Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 1, 1903, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, THE OMAHA DAI LY BEE. | YITOR LOSEWATER, PUBLISH TERMS OF SU'BECRIPTIO! Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Yea Dally Bee and Sunday, One Year. 1llustrated Bee, One Year Sunday Bee, One Yo Suturday Bee, One r : Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year I D BY CARRIER Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... % Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week.. 12 Daily Bee (ncluding Sunday), per week.17c Sunday Bee, per copy avssisssitaes B8 Bvening Bee (without Sunday), per week fe ening per week ‘ ....100 Complaints of irregularities in delivery should be addressed to City Clreulation De. partment D EVERY MORNI? Bee (Including Sunday), OFFICES Omaha—The Bee Bullding. 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SN TEE GEO. B, TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before mo this 3ith day of mber, A D. 1003 M. B, HUNGATE, (Seal) Notary Public. Net total sales Net averago sales. London and Omaba have put on a mantle of the beautiful on the same day. For a treatise so largely statistical Mr. Balsbury's history of Grand Raplids is a cemarkably entertaining one. Is Mr. Ignatiug Dunn after a retainer from Tom Dennison, or is he just work- Ing the papers for free advertising? For the benefit of a perplexed police force it may be suggested that the best thing to do with a tramp is just to keep him tramping. —— Cock fighting has become altogether too monotonous in Havana, so the Cu- ban congress proposes to re-establish the government lottery. p———— King Ak-Sar-Ben hesitates to move iuto the Auditorfum, realizing how deucedly awkward it seems for a sov- erelgn to carry an umbrella. e The present epidemic of matrimony among Omaha's school teachers suggests the necessity for either a new kind of quarantine or a new kind of virus. The speclal sesslon of congress is on the point of fading out. Most of the members have slipped away quietly without saying, By your leave, sir. We shail presently see with which end of the supreme court commission the members of the supreme court agree in their diagnosis of the allments of the new revenue law. This season foot ball has caused nine- teen deaths and driven one person in- sane, avers the Chicago Tribune. We accept the death total, but have our own idea as to the number who have gone in- sane. The military board of strategy at Washington has worked out a plan for transferring the advance guard of regu- lars to the Isthmus of Panama before the shovel brigade drives its spades into the big ditch. The Cuban patriots insist that they are only lmitating George Washington and the patriots of the American revo- * lutlonary. war in chartering a lottery out of the profits of which they expect to pay off the Cuban army of liberation. ————— The barvester combine has decided to lay off 7,500 employes to effect a saving of $5,000,000. The money so saved will be used to relleve the destitution of the starving stockholders with the purchase of food, clothing and street car tickets, e — To make the punishment fit the crime Police Judge Berka might commit that alse alarm” joker to ninety days' serv- ice in the department he seeks to annoy. There never was a time in Omaha when a false alurm of fire seemed iess a joke, While the price of cotton has gone up to high-water mark, the wages of cotton will operatives have been cut down. The interests of the southern planters and New England factory workers seem 10 be growing farther apart rather than coming together. If Bryan can bring back from Europe a new paramount issue, the democrats who bave been pusgling their brains in trylng to concoct a platform on which all democrats can stand without jostling each other into the unknowable, we will forgive him. The imperialist issue is about to be revived in Missourl. Contracts have been let by the lmperinl Transit cowm- [ perhaps as likely ns any ‘Inln PARKEIl AS A POSSIBILITY. The elimination of Mr. Cleveland from the list of prexidential possibilities naturally attention to others who have been talked of and among these Judge Parker of New York is ne to take a prominent place in the consideration of the democratic party. The Brooklyn KEagle is urging him as now the most available man to lead the democrac in year's campaign and it 1s 1 means unlikely that other demo- cratic papers In the east will fall line, chiefly for the reason Judge arker has several times demonstrated his popularity with the voters of the Empire state and has a good record As a jurist. The fact, however, that he has mingled but little in politics will not commend him to the favor of the professional politiclans of his own or other states, %0 that the chances of working up a Parker boom do not seem to be very promising. Referring to him the New York Tribune remarks that Judge U ker's strength is entirely negative—‘a dignified, respected Juiisi, who has kept out of democratic factional fights, and at the same time has had flexible enough convictions to be at once con- servative and regular.” The friends of the judge, who think that because he carrled New York a Judicial candidate he would certainiy do so a4 a presidential nominee evidently do not properly consider the difference in the conditions applying to the two positions. A man who has won pres tige as a jurist may command the sup- port of voters for that position who would not think of voting for him for an executive position and particularly for the presidency of the United States, for which men feel that training and experience in statesman- ship are essential. Unquestionably Judge Parker is an able jurist, but this is not in itself sufficient equipment for the chief executive of the nation, and guch men as Gorman, Olney and a few others who have had political experi- ence would appeal much more strongly to the party than Parker, whose oniy recommendation s his record as a ju- rist. At any rate the leading democrats of New York, so far as now appears, do not favor Parker, and it seems safe to say that the efforts of the Brookiyn Eagle in his behalf will not be cordially seconded by the democratic politicians of the Empire state whose influence is essentlal to the selection of a delega- tion from that state to the democratic national convention next year. Former Senator Hill 18 said not to be friendly to Parker and it is more than probable that the new Tammany leader, Ed- ward Murphy, will prefer more of a politiclan than the judge as a presi- dentinl candidate—a man more lkely than Parker to regard the demands of Tammany and care for the interests of that political erganization. It is.not an unreasonable expectation that Tam- many influence will be in favor of George B. McClellan in the next demo- cratic national convention. We do not belleve, however, that the democratic candidate for president next year will be a New York man. The factional differences in the democracy of that state seem to fully warrant this view, since there seems to be no pros- pect of these differences being settled. directs next no that most some TRAK POSTAL INVESTIGATION. The public is already pretty familiar with the general facts in connection with the postal investigation and proba- bly will not take the trouble to look into the details as presented in the report of the fourth assistant postmaster gen- eral, but the public will be very greatly interested in what President Roosevelt has to say in regard to that report. In this the public will see the unmistakable evidence that the president has taken the most intense interest in the postal investigation, bas followed it carefully at every step, has approved of all that has been done by the postal authorities and fully endorses the action taken in regard to the officlals whom the evi- dence has shown to be culpable. Perhaps there are very few who will care to go through all the voluminous detalls of the investigation, which cover several years and present a it array of facts, but nobody should fail to care- fully read what the president has to say regarding the results of the investiga- tion. If anything were needed to show beyond question the purpose of the president to have the postal scandals prebed to the bottom and of his no less earnest determination that every man found to be In any respect connected with the alleged wrong-doing exposed and punished, the memorandum upon the report of the fourth assistant post- waster general should be conclusive, There is no mincing of words in the president’'s comment upon the report. It is an unqaulified approval of the investi- gation and an explicit statement that those who are implicated In the alleged wisconduct and corruption shall be held, 80 far as possible, to a proper accounta- bility. The president declares that “every effort must be made to see that both the delinquent officlal and the out- sider who shares his gullt are punished to the limit of the law.” He says further that “no crime calls for sterner reprobation than the crime of the cor- ruptionist in public life, and of the man who seeks to corrupt him. The bribe giver and the bribe taker are equally gulity. Both alike sin against the pri- mary law of the state’'s safety. All questions of difference in party policy sink into insignificance when the people of this country ure brought face to face with a question like this, which lles at the root of honest and decent govern- ment. On this question, and on all others like if, we can afford to have no pany of 8t. Louls for an equipment of thirty Imperial automobile busses which are to transport passengers (o and from the World's fair grounds. In A& republic llke ours the line ought to be druwn at Loperial autowobiles. division among good citizens. In the last resort good laws and good adminis tration alike wust rest upon the broad basis of sound public opinion. Self government becomes a foree if 0 - resentatives of the people corrupt others | [or are themselves corrupted.” In these utterances the American people will see renewsd assurance of the earnest pur- pose of President Roosevelt to make and maintain an honest and incorrupti- ble public service. MAKE THEM EARN THEIR PAY. Local taxation is the burden that Hes heaviest upon the shoulders of Omaba property owne Every dollar drawn out of the city or county treasury that does not represent a dollar honestly earned is a dollar filched from the pock ets of the taxpayers. There is no more excuse why the city, county or school board should keep on their pay rolls men or women whose services could be dis pensed with, or whose services do not represent at least eight hou work for a day's wages, than there would be for voting away money for materials not furnished, or for materials inferior in quality or quantity from the commodi- ties purchased. A moderate estimate of the amount squandered by the city, county and school board upon supernumeraries and persons who do not render value re- celved for their pay is $20,000 per annum. A rigid application of the prun- ing knife would, we confidently assert, reduce the pay rolls by $25,000 a year, The proper time for making a begin- ning in retrenchment is at the beginning of the year, and from now until New Year's will be the proper time for a careful revision of the lists in each of the branches of local government, whose annual expenditure approximates $2,- 000,000 per annum, of which $1,000,000 is paid out by the city, $500,000 by the county and another $500,000 by the school bourd. In advocating retrenchment The Bee does not mean the adoption of a policy of promiscuous wage cutting. Every person employed in the public service should receive liberal pay for services rendered. but it is just as indefensible to pay $2,000 a year to & $1,000 man as it is to pay $1.000 a year to a man who can be dispensed with altogether, or who draws full pay for little or no service. There are also altogether too many we!l paid officisls doing their work by proxy. The jubilee year, 1804, should set free all the barnacles and supernun:erarie that have been folsted upon the publie pay roll either as a rewara, for political activity or because they have & pull with relatives or friends who occupy public office. The weeding-out process shonld not be confined to one branch of gov- ernment. Overpaid Incompetents and underworked ple biters may be found in every department of local govern- ment. It is not too early to begin the agitation for a new departure with the new year. John L. Webster of Nebraska still re- mains the only eminent republican booked as candidate for vice president in the national race of 1004. Speaker Cannon positively declines to allow his name to be mentioned in that connec- tion and Governor-Elect Herrick will be_chained down to his post of duty by a lieutenant governor whom Senator Hanna would prefer not to see in the governor's chair. Other notabilities east and west would rather not get out from under cover before the band begins to play. From Ogden to Omaba in twenty-four hours is a record breaker for the Union Pacific, but five years hence it will not be regarded as a wonderful achiev ment. There is no valid reason why passenger trains as well equipped as the New York Central Twentieth Cen- tury Limited should not make the reg- ular trips between Omaha and Ogden at a speed of fifty miles an hour, in- cluding stops, as is now made between New York and Chicago. ‘The resolutions adopted by the Omaha Typographical union demanding more oflh-lt-u? inspection of storehouses and factories to prevent fatal accidents due to faulty construction or overloaded floors is timely and to the point. The only omission is a demand for the municipal regulation of the handling, storage and transportation of explosives and the Iinspection of the premises where such materials are kept. The lowest estimate of the aggregate expenditure for the new Jackson street fire engine house, equipped with com- plete modern apparatus, is $75,000, and the salaries of additional firemen will exceed $15,000 a year. The question that naturally suggests itself is, will the fire fnsurance companies reciprocate for the increased fire protection and de- creased risks by a corresponding reduc- tion of the insurance rates? The most profitable inaustry in this country just now is the administrator- ship of the estates of deceased million- alres. The estate of the late Collis P. Huntington, the Pacific rallroad mag- nate, for example, is charged up with $1,008,407, payable for services of the three executors who have been charged with the distribution of the Huntington assets, In confirming the constitutionality of Kansas' eight-hour law Justice Harlan remarks that If it is mischievous the re- sponsibility must rest with the legisla- ture, not the courts. If that is the worst the Kansas legislature has to answer for it 1s cousiderably above par The Maryland coal mine owners have decreed a reduction of 10 cents a day in the wages of the miners, beginning with December 1, but we shall probably have to wait until next spring before they will make a corresponding redue- tion in the price of coal p Hoston Cougratulates Itself. Boston Transcript Not only has the bottomless sink in Utah been filled in, but trains at last are running over it, and so well has the work been done that not even the most timor- ous passenger need experience any sink- ing feeling as he rolls over the great pit, The lmpossible 1n this case, as In 0 many other cases, was overcome primarily the laboratories of the Massachusetts stitute of Technology. in In A Shade Too Swift Now. 8t. Louls Globe Democrat The Street Rallway Journal says we are likely to be traveling at the rate of 100 miles an hour pretty soon. If the rate of slaughter increases with the speed, the present speed will do. Advanta of Foot Ball. Chicago Record-Herald Only fourteen football players were Killed on the gridiron during the season that has Just ended, whereas twenty people have been slain by hunters. Advocates of foot- ball should not overlook the strong argu- ment In their favor. Mighty Good Pretext. Pittsburg Dispatch With regard to the last advance in anthracite coal the pretext of a year ago is lacking, since the miners have been forced to stand idle in order to create the artificlal scarcity. But the fundamental reason is the same in both cases. The coal men want the money Work in High Plac Cleveland Leader The more the Shipbuflding trust's af- fairs are probed In court the worse they look. It is a serfous misfortune that an industry which needs all possible public favor and good will should be connected in any sense with one of the dirtlest schemes of “finance” ever known In the checkered career of American speculation contemplated Crooked Penston Commissioner Ware. Bpringfleld (Mass.) Republican, Pension Commissioner Ware will arouse a feeling of regret among many people if he persists in his determination to resign within the coming vear. Doubtless he finds the pension office anything but a bower of lllacs and roses; and that it is easy to understand that the powerlessness of a commissioner to institute reforms In the bureau, whether in administration or in the pension system as a whole, must weary an able and consclentious incumbent. Mr. Ware, however, has made a good Impres- sion upon the country. The rout of Evans did not Involve the complete triumph of the pension attorneys during the regime of Ware. Tt is to be hoped that he will #tick to his post at least to the end of the present term of the chief executive who discovered and appointed him. ALCOHOL AND THE DEATH RATE. What Switzerland is Doing to Check Drunkenne: Chicago Record-Herald. Switzerland is a country in which very little drunkenness is to be observed, for the good and sufficient reason that the police arrest on the spot every person who shows the least sign of intoxication. There 18 nevertheless a large amount of eecret drinking, and especially fn French Switzer- land absinthe has of late increased in use till its ravages are very noticeable. The government recognizes the drink problem as a most serfous one, and is doing all it can to find means for its control. One of its recent investigations concerns the death rate from alcoholism. Statistics of this nature are usually inaccurate, for the reason that it is often impossible to find out just to what extent a deceased person has been glven to the use of liquors, Rela- tives and even physicians conceal the facts out of the natural desire tp protect the dead man's good name. Two years ago the Swiss government established, however, & system under which the facts can be se- cured without ‘revealing the identity of Individual drunkards. Doctors are required to make full reports, but on blanks that bear numbers instead of names. Only by a circultous method involving application to the central government at Berne can names ever be connected with the reports. The facts thus.collected show that among males over 20 years of age the deaths from delirtum tremens average one-half of 1 per cent. This is ten times the rate officially recorded in France by the old and imper- fect statistical methods. For males over 70 years of age alcohol is glven as the principal or concomitant cause of death in 10 per cent of the cases. The general death rate directly referabls to acute or chronfc alcoholism, without In- cluding hepatic, cirrhosis or other sub- sidiary conditions, is 3 per cent. This showing must usdrhittedly be garded as an alarming one and as sufficient justification for the most strenuous ef- forts in the cause of temperance. The worst of It s that there is no reason to belleve that the Switzerland death rate would appear exceptionally high if the real facts for other nations were known. re- SHORTENING RAILROAD TIME, Significance of the Recent Epoch in Union Pacific Progres 8t Louls Globe-Democrat. The ceremonies at the completion of the Ogden-Lucin cutoff across the northern end of Greut Salt lake the other day were in- teresting as a spectacle and were important as an evidence of the spirit which is bring- ing the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States closer and closer to each other every year. The road affected is part of the Marriman system, and the new wrack in the cutoff comprises seventy-two miles on land and thirty miles over the waters of the lake. The cost of this work to the Southern Pacific rallway company will be a Mlttle in excess of $4,200,000, but it will result in @ saving In operating expenses of about $500,000 a year and will shorten the running time between Ogden and the Pa- cific coast by about two hours. Ot course, there was far less of pride, pomp and circumstance at the Southern Pacific ceremonies a few days ago than there was when the ralls of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific met in 1869 at Promontory Point, very near where the recent affair took place. Nor was there anything like the popular in- terest manifested throughout the country that there was at the completion of the Northern Pacific in 1583 At the 1869 cere- monies Leland Stanford and Thomas Du- rant held the center of the world's stage. Henry-Villard was the biggest figure in the universe on the later occasion. E. H. Har- riman the other day was & personage of less colossal proportions. But Harriman's work represents a part of the great acheme, in operation on all the transcontinental lines, which tunnels mountains Instead of crossing them, fills up or bridges lakes, trestles swamps and shortens the running time between the four cormers of the country. Lewis and Clark, a century ago, were a year and & half In traveling from St. Louts and the mouth of the Missour! to the mouth of the Columbia. By stages the time from the Missouri to the Pacific was shortened to about three weeks by 1560. The first of the transcontinentsl raflway lines cut down the time to seven days from the mouth of the Hudson to the lden Gate Today the distance ean be made in about four days. How Wyeth, the Le*s, Marcus Whitman and the rest of the ploneers of Oregon, who were three months In crossing from Independence, Mo., to the lower end of the Columbia valley, would have marveled at the speed at which the journey is made in these days! And the frequent cut-offs in distance and time which are heing made, like that by Hari- man the other day, show that a speed will yet be attained which is far greater than any dreamed of at present, | DOINGS IN THE ARMY, Trend of Current Events Gleaned from Army and Navy Realster, The vacancies in the army staff corps at present include one in the inspector gen eral's department, one In the judge advo cate general's department, one in the pay department, the usual seven in the corps of engineers, the enduring seventeen in ths ordnance department, two In the signal corps and nineteen In the medical depart- ment. Those In the last named depart- ment, of courte, can not be filled save after examination of candidates and the next examination will not be held until May. The vacancies in the signal corps may be filled by an arbitrary detail of officers who are considered avallable for that duty, although the ten officers re- cently designated, with one exception, had no special experience or qualification for the duty. They are able officers, however, who will do thelr duty as they find it This, however, does not relieve the situa- tion In the signal corps where it ls de- sired by the chief signal officer there shall be a permanent personnel Of the ten officers recently detafled two are sick In the hospital, so that that branch of the staff Is four short in fits commissioned personnel. The vacancy in the judge advo- cate general's department is that caused by the retirement of Colonel Edward Hun- ter. There are some fifty candidates from the army to which Judge Advocate General Davis is in favor of limiting the selection. The quartermaster general's office Is re- vising the specifications relating to cavalry and artillery horses, draft animals mules. The specifications under which the government has been purchasing these ani- mals are very old and it is deemed advis able that the provisions shall be brought up to date. The War department is In recelpt of a report of the Army board detailed to in. vestigate the clalms arising from the al. leged damages wrought by our troops on the agriculture of the country in and near the maneuvering ground fn Kentucky and Kansas. It is understood that the clalms flled were far In excess of the amounts which are likely to be finally awarded. At West Point the damages estimated by the people who are Interested fn the calculation amount to $10,000 and it is possible that halt of this sum will be reported upon as con- stituting a reasonable payment, although 1t would not be surprising if the board cut the claims still more and reported a sum of not more than $3,000 as covering the le- gitimate charges. One of the farmers in the nelghborhood was heard to remark that for every apple which was taken from his orchards he proposed to ask the gov- ernment to reimburse him at the rate of $1 for each apple for the depredation. This seemed to have been the percentage of estimated loss sustained by cornfields and truit trees, but, of course, any such ri- diculous valuation is promptly rejected by the authorities. Announcement s made from the War de- partment that no additional designations will be made of candidates from civil lite destined to be examined for appointment as second lleutenant in the army. The ilst of candidates, thirty in number, published in these columns last week, therefore, the only names which are likely to be considered by the examining board in filling the fifteen vacancles which existed on July 1 and which are considered availa- ble for filling from that source. Tt is pos- sible that influence will be introduced in behaif of some of the other candidates whose names are on file in the adjutant general's office, but as the matter now stands the list as published is supposed to be final; at least, If there is any virtue in official announcement such exclnsiveness attaches to the published list. The names on that list included several relatives of service people: H. G. Sharpe is the son of Major A. C. Sharpe, U. 8. A.; E. Z Steever is the son of Major E. Z. Stcever, U. 8. A.; Frederic Thies is the son of the late Lieutenant Frederic Thies, Third in- fantry, who dled In 1888; Willlam H. Rucker is the son of General Louls H. Rucker, U 8. A., retired; David H. Scott Is the son of Major H. L. Scott, Fourteenth cavalry, who was wounded in the recent attack on the Moros under General Wood; Charles A. Dravo is the son of Colonel E. E. Dravo of the subsistence department, on duty at Governor's Island; Hornsby Evans s the son of Major R. K. Evans of the infantry, who is adjutant general of the Department of the Columbia; Richard La Garde is the son of Major L. A. La Garde of the med- jcal department; Walton Goodwin is the son of Captain Walton Geodwin, U. & N., retired, and Sidney L. Wardwell is a grand nephew of General Chaffee, The general staff of the army has had under consideration certain changes in re- gard to army bands, some of which were suggested by band members In letters fled at the War department, and a report embodying the conclusions reached has been made up. It had been proposed that some arrangement be made whereby mu- sical compositions by members of army bands might be submitted to some author- ity competent to pass upon them, and that the meritorious ones be printed at public expense at the government printing office. The general staff recommends that no action be taken at present In regard to this suggestion, and remark is made in the report that private o rns are al ways ready to undertake the publication of musical compositions of value, Recom- mendation is also made that no one be de- talled or appointed for duty as chief bands- man at army headquarters; that chief mu- siclans be not commissioned, but that they retain thelr present rank; and that the position of chief trumpeter in cavalry and artillery bands be abolished. Recommenda- tion was further made that the strength of the bands be increased from twenty- elght to thirty-five, by providing fifteen privates instead of elght, but this was not favored by Major General Chaffee and was accordingly negatived. The general staff did not favor an increase of pay of all members of the bands, but ad- vised that the pay of certain members be increased. As result of the consideration of the matter of bands by the general staff & bill has been drafted and submitted to the secretary of war for introduction in congress. The bill provides that the bands of the engineers, cavalry, artillery and in- fantry shall be constituted as follows with the rates of pay as Indicated: One chief musiclan, at §76 per month; one principal musiclan, at $36; one drum major, with rank, pay and allowances of a first ser- geant of Infantry; two sergeants, at $30 and allowances fixed by law; four corporals, at $2%5 and allowances fixed by law; cook, with pay and aillowances fixed by law; ten privates, first clas: at $20 and allowances fixed by law, and elght privates, Dr. Lyon’s PERFECT Tooth Powder Used by people of refinement ©r over a quarter of a century PREPARED BY ’ one constitutes, | mend it. second class, at $17 and ailowances fixed | by law; total, % members. The monthly pay of the band as provided by this bill will be $60. 1? the suggestion had been adopted to Increass the size of the band to thirty-five, the monthly pay would have been $774. The present ye of the fifty-six bands in service and by the proposed bil! $436,500 PUS THE TEMPTER ASIDE. Times (ind. dem.) (Cleveland) refuses Kansas City Journal (rep.): Perhay Cleveland put a quietus on his boom that Colonel Bryan might not any necessity for hurrying home. Detroit Free Press (dem.): Mr. Cleveland has amply vindicated the respect in which he Is held by the American people as the foremost private cltizen in the United States. Chicago Post (rep.): Mr. Cleveland, it Is hardly necessary to state, gives mo reasons for the position he has taken. Some will say that he foresees and anticipates dem- ocratic defeat, and does not care to lead a forédoomed campalgn. Such conjecturs is as ldle as it is easy. It is the fact of Mr. Cleveland's absolute and final with- drawal of his name that interests every politiclan and every thoughtful citizen. The democratic situation is hardly simpli- fled thereby. Indianapolis News (Ind.): People will think even more of him for refusing to al- 1ow his friende to enter into a struggle for the nomination. He has had all the politi- cal honors which he can possibly covet, and in his refirement he knows that ha has the friendship and regard of Ms fellow- cit- izens without distinction of party. He is the first citizen of the republic, and he has shown that, even out of office and with no expectation or desire of ever again oc- cupying officlal position, his influence in politics is more welghty and potent than that of many men active in politics who are supposed to possess great influence, New York Tribune (rep.): All that the presidency has to give Mr. Cleveland has had. To a man past middle life, happily situated in dignified retirement, after hav- ing held twice the most exalted station, a new plunge into the turmoil of active po- ltical leadership can have no attractions. Nothing but a national crisis could make the sacrifice seem necessary, and there Is no national crisis. The country has got on happlly in spite of disreputed democracy, and, while a strong and respectable oppo- sition party {s highly desirable, its crea- tion {s hardly the duty of Mr. Cleveland. He has a right to be proud of the manifes- tatlons of confidence which the talk of his possible candidacy has evoked, and to rest on the work that he has already done. PERSONAL NOTES. New sorry York that he We are Mr, in order feel It is announced that the czarina s deaf in one ear. Japan is beginning to think the czar Is deaf In bgth, General Manning has defeated the der- vishes In Somaliland and captured 3,800 goats. He may find it's a serious business to “kid” the Mad Mullah. The University of Wales has conferred | the honorary degree of Doctor of Sclence upon Lord Kelvin in consideration of his eminent services to sclence. John Dwight, the ploneer manufacturer of bicarbonate of soda in this country, has just died In New York. He founded the | Dwight #chool &t Erwin, Tenn., for moun- tain whites of that state. Commander Peary, the arctic explorer, was asked recently how he accounted for the enduring enthusiasm for pole-chasing. “Because,” he remarked sententiously, “it is full of the pleasures of anticipation un- marred by the disappointments of realiza- tion."” | Prof. Theodor Mommsen, the great Ger- man historlan and philosopher who dled recently, was remarkably absent-minded. It 18 sald to be a fact that he met one of his children weeping In the street and stopped to console the little one without in the least recognizing it as his own. On another occasion a friend met him in the Linden walking with one foot in the gutter and the other on the sidewalk. The friend of Health There is a quality in Royal Baking Powder which makes the food more digestible and wholesome. This peculiarity of Royal has been noted by physicians, and they accord- ingly endorse and recom- ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. asked him how plied: “Well | tod: that 1 got the rh The latest volee Ham ai he was and Mommsen re- 1 feel all right, but I notice m to be limping. I fear T umatism!" | hav ing in Germany 18 the new deled after that of Lmperor Wil which is produced by expelling the ainst the vocal chords so that there #hall be u laryngeal counter-pressure pro- ! duced by a rebound from the resonating cavitles. Simple, fsn't it? Mark Twain long ago arrived at the con- clusion that It 18 a very serlous thing to be a professional humorist. 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