Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 26, 1902, Page 6

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Remit by draft, expréss or postal order, payatie to t5 The Bee Publ lishing Company } & i hecks. exCept on @n munu oF CXMUMTION. braska, Douglas County, Bt ge B Taschuok, secretary of The Bee 3 duly l"lrarnd Total........ Less unsold and returned copl- UCK. Bubseribed in my presence and sworn to l-tm m this 3ist W! Ju’?{] 0‘"{‘ From ‘the enmple- Omaha is record- ing, homicides and suicides seem to thrive together. No matter which squadron might win, & demonstration of the supremacy of the American man-of-war was assured. L Now just watch the Jacksonlans put ap u Diowoul ihat will make the County Democracy plenie look like thirty cents. .fl The shah of Persia will spend a fort- night In Paris incog. The shah has evi- dently had an inside tip on Parls sight- seelng. S A prize has been awarded the oldest democrat in'this locality still professing unswerving devotion - to- the calamity cause. 'He ig‘enititied to n prize. . It the cool summer can only be offset with a tarm winter, the sky-scraper ‘helghts to wWhich the price of coal has ‘soared may have to take a tumble to themselves. It Mercer :- his way no delegate to the congressional convention will have any possible chance of being voted for at the congressional primary unless he s pledged to vote for Mercer. e Those Boer generals continue to ex- hibit their good sense by turning a deaf ear to all schemes designed to re-open the South African rumpus. The Boers know how to fight, but fight only when they have to. The cordial reception President Roose- velt is recelving in New England will probably convince Colonel Bryan more firmly than ever that he made no mis- take, from his point of view, in label- ing that part of his map the enemy's country. EEEm— English papers are throwing bouquets at our former Nebraskan, Major Church Howe, now American cousul at Shef- fleld. The only wonder is that Church did not carry off a few peerages, garters and ogper insignia in the coronation souvenir distribution. And now a post graduate medical tmhool is to be opened in Frankfurt, Ger inany, patterned after American wod- ble. This looks as if the tide were about {o be reversed that used to'take so many American medical students to other Zountries to complete thelr medical edu- eation. . “In Alabama, as in every democratic state in the south, the selection made At the primaries is equivalent to an elec- tion.” 8o reads the Associated Press ac- count ;of the primary election In Ala- bama, The job of negro disfranchise. ment has been thoroughly executed by the southern democrats. mmre—— It republicans of Douglas county have to have their primary elections con- ducted by committees made up of nonresident members, why not turn the whole machinery of the party over o John N. Baldwin of Iowa, who seems so willing to relleve the people of Nebraska of the burden of governing themselves? Under the primary election law a pe- tition signed by a specified number of regularly registered republicans is re- quired as a condition t¢ placing the name of any candidate or delegate on an officlal primary ballot. Yet Mr, Mer- cer says he s golng to run his primaries without petitions. But what does Mer- cer care about the law? . e Omaha needs Mercer a great deal more than Mercer needs Omaha—Gurley. Congressman Mercer has returned from Oyster Bay, but he has yet to ex- plain why he pockets the allowance of $100 per month for clerk hire and makes the secretary of his committee perform the work, while other congressmen pay out the allowance to a deserving young wan or woman from thelr disirict. } A MOST PAVORABLE OUTLOUK. One of the leading financial journals of this country says there is nothing in present appearances to indicate any immediate check to the forward move- ment of American industry. It remarks that the decline of the merchandise bal- ance in favor of this country has not yet been sufficient to reduce the favor- able balance below the highest figure ever recorded before 1898, and there I8 every reason to believe that a liberal ex- cess of exports of American merchan- dise will again be disclosed In the autumn when our abundant crops are laid down in Europe. In referring to the situation the New York Journal of Commerce remarks that the pall which has rnllen, u‘ conti- nental Europe has checked th rchase of American manutactured g wlth» out apparently detracting trom the pros- perity of our factorles in the face of an unprecedented demand at home. The United States has the advantage, says that journal, of a demand for its prod- ucts from abroad, which Is imperative in the case of food supplies, even if It is sometimes optional in the case of manufactured goods. “So long as con- sumption of manufactured goods con- tinues unchecked, and Europe is com- pelled to provide us with all the im- ported luxuries which we desire in return for staple food products, there is no immediate reason to anticipate the rupture of the equilibrium between de- mand and supply in leading industries, which is the forerunner of economic disaster.” There are some who look upon the présent situation as pregnant with the possibilities of trouble in the not .re- mote future, but the shrewdest and most careful financiers do not take this view of it. On the contrary a careful and judiclous weighing of all the conditions seem to fully justify the opinion that the promise of the immediate future is In the highest degree favorable to not only a continuance of prosperity, but to even greater results in an industrial and commercial way than has been realized during the last few years. So far as conditions affecting our foreign trade are concerned there is nothing unfavor- able. It is true that the European demands may be somewhat reduced, by reason of adverse conditions abroad, but it 1s reasonably to be expected that losses in this direction will be more than made up by increased demands in other quarters. As to the demands for our agricultural products they are not likely to be materially less than for several years past. Viewing the situ- atlon as a whole, therefore, we think there is good reason for the opinion that the forward movement of American in- dustry is not threatened by any imme- diate check. The outlook, therefore, 18 to be regarded as altogether satis- factory and encouraging. + SOME PROFITS OF EXPANSION. | “Our commerce with the east is grow- ing rapidly,” said Presldent Roosevelt. "Evenu bave abundantly justified, alike from the moral and material standpolnt, all that we have done in the far east a8’ a sequel to the war with Spain” What is the evidence of this? Trade with our insular dependencles for the last fiscal year is compared with 1897, the last fiscal year before the war with Spain. A notable increase is shown by the figures. The exports to Porto Rico are more than five times as large as they were in the earlier year and the exports to the Philipplnes were over fifty times as large as in the earlier year. The exports to the Hawalian islands have increased in the same five years more than fourfold. To Porto Rico the ex- ports of cotton mafufactures were in- significant in 1897, ‘while in 1902 they exceeded $2,000,000. The exports of breadstuffs nearly doubled, the exports of iron and steel were nearly $1,000,000 greater and of provisions nearly as much greater. Nearly $1,000,000 worth of iron and steel went to the Philippines in the last fiscal year, not including gov- ernment shipments. Cotton manufa tures were nearly $250,000 and bread- stuffs and provisions more than $500,000. The total exports from the United States to the Philippines in 1897 did not amount to $100,000. The exports to the Philip- pines, Hawall and Porto Rico altogether amounted in the last fiscal year to nearly $35,000,000 and in 1807 they fell a good deal short of $7,000,000. The possession of the Philippines has helped us,” said President Roosevelt, as the securing of the open door in China has helped us. Nobody who will intelli- gently study the statistics can doubt this. The advantages, from a commer- clal point of view, hlready shown as the result of expansion are so self-evi- dent that the most radical opponent of the policy of the govermment in this re- spect cannot find a resonabje argument against. the course that has been pur- sued. Who can doubt the absolute benefit of securing the open door in China and possession of the Philippines has been a powerful influence in ena- bling the United States to secure the cousideration which it has received In the adjustment of new conditions in China? Had the United Stutes pos- sessed Do interests in the far east Is it uot & most reasonable proposition that In the Chinese trouble this country would have been absolutely ignored and all iis interests have been sacriticed to the demands and the cupldity of the other powers? Not only have we increased our trade with the insular possessious, as shown by the indisputable statistics, but we have put ourselves in a position to com- wand our suare of the great trade of the Orient, the future benefits of which are almost beyond computation. That is a matter in which the intelligent American citizen cannot fall to fee! the greatest possible interest. e Delegates from 300 fraternal orders representing mope than 4,000,000 per- sons are expected at the fraternal con- THE OMAHA DAILY B TUESDAY, gress convening in Denver. These fig- ures exemplify the immense proportions .to which the fraternal insurance propa- ganda hae spread in this country. The necessity of practical legislation to in- sure sound financlering for these organi- zations and reasonable safeguards for the protection of their members must be apparent to all. MURE ABOUT THE KINDERGARTENS In one of his recent lectures to Uni- versity of Chicago: students, Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews of the University of Nebraska declared: Kindergarten schools are mot necessary for children who have good homes and proper environment. Only the children who cannot be taught and helped at home and who are surrounded by vicious enviro ments at home really need the kindergarten. It is & mistake to think that women make better kindergarten teachers than men. The best kindergarten teacher that I ever saw was & man, We need men in all grades. We need men teachers in the kindergartens, first, second and third grades, as well as In the grammar and high schools. So far as it relates to the function of the kindergarten, this is in line with the position The Bee has taken on several occaslons. 'Here In Omaha ‘the kinder garten has been developed as an addi- tional year's work for the entire public school system, without regard to the varying demands of the different lo- calities. As a result, the biggest kindergarten classes are conducted in the schools attended by children who have the least need for kindergarten training, while the schools in the poorer or outlying districts, where the kindergarten would be most serviceable, have been given least attention, if not entirely neglected. The kindergartens aré no doubt here to stay as a part of the public school system, but their de- velopment should be governed not so much by a desire to make places for favored applicants for positions on the teaching force as by the real demand for kindergarten instruction and the practical results to be attained. * Chancellor Andrews' suggestion that men make as good, If not better, kinder- garden teachers than women is cer- talnly Interesting. So far as we know, no men have been employed either as kindergarten - teachers in the Omaba schools or as supervisors of the kin- dergarten work. On the contrary, the kindergartens have been regarded as a sort of training school for young women who have no normal or other special edu- cation, and, while many of them turn out well, others fail to materialize and the work of the kindergartens s largely experimental in character. That this is subversive of best results will be con- ceded even by the most ardent cham- plons of the kindergartens. i The whole subject of kindergartens calls . for careful investigatiom; with special reference to its practical appll- catlon to existing local conditions. ——— New McKinley postal cards are not meeting .with the popular favor anticl- pated for them. This 18 not due to any lack of ‘reverence for the: lamented president whose portrait appears upon it, but to its unattractive design and poorly placed imprint, that interferes with the address. Another ifunovation that is far from improvement is’ the fnscription labeling the portraits ywith the names of the presidents pictured as if they would not otherwise be recog- nized and identified. It has never been deemed necessary to print the name Washington under the minlature on our everyday postage stamps for fear he might be accused of traveling in disguise, nor is there any more reason for putting a signboard on the portrait of McKinley. Unless all signs fafl, the new postals will be called in after a short run. —_— Dairy experts of the Department of Agriculture have been conducting a serles of butter tests, the results of which are to be embodied in an officlal report. The conclusions of these experts if accompanied with practical SUgges- tions can and should be useful as well as ornamental. If the dairy experts will instruct the boarders how to pro- ceed under approved rules of etiquette when they want to enter mild remon- strance against physical culture to make the butter strong, they can relleve the pressure for expletives over a broad ex- panse of territory. If they can suggest & sure test by which the fair churner may be identified by the color of the hair, they can save many a sufferer from long-drawn suspense. Oma Ak-Sar-Ben illuminations are pronounced far more striking and artistic than those in which London tried to shiue in honor of King Bd- ward's coronation, the verdict being rendered by an impartial observer who has witnessed both festivities. This is decidedly gratifying to Omaba and serves to enhance the just pride we have taken in the beautiful display of incandescence which blazes a warm wel- come to Ak-Sar-Ben's guests every year. It is not until the opportunity presents to compare the illumination effects at Omaha and elsewhere that the unex- ampled success scored here is tully ap- preciated. ——— Wichita Is the latest victim of street- stealing, railroads laying tracks on its thoroughfares in dead of night without legal authority. Yet the railroad mag- nates who are responsible for such law- less exhibitions as this from time to time in nearly every eity in the coun- try, complain when they are asked to pay a just proportion of taxes on their fnvaluable rights-of-way and franchises. New York World. A western. orator says the United States “will fall like Babylon.” Probably he will babble on, even after the fall A er Wi s Boston Transeript. In lieu of a “bracer” Chancellor Andrews of the University of Nebraska recommends young men to eat raw beef, raw eggs or raw oys No doubt thése would be bet- ter for the stomach, but then what sentl- ment would there be in asking & friend to Join you In a raw oyster or a raw egg or a beef au naturel? Sigel's Romantic Career. New York Tribune. The death of Franz Sigel ends a career of unusual and varied activity and crowded with materials of romance rarely stumbled on In our own prosalc days. Chalk Up & White Mark. Indianapolis. Journal A practical refutation of the common theory that corporations have no souls s afforded by the fact that the Wabash rail- road is now sending a party of forty in- valld employes on a trip to southern Call- fornia. The party travels in epecial fitted up like traveling hospitals and is in charge of three trained nurses. Merely Killing Time. Chicago Record-Herald. As he was boarding the steamer to start for Europe Schwab said: “T don't know where I am going. 1 haven't had time to map out a ‘course ahead. I'm not sick. I'm not golng to resign. I'm not going away on business.” Perhaps he's merely taking a trip across because he hasn’t any- thing else to do, and bates to just sit around drawing his salary. Some people are 60 queer about these things. Portland Oregonian. The apple growers of half a dozen west- ern #\gtes, including Nebraska, have formed a trust “to regulate the price of that fruit.” Thus falls at one fell stroke one of the most moving appeals of Bryan in the last campaign. “The poor apple grower” and his hard lot compared to the trust mag- nate ornamented the fervid supplication of the Nebraskan for his own election. The ‘“paramounts” are suffering from & heavy mortality. Time to Apply the Law. Indianapolis Journal. 1t evidence can be obtained to show that the coal-carrying railroad companies own the anthracite inlnes to any extent it is probable that a sult will be begun against them under a law of Pennsylvania which prohibits railroad companies from engaging in mining ‘or manufacturing. President Baer has been talking as if the mines be- longed to his ratiroad company. Just now the temper of the people is such that they will not permit violation of & law to their injury. Should Take a Day Off. New York Evening Post. Another of the leaders of the little group of mén who control the mining of coal in Pennsylvania has been talking in a tone which shows a Bourbon blindness to the fundamental principles involved. Presi- dent Truesdale of the Lackawanna rafl- road is quoted hy the Tribune ae con- demning the Civic federation, but for the interference of which he holds that there would never ve been any strike, and then as adding: “Just fancy such men as Senator Hanna and Bishop Potter, who know nothing about mining, trylng to set- tle differences which concern and our employes and nchody #lse.” fs that same idea that a controversy which in- volves the regular production of fuel needed throughout the country is as purely a' private matter:between employer and employed' as a dispute in a single cotton mill or ifon foundry. Mr. Truesdale had better “take a day off" and read the com- ments of a few handred newspapers upon the situafion in Bennsylvania. He would discover before he. was through that the people consider that these differences con- cern them in, 1{%} way. —————— Whastefnl, Wiy Expenditures. Lesle's Weekly. The sale for '$20,000 of s ordnance at Sandy Hook, which cost government nearly $1,000,000 only nine years ago, rep- resent a loas not ip be explained away by the rapid improvement in war enginery in recent years. That might serve as a plausi- ble ‘excuse for a plece of Tammany fool ness and extravagance, but it | not enough to justify a department of the gen- eral government wherein we have a right to look for wise foresight and the judiclous expenditure of public funds, To be plain about it, it was a plece of sheer carelessness and. wasteful stupldity, if it was nothing worse. It is bad enough to feel obliged to spend millions of public funds every year in armor tests, gunpowder experiments and other accessories of the art of killing, but to spend a million or more on ordnance to be thrown away in a few years for old Junk is to pay more dearly for the war pas: slon than present conditions warrant. Some day we shall wake up to the supreme fool- ishness of all this business of spending dollars for defense against foes who never come, while we pinch the pennies nect sary to protect ourselves against the ene. mies of our soclal, clvic and munieipal life, who press upon us from every side. A SAVAGE INSULT TO LABOR. Governor's Letter to Plumbers' Union Held Up in Its True Light. South Omaha Independent. The reply of Governor Savage to a let- ter of the Omaha machinists protesting inst tl manner in which he ignored organized labor in the appointing of the new Omaha Board of Fire and Police Com- missloners was ome of the most insulting and misleading documents ever penned by a public man. In his anxlety to punish the editor of The Bee he slanders and abuses the best citizens of our republic simply because they exercise the right glven them by the constitution of the United States. Organized labor, repre- senting fully 50 per cent of the popula- tion of Omaha, asked that a representa- tive of that elass be named as one of the members of the -new Board of Fire and Police Commissioners, which has complete control of the police affairs of that ecity. The contents of the reply written by Gov- ernor Savage only proves the true charac- ter of the man and thoroughly demon- strates the unfitness of the man for the responsible position which he holds through a political accident and not by a cholce of the people. In his reference to organized labor he puts it “organized out- lawry"” d classes the requ of the Omaha labor organizations as the demands of “amarchists and soclalist: yet the governor’s letter is couched in language that would lead a disinterested observer to suspect that the brain of a Herr Most dictated the comtents of that letter. We admit that there are & Vi few members of organized labor who are not as law- abiding as could be wished, but the ma- jority of those who make up the great army of organized labor of this country are law-ablding and peace-loving citizens. Organized labor was never instrumental in turning loose a convicted criminal upon soclety and shielded his confederates from the law who had robbed the taxpayers of Nebraska of $800,000. Simply because organized labor opposed the idea of turn- ing over the coptrel of the Omaha police department to the minlons of the Union Pacific rallroad to assist in electing one of its tools to congress the governor loses his head and vilifles and slanders or- ganized labor, bellevig that by such words, unwisely spoken, he can get back st his political enemies The roor says he has had calloused and blistered hands through honest toil, but he had on the big mitt when he turned the key that opened the of the state penitentiary and permitted Joe Bartley to walk forth a free mas. AUGUST %v, 1902 COMPLIMENTS TO SAVAGE. South Omaba Independent: Governor Savage tells organized labor that his eal- loused hands are his card. Joe Bartley holds a card in the same union and is & member in good standing. Scotts Bluff Republican: It Governor Sav- age don't keep quiet and leave Rosewater alone he is llable to smell an unpleasant odor around the state house during the ro- maider of his time in office. Wisner Free Press: Bditor Rosewater and Governor Savage were both in at- tendance at the German festival at West Point. They perhaps maintained respect- ive positions at opposite ends of the beer garden. York Republl You can’t get a man on the anxious seat when he has nothing left to be anxious about. This is the reason Rosewater can't hurt Savage. When a man b nothing to lose he fsn't afraid of losing it Callaway Tribune: The governor has delivered a body blow to the Rosewater- Moores machine in Omaha, in the appoint- ment of a Board of Fire and Police Com- missioners, but Rosey will have thelr hides and don’t you forget ‘it. Fremont Tribune: The roasts which Governor Savage has been getting from Omaha union labor men of late did not de- ter him from issuing a procl: tion setting aside September 1 as Labor day. The gov- ernor evidently has a forgiving epirit. Plattsmouth Journal: Rosewater says that “Governor Bavage's honeyed Labor day proclamation will not wash away the bitter taste of his insulting letter to the union plumbers.” What does the mccident governor care for what ‘‘Rosey” says, when he is going to leave the state? Savage is one of those “people be fellows, anyhow. ernor They had a right to ask that ome of their number be chosen a member of the fire and police commission of Omaha. When their request was not granted, they had a right to ask why it was not granted, provided their question was put in becoming language, which it was. They had a right to expect a courte- ous reply, which they did not recelve. The governor in his reply intimated that their man wae incompetent, that he would it appointed fall a victim to outside In- fluence and that there was plenty of money to be had if he would appoint cer- tain individuals as members of such board. They had a right to ask who offered that money and In whose Interests it was oftered. This question the governor should answer. This, however, they should bear in mind. They have no cause to assume that this special financial statement from his excellency refers to their man, es- pecially since he has not stated that he did not appoint the man who offered the money. THE PRESIDENT IN NEW ENGLAND, Indianapolis Journal: The reception of the president in New England is of the most cordial nature, showing with due respect to the chief magistrate a psr-on-l admiration for Springfied Republican: No president can come into New England without receiving a cordial, even an enthusiastic, welcome. For President Roosevelt the welcome can- not fall to equal that given to any of his predecessors, for the people of all partles are interested in his personality, admire his ability and respect his manhood. Minneapolis Journal: President Roose- velt 1s in touch with the “plain people.” He showed that in his speech the other day and his auditors showed it; too. It s a mighty- good thing- for this country that at such a time of change as this it has at the head of its affairs a man with such broad sympathies o little of class or interest prejudice. Buffalo Express: President Roosevelt spoke of Cuba and the Philippines on the first day of his New England tour and yes- terday he took up the third great question of the time—the treatment of trusts. The president has not altered his attitude to- ward these questions, but he has made even clearer than before what his views are. His speech on trusts merits thoughtful reading. Kansas City Star: The gain to the coun- try's eolidarity through the presidency of a man of Mr. Roosevelt's character is enor- mous. The slight tendency of the nation to stratify in clasees, which has appeared in recent years, has been cause for dis- quietude. By recognizing no classes the president has given a check to any such stratification. His influence has warked powerfully toward the maintenance of so- cial democracy. In this he h: great factor in conserving the i America stands. Boston Transcript: The tour of Presi- dent Roosevelt through New England, which was begun in Connecticut, is pre- ceded by pleasant expectancy in a number of places. He will visit every state during his trip, and he will meet many of our people f: to face as his predecessor llked to meet them. Confidence begeéts confidence, and a frank statement of principles and policy by the head of the govenrment is al- ways well received by the people. It makes their interest in national affairs more di- rect and intimate, and emphasizes anew for them the fact that they are the source of government and that thelr most promi- nent public servant is making his report to them of *what has been done and his recommendations as to what should be the pext steps in national progress. Hy y Republh Chicago Chronicle (dem.). Mr. Watterson's dislike for Grover Cleve- lend is so great that he has no hesitation in saying that as between him and Mr. Roosevelt he would vote for the latter. There is reason to believe that many other democrats are of the same oplnion. On the other hand, there are democrats who are so much opposed to Mr. Bryan that as between: him and Mr. Roosevelt they would prefer Mr. Roosevelt. Unless all appearances are deceitful a majority of the democrats of the country are more inclined to vote for a republican than they are to vote for some democrats. This is a delightful condition of affairs for Mr. Roosevelt and for the republicans generally. 1f they ‘can manage to preserve the status quo they will not be called upon to overexert themselves in the next presi- dential campalgn. Democrats who camnot tolerate each other are not likely to be very troublesome to anybody but themselv Lav! ty Chicago Chronicle. In spite of the Beef trust and the Coal trust there le still reason for the con- sumer to be of good cheer. Nature has done her level best this season and has loaded the earth with an abundance of fruits and vegetables, whose quality is as good as the quantity. East and west the reports are the same. The substantial grains are a golden har- vest. The farm and garden truck is fill- ing the markets. The peach crop, which failed in April, is one of the most abun- dant known and Boston and New York are already shipping the oversupply of apples to foreign markets. While the farmer prom to be the “bloated bondholder” of the season, it is not because of a corner or any trus! The consumer shares with him the lavi bounty of nature and any excess in the price of beef, of coal and of rents is more than made good by the low price of other necessaries. 'ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metro Every day nowadays is Coney Island's busy day, but Sunday there is a three-ply hummer. Although theé Weather bureau has no station there, the fact is conceded without bulletins that the locality is the warmest spot on the continent outside of Arizgona or Mojave. Here all the midway freaks of a generation are gathered, as well as the spielers and barkers of a con- tinent. In recent years many changes for the better have been' wrought by police pressure, yet Coney Is old Coney still. In the evening, after the better element of humanity, has departed, it is still necessary to keep your watch out of eight and your band on your pocketbook. In the language of the people, the na- tive only knows the game. He tells you that wise man is one who has oft been fooled,” and that his wisdom cost him money. 1If you gain his good graces, he will acquaint you with some of the tricks of the island, some of the ‘‘grafts,” as he calls them, and add, as a farewell salute, ““Keep your hand on your watch, and don't take any bad money.” The other day & man was held up in broad daylight and relleved of his watch and $50. it whatever. He dropped into a resort to quench his thirst and was persuaded to hand over his valuables before departing. Everything new in the line of popular amusements is tried at Coney Island. There is a market and plenty of money to launch nce, the proprietor of one of the largest amusement gardens is paying a bandmaster $1,000 a day for a lengthy season at a resort further down the coast. Persons who professed to know sald he would never get it back, but the proprietor has made many fortunes at Coney Island and knows his business. The barkers at Coney Island, those de- monstrative individuals who pose outside of all shows and praise the quality of the entertainment. within, form an interesting study in themselyes. Competition Is keen and they juggle the truth at will, in all cases there’'s more on the billposters than inside the tent, but that's a trade secret. Charles A. Pomeroy, a New York business man, is the owter of a bill issued by the United States government that perhaps could not be duplicated. If he should pass it over a counter the man in charge would give him cha for $10 if one side were up, and $20 if the other side were exposed to view. It is a pefcetly made and printed government note, except that the back calls for twice the value of the front. It is sald that four such bills were issued from Uncle Sam’'s presses before the error was discovered. Three of them were caught in time and destroyed, but the fourth began its career in the commercial world; but how far it went, or what experiences it passed through no one knew until it fell into the hands of Charles 8. Upton of Rochester, who recognized its value as a curiosisty and took | *79: it in out of the eold. it to Mr. Pomeroy. On his death he willed He was offered $50 for it by the governm: nd has refused $1,600 from a private individnal This note was issued in January, 1861, by the Second National bank of Springfield, Mass. There is no doubt as to its genuine- ness. A test was made some time ago by soaking it for two days in water, the state- ment having been advanced that it was really two bills pasted together. In this day of “Spanish {n Eleven Les. sone at 49 Cents,” and “Every Man Own Trainer,” it is not surprising to learn that New York can boast of two establish- ments which will turn out fully equipped magicians at-bargain rates. One s located on Sixth avenue, the other on the Bowery, and both reach out for the trade of amateurs as well as professionals. Here may be purchased tricks at prices ranging from 10 cents to $1,000, Here also is sup- plied the apparatus for many well known conjurs for there are few who, like the late Herrmann and Kellar, can afford private workshops. The store presents a commonplace appearance and its shelves are stacked with tricks as are patent medicines in a drug store or canned goods in a grocery. The trick asked for will be taken down and explained by the salesman with all the nonchalance of the dry goods clerk dilating on the good points of a ready- made suit. These tricks are for the most part on famillar patterns, vases with false tops, boxes with deceptive bottoms, or per- haps such ambitious bits of mechanism as the sword with which a magician stabs & deck of cards and jmpales selected paste- boards. Here, too, may be bought the handkerchief box in its old form, the familiar ball that will stop on a string at the word of command. Some bits of apparatus, heavily plated, cost as much as $26 or even $50, within & mile of the fashionable theater district is a trick store whose proprietors are decidedly averse to advertising of any sort. The firm denles connection Wwith any other concern, and the less the general public knows of its ‘wares, the more it is pleased. A new purchaser must be vouched for by some old customer. The concern deals in slates and other means employed by “‘mediums." One may have the choice of half a dozen modes of slatewriting, or purchase the filmy wrappings with which the fleshy “gpirits’ clothe themselves. Devices for table-rapping and other demonstrations are included in the stock offered, and, of the three concerns mentioned, it must be ad mitted that in proportion to its size and capital, the last named fiym does the most profitable business, The more the dear public is fooled, the larger price it is will- ing to pay for the experience. There was & young woman in New York who was warned against marrying a man whom she was Inclined to favor, on the ground that he was of unsteady habits; but, on the other hand, he was like the young man told of in the Secrip- tures—he was very rich. “I'll risk him,” she sald. “He will never go too far when I am around—that 1s, not for the second time. When they had been married for six months there came time when he rived home one night | as to the location of the keyhols The wife helped him find it, and with much Jabor steered him into the bath- room and deposited him in the bathtub, There was no ceremony about | f clothes and all. Then she turned on the hot water. It warmed him sober. The clothes were rulned and a good watch injured, but his soul was flled with fear. He may have preserved his bad habits In secret, but he has never yet dared to carry another load hom PERSONAL NOTES, Coln Harvey has become a goldbug. He 18 conducting a summer resort in the Oszark moutains. The congress of Cuba has preferred charges against President Palma’s secretary of public works and Mr. Palma may be im- | peached. They do things surprisingly fast in Cuba, A California woman reformer who combats the cigarette habit takes for the text of her lecture the following notice posted In a dog show: “No smoking allowed here, for hurts the dogs.” ‘Wall street has tried for yoars to throw Uncle Russell Sage down, while it took a Broadway motorman two seconds to do ft. Uncle Russell will take his revenge out of ‘Wall street just the same, though. Labor day at Watertown, N. Y., will be | marked by the unvelling of a fine monument | 10 the late Governor Roswell P. Flower, who was a resident of that city and universally popular among the working people. The Oyster Bay postoffice was open om Sunday last for the first time In its ex- Istence, but the president did not apply at the general delivery for any letters. There ‘was possibly some mall for him, too. Charles Denby, jr.,. son of the former United States minister to China, has been selected by Guan Shi Kal as his chief for- eign adviser. Mr. Denby wa the provisional goverpment and i an astute diplomat. The anti-bibulous order of Pension Com- missioner Ware has already improved the morale of the bureau, although it took eral removals and a score of reductions in rank to convince the employes that the come missioner was in earnest. The novelty of a bureau chief insisting upon sobriety among | his subordinates has been without a pr dent, “The Grand Army,” says the Boston Transcript, “did the wise as well as the dignified and appropriate thing in barring ragtime music from the parade of the vet- erans at Washington. There is & time for everything and there is a time when some things are wholly out of place. The patriotic alrs which have thrilled the hearts of so many veterans, both during the civil war and since, should not be adulterated by th mixture of coon songs of the ragtime order.” i — SMILING REMARKS, Pwtor—whlch kind of pn:enu do yo“n it the hardest to cure? 0ld Doctor—Those who have nothing the matter with them. Philadelphia Press: His Medical Adviser— You won't last long at this rate, younj man. You are burning the candle at bot Gayboy—Very well, doctor. When the candle 18 burnt out I'i Tl light the gas. Washington Star: W] 'nk-a the man who hi s in & name?"’ the quotation 1a the Dulhu- man, ‘it ‘J. Pierpont {he. Bottom of & check you woor[“hlnk there is a great deal in a name." Baltimore American: “Eve," sald Adam one Monday evsnlni there 1sn’'t a single kul left on nny of the fig trees down there in the grove l 'ondfl‘ who could have Dluckld lll ol { dlm." tlttel"d Eye, “don't you Imnw hat today is bargain Monday?" New York Sun: Columbus was recount- Ing the perils Shrml‘h which he had ‘Hurr] cfinel e cried. ‘I never w lnylhlnl' like it. hy, when I was passing nd the horn the wind blew my name ln lnn bottle!' tm- hu friends, Temembering that the reat map had come Rome In the steerage, eait kindly with him. Chicago Post: When the fat man missed d came down hard on the Tl have to take your name and sir,” he said. Good heavens!" exclaimed the fat man, “do you think I hurt your right of way?" Philadelphia Pre: Towne—I see there's a western sclentist who declares that the insect which says “Katle did” is the male and the one that says “Katle dldn't” is the female. Henpeck—That's all nonlenle. bec: ou'll notice that one that says 1d" frequently has the last word. I'll bet they're both females. IF WILLIE WERE A KING, 8. E. Kiser in the Record-Herald. I wisht T'd be a king awhile—I bet you they'd be A lot of things made different that don't seem t to me. I'd fix lt‘ 'l?l. boy could play till 10 o'clock a nf And nevsr hnfl to go to bed alone with- out a light; right in_our back yard I'd have a lake all filled with fish, ‘Where I could go and hnok them out ‘whenever I would wish. And there's a boy In !Illdl, school who has a pa !hl 's bad And drinks and in jail and makes his mother awfil sad— He mvar has new elu to wear and one time when he cri Right out in Bundnr school, when 1 was settin’ by his side, The teacher aat him what was wrong and The ‘Wighe before had Pounded him and nearly killed his If I was king I'd go and find the boys s ‘used that way a And land their pas far off some place where they would have to stay. And lhan I'd send thelr mu and new things to wear and 'i And bulld new houses so they'd all lve on a better street— ra mlke them all so glad, I bet, they'd never cry no Wlfllb more piaces ‘on their arms and Tegs all fack and blue and sore. And there's a little girl I know that has no pa at all, And 'she can't walk, becauss ene time her brother let her fall— ra bur a pnny cart for her, all soft and ce inside, And make her just as glad as though her pa_had never died. And I'd put up & castle here, so ma'd not feel so bad Because our house was not so grand as what the Bronsons had. I cgula be & king—there’s lots L . m to fit-I'd get r'd fix it so a bo mum g0 wherever he would please, And not '!t whip| because he tore his b o0 d"n"o't"nn the things I'd bes o o would be to let But, oh, the Boys always eat tlull' ple before the other thin re et. 0