Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 15, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY . BEE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1902. g STATE DEBT AND DELINQUENT TAXFS. | it pleases. This fs the policy of the In several of its bulleting the rallroad | combine and it may succeed, bratal tax bureau has endeavored to convince | though it be. It is evident that the sit- the people of Nebraska that the state | uation is growing daily more serious debt, which now. exceeds $2,000,000 in | for the miners and thelr submission In spite of the constititional lintitation of | the near future seems more than prob- £100,000, is a miere fiofion, The tax |able. bureaucrats have repeatedly called at- ‘tention to the fact that the books of the &tate treasurer show a larger amount of Uelinquent taxes than would pay the entire state debt. 2 According to the latest bulletin the state debt on May 27, 1002, Is figured 1,010,009, while the delinquent taxes due to the state on the same day aggre gated $2,783,068. “If delinquent taxes were pald,” exclaim the tax bureau- crats, “there would be a surplus in the state treasury.” “Rallroads,” they add, “pay all legal taxes when due.” The word “legal” is the string by which the rallroad tax bureau seeks to excuse the systematic practice of the | rallroads to put off paying delinquent taxes for years under flimsy pretexts of illegality, After standing on the books for elght or ten years the rallroad tax agents usually come in with a propos!- tion for a compromise by 'which thelr delinquent taxes are scaled and large blocks repudiated. 2 This has been their practice not-in one county but in scores of counties traversed by Nebraska rallroads where penalties and interest have been exacted from farmers, merchants and home own- ers, while the rallroads were released THE OMAHA DAiLY BEE E, ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBH;;IED BVE&Y IRJRNI'I;O. i TERMS OF sU RIPTION. Bee (without 8 y), One Yea Jly bee and llndlq, e Yeal lustrated Bee, ~Yeur. Bunday Mee, Une Yéar, turday Hee, One entieth Century Far DELIVERED A GRATEFUL PEOPLE. It did not need the statement of Prince (Chen to assure the American people of the gratitude and friendship of the Chinese, but his testimony to this is pleasing. Referring to what the United States had done in behalf of China and to the continued friendly course of this country, he said it could not fall to draw the two nations closer and closer and expressed the desire for increased com- mercial Intercourse. Prince Chen's visit to the United States was brief, but it enabled him to get a fair idea of American' feeling toward his country and there is no doubt he will be found & good and useful friend to American Interests in China. The Chinese government might jus- tifiably find fault with the way in which the United States has discriminated against its people, but in all other re- spects the course of this government toward China has been so falr, honor- able and unselfish as to entitle the United States to the everlasting gratl- tude of that nation. More than to any other influence the preservation of the Chinese government and the security of its ‘territory are due to the friendly of- fices of and the just policy of the United States. That Is one of the most credit- able chapters in our history. All that Is asked in consideration is that China shall give us a fair fleld commercially and equal opportunities with other na- tions In its great markets. e————— DEALING WITH OUBA. The question of trade relations with Cuba I8 still receiving the earnest atten- tion of the administration, the president, according to reports, showing undimin- ished Interest in the matter. A treaty embodying reciprocal trade agreements is in process of negotiation and it is un- derstood that President Roosevelt con- templates the calling of a special session of the senate, perhaps in November, to act upon the treaty. It is suggested that much will depend on Cuba herself for the speedy ratification of such a conven- tion. It is thought that if the Cuban congress should take prompt actica the United States senate.will not long hesi- tate to ratify a treaty intended to re- lleve commercial distress in the new re- public. Thara ia not at present. hdwaver, any definite assurance that the necessary two-thirds majority for the ratification of a reciprocity treaty with Cuba can be obtalned. Five democratic votes will be required with the solid republican vote to ratify and it s by no means certain that these democratic votes can be se- cured. Nor 1s it by any means assured that all the republicans will approve a reciprocity. treaty. It Is true that some of those who opposed the policy at the y kvening Bee (without Sunday), Eyening Bee (noluding Sunda el Complaints of irregularities in delivery uld be addressed to City Circulation partment. OFFICES. The Bee Bulldi uth Omaha—City Hll'l‘l!ulldllll. Twen- ty-fifth and M Streets. Council Bluffs—10 Pearl Btreet. Chicago—isiy Unity Bullding. ww ‘ork—Temple Court. ‘ashington—b0l Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. o Communications relating to news and edi- g 1 tter sl ;ulfl be addressed: Omaha torial Department. . BUBINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee FPublishing Com- ‘pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit b; express or postal order, Bayavie 33 e ‘e “bublishing Company; 2~cent st Ilmtm in payment of accounts. erso! checks, except on o{rum uo!unfiu‘ not accepted. E PUBLISBHING' COMPANY. STATEMENT OF @IRCULATION. county, for'example, a so-called settle- ment was made only last winter with the Union Pacific, but the city treas- urer’s books still show that road to be delinquent in special taxes for over $30,000. The talk about paying the state debt by collecting in delinquent taxes s, however, & delusion and a snare. The $2,783/068 due the state on May 27 rep- resents in large part taxes for 1902 which have doubtless been pald by this time. It represents also more than $1,000,000 of taxes of which not 10 per cent can be collected by any process. It represents taxes on lands that have been washed into the Missouri river, on lots in paper towns incorporated during the territorial wildeat period amd the scores of towns built on the map then and since that never had any existence in fact. It represents thousands upon thousands of lots in towns that have been converted again into cornfields and would not sell for the taxes, although at one time or another they commanded speculative prices. It represents, more- over, taxes levied upon thousands of in- dividuals and firms that have become bankrupt, gone out of business, removed from the state or died insolvent. In other words, the delinquent taxes tary Pul e That drouth stricken section of Mex- ico might lay a pipe line to ‘waterlogged Texas. ——— Venezuela has to do something every « little while to remind the world that it i still on the map. Sm—— The reunion of the Army of the Phil- 1291555 comstituies a Driilant constella- willingness to give it their support, but others have given no. intimation of a change of position and it is reasonable to assume that they are yet opposed to reciprocity. It is but natural that those senators who have placed themselves strongly on record in the matter should be extremely reluctant to.depart from the attitude they have taken and an uncommonly strong pressure will be re- quired to induce them to do so. It is to be supposed that the declarations of republican conventions favorable to Cuban reciprocity will not be wholly without influence, but it is to be doubted ‘whether this will be sufficient to cause all the so-called “insurgents” to abandon opposition. As to the democrats, It is argued that when the plain proposition of relieving Cuba by a treaty that re- duces import duties on her products is presented none of them can refuse to vote for it, but there is no warrant for this view in the democratic position en the question at the last session. That party is opposed to reciprocity generally and its representatives in congress are not likely to make an exception in the case of Cuba. g Tk Thus the present aspect of the situa- tion does not look favorable for the rati- fication of & Cuban reciprocity treaty. There is no doubt that industrial and commercial conditions in the new re- public are pretty bad. It is said that there is & good deal of distress among the people and that the necessity for some rellef grows every day more urgent. So far as the proposed loan is concerned it is recelving no encourage- ment, capitalists regarding it with dis- favor because of inadequate or uncer- tain security. It is a trying experience for the young republic and certainly makes a very strong appeal for relief which only this country can give. empr——— Bvery time President Roosevelt re- celves a distinguished man among his dafly callers, the imaginative newspaper correspondents start. stories galore of intended changes in appointive places of high or low degree. Occasionally they hit it right, but nine times out of ten they simply indulge in wild guesses. President Roosevelt has the laudable babit of taking the public into his con- fidence on all public matters as soon as they are ready for the public informa- tion. The amusing guessing maich may be barmless, but it must be more an- noying to the victims than to the pres- dent. P CapE—— to Honolulu—e sugar and water mix- ture as it were. state debt out of taxes delinquent more than three years. The worst effect of the delusive teach- Ings of the rallroad tax bureau will manifest itself when the next legisla- ture comes to vote appropriations. It was the rallroad tax agents and attor- neys who persuaded the State Board of Equalization to cut down the levy for H g& £ i £ e i ik i i i | 2 & & g i i! § 4 E ¥ = =) 5 L 3 ge :}i ————————— DISTRESS IN THE 004L REGION. . | | Distress' in the anthracite coal reglon 1s reported. A dispatch from Shenan- doah states that many women and chil- dren have asked for food from the state militla quartered there and have been given whatever was left by the soldiers from their meals. The cooks for the militia have been instructed to save all eatables after every meal and to give them to the hungry women and chil- dren. It Is also reported that the strik- ‘ers have been foraging upon the farmers in the surrounding country and that the raids have reached such serious propor- tion that the farmers are préparing to take concerted action to stop further purchaser 'of Indian lands around ‘four ‘or’ five’ bours, how niuch muuwuwrbm 48 & Mathewsonmatical problem that ¢ i £ i : i £ £ fe i £ : abele q n ex- It is somewhat amusing, if not lu- «change for boulevards and parkways in- structive, to note how easily a sham re- *H“.memu. form organ can be thrown Into a cannip- Joy them, - B . tion fit at the idea of tolerated retail | S gambling by the sale of policy slips, but That veteran of the bench and . to the n are ary wen; but be last session have ‘since expressed a. would be commendable. The persist- ent hypocritical howl about one class of gambling while all other classes are glossed over will not arouse public sympathy. According to the World-Herald, the ma- chine was not smashed by Baldwin and Mercer after all, but only slightly de- ranged, with a few cogs out of gear, This is discomforting news to the re- form element, which expected Machine Orusher Broatch to deposit the rem- nants of the machine on the scrap plle. But it is one thing to handle bar iron, steel bars and bars ornamented with de- canters and mugs and quite another thing to buck & eoweatcher. If it should ‘eome to pass that the Omaha street raflway system becomes the property of the Seligman syndicate, the acting chairman of the new police commission will exhibit strong symp- toms of acute cramp colle, superinduced by an overdose of unripe watermelon. That New York syndicate is made up of the same group that Broatch stigmatized not many years ago as a “brace of grasping Jew bankers.” S ————— If Governor Gage of California tries to hide behind an exemption from re- sponsibility as governor in his confilet with a Ban Francieco newspaper op- ponent, he will raise a nice question of libel law. Under the ordinary concep- tion, a man occupying a high official position has a double duty devolving upon him to respect the rights of others and to obey the law as well as to en- force it ———————————— Henry Watterson declines point blank to permit his friends to use his name in connection with the democratic nomi- nation for governor of Kentucky. He wants It distinetly understood that Colonel Bryan is not the only democrat with self-assertion enough to refuse a nomination for governor—and what is more, the democratic nomination, in Kentucky is several degrees nearer elec- tion than in Nebraska. gty It 1= Up ' to William. Chicago Record-Herald. After his reference to “common Ameri- can clay” Emperor Willlam will have to do something pretty uice to keep up the brotherly. relations. There’s the Philadelphia Record. Doubtless the hard coal operators would be glad to mine coal, if only the certi- ficated miners would work. The steed is there by the water's edge; but who shall make him drink? ;) The Difterence in the Morning. Boston. Journal. Only the bora rises with the sun to enjoy the freshest and loveliest part of the day, which is between sunrise end 8 a. m. The casual or vacation. coun- tryman rises with the breakfast bell, which 1s generally rung at.the accommo- dating hour of 7:30, . The farmer rightly thinks that the urban visiter is fit only to take money from,.q: { The lead trust, one of the oldest and most, firmly entrenched monopolies in the United States, is to be still further ex- panded by the admission of the outside syndicate controlling the Bailey process of white lead manufacture.. This process, which accomplishes in a few days an amount of corrosion that formerly required many weeks' time, was loudly heralded at its advent in the trade as a sure refuge from monopoly, Now it is a part and parcel of the same old octopus. New, York World. Thé fact that one-third of Great Brit- ain's imported food supplies come from the United States—our share of the trade amounting to $503,000,000 in 1900—shows how wicked &nd foolish is the talk on eitker side of trouble between these two England cannot get on without the sur- plus products of our farms and plains, and our farmers would be in a sorry plight if their best customer were lost _either through war or commercial retaliation for our high tariff, were that possible. A gravary and a market constitute & strong bond of peace. State Laws Set Aside. Philadelphia Record, Governor' Cummins s of the opinton that the inflation of stock nvolved in the reor- ganization of the Rock Island & Pacific Rall- ‘Way company is contrary to the law of Iowa. Inasmuch as the reorganization was effected through the instrumentality of a New Jersey corporation expressly created for that pur- pose, & question has arisen similar to that raised by the Northern Pacific merger; namely: whether the laws of tate may set at defiance by the simple expedient of in- corporating under the laws of another state which sanctions the acts forbidden in the former. In other words, if one state should authorize the formation of train-robbing syndicates would .the incorporated robbers be entitled to tmmunity eyerywhere in vir- tue of the rule of interstate comity? NOTHING TO DO BUT YIELD, Foree of Public Opinion Quickly Ends a Strike. New York Evening Post. Rarely, If ever, has there been such & manifestation of the force of public opin- {on, when focused on & single issue, as that given in New Haven last week on the occa- sion of the strike of the street railway employes. The whole city was on strike with the motormen agalnst & rallroad man- agement which, whlle giving the community efficlent service, ‘had ‘been arbitrary and unjust toward its employes, and had been some decades behind the times in its atti. tude toward orgasized labor. No of wages . was involved; It was demand by the employes for respectful treatment and the right to membership in a labor organization, seconded by the people generally, and emphasized by some indig- nent stockholders of the railroad corpora- tion. There was no viclence, and no oces- sion for any. With & shrewdness unex- pected of them, the raliroad managers made Do attempt to run their cars with imported labor, knowing that in the existing temper of the people the would have run empty. For four days the people walked, with criticism only of the raliroad manage- ment, while a committee of the business men awaited the slow return of the rail- Toad's president from s yachting irip to champiop before him the cause of the motormen. Under the ecircumstances, of course, (he Faiiroad manageps had to yleld substantially All that was asked of them. If both they and their employes bave ces. New York is used to that kind thing and takes a drenching philosophicall THE NEW ASSOCIATE JUSTIOR. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Met The esteem and reverence of New York- ers for the city hall rivale the nation's regard for the White House. Around both I8 historic memories, which render them bulwarks against modern notions. Yet the wear and tear of time necessitates Im- provements and ifnovations. Like the White House, the city hall 1s to' be o hauled and improved in its interfor ar rangements, but the exterior bf the bulld- | Ing will not be changed. The plan ecalls for (he expenditure of $260,000. On the main foor the rotunda and corridors will be repaired and the stone work renovated. In| ~ WOME RULE FOR IRELAND. thy mayor's office doors and passages that are of little use will be torn out. The gaudy wall paper and celling in the mayor's office will be removed, and & white enamel calling and walls will be substituted, bring- ing back the appearance of the building as | near a8 possible to the original colonial | style. The haugings and furnishings of | the rooma will ‘be in Harmony with the | it Bheedh i b o - g decorations. On the sécond floor the walls o, "°\e 48 ever. IL i a matter which | and degorations of President Cantor’s office JUSt MOV 6ttracting the attention ot th Wil bs trehtea sitbiarly o thoas of (he | Dreémiers of the various British coloies, mayors office. Whits caamel decorationy | WHO P8 trylng td arrive at some new basis Will b usea 15 all cases, and in evers way |fOF the organisation of the empire. Both Dossible the colomtal appearance ot thy | the Australlin and the Canadian premie orlginal bullding will be revived. Pastitions | TAYOF autonomy for Ireland. Other offclal will be removed, making a spacious room, | Of their order are belleved to ta | which ean be used for receptions and hear- | §70UBd. This is hopeful for the Irish o oty But Lord Rosebery, the most promi; i TV G Ditough peusOuit VOR | o) i1 e Mbivkls Sineé tha doclh o Ois #tone, and the man who succeeded Glad- wtons when the latter, in 1804, stepped |@own from the premiership for the last o time, has come out strongly against home Leduec. corppapondent, ‘which s deetin®ll | oo\ gy gayg 1t means the disruption of to incrasss Lia, stcensth, its woalth and 14| 1ny empire, % an American paper he d. bopulation, pa. well as its general attract- | o0\ (PR ol (OUTAN, SRR tnco ;'"""m:“x‘““"':“"‘: "'l"':.“:n‘.""l:""‘;: patibility between the alow, consefentious : - e O%Y: DUl | Protestant Anglo-Saxon race and the quick- as a collection of eities. It has no one witted Celtic Roman Oatholic rece, with cenger of trade, but a dosen. It has no one difterent aims, different churches, = and Ty ian whlh s maseed the life of the |, pt” ng’ not teast, s ditterent weuss of city, but a core of streets, every ome of | At AEA Aot lebSt & differen e which 18 a great thoroughfare. The crowds | NUMOT- e B st o Ing to Lord Rossbery, and prevents the are ag dense in Fulton street, Brooklyn, | One Hundred and Twenty-fitth street, Har- | STARUAE of anything ltke local self rule to lem, and in.the Bowery, they are in The question, it will be seen, is diffcult, Wall street in the business hours, and in but it will have to be met in the spirit in the shopping districts of Broadway, Sixth avenue and Fourteenth and Twenty-thira | Which the Canadian and Australian pre- streets. The city has. become so big thut | DIeFs Tepresent. Autonomy on the Cana- capitalists .ave puiting $5,000,000 and $10,- @lan and Australian plan would, of courwe, 000,000, into, hotels and creating great realty | DAVe been as strongly opposed by the Ia 5 Premier Salisbury in his last days in offic companies. ,If, the city s this now, what as wes the lmilel hetse T¥le SIAR Wh will 4 be rlfll the subway is completed, proposed by Gladstone in 1886. Neverthe- the Pennsylyania tunnels are created and oyt & it United Kingdom the Bast river bridges and tunnels finished ? But i is to have peace at home. Lord Rosebery u-moclypowlullwb'nnucm&u wer tavor It ad ¥ pesy ¥ - 1t is becoming more humble. There is leas disposition to regard New York as “the | ®T8ls who hold the Rossbery view on this whole thing.” There is an increasing ap. | question, but the more enlightened spirit preciation of the fact that there are other ( Of the mv;:- :l.-’m: ‘-.- tt:n l:n“l:-': cities a vast terril influence ) York."“‘ s T A ralse up & party which will do for Ireland what was long ago done for Canada and what was recently done for Australls, haps s of the more progressive tori under the lead of the present premier, take more advanced ground on the Irish question than the liberals are doing, just as the Torles under Disraell in 1867 made a virtue of neceasity and passed a reform Bill which was better in some respects than the one the liberals had previously pro- posed. Indianapolis New Oliver Wendell Holmes; the new justice of the supreme court, was a soldier in the ofvil war and was wounded in the neck, breast and foot Another way of being in it from start to finish. Chicago Post: Massachusetts loses an e¢minent, fit and able judge, but her sacri- fico 1s the nation's galn. President Roose- velt is to be heartily congratulated on an admirable and excellent appointment. The results of the change may be notable and far-reaching in more than one direction. Minneapolis Journal: Disease now drives Justice Horace Gray from the bench and a new man—Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes— takes his place. The new judge will be welcomed both for his father's sake and his own. We all like to see blood tell, under the coaditions of free competition that prevall in America. We like to see & great er succeeded by a great son. But we want his greatness to be genuine and original, and not a reflected, borrowed greatness. Chicago Chronicle: President Haffen of the boroukh of Bron in New York, intends to have all of ¢ | mection of Westohester county known Throggs Neck divided into city lots. Mal | New York milllonaires have estates in tif locality and it is probable that a strenud | protest will be made when the plan known. Mrs. C. P. Huntigtot; Mrs. Eli M. Von B. 81 Zerega, Jacob Lorillard ad who have mansions in that vicinid and who prefer the present exclusivene: of the place to boom. Trend of Events Favorable to Cuuse. 8t. Loulr Globe-Demoerat. The question of home rule for Ireland being brought to the front in a prominen The efforts of the Irish members of Judge Holmes is re- epected and admired as a jurist and a man not only by the people of his own state but also by the bar of the entire country.. He s pralsed by laymen for his are so abaracterized fs re not only sound but lucld and within the comprehension of minds not versed In legal technicalities. It is thie perfect lucidity, coupled with the power to penetrate straight to the heart of a ques- tion and clear it of immaterial incidents and considerations, that is the character- istic of the great judiclal mind. Philadelphia Ledger: President Roosevelt has made an admirable appointment in se- lecting Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes to fill the vacancy in the supreme court of -the United States caused by the resignation of Mr. Justice Gray. Judge Holmes, who is the son of the poet and genial humorist, gave evidences of his legal ability and learning early in his career. His lectures on the common law before the Lowell in- stitute in 1881, when he was but 40 years old, showed sound learning and a grasp of principles which mark the jurist and able publicist. His edition of Kent's Commen- taries, his professorship in the Harvard Law school and his decisions on the su- preme bench of Massachusetts enhanced his reputation, and he is a representative of the type of man and lawyer fitted for the high- est tribunal of the nation. “New York ta now undergoing & physical transformation,” writes the Philadelph! PERSONAL NOTES, Thomas W. Lawson of Boston, the “‘copper king,” has written a book. His enemlies are Jubllant. John W. Gates is credited with having made $8,000,000 in a recent corner, The men who lost it get no credit. Becretary of the Treasury Shaw says each passenger from Europe can bring in $100 ‘worth of baled hay If he likes. But people don't go to Burope for baled hay. Lord Kelvin is the richest of Bri ventors. He is now receiving roysiti fourteen of his patent applanc Bbave boeu diled vn bard iie inie war ship. Philadelphians are accused of consuming one-half the stogies produced in this coun- try last year. This affords eloquent justi- fication for the crusade against the smoke — There is a family in this goodly borough of “ours, reports the Brooklyn Bagle, that clings to an old country custom of its fore- fathers: ‘Theicustom has been the source of much satisfaction and no little internal con- gratulation in the past, but it is a qu whethier it is' not in danger of fallin “innocuous desuetude.” For all the years of'the ‘famfly life it has been the practice to lay down in a barrel of brine, in winter, & quantity of beef and pork for summer use. And the good wife has been envied greatly by her friends and neighbors because of the Jupunese nuisance. , high quality of her corned beef and salt | ring Tore oriiralds DR e Sir Henry Campbell-Batinerman, the lib- | pork. Last week & brother of this good wife | Captain—] that's sixteen knots eral leader in the British House of Com- |came from an 1nterior town to visit her and | &0 hour. Wi t easlly. mons, has the rare faculty of being able to sleep as easily in a standing position as he can lying down. Secrétary ‘Moody is aggrieved over the story circulated to the effect that he would bave pay the oxpenses of. the friends whom “he had Invited to see the naval maneuvers. The secretary says he was the first to suggest such a payment. Lord Kitchener has hit on a happy phrase, prophetic of South Africa's future. At the presentation of & sword given-to him by the corporation of Cape Town, though the for- mality took place in London, fn his speech of thanks the general said: “You have the making of nothing less than a new America in the soutbern hemisphere.” The English papers selzed upon the phrase, ‘‘the mew America,” for their headlines. Zocchl, the Neapolitan sculptor, is making his sister told him if he would go down fnto Buck: Wood-- trome _‘.,;_ o the gellar and “hook up” a plece of beet y do. some mm‘:‘l.:“cml :‘i’ would make it the plece | ngel cake and deviled ham. de resis ® of the comiing meal. Consent- | proe) Life: He—T ars not u{‘n Was equipped with a hook to fish n muu%um ""m o (b By WAtérs G e barre] and told pa T T4 Sy TRy, Teuing, the Gnly ticularly that he wds to seek the lefthand barrel, H %l.. f¢ went, he hooked, he caught— oo a;l;gwnx “Papa, what is & man and brought forth the family cat, whose ab- | of sency’ of several Weeks had been the cause | aivers fm seurer’ O Nas a0 ides that of much distress and speculation to the fam- ily, which on this. occasion did not dine on p corned beef, poker in the drawing room. f Kidder—All right. The snte-room will do Little boys can be ressoned with, it ope | 715t 88 well. ukaa only knows the way to do it. * The other! Atlanta Constitution: evening on One Hundred and Thirteenth | bigwed my house down. street, reports the New York Times, two| wAD: (e earthquake swallowed my land.” young women were taking an evening stroll, ‘orse stilil” when, without' wafning, & herd of small g l-g:{_gk g-_-.:fl-_;,hg: a statue of Garibaldl for the city of Naples. (boys, about elght in number, averaging | foreq, toorr = @ The statue is elght meters high and its|from 10 to 12 years old, surrounded them pedestal is twelve meters high. Zoochi has [ and with diabolical.jeers refused to let them | Chicago News: “It's useless to worry, also completed a statue of Naples eight and | pass. DT carhateed Dapues haa. one-halt meters high. Naples is repre-| ‘You're our prisoners” shouted ome. On, T'm satisfied with what 1 have,® re- sented as o wleadli Greek goddess, in| “An' we si’t mever goin' ter let you | plied the red-nosed man across the alsle, Greclan attire. She has broken the chaine | pass,” sunounced amother. It's What 1 Baven't that causes most ol “The hurricans mort- was & '8 swal- of siavery and holds the coat-of-arms of| They-held hands firmly and in spite of | ™7 dissatisfaction. Naples in her left hand, while the right arm | the efforts of both young women resisted | Philadel ‘Pn-:m “Mary!" urt ').(‘:;- : 1s raised. President David Starr Jordan of Stanford university, who has been exploring the south seas for the last few months for specimens of fish from the coral reefs, In conjunction with a surveying party sent out by the United States fish commission, makes an interesting report. In the bay of Apla, S8amoa, 453 distinct varieties of fish have been found, many of them previ- ously unknown to sclentists. This is the first time that the fish life of & coral reef has been thoroughly explored. MEN TO MAN THE SHIPS. the feminipe strength, gomar ocalisd But not_feminine tactios. “All right,” | Horeoh ot ie StOBIng the toad asa 1 be- said one of the girls, “we'll stay with you | that doormat upside down.” as prisoners—but you know the rule of this | . Whi game, it you piay it-right, and, of course, ww.,‘fn-“h‘ b itiondt o B we wouldn'¢ play it suy other way—it is to make us each kias:the boy we think is the prettiest. ~Now, I-think I lke—" But t s's scuffle, a yell of terror, (and the Youfig women were left standing alone and free“witlh'the vanishing backs of eight small boys tearing madly down the street. GOLDEN ROD. R, X. Munkittrick. Al the by AR A ) RS @‘&W"‘m“ n“lh-m ot froth. Raip fall tn New York Oty occastonally, Generally the fluld comes down in sheets, as though the bemn_ of the tank had caved in. One of these drenchers dropped down on Demand Far Exceeds the the Naval Service, pply in the just and unjyst one afternoon last week, 1w ly blaze 4 Baltimore American. driving the natives to cover and stopping ‘*:"m« Tsn't it pretty nearly time the country | yuree; cars and locomotives. The fiood filled And uplift was saved from hearing, every time We|iho conduits tbrough which run the under- Your gensive mayonnaise, proposs to build a new ship for our pavy, | cround electric wires, and steam rallroad mttl it te sbout the shortage of offcers and ment | gl L IR TN JAC ROSRL K water ‘are with all your gleams, The piaint has become most monotonous, | yoechedethe Areboxes of locomotives, In o ‘mo 'a enst, and is entirely out of place amon & people | yqition, tracks were washed out in mamy AR STl wads et evesms, ‘who regard themselves a world power. It s & fact that requires mo argument in the substantiation that we cannot have ships to any profit unless we have the men to man them. We are well over into an ers of greater development, where a great navy is essential to our national welfare, and while we are bullding the ships we still have to lsten to the old complaint about the shortage of officers and men for their complements. Obviously the thing for us to do Is to increase the personnel of the navy. The alternative is to stop building ships. As between the proposition and the slternative congress must decide. Admiral Taylor, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, proposes to recommend in his forthcoming annual report that the enlisted force be increased to 40,000 men, 14,500 more than It is at present. Secretary Moody intends to recommend great in- creases in the number of officers, and Presi. dent Roosevelt is planning to back up these recommendations with a strong plea to congress for & larger naval personnel. We earnestly trust this sort of systematic at- tack upon congress will prove successful. Heretofore that body, while providing lib- erally for ships, has falled to make the proper provisl for officers and men to man the ships in vice and those under construction. The result has been that at nearly every period our naval efficiency bas been impaired simply because we could not use all the ships avallable for use. To wake congress to a realization of the impartanss of providing men at the same time it provides for the ships is & duty those in power owe to the country, and while we shall be pleased at having no more to hear the complaints about the shortage of officers and men, the greater satisfaction will come, when congress acts, i knowing that while we have the ships and the guns Wwe have also the men to make our naval strength & matter of national pride sod International envy. - Our Friday Special THIS WEEK Is a 25 per cent discount on afl Summer Underwear, EXCEPT Scrivens Drawers. 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