Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 1, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE — E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EV ERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. fly Bee (without Sunday), One Year.§} (0 ily Bee and Sunday, One Year.. justrated Bee, One Year Bunday Bee, Ohe Year Baturday Bee, One Year. Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. ally Bee (without Sunday), per cop {ly Bee (without Sunday), per we Dally Bee (including Sunday), per week. junday Bee, per copy vening Bee (without Sunda, Eyening Bee (Including week ... Complaints .o lrruulnnua- in a'uvm should be fessed to City Cireulation Perartment 12 OFHCER lhl—The Bee Bullding. Soth Omanaccity Hall Butlding, Twen- l.y-l\(lh and M Streets. Counctl Bluffts—10 Pear] Street. cago—140 Unity Building. G rk—Temple Court. Vashington—501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and gditorial | matter ahouid be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should ®e addressed: The Bee Pubiishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, ress or postal order, dyable 15 The Bee Pubiishing Company. Brly 2-cent stamps acce ted in payment o B rn exchankes, not accepted. o TH‘n EEE ‘PUBLISH ING COMPA per week 10e inday), per accounts. —_— - BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Douglas Count, [ o sachck secrotary of Fhe Bes s eln uly sworn, Sompaidl number of full an les of The Dally, Morning, Slmflly Bee printed durln‘ SURNRRRBENEEE Total Less uneold a: Net total Net dally ave returned coples. ales GEO. B. TZECHUCK. Subscribed in_my dvmem and, sworn to b'(or' ma this 30th ly of June, A. D., B HONGATE, Notary Publle. e The same congress will reconvene for @ second innings next December. Adjournment of house and senate adds another reason for jubilating on the Fourth. ——_ Haytl's election broils indicate that its people are taking their lessons in self- government in dead earnest. L —— If the Pingree potato patches and posy gardens are not a success this year it will not be for lack of the watering can. mtem—— The Isthmian canal bill 18 now a law ‘but excursion parties via the Isthmian canal will not be organized for a little while yet. Japan's imports from the United States are Increasing every year. The Jap knows where to get the best goods for the least money. ‘We know several business establish- ments that would envy City Treasurer Hennings his long line of people walt- ing to pay him what they owe the city treasury. , ———— King Edward's recuperative powers astonish the physicians. The physi- clans must be disappointed at prospects that promise to make thelr work a shorter job than they expected. S Benator Elkins thinks our war with Spain delayed the annexation of Cuba, which otherwise would already have been accomplished. It is a questicn, bowever, which would have been least expensive, S— One thing at a time in the tax reform program. The first point of attack was the city assessment and the next the county assessment. The state equaliza- tion, however, is also on the list and is not to be overlooked. =oo——— It is suggested that Trust Smasher Bmyth should have a consolation prize. If the “little glan had the proper sense of selt-sacrifice he would get off the ticket and make way for Smyth to gratity his ambition to lead the forlorn hope forces, . O One would fmagie that it would be easier for the populists and democrats to fuse on platforms than on tickets, but the reverse appears to be the case. It is one ticket on two platforms—not two tickets on one platform. A joint plat- form committee for the two fusion con- 'ventions will be in order next time, e—— . The people of Seattle will take due motice that Governor Savage and a com- plete staff of gold-laced colonels will be on hand to superintend the laying of the of the battleship Nebraska, In icourse of construction there. Informa- ‘tion as to the preferences of the guests can be had of the head of the commls- ‘sary department. EETE— The campalgn for more equitable taxa- tion of rallroads 1§ not confined to one state—it presents an issue suré to 'be raised In every American common- Swealth where these great corporations have been evading their just shares of the burdens of taxation. That Is why THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1902. THENEW FISCAL YEAR. Today begins the new fiscal year of the government and the notable fact in con- nection with it is the abolition of the war taxes of 1808, After today the taxes which were levied to carry on the war with Spain will end and the prom- ise given by the republican party that these taxes should be abolished as soon as it was practicable to do so will go into effect. It is another illustration of the good faith of the party In power in carrying out its assurances to the peo- ple. The abolition of what is known as the war taxes will take a considerable sum out of the annual revenues of the gov- ernment. Those taxes ylelded a large sum, but they are no longer necessary, and the republican party, following its uniform policy of relleving the people of unnecessary tax burdens, has ordered the relinquishment of this taxation, which amounted to many millions an- nually. While it is true that these taxes were not felt to be particularly burden- some, because of the general prosperity of the country, there will be a general feeling of satisfaction that they are re- pealed. As to the effect upon the rev- enues of the government, the reduction will amount to a larg sum, but accord- ing to officlal estimates there Is no danger of a deficit resulting, unless con- gress should be more extravagant in the matter of appropriations at the next ses- slon than it has been in the present one. It is not probable that it will be. On the contrary, it is reasonably to be ex- pected that the disposition will be to curtail appropriations for the next fiscal year to what is absolutely necessary to the public service. The appropriations at the present session have been on a pretty liberal scale and it may fairly be assumed that the limit has almost been reached. At all events the cutting off of taxes, which will reduce the income of the government many millions annually, must compel congress to pursue a con- servative and prudent course in expendi- tures. The national treasury is well pro- vided with money and the revenue out- look is satisfactory, but the situation does not warrant undue extravagance in public expenditure. — OUR «ROWING EXPORTS. Evidence of the magnificent expansion of the business of the United States is seen in the statistics of the exports for the eleven months of the fiscal year ending with May. They show a volume of exports almost; unprecedented and which attest, particularly with reference to the agricultural products, something absolutely out of the ordinary. - For ex- ample, the statistics show that the ex- ports of agricultural products last year were greater than ever before for any single year, and this notwithstanding the fact that in the same perlod we will also send abroad a greater amount of manufactured products than ever be- fore in our history. These facts are particularly impres- sive. They demonstrate a commercial power on the part of the United States that is infinitely greater than any politi- cal Influence which it can possibly exert. The real power which this country Is ex- ercising today and will exert in the future is absolutely financial and com- mercial. The productive energy and power of the United States, the indus- trial expansion and growth of this na- tion, will have more to do with the spread of its influence and authority than even its political and diplomatic power. That our trade will continue to expand seems to be an absolute certainty. All the conditions favor this proposition and especlally the fact that we are able to surpass every other country in both the quality and the quantity of our labor. The fact is universally recog- nized that American labor is the best and most productive and effi- clent in the world, and it s largely due to this that we are able to outbid and outvie the world in all the contests In which labor is the chief ele- ment. What has already been accom- plished in the extension of our manu- factures to foreign markets suggests that greater achievement lies in the fu- ture. The superiority of American labor that has won so much in the past can reasonably be depended upon to win more In the future. We are today stronger than ever before in all our his- tory in those conditions which make for material progress and there 1s every reason to expect that in the years to come our advance in the markets of the world will be more rapld than in the past. —— WHY NOT ABULISR THE SUPERIN- TENDENT? The dominant majority of the Board of Education makes no bones of it that it has no confidence in the ability of Super- intendent Pearse to give efficient direc- tion to the teachers of the publie schools. This lack of confidence is exhibited at every turn, not only In the selection, promotion and assignment of teachers, but also in the regular disregard of the superintendent’s recommendations with reference to the subdivision of the school work, the choice of textbooks, ete. As a natural consequence of this de- plorable condition, the board has virtu- ally taken to itself the performance of duties that should devolve upon the superintendent and relieved him not only confidence of his board of directors, who felt forced to exercise his functions themselves through committees or indl- vidua! members. Imagine any other big Institution under like conditions whose general manager because of his incom- petency had to be ghorn of authority, without which discipline is impossible. Would not a change in manager be im- perative as soon as his contract should expire? Would the stockholders of any large concern allow the directors to Jeopardize Its success by retaining a general superintendent or manager who lacked the necessary executive ability and was unable to command the respect of subordinates or superiors? This 18 precisely the handicap under which the public schools of Omaha have been administered for several years past and under which they will con- tinue to be weighted down until a com- petent educator is placed at the helm as superintendent. e——— The attorneys of the Burlington road have filed a labored plea {n support of the action of the state board of rail- road assessors with the supreme court as friends of the court. A few weeks ago the attorneys of the same road made a labored plea before the state board against an increase of its assessment as friends of the board, and after the board had acceded to their request not to as- sess the franchises and sought to justify thelr actlon In its answer In the tax case, the attorneys who appeared in be- half of the Burlington prevalled on the board to contradict itself in an amended answer. It would seem that these at- torneys can play friends of the board one week and friends of the court the next week without winking an eye, but the people who see through this game of shuttlecock and battledore are not so easily humbugged. The next house of representatives will include twenty-nine more members than the present house as the result of the new apportionment bill passed in con- formity with the census of 1900, and in this additional representation republi- cans are expected to get the bigger share. If the representation were strictly ac- cording to the constitutional provision, that reduces the number of congressmen wherever a state discriminates on race or color lines, the southern representa- tion would be greatly reduced and the republican prepondergnce increased. The only hope of democratic control rests on fraudulent representation for the dis- franchised negroes of the south. The most serlous grievance growing out of the action of the county board rajsing the assessments of the South Omaha stock yards and packing houses belongs to the assessor of the packing house district. If this keeps up, the position of assessor will no longer be deemed more important in the election there than the presidency, as was the case in the election of 1900, According to State BSuperintendent Fowler, the demand for experienced school teachers in Nebraska is greater than the supply. That may be a counted for by the surplus of ste- nographers graduated by commercial col- leges which award diplomas in three months while normal schools require three years training. Er—— Elements of a Ginch. ‘Washington Post. ‘With a Mickey in Nebraska and a Me- Jimsey in Missour! it does look ae if the re- publican hold on the Irish vote is as secure as ever. Affiiction Doubled Up. Baltimore American. Unfortunately the canceling of the corona- tion preparations cannot reach the corona- tlon poetry or the anxlous British public might have been spared one pang the more. A One-Sided Affair. According to Admiral Dewey the capture of Man{la must have been something flerce, since the Spaniards were not permitted to fire on the Americans under the rules of the game. The Man the People Like. New York Commerclal Advertiser, The American people Iike the Roosevelt way of doing things, however much pain that way may give to that ndomitable little band of critics who fear that he will go wrong unless they chide him from time to time. The people like & man with blood and human sympathy in him, who etands by bis friends and hits back vigorously when they are unjustly assailed. Conscientions Mr. Bryau. Portland Oregonian A characteristic bit of Bryanism is the latter's recent reference to the trusts. Cleveland did less, he says, than Knox has done. But why Knox? Why not eay Roose- velt? Why, that would recognize some good in the man who may be running for presi- dent in 1904! Cleveland is to be condemned for his administration's inaction, but any good this administration has done must be credited to Knox. Great man, this Bryan! 8o just, 8o careful, so consclentious! New York Tribune. “Endless chain” frauds are missing links in various parts of the country, as the Postofice department in Washington has been taking vigorous action against the boldest of these audacious swindles. In cities and towns not a few prosecutions of dishonest bucket shops have been carried on effectively. All these efforts to protect the unwary and simple-minded are com- mendable and ought to be encouraged by every bonest citl Baltimore American. The accusation that there were politics and bad management in the distribution of of the functions, but also of the responsi- bility of his position. To all intents ‘the raflroads are so strenuous in their ‘efforts to head off'the fight in Nebraska, #0 they may use their success here lever in other states. — - ——— Mr. Bryan's mton_:en\ that no invita- tion to the Tilden club banquet ever reached him is met with the production of pustoffice receipts for the registered letter contalping the invitation. The question, however, is not important. Mr, Bryan, even had he recelved the invita- tion in due -time, would not have at- tended any weeting at which Grover ‘Clevglantd and David B, Hill were ad- vertised 1o be the star performers. and purposes, therefore, Superintendent Pearse is treated as a figurehead rather than as the general manager of the public school system. The upshot is that for all practical purposes his serv- jces might as well be dispensed with. In other words, with a superintendent who lacks the essential gqualification and does not enjoy the full confidence of. the board, the office becomes a sine- cuge that might as well be abolished. The damaging effect of this state of affairs upon the educational systew can be scarcely overestimated. Imagine, if such & thing could be, a general man- ager of a railroad who did not enjoy the the Martinique relief funds was to be ex- pected. With the generous showing made by buman nature on occasions of great dlsasters there 1 ally more or less of its worse phase The story is & tamiliar one, and as long as human nature is mixed in its good and evil impulses it will be repeated. The good in the end, however, generally outweighs the bad. Dog in the Manger Folley. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. Bryan, of course, was wise in refusing the Nebraska fusion nomination for gov- ernor. He knew his party would be de- feated in any case and a defeat for him at the head of the state ticket would hit his prestige pretty hard. The fact, however, that both elements of the coalition wanted Bryan to accept and the further fact that ‘the conventions of the democracy and the popullsts i Kansas were everwhelmingly Bryanite In sentiment show a llt\ll(lnn{ which will give some trouble to the re- organizers. Bryan will never be president, but he can and will throw obstacles In the way of any antl-Bryan democrat whe at- tempts to reach that office in the next few years. Umbre Philadelphia Ledger. The steel frame umbrella is light, com- venient and much less clumsy than its pred- ecessor with a wooden shaft; but there 18 an element of danger in it. A woman at Atlantic City, a day or two ago, was struck by a bolt of lightning attracted by the metalllc frame of her umbrella, and men have been Killed by inadvertently letting the steel points of their umbrellas come in contact with low-hanging electric lights. Such cases are not numerous, but they have occurred d as the season of thunder storms has now begun, it is well to exer- cise gome care in carrying umbrellas epuip- ped with steel rod Rods. Product of Small Colleges. United States Investor. Golng back into past times in our own country, and reverting to colleges not Cath- olic, when the old manly training vyet swayed the minde of all good educators, we know well that modest colleges of mean exterior and scanty means sent forth the men who made the nation what it ja, and it may be sald here, too, that the land would not be what it is today if these men had been moulded on some groping elec- tive system. They would not have had the clear range of intellectual vision, the com- prehensive grasp to do what they did, and it is due to the old-time system now 8o much maligned as antique that we owe the best elements of our citizenship. CURIOUS “SENSE OF HONOR.” How the Span Manila Arranged the Surrender. Chicago Chronicle. In Admiral Dewey's testimony before the senate Philippine committee he exposed a pecullar view of the Spanish ‘“sense of honor.” His description of the circum- stances under which he occupled the city and forts of Manila is plcturesque. He sald that the Spaniards were afrald of surrendering to the Filipino forces under Aguinaldo’'s command. They anticipated that such a surrender would lead to a gen- eral massacre. They arranged deliberately to deliver the city, fortifications and forces, numbering about 15,000 men, directly to Dewey, whose fleet commanded the entire water front. But the Spanish commander had a “sense of honor”" in the matter which he demanded should recelve consideration. Speaking of the surrender, Admiral Dewey sald: “That was all arranged and there was no need for the loss of a man in the capture of the city. It was to have been done at a signal and no gun need have been fired by us but for the desire of the governor gen- eral, who sald that his honor demanded that a few shots should be fired. So I had to fire and kill a few people.” To manufacture some spectral evidence that he had not surrendered without re- ceiving a shot, the Spanish commander de- manded that Admiral Dewey should fire at him a few times. Dewey consented, but stipulated that the Spaniard should not fire back, which might have endangered some American lives. This “sense of honor” in the Spaniard— the notlon that he could honorably sur- render without firing a gun after a few of his men had been killed—is like the French sense of honor which is satisfled in a duel when ‘“swords are crossed,” though with- out causing bloodshed, Such a ‘“‘sense of honor” is a very inoffensive national or personal characteristic. This I8 the “sense of honor’” which Fal- staff ridiculed. He says: “Honor pricks me on. Yea, but what if honor pricks me off when'I come on—how then? Can honor set a leg? no; or an arm? no; or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honor hath no skill in surgery, then? no. ‘What is honor? a word. What is the word honor? alr.” On this line of thought Falstafi's view of honor proceeds. It is evidently the kind of honor which the Spaniard desired to protect in his negotiations with Admiral Dewey for the surrender of Manila. TREATMENT OF JURORS, Novel Sult for Damages Instituted in New York City. New York Commercial Advertiser. The case of Mr. Manhelm Brown, one of the jurors in the Molineux trial two years ago, wiil deservedly recelve a very large share of public sympathy. Mr. Brown ls sulng the city for the sum of $60,000 be- cause of the Injury which he is alleged to havo sustained during the progress of that famous trial. He asserts that his health has been permanently shattered by reason of gross neglect on the part of the court officials to provide him with reasonable conveniences and proper care while he was serving as a juror, and that, although his physiclan certified to his condition, he was compelled to walk 1n the pouring rain and to suffer other exposures, as the result of Which he is now permanently unfitted for engaging In business or any other occupa- tion. He therefore demands such pecuniary compensation from the city as shall in- demnify him for the injury sald to have been dome bim by the negligence of the officials who were in charge of the jury of which Mr. Brown was a member. Agalnst this claim it 1s argued that Mr. Brown's jury service was a public duty, to which he, In common with all other citizens, was llable; that the state cannot be sued for damages because of injuries received while in its service, and that if such suits wer> possible there would be endless litinr- tion upon all sorts of pretexts, so that the whole jury system would fall into dis- repute. No doubt, from a strictly legal point of view, this argument Is & very strong one, and yet it does not whally satisty the di ates of common sense, mor indeed tus time-honored legal maxim that for every wrong there exists a remedy. It is true that every citizen {s bound to serve the state in the capacity of a juror when legally impanelled, but, on the other hand, there are some very special reasons why this service should not entall more physical and mental discomfort than is absolutely unavoidable from the mature of the service itself. The orderly and effclent adminis- tration of justice Is promoted by the co- operation of responsible and intelligent men in the jury box, and how can responsi- anxious to evade their duty when they know that they are likely to be treated al- most as though they were criminals, to have the most necessary conveniences de- nled {hem, and to be subjected to suci posure as may shatter their health and permanently incapacitate them for work? It 45 hard enough to have one’s business interrupted for weeks and possibly months, to sit day after day in tifting court room and to be practically & prisoner at all other times, yet these things are inevitable. ‘What is not inevitable or in any way ex- cusable is the neglect of sanitary condi- tions or brutal mdifference to physical suf- fering. Take a case such as the Mollneux trial, where the ordeal was one which lasted nine long weeks and where a human lite was at stake—how can & juror who is suffering from lllness, intensified by 11l treatment, be expected to follow with & clear mind the progress of the evidence and to give a verdict intelligently and without L LI ~ v LABOR IN THE MINES, Some of the Conditions Prevalent in R. D. Rhone in Review of Reviews, The employes in the 363 collleries of the anthracite coal reglon in the year 1900 num- bered 143,826. This s according to the Iatest report of the Bureau of Mines. The newspaper figures are somewhat in exeess. A breast is generally worked by four men—two miners and two laborers; each miner calls his partner his “butty;” the Iaborers are also “butties’ to each other. The miners have a contract with the operator to work the breast at a certain price per car, the miners to furnish tools and powder and to pay the laborers. It is their business to cut the coal, to direct the opening and advance of the breast and to prop the roof. No miner can be em- ployed who has not a certificate, in order to obtain which he must have had two years' oxperience as a laborer in the mines of the state and must be able to answer, before the mine examining board, at least twelve questions in the English language pertain- ing to the requirements of a practical miner, A miner's day's work is dome when he has cut emough coal to fill the cars as- signed him by the mine boss. He may do this In three or four hours, when he goes home to smoke his pipe and talk politics, leaving the laborers to load the cars and clean up the breast ready for the next day’ work. The miner likes his job—his place is cool in summer and warm in winter, the hours are short, the labor light and the ele- ment of danger is never calculated upon. It 18 upon the mine laborer that the hardest work falls, and he receives little more than half as much as the miner. Of the employes about ome-fourth are boys. The law forbids the employment of boys under the age of 14 inside or under 12 outside a mine. The boys inside drive and tend the mules which pull the coal cars and open and shut the many doors in the dark labyrinths. Outside they work in the breaker as slate pickers. A person of humane instincts cannot contemplate with calmness these children kept out of school and forced to such grim and tedlous work. In the great labor parades of 1900 large companies of these children marched through the streets; it was a hollday for them, and with the exuberance of child- hood, which even the hard conditions of their lives could not crush, they were shouting and whistling. They carried ban- ners, on which were inscribed sentiments like these: ““What our fathers were we will be also.” “Give our fathers justice and we can go to school.” “We need schooling but must work.” “Abolishment of the young slaves.” “Our mothers are up at 5 p. m. (slc) to get our scanty meals.” Those poor little banners, with their badly-spelled legends, were not ridiculous but touching, for they revealed a state of affairs that even dwellers In the coal re- glons are not accustomed to consider. The miner is the unit of the mine-labor question. The wage scale, fixed by the car, {8 the basis of payment. The other labor of a mine—the opening and timber- ing of gangways, the laying of tracks, the cutting of tunnels through rock—is known as “dead work,” and is pald for on a dif- ferent basis—by the day or by the yard. 1t is not considered mining at all. PERSONAL NOTES. Dewey still insists that he won the battle of Manila and successful dispute of his claim seems hopeless. The way the young king of Spain is be- baving toward his mother seems to show that the maternal slipper was not properly exercised In his earlier years. a candidate for governor on the democratic ticket of Minnesota, started five newspapers at St. Paul, four of which survived and are prosperou: A Brooklyn automobile carrying a party of merrymakers who were singing, *“Good Morning, Carrle, balked and tucked and finally blew up, spilling the occupants in the gutter. They ought to know it was loaded. The population of Philadelphia has in- creased 50 per cent In the last twenty years and the cost of municipal govern- ment 300 per cent, though the citizens do not seem to be getting any more for thelr money. A Massachusetts nurse claims to have disposed of thirty-one sickly men, to whom she administered coplus doses of pofson. Thus the proportion of males to females, already grieviously low, suffers a severe shrink Stockholders of the world's falr, 2,000 in number are promised a final dividend next fall. There is $480,000 in the treasury ready for distribution, but the managers of the fund, having held on for eight years, hate awfully to let go. A. Elzry Waters of Baltimore, who re- cently visited the king of Siam at Bangkok, has sent an {nvitation, through Dr. T. Heywood Hays, physician to the royal fam- ily, to have the crown prince of Siam pay bim a visit during his American tour. The season's novelty in the story line comes from Texas, where the sun was so hot N week that it boiled the wate: melons on the vines. This seems to con- firm General Sheridan’'s Impression of Texas, that E. would rather live in “the other place. Former Lieutenant Governor Jones of New York, long known as “Jones, he pays the freight,” has just finished novel of country life in New Hampshire. For se eral years he has beem practically blind, but has worked faithfully on his book, dic- tating to a stenographer. Boston will tolerate a great deal, but rigorously draws the line against reflec- tions on the dignity of its policemen. A Harvard student with money to burn called onme of the guardlans a “Cop” and pushed in the crown of his dolichoce phalic helmet. That was too much. It cost the student $50 to square himself. Senator Mason met Postmaster General Payne the other day and the latter sald: “Mr. Mason, I hear you have a presidential boom. T am now engaged in running down a rumor to that effect,”” sald the senator, “and If there's anything in it I shall know how to conduct myself. My wife and the cook have declared for me, I know, and there may be others.” A short time ago a representative of a temperance paper went to Washington and sought an interview with Speaker Hen- derson. He was In the chair at the time and could not see the caller, who sent in an inquiry as to who was responsible for the house restaurant. This reply was sent out ve the permit. David B. Henderson.” And now temperance papers attacking the speaker on the ground he runs a oon in the capitol. The no he sent out has been lithographed, t00, and s being circulated to enlarge this particular phase of the lowa man's infamy. Among those who shook hands with Grover Cleveland at the Tilden club dinner in New York was Frank H. Brooks, long & newspaper worker in this city. In the course of thelr brief chat Mr. Brooks said: “Mr. Cleveland, I owe to you the only political honor ever conferred upon me. You appointed me consul to Trieste, but for that position at the Then you ch: d the consul general at St. appointment to ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropol Oceastonally there comes to the average American citizen, who has no combine of bia own, & bunch of news which lends vitality to the bellef that greed works out its own destruction. The greedlest of modern combines, the American Ice com- pany, which doubled prices in New York last year, has overreached itaelf and begins to feel the pinch of poverty. Those rare June days, so cool, molst and depressing, played havoe with the income of the Ice trust, and for the first time in its odlous career It was obliged to pass the usual dividend on preferred atock. This fs taken to mean that the trust is on its last legs. “Ex-Senator Hill, in his Tilden club ad- spoke of political conditions this year as resembling those of 1882, when the democrats swept the state, the cor- respondent of the Philadelph! Ledger. “There are, indeed, certain points of re- semblance. The year preceding President Garfleld was assassinated, and was suc- ceeded in the presidency by a New York man, Chester A. Arthur, just as another New York man succeeded another Ohio president last ye Then, now, there was & republican governor and a repub- lican congress. The democratic party had long been out of power. Three years be- fore Tammany hall had bolted the sf ticket, and John Kelly ran as an independ- ent for governor. He was near the end of his leadership of Tammany. In like manner Richard Croker h retired from the leadership and Tammany is in & e of disorganization. But here the similarity ends. In 1882 the republican governor was defeated for renomination, under circum- stances which created a profound dissat] faction among republican voters. This year Governor Odell is to be remominated without opposition. In 1882 the star of Grover Cleveland rose in Buffalo. Just at the time that that of Samuel J. Tilden was gradually declining. Today no suc- cessor of Cleveland appears. No new star in the democratic firmament is ascending. There are dissensions in the republican party now, but not such deep a chasm as separated the stalwart and half-breed fac- tions in 1882. Then Cleveland was elected governor by nearly 200,000 plurality, but nobody belleves that it is possible for any Petersburg, but family reasons compelled me to decline again.” “Let me shake your band once more,” sald the ex-president. “Never before have I had the distinguished honor of shaking hands with a democrat who refused two offices.” such political revolution to take place this year.” The cost of government in the city of New York as compared with that of other American cities has been very clearly shown in diagrams prepared by the Merchants’ as- sociation. The outlay for maintenance and operation in 1900 of Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, Buffalo, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Pitt burg, New Orleans, Detroit and Milwaukee was $115,838,845, an average of $16 per capita of population. The outlay In New York was $108,673,277, an average of $31.62 per capita. Only one other city—Boston—cost per capita more than New York. The diagrams show that thirteen other cities maintain their police, their parks, thelr sewers, their streets, their lighting and their fire depart- ments at a far less cost than New York does, Another Astor hotel, to be named the St. Regls, i rising at Fifty-first street and Fifth avenue and is te outshine any hotel yet bullt in a city of palatial hotels. The furniture alone will cost $700,000 and the furnishings of a French chateau valugd at $200,000 is included in the bill. Through- out the house the main trim and furniture will be in Circassian walnut, together with vermillion and rosewoods and white and red mahogany and satinwood. This item Is $100,000 more. The trim of the rooms and the furniture will be of the eame woods. Every room in the building will be harmon- ized in color, in style, in tone and in gen- eral effect. On the second floor the state apartments, as they are called, will be furnished equal to any palace in Europe as far as rare woods are concerned. The style chosen is that of the period of Louis XV. The five rooms in the suite will cost for furniture alone $25,000 and the cost of furnishing the bedroom ie $8,000. On the first floor, where the restaurant, cafes, palm garden and office are to be, the ornamentation is in caen stone, in intricate patterns of high class carving. The palm garden will be furnished in Perslan style and the hangings will be se- lected fn Constantinople. Throughout the hotel the corridors will be finished in white marble, costing $260,000. Elevator ehafts and the entire basement and sub-basement occupled by the kitchens and the machine rooms are covered, 1 cluding ceilings, with white tiling, the cost of which enters into the thousands of dol- lars. In Belfast, Me., the linens for the St Regls will be made according to special d slgn. This item causes an expenditure of $60,000 and the silver, of American manutac- ture, near equals that sum. Royal Worcester crockery, also made of a special design in England, will be used. The bedding, exclusive of the linens, has been selected in the United States and is the finest manufactured. For the single expense of plumbing—all the baths are rooms de luxe, with large windows—the amount of $200,000 has been set aside. From the wine vaults and machinery room in the sub-basement to the seventeenth story the entire bullding will be an exhibi- part of millionaires that have more money than they know what to do with. The | fact of the matter is that the genius of the newer education begun to influ- ence even the millienaire, who had few chances for education himself and made his way up from poverty by sheer brute force, His endowments are his tribute to the gods of his lost opportunitios which are present before him the more clearly in the light of his great fnancial sucee In the broadening life of the community the man who has made & spesialty of business has come te approciate the great truth that money as an end in itself s not worth the effort, while as & means to an end it is worth anything the end itself is werth, It s net the millionaire who is making the new education, in spite of his lavish endowments, It is the new edueati the new educators who have been a newer type of the milllonaire, they will do Auring the next fifty years no man can say; but thers fs little that Is reasonable which they may not legitimately hope to do, if they will but eling to thelr 1deals. PLAIN-SPEAKING PRESIDENT. Mr. Roosevelt’'s Frankneas Com: Itself to Americans, Chicago News. Probably if President Roosevelt had been trained in the school of practical politics he would hesitate long before defending himself and his administration as frankly as he does in his public speeches. Other presidents have spoken publicly in defense of their party policles. Under personal criticism elther of themselves or of sub- ordinate administration officfals they usu- ally have deemed it wise to smart in ei- lence. But {f it 1s the part of good politics to ig- nore criticism it.1s not in Mr. Roosevelt's temperament or character to do so. His Memorial day address resolved itselt into a stirring defense of the army. In his ad- dress to the Harvard alumni the other day he took up the cudgel on behalf of General Wood, Becretary Root and Governor Taft and lustily belabored the critics who have passed censure upon those officials. In- cldentally he did not hesitate to imply that this nation has shown the traditional in- gratitude of republics. Great Britain's pub- llo servants, its Cromers and Kitcheners, when they return from forelgn service well performed receive large and tangible re- wards. Our men of that stamp, sald the president “come back to the country and it they can find of the strings left leose when they sundered their old connections and it they are unfortunate they are accused o maladversion in office.” This is a kind of plain speaking which the American public h: not been trained to expect from its presidents. In the oppor- tunity it affords for criticism from oppos- ing partisans it is in the last degree im- politic. Yet it is certain that the avera American will approve of the presiden vigorous defense of the men who have served with him and whom he likes. WHITTLED TO A POINT. ‘Washington Star: awful row in that group of politiclans?” “I don't know. But I should surmte that one of them had gotten up and s gested a scheme for harmony.’ Vhat started the Philadelphia Press: ‘‘What we need most in this country,” said the political re- former, “is an honest count. “They aln't no uch thing," declared Mr. Nurltch. “I know all about ‘em, for my daughter married one. New York Sun: Vl'lfe—Well. has Bone and it's your fault. d—Mine! “Wh “ghe ‘sald you didn’t tren her any bet- ter than you treated m Cleveland Plain D “T see if 18 ‘re- Dorted that Mr. Bryan has a large block Of stock In a new alrbrake comp “L suppose he thinks it's Folng o make back platforms safer.” Ohlo State Journal: “How does it coms ou resigned your position as office boy nquired the gentleman of little Jimmie, “dldn’t you like your employe “Ves.” Teplied Jimmie, 1 liked him well enuf, but I didn't like th' brand uv seegars he smokes. Detroft Free Press: ‘A couple were mar- ried in 8t Louls the other day who couldn’t understand each others’ language,’” sald Mrs. Gilley. “And 1 suppose that they are unspeak- ably happy,” commented Mr. Gilley. Puck: When, the good old man saw stx large boys hammering one Within_an tnch of his life his curlosity was %lquo “Why do you do this?" he asked. “Because he takes medicine for 10 cents when the union scale is 15 cents,” ex- plained the large boys courteously. the cook Post Is this where you make asked the Iittle man ‘at whose elbow ood an sggressive looking_woma “Thi the riage license bureau,' answe nd |he ml.n behind the desk. “That's what I meant,” sald the lttle heulilhed and reached into his r 2. Ch troubl A PATERNAL CAROL. J. J. Montague fn Portland Oregonian. I know a sour feller who says life is full ain't found outside o' senti- o1 Thnl all the rid's a wilderness, shinin’ through the gloom, Is nothin: but the feeble lamps that lights s to the tomb; only (ooll is' cheerful, an’ the plague an’ human kind Is gmilin, jokin' fellers, that is light o heart an' mind, He nuyu (n all his dreary life he never tion structure as regards its magnificence. THE MODERN MILLIONAIRE, of th Newer Education otizing the Wealthy. Detroit Free Press. “Wisdom hath her excesses which de- mand restraint, no less than folly,” sald wise old Montaigne. Education, too, has its excesses, no less than ignorance, and it was these excesses which President Angell selected as the theme for his baccalau- reate sermon to the graduating class of the University of Michigan. The excess of Genlus Hy) overspecialization, the excess of commer- clalism, the excess of political Brahmin- {sm, the excess of soclal Brahminsim, the excess of materiallsm. to be .insisted on because of the different relation that the higher educa- tion had come to assume to soclety. There was never another time, at least since the days of Athens, when the educated m touched the life of his community at so mwany points. He is no longer a recluse, content to be merely & scholar, satisfled with his tub if the Alexanders will only keep out of his light. He is everywhere that men go; in the mines, in the facto- ries, ig the counting rooms, In the lahora- torles, on the farm, and at the caucuses, as well as In the pulpit and on the bench, and in the professor's chair. Instead of being a man who bolds himself beyond the daily life of his fellow men, he is an fou An‘'he don't % ihk that none extsts—but he ain't got no boy! 1 knowmlnothtrhf!ller who says life ain't The game ain't worth the candle, an' the lamp ain’'t worth the fle; That men just tolls an’' worries on, till by-and-by they dies, An'_only one in nmuuna- draws a half- way decent prize. He's worked, he says, for years an' years, an’ still is workin' more, An’_all the things he ever ses ain't half worth workin' for. He 3ay# that we're just gropin’ in a blindin’, roarin’ whirl, Without a hope of Just reward—but he Bot no girl An lllll another feller says that married fe's a snare, A drhln ' manly men to drink, an’ cowards in't pair That i1t means is doublin’ up already heavy loads, An’ startin’ out for heaven on two widely forkin' roads, That no two people ever could go yoked fur years and years Without the man a cussin’ an' the woman bathed in tears. He says that when & man is wed the worst lite begins, An' youngsters onl ain't got no twin: ake it worse—but he Turning Gray? Why not have the early, dark, rich color restored? It’s easily done with Ayer’s integral part of the herd, whether it be vulgar or exalted. A few decades ago the college man the exception. Now he snd his fellows are to be counted by the tens of thousands. His numbers are in- creasing llke Jacol flocks. He s doing the world’s work, and doing it as it was never done before, and it is evident that his ideals and his aspirations and hs am- bitions are to exercise a greater influence than ever before in shaping the existence of soclety. They are already baving their effect. The wagnificent endowments that a being made annually for purposes of edu- cation are not the result of & suddenly concelved spirit of philanthropy on the Hair Vigor. Nearly every- body uses it. Ask your own friends. Probably they know how it always restores color, checks falling, and keeps the hair rich and glossy. “‘I have used Ayer’s Hair Vigor and have found it l":en um’: It checked nn falling of m h,lr when all other "“‘M Mn. G. A. Morrison, n Me. S A gt 3. . AT G0, Lowelt e,