Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 9, 1903, Page 6

BEE THE OMAHA DAILY B. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERM8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Boe (without Sunday), One Yeor..$4.00 Dally Bee and Sunday, One Year.. 6.00 Tllustrated Bee, One Year . Bunday Bee, One Year Baturday Bee, One Year T Twentleth Century Farmer, One Year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. y Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... 2¢ aily Bee (without Sunday), per week ..12¢ v Bee (Including Sunday), per week..1lc | Beo, 6o Evening Bee Evening Bee Compla of irregularit should be addressed to City C partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bulldh Bouth Omaha—City Hal ty-Afth and M Strests Council Bluffs—10 Pear] Street. Chicago—ied Unity Bullding ew York—212% Park Row Bullding. Washington—501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communieations relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Fditorial Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, paysle to The Bee Publishing Company, nly 2-cent stamps accepted in payment ot mall accounts, Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMP. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraskd, Douglas County, 88.: George B, Tzschuck, secretary 'of 'The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Daily. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of May, 1903, was as follows: eT COpY seiss Jwithout Bunday), per week. 6c (including Sunday), per n I"Butaing, Twen- EERERERRBBEBEES Total Less unsold and returned copl Net total sale: Net average salo . GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 8ist day of May, A. D, 1903. K(. B, HUNGATE, [C] Notary Publi If the Union Pacific strike can be set- tled satisfactorily to both sides, so can the strike in the local building trades. e The Denver Times headed its appeal for relief for the flood sufferers with its own subscription of $200. How much did the World-Herald put in? P ‘When it comes to “get rich quick” schemes and green goods speculations Omaba may always be depended upon to furnish a few credulous victims. ] If there is any satisfaction in having the last word in the dispute over the alleged Postoffice department irregulari- ties, Mr. Tulloch ought to feel better. With a flood and preparations for a ‘World's fair on its hands at the same time, St. Louis people certainly have their share of the white man's burden. Now that we have passed from wet to dry and cold to hot, we may antici- pate a change in the day's greeting: “Oh, how hot it is, isn't 1t?" “Isn't it awful?” —— If the coming crop of graduates will only remember all the good advice given to them in baccalaureate sermons, the world’s millenfum will not seem so far away. Omaha will welcome any power plant project that will give it cheaper power as a stimulus to manufacturing enter- prises, but it has had so many promises in this line that it will prefer to see the goods delivered before celebrating. Complaint is regularly made that our Judiclary are altogether too poorly paid to compensate for the services ren- dered, but we notice that whenever a vacancy on the bench heaves in sight there is no dearth of good lawyers will- ing to throw themselves into the breach. p— For the ptesent, all the reforms in po- lice admihstration and supervision in Omaha and South Owaha will have to be instituted by the police boards of the two cities without interference from Governor Mickey. 8o much of home rule, at least, is conceded by the gov- ernor. The demand made by Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis of Brooklyn for a merger of the churches on the same plan as e industrial Combinations 18 not likely to find Ilmmediate favor with other pastors. A church combine con- ducted on lines of systematic economy might leave without employment half of the ministers now on the payroll, Fourteen thousand miles of railroad travel by the presidential party without even a hot box bespeaks volumes, not s0o much for the roads over which the | special passed, as for the efficiency of the engineers, firemen,. brakemen and others, who miade up the train crews, charged with the responsibility of tak- ing the distinguishiéd passengers to each succeeding poiut of destination. L _ __ . ] The Jews of all the countries of Europe are sald to look to America as | offering the only hope of rellef for the oppressed Jews of Russla. This has been the history of all religlous and political persecutions since the Ameri- can republic was established. America is the typical land of the free and the victims of oppression in the old monar- chies naturally turn to America for a baven of refuge. SEe——— Ak-S8ar-Ren has sent out his invita- stions to join the royal cavalcade for 1008 and the responses should be prompt and plenty. There is no good reason why anyone who has belonged JUSTICE FOR THE RACK The pronouncement of the Ohlo republican platform in favor of justice for the negro race will command the earnest attention of the country and is likely to arouse a sentiment which will muake this subject an issue In our na- tional politics. A great many people are disposed to underestimate the im- portance of this question. They are willing to believe that it is a matter of merely passing interest, to be casually discussed and passed over as of no great consequence, No greater mistake could be made. It is a question of the most vital impor- tance to the whole Ametican people, in- volving consequences vital to our repub- lican Institutions and to our national peace and welfare. There is today a well-defined issue between the north and the south in regard to the rights of the colored man. On the one hand is the proposition that every right and privilege allowed to the colored man under the amendments of the constitu- tion shall be secured to him. On the other hand is the assertion, embodied in law, that the negro shall not have the constitutional privileges and rights ac- corded him by the federal constitution, but shall be subjected to state laws in utter disregard of the organic law of the nation. There is presented in this a very serious and vital problem, which the Amerfcan people will sooner or later have to deal with in the most practical way. The Ohio republican platform declares firm adherence to every amendment which the civil war wrote “into our country’s constitution as bind- ing In honor upon every American eitl- zen.” It asserted that everywhere the doctrine of equity in the exercise of the elective franchise, declaring that “jus- tice requires any state excluding any of its citizens from the ballot to be propor- tionately reduced in its representation in the electoral college and the lower house of the national congress.” This declaration on the part of the Ohlo republicans is not a challenge but a warning. It simply says to the south that the north demands and expects politieal fairness and justice and will be satisfled with nothing less. It is a perfectly fair position which the repub- licans of Ohio take and it will be ap- proved by the party, it is not to be doubted, in every northern state. DAMAGE FROM DROUTH. While the damage from the floods In the west is estimated at many millions, the disaster is small as compared with the estimated injury from the drouth in the eastern states, which destroyed practically all vegetation and left that entire region almost barren of vegeta- tion. According to reports, New Eng- Jand has never in all its history suffered 8o severely from drouth as it has this summer and the conditions there are at this time’ of the most unfortunate char- acter. NS The Springfield Republican says that people do not realize the extent of the losses being incurred by the dry spell and it refers to calculations made by the secretary of the Boston Home Mar- ket club as showing what that section of the country has suffered from this season's drouth. The figures compiled by this trustworthy authority show that there has already been a loss to New England agricuiture amounting to con- siderably over $100,000,000 and it is probable that this sum will be found to be considerably inside the real amount. In reference to this the Spring- fleld Republican says: “This is not all, Almost entirely dependent upon home- grown feed is a great livestock and dairy {ndustry whose principal value in 1899 for New England was placed at about §75,000,000. Farmers in northern New England are already beginning to sacrifice livestock because of present lack of pasturage and-in anticipation of a scrious scarcity of winter feed. Hay is rising to unprecedentedly high prices in Vermont and elsewhere. There seems to be no possibility of escaping comparative scarcity and very high prices for feed of all kinds, which in turn will affect the prices of dairy prod- ucts, Increasing the cost of living in the citles and reducing the consumption of manufactured products among the farmers. What is true of New England is equally true of all eastern New York state and New Jersey, where farmers are selling off their livestock and pre- paring for a season of great scarcity." There is nothing sensational or over- drawn in this statement of the condi- tions in the eastern states. The drouth in that section has been of the most destructive character and it will prob- ably be found that the losses to farm- ers there are even greater than Is now estimated. ' The drouth has been unprecedented, so far as any record shows, and certainly this is the case as to the extent of injury done. More than ever before, therefore, the east will be dependent upon the west for its supply of vegetables, which means more remunerative prices to the farmers of the west for all of thelr products. Heavy losses have been suf- fered in this section of the country, through storms and floods, but they are really small in comparison with the disastrous consequences of the eastern drouth. —— The frankness of Populist Natfonal Committeeman Kent is certainly to be commended. . Writing an answer to a 1equest for his opinion of the condition and prospects of the populist party he declares that, “personally, I think the people’'s party as a party is dead, dbut all that true in its principles re mains true still and will to the end.” Fortunately he does not undertake to to the Ak-Sar-Ben organization should bang back to be personally solicited to get in again. The hustling committée has enough to do to impreéss new mem- Vers fnto service. Fill out your.apph- cation and send it 1n without waiting to tell just how many of the populist principles were true and are still true, although ‘hie condedes “they “ere not sutficient to noprish the @efunct lnfant and keep it from mewtuary ecollapse. It is a great deal, bowever, for a man like Mr. Kent, occupying official post- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, JUNE 8, tion in the party, to admit that it Is dead, notwithstanding that his position on the committee is as representative of the District of OColumbia, which cannot and never could contribute any votes to its support. BRASS BAND CHARITY. Take heed that ye do not your alms be- fore men, to be seen of them, otherwise yo have no reward of your Father which is in heaven Therefore, when thou doest thine alms, @0 not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verlly I say unto you, they have thelr re- ward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth; that thine alms may be in secret, and thy ther who seeth in secret Himseif shall reward thee openly.—Matthew, Chapter VL. Newspapers, like men, may be judged by thelr acts and not by their vain- glorious . boasting. Brass band charity as a medium of advertising newspaper benevolence with other people’s money does not conform with the ideals which The Bee and its editor have set for themselves either as a stimulant to pop- ularity or patronage. The brazen- throated blasts of the World-Herald to advertise its achievements in the way of public charities and relief would pass unnoticed were it not for the uncalled- for and invidious comparison it has seen fit to institute with its latest effort at self-glorification. In the truly charitable spirit that per- meates our nmiable contemporary The Bee is stigmatized as “the meanest paper that has ever come out of a printing press,” and in the recital of its own countless distributions of public charity The Bee is pointed out as the paper that has never yet contributed “to the alle- viation of human distress and in every instance has sought to discourage work- ers engaged in such laudable undertak- ings.” On this score The Bee has only the to say—that its work of charity has not been conducted on Pharisee lines, and without boasting it points to the fact that it has contributed more to char- itable institutions and public enterprises in any one year than the World-Herald has done altogether since it came into existence. But it has not found it neces- sary to advertise its benefactions, which include not merely most of the religious and benevolent institutions in Omaha, but a respectable number in the state of Nebraska as well as elsewhere, One would naturally infer on reading the chapter of World-Herald eeif-glori- fication that The Bee had never been known to encourage or assist in any act of benevolence or charity. = Perhaps it may not be out of place to cite the fact that The Bee raised over $12,000 of con- tributions to the herolc school teachers who distinguished themselves by life saving during the historic blizzard of 1888. And how did the World-Herald conduct itself at that period? After making the most strenuous efforts on behalf of these teachers, and especlally Miss Royce, who had lost both of her feet, the editor of The Bee was awnk- ened at his home at half past two one morning by a World-Herald reporter and asked what he had to say regarding the report that had been sent out by the United Press, for which at that time the World-Herald was western agent, that he had embezzled $5,000 of the money contributed to Miss Royce. Not only was this accusation a most in- famous libel, but as a matter of fact Miss Royce received every penny of the principal contributed and 8 per cent in- terest on the balance then on deposit. As a matter of fact, also, the delay oc- casioned in the settlement., as was well known, was due to the appeals of the people of Plainview that the money be invested either in a life annuity or in bonds in order to protect Miss Royce from the sharks who were trying to bor- row the relief fund without a proper guaranty. Perhaps the World-Herald has also forgotten that The Bee raised a large fund for the cyclone victims at Brad- shaw, and that its refusal in later years to become the medlum of charity dis- tribution has been largely due to the outrageous treatment received at its hands in ralsing the school-teacher bliz- zard relfef funds. An instance especlally cited ns dis- creditable to The Bee s its alleged op- position to the collection of Christmas presents for the First Nebraska and the raising of the fund to pay the return i fare of the regiment from San Fran- ciseo to Omaha. There Is absolutely no truth in the first charge and the second is malicious and misleading. The brass band charity concern started the move- ment for the return of the First Ne- | braska for political ends. It was pal- pable from the outset that so large a sum as $36.000 could not be ralsed by popular subseription and Governor Poynter knew as well as anyone that the scheme was impractical. The only chance was in an agreement on the part af the railroads to accept I O U’s from the state with an assurance of getting an appropriation through the legisla- ture. To bring this about the editor of The Bee made an unsuccessful personal appeal to President Burt and Manager Holdrege, but while the Burlington and Union Pacific magnates had an under- standing to make no concession, the Burlington played the winning card through D. E. Thompson, who handed in a check for $20,000 and got the trans- portation of the troops routed over the Burlington, while the legislature the fol- lowing winter refunded the money. Another of the contemptible flings of the World-Herald is embodied in the charge that The Bee refused to adver- tise the Auditorium guessing contest out of pure meanness. As a matter of fact, The Bee for advertising a newspaper premium scheme that had less of the elements of chance in it than the Audi- torium gift enterprise schemes. Although imbued with the bellef that charity should begin at Lome, and while its doors have always been open day and night to men and women of all creeds and races in want ot distress, The Bee's horizon of philanthropy has not been circumscribed by the city lmits of Omaha or the state lines of Nebraska. Its columns have at all times been open to appeals for suffering humanity, but it has not seen fit to club its patrons of any class into making involuntary dona- tions or contributions beyond their own means. Unlike its brass band contemporary The Bee is not g’ deadhead in charity enterprises. When it undertakes to raise charity funds it always heads the subscription lists, while the self-glorify- ing concern seeks to enlist popularity and patronage by dispensing other peo- ple's money. It would have been just as easy for The Bee as for any of its local contemporarfes to solicit money for Christmas gifts and turn a benevo- lent penny by exchanging its advertis- ing for Christmas presents. Such dis- interested benevolence has never been in line with the course of The Bee. Perhaps we may be pardoned for re- calling the fact that the editor of The Bee was named by the late Bishop New- man to act as chairman of the execu- tive committee to raise the $25,000 guar- anty fund for the International Metho- dist conference and that he not only raised the amount within thirty days, but paid $250 of his own money into the fund. With these few observations The Bee is content to rest upon its record of thirty years as a liberal contributor to enterprises and charities without sougd- ing the tomtom and without beating the drum to make capital for itself at other people’s expense. This promiscuous shooting by mem- bers of the Omaha police force is ap- parently overreaching the limit and calls for repression If not suppression by the police authorities. The mere fact that a prisoner resists arrest 18 no Justification for the use of the revolver upon him when the man is not known to be a desperate or hardened criminal and the arresting officer is in no im- mediate danger of physical injury. The lives of the htmblest citizen 'are as much .under the protection of the police as the lives of the highest, and they have no right to resort to shooting ex- cept when compelled to do so in self- defense. ;We should not wait wuntil some wild marksman in uniform kils an innocent bystander before putting a stop this bad practice. An eastern paper wants to know why Cuba should be allowed to go to Lon- don to borrow . $85000,000. when it ought to find the money in New York. We presume it in simply a case of get- ting the best possible bargaln. There is no sentiment ‘or prejudice as between nations when a country tries to place a foreign loan, although it may some- times seem preferable to pay a higher rate of interest as an incéntive to keep the bonds at home. If American inves- tors want to plant their money In Cuba all they have to do is to put in the best bid. —— A Perniclous Example. Philadelphia North American. It is announced that Salvador is about to pay one of its creditors In the United States. The Central American republics will eonsider this a perniclous precedent. Presidential Oratory. Chicago Record-Herald. President Roosevelt made 265 speeches during his trip, and If. there is anything in the theory that practice makes perfect he should now be a pretty fair orator. New York Sun. The year 1%3 will be remembered in this country sorrowfully as the year of fire and flood. The west is obtaining rellef from water, and ‘in the order of nature the east must soon obtain rellef from drouth. Long Time Hetween Floods Chieago Tribune. It appears from a study of the records that a flood such as the western country is suffering from this séason takes place only at intervals of fifty-nine years. By the time the next one comes, therefore, all but a few of us probably will have retired from active participation in affairs. The Boer Sheridan in Politics. Springfield Republican. General Dewet has become the head of a large political party in the Orange River colony. Every Boer returned from a British prison camp at once joined General Dewet's party and it now ‘comprises a majority of the white population In the colony. Dewet's irraccneflable attitide gives the British au- therities cause for apprehension ana the prosgects of harmony In the near future are certainly not hright. The Tie that Binds, Philadeiphia Ledger. Why should Cuba be allowed Loadon to borrow the $36,000,000 it needs? Do American financiers fall to recognize the importance of maintaining a preponder- ant nflusnce in the island repubile naturally bound to us? Do we forget that the financial tie fs In these days far the most influential of all, and quickly combine with Itself the commercial and the po- tleal? With prospects %o happy, after a year of prosperity under a.sober and re- sponsible government, Cuba should have no difficulty in getting any reasonable sum in the United States at a lower rate of iIn- terest than it would have to pay abroad. to go to Talking Without Thiwki Philadelphia Record. Notwithstanding the failure of his numer- ous political predicitions, including that of the election of Greeley, Benator Chauncey M. Depew says that President Roosevelt's The Bee refused to comply with the re- quest because in so doing it would have laid itself liable to prosecution for ad- vertising a lottery. Ouly two years pre- viously the federal grand jury at the instance of G. M. Hitcheock and Cadet Taylor brought an indictment agalnst the chief editor and wanaging editor of , majority will be the largest ever given to any presidential candidate by the electoral college. He forgets the majority for Gen- eral Grant in 1572, as well as the facts that the electoral vote for George Washington was unanimous and that James Monroe, in 18520, had 231 electoral votes in a total of 52 votes in the electoral college. But this is only Chauncey Depew's loose way of talk- g 1903. LAST OF THE POPULISTS, 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. Ex-Stnator Marion Butler, who was at the head of the populist national com- mittee at one time, says that that party will nominate a presidential ticket in 1904 He s not saying that it will be elected, but he merely remarks that it will be in_the race, and that many persons who otherwise would be found in the ‘demo- eratic ranks will be in a mect by them- selves. Butler for a time was a man of some consequence in politics, but he is not quoted to any great extent now. His present prediction will serve to call to mind the fact that there was a time when the populists were an element of some im- portance in public affairs. In 1004 the third party which will attract most attention will be the soclalist. In the elections of 192 the soclalists of the country at large cast something like 400,000 votes. There are, of course, two or three divisions of the socalist party. The larger branch, the social democrats, polled nearly 90,000 votes for Debs in 1900. Judging by the strenkth which they have displayed in the congressional and in some state can- vasses since then, the soclal democrats ought to be able to cast 200,000 or 300,000 votes next year. For a man like Debs that party would be able to make a can- vass that the country would be compelled to notice. But the populist party is as dead as t anti-Masonic party or as John Randolph's quids. Most of the populists of the west have come back to the republicans, where they belonged before the revelt in 189 and 1892, In the south the bulk of the pops have gone to the democrats, from whom they were drawn originally. None of them under the name of pops are anywere ex- tant' in the country. Even Leather- lunged Allen of Nebraska has got out of the pop camp, and nobody hears of him any longer. In its brief career, the popu: list party threw some queer people to the surface of politics, but nearly all of them have_been dropped back into oblivion. Butler is the last of the pops which the country will see. His place is among the soclalists, where he will have to go if he is ever again to get any political recogni- tlon. SHARP CRITICISM NO LIBEL. Statements Justified on the Ground of Their Truth. Chieago Chronicle. The Plymouth (England) Morning News criticised unfavorably a comic musical play called “Tbe Major” which was produced in that city. It cannot truthfully be said that the criticism was elther brilliant or profound; it was not even entertaining. The newspaper said that few in the audi- ence left the concert hall with any degree of satisfaction; that “although ‘The Major' had been described as a play it was com- posed of nothing but nonsense of a not very humorous characte that “the com- edy would be improved If it had a substan- tial plot and if some of the sorry stuff were taken out of it,” and it was intimated that the actors with a single exception were no better than the plece in which they appeared. There wi nothing any worse than this In the article, but Mr. McQuire, the author, siled the newspaper for libel and obtained a judgment for $50 damages. The pub- lisher took the case up to the court of a Peals and the judgment was reversed. The master of the rolls, a court officer acting ae associate justice in the appeal court, prepared the decision in the case. He held that the: offensive article did not _exceed the limits of fair criticism and that “the jury had no right to substitute their own opinion .of the lterary merits of the work for that of the critic or to try the ‘fairness’ of the criticism by any such standard.” He added In substance that it wae a good thing for the people that there was free criticism in the press and that they did not have to depend on jurles for criticism of works of literature and art The magistrate went further and in- | dorsed the criticlsm of which complaint had been made. Extracts from the play and stage directions were placed before the court, which concluded its remarks by saying that “it would have been a matter | of regret for all well-wishers of the stage | it the homest critic were debarred from | commenting on the sense of this criticism | on such a production.” | In this case the old English maxim, “The | greater the truth the greater the libel,” seems to have been abandoned. The court endorses the alleged libel and justifies it on the ground of Its truth. PERSONAL NOTES. The John Wilkes Booth yarn that comes | from Oklahoma would seem to indicate | that the silly season has falrly set in, Secretary Shaw will attend the com- mencement exercises of Cornell college at Mount Vernon, Ia., his alma mater, on June 17. Associate Justice Alexander B. Hagner of the supreme court of the District of Co- lumbla has retired after serving |wen'_\'~i five years. The estate of the late Thomas B. Reed | aggregates more than $400,000—a sum that still constitutes wealth in Portland, though it is but a poor man's plle in New York | City. Page Morrls, who goes on the federal bench on July 1, was born in Virginia, lived some years in Texas, and later represented | a Minnesota dlstrict In congress for six years, 8. E. Pettee, the inventor of the first paper bag machine, as well as other ap- pliances, has just died in Cleveland. He lived fn Philadelphia at one time and later in Bethlehem, Governor LaFollette of Wisconsin has signed the primary election’ bill in his state with a quill pen made from a feather taken from the crown of the war bonnet of the Sioux Indlan chief, Red Cloud. The purchase by President Loubet of a chateau and estate in southeast France gives the impression that the president will retire ‘to private life when his term of office 1s up. The estate is not far from the president's birthplace, where his mother lives. Flood news occuples much space in the newspapers nowadays. But it s not the real feature of newspaper literature. The most instructive and diverting feature is the contest between the writers of sum- mer resort advertisements and the delic fous poesy of breakfast food announ ments. Both touch a tender spot and jin- gle where jingles count. Willlam Winter, dean of New York dra- matic critics, sald recently of Jefferson's Rip: “The secret of its supremacy s not obscure. It has bewitched the world for the simple reason that it has successfully applied the method of poetic treatment to common things. That is easlly done—when you happen to be able to do it—but you will not accomplish it unless you were born with the fagulty of the poet.” A man who had been a prosperous whole- sale grocer at 8t. Joseph, Mo., thought he could make money more rapidly in Wall street. 80 he sold his business two weeks, ago and moved to New York with his fam- ily. He got Into the “street” at once and seven hours of each day were devoted to speculation. Last Thursday morning he Kkilled himself in & barber's shop soon after he had started for his office, and It devel- oped afterward that every dollar he took to New York had been lost. ’ BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. From 8§ o'clock in the morning until clows 0 § In the evening there are 5,000 typewrit- ers grinding out letters for the govern- ment M the varfous departments. During these hours there are, of course, 5,000 type- writer girls busily thumping the machines. Uncle Bam is the largest employer of typists inthe country and should be the pPatron saint of the fypewriter girl. He is r'e nicest kind of a man to work for, too. fe pays large salaries and he supplies his workers with everything they want. If a Birl expresses a preference for a certaln kiffd ‘of ‘a machine she gets it. She does not have to-sit down and try to pound a typewriter she does not like. Whenever a new typewriter girl is em- ployed in one of the departments she names the machine and it is purchased for her The hardest job the public printer s booked to tackle soon s the removal of the fiation's” printshop from the old to the new homé. This moving is a stupendous task because of the great welght ot metal and machinery. Of type alone there are mililons of pounds, there being more than 500,000 pounds of nonpareil in the last new “dress’ bought for the big establishment. Of every letter, figure, punctuation point and other character there is more than a bushel measure, this large supply bein, absolutely necessary in order that there may be no delay in rushing work through on schedule time. Hesides the tons of type to be moved there are nearly 100 large and small presses, folding, stitching, and other kinds of machines, to Ing of the hundreds of machines used in the bindery, but which are not of a heavy type. It will cost a heavy sum of money to transfer the material, even for the short distance mecessary, and it js the wish of the department to save both time and money in the moving. The new home of the world's greatest model of beauty and convenience, with a floor space of more than 400,000 square feet, | The bullding 1s of steel frame filled In with granite and brick. It is 408x17§ feet, seven storfes, with basement and at- tie, with vaults running under the entire length of the sidewalks. In the bullding there are 370 stee] columns, enabling the floors to stand a welght of 85,000,000 pounds. It is estimated that there Is enough steel in the bullding, if wrought into rafls, to lay a raflway track for forty-three miles, and from the other iron and brass fittings seventy-four large locomotives could be butlt. The buflding 1s fireproof and 1s equipped with its own heating and lighting plants. There will be more than 7,00 incandescent electric lights and twelve electric elevators; a complete telephone system; ice plant to furnish drinking ' water; crematory for disposing ‘of refuse and for heating the vast quantities of water that will be needed for the bindery and for other pur- poses. In fact, ‘every convenience neces- sary for the rapid turhing out of work and for the comfort of more than 4,000 em- ployes ‘are 16 be supplied.’ The new plant will cost something over $2,420,00 and the finishing ‘touches to the Interior are now belng given. The walls of the president's new study are of a restful neutral tint and the fm- mense portrait of George Washington Which hangs above the colonial mantel is perhaps the most’ conspicuous object in the room. Although President Roosevelt's lterary work—in the strictest Interpreta- tlon of the phrase—has been confined, since he entered the White House, largely to the preparation of prefaces for certain books and other similar Jabors of love, it is known that his heart is still In the work, and he has a pumber of times during the ‘past year spoken to friends of the interest with which he looks forward ‘to the task of writing the history of Texas, an. under- taking upon which he hopes to enter after he retires from the presidency. President Roosevelt 1s a very rapld worker. He em- ploys dictation to a greater extent than any of his predecessors, but some of his manuscript is penned with a fine-pointed fountain pen, Love has laughed at locksmiths again, even though they were in the Navy depart+ ment, and has found out a way. It seems that a junior naval officer recently applied for leave of absence because of his Ap- proaching marriage. The department de- clined to give it, having many problems and important subjects to consider, but the young officer forced the department's hand. If there were too few officers for duty to let one of them have a short leave he could increase the dearth by resigning, and re- sign he did. Then the department, face to face with this aggravated condition, ylelded gracefully and on the officer’s acceptance of the shortest possible leave promised to let him go to get married. So he withdrew his resignation. The wedding has not taken place yet, but when it does occur it will be & naval affajr and no civillan. Uncle Sam’s reserve fund, something over $300,000,000, is being counted for the first time in six years. It will take a month to do the job. The work of counting is so conducted that there can be no mistakes made except by the most remarkable series of miscalculations, or by collusion among the workers to an extent that has never been known and is considered practically impossible. The currency Is packed in bundles of 31,000 bills each. $1,000,000 package of $1,000 bills Is the same size as a $1,00 package of $1 bills. Bach of printing office s a | Therefore a i tents eounted. BSuch careful record of the work is kept in the divisions of the trea: ury, where money is handled that it can be accurately determined who handied the(, packages of bills at a certaln time. Sev eral months ago a teller in the subtreasury at Chieago was discharged after it had been discovered that the treasury wos ‘short'” several hundred dollars and thut the theft had been accomplished by tho substitution of coins of defective welght for good ones. Beveral years ago by a somewhat stmflar system plotters made an inroad of more than $20000 on the suh- treasury at New York. OUR RIGHT TO THE NAME, Canadian Objecti th » to Speaking of United States as Amerion. Philadelphia Record The Canadians complain of what they call Yankes presumption in speaking of the United States as America. They are newly exasperated by the removal of the officlul shield over the entrance of our embassy in London, which read “Fmbassy of the | United States” and the substitution of onc on which is fnscribed Jn the brightest of |gold letters: “American Kmbassy.” Mr Choato has conformed to this change by having his cards to read “The Amerfcan Ambassador.” The explanation of Secretary 1s that there are other United States —in Brasil, Colombla and Mexico. He | might have afiirmed tnat it was the English who did most to fasten the name American on the citizens of this country. While a few Englishmen having close relations with Canada speak of this as “the States,” which {s Indefinite, every writer and orator of influence In Great Britain uses the larger term of “America.” ‘The United States are not all of America, but their Influence is dominating, even In Canada. In point of territory, population, wealth and all that is important there is little worth present consiaeration outside thelr boundaries. In time, no doubt Canada will have many mililons of prosperous people, but also in time Canada | will be a part of the great republie. In | respect of the nominally change of habit from “America” is prophetic As there has been no studled change of name for this nation, the use of “America” having been spontaneous because of the overwhelming and Increasing importance of the unparalleled republic, it would be absurd for our govérnment to attempt to restrict even its own officials to the less comprehensive title. If may be premature | formally to abandon the official name of “the United States,” but it would suggest mock-modesty to decline the eminence which the world has conceded to this ex panding country. the SAID IN FUN, “It was a grand wedding and the bride looked like a magnificent plcture.” “Did she meet the bridegroom?" “By gum, 1 forgot to ask which one he was!"—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mrs. McCall—So your dear old uncle has gone to heaven. Willie—We don't know yet. His will won't be read till after the funeral.—Philadelphia Catholie Standard. the profession of weather praphecy a actory one?” 1" answered the expert, “in a gen- as a rule the In- not le as the predic- ‘ashington Star, The English tourist who had devoted one day to trying to keep up with the presiden- tial party out west mopped perspiration from his brow. “Baw Jove!" he calls this resf fice, does he! gasped, ‘‘your ng_from the cares ~Chicago Tribune. president of his of- Housoholder—Thete's _something wrong ! o ¥ 3 Nracery Claek Sinate Ky eHe bodd $ént me to collect it.—Brooklyn Life. Customer—I wonder it you keep type- writer ribbons in this store. New Salesgirl (with some resentment)— You'll find_ ribbons here good enough for anybody, 1 guess. Six counters down.— Philadelphia ens. “Why s it.” asked a curlous, citizen, “that In Btockholm & conversion by tele: phone costs only a fraction over a penny, while in New York it costs a dime?"’ “Um—er—well, you see,” sald the tele- hone man, “the language there is very ifferent from our: Brooklyn Eagle. “Fame is gullty of many injustices,” re- marked Colonel Stilwell. " *“We are’ con- stantly talking about the electric light and the telephone, while the geniuses who dis- covered the corkscrew and the lemon m\u«'zer sleep unrewarded and unglorified.’ —Washington Star. THE PITCHER. Somerville Journal. The pitcher takes a telling pose. And holds the ball on_hig! Then turns it with his finger tips, His new in-curve to try. Then swiftly swings his st The viclous deed is done The umpire dodges skilfull; 3 And hoarsely shouts: ‘Ba-all one!" The pitcher takes his pose again, Both feet firm on the ground. Again, he holds the ball on high, And slowly turns it round. Then once more he uncolls himself, The batsman to undo. The ball smacks in the catcher's gl The umpire shouts: “Ba-all two! The pitcher fiercely grinds his heel, In desperation Tflm. Once more he holds the ball on high All eyes are fixed on him. Once more he swiftly lets it drive Then flercely slaps his knee Because the umpire coldly cries, In foghorn tones: “Ba-all three trong right arm— The pitcheps face Is firm and set, A wild gleam in his eye Shows his determination, as He holds the ball on high. He hurls it in—the bat swings round, And meets it with a thud! A The ball soars o'er the left-fleld fencel these packages 1s broken open and its con- The pitcher's name is Mud! THAT HAT: We saw you under yesterday looked rather hot and uncom- fortable, and must have felt so. new shapes that have taken the town by storm. Let us tell you about the The soft, light, zephery kind—$1.50—$2.50. And we have all the other kinds of “good” straws at from B50c up to $5.00—and the genuine South American Panama at $10.00. Crash and Duck Outing Hats and Caps, 50c. No Clothing Fits Like Ours. Rrowning Kne-5@ R. S. WILCOX, Manager.