Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 22, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DALY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. [ — PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, afly Bee (without Sanday), One Year. aily Bee and l!undn‘, One 'Y ea llustrated Bee, One Yei H Bunday Bee, Ohe Year Baturday Bee, One Year Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. aily Bee (without Sunday), per copy 2 y Bee (without sunday), per week....13c Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week..1ic junaay Bee, per copy . [ vening Beé (without Bunday), per week.1ve Evening HBee (nciuding sunaay), per week oo . 16e Complatnts of irregulari in delivery should be addressed to vity Circulation Department. rrewed 82=FS8 OFFICE Omaha—The Bee Buliding. Bouth Omaha—City Hall Building, Twen- ty-fifth and M Btree ‘Council Blufts—10 Pear] Street. Chicago—iok Unity Building. New York—Temple Court. Washington—501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Gommunications relaflag 1o pewe and edit matter showld be addr Omana Bee, Lditorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS, Business letters and remittanc be addressed: The lee Fubiishing pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. s Remit by draft, express or postal order, 2 Ahe ‘ee Publianing Company. epled in_payment of ma checks, except on Omaba or eastern exchanges, Dot acoep THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Neprasks, Douglas Cousty, se. . Tzschuck, secretary of 1 PubishnE Company, beins ouly e orny says that the actual number ol full an: complete coples of The Dally, Morning, Xvening and Bunday lee printed during the month of June, 192, tollows: 41 Less unsold and remmod eoplu Net total sales Nét dally Iv.rm Bubscribed in my before me this 3th (Beal.) B. TZSCHUCK. ; (5« lnd lwom to une, b TNt AT Notary Pubile. m— e e ‘When it comes to Panama hat stories ~Qur Dave wins out by a hat. The lst of original forty-niners is being slowly but surely extinguished. The annual June rise of the Missour! seems to have hung on this year till July. Between base ball fans and golf fiends Omaha has again gotten on the sporting map. Sl ————— ‘Water-soaked corn is all right, but the soaking should not take place until the corn juice is ripe for extraction. —————— “It's cool in Colorade” reads the sign- board. But there has been no serious complaint with Nebraska so far. > ——— That death-dealing storm in Baltimore will require a revision of the assertion that tornadoes always steer clear of large cities. ” The Invasion of the Black Hills under Ak-Sar-Ben the Great will surely achleve a place in history alongside of Hannibal’s Invasion of Italy. Chicago police are boasting that they have caught -an lce-box burglar, They neglect to say, however, whether he stole the ice or only the food contents of the ice chest. An Omaha pastor suggests that work is the best rellef from sorrow. Good hard work is also the best remedy from most other human s that have not im- palred the capacity for work. Reorganization of the asphalt trust ls sald to be under way. When the plan 1s executed Omaha will be permitted to contribute to the support of its inflated bond issues and watered stock. E— Former Senator Pettigrew has finally come to the sage conclusion that free silyer is a dead issue. Unfortunately for Pettigrew he himself became a dead issue politically before he made this discovery. Since when has Deputy County Attor- ney Duun become the keeper of the pub- lic consclence? Did he assume that function at the time he declined to tes- tify in a gambling case because he might by so doing criminate himself? S—— A little brief authority swells some people's heads most awfully. That is evidently the affiiction of the frothing blatherskite, who has been temporarily thrust from obscurity into the tremen- dous position of deputy county attorney. —— Bulletins from the physiclans of King Edward are now coming only at inter- vals of three days. As long as they are all favorable that will probably be often enough. Should there be a turn for the worse the public would insist on more frequent information. Advance agents are billing the new Chinese minister to the United States as a clever man, fully competent to suc- ceed the out-going minister, Mr. Wu, If China has an unlimited supply of officlals as clever as Minister Wu there can be no need of outside assistance to civilize the flowery kingdom. Em————————— No stagnation In the bullding trades is visible in Omaba. On the contrary, steady activity is belng displayed in the erection of mew dwellings and store bulldings of woderate pretensions, al, though no great imposing edifice is un- der construction. The completion of the federal buflding and the erection of the mew Unlon Pacific shops are the notdble Items In the current bullding record, but when the footings are made RESPECTABLE LAND NRARKS. If The Omaha Bee desired to set the truth lof agency eomditions wnd Indian Affairs in this county before its readers, why does it not send a man here to In- vestigate who will seek information from our representative citizens instead of from bootleggers and disgruntied politicians who have axes to grind In defaming the agent and leading citizens of our county.—Pender Republic. The Bee has no desire or disposition to misrepresent either the agency condi- tions or the conditions of the Indians or Wwhite men at or near the Omaha and ‘Winnebago reservations, nor has it any political ends to subserve or personal malice to gratify in defaming the agent or any citizen of Thurston county. When it despatched a special representative from its reportorial staff to investigate the conditions at the agency two months ago, he was instructed to make a pains- taking and impartial inquiry without whitewashing or blackwashing anyone. He may have conferred with bootleggers and disgruntled politiclans as well as with representative citizens, but the facts he gathered are damaging and scandalous, It is deplorable but nevertheless true that representative citizens of Thurston county nearly all belong to that class that belleves a dead Indian is & good Indlan after he has been plucked, and that anything that can be gotten out of the Indian by fair means or foul means is perfectly legitimate. In this respect the representative citizens of Thurston county are much like representative citl- zens of Omaha twenty-five years ago, who were willing to share the plunder of a lottery gambler by the name of Pattee, who was very dberal with his money and was willing to distribute it to representative citizens so long as he was let alone and his swindling gift en- terprises tolerated by the community. A sample brick of the methods where “representative citizens” are interested in Indian land speculation has just been furnished by decidedly more respectable citizens of the same county to Speclal Agent Ruby relative to the purchase of Omaha reservation lands last spring. The following extract from the affidavit of Thomas Huston will suffice: I am a resident of Thurston county, in the state of Nebr: Am acquainted with the value of real estate in the neighbor- hood In which I reside. The land above d scribed (description) was, on the 24th day of May last, reasonably worth $45 per acre. I was In O'Nelll, Neb., on’$e 24th day of May, 1902. I went there for the purpose of attending th lo of the above, deseribed lands, together with othier lands' known as the Omaba Indian lands. There I found a combination to control sald sale. The per- #ons in sald combination, as near as I could learn, were Nick Frits, Matthias Williams, John McKeagan, Willlam Tigh and Mr. Bonderson. They invited the persoms pros- ent, who intended to bid on any of said lands, to attend a meeting at the office of one John A. Harmon, an attorney-at-law, which I attended. At this meeting there were twenty or more prospective purchas- ers present. The managers of this meeting stated publicly that there was no chance for any of us to attempt to bld and any of this land; that they had everything fixed so that we could not get it. The managers them offered to pay each one present, who had come there to bid, a sum out of a fund that was then and there raised by sald managers and put into the hands of one A. West for disbursement of sald sum. Sald sum, being $2,150, was in our presence pald over to sald West and was afterwards paid by sald West to the persons present in consideration that they refrain from bidding at sald sal 1 ac- cepted what was allotted to me, which was $160, belleving that the combination was such that I could have no opportunity to bid. If I had had an opportunity to bid I would bave paild $45 per acre for the elghty acres above described. Stmilar afidavits were made by R. A. Downs and James I. Seymour of Pen- der, each of whom had received bonuses for refusing to bid on the Omaha reser- vation lands, which were sold at $18 per acre to the conspirators when they could have sold readily to responsible, respect- able citizens for $45. If there is any difference between this bold and villainous conspiracy to rob the Indians in the downright purchase of their lands and the leasing of 40,000 or 50,000 acres of lands at from 50 cents to §1 per acre, for which sub-lessees pay from $2 to $3 per acre, we fall to com- prehend it.” If an agent could allow the sale of $45 Indian lands for §18 an acre to stand without sounding an alarm, how can he be defamed by being de- nounced as a fraud ln collusion with frauds? gn THE RUSS1AN PROPOSA L. ‘The proposal of the Russian govern- ment for an international conference to deal with the course of the trusts, or in- dustrial combinations, In selling their products cheaper abroad than in their own markets, has naturally attracted a great deal of attention. We have al- ready commented upon the suggestion and we note that the opinion of it ex- pressed by this paper is very generally entertained. That is, the idea of the Russian government that some interna- tional agreement may be effected which will prevent the combinations from sell- ing their products im foreign markets cheaper than they do in the home mar- kets Is utterly impracticable, a fact which ought to have been so obvious to the Russian finance minister, who is generally regarded a mi of more than ordinary sagacity, that it seems somewhat remarkable that he should have made such a suggestion. However, there is a phase of the mat- ter which is of peculiar interest to the United States, as poiuted out in Wash- ington dispatches. This is that the pro- poséd international anti-trust confer- ence, which this country has not been asked to participate ln, will if convened result in a discussion of a tariff system necessary for the protection of Europe agalnst American commercial competi- tion. The fact that the United States is the leading country in the world in the formation of at Industrial com- binations and that these have hit Europe, lncluding Russia, hard and are still waking themselves felt there, nat- urally creates the opinlon that the Rus- sian proposition for an International trust conference has speclal reference 1t will be found that the large number of smaller houses make a really lmpres- sive showing. to & European customs union against the United States. In other words, it lh @ revival o & somewhat changed THE OMAHA' DATLY BEE: TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1902. form of the suggestions that have ema- nated at intervals for the last two or three years from officlal and other sources in Burope In favor of some sort of concerted action on the part of the several governments for putting a check upon the aggressive American competition not only In the European markets, but in all neutral markets. It remains to be seen how the Euro- pean governments will regard the Rus- slan proposition, but we venture to think that it will not meet with any greater consideration than was accorded to those of a similar character which have preceded it. As we have here- tofore pointed out, there is no European government that will undertake to con- trol, the operations of its busipess in- stitutions in forelgn markets and it is needless to say that the United States would under no circumstances attempt to do this. The question of prices to be asked by manufacturers in the domestic or forelgn market is not a matter to be determined by government. If Rus- slan industries are being Injured by for- elgn competition, as seems to be the case, the policy of that government should be to increase its tariff. How far it will have to go In this direction 1o protect its Industries against outside competition it is impossible to say, but the plan it now proposes 18 manifestly hopeless. e—— A FEW PERTINENT QUESTIONS. In discussing the attempt of the county ‘attorney to secure a writ of mandamu$ to compel the chiefs of police of Omaha and South Omaha to sup- press gambling and other violations of the criminal code, The Bee propounded the following pertinent question: It Mr. Shields or his deputies know of any violation of the criminal code that can be established by sufficent proof to afford reasonable assurance of convietion, they would proceed in the regular way prescribed by la: they could swear out warrants and place them in the hands of the sheriff or his deputles, arrest the par- ties and proceed with their prosecution before the courts, without the aid or coun- of the mayor or chiefs of police of Omaha or South Omaha. To this specific question the rattle- brained chief deputy of the county at- torney makes the following answer over his name; Let me say to the gabbling “ring mas- ter” of the “‘machine’” that if we were in possession of proof of the commission of these offenses sufficient to secure convic- we would not be in court seeking a mus, ‘ If the police departments of two cities will perform their plain duty, we will soon be in possession of that evidence and the offenses complained of will'cease. That we may secure just such evidence {a the reason why these sults bave been commenced. This is decidedly cool and refreshing, even for mid-summer days. In what part of the statutes does the county at- torney's understudy find authority for ordering the chiefs of police around as it they were his errand boys? .Does the responsibility for enforcing law and order in Omaha and South Omaha rest on his broad shoulders? If he knows that the police officers of the two cities stand In with the criminal classes, why does he not call on the sheriff to enforce the law? Is it because the sheriff is a democrat and might hurt the feelings of democratic gamblers and keepers of lawless resorts by arresting them? Is not his mountebank crusade a palpable attempt to make political capital in the impending campaign for the sham re- form ticket? Why did he not prosecute the gamblers and keepers of gambling devices who were indicted by the last grand jury? Why does he arraign the chief of police of Omaha for refusing to close sixteen disreputable houses against whom com- plaints were issued by a man who is notoriously the owner and agent for owners of this class of resorts? With the personal knowledge which the chief deputy professes to have of the char- acter of these places he must know also that the owners of these houses, as well as the keepets, are violators of the crim- inal code and subject to prosecution. In these cases special activity of the police is not needed to furnish proof, Why has the county attorney neg- lected and refused to do his duty by fillng complaints against the parties im- plicated? Why does he not proceed against all of them? Why confine his complaint to sixteen in the proscribed district? Is it because he does not want to offend the principal beneficlaries? Is it not about time for Mr. Shields and his mountebank deputies to drop the re- form masquerade? e THE ANTI-TRUST CRUS4DE. There s a good deal of talk among democrats ‘as to whether the action of the administration in regard to the trusts 18 really serfous, It is entirely natural that these opponents of the republican party should seek to make it appear that the efforts of President Roosevelt to enforce the existing law and his recommendation for additional legisla- tion looking to the regulation and super- vision of the great industrial ecorpora- tions are not sincere, but are designed simply to make politieal capital for the party in power. That is an attitude which it was to be expected the demo- crats would assume. But thoughtful men will make no mis- take as to the real situation. They will not fail to remember that it is the re- publican party which was the first to declare its opposition to the trusts and which put upon the federal statute books the only law looking to the control of trusts. It must never be forgotten that a democratic congress and admin- istration, absolutely committed as they were when they came into power against the trusts, failed to do anything not ounly to carry out the exlsting law, but hav- fng absolute control of the government, did nothing antagonlistic to the combina- tlons. On the contrary, it Is to be re- membered that that democratic congress was favorable to the Sugar trust and legislated in the interest of that combi- nation. The subserviency of democratic senators to the Sugar trust when the Wilsou tariff was pending is a matfer of history and it 1s idle for that party to now pretend that it is especially hostlile to that combination. Another fact illus- trative of the hypocrisy of the demo- crats In regard to the trust question is shown In the recent action of the Lou- isiana legislature. An anti-trust bill was introduced in that body, purely a political scheme, and when the demo- crats had consummated their purpose they defeated the measure. A leading New Orleans paper sald In reference to the measure that “it was nothing more nor less than a plece of political hypoe- risy Intended for its effect in the county parishes and which was never intended to get on the books.” This is simply characteristic of the whole course of the democratic party in regard to the trusts. From first to last that party has treated the question with reference simply to making political capital out of it and if it had control of the government today there I8 no reason to believe that It would do any different from what it did In the past. In a word, the democratic party has never had a practicable policy for dealing with the trust problem and it has none now that commends itself to the intelligent judgment of the Ameri- can people. Its only suggestion is one that would destroy American industries and Inflict immeasurable injury upon American labor, e=me— In an interview dropped on his way east, Colonel Willlam J. Bryan insists that “Imperialism is still the most im- portant question before the people,” but talking further he admits that it is a question depending on the course of the party in power “whether imperialism, the tariff evil, or the money question will be the paramount issue of the next campalgn.” Mr. Bryan and his friends bave great difficulty in keeping up with a paramount issue and the issues they feature successively as paramount have invariably failed to appeal to the pub- lic with the same force. If free silver was paramount in 1896 and imperialism in 1900, & new paramount issue will be needed for 1904 to make the cycle com- plete. SE—— If the situation with reference to the gold-beaters and their union is as rep- resented the strike they have inaugu- rated in Philadelphia ought to be what is known as a “lead pipe cinch.” If there are only 400 gold-beaters in the United States and every one of them a member of the unfon how can their employers successfully evade their rea- sonable demands? The new sultan of Zanzibar has been proclalmed and from all accounts the succession has been accomplished with- out indulging in elaborate coronation ceremonies. The sultan of Zanzibar evl- dently has a thing or two to learn in the royalty business. e No Honest Man Will Object. Troy Times. Commiesioner . f Pensions Ware's dec- laration that he,will administer his office on a basis of “‘cald evidence and cold law"” does him credit. No honest man should object to ft, A Prerogdtive Immemorial. Indianapalis News. There seems to be nothing new in that declsion of & St. Louls judge to the effect that & wife has a right to go through her husband’s pockefs. Certain things become laws without legislation. Preliminary Training for Senators. Philadelphia Ledger. There are six candidates for United States senator in South Carolina, but in any com- munity where & manship is more re- garded than chivalry, two of them would be retired on account of their conduct at a po- litical meeting on Saturda) The lle was passed, they tried to fight on the floor of the courtroom in which the meeting was held, and being prevented there, left with mutual threats to fight a duel. But in South Caro- lina this high-spirited action may cause thelr election to succeed the present sen- ators. Where Gra is Due. New York Commercial. Notwithstanding the sius of omission made by the first session of the Fifty- seventh congress, it holds the record for long sessions and in the number of bills introduced by the members. The number of bills presented was 15,368, lnst 14,339 in the first session of the last congress, which had exceeded any previous congress in its attempteéd legislation. It sat 150 days, against 139 days devoted by the Fifty- sixth congress to business, and passéd 1,484 bills, which is the largest number ever passed by a elmflar body. Had the fifteen thousand and more bills Introduced foumd their way to the statute books the public printer would have had a grand collection of books to add to the library of the nation. For saving us from such an infiiction we athering of law-making poli- ticlans sincere thanks at least. INFECTION THROUGH OLD CLOTHES, Gentle Warning to Those Who In- herit Cant-Off Wearing Apparel. American Medicine. The spread of leprosy in the Soudan and other arid regions s attributed to the custom of passing sofled wearing apparel from person to person. Owing to the scarcity of water, the oleansing of clothing 1s almost impossible and it is customary tor the original purchaser of new. clothing to wear the same until it becomes un- bearably dirty, when it 1s given or sold to some servant or person of lower station, by whom it 18 {n turn handed over to some one still more impoverished, and thus passes along the line to the beggar or slave. The daily calls of the old clothes man in our larger cities and the advertisements seen in the daily papers offering the highest prices for cast-off clothing, old feather beds, etc, remind us that more highly civilized communities are not free from the same source of infection—cast-off apparel. What guarantee has the public that the clothing purchased of the old clothes dealer has been properly disinfected? While it is impossible to trace the transmission of disease through cast-off clothing or second- hand bedding with the same certalnty that applios to the transmission of leprosy by similar means in the Soudan, it requires little medical knowledge to comprehend the dangers to which the poor are subjected by the unregulated trafic in sofled clothes, Bromidrosts and hyperhidrosis of the feet are affectipns of microblc origin and the very sight of Tows of cobbled-up old shoes at secondhand stores is certainly suggestive of stinking, sweaty feet; the discarded trousers of the wealthy rake and old feather beds certainly present lnnumerable possi- bilities of infection. If old clothing must be passed dowa the lime, let it st least be fumigated NOTES AND PERSONALS, An Ex-Senator at & CirCus| . i auwm s wmmere 10 Ex-Senator Willlam V. Allen in Madison Mail We had four tickets for Taylor's eircus which had fallen to us as our share from the foreman, who declared on hie corporal oath that he had made an éven division. We proudly announced our own- ership of these tickets at the supper table, but no one seemed to pay any attention to the statement or to rejoice in our good luck. We ventured to ask our venerable mother-in-law if she would not like to ‘‘see the elephant go round and round,” but she gave a look of reproval which settled us, and we turned to our better half with as winning a smile as we could muster and “popped the question” to ber, but was In- formed “that the weather is a little too warm to attend a circus.” We then invited our 20-year-old daughter and was promptly turned down. Even the hired girl gave us the “mitten.” But, being a veteran and not easily discouraged and being fully de- termined to enjoy the cirous, we extended an invitation to our young friends, Mas- ters Ralph and Melvin Garrett and Charles Memminger, to form a party and with us drink in the beautles of the circus. They appreciated our lonely condition and our wild desire for amusement. Thelr spirits ‘were en rapport with eur own, they promptly accepted and at the appointed time we made our way to the olrous grounds. We were fltfl entertained by a Punch and Judy show in.front of the side-show tent;. but this did mot induce us to Invest in that performance. In due time the eir- cus tent opened d we crowded In, se- cured the highest seAt on the north side, ‘where there was good ventllation and a fair view of the ground upom which the ‘wonderful performance was to be given. After waiting for bhalf an hour the show began. It was mot a circus, but a spe- clalty ppridemance. There were exhibi- tions on the trapese, ground and lofty tumbling, Chinese jugglery, etc. They were all very good and we passed an en- joyable hour. After the show closed we walked home {n as delightful moonlight as mortal ever experienced and parted at a weasonuble hour with mutusl good wishes. Upon retiring we dreamed of circus per- formances, glided trappings and other at- tractive features of the row life of a oircus performer, hoping t we might be able to form dmother “box party” be- fore the seaton oloses and spend another enjoyable ‘hour. We thank our young friends for their woclety. THE CONGRESSIONAL OAMPAIGN. Lyons Sun: J. J. MoCarthy is the lad that the people of the “big” Third congressional district will take delight in eending to Washington. Stanton Picket: And now let every re- publican in the Third district take oft his coat for the election of McCarthy. Robinson ahould be beaten and he will be it every working republican does his utmost. Beatrice Express: It {s pretty near a sure thing that Hinshaw will be etected this fall. There is good reason to belleve that the republicans will make a clean sweep In Nebraska this year and give fusion & blow that it won't recover from in several years, . Wolbach Wave: Hon. Moses P. Kinkald, the nominee on the republican ticket for congress from the big Sixth, is a man who we are personally acquainted with and who we know to be a man who stands as a peer of any other man in the district. A vote for Kinkaid means a vote for good govern- ment. Ponca Journal: John 8. Robinson of Madison was renominated for congress by the fusioniste of the Third district in Tues- day’s convention at Columbus. This is was expected. Robinson couldn't well re- tuse the nomination, as long as no one else wanted“it. But it is very safe to predict that this district will be represented by another “John” in the mext session of con- gress and his last name isn't Robinson. Hildreth Telescope: The fusionists of this district have raised the cry of “election traud” against Judge Norrfs, the republican candldate for congress. This cry, however, based on an election controversy some time ago in the Fourteenth judiclal district, is Iable to prove a boomerang. Judge Welty, a well known populist, says of the charge: “I am a populist and am supporting the populist ticket, but my loyalty to my party does not go o far and to such an extent that I will assist in imputing a crime to one whom I belleve to be innocent.” Tecumseh Chieftaln: Whenever you meet & man from any part of the district and ask him concerning Hon. E. J. Burkett's ean- dldacy for ection to congress he will tell you: “Oh, they are all for.Burkett down our way.” The brainy young con- gressman from the First district has cer- tatoly won the favor of his:constituency to a marked degree, His recognition on im- portant committees of the house is an index of his standing in Washington, a recognition which he has compelied by his ability, in- tegrity and general grasp of national affairs. Will he be re-elected? By about 6,000 majority. Pender Republic: John §. Robinson was renominated for congress by the fusionists at Columbus on Tuesday. The populist convention first nominated R. A. Tawney of Plerce county, but finally had to yleld submissively to the democrats, who insisted on elick John S. That is the democratic play this year—the nominees for &ll the good offices are to be democrats or they will go it alone. The populists are gradu- ally succumbing to their fate—becoming democrats or leaving the party to join the republicans. It Wil take republican votes this fall to elect the congressman from this district and J. J. McCarthy will get every one of them and many pops and democrats and § red of an election. Ohlowan: The nomination of Hinshaw for congressman from the Fourth strikes terror to the heart of fusion. True, he was a candidate before, but it was at a time when general discontent prevailed and the allled forces of reform, the enemies of hon- est government, still rallled to the slogan of distress and refused to admit that pros- perity had come to stay. Hard times ls Bo longer an issue in Nebraska. The farm- ers no longer clamor for leglslation to raise the value of beef and pork or improve the graln market. There is-now no demand for rellet legislation, but there s no less need of wise statesmanship In congress. Fill- more county republicans did not succeed in securing the nomination of their candi- date, but they have no doubt of the ability and fituess of Hinshaw, nor will any effort be spared to elect him. Columbus Edict: In renominating John S. Robinson the fusionists have named their man for khe political sacrifice. If all the countles in the Third district were like Platte there would be but little use in republicans naming a candidate, but Platte is about the only county left to the un- disputed reign of Bryanism. Robinson's bome county has climbed up the tree of political wisdom and is now among the faithful republican counties. Two terms would seem to mean retiring Robinson it the sentiments of the last election can have a bearing upon the sentiment today. ~No democrat can expect to be of much service to his district when the natlonal govern- ment is republican. Robinson may be able to do this dlstrict a great deal of good should the timé ever come that brought with it a democratic president, but as matters stand now, he can do no more for the dis- trict than ‘any private citizen. Hot Weather Hints. New York World Hot-weather common eense is agaln order. our people has within the last few years been adapted to the tropical conditions in which we must live for two or three months. Ratlonal people have learned also to modity their dlet and their drinking with some regard to the thermometer. Some men who would think it a crazy per- formance to feed a furnace fire in July do not see the folly of “stoking their sys- tems with heat-producing red meats and flery wines and liquors. A large part of the suffering and mortality during the heated term is due to errors of diet. Next to these the “rush” babit is to be avolded. Start a little earller or arrive a little later, but dou't hurry in hot weather. in Why Ceres Louls Globe-Democrat. s » smile when & & corn crop of 1 ™ Fortunately the summer garb of | Allr AXD NAVY TOPICS. p and 0.-0-1 ot In Friends of the Soldier. Krmy and Navy Register. There has been nothing more important in a long time among the general orders trom the headquarters of the army than the order relating to rifie compe- titions. The resumption of this work in the military gerylce at the home garrisons means that the former policy of training our soldiers in marksmanship h the approval and will receive the encourag ment_of the, present administration. It is whiolesome slgn, e it conveys the assufanos that our soldiers will be able to maintain the efficiency of the army as & body of crack rifiemen. The annual com- petitjons have been productive of much that was valuable. The results have been practical and of such importance that now that the army s returning from the Philip- pines it has been deemed advisable to take up this work again. The president has become tired of hear- ing of the requests for discharge made by some restless enlisted” men of the navy. Somie of these requests are made on very trivial grounds and plainly show that the men who make them have no better reason tor leaving the service than the Individual disinclination of staylng in it. The pres dent - has, therefore, decided that there must be the best of reasons before a dis- charge is hereafter granted and he desires that those who ¢ome Into the mavy and those who are there now will understand and appreciate the attitude of the authori- ties on this important question. Here ia his order on the subject: White House, Washington, No enlisted person in the the United States shall be dischar, from prior to the completion of his term of/ eniistment, except for one of the followin causes: Undesirabllity, inaptitude, physica or mental disability or unfitness. 'In every case the recommendation for such discharge must be made by the commanding officer of the vessel on which .the man may be serving, Applications for discharges which reach the department in any way except through the commandin shal Go officérs of vessels e, without exceptlon, disregarded 'ODQRE ROOSEVELT. 'l'hare 1= llnldy considerable speculation among officers of the army as to whe will recelve the appointment of brigadier gen- eral to fill the vacancy caused by the re- tirement on July 16 of Brigadier General Jacob H. Smith. . One opinion is that either Colonel Thomas Ward, assistant adjutant general, or Colonel Edward M. Hayes, Thir- teenth cavalry, will recelve the coveted star. It is sald that it Colonel Ward receives the appointment he will immediately retire. ‘There is a good deal of secrecy necessarily surrounding the negotiations pending be- tween the representatives of this govern- ment and the holy see respecting the with- drawal of the friars from the Philippines and the digposition of their lands. The mat- ter does not seem to lend itself to prompt settlement, however amicable may be the effort to the greatly desired end. The papal representatives appear to be furnishing an obstructive argument against the adoption of the plan furnished Governor Taft wh he feft Washington for Rdme some weel ago, During the presept wedk Mr, Root has had occaslon to go to the summer home of the president and consult with Mr. Roos velt respecting the most recent aspect of the friar question. There is & growing sus- plelon, which may or may mnot be justified by the circumstances, the administra tion finds its proposition {s not received without question at the vatican. Of cours the partisan critics of the pre | secretary of war .are very eager to & upon the admiuistration and it would give them the keenest joy to learn that the president and the secretary have falled in the effort at Rome. It must be admitted that the friar question has a tickifsh po- litical side to it to the extent that it might in the hands of clever political agitators have a religlous significance, which tn real- 1ty it need not involve, The Philippine islands seem to be a land of bugs. Most of the pestiferous in- sects invade places ordinarily exempt from thelr intrusion and much complaint 1s made by sensitive people in the island on account of this visitation, which seems to afford a rare opportunity for the ento- mologist. The bugs seem to rival the Pittsburg pickle in variety, at least. The most annoying of the insects, not merely because of its attack, but on account of its shrill, ceaseléss song. There seems to be 'no way by which the inhabitants can be protected from this pest. It is prob- able that the sufferers in the islands will be able to extract some comfort over the success of the campalgn in Cuba and e led to hope that another effective wai fare will be waged upon the mosquitoes in our Pacifie possessions. But we do not have to go to the PhMippine fislands for discomforts of this kind. A correspondent at Fort St. Philip, La., gives a sprightly account of the situation at that post. | There doesn't seem to be much else than mosquitoes in the air and snakes, alliga- tors and nolsy frogs in the nelghboring swamps: Our correspondent says everyone at Fort Bt. Phillp s secure against an invading army, which would be bound to be broken in health, spirit and eMeiency it it survived the onslaught of mosquitoesy which have tho growth of the fiy and the deadly pertinacity of the , Ob, Where Can He Bet Utfea Press They say there is & county in the state of Texas where it has not rained for three Wh years. That statement will tend to ele- vate Texas In the opinion of central New Yorkers. If a part of that county could be brought here for a little while, just for a change, it would be very agreeable. It 1t keeps raining elsewhere as it has been doing for the last fow months that particu- 1ar county is lkely to become populous. the | make a party call upon the New York chamber, The London Express says that ex-Queen Nathalle of Servia f4 about to take the veil as a nun, Royalties are being pald to Lord Kelvin on no fewer than fourteen of his patent ap- pliances which have been fitted on board the latest Japanese warship. Dr. N C. Morse, president of the lowa Assoclation of Rallway Surgeons, is 1a to be the heaviest physiclan in Amerios, welging 325 pounds. John Philip Sousa has sent King Bdward & copy of his march, “Imperial Edward,” beautifully {lluminated upon vellum in an- tique * fashion and enclosed in a gold- mounted morocco case. Gabriel Harrison of Sterling place, Brooklyn, retired actor and teacher of elo- cution, aged 85, used to run errands for Aaron Burr and is belleved to be the last surviving close acquaintance of that former vice president, After much careful study and two trips to the polar reglons Louts Lindsay Dyohe, professor of natural history at the Kansas university, has arrived at the conclusion that the first human belngs were born and lived In the Arctic mzone. Btate Senator J. Henry Cochran of Wil- Mameport, Pa., has achieved a unique dis- tinction. He has proposed to the councll of that olty to pave one of the streets at his own expense and he has no personal or pecuniary interest in the partiocular pave- ment to be laid. Representative W. Alden Smith of Michl- says that one of his constituents who had been living on a dlet of egg and sherry was asked by his physician how he llked it. “It would be all right, doctor,” he replied, “if the egg Were as new the sherry and the sherry as old as the egg.” The announcement that King Oscar of Sweden 15 writing his memoirs hardly comes as a surprise, for the reason that he has so frequently and o successfully ventured into literature that he might reasonably be expected to try his hand at state chronicles and personal reminisoences. Had the lady who lost $40,000 in an ele- vated rallway car in Chicago rewarded the guard who found it with a “thank you," the latter would have had no just cause for complaint. The property was not his, and it was only doing his duty to return it to its owner. But to pretend to pay for this honest service with 10 cents was adding & gratuitous insult. LINES TO A LAUGH. D troit ‘Free Press: “I shouldn’t think arbler would let his wife paint her face hu way." do the same thing, if I had to live with it all the time." Chicago Post: ‘‘Waeren't you embarrassed when he kissed you for the first time?"” “Oh, yes. It ‘was all 1 could do to not m hqu see that I had not been kissed Town Toplcs: Charlie (after acceptance) —Shall 1 l{ienk to yhur father now? Gladys—Mercy, né. Not to him. Charlie—Your mother, then? Glagdys—No, no. You must ask the cook 1¢ she Would object to one more in the family, Philadelphia Press ly, ) Stinjay, I don't like to ‘Ivs you all this money 'to carry around. You know the scien y that bacterta lurk in bank notes. ““That' mrh(." replied his 'lh‘ “I've been vaccinaty Detroit Free Preas: 's such a pleas- ure to talk to your wife! “Is it inquired Mr. Henpeck, thought- fully, *I've never had an opportunity to find out. She usually does ail the talking.’ Plfllhul‘, Chronicle: ‘““What is the train stopping for?" asked the Kentuckian of the passenger in the seat ahead. “For water,” replied the man spoken to. gad, suh,” replied the Kentuckian, 1t I had known' that, I should have remained at home, suh!’ Chicago Tribus Let me see," said old Gotrox to young Mainchantz, who had just sked for his daughter's hand, “didn’t [ verhear you referring to me the other night as ‘an old pirate? " “Well—er—you see, I didn't mean zncuy- I'm no pirate, but 1 am a sort of ooter. This (biff)y won't cost you a that PANAMA HAT OF OMAR, New York Sun. Before the lingering days of winter died Methought & voice inside the hatter's cried: “When all our summer stock is spread within Why stand the dubious purchasers out- side?” And Wh". they lingered one, who stood ore The wlndov, shouted; “Let me in the door! 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Extravagant it seems, hut have no fears, ow I can buy you more and better hats A Panama-like mine will last ten years. 1 often think I never looked so well As since I put me on this headgear swell, But, too, I wonder why those hatters Wear One half so costly as the stuff they sell. £ that Unolenm 1d, whose tender braia Dally on Broadway is" displayed— Ah! handle it full gently, for who knows In what fierce thunderstorm ‘twill come un- made? . n it not. that of the myriads who pas, the hatter's portals through Not one wiil tell the truth of what it cost, But multiplies the cost at least by two? Except when Ananias homeward goes The lum it costs then shrinks—it never B\lt nvver fet him think he's fooled his She kao'! about it sll—she knows, she Ant chilly autamn. awith they wind and rain Hastanot thy coming. Must I beg in vunf A nAnl two mont! 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