Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 26, 1903, Page 12

THE OMAHA DALY BEE BE. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. ERY MORNIN TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIOX Dally Bee (without Bunday), One Year..84.00 Daily Bee and Sunday, One Year 6.00 1llustrated I3¢e, One Year Bunday Bee, One Year Baturday Hee, One ¥ Twentieth Century DELIVERED Daily Bee (without Sunday), per €opy ally Bee (without Bu , per week ally Bee (Including Sunday), per week. Bunday Bee, per COBY.......: Event) Bes (without Sunday’ Evening Bee week . Complain 1 #hould be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bes Buflding. South Omaha—City Hall Funaing, Twen- tyfifth and M Streets. Council Bluffe—10 Pear! Chicago-—-1640 Unity Building, New York—2328 Park Row Bullding. ‘Washington—50 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edl- torial_matter should he addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorfal Department. 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 sstern exchanges, not scoopted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. One Year RRIER. Street. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, & George B, k. secratary of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actus] number of full and com- plete coples o The Daily Morning, Kvening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of August, 103, was as follow . 1. 18. 1. BRES pzgRsERrRLERE 3 Total......... Tess unsold and retu Net total sales.. Net average sales, GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 3lst dayuoluA A, D. 100, (Beal) PARTIES LEAVING THE CITY. Parties leaving the city at any time may Harmony 1s the watchword among Douglas county republicans. From Omaha to Des Moines by inter- urban electric in the sweet by-and-by. Nebraska farmers will do their corn husking withbut the help of kid-gloved college men. If the Real Estate exchange or the Commercial club, or both pulling to- ther, can raise the grain embargo they will render Omaha invaluable service. From and after today, and until after the adjournment of congress next sum- mer, Oyster Bay will cease to occupy the front page in the American news- papers. The sultan of Turkey has taken a dis- like to American war ships, and prayers are offered in all the Beyroot mosques that the American ironclads may depart In peace. ‘What is the use of hunting down truants if there is not room enough in the public school buildings to accommo- date all the children who are willing to &0 to school? = Ex-Lieutenant Governor Timothy ‘Woodruff has enlightened the National Farmers' congrees on how to plant sew- ing machines on every quarter section of land on the instaliment plan. A farmer at South Beach, Conn., has found on pulling up a cornstalk a heavy gold ring encircling the stalk. the inside of every cornstalk. . —_— Remember that the Board of Educa- but nearly every man on the school board pay roll has been enlisted on behsif of the candidates favored by the school tion is out of politics this year, board combine. Strenuous opposition to the bome rule charter for the city of Denver Las killed one man. He bore down the scales at| 800 pounds and turned up his toes for want of breath, byt the doctors it up to heart failure. 1s there another rallroad president in or out of Omaha who will emulate the example of President Stickney of the Great Western and contribute $2,5( wore toward the Auditorium? Don't all speak at once. Those Oentral American statesmen are raised in the school that has for its Like the crab they move forward by golug back- ward. That accounts for the gyrations government on the motto “Make haste slowly.” of the Colombian Papama canal treaty. According to cable advices from Ma- nila a great canal has been projected, at an estimated cost of $200,000, to connect the metropolis of the Philippines with the interior towns of Luzon. a day, payable in Mexican dollars. Emrem———— An automoblle regulating ordinance 2.00 L300 160 1.00 Farmers of Nebyaska will find a gold nugget in X or construction of the A capal that will cost §200,000 will not be much of a canal even with labor at 25 cents bas been enacted in St. Louis that re- qQuires each machine to be equipped with signal lanterns. The ordinance also re- quires siguals to be displayed on all weblcles at night, Including truck ‘wagons, bicycles, draft wagons, buggies and conveyances of every description. Bt. Louisans have all remaiuned indoors beretofore after dark. HA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26 1903 END OF IRON AND STEEL BOUM. Has the boom in the iron and steel trade of the United States, which began some four years ago, come to an end? It seems that the question must be an- swered In the affirmative, judging from the statements of those who are most ) | intimately acquainted with the iron and steel business. Although there is still a very large demand for the products of fron and steel, it is yet a fact that the demand is not at present so great as it was a couple of years ago and there s a reasonable belief that it will not soon again reach that point. There has been a remarkable growth in this industry in the past seven or eight years. The production of pig iron in the United States has been advan- cing by leaps and bounds. It nearly doubled in the five-year period 180 1901, The New York Journal of Com- merce remarks that thus this country, which five years earlier produced an amount of plg iron only slightly in ex- cess of the production of the United Kingdom, produced at the end of the century an amount little short of that of the United Kingdom and Germany taken together. Last year this country produced approximately 40 per cent of all the pig iron in the world, its total output exceeding by nearly a million tons the united production of Great Britain and Germany. The Increase in the production of steel has gone on with almost equal rapidity. While there is no evidence of any sudden cessation of the demand for steel products in the home market, it is pointed out that a number of influences have combined to make the market very much restricted than it has been during the last two years. Thus it s stated that the railway companies have, from considerations of pru- dence, interrupled their liberal buy- ing of steel rails, of steel cars and steel bridge material, while the attitude of organized labor in the building trades has had a distinctly depressing effect on the demand for steel for construction purposes. o The Journal ~f Commerce thinks it only natural, under such circumstances, that the great steel concerns should contemplate an aggressive campaign into forelgn markets, as they are said to do, but that paper suggests that there has been a radical change of conditions abroad since, in England and Germany, the imports of American iron and steel reached the proportions of an “Inva- sion.” The excess of exports over im- ports of iron and steel during the last fiscal year was less than half what it was in 1000, or lower than that of any year since 1807, The Euro- pean production now exceeds the demand in the foreign markets, so that there geems to be little chance for our manufacturers increasing their sales in those markets. As our New York con- temporary remarks, “Everything points to the probability that a test will shortly be applied to the great steel producing establishments of the United States of their ability to do a profitable business under normal conditions and to hold their own in the markets of the world in the face of the sharpest kind of European competition.” more OERTAIN OF AN ISTHMIAN CANAL. Senator Fairbanks sald a few days ago that while regretting the defeat of the Panama canal treaty, he felt certain that the president will find a way to secure what the people so greatly de- sire—a water route across the isthmus. Mr. Fairbanks, who has been an earn- est advocate of the Panama route, re- cently conferred with Mr. Roosevelt and very likely is familiar with the presi- dent’s intentions regarding the canal, so that his expression of Soxlfl(leu(’e doubt- less was not without a substantial basis. Bo far as appears it is the purpose of our government not to further urge the canal question upon Colombia, but to let that country make the next move in the matter. The latest report from Bogota states that there is indifference regarding the failure of the cinal treaty and that the committee of the Colombian senate is still at work upon a new treaty, but it is not kmown when its report will be presented. If it is pro- posed to submit to the United States another treaty containing the terms and conditions recently reported as repre- senting the demands of Colombia, the framing of such a treaty may as well be ahandoned, for there is no possibility of ! belng accepted by the United Btates. Our governwent will not allow itself to be held up by the mercenary politicians of Colombia and they ought to understand this. Meanwhile there appears to be little interest anywhere in the Nicoragua route and as stated some time ago by the minister of Nica- ragua to the United States that country will not seek to open negotiations. It is not likely that there will be any fur- ther action befere the meeting of con- gress. 4 DANGER SPUT. The Philadelphia Ledger says that the anthracite coal region is one of the danger spots of America and that the last strike proved it. That paper, gen- erally wost careful and conservative in its views and statements, says there is a mass of ignorance and lawlessness there, that there are too many murders, mysterious assaults, and, more danger- ous and significant, too many crimes for which there are no convietions. “The perpetrators of crimes are too seldom found; when found, the juries show a disinclination to conviet. If there is no terrorism, as some persons report, there is an unwholesome disposition to let crime alone and to let the criminals escape, to do the perfunctory and to avold inviting the hostility of the law- less element.” It 1s not to be doubted that there is substantial ground for this statement and it ought to command the wmost seri- ous attention of the people and the au- thorities of Pennsylvania. In consider- ing the underlylng causes of this state of aftairs, the Ledger poluts out as one of them the fact that the Slav has in- vaded the anthracite coal fleld and is displacing the English-speaking miner. “The newcomer is an alien indeed. e comes from an autocratic or despotic European nation, where he bas been a bond worker, either ignorant of all free institutions or filled with hate for all autbority, and he has no grip on the ideas of free government. The love and the respect which his forerunners in the region feit, or were capable of feeling, for an adopted country, and which were sufficient in a measure to restrain them from anarchy, are represented in the mind of the Slav by fear alone.” Of course this element is in the anthracite conl region because the operators wanted this class of labor, believing it could be more readily controlled and subjected to oppressive measures and harsh treat- ment than could the English-speaking miners. The responsibility, therefore, for making that region one of the dan- gerous spots of America is largely with the men who own and operate the mines and consequently it is they who should be held accountable in large part for the lawlessness that exists there. There are indications of more trouble in the anthracite reglon at no very remote time and it does not appear that the operators are particularly disposed to avert it THE LINE OF DEMARKATION. The rank and file of the republicans of Douglas county earnestly desire the obliteration of factional difficulties that have for many years divided the party in this county and enabled the demo- cratic minority to occupy nearly all the important political positions within the gift of the people. In striving for con- ciliation and harmony the party must, however, not sacrifice the public inter- est or jeopardize the success of its nominees in the impending campaign by ignoring the two essential prerequi- sites—competency and honesty—as passports to public favor and public office Harmony does not necessarily mean that every member of the party stands pledged to the support of men disqual- ified for the positions of honor and trust by indefensible records or disqualified for the duties that would devolve upon them by lack of capacity. Here is the line of demarkation. To solidify and unify the party in support of an un- scratched ticket the candidates on the ticket must be clean, honest and capa- ble. Hackneyed pledges of supporting yellow dogs that are tagged with a con- vention label will not insure their elec- tion. Nominations of unfit candidates tend to drag down the whole ticket and cause the defeat of candidates who otherwige would be sure of election. Factionalism in this county has been re- sponsible for the defeat by republican voters of republican candidates with good records and excellent reputations just because they were ideatified with either one or the other faction. For such a course there can be mno Jjustification. While it is the duty of every citizen, regardless of party, to op- pose men notoriously corrupt and unfit for public office, there is no excuse or palliation for the men who profess a party creed to eingle out and knife honest and capable candidates of their own party because they train with the opposite faction. Tas reformers regard publicity as the most effective factor in preventing fa- voritism and tax evasion. The publica- tion of real estate assessment lists prior to final action by municipal and county equalization boards is regarded as imperative/ as a check to dishonest or inequitable assessment. While the publication of the assessment rolls would involve a very large outlay the advantages to be gained by publicity would far outweigh the expenses in- curred. A New York law enacted last winter at the instance of the New York Tax Reform association provides for the separate assessment of 'land and im- provements and the published lists in- clude the names of the owner or oc- cupant of each lot or parcel of land, the dimensions and character of the build- ings erected upon it, the assessed value of the land and the value as'a whole. When the assessors know that their work is to be reviewed by all the tax- payers and property owners they will be very cautious in showing partiality. Even if they are disposed to discrimi- nate, any rank discrimination would be detected and rectified by the boards of equalization. % When the Denver papers cannot im- provise a blood-and-thunder red letter sensation they try to startle all Colorado by the announcement of the discovery of another great bonanza. Such an ex- clusive piece of news appeared in an afternoon Denver paper of Thursday, when we are told that the richest strike of gold was made the day before in the Red mountain district. *“Quartz in this mine is three feet thick and for a dis- tance of seven feet has the appearance of being incased in a solid cover of free gold that will run from §75,000 to $100,000 per ton.” The so-cglled Farmers' National con- gress, made up prineipally of political farmers who do their plowing and threshing with their jaws, is now in ses- slon at Niagara Falls. After grinding out the usual grist of high-sounding res- olutions concerning national and inter- pational problems they will pass from labor to refreshment. The prospect of harmony in the ranks of Douglas county republicans appears to alarm the democratic noupartisan organ very much. With republicans united and harmonious there would be no prospect of electing a single candi- date on the democratic ticket this fall. —— The trouble on Wall street has not been caused by the drain of currency from the vaults of New York banks to move the crops, but from the inflation of industrial securities deposited as collat- eral. One example will suftice. The Universal Tobacco company, capitalized at $10,000,000, pans out assets to the amount of only $135,000, or less than 2 per cent of the total capitalization. It the New York bankers would repress such financlering they would not be clamoring for asset currency. Satisfactory Assurances. Washington Star The vast armies of children now assem- bling in the public schools constitute a pretty satisfactory assurance that the coun- try is safe. Unreasonable Fault Finding, 8t. Louls Globe-Demoerat. Some of the labor unfons are finding fault with President Roosevelt. Before the winter is over they will be calling upon him to intervene somewhere. Not of that Kind, 8pringfield Republic. The house of the late Senator Allen G. Thurman at Columbus, O., 18 to be soid to meet his debts. The “Old Roman" was evidently not a statesman of the free pass kind. Hot Al New York World. The Alaska boundary dispute still drags tts slow length along befors the London tribunal. It takes even Englishmen a long time to convince Cahada that she cannot break through the Alaska coast line with & trumped-up map and speclous arguments. Eftect of an Investigatio; Indianapolis News. A new contract for money order depart- ment supplies has been let by the Post- office department at Washington at a sav- ing of $1,000 from the former bids. Some- times an Investigation is even better than a jolly in being worth more than it costs you. Suppressing Nuval Rowdyism, Minneapolis Times. Rear Admiral Evans is right. Rowdylsm in the navy and especially rowdyism on the part of men who are supposed to be “offi- cers and gentlemen,” should be punished by nothing less than dismissal from the serv- ice. An officer who gets howling drunk and assaults a civillan without cause is one with whom decent officers should not be forced to assoclate. Times Not Out of Joint. Baturday Evening Post. It American history were truthfully written and consclentiously taught, we should hear less ignorant lamenting over the degeneracy of the present and the dreadful outlook for the future. The mel- ancholy but cheering truth is that our an- cestars, with all their good points, had many failings, Lynching, tar and feath- ering, disheartening miscarriages of jus- tice, unworthy public conduct of all kinds, were painfully near to characteristic of us in all our past. The journey to the lofty goal of self- government and profound reverence for one's nelghbor’s rights 1s long and steep and full of dips and twists. But we are headed In the right direction, and, when we march more rapidly than we did when we were but 2,000,000 or 8,000,000 “‘revolutionary heroes," AMERICANS IN CUBA. Americanisation of the Island a Vague and Dubious Prospect. Philadelphia Ledger. The report of our consul general at Havana on the condition of Cuba is in the main cheering #8 relatés to industrial Cuba, but gives a sad-hued picture of Ameri- can commerce with the ‘Tichest island in the world,” which lies at our very door. Cuba's sugar industry is recovering; the tobaceo crop outlook is fair; the Income for the past six months exceeds the ex- penditures by a substantial sum, but the importations of goods from the United States have fallen off since 1899 ‘“‘con- siderably,” while Germans and English are increasing their exports to the islands. During the year 192, 11,98 fmmigrants went to Cuba, but only 1,083 were Ameri- cans, against 8,877 Spanlards. During the six months ended with June 1, 1003, the story Is the same, 8,20 Spanish immigrants and only 14 Americans. Truly the Ameri- canization of the “Pearl of the Antilles” is a vague and dublous prospect. So it Is with the Philippines; the American population of Manila dwindled in the past year from 18,000 to 6,000, and the character of many of those who stayed and those who left is sald to be such that the country s unfortunate which possesses them. Americans will not go to the tropical countries except in a spasmodlc manner for the purpose of ex- ploltation; adventurous souls and the representatives of large commercfal houses will “take & fiyer” In those lands, but are birds of passage and feel clearly that they are strangers in a far land even in Cuba, and that the institutions, people, govern- ment are allen. M'KINLEY AND ROOSEVELT. Traits of Two Presidents Develo in Public Life. St. Louls Republic (dem.) The second anniversary of the murdered president’s death has renewed the study gf his character. Partisan differences are cast aside in any retrospect dealing with Mr, McKinley a5 & man and as president. Unanimously he is accorded high place among the ‘Americans who have been hon- ored with the greatest dignity at the dis- posal of the country. During the last two years the pr dential chair has been oocupled by Theodore Roosevelt, & man to command admiration, who in any public or private station would stand out as & leader, whose scholarly at- tainments would compel the respect of the discerning few, whose bluff directness would earn bim a ful measure of popu- Jarity, whose family relations would defy even the neighbors' sharp tongues, whose upright Uving would be armor agajnst sus- picion of corruption, The same phrases, with one exception, apply to the life of Willlam McKinley. Yet the two presi- dential types are very nearly opposites, personally and as ofigals. Roosevelt s an individualist in action and in thought, McKinley was a col- lectivist in action and in thought. Roose- velt is to an unusual degree independent of advisers and advice in reaching de- cisions and passing judgment. McKinley seemed ever endeavoring to strike an equilibrium with his own promptings the counsels of his associates and ‘“public opinion,” meaning by that the substratum of the people's thought as distinguished from surface flotsam and jetsam. Roose- velt's is an active and aggressive mentality McKinley's was a painstaking, meditative mentality. Roosevelt is- hail-fellow well met. McKinley, figuratively speaking, put his ear to the ground that he might hear the deeper reverberations of the generil voice. McKinley, having thoroughly yoked his personality, was consistent. Roosevelt, giving rein to impressions, often is incon- sistent. Imagine speaking of McKinley as Billy; yet Roosevelt can be referred to as Teddy, and nobody seems surprised or shocked. Therein is implied ,the contrast between the two men, undoubtedly the most striking in the entire range of presi- dential history; the more so since, broadly speaking, the one is developing policies outlined by the other, OTHER THAN OURS, The Irish natlonalists are delighted by the turn British politios have taken. Thelr time of real potency in the House of Com- mons was when the two great parties were 80 evenly divided that the Irish members held the balance of power, and thus could dictate terms to governments, or upset min- istries at will. It will be recalled that Mr. Gladstone's public espousal of home rule came right after an election which resulte in 8o small a liberal lead in the Commons that he could not govern without nation- alist support. The Irish party now fon anticipates a revival of the old conditions. With thé unlonist party split on the tarift question, it is certain that neither Mr. Bal- four nor Mr. Chamberlain can command 100 plurality, or any number approaching it, in the Commons. The liberal plurality, should the liberals return to power, would not be likely to put them beyond the need of Irish support. Bo, at least, the nation- alist leaders are arguing, and if they are justified in belleving that an era of small pluralities or majorities is at hand, their parliamentary importance and power will surely expand to a point it has not held since Parfiell's most influential period. o Lord Randolph Churchill, who held the office only a few months, and the younger Pitt, who succeeded Rockingham in it at 23, afford the only Instances in which the important post of chancellor of the ex- chequer has been filled by younger men than Mr. Austen Chamberlaln, who comes to it at the age of 40. It has frequently been held by the premlier, though of late this minister has bravely cfiosen to be the first lord of the treasury. Mr. Balfour 1s also lord privy seal; Lord Eallsbury was an exception in holding the secretary- ship for forelgn affalrs. It is plainly not a change of heart which the British cabi- net has undergone with a son who is the freshened image of his father, promoted to a more important post than the latter vacated. The services of the Ceclls and their connections are in no danger of being lost to the government; Lord Balfour of Boirleigh is no sooner out than Lord Sel- borne, who married a daughter of the Marquis of Salisbury, steps into the con- spicuous place of colonlal secretary. It is @ small world—that of the personnel of English politics. The new head of the War office hyphenates for a name the cognomens of an eminent statesman and a learned writer, his foster father and his uncle. - The lack of water in Victorla and New South Wales s likely to cause political as well as other trouble. It appears that the benefits to be derived from the exten- sive frrigation works will only be secured at the cost of other parts of the country, and already there are signs of bad feeling on the subject. A member of the South Australlan upper house has beem deliver- ing himself of these bellicose sentiments “I am ready to take up my rifle, and it may be necessary to send a South Austra- llan army into Victoria and New.South Wales to destroy their frrigation works." The direful threat is due to the tapping of the water of the Murray—the one great Australian river—by Victorla and New South Wales, the two states whose boun- dary line It forms for the greater part of its course. The result is that when it enters South Australla for the final stage of its career, it Is not the noble stream that it was before it had been tapped for frrigation purposes by the other two states. The South Australians, who realize the need of water as clearly as any one else, are naturally much exercised over the mat- ter; all the more so as they have no ap- parent remedy except force, of which they have not enough, even if they could dream of employing it. Few people are aware that the smallest state In Europe hus just ceased to exist. The minute country in question was neither Monaco, nor s.r Marino, nor Andorra, nor yet Liechtenstefn, but Moresnet—a small scrap of territory between Belgium and Prussia, not far from Alx-la-Chapelle. The independence of Moresnet dates from 1815, and it was only a few days-ago that the two nelghboring states at last arrived at an agreement for its absorption. Moresnet has now been annexed by Belglum, While Prus- sla recelves a pecuniary indemnity. The amount of the latter should be large, for neutral Moresnet contained the most valu- able deposits of zinc in the world. The de- cision was hastemed by the establishment of a gambling hell there, which was stopped by the Belglan government on the 21 of the present month. The inhabitants, who paid no taxes and were free from military serv- ice, will be the losers by tielr compulsory incorporation in the Belgian kingdom. But as there are only 1,20 of them they could not resist the act of annexation. Had they, like San Marino, declined the dangerous 8ift of a casino they might have remained neutral and obscure. e Probably the most remarkable lake in the world 1s one with a coating of salt that completely conceals the water. It may be seen at any time during the year, fully exposed, being seen at its best where the sun Is shining directly upon it. This won- derful body of water is one of the saltest of the salt lakes, and is situated near Obdorsk, Siberia. Tho lake is nine miles wide and sevonteen long, and within the memory of man was entirely roofed over by the salt deposit. Originally evapora- tion played the most prominent part in coating the lake over with salt, but now the salt springs which surround it are adding fast to the thickness of the crust. In the long ago period evaporation of the lake's waters left great salt crystals on the surface. In the course of time these caked together, Thus the waters were finally entirely covered, In 157 the lake found an underground outlet Into the River Obi, which lowered its surface about three feet. The salt crust was so thick, however, that it retained its old level, and now pre- sents the curious spectacle of a salt roofed lake, The salt coat Increases six inches in thickness every year. The many islands with which the lake is studded are sild to act as braces and to keep the arched salt erust in position, P Russia has added another to her many politico-social crimes by confiscating (or, to employ an officlal Russian euphemism, absorbing) into the fund of the Holy Synod about $0,00,00 worth of prop- erty of the Armenfan church. Rioting in Baku, Tifs, Elizabethpol, Kars and other centers of Armenian population, to- gother with an appeal by the despolied communicants to a propaganda of dyna- mite, are the unpleasant, though not un- natural, consequences, What with the persecution of the Jews in southwestern Russi. the Finns in the northwest, the Armenians in the southeast and the work- Ingmen in the center it is not at all sure prising that officlal Russia should entertain a fellow-fecling for the Turks. Thg quon- dam champlons of the oppressed subjects of the sultan could not do otherwise than deal kindly with the oppressor for fear of exclting derision. c » of the Phi Philadelphia Press. The census of the Philippine slands gives the population as &, 4, of whom 650,000 are known as belonging to the *wild tithes." This is the first actual census ever taken of THE OLD RELIABLE Abooliely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE WAR AND THE NAMES, Troubles for the Reader Also Brew- ing in the Balkans, New York Tribune. One of the minor evils of war, especlally of war In such a country as the Balkan, is to be found In its nomenclature. The names of the places and men with whom we have to deal in chronicling the war are bad enough anyway. It is brain racking to spell them and jaw breaking to pronounce them. But the worst of it is that they will not stay spelled. No two authorities agree upon thelr spelling at any time, and ne authority sticks to the ma form of spelling for any considerable time. Not to be unjust to war, we may say that it s not only in time of war that such exasperating changes occur. But war makes them more evident. The fact s, the change of geographical mnames i3 a serlous evil at all times. Such changes are made on the flimsiest of pretexts, and often on none at all. Once we were taught to write “Hindoo,” but now we are assured ve shall not be saved unless we spell it Hindu.” So the changes have been made, from Cawnpore to Kanpur, from Cabool to Kabul, from Armoor to Amur, from Courland to Kurland, from Beyrout to Beirut, and what not else. We have mentioned only a few of the easy ones. When it comes to playing such tricks with the eleven-syllable names of the Balkan, bristiing with wholesale groups of con- sonants, it is enough to make strong men weep. We belleve that in nine cases qut of ten such changes are made without good reason and that fn many cases they sre inspired by a desire to affect superior erudition. There are those who think ft gives them the alr of great classical schol- ars to write “Vergil" for Virgll and to speak of “Heracles” Instead of Hercule 8o there are those who write “Kurland to fmpress us with their familiarity with Russian affairs and who think by writing “Kanpur” to demonstrate a vast superior- ity over poor folk who still stick to Cawnpore, It will scarcely answer to say thit these new forms are technically more correct— that is, more ltke the originals, in Russian, Indian or what not. We are not writing Russian or Indian, but English, and we are not using the forelgn names, but their English equivalents. The latter may dlfter widely from the former, as Florence from Firenzi and Leghorn from Livorno. But when a name has once become thoroughly established in our English nomenclature, 80 as to have become a part of the verbal furniture of our minds, it is best that it should be retained in that famillar form. To vary its form according to the taste and fancy of every archaeologlst or trav- eler or lingulst who may have a fad for such transformations would be to make confusion worse confounded. POLITICAL DRIFT, Ex-Governor Hogg of Texas Is singing the| Swan Song of Hogg and Harmony. Richard Pearson Hobson is very much engaged. He s running for congress in Alabama. After much blustering and bellowing Dis- trict Attorney Jerome of New York an- nounces that he will support Low for mayor Mississippls new capitol, which cost over $1,000,000, is much admijred by Kentucklans, who have not experienced a capitol bulld- ing sensation for fifty years. Benator Cullom predicts that Senator Gorman will be the democratic candidate for president. The fellcity of senatorfal courlesy i3 beautiful to ponder over. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Co- lumblan university and Captain Mahan, U, 8. N., retired, are being urged to stand as candidates for aldermen in New York City. Colonel Watterson Indulges in another equinoctial whoop, He sees & great many things in republican waters which provoke his wrath and he urges democrats to pur- sue the enemy relentlessly. “Let us camp on their trail,” he exclaims, “and on none other, till hell freezes over, shutting out from our vision the wretches in the depths below." Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the Cen- tury Magazine, has been asked to run for alderman in New York on the fusion ticket and may do so. George Haven Putnam, publisher, has signified his willingness to run for alderman on the same ticket. Having secured approval of a bond issua of §2176,000 the authorities of Kansas City gently inform the voters that they can disburse the money without cutside as- sistance. Before the election the authori- ties agreed with the Commercial club to place the disbursements In charge of a nonpartisan committee. But promise and performance do not always hitch in politics Democrats are as yet unable to agree on a sultable successor to Senator Jones as chalrman of the national committee. Mr. Jones ought to be retained by all means There are good reasons other than political which would make his retirement a publio misfortune. No campaign manager in re- cent times approached the round-bale statesman in promoting the galety of na- tions. SMILING LINES. “The manager says he engaged the forty chorus girls in twenty minutes.” “Gracious, but he's quick at figures.”— Town Topic . Smith. 1 don't think much of De Jones. 0. ecause why? Brown—Because he owes me $5.—Chicago News. “I understand 3 ou have lost your pocket- book containing “-aluable papers. 1 didn't suppose you had any valuable paper: “I haven't, dear boy. But just see the im- pression the advertisement’ malkes on the community."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Uncle George—Been fighting the ticker again, eh? T suppose you consider your- self a' Napoleon of finance. Tom—I consider myself a than Napoleon, Uncle George. a eingle Waterloo; I have oni Boston Transeript. “Prisoner, have you anything to say in your own behalf?'* b “Well, jedge, it's like dis. Dat lawyer o' mine he ‘got me 80 mis'biy confusticated dat I really dunno what 1 done nor what I done it for."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Deferential Barber—Where Go you part your halr, sir? Bald-Hended and Irritable Customer—I parted with it twenty-seven yeurs ago.— Chicago Tribune. ter man Te had only ¥ day.— “Some men,” said Uncle Bben, “ls so worrled ‘bout what's gwine on in South America an' de Philippines dat dey clean fohgits to keep deir own sidewalks swep' oft.~Washington Star. The prodigal son was explaining matters to his father. “You're ‘way behind the times, dad,” he exclaimed. “I have merely “een a soclolo- gist on & little slumming Lri Overjoyed nt this view of the matter, the old man’ took him to his arms.—New York Tribune. The melancholy autumn days return, And mlnny an erstwhile gay and festive soul “'hohlu;t-med in summer to have cash te urn Is worrying now about the price of coal —Washingtoft Star. —_— THE AUTUMN OF LIFE, W. D. Nesbit in Chicago Tribune. Some lives are like the autumn leave That flutter softly to and fro " In every breeze that faintly grieves— :The leaves gleam richest as they go. In one swift burst of regal hues They blaze with crimson and with gold And none of their perfection lose ‘When, withering, they drop their hold The leaves, at last, when all is done, Show us anew the days of June— The golden glory of the sun And softened fuster of the moon, The red that riots in the dawn 1s mingled with the restful brown That tints the leaves ere they have gone, While they are slowly swaying down, Bome lives are like the autumn leaves: The rose hued memory of youth In il their acts & pattern weaves With the most precious gold of truth; And they grow fair, and fairer still— Like autumn leaves their beauty glows With newer charm and grace, until Their lives are perfect at the close. CHILDREN'S SUITS. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR EX- CLUSIVE STYLES IN CHILDEN’S SUITS YOU WILL FIND THE HANDSOMEST COLLECTION HERE AT BROWNING, KING & CO. These suits are very different from the suits you see around at other stores, We make them ourselves and there is snap to the style and wear in the quality. They are made for those who appreciate good materials and workmanship and seme- thing that is new and correct. No Clothing Fits Like Ours the islands, as the Spanish took only a part and guessed at the remainder. The popu- lation is less than the Spaniards thought, but it is enough. The “wild tribes” are very much smaller than the Spaniards as- sumed, which is slso good news. . RBrowning: King-§-@© R. S. Wilcox, Manager.