Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 13, 1902, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, Pmr OMAHA DA]LY BEE. ROSHW. A'rl:n EDITOR. 3L lfllfl"D FVIRY MUR’(IN ‘rhrma OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dally Bee (Without 8unday), One Year..$6.00 Dally Bee and Sunda; ne chr o illustrated Bee, One Yeaf.. Sunday Bee, One Year... Baturday Hee, One Year Twentieth Century Farmer, DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Bnllv Bee (without Bunday), per cop; ally Bee (without Sunday).per weel Dall ¥), per w Bee (including Sun D Ints dtllvery lho\lld be nddrv‘lned In Clly (_Irculllhm De- t. partment ornczn Omaha—~The Bee Bulldin Bouth Omana~City Hall' Bullding, Twen- ty-nfth and M BStreets. uncil Blufts—10 Pearl Street. lcago—1640 Unity Building. rk—Temple Court, w mnnnn—m Fourteenth Street. "ORRESPONDENCE. Gpmmunioationy relating to news and ed| {orial matter should be addressed: Omaha eo, Editorial Department. BUBINESS LETTERS. Business lotiers aud remittances #¥ould be 4ddressed: The Bee Publishing Company, REMITTANCES, Romit by draft, express or postal order, payevie to The h« Publishing Company, 2-cent stam) cepted in payment of accounte. ~Bersona checkia, except on Om: or e ern excl F ted. THE Bk PUBLISHING COMPA? STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btato of Nebraskn, Douglas County, ss B Fanciiick, secratary af 1he Hee P Compan - duly belng Says that the actu ot tull’ and complete c !la- of Thn D-Ily. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee prigted durlo lh. month of Decel was as fol- lows: ESBENIRRBRES Less unsold and returned coples. Net total sales.. Net dally average. GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed in my !mt;\ D‘ludbl:orn to of Decembe! before me this Sist 1901, HuNoA‘rE (Seal.) B ife. Great s Tammany, but Croker 18 no longer its prophet. It 1s a little early yet to route globe- girdling tours by way of the Nicaragua canal, SEE—— Mr. Croker should give some good assurance that this is really his last farewell tour. Nebraska state banks have again pussed highwater mark in bank de- posits, Only prosperous people have money to bank. Anxious reader is ured that not- withstanding the ominous signs the base ball season will not open in earnest for several months yet. e ‘With the prospect of having to run the gauntlet of two police judges the timid crook ought to take the hint to glve Omaha a wide berth. ——— It reported shortage of South Amerl- can coffee crop is not exaggerated, we may as well begin to practice awhile on liquid extract of chicory roots and army beans, e Oklabhoma 18 to send a delegation by speclal train to Washington to present its claims to statehood to congress. Con- gress may have to agree to statehood in self-protection. —— Now that the lawyers have had their love feast the courts may prepare for another session with the usual accom- paniments of personalitiés between bp- posing counsel. Smmemm——— That bill creating a new federal judge for Nebraska has not yet passed either house of congress. Lawyers with judi- clal ambitions therefore will have ample time to prepare their applications and secure endorsements. [ ‘The average monthly salary of public school teaohers in Nebraska 18 less than $40. Omaha's average Is nearly $70, 1t 1s needless to say that Omaha cun com- mand the best teaching talent of the state at any and all times. Omaha's Increase in December postal business was more than three ‘times that of 8t. Joseph, and its absolute re- ceipts more than twice as great. And yet the late census parades 8t. Joseph ~us the city of larger population, em———— The latest conundrum: How many annuals and trip passes did it take to persuade the farmers who attended that tri-state gralu and cattle growers' con- vention at Fargo to pass resolutions endorsing Jim Hill's $400,000,000 merger? emmm——ee—— The great French aeronaut expresses @ consuming desire to compete in the proposed aerial navigation contest at Bt. Louls, but wants a cash guaranty in addition to the prize. We used to say “money makes the mare go,”" and it must be that it takes money, too, to make the airship go. em—————s—— A bill has been introduced iuto con- gress to give all ex-presidents life sala- ries at the rate of $25,000, payable from the time they retire from the executive office. If the blll would only put up an annuity prize for presidential cand: dates who fall to reach the White House it would be more effective as a surplus extinguisher, em——— Senator Depew, who was formerly president of the New York Central and 1s still at the head of its executive board, characterizes the re¢ent tunnel wreck ou that road as the result of §ross carelessnes Senator Depew can prove a good alibl, Inasmuch as he was not. in the country, but it might be some satisfaction to the wreck victhms and their frionds to have the responsibility for the carelessness located, . ANEXAMPLE kfl NEBRASKA. Governor Van Sant of Minnesota has made public announcement that he will call the legiglature of that state to meet in extra session for the first part of February. While the session js called specifically to consider the report and recommended ‘sgislation of the state tax cqmmission, it Is given out that owner subjects, particularly those arlsing out of late railroad developments, will also come up for consideration. The extra ‘session In Minnesota is called under general constitutional pro- vislon relating to the convening of the legislature to meet extraordinary emerg- encles that Is substantially the same as that of all other' American common- wenlths, including Nebraska. In Minne- sota no one even questions the judg- ment of the governor that the reform of glaring abuses in the revenue system constitutes an emergency within the purview of the constitution justifying a legislative call and the matter of ex- pense I8 balanced off agpinst the bene- fits expected to accrue. If conditions call for an extra session of the legislature in Minnesota, how much more urgent are the conditions in Nebraska? We make bold to assert that Minnesota's tax system, with all its defects, Is substantial justice as com- pared with the outrageous inequalities of taxation in Nebraska. In this state, however, tax reform is only one of the many pressing problems walting for legislative solution. Constitutional re- vision Is Imperative and every delay in making our fundamental law conform to the changes of a quarter of a century obstructs the growth of the state, to say nothing of the burdens entalled upon the taxpayers. The demand for ap- propriations for rebullding the Norfolk insane asylum and the penitentiary and providing for the state's participation in the Loulsiana Purchase exposition, the necessity of further safeguards for the protection of the permanent school funds, the call for more equitable ap- portionment of representation in legis- lature and congress, all afford better reasons for an extra session In Nebraska than In Minnesota. If Nebraska’s executive would emulate the foresight and courage of Governor Van Sant, he would not hesitate to call the legislature in extra session to enact the measures 80 much needed for the public welfare, SEE—— CANADA AND IMMIGRATION. While congress is pondering over vari- ous bills designed to restrict and repress Buropean immigration, the Dominion government is devising various schemes that are expected to divert foreign im- migration to Canada, rather than to the United States. ‘The Canadians do not appear to be In the least alarmed by the prospect of an overcrowded labor market in conse- quence of the influx of workingmen from the other side of the Atlantic. On the contrary, they labor under the im- pression that the vast agricultural and mineral resources of the dominjon can- not be developed and no material growth can be expected unless the surplus popu- lation of Europe can be induced to take up thelr permanent abode In Canada. Although the Canadian Pacific is los- ing no opportunity for advertising the attractions of the region tributary to that most northern transcontinental line, the Dominfon government, acting at the instance of the commercial in- terests, proposes In the near future to offer special inducements that will tend to turn the tide of migration to British America and away from the United States, without the ald of the American congress. —— THE NBW TAMMANY CHIEF. The triumphant election of Seth Low as mayor of Greater New York was a popular decree for the retirement of Richard Croker as leader of Tammany, His retention as head of that organiza- tion, in spite of its stunning defeat, would have luvited its disruption and general disorganization. The ' abdica- tion of the old commander is therefore the incvitable sequence of the Waterloo sustalned by the political army that had lost prestige and power in its attempt to hold the Tammany citadel. In surrendering supreme cominand of the Tammwany braves the dethroned boss has created genuine surprise by naming as his successor a man comparatively unknown to political fame. Outside of the inner circles of Tammany and out- side of the acqualntanceship he has made as a naval constructor, Lewis 8. Nixon is comparatively unknown. His advent In national politics only dates from the Kansas City national demo- cratic convention, to which he was a delegate and where he was chaperoned by Richard Croker. A man in the prime of life, the new Tammany chief enjoys the advantage of the discipline that comes from a ten- year service In the United States navy, in which he had taken high rauk as a designer and constructor of battleships, the most famous of which is the battle- ship Oregon. As & ship builder on his own account Mr. Nixon takes equally high rank a man of capacity and executive ability. The selection of this man is all the more singular when it 1s borne in nfind that he was Identified with the reform faction that had for its battlecry the purification of Tammany and the suppression of corrupt methods and practices in municipal government. The declaration made at the very out- set by the new Tammany chief, that he does not propose to be a mere figure- head, justities ithe expectation that the reorganization of Tammany will be thorough and that a house cleaning is about to be lnaugurated which will be a herculean task that very few men would Lhave the courage to undertake. The program of regeneration and puri- fication foreshadowed by Tammany's new chlef may, It successfully carried compact and efficlent force for fighting political battles than Tammany in power, even though It had at its dis- posal £100,000,000 a year to be disbursed in the work of municipal government. POSTAL PNEUMATIC SERVICE. A delegation from the New York Pro- duce exchange has presented a petition to Senator Mason, chairman of the com- mittee on postotfices and post roads, urging the re-establishment of the pneu- matic tube service. According to Wash- Ington dispatches, Mr. Mason is de- cidedly in favor of doing something in that direction, providing he can secure an arrangement under which the pneu- matic tube service will not only be re- established In the eastern cities, where it was in operation by a private corpor- ation, but also be introduced into Chi- cago, St. Louls and one or more large citles of the west, It is to be hoped that Senator Mason and his committee will go still further, nothing short of postal pneumatic tube systems owned by the government and operated as part of the postal service in the principal cities of the country will satisty the American people. Such & service has been In operation In Lon- don, Paris, Berlin and Vienna for more than fifteen years and has been since established in all the great commercial centers of Europe. It 1s simply amazing that a country as enterprising and progressive as the United States should have allowed itselt to be distanced by the slow-going na tlons of Europe in its postal facilities. Its failure to utilize the pneumatic tube for the rapld conveyance of mall matter in great population centers is, however, only In keeping with its fallure to estab lish a postal package service, postal suvings banks and postal telegraphs, UMAHA'S CUSTLY KINDERGARTENS. A great hue and cry has been ralsed by parties who oppose retrenchment in the management of our public schools about the alleged outrage perpetrated by the new board in reducing the salary of the superintendent of kindergarten schools from $130 to $120 a month and scaling down the salaries of the kinder- garten teachers, While nobody in Omaha desires to abolish the kindergarten schools alto- gether, it has become a serious question whether our school board would be Justified in continuing the extravagance to which Omaha has gone in that direc- tion within the past uve years. The constitution of Nebraska fixes the legal age for children in the public schools as between 5 and 21 years, but many children in the kindergartens of Omaha are below the legal age. In other words, the law does not contem- plate that the eity shall maintain public nurseries under the name of kinder- garten. An inquiry recently made by The Bee concerning the kindergarten schools in cities between 100,000 and 200,000 people fully justifies the demand for retrench- ment in this direction. In Columbus, O., where they have an aggregate school attendance this year of 17,656, they have no kindergartens con- nected with the publie schools, although at one time kindergartens had been es- tablished, but were dlscontlnund for eco- nomical reasons. Toledo, O., with a total school attend- ance of 1 1, has fifteen kindergartens, with only fifteen teachers, whose sal- arles amount to $589.50 per month, or an average of less than $40 per month. Albany, with a total school attendance of 13,657, has twenty-one teachers in the kindergartens, with an average of 366 pupils, but under the laws of the state of New York children 4 years of age may be admitted into the kindergarten. In the city of Indlanapolls, with a total school attendance of 22,832, there 18 no kindergarten, and yet the publlc schools of Indlanapolis stand as high as those of any city of 200,000 people. Minneapolis, with an aggregate school attendance of 37,622, has only two kin- dergarten teachers and 150 kindergarten puplils, and the legal age limit of school attendance is the same as In Nebraska, Kansas City, with a total school at- tendance of 28,280, has thirteen kinder- garten schools and fourteen paid kinder- garten teachers, with 840 kindergarten pupils, ‘What a contrast between the extent to which kindergartens are fostered in those cities as compared with Omaha. With a school attendaimce of 14,845 in 10601, Omaha employed fifty-four kinder- garten teachers to instruct 1,170 children in attendance, and expended for this pur- pose $20,580.93, while Minneapolis, with an attendance of 87,622, only employed two kindergarten teachers for 150 chil- dren and could not possibly have ex- pended over $1,500 last year for kinder- gartens. In other words, Omaha ex- pended twenty times as much as Minne- apolis for kindergartens in 1901, Kansas City, with an attendance of 28,280, em- ployed fourteen kindergarten teachers for 840 kindergarten pupils, and assum- ing that the salaries of the teachers av- eraged $600 each could not possibly have expended over $8,000 for kindergartens last year. Can anybody stand up. for the rank abuse to which Omaha taxpayers have been subjected for the luxury of kinder- garten instruction? —_— The attention of our amiable contem- poraries who have been distressed into convulsions over the citting down of kindergarten school expenses is respect- fully invited to the comparative facts and figures presented in another column, If there Is to be any more weeplng, walllng or guashing of teeth lot them give the real reasons for thelr grief, which we suspect are traceable to near relatives and special favorites of some of the editors aud publishers who have been touched by the pruning knife. S Income tax returns disclose the fact out, at some future time restore Tam- many to its lost power. In his’ speech of abdication Boss Croker himself confessed that Tammany out of pbwer has always been & more that Krupp, the great steel master, I8 Germany's richest man, confessing to an annual income between 20,000,000 and 21,000,000 marks, or more than $5,000, 000, while the mext richest man has gt JANUARY 18, 1Yvz only one-fourth that income. The in- teresting:point s that this wealth comes from industrial pursufts, rather than from Inberited Janded estates fn which the popular bellef fixes the great source of wealth in Europe as distinguished from the newer countries. It is also Interesting to note that Andrew Car- negle, the richest man boasted by Amer. fea, corresponds with Herr Krupp, In that he, too, |s a great steel master, whose fortune has been built up by Another Invitation for the American invasion of Europe comes from Paris, where they are clearly in need of the American telephone girl. The company that operates the talk lines in Paris is endeavoring to impose on the poor tele- phone gl a new set of regulations, for- bldding her to acknowledge verbal bo- quets sent to them over the wires by male subscribers or to make long or short distance appointments through the transmitter, Imagine an up-to-date American telephone girl submitting to such curtailment of her privileges with- out resenting the indignity. What a chance for the American girl to dis- tinguish herself by setting an example for her poor downtrodden Parisian sister. The councilmen who have been tour- ing the country in search of market house ideas will soon return and if Omaba has any public spirited capital- ists willing to furnish an available site and advance the money for its erection on reasonable terms the market house may materfalize before the auditorfum is formally opened. It 18 just possible that it the fire in- surance trust is sutficlently coddled it may be dissuaded from Increasing rates on Omabha fire risks any further for the present. But the local merchants will have to promise to be good and to use their influence with the next legislature to repeal the valued policy law, Art of Diplomacy. Baltimore American. We are not sufficiently familiar with dip- lomatic verblage to express it in the proper terms, but it is the opinion 6f a great many common people that the act of the forelgn ministers in elimbing on the walls to watch the entry of the royal family into Pekin was “rubbering.” ola H at the Busin Indlanapolts Journal. Now that former Senator Chandler of New Hampshire has told senators and rep- resentatives that they must not wear out the president over appolntments, many will recall the fact that some of the most pro- tracted struggles that have occurred over federa] offices were those in which he had a part. A Check to Sponging. Philadelphia Ledger. So long as the United States government does not offer free education to all appli- cants the Navy department is quite right in asking congress to make those naval col- lege cadets who resign before taking their term of servicé pay for their tuition, The present practice simply enables them to ac- quire an excellent education free of cost and without rendering any compensating service. A Delicate Courtesy. New York Tribune, It 1s a delicate Imperial courtesy to in- vite an American young womah to name the emperor's American-buflt yacht, and the dedication of its figurehead with a magnum of American wine would be an extension of the politeness almost too lib- eral to be expected from a country of such historio vintages, some flushed with the purple of morning, some pale as the moon and maddening as its light, and all more beloved of its people than their kings. Jumping at a Good Thing. Loutsville Courler-Journal. The congressman who Introduced the 1- tent letter postage bill says that he Is hearing from the people on the question and that there Is a pronounced sentiment for it all over the country. Of course. There are plenty of people ever ready to jump at a chance to have the government do some- thing for them for nothing. If we are golng to have the government pay part of our private postage bills, let us make it do the handsome thing by paying them entirely. Let us have free postage, instead of 1-cent Loaning Money to Farmers, Philadelphla Record. A new trust company has been formed which proposes to loan money to farmers on the security of warehouse receipts for their stored raw materlal—cotton, grain, rice and other non-perishable products. For the purposes of its business ware- houses are to be bullt at suitable places by a co-operating warehouse company. The object {8 to make loans to farmers at cur- rent rates of interest. Such a trust should have a legitimate and useful field of opera- tion In enabling farmers to hold thelr prod- ucts instead of being obliged to put them upon the market as soon as harvested in order to pay Chicago Chronicle, Captain Marryat wrote an unprophetic description of our new possessions: “In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo, Java and Sumatra lles, and the Molucca islands, and the Philippine islands,” he says, “‘the sea s often fanned only by land and sea breezes and is like a smooth bed on which these Islands seem to sleep in bliss; islands in which splce and perfume gardens of the world are em- bowered, where thebird of paradise has its home, the golden pheasant and a hun- dred others of brilllant plumage, whose flight is among thickets so luxuriant and scenery so picturesque that European strangers find there the fairyland of their youthful dreams.” The find of American rulership is of a totally different nature. v Facing the Facts, New York Commerclal Advertiser. Bishop Potter has done this community many valuable services in his time, but we can recall few of them that were more valuable than that which he rendered in his brave speech on the question of liquor leglslation, He spoke without flinching the exact truth, as all intelligent men know I, and his utterance of it at this time cannot fail to embolden others to speak it also. BEverybody who has taken the trouble to look into this matter knows that all at- tempts to regulate the liquor evil which are based upon the assumption that the appe- tite for drink can be suppressed by law are worse than hypocritical, since they mag- nity the very evil which they seek to sup- press. What the bishop sald about the ef- fects of prohibition laws Is not only a mat- ter of common knowledge; it 1s, as he says, fact sustalned by actual statistics. BRIEF BITS OF STATE POLITICS, Beatrice Times (rep.): It the tome of the bulk of the republican press of the state 1s to be taken as an indication of the volce of the people fu the Bartley pardon case, Governor Savage would be throwing away his tfme to be a candidate for the gubernatorial nomfhation this vear. Broken How Republican: Now, that the probabilities of the renomination of Gov- ernor Savage has been removed, the ques- tion of his succedsor will be a matter of public interest. It fs doubtful whether an- other candidate from Custer county would be considered, yet we have some good tim- ber for which the Republican can vouch. Grand Island Independent (rep.): Nu- merous bills have been introduced in con- gress dividing Nebraska into two federal judiclal districts, Generally the Platte river is made the dividing line. Several of the bills, however, make jogs north of the river, one of them placing Hall and Buffalo countles in the South Platte district. What good reason there can be for this, it Is difficult to see. Buffalo is practically en- tirely north of the Platte and five-sixths of this county, together with its county sent, are north of this generally accepted but in some respects doubtful dividing line. Hall county, through the manipulation of the populist legislature of 1890 has been made the stub end and panhandle of a con- gressional district. It doesn't want again to be shoved off the earth by being the little ring at the epd of the dipper handle of a judiclal district. Tekamah Herald (rep. The Burt county bond deal controversy bas broken out afresh. The State Journal of Sunday had a column article to which W. G. Sears has written a reply and for want of space we are unable to publish it. The Bee of Tu day also devoted about a column to the samo subject. The closing part of Mr. Sears' reply suggests as a proper solution of the controversy that the governor ap- point a Olsinterested committee of such men as Senator Manderson and T. J. Ma- honey to hear both gldes of the case. The Herald belleves the suggestion a good one. It Treasurer Stuefer is innocent of what he is charged he should be vindicated. 1t gullty of manipulating the permanent school funds, as charged, the people of the state have a right to know it. An Investigation conducted by the state officers will not at this time satisfy the general public. They are not in the proper mood at this time to accept anything but a thorough investi- gation by a competent disinterested com- mittee. Holdrege Progress (rep.): We learn from the Columbus Telegram of last week that ex-United States Senator Willlam V. Allen will soon launch a paper at his old home at Madison, Neb. The Telegram states that the new paper will be straight popullst in politics and deplores that the sonator should adopt such a policy. after the democratic support he has enjoyed in the past. The Progress is glad to note, in the event Mr. Allen is to launch a paper, that the good old popullst doctrine is to be upheld, because the crystallization of all the old populist principles into law is in the interest of the masses. Those prin- clples were pertinent to the common good when the populist party came into exist- ence and nothing has transpired since to shake their importance. These principles are right now and their enactment into Iaw is If anything more essential today than ever. The Progress belleves, how- ever, that Mr. Allen's policy should In- clude a reorganization of the party under & new name and on a basis that would ap- peal to all lovers of reform In state and national politics, whether they be repub- licans, democrats or populists. The Prog- ress belleves the cause would gain greater strength and a more rapld growth under & new name than under the cognomen of populist or peoples’ independent. The old principles, however, should be adopted. The money, land and transportation problems, in the interest of the people, demand a more economic adjustment than now pre- valls. We shall look for the senator's paper with interest. PERSONAL NOTES, Democrats call Governor Fergueon of Ok- lahoma the ‘‘red-headed roisterer of the North Canadian,” his home being on that river. A Bloomington, Ind.,, man entertained his four mothers-in-law at dinner New Year's day. He not only survived, but proposes to repeat mext year, if all are alive. M. Brlac, a French professor, has origl- nated a plan to make the study of English compulsory in all French schools without ex~ ception, and French in all English schools, thus covering the world with two languages. Governor Odell of New York does not go in for athletics quite as much as did his predecessor, Mr. Roosevelt, but could make it Interesting for most persons at any kind of sport. He holds a good seat on a horse, can play ball, walk ten miles without fa- tigue and very few of tho men who play with him beat him at billlarde. Commander Cowles of the navy, whose name appears so frequently in accounts of soclal happeninge at the White House, Is President Roosevelt's brother-in-law. He has been unusually lucky in having shore duty, and it is sald that the president, fears ing the imputation of favoritism to a rel- ative, 18 now looking around for a chance to send the commander to sea. TO BE REMEMBERED, Truths Illumine Repube lean Polities. Pdrtland Oregonlan, The accursed gold standard, we are told, would ruin the country. January payments on account of interest and dividends at New York reached the great total of $118,000,000. This does not include government payments, bank divi- dends or corporations other than those whose stocks are on the market. To show what has happened in practical result since the silver threat rose and fell, these disbursements at New York on securities having a public market are strikingly interesting, viz: Total Interest and dividends January, 4 Statistical 69,195,714 118,130,094 Beven years' Increase. $ 49,000,350 Per cent increase in return on capital invested in securities of rallroads and other corpo- rations having a public mar- ket, seven years A Par 'value stocks paying divi paying Pt dends. January, Par_value stocks dends, January, Seven years' Increase . Par value bonds payin dends, January, Par value bonds Jwa'ln‘ d!\ dends, January, Soven years' Increase . Total Increase in seven of par value of securit ing in January ... . It will be sald, no doubl thlt lhll galn in the value of securities is no sign of general prosperity for the country. But it is, for our welfare and prosperity, in all things, are interdependent. The change observed within the past few years arl from restoration of confidence and re-estab- lishment of credit, which not merely had been threatened, but almost destroyed, by the attack on the basls of the money that measures values. Will this country ever again destroy interest January, 1902 1,008,201,672 its prosperity through an effort to debase its money? WIIl it again tolerate the pre. tensions of those who made a Bryan their prophet? BITS OF WASRINGTON chinge of People and Bvents at the Nattonal Capita The famous echo in Statuary Hall of the national eapital changed by recent repairs in that portion of the great bullding, and the guldes are rejolcing over the certain continuance of @ profitable source of revenue from visitors. | Statuary Hall is one of the showplaces of Washington. A person may stand on & certain stone and whisper so quietly that 4 companion touching his elbow cannot hear a word, and yet somebody thirty feet away, on a particular stone, will be able to hear with absolute distinctness. Several of the = stones, according to one of the best known of the guides, are as communicative as ever, while others are apparently obscured. Inasmuch as the dome, from which the light comes, Is still covered with a cloth which is soon to be removed, the restora- tlon of normal conditions may work won- ders. The new celllng is the exact coun- terpart of the old in all particulars, and should carry the same acoustic properties, An 0dd looking little box with a glass case, containing rows and rows of small metallic buttons that have a pecultar fi fon of turning all colors of the rainbow, has attracted much attentfon from mem- bers of congre The box stands o a table In ome corner of the hall of the house, near the republican cloak rooms. It is part of the new system of summoning pages. Years ago it was the custom to have these useful messengers seated about tho steps leading to the speaker's rostrum, but they took up so much room and were #0 nolsy that they were banished to one end of the cloak room, under the gallery. Call bells of varfous kinds have since been used to bring them out. This year an en- tirely new system has been justalled. It {8 called the electric-chemical annunciator, and s the invention of a New York man. It possesses the unusual quality of regis- tering the exact degree of urgency with which a member wishes a page. An elec- tric push button ls attached to each desk and is connected with corrresponding disks in the glass case. A representative wish- ing to send a page on a trifiing errand, 1ightly touches the button on his desk. In- stantly his disk in the case turns a pale brown. The boy on guard notices the change and saunters off to answer the call. Another member le in a hurry for a cer- taln document and gives his button a steady push. The little metal button at the other end of the circuit gets brown, then black and as tho pressure remains it turns red. This s a signal that the member is In a hurry and off rushes a p When an impatient, hot-headed member, who has bad a bad night, wants a page the antics of the disk at the other end of his line are wonderful to behold. The little object gets brown, black and green in short or- der and then turns & livid red. Ome day recently President Roosevelt|abl started out for a walk, with Theodore, jr., as & companion. They strolled off toward Cabin John bridge, which is eight miles from Washington. One of the local de- tectives, whose duty It 18 to guard the President while he is out of doors, started after Mr. Roosevelt and his son. The president walked all the way to Cabin John bridge and his son strode along beslde him, enjoying the outing as much as his father. The detective was fagged out when he got to the bridge and sat down to rest. While he was resting the president disappeared, and a panic-stricken sleuth came back on an electric car, won- dering what had become of his charge. An kour and a half later the president came swinging up the White House walk. The detective stood on the White House portico. “Missed me, didn’'t you?' chuckled the came back through the That night the presidemt participated in a White House dance and was as lively as any of the youngsters present, When Senator Perking was merchandis- ing in Calitornia In his younger days, re- lates the Washington Post, there came to his town a man who claimed to possess a prodigious memory. He could perform all manner of mental tasks. By a clever trick Senator Perkins shared with him the dis tinction of being also a man who could re- member anything. Mr. Perkins teld the man to write down a list of names which he would dictate. By the time the list was completed there were at least 100 names—all odd sorts of names which had apparently no connection with each other. “Now,” sald Mr. Perkins to the man with a memory, “turn around four time: The man complied. ‘‘Now,"” continued Mr. Perkins, “walk up and down for five minutes.”” The man walked. Mr. Perkins prescribed se 1 other dl lons and, finally, when several minutes had elapsed, he remarked to the man that he could repeat the entire list of names back- mnoulhla. sald the man, But it was not impossible. Mr. Perkins went over the whole list, name by name, In reverse order. The man and the crowd which was watching the performance, ap- plauded heartily and thereafter Mr. Perkins enjoyed a reputation. The feat was very simple. Mr. Perkl who knew everybody in town, had merely dictated the names of the people doing business along several blocks. When he me to repeat the names backward, he simply commenced at the other end of the street and went up instead of down. “Try it for yourself,” said Senator Perkins yes- terday. “It s the easiest thing in the world."” Senator Willlam E. Mason of Iilinols de- “1 b bas not been materially | cided to give his family a Now Year's treal 10 the fdrm of an afternoon at the m He went to one of the leading theaters and asked the man in the window if he had any | good seats. “‘How many?’ asked the ticket seller. “Fourteen,” replied tho senator. Now, see here,”” responded the ticket sel- | ler, “do you suppose we are going to sell those tickets for you to scalp? We know as well as you do that there will be a big demand for seats on New Year's day. You can’t have them.” “But I don't want to speculate In them. 1 just want them for my own family,” protested Mr. Mason. The ticket seller made It plain that he did not know much about large families. “I can tell you who will make up the party,” econ- tinued the senator. “I am Senator Mason of Illinois. 1 want to go to the show. Then there are Mrs. Mason and our elght children. That's ten. Then there are my brother and his wife. That's twelve, and—"* The ticket seller interrupted the senator with an apology as he handed out the tio- kets. “I have been taken for a good many things,” sald the semator in telling of his adventure afterward, “but I never was taken for a theater-ticket scalper before. T guess this life down here must be de- moralizing.” MIRTHFUL REMARKS, Detroit Free Prega: She_Bocause 1 can« not marry you, t be disheartened. Fou Tuac tace"the world bravely. He—It {sn't & question of the world—1I've 80t to face my creditors Phllndtlphh l‘r«u Mrs. Bargen—I hope ou llked the cigars | gave you, dear. ou'll to know anyway that I pald cash for them; they weren't charged, Mr, Bargen—Realiy? | thought they were, but 1 dldn’t know what with hington Star: rranged to give you a serenade.’ 11" lnld the member of m»ngruu. who has grown irritable, “I suppose It's the siatent and proper’ thing to do. My c Bitnents nlways seemed to derive n great deal o satisfaction from keeping me awake nigl ‘Your constituents though, in one nf (hvlr heated discussions, he (rouble with you Is that you are {nordinately in I with yourself.'' Impossible!™ replied the &hudp of Plato, ‘such In\o must of necessity be purely Platonic.” Baltimore American: “‘Here's a tempers ance lecture in a nutshell,"” sald the good woman, and she read algud; “While undet the Infiuence of lquor John Willlams f Intg the river yesterdny and was drown “My dear wol replied her unre- generate husband, “that merely shows | evil effect of too' much water after one's whisky." Philadelphia Press: “Oh, my!"” exclaimed the young wife, reading over ‘the_Insurancs "‘l’\"l')’ on her husband's life in her favor, “this Insurance company {8 just hateful “Why, what's the mattér?" asked her husband. “Why, 1f you commit sulclde they won't pay any money at all.” Chicago Tribune: Fweddy (sllghtly sighted)—Who—aw—is that very stylish and fine logking man at the otheh end of the room, Greeable? Hostess—You aro 100king at your own re- flection in the mirror, Mr. Lightpayte, Fweddy—Aw—you flattah me, Mrs, near- Gree- ble! Hostess—No; the mirror does that. ASHES OF GOLD, 1. A fleeting wave of fragrance, from whence 1 do not know, Has unvelled to my mind a plcture, of the long ago A time in the early tals outward &wun; And ‘Do Wralth of vinished moments & requiem wad had sung, There is visioned n Wpot sequestered, no fafrer has earth, I know 1t is kinsed by the sun's first glimmer and crowned by its afterglow. There is a_cottage home transfigured by the golden haze divine, And the clinging leaves and blossoms of & honeysuckle vine. @ part romha ere lite's por- 11, Again T breathe the incense wnfted from the orchard near That mystic pricts are brewing on myriad altars there. I seo again the siivery rill that cleft the meadow through: Its modgy banks with datsies crowned and purple meadow rue The narrow path by the hawthorn hedge, the lichened paddock wall; The darkling gray of the dewy mist that veils the poplars tall— Al change to gold in the afterglow that ‘lumins the evening And decks with @ sheen of * old cottage home, ummr that dear it EIt sprites their lances polsing, tipped with the glow worm's light ln-m-tl Yolces blending chant a welcome ad to nig! A wmmmurwlfl i ‘calling, his mandate im- able, austere; Blusive. fair phantoms glide swiftly there and here. The wood dove's woolng rhythm its quaver of bllss or woe, Adds a paen of light to the plcture, the vision of long ago A mystic Im‘nnmllnll hfrvndeu the deepen- Ana Binfaone those gathered in that dear old cottage home. 1V, Those gathered—I seem to see them dimly I\rou{h the welling tears Bed ear the happy welcome echo down the trodden years. And the n!I e of the uemlnl thrills my hun, eart to pain Wllhl llz IPI’\IP of loml!hlnr vanished that ne'er may know again. Hop-u as (olden as the dl"nlnl with 1ife T pul Rife W|F|Q\ Dmmllnl of sickle rendered naught feld wha list to the syren volce that since the world was young The witching song of man's applause in the human soul has gun They, vield who_liaten pelled to win, impelled, mayhap, to. Bheads A world's brief praise, its stern reproof, its crown of bays or lead— tory is old, yet In there more to tell? The ever and ever the same: Only _the glare and glint ‘of & dey—the meed of Ana & inow-crownad mothér walting alone n the evening gloa For the promised tryat nan to be kept in the dear old cottage home. Falls City, Neb. AMELIA E. HILL. used Ayer's Halr Vigor for more than five years, and I know from experience that it will restore the original color to gray hair.” Mrs, JuLia Byaux, Mecklenburg, N, V. Ayer's Hair Vigor) #1 have been using Ayer's Hair Vigor for somae time, and 1 can truly say it has made my hair come In thick and nice, whereas before it was falling out very fast* Mrs. T. SBoLuzin, Gravelville, Minn, Makes Hair Grow Stops Falling 8100 8 boitle. All druggiote.