Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 28, 1901, Page 6

T BEE. IE OMAHA DAILY E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Bee (without Sunday), One Year.$; ¥, One Yeat Year Year One Year. .. goviad iwentieth Century Farmer, One Year, DELIVERED BY CARRIER. bee, without Bunday, per copy isen, without Sunday, per week Hee, inciuding Sunday, per week punday e per oy e wed, Witnont 84 0 Ber ‘week. b in delivery Lvening Bee, includ'g Sunday Compiaints of irregulariti u be addressed to City Circulation le- nt. w w w o w [ .2 2 1 1 Dail 2 Lo b0 weak. . 1) #ho Omaha: The Bee Butlding, South Omaha City Hall Bullding, Twen- t-fiith and M Streets Councli bluffs: 10 Pear] Street, Chicago: '16% Unity Bulldin New York: Temple Court, Washington: 1 Fourteenih Street, CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- torfal matter should be addressed: Umaha wee, Baitorlal Department BUSINESS LETTERS. ters and remitiances should be Ihe Bee Publishing Company, REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to ‘The Bee Publishing Company Liily Z-cent stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts, Personai checks. except on Umaha OF eastern exchanges, accepted, THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. Busing address vinak STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, s, George B, Tzschick, secretary of The Bes Publishing Company, belng duly sworn, says that the actual number oi full and coinplets coples of The Dally, Morning, | Lvening and Bunday Bee printed during the month of Augast, 191, was as follows: | 1 205,870 | 18 25,505 | 19. 26,270 2 45,540 | 2 2, “ u 2. 2...... % 2 20, 26,510 L27,210 | L 47,010 Net total sale Net dally average GEORG Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 3ist day of August, A 1901 M. B. HHUNGATE, ry Publle, The activity of the new Nebraska gume wardens ean be explained on the theory that new brooms usually sweep | clean China is negotiating thessale of sev- eral ships ont of its navy. It might not be bad policy to sell them before it gets | into another fight and loses them. Mr. Bryan tells Mr. Roosevelt that | he should not aspire to a presidential nomination or election. Mr. Roosevelt might say to Mr. Bryan: “The same to you." The Justices of the peace constitute | the poor man's courts. As much care should be exercised in selecting justices of the pence as in selecting judges of the district bench. —_— There may he need for Irrigation in some portions of the Philippines, but the soldiers who marched through mud and water from knee to walist deep must have missed the arid reglon. With Senator Dietrich once more safe at home on Nebraska soll, expectant applicants for federal appointments can heave a sigh of rellef that the dangers of shipwreck have been successfully cleared, Bulgarian brigands who carried off an American misslonar demand 25,000 Turkish pounds as a ransom. The amount might lead to the snspicton that the chief of the brigands may be iden. tified as Pat Crowe, Captain Sycamore complains that Shamrock was crowded at the start of the first yacht race. The captain has the consolation that no one can accuse him of crowding anybody after the first five minutes of the race. If all the enterprises bullt for Omaha on paper materialized, the city would long ago have rivalled Chicago n popu- lation and wealth, 1t is the new insti- tutions that take tangible form in brick and mortar or machinery that count for the city’s progress. lowa college at Grinnell finds itself In need of a greater endowment be- cause during the present good times interest rates have declined. It s to be regretted the college is short of money, but the fact lllustrates that it is not capital which derives all the benefit from prosperity. South Omaha is calling in outstand- Ing interest-bearing city warrants. That s a good deal better than ex- panding its flonting debt. Yet it is the net Increase or decrease that counts. It warrants are fssued faster than they are redeemed the drain for interest be- comes steadlly greater., —_— It Douglas county republicans will get together on a ticket made up of candi- | the congress if arbitration is to apply | can congress of 18 dates of unquestioned fitness for the respective offices they seek and free from the taint of disloyalty in the cam- paign for the redemption of Nebraska, thelr right to republican supremacy in the county will be handsomely endorsed at the election. The government I8 again called upon to send a relief expedition to the Arctic to rescue the stranded gold seekers at Nome. It seems strange that men will rush into such a country with no provi- slon for the future, but from the be- glnning of recorded history men infected with the gold fever have taken just such chances. The story about rallroads being troubled with tramps will be taken with a grain of allowance. Since the restora- tion of prosperity the tramp has almost disappeared from the country. It I8 safe to say that the rallroads are troubled less by tramps right now than they have been at the same season for WALy years past. THE PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS Next Tuesday the United State gates to the congress of all the can republics, which will meet City of Mexico in the latter October, will call upon the and recgive their instructions. A of “the South An delegatess will go to Mexico from Washington and it 18 proposed that they shall be con veyed on a special train. It has been decided not to make public the instruc tlons to our delegates until the meeting of the congress, This conference of representatives of the American republics was invited by ir government and the State depart- ment has labored assiduously to secure presentation in it from every country In Sonth and Central America and to fmpress upon the governments of those countries the mportance and the poss ble henefits of such a conference. These efforts have been successful, There were some troublesome obstacles in the way, but these were overcome and there Is now reason to think that the con gress will harmonious and have practical results. The only thing which may interfere with this, o far as now appears, relates to applylng the prin ciple of arbitration, which” will be one of the leading questions considered by the congress. ‘The statement I8 ma on the authority of the Chjlian minister in Parls that Chili will withdraw from dele An o the part of president ri num to questions now outstanding between any of the states participating in the congress, that republic ubjecting to giving a retroactive effect to the prin ciple. This seems to be a reasouable position and it more than likely will be approved by the congress. There 1s a wide range of subjects that will be presented for the consideration the congress, in all of which the United States has more or less interest, Especially ar interested in those matters which coutemplate the bringlng | about of more intimate commercial re- lations between this country and the southern republics. We shoild have a larger share of the markets of the Span ish-Awerican countries and we ought to obtain through this congress valuable information as to how we may secure a greater share of their business. Some thing was learned from the Pan-Ameri- but more knowl edge is manifestly required and some contribution to it may be expected from the coming congress. We should be able to impress upon the representa- tives of the southern republics that since it is manifestly to their advantage | to maintain friendly political relations with the United States, so they will find it to thelr interest to cultivate « v commercinl intercourse, The congress will afford an opportunity, also, to reassure the people of the southern countries of our earnest friendship und desire for their progress and prosperity, as well as of our firm purpose to up- hold the principle which protects them against foreign aggression. There Is a more or less prevalent feeling of dis- trust of the United States that our representatives should spare no effort to correct. we SOUTH AFRICAN SITUAT 10N, The report that Lord Kitchener has te: ed his resignation as commander- in-chief in South Africa may mnot be true, but it is not incredible, The statement s that he has bad a dis agreement with the war secretary and also that he desires to be transferred to India, but at all events it is not difficult to understand that he should want to get away from a field of ac- tion in which he has added nothing to his military fame and where the pros pects are not promising for his win- ning any glory. The fact is that Kitchener has not shown himself to be by any wmeans a military genius, and he perhaps realizes that nothing he may henceforth do in South Africa can restore the prestige he has lost there, Of course his task has been a difficult one, but he has had most abundant means at his command and has failed to make the most of them. That he should be tired of it and ready .to adopt any sort of excuse for quitting s quite conceivable, Meantime there is no abatement in Boer activity and no prospect of an early ending of the struggle. It Is estimated that there are now 11,000 fighting burghers In the fleld and if such Is the fact it shows beyond ques tion that they have been getting re- cruits from Cape Colony, where thelr sympathizers are still numerous, and perhaps also from Natal. For opera- tions against the Boers Kitchener fs sald to have about 70,000 men avall- able, the remainder of his big army being distributed over 3,000 miles of railroad, which must be protected at all hazards, and in garrisoning strategles towns and positions. Although most of the time ioactive, these garrisoned troops must be ever on the alert to resist a mobile enemy who may at- tack them suddenly at any polnt. More over, the tactics of the burghers have divided the British available field force iuto small and comparatively ineffective detachments, whose weakness s evinced by the frequent disasters which | are befalling thew, The proclamation outlawing the bu ghers who should continue In arms after September 15 is now generally regarded in England as a tactical blun- der, since it was inoperative as a men- ace and offered the Boer leaders leisure for refitting thelr columns after a pe- riod of rest and making plans for a serles of unexpected attacks. A Lon- don dispatch says that the government 18 criticised for lack of resolution and strenuousness In the conduct of the war, but the truth s also discerned that the British army has become worn out and stale by the prolougation of the conflict and that the officers and men are as readily drawn into traps and duped by Boers dressed in khaki as they were during the earliest stage of the war. Such a statement seems like a serious reflection upon the Brit- ish, after two years of campaigning in South Africa, yet it Is not alto- gether surprising. The burghers have long since settled down to the conviction that there is uol THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMB tR28, 1901 chance of recelving outside help, They are not asking or even hopiug for it They know they must carry on the struggle unaided and the, determined to prosecute it while have a commando left and arms ammunition with which to fight. REORGANIZE THE COMMITTEE No matter who may have control of tomorrow's convention, the republican county committee should be reorganized to make its membership basis the vot Ing district instead of the ward, as at| present. The committee constitutes the party's working organization and to be| most effective must be brought as close to the voter as possible without becom Ing too cumbersome. In every other county in Nebraska the republicans are organized on the basis of the voting district and in some down to even smaller subdivisions, For sev eral years the state committee been exerting Itself to perfect the party or ganization along these lines and it has recently resolution expressly requesting Douglag county republicans to conform in the make-up of their com mittee to the plan adopted for the whole state, As what « ough the and passed a le Bee has emphasized before, unts in political battles is thor- ganization and discipline, The party must have one man at least in ery voting district responsible for its interests ther It is manifestly lmpos- sible for thiree ward committeemen to look after the affairs in from eight to cleven voting districts efficiently and satistactorily. All this is independent of the proposition that membership by voting districts would give a more equitable representation of the voting streagth in the party couucils and cen ter the active interest of energetic party wor actly where it is needed. As we have sald, a reorganization of the committee is demanded in the Inter- est of the whole party and should be effected at the coming convention with out regard to factional differences, A strong suspicion s abroad that Gen eral Kitchener desires to resign his job in South Afrfea. This would be noth Ing strange. The campalign in that part of the world hus added nothing to his | laurels, nor is it likely to increase the reputation of his su The home government has furnished him a larg number of men, but it has long be evident they are either lacking in the qualities or in the equipment to sup- | press the extremely mobile Boers, That he lins dismaully failed is evident, but it is open to question whether anyone else could do better with the same re- | The force which moves at| twenty miles a day will be a long time catehing one which moves at forty, PREOT, sources, The Virginia constitutional conveu- tion has at last reached the real busi- ness for which it was called—the elimi- nation of the colored vote. When de- mocracy hus succeeded in accomplish- Ing this task in the south it Is barely possible the undisputed democratle su- premaey in the ssouth will be ended, This one bogey of “negro domination™ has kept the whites of the south in lino for free trade, free silver and other demoeratic fallacies, The progressive clement of the south favors the repub- | lican fivancial policy and bourbon | | democracy 1s roosting on the wrong end of the limb to saw it off with safety. It the Real Estate exchange will pur- sue the subject of tax reform on all occasions without let up it will ac complish something. But it will bhave o be foreibly in evidence when asses- are selected, when equalizing boards sit and when the tax is made by council, school board and county commissioners, Merely passing resolutions and then subsiding will not produce results. The only way is to keep everlastingly at it. sors Consumer Pays the Fre Baltimore American. The steel strike cost $25,000,000. In- creased prices show who is Eolng to pay that sum. . Some Dispatches Omitted, Indianapolls News. The second battle of Santiago, now on at Washington, seems dull indeed without di patches from Mole St. Nicholas telling of heavy firing toward Windward passage. Partisan Asseriio) roved False. Chicago Record-Herald, McKinley left little money aside from hie life Insurance. How does this fact match with the declarations of reckless politiclans and their organs that he was the tool of trusts and profited at the ex- pense of the nation? Art in the Certificates. Chicago Inter Ocean. The company that has been organized to bulld o transalaskan railroad.to Bering strait intends to start with a capital of $60,000,000. The engravings it will lssue to raise this capital will be embellished with views of arctic landscapes and will bear the polar seal. The Best Memorl, New York Tribune. Talk of McKinley memorials 13 wide- spread. That is well. Monuments and other structures should be erected in many places to bear his name. But the best memorial of him will be for the people of this nation to live up to the lofty senti- ments which have been evoked by his martyrdom. Looking a Bit Forward, New York Sun. With a great advantage in the state he balls from and with the prestige of the presidential office behind Roosevelt, the outside competitor agalnst him in the re- publican national convention of 1904 will have to be of phenomenal strength to beat him. There being now no sign of such n statesman, the conclusion for the day must be that only Roosevelt can defeat himself. Home Life In the White House. Chicago Chronicle. Mrs. Roosevelt and her children enter upon occupancy of the \White House with the cordial good wishes of all the American people who are sane. For the domestic standard of the highest home In the land the nation has never had reason to apolo- glze. In dignity and virtue it has set an example to the world surpassing that of far more pretentious governmental cen- ters. Seclusive and respected, its mistress has never Invaded the official domain of the president and its conduct under a long line of national chlefs has been modest, imple and worthy. Mrs. Roosevelt ls bril- lant and accomplished and will adorn and are firmly | enliven the society of the capital after the period of mourning shall close and soclal duties must needs be resumed in the presi- dent’s name, Roynity 8t. Louts Glot Edward VIl's heir 18 finding Canada be a country of magnificent distance Is making Yong runs on the cars in differ ent directions in the dominion. Canada s larger than the contiguous part of the United States, but its population less thap that of New York or Pennsylvania At the present rate of growth, in fact, Iilinois will overtake Canada in popula | tion by 1920. The slowness of the rate ot |'increase on the other side of the interna- tional boundary as compared with that in this country is one of the things which must be discouraging to the Canadians Nevertheless the duke of York will find many things to interest ‘him In the United States’ northern nelghbor Connting Cont, ing Canada, Democrat is Washington Tim; It is estimated by experts that in the great eteel sirike the loss to the strikers in wages amounted to $10,000,000, while the earnings of the trust were cut down $15, 000,000. This statement, however, creates a somewhat erroneous impression, as it con- veys the idea that the trust lost more than the men did. As a matter of fact, it is not certain that the trust lost anything. In the main its earnings were only postponed and the strike may easily have the effect of strengthening the iron and stecl market. But the lost wages are gone forever, and what is more important the men could not afford the loss, while the trust could, If ft sustained any. PUBLICITY FOR T SYNDI ATES, in Several Big Concerns Find Out a Few Thing Loutsville Courfer-Journal The recent cxperience had with the in- dustrial stocks is likely to Intensify the demand for the publication of regular re ports of their condition similar to those issued weckly and monthly by the rail ronds. The fact that in a year of pros perity in the fron and steel trade the Re public Iron and Steel company failed to earn its preferred dividend, clearing $3, 300,000 less than the year before, is calcu latod to arouse apprehensions as to others Two other conspicuous industrial syndlcates, the American Linseed Oil company and the Standard Rope and Twine, have made equally bad annual statements. The Amer} can Linseed lost $1,402,000 despite a $932,000 | profit on manufacture, and the Standard Rope and Twine, which has been In hard lines many years, lost $500.000. The Amalgamated Copper company has made no- reports at all, but its action in lopping oft part of the quarterly dividend, amounting to $775,000, is significant. What makes it worse 15 that in the case of the Copper and Republic Steel companies especially there has been a determined circulation of bullish reports, apparently with a view of enabl the insiders to unload their shares upon tho public. The break in prices may be a colossal speculative scoop, or It may be because conditions in the copper trade are much worse than is gencrally known On the face of it there are good reasons why manufacturers should insist on keeping the detalls of thelr business to themselves, and in ordinary corporations no objection to this can be made. The stockholders in | such are supposed to be able to get any necessary information. With the great syndicates which rely upon general own- ership of thelr shares it is entirely differ- | ent. Few of them make more than an an- nual statement @nd these give the barest details. Tho rican Sugar Refining com- pany is a casé#n point. Only by compari- son with pre is,reports can the perusal | of such statéments throw any light upon | the company's affairs, and then it is usually | too late to be of value. Conditions may | change radically in a few months, but the | stockholders or the prospective buyer or | seller has no opportunity to know this, | The result has been tremendous losses through the opportunities thus given to | speculative managements to unload their shares upon fnnocent purchasers when con- ditions are bad and to_ buy them back | ‘cheaply when good | The same sort of supervision that is given Investors | crops of maize, wheat and rice. to railroads and insurance companies would be a great safeguard in this connection. Of | course, it would be inadmissible for small | corporations, but the glant trusts might be | compelled to disclose their business to a | certain extent. If they do not, they should | be excluded from the stock exchanges so | that the opportunities for trading in their | shares would be reduced. NEED OF A PACIFIC CABLE. Urgeney of Means of Com Under American Contra New York Tribune. That 1s welcome news which General | Chaffes has sent by cable from Manila to | the War department at Washington, that the interinsular system of telegraphic cables in the Philippine archipelago has been completed and that it is now possible to conduct intercourse among all the | islands, from the southern end of Bongas | to the morthern end of Luzon, over our own American wires, without having to make use of any foreign lines under the stralts | or on the land. That s precisely as It should be. The Philippines are all Ameri- | can possessions mnd communication among | them should be entirely under American | control and under the American flag | There Is, however, a large fiy in the pot of precious ointment. General Chaffee has sent this news by telegraphic cable. But | what cable? A British cable. This Amer tean officer, sending news to Amerlea from an American possession, had to send it two-thirds way around the world over ca ble lines owned and controlled by another | power and under its flag. That Is not a | creditable state of affairs. It does not mat ter that the other power in question is our closest kin and most cordial friend There are some intimacies to which not even such should be admitted, and one of them {8 communication between different parts of our own domain. Indeed. that very power has set the example to thal effect The sine qua non of the transpacific ca ble which the British empire s now econ- structing was and fs that it shall at every point touch upon Britfsh soil, under tho British flag, and be entirely and perpet ually under British control. That cable | could have been laid more directly, more easily and more cheaply by letting | touch at one or two points upon the friendly soll of the United States possessions. But the British wisely chose to go the longer WAY, at greater expense and labor, in order to have the cable all British. The propriety and necessity in the case {of the United States are no less The United States needs an all-American trans- pacific cable, connecting the United States with the Philippines, so thot all the islands of that archipelago shall be in im- mediate touch not only among themselves under our flag, but also with Washington through the agency of a cable at every point under United States control. It once hoped United States enterpris: would be first* to span the Pacific with an electric wire. That hope must now be abandoned | and we must be content to follow in the wake of our more enterprising British brethren, But at least we should follow closely. American messages to aud from the Philippines should go over an Amer lcan cablo and American mails, passengers and goode should go in American vessels under the American flag. Such was the achievement urged by Prasident McKinley in his last public utterance. Such is the achievement which it hehooves the pation was | many | trigues in the Balkans, and a few days ago 19peedily to consummate. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS One of the most singular changes in in ternational politics and trade is the su stitution of German for English influence In Turkey. Forty or fifty years ago It was England that was maintaining the Ottoman crapire as a “buffer state;’ earlier than that It was England, supported by France which protected the Sultan Mahmoud against tbe insurrection of Mehemet All and his son Ibrahim. Now, the question is asked whether Germany will protect the integrity of the Ottoman empire” against supposed Slavonic machinations; it was to Germany that the sultan turned. and turned in vain, for support in his present contro versy with France. It seems to be gener ally understood that England would not fight another Crimean war. One reason al leged fop this Is that the power of the peo- ple is much greater than it used to be, and that the people are opposed to war, or o not understand international polities. The fact of the South African war throws some doubt upon the efMicacy of this theory. It is also suggested that Turkey is no longer on the road to India, that that lies throuxh Egypt, and England has Egypt. But with Russia in Constantinople and a Russian fleet in the Mediterranean sea the Suez route would not bo beyond danger. For a generation a Euphrates valley rallroad was an English dream; it never became an Eng- lish reality, and now the concession for it 1s in German hands o Lord Curzon, the viceroy of Indla, dellv- ered an {mpromptu speech the other day upon the educational system of the country. He sald that mistakes might have been made, but he firmly belleved that the work of the last twenty years had raised the moral and intellectual standard of the com munity, which could be raised still higher One original mistake had been a too slavish imitation of English models. He strongly condemned a system which made examina- tions the sole test of education. This had bad effects, he thought, on teachers and puplls alike. It was a furrow out of which Indian education must be lifted. He urged a reform in the constitution and composi- tion of university senates and syndicates which were too large, and declared his con- viction that the government had not ful filled fts duty in the matter of primary ed ucation. He advocated the extension of technical education by the creation of ordi- nary middle-class technical schools. Ae to religious instruction he held that it was not the part of the government té teach a foreign religion in their schools. In the Holland legislature, which met lnst week, the clericals, as has been al ready announced, have a good working ma- fority in both houses. Their victory at the polls was due to the divisions among the liberals, largely on the question of the franchise. In the lower house the right numbers fifty-eight to the forty-two mem bers of the opposition. One of the most notable features of the election was the de- feat of the soclalist member, M. Troelstra, whose controlling influence with his party | had been undisputed. He fs replaced by M. | Van Kol, whose aptitude as a leader has vet to be put to the test. The Dutch eab- inet Is presided over by Dr. Kuyper, whose personal influence Is exceedingly strong Three seats have been assigned to Roman Catholics, as & number bearing a falr pro- portion to the strength of the party, but this arrangement has been accepted by them | only as a temporary compromise. The financial budget and army reform are among | the most urgent matters before the gov- ernment. Additional revenue s badly needed and it is said that Dr. Kuyper in- tends to have recourse to a protective tariff. The new army bill 1s modelled upon the | German system and raises the annual con- tingent from 10,000 to 17,000 men. Some reformers advocate the adoption of a system of personal service by all males, except | those exempt, over the age of 19. Another proposal is the establishment of a Land- wehr, atter the German fashion. o Another famine is impending in Indla, this time in the province of Gujerat. The immediate cause of it is & plague of rats, which have practically destroyed the young | The gov- ernment tried to meet the evil by offer- ing rewards for a certain number of rats’ talls, but life is @ sacred thing in the eyes of the natives and rather than kill the vermin they allowed them to grow fat at their expense. But, according to a letter in a London weekly, neither scarcity of rain nor plagues of rats, locusts or other pests can account for the chronic recur- rence of famine in India. The real re- ceipt that POLITICAL DRI The recent revolution in national affairs leaves Governor Odell's presidential boom stranded on the rocks Notwithstanding the heat of the local campaign, New York papers neglect to ask the lord high mogul of Wantage: “‘Where aid you got 1t The tax Now York counties are sched- uled to pay Into the state treasury for 1901 foots up $6,824,308. Last year the amount was $10,704,153, Tom Johnson of Cleveland has added an expert atatisticlan to his political machine. Coln Harvey's school seems to be without a friend to do it honor Former Governor Jim Clarke of Arkan- sas aspires to succeed Senator Jim Jones, the quadrenninl prophet, but Jones assures | his friends that he is in the senatorial business for life. George Vest of Missouri became a United States senator from that state in March, 1879, and at the expiration of his present term in 1903 he will have served twenty-four years consecutively The North American devotes half a col- |umn to an editorfal character sketch of Philadelphia’s mayor and sums up its con- clusion in this picturesque sentence: ‘“Hls honor, the mayor, is an ass."” The total assessment of Cook county, In- cluding the city of Chi 383,070,034 | Of this sum $340,000,000 {s city property. | To the two amounts the State Board of | Equalization will add the valuation of rail- road property, including franchises. Paterson, J., the breeding place of anarchy, has a bunch of aldermen who are quick to grab a good thing. On the occa- slon of Preeldent McKinley's death they draped the city hall at an expense of twice what a contractor offered to do the job. While the democrats of Massachusetts are considering, or rather discussing, the po- litical claims of Jostah Quincy and Gamaliel Bradford for the nomination for governor this year, the prohibitionists of Massachusetts have put in the field a com- plete state ticket The governor of North Carolina notifies “whom it may concern' that petitions for pardons must be printed in leading news- papers In the locality where the offender lived or where the crime was committed. The usual practice is to publish such no- tices in an obscure corner of an obscure sheet. The Texas legislature has disrcgarded the proposal that the governor shall submit at another session the demands embracen in the last democratic state platform and not passed upon at the regular session. The bill apportioning Texas into sixteen congressional districts, instead of thirteen as at present, passed the leglslature. Four of the districts may be republican, not in- cluding the Beaumont district, which fs rapidly filling up with Pennsylvania and Ohlo ofl men. INDIVIDUALITY. ible Effects of the Era of Concen- tration, 0. 8. Marden in Buccess. One of the worst features of the concen- sponsibility, says the writer, lies at the door of the Vanya, or Banfa, who have been called the Jews of India. They are the | grain merchants and are nearly all rich, very rich. A poor farmer whose | crop has falled comes to one of these men. | He is starving, his family 1s starving and | the Vanya is most willing to relleve his | wants, but on his own conditions, namely: | the whole of mext year's crops must be banded over to him, the Vanya only un- | dertaking to supply a little food in re- turn and perhaps sced for the following yeat's crop, which will also belong to him. 1 The rich man hoards his grain year after | year and in the year of famine sells it out | at an exorbitant rate, while the poor man | and his family die. The people are kept | in perpetual poverty and in a year of famine death is inevitable unless govern- | ment relfef comes. Famines will be of reg ular occurrence, concludes the writer, un- | less some means are found to curb the ra- pacity of these remorseless speculators. o For some time the Austrian newspapers have been full of reports of Russian In- the Pester Lloyd of Vienna, in an article which bad all the outward signs of offcal inspiratfon, fntimated pretty plainly that the government of the czar was not acting in good faith. This has, provoked a reply from the Viedomosti of St. Petershurg. which declargs that all charges of Russian intrigue are baseless. The tone of this ar- ticle also suggests that it derived its in- spiration from official sources. The Vie- domostl does not deny that a certain amount of activity may have been mani fested by known Russlan agents, but as serts that these gentry acted upon thelr own responsibility, without any directions or approval from central authority. It fs remembered that an explanation very sim- tlar to this was volunteered before the out- break of the last Russo-Turkish war, whan the activity of Russian agents excited sus- piclon. Reports from Vienna say that thore 15 a general feeling there that Russia ls acting upon the conviction that Austria is 0 weakened by national and religious dis- sensions that she would not venture, single handed, to enter into open conflict with Russia, even in defense of her Balkan inter- ests, while It is most fmprobable that, In such an emergency, she could count upon much practical assistance from her asso- clates In the triple alliance. How Trade May Be Expande Indianapolis News The fortunes of war have compelled us to & political expansion. This fact brings in its train an additional impulse of com- mercial expansion. We cannot force our goods on Europe. But we can effectually open Europe to our Koods by regulating properly our tariff’ We can make conces- slons. We can offer opportunities in ex- change for opportunities. And once we do that, European governments cannot pre vall against us; powerful as they are, they are not more powerful than all the people whom they govern. There is no sentiment | crowd. trated life of modern times is the loss of individuality and personal characteristies. We do not find in our national life, at the present day, the striking, strong individual- ity of early history. The hewing, poliehing processes of modern civilization seem to gifnd away all of the sharp corners of in- dividuality, and everything tends to assume a conventional form. People seem to be run in the same mold, A strong, striking character is a rare thing in these days. The individual is lost in the mass. Citles grind away and erase independence. - Unfortunately, there s many & man who seems to be content to be one of the crowd, and not a leader of the With some notable exceptions, newspapers lack individuality. Thelr opinions are im- personal, and the cditors are lost. Few people know who writes the editorials or the lending articles. The days of Dana and Greeley and Bowles seem to have gone forever. Nobody in particular is responsi- ble for any opinion or policy. Everything 18 referred to the stockholders. Not only do the editors lose their individuality, but so also does everyone who {8 connected with In every re- calls for bak- ing powder use “Royal.” It will make the food of finer flavor, more di- . gestible and wholesome. responsible for this. The dissemioa knowledge through newspapers an multiplication of books, magazines and braries has added very materally to | unfortunate loss. The strength of a tlon lfes in the stalwart Individuality of its citizens. When this ia lost, clvilzation be- comes {neipid and powerless. LINES TO A LAUGH. Ghicago, Tribune: Borus (struggling author)-Naggus, |'m under many obliga tlons o you for calling my last book “h Its melling splendidly Naggus (literary editor)—Great Jupiter Was it printed “hot?" 1 wrote it “‘Fot Philadelphin Press: Dr. Do with sleeplessness, eh? 1ong standing? Patient—Yes, and of long walkin baby's had calic every night for t three months. em-—-Troubled Is your trouble of fe “He's a homeopath The past Catholle Standard lan't he? ‘Not altogether."” “Hut he alway doses. ™ ©s, but his fees are allopathic.” prescribed homeopathic [Jadge: “How's your mew book coming along “Oh, 1 haven't begun it vet." What's the matter? “i am busy supplying publishers with press notices explaining how 1 came to think of ita title.” “One of them miner: ght {n & nugket as big as A potato, laimed Bronco Bob Yes, sir!" chimed in Three-Finger Sam; “an’ almost as valuable.™ Washington Star: bro by Pittsburg Chronic thing of a centipede, “What do you mean? “Well, limbs of the law are very numer- ous.” The law is some. id Pitt to Penn Brooklyn Eagle: Meadowbrook (at the theater)—I should think Mrs. Binks would object to her husband looking at the ac- tresses so much through his opera glnss. Hempstead—Oh, but he I8 foxy enough when he puts the glass on one of them to always exclaim, “The homely thing." Chicago Tribune: “In this country suppose, the ideal condition in poll that the office should seek the man. “I don't know about that, stranger have offices that go, beggin think much of em. 1 os 18 Wa but we don't “iWhat aid you find essel which washed ashore this asked the Cannibal King of his a_shipwrecked, shoemaker and a e_of aherry, sire. "Tia well, ‘slave. cobbler for dinner. such a delicacy." Baltimore American on_that morning chief. Make me a sherry I have often heard of They're After Him. Cleveland Plain Dealer. They're after Schley, 1 don't know why, They seem to think they'll do him; They've got it in For’ poor old Win, They roast, and boll, and stew him. Whene'er they can They stab the ma And somehow don't get weary, To make it terse— They are much worse A foe than old Cervery! ——— LINES TO A CHILD, Robert Burng Wilson in Century. Dear little face, With placid brow and clear, uplifted eyes And prattiing lips that speak no evil thin Anll:dlmpnnl smiles, free of fair-seeming o8, Unschooled to ape the dreary world's pre- tense! Sweet imager of cloudless fnnocence! Thol tenderest flower of nature's fashion- n rose amidst the wildern Amidst the desert a clear welling spring— 8o 18 thy undissembling lovelines: Dear little face! Dear little hand! How sweet it I8 to feel against my own The touch of this soft palm, which never yet The taint, of soul-destroying gold hath known' nature's of trustfulness is pressed, Even her loving touch the 1{ly blessed With stalnless purity—even as she set “The golden flame upon the dattodil, AIIH heaven' clear blue upon the violet, May her best gifis be for thy clasping still, Dear little hand! Here seal Dear little heart That never harbored an That knows no bitternes care, But_only young life's n ment, And strange, new o plete, Unfledged “emotions and affections sweet' Velled, by the unlived years, thy fleld, but there The sowing for thy harvest hath begun, When thou shalt reap and bind, may no despair 111 intent, nor doubt, nor tling wonder- ., amidst thy incom- each paper. Concentration In large citfes s largely make such garments as tory as the garments. R. 8. Wilcox, Manager. in business, and an accommodating tarift on our part would tend to draw from Eu rope its trade and compel European gov eraments (o abate hostile actiou toward us. Rise from that ground betwixt thee and the aun, Dear little heart! Correct Styles In designing our clothing for gentlemen we gentlemen may wear-— avoiding the freak fads of fashion. Our new stock of Fall Suits just from our New York factory invite the attention of those who want GOOD CLOTHES properly made. Our prices will be found to be as satisfac- Rowning-King -5 (@ Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers,