Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 10, 1901, Page 6

THE O AUA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORN TERMS OF 8Uf FTON ut Bund Year. $6.00 and Sunday Year .00 lustrated HBee, One Year Bunday Bee, One Year Baturday bee, One Year Twentleth Century Farmer, One Year.. AVERED BY CARRIER Dally Bee, without Sunday, per copy 2 Dally Bee, without Sinday, per week. .. 13 Dally Bee, inciuding Sunduy, per week..lic Sunday Bee, per copy S Eyeontg Bed, without Sunduy, pet week 10 vening Bee, includ'g Bunday, per week.1 Complaints’ of irregularities in delfvery should be addressed to City Cireulation De- partment. OFFICES Omaha: The Bee Bulldin A South Omaha; City Hall Bullding, Twea- ty-fifth and M Streets. ‘Council Bluffs: 10 Pearl Street Chicago: 1640 Unity Bullding New York: Temple Coart Washington: ol Fourtecath Street JRRESPONDERNCE. Communications relating to news torial matter should be addressed Bee, Editorial Departmen edi- maha BUSI L SRS, Business letters and remittances should be addressed; The Hee Publishing Corapany, Omaha REMITTANCES Remit by draft press or postal order, payable to The iblishing APy Only 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts. Personal checks. except on Omaha or castiern exchanges, THE BEE PUBLISHING STATEMENT OF CIRCULATIO! Btate of Nebraska, Douglus County, ss.: George B. Tzschick, sccretary of The Bre Publishing Company, belng duly sworn, says that the actual number of full .nd gomplete. coples of The Dally. Morni 10t uccepted COMPANY Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of September, 161, was as foi- lows: ..28.700 L2 000 g R X T 27,150 19 25,000 271 2 20,250 41,100 21 27,070 47,710 22 28 600 84,775 o 28,770 88,000 .. 28,080 28,150 28,180 ..27.800 82,190 Total ..... unsold and turned coples a0 . 30,646 Z8CHUCK. and sworn to Net total sales Net dally average B GEO. B Bubscribed in my presenc before me this 30th day of Septembar, A. D, 101, M. B_HUNGATE Notury Pubile. All things earthly end. 8o must the § of Inquiry. must come to an chley naval board The Douglas county populists are easily pacified. A few crumbs from the demoeratic ple counter go a good ways to satlsfy thele appetit The Loulsville (Ky.) girl engaged to marry Lord Charles Henry Augustus Frederick Lockhart Ross of England is certainly getting plenty of name for her money. —_—_— The time for filing Spanish war claims has expired. As $50,000,000 worth of the claims have been presented the com- mission I8 not likely to run out of work for some time, We are assured that the School Book trust is taking no active part In the re- publican city primaries, but the agent for the trust appears to be very much concerned over the selection of dele- gates to the nominating convention. E———— Germam bullders have informed the kalser that at present they are not pre- pared to build a yacht which could sue- cessfully compete for the Amerlfea’s cup. The Germans need not be discouraged— there are others. From the evidence adduced in the Schley investigation it might be in order for the Annapolis Naval academy to advertise for a new instructor in map- drawing who lays greater stress on aceuracy than on artistic appearance, A law has just become effective in Michigan providing a penalty for dock- ing horses’ tails. It Is strange that it Is necessary to enact laws to stop such an unnecessary practice, but fads of fash- fon take no account of cruelty to anl- mals, e—————— Some real western cowhoys glving a steer-roping contest at the Des Moines festival have convinced the people of that city that they can rope a steer quicker than a summer resort hotel keeper can separate a man from his money, e Lord Roberts exhorts the British pub- lic to be patlent over the untoward course of events in South Africa. The British public had a large stock of patience to commance on, but it has bheen drawn on heavily during the past two years, E——— The city electrician reports the in- come of his office for September as $107.8: This reminds us that the in- come of the gas inspector is only $125 a month, and we think It Is about time for the counell to vote him an lncrease or a horse and buggy. Mr. Rome Miller has ralsed a tempest in & chafing dish by the démand that the Commercial club he reorganized because It is extending the cheap lunch privilege to outsiders. ‘T'he restaurant business would hardly seem to be within the province of the Commercial club. —— A forecast of the findings of the sen- ate committee that Is pow investigating the Manila hemp scandal predicts a mild dose of censure for former Acting Secretary Meiklejohn by reason of ad misslons mude in his own testimony, We apprehend that Mr, Melklejohn will take his dose of homeopathic medicine with serene composure, em—— A New York religious paper is again active in colleoting money for the ran- som of Miss Stone. The motive may be a worthy one, but this particular paper never misses aun opportunity to pass the hat to atteact attentlon to itself ~It 18 80 much chesper than letting someone else pass the headgear and putting 1o something ftselt, THE WAR ON BEET SUGAR. The Sugar trust is prosecuting its war on the beet sugar Industry with a vigor which plainly denotes a determination to destroy that industry If possible. The reduction in the price of granulated sugar for Missouri river points ordered by the trust Jast week was probubly | but the beginning of the war and is | likely to be followed by further action on the part of the trust and its western ally looking to the breaking down of the beet sugar interest, It I« announced that the manufacturers of beet sugnr | will go on producing regardless of the trust’s attack, but will not undertake to compete at the price made by the trust- 81 cente a pound. They will in stead store their product, believing that in a short time they will be able to sell it at a living pri Ihis “ecms i the circumstances the judicious course, though it is quite possible that the beet sugar people are *otewhat too optimistie regarding the result. The trust may be in position to carry on the war mueh longer than the beet sugar interest apparently believes and there I8 no doubt the trust is pre pated to make a very considerable sac ritiee in order to break down the heet sugar industry, which stands in the way of Ity xche to gecure the free admis ston of raw Cuban sugar. That is the an be contidently predicted that it will continue the war until the question of our treatment of Cuban sugar shall have been determined. The Springfiecld Republican remarks that the sugar war “is spreading out (o envelop congress and muke of Cuba ity annexation or its admission to reci Procity with the United States—the ground of a most bitter industrial and political struggle. The Sugar trust aud the cane foterest will stand for reci procity or free trade with Cuba and the beet sugar assoclation will fight this movement to the utmost Hmit of its resou " The Republican thinks that the national adwministration will throw its influence for reciproeity it not annexution and free trade and says: “The battle in its political aspects will hegin on the assembling of congress i December and it will be a struggle of extraordinary character. And in the end Coban annexation and free tra can he no mistaking the motive of the war on the beet sugar industry. The trust has declared itself in favor of admitting Cuban raw sugar free and retaining the duty on refined, Coder such a policy the domestle sugar indis- try vould be destroyed and the :rast would sccure complete and absolute control of the American market. If it cun now seriously cripple the beet sugay industry and discournge its further de- velopment it may achieve its object. We do not believe, however, that the cdministration and congress will pro- mete the purpose of the trust by lis- regarding the Just claim to consideration of the beet sugar interest. That interest teen developed and encouraged by sepublican legislation and we cannou think that now, when it hasreached | proportions which promise that in the )t temote future we shall produce | wugh sugar to supply the home de nd, 1t will be abandoned by a repub- Hean congress and administration In the interest of the Sugar trust and the Cuban sngar growers, EDUCATING PORTO RICANS. A published letter from the commis- sioner of education of Porto Rico shows that very satisfict progress is be- ing made in educational work on the fsland, He states that the school at- tendance is 76 per cent of the children of school age, which is better than in A number of our states, and demon- strates how general 1s the desire of the islanders to acquire an education. A like eagerness to learn has been man- ifested in Cuba, showing that the peo- ple of these islands fully appreciate the opportunity which American rule offers them to better thelr condition in this direction. Since January 1 last the value of school houses built and permanent equipments acquired is $265,000, The insular gov- ernment devotes $300,000 annually, one- fourth of its present income, to educa- tional purposes aund of course the ex- penditure will be increased as cireum- stances require and the fncome of the government will permit. The interest- ing statement is made by the commis- sloner of education that the children in the schools sing the “Star Spangled Banner” and other patriotic anthems in English and doubtless with as much ecarnestuess as they are sung generally by Awmerlean children, At any rate the practice of sluging these patriotic songs is a good one and ¢caunot fail to have a wholesome effect upon the rising gen- eration of Porto Ricans, if not upon the older people. The educational work of our government in Cuba and Porto Rico appears to have been more sue- cessful than was to have been expected and is certainly highly creditable to the Judgment, zeal and industry of these in charge of it, 5 E—— JAPAN'S FRIENDSHIP, The cordial friendship of Japan for the United States hus been abundaptly manifested and the visit to this coun of the distinguighed Japanese states- man, Marquis Ito—who has been called the Gladstone of his country—has for of its objects the strengthening of elations between the two countries, A Washington dispateh says it is not known there just what Marquis Ito's mission is, but there Is a feeling that m in view ot the attempts of Rus sia to shut the United Siates ont of Manchurla and the com plieations taat exist in China, theve should be as close velations with Japan as Is consistent with the policy of the United States iw its relations with for clgn governmenis, The interests of this country and Japan, so far as China is concerned, are to a very large extent identical. Both want the malntenanc ot the oner doer policy and both desire tho preservation of the territorial in- tegrity of the Cliuese ‘ewplre. Japan, in opposing the designs of Russia re- garding Manchurla, 1s acting In behalf L of the lnterests of the United States as inspiration of its present action and it | | bership iu well as of her own and she should have tiar earncst moral support of the conntry, It 1s not that we enter intc any formal alliance with her, We should | observe our well-established policy in this respect. But Japan can be assured of the hearty sympathy of our govern went with any pacific efforts she may mike to protect China against the ag gression of other powers and to main | tain the conditions which give to all nations equal privileges in the Chinese [ market. Tu doing this we shall not de | part from our traditional policy, while exerting an influence upon affairs in the far east that will be most helpful to Japun and to all the powers concerned fu safeguarding China from spoliation, Iecessary NIZE THE COMMERCIAL CLUB. The demand for the reorganization of | the Commercial club is timely and fm- perative. As a commercial body, the | club has for years been handicapped by its promiscuous membership. Instead of being a body composed of merchants and manufacturers, the eclub has be | come w mixed organization, in which the commercinl and industrial elements are | i the minority. As now composed, the club is long on law %, Insurance agents, educators, doctors, railway clerks, real estate speculators and poli- ticinns and short on wholesalers, re- tallers and manufacturers, whose inter- ests are often made secondary to the interests of insurance companies, fran chised corporations and men who seek to use the club to gratify political ambi- tions or vent personal spite. Thus, when confronted with the question of fire in- surnnce rates or raflroad diserimina tion, the usefulness of the organization n impalved and the chiet object of its organization thwarted. In other cities, notably in Kansas City, St Paul, Minneapolis, Denver and St Joseph, which are rivals of Omaha in its trade tervitory, commercial clubs fight the battles of the merchants and manufacturers at every point where an advantage Is to be gained or damaging | diserimination is practice In those cities the ofticers and agents of the com merclnl clubs arve constantly on the alert to prevent diversion of traflic into other channels and to bulld up a community | REOR: Commercinl of interests between their own mem- bers and their patron Whether the Commercial elub con tinues to maintain a cheap meal res- | taurant or rest s dts privileges to wembers and invited guests, Is of com- paratively no moment to the general run of business men or to the city at lurge. What the Commercial club | needs of all things is a revision of the | wembership roll rather than of the bill | of far What it needs is reinforce- ments trom the ranks of active business men and a weeding out of members who have neither commercial instincts nor commercial interests, The assumption that e body inter- ested in the progress of Omaha is en- titled to membership in the Commercial club is the rock that tends to destroy the efliciency of the club. Everybody is interested in the health of the com wunity, but none but physicians en- titled to practice are eligible to mem- medical socletios. Every goud citizen is interested in the admin- isteation of justice and the enforcement of laws, but only lawyers in good stand- ing are admitted to membership in the Bar association. The basic principle on which the Commercial elub should be reorganized is that it should be made up exclusively of men identified with some branch of commerce. wlity by which the new ¢i- v of the Union Pacific rallroad was elected at Salt Lake City by four Unlon Pacific officials s foreibly an fnci- dent that happened at the Union Pacitie headquarters about fifteen years ago, when the late Mr. Poppleton entered the office of General Manager Clark and asked: “Shall we make it the same as last year?' and Mr, Clark responded, “Yes." This brief colloquy was ex- plained by the announcement in the dallies of the next morning as follows: “At the meeting of the stockholders of the Omaha & Re- publican Valley Railroad company, held at Union Pacific headquarters yester- day, the following named directors re- celved a majority of all the votes cast and were declared duly elected,” ete. That was the way the business was done by the old machine. Under the new machine the clection of directors can no longer be managed by two men; it takes four now and they have to go to the Mormon capital to do it. rectol The proposed measure for leasing all government grazing lands to cattlemen will have to be scanned closely be- fore it is allowed to pass congress, The range cattle Industry Is an ifmportant one and should be encouraged in every legitimate way. It Is also desirable that all vacant land be utilized in some manner, but no land grabs should be | tolerated, Measures which emanate | from one interest ave likely to be preju- dicial to some other, even when the framers try to be just, While the range cattle Industry Is entitled to encourage- ment, the settler and the small stock owner must also be cared for, as he is less able to protect himself than are the big companies, A conglomerated committee repre- senting forty great railway systemw covering nearly all the mileage of the country, Is suid to have sounded the deatis knell of the free pass, which will | Aixappear finally and forever with the | new year, This death knell to the free pass has been sounded annually for so many years that the public will decline to send flowers until the interment has oceurred aud the funeral cortege has | dispersed. | The Omaha & ST which in reality has been the weakest link In the Wabash system, has been uis railroad, absorbed and consolidated with the | main line, Inasmuch as the old Cannon Ball route is eighty miles shorter than any other route hetween Omaha and St. Lonis, it 18 to be hoped that the managers will in the near future put the | press must come in the main trom an in- condition for rapid and safe transit There is o good reason why trains be- tween Omaha and S8t. Louis over the Wabasgh should not cover the distance In twelve hours, While a few members of the Com merclal ¢lub are not in accord with the demand of the Real Estate exchange for more equitable taxation, the great majority of the taxpaying members will be found side by side with the members of the Real Estate exchange in the de mand for a more equal distribution of tux burdens, —_— Rich gold diggings are reported to have been discovered 300 miles north of Cape Nome and a rush for the new tield is on. It someone will only start the story that there are rich gold mines at the north pole the gold fover vietims will speedily locate the place, ihiity, Baltimore Amerlcan. Spain talks of abolishing its navy. Per- haps it fears that the next time it would be compelled to pay for the court of in- quiry, R — Doing Popular Things. President Roose of doing popular things. His revival of the name of “White House," Instead of the stilted “Executivo Mansion,” is the latest example. A happy faculty This Smacks of Treason, Brooklyn Eagle. The sultan of Jolo, or Sulu, has refused to receive a deputation of our congress- men. Aguinaldo was merely saucy to our army, but when a little ten-cent sultan refuses to invite a North American con- Epessman to have something, it is time to clamor for reform. That suitan will not keep his place long. See it he does. —_— Tribute Vice Pays to Virtue, Indtanapolis Jourual Tammany's nomination of Shepard is the tribute vice pays to virtue. Shepard's ace ceptance of the nomination is—well, we give it up. How a man, who has been a re- former nearly all his life and who opposed Tammany in 1897, supporting Seth Low, can now consent to become Tammany's savior, | involves mental processes that can be dis- cussed only by psychological experts, e to Seth Low. Chicago Chronlele, Seth Low's farewell to Columbla uni- versity on the eve of another rough-and- tumble mixup In New York politics has its pathetic side. As an educator, no less than @ public-spirited citizen of wealth, Pres dent Low has won lasting fame. It nearly a foregone conclusion that the c bination of republican and so-called ‘re- ALGER STIRS THE POT, Detroit Free Press r ourselves we prefer to accept the general's book as a briet in a case that ean be decided only by dispassionate military experts—interesting but not conclusive by the mere fact that it i of necessity ex parte. Possibly Generul Alger himself would not claim any more for it, and even his most malignant enemios cannot concede less. Springfleld Republican: The changes made in General Alger's book because of the death of Mr. McKinley may be guessed in a broad way They probably effect President Roosevelt, who incurred Alger's displeasure by his part o the ‘‘round robin’ episode at Santiago. As vice presi dent he was a mark for the former secre- tary, tut as president under the prevailing conditions he s not so happy a target It Goneral Alger has produced a work that does not deserve the title of “Alger's grudge book,” the country will be pleas antly surprised Chicago News: The frruption of General Russell A. Alger into a peaceful and pros perous world with the evident purpose of fighting over agaln the battles of 1898, both naval and military, is startling, but not necessarily an occasion for alarm Whether the sight of the hostilities in the court of inqu'ry at Washington whetted the general's taste for war or he has just come to his present frame of mind after three years of silence and wrath-nursing I8 not known. Al that the published ex- tracts from the advance sheets of his new book show Is that he is still in belligerent mood und wishes to have the fact known. Washington Post: As for the “denun- ciation of others who played consplcuous ris on land and sea,” It is our opinion that the subjects of General Alger's com ments have every reason to he astonished at his moderation. He has not “‘denounced” any one. He bas simply told a truthful story, sustained at every point by officlal documents, etc., and his shortcomings in every instance have been of charitable and plititul omission. Our advice to the friends of those injured ones who played those con- spicuous parts on land and sea is to let the matter stand as General Alger leaves it and be thankful they have escaped so eas! RSONAL NOTES, The sultan of Jolo, who declined to re- celve his congressional visitors, may ex- pect to hear of something in the nature of “lese majeste” at the coming session, The eultan of Turkey has six sons and seven daughters, who are kept in the se- curest seclusion, the former never leaving the grounds of the bouse in which they were born, The amazement and surprise occasioned by the use of a “big, big D on board the Brooklyn could not have been exceeded if Sir Joseph Porter himself had been on board that craft. The tenth anniversary of the death of form" elements in New York City will fail this year to wrest the mayoralty toga from the democratic organization. It requires a | brave man to become a martyr to principle, | and no one will withhold from President | Low a tribute to his bravery. | olnk® the € aman, Kansas City Star. It the reports as to the conduct of the legation troops in Pekin are true the Chlnese government has good grounds for making formal protest. It fs a serlous reflection upon the, powers represented if their soldiers nowfin the Chinese capital maintain an attitude of arrogance and if, as charged, they are often guilty of drunk- enness and disordetly conduct. The report that American soldlers recently looted the shopi of w silversmith should be promptly and thoroughly investigated, and, if found true, both reparation and punishment should follow with exemplary promptness. If there 1s one place more than another where tho soldiers of the United States should set an example of dignity and honor it is in China. Increasing Human Ji New York Times, Whatever stars may be over Captain Richard P. Leary, he remains the same, and whether In Guam or at the League Island navy yard, he embroiders the performance of duty with the golden threads of fantastic humor, thereby adding appreciably to the always insuficient sum total of human foy. His latest achievement Is the establishment of a sluging school on the receiving ship Richmond, and the men on board are al lowed shore leave only when they can dem- onstrate familiarity with both the words and the tune of “The Star-Spangled Ban- ner.” Upon just what sectlon of the arti- cles of war Captain Leary depends for au- thority to make his sailors ralse their voices in song we do not knmow, but that, probably, is nothing more than evidence that our familiarity with those articles is not great. The captain Is rarely 1t ever at a loss when necessity arises to justify or excuse his acts, and In this case what he has done ought to be legal even if it fsn't. TRIBUTE TO THE REPUBLIO. Truths that Lie ut the Foundation of the Natlon. Detroit Free Press. It was a beautiful sentiment that Senator George F. Hoar uttered in his speech before the republican state convention, but it was more than mere sentiment, It was & truth that lles at the very foundations of the re- public. The venerable statesman was speaking of the assassination of Mr. Me- Kinley and the means that might be taken to prevent a recurrence of such crimes. Some additiona) safeguards might be pro- vided, he thought, but nevertheless free speech or consitutional liberty could not be surrendered because of their abuse. The restraining of free speech and of a free dividual sense of duty and not from law. ‘Then he sald “You and I are republicans. You and 1 are men of the morth. Most of us are Protestants in rellgion. We are men of native birth. Yet, If every republican were today to fall Ih his place, as Willlam Me- Kinley has fallen, I belleve our countrymen of the other party, In spite of what we deem thelr errors, would take the republic and bear on the flag to liberty and glory. I belleve If every Protestant were to be stricken down by a lightning stroke that our brethren of the Catholic falth would| still carry on the republic in the spirit of a true and liberal freedom. “I belleve It every man of native birth within our borders were to die this day the men of forelgn birth who have come here to seek homes and liberty under the shadow of the republic, would carry on the republic in God's appointed way. T believe it every man of the north were to die the new and chastened south, with the virtues it has cherlshed from the beginning, of love of home and love of eiate and love of treedom, with its courage and \ts constancy would take the gountry and bear it on to the achievement of its lofty destiny. The anarchist must slay 75,000,000 Americans before he can slay the republic.”” A great truth was never more beautifully expressed. The republfc is 75,000,000 Amer fcans, with no fundamental racial differ ences, with no fundamental section differ ences, with no fundamental political differ- ences. One spirit animates all, and to blast .newl) purchased part of the road in this epirit 1s beyond the power of Ihrl Llunatic or the criminal. Victor Hugo will be marked in Paris on February 26 next by the erection of an im- posing monument. Hugo's old home on the Place des Vosages will also be opened as museum Andrew Comstock McKenzie, a newspaper man well known in Boston, has gone to Ecuador at the head of an exploring expedi- tion, backed by the president of that South American republic, Mr. McKenzie will mak a study of the lite, the people and economie conditions existing in the country. The sultan of Turkey has appointed Alex- ander R. Webb honorary consul general of the Ottoman emplre at New York. It le a permanent appointment. The sultan has also Wonored Mr. Webb with a decoration. Besides the Medjidie decoration, as It is called, he has given him what is known as the medal of merit, a great honor in Turkey. Edward N. Dingley of Kalamazoo has nearly completed a biography of his father, the late Congressman Dingley, and it is ex- pected the biography will be published this fall. 1t will consist of two independent vol- umes, one purely biographical, the other containing the most notable addresses and speeches of the late congressman. The author has been engaged for two years on this work PREPARING FOR R ROCITY, President McKinle: nnt Poluts the Way. Philadelphia Press (rep.) President McKinley's last speech has had an effect on the country which renders it certain that some action will be taken on the subject of reciprocal trade at the next sesslon of congress. The country expects it, trade Interests require it and the repub- lican party at every stage of the tarif controversy has known how to combine protection and the security of the home market with fncreasing exports. This policy flows as & natural result out of the past course of the party. It was the republican party which gave the Hawallan islands reciprocity. It was a republican president who adopted this policy twenty years ago, when, as vice president, Chester A. Arthur succeeded the lamented Garfleld. It was the first repub- lican leader of hls day and generation, Blaine, who led in this field when the first McKinley tariff was adopted. It was Willlam McKinley himself who carried out the same policy in his first term as presi- dent, Reciprocity 1s the natural ald of protec- tion, Free trade clubs will seck to take advantage of it. Captlous critles in both parties will seek to make it the stalking horse of lower rates and the reckless re- duction of protection. Every effort will be made as in the past to confuse the public mind on one side by asserting that reciprocity Is at war with protection and on the other that it leads to free trade. Reclprocity has not led this way In the twenty-six years a republican president Grant, and a republican senate established reciprocity with the Hawalian islands, It will not in the next twenty-six years. The same predictions were made then that this treaty was the thin edge of the free trade wedge. It was not. The same assertion was made that nothing could be accom- plished by reciprocity. Instead, the reci- pracity treaty with the Hawaitan islands drove cut British trade and annexed the group commercially years before the march of events brought on political annexation, The policy of reciprocity s therefore a safe policy. It is efficlent. It agrees with protection. It supplements the effect and working of a protective tariff. Tha differ ence s that the changes in rates it makes are for American trade, while the chang made by the democratic revision always ald foreign trade. Reciprocity proposes changes in order to increase the sale of | our goods abroad. Each democratic tarlff | has made changes which increased the sale of foreign goods in this country Care is needed in all changes made, in order to enable reciprocity to do its full | work. Alterations in the tarift cannot be made haphazard. No interests must be sac rificed in this country. No market here |s| injured. President McKinley proposed reci- procity on this plan and on this plan Presi dent Rdosevelt will carry this policy into effect He will not act alone. He will call into consultation the republican leaders of | the senate and and both the coun try and the republican party may feel assured of a wise, conservative and repub lican plan- to secure all the reciprocal Speech Used in Millic 40 Years the der. Superior known. cuit, delicious Price Baxing Powben Co,, CHicago, »ns of Homes. Standard. A Pure Cream of Tartar Pow- to every other Makes finest cake and pastry, light, flaky bis- griddle cakes —-palatable and wholesome. Norr.— Avoidbaking rmvdeumade from alum. They look like and may raise the cake, but alum is a poison and no one can eat food mixed with it without injury to health. ure powders, ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK, Some Features of Life Observed in the Met tin. The campaign Just thrown wide open promises to be one of the livellest ever waged in New York City. Practically all the political organizations outside of Tam- many hall have united, headed by Seth Low, president of Columbia college, for mayor. He has been nominated and en- dorsed by at least twelve organizations, from the republican party down to Paddy Divver's clan. Two years ago the opposi- tion to the hosts of the tiger were divided. Now they are apparently united for blood. Having cast a majority of the votes two years ago, euccess this time seems to be a question of getting the votes into the bal- lot boxes Although the campalgn is barely ten days old, interest in the contest is {ntense and bitter. Even the women are taking a hand. Several organizations have been formed to work for Low and at least four women's clubs have pronounced for Tammany hall.' Among the democratic voters thero is nat the aggressive spirit ehown In former vears. Many of the rank and file are| dumbfounded by the variegated political | record of Mr. 8hepard, nomineo for mayor. Two years ago he was one of the bitterest assailants of Croker and hie crowd, and, that was only one of his many inconsist- encles. He opposed David B. HIll for gov ernor and afterward supported Judge Van Wyck. He opposed Bryan in 1808 and sup- ported him fn 1900. From belng a bitter opponent ot McLaughlin for years, in 1500 he made peace with him. Four years ago he supported Low for mayor, and now he Is go- ing to run against him. Betting on the result of the election Is lively. About $65,000 was wagered last Saturday. All bets were made at even | money. The parties to the bet were John Considine, proprietor of the Metropole ho- tel, and George J. Seabury. Mr. Considine, who represents a syndicate of Tammany men, took the Shepard end of the bet. The | money ($30,000 in all) was placed with C. C. Shayne. Mr. Considine has already | wagered § while Mr. Seabury has bet a like amount on Mr. Low. Many wagers were laid in Wall street. One proml- nent banker bet 10,000 on Mr. Low against a like amount wagered by | an admirer of Tammany. Many small bets | running from $100 to $500 were also placed around the Stock exchange. The willing- ness of Low men to accept even money is regarded in certain sporting quarters as indicating that Mr. Low will be a favorite in the betting before election day, One of the auxillary features of the yacht races noted by a New York correspondent was the number of women of the better class, who think nothing of drinking im- moderately in public. On cne of the ves- | sels attending the races that is patronized | by persons pretty high in the social scale— | the steamer charges $10 per passenger for each trip to the races—perhaps 800 of the | 1,400 passengers were women, and the vast majority of them young married women, Those of the women who did not drink | more than was good for them were In the minority. They did pot make any bones about it, as the saylng goes, but swigged their liquor openly on the main deck. Most of them took champagne—'"such a good | thing for s ickness,”” they sald—but not | a few of them tippled raw whisky, Svnhh’ and rye, from the beginning to the end of the fjourney. Many of them-—attractive and obvlously refined women—hecame pos itively silly long before the conclusion of the race, nor did they appear to l(“l" whether the race was berween a coal | barge and a mud scow or n Others of them, however, young and graceful appen Ing women, got away with prodigious quans titles of lquor like majors, and by shows ing no effects clearly exhibited how used they were to tippling. One very handsoms young married woman, not mies above 20 vears old, put away nine quart bottles of champagne in the course of the day, and she was just as complalsant and as much in control of herself on the run home as her hushand, who had taken nothing but mineral water. 1t was ohierved, by the way, that the men on this typlcal vessel Aid not drink wnything like as much as thelr women folks, and ohservant persons who watched the me on other fashionable public vessels attending the races kay that the same appeared to be the state of the case on their bouts. propensities of New vomen of the so-called better class also brought strongly Into view on the | vessels of the attending fleet. They were certainly, in many more vociferous Yorlk were The betting cases in the expressfon of their desire to back their chofce than their men folks. “I'll lay you $50 Shamrock Tounds the stake t firs I'I1 bet you $100 Columbia wins this leg." A hundred that they don't fin ish within the time limit"—these and other remarks of (he like were 80 common among the women on the more exclusive public trade that can be gained by Judigious con- cessions. 1 vessels that they ceased to attract atten tion, although mer unused to that sort all 000 on the Tammany candidate, | | thing could be noted gazing shrewdly at the betting women out of the corner of the There was one woman on board the Grande Duchesse who made $500 bets with a man friend on every situation of one of the races, and sho did this with all of the sangfrold of a race track plunger going up and down the bookmakers' line. It happened that she won most of her bets, but from her general manner it appeared fulrly certain that she wouldn't have minded at all had she lost all of them. A certaln high-class gambling resort up- town has been a thorn in the side of the precinet police, says a New York letter, ba- causo they were deriving no income there- from. Perhaps the “graft” was going “higher up.”* Anyway, the proprietor did not deem it necessary to “stake” the local station house. When the wardman came around to make a little “touch” he was emphatically turned down. This he re- ported to his captain. A rald was projected, but the place was closed, thanks to a friendly tip, just in time. It remained closed until the proprietor interviewed cer- tain powerful friends. The police captain was told that he had better keep his hands oft if he didn't want to get his fingers burned. The gambling foint opened up again, and the very evening when its doors once more swung its hospitable portals to the sportive crowd a wagglsh patron hung in the entrance an advertising sign, rav- ished from a street car and rendered an- propriate to the occasion by prefixing four words, which he printed in large characters above the legend. It then read follows: B A . . : THIS PLACE 18 LIKE : » THE — HOOK AND EYR : % CLOSED BY A TOUCH; OPENED % . BY A PULL. . . . D . For two hours the sign was irradiated by the lights above the entrance. Then a scandalized patrolman hastened up the steps and with his own hands tore it down. AUGHING GA Somarville Journa! drink when b trouble for everyo The man who takes is in trouble makes he knows. Baltimore Amerfean: Mrs. Askit—What's the matter with your little Johnny today? Mrs, Tellit—He ato so much Health Food that {t made him {1l Pittshurg Ch e: “Europeans ha- Einning fo criticise our ‘navy agatn,” re- marked Stulldig ST bet ft fsn't the Bpanlards that are talking about its ineMclency,” added Me- Swilllgen land Plain Dealer: “Jim Smartweed, you are keeping something back from me 't ‘e, woman. You might as well in- te that I'm o better than a Santingo captain Philadelphta Press: help a deservin' man » Hardart—A d Beggar—Won't yer madam? rving man, eh? Yes'm. Don't I look Ifke one? Hardart—Well, you certainly look as \rd descrve anyihing that might hap- n o you Chicago Trihune: 1t was his first voyage, and he was leaning over the rafl in an ate titude of reckloss abandonment, ” “What are vou doing?’ some one jeer- ingly axked him “Tam rendering to the sea, sir, the things that i o sew e, wirl"™ ho gusped, a Aoon as he could speak What to Kat: Farmer Cloverleaf (to rails ay ticket agent)— 1 want & (eket to Buf- cket Agont (briskly)—Single? mer Cloverleaf--No, married, but wife can't leave home at this tme of year, we're too busy Newcomb (al] worn out, to 18 #0 delightful to have a Judge: Mrs lady caller) | rest ler—1 &' poke vou've finished oanning for u‘lulv P’ Hfl"'nn«r:h‘ ’yl]\‘url\l'ulr'n [Y'I'al' got through with the fall cleaning, ‘mads stock of bedding and n& M Neweomb (Interrupting)--Noj Just home from my summer vacation! LAST GIRL OF SUMMER, I'm Gustave Kobhe In New York Herald. I "Tis the last glrl of summer, Left sitting alone All the jolly young fell Have fiitted an Proposed and e A hig and a kl A romance by o A brief thrill of bliss! 1 And now 1t is autumn, And not one of th Remaing at the se Your sorrows to st They're off to the mountaing Now pleasures (0 seek, And there to propose To a now gIrl cach week, 1 Yet mourn not, dear lone one, They, 100, Wil get lefe,T Ono And like vou, forsuken, Of lovers bareft, Come home for the winter, Alas! but too free, And plan for another Campalgn by the sea, 1y You're the last girl of sy Al Jone and forlorn; i v ie loveslck young chap Tave ftied’ and gone’ " ® But for consolation Accept from me this: Were [ in the plcture 1'd glve you a kigsl 4 |