Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 22, 1903, Page 6

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THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. tate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ee.; et e N U eachiick secratury af The Bes Company bews auly sworn, #ays that the 'actual numeer A€ full omplete coples of The Dafly Morni Evening and Sunday Bes printed during U month of July, 1904, was as follows: B : &3 SES EEEEErEeme EEEESERPEESS Net tatal sales., Net average salos. ... 20,700 GEORGE B TZECHUCK, Bubscribed in my presence and swora to Defore me this slst day of July, A. g JERN . B,_HUNGATE (Beal Notary Publie. PARTIES LEAVING FOR SUMMER. the summer may have The Hee t to them regularly by Bee Business or by matl, address will be changed as often as desirved. T TTT——— Prowises made by the sultan under furess seem to be decidedly at discount with the czar CEES—————— The boys who wore the blue in the eivil war have tramped their last tramp fn San Francisco, EEEEE——— Addicks' political enemies manage to make themselves more useful to him than would be a pald press agent. ErEE———— The Ohicago Record-Herald compl- ments Nebraska on its vice presidential candidate, who is said habitually to ‘Wear & comprehensive smile o e—————eee——e— Just as it 1s proposed to Mght all Omaha's streets exclusively with elec- tric are lamps, Lincoln orders all its electric lighting abated for a return to gas lamps. er—— Navigation is about to be reopened on the Missourl at Omaba. This will leave congress no excuse for neglecting to in- clude an appropriation for us in the nmext river and barbor bill. i —— Colonel Bryan offers five dollars for the satisfaction of knowing how Jobn R. Walsh of Chicago voted in 1808 and n 1900. Isn't Colonel Bryan getting rather reckiess with his money? T The man who is said t0 have served longer in his official capacity than any other postwaster in the United States bas just dded. There are pleaty of sur- viving postmasters, however, who are ‘willlng to try for his record. Er—————— Lord Roberts will land firat in Boston on his forthcoming trip to the United States. The great fleld marshal bhas doubtless figured it out that he will bave to get used to Awerica by degrees and that Boston is nearer Great Britain than any other part of the United States. Em——— Emperor Willlam is reported to bave @designed a peace flag whose adoption will be asked froin the peace congress which is to meet at Rouen uext month. It the emperor would see to it that the German influence is always in favor of peace it will not wake so wuch differ- ence about the flag. The national shorthand reporters’ assoclation wants official stenographers in the federal courts. No word is said, bowever, about putting thelr appoint- ment under civil service regulations. But after the first distribution of the places an appeal for civil service pro- tection wight be quickly expected. Some of our popocratic friends pre- tend to be distressed for fear the elee- tion of the two republican nominees for regent would concentrate the wanage- ment of the university teo much In Douglas and Lancaster counties. There need be uo apprebensiou on this score, a8 two of the holdovers from these counties are fusionists and will not be asked to remaln after the expiration of thelr preseut terms. E—— It turns out that all the hubbub raised over the alleged exclusion of range cat- tle from competition for live stock awards at the St Louis exposition is based on a false alarm, The exhibits classification makes uo distinction as the place or manner of feeding, but dif- fepentintes ouly bhetween the various grades of heel animals, In effect the apge cattle: way be found at a disad- vantage, but ue wore so than ln auy other slblar cowpeution, A DEMAND FPUOK INDEPENDEANCE There {8 nothing surprising in the An nouncement which recently came from Honolulu that the so-called home rule party in the islands is moring for in dependence and proposes to porialize congress to make Hawall independent. It 18 a well known fact that at the time of the annexation of the !slands there was a very large element of the people not in favor of becoming a part of the United States. This element, it Is true, daid pot ewmbrace the more intelligent portion of the population, yet there were not a few In it who believed that it would be better for the Islands to remain as they were, They ylelded re- luctantly to the annexation agreement, but have never been lly contented under Its operation and are now en- deavoring to secure the privilege of settiug up their own government and belng tndependent Of course their desire will not be granted and a sufficlent reason for not granting 1t s the fact that the element which wants independence s utterly unfit for self-government. It appears that the chief mover in the independence propaganda is the former delegate to congress, Robert W. Wilcox, & man no- torfous as a political adventurer and whose supporters in the present move- wment are the people who were the friends of the old corrapt government, one of the most sencual and unscrupu lous that ever existed in a small way. So fad as Wilcox is concerned he is not to be trusted in any capacity and his present efforts are prompted entirely by a motive for his own aggrandize- ment, There 18 no doubt that he has a great deal of influence with the tives of Hawail and if the island were glven independence he would have lt- tle difficulty in securing absolute con- frol and making everything contribute to his power and advantage. Mr. Wilcox, however, it is perhaps unnecessary to say, will be unable to accomplish his purpose. Hawall will remain one of the Insular possessions of the United States, with the terrl- torial rights and privileges which It now enjoys. Very likely it will be found necessary to modify some of the conditions under which it is now gov- erned, but the demand for independ- ence will not be seriously considered. In a material way the islands have lost nothing, if indeed their condition has not been improved, since they became Amwerican territory, and whatever po- litical defects may exist there can easily be remedied. DECLING IN MARKST VALUES, There has very naturally been much conjecture as to the losses resulting from the liguidation in Wall street and a wide variation in the calculations was to be expected. There is pretty general agreement, however, that these losses were quite unprecedented. The statls- ticians bave prepared the figures, says a New York correspondent, showing what the relative losses of 1898 and 1008 were. These tables make it clear that ten years ago the shrinkage was uearly $2,000,000,000, whereas this year it is considerably in excess of 000,000, “One astonishing feature of this analysis is this,” says the writer, “that the capitalization in 1803 was much less than that of this year, but that is by no means the most amazing feature of these statistice™ It is pointed out that in 1803, with a smaller relative shrinkage, there were devas- tating effects upon some of the greater corporations. Many of the rallroads passed into bankruptcy. Few of them were paylng any dividends. The col- lapse of so many of them entalled the prodigious work of reorganization which was one of the striking characteristics of the five years following 1898. Of course this tremendous shrinkage in values Inevitably suggests the ques- tion whether it 1s likely to have an in- fiuence inimical to the general welfare, and especially to the legitimate busi- ness interests of the country. As yet there is no indication that it will have, but it is not at all surprising that in some quarters the hmpression should prevail that such an enormous shrink- age of values must ultimately produce an effect injurious to the gemeral pros- perity. This seems a plausible idea, but when all the conditions are care- fully considered It will appear that there is no sound reason for expecting that the liquidation in Wall street should be in the least degree damaging to the legitimate business of the coun- try. The well understood fact now is that the whole of that liquidation was due not to any monetary famine or to any decline in the genera! prosperity of the country, but to a speculative move- ment on the one hand and a loss of public confidence in securities generally on the other hand. It 18 now thoroughly well established that so. far as the legitimate business interests of the country are concerned they have not been and are not likely to be seriously affected by the Wall street liquidation. Indeed, it has been shown most conclusively that so for as the Stock Exchange is concerned it has practitally no influence upon the course of legitimate business. This is one of the very important and valuable lessons taught by the recent events in Wall street which ought to be most potent in convincing the country as to the reality and the substantial acter of the nation's prosperity. In spite of the “rich wman’s panic,” now spparently ended, involving a de- cline in stock values amounting, ac cording to estimates, to $3,000,000,000, the general business of the country has goue on without interruption and | appeurs to be at this time on. the wost substantinl basis. s not this an ample warrant for confidence in the future? char- TS Omaba has beeu favored with another chunk of mooushine by the senior vel- low in the shupe of a starting an- nouncement that the Arwmours would connect all their piaats from Sioux City to Kausas Qity by an electric troliey THE line expressly designed and constructed for thelr own accommeodation. Moon- shine fiyers carrying palace cattle cars and ecompartment sheep coaches may be expected to run on schedule time thirty minutes apart, flagged by wire- less train dispatches, before the earth ipletes another cireuit in its orbit und the sun. FUNDING THE PAVING DEBT. Mayor Moor veto of the §480,000 refunding bond ordinance has directed attention to the tremendous burden that Las been saddled upon the taxpayers of the whole city by the fast and loose methods pursued in the past in the let- ting of paving contracts and the assess- ment and levy for paving improvements upon the property in the various paving distrie Investigations recently made by the city attorney show that several hundred thousand dollars of district paving bonds, that were to have been redeemed out of the proceeds of taxes levied on the abutting property in the respective distriets, will have to be pald by taxation of the property of the whole city because the petitions for paving were either defective or have been sur- reptitiously abstracted from the custody of the city clerk. Inasmuch as the dlstrict paving bonds were {ssued in the name of the city of Omaha, the obligation for thelr pay- ment rests upon the whole eity, and where the courts have decreed the pav- ing taxes invalid because of defective petitions or other technical omissions in the assessment and levy, the burden from which adjacent property owners are relleved will fall upon the taxpay- ers of the whole community and thus make parties who have not been bene- fited directly pay for Improvements from which great direct benefits have been derived by owners of adjacent property. « This rank injustice will be particu- larly felt by real estate owners who have pald for thelr pavements on our principal thoroughfares and will now be compelled to pay the debts incurred for the benefit of other property owners who have managed to escape thelr just share of the public burden. This costly lesson should not go un- heeded and Clty Attorney Wright will have the active support of all right thinking people in his effort to provide safeguards that will prevent a repeti- tion of the imposition and enable the city to meet its bonded obligations. Had the city from the outset of the paving era taxed up these improve wents to the whole city rather than to have compelled the owners of property in the business genter to bear the double burden of taxation for improve- ments In the outskirts of the city, there probably would have been a smaller pavement mileage, but there also would have been a proportiopately smaller bonded debt. E— A St. Louls police magistrate decided the other day tbat when a man who hailed a street car could not arrest the attention of the motorneer with his voice he had a right to arrest it with a shot from a revolver. To this ruling a prominent citizen of St. Louls demurs and seeks to arrest the attention of the court for five minutes to the following points: (a) That it is against the law to carry a revolver, and that in endorsing the fourish- ing of a revolver in signaling & street car, he was endorsing lawlessness; (b) that of the men most likely to carry revolvers and flourish them for eny reason whatever a considerable percentage, perbaps a major- ity, are lkely to be drunk when they do It; (©) that a revolver in the hands of a sober man is always likely to be discharged when it is flourished; (d) that when flourished by & drunken man, a cevolver is not only al- most sure to be discharged, but is very, likely to strike someone on a street car or on the street; (o) that both street cars and streets In a city lke this are used by people, Including women and children, tor whose protection in life and lmb laws against carrying and flourishing deadly weapons are enacted; (f) that a drunken man who reads an opinion asserting his right 1o stop & car with a revolver is not likely to make nice shades of distinction and s as apt to shoot at a motorman after drawing the pistol as he is to draw it under the opin- lon of the court (g) that motormen, con- ductors and street railway managers, while subject to regulation by law, are not law- fully subject to regulation by lawlessness. Several other good and sufficient rea- sons are cited, but the above would seem to cover the case in point fairly well. — The action of the congress of Cham- bers of Commerce of the British empire in session at Montreal favoring a gov- ernment commission to consider the adoption of a commercial policy within the British empire based upen the prin- ciple of mutual benefit, indicates that the leaven set out by Joseph Chamber lain is still working. President Nash of the Omaha BElectric Light company proposes to enlighten the Rea! Estate exchange about the proposed wmonopolization of electric lighting and the ten-year contract. To this there can be no objection providing that the project is fully ahd freely dis- cussed on all sides and in all its bear- ings on the future. The crealion of a new cabinet office to be known as the Department of Mining is one of the schemes on the tapls for promotion by the forthcoming mining congress. lnasmuch as the Department of Commerce is hardly yet fuily organ- ized it would seem that it is a trifle early yet to attempt this sort of a strike. — Guod Sigm of Prosperity. Philadelphia Press. Complaint is being made that the farmers In the west are hoiding their wheat for bet- ter prices. Thelr abllity to do %o demon- strates their prosperous condition. If they can get the better of the speculators no one will blame them. Wite Manm of the East San Francisco Call. Whatever clse may be sald” of Turkey no one will question its keen conception of the thought of self-preservation under any condition in which danger may be { OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1903. manded reparation for the murder of one of his representatives and in the demand showed his teeth Turkey was quick in com- pllance. The wick man of Kurope is not infrequently the wise man of the east. Last Task the MHard Baltimors American. The Amerfoan business man of the pres- nt day spends his health to gain wealth and then Immediately starts oul to spend his wealth in regaining his heaith. But generally he finds the first feat child's play in comparison with the second Boston Transcript In the New York City directory for 1908 there are over 3,000 8miths and 1,600 Browns and 9,00 names have the prefix “Mc.” It looks as though the Anglo-Saxon were fol- lowing the Hollander into retirement before the resistiess advance of the Kansas City Star The tact that Colonel Hryan is able to pay §1,200 for carriage horses does not prove that country Is prosperous under the gold standard—not at all. It simply shows that Colonel Rryan is smart enough to make plenty of money despite the machinations of the gold devils, Village Cops Get Chicago Chronlcle. Adaptabllity s a sallent American char- acteristic, as manifest in.the rapldity with which thrifty rural communities have pounced down on the plutocratic automo- billst and amerced hm as the touring bloyclist was once utilized to keep down the village tax rate. . Posaibilities of the Wire! New York Tribune. The possibilities of wireloss messages exchanged between vessels in midocean ap- Ppear to be almost Nllimitable when transfer of credits of money are made from one craft to another amid the long Atlantic surges by this system of communication Yet this feat has been actually accompitshed with entire success. Prosperity and Waste, Baltimore American. Poople complain of the high prices of food, and yet they regularly prepare large quantities of it dally above what is required for actual use in their families. Conse- Quently, a large amount of the food as to whose high prices people complain is dumped into the garbage and carted away, & sheer waste and an unpardonable ex- travagance, Stop Curremoy Tinkering. Indianapolis Journal. “When in doubt, let well enough alone” might be applied to the currency situation With bankers and flnanclers unable to agree on any plan of currency reform, and with the senate finance committee unable to get together on the subject, the alleged de- fects of our present currency system can- not be very serfous. It possesses many points of excellence and its alleged evils seem to be largely imaginary. Growth of Phillppine Trade, Philadelphia Press. The growth of trade in the Philippine islands is the best proof of the continued improvement In the situation there. The exports for the ten months ending April 3 aggregated 3%,090.872, as compared with $19,367,482 for the corresponding period end- ing in 1902 The largest item in the export table is hemp, of which over 317,000,000 were exported in the last ten months. This mak: the outlook for the h:tun promising. —— ONE REASON THEY HATE HIM. K3 L >—— President Reosevelt’s Appeal for Righteousness, Purity and Truth. Portland Oregonian. It is no wonder that newspapers like the New York Sun are enraged at our preach- ing president. It means a great deal for righteousness when the president of the United States puts boldly forth such words &s Mr. Roosevelt uttered at Oyster Bay on Sunday to the Holy Name soclety of Brooklyn. There is no fear here of being accounted godly, or pure, or decent. There 18 no timid cringing to the philosophy of the man of the world, with his irreligion, his sardonic estimate of virtue, his sneers at purity and truth. 1t means a great deal for righteousness, as we have sald, and it also means & great deal for those roaring bulls of journalism, lke the New York Sun, i whose view the bible is a thing to be jockeyed with, the church an institution to be destroyed If possible by pretending to defend it, and human ambition an end in itself beholden to no higher law of religion or morality. American public life is better today than it bas ever been. It ls probably better than that of most, perbaps of all, other nations. But as it is it s honeycombed with cor- ruption. It is dominated by low ideals. Cateh our most eminent and usefu) senators on the way to the White House to urge an appointment and you will find that the ap- plicant they are endorsing is a component part of thelr machine, and that is why they want him. It is not because they have dis- covered the man whe will best promote the public good i the place he seeis, but be- cause they feel that his appointment will fortfy themselves and their political ma- chine. This policy or that, they reason, will be good for me or good for the party. There are a few men in publie life who stand above this low level of convention: politics. Oue of them is Mayor Williams of Portland. He i trying to do his duty by the city and give it the best government of which he s capable. Another is President Roosevelt. His Sunday sermon to the Cath- olic soclety is not mere froth and cant, but it is the gospel he tries to live day by day. The president desplses the namby-pamby man as he despises the weakling. But he believes in goodness, in honesty, in decency, in plety. His words and his life rebuke in the most pointed way that hard philosophy of sharp practice which permeates politics, business and society and which s often | couched in obscene and profane language. | The day that such & man became president, with all his convictions and his courage, was a good day for every virtue, for the sanctity of the home, for the homor of womanhood, for the greater happiness and better training of the little child. In the knowledge that such a man fills the presi- dential chair there is incentive for every lover of decency to lift his head a little higher, and for every follower of a purely | seifish and worldly life to feel somewhat | ashamed. Many men are sometimes weak enough to give boys to understand that it 18 more manly to swear and use foul lan- Susge than to be clean of speech. They et no encouragement from the president That the president's speech will stir up fresh antagonism to him there need be no doubt. Some will give no outward sign at the resentment they feel at his rebuke of unscrupulous methods in politics or busi- ness. Others will covertly sncer at the “of- ficial endorsement of goody-goodyism, and throughout the half-world, whers the idea supreme that the statesman off duty is always a sad rogue, there will be much mystification and concern. But all these antagonisms and resentments will not al- fect the president’s popularity where he wishes o be strong—in the affections of the #900d and true in the court, if there be one, of heaven. They who fesl uncomfortable with righteousness at the helm of state, | whethed they are on Wall street or in the slumes, are against him already. He will be sure of thelr Ul-will. He deserves the sup- prescnied. When the Russian bear de- | port of the decent, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The German empire, too, In the last ten | Tips for Land Lubbers Interested fum [ Plans Evolved by Pr years has devoted about $100,000,000 to canal construction, making a network of canals all over the country, and is by no means yet through with the work. Austria-Hun- gary has committed herself to the ex- penditure of $65,000000 In the next nine years on artificlal water courses, some them connecting with the German canals, 50 that the Rhine and Eibe, and Oder and Main, and Vistula and Danube will all be united by means of commodious and well eqipped canals. Even more noteworthy, perhaps, 18 the Italian program. That en- ergetio and progressive country, the most remarkable example of natfonal ren cence in the history of the world, has re- cently spent enormous sums upon an elab- orate system of rallroads, which is now becoming highly profitable. Now it pro- pand Its system of canals and rivers. There are already In northern Italy 1,677 miles of such water- ways, The construction of 44 miles more ia about to be undertaken. This will co nect all the existing canals and make a united mystem of 2111 miles. The cost of the improvements will be nearly $33, 000, but it Is estimated that about on third of that sum will be immediately re- couped through the development of water power for industrial purposes and of irrl- gation for agriculture. o The relations between Austria and Hun- gary continue to give much trouble to the ¥mperor Francis Joseph, and should any- thing happen to him the disruption of the Austrian-Hungarian empire might result. Thelr relations can be illustrated by ref- erence to the sugar question, as a result of the Brussels convention for the aboll- tlon of bounties. Both countries individ- the Races. Abeam—At right angles to the ship's side. A wind is abeam when it blows at right an- Kles to the ship's course. Awash—Level with the surface of the water. Back Stays—The ropes or stays that help to support the m and are attached to the deck aft ot the mas Bag—Salls are sald to bag when they do not set flatly. Bare Poles—No salls set. Beam—The breadth of a vessel at widest part. Beam Ends—When a vessel lies over so far that its deck Is perpendicular to the water, Beat—Beating to windward s making way (salling) agalnst the wind, going In a zigzag course. Bow-The forward end of the ship. Coming About—"About ship,” or tacking, Is to put a vessel on the opposite tack from the one it had been safling. Dratt—Depth of a boat in the water. Fore and Aft Rig—Salls and spars lengt wise of vessel; sloops, schooners, etc. In Irons—A ship is said to be in irons when it is head or bow to the wind and will not turn to right or left. In the Doldrums—When a ship is labor- ing between a calm and light pufts of air. Jibing—When the course is changed while running before the wind In a fore and aft rigged vessel so as to bring the salls from one side over to the other. Knot—A nautical mile—6,087 feet. The statute mile is 5.280. Leech--The aft edge of a sail. Lee Side—The ship's side away from the wind. ually agreed to that convention, but an agreement was reached between Austria and Hungary to the effect that the Hun- garlan home consumption should be ex- clusively governed by the Hungarian pro- duction. This arrangement is in conflict with the existence of & common customs territory, and also with the Brussels con- vention itself. But Hungary insists on its malintenance. As a result forelgn sugar is to be admitted Into Hungary on the pay- ment of the duty, but Austrian sugar will be absolutely excluded. Hungary is also demanding the exclusion of beer, alcohol and petroleum from Austria, and the fric- tion increases in other ways. e That South Africa offers no place for white men, beyond a limited number of positions already filled, is fairly shown by the reports of the Rand Ald assoclation of Johannesburg. During May last that organization cared for, fed and clothed fifty-one men. Thirty-nine of these were ex-soldlers of the English army. When labor is in demand, ex-soldiers have no need to apply to relief organizations. What is wanted is cheap labor. The resources of the country for several hundred miles in all directions are being dragged by active agents. There are laborers in ample abun- dance, but they will not labor and cannot be made to labor, except by some process of semi-slavery, which Is of course impos- sible of adoption. Importation may be- come imperative to avert financial disaster from the country. England may be glad that it has acquired control over South Africa at any cost, but it has become evi- dent that & good many items were omitted from the prospectus. - No single step toward the assimilation of Japanese clvillzation to that of modern Europe and America has been of greater importance than the projected abolition of the old Chinese ideographs (until now used+ in writing and printing) and the substitu- tion in their place of the alphabet. This reform Will not only make the acquisition of the Japanese language by forelgners easier (ban It has been, but cannot fall to bring the people of Japan mentally nearer to the family of modern nations into which they have been received. Im- agine some one of the peoples of central or western Europe employing Egyptian hieroglyphics, or some other system of ple- ture writing, Instead of spelling their words and representing sound by letters, and it will be realized what an intellectual gulf would divide them from their next neigh- bors. 1t is such a gulf which is about to be bridged by the Japanese. ‘ It is sald that the kaiser has given the | famous “death dice” to the Hohenzollern | musuem. They have an Interesting legend connected with them. Once upon a time, as all German fairy stories begin, two| vyoung soldiers fell in love with the same | girl, who was later mysteriously murdered, and suspicion fell on her two lovers. They were tortured, but neither would confess. Thea the emperor of that time sald the: should throw dice, and the loser pay the death penalty. This was done, with great pomp and state, before the royal court, and the first soldier threw double sixes, which, of course, It was seemingly impossidle to beat. But the second prayed loudly that his innocence bde proved, and threw the dice with such force that one of them split in two, and the whole die came up & six. | while the second showed on its two broken faces a six and a one. Then the first sol- Qier confessed the crime, and was executed. The dice will teach the nice little lesson in the great museum that German justice cannot be defeated even by the tmpossible. economic and the military reasons compel Japan, on peril of its future | as & nation, to uphold the freedom of Corea are overwhelming. It looks to that country as an outlet for the surpius popu- latios which is already pressing very heav- \ly upon is soll as a market for its trade and as an indispensable source of its food supply. At the same time it feels, and rightly feels, that the objections which Russin and its allles raised against the occupation of a portion of Manchuria by Japan in 1886 apply with tenfold forece to the occupation of any part of Corea by a forelgn power, and especially by the power which (mow finds the absorption of the whole of Manchuria by Itseif pertectly compatible with those general interests which it declared would be impertled if Japan were suffered to retain the limited area ceded to It under the treaty of Shimonoeseki. The which PERILS OF PATRONAGE. “Most Perniclous Evil of Municipal St. Louis Republic Experience shows that the distribution of patronage has a disturbing offect on the aorganization of the party In power. The larger the patronage the greater is the | demand for patronage. The demand almost invariably exceeds the supply and always prohibits satisfaction among office-seckers. Animosity and disruption of harmony are the natural consequences of the quest of | tavors. The dispenser of patronage makes more foes than friends, however docile he | may be In recognising claims. No faction | can be entirely pleased. How to mete out patronage, when re- | organizsing a department, exhibit deference | to political workers and yet abide by the intentions of the voters, is a problem that avery publie official has to determine. Party leaders and committess submit pretensiuns, | naif of friends and henchmen, other of- | ficials offer propositions and prominent cltizens bring potent influence to bear for tavorites. 1f the petitions of Luff—To come into the wind so that the salls do not draw. The forward edge of a sall Missing Stays—Failing fn an attempt to tack, come about. Offing—Away from the land toward the sea. b Peak—The upper after corner of the matn- sail, Point~A vessel points well when it lles very closs to the wind in salling. One thirty-second of the full circle on the com- pass. Port—The feft side of a ship. Quarter—Either side of a ship between the stern and amidships. Reaching—When the ship is salling with the wind on the quarter. Reef—To shorten sail Rigging—Everything that supports the masts or other spars, or that is employed In setting or trimming salls. Running—When the wind is directly aft, behind, astern. 3 Salling Off the Wind—When the wind Is aft of amidships the ship is then salling free. Salling On the Wind—When the wind is hauled. Shake Out a Reef—To loosen that part of the sall that has been previously reefed or tied . Square Rigg—Sails and spars across the vessel—ships, barks, brigs, etc. Starboard—The right side of a ship. Stern—The aft end of the ship. Weather Side—The ship's side on which the wind is blowing. POLITICAL DRIFT. The dominant color of Mr. Bryan's new team is chestnut. R. C. Kerens of Missourl, for more than state republcan machine, withdraw from polities. The famous homestead of the late Senator Allen G. Thurman, the “Old Roman" of Ohilo, located at the state eapitol, is to be sold to pay the debts of the estate. A reform movement In Minneapoils” has for its slogan, “competent menm for svery city office.” If the mowement succeeds the winter will be an exceedingly cold one for the professionals. EXpress companies are traveling on rocky roads in Texas Four companies which refused to take out permits to do business in the state, as required by law, are to be proceeded against in the courts. Carter Harrison. mayor of Chicago, has taken to the woods for another season of rest and recreation. This is his sixth run for tall timber this year, yet as far as known he has not secured suitable material tor a democratic platform. The New York capitol has cost $23,721,900. Massachusetts has a $7.000.00 capitol in Boston, and Michigan a capitol building at Lansing costing $1.500,000. Texas has recently completed at Austin, at & cost of 33,000,000, one of the most elaborate capitol buildings in the country. Indiana has expended $3.000,- 000 for the same purpose, Iowa 33,500,000, Kansas $3,500,000 and Minnesota 32,000,000, COhgressman Littlefield and Joseph Man- ley, both powerful men in Maine politics, are publicly opposed to changing the present prohibition law of that state into a statute providing for local option. The influences they represent will easily control the republican state convention, and there- fore the movement to force the resubmis- sion of prohibition to the voters is not likely to prosper. Willlam McAdoo, who is now making money fast in Wall street, was at one time a flower in the democracy of New Jersey. When he became assistant secretary of the navy under Cleveland he did not allow his exalted position to change the reiations be- tween his 0ld friends and him and tnsisted on being called “Biliy” as of yore. Affer leav- ing Washington he began business in Wall street, but retained residence in New Jer- sey. Not long ago, however, he received a letter from a political leader in which he I8 referred to as “Mr. McAdoo,” so he has decided to forward of amidships, the ship is then close | & generation the recognized boss of the | el has concluded that his political death warrant has been signed. TO INCREASE THE CORN ORO! . Hol of the Towa Agricultural College. Indlanapolis Journal. The only thing that can increase the pros- pective corn crop this year, which s likely to be below the average, is more hot weather and timely rains, but there will be other years and other crops. Prof. Holden, of the Ames Agricultural college of lowa olaims to have discovered a pl by which the agsregate corn érop In the seven great corn states can be Increased 480,000,000 bushels a year on the same acreage that is now planted. His plan involves more ca ful selection of seed corn and more cal ful and systematic planting. He would have the seed corn sorted by hand Into kernels of uniform size and the plates in corn planters filled in such a way as to drop 100 live kernels in every thirty hills—no more and no less. He claims to have dem- onstrated by a serfes of experiments that the best results in production are obtained from an average of about threes and one- third stalks to a hilL. The experiments showed that one stalk In a hill will produce but one-third much corn as a proper number of stalks; two stalks three-fourths of a yield, and five stalks the same. Too many stalks to a hill have the same result a8 too few. To secure the proper average of stalks it s necessary to exercise care in planting and to be sure that every kernel s a live one. To find how much the farmers of Iowa are losing each year by not plants ing properly Prof. Holden last year sent 1,000 letters to all parts of the state, ask- ing the number of stalks in each hill of corn flelds. The reports shbwed the stand ‘was only 75 per cent of what he has dem- onstrated will produce the largest yleld, some flelds averaging too many stalks to a hill and others too few. The acreage planted to corn in the meven states growing more than 100,00.000 bushels each in 192 was: Tilinols, 9,633,68; Towa 0,%26%8; Nebraska, 1.817,962; Kansas, 7.41.88; Missour!, 47781 Indlana, 45%,637; Ohlo, 32034 It ls claimed that careful planting according to the above rule would add an average of ten bushels to the acre, making in the states above named 480,000,000 bushels, Towa farmers have become so convinced of the correctness of these conclusions that they have formed an association to practice and extend them, and & trophy, valued at $450, has been provided to be awarded annually for seventy-five years for the best results In corn-growing accerding to Prof. Holden's theory. When it is remembered that naturs does everything by rule and law it is not surprising that she should have an exact standard of productiveness in corn, and that strict compliance with it will secure the best results. LINES TO A LAUGH. “A dog." sald Plodding Pete, “is one of de best friends a man can have ™ “Dat’s right,” said Weary Willle, “T never knew a dog to ask to borrow money or ad- vise you to go to work. ‘Washington Star. “What brand of whisky do you pre Guszler.” “The brand that's within resch, always.® —~Chicago Post. Regular Patron—That piteh one. Gee! | curve! | “Tnevitable Young Woman—Why do you | eall it a horseshoe curve? Did H‘u‘m 1t at him just for luck’—Philadelphia Press. | _Dorothy—Don't you feel in awe of literary | women? | . Dora—No, indeed; my literary cotisin says it takes more sense to dress well than It does to write a Detroit Free | “Twenty minutes fe refreshments!™ passed down -y a good That was a regulaf horsesboe bawled the conductor, as he the aisle The little girl with the blackherry jam en Rer_chin plicked him by the sleeve. | “You needn’t stop the on our se- {count.” she said, ‘timidly. “Wers going to eat ours right here in the car.”—Chi- cago Tribune. ““Whenebber & man goes an’ commits sui- d use a gal won't hab him,” eaid e Eben, “it shows dat de gal was about right in her guess as to his qualifications g}' makin' a good husband.”—Washington tar “Agatha,” sald her mother. “I don’t like to hear a daughter of mine tell even & conventional lie. You Know vou can’t bear Becky, and yet when she came the other day vou said, ‘Auntie, how giad I am to_see you' “That wasn't a lle, mamma.” answersd Agatha. | “That was an exclamation.”— iladelphia Press. THE SAME DEAR GIRL. H. S. Keller in New York Sun. Down at Atlantie City she's a squirmer, A dream of rapture in exquisite hose: Especially when hugging terra firma, And digging crabs with dantiest of toes. At Saranac she’s lolling by the lakelet, And dreaming dreams of Cholly, wha's at hum— More_like she's prowling In the forest brakelet On a still hunt for wads of chewing gum. At Richfild Springs she turns her dainty \ nose up, Andhfll‘gn' “There’'s something awful in L Sens, One weeik has passed, and then she bravely o8 uj Anrdnvmpl her dose of sulphur then and In the White mountains she s quite & The bifurcated T am told's the best 0 when the climber is a piker, ":‘nzfllfi\:.' when she rides a log for rest. ttle dear's repented, ver wanders anywhere; all day and is con-~ tented With any sort of subject that is theve. At Newport she's ividing her attes she can; So_clever, debonaire, and ever smiling— ‘With one eve open for the proper man. At Long Branch she is lolling on the sandy, Deitghttul, darling beach, s of the vore With something that s very close handy— A man, oh my! she never met befare. At Podunk Corners she's an easy winn Her nose I8 tinted to the proper tan: She's making love, the naughty littla sine nes To Jake, the farmer's happy hired man. consulted? ble—just like the men. hats and caps. department. boy for school. | are denied, party ire is aroused; If the requests of members of the assembly are ignored, there 18 danger that legislation will be obstructed. Next to boodle, pa- trenage s probably the most pernicious evil of municipal government. On Dressing Small Boys Don’t you think the little fellows like to be A good deal of their happiness depends on the style of their clothes. Their budding ambition is to look as manly as possi- We make our boys’ clothes of pretty much the same material as the men's—and make them as mannish as we ean. Have you visited our department lately? Early fall styles are here.—in clothes, and in It’s worth while to visit this Now is the time to prepare the “No Clothing Fits Like Ours.” Browning King-§-@ | R. S. Wilcox. Manager.