Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 4, 1902, Page 6

=~ SN THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, G — SEPTEMBER 4, 1902. 2.—._————_—"‘———*—_—_———'—————_-—————————,# THE UMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROBEWATER, EDITOR. DANGER IN IGNORANT AGITATION. With characteristic directness and force President Roosevelt polnts out the danger there is In ignorant agitation re- —_— e PUBLISHED E\'ERY MORNING. {nrdln' the great Industrial combina- b | tons. It {s not the destruction .of TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ear ally Bee ana Sunda. liustrated ksee, One Y 88 some political demagogues, but the cor- %-lly Bee (without !mm.y) OnQ Year. uno these that is to be sought, as urged by g unday Hee, Une Year aturaay Bée, One Yea gw!nllnh Century Farmer, One Year. 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Douglas Coun! y_h. el Geot echuck, secretary u hnlu[i.n' Qompany, being ‘duly saymahet the sspusl Aumper of of ¥ ] complete . co of The Daily, M Evening and Sunday Bee printed durin; the month o Avgust, WS, was & tollows: ° | measures the president sald: rection of the evils connected with them. 1501 1f it were entirely practicable to destroy the combinations the effect, as the presi- dent says, would be destructive beyond the trusts. These couid not be elimi- nated from the business of the country ‘without ‘putting & severe check “upon business and prosperity. “"Mr.” Roose- velt correctly characterized as a quack and an enemy to the republic the man who advocates destroying the industrial combinations by measures which would paralyze the industries of the country. It is not a revolutionary but a reme- dial policy that is to be desired. Thoughtful men, who can consider the question without prejudice, do not urge striking down the combinations, but the correction of the evils and abuses inci- dent to them. Such men understand that to destroy the trusts would neces- sarily result in damaging business gen- erally, that Iindividual enterprises would inevitably suffer. This must be per- fectly obvious to everybody of practical experience. The industrial combina- tions are so great a factor in the busi- ness of the country that their destrue- tion could not be effected without doing tremendous Injury to all interests. As to those who advocate revolutionary “Those men, if they should succeed, could do | nothing to bring about a solution of the great problems with which we are con- cerned. If they should destroy certain of the .evils at the cost of overthrowing the ‘well-being of the entire'cotintry it would mean merely that there would come a reaction In which they and thelr remedies would be hopelessly dis- credited.” Destruction of the great combinations being impracticable or impossible, they must be subjected to such supervision 806,503 d it and regulation as will protect the public against the evils and abuses now. com- presence and sworn to | Plained of. The president belleves this mm me v.mn 18t d-‘.of ng}!mhr. A. D., |'can be done and there is no doubt he will 11 18 19 20. 21. 2. 2 u 2. 2. n 28 . 2. a Less unsold and returned copl . ,Net total sale et dally average » 'GBO B. 'l'!lCHUC.K. Subscril my ATE, (Beal) Notary Publie." g ———— T'was a lucky escape. urge congress to take some action. The sincerity of the president in this mat- ter is unquestionable. He wants some- thing done; but whether he will be able But then Theodore Roosevelt is noted | to induce congress to act is of course for Iuck and pluck. uncertain. Representative Littlefield in- tends to make a persistent effort to It turns out that a wild trolley car|secure legislation at the next session s almost as dangerous as a wild an- | and it is the understanding that he will archist. Se— That Michigan peach crop was de- stroyed so often this year that the sea- son’s. output s breaking all previots, records. e—— Country merchants are coming into Omaha for the fall buying. Hospitable entertalnment s one of the best business stimulators. eseaae—— The democratic campaign book Is-ntim | as an oysteron 16 to 1. We fear it will ‘mot becolme ‘4 popular volume i the ‘Gomimonier library. 01018 e e =1 Tom Johnson s throwing the hbmzlwa at Bryan this year. He evidently ex- pects Bryan to throw the bouquets at him two years hence: v e ‘Whether the Omaba ball playeérs take the pennant or not, they have the satis- faction of having led the procession right along, with but few interruptions. By steering clear of real estate deals, except when building sites are impera- tively, needed, .the school board cam | avold complaints of jobs and specula- e——— 8ir Thomas Lipton would like another try at the America's cup. Sir Thomas may try, hnt be doe- so with full knowl- edge that the ¢ cup prefers ‘to stay In Aneies, K mmalfi 18 ready to At the official flag for the Loulsiana Pur- chase Exposition. Nebraske is also ready to furnish one of the brightest stars to be set in the flag. Several himdred soclalists in Omaba and South Omaha have orgapized selves. as: political sharpshooters:iu the grand army ‘of oclal demodracy,: '\'r)fli year they-propose to-shoot at glass balls in the alr just for fun. CSSweeee——— The report of the special examiner in the Peter Power case agatust the North- | ern' Pacific will include & million words of testimony. If the costs should he taxod up against the petitioner it would mmhly také him a million dah [ DAy, them. ek oy 4 R Ggneral Buiry's challenge for a.jolit | debate with bis opponent for comgress | in the Sixth district has made its for- mal appearance. The popoeratic am- munition’ box is full of joint debate challenges, which are to be set off one at a time. S— Jeff Davis has been re-elected gov- ernor of Arkansas, but nobody proposes to suspend him on a sour apple tree, not even Jawes K. Jones, who detests him beartily ever since he has been pried loose by Jeff from the United States senatorship. - y m— Our Dave says he has an urgent invi- tation to help out on the stump In the republican campalgn in Oblo. H;,vutl-t: by all means to accept it never helped out in Nebraska, on the stump or off the stump, except when he was running on the ticket. and the novelty of Mercer doing something for some other candidate would be uunique. o ] Strong-lunged Indlans on Nebraska reservations should be more careful how they indalge h Dn!uter ‘T these days of brass button soldiery, a féw waswhoops and & double-shutfie dance are llable to bring out the whole army way of | should have the earnest backing of the adminis- tration. Perhaps he will be successful, at least to the extent of securing legisla- tion providing for publicity, which Mr. Roosevelt regards as very essential. It certainly seems to be the dictate of wis- dom, from a political point of view, that the party in control of congress should respond to the popular demand for legis- lation to correct trust evils. Meanwhile lgnorant agitation js to be condemned, since ite tendency le to create-and foster an erroneous, public sentiment which can.bave no other than a harmful effect. ] A VERY GOOD OUSTOMER. SBtatlstics of Canadlan trade for the last fiscal year show that the Dominion im- ported from this country merchandise to the value of more than $120,000,000, while the Importations from Great Britain amounted to only $48,000,000, notwithstanding the preferential dutfes favoring imports from the latter. The Springfield Republican suggests that the figures will doubtless stimulate the movement in the Dominion for retaliat- Ing tarift legislation against this coun- try unless we are willlng to make a liberal reciprocity ‘arrangement. Possibly. the advocates of a higher tariff in American products will have their cause somewhat strengthened by the showing of imports from this coun- try, which increased -$10,000,000 over last year, but It appears that the Ca- nadians so wmuch rican to British gopds that u:g:e in the tariff, unles§ mpde N tory, would probably not have any serious effect upon our -mm to Oenada. “It 1s most unlikely that the Dominion will go to any extreme in -this ‘matter, because'it manifestly has Mh‘ (td gain from a commergial | the United States. % A dians by Mhis ety bd that 1t cannot be forced. ] should also inment depends upon ' satisfactory condi- know that its aft \ tions than they have yet submitted. their offering mos MISREPRESENTING THE ISSUE. The Omaha Bee elaiins that the t1d repub- lican watchword, “a free ballot snd an hon- est count,” applies just theisame to pri- Imrlu as to olo‘eugu «and Qemgnds that sort @b, . the pnu.‘ Omaha primaries. - “to the | tree ballot ‘part ‘ot“the Some 1,200 to 2,400 democrats having registered as republicans for this coming scrimmage between himself and Rosey, or falled to register their political preferences at all, be claims the right to hold ‘em up for a preliminary examination before allowing them to settle & republican scrimmage all by themselves. At the polls the ballot cannot be too free, provided the qualifica- tions of the voter are well established. At the primary the principal mischief usually arises from a little too much freedom of the ballot. The Bee people are endeavorl to have the county central committee (ake down the bars and lét every man vote who wants to and as he wants to at the repub- lican primaries, regardiess of previous con- ditions of servitude, providing he has care- tully_omitted to register himselt a demo- crat,—Lincoln Journal, This is the Mercer-Baldwin. version of the lmpending primary election contest, but, like all their heathen Chinee tricks, it is deceptive and cannot withstand the daylight. First and foremost,” this is not scrimmage between Mercer and Rosey, but a contest between the républican party of this district and a nonresident copgressman who wants to force his re- nomination for a sixth term by hook or * Where is any ground for the assertion that 2,400 democrats have registered themselyes as Tepublicans in this city? l"n-umm‘d’llmhflen was required to declare his afiliation with the party under oath and fs pre- sumed to have sworn to the truth. Mercer and his rallroad allies and or- gans are trying to impress the people with the iden that he is to be mfde the victim of a conspiracy of wholesale per-| Jury concocted and executed before the last election a year ago. That violent presumption is flatly contradicted by comparison of registration figures. In 1000 the total republican registra- tion in Omaha was 12,351, or nearly 8,000 heavier than In 1001, when the total was only 9,645. If 2,400 of the men reg! tered as republicans in°" 1901 ‘Are” démocrits, the falling oft "Soull] have been about 50 per cent, when the truth is that the drop of nearly 3,000 names on the republican register shows general neglect and indifference on the part of a large percentage of the rank and file of the party. In this shrinkage all factions were represented, Mercer and anti-Mercer, Inasmuch as the Mer- cer faction nominated most of the can- didates on the county ticket last year and managed the campaign, they surely must have got their full quota of the reglstration. The fairy tale about 2,400 democrats being registered as republicans is fabri- cated out of whole cloth to excuse the attempt to disfranchise by lawless test oaths a large number of republicans who oppose Mercer's renomination. It test oaths were applied at Lincoln that would require each voter to swear that he supported the entire republican ticket in 1900, nobody connected with the Journal would be allowed to vote at a Lancaster county primary. If the same test oath were enforced in Douglas county It would bar out Mercer and two-thirds of his following. E by fmi——— 5 EXPENSIVE NAMBY-PAMBYINM. It is hardly worth while to enter into an elaborate discussion about kinder- gartens to prove that they have become an integral part of the modern primary school system. Nobody advocates thelr abolition, but true friends of the public schools contend that there is plenty of room for improvement in kindergartea fnstruction.. The clamor for more kin- dergartens is simply a clamor for more places on the public school pay roll for young people who want to earn a salary for practicing as teachers in children’s play rooms and old women who desire to vegetate In those play rooms at the expense of the public. 4 The fact that Omaha has @& 'larger number of kindergartens and . kin- dergarten teachers than any - other city of equal population in Amer- fea affords sufficlent proof that the kindergartens have not suifered ai ihe hands of the school board, but, on th® contrary, that the school board has overdone thé thing at the expewse: other branches of instruction ffat ¥é- quire more teachers and better teachers, than we now have. Of course, kindergarten teachers who are on the pay roll and would-be teach- ers who are not on the pay roil will utterly dipagree with us on thig score. But the rank and file of educators and the great ‘body of patrons of the, p\|hlh: schools, who are deeply concerned in our public school system and desire sym- metrical education all along the line rather than lopsided education stimu- lated by sentimental gush, will agree with The Bee that there is such a thing as overdoing the kindergarten business by substituting ~ kindergarténs‘: for' nurseries and loading upon kindergarten teachers the work that properly de- volves upon the mother and the nurse girl NOT 4 PRIVATE MATTER. Former Governor Hastings of Penn- sylvania. does not agree with the view of the anthracite coal operators' that the strike is a private matter. He said that as a coal operator he would nat- urally be inclined to take the side of the operators in the present strike, but he could nof hold ‘that & coal strike or |, uy other disturbance of labor that in any wu p!hctl a pl!bllc necéssity I‘i a prluta matter. “Coal is & neges! l(x like air and water and daylight,” sald Mr. Hastings.” “When the supply is restricted or diverted from its natural source it is essentially a matter of the supremest public importance. The posi- tion that public necessities are. not. to "be controlled in a -measure by the:best, “public opinion 1s ‘hot tenable.” «:e: Ths 1s the rational view, whlch will be concurred in by everybody xpt the anthracite coal operators and the few who sympathize with their effort to de- stroy the miners’ organization. The as- sutoption of Mr. Baer and those asso- ciated with him that the mining and transportation to market of coal is a strictly private - business, with which the publi¢c has nothing to do, is utterly indefensible. A8 ‘the Pnll.melphln Ledger says, if such a positioh &gt be successfully held by the coal opera- tors. who practically control by the binding force of monopoly .the output of coal, they could not only refuse to mine and transport it for four months, but for four or forty years, or they could padlock the mines forever. ‘“The mere fact that the people,” says the Ledger, “whose servants the chartered companies are, have conferred upon them extraordinary rights and privi- leges of Inestimable pecuniary value, confutes their arrogant presumption that their business is a strictly private affair. It 1s in the broadest sense a public bu ness, as it concerns the welfare, pros- perity and comfort of vast colmnunl- tes.” The ‘Ledgér warns the ‘dperhtors that if they persist In their pol cy and the public suffers seriously In conse- quence, they may make the discovery that the people, whose servants they are, will demand that they yleld to duty and necessity, that a reckoning day will surely come which will carry convic- tion with it to the operators that the ‘will 4nd-poswer of the public eansot be ‘deflintly ‘abd’ stubbornly faunfed. ‘Ui der existing conditions the opérators bave absolute control of the situation. There appears to be ne way by which they ecan be compelled to perform their duty to. the public. It is certalnly pos- sible, however, for the state of Penn- sylvania to make provision for the pro- tection of the public against the dan- ger of being deprived, at the will of a group of arrogant coal operators, of a necessity of the first importance, and tHe codntry Wil expect this to be done. oy ool What would be thought of the chair- man of the state central committee if he should undertake to bar out one set of candidates and force on the party another set of candidates by arbifrary ruling and refusal to carry into effect the rules and orders of the committee? This lu precisely what Chairman Goss is trylbg to do in trying to use his position in the interest of Mercer and against all of Mercer's competitors. e John N. Baldwin still keeps himself in evidence through dally proclamations and pronunciamentos. His latest I8 an assurance to the public that the Union Pacific has hired a sufficient number of bricklayers and hodcarriers to keep up its construction work on the new ma- chine shops. Why the political attor- ney of the Union Pacific should dip his oar {nto brick and mortar s incompre- hensible. oo The nominee o¢f the soclalists for county attorney attempted to decline the honor because he is not a lawyer, but was drafted into the service on the assurance that it made no difference ‘whether the county attorney is a lawyer or not. Our socialist friends must have set their standard by the present popo- cratic incumbent. S——— Prayers for rain to break the drouth, quite the thing not so many years ago, have given way In western Kausas to prayers that the raln may stop long enough for the sun's rays to save the ‘crops.’ It's & poor rule that doesn't work both ways and a poor faith cure that won't remedy more than one evil. Little Delaware will have two contest- ing republican candidates on the of- ficlal ballot to be voted into seats in congress at the coming election. This is, doubtless, to make up In the lower house for the lack of representation in that state in the upper house of con- gress, Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright diagnoses the case of the coal strike as due to a lack of confidence in one an- other on the part of operators and miners. - This 1s the’ polite way of say- ing that each ome thinks the other is trying to work a confidence game upon him. | cumppluinei sy e & aaing. Washington Post. Sir Thomas Uplon might challenge us !or an automobile race’ and have much better | luck than he had in yachting. He has a machine that has Killed its man. The Stre: Baltimore American. One of the presilent’s old cowboy friends pushed his way to the rear platform and told him_ that :;e had followed his advice ot s yer nd had been married. A‘.’.?meflo\ui! “he’ tidded that he also had sfx ‘children.s He kaows what a stren- uous life fs. Bu. —_— Menace of the Coal Strike. Springfield Republican. It is not only the individual that suffers from the coal strike. The public schools in many cities are likely to be seriously af- fected by the emhanced cost of coal, and if the strike continues unpleasant retrench- ments may be necessary in more than one In Washington, D. C., real uneasi- ness on the part of the school commissiol ers is reported; and the borough of Brook- Iyn is troubled at the prospect of closing several schools. Promoting the Sharpshooter. New York World. The army proposal to increase the pay of the sharpshooter follows logically the mod- ern tactical chasges. Smokeless powder and the open formation of lines have made today's battles affairs rather of individuals than of masses. So the man who can “pick his man” has his value naturally increased. The spectacular suffers loss, but by the same token. the. cause of lasting peace will eventually find gajn. —eee The Spirit of the West. New York Independent. | The west Bas come to realize, with the added responsibjlity of caring for its ings, that it is mot a desire of vengeance ‘that makes capital thoughttul for its own, but common prudence that prompts business exactness. It has absorbed with this idea the further sentiment that the investment .of eastern money in w rn_enterprises is ‘worthy of encoragement, but not on specu- h ve'grounds. Tt boasts less and qualifies , seeking to present its attractions on - basis of actual returns and Bot on one of hopeful theory. It has given up m:st of its political radicalisms. Populism, a political force, 1s dead. In Kansas, its strongest foothold, the party will this year bave mo plage on the ballot, the fusion ticket appearing.as democratic. The same tendenty is manifest in Nebraska and South Dakota. Bven the radical legislation adopted in the earller days of the party bas mostly been.repealed or declared uncon- stitutional. The ‘west is becoming more Uberal. 2 THE DELPHIO PLATFORM. Sweet Song of ony fre Banks of the Wabash. New York Sun. From the banks of the Wabash and th wildcat, from Delphi, a city of oracle. from the democratic convention of Car- roll county, Indiana, comes the most cathollc and capaclous of democratic plat- torms: “That we are democrate of the Jefterson, Jackson and Bryan type and that we here reiterate and endorse the democratic prin- ciples and tenets and the platforms of our party from the inception of true dem- ocracy down to the present day." The wildcat democrats have no greasy stomachs. They take what comes and wre glad of it and the boa constrittor Is thelr model. They swallow every demo- cratic principle that has been or fs and no doubt they will have & hearty appetite for every democratic policy that is now growing in the seeds of time. They re- iterate that the civil war was a fallure. They denounce fe payments; they burrah for free stiver. From Jefferson to the Jefferson of Nebrasks every demo- eratic leader was or is the man for their money. and they stand on every succes- sive demoeratie, platfora with all their the &s. Here Is the true, firenic democratic spirit. The delphic platform, slightly re- vised, 1s'a bridge of barmony and pon- toon of peace for the democrats: “Resolved, That we favor all the demo- eratic principles that have been or ever will be.” SWINGING AROUND THE CIRCLE. Indianapolls Journal: Some one remarked that George Washington never used the phrase “he is ‘not bullt that way,” as did President Roosevelt the other day. That Is true. General Washington aid mot delight the people with oft-hand speeches, and that phrase had not been coined in the days of the father of his country. Philadelphia Ledger: President Roose- velt, in addressing his audiences, says, for instance: “Men and women of New Hamp- but in the body of his argument gentlemen.” The reason Is plain. When it comes to argument and persuasion, the president, who knows human nature, thinks it useless to try to convince womet, whosé mitds are ‘made up, and so he talks to the men. Haitford Courant: In the case of an in- sincere man, or of a sincere man not fortu- nate enough to have won the public confi- dence, such a round of dally speechmaking would have been fraught, no doubt, with deadly political peril. But Theodore Roose- velt is in no such precarious case. He is sincere and he has won the public confi- dence. The people believe in him, like him and like to hear him talk. They listen with a conviction that they are getting the honest thought of an honest man, and they are go- ing to think it all over for themselves at their lelsure. The result is not likely, in our judgement, to be unfavorable to the president himself or to the republican party. Baltimore American: President Roosevelt has not only a strenuous way about him, but 1s & hail fellow well met with men who have even been hunting with him or who fought with him in Cuba. He never lets his dignity stand in the way of slapping one of his old chums or soldlers on the back er calling him by some familiar nickname. Frequently he does this in the White House, and though it shocks sticklers for official dignity, it is a question if it does not add to the president's popularity. Such inel- dents have been frequent during the New England tour and have simply furnished ad- ditional preof how close an American presi- dent is to the people and how close they are to him. PERSONAL NOTES, Strange to say, the lawyers are not to get the Fair millions. The legatees are to have all the property. John Hays Hammond has been added to the faculty of Yale college, taking charge of the work in mining in the Sheffield Scientific school. The losses In the great miners’ strike now aggregate over $80,000,000. If some of the money lost belonged to J. P. Morgan the strike wouldn't have lasted so long. Captain Carter is still doing the Dreyfus act in a comfortable way at Fort Leaven- worth. He feels too sorry for himself to realize that he is playing in great luck. The late Senator McMillan's grandson, 18 years old, has had his name changed to James Thayer McMillan, his parents wish- ing to perpetuate the given name on the family records. . The people of Alexandria, Va., propose to erect a monument to commemorate the | one hundredth anniversary of the death of { George Washington. The first president, in | his youth, was one of those who helped to survey the old city of Alexandria, in 1749. It the big circus merger that has just been completed at Kansas City has for one of its conditions the merging of the three clrcus rings of the present day into the one all- sufficient ring of lang syne, the combine will have at least one extenuating circumstance. The corner stone has been lald in New- port, R. I, of a monument to Charles Louls d’Arsac de Ternay, admiral of France, who landed there with French troops in 1780 to aid the young republic. Admiral de Ternay died shortly after his arrival and was buried near where he disembarked. Colonel Hardy W. B. Price of Clayton, Ala., is one of the few still surviving who took part in the battle of San Jacinto, which decided Texan independence, fs hale and hearty and remembers the battle as though it happened but yesterday. He is 85 years of age, having been born in Edgecombe county, North Carolina, on May 6, 1817, Arthur James Balfour s sald to be the first musical premier England has had. He 1s an enthusiast for the art d is catholle enough in taste to llke Wagner, although his idols are Handel and Bach. He s & friend of Mme. Wagner and has been to Baireuth more than once, He used to make long journeys to hear the lesser-known works of Handel and in January, 1887, the Edinburgh Review printed an article by him on that composer. He has been a sub- scriber of the Richter concerts from their commencement. HARKING BACK TO JOHNNYCAKE. Brown Bread Just as Good ay Beef. Portland Oregonian. Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture predicts that the large corn crop will bring about a reduction in the price of beef. This s pleasant reading for the town folk who have meat to buy, but not so agreeable to the farmer who has beef cattle he intends to sell this winter, There is little reason to believe, however, that Mr. Wilson's prediction - will be fulfilled by reason of the lacts he mentions. The great rise in the price of beef has not been due to a scarcity of feed with which to fatten cattle so much as to a scarcity of cattle. The rise in the price of beef has been out of all proportion to the advance in the cost of fattening. During the hard times farm- ers sold off every beet animal they could spare in order to get money to carry them along. When the price offered for cattle be- gan to advance, they continued to sell. In this way large bumbers of cows which should have been kept for breeding purposes were sold to the butcher and the means of cattle production was lessened. Muitiplica- tion of cattle is & slow process, especially when the price of veal tempts a farmer to Kill helfer calves which should be raised. The constant and rapid extension of the cultivated area is driving the large herds of cattle from the range and cutting off this source of supply. Abundance of feed may increase the supply of beef somewbat, but 1t is bardly to be expected that the relation of supply and demand will by this means be changed enough to make any ma- terfal reduction in the price which the farmer recelves or the consumer must pay for his meat. The greatest cost of meat may and should result in a lessened consumption of that article. As compared with many other foods, meat is very expensive. Thus, as shown by bulletins of the Department of Agriculture, . the corn meal which can be purchased for 25 cents contains ten times the quantity of food materials that are found in the sirloin steak that can be purchased at the same price. People are likely to find out that it is cheaper to eat cornmeal in the form of old-fashioned brown bread, or “Jobnnycake” than to eat it in the form of beef. With the same expenditure of money, & recelves seven times as much food materials In milk, elght times as much in wheat flour, five times a much in beans and twenty times as much in potatoes as'he does’ in sirloin steak. In these prosperous times no able-bodied and industrious man need go without all the meat he wants, but the man who desires to economize may do so by reducing his meat bill. Many have done this, and will continue:to do so, by which means the demand for meat will tend to accommodate itself to the supply. Old-Fashio: BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE, Washington correspondents find so lttle in the news line to occupy their time that they have turned crities of publie improve- | ments Yashioned by the superior wisdom of congress. The latest object of their wrath is the temporary office building which is belng erected for the president to the west of the White House. It is spoken of as “temporary,” but s being built in a very substantial manner and is to be fitted up in a luxurious style. The bullding is a low squatty affair, bullt of red brick, with- out any architectural beauty to make up for its insignificant eize. It looka very much like a stable and the visitor who sees it for the first time will doubtless wonder why the White House stables have been put in such a prominent place, on line with the front of the historic old mansion. In- side the offices will be in keeping with the uses to which they are to be put. The finishings will all be of the best; the decora- tions will be tasteful and rich and the furniture, which has been ordered by Secre- tary Cortelyou and which will all be made from special designs, will be the finest that can be turned out In the United States. Some of the rooms will be furnished in ma- hogany and others in quartered oak. The new cabinet table will be a m: ve affair and will be a triumph of the furniture maker's art. The offices will be ready for the use of the president late this fall. During the last year the government has saved $25,000 by the substitution of a small metallic clip In place of rubber bands in the handling of registered mall. Mr. Michélangelo W. Louls of the supply di- vision made up his mind a year ago that it was extravagant to issue rubber bands for this purpose, and told the postmasters he would give them the clips instead. There was a protest, but Louls was firm. They did not get the bands, and the books at the end of the fiscal year showed the above sum “to the good.” This reveals something of the proportions of the, postal establish- ment. Among all the departments in Waehing- ton the most strict is the treasury. A citizen may carry anything that he ltkes into the treasury building, but when ho undertakes to carry anything bulky out of the building he is apt to get into trouble it he does not explain with readiness. A visitor to Washington the other day carried a fairly large package into ‘the butlding. Nobody said a word to him about it when he was going in, but when ho started out with the package he was held up, made to open it and to explain all about himself and his bueine The.good sense of the rule is At the capitol it is against the rules to carry any sort of a bundle into the build- ing. The fear is that somebody will carry in a bomb. The rule was never enforced rigorously until the semate took up the Sherman repeal bill. At that time the public mind became so influenced against the delay in the semate that violence was feared and the rule was put Into active operation and continued for some years. Then it dropped out of sight until the sh war cxcitement came om, when it was again enforced and it is still enforced rather strongly, although during the last session of congress a few cameras were al- lowed in the bullding. Rear Admiral Melville, chief engineer of the navy, is of the opinjon that the results of tests which have been in progress here for some time under the supervision of a special board of naval officers show that while the use of oll as fuel on board naval vessels is safe and practical its cost is pro- hibitive. . Admiral Melville says that if oll ever uged as fuel on vessels it will be only In the case of torpedo boats and tugs, but that economy requires that the navy shall continue burning coal as long as the latter is selling at normal prices. Two lean, hungry cats are living amid the wreck and debris of the White Houee. They belong to the president’s family. For some reason they were not included among the household pets which the president sons carried away to Sagamore hill June. The boys took their dogs, rabbits, coon, parrots and other birds with them, but left the cats behind. White House servants thoughtfully removed the cats to the temporary executive mansion in Lafayette square, belleving that they would become domiciled there. The cati however, were wedded to the White Hous and upon the first opportunity ran away from the Lafayette square mansion and stole back to their old quarters. Here they have lived for two months amid fall- ing bricks and timbers. They have wit- nessed the work of interior demolition and the beginning of the work of renovation without abandoning their quarters. The workmen say they are walting for the Roosevelt family to return. Every day at noon the cats come out ot the recei of the wrecked building and circulate among the workmen, who fur- nish them with food from their dinner pafls and lunch baskets.. Presumably this is all they get to eat and that It is not enough is shown by their lean, hungry ap- pearan In the diplomatic colony of Washington the coming winter & more than usually American atmosphere will prevail, as In |ll|dltlon to the wife of the new British ambassador, who was Miss Wilson of New York, the announcement has just been made that the wife of M. Jusserand was also born In America. She Wi ormerly Miss Riceards and prior to her marriage to the French diplomat had lived some years in Paris, where she recelyed A bril- llant education. The Iatest Industrial problem relates to the right of a superintendent in the gov- ernment printing office to dictate as to the etyle in which a yourig woman dresses her hair. The superintendent says the way she wears it Interfores with her work, but on the other hand, the young woman evidently thinks it the most becoming and what more is there to be said? ettt OURRENCY MADE FLEXIBLE. e the Circulation “to Meet the Crop Emergency. Philadelphia Press. s | A banking currency based on bonds can always be made safe, but it can never. be | made flexible, just as a currency based on aseets can be made flexible, but never can be given absolute safety. Secretary Shaw has, however, just shoyn how much can be done by provision and energy to render a bank currency based on bonds flexible. The steady advance in United States bonds has abruptly chec! the growth In banking circulation. which had before been in progress, Between January 1, 1900, and January 1, 1902, na- tional bank notes increased in volume $94,000,000. This was the highest point reached, or $360,000,000. The rapld ad- vance of government bonds, particularly in 28, which have wholly falsified Senator Aldrich’s confident prediction that they would remain at par, led bankers to with- draw their currency, and the aggregate | had fallen by July 1, $3,500,000. A slight increase took place in August, but it has | been plain that if the currency In elrou- lation Is to Increase as it should for fall needs in moving the crops it must be along the line of bank notes, as govern- ment recelpts are too near to government expenditures to make it probable that any disbureement could place by the treasury through the purchase of bonds which Sac- retary Shaw suspended last January, Ordinarily any application for an In- crease in national bank currency takes #o long, owing to the routine methods of the Treasury department, that an exigency Is over before the bills can go supplied. Becretary Shaw, however, by having bills printed in advance, by quick- ening the machinery of the Treasury de- partment and by a judiclously worded cir- cular, which reminded great bankers that the United States had some $126,000,000 on deposit In banks which It could withdraw, has led the leading banks of the country to share in an application for about $35,- 000,000 in new currency, The profit on this will be small. On the currency itself there will probably be none whatever at the existing price of government bonds, which, under the purchase this increase brought, abruptly rose. This the misfortune of having llnlsd at critical moments the government credit and banking facilities for the supply of curiency, bul when eaisis ihe besi that can be done is to ameliorate the situation, as Secretary Shaw has by his energétic actlon. FLASHES OF FUN. Briggs—What's your idea lf 's the way a man feels the rst lhrea days after he ls home from & summer vacation. Philadelphla Inqlflr!r Struckoyle (show- Brooklyn Life: of heaven ing his art collection)—Ain’t that bull fight g'.'j'"" 8 beaut? I paid an ertist $2,000 to nt ll Well' W.ll‘ t's, ristng what adine Tan Wik) a6 18 msrere B TRt 1‘0 'l‘rlhunu. Jpgardson—What are You Ry ing so :um ut? You told me the other day that you had thrown all your cares to the winds, Atom ha and brau‘ht the Philadelphlia Record: Blobbs—That f.llew ave a Wondlrtul power of mak- they don’t want to do. Blohbl-Oh no; he- only a professional hypnotist. Cleveland Plain Dealer: “When Mr. Mor- s3p comes home Mr. Schwab froes abroad.” ~What do you argue from t “That it 18 a wise provision to either hemisphere from tpping up.’ Fhlllda!phll Press: Tarkley—Vias your to Coney Island expensive? me the wind changed prevent kla —I should sa: 1t cost 350 Just To pick shells on the beach Tarkley—Oh, gome: off! Markley— against | ot. thimble-) nfl 1 dld h:l'; o:mr:lnr al n't piel the Hfll( LOOK PLEASANT, Somerville Journal. 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