Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 28, 1902, Page 6

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1902 THE ©OMAHA DALy BEE. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. —_— - PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TEKMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ally Bee (without Bunday), Une Year.$4.00 ally Bee ana sunday, une Y . 6w justrated Bee, Une ¥ea Sunaay Bee, Une Yeal Baturaay bee, Une Xe ntieth Century Farm DELIVERED BY CARRIL y Bee (without Sunday), per cop. ly Bee (Without BunGay), per wee. al unday e Iy bee Unciuding Sunday), per wee per_copy Evening Bee (without 8, Eyening Bee (nciuding Sunday week . Compiaints of irregularities in delivery should be aduressea to City Clrculauoii Department. P OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding. Bouth Umaha—_ity siaii Bullding, Twen- ty-iiih und M bireets. Councll Biuffs—iv Pearl Sireet. Chicagu—iwiy Unity Building. New York—Temple Court. = Washington—wi » ouricenth Street. CURKESPUNDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Umana Bee, Kaltorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business lecters and remittances should dressed: —The Hee Publishing Com- pany, Umana. o | per week. e ver REMITTANCES. i ymit by draft, express or postal order, “.Abll l: The Bee Publishing Company. 5:5 2-cent stamps Mctrlld in payment of mail aecoun 3 k‘tm:nnc::.eclx&:,‘ :t(::h‘l:“ll OF castern exchanges, not accepted. 0% IYMEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCILATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, s, George B. Taschick, secretary of The Be Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Daily, Moraing, Evening and Sunday Mee printed during the month of July, 1%2, ..20,630 29,570 was as follows: 1" EEBENERPRERNESE Net total sules Net dally average The Turkish sultan operates on the maxim, Never pay today a bill you can stand off till tomorrow. Caution—Well-behaved Kkitties are hereby warned to purr softly so as not to disturb the policeman. The raflroad tax bureau has got up to fts fiftieth bunco bulletin. ~But 500 bulletins of the same kind will not miake the raiiroad case auy siionger. E—— The promise is out that the festive oyster will be with us before the week rolls around. The crustaceous lobster has been In evidence right along. e Money may be picked off of weeds in Nebraska only occasionally, when regis- tered mail pouches break open, but it grows on every cornstalk and on every farm in the stat 2 A census report shows that 85 per cent of the collar and cuff output is traceable to the factories at Troy, N. Y. Troy is surely entitled to pose the mother of laundries. L ——1 General Miles' proposed visit to the Philippines may be depended on to start & new stream of storles from the news- paper mind readers that feed the popo- eratic yellow journals. Senrep—— A bird's-eye view of Omaha shows up & goodly number of new roofs, noting bouses and dwellings that have risen during the present season. This is sub- stantial growth that always counts. Fallure of the rice crop in Japan might be utilized to educate the orien- tals up to the beauties of American corn bread, muffins and prepared break- fast foods. Where Is Corn Cake Mur- phy? As yet there has been no dispute over the prize money which participants in the naval sham battle have a right to claim. No wonder no one can be per- suaded that mimic warfare is as good as the real thing. Chancellor Andrews' lectures before the University of Chicago must be the best paylug Investment that institution ean boast If the value of the free news- paper advertising secured by them s taken iuto the account. e————— When President Roosevelt comes to Omaha, Ak-Sar-Ben will call him to wit- ness the most dazzling electrical parade and llluminations ever put on the boards. No matter where he goes, at bhome or abroad, he will not find the equal. g mTTEe——— Challenges Yor joint debates may be t in the pending campaign in Nebras The fusionists in this state have always kept & supply of debate challenges on hand ready to be set off at every op- portunity. e —-..— ‘What the Union Pacific strikers can hope to gain by the arrest of President Burt, charged with a constructive of- fense of faJse imprisonment, is difficult | to see. Buch a move can be viewed ouly as a foolish blunder trom which no advantage can accrie. Judge Shiras of the United States su- preme court does not hesitute to express his view that arbitration is the logical method for strike settlement. Can it be possible this eminent jurist Las read ' the learncd opiulon to the contrary of Governor SBavage of — Springing information that an inde- pendant. meat packing plant is in inew- bation in Chicago must be the same as sglving notice that some outside parties want to be considered In the formation of the packers’ combine. There are wore ways than one of breaking in. | Public seutiment respecting it . His | perature? / RAILROAD BULLETIN Nu. & Ever since the Real Estate exchange secured that tuch boasted of reduction of 3 mills in the state levy for Doug- las county a well-defined rumor has and rallroad circles that the exhibit made by the committee of the exchange before the State Board of Equalization was designed for future use In the in- terest of the rallronds, In support of thelr contention that all property in the state outside of Douglas county has been assessed at from one-tenth to one- twentieth of its actual value. That well-defined rumor is now confirmed by and gives the whole thing away in the following language: that therc was a general disposition cn the ess the value of property in their sep- arate counties at 10 per cent, or possibly less, of its vglue, and in this reduction of assessnfent the railroads only desired that their assessments should be made on the same basis as other property. in support of this form of argument we have been ably seconded by the facts and figures pre- sented and the argument made at Lincoln by the Omaha Real Estate exchange in the presentation of their case, asking for & re- duction in the levy for state purposes in Douglas county. Mr. McIntosh, in his argument before the board, ably presented this feature which the rallroads wish to make plain. There is no doubt that the rallroads were abl§ aided by the Real Estate ex- change committee and its attorney, and the most deplorable feature is that this committee knowingly assisted the rail- roads, under the pretense that it was saving the taxpayers of Douglas county over $50,000 in taxes for the year 1902. As a matter of fact, the state board reduced the total levy by $100,000, thus deliberately creating an overlap which the next state board will be compelled to make good, unless the policy of reck- less increase in the state debt shall con- tinue to be pursued. Cutting down the state levy by $100,- 000 in the face of a deficit of $100,000 in the running expenses of the state does not help the taxpayers. It simply piles up the state debt, Increases the annual interest charge and will fically result in an enormous Increase in taxation. ‘When the tax bureaucrats assert that the assessors throughout the state show a general disposition to assess property in their separate counties at 10 per cent, or possibly less, of its value, they de- liberately falsify the facts. The as- sessors In nearly every county held meetings prior to entering upon their duties and agreed upon a basis for as- sessment averaging from one-fourth to gme-seventh of actual ue, and the real estate and personal property as- sessments, with rare exceptions, prove that the rat'o of assessment to actual value is from one-fourth to one-seventh, while the railroad property is assessed by the state board at one-twelfth or one- thirteenth of its actual value. been in circulation In Commercial club | bulletin No. 48, which drops the mask | In the preceding bulletins we have shown | part of assessors throughout the state to | epeech at Lowell will undoubtedly com- mand general attention and the public opinion it will elicit will show pretty conclusively to what extent the country approves the president's position. VALUABLE AS PRACTICE. The consensus of expert opinion seems to be that about the only merit of the recent naval maneuvers is in the prac- tice which it gave to those engaged in it. It appears perfectly obvious that it proved nothing conclusively as to our | ability for defense agalnst a foreign enemy. In order to have done this the attacking and defending forces should have been practically equal in strengti, whereas there was a wide disparity, the defending force having sixty-five points, thus giving it a very great ad- vantage. It is by no means improbable that had the force under Commander Pillsbury been as strong as that of Ad miral Higgineon the result would have been different. There is consequently no satisfactory conclusion to be derived from this mimic naval war and it seems quite safe to assume that no better result will come of the naval and wmilitary operations presently to take place. Such sham conflicts may be very excellent in the practice they afford, but beyond this they are of little if .any value. There can be no reasonable objection to having them once a year, but it will hardly be seriously claimed that they are important as a means of demon- strating our ability for defense. How- | ever, there is only the most remote dan- ger of our having this put to the test by a foreign enemy and meanwhile there will be nothing lost in training our sol diers and sailors under conditions which closely imitate actual war. AN OFFENSIVE INQUISITION, A New York paper says that entrance to that port by travelers from foreign countries has of late become an odious experience. There has been much com- | plaint of the offensive nature of the inquisition on the part of agents of the {mmigration bureau and some reform in regard to this Is being considered by the authorities. An example is given in the case of a youth, the son of a proml- nent English lawyer and member of Par- llament, who on his arrival at New York was asked among other questions if he had ever been In jail and if he was a polygamist. The propounding of such questions to a boy naturally attracted attention and when the matter came to the knowledge of the commissioner gen- eral of immigration he promptly de- cided to take steps that would obviate such offensive inquisition. The Iimmi- gration agents are of course acting in conformity to the law, but they are sup- posed to exercise a reasonable amount of discrimination in their questioniug. As the commissioner general says, the agents are expected to exercise tact and ‘When the supreme court shall order the state board to reconvene for the re- assessment of rajlroad property on an honest and equitable basis, the bulletins issued “by authority of the railroads” will afford the strongest proof against the railroads that could be produced in support of the charge that the railroads of Nebraska do not bear their just share of the tax burden. THE DUTY TOWARD CUBA. President Roosevelt is most earnestly in favor of a liberal commercial policy toward Cuba. He belleves that this is not only essential to the welfare of that island, but would be highly beneficial to this country. He takes the view that s Cuba Is to be a part of our interna- tional political system we must make her a part of our economlc system, “I ours,” sald Mr. Roosevelt. “There is a great market In Cuba and I wish to see it controlled iu the interest of our own people.” In a very pointed way he urged the expediency of caring for the us, with particular reference to Cuba, saying that “We must remember’ that we can do good with ourselves perma- nently only it we do good to those with whom we are brought into eontact; that we must keep both facts well in mind. We must keep our own interests as well as the Interests of the weaker people whose destiny is now inextricably in- terwoven with ours.” 'He made an ap- peal in behalf of reciprocity with Cuba, “primarily in Cuba's interests, but also tor our own great benefit.” It is not to be doubted that this un- qualiied appeal of President Roosevelt wil bave a very decided effect upon publiic opinion. Its earnestuess and sincerity cannot be doubted. No man in the couutry is more solicitous than the president respecting the interests of Awerican industries. He has at all tiles shown a desire to conserve those industries and to wmaintain a policy necessury to fhelr development and prosperity. Not less than his predeces- sor he believes in protecting Awerican industries und Awerican lubor. He has stated this plainly in his recent utter- ances. But Mr. Rooseveit believes that we can enter into closer trade relations with our near neighbor, Cuba, without auy sacritice of our domesuc interests, | but ruther With advantage to thew us a jwhole, und therefore he counsels recl- Pprocily, not upon auy specidic lnes, but on & basis which he believes will be at once beneficial to Cuba and to our- selves. The question is one which still claims serious dellberation. There are Aweri- cun interests which are deeply con- cerned in its determination. Repub- lican state conventions have with few exceptious pronounced in ravor of reci- procity with Cuba and many republican leaders ave in accord with the presi- dent. It is a question that wust be decided In the near future aud it Is well that President Roosevelt is giving an opportunity for the expression of ask it in ber Interest and I ask it in| interests of the people to the south of | Judgment in carrying out the part of the law requiring them to ascertiin cer- tain facts regarding persons coming into the country, -The absurdity, for ‘n- stance, of asking a boy of 19 if he is a polygamist is so obvious that there can be no satisfuctory excuse for it. The desirability of shutting out criminals and others whom' the law excludes will not be questioned, but the work is not forwarded by subjecting tourists, mer- chants and all other foreigners to ques- tions that In many cases can be re- garded only as ipsulting. “The an- archist or criminal will not hesitate to swear falsely,” observes the New York Mail and Express. “Their detection must depend upon the combination of well-informed watchfulness of ugeuts of this country in Europe and common sense discrimination by the home offi- clals, whose chief duty is to hold the transportation companies to the full ex- ecution of their responsibilities.” There is very clearly need of reform in this matter and it would seem that this I8 to be properly secured only through congressional action, so modify- Ing the law that the immigration agents will not have to make the offensive in- quisition now required of them. The Baldwin-Mercer police board has given us another example of its idea of reform by promoting to a sergeancy one of the police captains it had re- duced to the ranks without charges or trial immediately on assuming control of the department. With the reasous for the present promotion, as endorsed on the board's records, “for long aud faithful service and obedience to ! orders,” no one will take issue, but it Is certainly pertinent to ask why an otlicer worthy of such commendation, who by strict attention to duty had worked himself up from the bottom to the posi- tion of captain; should have been sud- denly put back on a patrolman's beat and deprived, without a hearing, of every advancement earned through long years of service. If this is the concep- tion of police discipline entertained by members of the referm police commlis- slon, what incentive to efficient service can wembers of the force have? The Omaha Real Estate exchange ren- dered excellent service to the taxpayers of this city in its effort to enforce more equitable assessment in the city of Omaba and county of Douglas, and es- peclally in securing from the supreme court the decision that compels the as- sessment of the franchises of publie utility corporations. But for some reason that nobody has been willing or able to explain a secret compact has been made with the rallroads by which the Real Estate exchange Is to play the part of the monkey who Is to pull hot railroad chestnuts out of the fire. The New York World weather expert is trying to comsole us that there Is time for us to enjoy a 1902 summer yet. It we should get our summer weather in the winter season, will we not have trouble in catching up on winter tem- Chauces are good that by the end of the year we will all be willing to turn over a new leaf on the calendar and call it quits. The League of American Municipall- ties will have no trouble In agree.ng that there s room for vast improvement in the administration of our American cities, but it will also have to admit that the progress of municipal reform has kept well up with the progress of the people making up the city. Let the campalgn of education go on. o Slow but Sure. New York Tribune. American diplomacy with the porte some- times has to move slowly, but it generally gets there, all the same. One Mud » Saturday Evening Post. Beef went up en account of the scarcity of beef. Coal went up because of the scarcity of coal. The only surprising thing is that ice did not go up on account of the scarcity of water. Some e for Thankfulness. Kansas City Journal. One of the gratifylng things about the naval encounter between Captain Pillsbury and Admiral Higginson s the fact that it does not saddle the country with an sddi- tional pension roll. —— He'll Never Get Left. afraid that there are too many trusts, and there will be a grand col- lapse some morning, when Morgan fsn't Uncle Ruseell believes, appar- ently, that there Is going to be a brokers' :ru:L But he need not fear. He will be n it. — 0ld Wound Still Rankles, Baltimore American, The feellng of the conquered provinces, exhibited by a deputation of citizens from Lorraine who crossed the frontler to par- ticipate in & French eelebration of & battle of 1870, shows that the old wound still rankles, and & wound which refuses to heal 1s ad for international health as it 1s for individuals. The physical volcanoes may not be the only ones which have been si- lently working on the underside toward a dsastrous explosion. —— FIGHTS MIT SIGEL. of & Noted Figur Civil War Period. Chicago Tribune. One of the notable figures of the Ger- man revolution of 1848 and of the Ame lcan civil war has passed away. General Franz Sigel died yesterday in his sev- enty-eighth year. THe failure of the rev- olution. of *48 was a happy event for the United States. It drove into exile on these ghiores a cholce body of educated, ardent, liberty-loving Germans, who lost none of their devotion to freedom when they crossed the ocean and who fought as bravely in its cause with tongue, pen and sword In this country as in their na- tive land. When the civil war W zel was precisely where he was needed. He was at St. Louls. He went there to teach boys the érts of peace and found it necessary to instruct men in the school of the sol- dier. The Americas,' Blair, had no more ef- ficlent ally in his fight to hold St. Louts and Missouri for the’ unfoti than the German, Sigel. The latter orzanized his wumry-' men. He had had°n ‘thorough military education. He had”taken dn active part in military operatiods o Baden. He raised a reglment, he bedame brigadier general and major genmeralili He played a con- spicuous and creditable. part in military affairs in Missourl during the first year of the war, but he was not a great mili- tary genius, and when he was traneferred to the valley of Virginia his reputation suffered there, as @1d the reputations of 80 many = other federal gemerals. His management of affalrs did not satisty Gen- eral Grant. He whs relleved from com. mand and the Gerinan soldier could mno longer proudly s T fights mit Sigel.” But i’ Sigel made mistakes in his Vir- ginla campaigns, he made none when he helped to capture Camp Jackson and save Missourl. His sefvites at St. Louls were of singular value. After the war General Sigel held offices of trust under the national government and under the municipal government of New..York city. They were given to him because he was known to be an able and an incorruptible man who could be relied on always to do his full duty wherever he might be placed. - In war and in peace, in office and out of office, Franz Sigel was ever true to his adopted country and to the high ideals of freedom and Justice which {nspired him in the days of his rev- olutionary youth. of the — UNCLE SAM AND HIS SEEDS, Some New Ideas About the Distribue tion Likely to Bloom, Baltimare American. Becretary Wilson, the kind-hearted friend of the farmer, at the head of the Depart- ment of Agriculture, has at his command over a quarter of a million dollars, to be spent in seeds and plants, for free distribu- tion to those who want them, and whose names congressmen will consent to send to bim. This is a pretty large sum of money, even in these bilifon-dollar days, but this is a pretty large country, with a large num- ber of people in ft, and not a few of them want free seeds. In fact, it is right hard to find an individudl, man, woman or child, who will not consent to take something, €ven a package of seeds, provided it is gotten for nothing. So Uncle Sam never has any dificulty In getting rid of his d supply, no matter how large it may be. There has long been a suspiclon that the government 1is overdoing the free seed business and that no small part of the money expended on it is wasted. There have been times in the history of the de- partment when Malne was oversupplied with cotton seed and North Dakota with tobacco. There have also been times when the seeds sent out persistently refused to come up, and other times when the wheat came up oats, the corn came up cucumbers and the cabbages came up caulifiowers. Becretary Wilson. is, however, something of a reformer and does mot propose to bave these rather odd and curious things occur again if he can help it. Most of the seed packing will now be dgne in Washing- ton and directly under his own eye. The secretary has also a n idea which he proposes to bring into the next distribu- tions. Like all good Americans, he is & firm bellever in public schools, and, as he is also a firm bellever in free seeds. see no good reason why the two could not be brought into a harmonious and mutually profitable organisation. With this end in view, the secretary will have thousands of seed packages marked especially for the public schools, to be given to them, and to them alone. It is intended that the chil- @ren, after being taught all about them, shall plant and nurture and water them until the crop Is harveste Of course, this cannot be dome in the brick-paved echoo! playgrounds in the cities, but may be done in the school yards in the country. As a rule, the country boy has plenty of work to do at home, but perhaps he will not object to running & school garden, too, if the secretary of agriculture thinks his wind would thereby be lmprovedy The President on Trusts Conservative Poilcies. Philadelphia Ledger (ind The president's view of the trust ques- !tion in its relation to federal control is conservative. In framing federal legisia- f tion to curb monopolistic trusts care must ! be taken not to discourage the corporate ventures which do not tend to monopoly As the president polnts out, it is necessary to have co-operation in the business world as it ls to have workers' organizations. “But we have a right to ask in each case that they shall do good and not harm.” rep.) Pessimistie Kiek. Philadelphia Record (ind. dem.) Does any man now in middle life really expect to see the economic processes in- dorsed and lauded by Mr. Roosevelt in- crusted and fixed in the body politic? Of what avall to preach platitudes concerning the mental attitudes of various classes in the presence of overwhelming material tacts like the rald of the Beef trust upon the eommon people’s pockets, or the ma nificent sweep of the syndicates? The people are entitled to expect something more to the purpose from thelr Rough Rider president. How different the Roosevelt of former years—ardent reformer, {mpatient critic of authority, unfaltering champion of in- dependence and individual initiative—from this Roosevelt who from the accidental vantage ground of exalted public station throws dust in the eyes of the people, sees no flls worth mentioning, and exudes only words, words, words! Pn the Right Track, Brooklyn Eagle (ind. dem.) The speech may be summed up, in & sentence, as blazing a distinct trail for the future, while it leaves the present to take care of itself, just where It ls. This atti- tude will be satisfactory to that large bus- iness element which belleves that the trusts promote prosperity and which de- sires to lay controlling hands upon them only after full assurance that such control will not upset the business of the country. It will disgust iconoclasts, reformers and the whole brood of “Hew the line” publi- cists and statesmen. So far as the speech affects the {ssues for 1904, it tends to draw a sharp line between these antagonistic classes. We have had two striking demon- strations as to which of these classes 18 in & majority. It behooves the democrats to be wary as to how they allow the president and his party to monopolize the conserva- tive eide, of that {ssue. The president has bid for this battle ground with the astute- ness of a much older campaigner. It he is allowed to hold it unchallenged he at least will have no reason to complain. Greater Vigor Demanded. Baltimore American (rep.). In the matter of suggesting such a cure the president did mot go at Providence as far as he might have gone. His reference to the necessity of procuring a constitu- tional amendment was proper. Such an amendment is proper before the trusts can be adequately dealt with, which mu be by the federal government. But If he has such an amendment in mind, and mea to press for its authorization by congre it would have been wise for President Roosevelt to have sald so very plainly, not to have shot all around the mark and left his purposes—his real and actual determi- natfon—very largely to the imagination of the puble. In other things the president has shown W certaln amount of fearless- ness. Even in regard to the trusts he has in times past diplaved a vigor and ear- nestness in combating them that promiscd direct results,, We see, therefore, no rea- son for him to hedge now, and make the point that If he aims to induce acceptance of the trusts by teaching a certain theory concerning them he will fail. Success for him lies in the direction of an honest and .. determined effort to curb and crush thess baneful combinations until the people shall be entirely relleved of the afictions im- posed by thelr existence. Golng to Extremen. New York Sun (rep.) Mr. Roosevelt séems to have been im- pressed by the arguments advanced by the Hon. Charles E. Littlefield in favor of the plan of comstitutional amendment; a plan which the Maine statesman advocated in & powerful speech In the house of represent. tives on June 1, 1000. ‘We note, also, that although Mr. Bryan has frequently expressed the opinion that such & constitutional amendment may be necessary, the democratic platform of 1900, on which he and Mr. Stevenson ran against McKinley and Roosevelt, did not venture so far as to propose that extreme method. The revigion of the constitution, however, to enlarge the powers of the federal gov- ernment over the business of the country, was specifically demanded in 1900 by the platform of the social democrats, on which stood Bugene V. Debs of Illinols and Job Harriman of Californi that party's can- didates for president vice president. The Root of the Evil, New York World. M The president’s insistence upon national supervision of the trusts and upon pub- licity for their affairs is strenuous and ad- mirable. Both these things a needed. But neither one nor both combined will cure those evils of monopoly from which the people suffer most. * * * Publicity as to the affairs of trusts would very likely save investors and speculators some losses in the securities of over-capitalized cor- porations, and it should be enforced. But the Steel trust already publishes reg- ularly very full ana detailed statements of ite earnings, its expenses and the amount and nature of its obligations and assets. Other great corporations are doing the same as a matter of honest dealing with the publie, Yet this publicity does not prevent them from charging Americans more than they do foreigners for their products. Supervision and publicity are both re- quired and are allke good. But they do not touch the rooted evil of the trusts pro- tected by tariffs—of monopolies encouraged by law. ‘WAGES AND COST OF LIVING. Instructive Figures Compiled by the Massachusetts Bureaun of Statisties. Indlanapolis News. chusetts Bureau of Statistics has been investigating the cost of living with particular application to men of small incomes and reaches the conclusion, reached by other investigations, that in spite of our prosperous times the average man is notso Well off as be has been. A great majority of the familles of Massa- chusetts, the bureau says, have an average income of less than $1,000 a year. In- vestigating th erage yearly expendi- ture of & representative family with such an income it finds it amounting to $797, proportioned thus: Four hundred and twenty-eight dollars for food, $109 for clothing, $100 for all other purposes. As the item of food is the largest, prices for food are of chief concern. The bureau reports that since 1897 there has been an increase in price of all foods of 11.16 per cent; in dry goods and shoes of 16.07 per cent; fuel (before the anthracite strike) 9.78 per cent. Put in a concrete way the tood, clothing, rent and fuel that now cost $683.34, cost in 1807 $586.90. Offsetting these increases there has been increase in wages, which the bureau will nmext In- vestigate, but it is known that while in- creases in wages have taken place, they have not been general nor have they been in proportion to the increase of the cost of living. The moral of all this is a double one: First, those that are fortunate emough to be employed, and this practically means everybody these days, should remember that as an actual fact the great- est part of the prosperity the. op- portunity to labor and not the actual amount of profit. And so.there should be & rigid attempt at saving against the time when labor may be scarce. The other de- duction s that as a whole people we should take in hand our laws that give monop- olles to trusts and enable these to increase prices to Americans beyond world price beyond prices that the same concerns ask foreigners to pay. PERSONAL NOTES. Europe is startled because the young king of Spain shows some human traits. A glimpse of the empty bin and a glance at the soaring price of coal are not likely to check perspiration. Senator Quay is rarely without a book in bis pocket. His favorite authors are Words- worth, Tennyson, Carlyle and Ruskin. The shah is a genuine land lubber, as the only ship to which the Persians are accus- tomed s the ship of the desert—the camel. Senator Depew was interviewed upon his return from Europe and Mughed heartily at his own jokes. Our own Chauncey is indeed the same old boy. Major B. B. Cassatt, a son of the presi. dent of the Pennsylvania railway, has sailed tor London to assume his duties as military attache to the American embassy. Lieutenant J. M. Worrell, a confederate officer, has presented to the statehouse, Co- lumbus, O., & plece of the first flagpole ever erected in honor of Abraham Lincoln. Vermont is on the threshold of the first real political campaign in a generation. It is & three-cornered affair and is already warm enough to wither the moss on the granite hills. Prof. Willlam Petrie, the eminent English Egyptologist and explorer, is known by his London inttmates as “the king of spad on account of his mania for delving after archaeological specimens. Count A. Quadt, charge d'affaires of the German embassy, acting on Instructions trom Berlin, has invited the United States to & conference next spring which shall take steps for & thorough study of earth- quakes. Carrie Nation was delivering a “lecture in Lima, O., & few pights ago and in the course of her remarks indulged in abuse of the late President McKinley. This made ber hearers somewhat restive and one of them, roused by a particularly brutal re mark, arose and called her a lar. In- stantly the audience was in an upr: which continued for some minutes. When quiet was restored Dearly all the seals were empty. BITS OF WASHINGTON LiFE. Minor Scemes and Incidents Sketched m the Secretary Wilson of the Agricultural department has caused a commotion among Washington horse dealers by bring- ing to town for gbvernment service two teams of horees from Iowa. The horses were selected from a drove that had been used dt the Ames’ college in conducting an experinient’ “of 'considerable interest and practical value to the horse breeders in the middle west. Several years ago, when horses were bringing such a low price, an experiment was undertaken to determine the qualities and value of western range- bred horses, obtalned as range coiis and developed under Iowa farm conditions. At that time horses in the west were sell- ing as low as 35 a head and the experi- ment station at Ames secured a carload of well bred colts from the ranges of Wyom- ing and Montana. The colts were care- fully selected in regard both to good breeding and individual excellemce. The experiment proved very satisfactory, the animals having been much admired as developed and used at the college. Those s0ld to Secretary Wileon are a palr of steel gray Percherons for hauling the de- partment’s mall and express, and s It is the opinion of good horse- men that the sderetary will ride behind as handsome a pair ae there is in Wash- ington. The last bronze figure completing the magnificent clock of the library of con- gress has been, finally set in place over the portal of the beautiful public reading room. The clock, with its attendant sculptures, cost the government the sum of $9.500. The bronze figures symbolizing time, day and night and the hours now sur- mount the timeplece. The scaffolding which had been erected for the accommo- far as its architectural plans were to be carried out. The commission for the clock was given in 1894, To design it took two years. In a panel about eight and a half feet square s a dial structure of various colored marbles—rich deep red, sienna and green African, incrusted with malachite, lapls lazull, thulite and other semi-precjous stones. The dial is a sun in gilt bronse, three feet In dlameter, framed with & wreath and garlands of intertwined oak and laurel In bronze patine. The bronze figures on each side and surmounting the dial, and which coustitute the new additions, are a rich dark green bronze, the artist having anticipated the effects of time in the color. On elther side of the face are students, typitying the “Reader” and the “Writer.” Above the dial structure and coming out of the ground of gilt mosalc, on which are figured, 0. in mosale, the algns of the Zodlac, 1s & group of “Time" with two at- tendant figures of “Day” and “Night.” The group is decoratively completed by two in- fants accompanying “Day” and “Night,” the adyance guard of the ““Hours.” “Time"” is armed with his traditional glass and redoubtable scythe. “Day” and “Night” bave each thelr appropriate at- tributes. “Day” Is' scattering flowers— has her stars and a o oval frame in color around the grol and accentuate its meaning ss well as the decorative effect of the whole. The figures of theg roup and the two on the dial struc- ture are slightly under life size. The work is.completed by a small, high reliet in bronze of the “Swift Runners.” This Mttle group occuples the circular panel of the parapet on which the_clock Tests, just under the dial, and typifies the continuation of knowledge. Your Uncle Samuel turns many ao extra dollar by coluing all kinds of money for South Americen republics. The work Is done principally at the Philadelphia mint. Just now the mint is turning out a bunch of for Venezuela amounting to 300,000 five bolivar pleces and 260,000 two-bolivar pleces. The first mentioned amount is equal to $300,000 in our momey and the second 'lo $02,777.80 in United States subsidiary colns. The five-bolivar plece 18 equal in welght and value to two of our haif dollars, and, the two-bolivar plece Is about the size of our halt dollar. There Is in addition another order for 72,000 five and 60,000 twos. There {s no Instance of money made here for other countries being returned on the ground that it was faulty. There has not been a great deal of this work for outsiders lately. A few days ago, however, the mint got an order for 500,000 centavos for the govermment of Colombla. These pleces are equal to our half dallar. At present the mint |s engaged upon 1,600, 000 of our own standard dollars and {s run- ning right along on the subsidiary eol five cent pleces, tens and twenty-fives There is no limit to the turning out of pen- nies. About ten presses are working. Five are on niokels. The government is getting ready for the fall trade, which is always busy. Two men were standing on a Fourteenth street corner the other afternoon, relates the Washington Post, when they observed about half a block away one of their friends bearing down upon them. Even in the dis- tance they could percelve in the bright sunshine that their approaching friend had a mighty visible and polgnant looking case of black eye. “There comes Jim Highstep," the men, nudging the other, the shiner he's got!. Somebody must ha' handed him a poke. I'll bet you & pat dollar that the first thing he'll say when we remark his bum lamp will be: ‘Yes, but you ought to see the other fellow!' " ““That gives you too much the best of i sald the other, “but I'll lay you e money for a dollar that he'll hurl us some kind of a falry tale to account for the shiner; that he fell upstairs in the dark; that he ran into & post; that he fell down, or something of that sort."” Thelr mutual friend was by this time too near to permit of the gambling end of it to be carried to a closed deal, but, neverthe- less, the two men exchanged crafty winks with each other a: came up to them. It was plain that they had it all doped out 23 to how the man with the damaged optic was going to conduct bimselt when taxed with the same. “Hello, Jim,” they sald, “where'd you get hold o binocular 1 The man with the discolored orb smiled cheerfully at them and replied: “I got too infernally chesty last night with a fellow that had me outclassed in height, heft and reach and he passed me the funniest punch you ever heard of—ain't 1t a sight?” Then he wondered why his pair of friends gazed at him reproachfully and in a manner indicating their bellef that he had some- how or another imposed upon them. ABSTRACTIONS WILL KERP, " sald one of nd look at in chorus; that piekled Demooratic Platform Makers Warned to Go Slow. Brooklyn Eagle (Ind. dem.) There are golden eggs In the American ne Some call the tariff laws the goose that placed them there. Some identify the trusts as the source of the supply. Others distribute the credit equally, or And more of them seem to be Surely, these are fasts th: should be borne in mind even by a demo- cratic platform maker. He mneed not necessarily go on a hunt, knife in hand, in search of the goose, wherever it may be. That he will clamor for tariff re- vision goes without saying. That he will be a rampant and belligerent theorist is well within the possibilities. Vast under- takings are characterizing the trade devel- opments of the time. For such under- takings vast sums of momeys are in de- mand. Open purse strings are of ‘vital consequence. Credit which is virtually unlimited is among the essentiale. Credit goes with confidence. It is withdrawn when confidence is lost. With its with- drawal comes business disaster. With blind tariff tinkerers in the saddle loss of confidence will come. The logic of this is clear. For the rampant theorist there fis plenty of room in the background. For others room should be found at the front. Abstractions will keep. MIRTHFUL REMARKS. Philadelphia Press: Mr. Goodart—8he gpriatly the gift of song, don't you ink? nk Miss Speitz—I hope 8o, I'd hate to think she was fim-famnied into paying anything Chigago Tribune: “Higgins is a vain never noticed it Puck: _Alice (finding & roll of bills under her plate)—You were out awfully late, Arthur. this consclence money Arthur (timidly, from behind his news- paper)—No, my dear—hush mone; ‘Washington Star: ‘“‘Sometimes, sald Uncle Eben, “you meets a man dat takes a heap o' credit foh Ehllullhrop¥ because he's willin' to overlook his own faults an’ make other folks stan’ around.” Judge: “Doesn't she kee, crl?"'vle ask, Indicating lg lady with the market basket on her arm. “‘o! very long,” explains our friend, has he calls boarded 50 ining Yoom fies by thelr firat names. Je: “This Is a cold, he remarked bitterly. companion. 1d laugh when in, too, have you?®' ‘At any rate,” she sald, In_control of aftairs they amina than men. id,”" (Brookiyn ng wor CHaT" Toturaed hi have heard the ribal slipped on a banana skin, Chicago Post: “if women were would have more 4 woman never. surrenders.” ‘Oh, 1 don't know,” he What do_you call it when Tdo' in the marriage servic “BOY, TAKE OFF YER COLLAR." American Agriculturist. Father raised up us boys kinder mild-ltke an’ easy; “All wilk i no play” wan't no part of reed. We g:,flc'.d the huskin's an’ raisin's an’ An'ed aa much fun es e youngster c'd need. As tor e, I wus lasy-like, wrapped up in Greasin’ rinkin’ ' posin’ an’ flen my h AR R ont Dius wid smile an’ thin', But 1 reckon I knew that he meant what ‘e When he'd come in an' holler: “Son, take off yer colla Get o yer old clothes an’' come down in the shed!” t mlfin (l‘nlln the ‘woodplle wus needin’ ntion, Er grindin’ the scythes, gettin' ready ter Er it might be most anything elss you ¢'d sm::? allus meant work for the rest of An' 1 sllus Telt, somehow, thet workin® an’ grubbin’ Come more natch'rul an’ wusn't th grumblin’ about, When I hed on my overalls, cowhides an' umper, An’ B Huds 1'd put on when 1 heard father shout the medder take off yer collar, Get 0% _yer clothes right Away an' come out!" ead, say From “Son, I'm older consider'ble now, an’ Thout agarkin’ an’ prinkin: Kill. - - ked purty hard on these rocky old ac Hed {un 0o, a-plenty, an’ supposs allus will. But when I drive up ter the village ter b 0 An”see 'youngsters s-loafin’ around in my view, A-l‘nxl{h\‘ cheap jokes an' a-boastin’ an' owin', I keeps my mouth shet, but, I own up ter ou, l‘mY)ull itchin' ter holler; ““Boy, take off collar. Get 15 yer oid cldthes—show us what gee ter I've worl