Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 5, 1902, Page 6

THE ‘OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROBEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. —— TERMS OF BUBS ly Bee (without Bunday), V1 eily Bee and sunday, One Year jus ustrated Hee, Ope Y army DELIVERED BY CAl y Bee (without Sunday), per week ly Bee (Inciuding Bunaay), per weel unday RRIER. Elly Bee (without Sunday), per copy. GOVERNOR STONE AND THE STRIKE. Governor Stone of Pennsylvania is considering the question of calling a spe- clal session: of the legislature to adopt measures for terminating the anthracite conl strike. It appears that he hesitates because of a feeling of uncertainty as | to whether a law could be passed that would be constitutional and would settle | the strike and prevent others. thinks the strike is of sufficient public | interest to justify an extra session of the legislature, but is doubtful as to £EssE3 55 s Ties withaat Suiiday), per week.loc| anything satisfactory being accom vening Bee weel Cnm‘yfilnu of 'irregularitl should be addresged to City t 2 OFFICES. aha—The Bee Bullii: u A mana—City Hail Bullding, Twen- uth O ty-Afth and M Streets. ncil Blufts~10 Pearl Street. Chicago—164) Unity Building. w_York—Temple Court. CORRESPONDENCE. rial_ma Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittanges should The Bee Publishing Com- be addressed: pany, OUmaha. $50 = (ncluding Sunday), ‘ashington—l Fourteenth Street. atlons relating to news and edi- Omaha W’m plished. This (mplies a lack of confl- in’ delivery | Circulation De- dence in the legielature which is per- haps unwatranted. What the governor should do is to give the legislature an opportunity to consider the subject and the sooner he does this the better. Governor = Stone’s proposition is to have a compulsory arbitration law en- acted and judging from what is sald of his plan it is not probable that the legis- lature would adopt it. He would allow either party to a dispute to propose to arbitrate it and forthwith to appoint its own representatives. The other party REMITTANCES. Remit by flrl{th:xpnn“or‘ poléll order,| must then do the same. If it fail to do any. Bayabie, fo, The Bee, FUblishing Company;| o it is 1o be adjudged in the wrong. It accounts, em:a chedl: ::g:v: &n workmen refuse to submit to arbitration o B PUBLISHING COMPANY. | the governor is to “apprehend riot” and George B. Publishing Company, says that the ‘B | complete coples of The | Evening an FESHNRREENNEEES Less unsold.and m.rulopq coples. Net total salés. Net dally average.. (Seal)’ | “home rule,” Rotation in office is as essential in the is the rotation of ] ‘political fleld as crops on the farm. Som—— | Never mind, when President Roosevelt { comes to town we will shut down the trolley cars altogether if necessary. Towa. Kansas City, record-breaking attendance. Canal commission. e—— home stretelr 18 reached. altogether too near home. to have done so. trimmed a la pompadour. —_————————— hold its own. Ere——e————— wil pending campaign. ory ‘when called on to vote remalns to be seen. - B enforeement o AT T BTATEMENT OF cmcgufldn, tato of Nebraska, Douglas County, &8 - Taschuck, secretary of The Bee being duly sworn, tual fumber of full and ) GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Bubs in my presence and sworn_to before uot,hhuz’;h‘} of September, A. D., ; M. B. HUNGATE, ~'Notary Publie. Emm e ———— e ——— The paramount issue in the Douglas county legislative campaign will be e . That do settle it that Colonel Willlam Jennings Bryan will not volunteer to open the democratic state campalgn in Semm—— Omaha still retains second place among the pork packing cities of Amer- |, ica with a comfortable margin ahead of’ Sr————— It was not a duchess, after all, who. beld ‘up the admiral's flagship at New- port. Perhaps the revélers may be for- glven after a due slege of penance. — Summed up in a nutshell, the demo- cratie tug-of-war in Iowa simply proved that your Uncle Hod Boles has a longer pole than your Cousin Charley Walsh. i ————— The Nebraska State fair is reporting We will watch to see whether the financial ex- hibit shows up record-breaking receipts. Oandidate Hitchcock still persists in booming John L. Webster for a lucrative federal appointment. First it was the German embassy and now the Isthmian King Cotton is a triffle under the ‘weather according to latest crop reports. King Corn, too, is a little bit slow, but will piek up his old form before the ‘Those Iowa democrats are not at all neighborly to Mr. Bryan, notwithstand- ing their proximity to Nebrasta. They are bringing the repudiation of 16 to 1 nm——— Plans and specifications for the new Mercer residence have been on the stocks for the last five years, and they are still preserved at Architect Kim- ball's office for public fnspection. X ot President Baer declares that he did pot say. that the coal strike was a pri- vate affair which did not concern the public. At any rate If he did say it be is now Icopvlhm that he ought not —— 1 Omaha appreclates the solicitude of John N. Baldwin for its peace and well- belng, but it does not take kindly to the Intervention of a nonresident in its local affairs, even though he has his bair ,Lake Michigan has now produced a tidal wave sald to have swept the lake shore at Chicago, making the waters recede more than 100 feet. St Louls will have to wake itself up with some sort of a nature cataclysm if it hopes to ym. also forgot all about the Kansas City platform when formulating their declaration for But whether thé Bryanites in Wisconsin will have an equally couvenlent and forgetful mem- at the polls %fl‘- mr'o-'dlxnc:hl;u consti- ‘ tution has gotten into the federal courts. dt gefs out it should have the negro disfranchisement clauses elimi- nated or the penalty enforced of re- duced representation in cobgréss in pro- portion to the disfranghised voters. The send a sufficlent force to preserve the peace and to protect men who wish to work. If the employers refuse to ar- bitrate, the governor is to close the mine or factory until they submit. The Phil- adelphia Ledger expresses the opinion that “there s not the least danger that any measure so drastic as this will be enacted by any reasonable legislature,” because it could accomplish no useful purpose and would encourage strife.. In the judgment of the Ledger not coal mining only but every Industry would be demoralized by such a statute. At all events the duty of Governor Stone is clear, It is in the power of the Pehn- sylvania legislature to do something to end the strike and it should be given an opportunity to act in the matter. Let the parties to this conflict be given to understand that there is an authority which they can be compelled to recog- nize and respect. OHI0 DEMOCRATIC LEADER. Tom L. Johnson has superseded John R. McLean as the leader of the Ohio democracy, The contest for leadership was animated and the more astute and aggressive politiclan was successful. Johnson completely dominated the state convention and he will undoubtedly prosecute a most vigorous campalign, in which he proposes to take a conspicu- ously active part. Wealthy, ambitious, aggressive, Tom L. Johnson s a poll- ticlan who may be expected to take a prominent place on the national stage. He is an avowed aspirant for the presi- dential nomination in 1904 and In the improbable event of the democrats win- ning in Ohio this year he will certainly be heard of in the next democratic na- tional convention. The platform adopted by the Ohlo ‘democrats was framed by Mr. Johnson and reaffirms and indofsés’ the prin- ciples laid down in the Kansas Qity platform. This is obviously a ‘bid for the sipport of the former followers of Mr. Bryan, who are sald to be kindly disposed toward Johnson because he did nothing against silver in the campaign of 1896. In reference to this the Cleve- land Leader says that Johnson was & dodger then, that he went to Chicago as a gold man and after the silver plat- form had been adopted declared to the convention that he could not indorse it. He sald that free colnage of silver was a bad thing from a business standpolnt, but added: “Inasmuch, however, as you are fighting for bumanity, I am with you,” which was the extent of Johnson's participation in the campaign of 1896. It is understood that Bryan feels very friendly toward Johnson and it is quite possible that the influence of the Nebraskan will be given in behalf of the Oblo democratic leader two years hence. Meanwhile the republicans of the Buckeye state have an antagonist in Johnson who will keep them busy. DEMOCRATIC PARTY FUR FREE TRADE. The campaign text book of the demo- cratic congressional committee clearly defines the attitude of the party re- specting the tariff; It declarés squarely pd unequivocally in favor of free trade. The committee does not resort to the subterfuge of calling it tariff reform, but endorses without qualification the ruin- ous doctrine advocated by the men in power during the second Cleveland ad- winistration and which produced an ai- most complete paralysis of the indus- tries of the country. The democratic text book says: “The theory of free tgade I8 that both nlleg and buyer are benefited by an exchange of commodities and that, as all’are con- sumers, the greatest good to the great- est number requires that there be no barriers to trade in order that goods may be as cheap as possible and the cost of living be reduced to & minimun. Free trade will open our markets fo benefit our country. It is hospitable and seeks peace and good will with the na- tions. Reciprocity cares nothing for the consumer and hunts foreign markets with a club. Its stock in trade Is high tariff, favoritism, discrimination and re- tallation. It 1s based upon the same false theories as Is protection, and, like protection, 18 a sham and a humbug, und to wost people has been and wil! ever coutinue to be ' delusion' and a sonre."” This is the truditional democratic doc- trine end it emanates from a source that ‘fully commits the party to free trade., The declarations (of state com- ventions in fayor of a “tariff for revenue ouly" miust be viewed in thie Mght of the utterance of the . congres- slonal commitieé which speaks for the entire party, State declarations have no force or value.whes not in, harmeny with those of the authorized representa tives of the party as a.whole. The uwamistakable position of the democratic party, as disclosed by ith campaign text the THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1902. that policy, under which our industrial supremacy has been attained, “a sham and a humbug.” It proposes to strike down the protective system, the results of which have been so beneficent, and to open the great American market to the free admission of the products of the fll-paid labor of Europe. A policy that builds up industries conserves the interests and welfare of labor. It bene- fits the agricultural producers by giving them a profitable home market, Pro- tection has done these things and now, when the country is prosperous, when the industries are active, when labor is well employed and its average earn- Ings are larger than qver: before, the democratic party proposes the over- throw of this policy and the inaugura- tion of free trade. The campalgn text book leaves fio doubt of this. It is not simply a revi- sion of the tariff that is urged, not merely a modification of some of the schedulés, but a sweeping away of all protection. This is the demand of the democratic party, as authoritatively de- elared by its national congressional com- mittee. There ought to be no doubt as to what the response of the country to this demand will be. No man who de- sires. a continuance of prosperity can hesitate in regard to it. It should In- sure an increased republican majority in the next congress. ——b— - —— PEOPLE WOULD LIKE T0 KNOW. Congressman Mercer has spent six weeks in Omaha on his every-other-year handshaking vacation. He has favored his republican constituents with several speeches. He has enlighténed them about the geography and topography of the Philippine islands, as viewed by him- self during his last tour around the world. He has talked about the isth- mian canal and about new federal build- ings for which congress has appropri- ated more than $15,000,000. But in all his talks he has conscientiously re- frained from answering the unanswered questions propounded to his chosen champion, Willlam F. Gurley. P ‘While Mr. Mercer does not need to be a mind reader to read his own mind, he has as yet falled to disclose his plans and intentions. Will Mr. Mercer tell us whether he will be satlsfied with a sixth term in congress and quit there, or will he insist on a seventh term, an elghth term and a perpetual lien on the district until he gets a more lucrative Job? Mr. Mercer has not lived In Omaha during the last six years. - He has paid no personal taxes in Omaha since 1895. ‘Wil he become a resident of Owaba i case he fails to secure renomination or will he continue to live in Washington | and resume his old vocation as legisla- tive lobbylst on a larger scale? It 18 a matter of notoriety that Mr. Mercer has treated cadetship appoint- ments to West Point.and Annapolis as personal perquisites, to be distributed to sons of favored politiclans, instead of throwing them open to competition, so that every boy in the district—the poor man’s soon as“well @s the rich man's] son—should have an equal chance to se- cure a military or naval education. ‘Will Mr. Mercer pursue this policy in his sixth term, as he has in all his pre- vious terms? Every congressman 18 entitled to draw $100 a month for clerk hire and every house committee has a salaried secre- tary. The secretary of the cominittéee on public buildings, of which Mr. Mercer is chairman, receives $2,000 a year for his services. Inastead of giving employ- ment to some deserving Nebraska re- publican as his clerk, Congressman Meér- cer has pocketed the $1,200 a year clerk hire and made the secrétary of his com- mittee perform the duties of personal clerk without allowance for the extra work. Wil Mr. Mercer continue to pocket the $1,200 besides his regtlar salary of $5,000 a year and other per- quisites in case he secures a sixth term in congress? . In the month of May, 1900, the senate passed a Dbill establishing a general quartermaster’s depot in Omaha, which would have given our merchants the long-desired army supply purchasing station instead of a mere storage ware- house. This bill was referred by the speaker of the house to Congressman Mercer, but he kept it in his pocket until March 4, 1901, and deliberately killed it. The only explanation Mer- cer's champions bave seen fit to offer for_this betrayal of the interests of Omaha is that the bill was designed to keep the army headquarters in the Bee buildiag, which would bave exposed Omaha to the risk of losing the army headquarters altogether. Inasmuch as the army headquarters were removed to the old postoffice bullding in June, 1900, elght months before congress adjourned, Mr. Mercer must invent a more plausible story to satisfy intelligent voters. What is the true story? Was it because the bill had been introduced by Senator Thurston or was it because Mercer did not wanj the editor of The Bee to have credit for doing a good thing for Omaha? In the winter of 1809 a draft for $200 was handed to Mr. Mercer, to be used in promoting the Greater America ex- position. That draft, now in possession of the Merchants’ National bank, Is en- dorsed on the back by George Sabine, who holds a position at Washington as part of Mr. Mercer's patronage. Why did Mr. Mercer have to have a middle- man to cash that draft? Is that the ‘way business is done at Washington ¥ It seems to us all these questions should be answered by Mr. Mercer falrly and squarely before the republicans of this district vote to renew his commis- sion for another term, T < Our amiable popocratic contemporary makes & remarkable admission in the headlines placed over its account of burglar activity In Omaba. It says, “Crooks heard that police were changed” and “supposing that no men on duty would know them, they have come to town,” After howling for years for a change In police and arralgning the force under the old board as incom- petent and lueficlent, it now discovers ‘| where those leaders are weak. that the mere rumor of a new l;nle.-l ministration has been accepted by the professionals as an invitation to drop in and make themselves at home. ———— The fear of the coal trust magnates that increasing the price of anthracite may force people to become accustomed to using cheap bituminous stuff would be interesting If not so amusing. When has the price of anthracite ever been reduced to head off bituminous compe- tition? Has not the price of coal been kept at the very highest notch at which the supply could be worked off on the Lelpless public? If the anthracite men are so anxious to drive out cheap bitu- minous coal why not put the price down for a while low enough to win all the traffic that is worth having? e ———— Proposals have been lssued by the In- dian warehouse at 8t. Louls for the pur- chase of 145,000 pounds of dried apples, 187,000 pounds of dried peaches, 175,000 pounds of dried prunes and several casks of drugs and medicines. A rapid increase in the death rate among the population on the Indign reservations may be confidently looked for within the next ninety days.” | An O e of Water, BSan Francisco Chronlale. The bicycle trust seems to be badly buret. It presented a comsplcuous in- stance of overcapitalizatios. There are that Way. Detroit Free Press. In view of the intimate relations which President Baer has found to exist be- tween the Deity and the coal trust, won't it be reasonable to expeot an early winter? el sty Fear Alu'ller Drubbing. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. A distracted Briton predicts that the rivalry between England and America will ultimately result in war. His present fear shows that he, knows which is going to win. \ —— Giv! the Natives a Show. Buffalo Expres: The design for one of the new silver coins for the Philippines which will approved by Secretary Root represents brawny native, with a hammer at a for; typlfylng the Filipino hammering out the destinies of -the islands. Thus far the American government has done most of the hammering. —— Great Thirst Unsatisfied. Chicago Chronicle, Citizens of the effete east probably will wot understand why the people of Naper, Neb., fought all day a crowd of halfbreed Indians who demanded whisky and pre- sumably had money to pay for it. The explanation, however, undoubtedly {s simple enough. The hardy yeomanry of Naper had ouly enough W 5 for themselves and it to the nearest distillery. the Army Beatent Indlanapglis Journal. The army seems not to have been a match for the navy in the mimic war. In fact, it seemed easy for Olympia to effect a landing in Massachusetts bay, but it may be sald in extenuation that Olympla is a most lucky ship. If our harbors were de- fended by torpedo’ Hoats and the landsmen could have used tl s upon a real enemy, the outcorhe probably have been very different. . P “How Times Change. Loulsville Courler-Journal. How times change! Forty years ago the federal and confederate armies were con- fronting each other in deadly array, Gen- eral Kirby Smith had just fought the bat- tle of Richmond -and come {into pos- session of all eastern and central Ken- tucky, while General Lee was on his tri- umphal march through eastern Virgina, which culminated. Jater in the battle of Antfetam. A new generation now controls The scars of war are healed and peace and prosperity reign ever a restored unfon.” A million still draw, federal pen- slons, while but. few ex-confederate veter- ans durvive. In their behalf the com- mander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic has issued an appeal for funds to create a home for them. It s a graceful act and carries its own com- mentary. New Maine Shy on Speed. Philadelphia Record. The Crampe have bullt a powerful battle- ship in the mew Malne, but the vessel ap- pears to have falled to make the contract speed of eighteen knots in its recent offi- clal trial off Cape Ann. After making all possible allowances, the ship's speed aver- aged, according to report only 17.965 knots an hour. Maige ia ome of the first war ships on which the bullders can earn no bonuses for speed in excess of that stip- ulated in the contract, and it may be that the Cramps, lacking the old stimulus, made no special effort to turn out a vessel capable of speeding more than eighteen knots. It 1s claimed in its behalf that the coal used in the officlal trial was of an inferior qual- ity. A second trial will be given the ship, and. it s possible that it will thén be made to go the pace called for by law. In after years, however, it will seldom or never be able to go elghteen knots an hour. REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT. Philadelphia Ledger: The president sald at Concord: “About all we have a right to expect from the government is that it will see -that the cards: are not stacked.” A stacked deck of cards! Somebody is always finding & new name for the Dingley tariff. Baltimore American: The president sald in his address at Newport that there is no royal road to good government, and to bave good government we must have ‘good citizens. That is the solution of one very important question of the day in a nutshell. New. York Tribune: Ome of the best things President Roosevelt has said in his admirable speeches in New England {s this: “Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, doubtful whether in the long run of And he added: ‘At any rate, both are undesirable.” Portland Oregonlan: It is certainly a re- markable phenomenon to a president on a stumping tour cutting out & line of thought that has been tabooed by his party leaders both in congress and in campaign committees. At the same time, he Is strong It will be humillating 3f the party elects to leave this fair mountain of elvio righteousness to batten on the moor of corporate influence and millions in campaign contributions. Indianapolis Journal: If the reports that the trust influences in Wall street are seek- ing the overthrow of the frigh'en him lato silen massce =2 understand them, those may be sure that they could devise no more certain method to increase his popularity. While there is & growing feeling that com- Bnot be harmful if properly is a feeling that be made responsible to the govérnment in some manner. Comsequently any attitude which they may, assume showing that they do pot propose to tolerate such supervision will result in their curtaliment,, Size of' t the growth of the country in the jritory which has or may become state hae in a century been from 827,844 to 8,- cent. our density of population per cent. national wealth has inoreased from $7,000,- 000,000 to $94,000,000,000,, or 1,243 per cenmt $1,235, or more than 800 per cent. public debt has fallen In through many fluct: than $13 per capit: line. It has often been said -that the nine- of our era. In few things was it more wonderful than in the unprecedented and unique development of the United States of America. But we have sald our growth has been extraordinary in the last half-dozen years. It has. There were those who doubted and scoffed when, in 1896, the Tribune spoke the advance The fact is, as the his election marked the beginning of one of the most known In our history—if that word be applicable to = of Willlam McKinley as agent of prosperity. record now shows, that remarkable ‘‘booms” ever time of genmeral and su al pros perity. During the five years before there had been little growth in wealth or prog- ress in prosperity. had been loss and retrogreesion. in 1890-'95 the money In circulation in- creased from $1,400,000,000 to $1,600,000,000, but in the year: to $2,200,000,000. In the New York The proverblal “prodigious!” of Dominie Sampson s but a feeble word to describe last century and in the last half-dozen years. A current publication of the Bureau of Sta- tistics reminds us that our growth in ter- that s, contiguous continental territory— 025,600 square miles, or more than 265 per With all this vast increase of area s increased mile, or 622 r years only our and the per capita wealth from $307 to The the century, fons, from $15 to less and 8o on all along the teenth century was the most wonderful In some respects there Thus ince from $1,600,000,000 former period he Boom Tribune. bank clearings actually declined from $58,000,000,000 to $50,000,000,000, while In the latter they have risen to $114,000,000,000. In the former sav- ings bank deposits increased from $1,600,- 000,000 to $1,800,000,000, and in the latter they rose to $2,500,000,000. National bank deposits in the tormer rose from $1,400,000,~ 000 to $1,700,009,000, and in the latter to the stupendous sum of $3,100,000,000, The. value of farm.animals decreased in 1890-95 from $2,400,000,000 to $1,800,000,000, but has since to $2,900,000,000. In the tormer period the output of coal. increased from 140,000,000 to 172,000,000 tons, and in the laster to 261, 000,000. The product of steel rose in the one from 4,200,000 to 6,100,000 tons, and in the latter to 13,400,000. The amount of frelght carried on raliroads rose in the former perlod from 79,000,000,000 mile tons to 88,000,000,000, and in the latter to 141,- 000,000,000, These figures indicate in part the magnitude of the prosperity of which, as the Tribune sald, Willlam McKinley was the advance agent. It was a wondrous century's growth, that of the nineteenth, and it Is a wondrous “boom,” that which we have had for the last half dozen years and which we are still enjoying. The conservation of the one and the prolongation and perpetuation of the other are matters which lle, so far as they are in any human control, within the hands of this nation; and this nation will best serve itself in the administration of this unparalleled trust i it reaists the temptation simply to exult in such material greatness and to be dazzled by the splendor of the flgures we have quoted, and bears constantly in mind, for its government and admonition, the eternal verity expressed with homely but convincing eloquence by one of the clearest sighted of its seers when , he said: “The truest test of civilization s not the census, nof the crops; no, but the kind of man the country turns out.” ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Ourrent of Life in the Metropolis. The gradual prying loose of the Tam- many grip on local offices and the installa- tion of new men {s bringing Into public notice official talents much more admirable than the talent of graft which character- ized the Van Wyck administration. A con- spicuous instance of an officlal possessed of many talents is the new commissioner of street ¢leaning, Major John McGraw Wood- bury, who can splel to the white wings in five languages, prescribe if they are Il can tell a microbe on sight, and in addition has been a soldier in the civil war, salled over many seas and chased the merry steer on the Laramie plains. Major Woodbury bas instituted In the department a dis- cipline that is showing good results. When any of those near him are taken sick he personally prescribes for them and those who are anxious for short vacations cannot deceive him by pretending to be sick. He speaks French. Spanish, German. itallan and English and becomes exasperated when- ever it occurs to him that he cannat read and speak Hebrew, for the men undér him are of all nationalities and creeds. His knowledge of bacteriology recently caused him to start a crusade against the garms in the air on the east and west sides, by means of which he may determine tlle best method of cleaning these parts of ti» city. Major Woodbury is worth, it is sald, be- tween $3,000,000 and $4,000,000, yet ho gives his services to the city at a salary of $7,600 a year, He llkes work and le at it from early in the morning until all hours of the night. is 48 years old and looks ten years younger. He goes upstalm three steps at a time and it is amusing to watch any ordinary man trying to keep nbreast of him when he is walking in the sireet. That & man loves a “bargain” as well as a woman {s demonetrated by the rush- ing business at certain hours in the stores in New York of the large cigar compaay that is shortly to invade Philadelphia. Jn the first place, the methods of the cempany are very much like those of the enter- prising dry goods merchant. The show windows of the tobacco people are luridly placarded with announcements that cer- tain brands of 10-cent cigare are ‘“re- duced to_§ cents,” and other cardy have eyen ductive offers. In afdition the alleged cut prices the cimpany gives m coupons, which mity be exchai “for almost anything, tfom a 10-cent magazine up to a plano. At the Park Row branch store, when the tush to and from Brooklyn is on, the swene i much like that around a “dress good counter on bargain day—only the purchi ers are men. This store never clones. The case of Mr. and Mrs. Albert I. Juil- lerat of this town is strange and sad, re- lates the New York Sun. The woman ap- plied for allmony and counsel fee in a suit for separation. The lord answered with an afdavit that may drip with truth, and cer- tainly drips with tears. Here it is: ““This plaintiff is a hot-tempered woman of great pride, who seems to have taken too much to heart the fact that sl married am an so much shorter than she is. She has refused to walk with me in the street and frequently when she has walked with me hid her wedding ring so that people would not know that she and I were married. 1 am ready and willing to give my wife the best home I can and it is ready and waiting for her. I camnnot increase my size nor otherwise change myself to suit the plain- tiff in this action.” He cannot, by taking thought, add to his stature. The woman should remember that, tall and justly proud as she is. Have not many great men had their coattalls near the ground? The busband should have recited to the wife the affecting lines “How big wi Also that short and ble verse: My wife is tall and I am short, And that's the long and short of It. The average of nature and the equality of the sexes are maintained by the law which the tall wife spurns. There is an attraction between the long and the brief. The sky- seraping man marries a dumpy little woman. She whose topnot grazes the stars mates with & little man. The follo and the dia- mond edition are foreordained for one an- otker. We beg the divinely tall woman to be divinely fair to her shorter mate, During the last week John F. Schmadeke, & coal dealer in Brooklyn, bought a ma; nificent country place near Sqgmerville, N. Though he was & rich man he made enough in the advance of coal to justify the pur- chase of a summer home at an expenditure of $50,000. At the beginniug of the strike he bad in stock, 25,000 tons of anthracite. It cost him about §6 & ton in his yard. It was all paid for, as big companies w not stocking dealers and taking long-time notes. If any money was made they would make it. Of course, Mr. Schmadeke did not hold on to all his stock. He had many cus- tomers and they had to be supplied with regularity. In fact, he had some future con- tracts at fixed prices. But more than half his stock was not under contract. He held this as best he could, though he kept selling at the advances every month. He still has 3,000 tons on hand, worth at least $30,000. On the balance of the coal it is sald that he made more than §1 a ton. So that this one dealer won a handsome summes home by ordinary shrewdness, OELIBAOY AND MARRIAGE. Chanpellor Andrew! cussed and Analysed. Portland Oregonlan. Dr. E. B. Andrews, chancellor of the University of Nebraska, in a recent address before the University of Chicago denounces without exception and qualification the unmarried man or woman A& poor weak- ling who amounts to alm nothing, has no place in soclety. He asks us to look at our great men—Washington, Lincoln, Grant ahd so oh. ' This kind of reasoning is worthy of & man who was shallow enough' to preach the gospel of free silver, for how easy it is to ask Dr. Andrews to look at Copernicus, Newton, Hume, Gib- bon, Swift, Pope, Willlam Pitt, Brougham, Cowper, Goldsmith, Gray, Charles Lamb, Macaulay, Herbert Spencer, Lord Kitch- ener, Pope Leo. Among motable Americans, Thoreau, Tilden, Phillips Brooks and Pres- ident Buchanam were bachelors. Among English women who led single lives were Jane Austen, Queen Elizabeth, Harrlet Martineau, Joanna Batllle, Adelaide Proc- tor, ‘Miss Mitford, Jean Ingelow, Mi Edgworth, ‘“‘Oulda," Frances Power Cobb, Jane Porter, Florence Nightingale, Emily Faithtul, Sister Dora and Miss Gladstone. Among American women we find the names of Dorothea Dix, Susan B. Anthony and Maria Mitchell. It is fair to.presume that these eminent persons abstained from marriage for respectable reasons, for none of them was deflcient in energy of mind or body, and nearly all of them led lives that, were gonsecrated to high public or private duty. It is easy to understand how & man or woman of high intelligence and sibility might decide to lead a single life. Feeble health, or a sense of duty to @ dependent mother and younger children, disappoint 1 affection, enthusiastic devo- tion to toilsome and all-engrossing scien- tific or literary pursuits, deep devotion to somo all-absorbing cause of moral or so- clal reform, would probably explain the decision of most of the persons whose names We have cited. It s fair to presume that if these mo- tives have constrained these eminent per- sons to refrain from matrimony there must be a very large number of intelligent but comparatively obscure men and women who have been influenced by equally re- spectable motives not to marry. From this point of view the argument of Dr. An- drews that the celibate is a weakling falls to the ground. On the comtrary, it would be easy to show that It Is the weak- ling not seldom who marries in haste, eo reckless. of his responsibility that he s really a breeder of immorality and - the founder of a family of wretched paupers. A writer in the London Mall says that there are In London 13,000 married persons who e 20 years of age or under. There are 971 wives and widows aged 18, 3,712 aged 19 and 6,672 wives and widows at 20 years. There are 787 husbands from 16 to 19 years old and 2,022 just 20 years of age. The majority of such marriages are contracted in absolute poverty. The girl-wife can neither cook mor sew, she will not sweep mor scrub. The poy husband wants a8 cook and ‘a 'washerwoman, and he marries to find he has got neither. The latest census of London showed 2,000 hus- | bands under age who were not living with l‘lhalr wives. Poverty and crime had di- vorced most of them. Among the inmates of London’s’ workhouses are husbands, wives, widowers and’ widows of 15 and years of age. Out of a total of 860 persons under age in London prisons, more than 200 are married, and out of 1,284 under 25 years of age, 676 are married. There are 56,898 married persons under age In Eng- land and Wales, and it is the judgment of English -observers that “beyond contro- versy these early marriages strew soclal life with wreckage, while the doctors speak ominously of the new generation that these child marrt; will produce.” There is no question but marriages de- crease. Malthus held that as wages rose and food' grew cheaper the marriage rate would increase and births grow numerous, |but the enumerators of population during the last 100 years have shown that the re- verse takes place; that when wages rise in any calling, trade or employment, the mar- tend to decrease. Marriage is almost uni- versal among the young women at the bot- tom of the laboring class, but as the family wage Increases the number of unmarried ‘women also increases, and when the family extent. the number of unmarried women in- creases as the advantages of life Increase. This means that when women are tempted If not forced to marry for & home there ‘will be fewer unmarried women than when women are mot obliged to marry for @ home or have been trained to earn a lv: iig on easier terms than severe and {ll-paid manual toll. Within the last fifty years the wealth of the United States bas enor- mously increased, growing from three to four-fold, but the marriage and the birth rates have as steadily decreased. This de- crease, exists among all classes. The only place where births are numerous and mar- riages constant is among immigrants who are still struggling at the bottom to work their way to the top. The testimony of history fs that as na- tions have grown in civilization and wealth |they have deecreased in marriage and the birth rate. Marriage is the mormal condi- tion, but it has in a wide sense always beep controlled by economic considerations Aratber than by romantic feeling. There was riage raté ‘tends to diminish and births | W is able to educate its daughters to the fullest | G s time fn the history ef all peoples when the military safety of the state could mot afford to tolerate celibacy, but with the in- crease of wealth and comfort:the: burden of that obligation is ne longer bx- marriages were more frequent there was less romanticism, perbaps, than there 1s today, because when & womash ‘Was tempted by her necessities to marry for a home she could net afford to be romantic in her cholce, but today wemen are larger wage- earners and not a few of them prefer & d pursuits of their own to mar- a The spectacld of:unhappy marriages and divorces aired 18 the courts is not with- out some effect, and senigible men and women have both dfscovered that marriage that s not entered into on both sides from high mio- tives is sure to breed misery and morsl corrosion. ¢ —_— PERSONAL NOTES. President Baer has several sore fingers and when asked to say things about fthe miners will do so under his breath. The people of Ernest Renan's birthplace, Treguler, have decided to erect a statue of the famous author and to name & street after him. The Count and Countess Boni de Castel+ lane are on their way to this country. It ought to be cheaper for the Goulds to send the maney than have the Castellanes come after ft. ' A monument bas beem orected over the graves of the twenty-one soldiers who. fell last battle with the Nez Perces Ine dians near the Bearpaw mountains, Mont., twenty-five years ago. John W. Mackay, the Irish-American multimiilonaire, who dled recently in London, & fine tribute paid to him once by & friend. “Mackay,” sald he, ‘s one of the few rich men I should like to know 1f he were poor. Though an African, Abyssinta man of progressive ideas and has ti ormed his mediaeval country al- most into a modern state. His military system stlll belongs to a past age in many respects, but he can put into ‘the fleld a formidably equipped army of 300,000 men. The New York state assembly of Spanish war veterans will erect at the base of the statue of Liberty on Bedloe's island a me: morial tablet to Captaln Alexander Weth. erell, a veteran of both the civil and the Spanish wars, who was killed on San Juan il President Roosevelt s expected to attend the dedication. : H. J. Courtney of Dubifn is to sall early next month for this country, to “Irish” pal citles of the United States and Canada. Mr. Courtney has been promi- nent in the Gaellc speaking movement from' its beginning and has addressed in Gaellc open alr meetings in various parts of Ireland and 'hi organized Gaelic crusades in the counties of Dublin, Louth, Wicklow, Limerick, Sligo and his native county of Kerry. Secretary Shaw s on the trafl ‘of the “two-hat” men in his departiment. These are the individuals who find it necessary to go out for am occasional drink during office hours, wearing a soft felt hat and leaving their ordinary head covering an the usual pegs. It a chief of divielon in- quires after a clerk who s &bsent on such an expedition he is told: “Why, Soandso must be around somewhere. There's his hat on the peg. Mr. Shaw has d termined to put a stop to this practice. * Rev. Mr. Barker, a preacher in Char{- ton county, Missourl, learned that a Sum- ner saloonkeeper was violating the law by selling liquor to minors. The reverend gentleman, having a slightly dlstorted sense of duty, induced a boy to purchase some whisky, his Intentipn being to prose- cute the saloon nfan. '‘The bBoy obfafnéd the lquor all right, but the dealer cauged the preacher's arrest on the charge of conspiracy and Mr. Barkeér's trial comes up shortly. Meanwhile the saloonkeeper is doing business as of yore. —e iy LAUGHING GAS. King Menelek of Chicago Tribune: ‘““What {s the sense in calling a counterfeiters-outfit a ‘plant'?" “It's his way of raising money, isn't it?" Brooklyn Lllf: ‘Willle—Pa, ‘what 1s a “rubber” at whist, anyway? Mr, ungwt -Any woman who attempts to take a hand, usually. Philadelphla. Press: ‘“He's an unfor- tunate man of letters. “"Why, 1 never heard he was an author." “Weil, he was the author of several let- (:Jr:lthu lost him a breach of promise s Cleveland Plain Dealér: “I see that the shah of Persla insists upon traveling at a slow rate.” o B Pechass ha waiita: to-hear peo= nno. Per wants. ple gay: ‘Oh, pahaw, late (% et Chicago Post: “Ah," he sighed, “T happler when I way T Ve “‘Well,” they answered coldly, it is al- w-yl; Jpossible for a man to ‘poor al t the fded 014 not: deem | P R s ot 45 Somerville Journal: It may be true that forelgners are slow. to ‘‘take’ an American mke, but Chauncey pew sald something nny in Paris a while ago and the very next week in Venice the Campanile umbled. Washington 8tar: “Our.son Josh don't seel 0 n] ic| dress,"” aid Farm Totossel, bl " dren a heap o' troul Philadelphla Press: Friend— stay {n that western town long. oung Doctor—No, only six weeks, and there was only one case {n the whole town during that time. Friend—But you had that case, dldn't you? Young Dootor—Yes, 1 had it good and T Was & case of home-sickiices. hard. MISJUDGED. We stood beside a gutter; in it lay X oathasome hamin sie T i 5 Onco inhocent and Food, still lngered oo ““The man,” he sald, “has gone: beyond re- He's croased the dreaded bound'ry line' that To unwept desolation; naught could help, For 'this man's soul is desd" to all things ur o hould stoop to set him foot 10 10 "longer climb: ‘the. tAstas that Aare gone, once Had led him on to higher ho It ‘we should touch adabed form ‘we'a would be stunned only " suffer n::.,h‘:o‘:.“ 1t we He S But 1 because I've looked in baby-eyes And feit; reiocted In_ thet last lad sunrise that their -:.&‘.‘:".31.'1."}‘..... pon In paradise; heca I seen glow Of “thelr 'I.ut wm nnn‘(..‘-. they To sarth and lesrned the A stern, hard les- sons tha We, all whg breathe, must know, I won- dered i . ; s’ ol SRR Sy, By bodil, 3 ) 1f living ’.’om':".fo‘tfl“:’:'r s Toar “thety Unhioly casings. Then my wag v silent wings that sent a chill turough :;»;.I...::T;nnunmni_vfi. Y Were the brooding pinions of the That frees ourselves from earthly ?.!.":fl When deth 1 saw ‘what seemed the et s A — ) A 57 o