Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 19, 1901, Page 6

THE OMAHNA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY THE ©MAHA DALY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. D EVERY MORNIN OF SUBSCRIPTIC out 8 year 5.0 Year nua o Ye ) Year Farmer, U UFFI Omaha: The & Bouth Omuha. ¢ ty-pictn Lo weniin Century Year b " iy bl bullding, ana M d biults: [ Twens Fearl Street \ew 1ork: Temple Cou Washinglon: wi kourie Street, CORBLSIUSDENCE IaUng Lo Hews and SuUuiU be audressed. Umanu | L partient LK i nth Communication, torial e Bee, muaiorial BUSINESS Li TERS renl Fub Busine be adare pany, 8 letters o sea: dne shouia | | Ul hia | KEMITTANCES, Remit oy dr payable Oty mail_aceounts Umaha or i Litk 1 it pusta i e I8 Lo atips pled 1 pay i Fersonai chechs, e L eAch WOt ad BListiog Co ke, Cpted ' ANY STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Blate of NCbraska, Dougias County George b3 LasChucK, secretary o1 Fuvisiing Company, bewg duiy Bays thal the acluai numuer of [ull and ot ples of ‘The Daily, Murning, Evening und Bunday isee pi duriing the mont 101, was ub L010WH 1. 20,820 | P 26,080 | 20,160 | L26,040 e 28,01 3010 20,078 {he Lee wor Less unsoid and returned coples 766,171 Net dally average ....... 25,072 GEO. B sence and ®worn to of June, A. D. 1901 B, HUNGA I'E, Notary Public Subserit d In_my betore i this #th d M TING FoR ving the elty for mny hnve The Bee regularly by Nee Business * by muil nuged PARTIES SUMMER, The Nevada divorces are likely to be at a discount. John Finerty has twisted the Hon's tail once more and there who can do it better, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson is ob- serving the corn belt through the naval observatory telescope. British re none A soap mine has been discovered in Wyoming. When the news spreads tramps are expeeted to give the state a wide berth. The Transmississippl congress affords an opportunity for theorists to unload thelr isms once a year and have them spread broudcast by the Assoclated Press. About two-thirds of the delegates to the Transmississippl congress were given permission to file their papers and have them printed at thelr own expense. One of the speakers at the Transmis- sissippi Commerc congress discussed the question of “What Shall We Do with Our Surplus. Products?’ That is easy-sell them. Chicago civil service commissioners have been convicted of using their oftice to further their own political ends, A Chicugo man is never expected to overlook u chance to further Lis own intervests a More than 50,000 people have regls- tered for land claims In the newly opened Indian reservations near Okla- homa. Many thousands of these people will draw blanks and take a tle pass back to God's countr, Explorer Baldwin, as he set sail fo the north pole, sent back his cond. lences to sweltering humanity, About next year he will be praying that some of those left behind will come take him out of the refrigerator, —— The Real Estate excl has decided to take its annual vacation. Unless the | Real Estate exchange ean be galvanized futo greater activity than it has dis played in recent years its vacation might | as well be extended indefinitely, United ui and | The again account of people of munitics ates government s to pay damages on Iynehing habit the country. It the com- of the offense w upon the this guilty | forced (o foot the bills there would be less of such occurrences — Both the steel magnates and the strikers assert there is nothing to arbi- trate between them, but they might ae- cept mediation. It matters nothing to the public what name is given it, but the public wonld certainly like to see the trouble settled and a great disturh ing element reuwoved from the business world. T ——— The United States has purchased the foating dry dock owned by Spain, which is now In Havana harbor. This ¢ s out the Spanish interests in the western hemisphere and the result of the investment is such that no others are likely to be made. The worst of it 18 that Spain has a large deficleney Judgment yet to pay on account of its troubles. When a man sees hls portrait in a paper over another man's name he al- ways feels somewhat annoyed. This will probably be the way Senator Die- trich will feel when he rveads the Asso- clated Press dispatehes from Manila an- nouncing him as Senator Harrls of Kan- sas. When it is borne in mind that Senator Hareis Is a populist who has not shown any inclination to explore the Philippines, the practical joke, it it 1s intended as such, will be apparent. ) | that a trea PROSPECT FOR CANAL TREATY. The statement of the British ambas- | «ador to the United States, Lord Paunce- fote, who 18 now In the prospect for a satisfactory agree ment between the two governments relative to an {sthmian canal, is en- couraging. Of course no details could be given by the ambassador and indeed the negotiations have not yet proceeded very fur, but Lord Pauncefc Is re ported to have expressed the hope, in a " which Indicated confidence in the result, that on his return to the United States he will take with him a Nic aragua treaty which will meet the views of President Mekinley and the British cabinet. He also expressed the opinion that whatever s agreed upon by two governments will meet with the ap- provil of the senate. It ix well known that a very thorough canvass of the views of senators was made Recretary Hay before renew g negotiations for a canal treaty, €o that If the terms of a new treaty that have been submitted to the British government shall accepted by it there 18 good reason to expect they will be approved by the United States sen ate. There is no doubt there has been a change of sentiment among senators, as well as in the public mind, since the amendment of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty and Its rejection by the British government, but how extensive the change hag been Is not mow ascertain- able. It Is a reasonable inference, how- ever, from the renewal of negotiations that President McKinley and Secretary Hay were satistied, as the result of the inguiry respecting senatorial opinion, ¢ on the new lines proposed, were accepted by the British would be ratified by the senate. ‘The statement made by Lord Pauncefote, who earnestly desires to effect an agreement, seems to afford assurance that his government will s cept the new terms proposed by the United States, It Is safe to assume that he would not have expressed him- self so hopefully were he not pretty confident of the result, so far as the British government is concerned. There Is much significanee in this remark of the ambassador, who, by the way is one of the most conservative of diplo- mats: “There is no use wasting time over treaties the senate is likely to re- fuse. I really believe the differences between the two nations are capable of a settlement agrecable to both.” A majority of intelligent and unprej- udiced Americans also belleve that a settlement agreeable’ to both countries can be reached and they desire that it shall be a falr, just and honorable set- tlement, both governments observing good faith and doing nothing which might lead to future recrimination and a disturbance of friendly relations. The purpose of the United States to have an interoceanic canal Is fixed and unalterable, but there should be no attempt to carry out this purpose in disregard of houorable treaty obligations fully acknowledged by our government. Great Britain, on the other hand, should ask no more than she is justly entitled to claim under exsting treaty and not burdeu and embarrass the issue by ask- ing conditions and concessions which are wholly extranepus and irrelevant, The statement of Ambassador, Paunce- fote, it Is not to be doubted, will have a good effect in this country. by if these government, ANOTHER SUGAR QUESTION The actlon of our treasury officlals in imposing the differential sugar duty on the beet sugar of Italy has Involved us in a controversy with that country, though it may not have results similar to those In the case of Russia. The Department of State has recelved a communication from the Italian govern- ment in which it Is asserted that no export bounty Is paid ou sugar, for the enson that no sugar is exported from that country, and further that in the event of the production of Itallan sugar reaching a polnt where exports can be made the law does not give any rebate to the exporters. An explanation of the action of the treasury Is expected within a few days. It appears probable that in this case the secretary of the treasury has erred, the conditions being quite different from the Russian case. Russia exports sugar and the producers pay no tax on the product exported. Only sugar that en ters into domestic consumption 1s taxed. This system our treasury officlals held to be an indirect export bounty and therefore made Russian sugar imported into the United States subject to the differentinl duty. There is also an in- ternal tax on Itallan sugar, all of which is consumed in that country, but there i no provision of law relleving sugar |of the tax in case of Its belug ex- I It is not easy to see, there- how it can bhe reasonably con- tended that the Italian system glves an indirect export bounty, or in any way | makes the sugar of that country sub- lject to the differential duty of our tariff, THE STEEL STRIKE SITUATION. There have been no very important developments in the steel strike situa- | tion during the liast twenty-four hours, | The number of men engaged in the | strike has not been mented since the first day, though the officials of the Amalgamated associa- tion have been notified of the readiness of others to go out whenever ordered | to do so. The assoclation has also re- | celved assurances of sympathy and ma- terfal aid from other labor organiza- tions and from the Federation of Labor, showing a general interest in the con- test In the ranks of organ: which it may be observed was not the case with the striking machinists, is stated that the Amalgamated a clation Is making strenuous efforts w got the non-union workers Into Its fold nd is meeting with some success, The manufacturers are observing strict seerecy In regard to thelr move- ments and plans. A New York paper publishes what purports to be a state- ment of the firm of J. P, Morgan & € to the effect that the United States Steel corporation will never consent to any arbitration of the present difficulty, but llhu paper Is of somewhat doubtful au- Ingland, regarding | llu-1 waterially aug- | od labor, | rate there does not prospect of arbitra | tion, the indications being that both sldes are determined to maintain the | struggle until one i« beaten and forced to surren If this shall prove to be | the case it is to be appreliended that { other than the steel workers will ulti mately be involved in the struggle, ex | tending 1t over the entire country and | producing consequen not agreeable to contemplate. It 18 a serious situation as it stands and threatens to become | much more o, thority. At any appear to be any ™ STUBBURN FACTS AND FIGURES Iacts and figures are stubborn things, There are about 22,000 men of voting age fn Omaha and perbaps 10,000 boys between the of 12 and 21; this ages | within the city limits who ave exposed to the inclemencies and hardships of | the torrid It would be safe to | say that not less than 10 per cent of the latter number, or fully 7,000 women and children, beloug to the very poorest class of our population. To these peoplé a frantic appeal was made at the begin ning of this month to avail themselves of | the fresh air privileges of the camp of the Salvation Army at Fort Omaha, to which mauy of our citizens made liberal contributions, With more than 7,000 | people to draw on, the Salvation camp | has entertained just thirty women and children during the past week, which goes to show conclusively that there arc no congested districts fn Omaha, or if there are such districts that the people living there are not in & frame of mind to accept the hospltality of the army or do not feel the need of fresh air as much people think they do. In a nutshell, the fresh air campaign, | from a practical standpoint, so far as it was designed for the relief of suffering L humanity, has not been a success, al- though it doubtless has enabled the members of the army to secure contr butions for their own Individual com- fort and well being. 1son, as som NO DISCRIMINATION IN PAVING. The attempt to saddle the expense of repairing the asphalt pavewent on North Sixteenth street upon the city at large should by all means be frustrated. In the first place the condition of that street demands repaving und not v patching, and the expenditure of sev eral thousand dollars to make the street temporarily passable is at best a make- shift. The street has been kept n re- palr for seventeen years and the con- crete base In many places is as badly worn as the asphalt surface. In the next place the resurfacing of the street at the public expense Is unjust and un- reasonable. It is unjust to ask the property owners who have paid for pav- ing and repaving other streets to pay for the resurfacing of North Sixteenth street. It I8 unreasonable for the prop- rty owners on North Sixteenth str to stand out and refuse to petition for the repaving of that street when they are receiviug higher ntals from thelr lots and buildings than the owners of property Inany other sectlon of the city. The repatching of North Sixteenth street at the public expense cannot fail to serlously affect the collection of pav- ing taxes in the future. If the owners of property ou one stréet can avold re- paving at thelr own expense so can the owners of property oun every other street, Many taxpayers have already declared that they will not pay another dollar of paving taxes if such diserimi- npation is perpetrated. If any consid- erable number of taxpayers should join forces and refuse to pay paving taxes the chances are that wo permaunent lm- provements in the way of pavement will Le practicable while the contest over the paving tax Is belng waged In the courts. Take for example the owners of prop- erty on North Pifteenth street, where the pavement has for several years been fmpassable, If not dangerous. While North Sixteenth street hus been repalred and re-repalred, Fifteenth street was al- lowed to remain a wreck and has re- celved scarcely any attention. Very nat- urally the owners of property on Fif- | teenth street have a right to lusist that they shall s at least as good treat- ment as those on Sixteenth, and they [ have u right to demaud that the mouey voted by the council shall be expended on their street tiest because it has never been repaired. It goes without saying that the same condition prevails on many other streets, and the time has come to call a halt. In the future the city must elther as- { sume the expense of all the paving or it must entorce the repaving of streets that have had the benetit of free repairs for from five to ten years at the publie expense. 1f It Iy necessary to bring this !nlmut by an appeal to the courts, such | an appeal should be taken without delay. Senator Kittridge has tendered his resignation as attorney for the Great Northern and Milwaukee ronds. This is in commendable contrast with the re- fusal of the late senator from Nebraska to resign his Union Pacltic attorneyship untll two years after he had taken his seat in the senate, notwithstanding the fact that he had been elected on pledges to withdraw from the service of the corporution and devote his entive time to the Interests of the state. Senator Kittridge evidently feels confident thai { he can make both ends meet out of his senatorial salar Aunouncement is made by the high- bipders that Mr. E. H. Harriman, man- aging director of the Unlon Pacific, hns been designated by J. Plerpont Morgan, wanaging tinancier of the Morgan-Hill- | Rockefeller syndicate, as member of the reorganized Northern Paclfic board and in reciprocity of this compliment one of the Morgan-Hill Northern Pacifie combine is to be inserted into the Unlon Pacific board. Translated into plain English this means that everything Is lovely and the goose hangs high in the community-of-interest smokelouse, The Itallan government hastens to as sure the United States it pays no hounty on exported sugar. Other countries have done the same, This is a taclt ackuowledgment that the principle iu- leaves about 70,000 women and children | volved Is correct and that the United States is justiied in levying discrim! nating duties when the bounty is paid Those who have been so free to criti cise the administration should see the will probably change their tune, The action taken may be a temporary dam age to some industries, but the ultimate result is certain to be beneficlal to all, as it will demonstrate to foreign coun tries that the United States proposes to protect its own trade. The effects of the dry weather and consequent damage to the corn crop ave seen in the greatly increased receipts of hogs at the stock yards, At Omaha, outside of a day of two, this has not been appreclable, but at Kansas City and St. Joseph It runs into big figures. This shows plainer than any other stutement that the Nebraska farmers, tion ix, are as yet not serlously alarmed at the prospec The lowa Bar assoclation pertinently | calls attention to many evils connected with our court system, awong them the most flagrant being perjury. It is cer- taiuly a great and growing evil, bat the bar 1s at fault in laying all the blame upon Htigants. A considerable per cent, if not the major portion, Is due to the in- stigation of unscrupulous lawyers. The reputable members of the bar should take hold of the matter and purge their own house, The Missouri valley 1s not the only place where the weather Is perverse. The astronomers who went to Sumatra to observe the eclipse had poor suce It was cloudy at all observation points but one and this was poorly equipped with instruments because it was an- ticipated this would be cloudy. The sclentist can guess the weather little better than the layman when it comes to tuking a long shot. The golden rule mayor of Toledo has been fined $5 and costs by the police Judge of that city for suggestive con- tempt. 1f Judge Gordon should ever cateh Mayor Moores in his presence while the court is in session he is llable to tine his honor $50 and costs for con- tinuous and constructive contempt. Austrian shoemakers are fearful that the introduction of American shoes into that country will drive the home made article out of the market, If the Aus- trian people know a good thing when they &ee It, the fears of the home manu- facturers s probably well grounded. Base Ingratitude, ‘Washington Post. When he reflects upon the fact that he etumped Ohlo several times for the dem- ocrats, Mr. Bryan must feel very much Iltke wanting his money back. Graveyard of Reputation. Baltlmore American. South Africa ‘may not prove a grave- yard for LOrd.Kitchener's reputation, but the war there {8 ¢certainly not acting like & tonlo on that general's military repute, —_— Effect of Polftical Fodder, Buffalo Express. Mr. Bryan thinks the democratic party cannot be made a plutocratic party, Not while 1t is oyt of power, but it usually shows remarkable facility in making itselt plutocratic when it is in power. Prayer and Tree Planting. Philadelphta Record. In the rainless parts of the corn belt dis- putatious persons are debating whether or not there 13 scriptural warrant for praying for rain. If they want to put serious pres- sure on the rain dispensing powers they should plant trees, The Ways of Peace Are Best. New York Evening Post Even the missionaries, who have been not a little Impatient with the government for not collecting their damages of the sultan of Turkey by means of a bombard- ment, must now see that the ways of pleasantness aud peace have been better. The money fs in hand and there is no blood on it. Parole and Restitution, Buffalo Express, The governor of Nebraska has paroled the former state treasurer, Joseph S. Bart- ley, who was In prison for embezzling state tunds, in order that he may find and return what remains of the missing money. If it were the embezzler's Intention to return all he has secreted, could he not have directed others where to find 1t? shment of Yellowjack. Baltimere American, In nothing has the United States done a greater service to Cuba, and to ftself like- wise, than by banishing the yellow fever from the fsland. The yellow fever is now not more common fn the Cuban towns than the ordinary diseases. There may be an occasional case somewhere on the island, but the old epldemics which carrfed off thousands every r are merely an ugly | memory. Mortallt n the Rail, Springfield (Mass) Republican, The current report of the statisticlan of the Interstate Commerce commission brings out the fact that during the thirteen years ending June 30, 1900, 86, persons were Killed by rallroad aceldents in the United States and 469,027 Injured. The number of | employes killed was 38,340, of passengers | 3485, and of other persons, including tres- | passers, 54,452, These resemble the statis- tics of a thirteei. years' war. Back to Arat ¥ clples. Atlanta Journal (dem) The action of the Ohlo democracy will have a tremendous effect It will make more certain the return of democratic principles and policles as they were held and proclaimed before the Chicago con- vention of 1898, It has made doubly sure the assurance already amply given that the democratic party will go forth n 1904 with other candidates and a far different | platform than those for which it invited the support and confidence of the country fn 1900, leonomy in Street F Minneapolls Journal. City engineere are urging the wisdom of ‘narnmln‘ the roadway in the residence id Ittle-used streets of American The recommendation is & good one. In many of our Minpeapolls streets the paved width is twice as much as I8 necessary, as is shown by the unused appearance of the margins. By introducing & plan of pay- ing only a part of the usual street width and devoting the rest to boulevards, the original paving cost would be greatly re- duced, the repair bill would be less and the screots would be beautified. controversy through to the eud and they | who know just what the actual condi- | cities. | | and Nothing s more unrellable memory, except that of it 1s not strange that naval authorities should differ or | recollection. Even miral Evans in his “Satlor's 1 called in question because agree strictly with the official tho recollection of other officer ence shows that misrecollecti common that any man who writes cences” must Inevitably go tray moral I& that we should be charitable our judgments concerning the misrecolle tion of others and we ymmend this moral to the attenti this time, of our honored sccretary of the navy He has given his approval to a history the navy in which a high r of service, against whom no charges have flled and who has, indecd, received direct commendation of the department In his recommendation for promotion is in plain terms a lar, a coward A caltift Are we to understand that the use of such language is considered by secretary becoming and proper in a hook adaptid for the instruction of our young naval cadets, who are so quick to follow methods and manners recelving oval ot higher authority? Every pos explana tlon should be sought before such a con- clusion 1 reached in the case of any off cer of the navy or army and he should not be condemned untfl he has been duly convicted on charges preferred before court-martfal, which has given him an op portunity to he heard We regret 1o say that are far too common in the service and men of sober minds and charita spirit should unite thelr Influence to put upon them the stamp of service disapproval. Tn such an effort they have a right to ask the sanction and support of the secretary of the navy, who should be lifted above the cone tentlons and controversies which may arise among his subordinates 1t is certalnly important to understand whether Secretary Long's approval of Maclay's “History of the United States Navy'" carries with it his approval of the following statements, which we quote from the third volume “In his report about the coal supply of the vessels under his command Schley ex- hibited either a timidity amounting to ab soldte cowardice or a prevarication of facts that were intrinsically falsehoods. (Vol. 11, p. 296). Schiey, on May turned in caftift fiight #pot toward which duty, honor and the whole American people were most nestly urging him. Viewed in whatever light it may be, the foregoing dispatch cannot be characterized otherwise than as being, without exception, the most humil- tating, cowardly and lamentable report ever penned by an American naval oficer.” (Vol. 111, p. 208). “May 28, Schley retraced his course and arrived about ten miles off the harbor of Santlago, ut § o'clock in the evening. Schley says ‘four to five miles out, but the reports of his commanding officers make it about ten or twelve miles.” (Vol. 111, p. 209). ‘Let the Texas take care of herself,’ was the heartless reply, and the shameful spectacle of an American warship, sup- ported by a force superior to the enemy's— a warship whose commander had expended such vast quantities of ammunition in tar- get practice in the presence of a fashion- able hotel at Hampton Roads tn order to meet a worthy foe—deliberately turning another man, stinguished « point of of Ad been not rd and Experi- are so0 reminis The in two the statement bave rec ns lally Just a f the offie the been the [ n a harsh judgments PR 28, 1808, from the danger Navy History Falsified. Journal tail and running away (Vol. 111, p. 364) Schley was perfectly willlng to avoid blauketing the fire of the American war ships, even at the risk of a disastrous col liston with the Texas, so long as he could o getting too close to danger. * * ¢ Schley's contribution to naval strategy, as too plainly shown Ly his conduct through- out this campaign, was ‘Avold your enemy long as possible, and if he makes for you, run.' " (Vol. 111, p. 3 We belleve that the two early volumes of Maclay's history have been adopted tor the instruction of the cadets at the naval academy. 1f this third is added at Aonap- olls, with the sanction of the Navy de- partment, will ot the cadets when they it ask themselves what punishment was bestowed upon this naval officer who will thus charged by the department, by indirection at least, with belng a coward and a llar and with turning his back upon the enemy in the crisis of a great naval battle? Turning to the records of the Navy de- partment they will find that not one word of offictal censure was bestowed upon this recreant officer; that, on the contrary, he recelved the same recognition and re- ward as those concerning whose conduct no question has been ralsed; that is, com- mendation in order and promotion by num- bers, As for Mr. Maclay, his volume is so in- fused with the spirit of bitter prejudice | and partisanship as to be totally unworthy of the name of history. In the mccount of the operations at Santlago more space is devoted to Schley than to any other commander, but it is an attempt to make out o against him in such a spirit of disingenuous unfairness as to disgust the fair-minded reader; as, for instance, when the Spanish reports are quoted and the fact 13 suppressed that they show how the attack of the Spanish squadron was so concentrated on the armorless Brooklyn as sitate a line of action on the part of her commander differing from that of other captains. The reports of Cervera and his captains make it perfoctly ap- parent that Schiey at least thwarted the mafn purpose of their attack, which was to disable the Brooklyn, so that they could escape, We are in no sense partisans ot Admiral Schley, but we are in this, as in all other | matters, the friends of falr play and honest dealing, and this civillan critic, in his zeal to serve his cause, has gone beyond every falr judgment upon Schley, however severe that may be, and incidentally has presented the severest possible arralgnment of a Navy department which could permit honors to be bestowed upon such an ob- vious lar and coward as Maclay declares Schley to be. The same spirit of partisanship so un- worthy of the historian 1s shown by Mr. Maclay in his allusions to General Shatter, who is dragged Into his narrative to be Kicked, being charged with “injudiciously entangling his army in the rear of Santiago in his efforts at self-aggrandizement” and With making other military blunders which are apparent to this saplent civillan critic of military and maval operations. Apparently Mr. Maclay has carried his pitcher to the well once too often. So long as he dealt with the facts of the past his disqualifications as a historlan did not reveal themselves. When It comes to deal- ing with the disputed probloms of the day he shows that he lacks the calm, dispas. slonate, judicial spirit which distinguishes the historian from the partisan. was presented.”t as req be a cal to nece CRUELEST CUT OF ALL Shaking Bryan, Charley Towne Pipes the Lay of the Plutocrat. Chicago Post. Let a hush fall upon the audience while the llme light plays upon the form of the once tmperlal Caesar! He holds the cen- ter of the stage. “Et tu Brute" ls wrung from his lips, causing the sl air to vibrato with the agonized realization of trust betrayed. Brutus has thrust his fatal dagger; Towne has deserted Bryan! But there will be no entry of a Marc Antony with his mob-swaying wail: *Oh, what a fall was there, my countrymen!" For this Cnesar fell long ago and this thrust of the trusted Brutus was doubly an unkind cut. Towne's desertion does not increase Bryan's weakness; it merely em- phasizes his loneliness. It shows how ut- terly by himself he stands, sequestrated trom all his greatness, the forlorn and repudlated leader of a lost cause, sole | guardian of a dead (ssue. How swift has been the change in Towne since the beginning of the last presidential campalgn! Then he was the choice of the populists, as Bryan's running mate! Then he talked eloquently about free silver and plutocracy. But he, fortunately for him- | self, withdrew from the race; he took the sop of an ephemeral senatorship; he be- came the head of a Texas oil company. Now he declares Bryan never again will lead a united party for the office of presi- dent; he mingles dally with plutocrats and bondholders; he names David Bennett Hill as “the next candidate for president of the regular democratic party.” But, most remarkable of all, he admits the demise of free sliver and foresees that the demo- crats will adopt a platform for 1904 that “will be a total repudiation of 1596 and 1600, The snub administered to Bryan by the Ohlo democrats struck the fallen leade fairly between the eyes; but to be thus de- serted by Towne! Surely this will prove tatal! SONAL NOT Selence is sald to be creating havoe with the New Jersey mosquito, but the supply still surpasses the demand The completion of the endowment of $350,000 for Beloit college possible by the gift of $200,000 by Dir sons. General Wood has been made a member of the Academy of Sclence of Havana, a most exclusive soclety limited to forty members, all lected for lite The late Senator Kyle of South Dakota used to describe himself ag the “first and last indocrat,” that is a democrat and an independent, a little of each The new town of Lawton in the Comanc country was named after General Law- ton, whose detachment captured the tamous indian desperado Geronimo. This last of the Indlan terrors fs vow a virtual | prisoner at Fort Sill, near the town of Lawton The Bismarck column which the German students have decided to erect to the funa has been made | Pear | nto | plicatea work memory of the first chancellor will be buflt on the so-called Hammelsberg, near | the estate of Silk, in the neighborhood of | Friedrichsruhe. The site was fixed by Prince Herbert Bismarck Willlam Butler who for seven years and two months opened a new grocery in Phila- delphla every thirty days, is dead at the age of 43 He also had a wholesale es | tablishment. He died as the result of an| operation for appendicitis. Mr. Butler was | born in the north of Ireland, but came to| this ccuntry when 7 years old Daplel C. French, the New York s is already at work on the statue of ¢ Lawton which has hebn ordered by the Lawton Memorial will treat his subject spirit he brought into play in his statue of General Lewls Cass, now in the ro- tunda of the capitol at Washingion. upon of association and very much is the | men and WASHINGTON GOSSIP, Scenes and ‘Incidents Observed at the A National Capital. The hall wf the House of representatives Is undergoing a complete transtormation in furnishings. Chairs and desks of solld mahogany are to take ghe place of the old cane-bottom chairs and scratched walnut desks, ty-one thousand dollare were ap- propriated for the change. In order that Architect Edward Clark of the capitol should be thoroughly informed as to what was expected of him by the lawmakers a committee was appolnted con- slsting of Congressmen Cannon, Dalzell and Richardson, which should see to it that Mr. Clark not only expended the appropri- atlon judiciously, but aesthetically. Archi- tect Clark prefers not to be quoted on the aesthetic qualifications of the congres men. He says, however, that they know where every cent of the money has gone 50 far. because they have held more meet- fngs than any other house committee that Is not a permanent body. The committee was in session In Washington a few days ago and all three members showed by thelr conversation that they were oligible for appointment as judges of the exhibits in furniture expositions. They have inspected carload upon car- lord of samples of furniture which bave been sent to the capitol by dealers ambi- tious to advertise that they secured the contract for furnishing the hall of repre- sentatives. Blds were taken from all the prominent manufacturers in the country, but when the congressmen sottled down to the work of letting the contract they de- clded It would be best to give it to a Washington firm so that they could keep a close eye on the material that was golng the hall. At the recent meeting of the committee, to attend which Congress- man Cannon traveled 1,000 miles, it was agreed that the work was going on all right and that the appropriation was holding out. At present reprosentatives hall 1s as deso- late as a barn. The desks, chairs, plotures, hangings and even the speaker's platform have been torn from their fastenings and are piled up in the halls, The decorations have been carefully cleaned, the visitors' gallery remodeled that the fncreased number of congressmen provided for by the new reapportfonment may be seen by the visitors, and everything is in readiness for the installation of the sumptuous furni- ture Architect Clark and the committee de- clded that the furniture should be elegant and artistle. So they refused to consider any designs that callod for gaudy or com- Congressman Cannon says it was the “quiet elegance” of the design finally sclected that caught the fancy of the committee. The ventilation of the chamber has aleo recelved attention. This feature was neg- lected fn the original construction of the capltol, as, according to Congressman Rich- ardson, who seldom jokes, the only means that were to be depended upon were the verbal cyclones let loose by the congress- the windows. Theee means have not proved adequate and the fmprovements comprise a system by which warm alr will be brought up through the desk and chair stands and then passed out through the roof by a battery of electric fans operated in the cupola. When the sesstons of eon- gress extend into hot weather Mr. Clark says the system ecan be so arranged that cold afr can be introduced from ahove and withdrawn through the ducts fn the floor. “0 A dispatch to the St Louls Globe-Demo- erat reports that the recelpts from internal revenue during the ten days of July just have been $11,862 008 The figure was & eurprise to the offclals of the in- ten days of July, 1900, under the old war revenue act, and before the reductions by the Iast congress, the colloctions wore $10,- 715,492, which were $1.146,608 less than the me perlod of this year. The officials of the bureau can only account for this by the general prosperity In the country ree flectod In the branches of business which contribute to internal revenue. Orders recently fssued give a very clear | 1dea of the intention of the War depart ment a8 to the disposition In this cou of the troops returning from the Philip- | pines. The orders also give a definite basis for figuring the extent of the forve which will be quartered fn the United | States. When the orders are carrfed out by the transportation of troops from tha Philippines there will remain fn the tslands exactly 40,560 men, not making any allow ancos for casualties or deaths from disease | while the moving orders are being carried out. The orders to be published yet, gother with those which appeared during the last fow woeks, provided for the move ment to this country of 6,531 men. Of thi number 480 belong to the coast artillery a 450 to the field artillery. The balance bel to the cavalry and infantry arms ¢ service, the proportion being about to one of the latter. The figure of 40,660 fncludes the mom! of the Twenty-sixth and Thirtieth infantry which have fust arrived in the islar When the changes now ordered » effective there will be 22,600 men in United States, Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawall and Alaeka. There are mo present indf cations of changing the forces fn the Weat Indles. Cuba has 6,000 men, Porto Rico 1500 and Alaska 900, Between 10,000 and 11,000 of the men in this country belong to the artillery and will command the coast defenses of the Atlantie, Paciflc and Gult of Mexico. | y LESSON OF T MPTY PAG. Training of the Wil Rranch of Education. Saturday Evening Post The persistont and habltual, that s to say, well regulated, exercise of tho body fs tndispensable to health and strength, The use of the mental facultios according to established laws of graded study, from the kindergarten to tho post-graduate univer sity, has its frult in Intelloctual vigor. T proper direction of the will in cultivating habits of right cholce as certainly securcs that moral disciplino without which a man 18 lttlo better than an empty bag, which, as G. D. Prentice sald, “is {noapable of an upright position.” passion for what has come to ba known as “the higher education” is re- sponsible for tho great and growing collegos of America. Industrial education is rapldly assuming the important place in school and Ife which it deserves. We make much of the tralning of mind and eye and hand Where shall we provide for the training of the will, without which character 1s worth less and {ndividual and soclal greatness fm possible? The old Spartans wore disciplinarians Their children were born Into an Atmos phere of moral firmness. He was a Spartan father who, when his little son affirmed, 1 want to, and therefore I will,"" replied “You want to and therefore you shall not.” There was stern repression of lawless de- sire; mot a plece of paremtal tyranny, but a lesson in restraint, a step in the progress of & soul that finally comes to do what s commanded and to command itself to do the right. At this very point many an otherwl:e strong life breaks down. Incredible mis fortunes, commercial ruin and personal dis ster imperl! the undisciplined will. The power of resistance paralyzed the sancti of lite is vulnerable to every approach evil. The best endowment that Lome or school can confer upon a youth about enter the lists is “a will 80 trained when a thing s right it will require courage to do it, and when a thing fs wr it will have no power to tempt the trom firm resolve.” n Necewsary POINTED REMARKS. Hot weather 15 1ike you think about it 1 of you. Philadelphia Press: irl's fickle. She never has use fellow long. Browne—That's because she doesn't hu him long before he's short. New York Press: insult; the more more it makes a fc wne—The summer for Washington Star: “Don’t you think thut a public man should "dev himself (0 study of his country's history and Its pres ent needs?"’ “Well,”" answered Senator Sorghum, that iw interesting, 15ut"it 1a"a " migh slow way to get office.” Puck: Chicagoan (in London)—How much 1s_this book? Shoplady—Three-an'-six, sir. Chicagoan—Well, that's nine, nine what? of course— Philadelpha Press: Officor—The prisoner 18 charged with stealing a cornet Magistrate--Who's the complainant Officer—Mr. Blowitz. He says ho next door to you. Magistrate—Prisone lves 1s discharg Daltimore Amerfean: “Now, my hear ers,” asked the lady orator, who had fust finished enumerating the qualitios Wil h whould be possessed by man, “what should be done with thie fdeal husband “Have him stuffed.” sug frivolous person in a side weat Pittaburg Chronicle: hat this scheme will pay,’ answered the purchnse “I suppose so. But Who ls money 7" Washington Star: “On what platform you stand in your next campafgn? the friend “It won any platform.” answercd candidate. “Tt'll merely be @ rough scaffo ing, thrown together to meet the ne tiew of the occasion Philadelphia Press: “Here!" criod (¢ ham to his roommate, who was starting his vacation, “‘that's my brush and comb you're putting In you “Well, let meo have ‘em. you've grown se “That's just it FATE CAN WAIT. 8. E. Kiser in Record-Heral) A boy hung in a cherry troe, Hecause a jagged limb Had plerced “the little trous His ma had made for him s that Ah, she had sewed them good and strong “T'was well she made (hem so— The ground then nearest to her son Was twenty feet below The farmer sauntered down the lane, A sturdy man was he; He saw the chila and siopped awhile Beneath the cherry tree That night a boy went limping home, Depressed and brulsed and sore, And vowlng he would A che never climb ry tree no more.'" He wore those little trousers out; The years went gliding past And, as & man, he stood heside His mother's ‘grave at last They cut the cherry troe away, Because the town had spread, And some one wished to clear a site On ‘which to bufld a shed One day & man who, as a boy, Hnd made a vow that he Would never, never, never climb Another cherry tree Beheld, with watery lips, the rare, Red cherrles that grew high Upon a tree that chanced to be Vhere he was passing by. They found him lying whers he fell, The trousers that he wore Were not as strong, alas, as those His ma had labored o'er. ternal revenue bureau, and Indlcates that all estimates which have been made as to the effect of the reduction of the war re nues will Lave to be revised. In the frs 9 MORAL, Though you should driin the spreading ses, ‘The luckless man who came. On earth to drown would find some hole To drown In, just the same.