Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 10, 1903, Page 6

R _THE OMAHA DALY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR, Y MORNING. PUBLISHED TERMS OF SBUBSCRIPTION. Pflll)’ Bee (without Suni .00 Ny Bee and SBunda . 8.0 Tllustrated Bee, One 2.00 Bunday Bre, One Year 0 Baturday Bee, One Year............ 180 Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER Daily Bes (without Sunday), per copy.... 2¢ B-Hs Bee (without Sunday), per week. ..12c | ally Bes (Including Sunday), per week..1ic unday Bee, per copy sisurest 5c vening Bee (without Sunday). per week. 6c Evening Bce (ncluding Sunday), per week . seus . . 10¢ Complainis of 'irreguiarities in delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bufldin Bouth Omaha—City Hall ty-fifth and M Streets. Fuiiaing, Twen- Council Bluffe—10 Pearl Street. Chicago—ieid Unity Bullding Now York—2128 Park Row Bullding. Washington—501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Fditorial Department. REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, or postal grder, ayable to The Bee Publishing Combany. Dnly 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or castern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, sa.: George B, Teschuck, secretary of The Bee Publisuing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and gomplete coples of The Daily, Morning Evening and Sunday Bee printed during ths month of May, 1903, was as follows: . 900 HEBENREFEERESEERS e GE 3 Subscribed In my presence and sworn to betore me this 3lst day of May, A. D. 1908 L. B. HUNGATE, (Seal. Notary Fubli e —— If any state can produce a corn crop in spite of adverse conditions, Nebraska can. e—r—— The Panama canal treaty negotiations seem to be approaching the ultimatum stage. With all the men back to work the Union Pacific shops should now be the buslest place in town. l Old Missouri river is entitled to a chromo certificate of good conduct so far Omaha is concerned. | Two accidents in the course of a few weeks In which two inoffensive prison- ers are shot by the same policeman is too much of a coincidence. | Pending developments, Grover Cleve- land is enjoying himself as an interested spectator at the commencement exer- cises of Princeton university. ————— In 1its malignant tirade against The Bee the brass band charity organ has caught a tartar and so it has to cover its retreat by a shower of auditorium bricks. e Germany is trying to attract some American gold by raising the rate of dis- count of the imperfal bank. If it will only raise the bid high enough it can have the coin. S—————— E. H. Harriman will probably enjoy his European trip much better now knowing that the labor troubles with the railroads directly under his manage- ment have all been amicably adjusted. Governor Taft's report on conditions in the Philippines does not quite gibe with that made by General Miles on his return from his tour of our eastern pos- sessions. The two reports may have to be sent to a conference committee, i — Reading between the lines, we take it that the unsympathetic course pursued by The Bee with regard to the audi- torium gold brick scheme was not as offensive as its refusal to obey the im- perious commands of the pompous San- born. ———— Abolition of the bridge arbitrary will do Omaha lots of good if our manufac- turers and jobbers will avail themselves of It to the utmost. It will be well to remember, however, that trade does not come in (hese days of competition with- out golng after it. ———me— To show that he is a man of his word, Governor Balley of Kansas is going to take a wife as he promised hefore his election. To show that he is & man of the people the governor is going to marry a widow who has been earning her own livelihood. Some of our southern friends profess astonishment that Robert E. Lee should be denled a place alongside of Wash- ington. But Lee never will occupy a place in history alongside of Washing- ton no watter by what standard the comparison is made. ‘Whether Judge Taft fills the bill a western man for vice president depends entirely upon the geographlcal location of the observer whether he Is east or west of Ohlo. Still, if he could be cred- ited up to the Philippines he might be referred to either as a far western or as a far eastern man to sult the occa- slon. ————— ‘For senseless charter tinkering the late Douglas delegation to the legis- lature eclipsed everything that had gone before, and that is saying a great deal. The complication over the Board of Public Works employes is the result of legislative malpractice, incited solely by political vindictiveness. In the interval the people of Omaha as the ilnnocent victims bave to suffer the consequences. DEMOCRATIC ANTI-REORGANIZERS The men who are promoting demo- eratic reorganization are not to have the fleld wholly to themselves. Those who believe in the Chicago and Kansas City platforms are beginning to bestir themselves and are likely to be heard from In no uncertain wa, futare. A natlona] confergnce of dem ocrats is announced to be held in Chi ecago next month, at which it is said that Mayor Harrison, Mr. Bryan and a number of others opposed to the reor- | Commercial club, and especially the ganization movement will be In at-| members of its executive committee, tendance and make addresses. Already | have manifested intense anxlety to place | Mayor Harrison has sounded the key- note of the conference In the statement that “most of the talk about reorganiza- tion comes from men who, however em- inent, are not especially noted for their loyalty to the party of late years.” He is quoted as saying that the platform enunciated by the last national conven- tion is the political creed of the party and will continue so to be until another national convention shall change it, and that while it fs the privilege of any one to urge an alteration of the platform, when such an appeal shall be made “it will be determined upon its merits and not upon the supposed importance of the handful of gentlemen who are as- suming to tell the party what to do.” The eastern reorganizers, judging from the expressions of somé of thelr news- paper organs, seem to have a good deal of confidence in their ability to secure control of the next democratic national convention. Some of these organs talk as if they really believe that already the platforms of 1806 and 1900 are without substantial support and that the leader in those campaigns has now no adher- ents and is virtually dead politically. The conference to be held in Chicago is Ilikely to show that they are mistaken, that as a matter of fact the last demo- cratic national platform is still regarded with favor by a very large number of those who accepted it in 100C and that Mr. Bryan has by no means been wholly deserted. Tt is quite probable that the reorganizers will discover that the forces of Bryanism are yet somewhat formid- able and pretty certain to have a good deal to say and wield no little influence in the democratic national convention of 1904. At all events, the Chicago conference of democratic anti-reorganizers will be a political incident of interest and sig- nificance. It will doubtless disclose what this element intends to do by way of counteracting the eastern movement, which so far as appears is at present mainly in the interest of the nomination of Mr. Cleveland. Of course others are being talked of and thelr availability discussed, but the only name that elicits any real iInterest or awakens any en- thusiasm on the part of eastern demo- crats generally is that of the ex-presi- dent. The reorganizers profess unques- tioning “afth that he could again’lead the democracy to victory and there are gome strong influences other than polfti- cal, there is reason to believe, at wotk for him. r——— IMPORTANT PUSTAL REFORM. The judicial decision sustaining the ruling of the Postoffice department re- garding the classification of second-class mail matter, excluding therefrom a vast amount ¢f books and publications which had for years been carried at newspaper rates, is of very considerable importance, particularly in the effect upon postal revenues. The decision vindicates the action of former Postmaster General Smith, who made the ruling that has been sustained, and is really a great vic- tory for a vital public reform and for a regenerated and self-sustaining * postal service. For years heads of the depart- ‘ment had called attention to thé abuses under the classification: of second-class and unsuccessful efforts were matter made in congress to provide a remedy. It remained for Mr. Smith to assume the authority of determining what should be second-class matter and the ~court has declared that the postmaster general has power to do this, that he is free to | sjyh or the Real Estate exch: classify mail matter according to his|.annot surmise, P e in the near THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, first attack and it is to be expected that he will continune to urge his policy, but there is no apparent chance of his ac complishing anything at this time. In- can ever be attained, since it will hardly possible to convince the English people that a tax on grain will not mean for them dearer bread. WHERE ARE THUSE WATCH DOGS? For a number of years past the Omaba the city in control of the water works. Municipal ownership of the water works has been discussed before the club hy political economists and politiclans, and | resolutions favoring the aequisition of the “water works plant by compulsory purchase have been passed and spread upon the journals of the club. When the water works purchase bill was before the legislature last winter the Real Estate exchange fell in with the Commercial club and gave the bill a unanimous endorsement without dis- cussing its merits or demerits. Since the enactment of the Howell-Gilbert bill the effervescent enthusiasm over the proposed purchase has died out and an inexplicable indifference ia exhibited by the executive committee of the Com- mercial club and the Real Estate ex- change concerning the danger that con- fronts the city in the three appraisers’ arbitration. While The Bee cannot justly be held responsible for the lack of interest mani- fested on the part of any organization or the suggestive silence of its con- temporaries, it does not propose to put anybody in or out of Omaha In position in the future to charge it with derelic- tion of duty or betrayal of public in- terests for private advantage. It will be remembered that the glaring defects in the compulsory purchase bill were pointed out by this paper before its passage, but for some reason the watch dogs in the Board of Trade building did not bark a bark. There was ample time to amend the defects of the bill between its passage and the adjourn- ment of the legislature, but for some mysterious reason nobody in the Doug- las delegation ventured to introduce amendments that would safeguard the interests of the city. ‘When the water board selected J. W. Alvord as the city’s appraiser The Bee called attention to the fact that an extra hazardous risk was being assumed in the selection of an engineer compara- tively unknown to negotiate on behalf of the city a deal that will involve millions of dollars. But Mr. Alvord, al- though not known to a single member of the council, was unanimously con- firmed by that body without even nam- ing the price for his services and given the privilege to name the third ap- praiser jointly with the appraiser named by the water company. This imprudent proceeding on the part of the water board and council did not evoke a soli- tary murmur of dissent on the part of the Commercial club or the Real Estate exchange. And now we are approaching the cul- mination of the extraordinary proceed- ing. It is announced that Mr. Alvord, as the arbitrator for the city, and Mr. Benzenberg, the engineer selected by vene In Omaha within a few days to select the third man, with a view to proceeding with the appraisement as rapidly as possible. itsel? is: in this appraisement? Will Engineer Alvord make up his own list for the third man or will he pick a man from by the water works company? Will his colleague and let the city whistle? ‘Whether these questions have flitted executive committee of the Commerelal but the suggestion is judgment as to the true meaning of the | thrown out so that in the future those law. eral million dollars. not affect newspapers . and periodicals. As remarked by an officlal of the department, this administration will In every sense execute the law rea- sonably, fairly and equitably, and will i protect publishers of legitimate news- papers and periodicals in their lawful rights. e—————— NO CHANGE IN BRITISH POLICY. Of course it will legitimate who always hold The Bee responsible It 1s estimated that this reform will | sor gtrikes, storms, floods or any other increase the annual postal receipts sev- | )i.fortune that befalls Omaha may not truthfully lay the blame for a bad bar- galn at its door. man for police duty. practice with men as the target. A policeman has no more right to use a From what transpired in the House!or in an attempt to arrest or capture a safe to say that no change in the British The govern- ment’s proposal to remove the grain tax will prevail and there will be nothing fiscal policy is imminent. done, so far as Parliament is concerned, to promote the policy urged by Mr, Chamberlain. Perbaps the it is fit is to be derived from a grain tax. I is a very practical question with them, regarding closer relations between the colonles and the mother country exerts but little in- as to which the sentiment fluence, In a speech a few days ago the liberal leader vigorously denounced the Cham- berlain propoesal, pointing out the suf- fering that a protective system wonld be likely to infiict on the working classes and the illusory nature of the proposed bribe of old-age pensions. Sir Cawpbell- Bannerman undoubtedly voiced th overwhelming sentiment of the people |dition. element favorable to the plan of the colonial sec- retary will prove to be stronger than has been thought, but it is manifestly very far from being strong enough to effect anything at present and whether or not it will grow is a question. There is no doubt that Chamberlain's attitude has made a considerable impression, but very difficult matter to induce the English people to believe that any bene- of Commons yesterday it is perfectly | dangerous criminal than any private citizen. A policeman who cannot con- trol his temper sufficlently to keep his finger off the trigger Is not the right | kind of a public protector. It is to be | . | hoped the police commission will revise " |its judgment and set an example that will put a stop t6 promiscuous shooting by police officers who have no control over themselves. S One of the questions that forces itself upon municipal corporations by a recent decision in the courts is whether a rail- road right of way for trackage through streets and alleys in cities constitutes a franchise. Conceding that the grant of a right of way to a traction company" t | that operates street rallways by horse power, electrical power or steam power constitutes a franchise, the natural in- ference would be that the use of public thoroughfares within city limits for the transportation of freight and passen- gers, whether local, state or interstate, would also constitute a valuable priv- ilege subject to all the regulations and limitations of municipal authority. D Omaha might be plastered over with paving plants, but that would not in- e | sure keeping the streets in good con- deed it Is doubtful if what he proposes be the Omaha Water company, are to con- The question that naturally presents ‘What voice will Omaha have the list prepared by the water board or he in making the appraisement stand up for the city or will he stand in with across the minds of the members of the A police officer who discharges his re- volver at an alleged beggar and shoots him In the back by accident is not a fit Policemen are not armed with revolvers for target deadly weapon except in self-defense not meet legitimate demands for ordi- nary wear and tear. Where the street surface I8 completely worni out, as on North Sixteenth street, the adjacent property owners should be compelled to pay for a new pavénent. Omaha has several thousand dollars invested in a new market house, from which it 1s getting no returns whatever. If the building belonged to private parties it Is safe to say an effort would be made to have it completed and tenanted Instead of standing idle as a plece of dead property. King Victor Emmanuel knows how to touch the right spot with evidently President Roosevelt. His gift of hand- somely bound volumes for the president's library ceuld not have been more ap-: propriately selected unless, perhaps, he chose to present a new rifie or a pair of revolvers. Chicago Tribune. In short, what will Editor Bryan do when all the rest of the world has joined the con- spiracy against itselt.and adopted the gold standard? Chinese Thrift, Indlanapolis News. No doubt the Chinese are conferring a great honor on us by letting us house our legation in one of their sacred temples. Still it has its drawbacks when it involves $5,000 worth of repairs Pathos in ti Sflence. ‘Washington Post The former Congressman who achieved fame by colning the query “Where am I at?’ is dead, and we cannot answer his question now any more acourately than when he first asked it. Shufling Of in Style. Denver News. Under & budding lilac bush, whose white petals dabbled in his heart's blood, young Roy C. Butler in a fit of despondency cut the thread of his life with a pistol bullet in City park yesterday afternoon. Springfleld Republican. ‘With floods In the Mississipp! basin, for- est fires In the east and cyclones in the south, really nothing is needed to complete the work of devastation but an earthquake in California and an automobile race through the middle west. The Less Said the Better. Chicago News. Southern newspapers are respectfully re- quested to make no mention of the lynching bee at Belleville, 1ll. Comments upon such an affair could only have the effect of em. barrassing northern peopls greatly in their work of pointing out and reproving similar sins of the south. The Aftermath of War. Chicago Chronicle. Patriotic citizens who whooped vocifer- ously for war with Spain are lkely to scratch thelr heads at the information that 57,646 “invallds” of that confilct have al- ready made application for pensions along with 8,30 “widows and orphans.” As more people are killed and ‘wothted every Fourth of July than succumbed in the whole Span- ish war, it may pugale, the ordinary tax- paying citizen to account for this extraor- dinary—and expensive—pension lss I No Elbow Room at Sea. New York Herald. There 1s too lttle elbow room on modern United States warships, especlally in the general mess, and this is one reason. for the discontent which causes many recruits to desert. Desertions during the st month numbered more than 30. The general mess system has resulted {n a very well cooked and plentiful ration of considerable variety, but the space for the mess table Is so small that the men have to sit very close together and all their food is placed on the table be- fore mess call s sounded. This detracts from the neatness which could be obtained by more roomy mess quarters. The ex- tremely large batteries now being placed on shipboard necessitate larger complements on battleships and crulsers, while large amounts of auxiliary machinery take up a great deal of deck space. COLLAPSE OF THE BUBBLES. Inflated Values Vanishing from Over- loaded Combines. Baltimore American. The speculating element 'is painfully realizing a truth which has long been pat- ent and which has been so frequently re- iterated that it is strange the public has not profited by its lessons. The man who buys a bag of wind and holds it with the hope of selling It to somebody else as & bag of gold runs the hazard of suffering disap- pointment. The prospect may be very promising at the moment the purchase is made, but when the time comes for sellipg the wou'd-be purchaser may insist upon knowing what he Is buying before parting with his money. The moment buyers be- come Inquisitive and seck information about the bargains offered them, the chance for selling fictions will vanish. This paper has been warning the public against Wall street for more than a year. Time and time again have facts been ad- duced to show that the fancy prices which the bull carnival created were due to infla- tion, pure and simple. The public has been wild for some time, and In the recent past was dally paying ludicrously high prices for bags contalning very little gold, but a great volume of wind. Inflation was ram- pant. Enthusiasm dethroned good sensé and proper judgment. People dashed Into the market eager to buy anything, their idea being that some fools bigger than themselves would rush In behind them and buy at higher prices. In this way absurd- ity was plled on top of absurdity until the cold logic of finance and economics forced the public to think. Then folldwed a period of investigation. Holders of securities be- gan to examine what they had bought. They opened thelr bags and welghed and measured the real value of what they had. To their chagrin and disgust they found themselves in possession of something far less in real value than the amount It had cost. Then developed the first signs of liquida- tion. Wise men who percelved that the day of revelation had come did not walt for any market slump. They began to unload without delay. In the meantime, all kinds of fantastic nonsense was put in circulation to bolster the market up for further oper: tions in fictions. But the desire to get out of the market as quickly as the market would permit became more determined. The public grew more timid as the inherent rottenness of the situation more and more disclosed itself. Selling, therefore, gained momentum the longer it continued. The various bags of fiction during the past nine months have been bursting with such per- sistent frequency that it has been like one long, continuous stock market explosion. During the past few days some of these dazzling aureoles of Inflation ha tered such violent forces of dissip: Wal! street has been made to tremble to its very ‘center. The process is natural, therefore, and will continue. It will con- tinue until the great vaporous circle of fle- It takes money to pay for pav- of the United Kingdom. Mr. Chamber-|Ing maintenance and repairs and the laln 15 Dot & map to surrender at the |funds avallable for this purpose will tion breaks and collapses and the whole cloud of wind and water folds back and settles upon the hard crust of actual, solid value, en-Minded, Free. d, Willing to Tell All He Knows." Boston Transcript The word which perhaps most fitly char acterizes the present chiet of our nation. especially in reference to his public and political life, is “unconventional.” It is a harmless word, in that it suggests no mo tive; while it suggests wonderful strength {of character when it Is remembered that he is In the heart of traditional public ax political conventionality, and not only his own, but impresses himself upon npation as a dominant force in its life. Serenely unmindful of what “is expected” of him, yet conscientious as to what he ought to do, Inflexible as to his purpose. impulsively quick to act when his mind is made up, he rushes on his course, and t officlal and political people are stirred up as dry leaves are stirred up by the wind Conventional people pause to watch direction of his independence, as If uncer tain themselves, and politicians—espe- clally the boss and ring politiclans—are afrald of him. Yet there is no merely im- pulsive action, nothing irresponsible. There is wonderful method, but it is his own method. A mind made up, his wits about him, strong purpose, characterize all he Fdoes. President Roosevelt is purely uncon- ventional; but his is so strong a personal- ity that four years more of him, after his present term of office, 18 likely to result in a new order of things—a new convention- ality. Here s just the point, or at least the cheering featurs, of the nation's confidence n him. Conventionality is all right until, like the wineskins of old time, it is per- mitted to dry up stiff and hard so that it breaks when new wine is poured in. Then it is very dangerous, for it is inadequate to hold the expanding lift of the nation Without going into detalls, as to political corruption it is demonstrated here and there, the inadequacy of present laws and social and political customs and methods, to meet the new exigencies of our time, it 18 enough to say, without playing the alarmist, that our present wineskins are for the most part very dry, hard and dangerous. This Is recognized by all close and needs no argument. Nor is there cause for alarm, for the sturdy con- sclence and sense of the American people can be depended upon to create new ves- sels to hold our wine of life. But Is it not a most cheering thing that the leader of the new movement, the crystallizer into method of the people’s movement, 1s none other than the president? This, at least, is true of him, so far as his public and political life is concerned— when the formation is complets, social and other life will take on the new shape. It s certainly a good thing to feel that a man of good consclence, honest convic- tions, broad understanding and public spirit 18 in the lead. It is politic to let him lead. It is characteristic of all governments— but not 80 much as in former times, except in respect to governments of the ancient sort—that their political machinery is kept in closed and locked rooms, rigidly securs from public gaze. It has often been ac- counted treason to reveal to the people the secrets of thelr own government. This ought not to be so in a republic, beyond those matters*of policy where secrecy for the time is essential. Yet we have been cursed with the custom of extending the old rule to the machinery of party politics and to government as administered by par- tles, and latterly to industrial and busi- ness enterprises especially in their relation to parties and legislation. A Here, at least, is one respect in which our president refuses to be conventional. Open-minded, free-hearted, he is willing to tell all he knows, to reveal all his own political secrets, to take the people whose government this'is, into his counsel. It is a new fashion, but after all will not it touch the popular heart to which it ap- peals? the PERSONAL NOTES. Christopher Stimis, who has just ded in Newark, N. J., helped to bufld the yacht America, the first cup boat. Martin Fornes, who has suocesded tem- porarily to the desk in the Postoffice de- partment at Washington vacated by Ma- chen, is a Norweglan by birth, Evidently the French Academy has not heard that a Chicago real estate man wrote “Cyrdno de Bergerac.” Bdmond Rostand has just been elected to membership among the tmmortals. Jersey farmers whose crops have been ruined by the drouth may muse upon the benefits of compensation. The state ento- mologist announces that the dry weather will cut down the mosquito output to 60 per cent. John L. Griffiths is at work on the life of the late President Harrison. All the private papers of the president, including some unfinished manuscripts, have been turned over to him. Mr. Griiths was closely assoctated with Mr. Harrison for many years. He is at present at Indian- apolis. Hall Caine recently completed his first half century. While he Is chiefly known as & novelist and dramatist, he is a man of many energies. He spent five years as an apprentice in an architect's office in Liver- pool, but the technical knowledge he ac. quired he used mainly for themes in his early writings. President Roosevelt swapped one of the medals with which wayside enthusiasm had overloaded him with a little girl, for a live badger, while in Wisconsin. Anyone hav- ing interesting live stock that he is anxious | to exchange for souvenirs ean hear of some- | thing to his advantage by applying at the | White House. Frank James and Cole Younger, the ex- bandits, who have been touring Kansas and Missouri with & wild west show of which they were supposed to be the proprietors, | were arrested the other day for running a gambling game in connection with the show, At the hearing it developed that they were salaried employes of the real owner of the enterprise bearing their names. The New York World asked young Gov- ernor Beckham of Kentucky to communi- cate to it (and the public) his plans for putting a stop to the feuds. He telegraphed | back: “When you succeed in evolving a real good plan for successtully stamping out sin and crime in New York please let me know what'it is and I will try it in Kentucky it necessary.’ Russell Bage is in his $9th year and Is generally referred to as a “veteran finan- cler,” but Edward B. Wesley, a trader in the New York stock market, is his senior by four years in the matter of age and has been nearly a quarter of a century longer on ‘change. Mr. Wesley began speculating when only 9 years of age, his first venture being in pins, when he made a profit of about & dollar. From that day to this he has made his living as a speculator. Indianapolis Journal. The administration is showing a most commendable disposition to push the in- vestigation of the scandal in the Postofce department to the furthest limit, to find every rotten spot and provide a drastic cure. It forms a striking {llustration of the progress of political methods in the United States. Two or three decades ago, no mat- ter which party had been In power, the chief concern of the administration would have been not to get at the bottom of the matter and clean it up, but to smother it as quickly as possible. . I holds | the | ROUND AROUT NEW YORK. Ripyles on the C Metropolis. “The course of the Pennsylvania Rafl- road Stock,” says a New York dispatch to the Chlcago Tribune, ‘“since the formation of the underwriting syndicate is A puzzle to Wall street. The stock has steadily declined since the syndicate was ite in the rent of | the lowest point since 189. The accusation {18 made openly In that sevetal of the heaviest subscribers to the syndicate have been the principal sellers of the stock, and the presumption scems to be that the object of the attack is unattractive to Pennsylvania stockholders, who have the right to subscribe at 120 “If the real object of the syndicate is to (Eet possesston of a great share of the new | $75,000,000 1ssue, with a view to securing a nucleus for a control fight, it I likely to be accompanied by pyrotechnics such as Wall street has not seen since' the Northern { Pacific” panic two years ago, In which several members of the syndieate played @ prominent part . “The change In the control of the Pennsylvanta raflroad, involving as it would similar changee in the Baltimore & Ohlo, the Reading, Jersey Central, Nor- folk & Western, Chesapeake & Ohlo and half a dozen smaller properties, would be accompanied by a financial upheavel that would make some startling changes on the rallroad as well as on the banking map. “The great Pennsylvania system was forced to eapitulate to John D. Rookefeller in 1871, when it abandoned its support of the independent refineries and accepted the terms of the Standard Ofl company un- conditionally. At that time Andrew J. Cassett bore the flag of truce Wall | street fn wandering whether history s go- ing to repeat itwelf.” Mr. Dooley {s & polics captain in Brooklyn. At the Latonla race track the other day a horse named for “Philosopher Dooley” was running and in a Brooklyn pool room the progress of the race was being called off. Captain Dodiey was at the door of the room, which he had long suspected. ““Thay're oft!" he heard a voice shout in the room. “Mr. Dooley In the lead!" By a neck at the quarter!” ‘“Still leading at the half!"" shouted the same volce. ‘Mr. Dooley second!” came the announcement at the conclusion of the race. “No, Mr. Dooley is first,” came the volce of Captain Dooley, as with his detectives he broke into the room and arrested proprietor and patrors. George D. Widener, the Philadelphia financier, returned on the steamer St. Paul and at the pler made the usual declaration about his effects. The customs officer drew a paper from his pocket and sald: ‘‘Hero is a cablegram from London saying that you had a number of diamonds.” Obh, yes, that reminds me,” sald Mr. Widener. “Sure enough, I did have some. I remem- ber now having forgotten them and Jeft them in my room on the bureau at the Hotel Carlton.” Then Mr. Widener an- nounced he would cable and have the jewels cared for at once. The customs offer thereupon passed the baggage. Certain women are seen in New York's shopping district this month who are never seen there at any other season of the year. Most of them are old and shabby, and they live In little homes that are the last remnant of ‘“squatter sovereignty.” But catnip grows in the rocky gardens that surround their homes and every Wwoman who owns a pet tabby likes to treat it to & sprig of fresh catnip. It is pussy’s tonic, his spring medicin Few women out shopping would know ‘where to go and buy fresh catnip, but it s a very easy thing to purchase 5 or 10 cents worth from & woman with a basket who stands outside the big stores, where the cat-loving women almost fall over her. Many of the shoppers buy more than 10 cents worth and give all the cats In their nelghborhood (respectable cats with homes) a treat. Cat owners ex- change little courtesies in this way and the women who have catnip to sell make enough money for a new carpet or perhaps a Sunday at the seashore. Russell Sage 18 going to move from the modest little house in Fifth avenue, New York, where he has ltved for forty-two years. He can no longer “stand for” his nelghbors. First some one put a candy store next door to him. Then another store was established on the other side. At the rear of the candy store is an immense fan designed to cool the joe cream parlor. Thie fan 18 right next to three of the win- dows of his dining room. The noise it makes is deafening. On the Forty-second street side there is a smoking parlor and as Mrs. Sage detests the smell of tobacco she is compelled to keep her windows closed. 8o they are going to move to the now deserted mansion of the late Charles Broadway Rouss.” On one side lives Henry Clews, on the other D. Ogden Mills. The largest pler in New York harbor has just been completed at the foot of Forty- |formed and on last Friday touched 12y, | the financial district | | time scarcely any business whatever wa done, and the greater part of the steady. custom had gone elwewhere, and then he had to discharge the barmalds and re-em- ploy his male bartenders, The barmaid scheme had been what is known as a dead | frost. It was not the first time the bar- | mald experiment had been tried In New | York, but the fallure was even more com- | plete than on the other occasions when attempts have been made to attract cus- tom to New York drinking places through | the employment of attractive barmaide | The simple fact seems to be that the | American view of and reverence for women 1s of such a charadter that even the steady drinkers object to taking their drams from feminine hands. to depress the stock in order to make it | ““When the impartial historian writes the srowsome story of Kishineft," says the New York Tribune, “he should not forget the little Incident which took place in the crowded East Side district of this city the other day. A poor man was hoarding his scanty earnings in order to be able to send for his wife and children, who. are In Kishineff. He denled himself the necessl- tles of lite and died of starvation, with the necessary Immigration fund nearly complete. It was one of the many Kishi neft shadows which have fallen in the metropolis.” EX-SPEAKER REED'S FORTUNE, Size of His Fortume a Surprise to Others Than His He! Boston Transcript. When Thomas B. Reed died it was cur- rently sald that he died & poor man, as poor as when he entered publio life. One of the Washington papers, which ought to have known better, became quite pathetic on the subject and was Inclined to indulge in a lecture on the Ingratitude of republics There were those who thought that Mr Reed would leave his family in comfortable clrcumstances, but even they were not prepared to estimate his estate at the value of the recently filed appraisal, $431,000 net Mr. Reed never in his Washington life declared himself a rich ‘man, nor a poor man. He was reticent about his private aftairs, lived quietly and had stmple ways In a city whose cardinal point of soclal bellef 1s that if you have money you spend it, and 1f you are not profuse it is because you cannot afford to be, the impresslon that Mr. Reed was a man of very limited means easily obtained. Yet even Washin tonfans ought to have reflected that the ag- gregate of his pfMclal salary, his earnings as a writer and lawyer, might easily reach $20,000 a year, of which he spent compara- tively little. In Washington that is not the way, however, and in the first days fol- lowing his death it was taken for granted that he had died poor. The appralsal of his estate, however, indicates that he was a wealthler man than many public men of even greater celebrity. There is a popular impression that all public men of the first class are immensely wealthy, whereas there are some of whom the country hears a great deal who are sim- ply In comfortable circumstances, This is to a greater extent trué of south- ern public men than of those of any other section. Professional earnings are smaller in the south than in the north or west. We have heard on good authority that a distinguished southerner who retired from the senato a few years ago stated that his Income as a lawyer, up to his entering that body, had never exceeded the amount of his seriatorial salary in any one year. Nor are all the northern or western men in congress rich. We could mention one New Englander who went back to private life under the necessity of working hard in old sge, his total estate belng only about $2%,000. This gentleman was glad to mc- ©ept & posftion With a moderats saliry to assure himself against want, and that was procured him by the exertions of constitu- fourth street, South Brooklyn. It is the property of the Bush Terminal company, which has immense storage warehouses there and which s developing monster ship and ratlroad terminal facilities in that sec- tion of Greater New York. The new pler, which is one of five that are In course of construction, measures from the bulkhead to, the extreme end 1214 feet, or within twenty-four feet of a quar- ter of & mile. It is 160 feet wide, thus af- fording a floor space of 207,100 square feet for the hapndling of freight. The proprietor of an expensively deco- rated drinking place located on one of the lively bustness streets of Harlem dis- charged all of his bartenders a couple of months ago end employed women to take their places. His idea was to introduce the English barmaid system In New York, and he thought he saw a chance to make sensation, in addition to a lot of money, out of his scheme. The barmaids he em- ployed were all pretty women, and he had them instructed in the art of mixing drinks before discharging his male bartenders. With the neatly dressed and aproned bar- malds installed, the proprietor of the cafe sat back and waited for the rush. The rush didn't ensue. The regular customers of the establishment would poke their heads in at the swinging doors, gaze mystifiedly at the barmaids and then bolted for It. Passing strangers, darting into the place for refreshments, did exactly the same thing. The proprietor kept his bar- malds for about a week, during which Waltham ents who knew that he was poorer for his —— THOUGHTS THAT TICKLE. The Dootor—You a X'llh‘ sive Jou som smwor"fi'.d‘ v have it foF Bothing.—Harvard Lamomoc™" VAUA. the I8 WOl Seeiid ena gazin the travel emerging trom his statesoom F reamily at the shore line ad of him, “is free America! 0, sald the bored looking xgluenler ew York steamer chalr. “Tha " Chicago Tribune. o+ 1 He—Now, there's a woman I can't hel admiring. ' She is 80 easi ; has ing. She Iy satisfied; has o es. She—1 dldn't know you knew her, He—I don't; it' ' precX donit; it's her husband 1 know.— Buperintendent (of gas works)—Wh sou know about ‘laylng gas o iat o Applicant (for place as foreman)—I know they hadn’t oughter be ro ey nad ehter bo'laid until the sireet He got the place —Judge. “You don’t mean to say, docter, s i piee aeie B HIIAE e aertainly, madm e c] explains why this particu| patient never went again parti a L Chicags Trilane, > hat particu un, * st Kitty—I met Mr. Bwinson just now, and he told me I was looki: Totty Wé:lt"vlfl_%v):)u’(hi:lkl; Rl i . T've always said Mr. was & man’ of tact.—Boston 1-,‘3.@';‘:',.‘3“’ T “Say, doctor, what's that last your bill for? B byt “Let me see. Oh, yes; I gave you a thor- ough examination on that day. Don't you remember?" “Sure I remember. But do you suppose I am going to pay you for that when you took up an_ hour of my time and then couldn't find unything ‘the matter with me after all?"—Buffalo Expres: ADVICE FOR HOT WEATHER. Indlanapolis News. ‘When the mercury is doing Just a lttle more each day Toward the breaking of its record while the summer's holding sway, Under certaln circumstances it is unwise to get gaY. And before you do 80 you had best think twice, man, As the days are getting hotter you will need & good supply Of a thing that just a little takes a lot of cash to buy, As it's put upon the market by an Inde- pendent guy— It you want it you must take it at his price, man. 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