Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 21, 1901, Page 6

_THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE. ¥ EDITOR. MORNING. ROSEWATER, PUBLISHED EVE — TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ily Bee (without Sunday), One Year mily Hee and Sunday, One Year llugtrated Hee, One Year unda y O v 200 .00 2.00 | | aturday Hee, One Year 1.8 fwentieth Centul Farmer, One Y 1.0 DELIVERED BY CARRI Dally Hee, without Sunday, per ally without Sunday per w Jee, Inciuding Sunday, per week ay Bee, per copy A . Evening Hee, without Sunday, per week 10 vening lee, includ ng per week 1o Compiaints o IFregy in delivery | ghould be addressed to culation De- | artment > OFFICES The Bee Bullding, 4 ymaha: City Hail Suilding, Twen- M Streets Bluffs: 10 Pear] Street, 1640 Unity Bullding rki Temple Court Yashingto W1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- Rorial matter sho » addressed: Omaha Ber, S LETTERS, and remittances should be Bee Publishing Company, BEJ‘.'J..’.'-,?? i mahu M1 Remit by draft, express or postal order, al The Hee Publishing Company. iy t stumps accepted in payment of afl accounts, Personal checks, except on ©Omaha or eastern exehunges, ot accepted, THE BEY PUBLISHING COMPANY 214 LATION OF CIRC Btate of ska, Douglas County, ss George B, Taschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, Bays that the actual number vi tull and mplete coples of The Dally, Morning, ¢ vening und Sunday Hee printed during e month of September, 191, was as fol- w 26,045 16, 28,700 1 18 1 27,800 L.28,640 10210 ..498,700 . L.28.010 3. 28,870 Total Plossts Bess unsold and returued copies.. Net total sales Net dally average Gy SBubscribed in my i 1A sworn to Ennn‘ me this 30th day of September, A. D, " M. B_HUNGAT Notary Publ _— e s to be a tw sful fiying machine Is sure ntietlh century production. e—— That deputy game warden who was fined for violating the game law ought o be good game for Governor Savage hraski womnn suffragists will meet dn state convention this week —just to rernind us that the cult has not entively dicd out. AK-Sur-Ben is now essaying ug role of a monarch with His royal highness should e one to adopt him, The good the distre out a home advertise for s Nebraska contributes one of the mem- Yers of the Woman's Bourd of Managoers for the St. Louis oxposition. Nebraska women are equal to ¢ emergency, Yale uniy 3 to celebrate 1ts 200th anniv 1ts jealousy of Harvard, however, will prevent any reference to the culminating cvent as 8 red-letter day Stanley f out with an to do so. 1 Livingstone by setting indomitable determination A second Stanley can achieve .l reputation by finding the captive mis. If those paving contrs gake full advantage of the remainder of the open season, Omaha may yet count up a few milos of new street improve- auents in its inventory for 1901, Senator Hanna says Ohio ought to go republican at the coming election by 100,000, Obfo ought to take the senator at his word and give him a surprise party by overshooting his figures. Conundrun What s the difference between a railway company and a rail- road compan The only possessors of the correct answer are the officers of the new Burlington incorporation, Nebraska cut quite a figure in the re- cent Episcopal conveution, -determining by its vote the action of that hody at several important turns. The conven- tion ought to reciprocate by locating & future meeting at Omaha. It I8 not a question whether the Com- mercial club runs a restaurant or does not run a restaurant. The only ques- tion is that of getting the club In posi tion to do something for the promotion of the commercial interests of Omala. We are waiting patiently for the new Nebraska library commission to open up for active business. It is a subject for wonder that the appropriation made by the legislature for the nse of the commission should remain so long un touched, The new 131415 puzzle, more com- monly known as “Which district is to elect a county commissioner this year?” aaits on the supreme court for a solu- tlon. The attorneys in the case have tried to make out that it can be solved in four different ways and the court ‘will have to tell the right way, The proposed new honds to provide for the Carnegie lbrary at South Omaha are to deaw 5 per cent interest. Th 18 no good reason why the interest rate should be xo high in these days for any city with substantial credit, Omaha bas uot paid 5 per cent in years, As the bonds will tually have to he redeemed by the consolidated cities of Omaha and South Omaha, the taxpayers should see to it that they are not floated above the market rates eve The imp! iven by the tele- graphic reports that Mr., Bryan is len ing his influence to promote the sena- torial ambitions of ex-Governor William J, Stone of Missourl as against that prolitic word-colner, Congressman Champ Clark. Of course’ this impression may be erroncous, but if Mr. Bryan has to choose between these two ardent fol Jowers, Lie will certainly be accused of fogratitude by the one or the other. And to keep his balance between them | for the transte NOT VERY DIFFERENT. 1t was different when Populist State Treasurer Meserve looked after our state's finances and every cent of state money was always accofinted for and every cent of idle money was drawing interest for the benefit of Nebraska taxpayers.—Holt County Independent. It was different when Populist State Treasurer Meserve looked after our state’s finances, but the chief difference was that he had more idle school money sccrotly planted In favored banks than his republican successor. Not only the assertion untrue that under Me. sory cent of state mouney was punted for wad every cent of idle money drawing interest for the benefit of Nebraska taxpayers, but Preasurer Meserve persistently refused to tell where any of the money was and was defiantly deaf te every demand made upoen him for ag exhibit of the where- abouts of the kehool mone; Not a cent of interest was turned in by Me- | serve on the uninvested trust fund bal- ances It was different when Populist State surer Meser looked after our state’s finances also in this, that every one of the big and little popguns that are now so solicitous about the location of all the funds kept discreetly silent and even in many Instances went so far as to defend the populist state treas- urer for ignoring the repeated demands to tell where it was, No populist or democratic convention ever formulated 2 request for a treasury exhibit. The fact that it was no different under Meserve does not, in the opinfon of The Bee, afford any valld use for re publicans to continue the bad practices | of the populists, but the silence of the popocrats on thes years of their own control of the st treasury should estop them frow wak ing much ado now. PANAMA CANAL I The president of the company, who recently country with the unde submitting proposals to the government | of the company’s canal property to the United States, is in Washington and has been in conference with the president of the Isthminn Canal commission, Rear Admiral Walker. 1t 18 stated that the Panamu company has submitted a revised statement of the expenditures and liabilities on the route | and probably also an estimate of the | value of the present work toward cax rying out the American canal plan, in | distinetion from its value as a part of the stmpler French scheme. When an agreement is veached on property vah it is said that a definite financial | posal to this government will doubtless | be submitted, | The Washington correspondent of the | New York Evening Post states that in | the opinion of members of congress who | are at the national capital, the bent | remains stronger toward the Nicara- gua route than toward the Panama route, and the Intter will have to have | citizenship. | 1= compelled to be out over both Satur its claims presented with grent clear ness and foree in order to ma vorable impression in the face odds, The Panama company will have | to offer not only reasonable terms in dollars and cents, but a plan which in volves the transfer of an absolutely flawless title, guaranteed by the ¥ courts agalust all claims and oth cumbrances. 1t will also be necessury to ascertain what the Colombian gov ernment fs willing to do in the premises. | ¢ el | It is the complications in which the | Panama route is involved that count most strongl against it and this is lik to lead congress to prefer «nu{ Nicaragua route, notwithstanding its | greater engineering difficultios and iis | probubly greater cost. If the new treaty with Great Britain shall prove ptable to the senate it is safe 1o that congress will waste little thne in deciding upon a canal route being no complications in with the Nicaragua route the chau will be very largely in favor of its sc lection. SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR CLAIMS. By the treaty of peace with Spain the United States relinquished all claims of its citizens against Spain that may have avisen during the last insurrec- tion in Cuba and prior to the exchange of ratitications of the treaty. The treaty also provided for the adjudication and settlement by this country of the claims of its citizens against Spain r sulting from the Cuban lusurrection. In accordance with this congress at its last session created the Spanish Claims com mission, consisting of five members, with authority to receive, examine and adjudicate claims against Spain, The act creating the commission provided that it should last two years, though therenfter its life way be revived for periods of six months, unless stopped by congress. There was good reason to believe, when this commission was authorized, that it would be able to dispose of all legitimate claims within two years, but the present indieatious ave that it will have to be continued. indetinite When this legislation ‘was, passed the claims sent to congress by the State depart- ment amounted to only about: $14,000,- 000, some of which were pronounced invalid. Since then the claims have in- creased until they now aggregate nearly $58,000,000 and doubtless there are more to come, Theré Ik not a quéstion that many of these clalms, perhaps most of them, are worthless, but the com- mission must make proper investigation as to all of thew, consnming time for which the public Is paying about 850,000 a year. And this may go on for many years. As the Philadelphia Record re- marks, here I8 no statute of limita tions to pi 't future generations from wholesale schemes of spoliation under the gulse of war claims. Instead of putting an end to them, once and for good and all, congress palters and dickers with the speculative gentry who buy up these claims and thus a pre cession of decayed and corrapt congres- sional lobbylists is created from genera tion to generation,” The Spanish war claims prom to greatly prolong the disagrecable experience of the last quar- ter of a century ‘in this matter and to both will requige some artful and dip- lomatic steering, = ™S e swell the procession of corrupt congres: slonal lobbyists, with the probability, of abuses through four | opportunity L with a fair share of the present-day con ventences, As @ city of homes Omaha will com- pare well with other and even larger | western cities that compete with it for | venlences for light, water and heat and Ko cumstance to this conflict of religion and 1t day and Sunda PWIL it ever come to it that soervers will have to be excused alto- cotlier from Jury dut Mighty « e Call Minne lis Journal, Nebraska rum state that fusion is not there, The elevator only dropped t three stories and most of the poli- | tictans have “come to." ar Ver Globe-Democrat The country is prepared to hear that T course, that the government will pay millions of dollars for unworthy claims, as it has done in the past The matter is one which should n..vl sseape the attention of the Fifty-sey nth congress. The heavy increase in the amount of claims since the com- | mission was ereated—more than four times the aggregate sent to congress by | the State department befor of the act creating the suggests deliberate efforts to llvll'llu«l! the zovernment and therefore demands consideration from the representatives of the people. By the terms of the treaty muny of these claims would seem to be excluded from consideration by the commission, because of their pros entation after the ratifications of the treaty were exchanged, and this is a | point which congress should determine, | It is to be desived that the government shall pay every just elaim that is | the passage | commission | { | sented. It should be perfectly fair honest in this matter. But cave should be taken to protect the national tres ury against unworthy or fravdulen claime, i ~ | THE GROWTH THAT COUNTS | While the bollding season now ap- | ching an end has brought Omaha a few large structures of notable pretensions, it has added hundreds of | new dwellings and small building im- | provements, which constitute the growth that counts. Every large modern city must have commodious public buildings, lar; business blocks, handsome churches, substantial schools and at-| tractive residences, but it must also hold ut to the wage workers and to the s in moderate cireuinstances the | to be comfortably housed, | Not only is the de- of moderate preten- population growth, wand for dwelling sions steady, but tl ustantly in ing supply no more than Keeps with this demand. The L oaren over which the elty is spread o prevents visitors from receiving a true impres- sion of the substantial character of this growih. If Owmaba were more com- paetly built the outward evide [ the fruits of the building season would be wueh mo striking. It is certuinly gratifying to know that the people who live in Omaha are stead- | ily improving the character of their homes and enjoying the advantages of | betier construction, more modern con ally improved conditibns that make tor comtort and happine “The district court of Lancaster county s run up against a unique proposition \ a Seventh Day Adventist juror who refnses to serve on Saturday. The con flict of science and religion is not a cir- It often happens that a jury L and if one class could luy off one Sablath day the others would be equally privileged to draw the line on the regularly observed Subbath. Abhath ob th batile off Santiago was won by brave men all hat impression is so stroug In the public mind that it cannot be disturbed Nut His Spirit Remains, Chicago News Caretul investigation having demon- etrated that Andrew Jackson is unques- tionably dead, quite a number of persons have begun to advocate the establishment of a United States bank. Strenuous Life, Washington Post. An Omaha man who thinks he has in- vented perpetual motion wants to marry a woman with $1,000 ready money. Ha will be bound to get something perpetual in cuse he succeeds In finding her. Anything to “Do” Justice. Baltimore American. A murderer appealing to the United States supreme court contends that he can not be executed, as he Is already legally dead by some technicality. This plea has been made with great humorous effect in comic opera, but it is new as a matter of sober earnest. Panishing the Cubhan Crooks, Philadelphia Record. Leaden-heeled justice has been unusually slow in reckoning with the perpetrators of Cuban postal frauds; but the punishment seems likely to be exemplary and crushing In the end. Neely, Rathbone and Reeves are charged with from fifteen to eighteen offenses, and Speclal Fiscal Agent Hevia, the prosecuting officer at Havana, has asked that they be imprisoned for terms ranging collectively In each case from twenty- four to twenty-six years. A quarter of & century in a Cuban prison would be a fearful price, indeed, to pay for what is sometimes held In this land of the free to be a mere official indiscretion. Herald as Bartiey Kearney Hub, Tt is an unenviable reputation that World-Herald is getting as . the sonal organ and mouthpiece of Bartley, treasury wrecker, prince of em- bezzlers and gentleman convict, and the worst of it Is that the role is played without shame and with the barest pretext of sery- Wor Mouthplece the per- Joe ing any legitimate ends. It was the Omaha World-Herald that made the first strong, urgent plea for the pardon of Bartley There were doubtless peasons, some of which are suspected, why it should have done so. It was the World-Herald which commended in fthe strongest language the parolo of this same Bartley and wept croco- dile tears when he was returned to the “'pen’* at the behest of the republican state convention. The Jig being up so far as a present or early prospective hope for the convict is concerned the World-Herald is belping to work out such little revenges as may be possible. Little more will ever be heard of the Goold maiter. That sensa- tlon has served its purpose. But wherever there is a pretext, the dirty fnsinuation of @ relationship with Bartley will be charged against this, that and the other person riley 1s doubtless shortsighted enough to lcr ater difculty. - THE OMAHA DAILY | incredible BEE: think that he ean fight his way out of prison in thie manner and the World- Herald evidently has no choice in the mat- ter of alding him in whatever manner it can Never Too Late to L Hoston Advertiser. President Eliot's remark that he does not believe there is any perlod of buman life between birth and death which should | not be characterized by a process of drill, and that an adult is infinitely more capable of advantageous drill than a child, recalls the late Willlam Morris Hunt's answer to an inquiry from one of his puplls as to the age at which a person ought to un- dertake the study of art. “Not under 4 or 5, nor over S0 or 90,” said be. Fees of the MeKintey Cleveland Leader. We are loathe to credit the story which comes from Washington that congress will be asked to pay $100,000 to the doctors who attended President McKinley. It seems that the surgeons should ask such sum, or that anyone should necessary to glve them so much division of $100,000 among liesa wedical men would give them about £15,000 epiece. after taking out of the wppropriation enough for the two or three for any Mnk it money. Any doctors called in at the last moment. It would be close to $2,000 a day for the time they were employed in connection with the case. Such feer would not be demanded of any man, however rich and important, if he recovered and could make his own settlement with his doctors. It is far more than the surgeons in the McKin- ley case receive in the ordinary course of thelr practice. Why should they be greatly overpald mow? The story seems too hard to believe, Better evidence than has yet been given must be supplied before it can be taken seriously. REDL ARMY, D COST OF THE Marked Cut in the Estimates for the 3 Philadelphia Ledger. There is turther confirmation of Sec- retary Root's businesslike and efficient administration of the War department in the news from Washington that the estimates for ‘‘the support of the army" during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, are $16,000,000 lower than the amount appropriated for the same purposes this fiscal year. The saving fs made by the en- forcement of rigid economles, especially in the pay, subsistence and quartermas- ter's departments, with the result that the estimates for the support of the army call for $99,000,000, against over $115,000,000 now devoted to that use for the fiscal year ending June 320, 19 The department is exercising economy In other directions: but, even after every unnecessary ftem and all waste bave been cut out of the estimates, the sum required will be huge. The chief reason for the increase in army expenditures 1s the increase in the size of the regular army, made necessary by the retention and control of the Philippines. The strength of the regular army on April 1, 1898, just before the Spanish war, was 2,143 officers and 26,040 enlisted men. By the act of February 2, 1901, the maximum strength of the regular establishment was fixed at 100,000, There are now over 40,000 troops in the Philippines, and, as that number or more will be required there for years, according to competent mili- tary and civil authority, the army of Year. MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1901, Chances for Young Men Loulsvilie Courler-Journal. Young men who would like to,better their position in the world and are willing to work should take encouragement from the recent speech of the secretary of the treasury before an audience of bank clerks in Denver. Mr. Gage was discussing the matter of salaries and made the statement that If he could get twenty young men in Denver who were properly equipped for banking he could find them places at $26,000 a year each. It is not on record that any of these young men made himself known to Mr. Gage, but he had merely put into concrete form the generalizations of thousands of philosophers who have for ages been show- ing what can be done by the determined. Emerson expressed it in only slightly differ- ent fashion when he sald to young men that it they wanted anything they should take it “and pay the price.” Doubtless every one In the audience that heard Mr. Gage would have given ten years of his lite to be able to satisty the conditions he re- quired, but he well knew that he did not then possess the necessary qualifications Moreover, there was probably not one of them that was willing to buy success by the hard work that is necessary. He would be willing to take off ten years of the duration of his Iife if he could be properly equipped, but he would not spend ten years in the necessary study and work to win that equipment for himself. And yet all that Mr. Gage sald was true. Witness the experience of one young man whom Mr. Gage took for a confidential secretary at the beginning of his term in the treasury. Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip was quite & young man, but he had the equip ment necessary, and he was soon elevated from his clerkship to be an assistant sec- retary. A few months ago he resigned to enter the service of the greatest financisl corporation of New York as its vice presi- dent. This bank was desirous of develop- ing its foreign business and found in Mr. Vanderlip the man who seemed able to do it. This line of the banking business has grown enormously during the last few years, and as New York Is rapidly becom- ing the headquarters of the world's haute finance the possibilities ahead of Mr. Van- derlip are practically unlimited. Mr. J Pierpont Morgan foresaw this when, ae a very young man, he engaged in foreign banking, in which he speedily built up name and fortune. The fact Is, opportunities nare just as good for young men to make fortunes now as they ever were. If they prefer to labor in the flelds of sclence or scholarship the rewards are surer and more satisfying, but it is in the power of any man to achieve a moderate competence, and those who are willing to pay the price ot self-denfal may become rich In the same way as the elder Astor and Vanderbilt heaped up their co- lossal fortunes. The world I8 growing as rapidly now as it ever did and the need of capable young men in all lines of busi- ness and the professions is as great as ever. This is the opinion of Mr. Carnegle, Mr. Schwab, Mr. Gage and other self-made men. s it not wiser to accept their testi- mony than that of the whining soclalist who would have the atate do for men what the individual can do? CALKINS AN IDEAL RE NT. York Times: The vacancy oc joned by the withdrawal of Mr, Goold from the re- publican ticket has been promptly and well filled by the state committee fn the person of Judge E. O. Calkins of Kearney. He is a gentleman of culture and has taken & lively Interest in school work for many years at home, where he has been, and still is, an active member of the school board. othing can truthfully be sald against him. With Judge Calking and Carl J. Ernest as regents of the university there will be no danger to that great in- stitution if their counsels are heeded. Only g00d, true and honest men can secure places on the republican ticket and even men of that class are willing to withdraw when- ever the interests of the party scem to de- mand it. Kearney Hub: Republicans of this city and citizens of the county generally will be greatly pleased with the action of the republican state central committee in plac Ing the name of Hon. E. C. Calkins on the ticket as candidate for regent of the State university to succeed H. L. Goold, with- drawn. Mr, Calkins stands in high esteem throughout Nebraska as a man and a law- yer. His personal character is unassailable. His personal ‘qualities are of the rarest and finest. He will grace any position. He would honor his county and state in any public capacity. He is, indeed, ad- mirably fitted for the position of regent of the university and the ticket, so far from being weakened by his selection, will be materially strengthened. CENSUS REVELATIONS, the United States on “war account,” Including the navy, reaches the enormous sum of $400,000,000 for the present fiscal year. This sum_fncludes payment on ac- count of former wars in the shape of pen- sions, pension dhd navy administration. There is no way In the United States of having a cheap army. The soldiers are better fed, clothed and pald than anywhere else in the world, and the liberal pension payments swell the totals. According to the table presented in the last session of congress, by Representative McClellan, the cost of maintaining a soldier in the German army is but $227 per year, while the cost per soldier in the United States army, exclusive of cost of fortifications and exoenditures on account of former wars, s $1,215 a year. In Europe the governments compel their citizens to serve in the army for a wretched pittance, but the United States government goes into the open market and employs soldiers. The enforcement of care and economy is grati- fying evidence of Secretary Root's faith- ful and very aole performance of his du- ties; but, with model administration of the department, the cost of the army will still remain heavy. A Measure of Cons: fon for Com- sumers of Black Diamon Philadelphia Record. Those who dread a continuous rise in the price of anthracite coal may console themselves in some degree with the com- sideration that the price cannot rise above the purchasing power of the masses of con- sumers. When prices go beyond a certain level, whether by trust manipulation or by actual scarcity of the supply, shipments to distant parts of the United States well as abroad become checked, and there s a reaction in the market. Besides, when the price of anthracite threatens to become exorbitant bituminous coal, which serves as & substitute for many needs, comes in to redress the balance in favor of the consum- tng public. Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey consume not less than 65 per cent of the total anthracite production. Rich as s the country in flelds of bituminous coal, the anthracite is confined to a comparatively small region of this state. The mining operations become more costly the deeper the miner must sink his shaft in the bowels of the earth, and the geological bureau at Washington has made an interesting calcu- lation as to the time when the anthracite | product may be finally used up. No definite conclusion has been reached, and the esti- mates of experts materially differ, but the neral conclusion is that future gemera- tions will have to content themselves with bituminous coal, petroleum and natural gas as substitutes for the glistening black dia- monds of Pennsylvania. The anthracite fields have been exploited since 1820 and many mines that were tormerly very productive have been worked out and abandoned. In the first decades, when the supply was cheap and abundant, the methods of production were extremely wasteful; but now gigantic heaps of culm are carefully sifted to obtain the lumpe of coal that are in them. But as anthracite becomes scarcer and dearer, sclence, the handmald of necessity, is overcoming the difficultios that have attended the use of bituminous coal for domestic purposes. By the process of coking the eoal is freed of its unwholesome odors of sulphur and of soot, and under this transmutation into coke it delivers a heat approaching in in- tensity that of the pure anthraeite. Hence if our own Pennsylvania anthracite flelds should hecome exhausted in a more or less remote period future generations would not freeze for want of fuel. The great bituminous codl deposits of Pennsyl- vania, Oblo, West Virginia, Tennessee and Alabama would afford supplies of coke for manufacturing and domestic purposes for ages. Whilst the anthracite coal has fallen under the grasp of a great transportation trust, a monopoly over the immense and widely separated bituminous coal deposits of the continent will be a matter of much e “Lamentable Exhibit Confidence. Kansas City Star. ‘The census bureau's final report on sex, general activity and color for the whols country creates a lamentable exhibit in misplaced confidence. Nearly everything the preliminary bulletins have persuaded the trusting soul to belleve is ruthlesslv swept away by contrary conclusions. Upon the wreck of hopes and fears allke new structures of sociology must be reared. and the ambitious reasomer can govern himself accordingly. The passing of the female is dealt a mortal blow, for the gentler sex, so-called, the country over, is on the increase at 21.1 per cent, man falling behind with 20.9 per cent. A surplus of mearly 2,000,000 males still cumber the ground, but the swelling hosts of girl bables will soon swallow it up. What has become of the fecundity of the negro? He also has gone to join hands with the non-progressive Frenchman and Bos- tonfan. His percentage declimes from in 1890 to 12.2 in 1900. Chinese are tually decreasing in numbers, and forei born inhabitants, in the aggregate, have in- creased but 1,000,000 souls, while the native- hor have increased 12,000,000. The lndian, whose increase in numbers has long been the theme of practical reformers and icono- clastic ethnologists, shows an absolute de- cline from 273,000 ten years ago to 266,000 now. The census of 1890 indicated the falsity of a common theory that Americans are prome to small families, but the showing now substantiates that ancient doctrine most emphatically. The native white ele- ment of forelgn parentage has increased relatively twice as fast as the native whites of native parentage. Immigrants will aver- age twice as large famllies as the native- born. At this rate, evidently, foreign ele- ments in our population are gaining re- markably upon the native element. The saving fact is that these children of immi- grants are true Americans in two genera- tions, if not in onme. PERSONAL NOTES, in Misplaced A movement is on foot in North Carolina. prompted by the tobacco dealers, to erect a statue of Sir Walter Raleigh in Raleigh Colleation boxes are to be placed iIn stores where tobacco s sold. President Roosevelt still finds time to take plenty of exercise. This has been a regular dally custom of his all his life and he does not neglect it now, as he believes that to it he owes his good health. In declining an invitation to visit Bos- ton it is scarcely possible that Sir Thomas Lipton was influenced by his recollection of the famous assault that was made on tea in that city more than 100 years ago. King Edward is introducing electric ele- vators as well as electric 1Ights at Bucking- ham palace and ah American company is providing the lifts. There are three ele- vators, two for passengers and one for treight, and two dumb walters Prof. David G. Fairchild, agricultural ex- plorer of the Department of Agriculture, has just returned from a year's exploration in Europe and Africa. His collections In- cluded all sorts of plants, seeds and cut- tings which might prove of value to agricul- ture in some part of the United States and Bis shipments to the department during the year numbered about 300, Here s an extract from a letter re- cently written by Herbert Spencer to an Itallan: “You have comprebended some points of my works much more clearly than many of my compatriots and bave treated them in & manner quite unknown here (in England). Broad generalizations cannot be grasped by the English mind. 1 am pleased to see that it s otherwise in Italy." A memorial window has heen placed in the chapel of the United States Naval acad- emy at Anpapolis to commemorate the late Lieutenant Commander Theodorus Balley Myers Mason, U. 8. N., who dled on October 16, 1899, This memorial is by his widow, Edmonia T. P. Mason, & daughter of the late Rear Admiral Thomas §. Phelps, U. § N., and was designed and executed by outs Tiffany. Tt s sald to be a remark- bly fine specimen of work, | WASHINGTON GOSSIP, ntures of Life Observed at the National Capital Some Official society at the national capital is becoming deeply interested-in the approach- ing coming-out party of Miss Alice Roose- velt, which will take place in the East room of the White House on the second day of the new year. The function will be in the form of a & o'clock tea, although the for- mality and elogance which will mark the occasion will lend official stateliness to the event. Not since Miss Nellle Grant made her bow to Washington eoclety thirty years | a0 bas the house of the presidents been | enlivened by such an event. Miss Alice will come to Washington October 2 She will accompany her father to Yale when he re- ceives the degree of LL. D. Mrs. Roose- velt has been planning a series of informal entertainments for young people and these will begin about November 1. These will be luncheons and small aud early dances, when the young people will meet informally and become acquainted before the grand event of January 1. Miss Roosevelt will also attend the coming-out parties of a number of her contemporaries during the months of November and December. Among the debutantes prominent this season are Miss Miriam Grant, grand- daughter of Mrs, U. 8. Grant and daughter of Jesse D. Grant; Mies Mathilde Townsend, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Town- send and granddaughter of the well known millionaire, “Tom Scott of Erie;" Miss Florence Fleld, nlece of Marshall Field and stepdaughter of Thomas Nelson Page; Mies Virginia Mackay Smith, daughter of Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Mackay Smith and grand- daughter of “Old Ironsides,” and Miss Ma- rion Jones, the tennls champlon of the United States and daughter of Senator John P. Jones of Nevada. Miss Helen Roosevelt, who is the ‘ousin of the president's daughter, will make her debut at the home of Mrs. Willlam §. Cowles in this city. Miss Roosevelt ia the daughter of Mr. J. Roose- velt-Roosevelt and the granddaughter of the late William Astor. She will participate In all the White House functions and will un- doubtedly be one of the reigning belles ot the season. Three other cousins of Miss Alice will be presented o soclety this winter and will come to Washington to attend the coming- out tea of Miss Alice Roosevelt. These young ladies are Miss Elinor Roosevelt, the daughter of the president’s brother, El- liot; Miss Christine Roosevelt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emlen Roosevelt and nlece of Senator Keane of New Jersey, and Miss Dorothy Roosevelt, daughter of Mrs. Hil- borne Roosevelt of Boston, Mass. Adjutant General Corbin has Introduced an Innovation at the War department by wearing his uniform with the Inslgnia of his rank while on duty at the department. He keeps his uniform in his office and dons it as soon as he arrives in the morning, wearing it until he leaves for his home in the late afternoon. He is the only officer of the army or navy who follows this cus- tom at present, but it is possible that his example may be generally adopted in the near future. There is no order on the sub- Ject and General Corbin is simply acting on his individual judgment in the matter. Dur~ 1ng the Spanish war all officers of the army stationed In this city were required to wear thelr uniforms while on duty, regardless of its character, but after the war was over the practice lapsed into innocuous desue- tude. Its revival by General Corbin in his own case I3 one of the results of his ob- servation during his recent inspection of military conditions in the Phillppines, China and Japan. In those places he saw that all the officers of the army of the United States as well as those of other armies, British, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japan- ese and others, nvariably wore thelr uni- forms while on duty whether in the field or in the office, and he became convinced of its propriety. A consplouous feature of General Corbin's uniform are the two stars In hbis shoulder straps which indicate his rank of major general. The famous ‘“‘Chamberlin's restaurant.” identified with Washington life for a gen- eration, has ceased to exist, and rumor has it that former Congressman Tim Campbell of New York, author of the eplgram *“What's the constitution botween friends,” will take hold of the abandoned hostelry and attempt to restore its popularity. Prior to the es tablishment of the clubhouse at Fifteenth and H stroets, whero it has beem located for twenty years, John Chamberlin had been the host of two other Washington houses, one on the present site of the Army and Navy club and the other on New York avenue, a short distance away. When he opened the restaurant whose career has just ended it at once became the meeting place for those who were tempted by the fame of the dishes pre- pared according to the recipes of the fa- mous bon vivant, whose popularity con- tinued to the day of his death. Chamber- 1in's early became more than a hotel. more than a club, and developed into the closest of close corporations. ‘“‘John'" was the lodestone which brought together under the roof of the hostelry the repre- sentative gathering always to be found there during his life. There. between the courses of his unequaled viands, politics was discussed with all the freedom possi- bla Every fellow around the board was rated a jolly good one, regardless of his nation- ality, religion or politics. Sometimes bad blood came to the top with the good wine, and then there was trouble. There in their moments of relaxation would the #tatesmen gather and battle with the cards than | when ate or house for stakes the amount of which would have filled their eonstituent Wwith borror. “There are many men in officlal life to day." says a letter to the Chleago Trib “who can remomber the night when a cah inet officer, in discussing with anoth member of the president’s oficial family, a question of natlonal import, grew heated through force of argument or flush of wine and struck his colleague in the mouth with his clinched fist. Tho participants fmme- dintely retired to a private room with their friends, where the name of the historic dueling ground of Rladensburg was again brought into promfnence and the was much talk of ‘honor' and Atisfaction.’ The matter was at Inst pacifically adjusted, largely, it 18 sald, through the intercession of Chamberlin himself and the exercise of his personal influence with the partici pants. Other famous quarrels occurred, as two senators rolled about the floor in deadly embrace during a poker game when one was acoused of playing a bob tailed flush “On the death of John Chamberlin at Saratoga the hotel bearing his name passe Info the hands of Edward K. Somborn, h intimate friend and financial backer in many of his undertakings, and it was continue! for the benefic of Mrs. Chamberlin under the name that had made it famous. But Wwhile many of the intimates of Chamberli stopped there for old associatfon's sake while in Washington, the place had lost its prestige and gradually but surely slipped out of popularity. 1t was continued under the samo management until last spring when it was closcd for the summer months Recently the “to let" sign was posted and Mr. Somborn anuounced that he would no resume the management of the house When Chamberlin died tt was found that a host of men, many of them heing prominent in congress and out of it, owed him large sums of money. Little of {t was collected John Chamberlin never prossed his friends for payment and they took advantage of his generosity and lax business methods. He had many friends among the wealthiost and most Influential men of the country His place always did a big business, but he dled a poor man." RAW MATERIA FOR CITIZENS, the Materinl Strength of the Country, Philadelphin Bullotin. Out of 888,931 fmmigrants who landed at the port of New York during the last year 131,658 were Italians and nearly 90,000 more were Poles, Slovaks, Magyars, Croats and Dalmatians. Germany, Scandinavia and Ireland, which have in the past contributed %0 largely to the population of the United States, sent together onl bout 000 em tgrants, or less than one-ffth of the whole number. It s evident that, for the present at least, the volume of emigration to this country is distinctly a movement from southern and southeastern Europe, and that the northern races have ceased to furnish their former important quota to American citizenship. This showing will doubtless he regarded with alarm by some excellent peoplo of pes simistic tendencies. But the past history of the mation affords abundant reason for declining to view the outlook with appre henslon. Tt Is undeniable that the hulk of the newcomers are of sound and sturd stock physically, well qualified to perform the rougher manual labor which is indis- pensable to the maintenance of clviliza tion, and, despite the somewhat extrava gant utterances of a portion of the pregs, there is very little ground for thinking that any considerable proportfon of them is in- fected with the virus of anarchism. A good many of them may not know much at this time about Ameriean inatitutions and forma of government, and the per- centage of illiteracy 1s, of course, high But. it must he remembered that great num bers of this army are more children, who have come hither with their parents, and that these will be promptly enrolled in the common schools, whose efficacy as a eruei- ble for fusing foreign elements into a cony mon Americanism has been thoroughly dem Accessions to onstrated. The youngsters who march to school will not only recelve valuable les sons themselves, but they will help to educate their older fellows In American idens, and this process of acquisition will be supplemented by the daily contact of the adult immigrants with those of their own race who have come before them and have become Americanized, Nobody need worry over these accessions to the material strength and industrial re- sources of the United States. A vast ma- jority of the next generatioggamong them will, in all probability--judged by experi ence with our immigrants of the past—turn out to be excellent eitizens, obedient to law, full of honesi respect for the imstitutions of the republic, and as proud of the Stars and Stripes as if their ancestors had served with Washington at Valley Forge. PASSING PLEASANTRIES, Ohin State Journal: Patron-Oh, T've found an oyster! Restaurant Proprietor—Have it identified at the cashier's desk and get your money back. 8o glad you found Standard: “In suid “Rev, Mr interesting,” Catholle sermon it was Interesting to me,"” re- Righter: “I've heen making a ntly of the powers of endurance »f the human voice,” Mr. n Dauber (critieally)- Poor thing" ture of Mrs. Smith Jooks ax {f she had tielo of spirit left Van Daul sn't. Her hushand lets her have wily fn everything without an argument Brooklyn Tife: “She Well. dear, after that you must acknowledge that you are a for He 1 always know it, darling; but—until I marricd you—I managed 1o keep it a secret Cloveland What's golus on in the big hail, stranger? “Why, our pariy's graphophone fs gofng to have a joint debate with the other fel- lows' phonograph Philadelphia Press: He The new preacher has the most agEravating volee I ever heard "She-The 1doa! T heard he had a beau tiful volce, and used it magniticent) He—Well, it's one of those volces Julls you to sleep for fiftcen minute then wikes you up again Tribune: The two men wers ng to get past each other at the Chicago trug pwied entrance to the foot ball park ‘T ought to go in first!"” exclaimed the one with the leather case under his arm. “I'm a wurgeon!” “That doesn't eut any courtplaster with me!" panted the other, “I'm an under taker!” o 1 sit beneath my own roof-tree And look out on the world of meng Saddened by plteous wrecks I see, T hasten to my own again, From those who wander, fast and far, To toll inured, in danger bold, I turn my eyes where comforis are And luxuries that all may hold Breathing the pois'nous air of mines, Daring the dreadful Arctie cold, Men labor, while this glad sun shines, And 1, in plenty, count my gold. There are my fields of golden grain, Swaying beneath a cool, sweet hreeze, While mellow sunshine follows rain Why covet other golds than these Here are my plles of gold-hued corn With stored-up strength and healthful rest Gathered from many u bracing morn And Mother Earth's 1fe-giving breast, While many spend in futlle quest Long lives, but few their goal will see, But each onuv may. lke me, be blest With gold, hencail his own roo! with as much or more earmestness they ever exhbibited on the floor of the 1 BELLE WL ‘Wingido, Neb, | i