Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 6, 1902, Page 6

w2l §=-1) TEes @Beml TP ¥ B | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1902. ‘THE OMAHA DAILY BEE [— — E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ?-lly Bee (without Sunday), One Year ! ally Bee and Sunday, Une Year. Justrated Bee, One Yea o Bunday Bee, Une Y 3 turday Bee, Une Year 1 ‘'wentieth Century Farmer, One Year. DELIVERED 8% CARRIER §:Ily Bee (without Bunday), per copy.. 2c menal 233883 ear. 1.0 aily Bee (without Sunday), per week..1%c ily Bee (Including Sunday), per week. unday Bee, per copy. batise gvening Bee (without Bunday), per week.lVe vening Bee (Including Sunaay), per week, . .16e Complaints of Irregularities in delivery houid be addressed to City Clrculation partment OFFICES, maha—~The Bee Bullding. jouth Omaha—City Hall Buildiog, Twen- gy-fitth and M ‘ouncil Bluff: h 164y Unity Bullding. ork—Temple Court. ton—wl Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and itorfal matter should be addressed: maha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order, my-m; to The Bee Publishing Company. Iy Zcent stamps accepyed in payment of s;l accounts. Personal checks, except on aha Or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate ot Nebraska, Douglas County, ss. rge B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, Says that the actual number of full and gomplete coples of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of May, 1%2, was as follows: LEsRNRREEERREE Less unsold and retur: Net total sales Net dally average. Subsecribed tn my before me this Jist (Seal.) resence and sworn to ay of May, A. D. 190L M. B, HUNGATE, Notary Publlc, ———————— Perhaps to be more exact it should be called conditional “unconditional sur- render.” ety Does the congressman from this dis- trict have to have both a keeper and a middleman? ) In making up its state ticket for 1002 the republican party must draw the line at boodiers and corporation lobbyists. Raising the wages of the teamsters who haul beef at present high prices must be on the theory of adjustment to what the traffic will bear. | The little testimonial voted by Parlia- ment to Lord Kitchener is more than we In the United States pay to our president for a whole four years' term of service. As a stepping stone to matrimony, the position of police matron in Omaha has proved its success. No wonder it is In such brisk demand whenever a vacancy in it occurs. e— Irish members of Parllament want it distinctly understood that they have been against the war in South Africa, before it began, while it was in progress and after it s ended. ——————————1 “Corporation party,” cries the local popocratic organ at the republicans and forthwith sheds whole barrels of black Ink to obscure all vislon of the record made by the fusion reformers when they had complete control of the state for four years. aE—— A prize medal for bravery ought to be awarded the man who presided over the state convention of Indiana demo- orats. It took courage of a high order for him to link together in one sentence the names of Willlam Jennings Bryan und Grover Cleveland. A soclety has just been organized in New York with the express purpose “to cherish and perpetuate the memories, aasoclations, records and traditions of the City of Chicago.” If this does not ralse a cry of treason to New York It will be cause for astonlshment. Now that Mark Twain has been made an LL. D. by the University of Mis- souri, he has reached the highest pin- nacle of his ambition and would not trade places with King Edward, nor apy other high monarch whose slum- bers are disturbed by the weight of the crown. i1 The latest census bulletin discloses the fact that more than $450,000,000 is in- vested in this country in the manufac- ture of alcholic ligquors in 21,850 estab- lishments, which turn out an annual product valued at $340,000,000. This bught to give the prohibitionists cold shivers in hot weather. E——— You can't build an engine house and B market house with the same mobey wny more than you can eat your ple and keep It at the same time. Omaha has been made famous by cowsheds. For twenty years it had a cowshed rallroad depot and now it is to have a cowshed market house. —s>.————1 The perplexities of the Young Men's McKinley club have only just begun. Amending the constitution is an easy thing, but maintaining successfully a ‘political organization that can command the support of the rank and file of the party and steer clegr of factionalism s & wore serious problem. EEEEmee—— If the Real Estate exchange is in dead the active sympathy and support great mass of taxpaying citizens. wust be no discrimination nor no favored corporation, firm ARMY REDUCTION. The strength of the army I# to be re- duced nearly 11,000 men, or from 77, 287 to 66,497. The order of the secre- tary of war calls for reduction in all three arms of the service, but it affects the artillery less than the Infantry and cavalry arms. In the cavalry the total reduction will be 1,800 men and in the infantry 5,640. The garrison or coast artillery will not be affected by the new order, but the strength of the field ar- tillery will be reduced by making the number of enlisted men in a battery 120 instead of 160. The order is due to the improved situation in the Philippines, which the president belleves to be such as not to require there more than about 25,000 soldiers, the number now in the islands being about 31,700, or more than 40,000 less than were in the islands in Decem- ber, 1000, a very significant reduction. It is quite possible that within another year the force in the Philippines can be reduced to 20,000 or less, for the promise is most favorable for complete pacification before the end of this year and the extension of civil government on a basis that will require little mili- tary support. When the reduction provided for in the order of the secretary of war is made, the army will be at about the strength authorized by the act of the last congress for the military establish- ment on a peace footing. That legisla- tion, it will be remewmbered, was de- nounced by the democrats as being the first step toward the building up of a great army to overawe the people and perpetuate republican power. How ridiculous the charge was is now ap parvent, but it was not more absurd than some of the assertions that party {s now making in regard to republican policies, as for example the declaration of the Indiana democrats that the re- publican party has surrendered to the trusts, in face of the fact that the ad- ministration is proceeding against com- binations believed to have violated the law passed by a republican congress, and approved by a republican president. THE INDIANA DEMOCRACY. The Bryanite democrats are getting little encouragement these days. The trend of sentiment seems to be steadily against them. The most noteworthy fact In the proceedings of the Indiana democratic convention was the refusal to indorse Bryan and the Kansas City platform. There was a determined ef- fort on the part of the minority of the platform committee to secure such in- dorsement, but under the rather feeble pretext that it would be out of place to inject Mr. Bryan's name into the state campalign the majority of the committee refused to indorse him or the platform for which he stands. The sense of the danger of Bryanism thus shown by the democrats of Indi- ana has become pretty general and there is no doubt is growing. In the eastern and middle sections of the country it is realized by a very large majority of democrats and it is gradually but cer- tainly spreading in the west. Perhaps it has not yet made much progress in the south, but that section may be expected to sooner or later become impressed with it. The significance of the refusal of the Indlana democratic convention is obvious and there can be no doubt that it will exert a very considerable influence upon democrats generally, e———— CANAL ROUTE QUESTION IN SENATE. Discussion of the question of an isthmian canal route has been begun in the senate and will probably continue several weeks, with what result cannot be foretold with any degree of certainty. According to late reports from Wash- ington the outlook is brighter for the Panama route than at any time hitherto, though it is stated that the advocates of that route will not urge a flat Panama proposition, but will concentrate their strength on the Spooner substitute, which may be amended so as to make it even more binding on the president to accept the Panama route unless a good title to it cannot be furnished. The re- port of the minority of the committee on interoceanic canals, filed last week, takes strong ground in behalf of the Panama route, which has undoubtedly gained many supporters in and out of congress wmm, the past month or two. The contention of the minority of the senate committee s based upon the last report of the canal commission and it is urged that all the natural advantages are with the Panama route. On the very lmportant point as to the possl- bility of destruction or damage to locks or dams of the canal from volcanic eruptions or from earthquakes, the minority asserts that the Nicaragua route is directly in line with numerous vdlcanoes, more or less active, which in the past have wrought great destruction to the surrounding country, that the en- tire route of the Nicaragua canal has been frequently disrupted by violent earthquakes, while the Panama route has no volcanoes, extinct or otherwise, nearer thad two hundred miles and that the officlal record of selsmic dis- turbances in the last two years is about one-tenth in number of those reported in the vicinity of the Nicaragua route, and practically nothing in point of in- tensity compared with those felt at the latter place. A Such facts, however, appear to have no influence with the Nicaragua advo- cates. The most uncompromising of these, Senator Morgan of Alabama, in opening the debate, announced that he had made a thorough investigation of the matter and the alleged danger to the Nicaragua route “existed only in the imagination of those who desired to de- feat any capal project.” He bad be- come convinced from his study of the situation that really there was greater danger from volcanic and earthquake disturbances to the Panama route than to the Nicaragua route. Not ouly is this confuted by high scientific authority, but alse by existing conditions, and while these may have no effect upon Mr. Morgan and other Nicaragua advocates, they have made sion upon the public mind, creating a very general feeling that the govern- ment should not expend a vast sum In constructing a canal through a region where even now there is volcanic ac- tivity. As to other claims of the sup- porters of the Nicaragua route, they ap- pear to be for the most part without any substantial basis. Whether or not the route question will be determined at the present session is problematical, with the chances appar- ently ‘most favorable to the adoption of some such compromise as the Spooner compromise, although there is at pres- ent a strong unwillingness in congress to leave to the president the selection of a route. SEp———— MUNICIPAL RAILROAD ASSESSMENT. The haphazard method pursued by the state board of rallway assessment in the valuation placed upon the property of railroads for state and county taxa- tion and the wunjust discrimination against other taxpayers by reason of the undervaluation of railroad property has for years constituted a standing grievance of the people of this state. The iniquity of the general assessment of the rallroads is, however, exempli- fled most strikingly in the virtual ex- emptlon of rallroad property from mu- nicipal taxation. The lowest estimate of the value of the rallroad property in the cities of Omaha, South Omaha and Lincoln is from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000. More than two-thirds of this is within the city limits of Omaha, but the jugglery by which this vast estate is dumped into railroad mileage and assessed as such has shriveled this $15,000,000 worth of property into less than $300,000 for municipal taxation. The west half of the Unlon Pacific bridge, its union station and passenger and freight depot buildings and grounds, together with main tracks, sidetracks and right-of-way through the heart of the city, are re- turned for taxation for city purposes at mileage rates at $9,800 per mile, and the Burlington passenger and freight depots, terminal ground, sidetracks and right- of-way are assessed at an average of about $6,000 per mile. The depot grounds and terminals of the Elkhorn, Omaha and Missourl Pacific,roads are assessed on the mileage basis in the rallroads, that it will bring the railroads into politics, and if it should result in government ownership, it would enlarge the public service so as to imperil free government. For some reason or other, however, the people refuse to take alarm at the political bugbear, It will take a diagram to show them how the railroads can get into polities much more than they have been. The Bee is the only paper in these parts that prints honest circulation statements. It shows shrinkages and gains exactly as they occur from week to week and month to month, but the other papers would have you belleve that they never lose a subscriber, They are eternally gaining, gaining, gaining, and keep up their gains in season and out of season, regardless of the fact that hundreds of subscribers are away from home on vacations, or thousands discontinue for varlous reasons, includ- ing hot weather, hot politics or drouthy editorials and news columns. It is to be noted that the populists have have put up & complete state ‘ticket in Indiana without the ald or consent of the democrats, The democrats consider fusion a great thing In states like braska, where the populists furnish the bulk of the votes, but in states like Indiana they are not quite willing to let the populists go it alone, The people of Nebraska have not yet heard the last of the Bartley defalca- tion scandal. The decision just ren- dered by the supreme court int the Bart- ley bond case brings us back agaln where we started from and forcibly re- calls the strenuous efforts and conspira- cles to beat the state out of its just claim. S ———— Utility in Decorations. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. King Edward has conferred the Order of the Garter upon two more of his distin- guished eubjects. The king might vary the decorations a little by the bestowal of an occasional pair of suspenders. Beats the Horse in One Way. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. Edison has perfected a storage battery by which the automobile can be made to do all the work of a horse. The recent automobdile accidents show that it can do a good deal more than & horse in spreading same manner and the aggregate of all these properties, capitalized at from $10,000,000 to $12,000,000, does not pay city taxes on a valuation of more than $160,000, or 1% per cent, whereas all other classes of property within the city limits are assessed on a 40 per cent basis. This disproportion is clearly contrary to the letter and spirit of the constitu- tion, which contemplates the lmposition of uniform taxes on all classes of prop- erty. The railroads enjoy all the bene- fits of municipal government equally with all other corporations and indi- viduals. They have the full benefit of fire and police protection, for which the clty expends more than $300,000 a year, And while the city has closed miles upon miles of streets and alleys and do- nated them to the railroads, the roads manage to escape the special street im- provement taxes that have been so bur- densome to other real estate owners. What is true of Omaha also applies in like degree to South Omaba and Lin- coln, where the assessments of rail- road property for city purposes are ridiculously out of proportion to the as- sessment of other property. —e When the settlement was made be- tween the Union Pacific railroad and the city of Omaha some months ago it was generally believed that the com- pact included the payment of back taxes. It appears, however, that the Union Pacific still owes over $30,000 in taxes levied years ago upon the property held by it which was no part of its right-of-way or depot grounds. When Treasurer Hennfngs made the demand for payment of these taxes, after the papers had been signed in the settlement, the railroad lawyers gave him the horse laugh, Why should the rallroad company be treated any dif- ferently in the collection of back taxes from any other company or individual that owes back taxes? The law requires all rallroad corpora- tions to return to the state board of as- sessment and equalization a correct statement of Its rallway trackage, right- of-way and depot grounds. By rights, a map of these tracks, depot grounds and rights-of-way should be on file in the offices of the county surveyor and the clty engineer. Why any rallroad should refuse to furnish the county and city with these maps or why i should refuse access to them to the county surveyor or engineer's department s incomprehensi- ble. The natural inference of such action s that the reports filed with the state board are incorrect and fall short of the requirements of the law, e According to ex-Senator Allen, every- one_mentioned in connection with the fusion nomination for governor is “emi- nently qualified” to perform the dutes of the position. We fear BSenator Allen's conception of the requirements of the office are altogether below the mark. Some of the men wentioned for governor on both sides of the political fence are hardly qualified to be alder- men in a wide-awake town. Sm——— That sea captaln who reports having encountered a floating island lnbabited by parrots and monkeys and supposed to have been cast adrift by the volcanic disturbances in the Carribean sea, should have grappled to his find aund towed it along into New York harbor. This fatal omission is likely to relegate his tale into the sea-yarn class, unless he can produce some other corrobora- tion. T James J. Hill is following in the foot steps of his fellow rallway magnate, E. H. Harriman, in telling the people how thankful they should be for the benefits of rallroad consolidation and combina- tion. Mr, Hill adds further warning vwwmwmwomo:m - R I R destruction. Facts Blight Theories, Baltimore American. The coal trust refuses to raise wages, but the independent operators have granted the increase. Thus do facts conflict with the magazine articles and theories showing how great combinations will better the condition of the laboring man. Now Altogether. Minneapolis Journal. Hats off to the gallant Boers! They fought the last fight in the old era of independence for petty states and though losing they fought as few men have fought in this world of wars. They have humbled the world’s mightiest empire, they have won honorable terms for themselves and they have given the world new material for heroic legend and tradition. Succor Promptly Given. Saturday Evening Post. Uncle Sam does not look for precedents, or at the color of the flag, when human beings are to be succored and saved. In doing more for the French islands in the West Indies than France did herself, this coun- try again showed the same prompt and generous sympathy that fed the starving of Ireland and mitigated the famines of Russia and India. ‘When Doctors Disagree. Chicago Chronicle. Dr. 8. A. Knopt of New York, a profound and learned authority upon tuberculosis, arise to announce that tuberculosis is ab- solutely noninifectious. On the very same day Dr. Henry L. Holton of Vermont, an equally profound and learned authority, takes occasion to observe that tuberculosis is an acutely infectious disease—one of the most infectious, It is little matters like these that inspire the general public with such deep confidence in doctors. —_——— Out Homeless Children, Chicago Tribune, A warning note was sounded at the con- ference of charities and corrections in De- troit on Friday which ought to receive the attention of the trustees and managers of children's institutions. Dr. Jeffrey R. Brackett of Baltimore said that he had found that there were grave dangers to children In the “placing out” system. The system, he sald, should be followed with caution, and only In connection with some institution where the children could be cared for Indefinitely while the authorities sought homes for them. The conference discussed the question for two days, the tenor of most of the speeches being that in a few years the homes for destitute and neglected children would all be abandoned In favbr of a system which would place them in private homes, on the theory that any home is better than an asylum. The evils of an asylum are apparent, but unless there is some place In which the children can be cared for while the authorities are investigating the character of the persons with whom they intend to place them, even greater evils might result from the “placiog out” system. WATERING RAILROAD STOCKS, Farm! talization, Chicago Record-Herald. Whon he was interviewed on the subject of the overcapitalization of raliroads E. H. Harriman sald truly that the question was a large one, and proceeded tp add that the old railroads of $25,000 and $30,000 a mile were things of the past. There were now “miles and miles of reconstructed rall- roads costing $100,000 a mile, or more than that, to bufld them, and when we have to tunnel, of course, it is sometimes as much as $1,000,000 or $1,200,000 to save distance, eliminate grades and curve: The “magnate” may have spoken, as a correspondent says, with more than his customary freedom, but he did not indulge in & dangerous frankne: A Bunsby-like fog seems to obscure his thought and lts application. Did he mean that there had been overcapitalization but tbat the water had gone to the betterments? That would probably be news to the people who had wanipulated the water transactions, and others who have not had their personal ex- periecce will wonder what possible con- Bection there is between speculations closed years ago and the present cost of railroad bullding. Or did he mean that overcapitalization was impossible now because of the cost of bullding? This might be true at §$1,200,000 per mile, but all roads are not a continu- ous tunnel performance, and & gentleman who treats deals in millions with the in- difference and forgetfulness of Mr. Harri- man is kardly just to bis own gealus if he admits the Lmpossibllity. [ Future of the Philippines The Washington correspondent of the St Louls Repudlic (dem.), under date of June 3, wires that paper as follows: “I am permitted to make a statement which will clear the air regarding the atti- tude of President Roosevelt and his ad- ministration touching the future status of the Philippines. It Is not to be takea as o statement issued by the president, but, except that the president of the United States is never interviewed, it can be ac- cepted with the force of an interview. “The president has been asked by some political and personal friends to consider whether it would not be better to change the policy of the United States and shape it in the direction of glving the Filipinos ultimate independence, and to make that announcement so that the islanders could know definitely that some time in the fu- ture they would be treated as Cuba has been treated. “These friends have told the president that they were impressed with his speech at Arlington, in which he spoke of the time when the Filipinos might show capacity for self-government, and they have asked the president to go further, and consider whether it might not be wise to say now definitely that the Filipinos would be given independence. “To this the president has given an un- qualified answer in the negative. If the matter had been called to his attention be- fore he made his speech at Arlington his address would have probably dealt with that phase of the question. There is no reason, it is held, why the president’s views should not be given now. “Judge Taft, whom the president regards as the greatest authority on the Philippines, has pronounced ideas on this subject which are of particular value because when he went to the Philippines he was inclined to criticize the policy of holding the islands, Judge Taft holds and the president with him, that official intimation at this time that the Filipinos might expect their inde- pendence, one or two, or ten years hence, would probably result in nullification of all the work that has been done there since the end of the Spanish rule. “The conservative citizens of the islands who have been asserting the spread of law and order and the upbuilding of civil gov- ernment would view such a declaration with horror. From one end of the archi- pelago to the other, the element that has been opposing American rule would feel en- couraged. They would begin to lay wires to be ‘on top’ when independence should be proclaimed. “‘On the other hand, those who have been alding the Americans and have acknowl- edged the benefits of civil government would be compelled, for their own salvation, to side with that element that has been clamoring for ‘Independence’ and has not been able to discriminate between ‘inde- pendence’ and ‘civil liberty.’ “President Schurman, in a recent address, has declared that the Filipinos are fitted for self-government. Admiral Dewey three years ago declared that the Filipinos were as capable of self-government as the Cus bans were. Self-government, under the au- thority of the United States, is what {s aimed at in the Philippines. Yet now Pres- ident Schurman and Admiral Dewey are be- ing quoted as advocating the independence of the islands. “For the reason that a statement from the administration that the Filipinos were being prepared for independence, in the eyes of the president, would do incalcu-~ lable harm to the work now under way, if indeed it did not undo all that had been done, the president declines to give any encouragement to the thought that these islands will ultimately be independent. “That question must be left to the future, after the civil government has been estab- PERSONAL NOTES, Prof. Hellprin had much better luck a-,, Pelee than Prof. Pliny had on Vesuviue Captain John Haggerty, the sea diver wh explored the Maine wreck in Havana har bor, has just dicd at his home in Brooklyn Mark Twain wept when he visited the scenes of his boyhood last week. This i the first public record of his weeping since he visited the tomb of Adam. The shah of Persia, who is visiting Em peror Willlam, will not travel on a rallroac faster than eight to ten miles an hour and his suite consists largely of detectives The maharajah of Jaipur, who has ar rived in Paris on his way to King Edward’ coronation, has with him a suite compris Ing twenty dignitaries and 123 servante His luggage welghs 100,000 pounds. This s how Congressman Newlands o Nevada summarizes his views on irriga tion: “It's about time for the Americar government to stop its irritation of othe lands and begin the irrigation of its ow: arid Jands.” The very acme of cleverness in conceal ment was reached by a circus man in a Pennsylvania town lately, when he man- aged to hide a herd of nineteen elephante from a constable who was hunting them with & writ of attachment. When Congressman De Armond of Mie- sourl was in the Philippines he made in- dustrious use of a camera. On returning home he had a great many of his pletures developed and mounted and each bears this endorsement: ‘Made by the firm of David A. De Armond & Sun.” Ex-Governor Boutwell's “Grant Reminis. cences”” include a horse story. President Grant was attracted by a horse owned by & Washington butcher and he bought it for $600. Subsequently he took Senator Conk- ling out to ride behind his new acquisition and the president asked the semator what he thought of the animal. “It strikes me," #ald the senator, “that I would rather have lished in the islands and has stood the test before the civilized world." BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched on the Spot. ,The growth of the country since revolu- tionary days is tersely shown in the devel- opment of the postoffice department, which has been made the subject matter of a pamphlet just issued by the department. There were only seventy-five postoffices es- tablished in the country in 1789, and the gross revenue from the business was $7,510. The expenditures for the same year were $7,560 and of this only $1,657 were pald in salaries to postmasters. There were in 1901, 76,594 postoffices in operation, 511,808 miles of post routes, 466,146,059 miles of mail service performed. The gross-revenues of the department were the expenditures $115,039,607, 590 were pald as compensation to postmasters. From June 30, 1847, to Junme 30, 1851, 4,603,200 postage stamps were lssued, while in the single year 1901 4,329,273,696 stamps were used by the people of the United States. In 1853, the year In which stamped en- velopes were first lssued, 5,000,000 were used, while in 1901 the total was 772,839,000, The first year's issue of postal cards— 1873—numbered 31,094,000, while in 1901 659,614,800 were issued. The registry system was started in 1855, and in that year the registercd pleces num- bered 620,322, In 1901 they numbered 20,- 814,501, In 1865 money orders to the amount of $1,360,122 were issued, while in 1901 the total amounted to $274,546,067. The number of pieces of matter of all kinds mailed increased from 500,000 in 1790 to 7,424,200,320 in 1901. ' According to the Washington Post Sen- ator Dietrich owns a silk hat and a frock suit. He has worn the outfit four times. When he first arrayed himself in this full regalia it was the day of his inauguration as governor of Nebraska. It rained 'and snowed upon the high hat and the frock coat. When he again put them on it was the day of McKinley’s second inauguration and Mr. Dietrich, who had just been sworn in as a new senator, was once more bap- tized by a heavy rain. His third experience was last Saturday morning, when again, in his high hat and frock coat, he sat upon one of the uncovered stands at the Roch- ambeau statue unveiling and got the full benefit of the shower that interrupted the exercises. “This is a fine afternoon,” sald Semator Dietrich last Sunday. “I will dress up and take a walk.” So once again he arrayed himself in the fated costume. As a result he was caught in the eudden storm which came out of the northwest and was drenched to the skin. Rivers of water poured from his silk hat and his frock coat was as somked as a sponge. Mr. Dietrich, when he finally got home, changed his clothes and put the bat and the frock coat carefully away. “I never will wear that outfit again,” he sald yes- terday. The other afternoon, when President Roosevelt reached Dupont circle, a “seeing Washington” electric car hove in sight and the gulde continued his lecture through a megaphone in this way: “On the left we see the elegant residence of Mr. George ‘Westinghouse, the millionaire inventor and electriclan, formerly tiie home of the late James G. Blaine; a little to the left of front we percelve the palatial mansion of Mr/ L. Z. Leiter, the Chicago mlllionaire and father of the famous beauty, Miss Mary Leiter, now Lady Curzon, the wife of the governor general of India; in the park in front we are confronted by the statue of Admiral Dupont and also in front we see the president of the United States on horseback.” The crowd looked and one woman eald, “Whose statue is it, McKinley's? “It's Roosevelt,” the guide responded. “He aln't a statue yet. Among the Presbyterian ministers who were presented to President Roosevelt when he came to the city recently, reports the New York Times, was one who bears the burden of an overweening sense of duty and is wont to “rebuke in season and out of season”—mostly out of season. “I regret,” sald the preacher, “to see that the administration countenanced the use of liquor in the goverunor's palace at “But I am glad to sce,” sald the pres dent, deftly changing the subject, “‘th the general assembly ls discountenancing the use of brimstone.” Some timid souls In Washington who feared Mount Tona would throw & few tubs of flame and mud as far the national capitol, have been calmed and soothed by Prof. McGee of the Agricultural depart- ment with & brief Interview, as follow: “Mount Iona is & high hill situated at some distance from the town of Pender, Neb., and is a part of the cretaceous for- mation that covers a large part of that state, Under this hill there exists a stratum of carbomaceous shale, overlying another stratum of ehale that is full of iron pyrites and sulphur. The sulphur and pyrites are constantly decomposing in large quantities, generating an intense heat and causing combustion in the carbonaceous ements of the overlylng shale. TI steam and smoke generated by this com- bustion escapes to the outer atmosphere through <cracks and crevices in the stone e i > and earth of which the hill is composed, producing very much the appearance of an active volcano. “Those who are ignorant of geology and of the causes at work under the hill take it for granted that Mount Iona is a genu- ine volcano, and that some day it will beich forth fire and lava, but, as a matter of fact, it is nothing of the sort, the whole phenomenon being of a superficlal char- acter. Some parts of the hill are, of course, almost too hot to stand on, but at the ®ame time nothing could be farther from the $500." “‘Well, that's what the butcher sald,” remarked the president Some time ago in Philadelphia Charles M. Schwab, president of the huge steel trust, expressed in an address the opinion that & classical education was less help- ful to the young man than the practical experience that could bo gained in the samo number of years of application to the buei- ness which he was to make his life work. W. §. Dalzell, a Yale graduate and a son of Congressman Dalzell, while at a banquet a day or two later took violent and sneer- ing exception to Mr. Schwab's views. Some splcy correspondence ensued between him and the steel magnate, but the young man refused to make the amende honorable. It tho truth than that this hill 18 & volcano and that at some day it will become active. The origin of the heat and smoke lies at a depth of less than 100 feet below the surface, whereas in real volcanos the source of the heat and molten rock is situated in the bowels of the earth. Some day the sulphur, pyrites and carbonaceous matter inside this hill will burn itself out and when that takes place the clouds of steam and smoke arising from the eminence will disappear, According to Senator Mason the hotels in Havana were crowded to the limit during the time he was there witnessing the in- stallation of the new Cuban government. The senator, as did a large number of other visitors, found that he was unable to se- cure a room with & regular bed, but some of the Cubans who were conversant with the fight he made in their behalf before the American war with Spain took up his case and In due time Induced an obdurate hotel keeper to provide him with a cot. | “It was one of those low affairs,” said | the senator in telling his experience, “with | & woven-wire mattress. Nothing but a thin | sheet was placed on the wires. I went to | bed, slept beautifully and had & most de- lightful rest, but whca I woke up in the morning I looked like a waffle.” A WORD TO THE PRESIDENT, to Play More and Work Lean. Hartford Post (rep.) President Roosevelt ‘acts as if he were wrought fron and there were no limits to his physical endurance and intellectual energy. Such abounding actlvity was never before witnessed in tho White House. "It Sydney Smith thought that Daniel Webster was a steam engine in trousers what would he have thought it he had seen Theodore Roosevelt? Recall the series of speeches, all full of vigor and vitality, of power, and patriotism, that the president has delivered during the past few months. Study his Memorial day address and see how full of thought and forco and rugged strength it is. Prepas tion of utterances like that isn’'t a holiday task. And, of course, the strain which the routine of the presidency puts upon a man is enough to tax the strongest consti- tution. The burdens of the office are heavy, its responsibilities and cares un- ceasing and its tasks stupendous. The president throws himself into the work with all his vigor, masters all the detalls and spares not himself. Into routine and speech making and functions he plun, with all the ardor of a physical and intel- lectual athlete, and sets & pace which startles those about him. How long can the president keep up this tremendous gait? He's a wonderful plece of physical and mental manhood, but en- durance is bound to have limits. He shouldn't assume that he can keep at nl Warned without any let up. He should remember that a stitch in time save nine, should husband his energies and put more play spells on his time table. Don't run amy risk of letting that splendid mechanism of yours get out of gear, Mr. President. is now said that Mr. Schwab will use the powerful influence of the steel trust to retire Congressman Dalzell at the coming election. LINES TO A LAUGH. Chicago Tribun Borus (struggling author)—I had a most remarkable sr!lm last night Nagg Boru copyTig! iterary editor)—Let's hear it. ot vet. I am going to have it d first. Detroit Free Press: Mrw, Parvenue (at Newport)—How can you prove that you are a real lord? lhllmrd Forgivus—Well, I'm broke, for one ng. Los_Angeles Herald: Conductor—Let's see. Did 1 get your ticket? Smart Passenger—Yes, sir; you took it up at Montalyo and punched h—l out of It Conductor—I beg your pardon, sir; but it ien't customary on’local tickets to punch out the passenger's destination. Philadelphia Press: Willie (studying hi Xg'l.li) PB.‘ 1'm llu(‘llslvl The r;ll'r't.vju);l "lndlf s saying something to his ri lr;;i llcaart mn.knfll nu;l'.‘ el 'a (looking up fro s sporting sh —Maybe he's tehiing him 0 #0 get'a FepuL tation. ‘Washington Star: “There {8 nothing more unwise,"" id the friend, “than a needless and stentatious display of wealth. “That's right,"” answered Mr. Gripper Borghum; *f lere are enough people tryin to get it away from you without issuing any challenges.” Chicago Tribune: Constituent—What's the use of those long debates of yours in ;Fe senate on ah‘; ’Phllrllpplna question? ave you succeeded in changin, Harekyoi son ging a single Eminent Statesman—Well, of course we can't tell about that untll after the fal elections. New York Sun: , Knicker— an aceident with, Jour auip, Tr You had Bocker—Yes. Miss Prettigirl and I be- came so_absorbed we let {t find its own way home. It evidently lived up & fele: graph pole. American: the grocer, “‘that ressimen has passed & Fesolutlon ‘that n: uor can 80l bu!}dln!‘.}" nthe capito "1 reckon,” sald Mr. Medder 8, sent-mindedly reaching into (h.:-;nx.g inger snaps, “that this here Phillypee: nvestigation has led them to try tha there water cure on themselves. S Baltimore paper,” sal —— THE WESTERNER AND THE RAIN, New York Sun, Oh, the dear, sweet, summer Hear it falling,’ falling, falling, Aint Through the darkness softly calling, ‘Waken, flowers! Lift up each challce Drooping from the rude wind's malice, Lift your buds, so shy and tender, I will kiss them into splendor! Humble [Frasses. creeping slowly, Beautiful and meek and lowly, Emerald spear and red-cheeked clover, Drink my fullness, brimming over, Btately trees, with arms upreaching, For my boum‘ Tong beseeching, Let each bough, wind-bent and shaken, With new life and beauty waken. ‘atient grain, grow strong and stronger- You shall faint and droop no Ion‘ar!‘ All things growing, all things living, Greet my coming with thanksgiving." 8o we hear it softly calling, Through the darkne: ntly falling, Tree and bud and blossom {l'llln.\ All the caressing— summer rain! ting eart h, the dear, sweel Just a little as such—$6.76. - Good ennett’s ' : | Clothing | better for a little less. Special for Friday Just received 100 suits that ordinarily sell at $10.00, put on sale today for.....e.... These are unfinished worsteds—absolutely guaranteed 6.75 W. R, BENNETT CO. | B