Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 15, 1903, Page 6

“,'I'ymd long s an amusement for which THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY THE OMAHA DALY Bsfii E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Year.$4.00 Dally Bee and Sunday, One Year 80 Illustrated Bee, One Year 2.00 Bunday Bee, One Year L 20 Baturday Bee, One Year Twentieth Century Farmer. One Year DELIVERED BY CARRIER Dafly Bee (without Sunday), per copy Dajly Bee (without Sunday), per week Dally Bee (including Sunday), per week Sunddy Bee, per copy Evening Bee (without Sunday) Evening Bee (including Sunday) week y 100 Complaints of irregularities in delivery | should he addressed to City Circulation Dé- | partment OFFICES Omaha—The Hee Bullding South Omaha—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-Afth and M streets. Council Bluffs—10 Pearl Street. Chicago—1640 Unity Bullding New York—2328 Park Row Bullding. Washington—501 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENC! Communieations relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES Remit by draft, express or postal order ayable to The Bee Publishing Compin nly 2-cent r(nmy;n Al‘.lw-rlm\ in payment of mail accounts. Personal cnecks, except on Omaha or castern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: George B. Taschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally Mornini Evening and Sunday Bee printed during $he month of September, 163, was as fol- owi 16. per weelk: 6c per EEEnEREEL Total AR Less unsold and returned coples. Net total sales 852,744 Net average sales.. . s 28,424 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 30th day of September, A. D. 1803. M. B, HUNGAT _(Beal) Notary Public. e Senator Platt should have applied to Senator. Depew for a tip on the state of the matrimoniabmarket. There is a tide In the affairs of cities as well as of men, aud the tide is rap- idly rising in the vieinity of Omaba. Municipal ownership is not to be snuffed out by a reactlonary city coun- cil playing the game of hide and seek. P t— Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today. Don't fail to register to- day Dbecause there is another day of registration ahead. emmm——— The republicans are carrylng on a campaign over in Iowa just to keep in practice and make sure that their orators do not get rusty. Spinning editorial yarn all wool and a | Jour amiable democratic contemporary Tolds the sole patent in these parts, e—pse— Grover Cleveland still commands space in all the papers, lrrespective of politics, whenever he consents to speak in publie. That's what makes the Bryanites sor(;. eNEE——— If there Is any good reason why a re- Dbublican should this year vote for the democratic candidate for judge of the supreme court of Nebraska, it is yet to be advanced. With a banker in the governor's chair and two, bankers representing the state in,the United States senate, no wonder the Nebraska State Bankers' assoclation 18 feeling its oats, “I dido't steal those apples, the boy. “I didn't ask those council- men to hide,” cries the president of the electric. light company. Of course not. It was his several men Friday, 1 S h———— AIntemuch’ as no one Guestions Judge zrm' eminent qualifications for the preme bench, no good republican. will hye any excuse to object Lecause he belobgs te the republican party. ? o “Phe announcement that the Wabash tem proposes to acquire terminal fa- cilities in Omaha will be highly gratity- ing to everybody interested in tho growth and prepperity of this clty, E—— Nobody will be allowed to vote at the coming election in Omaba and South Omaha unless ho appears in person be- fore thé régistrars of his voting distrl The fitst duy of registration occurs to- day. It the ruwor that the comlng dongress is lkely to prove of au Inquisttive turn of wind, several de- partments down at Washington might as well get their yeconds vesdy for the investigators. — Before Omaha undertakes to establish & wool market it should establish a grain market. Omaha has too often failed to drive the nail home because it has persfsted in hamwmering too wmany nalls at ope tim Why ean't the Real Estate exchange organize itself futo 4 committee of the whole fir the purpose of fnduclng eapi- talists fo erect commiodions aud sub- stantial business blocks to accommodate | other things, | elects all its committees. T0 CHANGR HOUSE RULES. Efforts to change the rules of the house of representatives, so as to make them more liberal, were made in the last two congresses and it is announced will be renewed in the coming con- gress. The leader of the movement for a change is Representative Hepburn and it is stated that he proposes, among not only to enlarge the committee rules, but to make it elective instead of appointive, following in this the course of the senate, which In regard to this “the New York Tribune remarks that possibly the far larger lower house could not accomplish thig feat withont excessive friction and turmoll, “but whether the rules committee is to be elected or ‘appointed, it certainly should be enlarged. It should reflect and speak the sentiment of all the elements in the majority party. Its voice woull then be final and decisive and we should be spared the spectacle presented last congress of a leadership which bad ceased to lead—which was on in the overawed by the Russian preparations. What of Russia’s assurances to the United States in regard to the protec tion of our commercial interests and treaty rights in Manchuria? The prob- ability is that she will find a way to evade them. It is fully demonstrated that no dependence can be placed upon any promises she may make. In the event or her pursuing a course detri- mental to our trade and our rights it wonld become a very serious question as to what our government should do. It is a possible contingency that it is not pleasing to think of. One thing the situation quite plainly suggests. This is that the tradition of a firmly ce- mented friendship between Russia and the United States is evidently about to be destroyed CONFESSION GOUD FOR THR S0UL. Each successive political campaign we are regaled with more or less hypocrit- ledd upon office seekers and otfice hold- ers. The party that wants the offices openly and successfully antagonized by republican ‘insurgents’ and had lost the confidence even of its own more loyal followers."” It is stated that Mr. Cannon, who will be speaker of the next house, is favorable to some concessions to the demand for a change in the rules. It is intimated that he favors such an enlargement of the committee on rules as will give it a truly representative character, which of course it cannot have with only three members, one of which is the speaker of the house. The proposed plan is to have all sections represented on the committee and the justice and expedi- ency of this is obvious. It is pointed out, for example, that in the last house the speaker’s two colleagues, Dalzell of Pennsylvania and Grosvenor of Ohlo, represent districts scarcely 150 miles apart. “New England, with twenty- four republican votes, had no repre- sentation on the committee. Neither had New York and New Jersey, with twenty-eight republican vote: The central west and northwest, with sixty- five votes, were represented only by the ex-officio membership of the speaker. Missourf, Kansas and far western states, with twenty-two votes, had no representation whatever.” Yet this committee fixed the order of business and decided what propositions the house should or should not be allowed to vote on. 4 What are known as the Reed rules have unquestionably been serviceable in expediting business in the house. They put a check upon the old practice of filibustering and other dilatory meth- ods and enabled the majority to enact such legislation as it wished. Nobody would seriously advocate a return to the old system, under which the minor- ity party in the house could block and defent legislation, but some modification can be made without impairing the power of the majority and the proposi- tioh to enlarge the committee on rules and to make it elective would not neces- sarlly interfere with the expeditious transaction of business. If Mr. Can- non is favorable to such a change, as he is said to be, it will of course be ef- fected. e— CUBA'S COMM 81O It is understood that the extra gession of congress will be devoted exclusively to legislation making effective the Cu- ban reciprocity treaty. There has been prepared by the’ Department of Com- merce and Labor a comprehensive statement of the commerce of Cubha, Wwhich is expected to prove especially valuable to the friends of the treaty. From this it appears that the volume of Cuban foreign commerce, which was greatly diminished during the years of warfare in the Island, has since the present government was established experienced an encouraging increase and promises in the near future to ex- ceed the best record before the war. It is pointed out, however, and this is the particularly interesting featurc for those who advocate reciprocity with thie new republic, that exports to that country from the United States have recently not been increasing, although our imports from the island have grown largely, the balance of trade for fhe last fiseal year against this coun- try amounting to nearly $43,000,000, The figures show that last year Cuba imported almost twice as mueh from other countries than she took from the United States. : This is a condition which the s D- porters of the recipioeity treaty may be expected to make the best possible use of and unquestionably it presents a very strong argument in favor of closer commerelal relations, RUSSl4 KEEPS MANCRMURIA. Several days ago the Russian minister to China announced that the Man- churlan convention had lapsed. This referred to the convention with China signed a year and a balf ago relating 1o the evacuation of Manchuria. Now the Russian Forelgn office aunounces that the question is closed for the pres- ent, which simply means that the Chi- nese province is to permanently remain in the possession of Russia. If that goverument ever seriously contemplated evacuation, which appears most fm- probable, it certainly has no thought now of doing so. Its already formid- able army there is being ‘increased as rapidly as possible, as also is its naval force in that quarter. tries to make capital by accusing the party that has the offices of levying forced contributions upon the salaried list. 1t is refreshing, therefore, to have the principal organ of the self-styled re- form party—The Nebraska Independent —talking common sense on this subject. ‘““I'here are certain unavoidable ex- penses in conducting a campaign,” says this populist oracle, “‘and it is only just that the office holders who are to profit financially by success should at least pay a reasonable proportion of those ex- penses. It costs the farmers from $10 to $40 a year to attend conventions when those they elect to lucrative offices often think that they have made a Mberal contribution to campaign ex- penses if they put up §5. The Inde- pendent has become very tired of this sort of work. A man who won't pay a reasonable portion of the actual cost of electing him to office whether it is a state or county office should never he elected. He is too mean to be entrusted with an office.” The Independent goes on to describe another class of office holders “who are still meaner’—those who hold their offices by appointment. ‘“These pérsons it declares, “have had no campaign ex- penses to pay like those who are elected and the office is clean gain to them. Some of these persons have held office continuously for twelve years and re- fuse to contribute to campaign pur- poses. When they act in that way the appointing power should be held respousible for their action.” The populist party 1s not the only one that has been afflicted with deadheads. The republican party in Nebraska has been, if anything, more seriously tried. The time will come, however, when the political deadhead will be left out in the cold, no matter what party profes- sions he may make. The Lincoln Journal says that the people of that city have apparently given up all idea of opposing the con- struction’ of an electric trolley line to Omaha, having come to look upon it as inevitable and to see besides a number of advantages connected with the project certain to outweigh any posgible diversion of trade. Why there should at any time be any opposition among in- telligent people to the introdustion of twentieth eentury improvements passes comprehension. There would be just as good reason for the people of Lin- coln to oppose rail and telegraph connec- tion with Omaha or to ask for a stop- page of mail interchange as to try to block the junction of the two cities by electric tramway. The dark ages of isolation have long since been passed. Who pocketed the llon's share of the county fair graft this year? That is a question the taxpayers of Douglas county have heen asking themselves since the carnival closed its gates. The general presumption is that the county fair grafters went to the full limit of $3,000, but most people who inspected the cabbages, pumpkins, squashes and rutabagaes on exhibition expressed the opinion that there were not $500 worth of fruits, vegetables, poultry and patched quilts in the whole collection. Why the tounty board should permit this annual raid on the county treasury has always been an executive session mystery. Nearly 5,000 additional rural free de- livery routes have been established throughout the country within the past year, and that despite the more stringent enforcement of the regulations with reference to length route and number of patrons served. This is pretty good evidence that it is not the intention of the department to cripple or even retard the growth of this branch of the service. Rural free de- livery is a pretty healthy infant. of The clerk of the old State Board of Equalization will be secretary of the | new State Board of Assessment created | by the new revenue law. The new board, however, will have to do better than the old board if it hopes to satisfy the people that they are having a square deal as compared with the railroads and other favored corporations. The best way to secure thorough re- form of State university abuses is to re- store tbat institution to republican ad- ministration by the election of the re- publican candidates for regents at the coming election. The obvious fact is that Russia has the jobiblng houses that want to locute 1n Omighs Omabia has never been a walled city, mlhm.l every rallroad that has 1o entor and acconded to every uliroad fiberal’ treatment. for securing heen acting in bad faith throughout. She has not carried out a single pledge, but has gone on steadily strengthening her hold upon Chinese territory untfl she bas reached a position that gives her control of the situation. 1t is not at all probable that the negotiations ' with Japan wil] resylt in any important con- cesslons to that ceuntry and China is of course helpless, Her territory is ir- recoverably lost and she must submit to Ome Faot Ma ¥ Chicago Record-Herald. Live and learn. It has at last been made pretty clear that Wall street can have about the worst kind of a slump without stopping the United States for a minute. From Big Mitt to Suicide. Philadelphia Record The most remarkable tragedy on record is detailed in the late foreign news. The seven members of the municipal council uf & village In southern Hupgary, having been discovered In the appropriation of money resulting from the sale of property be- ical talk about political assessments leve I.Y-pnn appears to be subsiding, perhaps | Did ever councilmen, since councilmen were first invented, before these thieving Magyars make such an end of their steal- ing? The story seems Incredible. The Wisdom of Years. Chicago Tribune. There will always be a lot of conserva- tive, old fashioned persons who would rather wait for the milk train than travel at the rate of two miles a minute. Advane National Arbitration. Baltimore American. The 0ld statement that “the bravest are the tenderest” s beautifully sustained in the fact that President Roosevelt, who, as his enemles declared and some of his friends feured, was almost too warlike and strenuous to follow in the peaceful foot- steps of William McKinley, has done more for the cause of national arbitration than any other individual had ever done before. Making Grafters Disgorge. Springfield Republican. Bults are threatened in the Shipbullding trust o to compel those who profited from the scheme to disgorge for the benesit of creditors. They will probably be brought, as they have been in the case of the Asphalt trust. But in the present case only one man stands out as an available object for such action—Mr. Schwab, Every- body else concerned seems to have pocketed Philadelphia North American. Two things stand out clearly as the re- sult of the cutting in half of the quarterly dividend on the common stock of the United States Bteel corporation. First, it is ghown that men who do not hesitats to sell “water” will not hesitate to disre- gard any pledges they may have made in connection with its sale, and, second, it Is demonstrated that so low has fallen the phase of “high finance” known as“Mor- ganeering,” that its chlef apostles are compelled to write It down a fraud. GIVE HIM THE BENEFIT. President Roosevelt's Interest in the Chase of Fugitive Boodlers. St. Louis Republic (dem). Mr. Roosevelt, even as the already chosen national candidate of his party for next vear, will recelve the ungrudged com- mendation of democrats who have observed his active interest in securing the return of fugitive boodlers. It is a drawback to good government that men should be able to ply the trade of corruption with a guarantee that if de- tected they can escape the law's penalties by traveling a,short distance to the border or a longer but pleasant distance across the ocean. A haven of refuge is an encour- agement to crime. Persons indicted in the state of Missouri are luxuriously living in Mexico, Canada and Europe. The state and the United States have been impotent. Kratz, Kelly and Walnwright have defled both govern- ments, Circuit Attorney Folk has brought the sit- uation to the attention of the president, and Mr. Roosevelt has not only promised that the United States government will appeal to the officials of the countries where the indicted men are residing, but put the law and forelgn departments of the cabinet actively at work. It is sald that the United States government will claim a right under the Mexican treaty to the extradition of Kratz, ‘ The president's action is wholly com- mendable and Missour| democrats will give him credit for being a good citizen and not a politieliti in his willingness to vig- orously -~ co-operate with the executive officials of he:state of Missourl. If that | makes him any stronger as a presidential candidate let him have the benefit he has earned. e “LITERATURE TO JOURNALISM.” Stimulating Thoughts on “Descent” to Newspaper Work. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. A writer of a favorite magazine recently made remarks about the “descent” from 1it- erature to journallsm. No worker on the press could read them without a feeling that possibly, for mere respectabllity’s sake, he ought to make a rapld break for the uplands of literature. There was noth- Ing to show, however, in writing about the “descent,” that the magazinist realized how much trouble would be made for jour- nalism if many of its most capable workers should seek to “ascend” to the upper realms of literary fame. While they were on the wing the lowly journallsm which paid their salaries might suffer. Journalism has long been regarded some- what scornfully by young literary aspirants as o stepping stone. The idea Is culti- vated in them by the patriclan magazines. Now stepping stones are cuseful in their place. Doubtless the world must have them. But no business is helped or dignified by be- ing made a kind of temporary foothold to something else. The work of (Paching, im- vortant as it is, used to be regarded by many young college graduates as a step- ping stone to medicine or the law; with the result that teaching was made the worse for the experfence. This is true of journal. fsm. It reaches its best estate nelther as @ stepping stone nor as a door mat, nor as a ladder to help the ambitious to climb to “lterature” and fame. It may be difficult to regard literature and | journalism as bearing no relation to onme another, but they certainly ought to be bon- eldered as entirely distinct callings. The person who goes into it should intend, or at least hope, to make journallsm his life work, and to leave literature to those who wish to be, or think they are, poets and artists. The truth is that a real artist in | Mterary oxpression may be a wretched newspaper man, and that a very able news- paper “man may not be at all a literary artist. Both these types would probably be spolled by any process of “descending” or “‘ascending”’—the one from literature to journalism, or the other from journalism to literature, If the very superior beings who write such charming essays for the magazines would get thils distinction carefully in mind, they would refrain from exhibiting journal- ism as a “descent” from something. It is 1o more a descent from literature than the steel business fs. It deserves to stand on its own bottom, and those workers in ft who care most for its usefulness and its prestige never feel above it. Realizing its great opportunitles for service in the world, they cheerfully accept its impersonality, its dfudgery and all the imitations which are so manifest, as part of the day’s work Nor do they aspire to “ascend” to ltera- ture, having learned that such aspiratjons ate often the’ tawdriest vanity and are frequently Injurious to the efficiency and Qignity of the work-a-day journalism which they desire to promote. The true relation between the two callings is that of the co-operation of equals. Where journalism can promote literature, it lends a helping hand, often to its own profit. It may, make use of true literature to great advadtage, for, considered in its broadest socope, or as an ideal, journalism outreaches literature in its immediate influence upon mankind. In this relation of allies there can be no hint of “descent” or “ascent,” nor of superfority and inferiority. A cer- tain community of interest, where two felds overlap, is the proper conception. As en- tities, however, the two callings remain distinct, each: with fts special rtunities and disadvantages—with more and butter perhaps in one m‘h the other and a less patrician view thiags—and sach pursuing fa separate war. the Currenst of Life the Metrepolis. Oceasionally a New York policeman ex- tends his big mitt to enforce a lesson in manners as well as morals. A callow youth wearing a bottle green coat and pink tle, had the lesson handed to him one day last week. He was parading on Whitehall street very jauntily, with eyes searching for susceptible maidens, when he espled an uncommonly pretty girl coming his way When they were face to face he smiled nt | her like a comic valentine, turning his head on a pivot to ses whether she had succumbed. A big policeman with a Miles- jan gray eye stepped out of a doorway and collared the Lothario, who shrunk visibly Then the law, as personified, gave speech after his kind, with the rough edge of his tongue. When the squire of dames was re- leased he was bjubbering. The posters with which the Citizens' union, ailded by the Municipal Women's league, intends to plaster the town ‘are artistically excellent. Nothing so beautiful has been used before for campalgn pur- poses. Over 100,000 will be printed on paper and some 10,00 on celluloid. The figure of a woman, impersonating “Health,” “Charity" or “Tenements,” figures on each poster, with a background of a New York scens photographed. Each poster bears some epi- grammatic argument, such as “Tammany let the poor die—and didn't care” These posters are to be hung throughout town in windows and on billboards. The one thing that always impresses strangers who come to New York is the rush of life along the streets—the hurry of the people, the breathless haste which Seems to possess everybody, from the news- boys to the bankers. Visitors at first find themselves unable to keep up with the pace, but after awhile they become accustomed to it and even catch the spirit amd move- ment themselves. Even the most hardened New Yorker, however, cannot accustom himself to the jam at Brooklyn bridge. The thousands the bridge trains cast up Into the labyrinth of platform, corridor and stafr are at cross purposes, fighting blindly to- ward goals which obscure signboards indi- cate with great uncertainty. The crowd is divided against itself. and the consequent confusion drives it to a pitch of ferocity beyond that engendered by the preliminary scuffle of the bridge. It is distinctly each man for himself and devil take the hinder- most In the battle of theylabyrinth. Family tles are forgotten as zuuhnnd. wife and child connect their persons to the human whirlpool. Friend turns his back to friend, and man, woman and child, each for self and self alone, wages a campalgn toward one of fhe many goals in the particular style in which each is proficlent Already workmen are engaged in the pre- liminary shaft work necessary before the true tunnel contemplated by the Pennsyl- vania corporation can be begun. The en- gineers are confident that the Pennsylvania, system, which Is that of an artificial tun- nel, a tubular bridge built through the mud and resting upon plers, may be completed within three years. Twenty years ago private capital with which at one time Senator Jones of Ne- vada was associated undertook to construct @ tunnel under the Hudson. It was com- pleted until it was brought within the juris diction of New York state. Hard times, the exhaustion of the capital, the loss of faith in the project and possibly some internal friction caused a suspension of work. Now, far beneath the Hudson workmen are pro- pressing so rapldly, cutting through the bluffs which are characteristic of the ap- proaches to the New York shore, that it is expected that they will ‘emerge within a Vear, having completed a true tunnel, Within five years it is probable New York will have at least four submarine tunnels, and possibly five, representing in the ag- gregate an expenditure of not far from $100,000,000, for which the city will furnish about $30,000,00, and in addition to that much of the subsurface of Manhattun island, also tunneled so that there can be adequate transportation, urban and sub- urban. At present there are forty distinct im- provements planned in New York - City which will cost in the aggregate $230,000,000. Four-fifths of this sum will go into public bufldings, bridge terminals and the sub- way, and the balance into theaters, hotels, club houses and other enterprises insti. tuted by private capital. The subway will cost when completed $40,000,000; the Penn- sylvania tunnel will cost $30,000,000; the Car- negle libraries, sixth-five in number, $,0. 000. Other blg improvements to be com- pleted or begun in 1908 which will range in cost between $2,000,000 and §10,000,000 each are: Public ilbrary, Fifth avenue and Forty-second street; new custom house, new postoffice, new Hall of Records, ex- tension of Riverside drive to Boulevard Lafayette, four new armories, Blackwells Island bridge, Hotel 8t. Regis, Fifth avenue and Fifty-fitth street; Hotel Plaza, site of present Plaza hotel; Hotel Knickerbocker, Broadway, corner Forty-second street, and Hotel Astor, Broadway, Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth streets. Despite the fact that millions are being #pent on ‘new law" tenement houses, there are in the Greater New York over 350,000 dark rooms without any windows opening to the outer air or even to another room which itself has windows opening to the outer alr. Moreover, these rooms are located In over 40,000 different tene- ment houses scattered throughout the dif- ferent boroughs. Under the law a large window; 3 feet by fee must be cut into each such room. A specia) and systematic examination of cellar living rooms in tene- ment houses is to be made so that those which do not conform to the law may be vacated, dog cemetery at White Plains, which most people regard as a myth or, at least, an exaggerstion, . was the scene of another interment today. Thomas Flagler, & wealthy Illinoisan, brought the remains of his faithful dog “Puggy” to the Eastern cemetery because no similar place is provided in the west The burial service consisted in select read- inga from Byron and other poets who cele- brated the virtues of dogs In verse. Sen- ator Vest's famous “Tribute to a Faithful Dog” was alsd read. The master and chief mourner wore a crape band on his hat. That famous Severe Attack of Blues. Chicago Chronicle. John H. Reagan, the only surviving mem- ber of the confederate cabinet, is con- vinced that the republic is goon to be dis- solved as a result of the machinations of the “money power.” Mr. Reagan Is & years old, and, like many other person who has lived to a gréat age, he is in- clined to pessimism. 1If there is such o thing as the “money power’” it must be said that it is doing first rate under a republican form of government, and unless all signs are at fault it will be about the last of the various “powers” which are potential in American life to upset things. Headache Cured and by Dr. Miles' Antl-Pain prevented unequaled f uralgia, Bt aR £014"000 Tl MILES MEDICAL GO, Sikhart, ludy, . THE MERCY OF THE CORN, | ata the | Greatest of Cerea’ New York World The government's monthly crop report shows practically all our grain staples above their ten-year average; but the hero of the story s corn. The spring floods apparently doomed us to a short crop of the greatest grain staple. Much of it had to be replanted, and it sprouted late. Never before had a corn eason been %o backward. September fur- nished a varlety of “frost scares,” but after viewing his farm on October 1 Uncle Sam reports an average condition of S0, against %0.1 on September 1 and a ten-year average of 7.7. Never before had the percentages increased so steadily through- out the season. Conditions have been favorable October 1, and the frost danger is now passed. A crop of more than 2,300,000,000 bushels is expected, actually 60,000,000 bush- els more than was Indicated on August 1, and more than the country ever raised before, last year's bumper crop alone ex- cepted. When man has done his utmost to de- stroy prosperity, here by fomenting ruinous strikes, thers by “high finance and low | morality,” it is a relief to turn to the con- templation of the calm bounties of mercl- since i | ful nature. PERSONAL NOTES. The oldest man in Missouri is said to be a farmer named Young No caricatures of the natives ars per- mitted in Porto Rico, and there is no need to make any. In the New York municipal campaign George B. McClellan is already throwing up fortifications and calling for reinforce- ments, Joe Chamberlain is right in desiring a little prosperity for Great Britain. Its per capita debt is more than seven times | that of the United States. President Porfirlo Diaz of Mexico has sent his portrait to Emperor Willlam. This is the first time, according to the National Zeltung, that the president of a repubiic has sent such a present to the emperor. Mrs. Rose Hartwick Thorpe, who wrote “Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight” fis a native of Indiana and now lives in a cozy cottage at Lajolla, Cal. She has recently completed a novel, “Briarban,” the scens of which is located in northern Indlana, which will:soon be issued from tho press. Hovhan Magopian, a student in the Uni- virsity of Wisconsin, is an Armenian who has suffered greatly because of the cruelties of the Turks, and is now gaining an educa- tion and wielding his pen effectively in the cause of his perse:uted countrymen. He has translated Tennyson's “In Memoriam" into Armenian. William M. Johnson, a young man of Washington, who has been the conductor in charge of President Roosevelt's train on all his long journeys, and also had charge of the McKinley funeral train from Buffalo to Canton. via Washington, has been given a staff position by the Pullman company, in Chicago, It is said of the late Wilson . Bissell that when he became postmaster general he mastered the enormous amount of detall in that office months earlier than any of his predecessors had ever been able to do. The tradition of his systematic and thorough business methods still lingers in the department as a high-water mark. Rusefa’s armed forces In the far east are now reported to number 250,000 men, distributed thus: Fifty thousand, with cighteen batteries of artillery, in Man- churia proper; um)‘-)n on the lines of com- munication between Port Arthur and the Amur river, and 9,00 in garrison at Port Arthur and Tallan Wan. Thirty forts have been erected at Port Arthur and fifty more are being bullt. Eighty warships are at Tallan Wan, forty of which are kept constantly under steam. WAIFS OF THE WIT! “My son," sald the father, “don't you think it's about time you started out ns & bread winner now?"’ ‘‘Not much,"” replied the ambitious vout! “T'll be a ple-winner or nothing."—Philadel phia Press. “What are you going to 4o about the trust question?"’ “Same as usual,” answered Senator Sorg hum. “If a trust asks me any questions it'll get as polite an answer as 1 know how to make."'—Washington Sta look here" sajd the nervy drum jou'll marry me, won't you?" I've got money."” “Sir!" sneered the proud beAuty, “this is a gross Insult.” “Oh, no; absolutely ‘net’ I assure you!" ~Chicago Tribune. o “Have I any rival n your attePoM> 110 demanded fiercely. ‘No-0,” replied the lovely Sl thougnt- fully. “At least. T cannot think of an body else T regard with equal indifferen. —Town Toplcs. “Mars Tom shoul® be de hippies’ man in de roun’ worl'." “Think so¥ “I sho does. He spemds threesfo'ths i his\timo huntin! en de yuther fo'th eatin what he hunts.”—Atlanta Canstitution “I'm going to tell him what T think f him." said the angry man, ‘‘What do you think of 17" “I think,” was the be a smaller man than think pretty well of hi eply, “that he m ou are or else | —Chicago Post Jinks—Remarkable thing fn the p morning—an account of an Amerl. zen who has been il treated by a fo government. Winks—What's remarkable about tha Jinks—He has a nama I ean pronounce New York Weekly. DREADFUL, ISN'T 17t Chicago News. Oh, Mrs. Brown is boiling mad. 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