machine ‘politiclan, who was very il "I think I need to go to a cooler climate.’ “My dear man,” replied Dr. Frank dolng my best to keep you out of u he one.” ‘m Cleveland_ Plain Dealer: “The whisky QuepuL ot Kentucky will be %0000 gal- ong. " “Whew! What's the intake?" Puck: His Friend—-And you ca maneyed men to consider the matt The Promoter—No. Money talks, found it a mighty poor listener. ‘Washington Star: “Don't shirtwalst Idea 1s a sensible “No, I.don’t,” angwered the p “If you are going Into the subjec robe reform, [ don't see the excuse for wearing anything so hot and Irritating as a shirtwaist.” it u_ think the Chicago Post: Mrs, DeVorse—I don't 1ke ‘people to call me a grass widow. Mrs.” Chumm—No, becausw, of course, you're ‘not really a_widow, DeVorse—Oh! 1 dg mind the ‘At “they'd only cep oft the Tribune: “Paw.” sald Tommy, Chica who was 100KIng at the - Household HINts in the weekly paper, “What Is a ‘soclety sandwich? ™ A soclety sandwich,” replied Mr. Tucker, not-at all certain of bis ground, but un willing to exhibit his Ignorance before the outhful seeker after Knowledge, ‘s a elpless young man sitting beiween two Tively ‘giria at a awell ‘party.” DAME FASHION'S NEW DECREE, James Barton Adams in Denver Post. in doth fashion's fickle queen astound with a new decree That glves our buxom belles and dames a fit of deep amxlety, That hustles plumpness to honors leanners with the And gives the shorter bufld " den, cruel turning down! Young 'dames of fashion, fat and falr, and forty, If the truth were known, Wil look with envy on the ones who run to cuticle and bone. And little apple dumpling girls whom nature chooses to endow With flesh must wade otit of the swim—the slim girl is.in fashion now wong-drawn-out angularity is now the lead- ing benuty point, And gowns are fashioned to expose the workings of ‘moat every joint; The neck must be of generqus length, rise swan-like from its shoulder deck— Be what the vulgar es call in vulgar way “'the rubberne The plump and creamy style of throat, the rt us fellows yearn to kiss it mupports "the shapely head ‘and aweet face of a pretty Mins, Now gets the famous chicken stroke, and it must make its final Until the cruel gash haw sirl is the fashion now. But such of us as have admired the trim and natty s of girl, ‘The buxom lass who fills her gown, will ever hesitute to harl Deflance at the fashlon queen and trample And"stlck b e pi nd_stic Tl t to the um; lass with all her MTPUI‘I[)‘. 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