Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 2, 1901, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY ‘THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING UBSCRIPTION it Bunday), One Year. 80 IERMS Of Daily Bee (with } 3 nday, One Year Twentleth Cen DELIVE By « »ally Bee, without Sunday Bee, without Sunday, Bee, including 8und iay Bee, per copy ing Bee, with One Year ARRIER per copy per week v, per week Sunduy, per week..10c per week.15c in_delivery Circulation De OFFICES ha: The Bee Bullding. Jth Omaha: City Hall ty-fth and M Streets Counell Bluffs: 10 Pear] Street. Chicago: 1640 Unity Bullding, Now York: Temple Tt Washington: 601 Fourteenth Street CORREZPOND, Communications relating to n torfal matter should be addressed Ree, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS Business letters and remittances should ho addressed: The HBee Publishing Company, ymiha REMITTANCES, Hemit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Hee Publishing Company Only 2-cent stamps accepted In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha o castern exchanges, not accepted THE BEE PUBLIEHING COMPANY f1ding, Twea- ws and adi Umaha BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION s of Nebraska, Douglas County, sa. George 1. Tzachick, secrotary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly &worn, says that the actual number of full and completo. coples of The Dally, Morning Evening and Bunday Tee printed during the month of September, 1%1, was as fol- & 18.. 17 18 .. .28 700 20 060 27,270 27,150 27,110 v | L.27.070 28600 | L.28,770 | 28 080 25 580 28,180 L8510 27,800 40,210 28 870 tal o 31,710 Less unsold and returned coples... Net total Net dally average..... .. 30040 GEO. B, TZSCHUCK Subscribed in my presence and before mo this 30th day of Septe 1001 M. B_HUD aAx rel down. The rallroads will not apply the live stock rate to “rooters” who attend the | coming foot ball games. —_—— If the New York Yacht club will only send out into the western country it | can seeure plenty of breeze to pull off | the cup ruces, While Omaha Is planning for a con- vention hall, it should not overlook the necessity of planning to capture a few conventions to make use of it. State Treasurer Stuefer should neither liave to be driven or coaxed to comply with the demand of the republican state convention for publicity as to the condi- tion of the state treasury. The fellows who rubbed thelr hands in glee over the smashing of the m chine now want to borrow, beg or steal some of its discarded levers, pulleys and cogs. Such is Omaha polities. steh students do not take kindly to the beuefits of Carnegie's gifts in ald | of education for the masses. If the Scotchmen do wot want the wmoney plenty of people on this side are ready to accept it cheerfully, The alleged attack on the tomb of | President MeKinley 1s explained on the theory of “overwrought nerves” on the | part of the guard. ‘The commanding | officer should put a man on guard who will not “see™ such things. —_— dltement of the recent result of Farmer Bryan's operations the past season has been overlooked. If his oats crop has proved unprofitable this some kind friend should advise him to change crops. In the months tl o The fact that a warrant bas been | fssued for the | Ident’'s salary was telegraphed out in detail. The United States Is o prompt paymaster and there is nothing strange in the fact that the “ghost walked” promptly on the 1st, The newspapers were unable to agree upon who was to be president of the Southern Pacific and to settle the mat- ter My, Harriman just took it himself. The suspicion Is, however, that the new president had a tip in advance about what wus goiug to bappen. Insurance agents are discussing a new system of basing rates for this city. The system muy be all right, but it is 4 10 to 1 shot that on the average it ralses the rates of insurance, Systems of rating are lke classifications of freight -subjects for manipulation. Papa-in-Law Zimmerman is not wear- fng out many pens drawing checks to pay the debts of the duke of Man- chester. [f more Amerlcans would fol- low his example the market quotations of rich Amertcan girls would take a sudden tumble in the European matri- monial bourse, The big fronmasters in Great Britain and the Spanish producers of ore are endeavoring to combine to fombat American competition. The incident Is of value not so much as indleating a menace to an American industry as in dieating a possibility of trade combina- tlons elsewhere than in this country. The sunflower editors are not all lo- cated in the Sunflower state. The pa- pers that caricatured, scarified and vili tlad Theodore Roosevelt during the past threo years are laudlfg him to the skles and bombarding him with boquets since his advent to the White House., And none are more profuse with their ho- sannag than Willlam R. Hearst's dis tillers of subtle poison and germinators | formation ! publicans whose votes b THE CUBANS WiLI, ACCEPT. propositions submitted to the | Cuban constitutional convention by General Wood, will, it Is reported from Havana, be accepted. One of them for the appointment of a commission to have charge of the forthcoming elections, This 18 obviously necessary In order that the elections shall be falrly and properly conducted. T other proposition 18 to reduce the num ber of elections from four to two. This 1s judiclous. It would not be well keep the Cubans in an almost continual political turmoll and excitement. It seems to have heen the idea of the mem bers of the constitutional convention that politics should be the chief matter of concern to the people, whereas their attention should be given mainly to the work of material improvement. Two | elections a the Cubans will find | quite enough to keep alive political in terest and they will not seriously inter wre With giving proper consideration to other matters, It is gratifying to find the Cubans so well disposed to accept the suggestions submitted to them by this government. They evidently have come to understand The year | that the Amerfean recommendations are made with the very best intentfons and with the purpose solely of benefiting them and starting them properly in solf-government. Had they realized this sooner the American occupation might not have been extended to this time and Cuba would now have a gov ernment of her own In full operation. Distrust of the United States by a con- glderable element In the Island ob- structed progress toward the estab lishment of an independent government Perhiaps there is still some distrust, but it exerts no influence. FOOLHARDY FIRE IN THE REAR The Lincoln Journal, which poses as | the organ of the faction that nominated the ticket and took charge of the party machinery at the late republican county convention, imparts this interesting fn- for the benefit of loyal re- ve kept Omaha and Douglas county in the republican lamn: As surprise at the result of the repub- lican county convention of last Saturday wears away the conviction {s growing that nothing that could have possibly happened could have so strengthened the cause of re- publicanism in this county. The effect ot the wresting of the control of affairs from the machine will be that there will be no organized opposition to the county ticket Had the machine succeeded in carrying out its plan there is no question that there would huve been an organized revolt of ex- asperated republicans which would have rallied fully 2,000 republicans and arrayed them against the republican county ticket. | S0 much has appeared In the Journal | emanating directly from the engineers of this political deal that we have n right to take this as official. We must believe therefore that had the candi- dates endorsed at the primaries by two thirds of the active republicans of Doung- las county been nominated, as they should have been, the antis would have organized a bolt with the deliberate fu- tent of turning 2,000 votes against the candidates on the republican county ticket. This revelation will hardly surprise anybody familiar with'the tactics of the treacherous patriots who sought to vide nto power on false issnes while mas- querading In the garh of reform. It is doubtful whether one out of ten of these men has voted a straight republican ticket in six years. Two years ago they rganized themselves into a Patriotic league to scuttle the county ticket and turn the courthouse over to the popo- crats. Last year thelr organized bolt was for the avowed purpose of turning the city government over to the demo- crats and later to give the democrats two United States senators by knifing the republican legislative ticket, While we doubt exceedingly whether their projected bolt for this fall would have been any more successful than their bolts of last year, it is certainly foolhardy for thelr organ at Lincoln, which has always heen an enemy of Omaha and has for years labored to array the whole state against Omaha, to gloat over the smashing of the machine without which the state house would still be occupled by popocrats and with- out which nelther Senator Millard nor Renator Dietrich could have occupied thelr seats In the upper house of the na- tional leglislature, THEY WANT KECIPROCITY. The republicans of New Jersey are in favor of trade reciprocity. At their state convention last week they adopted as the first part of their platform that portion of the address of Mr. McKinley at Buffalo relating to reciprocity, to which the nominee for governor, Frank- lin Murphy, referred as a wise and far-seelng declaration. Commenting upon this, the Philadelphia Ledger re marks that it “Indicates clearly enough that reciprocity, the preservation of our growing trade and the strengthening of our prospering Industries form an issue which Is claiming the attention of the country. It cannot be evaded,” de- clares that paper, “even If that were de- sirable, and the New sey republicans have declared their adherence to a pol- ley which was not only foreibly and wisely advocated by President MceKin ley, but is Incorporated in the repub- lican natioval platforms, provided for in the Dingley bill itself and will be generally supported by the republican party and approved by moderate and sensible men of all parties,” There is no question that a very large majority of republicans fully agree with what was sald by the late president at Buffalo in advocacy of reciprocity, while the great manufacturing and exporting interests of the country are practically solld in support of that poliey. In view of this It would seem entirely safe to assume that republican senators will not continue to array themselves in opposition to this distinctly republican principle, but will give heed to the counsel of the party’s late distinguished leader, which has been unreservedly ac cepted by his successor and approved by republican state conventions. New Jersey, a manufacturing state, Joins with lowa, an agricultural state, of anarchy that flourlsh in New York, Chicago and San Francisco, in support of reciprocity. The repub licans of both believe In prolwung.um(e under very trying circumstances, Yet | !t thelr coloni American industries and they discern no menace to that poliey from “sensible trade arrangements which will not in terrupt onr home production,” but will extend the outlets for our increasing surplus, They realize that the pressing problem, as was said by Mr. McKinley, is the expansion of our trade and com merce and that the plain and sure way to its solution is through reciprocity. THE ISTHMIAN CANAL QUESTION It is announced that the Isthmian Canal commission has about completed [ts report, but it is not expected that it will be made public until it goes to con gress, It is pointed out that besides belng more conrteous to congress to let its members see the report first, consid diplomatic possibilitios are in in withholding the final conclu slons of the commissioners from pub licity. Both Colombia and Nicaragua, It is sald, may be gounded for their best proposals and as each s desirous of having the United States construct a eanal along its route, they are likely to make better terms now when they seem Yogly «tand in competition. The situation with the French company I8 the same and although the compuny has been very slow to move, it is stated that the administrative officers are not without hope that a definite offer will be sub mitted In time for congress to consider it in connection with the opportunities of the Nlearngua route, As to the treaty situation, It Is re- ported from London that correspondence on the subject has ceased, the treaty heing In form for signature. It was also | stuted that the only authoritative in- | formation obtalnable about it there was that it 18 considerably better for the United States than the preceding one. The utmost reserve exists respecting the | neutrality clause. In other respects the treaty follows the general lines of the Hay-Pauncefote convention. The obvious Inference is that the British svernment has made a very material | concesston In regard to neutrality, since the president would hardly again send to congress a treaty containing the same, or practically the same, neutrality i clause as the treaty which the senate amended. Secretary Hay obtained the views of a number of senators before renewing negotiations, with particular references to the question of neutrality. If it xhall appear that the British gov- ernment has accepted the Ameriean po erahbl volv money | this may be eaid of the whole Alaskan gold sltion in the main there will probably be 1o difficulty In securing the ratifica- tion of the treaty, the attitude of some | of the senators on this questlon having | been modified since the preceding treaty under constderation. There has | also been a change of view in England, some of the London newspapers having urged that {t would be good policy for Great Britain to give the United States a free hand in the construction of an interoceanic canal, regardless of any protest from other European powers, nis question will undoubtedly re celve attention early in the coming| session and 1t is generally belleved that a canal bill will be passed. This i3 as- sured In the event of the new treat proviug satisfactory to the senate, while if it should not it is probable that steps will be taken for the abrogation of th Clayton-Bulwer convention. It was the desire of the late president that this should be effected in a way that would not subject the United States to eriti clsm or impair confidence in our gov- ernment’s respect for treaty obligations, It is not to be doubted that this is also the wish of Mr. Roosevelt. was MUST RAISE $100,00 MORE. While the managers of the auditorium project are to be congratulated upon the | success that has hitherto attended their efforts, it I8 to be hoped that they do not labor under the hallucination that they can complete the auditorium bulld- ing with their present resources, ‘e fundamental condition embodied in thelr articles of incorporation pro hibits the company from incurring any bonded or mortgage lability, and that provision cannot be abrogated except with the concurrence of the stockhold ers. This includes not only the parties who subscribed for the stock, but th holder of every auditorium brick con- tible Into stock. But even If the grounds and bulldings could be bonded it exceedingly doubtful whether a loan could be negotiated unless the con- tractors could be Induced to sign walv- ers of thelr llens, to which they would be legally entitled for every dollar for building material and labor put into the construction of the building. These liens have precedence over mortgages and therefore would form an lnsur- mountable barrier to the negotiation of a loan. Under the clrcumstances, the impera- tive n sity of raising at least $100,000 more In subscriptions and donations must be apparent to all prudent busi- ness men engaged In the enterprise. This means more hard work for the manage It means also that Omaha must be roused to the magnitude and fmportance of the undertaking which cannot now be abandoned without dis- credit to the city, The fnvestigation into hemp speculations, which the army of the Philippines, resumed by the subcommittee United States senate, It has not yet transpired whether the investigation was cut short last winter because of the absence from Washington of one of the Nebraska candidates for the United States seuate or whether it was ad Journed to give the committee an oppor tunlty to recover from the deadly ef fect of the noxious fumes of Manila hemp. ve s, the Manila scandalized has been of the The county hoard s experlencing & spasim of economy in an effort to save & cents a ton on its contract for hard conl for the winter. Its extravagant sal ry roll for do-nothing supernumeraries, wever, 1s passed regularly without The county board can strain at a gnat while swallowing camel better than any other public body in this neck-0'-woods. compunetion, One Degree of Comfort Chicago Record-Herald, | and we welcome the opening of little tracts | | In these days of vast increase in the em- President Roosevelt went into his high in one way he waa particularly fortunate. The office seekers were not sitting on the steps walting for him. Up to the Sleuths Chicago News, I« Pat Crowe enjoying life as a Rulgarian brigand? A Depressing Situntio Washington Post We are quito prepared to learn that John Bull is becoming a trifle tired over the | monotony of the reports from South Africa. | At the same time there is nothing to do but to appropriate more money and ‘ave | opes. | | | [ — | A Profitless Venture. | Springfield Republican | It is stated of the 500 latest arrivals from the Alaskau gold district of Nome that | not one of them brought back as much | as was taken out. Unquestionably | development--it has cost the country more than it has yielded in yellow metal. Keep Missionaries at Home. Indfanapolls Journal The American Board of Missions has de- | cided to ransom Miss Stone, who has been | captured by brigands in Bulgaria. That is the humane thing to do, but It the brigands get the impression that all missionaries | kidnaped will be ransomed the board will | need a largo revenue. The better way 18 to withdraw all missionaries from places where they are likely to be captured Strength of the Nation. Saturday Fvening Post Nothing could better show the stability | of this government than the ordeals through which it has recently passed. The demon- | stration s useful because it may impress | even those timid and talkative souls who see disaster In every cloud and ruin in every ange. The natlon is stronger than it ever was—not because it {s bigger, but the men who make It are stronger and better men. ility of Common Carrle Boeton Transcript The Maryland court of appeals has re- cently given a decision to the effect that | common carriers are responsible for in juries to passengers in their conveyances which may be Inflicted by drunken and dis- orderly persons. The court, reviewing a | case that was brought before it, says: “If | there is danger of any one being injured, | and the employes fail to remove, subdue or | overpower the turbulent individual, after knowlng that there is danger, or after they | ought to have known that there was danger, | it they had not exercised proper care, that | failure is negligence, for the consequences | of which the company Is lable.” The | drunken parsenger s always a nulsance and often a menace and tho court's words | have a wide application outside of Mary- land. MORE ROOW THE WE! Tremendons Espanse of Walting for Popula Kansas City Journal It is not generally known that there are | in the United States unutilized areas of land to the extent of 600,000,000 acres. | There are times when we are apt to think that the country is getting a trifle crowded | T of u few hundred thousand acres as afford- ing opportune relfef to a condition of almost dangerous congestion. But all Europe does | not possess the area which is included fn | the arid region west of the Mississivoi There's the rub—it s an arid region. But ployment of irrigation the solution of the problem of congestion appears. The tremendous expanse of territory capable of supporting a population of & 000,000 people. At the increase rate of only 5,000,000 or 6,000,000 fn & decade. it will be a long time before the population of the country has reached 125,000,000, But the time Is coming and long hefore it arrives preparations must be made to accommo date a population roughly estimated by these figure Is LAWS F 1E COLON Neceasity for n for the N Brooklyn Eagle. Good Examples ven. From our {sland in Samoa comes an ap- peal to let the people know where they are at. Since the division of the group among the powers that formerly owned it jointly the inhabitants of the American island say that they have been troubled to find who 1 In charge and whether they have rights of their own or rights of ou whether they are an autonomy or a public charge; a state or @ dependency. We have defined with more or less clearness the posi- tion of the Philippines and of Porto Rico and have been asked to state our views with emphasis on the subject of Hawall from which come rumbles and grumbles of misgovernment, but of Tutuila we appear to have taken little thought and its people ask that we do take some. They agk either that they be allowed to govern themselves or that this government enact laws for them and extend the means of their enforce- ment. This government has taken private lands for public purposes and has not paid the natives for them. It has also asked the natlves to glve up thelr arms and ammuni- tlon on promise of payment, and again has not paid them. In the simple, half-savage mind there is something wrong in this. When the white man deals with hls own government he does not expect prompt or businesslike action or Immediate pecuniary results, So many salaried men have to review his case In order to earn their salaries that he often has to walt for vears before he can touch his money. But to the child of nature the relations between sale and pay- went are intimate and If the payment fs in- definttely postponed he thinks that he s “done.”” " Evidently this country will re quire to bulld schools at a cost ten times the amount of its Indebtedness in which the | people can be taught how to live on hope, Germany owns the neighboring feland of Apla, and its examplo there has its part | In fucreasing the discontent of the Tutull- ane. Germany is expending money to some purpose, and has established definite laws and understandings. It 18 making great public roads and putting up public bufld- ings, opening up the country and stimulat- ing ndustries, while the Unfted States has done nothing. But the people should not be discouraged, and they would not be if they knew how many good things' we are thinking of doing for them—some time. We have never had colonies before, and are a Uttle puzzled to know just what to do with the queer, brown, woolly people who Insieted on getting themselves born and brought up In places which were destined to have our flag wave over them. We would like to fee] that they would not mis behave in congress, and would also like to belleve that our representatives and representatives would plously refrain misbehaving among them, but from whie- | pers we hear from Guam and Manila and | San Juan and Honolulu, it fs (o be feared | hat white men can act with as little re gard to etlquette, when away from home, as the brown people might show in Washing. ton. We ehall civilize our dependents best and fastest when we set examples before them, and, In addition to the Ws govern ing the colonles may with advantage enact laws for behavior of Americans mis from we | ing effocts of a | coast | atong, OCTOBER 2, 1901 The President’s Safety New York 1t asible would be United § A the ¢ whose constant surveillanc consisient with the which he administers opposite extr which practicable to avold in the the president and which it would be well to avold out of consideration alike for the dignity of his ofMice and the welfare of the country. No doubt Presldent Roosevelt that he has already repeatedly exposed himselt to attacks upon his person since the shooting of his predecessor made his Iite pre-eminently valuable, not to speak of his perilous night ride through the Adirondacks following an urgent summons to Buffalo. His high personal courage and ifmpatience of {rksome formalities are qual tties which have largely contributed to the admiration which he has won in all parts of the country and ft was readily that he would be disinclined to change his habits radically, even under the constrain tragedy which profoundly concernad himself and all the people. They understand a character and temperame which they have always found engaging and they would naturally prefer to see him enjoying the freedom of movemen and of Intercourse with all sorts and con ditions of men to which he has heen ac- customed all his lite. But it fs to be con- sldered that among the obligations which the president has contracted is the obliga tlon to avold needless risks and to make f8 im and if it undesirable, that ates should be upant of an arative are and form of government But there 18 an It seems quite were possible pre as ¢ Autocratic iston guarded throne s wely con and traditional is aware foresoon Baltimore American: Mr. J. Plerpont Morgan is one of the lay delegates to the Eplscopal conventfon at San Francisco. Are to prepare for a religious now? Buffalo Express: We understand that Mr. J. Plerpont Morgan's jaunt for the min- isters 1s undertaken with a purpose. Ho 1s contemplating a clerical trust—a great theological consolidation, which will redu operating expenses, put an end to ruinous competition and make the output more widely available. This will be a good thing for the country. Indtanapolis Journal most prominent clergymen of the east will bo the guests of J. Plerpont Morgan to attend the coming Eplscopal conven- tion in San Francisco. in a luxuriously appointed train sides free transportation and back will have the best sistence that money can buy. we and of wealth Philadelphia Record: There approaching b ric splendor in the cross- country expedition of Mr. J. P. Morgan from New York to San Francisco in his palatial train. No historic monarch or con- queror could have made a tour from capital to capital with anything like the pomp and circumstance of this American citizen's journey to attend a church convention. Mr. Morgan may think it is no one's busi- ness but his own how he makes or spends his moncy, yet there are thousands of his fellow citizens who, though wishing him no harm, deplore such ostentations. Dis- play of this sort breeds discontent and gives opportunity for demagogic appeal to the elements of social disorder. Chicago Chronicle: There s no why J 1o a church convention, should not charter a special train with palatial service to carry himself and invited guests to San Francisco, where a rented mansion, with all reason | the accessories of lavash wealth, awalts his pleasure and comfort during the conven tlon’s progress. The spectacle, however, of such a caravansary as an ald to religlous duty will not fail to arouse criticlsm. Mil- lionaires have & right to use their weaith in buylng comfort for themselves and guests when they travel from home, but there {s a strange Incongruity in such lavish display when many religious socleties are compelled thelr work, and rarely meet with the re- sponses that they are entitled to. OUR COMMERCIAL EDUCATION. hods of Tral en (o Shame. New York Sun When the Birmingham university was founded & committee sent this country to investigate the system of tech- nical instruction in vogue in the scientific schools of our universities. The delegates went to Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell and other centers. The result of their in vestigations was that they obtained val- uable hints on the subject of the applica- ogreasive M & Put was to tion of theory to practice and as to how | with us the classroom and the laboratory are kept in touch with the factory and the mill. They were deeply impressed with the Intensely practical nature of sclentific Institutions on this side of the Atlantic and admitted freely that in their opinion it was largely owing to this fact that America has made such a rapld advance in the manufacturing industrie ow the English are turning to us once more for Information with regard to an allied subject. Commercial education has been neglected fn Great Britain. Only at London university and Birmingham 15 there any provision made for a cour such as would it men for the highest walks of commerce. Englishmen iu dealing with foreign trade complain that are without the linguistic and other equip ment possessed by the ugents employed by rman houses. So experts in education are considering the experiments in busi ness education first made hero by the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, which have followed since by the universities of Chicago, California, South Dakota, Ver mont, New York. Speaking on this subject the Times of London polnts out that while people In Great Britain are grumbling at deficlencies and how they can be sup- plied, “the men, the money anl the en terprise seem to be at once forthcoming on the other side of the Atlantie.” It then goes on: “But there are two considera- tions, to say nothing ot other natlonal pe- culiarities, which partly explain the dif- ference in regard to commercial educa tlon. In the first place, commercial and business life Is in America, to an extent un known in England, the atmosphere of all classes from the highest to the lowest Yo stigma of soclal inferiority atiaches to commerce, no American 15 too wealthy, too well educated or too high horn to en- gage in it. In the second place--what fs of even greater importance—Americans be lieve In education and all movements for its improvement from the clementary school to the university have behind them what 18 often lacking here—the driv Ing of papular interest. The liber ality of wealthy abjects Englishmen hame." To be “In trade” is not regarded as a reproach even in our fashionable Am are not content stick to old ways are better. Begldes have the encrgy of a young settled in a young country, with a future befors them that the most optimistic cannot be t0o ex- m problems been 0 powe ans to “muddle to ways when new | travagant in estimativg trust | One hundred of the | the dispatch was writ | ,. something | officer | | | | I Pierpont Morgaa, as a lay delegate | | to beg for furds to carry on | | fiela W | miles of Santiago. Tribune al to tha nteed some personal sacrifices end safety could be g such rigid measures of prote be fntolerable to him and proba nant to the people, but it creased by simple preca is frankly averse and ment of pleasures whi purchased. He may rest red that such an ordering of his life would be deemed perfectly suitable and cordially approved by his fellow citizens and resp: 1y entreat him to weigh the matler carefully and disintereste: There is another branch of the subject concerning which there se even less room for differences of apinion We refor again to the presidential tom of handshaking, which has survived from a perfod when the demands upon the time and strength of the executive were not onerous and the possibility of an a sault upon his life had never been con ceived. 1t has become a grave injustice to him and to the people, In whose service he desires his highest Only a minute proportion of them can ever enjoy the privilege from which clrcum stances inevitably debar all the rest and wo are persuaded that most of those who are able to secure the opportunity would admit that it fs a foollsh ambition and cheerfully forego it for the president's wake. It is earnestly to be hoped that Mr Roosevelt will consent to an abandonment of this weartsome, irratfhnal and danger ous practice, which would certainly be as His by as would not even Iy repug might be in fons to which he the relinquish be too dearly by h may a Al e to b gene to employ powers lttle congenial to him as it can possibly | have been to any man who has ever occu- pled the offce. Scenes and Incidents Observed at the National Capital, One of the many developments In connec tion with the naval court of inquiry in ses slon In Washington 1s the publication of the dispatch which Admiral—then ( modore—Schley sought to forward to the secretary of the navy. The dispatch was suppressed at the time and no mentlon as been made of it heretofore. It has not cen Introduced in the court, but will figure 1n the proceedings later on Immediately after the Colon was driven ashore by the Brooklyn and the Oregon, on and forwarded to the telegraph station by Lieutenant Com- mander Sears, Schley's flag lieutenant. Just as Sears was about to file it for transmis- They will travel | sion, 8o the story goes, Lieutepant Com- be- | mander Staunton to the Pacific | peared with a similar cabl sub- | Staunton about sending Commodore Schle The abllity | dispatch, and Staunton 1 sald to have re- | to do such things is one of the pleasures | plie of Sampson's staff ap- gram. Sears asked You know whether you ought to send a report in the presence of a senfor As @ result the Schley message was never sent. It reads as follows ANTIAGO, July 3, 1888.—To of Navy, Washington: Spanish squadron came out of Santlago harbor this morning. July 3, at 8:30, and were all captured or destroyed in a runuing fight to the west- ward of about three and one-halt hours. Very few casualties in our fleet; Ellis, chief yeoman, killed, and one man wounded on the Brooklyn; reports from other ships not in yet. The commander-in-chief now su- perintending transfer of prisoners from the Cristobal Colon, which surrendered to the Brooklyn and Oregon at 1:15 p. m. Victory complete; details later. Several waters tight compartments of the Brooklyn filled with water, probably plerced or strained SCHLEY The Sampson message, as sent fn place of the above, follows “July 3, 1898.—Secretary of Navy, Wash- ington: The fleet under my command offers the nation as a Fourth of July present the whole of Cervera's fleet. It attempted to escape at 9:30 this morning. At 2 the last ship, the Cristobal Colon, had run ashore seventy-five miles west of Santlago and hauled down her colors. The Infanta Maria Teresa, Oquenda and Vizcaya were forced ashore, burned and blown up within twenty The Furor and Pluton within four miles of the SAMPSON. were destroyed port. “If President Roosevelt, {nstead of ten- Ing to each member of the McKinley binet a re-appointment, says the Wash ington letter to the New York Post, “had tried to go to a further extreme of con servatism and make up a cabinet of the oldest experienced material he could find whom would he have put into it? This was the thought of many who looked at the throng of gray heads at the funeral of Preaident McKinley. Such a cabinet of ‘last survivors' would have as its secretary of state John W. Fos- ter of Indlana, who occupied that office no longer ago than the latter month of the Harrison ad plstration and Is now 65 years old Its secretary of the treasury would ba George 8. Boutwell of Maseachus- stts, who Is in his elghty-fourth year. Its retary of war would be John M. Scho- who held that office under Andrew Johnson. Ita secretary of the interior would be Carl Schurz, who served under Hayes. Its secretary of the nmvy, also | dating from the same administration, would engaged | their assistants of all sorts | | Americans to educational l Its N be Nathan Goff, jr. of West Virginia postmas! general would be James Tyner of Indlana, who held office for the last few months of the Grant administra tion. Its attorney genaral would be George H. Willlams of Oregon, also of the Grant administration, and its secretary of agri culture, Norman J. Colman of Missour! who was the first occupant of that office In the latter months of the Cleveland ad ministration “‘Wa have, therefore, among ranking sur- vivors one man who goes back to Johnson. three who date from Grant, two from Hayes, one from the first Cleveland administra- tion and one from Harrison." “The first time Roosevelt,” sald 1 ever saw a Washington n man, “was when he was a civil service commissioner. 1 was carrying the hod for a morning newspaper and was glven an as tlgnment to see Mr. Roosevelt touching some clvil service question. When 1 reached the gentleman's home 1 was shown to the library and pretty soon Mr. Roose velt walked in. He came ty me and gave me a warm handshaking and went right business by saying “UI am glad to see you, young friend, you represent the paper you do. The editor of your paper I8 an In famous scoundrel and unmitigated llar Yes, sir, that's just what he Is, but I know you ean't help it. Al heaven and earth couldn’t keep him from being just what he ts. Be good enough to tell him I said this Now, blaze away and tell me what you wish to know and I'll do the best I can for you.! “And President wspaper el to but sorry, my then, after dellvering himselt of his private opinion of my boss, Mr. Roose. velt gave all the facts .1 wished, and the last word he said to me was to not fol ot 1o tell the editor his opinion of him tories are now in order d by the New York World The new president believes heartily 1n the old bibiical that to spare the rod is to spoil the child, The Roose velt children hava all been spanked—ex cept during their babyhood—and very soundly ‘Once when Ausley Wilcox of Buftalo, in Roogevelt 18 one rel Here admonition Secretary | = ecutive mansion at Albany, he sat talking 10 the govarnor shortly after the Roosevelt children had b sent to bed. As the ROvernor and his guest talked and smoked peal W of laughter was heard com ing from the nursery and there were sounds ot ral romping annoyed governor, He went out \lled Toudly to the nurse He had hardly again before the were as loud as X 1 nto the hall and to have the noise stopped started t unds before 4 1o his guest. He n almost moments there was h hands”" Whack! whack! whack! Mr. Wilcox heard, and immediately the snickering stopped and sniveling took its place. Then the governor returned fe winded and redder in the face, but with his determined exprossion unrelaxed PERSONAT e conversation of “cutting up se me Mr Ascor Roosovelt sajd grimly dod the stairs to the tound and in a few ard the “laying on of sory NOTES, Carroll D, Wright, United States commise foner of labor, has heen elected a member of the International Institute of Sociology. | Henryk Sienkiewicz, unlike most authors, | finds inspiration in crowds and does his | summer's work in crowded hotels at pey 1ar resorts When King Edward VIl was in Fimburg Iast year he turned the scales at 335 pounds, and in twelve days had reduced !his weight five pounds. This year, howe ever, he weighed, on reaching Hamburg, 240 pounds. Few presidents of the United States have | had mide¢ names. The list is composed {of John Quincy Adams, Willlam Henry Harrtson, Jawmes K. Polk, Ulysses 8. Grant, Rutherford B Hayes, James A. Garfleld and Chester A, Arthur, seven in all The Springfield Republican says: “The Congressman McCall version of Sidney Smith's likeness of Webster {8 ‘a steam- eugine in trousers’' The Senator Hoar version 18 a ‘stoam-engine in britches.’ The latter I8 the American version, at any rate.” Under Prestdent Roosevelt, according to the Washington Post, informal dinners will be quite a feature at the White House, as Mr. Roosevelt has always had a pleasant way of asking men of note with whom he has business to come to luncheon or dinner, as the case may be, that day with him About tho only outdoor pastime which John D. Rockefeller indulges is pitching | quofts. The Standard Ofl Croesus was re- cently asked If he did not like golf. Mr. Rockefeller's acquaintance with the game may be guessed from the reply he made: “I don’t know anything about golf. Why, I wouldn't even know how to hold my caddle" The late Lord Morrls did not at first make a favorable impression in the House of Lords. One conspleuous member 18 said to | have inquired what language the noble and learned lord was speaking. Lord Morris himself was asked how he got on. “‘Well," he replfed, “I made wan mistake. I should have practised spakin' to & lot of grave- stones befors I addressed their lordships.” Pl — PREEZY REFLECTIONS. Press: Mr. Gusher-I've e some verses to Miss Ann Teek, but e " maw what to call them. “Ode on Ann's Itace” expresses the idea, but that doesn’t sound ri | Miss Pepprey- on Ann's Face? Philadelphta “1 hayve a sug- iy o ler Cloveland Platn Dealer: I haye o sus: tlon to offer for use \Well, what 1s it v " ) . % “Perhaps the admiral wasn't willing to put the \Woal on in order to get the Colon. p Jhia Press: “Why, pn. this is roast | dof M exciatmea 1ttle »\fiua at din ner or cvening when Mr. Chumpleigh was 4 the guest of honor. ) wnid the father, “‘what of that ' ¢, you told ma this morning that you w “-"g\.h;‘m o bing a ‘mutton head’ home for dinner this evening.' june: “Why is it inquired e oninie around. the docks, h call it ‘lifting’ the cup? "'aald the dignified person f it ever e a better [3 qQuf the en onrse Chicago T g the man wh ‘that you Engl Recause, ST, with the mutton chop whiskers, Fets into our hands it will hav, position in soclety ,ston Post: “There Is something the matter with. your feet.” said ‘the editor, erring to the bit of verse the poet had o sata poet. looking modestly down at his y extremitios, “my feet Are Wil right, but I admit my shoes have seen better days the dal yetrolt Free Press: She—I'm so glad 1t e fonie. At one time 1 wan afral you would |\I’l|*“|!fll' He-—80 was [! ‘hicago Post: “Does your wife open let- h‘r:nflm\ are addressed to you?" casually Ny t friend. e e Iikés to admit that his mail i« opened by another, and yet Higging ed to be truthful M ahen | they are delivered at my ofice,” he replied P THE MAN WHO SAW IT ALL. Josh Wink, in Baltimore American. It is an anclent mariner Who stoppeth one of three “By. thy §pyE W whe “Oh, gentle sir," the mariner dmarked, with earnest face, “RBut list the while I tell you of The wonderful yacht race. They crossed the line in aplendid shapet he wind was strong, Indeed; A e he piped. the larboard watch And quickly took the lead “Which took the lead?” the stranger cried “Which vacht ahead did run® “1t war,” the mariner declared, It was the other one. 11" the stranger sald, of the race mariner remarked, Jast gave chase. “Go on! ( “And tell 1 o1 will,” th “And then the \ Ked and tacked until you'd think Wit oft 410 hang rigging, was at best RANE 1 first yacht reached the “They tac The cr Upon th A carpet-luying when the W hintlen tooted gay." The whistles toote Which was the first? the stranger asked. “The one that led the way. And v came back on the other leg,'* riner went on And one went by the very route The other one had gone." What dld they do?" the stranger sald, What dld they do, T beg?" Ax near s | can tell,” quoth he, “I think they pulled the leg. “And then they neared the finish lineg he bettors cheered and cursed, When proudly sweeping into view he winner came In first!"" “But which was that?" the stranger crie Oh, which was that, T pray?” Alag!"" the mariner replied, U1 was ten miles away." anclent mariner Who “Help!" did loudly cry. as the angry stranger man Wha smote him hip and thigh 1t was SIGNATURE GUARANTEES LIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTEAET whose home Mr. Roosevelt was sworn In as president, was a guest at the atate ex BEWARE OF VUST AS GOODS"