Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 29, 1902, Page 6

e e A e A e B St . THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1902. M Some Unvarnished Truths Tiiden (Neb.) Citizen, THE OMAHA DALY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUB]:!;IID ;;EI;Y MORNING. TERMS OF !UB!CI'\IPTION ly Bee (without Sunday), One Year. uu nny me and Sunday, Une Ye: y Bee, l"lnllnh Ltnlury Farmer, One Yea: DELIVERED BY CARRIER. aily Bee (without Sunday), per copy. lly Bee (without sunaay), per week 1y Bes \including Bunday), per w! unasy iee, per copy.. oC Vening Bee (without er week.100 Lveming Bee (ncluding Bunday), per bl olr‘; omplaints of irregularities in d ouln’bc addressed: to City Circulation partment. onxcu Olnlhm—'l‘ht Bee B " llflg Ol:lil-—(_lty Hllfillll‘ln‘. - an Council Blufts—10 Pearl Street, Chicago—1640 Unity B\llldll’ll ew York—Temple Cour ‘ashington—wl kourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. 2 ot C ications relating to news and edi- fal matter should be addressed: Omana , Editorial Lepartment, INLSS LETTERS. s Jetters and remittantes should be ulfl The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Om: REMITTANCES. L e Remit by dratt, express or posisl order, 1§ e m A e THE\BEE PUBL or eastern exc u.(l:lm BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: orge B. Taschiick, secretary of "the Bes Publishing Company, being duly sworn, Y uvl lhn tu -nunl numb-r of full an es of The Daily, Morain nlni Sunday Hee printed during th of July, was as follows: !0 REBRNRREENNECE Bubseribed 1 orn. before me '.ll- Ill: “&'n July. A. y. 1oz, (Beal.) HUNGATE, ‘Notary Pubiic. m California s enjoying tlmely rains. Lower California must be tail- ing up the procession. — Lost or Strayed—A full grown kitty. Reward if returned unharmed to the Jacksonian club rooms. —— It 18 not a bleak New England for Presideat Roosevelt mo matter how it may have been for the Pllgrim fathers. ¥ The only way by which, in the long run, any man can be belped is by teach- ing him to help himself.—Theodore Roosevelt. | Nebraska fusionists have always been profuse with pronunciamentos and chal- lenges and their stock-in-trade is not likely to run- short this year. S If President Roosevelt 1s moved to praise the farm down in Maine, what will he say when he comes to Nebraska and sees farms that are farms? Pension disbursements for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1902, aggregated $137,400,741. Whoysays the United States is not a xrnurul nation? Omaha s approaching the annual period devoted to the entertalnment of visitors and when an extra effort should be put forth to make the ¢ity strike the stranger favorably. The city authorities came first with their bout with the coal baron. The in- dividual householder will also wrestle with the coal man before the time comes to start the furnace. T p—————— The window-glass trust the Inde- pendent glass concerns have gotten to- gether on an agreement to work to- gether, The deal is so transparent that they have not been able to keep it dark. e According to the bill boards, the Jack- sonlan plenle will open at 12 noon and close at midnight. The timekeepers, however, may be persuaded to turn back the hands of the clock when they ap- proach the fatal hour. 3 E———— . The reward offered for Tracy has been amicably divided. We shudder when we contemplate the contention that would have been precipitated had Pat Crowe Deen captured before the reward for his conviction was pulled down. E— mhm(}m&mhfiumbny with raliroad business to take part in eany political campaign this year. He neglects to state, however, that it is the political end.of the railroad busindss that is keeping him busiest. e ‘Wisconsin demoerats will nominate their state ticket next week. Since the ‘Wisconsin republicans have secured a coalition of the Spooner and La Follette following, the scrumble for the demo- cratic nominations is by no means so active. = Secretary Shaw is certalnly an inne- wator. He now proposes to make Treas ury depgrtment employes pay their bills under penalty of dismissal as deadbeats. An Injunction to preveat him from in- flicting these cruel and unusual punish- ments may be expected. emmep—— htlllltht'mhnllvnllymn; ceded for President Roosevelt—he does Dot use language to conceal his mean- ing and confuse his hearers. He talks right out In meeting and says what be thinks in a way people cannot misunder- stand him, unless determined to do so. £ expm———————— The big corporation lawyers who do the talkiug at the American Bar asso- clation meeting are agalnst the election d}!wlhmuumbyflndw THE TARIFF REMEDY. Those who urge wiping off the tariff duties on all goods made by trusts and combinations appear to lose sight of In- dividual manufacturers and to assume that the combinations would alone be affected. What they seem not to under- stand is that removal of the tariff on trust made goods, when a combination has so far developed its Industry as to be able to compete in the world's markets and when its domestic com- petitors have not so far developed thelr business as to be able to so compete, would destroy not the trust, but the competitors of the trust, thus making the monopoly complete. This is so obvious that no extended argument can be needed to enforce It. As the Boston Transcript says, those who urge this policy ‘cannot or will not realize the facts of the industrial situa- tion, not alone in the United States, but in the world. “Wherever there Is a country with capital and industry,” says that paper, “there Is found the combina- tion of corporations shifting ever from competition to union. Such combina- tions exist in free-trade England and in protective France and Germany. If the United States should remove all the duties on goods made In this country by trusts or combinations it would simply throw open Its home market to the combinations of Burope.” German fron and steel makers, reports the American consul general of Berlin, have a com- bination for the purpose of making a fight in the .markets of Europe, South America’ and Central America, Africa and the east. What they propose to do 18 to return to the system of export bounties, which will enable them to sell thelr goods in the forelgn markets at lower prices than they charge for them in the home market. Take off our tariff duties and can there be any doubt that the American market would be flooded by German goods? Perhaps the combi- nations here would experience some injury from this, but they would not necessarily be destroyed, while undout- edly many of the individual indus- trial enterprises would be. These could not long withstand the foreign cowm- petition and we should suffer an In- dustrial check disastrous to both m’plt-l and labor, It {s not practicable to arrange a tar- iff which shall take the protection off goods made by a combination and keep it on the same goods made by an indi- vidual. The tariff must be uniform in its operation. As we have heretofore sald regarding the proposed tariff rem* edy, striking down protection in order to destroy the trusts would be very much harder on individual enterprises, of which there are many, than upon the combinations. The laiter, with thelr great capital and their economical meth- ods, would survive, but the former could not. The republican policy is not one of destruction, but of supervision ana regulation. It does not propose to tear down any industry, but to place those which are largely in.the hands of great combinations under such governmental control as will correct abuses without interfering with industrial growth or checking national prosperity. 5 — BRITISH VIEW OF MONROE DOCTRINE. The leading London papers are quite satisfied with President Roosevelt's interpretation of the Monroe doctrine, which one of them regards as meaning that British possessions in the Amer- icas are to be secured by what is prac- tically an American guaranty. This seems a somewhat strained construc- tion of the president’s language, but the inference is allowable that there is no Intention on the part of this country to interfere with any British possession In this hemisphere, or indeed with that of any other European country. What they have got here they will be permitted to retain, but they must not attempt to secure additional territory. The London Times takes the view which is doubtiess held by nearly all intelligent Englishmen, that the policy involved in “Monroeism" is one to which Great Britain has no right to take ex- ception and no interest in obstructing. It is manifestly rather in the interest of that country to sustaln the United Btates in upholding the l_qnm doctrine and this it would probably be f pre- pared to do If an exigency should ever arise requiring it. However, the danger of such an exigency is extremely remote, for as another London paper remarks no Kuropean power will risk the tre- mendous chauces of a war with the United States, be the prize never so seductive. Mr. Roosevelt’s definition of Mounroelsm I8 moderate and conserva- tive. It offers no warrant to any Inde- pendent government in this hemisphere to violate its international duties and obligations. But it plainly sets forth the determination of the United States to oppose any Eurgpean aggressions with a view to territorial acquisition in this part of the world. _—————m—— A STATE CANAL QUESTION. The question of deepening the Erle canal continues to command a great deal of interest in New York. There is a strong sentiment la fhvor of this im- provement, but there is also a very con- siderable opposition, probably due largely to the railroads, which of course do not want the canal competition In- creased with the result of lowering transportation rates on produce to the Atlantie seaboard. Some of the advo- cates of deepening the canal urge that it is & matter of national concern and therefore might properly be dome by the general government. Thus the New York Journal of Com- merce says that the greatest service the Erie canal can render to the American people is to cheapen the cost of trans- portation from the northwestern grain fields to the Buropean markets, a service of greater im to the grain pro- ducers than to any other persons in the world. “The influence of a deepened Erie canal,” argues that paper, “would not be limited to expert graly. It would ular vote. That is only natural. Direct | In varying degfees reach the cost of glection of senators would not send so wmmvmhm-un transporting all exports. But its main influence would be felt in the smalier deductions for transportation that the northwestern farmers “would have to submit to. These considerations show that the deepened Erie canal would be a national benefit, primarily to the grain producers of six or eight northwestern states, and its cost might most properly be borne by the national government.” There Is no question that the producers of the northwest would be benefited by the proposed improvement in the New York canal, but it would also be of ma- terial advautage to the state and there. fore should be made by the state. At all events It {s not probable that it will ever be undertaken by the national govern- ment. At present the prospect is not favorable to the project. IF THE PUBLIC UNLY ENEW. If the public only knew that the re- form fire and police board issued an order to the police to suppress the slot machines and within sixty hours after the mandate had been issued word was passed along the line to the slot machine owners that they would not be molested, the sham reform police board ‘would be better understood. If the public only knew that only three days before the edict to stop the Tom Dennison policy wheel was promulgated a party who represented that he was authorized to speak for the sham re- form police board made proposals to the policy king to guarantee him police protection, If he would only agree to throw his influence to Dave Mercer, the grandstand play of the sham police re- formers would be exhibited In its true light. If the people who expected the new police commission to take the police and | fire departments out of politics only knew that Willlam J. Broatch, the act- ing chalrman of the board, tried to club the Omaha brewers to line up members of the republican county committee for Mercer they would realize what an im- posture has been practiced upon credu- lous business men by the Baldwin-Mer- cer police board. If the people of Omaha only knew what pressure is being brought by the rallroad corporations to foist the non- resident congressman on the people of this district they would rise in thelr might to resent the outrage. If the people only knew that Mercer has never repaid the money put up by Scip Dundy for his first term campaign they would pass the hat around and make a collection for the benefit of the non-resident congressman, who has made political dividends on a smaller amount of capital than any political bilk who has occupled a public position at the hands of the people. 4 If Dave Mercer would only take the people into his confidence for one short day and tell them what became of the proceeds of the $200 draft contributed by the Greater America exposition, i which was cashed by his middleman, Sabine, he might re-establish himself in their confidence just a little bit. If the people only knew when Mercer will complete that palatial residence ‘which he built years ago on paper thelr natural curfosity would be satisfied. If the public only knew how an Omaha paper, which prints less than 9,000 coples of a Sunday edition, man- ages to circulate more than 30,000 coples, they would be able to unravel the most difficult of puzzles. Mayor Jones of Toledo preaches a con- soling doctrine when he asserts that so- clety and not the individual is responsi- ble for crime. It is so handy for the burglar or the footpad to put the blame for his lawlessness upon the other fel- low and to say that had not the occaslon | been thrust upon him he would never have transgressed. Where would such philosophy lead if generally adopted and put into practice? Acting Postmaster General Wynne has issued timely Instructions to postmasters and postal employes to refrain from making thewselves too consplcuous in political conventions and campaign com- mittees. Postal employes enjoy the same right to express their preferences for candidates at primaries and election as any other class of citizens, but they have no right to abuse the privileges they enjoy. | Over in Chicago some of the big cor porations have been detected evading taxes through tax fixers forging entries on the tax books and doctoring tax re- ceipts. In Nebraska, a safer plan of tax evasion is pursued by the ruilroad corporations prevailing on assessmeot boards to list their property at figures far below the regular ratio. Home rule for cities in all matters purely local is now axiomatic at all con: ventions to discuss questions of mu- nicipal government. Legislative charter tinkering and gubernatorial appoint- ments of municipal officers are alike In contravention of the fundamental prin- ciples of self-government, If President Burt wants to preseat his version of the strike to the public either at North Platte or Omaha, the culumns of this paper are at his disposal without belng filtered through the medium of a special correspondent sent out from rail- road headquarters. It looks as if the big meat packing combine were on its way, and Souwn Omaha people have a right to try to figure out whether it will help or hinder the growth of their town. But to talk now of its impending “annihilation” is the veriest rot. Ome More Unfortuhate. Washington Post. A Wisconsin man ate fifty roasted ears of corn at a single sitting and then died. Yet the preacher said nice things of him at the funeral and bls belghbors turned out and really appeared to mourn. Time for Summer Yet. New York World. Since seasons seldom differ in average temperuture by more than a degree or two, | congress passed, will be of speeh that there is time for summer yet. and that a long and lingering autumn 1s more than Iikely to restore the balance of the season. Trouble Enough at Home. Chicago Tribune. It is given out that Orator Bryan will do most of his public speaking in Nebraska this fall. He doesn’t have to go away from home now to find the enemy’s country. Glimpres 61 the Handwriting. Baltimore American. Philosophizing o the trust question is very well between campaigns, but the hand- writing on the wall says that politics and philosophy are going to be far apart in 1904, Speaking Minneapolis Journal President Roosevelt's speech at Boston is sure to make every right minded, patriotic American think more of our president. His treatment of the tryst question is bound to enlarge the confidefice of every reader of his remarks In his trustworthiness as a na- tional leader. Theodore Roosevelt is a big man. If he were not he couldn’t have made that speech. Democ k. ¥'s Trade New York Sun. Only the lean years and the lean times are democratic. When the paths drop fat- ness, when the pot Is bolling and folks are healthy and happy, then it's no use to bring around your democratic tickets. The time for them is when pockets are empty, crops mildewed, livers out of kilter. The repub- lican party is a good-humored march; the poor old democracy only a despairing kick. Boston Transcript. The people of Portugal have ehut out the trust-made products of the Americans. have been using flour, adulterated in some instances, one-half ita weight with china clay. dust, ground busks and other adulterants have also been freely used. Whatever we may suffer from great com- binations of capital they put standard goods upon the marke It is the smaller and more irresponsible cla: sually which gives us dishonest treatment in the quality of the products we buy for food. All Kinds of Money in Sight. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. There is talk about a money stringency cn account of the crop movement In the west. But the talk has not the slightest chance to materialize. More money is in circulation in the United States mow than ever before. The west has more of it than it has ever had In the past. The east is well supplied. Of course, the crops in the aggregate are likely to break all the records in thelr magnitude, but the treasury and the banks are well provided with ecash. There is no chance to get up a stringency scare this year despite the trade activity. CITY DEBT LIMITATION. Important Ruling the Case of the City of Beatrice. Minneapolls Tribune. That is an interesting decision handed down by Judge Sanborn of the United Blales clivuii court of z the of John W. Edminson l‘llnll the City of Beatrice, Neb. It appears that Beatrice had issued bonds to the amount of $115,000 in excess of its statutory limit of bonded indebtedness, and sought to evade pay- ment of this debt on that ground. But the plaintiff showed that he had bought the bonds in good faith, on the representation of city officlals that they were issued in full compliance with the law; also that a specific recital to ';Pu‘ effect was contalned in the bonds theiiselves. Judge Samborn ‘held that this recital and the representation of the officlals estopped the municipality from defeating recovery on the bonds in the hands of an innocent purchaser. This decision would seem to do violence to the legal doctrine of “‘caveat emptor'’— let the buyer beware—that is supposed to govern in o where the purchaser ob- tains {llegal title. It might be sald that it was Mr. Edminson’s business to take legal advice and assure himself that the bonds were properly issued. This is usually the course pursued by tFs purchasers of Minne- apolie municipal bonds, and it is noticeable that they “shy” at the least suggestion of illegality. § But the decislon is wholesome, and it is to be hoped that it will stand In the su- preme court, if the case goes there. Mu- nicipalities should be given to understand that they cannot play & “big mitt" game, with all the cards stacked in their own favor. When they get value received, they should be willing to repay It with interest, limitation or no lmitation. But more im- portant than this is the added security that such a decision gives to all municipal obligations, in holding that payment cannot be evaded on mere technicalities. The ef- fect ought to be to make such securities more eagerly sought as investments and to make it easier to negotiate them at low rates of interest. POLITICS IN THE FAR WEST, Mountain States Swinging Back Into the Republican Ranks. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The states of the Rocky mountain region and the Pacific slope are this year taking a more actlve interest in politics than usual. The republicans of Colorado, Wyo- ming, Utah, Nevada, Idaho and Washing- ton are showing a zeal in the canvass ‘which promises good results. Some of these states elect state officers in addition to the members of congress which are to be chosen in all of them. Oregon had its elec- tion in June and the great majority which was rolled up for the republican candi- dates for congress in that typical far west- ern e Indicates that this 18 to be a good year for the republicans of the moun: tain region and the Pacific coast. Colorado is swinging back to fits old place in the republican column, and there are prospects that it will arrive In ti election. The 135,000 plurality which Bryan received in that state in 1896 was cut to 80,000 {n 1900. His party's margin is lkely to vanisk in 1902. Wyoming, which went to Bryan in 1896, was won back in 1900, and it can be relied on to give a good sized majority for the republica in the vote on congress in November. Washington, which aleo went astray in 1896, returned to the republicans two years ago and will be with them this year. The republicans regained Utah In 1900, which was almost unanimously for Bryan four years earlier. Idaho has been democratic or fusionist for half a dozem years. This time the republicans have a chance Senator Stewart, tics to carry it who knows Nevada poli- s well as does any man in the United da will be regained by the republicans {n 1902. All over the far west the outlook for the republicans is bright. Of course the gen- eral prosperity throughout the country will qount everywhere in favor of the party which brought it, but it will be par- tieularly potent in the states of the moun- tain region and the Pacific coast. The irrigation act, which Presidect Roosevelt recommended in his message to congress last December aui which a republican 1 benefit to most of those states. Already business in them has been favorably affected by this act, although a year or two must pass before it can fairly be put in operation anywhere. The reports which are coming the fact that the summer of 1902 is as yet 4 degrees behind last year's average is cer- taloly startling. But all the experts agree A from our neighbors on the country’s sun- set verge particularly favorable te the Tepublican party, The nomination of G. M. Hitchcock for congressman in the Second district seems to bave been brought about by the con- nivance of so-called republicans who have reason to fear the opposition of The O a Bee and its editor. Mercer, who has represented the district for tem years past, holds to the opinion that he is en- titled to a sixth term or a life lease of his job, and Mr. Rosewater thinks other- wise. Hence Mercer counts upon the active antagonism of The Bee and, to in- sure that the fusion nominee shall receive no benefit from the great Influence of that paper, the present congressman has appar- ently been a party to naming as his demo- cratic opponent a man whom The Bee has consistently opposed from the time he first appeared before the public. Of course, Mer- cer s expected to reciprocate, and the price of his attempt to place Mr. Rosewater in the embarrassing position of being unable to support elther of the regularly nominated candidates is said to be his promise of the mayoralty of Omaha to one of Hitcheock's democratic cronies. Although this deal occurred outside of our own congressional territory the matter is one that concerns every republican in the Third district, as it also does the whole party of the state. Mercer's treaty with the enemy will lead to the selection of an In- dependent candldate and places the Second distriet, ordinarily a safely republican con- stituency, In the democratic column, and for this act he should consider himself an- swerable to every republican in Nebraska. The party's standing in the state s such that It is in need of stralghtforward, con- scientious work to upbuild it. It is alto- gether too precarlously situated to with- stand such perfidious politics as Mercer's alignment with the open adversaries. Lack of confidence In the republican leaders of the state rather than in republican prin- ciples brought defeat a few years ago. With this object lesson so strongly placed before them it is inexplicable that candi- date makers will contlnue to put forward for office men of Mercer's stripe who bear to the republican party a relation perilously similar to that borne by Benediot Arnold toward the revo- lutionary army. The desire of all sincere blicans is to convert or bring back re- calditrant and disgusted voters to the end that the whole state and nation may be benefited by republican legislation and a republican executive. But what success can be expécted In this direction by a mere reiteration of party principles when the workers among the rank and file are handi- capped by a horde of self-seekers in high places whose only accepted motto is “Any~ thing to win?" Unfortunately the practice of dirty poli- tics is not confined to the Second distriet, nor to any one locality in the state. Dis- reputable methods and disgraceful alliances prevade the whole political atmosphere. Shameful preconvention deals are made, candidates are frequently nominated for a consideration, as often as not in the rear end of a saloon or some rascally politiclan's office. Honor, principles, self-respect, party fealty are thrown to the winds and noml- nees notoriously incompetent or morally disqualified are saddled onto the republican party mainly for the purpose of “downing” the men who are actuated in politics by a sincere desire to see the party practice ‘what it preaches, A reform can be effected by a general attendance at the party pri- maries, but until this is brought about there is mo surer way of frustrating the perniclous designs of ecrooked politiclans than for republican country papers to do as The Omaha Bee s doing—tell the truth concerning an undeserving or unfit candl- date when he happens to be folsted upon them. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORI. Ripples on the '‘arrent of Life in the Metropotin, The estate of the late Charles Tiffafy, founder of the noted jewelry house bear- ing the family name, in round numbers amounts to $11,000,000. The report of the appraisers filed in the surrogate's court shows a wide range of investement in stocks and mortgages, besides a cash balance of $1,120,000 in various New York city banks. The testator left bonds in raflroad and other corporations amount- Ing to $2,599.572, and federal, state and municipal bonds amounting to $1,449,693. His stocks in railroad and other corpora- tlons were $3,835,663. He had $315,208 out on mortgage. He held 670 shares of Tif- fany & Co., which are appraised at $2,716, 000. In government bonds he had $355,5: The household effects of Mr. Tiffany at 265 Madieon avenue, including fu bronzes, paintings, books, china, gl plate, are valued at $6,955. In a safe de- posit vault he had $614 in gold and silver- ware. The great jeweler had at home or on his person in jewelry twelve pear valued at $451; a gold watch, chain charm, valued at $150, all together, and two gold watches, together valued at §68. He had also a small bottle of gold ore and a small nugget, both valued at $7.17.' Mr. Tiffany was 90 years old when he died on February 1§ last. One of Mr. Tiffany’s sone fought with the Rough Riders in Cuba and died on his way, 'home from the effects of fever con- tracted in the camps around Santiago. An- other son, Burnett Y. Tiffany, contracted marriage with a young woman of good fam- ily ten years ago, but the elder Tiffany in- | duced him to forsake his bride solely be- | cause she was poor, Much curiosity is now manifested among acquaintances of the couple as to whether Burnett will do t honorable and manly thing to the woman he deserted at the behest of his father. The divorced wite is Emma Norland Tiffany. “I was introduced to Mr. Tiffany in 1892, she says, nd we at once fell in love with each other. We lived at Morristown then, and for veral months before we were married we spent much time driving to- gether. “We were married in 1802 by Rev. Mr. McChesney at a Methodist Episcopal church in New York. There is the rin, Mr. Tiffany placed on my finger. never been off it. Our wedding wi and in opposition to the wishes of husband’s father. “Two days after our wedding the facts became known, and Mr. Tiffany's fa threatened to di herit him if he insisted on retaining me his wife, solely on the gronnd that I was a comparatively poor girl. We lived together eleven days, when T consented to seek a divorce on the ground that Charles Tiffany had won my hus- band's affection from me. The divorce was granted. “I loved Burnett when I married him. I loved him when I got the divorce. I have loved him every minute since, and I love him now, and I am sure if I could meet him and talk with him I would win him back. He holds the highest regard for me. I know 1it, for he has told a friend of mine in East Orange only recently that I was the only woman he ever loved.” ‘When asked if she would try in a legal way to secure any part of the wealth of her former husband, Mrs. Tiffany said: “No, I have lived in a humble way. for years and shall continue to do so.” my In dying suddenly after a stroke of ver- tigo Jacob Kuntzman, a district leader of the New York democracy, gave a strange ex- ample of “the ruling passion strong in death.” Kunizman was returning home after having bailed out a constituent ac- cused of some petty offense when he was stricken. It seems that he had arranged a plenie for his political followers to take place Monday, and the band hired for the occasion determined to give the leader a serenade. As the unconscious form of the dying politiclan was borne toward the house in an ambulance the band, belleving him to be in the house, played a lively air at the doorstep. Kuntzman regained coneciousness inside the house and asked that “the boys” be admitted to & last au- 1 am dying," he said, as they around him, “but before I go I want to say to you that I thank you for the loyalty you have shown me. You can win without me, but I'd like to be in at the finfsh.” In @ few more bours be was dead. The quarterly report of the tax depart- ment contains many valuable statistics re- lating to real estate and personal taxa- tion in New York city. It is shown that on Manhattan island alone in the five years from 1898 to 1902 the assessed value of real estate Increased from $1,754,982,400 to $2,358,929,618, or about 35 per cemt. Per- sonal assessments decreased from $509,022,- 449 to $412,388,258. In Brooklyn the fa- crease in real estate assessments in the five years has been omly $60,711,341, or about 10 per cent. than mere words could do the extraordl nary growth of real estate values in Man- hattan borough. Next to London, Brooklyn is perhaps as big & pipe-smoking community as there is in the world. The thrifty Brooklynite probably not a King Cole s0 much from choice as from motives of economy—for ) | This reveals better | the buflding soclation flourishes fn Brooklyln 1fke a green bay tres, and Brooklyn's proportionate contribution to the cemsue is annually greater than that of any other great American city, accord- ing to the statistical sharps. However it ‘tay be, along toward the hour when the hundreds of thousands of Brooklyn men are hustling toward thelr New York jobs on the other side of the water in the morn- Ing you'll see as great a conflagration of tobaceo in the bowls of plpes of every type and degree as the world affords. Nine out of ten of the Brooklynites then have their cutties or the equivalents thereof aglow, and there le'a mixed fragrance of nicotia on the streets of Brooklyn that ought to be of tréemendous disinfecting effect.’ PERSONAL NOTES. There has been a.reunion of the Collins family in Massachusetts, but we miss Tom's familiar countenance in the photographic group. Minister Wu Tingfang has accepted an invitation to speak in Binghamton, N. Labor day before a labor mass meetin; will be the first address ever made by a Chinaman to laboring men. Ella Wheeler Wilcox has challenged John did not write the poem “Solitude’ give him $5,000 if he succeeds. Joyce claime the authorship. Rear Admiral Thomas O. Selfridge, re- tired, is the oldest living officer of the Amerfcari ndVy.” He was appointed from Massachusetts in 1818, many years before the establishment of the Naval academy. Bradiey-Martin, Jr., who is at present in Parls, has sold his tliree automobiles. He says the numerous recent fatalities, added HAT GAME OF WAR. Indianapolis News: The great naval game Is over. It would be interesting (o know what it cost and what good It accomplished, Baltimore American: Tho country is safe, for the ememy has been captured, and the mimic war now proceds to the setond ehap- ter. Philadelphia Inquire: The result of the ic naval battle viotory for the de- more proof that it is easier to defend than to attack. Minneapolis Journal: This mimic naval warfare is made so realistic that there is a quaver in the volce of Admiral Higginson as he_chivalarously refuses to accept Com- mander Pillsbury's sword. New York Post: The navy game of 1902 1s most likely to be remembered for Rear Admiral Higginson's excellent parody of a historio surrender. “Keep your sword, sir,” he sald to Commander Pillsbury, who had salled plump into the defending fleet; ‘keep your sword. 1 could mot take the sword of #0 gallant and noble a foe.” It is doubtful it the event deserved any more serious treatment. Philadelphia Record: One result of the naval maneuvers should be a largely in- creased actlvity ia the long delayed work raphy on board ship in the new navy. The curious inertia of the department in this regard is all the more surprising in view of repeated demonstrations by foreign ad~ miralities of the supreme utility of a means of communication so complete and effective. New York Commercial Advertiser: Per- haps officers of the navy can determine from what ocourred whether that part of our coast is reasonably safe from attack ‘when under protection of a vigilant admiral like Higginson, but it i open to question whether the sensitive souls in Boston who took alarm when word came that Admiral c-rvor- was roaming about with Spain's four crack ships of war will be greatly re sured by the fallure of Commander Pills- bury to establish himself in port. to his own phenomenal bad luck, have. cooled his enthusiasm for the horseless vehicle. Frederick W. Lehmann of St. Louls has Just acquired three sketches by Charles Dickens. They are the only drawings by the famous author of *‘Plckwick Papers” and “0ld Curlosity Shop” that as yet have been discovered, M. Coquelin, the French actor, had his pocket picked in Paris the other day, his He vacation money, some $300, being taken. ‘was almost distracted by the lo sum almest equaled the amount h |for a,single performance, A handsome sword which was the property of Lieutenant John Adams Webster, who gallantly defended the city of Baltimore dur- ing the war of 1812, is about to be pre- sented to the Maryland Historical soclety by Frank Bond Maupin, a relative. M. Girault, a member of the French na- ure, has drafted a bill pro- in “the republic and its He proposes that the principals in such encounters shall be deprived of civic rights for eight years and seconds five years. Dr. Yung Wing, who was instrumental in sending the new Chinese minister to ti country for his education, was one of the three Chinese lads brought to this country in 1848 by Rey. Samuel Rollins Brown, who established the first Protestant Christian school in China, The late General Franz Sigel bad the singular fellcity of writing resolutions on the death of Gemeral Joe Hooker, twenty- three years ago, which were so eminently appropriate to his own career that the assoclation of the Eighth New Jersey vol- unteers, ‘‘Hooker's old guard,” for which they were written, adopted them agaln, with only the change of name, in homor of General Sigel bimself. BREBZY CHAFF. New l’ rk ‘l-n: Farmer Dollarwheat— d &l yer liks ter go abroad? es, no! Hain't yer seen them “Drafts Il parts of lllnl say on Europe?" PNMQI hia Catholic Standard: ‘“SBome d- nu lloov.t'."’"uld Miss Evere, re- seaside flirtation of T2 ve @iacovered 1t aiready,” Miss Pert, -You'd be surprised ‘how salty the sea 20 e George's moustache evening.”" chluto Post: “There s sald the agent for subu sald pa- ‘Washi n | Stai ‘ashingtos Stas “‘Some folks,"” Ullcl. E'b.n. redl it foh boln' takin' ot 1 lmert o work. S y is simpl; the pitcher the young d. “How can o rm ‘e & pane in 1t? said tho impatient at having his attan- uun diverted from the game. Detrott Fres Press: Jinks ( mummy )—M! { 't i Tt ‘looks as 1¢ 1t might .k lr you Couid only, arouse it with som oes. am up] u |t with "l.‘ story you ’\lll m:‘ - pEhladelphia Press: “Bome of the mum- Cnllrehlnlrh, "thln{ it !a ‘l a young ministar, I ell them t! ls young mlnlllnr is olt sure to cause dis- sension In thc rank: ‘Well,"” commented . have noticed that the nlderc : lnllyf- per- form marriage ceremon'ss, n' St the Brooklyn Life: “Ah d_Biggs, prosperous looking man w! o hlfl MMIIIIY saluted Diggs passed on. ‘‘Tha I like to hear a man l -mcemly glad to find y lied D, robably w: —he's president of the company my’ lite insured in.” HOME AND COUNTRY. James Montgomery. There is a land, of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world be- side; Whul'lahbfllhur suns dispense serener ght, And milder moons emparadise the night: There s a spot of ea A dearer, sweeter po Drgee i oreationts yan. sty av His sword and scepter, pageantry and pride, Whlls In his softened looks beni; ly blend The 'llre.d(h son, the hulblnd. father, riend. Here woman reigns; the mother, daughter, wite umw-‘ ‘I:hh fresh flowers the narrow way of heaven of her delightful guard of loves and graces "‘ Aroun her knees domestic flllt And fireside pleasures gambol at her |..:_ “Where shall that land, that spot of earth, un Art thou a man?-a gnrlofl ook ml Oh, thou shalt find, howe'er thy m- TOA! That 1.-'-'3' thy country, and that epot thy On Greenla: Mll. o'er rude Kam- e ibsclals dasilate Somiains, WMN ‘h. wild hunter takes his lomel mn\u thmuh tempestuous snows h savage prey, or, wm'flm. with the might of raging Where - :bnna the Pole the eternal billows Plucks lrnm their Jaws the stricken whale, Plu down headlong through the "‘:fru ‘main —His wastes of jce are lovelier in his T8 Than all the flowery .vales beneath sky And deater far than Caeser's palace-dome, His cavern shelter and his eottage home. SHIELD BOWS FRIDAY Show us & man in town wear and we’ll show you a fectly scarfed. . who has not ‘worn our neck- man who has not been per- Fashion’s brewings are first tapped here—“so for Friday alone” we will sell silk shield bows, made ex- pressly for all kinds of tnrn over collars at 15¢c, 2 For 25c Our store will close at noon Labor Day. Mo Clothing Fits Like Ours. Rrowning- e 3G Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R. 8. 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