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THE OMAHA DAy BEE B. ROBEWATER, EDITOR. Po—— i PUBLIBHED EVERY MORNI P ——— e e TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTIONt ly Bee (without Bunday), One Year, ly Beo and Sunday, One Year... strated Bee, One Year unday Beo, Ohe Year. jaturda; Jee, OUne nr. entieth Century Farmer, One Year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee, without Sunday, per copys ally Bee without Sunday per weel ally Bee, including Sunday, per week. unday Bee, per copy.. ... vy vening Bee, without Sunday, per week. 100 vening Hee, inciud ng Bunday, per week.15c Complaints of irregularities in delivery #hould be addressed to Clty Circulation De- pariment. OF FICHEE Omaha; The Hee Building. South Omaha: Chy Hull Hullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M Strecte. Council Blllablv' )"l Chicago: 0 Uity Now York: Temple C Washington. 1 Fourte CORRESPONDEN Communications relating, to torial matter should be addrs Bee, Editorial Doepartmen BUSINGRS L1 Business letters and remltiancoe: ldfl!:‘puul The Hee Pablishing ha s REMITTANCES, emit hy draft, expresd or postal order, .n Do o The Bee Publishing Company nly 2-cent stamps accepled In payment of wall accounts. Personal rhul-kn.‘ hxlv'y;l‘ on v eastern exehianges, not accepte Q""I“l‘l";;‘n i l’l.'"]‘.INIIIA (G COMPANY, BTATE OF CIRCULATION. tate of Nebraska, Douglas County, s.: B ot b Tanchiick, Secretary of The Beo Pubiihing Company, being duly sworn says that the actual_number of tull an omplete coples of The Daily, Morning, Fvening and Sunduy lieo printed” during the month of Beptember, 1901, was as fol- lows: ear] Street. Bullding. irt ith Street. va and edl- d: Omaha hould be Company, ..20,045 27,270 27,150 27,1 41,100 L ATTI0 L8478 S, 000 28,150 25 180 27,800 40210 45,710 82,190 . Total . Less unsold and r turned coples Net total sales Net dully average. GRO, 30,646 TZSCHIT B. Subsoribed in my presence and sworn to Before me this 3th dey of !(-fi'umhvr. A D, NGATE, o Publio. B, in foot ball was Who said dying out? interest Governor Savage's first Thanksgiving proclamation will soon be due, From reports from the gridiron foot ball seems to be degenerating iuto a kicking game onee mor The first day for the registration of voters for the coming election is next Thursday, October 17. Mark it down on your calendar, That epen alr consumption cure can be regarded only with suspicion. It is too cheap for the discoverer to muak any profit out of it General Prosperity is sure to win an- other victory in Nebraska this fall un- less General Aputhy keeps his troops from reinforcing hin An historfcal drama, woven about the Schley naval board of inquiry, may be expected to make its appearance on the theatrical boards in due time. Pat Orowe wants it distinetly under- stood that he has had nothing to do with the kidnaping of Miss Stone. Such fmpuatations on his reputation must be resented. satisfactorlly ex- in the Nobody has pluined yet that $17,000 increase county payroll since the management of county affairs was taken over hy the present democratic of the county board ‘The contribution brought by the popu- 1ists to the local fusion combine does not seem to be properly appreciated by the democrats. There is an old German adage —that you shouid not look a gift horse in the mouth, majority ‘The life insurance companies are said to have raised the rates on King Ed- ward's risk to an almost prohibitive point. King Edward ought to retaliate by persunding Parliament to raise the taxes on the iusurance companies to make it an offset. e local tax rate can be raised or lowered as mueh by the school board and Board of County Commissioners as ft can be by the elty council. Ever taxpayer should keep this in mind when ealled on to make a cholce for member ship of those bodies. It was In accord with the eternal fit- mess of things for the only democratic member of the school board who lives in the Ninth ward to exert his personal activity at the Fonrth ward vepublican primaries i the juterest of the seliool book trust man's ticke g —— Omaha's school bourd deserves one credit mark for endeavoring gradually to replace the wooden sidewnlks around school buildings with permanent ma tel The school sites and bulldings should be examples for the owners of private premises to emul At least one member of the executive committee of the Commercial club feels sure that no ganization of the elub in any shape or form s needed at this time. This only emplasizes the fact that there are business Bourhons as well a8 political Bourbons, who never leam and never for, Those all-wise Washington spondents ought to commence away to give us President Roosevelt's fortheoming wessage (0 congress on the Installment plan, The Washington correspondents always know what the gessage Is to contain before the presi fent starts to work on it right In the lost tive-years the railroads en- tering Owaha have invested several mil Hon dollars in the improvement of their properties. But the taxes pald to eity and connty are absolutely less than they were five years ago. s it any wonder ! this country has uot the goods to sup- THE SCHOOL BOARD TICKKT. The republicans of Omaha have nomi nated five candidates for the school board to fill the places of members whose terms expire next January, With oue exception the candidates named are men who have not held office fn any capacity. They are all, however, men who have been fdentified with Omaha and are directly interested in the efii- clency of our public school system, What 1 most important to the tax paying citizens of §ymahia is that they stund on a platforf that pledges them to cortain detined policies demanded by public school patrons and friends of the public schools generally. They are pledged ¥o do wway with the secret ballot, by witeh cabals end fom biues have been able in the past to hide thelr work and shirk responsibility for their acts. The secret ballot has no place in representative bodies and should long ngo have been discarded by the Board of Education, The candidates stand pledged to a more efficient and economic administra tion of the affairs of the schools and | the maintenance and extension of the clvil service rules, under which teachers und other employes ave protected agninst summary discharge under frivo- lous pretexts. Last, but not least, the conventton has declared against the pernieious. practice, too often’ indulged hy board members, of using the intluence of thelr posi- tions to foist relatives on the school pay roll who would not otherwise have been chosen on thelr own merits, This is a new departure that should commend the republican school board ticket to the support of voters of all parties and all classes, PURPOSE OF THE SUGAR TRUST, The Philadelphia Record remarks that there Is no mystery as to the intent of the Sugar trust's campaign agalnst the beet sugar industry of the country. The trust sees In the rapld development of this industry a competitor which must be destroyed If possible. Absolute con trol of the American market is what the trust seeks and if its warfare on the beet sugar industry should prove sueccesstul, as the Record says, the price of ounce of sugar that sweetens the poor man's ten would be at the ab- solute dictation ot monopoly. The purpose of the trust being per- fectly obvious, there can be no doubt, we think, that cougress will refuse to play Into its hands by making such tariff concessions on Cuban raw sugar as would operate to the injury and per- baps ultimately destroy the domestie industr; The beet sugar interest will doubtless be able to successtully com- bat the kind of campaign the trust is now making. It will not, it is safe to say, be driven out by such tactics, But should the trust succeed in having Cu- ban sugar placed on the free list or the duty reduced to a mere nominal rate, the beet sugar industry would inevitably be destroyed and Amerlean consume! would then be completely at the merey of a monopoly which has given abun- dant evidence of its greed and rapacity. Some concession, it is probable, will be made to Cuban sugar, but it must not g0 to the extent of withdrawing from the domestie industry the protection that Is necessary to its further develop- ment. There is no doubt that with proper encouragement the production of beet sugar in the United States will in the near future supply the home de- maund. It 1s inconceivable, therefore, that a republican congress will do any thing likely to destroy so important and promising an industry. SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE, While the attention of American man- ufacturers and merchants is chiefly di rected to the possibilities of future commerce with the Orient, our trade with the countries south of us continues unsatisfactory, the efforts that have been made to fmprove it having been far less fruitful than was reasonably hoped for. This subject receives con- slderation in the wonthly summary of commerce and fiuance just issued by the treasury burean of statistics and the leading causes for the slow progress of our commerce with South America are pointed out. It I8 shown that while the United States supplies 52 per cent of the total imports of British North Ameriea, 40 per cent of those of Mexico and 35 per cent of those of the Central Amerlean states, to the South American countries fronting oun the Caribbean which tmport goods to the amount of $36,000,000 annually, we supply only 20 per cent, while to the South Ame fean countries frouting on the Atlantle, which fmport annually zoods to the vilue L, 000,000, we supply only 10 per cent, < is u shilar percenta of the imports of the countries fronting on the Pacific, which amount annually to $650,000,000, all share of the United States The su in South Awmerican trade is not because ply the market, The chief of the bu- rean points out that we produce every thing which the people of South America want, shown the details of the imports of the conntrie in southern What, then, is the explanation of our| slow progress in - soenring this trad In the first plac says Chief Austin, the markets of Eur are practically as near to South America as arve those of the United States. The distance to the great commeretnl eities of England aud Germany, the chief rivals of th country, Is slightly greater than to New York, which ought to give this country some advantage, but the physical advan tage i vot lmproved, My, Austin notes the important fact thet nearly all the steamship lnes ontering the portg of | South Ameriea are controlled by BEu ropenn capital and European interests and naturally v divert the teade of Nouth Ame: ountries to thelr own tand, In order w get our share of the South American trade it is manifestly necessary that there be steamship lines running diveetly between our ports and the South American ports. As to this Mr. Austin says: “That eloser, more frequent and divect steamship communi cation Is un important factor {n obtain Ing the commerce of countries which the tax burdens upon other property Qwiers bave uearly doubled} cuu-be reached only by steamship lines 18 evideuced by the wore rapld growth | to Nebraska railronds. of our exports to the counteies fronting upon the Caribhenn sea, with which fairly satisfactory steamship connec- tions now oxist.” This will apply also to the development of our Asintic trade, which will grow dowly If we do not have steamship lines to compete for business with thoso of our commercial rivals, Other reasons for ot slow progress in gaintng Sonth Amerfean frade are lack of banking and business facilities for direct inter-communication with the United States, neglect of American mer chants to study the trade methods and requirements of the soutliern countries and the absence of diveet sollcitation of trade in the language of the country where business is sought. These are obstacles which will be overcome in time, but in the meanwhile our commer- clal rivals are becoming wmore firmly intrenched. It is well to give attention to trade In the far east, but the fact should not he lost sight of that there L market to the sonth which ought to be earcfully cultivated, is 0 WHY IT SHOULD BE REORGANIZED. A member of a large Jobbing house recently located in Omaha Is quoted as saying with reference to the proposed reorganization of the Commerclal club: So far as I can see the club s doing all right as it is, but there is one thing I would like to say and that {s that the newspapers of the towm seem to Oppose everything the club suggests. [ do not ke to see this spirit; in fact, I do not understand it This gentleman evidently labors under a misapprehension of the situation. No newspaper in Omaha has opposed the Commercial elub indiscriminately in everything it has suggested or at- tempted. On the contrary, the club has been commended whenever it has ae- complished anything worthy of com- mendatlon. The opposition to the poll cies and methods of the club has not been inspired by malice or ill-feeling, but by a desire to extend the sphere of its usefulness, As originally organized, the scope of the club was to be confined to the pro- motion of the commercial iuterests of Owmaha, primarily by divecting its in fluence in channels that would enlarge its mercantile arca and maintain and improve its trade relations: second, to counternct eve effort made by rival trade centers to check Omaha's growth as a distributing nter through dis- criminating railvond rates; third, to stimulate and encourage the patronage of home industry and the investment of capital in industrial concerns giving steady employment to labor. These objects a tainable only through a compact, harmonious and vigorous organization of the merchants and manufacturers who arve directly in- terested In Omaha's commercial supremacy and in a policy that would avoid contention from subjects and issues entirely outside of the scope of the club us a commerelal body. Instead of limiting its membership to those directly interested in the main- tenance and extension of commerce, the club has opened wide its doors to men of all callings and men of no callings. Instead of mnking itself thoroughly in- dependent of the transportation in ests—which its members have fre- quently to combat in order to secu fair treatment for Omaha—the club has made itself a mere annex to those in- terests and has thus handicapped itself in any effort to obtain concessions to which Omaha shippers are entitled. Worst of all, the club has, through its promiscuous membership, opened wide the door to intrigue and influences entirely subversive to its original scope and purpose, It has fnserted its oar into local polities and local controversios aud through such interference has THE OMAHA DAILY created antagonisms that have seriously | crippled its influence and usefulness. And this is the rock upon which it must go to pleces unless it is reorganized. Nobody coutends that members of the elub are to be ostracized from poli- ties or from participation in public dis- cussions affecting thelr interests as tuxpayers or citizens. But men who aspire to public office should not be allowed to use the Commercial club for the promotion of their ambitions any more than members of a henevolent or charitable association or church organi- zation should be allowed to alr their political grievances or prod or attack their polifical opponents under cloak of benevolence or religion. 8o long as the Commercial club per- | mits itself to be used as a club in the hands of cunning politicians it cannot hope 1o escape eriticism and disagree- able contention with the press, Treasurer Herriott and Govern Shaw appear to have divergent views as to whether the railroads of lowa ave bearing thele just share of the state and loeal taxation. Mr, Herriott takes deelded exception to the idea that lowa rallroads are overtaxed. The net reve- of the roads have increased won- fully, but the tax valuation has not 1 changed materinlly, 1 the prop- erty of the lines in lowa is worth more on the market today than ever before, why should it not be worth more also on the assessor's hooks? And what ap- plies to Towa railvoads applies equally An American professor has for the first time been invited to occupy a chalr lu the faculty of one of the Ger- man universities, American universi- | tles have drawn freely upon Germany for instructors in the higher bravches, but the tide seems to be turning, at least in certain departments of learning. It is only fair for us to reciprocate fa vors now that as pupils we bave pushed pust the old masters, u makes announcement that he will spend two weeks fn active cam igning in Nebraska for the fusion o ticket. ‘The fusion managers evi dently realize the big job In front of thew and the necessity of ealling the big guns into play to make an impres- sion on the entrenchments of repub- Neanism, M. B, The possibility of the absence of Ed- wird Rosewater from the state during any part of the campaign seems to be BEE: MONDAY OCTOBER 14, 1901 machine great anxiety. The persistent absence of Mr. Mercer, reputed to be the patron eaint of the new machine, not only in this campaign, but In every other where his own lmmediate tenure of office is not at stake, does not disturb them in the least. —_— A Flylng Wedge. Chicago Post Nebraska foot ball players have tackled the rallway “community of interests” and have downed it Duties of Citizenship. Minneapolls Journal It is not a good thing to make politics a businese, but a great many more good men should make it their business to take an ac- tive part in politics. Hope Hangs High. Washington Post. Tt 18 belleved that Nikola Tesla will se- cure the contract for the electrical work when New Orleans decides to erect an fluminated statuc of Ben Butler. Marking Up Dividends, Philadelphia Press. Industrial dividends for the current year have already amounted to $200,000,000. This is twice the sum distributed In dividends by the rallroads of the United States up to two or three years ago. Washington for Office Only. Kansas City Star. Not a single president Is burled at Wash- ington. It ie significant that none of these men lies at the place of his greatest po- Iitical triumph. With the approach of death earthly greatness fades and there comes & longing for home. So Washington lies at Mount Vernon, Jefforson at Monticello and McKinley at Canton. Short Corn, but Good Prices. Beatrice Express, Many farmers are beginning to say that they will have more corn than they dared to bope for. There are many flelds in the vicinity of Beatrice which will produce two-thirds of a crop, and that much corn Wwill represent a far greater value than would a full crop in ordinary years. The price of corn fs away up, and will probably remain there, as there I8 a scarcity throughout the great corn producing states It i3 rather hard on the consumer, but the farmers have no reason to complain, Heroes of Peace. Philadelphia Ledger. The heroes of peace are quite as nu- merous and quite as herole as those of war, At least two Instances of great heroism were recorded In yesterday's news. At Mauch Chunk a party of rallroad men ventured into a blazing freight wreck and pulled out a car loaded with dynamite, and in New York firemen and policemen went into the hold of & burning vessel, partly loaded with petroleum and carried out 2560 cases of gunpowder. Both were remarkable exhibitions of that deliberate courage which is now popularly called “nerve." Big Profit on Four Acres, Columbus Telegram. The most ardent advocate of irrigation in Nebraska would hardly claim more extrava- gant returns from irrigated soll than the products derived this year by Olin Cox from a four-acre garden patch on his place two and one-half miles east of Columbus. The figures are more remarkable than the state- ment. The record reads that Mr. Cox ob- tained from oue and @& half acres of straw- berries $414 and from two and a half acres of watermelons $373, a total of $787 from four acres of land, which would probably have been practically barren in a season like the last summer. The application of fundamental arithmetic will determine the average returns to be $196.75 per acre. A G at Stroke of E: Loutsville Courler. The Omaha World-Herald sends out a “‘magazine'’ as 1 supplement to its Sunday issue, the first issue appearing last Sunday. It is worked in colors and contains some very unique pictorial designs, but unifke the World-Herald in other branches it is several months hehind the times. For In- stance, there is a scene of a base ball game that might have been used with pro- priety in June. Its fashion plates are o stale that they would give one a chill and then under the head of “Hints for House- wives” is shown a very useful and inex- pensive device for stoning cherries. In an- other paragraph we find that “‘the season for small fruit is here” and a simple and very useful instrument (at this season of the year) is shown for hulling strawberrfes. The colored illustrated supplement may he metropolitan, but the attempt of the World- Herald in this line does not add to its reputation as an up-to-date newspaper. rprise. No Danger from Filipinos, Manfla Ameriean. The idea of an invasion of Filipino labor either Into Hawaili or the United States proper 1s the sublimest absurdity. The fdea that the Filipino will work anywhere can be engendered only in the minds of people who have no conception whatever of the Filipino's characteristics and physical capacity. The Filipino will not work. Their own country will never be developed unies labor can be brought from China or else- where to reclaim the sugar lands, to seed and gather hemp and to fell and work up the very valuable timber lands. The Fili- pino s not & worker, as the Americans here have learned quit too often in road build- ing and on other public enterprises. Have no fear of the Filipino “laboring man.' He doesn’t exist; he is a myth. In addition to his disinclination to work the Filipino will not leave his home-—his family, his fighting cocks, his lazy and happy-go-lucky lite. Few will consent to go from one province to another, and it is very rarely that a Filipino woman can be induced to Jeave her native village, even to accompany her husband. Before St & the Furnace, \leago Tribune. People who lve in furnace-heated houses may have noticed the prevalence of sup- posed colds, coughs and throat allments immediately after the furnace has been started in the fall. As a matter of fact experts declare that these epidemics are largely caused by the dust and germs which gather fn the registers and hot air pipes during the summer and are blown out into the air of the house when the furnace ie started. As a preventive It s suggested that not only the registers but also the hot alr pipes be thoroughly cleaned. This may be done first by removing the registers and gIVing them careful dusting and wiping. Cleaning the pipes 1s more difficult, but quite as necessary. It may be done by at- taching a bunch of feathers to a wire and pulling it through the pipes. In addition to the ordinary dust which s certain to settle in such places during the summer months there is also danger that it may become im- pregnated with polsonous vapors from the cellar, which may be released by the cur- rent of hot air rising from the cellar. In view of the large number of hou which are deated by furnaces the question of properly cleaning the pipes may have an fmportant influence on the public health. The question is certainly one which de- serves the attention of every householder who wishes o aveid the usual fall epidemic giviug the spokeswen of the uew :oun‘” of bad coughs and colda, World’s Wheat Crop Bpringfleld (Mass) Republican The conclusion is being reached in the wheat markets that the year, the world over, has been one of fair average produc- tion. There have been an unusual number of damage scares paraded throughout the summer, and affecting especially Germany, France and Russia. And the fatlure of the United States corn and potato crops has made certain an increased per capita con- sumption of wheat in this country. Thus a very strong position for the wheat markot appeared to be assured, as well as a ve large surplus for export at handsome pri Wo bave the large wheat surplus. There Is no question about that. And exporte have so far during the new crop year been extraordinarily large. But prices have ruled comparatively weak--being about 68 cents at Chicago, against an average of about 74 cents a year ago, 72 cents two years ago, 66 cents three years ago and 93 cents four years ago. There can be but one explana- tion of these low prices, and that is that the reported heavy shortages abroad do not exist. The after-harvest reports in Europs all go to show that the bad features there have been exaggerated. France has raised & crop of probably 600,000,000 bushels, this being next to the highest of five expert es- timates, but the one accepted as nearest right by the Gazette Commerciale and by the Bulletin des Halles. This 18 close to an average French crop and calls for the im- portation of not much more than from 10,- 000,000 to 20,000,000 bushels. The German harvest shows that the damage wrought by & cold, wet epring was exaggerated. Official Russian estimates place the crop of that country at 400,000,000 bushels, agalnet 425 000,000 bushels last year. The Austrian . crop is below that of last year, but the Hungarian and ftalian harvests are larger Altogether the Gazette Commerciale esti- mates the world's wheat crop of 1901 at 140,000,000 bushels in excess of that of a vear ago, and the surpluses of exporting countries are reckoned as being 43,000,000 bushels larger than the deficioncies of im porting countries. Such a situation would inevitably make for a sagging and heavy whent market, but It {s to be noted that in this estimate the United States harvest is placed at close to 740,000,000 bushels, which Is at least 00,000,000 bushels above the in- dications reported by the United States De- partment of Agriculture. 1f the depart ment s right, then the surplus of the ex. porting countries falls below the reauir ments of the tmporting countries, and we should look for a stronger wheat market than has prevailed. Nevertheless, the European grain centers plainly view the situation with entire equanimity. Thore is mand, and the large exports of the Unit States move out rather in response to ruin ously low ocean gralo rates and the pro sure of a very large surplus at home, than to strong bidding for wheat from the im- porting countries. It is thus evidently a fairly normal wheat year for the world as a whole, in spite of an unusual volumo of crop scares, and In the natural order of things this {s what was to have been ex- pected. Nature so far as known does not work according to fixed rule in the matter, but it {s rare that calamitously short har- vests are inflicted upon any part of the world as frequently as would be the case were the 1897 damage to European crops to be repeated in 1901, no pressure of de- 1 LITTLE BITS OF STATE POLITICS, York Times (rep): When you hear a politiclan talking about “smashing the ma- chine you can bet your toothbrush he has a little, weazen, half-flodged machine that he wants to set up In the place of the big one. There can be no campaign without a machine, and the talk about running poli- ties without organization and leaders fis tommy-rot. Norfolk News (rep.): If the World-Her- ald is making all this talk about State Trensurer Steufer as an argument for the election of Conrad Hollenbeck to the su- preme bench it Is likely to meet with dis- appointment. The average voter will fail to understand how the election of a fusion supreme judge can influence the actions ot the state treasurer. The people are at present concerned in the selection of a worthy man for the supreme judgeship and will cast thelr votes accordingly. McCook Tribune (rep.): The American Sugar Refining company is evidently aim- ing a jealous, selfish blow at the American Beet Sugar company and the west by mal ing a cyt of over 1 cent a pound on r fined sugar, the cut being in force only in the sectfon of country which produces beet sugar—thus disclosing the animus of their philanthropy. Nebraska and the west are deeply concerned in the culture of sugar beets and the increased production of beet sugar, and any effort to crush out this promising enterprise should receive prompt and adequate attention by western congressmen. Hastlogs Tribune (rep.): The republicans of Nebraska canuot afford to lose interest in the present campaign just because the won such a glorious victory last fall. the lack of Interest that c lose votes in a campaigm of this kind with but a few names on the state ticket. It i3 just as imporiant now that every man favoring republicanism as practiced by M Kinley lend a helping hand as it was when they voted for McKinley. If the repub- licans should lose strength in Nebrasia Bryanlsm will take on a new lease of life and it will make the battle much harder to fight in 1904. The republican party stands as a unit in Nebraska today and as such it should remain. Fremont Tribune (rep.): The World- Herald publishes a sensational story pur- porting to come from Joe Bartley, stating that H. L. Goold, republican nominee for regent of the university, has $1.000 of the | money belonging to the state and borrowed | of Bartley, treasurer, in 1863, and that t constitutes a part of the shortage for which Bartley fs now suffering imprisonment. The | statement must as yet be taken with sev- eral grains of allowance. It may or it may not be true. If the charge against Mr. Goold is true then there is no alternative but for the state central committee to foroe him off the ticket and fill the vacancy with the name of some reputable citizen against whom no scandalous charge will lie. The | rank and file of the republican party is terribly in earnest in its desire to rid the party of the Bartley incubus, It is in no mood to trifle with the serious busincss The temper of it was clearly shown at the state convention with reference to the Bartley parole. The sentiment that pre- vailed there took shape back in the rural precinets and at the town primaries where the masses spoke. It did not grow out of the fear of the few who may have been Bartley's beneficlaries that his liberty would expose their collusion in crime. If the convention was duped by Goold he should be fnstantly removed from the ticket, Any man who would allow himself to be placed by his party, unwittingly, in such a position that the party would be brought into disrepute through his skulduggery is not entitled to the decent regard of honest men PERSONAL NOTES. Tt s sald that M. Labori, who dvbndrdl Dreytus, has been offered $150,000 to des Uver 100 lectu in this country The Vanderbilts paid $818.000 in taxes into the New York City treasury one day last week. William Waldorf Astor was a good second with $377,000. At the Columbla university meeting to receive President Low's resignation the exs erciges opened with the hymn, “Fight the Good Fight with All Thy Might." Shooting holes In the cellings of Irriga~ tion joints has become a stirring feature of carnival days in Kaneas City. It ts dim- cult for the old town to forego frontier habits, The political ofl inspectors of Chicago, recently indicted for pocketing the fees of | their offices, have been asked to pay into the city treasury $103, 20, The 20 cents will be dropped 1f the cash is tendered promptly A “Harrlson day" has been appointed for all the public schools in Indiana, when every teacher will be asked to contribute 10 cents and every pupll 6 cents to the fund for a monument to the memory of the late ex-President Harrison Mayor Bookwalter of Indianapolls takes hold of his new responsibilities with the confidence and skill of a seasoned execu- tive. The faet that Mr. Bookwalter ma- nipulated the types on The Bee some | twenty years ago accounts in some measure for his celerity in reaching a “'phat take.” Samuel R. Callaway, president of thw Ameriean Locomotive company, was more than thirty years ago at the head of the shorthand writers of this continent. He kept up his practice, and today could take a trick at an Important assignment with the best stenographers. He won his spurs at this clerical work In the offices of the Grand Trunk rallway of Canada, and his It is |of asphalt, using the block stone pavement uses 4 party to jas a foundation for the layer of asphalt. | are relaid in a solid manner, the interstices | crete foundation | to do away with the danger of an explosion | ritating feature about the place Is n neigh- | tlon out requiring him to stop blasting at #kill at pothooks and hangers had much 10 do with bis subsequekt adveucemedts i modified somewhat since, but | avenue are now belng treated in this man- ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK, tehings of Men and Events in the Mg City, Tho Brooklyn Rapid Transit company, which operates the trolley lines in that bor- ough, has acquired a reputation as a killer and maimer of people. In the earler years of eloctric motors the Brooklyn lne struck a gait that was breath-taking. Pedestrians scarcely dared cross a street, and ambu- Ihnces wers overworked In gathering up victims of the trolley rush. The speed has there is vis- ible diminution of the speed with which the company's profits are swallowed up in Judgments and claime for damages. Last year tho company pald $050,000 in settlo- ment of damage suits and judgments. It is a staggering statement,” says the New York Sun, “in view of the really few serl- ous accldents on the great system of sur- face and elevated rallroads operated by this compuny, and yet it does not represent the total loss to the company by litigation of this character by almost $300,000. The ex- penses of the claim department of the road, to which all damage sults are referred, bring the total up to about §1,250,000. This claim department has to keep a large staff of men who are experts in the collection of evidence and detective work to handle a great many bundred greedy witnesses and to pay the fees of the small army of law- yers making up the legal department of the system, all of which expenses with other items tco numerous to mention make up this tremendous total.” New York is goiug ahead with the laying The stone portions of Broadway and Sixth ner, and from all outward appearances it is the one way In which asphalt should be laid where there {s trafic in the least degree heavy. The work of preparing the stone for the asphalt {8 not an expeneive undertaking and it is remarkable the progress a gang of men can make in a day. The stones are taken up and about three inches of the layer of gravel taken out. Then the stones being filled with fine gravel and sand, and the strect rammed as a finishing touch Within a few days it 1« In almost as good condition as before being torn up, for the original foundation of concrete has not been touched and the life of it is in no degree tmpaired. After about a week's trafic has gone over the street it Is swept as clean as possible of dirt and the spaces between the stones cleaned out to the depth of an inch or more. Then the asphalt-coated granite chips are spread over the block stones and the layer of usphait laid. It is olled just the same ns when lald on a con- and 1o the ordinary ob- server (he pavement looks like any other asphalt one. The department of highways has found this method of treating streets a good one. In the first place it gives the smooth and nolseless surface so much de- sired these days when an effort is being made to get rid of street noises, and in the second thero 15 not the liability of pavement getting full of holes. The stoues form a foundation mot otherwise obtain- able, and at the same time the stone for which the city originally paid a good fig- ure {8 not taken out by some favored con- tractor and used for other city work for which he is paid lona fsland in the Hudson river, and old picnic ground for New Yorkers, is now a powder reserve, The little island has re- cently taken on a smart military air. Long rows of severe looking buildings can be seen from tho old landing wharf, with here and there a low structure of brick and stone, relieved by only an occosional win- dow. Iona island is now the chief storing place for ammunition owned by the navy. Practically all the shell houses and powder houses have been completed, and the com- pressod alr rallway 18 in good running or- der. Wherever it is necessary to generate power compressod air Is employed in order resulting from flying sparks. The only ir- bor by the name of Donovan, who owns a small island just south of the one occupied by the navy. He does a great amount of blasting, and seems to be especially busy along the shore next to the government reservation. There is a strong suspicion at the department that Domovan is doing his best to compel the government to buy him out, but the department proposes to check his little game by getting an injunc- that particular spot. “The thing that has impressed me most during my two weeks' stay in thils town, remarked a man from Cincinnatl to a New York Sun reporter, “Is the crooked faces of New York people. By crooked, I mean & face whose two sides are not mates, Really, the man whose face looks the same the | to one side or the cye 1s drawn up into a reprehensible squint. Sometimes all threa of these imperfections are combined in one face with a few other 1ittle contortion thrown fn for good measure. Actually I have met people here whose faces had o many different expreesic point of view, that it wa wecording to th ¢ with diffeulty | could persuade mysalf that the right side was any blood relation to the le ide “1 asked a physicl roan explanation of this disfigurement and assured me It was all due to high nervous ten Ho also went on to say that if my own stay here should be prolonged much beyond two weeks I might as well resign my f ’ bidding good-by to my own mobile expr sion, for a moblle expression is not o patible with present urban conditions “To pick one's way through erowicd streets, looking seventeen ways for at one time lest one's life be forf the next step as the price of negli not plained, conductve to a classic cast of countenance. This ls probably the cause of New York’s myriads of crooked faces, but ft really does seem a great pity that the good looks of 4,000,000 of people should be offered up as a sacrifico on the shrine of public improvements.” MIIAL LOOY 1t s becoming more apparent (bat Schley's victory at Santiago was as brilllant over his enomies in the American fleot as over tho ememy in the Spantsh shipa Chicago Tribune ning that re- mark suid to have been made by Schley s to the Texas, it may be romembered that Farragut said substantially the same thing about the torpedoes in Mobile bay Washington Post: Licutenant Dyson savs the Brooklyn was unprepurod for battle on the day of the Suntfago flght. We shudder to think of what would have happened to the Spaniards had tho flagship not bees fucasacitated Baltimore American: If, fn the face of the uvidence developed, Admiral Schloy wis Chicago Chronicle A coward, as his emomies declare, the na tion at large would not obiect to the whole navy's being inoculated with bis peculinr brand of timidity Chicago News: 1 ‘utenant mmandor Potts Is sure that Schley was scared the timo they went in to shoot at the Colon and nothing happened. Probably Schley had Juet realized that all his ships wera manned exclusively by naval critics. Indianapolls News: Commander Potts save that Schiey was excited at Santiago, What a clear head Potts must have kent to make note of such a fact! Perhaps tha exclte- ment was in the eye of him that saw. Per- haps he was walking up and down and chewing toothpleks himself Chicago Post: The court of inquiry has developed the startling fuct that Admiral Schley was excited while he was bombard- ing tho Colon. A wooden Indian from in front of a cigar store wmight bhave hesn impassive {n such circumstances, but flesh and blood was bound to exhibit more or less enthusiaem. We can overlook exelfe- ment that produces such results as thoso credited to the Brooklyn. Philadelphta Record: Rear Admiral Schley's active career in the federal navy, extending over an eventful perfod of forty- one years, ended Wednesday, when he reached the age Umit for compulaory retire- ment. Although 62 yenrs of age, the vei- eran sea fighter Is still in excellent phyaj- cal trim, with many years of public wse- fulness in prospect. His record of honor- able service is part of the republic's his- tory, known and read of all men. It would be strange, indeed, if a naval court of in quiry should undertake at the oleventh h to reverse the judgment of “well done, gond and fatthful servant,” which the American people long since pronounced upon this dis- tinguished naval ofce —_—— TOUCHING THE FUNNYRONE, Fhiladelphia find th the Press: “Aftor all, vou'll man who always tolls the trith fa most successful in business.' Huh! He jsn't in is believed In eve he man who Boston Transecript M s Mar you had a man in the kitehe evening Was he a relatl yours or i friend? Mald -Neither, m; he was only Just my husband. ¥ Washington me folke" sjd Uncle Eben, * ) v ' gencrous wif delr advice da “n' 'm to hab no commonsense lei for deir own use. Smart Set: “I'm so w »d ahout Pro Henry,” said Clarn 1 3 hope he'll come out all right il W long wis he sent Mr. Hanker, sympatheticall Chicago Tribune have to preach one sermon on Sunda Uncle Micafah? 1 should think your e gregation would fnsist on an evenfng » mon, too.' The Colonel~Yon only Parson Micajah—Dat's ‘coz de . cong'ga- tion hez heern we preach, Cunnel, an’ 3o hain't. l? Philadelphia Pres ' exclaimed the old offender, when (he touched him on the shoulde no hand in that,' “No?" replied the ain-clothes man, as he snapped the bracelet on his wr “but I want you to have a hand in this man' t have Chicago Post: “Why do you spoak of him as inconsiderate, ungallint and disap- pointing?” asked her dearest friand “Ho deliberately d - porsistently re- fraing from giving me an opportunity to re- fuse him,” answered the sweet younz thing. Did Philadelphia Press: propose to you? Yes,” and it Tess ho really actually made ma 85—~ Why &0 Jews—Ho asked me 1t T share hls lot,”" and he looke I thought he' referred to one tery. would care to 50 funereal In a come tladelphta Pres ems sore il mo abe nething, Of course. You asked him 1f tha n wasn't beginning to make him onkins Bungle—\Well Mungle-~Well, he's just married his third wite after divoreing ther two. ton necript Harris—If von knew was Iylng, why didy you tell him Buck—What would o boen the " He knew he was lylng, fast enough, nnd he would not have felt Ko it toward me 1 T had let him know I knaw it, too. Washington Star: “What are you golng to do with that vacant lot 7 11" answered the capitalat, “T aid think of putting up an fmmense officn hulld- ing. But If vogetables continua to go up in price T shouldn't be surpriged if 1 coiml de. rive more revenue from it by turning 1 into a potato p ———— LONG Al Eugone T™eld. I once knew all the birds that came And neated in our orchard troes; For every flower 1 had a name-— My friends were woodehucks, toads and i3 I knew what thrived in vonder glens What plants would soothe a stone-prutsed oo~ Oh, 1 was very But that was arned the very long ngo. L knew the spot upon the hill ra the checkerberries could he tound-— v the rushes near the mill “kerel Ty thit welghed & poundt on the right and the left #ide is a rarity, ross one | ket him down as a stranger in town. “I suppose this faclal peculiarity is moro | or less provalent everywhere, for it is sald that the people whose faces are exactly alike on both sides are few, but fn New York it is unduly pronounced. Women are affiicted a6 well as the men, and I have mot scores of women who would be very pretty were it not for that fnevitable dtsarrango- ment of features that characterizes one slde o the fa “In the majority of cases it is the left side that is out of whack. Either the mouth is sctewed Up At one corner oF the nowe tip: the wood—the vory tree Jived the poaching, aucy crow, And all the woods and crows knew me- And that was very 1ong ag And pining for the joys of vouth, 1 tread the old tamiliar spot Only to lenrn this solemn truth ?‘l\h forgotten, am forgot. Yot there's this youngster ut my knso Knows all the things I used to know, To think 1 once was wise he'!— But that was very long ago. sy 1o complain Of what r the fates decree, Yet were not wishes all fn valn, 1 tell you what my wish would be: 1'd wish to be a hoy again, Back with the friends | tised to knowj For A was, oh! 50 happy then— But that' was very lung ego. I know 'tis 4