Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 3, 1902, Page 7

1 i MR 48 THE OMAHA DAILY BE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1902. PRESIDENT ON PUBLIC NEEDS Annual Message to the Oongress on Etate of the Republic. SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR THE LAWMAKERS Trusts, Tariff, Public Lands, Army and Navy and the Indi Are Toples that Req exinla tive Attention. (Continued from Second Page.) which not only the United States but for- eign nations may take advantage of the machinery already in existence at The Hague. 1 recommend to the favorable considera- tion of the congress the Hawailap fire elaims, which were the subject of careful Investigation during the last session. Isthmian Canal at Pannmn. The congress has wisely provided that we | shall build at once an isthmian canal If possible at Panama. The attorney general Teports that we can undoubtedly acquire good title from the French Panama Canal company. Negotiations are now pending with Colombla to secure her assent to our bullding the eanal. This canal will be one of the greatest twentleth century; a greater engineering feat than bas yet been accomplished dur- ing the history of mankind. The work should be carried out as a continuing policy without fegard to change of administration and it should be begun under clrcums:ances which will make it a matter of pride fr all administrations to continue in policy. The canal will be of great bevefit to America, and of importance to all the world. It will be of advantage to us industrially and also as improving our military posi- tion. tries of tropical Amerlca. It is earnostly to be hoped that all of these countries will do as eome of them have already done with signal succ and will invite to their shores commerce and improve fheir ma- terial conditions by recognizing that stability and order are the prerequl ites of successful development. No independent nation in America need have the slightest | fear of aggression from the United States It behooves each one to maintain order within its own borders and to discharge fts just obligations to forelgners. When this is donme, they can rest assured (hi be they strong or weak, they have moth ing to dread from outside interf rence. More and more the Increasing interdepend- ence and complexity of international pol- itical and economic relations render it in- cumbent on all civilized and orderly pow- ers to fosist on the proper policing of the world. Pacific Cable Charter. During the fall of 1901 a communication was addressed to the eecretary of state, sek'ng whether permission would be granted by the president to a corpcraticn to lay a cable from a point on the California coast to the Philippine Islands by way of | Hawall. A statement of conditions or terms upon which such corporation would under- take to lay and operate a cable was volun- teered. Inasmuch as the congress was shortly to convene, and Pacific cable legislation bad been the subject of consideration by the congress for several years, it ¢eemel to me wise to defer action upon the ap- plication until congress had first an ap- portunity to act. The congress adjourned without taking any action, leaving the matter in exactly the same cond tion in | which it stood when the congress convened. Meanwhile it appears that the Commer- clal Pacific Cable company bad promptly proceeded with preparations for laying ite cable. It also made application to the pres- ident for access to and use of soundirg: taken by the United States steamship Nero, for the purpose of discovering a practic- able route for a transpacific cable, the company urging that with access to these soundings 1t could complete its cable much sooner than if it were required to tike soundings upon its own account. Pending consideration of this subject, it appeared important and desirable to attach certain conditions to the permission to cxamine and uee the soundings, It it should be granted. In consequence of this solicitation of the cable company, certain conditions were formulated, upon which the president was willing to allow access to these soundings and to consent to the landing and laying of the cable, subject to any alterations or ad- ditions thereto lmposed by the congress. This was deemed proper, especially as it was clear that a cable connectlon of some kind with China, a forelgn country, was a part of the company's plan. This course was, moreover, In accordance with a line of precedents, including President Grant's ac- tion In the case of the first French cable, explaine¢ to the congress in his annual message of December, 1875, and the fin- stance occurring in 1879 of the second French cable from Brest to St. Plerre, with a branch to Cape Cod. These conditions prescribed, among other things, & maximum rate for commercial mensages and that the company should con- struct a line from the Philippine Islands to China, there being at bresent, as is well known, & British line from Manila to Hong- kong. The representatives of the cable company kept these conditions long under considera- L o] SHE ESCAPED THE KNIFE. Ten Months of Peace After Dreadful Sulfering, Operations are becoming a fad; every Foung man, us soon as he is graduated from | a medical college, considers himself capa le of undertaking the most serious and complicated surgical work, and hundreds of lives are sacrificed annually to this mad trensy of incompetent men, to rush fnto work which should only be undertaken as & last resort, and then only by the most ex- perienced and careful surgeons. It 18 & pleasure, {u view of these facts, to read the following letter from a woman who bas been saved from one of these dan- | gerous operations. “I know I should have informed you long ago regarding wy case of plies and the good done me, and I believe | 1 am cured. Last December I sent for your book. 1 have never been bothered since then, and before I had suffered for the last eleven years, and at the time I wrote 1 bad given birth to a child, and they came down with the delivery of the child by the handful. I could not get them back and I suffered everything; and the doctor said nothing but an operation would ever re- lleve me; but I read of your remedy in our dally newspaper and I told my busband to get me a box and I would give it a trial before consenting to the knife, and thanks be to your wonderful medicine, I was saved trom the operating table. Bvery person cuffering from piles that my husband and myself hear of, we recommend your wonderful medicine, but I hardly think 1 will need any more for it will be a year the Sth day of December since | had them, and that makes it ten months and past now. ‘Thankiog you again and wishing you abundant success, I remain, Mrs. S. Hodg- #on, 106 W. 11th St., Des Moines, lowa.” Pyramid Pile Cure is sold by druggists for fifty cents a package or will be mailed to any address upon receipt of price, by Pyra- mid Drug Co., Marshall, Mich. Write this firm for lttle book describing the cause and cure of plies engineering feats of tho | It will be of advantage to the coun- | tion, continuing, in the meantime, to pre- pare for laying the cable. They have, how- ever, at length acceded to them, and an all-American line between our Pacific coast and the Chinese empire, by way of Honolulu and the Philippine Islands, {s thus provided for, and is expected withic a few months to be ready for business. Among the conditions Is one reserving the power of the congress to modify or repeal any or ali of them. A eopy of the conditions is herewith transmitted. Porto Rico is Prosperous. Ot Porto Rico it 1s only necessary to say that the prosperity of the leland ard the wisdom with which it has been governed { have been such as to make it serve as an example of all that is best in insular ad- ministration. Peace in the Philip On July 4 last, on the one hundred and twenty-sixth anniversary of the declaration of our independence, peace and amnesty were promulgated in the Philippine Islands. { Some trouble has sinee from time to time | threatencd with the Mohammedan Moros. | but with the late insurrectionary Filipinos the war has entirely ceased. Civil govern- | ment has now been Introduced. Not only does each Filipino enjoy such rights to lite, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as he | has never known during the recorded his- | tory of the islands, but the people taken as a whole now enjoy a measure of sel{-gov- | ernment greater than that granted to any other Orientals by any foreign power and greater than that enjoyed by any other Orfentals under their own governments, | save the Japanese alone. We have not gone too far in granting these rights of liberty en. | gone to the limit that in the interests of | the Philippine people themselves it was wise or just to go. To hurry matters, to go faster than we are now going, would entall | calamity on the people of the islands. No | policy ever entered into by the American people has vindicated itself in more signal { manner than the poicy of holding the Phil- ippines. The triumph of our arms, above 1l the triumph of our laws and principles, has come sooner than we had any right to | expect. Praise for the Army. Too much praise cannot be given to the | army for what it has done in the Philip- pines both in warfare and from an admin- istrative standpoint in preparing the way for civil government, and similar credit | belong to the civil authorities for the way | In which they have planted the seeds of self-government In the ground thus made | ready for them. The courage, the un- flinching endurance, the high soldierly ef- clency, and the gemeral kind-heartednes: and humanity of our troops have been strik- ingly manifested. There now remain only some 15,000 troops in the islands. All told, over 100,000 have been sent there. Of course, there have been individual in- stances of wrongdoing among them. They warred under fearful difficulties of climate and surroundings; and under the strain {of the terrible provocations which they continually received from their foes, occa- sional instances of cruel retaliation oc- curred. Every effort bas been made to prevent such cruelties, and finally these efforts have been completely successtul. Every effort has also been made to detect and punish the wrongdoers. After making all allowance for these misdeeds, 1t re- mains true that few indeed have been the instances in which war has been waged by a civilized power against semi-civilized or barbarous forces where there has been 80 little wrongdoing by the victors as in the Philippine Islands. On the other hand, the amount of difficult, important and be. neficent work which has been done is well-nigh incalculable. Taking the work of the army and the civil authorities together, it may be ques- tioned whether anywhere else in modern times the world has seen a better example of real comstructive statesmauship than our people bave given in ti Philippine Islands. High praise should also be given those Fillpinos, in the aggregate very nu- merous, who have accepted the new con- ditions and joined with our representatives to work with hearty good will for the wel- fare of the Islands. Eficiency of Warriors. The army has been reduced to the mini- | mum allowed by law. It is very small for the size of the nation, and most certainly ehould be kept at the highest point of efficiency. The senior officers are given scant chance under ordinary conditions to exerciss commands commensurate Wwith their rank, under eclrcumstances which would fit them to do their duty in time of actual war. A system of maneuvering our army in bodies of some little size has been begun and should be steadily continued. Without such maneuvers it is folly to ex- pect that In the event of hostilities with any serious foe even a small army corps could be handled to advantage. Both our officers and enlisted men are such that we can take hearty pride in them. No better material can be found. But they must be thoroughly trained, both as individuals and in the mass. The marksmanship of the men must receive ‘special attention. In the circumstances of modern warfare the man must act far more on his own indi- vidual responsibility than ever before, and the high individual efficiency of the unit 1s of the utmost importance. Formerly this unit was the regiment; it is now aot the regiment, not even the troops or com- pany; it is the individual soldier. Every effort must be made to develop every work- manlike and soldlerly quality in both the officer and the enlisted man. 1 urgently call your attention to the need of passing a bill providing for a gen- eral staff and for the reorganization of the supply departments on the lines of the bill proposed by the secretary of war last year. When the young officers enter the army from West Point they probably stand above their compeers in any other military service. Every effort should be made, by training, by reward of merit, by scrutiny into the carcers and capacity, to keep them of the same high relative excellence throughout their careers. The measure providing for the reorgani- zation of the militla system and for se- curing ‘the highest eficiency in the N tional Guard, which has already passed the house, should receive prompt attention and action. It is of great importance that the relation of the National Guard to the mil- ftia and volunteer forces of the United | States should be defined, and that ln place of our present obsolete laws & practical and efclent eystem should be adopted. Provision should be made to enable the secretary of war to keep cavalry and ar- tillery horses, worn-out in long perform- ance of duty. Such horses fetch but a trifie when sold; and rather than turn them out to the misery awaiting them when thus disposed of, it would be better to em- ploy them at light work around the posts, and when necessary to put them painlessly to death mprovement in (he Navy. For the first time in our history naval maneuvers on a large scale are being held under the immediate command of the ad- wiral of the navy. Comstantly increasing attention is being paid to the gunnery of the navy, but it is yet far from what it should be. ! earnestly urge that the in- crease asked for by the secretary of the wavy 1o the appropriation for improving the marksmanship be granted. In battle the only shots that count are the shots that hit. It is pecessary to provide ample funds for practice with the grest guns in time of peace. These funds must provide mot only for the purchase of projectiles, but for allowances for prizes to emcourage and self-government; but we have certainly | the gun crews, and especlally the gun pointers, and for perfecting an Intelligent aystem under which alone it is possible to get good practice There should be no halt in the work of building up the navy, providing every yoar | additional fighting craft. We are a very | ik country, vast in extent of territory | and great in population; a country more- over, which has an army diminutive in- deed, when compared with that of any other first-class power. We have deliberately | made our own certain foreign pelicies which demand the possession of a first-class navy The fsthmian canal will greatly Increase the efficiency of our navy, then the building of the canal would be merely giving a hos- tage to any power of superior strength The Ménroe doctrine the cardinal should be treated as feature of American foreign policy; but it would be worse than idle to assert it unless we Intended to back it up, and it can be backed up only by a thor- oughly good navy. provocative of war. anty of peace. Men A good mavy is not a It is the surest g Bach {ndividual unit of our navy should be she most efficient of its kind as re- gards both material and pereonnel that is to be found in the world. I call your spe- cial attention to the need of providing for the manning of the ships. Serious trouble threatens us if we cannot do better than we are now doing as vegards securing the services of a sufficfent number of the high- est type of sallormen, of sea mechanics. The veteran seamen of our warships are of as high a type s can be found in any navy which rides the waters of the world; they are unsurpassed in daring, in resolu- tion, in readiness, in thorough knowledg of their profession. They deserve every consideration that can be shown them. But there are not enough of them. ‘It is | no more possible to improvise a crew than it is poseible to improvise a warship. To bufld the finest ship, with the deadliest battery, and to send it afoat with a raw crew, no matter how brave they were in- dividually, would be to insure disaster if a foe of sverage capacity were encountered. Neither ships nor men can be improvised when war has begun. We need 1,000 additional officers in or- der to properly man the ships mow pro- vided for and under construction. The classes at the Naval school at Annapolis should be greatly enlarged. At the same time that we thus add the officers where we need them, we should facilitate the re- tirement of those at the head of the lst whose usefulness has become impaired. Promotion must be fostered if the eervice is to be kept eficient. Hard Work for Office: The lamentable scarcity of officers, and the large number of recruits and of un- skilled men necessarily put aboard the new vessels as they have been commissioned, bas thrown upon our officers, and espe- clally on the lieutenants and junior grades, unusual labor and fatigue and hae gravely strained their powers of endurance. Nor is there sign of any immediate let-up ia this strain. It must cootinue for some time longer, until more officers are grad- uated from Annapolis, and until the recruits become trained and skillful in their du. tles. In these difficulties incident upon the development of our war fleet the conduct of all our officers has been creditable to the service, and the lieutenants and junior grades in particular have displayed an abil- ity and a steadfast cheerfulness which en- titles' them to the ungrudging {hanks of all who realize the disheartening trials and fatigues to which they are cf necessity subjected. There is not a cloud on the horizon at present. There seems mnot the slightest chance of trouble with a foreign power. We most earnestly hope that this state of things may continue; and the way to in- sure its continuance s to provide for a thoroughly efiicient navy. The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster. Fatuous self-complacency, or vanity, or short-sightedness in refusing to prepare for danger, s both foolish and wicked in such a nation as ours; and past experience has shown that such fatuity in refusing to recognize or prepare for any crisis in advance is usually succeeded by & mad panic of hysterical fear once the crisis has actually arrived. Postal Revenues Gratifying. The striking increase in the revenues of the Postoffice department shows clearly the prosperity of our people and the increasing activity of the business of the country. The receipts of the Postoffice department for the fiscal year ending June 30 last amounted to $121,848,047.26, an increase of $10,216,858.87 over the preceding year, the largest increase known in the history of the postal service. The magnitude of this increase will best appear from the fact that the entire postal receipts for the year 1560 amounted to but $8,518,067. Rural free delivery service is no longer in the experimental stage; it has become | fixed policy. The results following its introduction have fully justified the con- gress in the large appropriations made for | |its establishment and extension. The av- | erage yarly in-rease in postoffice receipts in the rural districts of the country is about 2 per cent. We are now able, by actual results, to show that where rural free delivery service has been established to such an extent as to enable us to make comparisons the yearly increase has been upward of 10 per cent. On November 1, 1902, 11,650 rural free delivery routes had been established and were in operation, covering about ome- third of the territory of the United States avallable for rural free delivery service. There are now awaiting the action of the department petitions and applications for the establishment of 10,748 additional | routes. This shows conclusively the want | which the establishment of the service has | met and the need of further extending it | as rapidly as possible. It is justified both by the financial resuits and by the prac- tical bemefits to our rural population; it brings the men who live on the soll into close relations with the active business world; it keeps the farmer in daily touch with the markets; it is a potential educa- | tional force; it enhances the value of farm property, makes farm life far pleasanter and less isolated, and will do much to check the undesirable current from coun- try to city. | It is to be hoped that the congress will | make liberal appropriations for the con- tinuance of the service already established { and for its further extension Irrigation and Land Laws. Few subjects of more importance have been taken up by the congress in recent years than the inauguration of the system ot nationally-aided irrigation for the arid regions of the far west. A good beginning therein has been made. Now that this pol- fcy of national irrigation has been adopted the need of thorough and fentific forest protection will grow more rapidly than ever throughout the public land states. Legislation should be provided for the protection of the game, and the wild crea- tures generally, on the forest reserves. The senseless slaughter of game, which can by judiclous protection be permanently pre- served on our national reserves for the peo- ple as a whole, should be stopped at once 1t is for instance, a serious count against our national good sense to permit the pres- ent practice of butchering off such a stately and beautiful creature as the elk for Its ant- lers or tusks. So far as they are avallable for agri- culture, and to whatever extent they may be reclnimed under the national irrigation held rigidly for the home builder, the set- tler who lives on his land and for no one else. In the actual use the desert land law, the timber and stone law, and the commu- tation clause of the homestead law have been so perverted from the intention with which they were emacted as to permit the acquisition of large areas of the public do- main for other than actual sottlers, and the comsequent prevention of settlement Moreover, the approaching exhaustion of the public range has of Iate led to much dis- cussion as to the best manner of using these public lands in the west which are suitable chiefly or only for grazing. The souzd and steady development of the west depends upon the building up of homes therein { Much of our prosperity as a nation has been due to the operation of the homestead law On the other hand, we should recognize the fact that in the grazing region the man who corresponds to the homesteader may be un- able to settle permanently it only allowed 1o use the same amount of pasture land that his brother, the homesteader, is allowed to use of arable land. One hundred and sixty acres of fairly rich and well-watered soll, or a much smaller amount of irrigated land, may keep a familv in plenty, whereas no one could get a living from 160 acres of dry pasture land capable of supporting at the outside only one head of catile to every ten acres. Illegal Fences Must Come Down, In the past great tracts of the public domain have been femced in by persons having no title thereto, in direct defiance of the law forbidding the maintenance or con- struction of any such unlawful inclosure of public land. For various reasons there has been little futerference with such inclosures In the past, but ample notice has now been given the trespassers, and all the resources at the command of the government will hereafter be used to put a stop to such tres- passing. In view of the capital importance of these matters, I commend them to the earnest consideration of the congress, and if the congress finds difficulty in dealing with them from lack of thorough knowledge of the subject, I recommend that provision be made for a commission of experts specially to investigate and report upon the compli- cated questions involved. Attention to Alaska. I especially urge upon the congress the need of wise legislation for Alaska. It is not to our credit as a nation that Alaeka, which has been ours for thirty-five years, should still have as poor a system of laws as Is the case. No country has a more val- uvable possession—in mineral wealth, in fisheries, furs, forests, and also in land available for certain kinds of farming and stockgrowing. It is a territory of great size and varied resources, well fitted to support & large permanent population Alaska needs a good land law and such provisions for homesteads and pre-emptions as will encourage permanent settlement. We should shape legislation with a view not to the exploiting and abandoning of the territory, but to the building up of homes therein. The land laws should be liberal in type, s0 as to hold out inducements to the actual settler whom we most desire to see take possession of the country. The forests of Alaska should be protected, and, as a secondary but still important matter, the game also, and at the same time it is tmperative that the settlers should be al- lowed to cut timber, under proper regu- lations, for their own use. Laws should be enacted to protect the Alaskan salmon fisheries against the greed which would destroy them. They should be preserved as a permanent industry and food supply. Thelr management and control should be turned over to the commission of fish and fisheries. Alaska should have a delegate in the congress. it would be well if a con- greselonal committee, could visit Alaska and investigate its needs on the ground. Domesticating the Ind In dealing with the Indians our aim should be their ultimate absorption into the body of our people. But in many cases this absorption must and should be very slow. In portions of the Indian Territory the mix- ture of blood has gone on at the same time with progress in wealth and cducation, 80 that there are plenty of men with vary- ing degrees of purity of Indian blood who are absolutely indistinguishable in point ot sgelal, political, and economic abilitsx from their |white associates. There are other tribes which have as yet made no per- try to force such tribes too fast is to pre- vent their going forward at all. More- over, the tribes live urder widely different conditions, Where a tribe has made con- siderable advance and lives on fertile farm- ing eoll it is possible to allot the mem- bers lands in severalty much as is the case with white settlers. There are other tribes where such is not desirable. On the arld prairie lands the effort should be to in- duce the Indians to lead pastoral rather than agricultural lives, and to permit them to settle in villages rather than to force them to isolation. Tte large Indian schools eltuated remote from any Indian reservation do a special and pecullar work of great Importance. But, excellent though these are, an im- mense amount of additional work must be the old, and above all among the yourg, Indians The first and most important step toward the absorption of the Indian is to teach him to earn his living; yet it is not neces- sarily to be assumed that in each com- munity all Indians must become elther tillers of the soil or stock raisers. Thefr industries may properly be diversified, and those who show special desire or adapta- bility for industrial or even commercial pursuits should be encouraged so far as practicable to follow out each his own bent. Every effort should bc made to develop tude, and to encourage the existing native industries peculiar to certain tribes, such as the various kirds of basket weaving, cance building, smith work and blanket work. Above all, the Indian boys and girle should be given confident command of coilo- quial English, and sbould ordinarily be prepured for a vigorous struggle with the conditions under which their people live, rather than for immediate absorption fnto some more highly developed community. Honest Indian Agents Needed, The officials who represent the govern- ment in dealing with the Indians work un- der hard conditions, and also under condi- tions which render it easy to do wrong and very difficult to detect wrong. Conse- quently they should be amply paid on the one hand, and on the other hand a par- ticularly high stacdard of conduct should be demanded from them, and where mis- conduct can be proved the punishment should be exemplary. Advance in Agriculture, In no department of governmental work in recent years has there been greater suc- cess than in that of giving sclentific aid to the farming population, thereby showing them how most efficiently to help them- selves. There is no need of insisting upon its importance, for the welfare of the farmer is fundamentally necessary to the weltare of the republic as a whole. In ad- dition to such work as quarantine against animal and vegetable plagues, and warring agalnst them when here introduced, much efficient help has been rendered to the farmer by the introduction of new plants specially fitted for cultivation under the peculiar conditions existing in different portions of the country. New cereals have been establisbed in the semi-arid west. 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Through the intro- duction of new rices in Louisiara and Texas the production of rice in this coun- try has been made to about equal the home demand. In the southwest the possibility of regrassing overstocked range lands has been demonstrated; in the north many new forage crops have been introduced, while rainfall of only ten conclu- |in the east it has been shown that some of our choicest fruits can be stored and shipped in such a way as to find a profitable market abroad. Special Scientific Werk. 1 again recommend to the favorable con- sideration of the congress the plans of the Smithsonian institution for making tne museum under its charge worthy of the nation and for preserving at the national capital not only records of the vanishing races of men, but of the animals of this continent which, like the buffalo, will soon become extinct unless specimens from which their representatives may be re- newed are sought in their native regions and maintained there in safety. Legislation for the Distriet, The District of Columbia is the only part of our territory in which the national gov- ernment exercises local or municipal func- tions, and where in consequence the gov- ernment has a free hand in reference to certain types of social and economic leg- islation which must be essentially local or municipal in their character. The govern- ment should see to it, for instance, that the hygienic and sanitary legislation af- fecting Washington is of a high character. The evils of slum dwellings, whether in the shape of crowded and congested tenement house district or of the back-alley type, should never be permitted to grow up in Washington. The city should be a model in every respect for all the cities of the country, The charitable and correctional systems of the district should recelve con sideration at the hands of the congress to the end that they may embody the results of the most advanced thought in these fields. Moreover, while Washington is not a’great industrial city, there is some fu- dustrialism here, and our labor legislation, while it would not be important in Itself, might be made a model for the rest of the nation. We should pass, for instance, a wise employer's iiability act for the Dis- trict of Columbia, and we need such an act in our navy yards. Rallroad companies in the district ought to be required by law to block their frogs. The safety appliance law, for the better protection of the lives and limbs of rail- way employes, which was passed in 1803, went into full effect on August 1, 1901. It has resulted in averting thousands of casu- alties. Experience stows, however, tho neceesity of additional legisiation to per- fect this law. A bill to provide for this passed the senate at the last session. it 18 to be hoped that some such measure may now be enacted into law. Printing. There is a growing tendency to provide for the publication of masses of documents for which there is no oublic demand and for the printing of which there is no real necessity. Large numbers of volumes are turned out by the government printing presses for which there is no justification. Nothing should be printed by any of the departments unless it contains something of permanent value, and the congress could with advantage cut down very materfally on all the printing which it has now be- come customary to provide. The excessive cost of government printing is a strong argument against the position of those who are inclined on abstract grounds to advo- cate the government's doing any work which can with propriety be left in private hands. Government Civil Service Reform. Gratitying progress has been made dur- ing the year in the extension of the merit system of making appointments in tho government service. It should be extended by law to the Distrlct of Columbia. It is much to be desired that our conmsular sy tem be established by law on a basis pro- viding for appoiutment and promotion only in consequence of proved fitness. Restoration of White Ho: Through & wise provision of the congress at its last session the White House, which had become disfigured by incongruous addi- tions and changes, has now been restored to what it was planned to be by Washing- ton. In making the restorations the ut- most care has been exercised to come as near as possible to the early plans and to eupplement these plans by a careful study of such buildings as that of the University of Virginia, which was built by Jefferson. The White House is the property of the nation, and 8o far as is compatible with living therein it should be kept as it orlgin- ally was, for the same reasons that we keep Mount Vernon as it originally was. Tho stately simplicity of its architecture is an expression of the character of the period in which it was built, and is in accord with the purposes it was designed to serve. It 16 & good thing to preserve such buildings s historic monuments which keep alive our sense of continuity with the nation's past. The reports of the several executive de partments are submitted to the congres with this commuaication. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. White House, December 2, 1902. A Thoughtfal Hus Cured his wife of fainting and dizzy spells, weakness, headache and backache with Electric Bitters. Try them. b¢c. For sale by Kuhn & Co. NEW BOOKS AND MAGAZINES Several Publications for Children Snited to the Holiday Times, AMUSING BOOK IN VERSE BY BERTHA UPTON “The Lovable Tales of Janey and Jowey and Joe” hy Gertrude Smith, ® Strong Child's Story—Fairy Tale by Katherine Pyle. “The Golllwogg's Alrship” is an amusing book in verse by Bertha Upton. It telis the experiences of five little mites while salling through the air on a journey to the moon with Master Golliwogg as their chief. Prominent pereonages are Midget, who has a little private balloon fastened to the larger one; Meg, Peg and chatterbox Sarah Jane. Among thelr many experiences, Midget breaks loose from the larger balloon and gets lost, but is finally found, rome- where near the sun. They start homeward, but are captured by an eagle, who takes them to his home in the cliff. Here is where tactful Sarah Jane with her ready epeech proves herself a valuable addition ‘| to the party and persuades the eagle to release them, when they resume their jour- ney homeward. Published by Longmans, Green & Co. Gertrude Smith, who fs a successful spe- clalist in writing stories for children. is the author of a new book entitled: “The Love- able Tales of Janey and Josey and Joe." The new book contains the nicest little stories imaginable about Janey, a sweet, un- selfish child, her sister Josey and her brother Joe. It is the sort of book to de- Hight children of from three to soven vears and will need no interpretations, but can be read just as it {s. Following tells how they were able to have a circus: “And Janey had a parrot, and Josey had & fan- tailed pigeon. and Joe had a monkey—O! 4 funny monkey. And Janey had a dear little pet lamb. And Josey had a very fine St. Bernard dog. Aud little Joe had a billy goat. And Janey had a small mouse-colored donkey. And Josey had a wee, wee, wee lm;- guinea pig. And Joe had a horned toad. And Josey had dear, tame bossy calf. And Janey had two cumning little trained dogs. O! the dearest little dogs You ever saw. And Janey and Josey and Joe, you know, each had a little pony. Published by Harper & Bros. Mr. Charles Knowlton Bolton, librarian of the Boston Athenaeum, has prepared for publication an extremely interesting study entitled “The Private Soldier Under Wash- ington.” Going, first of all, to the diaries and journals of the men (hemselves and then to other coutemporary documents, both public and private, he has constructed a straightforward narrative of the dally lite under various conditions of the private soldier who served In the revolutionary war. In the last chapter the author says: Whether France or Washington or the patriot army contributed most to bring about the peace of Parls in 1783 fs of little moment. France and Washington long ago had thelr due, but it has been the purpose of theso pages to give the privato soldier under Washington whatever share in the victory was his by right of the danger, privation und toil that he endured. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons. In her mew small book for girls, “Lois Mallet’s Dangerous Gift,” Mary Catherine traordinary beauty—beauty so great In- deed that the grave and sober-minded Friends were somewhat disquieted and ac- counted it a “dangerous gift." The story is of the maiden’s discovery of her wonder- ful heritage, of the tremendous effect of it in the town where she visited and of the temptation 1t led her into. It is purely a Quaker ‘story and these devout and quiet people are well drawn, especially her father and the quiet Quaker who loved her. Hough- ton, Miftin & Co., publishers. “In the Green Forest,” by Catherine Pyle, is another falry tale. A fairy of the wood named Red Caps sets out into the world to learn magic, accompanted in his journey by Nightshade, an ili-conditioned elf. They reach the country of the Sun Queen, who promises to teach them magic but they must be willlng to follow her even through fire. Red Cap and the Sun Queen disappear through the and Nightshade, thinking Red Cap lost, re- turns home, where he imposes on the simple wood fairies, convineing them that he was learned in magic. Red Cap, how- ever, reappears in time to expose the | treachery and win the approbation of the lm” queen and the applause of all his friends by the magic be has learned with the Sun Queen. Published by Littls, Brown & Co. Sara Beaumont Kennedy, who wrote “Joscelyn Cheshire,” has produced another book called “The Woolng of Judith." It 1s a love story pure and simple and the author says in the prelude that she intends it for nothidg else, and writes: ‘“Not daring adventures, nor feats of arms, nor impossible dangers, nor thrilling mysteries are my concern, but only a forgotten love story of the long ago. ‘Tis r ery Lo those dead days, but hearts were human In that shadowy land of the past; love kissed with wine-red lips and passion stretched white bands insistently; and so it s that this siory of the ache and the ecstacy of it ail rises before me and demands & scribe.” Lee tells the tale of a Quaker girl of ex- | She tells of the wooing of Judith, a young woman who lived during the early colonial times of Virginia. Lawrence Falkner, to whose lot the wooing of Judith falls, is deceitful, but finally makes amends, for- g!veness comes and they are happily united, Published by Doubleday, Page & Co. “Lives of Two Cats, by Plerre Loti, ir a sketch of two houschold pets, Pussy White and Pussy Gray. Their loves, friend- ships, escapades and death, form the main thread of a story which includes several human characters. It is translated from the French by M. B. Richards and pub- lished by Dana, Estes & Co. Another book by the same company is “The Story of Little Nell.” This ls taken from Dickens “0ld Curlosity Shop,” and is edited by F. L. Knowles. Except in the case of necessary omissions, the author's language has been left practically unchanged. The editor has made no effort to retain any- thing more of the plot than relates strictly to the history of Little Nell. “Bridgman’s Kewts,” by L. J. Bridgman, is an unusually interesting and instruc- tive book In verse. it tells of the travels of these little chaps, under the guidanco of “Uncle Sam of Washington" into every ate In the unfon. This account of their travels is written in a jolly veln, easy to comprehend and tells of the habits of the people, their principal means of gaining @ llving and the chief products of each state. It is interesting and will make a valuable instruction book for children. Pub- lished by H. M. Caldwell company. “The Garden of Lies” by Justus Miles Forman, is & romantic story of love and adventure In modern Paris with a very beautiful young American girl as the hero- fne. The garden referred to in the title is that of an old mansion in the Freneh capital, which is the scene of the loves making between a charming American girl and & dashing pseudo prince. There is a medley of plot and Intrigue, jealousy and idyllic love, and some clash of swords. Frederick A. Stokes company, publishers. Beulah Marie Dix is the author of a new book entitled “A Little Captive Lad.” It is & story ibat will appeal to boys and, like her previous stories, tells the making of a ne'er-do-well into a strong man. Her new story is egain of the Cromwellian times and of the son of a cavalier. His father's friends have prejudiced him greatly against | the roundhead brother into whose charge he is given. Full of the faults of his caste, he is yet an endearing little lad, and his ! story will intercst many. Published by Macmillan company. “The Tragedy of Pelee,” by George Hen- nan, s “‘a narrative of personal experience | and observation in Martinique.” It is an excellent account, giving a minutia account of each day's travel and incidents. The | author went to Martinique on the cruiser | Dixie as a representative from the Out- look. It is finely illustrated with photo: graphs taken by the author. The frontis- plece is an illustration showing the night eruption of May 26, from the road going scuth from Vive toward Ocier. The count is very interesting. Published by the | Otulook company. A good and profitable book for boys to { Tead is “The Boy; How to Help Him Suc- | ceed,” by Nathaniel C. Fowler, jr. The | first 129 pages are devoted to good, solid }advice as to elements that will bring suc- | cess. Following this are a few pages glv- |ing a summary of snswers to (wenty-five questions bearing on success making, and closing the book under the head of “The | Volce of Distingulshed Experience,” are !the direct answers to these questions by [319 “men of mark.” These questions are such as como up continually for the boy | just starting to meet the battle of life to | propound, and the answers are by distin- | uished men who have made life a suc- [ cess. Published by Oakwood Publishing | company: | “The GIft of the Magic Staff,” by Fan- {nle E. Ostrander, Is & fairy story which ! tells how, when Paul was out In the gar- | den, he made the acquaintance of & “Littie {Green Man,” who made him a present of a staff which had several rings upon it, and the turning of these rings caused tho aff to zssume various forms. The story | tells the experiences Paul had with thls | magic etaff, how he met the Fairy Mother and the Little Queen snd his adventures in wonderland, which were many, among other things being & visit to Santa Claus. Published by Fleming H. Revell company. i il | The above books are for sale by the Me- | geath Stationery Co., 1308 Farnam street. Western % Champagne § is the purest and most hesith ful of . and has its place 10 the best homes for daily uee Received the only | GOLD NMEDAL (highest award) given American champagne &t Parls Exposition of 1900 The present viotage hes never been excelled i excellence { PLEASANT VALLEY WINE CO., Rheims, N. Y. e Makers, i Sold by all respectable wine desiers A S the