Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 21, 1902, Page 6

6 THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLI!HED E\lki MORNING. g TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. ally Bee (without Sunday), One Year Bee and Sunday, One Year. i a"Bee, One Year DELIVERED BY CARRIER. aily Bee (without SBunday), per gl iy Bee (without Bunday), per Bee (including Sun ay I dnday Bee, vening Bee f'm.m ‘Bunday), pe vening Bee (including Boaday), week ... Complal; sl'oul be partment. nlh.—’l‘ht Bee Bull Il h Omnhm—«.l(y Hlll‘hulldinl- Twen- h and M Str uncll Blu'b—n | Btreet. ulldm& j0—1640 U ork—Tem| rt. nh ngton—501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and | matter should be addressed: Omaha , Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by dr: express or order, Biyable to The D blishing Company; 2-cent ."ml?' Plld in payment of 'erso checks, except on ha or eastern e xchanges, not accel HE BEE PUBLISHING COMP Neb: Dou County, B asciion, n.:‘r:urv of The Bes Compan: duly uwonz Daily, Morning, ing Buiiday’ Boe rivted. durivs the month of e Juys nh, was as followst ..I‘IO GEO. B. mcnucx y presence and swory to hron e this 31s¢ aky o Jul, > ' 0! “f{b . ‘Notary. Pabilo. — As the riot proclamationist, Pompa- dour Baldwin is an immense success. Mayor Moores' vetoes may be over- ridden, but they are always on the safe side for the taxpayers. Et———— Never mind—when the meat packers’ trust does come the South Omaha plants will be in on the deal. ems————— For the mirth of the season, we trust Governor Savage has not sworn off on the letter-writing habit just yet. —— Those market gardeners evidently think moving day is past and there is ouly one moving day on thelr calendar. ... If any Unlon Pacific striker winks his left eye at W‘hmhmm'm “Mmr Savage will call out the mi- 1780 the slot machines must go once more. These machines have gone so often they seem to be golng all the time. Delaware is in with a pledge of sup- port for the nomination of Roosevelt in 1904. Delaware is small, but every lit- tle helps, e ——— 3 If those Boer generals had only known how popular they were abroad they might have stopped fighting sobner to gather in the plaudits. It clothes make the man, the shah of Persia and his gorgeously resplendent regalia, mow exhibiting in England, ought to be pretty much. SES——e——— According to-officlal advices, the Blks I‘t!llruuolyhnwnk. They also left all the money and other valu- ables they had taken wjth them. The laws of Nebraska prohibit the importation of Pinkerton mercenaries, but there s no law to prohibit the im- portation of Baldwin Mercer-naries. Omaha wouldn't be In it as a progress- ive American city if it did not con- tribute to the dally collection of colll- sions between horseless and horse ve- lilcles. S . Mercer has discovered a few more bats in the belfry of the Bee building— brickbats, of course—and they are drop- ping uncomfortably close to his political corporosity. S And now we are to have an apple growers’ trust. What would Eve have said in the garden bad she been com- pelled to patronize the trust before she bad a bite? It 1s not - the absorbing question whether Schwab will resign as presi- dent of the Steel trust, but rather whether his $1,000,000 salary will run on while he 1s Indulging his rest cure. In view of General Alger' candidacy for the United States senate, it is just possible that the whole war with Spain will be fought over again, only with the scene of belligerency transferred to Michigan. SEpe— John ‘W. Gates' proverbial luck seems to have gone against him in the first round of his fight for. control of the Oolorado Fuel and Iron company. Gates started out doing too much talking, on the plan of the professional pugilist, and the free advertising is all that he has scored. —_——— J. Plerpont Morgan has returned from Europe enveloped in densest ignorane: &s to industrial and financial conditions here. As he begins to pull the wires THR QUESTION OF TARIFF REVISION. The most prominent question the attention of the public is that of tariff revision. It will be discussed than any other subject In the con lonal campaigns throughout the country. Re- publicans do not hesitate to meet the question. They have never had any fear of a discussion of the policy of tariff protection to American Industries and Amerjean labor and they have stronger reasons now than ever before for advo- cating and upholding that policy. It has been magnificently vindicated by results. It has placed the United States in the lead among the industrial nations. It has given to American labor better reward than Is received by the labor of any other country. It has created for our agricultural producers a home mar- ket which is by very far the best mar- ket In the world. Therefore the re- . | publican party adheres firmly to the pro- tective policy, while the democratic party now as always opposes It The republican party, however, is not unalterably attached to any particular schedules. Republicans very generally are in accord with those of Iowa in fa- voring such changes In the tariff from tme to time as become advisable through the progress of our industries and their changing relations to the world's commerce. This s consistent with the course of the party. Becretary of the Treasury Shaw in his speech at Morrisville, Vt, sald: “Whenever con- gress reaches the conclusion that the friends of protection are strong enough to conservatively modify certaln sched- ules, so as to meet changed conditions and at the same time successfully resist the efforts of the opposition to revise the entire tariff law, thus paralyzing busi- ness for a season, I am in favor of it.” Bo are republicans generally. What they oppose is an onslaught upon the tariff as a whole, a sweeping. revision, because they know that the effect would be most damaging to the business of the country and give a severe check to pros- perity. Industrial conditions are now most favorable. There is the assurance of generous harvests. The supply of capital for all legitimate demands is abundant. All interests are looking for- ward to a greater measure of prosperity. ‘While in nearly all other countries there is Industrial and commerclal depression, the United States is having a large home and foreign business. In such circumstances would it be wise to attack and disarrange the fiscal policy of the nation, with the certainty of producing conditions injurious to business? The republican party be- leves that It would not be wise to do this and appeals to the intelligence of the country to sustain it in this position. ———— SPUONER T0 BE k. -ELECTED, Representative Babcock of Wisconsin, chairman of the republican national congressional committee, told President Rogsevelt a few days ago that Senator |*, Spooner would be re-elected. That is the opinion of other representative ‘Wisconsin republicans in Washington, all of whom earnestly desire the sena- tor’s re-election. It is stated that every convention held in Wisconsin to nomi- nate legislative and local candidates since the state convention was held has repudlated the action of the latter body in trylng to tle Sena- tor Spooner’s hands. They have all de- clared unequivocally for his re-election and have pledged the legislative candi- dates to vote for him. There appears to be a very strong feeling against the course pursued by Governor La Fol- lette toward Senator Spooner. The very earnest expression of repub- lican leaders all over the country and of the republican press generally urging that Senator Spooner should be re- elected, together with the understand- ing that his retention is strongly desired by the national administration, have led the Wisconsin republicans to a better comprehension than they probably had before of the high esteem in which Mr. Spooner Is held as a statesman. They have learned that in the general opin- ion of the party he s needed In the sen- ate. The assurances given of his re- election will be regarded by republicans everywhere with great satisfaction, S VIEWS OF JUDGE HOLMES. A good deal of interest has been shown regarding the views of Judge Holmes, who Is to 'succeed Justice Gray of the supreme court of the United States, as to the constitutional status of the insular possessions. It has been stated upon what appears to be good futhority that before making the ap- pointment the president was careful to definitely ascertain the opinion of Judge Holmes on the constitutional aspects of expansion and that his position was en- tirely satisfactory to Mr. Roosevelt. This has been characterized in some quarters “packing” the court—a most unrea- sonable view, since it would be wani- festly absurd to expect the president to appoint to the supreme bench a man op- Pbsed to the policy of the government. The fact appears to be that Judge Holmes is an anti-imperialist in the broad sense of the term, but he belleves in the right of the United States to hold and rule the Philippines until such time as a Filipino republic may be estab- lished with safety. Thus he is not at all In sympathy with the anti-imperialists of the Boutwell school, who would bave the United States’ withdraw from the Philippines and léave the archipelago to civil strife, anarchy and bloodshed, perhaps to become the prey of foreign nations. The former attorney general of Massachusetts is quoted as saying that Judge Holmes has always been & pro- found leader in uplifting the dignity and power of government and his comstruc- tion of constitutional provisions has been invariably in the direction of the liberal exercise of legislative and execu- | tive functions. There appears to be no doubt that he will entertain the same views upon territorial questions and the again, however, it will soon be demon- strated that he kept pretty close track of affairs during his absence and took | care tokeep in, practice on quick turus | of financial corners. powers of the United States govern- ment under the constitution, and the ex- tension of the authority of the United States, as were held by his predecessor. | he most trustworthy - ntormation is THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1902. that he is In full accord with the pres- ent administration on all questions of great public importance. S— DUTY OF CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE. The republican committee for the Becond congressional district will meet next Saturday for the purpose of calling the convention that is to nominate the candidate to represent this district in the national legislature. Under estab- lished usage the functions of the con- gressional committee are limited to making an apportionment of the rep- resentation to which each of the three countles in the district is entitled on an equitable basis, fixing the date when the convention is to be held and desig- nating the place where it will be held, leaving to the respective county organ- izations the detall of arranging for pri- mary elections and the selection of del- egates to represent the rank and file of the party in the congressional conven- tion. It is a matter of notoriety that the re- publicans of Washington and Sarpy counties have already selected théir pro rata of delegates to the convention on the assumption that the apportionment would be the same as that made by the state central committee for delegates to the state convention, and on the pre- sumption that the congressional com- mittee would legitimize this action. ‘While the election of delegates to the congressional convention prior to the is- suance of the call by the congresslonal committee is irregular and establishes a questionable precedent, the congres- slonal committee may deem it expedient 1o ratify the action of the two countles in order to avold the contention, expense and time loss incident to holding of special primary elections and county conventions. But if the privilege of se- lecting delegates to the congressional convention through county conventions s accorded to the republicans of Wash- ington and Sarpy counties it must also be accorded to the republicans of Doug- las county, . Ithough the last congressional con- veéntion authorized David H. Mercer to name the members of the committee that was charged with conducting the congressional campaign in this district, Mr. Mercer has no right to ask, or ex- pect, the committee to pursue an arbi- trary course in his personal interest as a candidate. In other words, the con- gressional committee of this district rep- resents the rank and flle of the repub- lican party and not any particular indi- vidual or candidate. Its manifest duty s to treat all factions and every section of tha district fairly and without dis- crimination against or favoritism for any candidate or county. Should the committee deem it best to adopt the Crawford county system, or direct primary election, In the proposed nomination of a candidate for congress, to which The Bee can see no serious ob- Jection providing it requires a majority vote to nominate, the new departure would have to apply to the entire dis- trict and not to Douglas county only. The same principle should govern if the committee decides to call a delegate con- vention to make the nomination. The republicans of Douglas county furnished more than five-sixths of the votes polled for Mr. Mercer In the year 1000 and Douglas county republicans are entitled to their full proportion of the representation in the next congres- slonal convention. If it is conceded that the republicans of Sarpy and Washing- ton counties had a right to make pro- viston for the selection of the delegates to which they are entitled through their county committees and county conven- tions, the republicans of Douglas county are entitled to the same privilege. Mr. Mercer enjoys the advantage of fixing the time and place for holding the convention, but he has no right to arro- gate to himself the supervision and con- trol of the primary elections and con- ventions 8o as to prevent a fair and free expression of the party sentiment through the ballot box. ———— The action of a little Iowa town vot- ing to give up a special charter granted by the legislature of 1857 in order to incorporate under the general laws of the state recalls the early days of town site propagation, when town charters, had for the asking In Iowa and Ne- braska, were hawked about and planted at haphazard-over the western prairies. In this state all of these specially Iu- corporated towns have long ago either dropped out of site and out of sight or been taken in under general laws— in fact, both the state constitutions of Nebraska probibited special legislation for the incorporation of cities. The special charter of the future will be not & charter granted by the legislature, but a charter framed and adopted by the city itself under some sort of con- stitutional guaranty of municipal home rule. e State Superintendent of Instruction Fowler has taken it upon himself to decide a mooted question of election law interpretation for a public school class in civil government, declaring that a ballot is not Invalidated by being marked with a pencil different from that prescpibed by the law. This is good horse sense for ordinary cases of the mistaken use of a different colored pen- cil, but an example might be ralsed In which & red or green pencil were used for the purpose of identifying the ballot, in which event the ballot would plainly be fraudulent. Academic discussions of the election laws are conducive to in- telligent citizenship, but scholastic opinions on law points are apt often to be overruled by judicial opinions. The tariff gevision plank in the Iowa republican platform seems to be worry- Ing the democrats mightily. The same identical plank was put into their state platform by the Iowa republicans last year, but the democrats have only now discovered how significant it is. EEE—— Unless the bankers of Nebraska can prevall upon the railroad tax bureau to revise its latest bulletin, that repre- | will be recalled th sents the bankers as the worst tax shirkers in Nebraska, the people of this state are liable to start a crusade to compel the bankers to revise their as- sessment returns, Mississipp! valley apple growers are taking preliminary steps to organize. We presume they have only one benevo- lent object in view and that to head off the dissemination of cholera morbus by the green apple route. Narrowing the Ol Chicago Tribune. Mr. Bryan still insists that the democratic candidate for president in 1904 must be some man who was loyal to the party plat- forms of 1896 and 1900. This narrows the cholce down to someé Nebraska man again. Reciprooal R Kansas City Journal. The British generals have been giving a warm reception to the Boer commanders in London. This is merely turn about. It the Boer commanders gave a number of warm receptions to the British generals in South Africa. Demand for Clean Money. Indlanapolls Journal. The United States treasu: ridicules the idea that comtagious dlsea: Are propa- gated by the circulation of solled currency, but at the same time says the treasury au- thorities are always ready to redeem old notes with new ones without charge. As the only expense attending the exchange i the express charges to and from Wash- ington, which are trifiing, banks would better turn old notes In for redemption than pay them out again. Ripe for Regular Rations. Portland Oregontan. Alatka may now be regarded as definitely installed at the government appropriation trough. The first harbor work in that ter- ritory is to be done in Wrangel Narrows, & survey of which has been authorized. The commerce of Alaska is of sufficlent mag- nitude to justify government attention to the navigation channels, and it will pay to remove some of the dangers that menace ships in those waters. Alaska, which has already become a political factor of some pretensions, may be expected to come up for regular rations hereafter. The Decline in Exports. Philadelphia Record. Treasury department figures of foreign trade for July last show exports valued at $88,807,960, a falling off of nearly $21,000,- 000 as compared with July of last year, and imports of $79,206,220, an increase of about $6,000,000. The excess of exports since January 1 last is $191,456,761—tho lightest showing since 1896, In the world- wide readjustment of prices during half a dozen years past the forelgner has cut under or ignored the American market with constantly increasing assiduity and success, and the pendulum of trade still swings in that direction. How Promoters Work the Public. Philddelphia Record. Syndicate underwriting of schemes of consolidation attained perfection in the financing of the recent purchase of the Mo- non road—the Chicago, Indianapolls & Loulsville ratlroad—by a southern rallway combination. - The syndicate members were not called upon for any cash contribution, and divided over $300,000 in profits. The investing publio bought all the securities offered for eale, and there was nothing left to underwrite. Thus all concerned in ac- tual buying and selling worked for the syn- dicate and paid thelr own expenses and a heavy commission besides. B ¥ with a Club, Buffalé Express. It is estimated that under the new merger of agricultural jmplement companies about 10,000 persons will be thrown out of work. This will mean a great saving to the trust. ‘While It is to be regretted that so many persons are to become idle, no fault can be found with the new company for reduc- ing the working force if that is to its ad- vantage. It is entirely probable that among the men who are made idle are a number who ‘will before long be connected with new competitive concerns. That has been one of the results of the organization of the United States Steel corporation, which released a number of valuable men. Evils of Modern Stock Jobbing. Indfanapolls News. One of the greatest evils in modern joint stock enterprises is the tremendous over- capitalization. There is mot a railway, steam or electric, that is not capitalized greatly in excess of its actual value. All the regent reorganizations and trust for- mations have been attended with stock wa- tering. This evil would seem to be one that the lawmaking power of the state could cope with. If all rallways and other joint stock enterprises were taxed on the par value of the stocks and bonds fssued against the property, unless these sold at a premium, and then on their average market value, you may be sure stock wa- tering would quickly disappe: FARMERS AND OO-OPERATION. Dificulties to Overcome in Perfecting & Merger. Chicago Tribune. Every harvest season somebody expa- tiates to the farmers on the advantages of co-operation on & grand scale, and offers to assist them in the labor of co-operation and secure for them better prices for their products. That the farmer labors under some disadvantages perhaps almost every one will admit. He is not near enough to the fleld of trade to be able to dis- pose of his products successfully. He sells in the dark. He sells at the wrong time. He reads about high prices, but before he gets to the elevator prices have fallen. Heo ought to .bave an agent. Why not, then, organize the farming population into & co-operative soclety and let the agents of this society dispose of all farm products at the proper time and at the proper place The farmer will then get his own profits instead of passing them on to the inde- pendent salesman. No idea could be more obvious. For years people have seen t the farmer's position places him at & disad- vantage in the market. Other producers are on the spot. The farmer s not. He has to guess. It is the elimination of guess- ing that the co-operative company will try to effect. Two things will be needed. Immense cap- ital and immense confidence. Managing the sale of the corn crop of the middle west will be no small task. Establishing confidential relations between the managers and the farmers will be even more dificult. Here, indeed, s the rock on which similar enter- prises have split. It is next to impossible to establish a farmers' organization which will be effective. The officers of the ganization, in discharging their duty of ing, are far removed from ome another. They are in & different position from other stockholders because they are putting ia not only momey, but goods. They must have the most {mplicit trust in the men into whose hands they deliver the Koods. It this trust can be secured perbaps a farmers’ co-operative company can do something. Otherwise the farmer will con- tinue in his haphazard ways, selling his grain at the mearest rallway station and | taking potluck witn the market, | them. Progress of the Country Chicago Tribune. The statisticlans of the Treasury depart- ment have taken account of the national stock, and & marvelous showing they make of the “progress of the United States in its area, population and material industries. In less than a quarter of a century t country has gone forward by ‘“leaps and bounds," The tabulated statistics of the last twenty years read ke a romance, because nothing Iike this growth and prosperity has been known In the past in such comparatively brief space of time. In these twenty years the population has doubled and the wealth of the country more than doubled, as the “true valuation of real and personal prop- erty is fixed at $94,000,000,000, as compared with $42,000,000,000. While wealth has thus Increased, debt has naturally decreased in nearly similar ratio, the public debt fall- ing from $1,919,000,000 to $1,107,000,000 and the per capita debt from $38.27 to $14.52. The total circulation of money and the number of national banks have about doubled, while the deposits in national banks have trebled. A most significant proof of this wonderful prosperity Is the fact that the deposits in savings banks have increased from $819,000,000 to $2,450,- 000,000 and the mumber of depositors in these banks from 2,335,000 to 6,108,000. Another indication of this great pros- perity comes from the agricultural section of the country. The value of farm property has increased from $12,000,000,000 to $20,500,- 000,000; of the yearly products of farms from $2,212,000,000 to $3,764,000,000, and of farm animals from $1,882,000,000 to $2,982,- 000,000. It would be interesting to know how much mortgage debt the farmers have exingulshed In the last few years, how much. money they have put in bank, how much has been spent in Improving and stocking farms and how many luxuries have been bought for farmers' homes, and what part have industrial working men played ‘In this marvelous showing? The number ot manufacturing plants has doubled. There were 253,000 of them twenty years ago; now there are 513,000. The value of the output twenty years ago was $5,369,000,000; now it 1s more than $18,000,000, Twice a8 many men have work and w have nearly trebled, being $2,785,000,000, as com- pared with $948,000,000. The same marvelous ratio of inorea and in some directions still higher, manifest in every department of industry and commercial and financial business. The country produces about four times as much eoal, three times as much petroleum, four times as much pig iron, eight times as much steel and ten times as much copper, while the wool product has in- creased 26 per cent, corn 40 per cent and cottou 65 per cent. There is not a de- partment of natural industry that does not show the same astonishing increase. And yet there never has been a time during the last twénty years when the voice of the malcontent and the grumbler has not been heard proclatming loudly that the country wes going to destruction. There has always been somebody to de- nounce the policies which have contributed 80 much towards the unexampled progress of the last two decades. Even today there are timid souls who would retard if they could the swift march of the United States and blnd it down to the lelsurely Iagging pace of other countries. ——————— e HOT AIR TALK. About Imperialism, Free Silver and Phantoms in General. Memphis Commercial Appeal (dem). As an lissue, imperialism every day be- comes more remote. Free silver raged red through the country in 1896, and was as a dying ember in 1900. Imperialism was ffed with hot alr In 1900 and set up & stern, commanding scarecrow, and today with ninety-nine men out of a hun- dred it is a dreary and insufferable bore. The retention of the Philippines has been removed from the arena of debate. We have got them, and we will keep them. There are three insuperable objections to the injection of jmperiallsm into the com- ing campaign. In the first place it has al- ready led the party to overwhelming dis- aster. In the second place it is 10,000 miles away. And in the last place it {s dead. For the democratic party to go gabbling about Aguinaldo, the injustice of retaining a territory that we have pald for and the general infamy of a shadowy imperialism, when there is a burning issue right here at home, affecting every man, woman and child in the republic; affecting the safety of democratic ipstitutions and imperiling ihose prinelp! lished by the w|-dom of the ueo and ‘which are about to be overthrown by the brutal philosophy. of a coterle of vulgar parvenus, is to make the defeat of the democratic party a moral certainty. The people of the United States with- out regard to party are demanding relief from the trusts; and while they are com- plaining of the criminal exactions of the meat trusts, what do they care about phantoms in the Philippines? When they are demanding bread, how will it profit the democratic party to give them a stone? SWEARING BY TELEPHONE. Penalty for an Outhurst of Pletur- esq Expl 3 New York Times. A case has been decided in St. Louls and a physician who was made defendant was mulcted fn & substantial fine for relieving his feelings when exasperated beyond tol- eration by the vagarles of the telephone and pouring into it a stream of plcturesque and variegated profanity. His defense was that he not swear t the operator, but at the system. This did mot avall. Central received the message and promptly | curled up like a caterpillar on & hot shovel. Her ears were blistered and it needed a half holiday to restore her normal equanimity 80 that she could eay “They're busy” with becoming calmness. The incident should be a warning to short-tempered people who are prone to think aloud when they have the mouthplece at their lips. It 1s not only very wrong to swear into a telephone, but it is very foolish as well. Nothing is mccomplished by it. ' Our ad- vice to the man who cannot contain him It is to “ring off,” fo dis tance, and then say what he thinks. Cen- tral has him at a hopeless disadvantage. She can cut him off just at the climax of his imprecation or connect him with some one else—his wife or his pastor, if the op- portunity offers. There is atisfaction in swearing into a strument, nor, for that matter, in a feeling of uncertainty as to whether what you have been sald has been heard or mot. “The system' does not care & rap how much you curse it, and the operator will probably find it & diversion from the monotony of thelr occupation to make you pay for your fun in & police court. The only value of this kind of diversion is in its reflex influence upon the person who indulges in it. This he can experlence with greater fullness and sfaction if, when his internal pressure exceeds the welghting of his moral safety valve, he will go off by himself and, well— perhaps the best thing he can do then is to reflect whether it is worth while to swear at all. PERSONAL NOTES. ‘The duke of Marlborough is not much of & looker, so the duchess gets her picture in the paper about 100 times as often as does his grace. Judge C. M. Tompkins, who has been In the Pension bureau, Washington, for forty years, celebrated his 80th birthday last Wednesday. Francls Kossuth, the Hungarfan states- man and son of Louis Kossuth, of Hun- garian revolution fame, will be entertained in Chicago the latter part of this month. Governors have their woes. The chief executives of Rhode Island and Californla are being sued for libel by men who didn’t like the governors' Charles T. Yerkes {s credited with saying that men are in their apprenticeship untl they reach the age of 40, and that a business man s not ripe until he is ten years older than that, Captain Freeman, Roddam, has been presented with & gold medal for gallant conduct in taking his ship out of St. Plerre at the time of the eruption of Mont Pelee. Ex-Senator Cameron of Pennsylvania says he quit politics a good while ago, and he is of the opinion that “when & man quits and says he has quit he ought to quit and his friends ought to let him quit.” tus of Alabama, ¥ been enjoying his vacation in Mobile and has astonished everyone by his sprightliness. He claims to be good for many years' public service and unless appearances are deceitful his claim is well based. Ll remarks concerning | W | of British steamship | o who s 82| BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE, Events and Incidents Brighten the Midsummer Dul Officials 'of the Navy department evince keen Interest In the results of the trial trip made by the steamer Mariposa, from San Framncisco to Tahita and return, ulln' orude oll for. fuel. Reports from San Francisco promounce the experiment a success, but the department has yet to hear from the naval officer who was detailed to watch and report on the experiment. This is one of tho tests undertaken by the department to determine the feasibility of using ol as fuel ©n war vessels. Buffiolent progress has been made to determine that it may be so used. The element of danger, however, has not been entirely overcome. This danger arises from percolation. thronghout the ship of combustible ol ‘gases, which thus far those making the tes ve not been able to overcome. 'The importance of these tests lles In the fact that if it is shown petro- leum can be used with safety and that the objectionable feature of heat too Intense for firemen to bear can be overcome, the United States navy will lead every other naval blishment in the world in fts lity to provide cheaper, more powerful mere eastly obtalned mqans of firing the furnaces of men-of-war. When 1iquid ofl was first investigated a few years ago for fuel purposes it was es- timated that the locomotives of the Pennsylvania railroad would coneume more ofl than the total output of the United States at that time. Since then, however, there have been discoveries of ofl flelds which have enormously increased the sup- ply available for all purposes. ‘The " government report on the subject shows that the total output of petroleum for the whole world n 1900 was 155,000,000 barrels. The production in this country | for the same year was 63,000,000 barrels, | but in 1901, as the result of the explofta- tion of the Texas oll fields, the output in- creased to 720,000,000 barrels, or more than five times the total output of the world for the previous year. There seems to have been an ehormous increase also in the world's output. There are now at ‘least 260 wells in Texas alone, which up to a recent date have developed & capacity of from 50,000 to 160,000 barrels a day. It s estimated that about 2.000,000,000 gallons a year come from the Texas oll flelds alone. A more general une‘of ofl ‘for fuel purposes would undoubtedly hasten the development of the Wyoming flelds, § consummation of in- calculable | valud \to the west, “Ofcfals in the ‘medical department of the army,” says the Washington Post, “are considerably concerned over the great need of army surgeons at this time. It devel- oped yesterday that there are now forty- nine vacancies in the department,.and the prospect of flling them in the near future is far from bright. Ah examination for as- sistant surgeons fn the army with the rank of first lleutenant is to be held in this city at the' Medlcal museum September 8, but it fe not expected the results of this test will materially relidve the situation. Only thirty applications for’entrance to the ex- amination have yet been filed, and experi- ence has §hown that from this number the department cannot expect to secure more than five recruits at the outside. “Brigadier General W. H. Forwood, sur- geon general of the army, in speaking of the matter, called attention to the difculty which the department encounters in secur- ing suitable material for its ranks. “We need men of culturé, refinement and edu- cation,” he “men of professional abil- ity, and, despite the large number of medi- cal schools throughout the country, the de- rartment finds it very difcult to seoure such men. “This lack of army surgeons at this time 1s especially embarrassi ment in view of the spread of cholera in the Philippines and the consequent demand from the army in the east for medical assistance. An assietant surgeon in the army 15 well cred for. His salary is $1,600 ,'with allowances, and his rank that rst lleutenant, mounted.” During the last few weeks there has been put in circulation & mew postal card with the portrait of President McKinley to supplant the long famillar plcture of Thomas Jefferson. The new card differs from the old in almost every way—design, device, color, ‘size and texture. The old buft color hes given way to a very light shade of gray. In place of a single vignette —Jefterson supported by & laurel wreath inclosing his name—there are now two. At the left 14 the national eagle, with the At the right a profile rait shows the left side of Mr. McKin- ley's face. Below It s printed “1843— McKinley—1901." Above appear the words, “‘Postage one cent.” Another marked change is in the device. Where the old card the solld blas me inclosing ‘the white letters of t! words “United States of Awnerica,” above this “Postal card one cent,” below the mes- sage, “This side is for the address only,” | there now appears a large empty space, |then in very large letters Postal Card," above which stands “The space above reserved for postmark,” underneath “The' space below 1s fo all three together forming link between the two vignettes. Held the Marry Record. Rev. Thomas Cochrane, minister of the United #ree Chruch of Scotland, who has just died at Edisburg, married 4,00 couples, which is the record for that country. NOT A NERVOUS PROPLE. Fallaey of & Popular Notion Clearly Shown. Philadeiphia Record. 80 much has been sald of American mervousness—of the stress of business life in this country and its common effects of shattered nerves, {nsomnia, mental de- terioration, insanity, physical breakdown and sulclde—that most people acoept it all as established and nobody stops to examine whether it be true. Also it is assumed that Americans as & rule are so much in love with the acoumulation of money that they take no time and have no oare for the enjoyment of thel wealth. The first foreigner to place his own observations against the widespread opinion is Ludwig Max Goldberger, a prominent German who spent eight months in the Jnited States with his eyes open and his mind alert. He denies that the American business man is & nervous wreck and that the race for ‘wealth has robbed him of his eapacity to enjoy anything but money making. On the contrary, while one sees endless activity and ceaseless industry “and always in- dustry,” still ““the nerves of the industrious one of steel and not to be shattered.” The dally experience of Americans them- selves should have proved to them the fallacy of the popular notion.. Nowhere else do men continue active in business to #0 ripe an age—in a busin of which the risks are often great. American business men find a delight in the beautitylng of their homes and in many forms of pleasure and relaxation. Statistios show that in pro- portion to population the immigrants con- tribute ‘a much higher percentage of in- mates to the asylums than do the Ameri- ca It 1s not to be denied that the busei- ness of many a successful American is of a kind to wreck a nervous system less firm and steady—a business In which a great fortune may be won or lost as the result of a single decision. Losses, however, are borne with the equanimity displayed by a confirmed gambler. Here is Russell Sage, in his 80's, still attending to his many affairs involving enormous sums and show- ing none of the effects of an inordinal strain on the nerves, Only a small pro- portion of men in any ocoupation live to his age, but among the leaders of industry and finance in this country are many who are hale and clear-headed at 70 and not less happy and busy than are mem of the same age in other lands. The business enterprises of the United States won the amazement and admiration of the German observer, and to the cour- age, steadiness, intelligence, integrity and health of the average American, and especially of the leaders in the business world, he credits the prosperity of the na- tion and its ability to meet trade depres- slons with fortitude and cheerfulness. Naturally he can see no limit to the great achievements of Americans, and it is to be inferred from his article that no concelv- able combination agalnst the business en- terprise of this country could make a deep or enduring impression on our fu- ture. In spite of all the speculative fer tures of our business, especially In rek tion to the changes in the ownership of the stocks of great enterprises, absolute honesty and a strict living up to obiigation is « fusdawental American business life. On the whole, the European readers of Mr. Goldberger's report of his American observations must acquire a larger respect for the qualities of our business men and & higher opinion of the business importance of the country as compared with the nations of Europe. SMILING REMARKS. Any T, the —_— ndianapolis l\l’( Do _you take it in politics uko\i’!gu Profe answered the y, certainly nof Indignantl; 1T want is n, e pal. Washington Star: 1 supposs that pu lfll::l r-nrd it as an advantage to get h\ t "Thl ulod to be the ' answered the prize fighter, “‘but the ambition now- adays seems to be to have the last word." Atlanta Constitution: ‘“De devil is like a roarin’ lion,” sald Bre'r Willlams. “No, ain't,’” sald Brother Dickey, kase' ef he wus, dey ain't a sinner amongst you what would imb a tree wen you heerd him comin' Cleveland Plain Deale: *Our ofMclals should understand that Uncle Bam, expects rY them to do his duty. VA% "except | the _customs o clals, ot course. “He expects them to collect 1t." Fhiladeiphis, Record: nny an golng out on & ey ‘wnn s funny?’ generally comes home on an thing owr ok, Detroit Free Press: “Is he competent?" “I don't think so. He was Indlnmnt :h-n I offered to make & few sugges- cns."” say wuhluton Star: "I neyer hear g Ing agin de trusts,” said rusts comes in very convenfent me angwered. Moanderin Mike, “in ex- alnin’ how de consolidat fon of {naustries d t b and me on de Chicago Tribune: “Wasn't it - Mflff ing expérience, asked his frion you lost your lm!hald and w.nt lllflln‘ down the moun side?” but extremely interest- col UT gl;fl(ulor “1 could I the way down, with what absolte accuracy I was following along the line of least resistance.” Philadelphia Press: “This is (u weakest milk punch I ever tasted,” sald the cus- " the custome; retor\nd glar- ing at him. nd you haven't put even a hyphen in it!" Philadelphia_Cathollc Stan “Think of the suffering this coal strike flll bring to the very poor people tl ter. " "Yes, but 1t will bring some consolation to the very, very peor. he ideai How The people whe never could afford to buy coal will be glad to see some others in the same boat." MAJESTIO MAN. W. D. Nesbit in Baltimore Amerfoan. Majostio man! FoW proudly he goes ever way How flrmly he mlnuln- s course, with neither sto) No petty curie him from his an-.?.’mv.nm femifiine awakes his ecaus- He, holdl hh way lnl'ervlnll‘. e,.0.0 0 But, mark you secthing crowd! Y Struggle hitherward and yon, with objurgations loud, What fs Oh, ‘what is 1t? Why, it s your men o Observing with ur-u(mu tense two lit- tle newsboys Majestio man! He holds the world wub- e to his swa: o) trivialiues B 7 Mark ho:v.d'.lllfln o bouadaries Ba% heads, exel is it? Some debats on how o Sadeet ol ol "Tis m man o1 & new qishy dteplay of Majestic_ man! poh his wu’. Unhoodlng all lh. ";flo things M fret 01 a; The b urs of urden of the world is his—no mo- ment, must he lose His mindis ever workin[ on * e e . lh Look! Here they're shining And one lone man I. ln & chair with boot- bla-k at his fe While ftiy mighty man rubberneck. ing “trom_the But, as wi !Arlml out to say, man fs too Teal And fool arou 'l‘? ool around. and look at things, Mke