Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 2, 1903, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY B FRIDAY, JANUARY 2 190 THE OMAHA DALY BEE E. ROSEWATER, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, ?-uy Bee (without Sur e Y ITOR. ar.$4.00 e | 20 | ally Bee and Sunday, One llustrated Bee, One Year Bunday Bee, Ofe Ye A Baturday Bee, One Year... ool Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. fly Bee (without Sunday), ily Bee (without Sunda ily Bee (Including Sunday), § by ey ut Sunday), per week luding Sunday), per vening Bee (inc wee ¥ > ....100 Complaints of irreguiarities in dellvery should be addressed to City Circulation De- tment. o OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding. . Bouth Omaha—City Hall Bullding, Twen- &y-Afth and M Streets. Counell Bluffe—1y Pearl Street. Chicago—i6# Unity Building New York—228 Park Kow Huilding. Washington—w1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to ne vs and ed- rial matter should be addressed: Omaha ee, Editorial Department. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stato of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says at the actual number of full and com- | lete coples of The Daily, Morning, Even- Ing and Sunday Bee during the month of December, 1%, was as follows: ‘ S20 20,610 81,120 [ 9 1 2. ), 830 3 30,870 1. 30070 28 |28,505 1. 80,949 2. 1 .. Tess unsold and 10,181 et total sales ... et average sales GEORC Bubscribed In my before me this 3ist (Seal) 912,401 10,402 pro o duy of Dece A M. B. HUNGATE, Notary Public. Those who went to the eoronation cer- emonies at Delhi could not fail to see the elephant. \ Having watched the old year out, the next thing Is to watch the Dbill col- lector in. | President Castro’s acceptance of the arbitration plan Is doing the inevitable n the most graceful way. | ‘When it 1s all over the imitation sul- tan of Morocco ought to be in fine form to go upon the comic opern stage. | From all indications the rush at the legislative ple counter promises to re- semble a hot foot ball scrimmage. | Minneapolis' expectation to have bet- ter municipal government this year will certainly be fulfilled, because it couldn’t be worse than it was last year. —— e If the liberal use of advertising space counts for anything, the celebration of the feast of 8t. Jackson In these parts is sure to be an overpowering success. L _____J The new year would go down on the ealendar in red letters if it should bring Omaha cheap power through the con- struction of that much-talked-of canal. —e Banker Dreyer's greatest misfortune seems to be not that he committed suc- funds, but that the sentence had to be served in Illinols instead of in Nebraska. Secretary Wilson's curlosity is aroused over & matter that has puzzled a good many other people—why, when cattl2 bave gone down from $8.75 to §5.75 per hundred, the consumer sees little or no change in the retall price of meat. An Omaha man has landed the ap- pointment deputy insurance commis- sloner on the score of having attended college In years gone by with Auditor Weston. Who dares say now that col- lege education 1s a detriment to the young man’s future career? The grand total of the city's assess- ment roll as revised by the Board of Review foots up in round figures $125,- 000,000. That is not yet quite as high as actoal property values would justify, any assessment hetetofore made. According to Bn!-troen‘ the business failures of 1902 were smaller in pumber with two exceptions than for any sim- llar period In fourteen years. No won- der, the people prefer to stick to repub- lican policies under which they have en- Joyed such unexampled prosperity. Clerks in the rallway headquarters think they, too, arg,entitled to some share tnevea arming capacities of the great railroad properties. Thelr difficulty is, to’ find ans to enforee thelr s. That is where the men In the operating departments have the best of it, ; — In the advent of the new year we have another anniversary that is worth recal- ling—damely, of the lberation of Joseph 8. Bartley. No announcement, however, has been made of the restitution to the state ti of ag¥ part of the funds constituting the shi ge left as a leg- Rey of his stewardship. If a grain market is found to be "a good, thing for Kansas €ity, St. Paul and ‘Minneapolis, Why not also for Omaba? Omalia eould command the same territory for grain that it now men the conditions appears unanimous as to one result of their in- vestigation. advantag )| ers, In competition for the markets of the American labor employed in the indus- tries, has been pointed out by other observers and economists especinlly have been telling the manufacturers and workingmen of England of the superior productive ca- pacity of American labor and assuring them that this must result in giving the United States what it has now attained, the place of the world's leading indus- trial nation. ’ cessful embezzlement of Chicago's park | national might. does for catdle, hogs and sheep, and this SUURCE OF AMERIUAN SUCCKSS. The British commission of working- in various trades which came to United States to dtudy industrial to That is, that the greatest enjoyed by our manufactur- world, lies in the superiority of This Is not a new discovery. It investigators, For years British A short time ago a London paper, commenting on the claim that labor is more productive here than in England, remarked that if such is the case “It does not necessarily American system is better for the nation and the race in the long run,” and ex- pressed the opinion that gain vothing iIf our workers are prema- turely This is the general British idea, though there is no ground for the implication that American workingmen become pre- maturely exhausted by overpressure. As a matter of fact the industrial workers of this country are on the average as long-lived as those ofeany other coun- try and re work. isans clency than those of any other great in- dustrial country. of labor are principal European greater efficiency and more intense ap- D. | plieation of American labor accomplishes more in a given number of hours than in any of the industrial nations of Europe. follow that the “we should exhausted by overpressure.” iin as long their capacity for The superiority of American art- is in thelr higher average effi- As a rule the hours shorter here than in the countries, but the It is not likely that the investigations of the British commission will result in any material change in labor conditions abroad. oughly settled in his way ef work and probably cannot be persraded to depart from it. can superfority will continue it is im- possible to say, but at present it is giv- Ing this country a declded advantage in industrial competition. The English worker is thor- How long the admitted Ameri- THE CHINESE INDEMNITY. There can be no doubt of the wisdom of the United States government in ac- cepting payment due from China on the silver basis, though the strict terms of the interna- tional agreement specify gold payment. The extraordinary decline of silver and the great finacial straits to which China is reduced entitle it to lenient treatment, and all the great nations involved could well afford to walve the point of silver payment when it means so much to the debtor nation, question of another ‘&:t insurrection and, as some well informed observers believe, the continuance of the present dynasty. Another outbreak would cost the powers many times the compara- tively small amount of abatement from of the Indemnity involving possibly the their dues involved in silver payment. Nevertheless the powers show a dis- position to deal harshly with China and to insist upon the last cent, which has been their attitude from the first. It is farsighted policy on the part of our gov- ernment to show a sharp contrast with the other powers In this respect, because the extension of our trade and influence in China depends upon its good will During the whole course of recent troub- les our State department has acted con- sistently upon this view and has thereby won great prestige with the Chinese people. By continuing their hard deal- ing with them the other powers are merely playing into our hands. —— 4 PLEA FUR THE NAVY. Rear Admiral Watson, In command of the Asiatic station, in a recent interview made an earnest plea for increasing the sea power of the United States. He views the subject practically, basing his argument on the necessity of protection | to our commercial interests, particularly but it is nearer the correct sum than |y, the far east. It 1s an Interestng fea- ture of the admiral's interview that he dwells especially upon Germany's com- mercial position. It is pointed out that the commerce of that country is the very bone and sinew of its national prosperity and when the foreign trade of that country is interfered with the life of her domestic energies is injured. Ger- many’s trade with the PLilippines has been hurt under American domination of the islands. “It is not for us to ques- tion the professions of a friendly power,” sald Admiral Watson, “but it is plain that a nation cannot always held in check the clamorous demands of those forces from "which it draws so much of be practically | We haxe our own in- terests along the same lines, which we are hound to foster and protect, and we can do so only by the upbuilding of the navy strong enough to back our rights when the hour of question come: In the judgment of Admiral Watson the United States should have a navy as large a8 that contémplated by the German program of corstruction, be- cause our territorial intérests require it. Having reached out to the other side of the globe, unless we are willing to sub- mit to humiliation we have got to pro- vide for what the future through our widened interests may bring. This is the practical common sense view. We territory constitutes one of the most |must be prepared to effectively safe- profitable grain producing regions of the | guard our new territory and to protect world. our growing commerce in that portion of the world and this must be done with- == China is experiencing a serious insur-|out impairment of our power to take nflfi: but the government will see to it | care of our interests in this hemisphere. that wrath of the rebels is not di- rected to “the foreign dev No one advocates a vast navy, or that this time. | the United States shall enter into a con- The pecollection of the forced hospitality | test of rivalry for superiority in sea they were once compelled to extend to | power. All that is urged by the advo- uninvited guests at Pekin will surely | cates of increasing the navy is that it spur our Chinese friends to their duty |shall be built up to such strength as will in the premises insure the securlty of our rights and in- terests wherever they may require pro- tection. There appears to he a very general feeling in congress favorable to this pol- fey, which is likely to . shown in in- creasing the present proposed naval ap- propriations. Senator Hale, chairman of the senate committee on naval aftairs, is reported as taking a very conservative view of what should be done, but he does not favor a policy of Inaction or believe that the United States should be allowed to fall to the rear of all other maritime nations, every one of which is steadily augmenting its sea power. e— MAY DEMAND TARIFF CONCESSIONS. It is reported from Washington that the president has been given to under- stand that should the Cuban treaty be ratified a demand may be expected from Germany within thirty days for conces- slons similar to thoge accorded to Cuba. The statement is that the German gov- ernment, regarding Cuba as a natlon foreign to the United States, will re- quest similar concessions under the most favored nation clause of her treaty with the United States. It is sald to be feared that If such request be not granted Germany may initiate legisia- tion inimical to our trade with that country. It is thought that other coun- tries may adopt a like course. If this report is well founded it Intro- duces a new complication into the ques- tion of closer commercial relations with Cuba and may have a decided influence in regard to the ratification of the rec- iprocity treaty with the Cuban repub- lie. Such a demand would certainly be most extraordinary, but perhaps it would be justifiable. At all events the report Is not incredible, since it is well known that German Interests are ac- tively seeking trade with Cuba and it is understood have been zealous In the ef- fort- to create sentiment in the island hostile to reciprocity with the United States. This is also true of British commercial interests. — AN EYE-OPENER FOR ADVERTISERS. The recent circulation census of Omaha dailies 1s an eye-opener for their advertising patrons. It affords most striking proof of the imposture by which business men have been duped and bun- coed by inflated and fraudulent circula- tlon claims based on affidavits made with a mental reservation. Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs are virtually one town for mercantile and advertising purposes, with an aggregate population of 150,000, or thereabouts. It is a well established fact that the ratlo of dally newspaper takers in any community is dne to five, namely, one newspaper for every five inhabitants, At that ratio the number of daily news- papers in Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs should aggregate 30,000. The carrier delivery census shows the aggregate number of Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs dgilies deliv- ered by carrier in the three towns to be 27,804, or a shortage of 2,200, and this shortage 1s presumed to be supplied by promiscuous newsboys' sales In the streets and papers sold by newsdealers. In the carrier delivery fleld. including the rural delivery in Douglas county, the relative positions of the Omaha dallies are represented by these figures: The Omaha Bee &, ‘The Council Blufts Nonpareil In other words, more than 60,000 out of the 150,000 population are served by carrier with The Omaha Bee, 42,115 with the World-Herald, 34,760 by the Evening News and 5,815 by the Council Bluffs Nonpareil. The Bee has 48 per cent more circulation in the city of Omaha than the World-Herald and 65 per cent more than the Evening News. In South Omaha The Bee circulates about 49 per cent more than the World- Herald and more than doubles the cireu- lation of the Evening News. In Council Bluffs The Bee has 32 per cent more cir- culation than the World-Herald and two and one-half times as many subscribers as the Evening News, and a 12 per cent larger circulation than the Council Bluffs Nonparell in its home town. An analysis of the carrier delivery census conveys these indisputable facts: In Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs 8,183 subscribers take The Omaha Bee and no other paper, which, computed on the basls of five Inhabitants to the subscriber, means that 40,195 out of the 150,000 In the three towns are supplied by The Omaha Bee and no other paper, while the World-Herald and the News put together only reach 9,325 more peo- ple exclusively in the three citles. The newspaper census also develops the fact that 1539 subscribers to the World-Herald also take The Bee and 1,429 subscribers to the News also take The Bee, while only 700 subscribers to the World-Herald also take The News. Returns from fifty-three towns in Ne- braska, Iowa and South Dakota, ‘gx- cluding Omaha, South Omaha and Coun- cil Bluffs, give the following summary: The The ‘World- Evening ‘The Bee. Herald, News. Nebraska 2,153 1,504 Towa . 340 182 South Dakota. L 45 Totals ..... . . 5,668 2,663 1,734 These, figures summarized show the following facts: In Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs, by carrier delivery, and in fifty- three towns in Nebras! Towa and Bouth Dakota, by mall, The Bee circu- lates 17,709 papers, the World-Herald 10,983 and the Evening News 8,696, With these facts and figures before them business men who are investing money in advertising should have no difficulty In reaching rational con- clusions as to where they can get the best returns. The cry at Washington s for “a big- ger navy,” and it is so unchallenged that the present congress is almost cer- taln to ke appropriations for the con- struction of an extraordinary nuwmber of wirships. The trouble with the peri- odieal demand for a bigger navy is that it in wholly Indefinite, and may easily carry the country before it is fully aware of it into a policy of naval ex- pansion which it would not have ap- proved If it had been foreseen. The real question that should be asked and an- swered 18, How much bigger navy do we want? We fix a strict maximum for the army. If the same thing were done as to the navy congress could then pro- ceed intelligently with appropriations at each session, but when everything is left indefinite as now every little interna- tional complication and scare gives rise (‘ emotional legislation regarding the nvy. The proposition to raise the limit of bonded indebtedness In the revised Omaha ecity charter without changing the limit of the sinking fund levy is con- flicting in its own terms. Adding to the outstanding bonds will increase the in- terest and sinking fund charges and the price brought by the bonds wiil depend largely on the resources in sight to pay interest and provide for ultimate re- demption. It is impossible to carry a bigger bonded debt without imposing a bigger sinking fund tax levy. The attempt to start a senatorial con- test in Iowa {s as premature as the tariff debate going on In the republican news- papers. Senator Allison has been elected to a full term of six years, commencing next March, while Senator Dolliver's term does not expire for more than three years. The next legislature does not choose a United States senator, and only the hold-over members of the state sen- ate to be elected next fall will have any part in the senatorial contest. S ———— The suggestion is made that Iowa and Nebraska agree to exchange the various pieces of land which the vagaries of the Missouri have transferred from one side of that river to the other in this vicinity without change of ownership. After the deeds are signed, sealed and delivered the two states should take out a joint insurance policy against the Big Muddy changing its mind again and resuming its original channel. Right About Face! Saturday Evening Post. All the trusts invited publicity until con- gress threatened to give it to them. Then they began to fight it. Country Saved Again, Baltimore American. Now that ex-President Cleveland has glven his views of the Venezuela problem, the s for arbitration can proceed with- out further delay. Room for All. Springfield Republican. Wireless telegraphy will never harm the busincss of the older system of telegraphic communication, say the officlals of the com- panfes (hat use wires. That is very pos- sible. The pew system will probably find a new ficld and werk up a new kind of use- fulness. Yet It may preve a serious com- petitor of the cable .companies in trans- oceanic communication. Jackson! AWk Too M Indianapolfs Journal. Those who know of ex-Secretary Olney are not surprised that he declined to go to Nebraska to attend a democratic banquet, for, be it known, Mr. Olney is very much of an aristocrat of the Beacon street vari- ety. Besides, he s getting so near 70 years of age that if he were a differently constituted man than he is he would not travel two days and two nights to attend a banquet. Trouble in a Fresh Spot. Baltimore American. Now that this country seems in a fair way to escape from the embarrassing con- ditions brought about in South America, na- tional anxiety s to be excited agaln over the fate of the country. The board of army officers appointed to edit the army uniform cannot agree as to whether the stripes on the trousers of infantry officers shall be blue or white, and the souls of the public are to be harrowed up by the consequent suspensc until this vital point is decided. Kindness Better Than Arbitration. January Century. Better than arbitration—wise and nec sary as that may be at times—better than arbitration, especially than enforced arbls tration, is mutual acquaintance, respect, confidence and ease of approach; and these cannot be obtained when there is totally absent, on either side, a spirit of human sympathy. The other day we asked a highly succeseful manufacturer how it was that he had got along sc well, and for so many years, with his great crowd of em- ployes and the labor union allles. “We beat them,” he said, “with kindne: Oficial Abuse of Immig Philadelphia Record. ‘Within a recent period not less than five Jewish assoclations, representing 500,000 citizens of the United States, have made solemn appeal to the president, to congress and to the whole people against the offi- clal barbarities practiced upon immigrants at Bllis Island. Immigrants of all races are the victims of their iniquities, and they are perpetrated by a secret offical inquisi- tiou upon the landing of every steamer in the harbor of New York. Whether the de- portations in some Instances are legal or not the public has no means of ascertain- ing because of the secret character of the Inquisition. Wor Literary Del Springfield Republican. George Brandes, the Danish critic, is ap- palled at the world's literary deluge. He has been compiling some figures, and finds that about 10,000 novels appear every year. Germany publishes 2,000; England, 1,500, Russia, 1,000; Americ, rather more; France, 600; Italy and Spain, about 500 each; Japan, 450; India, 200; Egypt, a dozen, etc. In twenty years the United States and most European countri; put of books, and Mr. Brandes says that no library is large enough to contaln all the books that appear in the course of ten years. will be seen that the problem of the “librarian is becoming more serious every Saved from an Untimely Grave. Philedelphia North American; Not the least important of President Roosevelt's hievements in the fleld of world politics must be counted the preser- vation of The Hague court for the peaceful adjustment of differences between nations. But for his earnest efforts to induce the creators of that tribunal to acknowledge its existance and save it from death by inanition 1t would have been laid to rest under a stcae bearing the inscription: 1f I s0 soon was to be done for; 1 wonder what I was begun for, The powers should be grateful to the pres- ident of the United States for the service that he rendered in deterring them from lutanticide. have doubled thelr out- | WHAT THE FUSS 18 ABOUT. " of Shooting Serape in Progress in Moroeco. There s something doing in Morocco. Tangler and its temples generate excite- ment and the gates of Fez are locked and barred. Moor's the pity. The traditions and smells of unnumbered centuries are being rudely jostled by modern ambition Mea and thirst for power. Shall Allah be praised? Not on your life. It is to pre serve tradition and antique sanitation from the blighting touch of European civi- lization that bloody war is being waged against the sultan by a horde of rebe Dispatches report the rebels uncommonly lively and shooting straight. At the last meeting of the rebels and the sultan’'s troops the latter were Pull Runned and fled | to Fesz for shelter and breath. The man who heads the rebels is reported as saying that he has not the slightest in- tention of selzing the throne. His mission, | he says, Is to wage a holy war against Christians, keep Europeans out of Morocco and remove the present sultan from the throne on account of his tendency to listen to European advice and yleld to foreign in- fluence. He says that he and his followers will nominate a sultan from some Shereeflan famiiy who will promise to continue the war against the Christians. According to the correspondent of the London Times at Fes, the rebels are very strong in numbers. The rebellion {s an expression of total dissent’ from and reprobation of the sul- tan's recent scheme of reforms, relates tho New York Sun. Walter B. Harris. who had many interviews with Morocco's ruler last year, reported that he was wholly unlike other Orlental potentates in thoughts, habits and manner of life. “He is keenly sensitive to public opinion in Burope, is interested in educational sys- tems abroad and in the workiigs of con- stitutional government, and is anxious to keep on good terms with the powers,” Mr. Harris sald. The sultan told Mr. Harris that as soon as his government was better organized he hoped to travel abroad and learn what he could for the benefit of his country. To reform Moroceo, to introduce modern and liberal ideas into its system of govern- ment, may require genius and strength be- yond the powers of the young ruler. In 1884 ‘Dr. Oscar Lenz, one of the most acute | observers of affairs In Morocco, wrote that though the father of the present sultan had Iiberal tendencies and was a man of inde- pendent and energetic character, as well as an autocrat, he was not in a position to in- troduce revolutionary reforms against the will of the official class. The fanatical party was too strong both in the country and at gourt to be forced to submit to drastic measures of reform. When the late sultan's son came to the throne in 1894 he was a mere boy of 14. during his minority Sid Ahmed, the grand vizler of Morocco, ruled the country with the iron hand of an absolute despot. Ho held the country together, quelled rebel- lions and subdued dlsorderly tribes with the utmost cruelty and at the same time by the wholesale confiscation and enormous | exactions amassed a great fortune. Two years the young sultan reached the age of 20 and just as he assumed con- trol the stern old regent dled. The report that the old man left his great fortune to the new sultan is probably incorrect. At any rate, it is known that the sultan’s finances have been In a bad way and that since he came into actual power he has raised considerable money by the sale of a part of his jewels. It is not belleved that his government has today the mone- tary resources mecessary to equip a force and maintain it in the fleld for the gup- pression of a great and determined revolt. There are Moors of progressive tenden- cles and they have hoped for great things from their sultan. But it is very hard to change the old system. It has heen the time-honored practice for government of- ficlals, all of whom receive only nominal pay, to prey upon the officials bglow {kem till the local sheiks finally recoup them- selves by preying on the people. “Squeez- ing” {s the main business of the governing | class “and these officials do not wish for any change. Added tg this policy of corruption is the blind prezldlca of ignorance which makes both the powerful and the lowly belleve that all foreigners are hereditary foes, who cannot possibly wish them:well and who are most earnestly desired to leave the Moroccans to themselves. With such con- ditions as these firmly rooted in the coun- try, the small body of progressive Moors will be most fortunate if the present sul- tan is ever able to bring about a tithe of the reforms which they are expecting at his hands. . PERSONAL NOTES. Let's be merry while we can. The legis- lature meets next Tuesday. It the fnaugural ball cannot be pulled off with the custpmary eclat, a few steps may be taken to the high ball. According to the almanacs spring is less than three months away. It is soothing to know there is a limit to the coal dealers’ einch. In looking over the past year you will probably be forced to admit that *‘the misfortunes hardest to bear were those that never came. The late Dr. Joseph Parker of London economized in every possible way for years to pay the entire sum for which his father had failed and he had the satisfaction of doing it. Henry Rochefort the editor-in-chief of the Intransigeant, has summarily dismissed three members of his literary staff because they attended a funeral of a deceased col- league at which a religious ceremony was performed. Arthur Gambell, a resident of Cincinnati, fell and broke his leg on Christmas eve. Similar accidents have befallen him no less than forty times and he has spent nearly half of his life in bed because of ‘broken bones. State Labor Commissioner Harry F. Black of New Haven, Conn., has just had erected over the grave of James Armour, & revolutionary soldier, burled in the ceme- tery in his city, a granite monument. He was a great uncle of the late Philip D. Armour. The Allgemeine Elektricitaets Gesell- schatt and the Union Elektricitasts Ges- sellschaft have combined, with a capital of over $100,000,000. The object of the com- bine is the usual philanthropic one, in- cluding s monopoly of the alphabet. Rear Admiral P. C. Cooper, whose assign- ment to the command of & division of the Asiatic station has been announced, has selected as his flag lleutenant Lieutenant Victor Blue of South Carolina, the young officer who discovered the Spanish fleet in the harbor of Santiago from a bluff three miles away. For that service Lieutenant Blue was awarded ten numbers by the war board. All the women who have written to the bachelor governor of Kansas proposing marriage will receive courteous replies, but not from the pen of Governor Balley. His private secretary has begun declining with thanks the offers, siying to each that Governor Balley Is not in quest of & wife. About fitty photographs will be returned to the senders. Sixty-six declinations will go to New York women and more than 100 to New England states. Not one of the pro- posals came from & Kansas woman. young | BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. Minor Scenes and nts Sketohed on the Spot. Congressman Eugene F. Loud of Califor- nia, who retires from the house with the present congress, will be among the list of applicants for appointment post- | master at San Francisco. A Washington dispatch to the St. Louls Globe-Democrat says the announcement has already created something of a sensation among the postal empl organization, whose members have been waging bitter war against any turther political preferment for Mr. Loud. It was recently stated that Mr. Loud had been tendered a position as one of the assistant postmasters general. Such an appointment would be a signal for trouble, as the organizations in the postal service are determined in their opposition to any plan for giving Mr. Loud a position of au- thority In the Postoffice department. The opposition is all due to the persistent fight made by Mr. Loud from year to year against bills providing for an Increase of pay of letter carriers, and rallway mail clerks. Mr. Loud has made his fight in the open, as he does all his official acts. He has taken the position that the letter carriers are well pald, according to the service performed, and the equipment necessary for the service. These men now receive $600 for the first year, $850 for the second year, and $1,000 for the third year, and there they stick. The bill that has | been pending at several sessions of con- gress provides that they shall recelve $800 a year at the start, $1,000 the second year and $1,200 a year thereafter. As has been announced in these dispatches, the advo- cates of the bill will make no effort to se- | cure Its considefation at the present ses- | stfon of congress, not desiring to take | chances in having it finally voted down by Mr. Loud and his triends. The carriers have already chosen Willlam Randolph Hearst, who will be in the mext congress, as champion of their bill. President Roosevelt has found it neces- sary to bar lighted cigars out of the White House. At first Arthur Simmons, the col- ored doorkeeper, who has been at the White House for many years, was named as the presidential smoke oppressor, but he found | bis task so ungracious that he begged the president to relieve him. The congressmen and senators whom Simmons was obliged to | speak to in carrying out his orders did not take his action kindly and they told him to g0 back south or to some other warm place #o0 frequently that Arthur, who is a devout | church member, asked Mr. Roosevelt to glve him another detall. The president complied and in order to spare the White House amployes from congressional abuse has had hung over the mantel in the public reception room the famillar sign, “No Smoking Allowgd.” The sign is framed in somber black, which is such a contrast to the ivory white of the room that one can scarcely fail to notice it. There is considerable talk in Washington this winter regarding the salary of mem- | bers of congress, though there is no fm- | mediate prospect of legislation on the sub- ject. Some advocate the cutting off of all perquisites and the payment of a flat ary of $7,5600 instead of $5,000, as at present, leaving the members to buy their own sta- tionery and hire their own clerks, also to deprive them of mileage, which is 10 cents per mile each way for each session. The clerks at present get $100 per month and the tionery allowance is $126 annually. It is especially pointed out that the co pensation as to mileage is unfair, as the statesman who lives in Maryland or Vir- ginia, for example, recelves only a meager stipend on that account, whereas some statesmen from the far west receive over $400. “Gentlemen, can you tell us any news?" sald David J. Hill, first assistant secretary of state, to a group of correspondents who called for new light on the Venezuelan situation. ““We have come to you for news, the only answer. ““The press and the department is without news and in a walting attitue The situa. tion reminds me of the predicament of an old sea captain of my acqualntance who found himself hundreds of miles at eea without a chart. Fursher taking account of stock developed a missing sextant, barom- eter and chronometer out of gear and a broken compass. *‘Cap, said the mate, ‘we shall have to take the weather as it come The engineers and firemen who happen to be assigned to the president’s train when- ever he makes a trip out of town always | get ready at the end of the reute for the cordial handshake which they know is com- ing. When Mr. Roosevelt and his family | returned from Virginia the other day he reached up to shake the hand of the engi- neer of his train just before leaving the Pennsylvania station. A pleasant word of greeting and goodby was exchanged, and it ‘was noticed that the engineer followed the president with his eye In an apparently thoughtful mood until he was well out of sight. Then, recovering himself suddenly, he was heard to indulge in this soliloquy as he looked at his grimy hand: “‘Great Scott! But you are a dirty right. Still I knew he’d shake you. And when he shakes he means it." A novel view of President Roosevelt 1s contributed by Louls Michel, editor of Der Deutsch Amerikaner, who was introduced to the president at the White House a few days ago by Representatives Wachter and Schiem of Maryland: When it 1s considered that Mr. Michel and the two congressmen were with the president not more than twenty minutes Mr. Michel's account of what occurred will give an id of just how stremuous the president is and how much he can crowd into a small space of time. Mr. Michel de- scribed his visit as follows: “President Roosevelt is not only one of the greatest statesmen this country has ever had, but he is also a great literary man, and I don't think there is any other man in the republican party who could e discussed German and Dutch authors as he did. The fact that the president gave us twenty minutes of his valuable time shows how interested he was in the question of German literature. “In the course of his talk the president referred to the ‘Zering,’ the masterplece of Theodore Koerner, a German soldier and poet, and recited several passages of the ‘Nibelungen Lied.' He sald he admired Schiller greatly, and referred to Gotthold Epbriam Lessing, the author of ‘Nathan the Wise,’ who was really the founder of the realistic school of German lMterature. “He showed that he was conversant with these authors, and 1 regard him a master mind. Indeed, I was dumbfounded at his knowledge of European literature. He is a great admirer of Klopstock and Herder. “He sald that the Boers are the descend- ants of the Frieslanders and Normans through the Dutch. He mentioned Her- man, the king of the Cheruskers, as a fine specimen of the old German ro. He epoke part of the time in German, part in Duteh and part in English, and repeated an 0ld folk-lore song popular among the Dutch of South Africa, ‘The Cows Are In the Clover." “When Mr. Wachter spoke of Fritz Reuter, the principal author In Platt. deutsch, which 1 spoken in part of northern Germany, Denmark and Holland, the presi- dent at once referred to the works of Reuter. “He 1s & wonderful man; majestio in per- sonality, ertsp in conversation, firm expresaion of His ideas, andsone of the best posted men in America on German affairé— not merely German polities, but German history and literature.” CAREER OF THE FREMONTS. Strange Comtrasts of Fortw Sunshine of Fa: Chicago Record-Herald, The Iift of Jessle Benton Fremont, who Las just passed away at Los Ange was marked by a contrast of fortunes that gives it & very exceptional interest. Wo find In it the reverse of that passage from ob- scurity to fame which is the common h! tory of American celobrities. The fame not only came very early, but in & most generous measure. It is safe to say that there never was a young couple in this country so widely known or of so brilliant a reputation as Lieutenant Fremont and his wite. Fremont at 30 was acclaimed as an explorer, both in the United States and in Europe. He cleared up the chaos of western America and was ranked as a great contributor to geographical knowl- edge. At this period of his life also he was the most conspicuous figure in the movement for the annexation of California and he was olected senator from that state before he was 40. It in the balf century that has elapsod since he has come to be one of the least of the stars in the constellation of national heroes, it is only necessary to turn back to contemporary documents to discover that he once shone resplendent among them. Though he was but nine years older than Grant, he had twenty years the start of him in general notoriety, and he was a candidate for the presidency five years be- fore the civil war opened. From that time, however, the eclipse began. He was de- feated by a democrat and when the re- publicans became prominent he was not accepted as a leader, but was involved in jealous altorcations and left to struggle futilely agalnst that most deplorable of fates—the living death of the man who has enjoyed the most flattering renown and who survives to find himself, neglected and well-night forgotten. Throughout this career the wife shared to an unusual defree the fame and for- tune of the husband. She, too, was bril- Hant; she had a fine social position; she was active and influentfal in helping Fre- mont in every way. But in a purely worldly sense the result, in spite of a dazzling be- ginning, was forty years of lure and disappointment, and the widow of the pathfinder became an object of public char- ity. For she was not pensioned as the widows of presidents have been, but re- celved her governmental allowance only after private effort had been made to res- cue her from actual poverty. POINTED REMARKS, Baltimore American: Ruymster—Don't you think my verses have been exceedingly uneven in quality of late? Roaster—I had just been noting how pain- tully otherwise they wer Kansas Clty Jours pose Men)’ulellh ma eat a T Why" everything was in his favor. There were nu automobiles, or trolley oars, or operations for appendicitis, or health foods in those days."” ‘‘How do you sup- ed to reach such a Yonkers Statesman suspicious thing 1 have notice man who says ‘I told you so,’ the observer of events and things. never seeme to come out with a new after election.” hat New York Tribune: Francis I had writ- ten to his mother from the imperial camp near Pavia. “He says all is lost save hono! she cried. IK t means the rubber plant is gone, . too. ‘Weeping bitterly, they led her away, for how how could she live n Brooklyn? Chica, Tribune: “Here's what Jack' ve mg.o" aid Maud, exhibiting the hand- n't It a beautiful speclinen of And all hand made.” d Mabel, ‘M- hand made—second- lef. drawn work? Let me look al you're right. It made.”" Judge: The Angelus had just struck wl}tlen‘ethc two peasants looked at each other. “Hadn't we b'erl‘t:r strike for more pay, too?" they Inguired. Hemvo’;n lzlllet wae compelled to put more long green into his picture than he had anticipated. Philadelphia Press: ‘“What {s an aste- rold?" asked the Instructor of the class. “'An asteroid,” replied the young woman with the pert ndse, “is an understudy to a star.” You look ke a Tean * “said Fellaire, for- observing him eritic- ““We air lean and hungry,” plaintively responded_Goodman Gonrong, beckoning to Tuffold Knatt, who was waiting just around the cornér. “‘Cash us, mister.” HER GRANDDAD'S ROCKIN' CHATR. James Barton Adams in Denver Post. A homely bullt old-fashioned thing, its joints in every part worn loose, Its “arms of strong, unpainted wood well polished from an age of use; Its creaky rockers seemed to cry as in ex~ cruclating pain And nofsily protest against being put to such a trying strain, For generations It had stood upon the foot- worn floor peside The old fireplace from which the flames lli':l’l upward through ' the chimney wide, And young and old through years of time had loved and venerated it, That old split-bottomed rocking ‘chair in which her granddad used to sit. She told me all its history, that maiden of the rosy face, 5 As we would it on winter nights before the cheery old fireplace, From when it left the buflder's hands and sat as if in silent pride Within a humble cotiage when her grand- mother was a bride Down through the generations till her sire inherited the prize, And as she talked the reverent light that lit the azure of her eyes Enchained my heart in willing bonds, and 1, 100, pinned my love to it That old split-bottomed rocking chatr fn which her granddad used to sit. 8he told me how the good old man would seldom leave that honored seat ‘When welght of passing years became too heavy for his tott'ring feet, And how he'd sometimes sit for hours held as if In a heavenly spell Upon his knees an open book, the Bible that he loved so well. How ehe, a toddling youngster then, would kneel before she went to bed And_say her prayers at his knee, his withered hand upon her head, And as she talked her lovely eyes with holy inspiration it As rocked she slowly in the chair in which her granddad used to sit. “T'was only bulit for one, and yet we found it strong enough for two, As in our hearis the spark of love Into a flaming passion grew, d, ‘spite {ts loud protestin night pres her 1o my heart And spake the glowing words of love that made her mine till death shall part, And as 1 eit and watch her as she rocks our bouncing boy to rest, His curly, sleepy ‘head soft pil- lowed on her mother bre I felt that mine, if possible, is greater than her love for it— That old split-bottomed rocking chair in which her granddad used to sit. creaks, 1 one FOR DESSERT, SUNDAY, JANUARY 4th, 1903, try JELL-O, prepared according to the fol- lowing recipe: JELL-0 WITH TAPIOCA. 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