Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 20, 1901, Page 6

1E BEE: SATURDAY, THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE B. ROSEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION Datly Bee (without Sunday), One Year American business in China, chiefly in | Dt T, ongay, One X [ cotton goods. It appears that when | Bunday b e Year v | the troubles brok it last year there Baturday Bee ¥ Year Twentieth Centus Farmer, O UFFICES Bee Bullding City Hall Bullding, Twen. streets i iv Pearl Street i6#y Unity Building Omaha: The Bouth Omaha By-Nifth and A Council Blufts Chicugo New vork Washington: o CORR Communications relating to news and edi- torlal matter should addre Bee, Lditorial Depsrtment BUBINESS LET tiers and The Be Omaba Business bo addresse pany, Omaha REMITTA Remit by drafi, express or postal order, ayable to The Publishing Com nly Z-cent stamps accepted in payme mall mccounts. Fersoual checks, exeept on Omiha OF vagtern exchanges, not accepted THE BEE PUBLISHING COM s should 18 Com- - trade. The American consul at Leip Btat, "ll' CIRCULATION zig reports that German shoe manu H Douglus County, 88 . : : "Georke B. Tuschiick, secretary of “he fies | faCturers, . prompted by the furonds Publisfting Company, being duly sworn, | which American shoes have made In says th he actual number of full ana # (‘i‘mrl:‘lr ,‘m 8 of The Dally, Mornin certuin of their warkets, are seeking vening wud Sunday Beo prinied durlng | n, ks | ons of i e ORI i Junes Sort wad Sy Foliowa. © | B outlets and China s one of thein 1. 26,0; 16, | These manufacturers have seut repre 50 17 sentatives to China to study on the spot L 43,500 18, 25,080 . 26,680 u. . %5,510 | 1 190 | 3. M. Total . o v Less unsold and returned coples. Net total sales..... 706,171 Net daily uverag ' 25,072 | 10, B, TZSCHUCK Bubscribed In my presence and sworn to before e this Wth day of June, A. D. 191 M. B HUNGATE, Notary Pubilc — PARTIES IAVING FOR SUMMER, Partlies icaving the city for the sum mny have The B sent to m resularcly motifying The Bee Hus office, in person or by mn The address will he changed often as deai — The political pot 1n Ohio is heginning to boll. ——— Do not think the weather Is giving | you the worst of it—it Is 112 in the shade at Phoenix, Ariz. Douglas county has bheen accorded a slight reduction from high water mark Btate taxation. Small favors thankfully received, —_—— The County's Democracy's invitation list is wmuch more extensive than its visiting list is liable to be when the plenie day arrives, The telegraph tells of another plot to restore the empire in France, but the republle 18 In no serious danger from fmperialistic anarchists, Se— President Schwab of the steel com- bine has nothing to say rvegarding the strike. Just at present Mr. Schwab is doing a great deal of serfous thinking. The Transmississippl congress {s about as profuse and diversified with its resolutions as was the national inde- pendent people’s party convention held n Omaha in 1892 There 1s never a loss without some galn. The dry weather is a potent argument for irrigation projects and sclentific work for conserving and pro- woting increased rainfall, The great dragon s reported to have left Pekin and therefore the emperor cannot return to that city. The dragon and St. George have never been able to abide in peade under the same rocf, — Nebraska has now managed to subsist without a state board.of transportation for nearly nine mouths and nobody has suffered except the $2,000- -year. do- nothing sccretaries—that might have been. The Britlsh House of Lords was. not vary severe with Earl Russell, a self- cdnfessed bigamist. The peers acted very much like that famous jury which reached the conclusion that “us fellows wust stand together Em——, An Omalia police judge draws just as wuch salary as the chief justice of the supreme court-not because of his legal learning or the grave responsibility of the position, but because of his o raska will be represented on the Mransmississippl executive committee by Mr. L. J. Blower. The happy pos- Bessor of such an appropriate name ought to be able to keep the fame of Nebraska up to the highest notch, David B. HHl 1s cpedited with en glueering the recent declaration by the Olfo democrac David is evidently figuring on landing the next presiden tial nomination without the assistance or consent of any populist ou cur —— e When the firemen's strike stopped the production of beer in Chicago the health department at once instituted tests o see If the city water was fit to drink. The strike was ended before the chem sts finlshed their task, but no one Is mworrylng now. 8t. Louis has become one of the great shoe muunufacturing centers of the world. In 1880 the product of all the shoe factories of St. Louis was estl mated at §2,000,000, while last year the output of twenty-four concerns aggre- This gated $37,000,000, Omaha, is & hint to An ofl company with an authorized capital stock of $3530,000 has filed arti cles of fncorporation at the state house. Whether this company Is the forerun- ner of Matt Daugherty's pipe line Into the Wyoming oil fields or a branch of one of the Texas spouters has not been Alvulged | the AMERICAN GUODS PREFERRED Chinese importers are showing o preference for American goods to a it tent than heretofore t from an English decided | Shanghai notes a worked off most of these goods. Then they stocked up on Awmerican goods, With the effect of stimulating the cotton goods trade of this country a long time had been extremely Auother indication of the ascendancy of Amerfean trade Is found in the remark of the report that “mext to nothing has been done in Manchester juakes for | forward delivery, of Amerjean have heen b Meanwhile our Germany partteularly efforts to inl rivals, are putting forth wecute Cliinesc commet vigorous the possibilities of the extension of shoe exports to that country, thongh with r sults not altogether sutistactory, sinee the cheapness of the native made sh renders competition unprofitable fact, however, serves to show the gre interest that I8 being taken in the Cl nese market, the future developient of Which must be very great The | now belng shown by the Chinese for Amerlean cotton good may be accepted as an indication of the ffiendly feeling toward us which licy n dealing with China in | late trouble has ereated, But of course our manufacturers and oer chants will not rely upon seutiment for trade with that cmpire, They must do as our commerciul rivals do in studying wants of the Chlnese people in o der to secure and hold trade with Ching That this will be done Is not to be doubted, pnce MILITARY AUTHORITY (RESTOURED, It has been found necessary to re store milit authority in two of the islands of the Philippines where a provinelal form of government had been estublished and also In one of the provinees of Luzon, owing to thelr in complete pacitication. It appears that these districts ure still fufested with {nsurgents, who continue to be more or less nctive and and while the civil ofticials Will go on exereising their functions this will be doue under the military authority, which elsewhere is subordinate to the civil power. uggressive, Afof va house 10 | and the revival of | oceur | tlon reads as follows were considerable stocks of goods on | ated by this constitution shall becor land aud that the Chinese merchants | v t by the death of the incumbent, declined to buy more till they had | by removal from the state, resignation, which for | for dull. | provision is but one or two ltues | offices fre There is nothing surprising in this news and it is not to be regarded as indicating any setback to the work of pacification, which previous advices have shown was waking favorable | brogress. It suggests, however, that there is yet a long and tedious task before Philippine pacificdtion shadl e complete and every vestige of hostility to Amerlcan authority removed. It bad been supposed that the Insurrec- tion in Bohol was fully and perma- nently subdued, but It has been re- newed, which suggests the possibility of & similar experlence In some of the other pacitied districts. In his address on assuming the duties of civil gov- ernor, Judge Taft said the people should assist the government in the work of pacitication and undoubtedly most of them are disposed to do so, but there is an elewent among them that will for a long time harbor hatred of American authority and be Inelined to make trouble. On the whole, however, the conditions are by no weans discouraging and there is good reason for believing that they will continue to improve. Occaslonal local disturbances are to be expected for a time, but the dapger of any very serlous opposition to American rule is passed. FOR GOVERNOH. In spite of repeated contradictions of the rumor that Governor Savage can only hold the position of chief executive until the people have elected a successor to former Governor Dietrich at the com- ing general election, there are people who want to know whether the coming republican convention Is to nominate a cuaudidate for governor. There is absolutely no foundation for the misinformation conceruing the pro- posed nomination and election of a can didate for governor this fall. Sectlon 16, article v, of the Constitu- tion of Nebraska, reads as follow: n case of the death, impeachment and no- tice thereof to the accused, fallure to qualify, resignation, abscuce from the state, or other disability of the gov- ernor, the powers, duties and emold wents of the otlice, for the residue of the terw, or until the disability shall be vemoved, shall deyolve upou the leu lenant governor,” an there be any rational divergence of opinion us to the meaning of this sec- tion? Does not the constitution plainly de ¢ the lieutenant governor as the successor of the governor in case of his resignation, and does it not spe- citically declare that the powers, duties and emoluments of the office shall de volve upon the licutenant governor for the residue of the term? Governor Dietrich was elected for a term of two years, euding January, 1003, and Lieutenunt Governor Savage Is, therefore, by the lunguuge of the constitution, desiguated to till the resi- due of the term, just the same ns it the governor had died or had been removed ¢ impeachment. There is a very marked difference in the provision of the constitution as re- gards successlon in case of a vacancy in the office of lientenant governor, by death or resignation, when there s al- ready a vacancy in the office of gov ernor. In that case the constitution de- volves the performance of the duties of the office of governor upon the act- ing president of the senate, until the vacancy I8 filled. This distinction in successlon between the acting president of the senate and the lleutenant gov- eruor to the duties devolving upon the chlef utive, 18 as clearly marked as is the difference between the filling the office of governor filling of vacancies that may i other offices of the executive went Section 20, depurt article ifi, of the constitu “All oftices convicti felony, or hecoming of unsound mind legislature shall provide by go the fillin And the eral law of such vacancy when no that purpose in | wmade for this constitution.” Iu conformity with this provision the leglslature has provided by general law the tilling of the state 1 secrotury of state to super instruction, But it for respective tntendent of public could not under this section override the other provision of the constitution that | expressly designates the leutenant gov ernor as the legal successor to the gov- ernor, n resignation, for the residue of the term for which the gov- had been elected. case of ernor READY FOR OTHEIR ISS A The democratic renunciation of Bry anlsm I8 growing, showing that every democrats are ready for other Isxiles. The Boston correspondent of the New York Evening Post says that the leaders of the Massachusctts demo the future and that s are looking te tmpeachment, | OMAHA DAILY tions of courts. It was only with great difficulty that officers prevented the Iynching of three negroes for an alleged assault upon a woman. The supposed victim has confessed that the story of the assault was manufactured. Prompt administration of justice I8 a good thing, but th ing too swift. ¢ I such a thing as be In its zeal to show the IMilipinos that it will do as promised the United States has discovered that it has been a little too fast in giving civil rule to portions of the Philippine islands, It is com- monly stated that people get as good a government as they are entitied to, but the Filipino 1s gatting a better — Penny postage is promised by the Postoffice depurtment as a sequence of the new postal regulations curtailing the volume of secoud clnss matter. But we apprehend that penny postage is still one. a long way off, unless the department | is willlng to lond up with a large deticit than it has ever had. Census returns show that the Chinese population of thix country is decr ing. Some of them have returned to thelr native land and American Boxers have disposed of others, but 1o Chine army Is marching on Washington in re tallation Suving the Chinese Fac: Boston Transcript The damage to the Pekin walls will be the situation there harmonizes with [ masked, it is sald, by a coating of paint that in Oblo. The democrats of Massa- | and clay in order to hide all evidence of chusetts hope to harmonize the party |injury from the eves of the emperor on his return. This 1s a unique way of saving and bring Bryanites and anti-Bryanites together on a platform of old-faxhi wocratic principles. They believe that the time for Bryanism and for cur rency tution has gone by and that commion sense dictates that they should difference between the conditions today and those of 1896 and 1000, recognize the The correspondent quotes the secre tary of the democratic state committee ak suying that the course of the Ohlo democratic convention was fu the right direction and doubtless would be ap. proved by the Massachusetts democrats, Other prominent democrats expressed themselves to a like effect. Democratic wpers i all purts of the country give hearty endorsement to the action of the party in Olio and nowhere are the isfaction with the news| xpressions of s rejection of B uism stronger than iu the south. The ablest and most influ cntlal newspaper exponents of demo cratic sentiment in that section support thoe course of the Ohio dewocracy and nrge that it be followed by other con ventious of the year. Says one of these pupers—and it 1s & sample of the ut- terances of a number—“The time is coming, and it may be near, when con- victlon and courage will go hand iu hand and the dewocratic party will not bo coutent simply to ignore, but wili denounce with solemn emphasis the er- rors of the past few years. It will cut loose frow. association with repudiation and win back the contidence of the country. 1t will be a long and tedlous Journey, but it is the only way home.” anism 18 not yet dead and its ad- herents will make a desperate struggle to keep life fn it as long as possible, but its prestige is gone and it will not again dowinute a democratic natlonal convention. And with the subsidence of Bryanism its author must necessarily disuppear as a democratic leader. Colonel Willlam Jennings Bryan's statement that Aguinaldo was willing to Issue a proclamation promising to lay down arms in case of Bryan's election and also willing to contribute to the democratic campaign fund is unique and startling. But Mr. Bryan assures us that he positively refused to consider the proposition. In turning down this offer Mr. Bryan exhibited more political sugacity than he has shown on many other occasions. It was not in the in- terest of Mr. Bryan that Aguinaldo and his warriors should stack thelr guns and arrows immediately after election. On the other hand, it would have been more dangerous to accept a campaign contribution from Aguinaldo than to draw on Boss Croker and Tammany. Colonel Bryan's campaign managers could not have depended on Aguinaldo to keep the secret, and if the report had lenked out it would have proved as fatal as the explosion of a keg of dynamite, Clnelnnati s about to inaugurate a new departure in the shape of excursion street cars which will carry visitors to poluts of interest in that city and its suburbs. The cars will be designed after the most improved pattern of pri- vate parlor cars; will be equipped with casy chalrs, lce water and every mod- orn convenlenc The seating capacity will be limited to thirty-five and only enough people will be allowed to ride to il the chalrs, If the experiment proves successful in Cincinnatl the same feature will doubtless be emu- lated by all the progressive cities of the country. Missourl Is disgusted with its railroad commission, which has failed to ac complish anything practical and bas ceased to be ornamental. The railroad commission experiment has proven a failure in most instances, partly through lack of power to do anything of importance, coupled with a disposi- tion to keep on friendly terms with the ruilrond magnate China contirm what has been the common he Dispatches from and Europe llef all along—that Russin was in Manchuria to stay. All along Russia has protested it desired no territorial xtension, but diplomatic promises are worse than those of bad debtors. lowa democratic editors are arguing the question of whether the majority of lowa democrats were ever in favor of free silvel One thing Is made certain by the election returns—the majority of Towa voters never believed in It TA recent occurrence at Kansas Ci is a good illustration of the folly of wob gutbreaks which usurp the func- the Chinese face, Sincerity of Grent Men. Philadelphia Ledger, To crittelsms of Bryan some of his ad- mirers retort that he is sincere. 8o *was Brother Jasper sincere in maintaining the “sun do move,” but nobody proposed to make him a professor of astronomy in a great university Well Worth the Price. Post in proportion (o its size the United States army is the most expensive in the worid it costs $1,014 to maintaln one soldier a year. The man eoldier costs $201 and the Russian but $156. Soldiers come high, but no expansion policy is complete with- out them. Blather of the Experts. Loutsvlile Courler-Journal The most learned agricultural experts now are the Wall street writers and brok- ers who are issuing daily discourses on crop prospects and who really would about exhaust their knowledge of the subject if they were turned loose in the country and set to the task of distinguishing between a field of corn and a patch of potatoes. Tom Edine, Great Strike, Indfananolis Journal. inventor Bdison has just obtained prob- ably the most important legal victory of his life in a decision by the United States circuit court in his favor against the Amerfcan Blograph and Mutoscope com- pany. The decision sustains the priority of Edison's patents coveging all kinds of moving pictures a th claims for back royajtles, involves n&.}"u amouant of money. e Great Stock'te Piek From. New York Tribune, A good many people will be Inclined to sympathize with poor Klng Edward over the difficulty he is experiencing in selecting the form of oath best suited to a nice and orderly coronation. In this connection it is widely acknowledged that no nation quite equals our own for condensed and vigorous oaths. If the king will borrow from us for this epeclal occasion there’'s no doubt that we all will feel highly honored. Enormous Losses to Labor. Kansas City Star. -The euormous losses entailed by the striking steel workers through their self- imposed idleness seems most deplorable. There is no occasion for sympathy for the employers, who can easlly stand any losses that may result from the temporary shut- ting down of their mills; but the wage earners always find it difficult to recover from considerable periods of Idleness. In the case of the steel workers and tinplate men the losses ln wages as estimated are $156,000 per day, a sacrifice that affects tens of thousands of homes. Inasmuch as nine strikes out of ten are settled by com- promise, it seems especlally to be re- gretted that more of the differences are not arbitrated without resorting to strikes. As a rule, too, arbitration {s easier and more effective when conducted under active business operations than when enforced by hostile attitudes. LAND FRAUDS IN THE WEST, Systematic Grabs by Wealthy Men in Montana and Idaho. New York Evening Post, The land frauds in Montana and Idaho appear more and more extensive as addi- tional detalls come to light. According to the latest accounts Senator A. Clark ap- pears to be the center of operations which have resulted in over 100 indictments and which have involved hundreds of thou- sands of acres of land and millions of dollars. The magnitude of these frauds will not surprise anyone who Is familiar with the northwest. The government laws are framed for the purpose of affording set- tlers a chance to take up land for their own use, to protect the individual against the large corporation. By wodern methods of mining, lumbering, grazing and farming, however, large tracts of land can be han- dled with much more profit than small tracts. For a number of years past, there- fore, the desire to operate on a large scale has led companies to hire men to “locate,” to make oath that the land Is for them- selves and then to turn It over to the companies. Of course, there have been occaslonal discoveries of illegal “loca- tions' and transfers, but no such whole- sale frauds as those in Montana and Idaho have been recently uncarthed The diMiculty has been to prove the fraud. Residents of Seattle, Spokane and Helena have had reasonable ground for suspiclon, when fifty men have settled on contiguous sections of a newly opened tract, have sworn that they have taken up the land each for his own use and then, with singular unanimity and promptness have sold out to a single lumber com- pany. No sane man has for a moment doubted that the so-called Independent lo cators were really the employes of the company, and yet the agents of the local land office have often been remarkably blind or inert probe frauds has been the political influence of the large companies: another cause has probably been the direct clals. In spite of such sinister influences, however, the fact remains that an honest and eMclent administration of the local land offices may contribute enormously to | the popularity in the northwest of any administration. Whatever the attitude of those who profit by corruption, directly or indirectly, the rank and file of the people are opposed to stealing. One cause of reluctance to | bribery of ofi- | JULY 10, 1901, Kansas al meeting of the association in Council Bluffs t of the or Mr. JoJ ful and timely growing evil of against Kindred forms of court corruption. In his opinion all kinds of crime are rapidiy in- Towa president McCart protest aniza lon made a fory agains the perjury and creasing, more especially those designed to defeat the ends of justice. He quoted one judge as expressing the belief that o half the evidence fintroduced in the de fense of criminals today s false. Another Judge of long experience believed that per cent of the testimony in divorce cases | approached deliberate perjury. He ap peals to all lawyers to substantiate hi statement that the 'guilty are acquitted and the rights of persons and prc e trampled under foot, ‘‘presum | through due form of law, but really and | truly by the use of corrupt and false and sometimes purchased testimony.” ‘“‘Thes | are things," he declares, “that beget dis | trust and dieresp for the courts and for verdicts for our boasted forms of law. These are the things t produce anarchy and lynchings and invite a just contempt for those tribunals called courts | of justice The truth of | this summary is only tor | apparent (o every ohserver of the opera tions of law idences may be found |In almost every court. This corruption is growing deplorably. On the one hand there = an increasing disregard for the sanctity of the oath. On the other there seems to be a growing indifference to the violations of t h on the part of the lawyers and jJudges themselves—not all of |*hem but many. The making of aMdavit | and the taking of oaths have hecome such | frequent and common requirements in the execution of papers and In the n ing out of lists of taxable property, to of their uses v nothing 1 the courts, that the forms have perfunctory and uni sive. Many times the oath is administered as it it were a tiresome formality, rather*than become ew Zealand ha tlon as the “‘count g a compulsory arbitration law. It fs also an object lesson for students ag the atry in the world where all the willing to tax themselves for the ed members of the community, all of whom may recefve pension under the old age pension law at a certafn age. It Is the first country to establish a progressive sin- glo tax on land values. It has free trade. It has government banks and no panies. It has woman suffrage. In short, New Zea- land has in actual operation social reforms that other countries are only talking about as yet. Hence the process of enumeration that has been going on lately throughout the British empire has revealed nothing more intercsting than the returns from New Zealand. It cannot be called a little country, because the area included in the two principal islands is nearly 20 per cent larger than Great Britain, nor is it a pop- ulous country, for it has not yet 1,000,000 souls, but it is a wonderfully progressive one, and ready at any moment to go ahead by leaps and bounds. During the last fif- teen years immigration has not played an important part in its increase, which has been almost entirely due to the fecundity of its inhabitants, and the healthiness of the climate reducing the death rate to a minimum. attrac ten ut strikes,” hav The very latest Balkan report, originating in Vienna, relates to the increasing uneasi- ness and jealousy in Russia over the grow- Ing commerce influence exerted by Germany in that reglon. A writer in a prominent journal says that Russia considers that the existing state of affairs is a menace to all her foterests in the ear east, and that the | time 1s rapldly approaching for diplomatic ' action. It was Russia, he which eman- | cipated the existing Balkan states from the Turkish yoke, and yet her influence is com- pletely neutralized by Germany's economic supremacy. There is reason to fear that in a few years the whole peninsula will fall, both economically and politically, under | Austro-German influence. Whereas Russia 1s content with general promises, there is a vast Influx of German money and German goods into those countries. It is now pro- posed, he says, to found a large Balkanic bank with Russian capital, to support the Balkan states in important enterprises, and to assist them, when necessary, in thelr financial embarrassments. It is hoped that this bank will soon be established at Buk- harest with a nominal capital of about $20,- 000,000. Branches will be opened in all the capitals of the Balkan peninsula. All this probably means that, the Chinese excite- ment belng over for the present, the time has come for a renewal of the old game of political intrigue in the Balkans. o The dean of Ripon, Dr. Fremantle, in & letter to the London Times, points out that it Is not cnly in France that the birth rate is decreasing but in all Europe, except Russla, and especially in England. Ho quotes figures to show that in 1875 there were born in the United Kingdom thirty- five children for each 1,000 of the popula- tion. In the year 1900 the number was only tweny-nine. That Is, for every 1,000 the births now are six fewer than twenty- five years ago, which means a loss of 249,- 000 children for each year. It also im- plles a much more rapid decline of the birth rate than that of France, where the shrinkage has been gradual throughout the century. A well known English statis- ticlan, Mr. Holt Schooling, recently showed that, whereas in 1875 the excess of births over deaths in England was 85| greater than in France, it Is now only 6.8, and this “despite the continuous and ma- terfal decline of the French birth rate during the whole period.” The dean goes on to explain that this ominous decrease has failed to attract the attention to which |1t is entitled, bocause it has been dis- | guised by the diminishing death rate and the increase in immigration. The death rate now stands at eighteen per 1,000 and 18 not likely to be reduced much below that point. Should the birth rate continue to decrease at the present rate it will be down to seventeen per 1,000 fifty years from now or less than the death rate. The slgnificance of this, says the dean, needs o explanation. Statistics show that there are marked discrepancies between the birth figures of the cittes, While the R | ification of Finland goes on apac aslonal proofs are given by | | the St. Petersburg authorities of a desire to respect the feelings, even the prejudices of the Finns, The project of the Russian minister of war for compulsory military service in Fi nd, with the complete abs sorption of Finnish conscripts in Russian regiments, has been negatived by the council of ministers. The measure is to be recast 80 as to call upon Finland for | only the number of troops fixed by the Diet, to keep the native regiments intact and to provide that any Russian officer appointed to a Finnish regiment must ac- quire Finnish citizenship. This is a wise concession, though it amounts to only a light counterweight to the general over | riding of what the Finns supposed to he thelr constitutional rights, of thelr schools and the their newspapers the remodeling supprossion of | 1f it be true that Lord Charles Berestord | 18 anxious to throw up his command in the British Mediterranean squadron, In order Perjury in the Courts City Star a solemn duly and the very enforced justice It 1s much more hopeful to see a protest Aainst court corruption come than from without the legal profession Mr. McCarthy, in his address, asks: ““Why does tho press of the country write cole umns on the constitution following the flag foundation of when the sanctity of an oath that gives both the flag and the constitution their sig nificance 1s almost fgnored?’ The press may not have done all that it might have done to counteract these evil tendencles and to expose the offenders against justice. But a much larger measure of blame rests directly the legal profession, including both Jjudges and practitioners. The men engaged in the trial of a given case should and do know better than anyons else the particulars and the extent of perjury and other forms of corruption. But in nearly every fnstance some member of the bar has crimival cognizance, to say the least, of the commission of those crimes. Other members of the profession have not the ourage to expose, or théy are bound by unaccountable conception of ethics to protect, thelr fellow lawyers The press will do Its part If the lawyers wil glve It the benefit of their knowledge and the support of their co-operation. But nine times out of ten when false testimony some is fntroduced and when “jobs” that could not have Been perpetrated without the knowledge of the counsel are exposed, the opposing lawyers haten to exonerate “the worthy attorney, our opponent In this case Mr McCarthy believes that in court the 1dg should administer the oath, and that id be m itapre ' that ca of tion hould I with the utmost sever- Ity. That ix good advice, but It remains | with the lawyers themeely first, through thelr obligation to society Eecon in vind tlon of their profession, to purke their own ranks of Instigation and connly ance It also remalng largely with the law- yers to Inslat upon impartial and unre lenting punishment of perjurers that he may have the right to the admiralty openly and fr not appear that he is at all back up Mr. Gibson Bowles In upon the naval authorities for tensive sclieme at Gibraltay, trary he seewns to approve of the works already in progress His principal objec- tions to the proposals to carry out exten- sive works on the eastern side of the Rock are said to be that such works would take at least ten years to complete; that they would be subject to constant delay In consequence of silting, because of ad- verse winds and tidal waves, and that, while the mole and docks now in construc- tlon on the western side are admittedly endangered to a certain extent by the pos- sibility of a lateral fire from Algeciras, similar works on the eastern side of the Rock would be open to the worse conse- Quence of a vertical fire from “the Queen of Bpain’s chair. ——— POLITICAL DRIFT. ely, It does inclined to his attack their de The democrats have carried Ohio six times In thirty years—in 1873, 1 1877, 1882, 1853 and 1880. Tilden democratic clubs are multiplying In Chicago, while the Bryan clubs of years past have disbanded. Charley Towne's expressed preference for D. B. Hill in 1904 ehows that politics, like the weather, s In the soda water stage. There 1s more than $2,000,000 in the sink- ing fund of the city of Cincinnati, the total net debt of which is less than $25,000,000. A notable characteristic of the new Til- den club of New York City is that the mem- bers do not depend on office for a liveli- hood. The Ohlo democratic declaration against the shipment of mules to South Africa is not intended for consumption in Kentucky or Missour!. The penitentiarles of Pennsylvania a: overcrowded. This accounts for the fear- lessness of political grafters In keeping busy on the outside. Notwithstanding the high temperature in Missour!, Gumshoe Bill Stone produces a frost every time the Ohlo treason {s men- tioned In his hearing. The organization republican candidate for district attorney of Philadelphia {s by birth an Englishman, John Weaver by name, and he was originally a stenographer. He is a candidate for an elective office for the first time this year. The staying power of the democrats of the Sixth Texas district If not unexam- pled comes pretty near to the record. Thelr convention balloted 4,046 times before it succeeded in nominating a candidate for congress to succeed the late Represcntative Burke. The lucky man was Dudley G. Wooten. Oklahoma 1s Increasing rapidly in voting population. Four years ago it cast 58,000 votes. Last year the total vote cast 73,000, a gain at the rate of 5,000 votes a year. Mississippl, which cast 70,000 votes at the election of 1896, cast only 59,000 at last year's presidential election. It Is es- timated that Oklahoma will have a voting population of at least 100,000 by 1904 This year's appropriation for the diplo- matic and consular service of the United States 15 $1,845,000, or one-third of what the new Agricultural department costs, one. half the sum appropriated for the expenses of the city of Washington and one-sixth of the appropriation for the nation's wards, the surviving Indians. The United States expends less for Its consular and diplo- from within | criticlse | On the con- | { RAING HOW 1O P [ The Recreat AbIt Steadily Grow- Ing Among American Philadelphia Press Any careful observer n hav notod how much more popular recteation has become among the American peo The Saturday half hollday is more gene and vacatfons are longer more fndulged ) class And in addition to these sions and “days off" are more fre quent and popular than formerly Some one mated that will take a “handy at figures” has ost 10,000,000 in the United States vacation this summer and that on an average cach one will spend $10. This would make a total of $100,000,000 &pent for rest and recreation. It is prob able that the s are too small. Leaving out the rich leisure class to whom and time and money ar object, at least one In each seven of all the people in thig coun try will enjoy a vacation this summer ex- tending om five to thirty days. This would mean a rest for about 12,000,000 people and if they spend only $12 each about $1 000,000 will be used In gaining rest and rec- reation 1t is time and money well spent. No in- vestment made in the whole year brings in larger returns. It {s one of the causes which are adding perceptibly to the span of lite. The l¢ngthening of this span has be- come 80 evident that a revision of the old tables of the expectation of human life has been made necessary. In England such a revision shows a constantly increasing number of the people who attain middle and old age. To this fact is due In a meas- ure the growth of population in that coun- try, although the birth rate is declining. | A similar investigation in this country would doubtless thow a much greater in- | crease in the expectation in life than fn Great Britain bicause all the factors which | %0 to make up the increase, such as bet- ter care and medical treatment and food | and shorter hours of labor and longer va- | catlons, more noticeable here than | there These are all encouraging indications | They prove that the American is learning | and broadening. He is living a more health ful and restful lite than his fathers. The strained, nervous look once 8o characteris- | the of the men and women of this country, is glving way to a more quiet and reposeful ountenance indicative of a more even and tranquil life. This change should be en couraged until the American becomes not only the most skiliful and best cared for of any people, but also the best rested. { TART TRIFLEN, | Ohlo State Journai: Timmy Tuft-11i, re | that feller muke a trec-baguer |, Swipsey Dwinnigan—Naw, dey's sum bloke leanin’ against my khothofe. Brooklyn Life Ukes his new “How the deuce d from here? Go out i if his tali 1s wagging. Don't you think Dachsi: ilar, John?" youl expect me to tel , the kitchen and s Baltimore American: Hungry Horace Kind la can't ye gimme somepin ter cat? T aii't ate nothin' sence day before vesterday Kind Lady—~And what did you eat th Hungry Horac sthin' but de market report in an old . Detroft Free Press: Lady of the Houve— (You needn’'t ask for a cup of coffee; our 8us slove has been d oft for hours Cof | " Tramp- . madam, 13 out of the question: have ‘you any 'left-over sherbet or yesterday's lemonade in the ice chest? Washington Star: “What line of argu- ment will you employ in your next cam- asked the triend “Oh, the line doesn’'t make &0 much dif- ference In my business,” answered Senator Sorghum. ““The dollar' on the end of It is the hook that catches the fish.” Philadelphia Press: Bot Mrs, Palk—I've just through away our wint: clothes . Falk—Gracious! storing You're late, aren't . Palk—Yes, you see the papers | hat gOt L0 wrap them In contained a delightfu! serlal story. Washington 8t ‘no mosquitoes?’ boarder., Well,” answered Farmer Corntossel, you see there is a sclentific movement afoot to kill off the mosquitoes all over th: country. That wasn't put in as an out an’ out promise. It is jes' a prophecy.’ Detrolt Journal: “I ask you for bread," exclalmed the mendicant, bitterly, “and you glye me hyglenic bread!" My consclence smote me at this “Poor fellow!” sald I “I'll see if 1 can't find you a stone!" Never, to my d""n& day, shall I forget the look of gratitude he gave me. GOING TO CAMPMEETING, ‘Didn’t you advertis: inquired the summ:.r F. L. Stanton In Saturday Evening Post, ‘Twuz 'long about campmeetin’ time, with preachin’ high an’ low, An' gence Sally wuz a-goin’ that I would go! 80 1 harnessed up ol’ Betay—a creetur’ true an’ tried— An' headed fer campmeetin’ with Sally by my side. well, T 'lowed 8he never looked 8o sweet to me iIn any time or place; The Ted rose warn't a pletur' to the roses on her face! An', stealin' sidelong glances, the thought that come wuz this: ‘“Them arms wuz fer a_necklace, an' God made them 11ps to kiss!" We rid past bloomin’ an' from left to right “Bweet flel's arrayed rivers of delighi But T jest had eyes fer Bally, an' sald, with many a sig ‘On Jordan's storm cast a wishful ey medders, seen n livin' green an' anks 1 stan' an’ An' Sally—she wuz listenin’, an' T tol' her that the way To that dear little heart o' hers seemed longer day by day; An' ghe sald—a-lookin’ at me as cunnin’ as vou please: “Must you be carrfed to flowery beds of ease? ™ the skies on That teached my heart a lesson, but T tol' her on the way, Single “I'd not live always, 1 asked not fer to stay An' then she sald” she'd have mel—an' I an' matic service than any other country of the first ¢ shouted, full and free “'Amazin’ grace, how sweet th that saved a’ wretch Itke me sound, DO YOU appreciate a bargain? 1f you do, we want to invite wou here, to first get *‘cool owr and comfortable” under electrie fans, and then to see the many dif- ferent values we have in clothing and furnishing. This is house eleaning time with us and there are odd articles, odd sizes rather close out at once even at a sacrifice. and short lines that we Most any kind goods you want at your own price. Straw Hats 35e, 50¢, $1.00, only three prices, Special King Kdwards, Windsorettes and Bug- terfly ties, 50¢ qualities, 25¢. Browning, King & Co. Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers, R. S. Wilcox, Manager. Store Closes Saturday Nights at 0 O'¢lock, Other Evenings at 5.30,