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

. / BEE: THURSDAY EPTEMBER ' 17, 1908 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE BE. ROBEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. afly Bee (without £ 0 fly Bee and Sunday, One Year Illustrated Bee, One Year Bunday Hee, OUne Year Batul y HBee, One Year . Twentleth Century Farmer, One Year D BY CARRIER. er copy fer ook . per week.. 4.0 200 0 150 1.00 ), One Year Daily Daily Bee (including Buniday Bee, per copy . ening Bee (wWithout Sunday), per week ening Bee (Including Sunday), per week soisoesimasse 10¢ Complaints of irregulnrities in delivery should be addressed to City Cireulation De- partmoent. OFFICES 'he Bee Buiiding. Omuna—city Hall Buflding, Twen- ty-nfth and M Streets. Council Bluffs—10 Pear| Street. Chicago—1660 Unity Bullding. New Vork—2228 Park Row Building. Washington—01 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating (o news and edi- torial mratter should be addressed: Omahe Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES Remjt by draft, express or postal order Fl)lbll‘ to The Bee Publishing vml”nn)' nly 2-cent stamps accepted it payment 0 mafl accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges. not acc THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, &8 : George B, Tzschuck, secretary of The B Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and com- Pplete coples o7 The Daily Morning, Evenin| End Sunday Bee printed during the month ‘of August, 198, was as follows: 229,810 11 27,260 29,730 20,980 20,760 20,650 30,010 20,220 ....20,360 ..20,270 ..29,380 20330 29,280 CERERRNPERNBES Net total sales. Net averago sales........ GEORGE Subscribed in my presence and sworn to for © this 2ist day; of August, A. D. 193 M A " s“frna[n‘p:fi o LEAVING THE CITY. Parties leaving the ity at any time may have The Dee went to them regularly by notitylng The Bee B y In person or by mall ddress will be e a as often as desired. G ———— The next biting frost will nip a large crop of unripe political candidates. —_— With a tbree-fourths corn crop at present prices, Nebraska farmers will have no ground for complaint. ness The great problem, which the irriga- tion convention will try to solve is, how to supply two barrels of water where only one barrel is obtainable. e — That rift in the clouds was not as damaging as it might have been. It was like a mild case of varioloild when we were threatened with smallpox.” ‘What is a nonpartisan? A candidate who fails to secure a nomination from one party turns his political coat inside out and accepts the nomination of the opposite party.~ Ep— iewed from the conning tower of the World-Herald, John Rush is a re- publican politiclan and T. J. Mahoney a nonpartisan who 'does not know any- thing about politics. Emmm——— Judging from his letter to the irriga- tlon congress, we are forcibly Impressed with the idea that President Roosevelt has given the irrigation problem more than passing attentlon. Judge Sulllvan's opinion in the “Bible reading case” is not half as important to the great majority of taxpaying peo- ple as Judge Sullivan's opinion in the railroad assessment case. Sram—— A cavalry corps of the Salvation army 1s about to invade the mountain districts of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia on & campaign of salvation, where they ex- pect to recryit thelr ranks and achieve much peaceful glory. e The Bee has had much to say concerning its pretended desire that the present state campalgn be fought “on & high plane.” In & recont issue The Bee printed a letter over the signature of John Rush, attacking the opinion delivered by Chief Justice Sullivan in the “Bible case. So far The Bee has falled to print Judge Sullivan's opinion.— ‘World-Herald. The Bee does not keep supreme court opinlons in col storage. If the World- Herald or Judge Sullivan will furnl-h: a copy of Judge Sullivan's “Bible case” opinion The Bee will give it publicity. General Kobbe, commanding the De- partment of Dakota, expresses the opinion in his annual report that an fmprovement in discipline would follow & proper change in the regulations re- lating to army uniforms, which are fre- quently bartered for liquid refresh- ments or bric-a-brac in the neighbor- hood of army posts, when by rights they should be the property of the United States the same as the arms%nd uccoutrements supplied the regulars. There is a good deal more of truth than poetry in this observation. It is to be deplored that Attorney Gen- cral Prout bas peremptorily mefused to allow other legal counsel to be asso- i confliet, npon which seemed to hinge the [ terests that extend to every quarter of ANNIVERSARY OF ANTIETAM. Forty-one years ago today the battle of Antictam was fought. It was one of i t batiles of the civil war and not ‘decisive in its results, belng t 0 drawn ‘battle, it was yet most jmportant in its effect upon the union cause and for that reason is justly to be regarded as perhaps not the least of the of that most eventful perfod in our history. The commander of the unlon forces in that memorable very destirey of the union, was General George B, McClellan, and while he did not win a decisive victory, he demon- strated more fully than he had ever done before his ability as a commander and saved the union army from a defeat that might have been utterly disastrous. It was one of the battles on the side of the union which at least contributed to no sma!l extent to the ultimate success of the government. This auniversary ie to be marked by the dedieation of a monument to com- memorate the participation in the great battle of the soldiers of New Jersey, and President Roosevelt will deliver an ad dress on the occasion. TUnquestionably the president will improve the occasion to say what will be most inspiriting to the patriotic spirit of the country, for there is ample material in the history of that time and in the facts connected with the eventful battle to enable the president to appeal to the patriotic sen- timent of his countrymen. It marks a vital moment in the history of the civil war, The union army had suffered de- feat after defeat and to the cause seemed almost hope- lesx, The union armies had al most everywhere Dbeen vanguished, suffering particularly in the east. Tt was a period of terrible anxiety and the whole heart of the north was filled with apprehension. “The great demand: wus for a military leader who seemed equal to the great emergency and the general | demand was for the former commander of the Army of the Potomac, General George B. McClellan. President Lin- coln summoned him to the command and he responded. How well and ably he performed the duty history records, and there is no doubt that the battle of Antietam s the grandest fact in the military history of George B. McCleilan. The monument that will be unveiled ! today in commemoration of the part borne by the soldiers of New Jersey in the memorable battle of September 17, | 1862, will signalize an event of the greatest importance in our history. many PREPOSTEROUS CLAIMS. Anti-machine factionists who are op- posed to conciliation are trying to make themselves believe that the antis repre- sent GO per cent of the total republican strength in the city of Omaha, which in national election years approximates 11,000 votes and in off years has aver- aged about 9,000 votes. If these people had studied tbe returns of *he last city election they would not induige in such preposterous claims. It goes without saying that a com- parison of the votes cast for candidates for mayor is no criterion. A fair com- parison of the strength of the two fac- tions may be gained from the vote cast for city treasurer and city tax commis- sioner. Mr, Hennings, who wa¢ sup- ported without division by both fac- tions, received 9,200 votes, while Brun- ing, who received no support from the anti-machine faction, and lost several hundred votes by Fleming's second term, secured 6,894 votes, a difference of 2315 votes. Councilman Nicholson, who secured the undivided support of both factions, polled 8978 votes, while Bryce Crawford, who was defeated by the anti-machine faction as candidate for councilman, received 6,932 votes, or 2,046 less than Nicholson. Adding the majorities for Nicholson and Hennings together and dividing by two gives an average of 2,181, or less than 24 per cent of the vate cast for Treasurer Hen- nings, as against 76 per cent of the ma- chine faction. In the face of these fig- ures the claims of the “Irreconcilables™ will strike any rational mind as prepos- terous. THE BRITISH FISCAL POLICY. Not only the United States, but every country in the world, Is intimately in- terested+in the statement of the prime minister of England in regard to the fis- cal policy of Great Britain. The state- ment of Mr. Balfour in regard to his, views is a matter of world-wide inter- | est. The British nation has trade in- the earth. It is today beyond question | the most powerful commercial nation, next to the United States, in the world. The great question with the statesmen | of the United Kingdom today is how they can keep what fhey have-got and | by any possibility increase the power of | their industrial and cammercial condi- tions in the world. That is a problem that has been wor- | rylg British statesmen for several years and the solution of which is be- ing urged by Mr. Chamberlain and a fow other British statesmen, who pro- fess to see the necessity of departing from the old policy in order to put the British nation in accord with the gen- eral policy of the leading natlons of the world in respect to their fiscal relations. It is in aecord with this that we have today a declaration of the prime min- ister of Great Britain. A man who is confessedly a free trader, the statement viated with him in maintaining the posi- tion of Land Commissioner Folimer in the Boyd county land cases. His at- titude in this Instance is at variauce with: that taken in the railroad assess ment cases, when the attorneys of the rallroads were permitted to appear as friends of the court and mouthpleces of the state, when, in fact, they appeared in the interest of the corporations and against the state. In this instance Mr. Follmer is trying to protect the petri. mony of the state, and his efforts should ve been seconded by the attorney gen- instead of being thwarted. that be is in favor of a change in the fiscal poliey of Great Britain which will mean an absolute departure from that poliey that has for more than half & century distingnished Eogland from almost every other’ country of the worll. What an extraordinary com- mentary this is upon the position of those who are urging free trade as an Awerican policy. For miore than half a' century Eungland has had free trade and yet today her foremost statesman | some difference to our |sald to be the chief promoter in the '$3,000,000 to complete the work, which | IUCESSATY energy. makes to the men in this country who contend. that the United States should abandon the policy by which its indus- tries have been bullt up and a home market created which is incomparably the best in the world. We not very much concerned in thid country as what the outcome will be of the issuc of England regard ing the proposed fiscal policy of Mg Chamberlain. It would possibly make trade relations with the United Kingdom in the long run, but we should not be very much of a loser in any event now conceivable Whethier the United Kingdom would be a gainer by 'the Balfour policy is a very serlous question that is at present foremost in British attention. re BLOWI(NG POWER CANAL BUBBLRS. An enterprising news monger wires from New York to the Omaha papers that it was stated on Wall street ves- terday that a syndicate of capitalists was being organized for the purpose of financing and bullding the Fremont power canal, of which the John Kelley | Engineering company of New York is east. It is also stated that the syndi- cate will need to ralse upwards of will take over two years, and it is furthermore stated that the electric light companies, the street car com- panies and large packing and manu- facturing interests have guaranteed already to take all the current that can be developed. This is about the ‘steenth time that the same well-defined rumor has been wired to Omaha, but the only figment of truth in the bubble is_that somebody on Wall street, or in Wall street, has been approached by the promoters. There is absolutely no foundation for the statement that the street railway company has made any contract or signed any guaranty, and inasmuch as the electrie light company's contract lias not yet been extended beyond January ¥ 1906, the city of Omaha is still free to negotiate for its public lighting di- rectly with the canal company when- ever it shall be able to supply the 1f it were true that the street railway and electric lighting companies and the packing houses of South Omaha would exhaust all the current that can be de- veloped, the citizens of Omaha and South Omaha who do not own any stock in the electric lighting company, street railways or stock in the packing houses would derive precious little benefit from the power canal, unless there was assurance of a reduction in street car fares, electric lighting and packing house products. President Stickney's Omaha banquet speech seems to have created quite a sensation on Wall street. Prominent New York bankers and brokers take issiie with Mr. Stickney’s assertion that a panic in the Stock exchange would not serjously affect the whole cpuntry under prevailing favorable condlitions. There is no doubt a sympathetic chord between the great American money center and the country at large and the shock produced by a crash in the New YorkeStock exchange would be felt i every American trade center, but no genera! disaster would follow 8o long as the country is fortified by prosperity. Unworthy of America, Minneapolis Times. That dance on the deck of the returning Philippine transport while 300 dead soldlers slept in the hold was more worthy of Servia or Turkey than America. Supply Unequal to the Demand. Washington Post. 1 Representative Littauer of army glove fame proposes to make a fight for a vin- dication. He will have to fight for it, us the supply has been running pretty low since the department scandals were un- earthed. [ Chicago Chronicle, This revived discussion respecting the advisability of cutting the word ‘“obey" out of the marriage service is useless. In the future as In the past women will cheerfully promise obedience, but will make things interesting for the man who under- takes to enforce it. Touches the Top Rauk. New York Tribune. The prodkcution in the Whitaker Wright case in Lordon declared in court that shareholders In three Wright companies | lost amounts equivalent to $25,000,000 in American money. Should these statements be proved by convincing evidence Wright would rank with thd Humberts of Frane. on Worth the Cost. Baltimore American. The tremendous deggand for return pass- age at the various European ports shows that Americans, ‘eager as they were to go abroad, are far mbre anxfous to get back to the only country worth living in. It has cost them much money to learn this, but, after all, the lesson is probably worth what it has cos Lei Eastern and Western Roads, Hartford Courant. The cholcest rolling stock on the western roads surpasses any in the east, and the average out there is far ahead of the average here, The passenger rides in more | comfort there thap here, but it costs him more money per mile. Practically all the roads are single tracked, and it is amazing how close to time trains can be run under such hampering conditions. . Competition Versus Combin, Philadelphia Record. Competition !s the life of trade, accord- ing to a venerable maxim, but the monop- olists say that it is the death of traders. This proposition has not been proved. It 15 doubtful iIf competition has driven as many cons ns out of business as have combinations in their efforts to establish monopolles. The public has mo reason to look oy the suppression of competition without' concern and if it cannot prevent conkress in states where such represent tives and senators are of the same political faith as the administration and spoils for the members of the national committes, where the party has no congressional rep- resentation. Is It not time we were getting past the spolls system in the biggest busi- ness institution operated by the govern- ment and the one that touches most in- timately the daily affairs of the people? L —————— Corporate Wind and W Philadelphia Press. New Jersey's corporation business is shrinking, as should be the case. Since the first of the year forty-four corporatio organized under New Jersey laws have gone Into the hands of receivers. Their capital aggregates $0,340,000, but their lia- bilities are only $17,272,33, and yet the en- tire assets are estimated at $1,664,64. The “capital” seems to have been “‘wind," like 0 very many of the corporations organized under New Jersey's laws. For instance, the White Mountain Paper company, capl- talized at $15,000,000, has liabilities amount- ing to $11,844,000, while the assets are $2,000 of book accounts and some material on hand of no great value. The less that the people have to do with such corporations the better, and that seems to account for the great decline in new organizations un- der New Jersey law: v, PROBLEM OF THE DAY, Checking Flood Ravages in the West by Forestatio Chicago Inter Ocean. The floods of last spring cost the Santa Fe rallway $1,000000 for repairs. Other railways in Nebraska, Kansas and Texas and many of those in Yowa and Missour} suffered as heavily, Depots and ware- houses were inundated or swept away, tracks and bridges were destroyed and the freight traffice of several states was para- lyzed for two weeks, The direct damage to raflroad property represented only a small percentage of the loss by flood. Valuable frelght in immense quantities, in transit or in warehouses awalting shipment, was damaged or utterly destroyed. Large districts in cities and thousands of square miles of farm lands were devastated, the floods of two weeks damaging the states along the westarn communication that scores of citles were plete was the destruction of the means of for nine days without a rallway train, with- for nine days without rallway train, with- out mail, and some of them without tele- graph or telephone communication with the outside world. The conditions favorable to floods have not been changed. Kansas may be dam- aged to the extent of $10,000.000 next spring as it was last spring. Cities on the Mis- sourl and the Kaw may be swept by tor- rents again as they were a few months ago. Railway traffic may be paralyzed as it was last June. As long as the conditions that create floods remain unchanged there will be floods, The problem of the day is to change the conditions favorable to the recurrence of disastrous floods. Experience and sclence point the way to a satisfactory solutlon: Forestation of the river basins in the pral- rie states and reforestation of the districts at the headwaters of all our great rivers. The process of forestation Is slow, but if trees were planted by the million the growth would begin to have influence in a few yvears and would have Increasing in- fluence in prevention of floods with each succeeding year. Railroads are growing timber for ties at a profit. If one rallroad loses $1,000,000 in a single season by floods, would it not be profitable to increase its tree planting a hundred fold? If a state like. Kansas loses $10,000,000 in two weeks of flood, would not tree-planting on a. glgantic scale be econ- omy, particylarly as forests so planted more than pay thelr own way, and if carefully managed bring as good returns as crops of corn or wheat? The value of forestation and reservoirs as flood preventives is recognized, but no adequate steps have been taken to create forests or build reservoirs. We talk but we do not act. The way to prevent floods is to begin at once,the work of tree-planting on a large scale. MAKING WASTE PLACES FERTILE, Storage Reservoirs Plann Irrigation Aect. Portland Oregonfan. The United States Geological survey is working steadily upon preliminary plans for irrigation in states and territorles where there are arld land sectlons that may be reclaimed to agriculture under the new na- tional law. These surveying parties have had a busy season, and many of them will continue in the field until snow files, or as long as they can do eftective work. The law sets aside the proceeds of the sales of public lands in the reglons covered for gen- eral frrigation work. Up to the close of the last fiscal year the money thus set aside for this work amounted to about $15,000,000. The annual receipts showed a steady in- crease. , The total for 1901 was $3,144,81, for 1902 it was $4,565,516 and for the year ending June 30, 1903, it was equal to the proceeds of the two former years. The states and terri- tories entitled to irrigation money from the sales of their own lands separately are Arl- zona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyo- ming. The report is Interesting, as it touches upon reservoirs, dams, artesian possibilities and the undertow of large streams whose beds are dry fn summer, The government, after careful considera- tion of the irrigation problem and its possi- bilitles, decided last year to build what are known as the Sweetwater dam and the Bt. Mary system of canals in Montana, the Gunnison tunnel irrigation works in Colo- rado, the Truckee system in Nevada and the Balt river dam in Arizona. The aggre- gate cost of these five enterprises is esti- mated at 510,000,000 Arid lands In the reglons where these works are to be under- taken are now practically valueless, except for grazing, and for that purpose will not bring $1 an acre. The great increase In value of these lands through irrigation is predicated upon the fact that land In the same localities that is supplied with water sells now for $50 an acre and upward. On an average an acre of irrigaied land will support one person. In the United States there are 600,000,000 acres of vacant land, one-half of which s suitable only for grazing. Enough water runs to waste in these arid and semi-arid reglons every year to irrigate 75,000,000 acres. It is clear that o matter so extensive must be dealt with systematically and that its preliminary steps must be carefully taken. The five projects above noted rest upon former in- vestigations and engineering reports, so that no risks are involved. The lands in- cluded In the tracts in which these opera- tions have been decided upon have been withdrawn from settlement, to be reopened agaln when water can be applied to them for agricultural purposes. Secretary Hitehcock at the beginning of last year Indicated the part that the na- tional government proposed to take fn Under the unreasonable exactions by direct legisla~ tion, which s difficult of application, it may very wisely f(usist on preserving enough competition to protect its own in- terests Indianapolis Journal (rep.) Postmaster General Payne's explanation says it is a failure and that to continue it means disaster to the industrial and commercial inferests of the United Kingdom. - Think of the answer this of the removal of Miss Todd, a fourth- class postmistress in Delaware, calls the attention of the public sharply to the fact that the fourth-class posteffice is nothing more nor less than spolls for members of irrigation as follows: “‘Water should be brought to the point where the settlers can, with their own labor, or by co-opera- tion, construct ditches and laterals to re- claim the desert land. WIth the require- ments of actual sett'ement and cultivation, to be followed by the payment of the cost of storing water, the speculative element will be eliminated, leaving the ground free to bona fide settlers.” This policy may be sald 10 have been falrly inaugurated and its continuation cqnnot fail in time to be of immense value In making_fertlle the ‘waste places of the continent. ROUND ANOUT NEW YOR es on the Current of Life in the Metropol Competing combines of cigar stores in New York City are now smoking the pipe of peace. Cut prices have ceased and the lamb reposes quietly in the interior depart ment of the wolf. In other words, the Independent Cigar Stores company has been absorbed by the United Cigar Stores com- pany. For nearly two years the retafl clgar dealers have been waging bitter war- fare against the United Cigar Stores com- pany, which is supposed to be backed by the Tobacco trist. About a year ago the Independent Cigar Stores company was fn- corporated and twenty-cight stores were opened in New York. A flerce profit cutting war was waged. Now the Independents have given up the fight and sold out. Thus the trust has removed all organized oppo- sition in New York. During the last two years retallers in all parts of the country have organized to fight the trust, but this opposition, the United Cigar Stores com- pany says, has amounted to little. It was the price cutting of the Independent Stores company that hurt An exceedingly vealy junfor reporter on the staft of one of New York's yellows volunteered, not long ago, to get himself committed to the asylum for insane paupers land in the East river and “write about his experience. There had been some complaints reaching this news- paper office about the alleged cruelty prac- ticed upon inmates of the asylum. The young man's pauper makeup was pretty obvious when he presented himself for ad- mission to the asylum as a “bug” and the examining physicians instantly saw through him. They admitted him to the asylum with many and sundry winks, one to the other, and they passed the word down the line among the asylum attendants as to the character of the new inmate's mission. “Oh, we won't do a single, solitary thing to him!" the attendants sald unto each other, spitting joyously upon their hands. The young man didn't know that his “dis- gulse” had been penetrated from the go- oft and that his imitation of insanity wasn't clever enough to fool a rabbit. From the hour they got hold of him the attendants proceeded to make the peculiarly vealy reporter for the saffron sheet sorry that he had ever seen the ‘“school for journallsm" up New York state from which he was graduated. They gave him the hot and cold water cure alternately and in amazingly quick sequence, and then they massaged him with such huge enthusiasm that they kneaded most of the pelt from his frame. Then they decided to give him a novel “nerve treatment” of their own de- vising. One of them sat on his head while another tickled the soles of his bare feet with a straw. At last he was permitted to escape from his tormentors, but the story he planned remains unwritten. “There is a species of petty blackmall practiced in New York with which very few of even the nativex are familiar,” writes a correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch. “Not a few of the big uptown resturants employ 100 or more waiters dur- ing the dining hours, and the men are engaged by favor, because these jobs are especially desirable. The average diner notices that the expectation of tips prac- tically amounts to a demand. Tips are usually heavy and good men may easily make $3 or $4 during the three rush hours. The average person who glves a gratuity to a walter does not know that the waiter in turn must also give tips to hold his job. There is one very large place which engages its walters through an agent, who keeps a saloon in the neighborhood. This man not only exacts a fee for getting the places for walters, but he also demands $1 a week 80 long as the men he recommends are employed. Besides this they are expected to patronize his bar. The walters who do not know the ropes or who rebel against the extortion are quietly dropped. The inference 1is that someone in authority divides the velvet with the agent. It is not generally known that waiters must also tip the kitchen employes to insure the kind of eervice that produces a gratulty from the castomer. Then they must tip the omnibus, or apprertice waiter, to have the dishes removed at the right moment and for other detalls of auxillary service.” Grief has queer ways of testifying its length breadth and depth, as the monuments in any large cemetery attest. Woodlawn cemetery, in The Bronx, has many and striking proofs of the fact, but none more striking than the memorial recently erected by the widow over the grave of George Schlosser, once a prosperous butcher of the vineinity of One Hundred and Eighty-seventh street and Prospect avenue. The monument is only about four feet high and is a plain block of granite bearing the family name in large- letters, supporting the sculptured figure of an ox. Many critics say the ox seems to smile, as though saying: “George was on top In life and slew many of us, but in death are we triumphant. It is sald that Mrs. Schlosser pald $2,500 for the memorial and that the expénditure has left her but meager support for her- self and children. Bhe feels, however, that she has done her duty and Is pleased with the result. She has not been heard to criticise the expression of countenance worn by the figure. Without solid food for seventeen days, Stephen Playsted, & muscular machinist, has managed to put In a Bard day's work every twenty-four hours during the entire period without feeling unduly tired when night comes. Playsted, who is 38 years old, and lives at 1575 Myrtle avenus, Brooklyn, has started out with the avowed purpose of demonstrating the truth of his theo that “eating Is merely & matter of habit. His only diet has been three pints of water taken at the regular meal hours during the last seventeen days, but notwithstanding this his health has not suffered in the least. All of his friends declare that he seems to be In as good condition physically as when he began his fast. Playsted is an athlete with a well-proportioned frame and finely developed muscles, and fs about five feet | elght inches tall, and welghs about 180 pounds. The ldea of fasting occurred to him some time ago after tralning for a boxing match. At that time he fasted three weeks, and as no Injurious results came from it, decided to make a test to see how long he could abstain from eating without it-Interfering with his strength. He has an idea that he can go sixty days The New Yorker who turns an car toward Sandy Hook occasionally hears a deep boom, lke the sound of a house falling down, It is an echo from the scvere tests being made by the government of the ten- inch wire gun, out of which 100 shats are to be fired before a decision is reached. The figure stands in the twenties at pres. ent. In each round 136 pounds of powder 1s used, of which 3 per cent is nitro- glycerin. The welght of the projectile last of Doped Food and D San Francisco Call When It was announced that the Depart- ment of Agriculture would set its chemists to work to Inspect every kind and grade of food and of drink products that reached our custom houses seeking access to our mar- kets there was a clamor from Iurope that we should have trouble, So insistent were the declarations of hostility to the new law that the officlals of the Department of Agriculture were compelled to repeat again Wl aguin their assurar that the en- forcement of the new policy would injure would benefit one and all by ridding them of the compet'tion of unscrupulous manu- facturers of adulterated or falsely labeled goods The law has now been in force for some time and the results have proven that the fears of injury to foreign producers and of possible vindictive retaliation on the part of European governments were utterly un- founded. In fact, the former exporters of objectionable goods have profited by the warning given by the publication of the law and have made no effort to get thelr goods into our market. It Is stated that while upward of 100 cargoes of forelgn food and drink products have been inspected by the government chemists, not a single sam- ple has shown the slightest adulteration. A report from Washington giving an ae- count of the manner in which the law is operated says: “The result is declared to be most gratifying in every detail. No de- lay that has caused inconvenience to ship- per or conslgnee has resulted. The De- partment of Agriculture receives involces of every cargo destined to ports of the United States, These invoices are sent by fast mail. The department is also Informed by cable of shipments and the cable ad- vices are made explicit, so that the mall advices need not be awaited as a basis for the issuance of an order on the Treasury department for samples from that particu- lar cargo. The use of the cable has only recently been adopted for this purpose. The anal have each been completed by the chemistry bureau of the Dopartment of Agriculture in two days and beyond this no delay has been occasioned in the passage of goods through the custom houses." S0 vanish all the bugaboo fears that the law would be a disturbance of trade and ineffectual as a_remedy against the evils complained of. Experlence has shown that the bare announcement of the law, accom- panied by @ clearly manifest Intent to strictly enforce it, has brought about a suspension of the Injurious imports. The result has naturally enough given encour- agement to the advocates of the adoption of a domestic pure food law and it is not unlikely it may be provided at the coming sessfon of congress, —_—— PERS! L, NOTES. The peculiar thing about the Indiana woman's elghteenth suit for divorce is that she 1s not on the stage. The rank of a governor, or pasha, In Tur- key is determined by the number of horse tails that dangle from his standard. Major J. H. Beacom, an Ohlo man and a brother of Judge M. W. Beacom of Cleve- 1and, has been appointed military attache to the Court of St. James. . Butkeiweicz, the new tackle in the Unl- versity of Pennsylvania foot ball team, weighs over 200 pounds and is said to be ir- resistible, as his strength is as great as his ‘welght. Prof. David Starr Jordan of Leland Stan- ford university has presented to the Insti- tution as a gift his magnificent collection of booke on the subject of ichthology, on which he is one of the leading authorities of the world. Mr. and Mrs. Willam H. Ellis of New York have pald a visit to the king of Abyssinia and were cordially received. Menelek secems to have a great liking for Ameéricans and few visit his realm without a pressing invitation to partake of his hospitality. The.death mask of President Willlam McKinley, taken some few days after his death by Prof. William H. Holmes of the Bureau of Ethnology, has been placed on exhibition In the National Museum, oc- cupying a consplcuous caso by itself near the main entrance. Frank Schaukeo of Vincennes, Ind., holds the record of the country as an Inventor and patentee. He has designed no less than 6,024 instruments of various kinds, obtain- ing patents upon all of them. None of his inventions, however, has brought him for- tune, although he Is drawing a small Income from some of them. Stewart H. Simpson of Ofl City, Pa., one of the most prominent ofl producers in that section, entered sult at Franklin, Pa., against the Pennsylvania raflroad for $100,- 000 for the loss of his vision. He alleges that he was so badly hurt In a wreck on the Buffalo & Allegheny division, near Siverly, last March that he will never see again. Miss Julla Richman of New York City has been appointed district superintendent of schools in that city, she being the first woman to be selected for such a position. Miss Richman has been interested in educa- tlonal work for nearly twenty years past and is recognized as one of the most ca- pable instructors in the public schools of the eastern metropolis. Willlam M. Bunn, ex-governor of Idaho, financier, politician, sometime candidate for mayor and promoter of “the city beautitul \dea, 18 again in the hands of his friends at Philadelphla and if they have thelr way he will be made prothonotary of the Penn- sylvania supreme court, flling the vacancy caused by the death, seevral mont] of Colonel Charles 8. Greene. no legitimate industry, but on the contrary | SUR! VERING CIROULATION, et of Banks Comtrasted with \ Thelr Assert N Chicago Chronicle A New York newspaper which advocates asset currency for the sake of its supposed | elasticity prints a statement that the banks have already made applications for the | withdrawal of $3,000,000 of thefr ctrculation this month—the full amount they are permitted by law to retire in.any one month This does not barmonize well with what | the same newspaper says to the effect that | there 15 lkely to be a scarcity of currency | to move the erops this fall and with its assumption that If the banks wera freo to fssue and withdraw as much circulation as | they plensed they would regulate the sup- ply to a nicety 1f, with the money famine close at hand the banks are retiring circulation up to the legal limit and hastening to fila a) plications for retirement to the same «x tent next month, as a stated, that would they be likely to do If they were free to retire their notes without limit at time? Those who clamor for asset fssues are |Just now telling us what dreadful things would happen were it not understood that the secretary of the treasury would de posit $40,000,00 of public money In the banks to help out the crop-moving. Tt behooves them to explain why the banks are surrendering circulation as fast as they can under such circumstances and to state, It they can, what reason there is that the banks would be putting out more currency under the same clroum- stances If they were free to expand and contract ad libitum. The facts seem to show that el bank cfrculation Chrontele. any tiolty of 18 & humbug.—Chicago POINTED PLEASANTRI vShe had the fatal gift of beauty, had she not “Well, I don't know whether It was her beauty ‘or her money that was fatal, but anyhow she married a titled nonentify."—- Chicago Post. Mrs. Enpeck—Oh, you needn't talk. You're Dot quite perfection’ yourself, I would have you know. Enpeck--No, my dear, around I'm mighty near Mrs. Enpeck—Oh, American. “Ho! Caltiff!" cried the sultan, just awak- ened from his sleep, “what have you done with my shirt ‘Oh, Highness,” replied the grand vizier, e immediately. “it will be he o imperiai blacksmith has been mending it.”—Philadel- phia Press. but when you're ggrtection, {enry!'~Baltimore “‘She uses slang!" sald the cultured young woman in a tone of deep disapproval. “That isn't the worst of it, Miss Cayenne. “She uses slang that hasn yet received the sanction of smart society." ~Washington Star, “‘Uncle Henry,” said little Robert, you absorb water?’ “‘How absurd!" repiled Uncle Henry. you think I am a towel?” “No, but pa sald you were a sponge.’ Chicago News. “I have noticed,” sald the observer of men and things, “that fat men are invariably honest. / “That's because they're so sensitive about their fat'" replied the deep thinker. don't see your point.' sWell, if they ghould be dishonest, and get caught at it. they might have to wear convict sults with the strij running in the most unbecoming way."'—Philadeiphia Press, “do Do THE TOWN BAND, (W. D. Nesbit, in Chicago Tribuue.) I want to say there was a time when this town had a band That d‘{;l.n'll lldka 1t's hats off to no other in nd. the times when music of the fin- The SHiate we hed” th cornet ba mes we 16 corne d Charley Hunter played. o o Of course, there was some others that was some shakes on the play— Why, Curly Brown, the drummer, was the fnest of his da; And Minor Stephens, he could take his alto horn and make You feel lok:olemllka. until you half begun to shake, But %hlrley Hunter! When he'd 1ift his old -flat cornet, And sort o' pat it with his hands, and get his mustache set! When he would 1ift that lttle horn, and put it to his mouth, And play! T've heard of mocking birds that ‘warbles in the south, But, Charley Hunter, he could make th birds g0 hang their head— He wasn't playing music, he was lvin' it, instead | He had a lot of medals—from the places he ad gone— And when he played you wanted to go pin another on. I'd like to hear that old bond mow, a sweotonin' the air With “Come''—on all the horns—"to where the lilies bloom so falr,"” Or “John Brown's Body''—like to hear that ringin' from afar— The old band and the banners and the post With Crariey Hinter playln'—till the a ar nter playin he drum- ‘mer husied his “boom And the music was a (nrfll‘n ‘with the flow- ers all in bloom Nobody knows where Charley is; but if he's 1vin' yet Somebody somewhere's listenin’ to that E- flat cornet. T reckon, when I wander where the pearly atés appea 1l agk about the musio—then: “Is Charley Hunter here?™ Huteson’s Chatty Talk! Many & man s a critic because he likes to be contrary. You can go contrary to the wishes of your friends and melghbors, and sometymes get the best of them, but g0 contrary to the dictates of NATURE, and you always get the worst of it—there- fore, CARE FOR YOUR EYES. The eye has been our life's study, HUTESON OPTICAL CO., 203 South 16th Street, « < Paxtou Bleck caught the public fancy. That to caut 01 those who have an his s¢ ason to not postpone it. agd the selecting now fired was 675 pounds, In its initfal velocity 2,000 feet per second and the pressure 1,600 pounds per square inch. Hereafter we will see only giants on the “Broadway Squad.” The polico commis- sioner has assigned six men, all of whom are over six feet two Inches, and he says that the biggest and cleanest men will be favored in the future. The Broadway policeman has always been the pride of New York. He makes a specialty of ple Ing the many women shoppers along that thoroughtare. He helps them off the cars, escorts them to the curb and does all those things which should be done by a chival- rous officer, From the Demand we have had the last three days the Brown- ing, King & Co. kind of overcoat must have they are the best to be had for the money has been a positve fact and they are surely taking such a lead in popular favor that we feel called upon overcoat purchase to make 1t they would like to find the widest scope of selection—Our entire lines are complete is & pleasure. Price, quality, style and patterns considered you will never have a better chance than now to choose what you want from among the finest lot of Overcoats you ever saw and we are ready to prove to your entire satisfaction what we say—That the Best Ready-Made Ctothing Bears this Trade Mark. Rrowning: King - &-(© $. Wileox, Manager.