Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 17, 1903, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE . ROSEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Bee (without Sunday), One Yeor. Daily Hee and Sunday, One'Year.... Lllustrated Bee, One Year. Bunday Bee, One Year Saturday Bee, One Year Twentleth Cantury Farmer, One Year DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... 2¢ Daily Bee (without SBunday), per week...12c ily Hee (Including Sunday), per week..1jc Bunday Bee, per copy.. Evening Bee (without 8u E\enml Boe (Includin 00 2.00 2.00 1.50 1.00 ay), per week. S smm»y:. er. mc oy taof irr rities in delivi shoud be wdaressed 6 City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES Omaha--The Bee Buildin South Omaha—City Hall Sutiaing, Twen- ty-fifth and M Stree Ounetl Blufts—io Pear] Street. Chicago—i6h Unity Bullding New York—2128 Park Row Buflding. Washington—501_Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Fditorial Departmen REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, ayable to The Bee Publishing Company, nly 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts, ‘ersonal checks, except on Omaha or castern exchanges, not accepted. THE DEE PUBLISHING' COMPANY. “STATEMENT OF CIRCU LATION Btate of Nobraska, Douglas Count, Goorge B Faschuck, secretary of The B Eublieling Company. being Quly _sworn, the actual number of full and Somplote . coptes of The Daily. - Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of May, 1903, was as follows . (28,450 1 18. 31,030 1 ‘80,780 2, 80,560 2 .80,870 80,040 EERENRREER Net total sales. Net average nales. 30.437 GE . TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In_my presence and sworn to betore me this st day of May, A D, 1903. UNGATE, (Seal) Notary Publle. E——————————— Several eminent Missourians must have been in hiding from the supreme court of that state when it was hunting for signs of a tobacco trust. Having no other government to recog- nize, nothing is left for the powers to do but to recognize King Peter as soon as he is duly installed in the royal office. Lincoln has compromised with its tax- shirking franchised corporations on their tax assessments. Evidently a lot of Lincoln people who are in the same boat prefer to keep it dark The new Chinese minister has been formally received by the president. It will take some time yet, however, to get his publicity bureaun in as good working order as that which was maintained by his predecessor, Minister Wu, eme—— More people appear to have been drowned by the cloudburst in Oregon than lost their lives in all the floods in Kansas, Iowa and Missouri. It is not the amount of water so much as the way it is precipitated that determines the damage. —_— Jim Hill's son declares that there is no need of dissolving the Northern Becwrities company, even if the cases now pending in the courts all go against it. In that event there will be no need either of maintaining the Northern | Becurities company. —_— When Nebraska was afflicted by drouth it showed a disposition to help itself by appropriating a liberal relief fund out of the state treasury, even though' it had to stretch the constitution to do it. Kansas can hardly afford not to do as much for its flood victims, SpEgme——— Commissioner McDonald is to be com- mended for striking a blow at super- numeraries, but it 18 to be hoped the work of purging the county pay roll will not be confined t one or two pie tnters who have done work that should be performed by principals instead of substitutes. “The six-period system at the high THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, THE REACTION FROM INFLATION. There has been an extraordinary shrinkage in the value of all classes of stocks and the end of the decline seewms not yet to have been reached. In fits Intest issue the Financial Chronicle pre- sents figures showing the extent of the downward movement and they are in- teresting and instructive. It is needless to say that before the beginning of this movement there had been an unpre- cedented Inflation of stock values. Al- most without interruption for several years there was a boom in which securi- | ties of every kind shared. The steadily increasing prosperity of the country and the rapld accumulation of capital gave an Incentive to investment and epecula- tion in stocks beyond any previous ex- perience. The more sagacious and experienced financiers pointed out that this sort of thing could not go on indefinitely and the reaction that has taken place justifies their warning. The country Is still prosperous. The railroads are still doing a good business. But there has been a change in cohditions which is less favorable to large dividends. The ex- penses of the railroads have been ma- terially increased within the past year, until it is said that these have eaten up practically the whole of the improve- ment in gross receipts. The figures given by the Chronicle show that the stocks of dividend-paying roads bave suffered quite as much as the non- dividend-paying and that the general shrinkage has been the most marked in many years, if not Indeed un- paralleled, which s certainly the case as to some of the stocks. In their comments on the situation some of the financial papers express the opinlon that the reaction has about run its course. One of them remarks that there can hardly be a question that the market has reached a point where, In the case of the great mass of securities, iIntrinsic value bears a close relation to the daily quotations. It says that so far as Influences are to be found in the general condition of business, the aver- age of railroad earnings or the prospects of the chief ¢rops, there are unusually few disturbing elements to be reckoned with in the immediate future. “All things considered,” observes that paper. “it would appear as If an important part of the penalty for the period of inflation had been already paid and that so far at least as the commercial and financial future of the country is con- cerned, there was no danger to appre- hend a serlous shrinkage of the indis- pensable asset of confidence.” That there will be some recovery in stock values Is of course probable, but it is pretty safe to assume that there will not soon again be such an inflation in these values as preceded the downward movement. Fortunately that movement has been of a character sufficlently gradual to avoid the danger of panic while arresting the process of increas- ing the mass of securities, many milllons of which have been found unsalable. That the financial situation has been made safer through this is not to be doubted. A CHECK TO PUBLICITY. The decision of Judge Lacombe of the United States circuit court in New York, favorable to the contention of the an- thracite coal-carrying railroads that con- tracts between them and certain coal that as such the Interstate Commerce their production as evidence, {s some- thing of a check to publicity, so far at least as the authority of the commission is concerned. The view taken by the court was that if the defendants were being prosecuted under the Sherman anti-trust law, for having entered into a combination, agreement or contract in | restraint of trade, the contracts in ques- tion would be relevant testimony, but it was held that the investigation by the commission was not such a prose- | before which such a prosecution could be conducted. ‘This is doubtless correct, since the In- terstate Commerce commission has jur- of transportation, but it suggests very clearly that there is a way to obtain information as to contracts between the operators are privileged documents and | commission has no power to compel | cution nor the commission: the forum | tsdiction to inquire only into questions | school is not half so hard on the teach- ers as is the ridiculous unit system. Abolish the unit system farce and the ten(‘hen will have no difficulty in stand- |ng up under six periods of teaching, which really gives them only five hours of classroom work daily. —_— In his address to the Saengerfest at Baltimore President Roosevelt expressed the wish that there might be societies this and assoclations everywhere in country for the cultivation of music both vocal and instrumental. The presi dent evidently thinks that music is good thing of which we cannot have much, toc Chicago Methodist preachers sugges that all the persecuted Jews of world be reinstated In posscssion of Palestine as the solution of the presen problem. The Methodists are ready to take up this plan just at a time when coal-carrying roads and coal operators tention at Washington. There is no doubt as to the existence of contracts and it is very probable that they are in violation of the anti-trust act. It has been reported that the Department of Justice was preparing to fnstitute pro- ceedings under this law against the an- thracite coal roads and there certalnly | seems to be ample ground for doing so. Ibe fully Jisclosed through a prosecu- | tion under the anti-trust law and there should be 00 unnecessary delay In adopting this course, romrm— A CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRAT. Senator Cla 0 | conservative el n | party and he thinks the platform next > t the | ) t | the Zionists, previously promoting it, are | year should avold any radical issues, ready to abandon the project. is about as much prospect for re establishing the Jews in Palestine as ! there is for transplanting the Methodists to the same place, eeder——— The striking bricklayers, what there are left of the striking brick. ten’ together on terms of give and take | at the begluning of the trouble the ex The same is true with reference to sev. eral branches of skilled mechanics, so that the building operations will have to There one if his suggestion that all ele- shall . be followed. 1 | and this suggestibn should receive at- | [Tt is evident that the commission can | do little to reveal the secret workings | » the coal combination, but these may | I Georgin belongs to the uent of the democratic but It is nol easy to see how this is to | ments in the party must be considered Tu order to have such a platform as would be satisfac- | tory to democrats Hke Mr, Clay it will or rather | be necessary to ighore the radicals in the party, who there is reason to think layers, in Omaha have returned to | at present| copstitute a majority. This work. * Had the contending parties got- { element may .possibly be found willing a year hence to make some concession to the conservatives, but ,(My will de- odus of bricklayers from Omaha wculd mand recognition of thelr yiews and it not bave occurred and a full comple- ment of workmen would now be on deck to finish up the work In progress. will be fatal to the party to refuse it. It is perfectly safe to say it will not be | refused, for the radical element is com- posed of the really earnest, sincere and gressive men of the party, and they will have a representation and an in- fluence in the next democratic national convention that will compel considera- ’thclr points of destin tion. Conservative democrats like the Geor- gla senator underestimate the strength and the determination of the radical element of the party, particularly in the middle and western siates. They are misled by the representations of the eastern organs of reorganization, which do not take the trouble to in- vestigate sentiment much beyond their neighborhood. The leaders of democracy in the middle and western states are generally not in sympathy with the conservatism which Mr. Clay would counsel. They are giving no encourage- ment to the reorganization movement. Some of them may change position next year, but the probability Is that they will be found then advocating the prin- ciples they now stand for and which they supported in the last two presi- dential eampaigns. AN UNSATISFACTORY EXHIBIT. The financial exhibit of the Board of Education will be a disappointment to the rank and file of Omaha taxpayers, who have entertained the hope that the management. of our schools would be conducted more strictly on business principles. The rule of every well con- ducted business concern is to cut its coat according to its cloth. In other words, to regulate its outgo according to its income. That old and approved rule, it would seem, has been discarded by the school board. With a most lavish income at its dis- posal, the board continues to fall behind in its balances, increasing the deficit, which on June 1, 1908, aggregated $123,- 684.70. A detailed comparison of this year's balance sheet with that of the preceding year shows an aggregate pay roll for 1003 of $286,846.74, as against $289,029.19, or an apparent reduction of $2,182.45. The cut on the pay roll amounts to $4,411.80 in teachers’ sal- aries, while the pay of janitors was in- creased by $1,086 and the pay of sal- aried officers increased by $483.35. The reduction is apparent only because three weeks salary will be paid the teachers this June as compared with only two weeks salary last June. The trivial saving in the pay roll of 1903 is offset by a very material in- crease in other directions, notably in the interest and exchange account, which for the year 1003 aggregated $30,671.00, | as against $26,786.46 for the preceding year. That increase evidently repre- sents the increased interest on outstand- ing warrants, which on June 1, 1903, aggregated $234,284.21, and bave since been materially increased. In view of the fact that the school board has the taxing power in its own hands, which it has exercised in the tax levy to meet the estimates based on the disbursements of the preceding year, the deficit of $123,000 seems almost inex- plicable. The west half of the Union Pacific bridge has been returned for county as- sessment at $25,000, which multiplied | by six, the ratio fixed in Douglas county for the assessment of all classes of property, represents an estimated actual value of $150,000. The east half of the Union Pacific bridge, which is worth no more than the west half, is assessed in Pottawattamie county, Iowa, for $100,- 000, which multiplied by four, the ratio of actual to assessed value in Towa, is | equal to $400,000. Both of these assess- ments are out of all proportion to the | true value of the bridge, which with approaches could not be replaced for less than $1,000,000, but why the valua- tion of the west half of that structure, ly- ing within the state of Nebraska, should be considered worth a quarter of a mil- lion less than the east half has not yet | been made clear by the railroad bureau. | As a matter of fact. the west half of the Union Pacific bridge was assessed by the Nebraska State Board of Equal- ization for $1,633. Some mysterious reason, probably the apprehension of a | test case in the federal courts, recon- i | elled the rallroad company to a county | nssessment for $25000, but when it came to the city assessment, which on the basis of $25.000 would have been | equal to $150,000, the railroad lawyers | persistently demurred and insisted that the bridge should be taxed for munici- pal puposes only at mileage rates tixed by the state board. Omaba 1s not the only city in America | that has perpetually to wrestle with he franchised corporations to protect its equitable taxation. In this respect Den- ver is very much worse off than Omaha. After years of agitation Denver secured a eonstitutional |out interference from legislatures or governors. The amendment contem- plated as a preliminary to home rule the election of twenty-one taxpaying | citizens to frame the charter to be sub- mitted for ratification to the voters next winter. The election of members of the charter committee took place two weeks ago, but the corporations sought to pre- vent the canvass and declaration of the | result, which was in favor of the civie ticket against the tickets set up by the corporations with partisan conventions ! packed In their interest. The Colorado | court of appeals has finally ordered the canvassing board to proceed with its work and the count of the votes cast at the election on June 3 is now in prog- ress. The effect of this decision is sum- marized by the Denver News In the fol- lowing paragraph: Since the corporation-ridden council cap canvass no returns and defy the people, the preparation of & charter will proceed with vigor, and soon under the benign privi- leges of the home rule amendment the people of Denver will come into their own. —— The state labor commissioner of Iowa has given out some figures purporting to show the source of immigration into that state during the past year as com- pared with preceding years for five years, based on data collected by the national immigration bureau in the answers by lncoming t;nml‘runu as to rights to self-government and enforce | amendment granting | | the right to make its own charters with- | on. Under such circumstances the statistics must be in large part unreliable, because the first destination of an immigrant is not al- ways bis ultimate destination. Thou- sands upon thousands of the newcomers stop a short while in the east before making their way out west. It will hardly be safe to draw conclusions from these immigration tables. Now that the funds held by the county treasurer have been deposited at interest for the benefit of the taxpayers, it may not be out of place to suggest that the funds held in trust by the county judge and deposited in banks and drawing in- terest while on deposit should also be reported to the county board and the profits from the deposit should either go to the taxpayers or the estates that are being settied in the county court. The farming out of public funds by salaried public officers is a perniclous practice that should not be tolerated under any pretext. em———— Land Commissioner Follmer has done something no other state officer has done in turning back into the treasury $2,000 out of $5,000 appropriated by the 1001 legislature to cover the expenses of the State Board of Educational Lands and Funds. Mr. Follmer is entitled to a big credit mark for {ntroducing such busi- ness methods in the transaction of that part of the state business which de- volves upon him. The Sitka Indians are said to be tak- ing advantage of the brisk demand for sealsking by raising the price of thelr catch more than double. Time was when the Indians would trade their most valuable furs for a yard of red calico and a half dozen small mirrors. And yet some people insist that the Indiane are showing no evidence of benefiting by contact with civilization. According to the report of the school board meeting In the popocratic organ “Mr. Melntosh secured the scalps of the janitors at the Webster and Leaven- worth schools.” This is the way ecivil service Is enforced for the janitors of the public echools in Omaha at the hands of the “reform” element in the 8¢hool management. P 1t Up. {Cncinnat! Enquirer. ““The cosmic lessons of nature should be the decalogue of national living and doing."” This from Senator Beveridge of Indlana. What does a man who can “sling English" Ilike that want with a little thing like the vice presidency?"’ No Enemies to Forgive. Chicago Chronicle. Servian methods of dealing with political opponents recall the anecdote of the his- toric character whoyon his deathbed, was exhorted by his confessor to forgive his enemies. “I have mnone,” was the com- fortable reply; “they are all dead.” Vindieation of Nerve, Brookiyn. Eagle. A man who can ggme from Callfornia to be operated upom for appendicitis in New York and who appoints the hour for operation and the date for his departure on a plegsure trip to Europe, in one order, must either have & strong constitution or considerable courage, E. H. Harriman did exactly that, and the fact may indicate or vindieate his nerve in rafiroad under- takings, Heated Remarks of the Barons. Philadelphia Record. Mr. Olyphant's statement that it s the “deviltry”” of the miners that makes coal expensive shows a disposition to enter into competition with Mr, Parry of the National Association of Manufacturers, in the em- ployment of reckless language. It was shown last year that the increase in the price of coal was greater than the increase in the wages of the men, and it has not yet been shown that there is a wage In- crease sufficient to justify the announced addition of 50 cents to the price of coal. ‘Weak Spots in Brave Men. Kansas City Journal. It {s related of a Missourl engineer at Atchison that he does not hesitate to drive his machine at full speed through the blackest storm at night with washouts all around him, but that he is afrald to go home alone in the dark. If someone is not at the roundhouse to go with him he sits there till daylight. It is the old story of every man having his own pecullar fears. There is in Topeka a doctor who will eut a map to pleces and smile the while. He is an old soldier and often faced the can- non's mouth. But he will betray the most abject terror If one of the harmless little elm tree worms happen to drop on his person. Working the Panama Graft. Philadelphia Ledger. | A curious situation is reported from the Isthmus of Panama. The states of Panama | and Cauea are said to be opposed to the ratificatipn of the treaty with the United | States, but if the treaty be not ratified they threaten to secede. The explanation of this apparent contradiction is that since the treaty commits the United States to main- tain the sovereignty of Colombla over the Isthmus, its ratification would make the secession of the Isthmian states impossible. They are not prepared to secede now, but they wish to retain the right of secession, of which the treaty would deprive them. It Is not certain how the affair will come out, but the United States is having a great deal of trouble in giving these quar- relsome people the financial opportunity of their lives. A NATIONAL NECESSITY. Storage Reservoirs as a Preventive of Flood. Pittsburg Dispatch. The government officials In charge of the reclamation policy authorized by the recent irrigation law hope to include within the scope of their work plans which will pre- vent the recurrence of the disastrous floods ippl valleys. Storage reser- of streams, but at all points where rain drainage can be im- pounded, will permit the diffusion of the surplus water for the irrigation of millions of acres of land in Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas. The irrigation project will thus be doubly ad- vantageous, in reclaiming the arid lands and in preventing the destruction of life d property. If this policy is supple- mented with the improvement of the navi- gable rivers 5o as to afford a deep chan- nel instead of relying upon the levee sys- tem, which has proved so unsatisfactory and unsafe, the floods of 1908 may be re- membered as marking the first step in a great natlonal undertaking which will bene- fit not only those populous valleys, but the whole west, and, in fact, the entire coun. uy. l ROUND ABOUT NEW YOR Ripples on the Current of Life in the A mysterious stranger, well dressed and correct In Bartorial get-up, has been play- ing “angel” to the human waifs of New York. Every night between 11 and midnight he appears in Bryant park and distributes silver dollars among the tramps who crowd the benches there. Once or twice he gave away over 100 of these colns. “It will do them more good than it Is doing me," he said to a policeman whom he asked to ac- company him. The tramps have been mul- tiplying so fast that the stranger is ex- pected to stop his lavish distribution as suddenly as it was begun. Russell S8age boarded a Sixth avenue ele- vated train at Rector street one day last week. He carried under one arm a sample brick wrapped in a newspaper. It was one that the bullder of the Emma Willard sem- inary had taken to the financler's office. Repairs to Sage hall are to be made, and Mr. Sage wanted to see the brick that Is to be used. It was worth perhaps 2 cents. At Twenty-eighth street a sporty looking youth, who evidently knew the great man, reached down, seized the brick, dashed to the door and was down the stairs and away before Mr. Bage, much annoyed, could get to the door and breathlessly explain to the guard what had happened. “I ftelt sorry for him,” sald he latter, when he told of the experience. “He looked real sad at losing that brick, but I'd have given a dollar to see the face of the other fellow when he cut the string.” In New York the schedule geverning the working hours of the walters is not par- ticularly trying. There are usually three shifts. The long watch is the hardest and the. most remunerative. The men g0 on at 5:30 a. m. and work till 12 noon, then re- port again at 6 o'clock and work through usually to between 11 o'clock and midnight. The rellef watch goes on at 7 a. m. and works till 2 p. m., returning at 5:30 to work through the dinner rush. The intermediate watch fs best. The walters report at 11:30 a. m. and quit usually at 8. Opportunities for. tips are about equal in all these watches. The European rule of 10 per cent of the cost is generally ignored. The aver- age New York tip is about 20 per cent when persons dine singly and 15 per cent in par- tles of two or more. In most of the first- class places the tip for any kind of service is rarely less than 25 cents. There 1s & new enjoyment for the lucky possessor of a powerful voice who can use it with sufclent impressiveness and dis- tinctness. Some stage experience as actor or singer is of great assistance, but not all of the men who engage in this vocation have enjoyed this preparation. It is in the factories of the manufacturers of phonograph rolls that this new employ- ment {8 to be found. Some of the men at this work earn as much as $26 a week, and two get twice that sum. Both of these are able to enunciate clearly and have very good volces. Both have been on the variety stage. The duty of such an employe is to an- nounce into the recelver before a song the name of the selection and of the person who is to deliver it, not forgetting to men- tion more emphatically than either of these facts, the name of the maker of the in- strument—"as sung into the Blank-blank phonograph”—he must say with both feet on the name of the machine. The habit of engaging music hall per- formers and, later, noted actors and singers to use the phonograph, made the announcer more {mportant than he ever had been be- fore. He has now to pronounce correctly foreign names and titles of arias in differ- ent languages, and he must do all this in a way that will be understood. For these reasons it became necessary to have ca- pable men; so the new protession of the phonograph barker came Into existence. In sizning the bill known as the “‘install- ment bili" Governor Odell has alleviated In & way the life of many of the unfor- tunate residents of lower East side. For many years agents of consolenceless dealers have wheedled the ignorant into buyin goods they did not peed, usually jewelry at prices ranging from two to twenty times thelr value, the amount to be paid in small installments. The dealers arranged it so that the customers have skipped a pay- ment; then they have descended upon the luckless buyers and demanded Immediate payment in full. If their threats did not | secure payment sult was brought. By a plece of trickery on the dealer's part the defendants did not appear, and judgment was entered for the specified amounts. The unfortunate was then arrested, perhaps pulled out of bed In the earty morning, and hauled off to jail by a corrupt marshal, the creature of the dealer. Usually at this stage the fear of prison overcame the victims and they borrowed right and left from their friends and hought. their free- dom from jafl by paying what the dealers demanded. But if obdurate there has been nothing for them but to lie weeks or months in jall—thelr terms as prisoners for debt. The legislation recently enacted provides that no criminal action can be instituted where the sum involved is less than $100, and fts effect Is already being felt. Dr. John B. Rich, who Is % years young and the oldest New Yorker in the city, says becoming a centenarian is as easy as rolling off a log to anyone who will take He instructed the Health Cul- ture club the other night on the secrets of perpetual youth, which he gave as the following: “Be good-natured; be clean; comfortable; sleep in the most comfortable bed you can get; don't eat twice as much as you need, and don't eat food that will abuse that poor old muscle, the human stomach. “The greatest wonder,” he sald, “is not how people manage to live to the age of 100 years, but how 8o many of them manage to live for thirty-five years. They haven't time, they say, to take a litt's exercise, they haven't time to study the luws of hy- glene and they put things Into their stomachs without & thought as to whether their food and drink are calculated to make good, rich blood." the pains. An 0dd time-saving device has recently come to the notice of the patrons of one of the large department stores of New York City. This is an envelope enclosing the monthly bill, and, save for one feature, 18 like the rest of its kind; that part of the envelope upon which custom requires the writing of the address is cur away In a long ellipse. Pasted from the Inside and tight as a drum-head over the opening 1is a plece of tough, transparent paper. It is, in effect, an envelope with a window In it The time-saving arises from the fact that the envelope 1s not addressed at all, but the bill, bearing near the top the cus- tomer's name and address, is 80 folded that when placed in the envelope the name and address will appear behind the window. “War Bound to Come." Indianapolis Journal In delivering the diplomas to the graduat- ing class at West Point the secretary of war sald: “Before you leave the army, young men, according to all precedents in our history, you will be engaged in another war. It is bound to come, and will come.” The secretary spoke from history, which shows that we have had a war about every twer.ty-five years. What will cause it, from what quarter it will come, or who our a tagonist will be are matters for conjecture, but the secretary was doubtless right when he sald “it 18 bound to come.” exercise; be | Waltham Watches Known by free upon request. their works. *“The Perfected American Watch,”" an {llastrated book of interesting information about wwatches, will be sent American Waltham Watch Company, Waltham, Mass. SEEMING RIGHT AND BEING RIGHT. An Incident of Civil War Time with & Moral. American Investments. In 1863 when Jay Cooke was carrying out important financial functions for the gov- ernment through the then secretary of the treasury, Salmon P. Chase, the later or- dered of the house of Cooke 300 shares of Philadelphia & Erle raliroad stock, expeot- ing to pay for it out of the proceeds of a farm in Ohio, which he was about to sell. Circumstances came preventing the sale and the order was countermanded, where- upon Cooke wrote inclosing his check for 34,200, saying that the stock had advanced in price and that the remittance represented the profit. Chase wasn't very wealthy and 1t was a temptation to accept the situation, but he returned the check, saying 1s essential for me to be right as well as to seem right, and to seem right as well as to be right.” How many public officlals, etc., etc., ete. LIFE BY THE CLOCK. Devices for Lengthening Life Tend to Shorten It. Boston Transeript. An eminent physiclan, at a recent gath- ering of his profession, directed notice afresh to the daily tension under which most Americans do their work. We rise on time, he remarked, in the morning, whether by an alarm clock, by the call of a servant or by habit, eat breakfast and read the paper on time, a clock in every room and a watch frequently in our hand. We then, on time, meet office and outside engagements, business appointments, con- sultations, always preconsidering the amount of time that will be required, and timing the next engagement accordingly. Often we subdivide this time, and note by our watches exactly how long we can dls- cuss a subject. This 18 no exaggeration of the American habit. Even such breaks in works as are compelled by the need of physical refresh- ment are brought within time limits. We eat on time just as we transact all our business on time. If the typleal American were to be deplcted In his most character- istic attitude, it would be perched on a stool at a “quick lunch counter,” consum- ing his midday meal in seven minutes at the outside. Doubtless punctuality is a virtue. Doubt- less also the practice of doing things ex- actly on time has won for us, as a people, a large measure of industrial success. But, carrfed to an extreme, as it often s, it is wearing to the individual. The people whose nerve break down from exhaustion in- cldent to overwork are often not so much the victims of overwork as of the habit of compressing every bit of work within pre- arranged limits of time. Let any one try the experiment of doing a given plece of work steadily and with application, but without noticing by his watch or a clock exactly how much time he is consuming, and he will be amazed to find how much easler it will go off than when he s timing himself, and scheming to bring the pre. scribed task within a fixed number of minutes, We know a great deal more about sani- tary matters than our fathers and grand- fathers knew. We have hunted down mi- crobes. We have concooted serums. Dis- eases which were once regarded as visita tions of Providence we now know to be preventable and we take sultable means of preventing them. All these discoverles and new remedies ought to diminish the death rate and to promote longevity. They have not done so, as a matter of fact; perhaps | they might do so if they had a fair chance. The trouble is that along with these de- vices for lengthening lite we are adopting practices ‘which tend to sharten it. One of the most wearing of these is the habit of bringing all the detalls of our work within exact time limits. PERSONAL NOTE! When the assassins tackle Prince Kara- georgewltch it will be necessary to go at him in sections. Henry Horn, one of the few survivors of the charge of the Light Brigade, has just died in_London. Senor Banchez Toca, Spanish minister of marine, has a naval scheme in hand which will call for an annual expenditure of about 350,000,000 for ten years. Eight survivors of “the Forty-niners,” who went from Baltimore to California in the early days of the rush for a reunton last week. The youngest of them 18 79 years old. The four tallest policemen on the Phila- | deiphia force will accompany the old liberty bell on its coming trip to the Bunker Hill day celebration in Boston. Each of them 1s over six feet tall and their average welght 18 200 pounds. Mr. Chamberlain and John Morley are alike in one respect—they both abhor phy- sical exercise and never walk more than a few yards If it is possible to ride. They hold that a man who works hard with his brain does not need great physical exercise. At the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. McCor- mick (Miss Ruth Hanna), in Cleveland, the other day, General Corbin amused the guests at the banquet with the following toast: “I will propose a toast to the real mistress of the occasion, Maggle, the cook." Henry Roso, the wealthy Cuban planter who, it is sald, gave the greater part of his fortune in ald of the Cuban revolutionists, is confined In a New York asylum for the insane. Mr. Roso's estate, which at one time was in the millions, has dwindled, It is sald, to $50,000. President Cyrus Northrup of the Uni- versity of Minnesota threatens to resign be- cause of the nonpayment of his salary, which is long overdue. The university ap- propriation made at the last session of the legislnture was wholly inadequate to meet the expenses of the institution. The most eminent citizens of the United States of negro blood will address the coun- try in @ book to be published In September entitled, “The Negro Problem.” The race question will be discussed by Booker T. Washington, Prof. W. E. Burghardt Du- bols, Charles W. Chestnut, Paul Laurence Dunbar, T. Thomas Fortune, Wilford H. Smith and H. T. Keating. David Nation, divorced husband of the Kansas saloon smasher, celebrated his 75th birthday last week at Iberia, near Gallion, 0., where he lives with his daughter, Mrs. Willlam Riddle. Two other daughters and @ son were present at the celebration, be- sides many other guests. Mr. Nation was old, held ].mxi&‘&‘! FACTS ABOUT SERVIA. The Kingdom Where Royalty Moves Swiftly to the Grave. The kingdom of Servia lles in the Balkan peninsula. It has an area of 19,060 square miles and a population of 2,250,000. Servin lies between Bosnia on the west and Bulgaria and Roumania on the east The surface of the country is for the most part mountatnous. Gold, silver, Iron and lead are found in the regions. The climate fs mild, though subject to the extremes characteristic of inland eastern countries. The leading occupations are agriculture and the raising of live stock; the ehief products are hogs, sheep, wheat and maize Four-fifths of the people in the country districts live on thelr own land. The government is a constitutional hereditary monarchy. The legislative body fs the Skupshtina. The prevafling religion is the Greek Cathollc. The history of Servia covers a long and turbulent perfod. The title of king of Servia was assumed in the eleventh cen- tury, when the country was In its most flourishing condition. The Servian power was overthrown by the Turks in 138 and Bervia was Incorporated with Turkey about 1468, A rising under Czerny George fn 18M re- sulted in the expulsion of the Turks, but they reconquered the country fn 1813. A rising in 1515 under Milosh Obrenovich was more successful. The Turkish garrisons were withdrawn in 187. The war against Turkey In 1576 was unsuccessful. Bervia took part with Russia against Turkey in 1877-1878 and became absolutely independent, recelving a considerable additton to terri- tory in 187, The agricultural population s scattered among a great number of villages, most of which consist of single, fsolated home- steads. The patriarch of the community apportions the work and distributes the proceeds of the labor. His ruling is fol- lowed without question. The Bervian army is divided into three classes; the first class, embracing men be- tween 2% and 30 years of age, constitutes the standing army, which numbers 15,00 on a peace footing and about 100,000 on a war footing; the wecond class contains men between 30 years and 37, who have served in the standing army; the third class, which is only called out In extraordinary emer- gencles, is composed of men between 37 and |50 years. The total military strength of the kingdom 18 estimated at 200,000. — WHITTLED TO A POINT, “Some men,” gald Uncle Eben, “says dat honesty is de bes' policy, an' den seems puMckly willin' to give deir neighbor & monopoly of its advantages.’—Washington ar. “Its an elght- hour day for about ever body now, isi “Oh. no; not for the employers. L A ecause, if they had been content with an eight-hour day, they wouldn't have geeded in becoming employers.”—Chicago ost. ( Tess—Graclous! sticks this morninj Jess—No wonder. Tha calling on me last ninm Tess—What? Jess—Two sticks.—Philadelphia Press. You're as cross as two what I had The thrum of a ent plano filled the alr with tremulous ress. ‘“‘Your neigh- bor next door seems to have a delicate ear or music,” said the visitor. “T don’t know about her delicate ear,” sald the householder. “What bothers me is 3\ powerful hands."—Cleveland Plain er. her “You are from Boomtown, are #sald the passenger in the skull cap. “Weli, gour town Is to be congratulated. There doesn't seem to have ha.n any distress caused lhore by_the floods."” “Doesn’t, hey?' retorted the passenger in the Swinter, | “Our bassball Eround has or water for- more'n & week, D'goah "~ Chicago Tribune. 't be & HM if Josh was goin’ t Invc ntor or somethin”,” sald rntossel signs hll "he shown?" inquired his & long talk with him last nl e th nc That boy kin make you believe m: that aint o than anybody I ever saw. Washington Star. your' ‘‘What's up, r‘d‘m ‘man? 1 never saw you logk so hagga The '!t.-nlh bank s mc'- whnt . let a thi nl uk- that A nd my sit's nn- 3 I wnulsrol 't ; merely lost my balance.” oss. ~Phi Ihd.mhlt “How about the golden rule?”’ he asked. “I vouldn't advance you a ocent on it answered Isaacs, the pawnbroker."—Chi- cago Post. THE OLD KENTUCKY HOME, Rochester Post-Express. The sun shines bright on the bayonets and u ns, On the cannon in the common and the There |5 music in the bugle and the rolling of the drums, And there's music of the rifies in the The mulmmen are mounting guard before the old jail door Thu mnunluneerl re massing for the tra; etting mighty lively in a dozen ways or_more, In the old Kentucky home so far away. The orchards are in blossom and the per- fumed air is sweet, Oh! the face of nature never was more falr, But the ' Colonels are a-shooting at each er in the s And %% ‘Mountainess: are out upon a r— or it's Bummer in Kentucky and without a feud or two, ithout a chance to stab and shoot and Y, Life would not be worth th the meadow grass {8 bl In the old Kentucky home living where far away. KEEP YOUR STOMACH WELL Horsford’s Acid Phosphate cures habitual stomach weakness, im- ves appetite, digestion and nu- tion. It is & splendid tonic for all weak oondmon-. Iusist on baving Horsford's Acid Phosphate formerly & minister of the gospel and for many years was in the newspaper business.