Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 25, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: B-nv Bee (without Bunday), One Yea ly Bee and Hundly One Ye ” strated Bee, One un 1 Bt Saturday One ¥ Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. ally Bee (without Bunday), per copy..2¢ E:ny Bee (withowt Sunday), per week. 120 Bee (Including Bund nday Bee, per copy_.. i ning Bee (without Sun venlnl Bee (including Sunday), Comp mnu of "irregularities in deiivery should be addressed to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Qmaha_The Bee Bulldin ng, Bouth Omaha—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fth and M streets. Council | Blufts—10 Pear] Strest. Sage- nity Bulldin New nrk—-’remnlz Court. Washington—501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and itorial mutter should = be addressed: mah: . Editorfal Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be ad, The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Cnara: b REMITTANCES, t by draft, express or postal order, b-n‘rwl- to The Bee Drunu.m»’." Company, 2-cent stamps accepted In payment of mai el ml’ checks, except on maha Of eastern exchange, not acce] THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANTY. ITATIIINT or cmcux.nxou. Nebraska, Douglas County Taschuok, l%cl;euryd of he Bee 01 AD n| ul sworn, 'nm ual_number of full and of The Dally, Morn n printed durin was as follo acoounts. Net total sal Net daily averags MR I Ore me t (Beal.) ;Z Appendicitis Is no respecter of persons. — . Mr. Cleveland still has the better of ‘Mr. Bryan in the ratio of two elections to two defeats. — Those thrifty British tradesmen who insured the life of King Edward as a precaution against loss in event of a failure of the coronation were not such fools after all. The unanimity of the fusion congres- sional conventions in Nebraska is not 80 much an evidence of the popularity of the candidates as it s of lack of confi- dence and consequent competition. This isn't a calamity year in Nebraska. ] Mr. Bryan didn't attend the harmony banquet, but that is no sign he wasn't interested In the proceedings. His re- ply to the Cleveland plea for harmony indicates that a marked divergence of opinion still exists between those emi- neat democrats. rE—— The bond of union between America and England is again shown in the hour of national anxiety. The current of sympathy which flowed from Eng- land during the dark hours of Presi- dent McKinley's iliness 18 now reversed and flows from America to England. e Recelpts of hogs at the local market show a healthy Increase over the fig- ures for the corresponding season last year. The prices, too, are much higher, and the farmers who raise the hogs are porrespondingly more prosperous. These facts do not tend to make populists, \ — Omaha mechanles who are out on strike for better pay disclalm any inten- tion of disorderly conduct. They assert their desire to win or lose without any rlotous or other unseemly proceedings. Omaha bas few strikes and fewer riots, and the course of the men In this in- stance will be commended. e Democrats in congress wax wrathy when their records In the matter of war are presented to them. After boasting that they forced the country into the war, they are now complaining because republican presidents have been suffi- clently courageous to end the war with bonor. Consistency never was a demo- cratic attribute. In his dolorous summing up of the calamaties that have befallen the coun- try under republican administration, the temporary chalrman of the democratic section of' the convention at Grand Island very carefully avolded any refer- ence to the fultillment of the popocratic prophecies made during former cam- paigns, notably in 1896, E—— The Kansas City union depot is as- sessed for $300,000 for city and county rposes, The Unlon depot and the ::nfllnlmn depots in Omaha are dumped juto the Union Pacific and Omaha & Bouthwestern mileage at a nominal fig- mre that would scarcely pay the wages of the elevator boys in the city hall or the jamitors in the court house. E—r——— According to the raflroad tax bureau, Pouncil Bluffs has an assessed valuation of over $12,000,000 and shows a property assessment per capita of over $500, agalnst $169 per capita for Omaha and Bouth Omaha. As a matter of fact fhe total assessment of Council Bluffs i less than $3,500,000 and the per capita Is $149 Instead of over §500, against aha's $160. The $12,000,000 prop- valuation of the tax bureau in- 31 the whole of Pottawattamie pounty, it the rallroad tax bureau jug- glers have credited Council Bluffs with the entire assesswent of Pottawattamie ty, just to make & contrast between and the town across the river. Fax buresu figures don't Ue, of course, CURONATION POSTPONEMENT. Bwiftly following the report from London that King Edward appeared to be in his usual health came the an- nouncement of his serfous illness from a most dangerous malady, making nec- essary the postponement of the corona- tion. For the past two weeks the con- dition of the king's health has caused much anxiety in England, notwithstand- ing the reassuring statements from day to day of the physiclans, and a dis- patch a few days ago stated that odds of 100 to 3 were given agalnst the coronation occurring, or in other words the rates on the risk of the king's living until June 26 ruled at 3 per cent pre- mium, many thousands of pounds ster- ling having been underwritten on this basis. This showed to what extent pub- lle nervousness had grown in certain circles. It was commonly supposed, as indl- cated by the statements of the physl- clang, that King Edward was merely suffering from tbe effects of a severe cold contracted at the Aldershot mill- tary review, but the allment which re- quired a surgical operation undoubtedly had its inception long before the review and perhaps was preying upon the king's system for weeks, its develop- ment doubtless accelerated by the ex- posure and the arduous dutles to which he has recently been subjected. These have been very wearing to a physical system by no means so vigorous as it outwardly appeared to be. King Ed- ward is nearly 61 years old and at that time of life the chances are agalinst re- covery from such an operation as hé has undergone. It is easy to belleve, therefore, that his condition is even more critical than the physiclans have stated. The operation gave rellef to the patlent, but this may prove to be only temporary and it Is quite possible that there will have to be other opera- tions. It is a very serious question whether the king can survive the effects of the single operation. Unfavorable conditions have attended the coronation ceremonies since their inception and it is said that King Ed- ward himself shared in the not uncom- mon bellef that he would never be crowned. The indefinite postponement of the coronation means a heavy loss to many pen.:-ple in London who have gone to large expenditure for the en- tertalnment of visitors. The officlal statement of the cost of this week's festival was £500,000, but that sum rep- resents a very small portion of the money expended, in some cases posi- tively squandered, In getting ready for the event. Now there will be an exodus from London of foreign visitors that will empty the hotels, while most of the money expended in erecting seats and stands intended to accommodate 1,500, 000 persons will be lost. The illness of the king was correctly termed by Mr. Balfour, government leader of the House of Commons, as a disaster for the English people. There will be uni- versal sympathy with the distinguished sufferer. E— STUKLFER'S FOOL FRIENDS. Some people never appreciate generous treatment. That fact is illustrated by the fool friends of State Treasurer Stuefer, who seek to make a martyr of him, when everybody knows that he is simply the victim of his own wrong- doing. Their attempt to create the im- pression that the opposition of The Bee to his renomination was inspired by malice or some personal grievance will scarcely decelve anybody familiar with Mr. Stuefer’s career as treasurer. When the republican party declared against speculative financiering by cus- todlans of public funds and demanded the publication of monthly exhibits showing the amounts of public money in their custody and where they were deposited, Mr. Stuefer was in honor and duty bound to live up to the plat- form pledge. His failure to do so seri- ously imperiled party success last fall. The subsequent exposure of his bond deals made his re-election impossible. Whether his intentions were good or bad, the fact that he had placed $80,000 of school money in the hands of a mid- dleman and allowed him to consummate a bond purchase for the permanent school fund, whereby he pocketed $3,000, stood out agalnst Stuefer. No end of explanations could palliate this wrong, nor could even the crediting of the Interest on lllegal deposits on the treasury books vindicate him. Treasurer Stuefer's first impulse to re- slgn was right. His second impulse not to stand for renomination was ra- tional. His resentment because he was not allowed to jeopardize the ticket this year s both childish and foolish. —_— STILL REJECT ARBITRATION. “There will be no arbitration, that is certain,” declares the president of one of the anthracite coal-carrying rallroads, who expressed the opinion that the mines will again be operated with the men who are now on strike. In his address to the public the president of the mine workers' unlon states that every effort was made by the officers of that or- ganization to avert a conflict and he repeats their proposition to arbitrate all questions in dispute, saying that “if our premises are wrong, If our position s untenable, if our demands cannot be sustained by facts and figures, we will again return to the mines, take up our tools of industry and await the day when we shall have a cause to claim the approval of the American people.” Here Is an entirely falr and honorable proposition, which if cepted would undoubtedly speedily end the strike, with results greatly to the benefit of the public and with the effect of avert- ing the danger of most serious trouble which the situation now threatens. But with an utter disregard of the public interests and apparently wholly Indiffer- ent to the menacing danger, the combi- nation of railroads controlling the pro- duction of anthracite coal rejects the offer of the miners and declares that the struggle must go on. There can be no doubt that the purpose is to destroy the orgenlzation of wminers. and this be- THF OMAHA DAILY BEE: Ing well understood it s to be expected that the striking miners will hold out as long as they are able to endure the privations which idleness entails, in the meantime seeking such sympathy and support from other organized labor as it may be disposed to glive. It does not appear that anything can be done by either state or federal au- thorities to remedy this state of affairs, which has already been of no little in- Jury to the public, There seems to be no law that reaches the case. Anthra- cite coal is an article of public necessity, essential to the carrying on of a num- ber of Industries, but the corporations that control the mines cannot be com- pelled to supply it. It is their unques- tionable right to refuse to work their properties, The miners, algo, are within their rights so long as they con- duct the strike peaceably. There has been some violence and every day in- creases the danger In this direction. What may result from the national con- vention of miners called to meet July 17, If the strike is not ended before that time, no one can foresee. The purpose of that convention is to consider the question of a suspension of coal mining throughout the country, which if done would paralyze the activity of prac- tically all the mechanical industries of the United States. It is not easy to belleve that so radical a step as this will be taken and yet the obvious aim of the owners and operators of the an- thracite mines, the destruction of the organization of coal miners, Invites ft. When it is understood that a general suspension of coal mining would throw out of employment perhaps 3,000,000 of wage-earners in the manufacturing and mechanical industries of the United States, besides many others employed in transportation, the very serious char- acter of the situation can be realized. The persistence of the operators in re- fusing to arbitrate places upon them the weight of responsibility for whatever future troubles and difficulties may arise, E—— THE DEMUCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. The democrats have come into the fleld early with their county ticket, leav- ing plenty of time hereafter to discuss its personnel. A hasty glance at the names embodied on the legislative list will convince anyone that on the whole it 18 made up of nominees without any gpecial qualifications for the positions which they seek. But one man in the whole array has had legislative experi- ence, and his record will not overwhelm anyone with its imposing grandeur. For the county offices the men selected seem to be chosen rather for their affili- atlon with one faction of the local demo- cratic hosts than for their ability to come up to the tests that should be applied. Whether the democratic candidates will appeal to the people of Douglas county as against their competitors will be disclosed when the republican ticket shall have been placed in nomination. The republicans will certalnly prove disappointing If they do not put up a better set of candidates. ] Star Falling Popward. Washington Post. Popward the star of Bryan takes its way. He will have to do the presidential running for that party in 1904 or else remaln pas- sive, and the latter is not a Bryan specialty. Give the East a Show. Brooklyn Eagle. ‘We are for all reasonable measures to extend the forest reserves. The west h bhad attention. The wasting rivers and increasing drouths in the east entitle us to consideration likewise. ere Joy Relg Chicago Record-Herald. Now that the American women who can afford to go to the seashore and the moun- talns are in transit, each with from two to a dozen trunks, the baggage smasher is naturally in a cheerful mood. JHot Weather Diversion, Baltimore American. With Mr. Cleveland as lecturer and Mr. Hill to stir up the animals the democratic circus may be able to book a few dates before the republican aggregation takes the road with the good old elephant that never falls to draw and please the crowds Harmony Boston Transcript. The eastern and western wings of the democracy do not flap together yet. The leaven of flatism is still strong with the Maine democrats. In their recent state convention they reafirmed the Kansas City platform, while their Illinols brethren ig- nored it. Poor Lo His Rations. Philadelphia Ledger. It the government has promised the Apaches or any other Indians to supply them with beef rations, it is the obvious duty of the government to do so, and the high price of beef should not figure in the controversy. In fact, there should be no controversy. A promise is a promise and the government is rich enough to keep its promises even to the Indians. Colonels on the Yell Pl Worcester (Mass.) Spy. Evidently Iowa auctioneers do mnot con- sider that the War department has any pecullar right to the use of the title of “colonel,” for at a meeting just held at ‘Waterloo, Ia., attention was called to the fact that there s too many among them called ‘“‘colonel: A motion was adopted to the effect that an auctioneer must cry 1,000 sales before acquiring the right to be known as ‘“‘colonel. Sample of Pipe Dreams. Chicago Chronicle. It begins to look as though praying for rain will have to be conducted with cau- tion in order to avold disconcerting results. The agricultural brethren of Nebraska and Dakota, for instance, began petitioning for rain early in the spring and now they have twelve or fourteen inches of water standing in their wheatfields. Unless some means ean be devised of shutting off the pluvial stopcock it may become advisable to stop bothering Providence and allow the ralnfall to regulate itself. Refu Legacy Taxes. Philadelphia Record. It le proposed, out of the treasury sur- plus of nearly $100,000,000, to refund to re- ligious, charitable and educational Institu- tions the amount of tax pald upon legacies and bequests devised to them during the operations of the war revenue act. The amount thus accrulng—about $4,000,000—was but a trifle in comparison with the vast in- come of the government and might well gatherer. The refunding act now pending in congress is llke a halting and dilatory apology for an unnecessary and in some cases injurious exaction. The Role of Chronie Scold. Kansas City Star (Ind.) Representative Cannon undoubtedly touched a weak spot in the demo- cratlc program when bhe sald In the house the other day: “We pull the wagon and we do the work and you find the fault. And now when we are doing the best we can, solving the ques- tions that grew out of the war, gentlemen of your party, still you scold.” In other words the opposition party has contented {teelf with picking flaws, whereas it might have formulated a definite policy on which to go before the country next autumn. Afrald of American Jockeys. Chicago Chronicle, It 18 a queer characteristic of the Briton that he prides himself most upon a virtue which he is absolutely destitute of—that is, his ability to take a beating gracetully. The bravery of the Englishman {s be- yond dispute. His recognition of other men’s bravery {s unstinted. He can be generous to a vanquished foe. But he can't take a licking. This Is demonatrated once more in the efforts of the English horse- men to have American jockeys ruled oft the French racetracks. The Americans are beating the English boys and J, B. can't stand it. He never could. — Balking the Steel Trust. Minneapolis Times. The billlon-dollar steel trust has been knocked out in an attempt to retire a por- tion of its stock for bonds and opining that it cannot afford to stay beaten its attorneys lately notified the supreme court of New Jersey that they expected an opinion at once. The court declined to take orders even from a billlon-dollar trust and politely informed the attorneys that they would be heard in their turn. The legislative branch of New Jersey's government may be com- mitted to the policy of glving the combines all possible privileges for revenue, but the Judicial branch seems commendably averse to trust dictation. Hot Fighting in the Sixth. Boston Transcript. There is evidently robust republican con- fidence In the sodhouse section of Ne- braska—the Sixth congressional district. This district a few years ago gave from 2,500 to 5,000 fusion majority, but the pres- ent congressman, Willlam Neville, was elected by a narrow plurality of 200 over Judge Moses P. Kinkald, republican, So eager were the republican statesmen of that district for the chance to run against Neville that it required 177 ballots at their congressional convention last week to settle the contest. Judge Kinkald was the choice add his supporters are confident that the district will this year be ‘‘re- deemed.” That Venetian Affair, Philadelphia Press. It the naval officers arrested In Venice had not begun by getting drunk it would never have been necessary to consider whether Admiral Crowninshleld had in- sulted Italy or not in his summary of the case. There was unguestlonable Injustice to the officers involved, but it must also be remembered that public intoxication s an offense much more serious in Italy or France than in English-speaking countries; creates greater public indignation and re- celves a more summary treatment. No naval officer who {s representing the flag ought to go without some punishment when he disgraces it by passing under the Influ- ence of llquor. The day has long since gone by when it was considered the venial privilege of any n#val man to display this weakness at any port where he was ashore. —_— FAILURE OF THE TRUSTS, Impending Outcome of the Attempt to Strangle Competition. New York Journal of Commerce. It has taken twelve years to rehabilitate industrial capital which perhaps be fairly valued at four and a half billions, with a view to shielding industry from the operation of the natural law of competition, whilst the reconstructions have made but insignificant additions to the original capi- tals of the blended corporations. Within one-eighth of the same period the creations of independent industrial capital have amounted to approximately $5,000,000,000. Reflect upon the significance of this com- parison and see what jt teaches. 1. That imposing as the expansion of the trusts may seem, that of the independent industries 1s immeasurably greater. 2. That our minor millionaires and our cubstantial men of business have reached the conclusion that conservatively filnanced and well-managed corporations, with moderate capitals, have nothing to fear from the competition and the supposed superior advantages of the trusts. 3. That the surprising magnitude of the new independent corporations evidences & very emphatic and general conviction on this point. 4. That the independent indus- tries are gaining so rapidly on the trust forces that the hopes of the monopolist or- ganizations seem to be already foredoomed. 6. That the process of consolidating capitals has released numbers of well tralned prin- clpals of succeastul corporations, who are new employing their means and experience in the ranks of competition; the efforts to create monopolies thus proving self-defeat- ing. 6. The foregoing considerations may be regarded as largely accounting for such facts as the followin That the new in- dependent concerns are so far generally doing well and finding no difficulty in com- peting with the trusts; that a noteworthy proportion of the monopoly claimed by cer- tain trusts in their respective trades has been reduced; for instance, United States Steel began with a control of 80 per cent of natural output and now claime only 67 on steel and 46 on pigiron; while the Sugar trust hus reduced its clalm of control from about 90 per cent to 50 per cent. As further symptoms of decadence, it may be noted that, notwithstanding the extraordinary prosperity of trade, not a few of the trus are falling far behind their early promises as to met earnin, expectations as to economies are falling more or less to materialize, and in several notable ca: the consolidated concerns have been disbanded, while others appear destined either to early follow suit or to be reorganized on a more conservative basis. The foregoing facts foreshadow the im- ponding outcome of the new movement. Its origin was based on a misconception of the laws that inevitably control the move- ments of industry and commerce, and its {ssue can only be fatlure and the return to natural competition, and that possibly with greater severity and a lower range of prices than has heretofor been experi- enced. The new-fashioned structures, so tar as they may possess substantial back- ing or exercise a material measure of con- trol in thelr respective trades, may be able to weather the trial after unloading their watered stock and otherwise reconstructing their finances, for, with a sound financial basis and good management, the magnitude of thelr scale of business need be no detri- ment to their success, but possibly & help to it, but, for the others, it can only be that & reckoning awaits them proportioned to their reckless ignoring of the I of sound finance and their folly in imagining l.hn! they can hold the enterprise of this test of all nations in unjust restraint. Thau is Do escape from the penalty’of the making-baste-to-get-rich policy on which so many venturous men have been running for the last five years. The inevitable is in sight to men of sound vision, but the eveat wmay prove Lo be comparatively distant. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1902. Franchises as an Asset. Boston Transcript The franchise negotiations which have been In progress between the Pennsylva- nia rallroad and the representatives of the corporation of New York City afford not only that city, but all cities, a valuable and interesting object lesson. They estab- lish a general precedent of great impor- tance, set new financial standards and in- dicate a new and rich municipal asset that in most business centers is all the time growing. The significance of the transac- tion s in proportion to its magnitude. The committes of the Rapid Transit commis- slon, consisting of its chairman, Comp- troller Grout, and one other, appointed to complete arrangements with the railroad, “feels bound to say that the representa- tives of the Pennsylvania company have presented their case frankly and that, al- though it was not always easy to bring them to see the Interest of the city from the standpoint of those whose duty it was to represent the city, nevertheless they have been neither illiberal nor unreason- able.” The management of that company en- joys an enviable reputation for shrewdness, but it s a part of that shrewdness, even it we give it no higher praise, not to drive too sharp a bargain with the public. It has found {ts profit in serving the public rather than in preying upon It. It is true that the road hoped and doubtless expected to make better terms for itself in the large operations in and about New York in which it is about to engage. The public cer- tainly expected that it would, judging from all past experiences with corporations and franchises. But a new and better method of dealing with this class of assets Is rapidly growing in favor. Perhaps Boston has helped on the movement somewhat, but it has remained for New York to give us the most conspicuous and comprehensive exemplification of it that has anywhere been presented. Comptroller Grout makes the claim that this franchise is on terms more acceptable to the city than any other ever agreed upon, and that it all railroad and other corporations using the streets were to pay on the same basis as that proposed for the Pennsylvania, the city would be $10,000,000 richer every year. That le to say, were all franchises to acknowledge their obligations to their cre- ators to the same extent that the Penn- tylvania corporation has conceded them, one-tenth even of the heavy burdens that New York has to carry would be lifted. This must be in the nature of a revelation to all those who have concerned themselves with problems of municipal finance. Not only is there a compensation exacted for the use of the streets, but for the large subterranean area asked for. Our subter- ranean experiences seem to be highly edu- cational and are of large public utility, not only with regard to their particular purpose, but they suggest general prinel- ples which can be given a very compre- hensive application as bearing upon all public utilities. When we remember Jake Sharp's deal with respect to his Broadway priviliges a few years ago, and a number of other transactions somewhat less mal- odorous than that, we have a point from which to estimate the great advance in business methods that is represented by this recent transaction. President Orr of the Rapid Transit com- mission has officially congratulated the city upon the consummation of this ar- rangement, and we think his congratula- tions are warranted. It means a change of attitude. For long years we have been accustomed to place too high a value upon the service and too low & value on the privilege. Corporations sollcit these priv- fleges not for the benefit of the public, but for their own profit, and there never is any danger that they will agree to terms, which in their estimation, do mot leave a reasonably certain margin for such profits. Having established the basic prin- ciple, the next thing is to establish some general standard for its application. Let it be understood that a franchise in all cases means a consideration for the bene- fit of the public and such scandals as that which besmirched Philadelphia year would Incur greater risk than they have in- curred in the past. RISING STREAM OF GOLD. South Afriea Expected to Swell the World's Output. 8t. Louls Globe Democrat. Director Roberts of the United States mint estimates that peace in South Africa will add $100,000,000 a year to the world's output of gold. The Rand mines had about reached that mark when hostilities practically closed them. Mr. Roberts be- lleves that South Africa can easily increase its gold production beyond any former fig- ures. The world’s highest yleld of gold was {n 1899, when the total reached $307 000,000. War sent it down in 1900 to $255,- 000,000 and about the same aggregate was reached last year. But for the Boer con- fiict the world's gold yleld would now be $350,000,000 annually and that total may be expected before many years. The United States can feel easy as to its share of fresh gold. Its output in 1800 was $33,- 000,000, and Mr. Roberts places it this year at $85,000,000. Australia’s gold production 1s about equal to that of this country. It is an important fact that the great bound upward in the world's gold produc- tlon is a development of the last ten years. Mr. Roberts gives the average from 1851 to 1860 at $132,000,000 a year; from 1861 to 1670 at $126,000,000; from 1571 to 1880 at $115,000,000, and from 1881 to 1885 less than $100,000,000. Since then the total has mounted rapidly to from $250,000,000 to $200,000,000, of which nearly a third is used in the arts and industries. Last year the total amount of gold coin in the world was $5,000,000,000, an increase of $1,000,000,000 in the last ten years. Mr. Roberts indulges in no speculation as to the remarkable in- crease in the world's gold production. Thus far it has stimulated commerce and indus- try, and brought nations closer together in business, without changing values as meas- ured in gold. A gold yleld of $500,000,000 annually may come within the next twenty years, but mankind generally is willing to stand it. PERSONAL NOTES. They may call him Admiral Clark offi- clally, but to the people he'll always be “Clark of the Oregon.” Charles Frederick Haviland of the fa- mous family of chinaware makers of France, is seriously Il in Denver. Bourke Cockran is now an LL. D. In his case it probably means doctor of lan- ge, which he can toss off to the queen's taste. 8o Reggle Vanderbilt will not receive his degree from Yale. He I8 backward in bis studies. He seems to be as much of as a student as a soldier. F. Lumis of San Diego, Cal., re- cently appointed to chooss a new home for Warner's ranch Indians, speaks Span- ish fluently and is also familiar with many of the Indian dialects. Dr. J. W. Mauck, treasurer of the Chi- cago & Milwaukee raflway, has just been elected president of Hills college at Hillsdale, Mich. He was for a time presi- dent of the University of South Dakota. There 18 considerable rivalry as to which city has the youngest mayor, but the octo- genarian, ex-Attorney Genéral Willlams, who has just been elected mayor of Port- 1and, Ore., seems to be the nestor of them all Father McGrall, chaplain of Dixle, which recently carried supplies to Martinique, while there collected a complete file of “Le Colonle,” the only newspaper published on the island, for an entire year up to the de- struction of St. Plerre. The Cincinnati friends of the late Jack Dempsey, the pugllist, undertook to raise a fund for the erection of a monument over his grave. After two months' diligent effort $7 has been subscribed and nearly half the amount paid in. Congressman Beidler has a fine farm nine miles from Cleveland and serves milk to 4,000 families in that city. Someone asked him: “Do you Pasteurize your milk?" and the congressman made answer: g think it's better to pasturize the cows.” Emory college at Oxford, Ga., at its com- mencement bestowed the honorary degree ot Doctor of Literature upon Joel Chandler Harris, suthor of “Uncle Remus.” It wae the first time Emory college had bestowed this degree and it was the only honorary d e conferred by the college at this commencement. Clarence Hale, brother’of Senator Eugene Hale, who has been appointed the United Stal district judge of Malne, has served as city solleitor of Portland and as a member of the legislature ard is widely known in the pine tree state. He s a member of the Maine Historical soclety and has one of the best private libraries in New England. Not long ago Congressman Curtis of Kansas received a letter making lurid com- plaint against the postmaster of & little town whom the writer charged with pay- ing too much attention to selling whisky. The congressman advised his correspondent to prefer chai against the postmaster, but & few days ago received another letter saylng: “Since I wrote you before the postmaster and I have gone into partner- ship. He's going to sell the stamps snd I'm goldg to sell the whisky. BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE, Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched on the Spot. The maligned and hooted dish of Pov- erty Flat, commonly known as hash, is looking up and promises to become, in an expurgated form, the favorite dish of the political aristocracy of Washington. The honors coming to it is due to Senator Mar- cus A. Hanna, whose breakfasts of corned beef hash are the envy of the town. The senator’s chef prepares his hash accord- ing to the following recipe: Equal parts of boiled prime corn beef and potatoes are prepared. The beef fs chopped as fine as possible, the soft, mealy potatoes are cut into tiny cubes. A small onfon {s minced to add flavor to the mass, and the dishes are rubbed with a head of garlic. Another garlic head is wrapped in a plece of the fat and thrown into the center of the mai The whole is then mixed thoroughly and nicely browned in a big skillet or frylng pan. During this operation disks of Bermuda onions, cut so that each round shows every ring of the onion, are thrown into a deep dish of pure lard and browned delicately. When these disks are crisp they are used to garnish the edge of the platter, and the hash Is served garnished with parsley or herbs and ths usual condiment is a squeeze of a lemon. Prepared In this way corn beef hash is said to be very dainty and appetizing. It is a survival of the days when the beef scan- dal agitated the country. A ooterie of army officers first prepared the dish for Sepator Hanna, using canned corn beef for & basis. It was served as a convincing argument that canned corn beef was not only nourishing, but palatable. Senator Hanna fixed up a dish according to the army recipe and served it to President Roosevelt as a delicate reminder of his 1ough rider days. Since then It has taken vogue, and now it 1s the proper thing to bring on a dish of corn beet hash a la Hanna whenever one wishes to entertaln blg people. The perquisites of a congressman's wife, and particularly of a mew congressman's wife, says the Washington Star, are one of the chief sources of concern of her official life at the nation's capital. Sometimes the wife of the legislator has cleaned up the things belonging to her station with so much enthusiasm that she has overreached herself to the extent of becoming ridiculous. A case of this kind was reported not long ago from the fish commission. A certain Mre. M. C. had heard that it was the cus- tom of the fish commission to distribute fish to the representatives In congress if they desired to have them. This informa- tion came just as the lady was arranging a lttle dinner party for the next day and she immediately went to the telephone and called up the fish commission, explaining the fact of the dinner and requesting either six small or three large lobsters. The reply, most polite and good-natured, was that the commission was not a market, but that if she wanted a dozen gold fish for her aquarium she could have them, If that would in any way contribute to the success of the feast. Senator Mason of Illinois has started a new style in belts, but it is not likely to become a rage. Recently the senator had a great need for a belt, and, lacking the regulation leather article, he sent his wits to work to invent one. His inventive genlus proved equal to the emergency. He got out a dress walstcoat and a palr of shears and quickly cut away all the portion above the two lower buttons. This left a couple of strap-like strips running over his shoulders, but they were in the way and he decided to complete the job by lopping them off. This left nothing to his waistcoat but the strip embracing two buttons in front and the buckle in the back. Mason “cinched"” this up good and tight, and, presto! he had & home made belt that answered all re- quirements. The new government printing office is approaching completion, and it will be a gigantic affair. It will cost $2,000,000, and will provide a total floor space of over four- teen acres—more than two and & half times the floor area available in the present tablishment. As yet the bullding is en- tirely covered with scaffolding, but it is substantially finished, except for the in- terlor woodwork and painting. It will be the greatest printing shop in the world employing the services of nearly 4,000 people. Accurately speaking, 3,889 persons will toil under its mighty roof, nearly 1,000 of them being women and girls. Each year it will expend the enormous sum of $4,000,000, nearly three-fourths of it for labor, and in its main composing room 824 printers will be engaged in sticking type. Eight hundred and eighty-five em- ployes will be occupled in ‘binding the books and documents produced, and an ad- ditional 665 will do nothing but fold the printed sheets. Figures like these give a notion of the ich the shop will be conducted. Each twelvemonth it will con- sume for bindings the skins of 36,000 sheep and 11,000 goats, in addition to 75,000 square feet of “Russia leather,” made from cow- hide. It will use up in a like period 8,000 tons of white paper, 40,000 pounds of print. ing ink and 37,000 pounds of glue, togethet with 7,00 pounds of thread for sewing books and pamphlets and 4,000 packs of gold leaf for the titles of volumes de luxe One hundred and twenty-seven pressel will be constantly in operationtin the great bullding, their total output fn a& work- ing day of elght hours being just about 1,000,000 impressions. These presses are of every concelvable kind, one of them being capable of printing cards on both sides from & web of bristol board at the rate of 65,000 cards per hour, while four other machines turn out 40,000 printed envelopes every sixty minutes. The quantity of type actually em= ployed will be approximately 1,600,000 pounds, or 750 tons STEAM Luu v sy S DOOMED, Revival of the Fond Dream of Elec~ trical Engineers. Chicago Inter Ocean. The device briefly described by Blon J. Arnold of Chicago to the convention of tha American Institute of Electrical Engineers on Thursday promises to realize the fond- est dream of electrical engineers—the dis- placing of the steam locomotive In long- distance transporation by the electric motor. When the electric motor was first applied to transportation problems the alm was to improve on horse traction. Direct current, low-tension motors, fed from overhead trol- leys, were pitted against the horse, and in time American inventive {ngenuity enabled the electric car to do away with the horse car. The change was of the greatest im- portance. It made and unmade cities. But the development of the direct-current trolley system soon found a limit beyond which it could not economically go. Tha distances to which the system was com- merclally applicable were limited by tho expense of transmitting direcf-current elec- triclty. So the skill of Inventors was again called in, and a scheme of transmitting electric power long distances for traction purposes, by means of alternate currents and rotary converters, was devised. This put the electric motor in the com- merclal fleld of interurban and suburban trafic. The steam dummy fs now being rapldly supplanted by the electrie motor car all over the country for short hauls and quick trains. But here againa limit was soon found to the distances over which the system was a commercial success, and apparently this limit was more difficult to pass than the former one. Hundreds of schemes have been suggested and tried in vain. Mr, Arnold now offers to use the alternating motor on tralns, and thus to place the ‘electric motor in competition with the steam locomotive. Mr. Arnold proposes, by the mechanical storage and use of compressed alr, to utilize on cars the simplesc and least costly type of alternating electric motors and to re- move thus all the present objections to the use of electricity for long-distance tra: portation. If his device s a success—and Mr. Arnold’s standing as an engineer makes his statements worthy of the utmost con- sideration—it means that steam locomotives must suffer the fate that has overtaken the horse and is closing in on the steam dummy, FPOINTED REMARKS, Detroit Free I’ru “I missed Flrlnar Jones' dog yeaterday, “Dat so. hat did ye throw at him.” GOhlo State Journal: Milly—Too bad about gwell new bathing suit. Boly— Wt T pened ? Milly—Ralned the first time she wore it. Chicago Tribune: “I be, arde but this is the smoker, T “I know ft, Sir. ‘and tha Wind s blowing !mm the stockyards. Pray keep on smok- Yonkers Statesman: “I'm_entirely worn ot doctor, mald the barber, who had ed at the office of the physician, %%t ‘me bes your. tongue. o4 the doc- tor, who never shaved himself. Philadelphia Press: “Have you really no affection for any other girl, dear?’ she ked of her flance. ‘No,” replied the drug clerk, absent- mindedly, “but I have something just as et Baltimore Herald: ‘‘Well, that's what T call monumental gall" declared Mr, Ro- landparke angrily. hat's the matter?* Why, those neighbors of mine who mo- nopolized my lawn mower all last summer have now sent a committee over to inform me that it needs sharpening badly for this season!" Cleveland Plain Dealer: *Yes, wife Gomez'd me this morning.'” “Eh! How did she do {t?" “Sald she'd start up & llld domestic rumpus if I didn't give her New York Tribune. you never con- sider,” asked Rev. X. nnrter. “that even its bright side?” replled the convict, thinkin' and longin' fur it.” For what?" “The outside." Boston Trflnlcflnt Bri, the same thing affects dlfl’errmly sxs—As for instance? 3 aughter Jane had a dre: mlde !ull lfi( Grover's becauss. Jan thinks so much of Miss Grover, but Miss Grover Is as mad as she can be with my g:u.m-r for presuming to wear & gown e hers.” sir, my d I oan't fl—!‘unny how fferent persons PASTOR AND FARMER'S LAD, ‘Western Teacher. One of the parish sent one morn— A farmer kind and able— Alnics Tar tirhoy, Laised o corn, To grace the pastors table. A gobbler from my master, The pastor said: *““Thou should'st not thus Present the fowl to me; Come take my chair. and for me act, And I will act for thee The preacher’s chair received the boy, The fowl the pastor took, Went out with it, and then came in With a pleasant smile and look; And to his young pro tem, he said: “Dear sir, my honored master Presents this turkey, and his best Respects to you, his pastor.” “Good!" sald the boy. “Your master {8 A gentleman and scholar! My thanks to him, and for yourself, llzm is & half a dollar.” The pastor felt around his mouth A most pecullar twitching; And to the gobbler holding fast, He “bolted” for the kitchen. He gave the turkey to the cook, And came back in a minute, Then took the youngster's hand and left A half & dollar in it. KEEP YOUR STOMACH WELL Eva h epends on the S T e Phoaphnta CURES habi ual stomach weakness, im. proves appetite, digestion and nutri! the cause of wakefulness. nd| ;I;ONIO {o{lnil vea.vk' condi- lons, qnc y roving gen« eral health, lufitonhasl'ng Horsford's A{id ,JPhosphate Morstord’s name ou svery GENUINE paskes: