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(I The umaiia Daily Bee. E. nOSEWATEfl, EDITOR. PUBMSHED EVEUY MOItNINO. TK11M8 OK SUBSCItlPTION'. Sally Leo (without Sunday), One Ycar.-WO Pally Bee arid Sunday, Ono Year........ 8.0) llustratid Dec, One Year ; 2M lunday lice, One Year.... 2.W laturday lice, Onu Year... , l.M Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year., l.w OFFICES. Omaha: The Ueo Building. South Omaha; City Hall Building, Twen-y-flfth and M Street. Council Muffs: V) Pearl Street. Ch.lci.go. 1610 Unity Building. ew York. Temple CoJrt. Washington: 501 Fourteenth Street. COItUESI'ONDENCE. Communications relating to news and cdl orlal mntter Bhould ho addressed; Omaha 3tu, Editorial Department. BUCJINEBS CETTEItS, Business letters and remittances should ) addressed: Tho Ueo Publishing torn any. Omaha. REMITTANCES. Hemlt by draft, express or postal ordor, sayable to The Ueo Publishing Company, inly 2-cent stamps accepted In payment of tall accounts. Personal checks, except on 3maha or eastern exchanges, not uccuptid. THE 13KE PL'IIMSHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stato of Nebraska, Ppnglas County, ss.: Ororge U, Tzschuck, secretary of The Ueo Publishing Company, being duly sworn, iftys that the actual number of full and :omp'clo copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Ben prlntnd during .no mourn oi .May, ijhi, was as iouowb; 1. ,-ino 16.. .a7,o;io 2.... 3.... 4.... 17. 18. ..MT.l-IO '.'7,:ii)o .JT,a;to 19.... ..a7,7an 5 U7.IMS 20 al,74U 6.... 7.... 8.... t.... to.... d.... 12..., '3.... ,1 ... (3.... :i7,:uo il0,K8O ,:i,03( ar,o7" '-MI.IKiO UT.ono St7,47ft 27,0:10 27,nao 27.2.-.0 21... 22... 23,.. 21... 25... 26... .... 1:7,0:10 ...,20,7:10 2l,7iO ,'. iiii.-iito 2ii,r:io 27,000 27 20,RIM) 2S 2I,2H) 19 an, 180 30 a.i.oio 31 aii,7o Total K4:i,U4M Less unsold and returned copies.... 10.1M7 Net total sales HHH.HIH Net dally average ati.mift QUO. B. TZSCHUCK, Subscribed In my presence and sworn to aofore me this 31st day of May, A. D. 1901. M. B. I (UNGATE. Notury Public. From now on every flrcmnn In Oninliu Ir his own lire chief. How Is tho defense fund wised nt the Instance of the lire Insurance iiRents for the heuelit of Chief Hedell to be dl vlded? Thoe Wyoming train robbers should practice up n while before they under tnke a Job that requires professional experience. It Is hl8o easy to make Omnha men millionaires on paper. But why not make tUcm billionaires nt the start when It Is Just as easy? Tho Navy department proposes to con demn land for a naval station in Algiers. Antl-expanslonlsts need not Ret excited over tho announcement Algiers this time Is In Louisiana. The first shirt waist man of the season In Now York vas compelled to take to a street car to escape the gaping crowds. There are places (u the west whero lie tnlghf have fared worse. Xo third term rule seems to apply to the heads of the different fruternal or ganlzntlons. An executive position with these bit; associations Is almost as good as n fat salary for life. All this talk about Omaha peoplo getting rich must have gone past the tax assessor without even touching him. At nny rate that is tho only conclusion to be drnwn from the as sessment roll. If Alabama feels nblo to raise the salary of Its governor to ?5,000 n year, the great state of Nebraska ought to bo ablo to pay more than ?2,500. A governor who Is not worth ruoro than $2,500 Is not worth that. It is easy to smash crockery, but nnothcr thing to mend It. It Is easy to destroy discipline and bow the seeds of anarchy In tho flro deportment, but It Is nnothcr thing to make tho flro force obedient and harmonious. Ncbroska State university authorities, or course, wero not Influenced by poll tics In forgetting to Invito tho governor to participate In tho commencement ex ercises. It is doubtful, however, if tho oversight would have occurred had a fusion governor been lu office. The Spanish queen regent has opened Parliament for the hist time, as the young king will come Into his own be- roro another session. Her task has been anything but a pleasant one, nnd she certainly sacrifices nothing In personal comfort in retiring from power. , President McKlnley has again dlsap pointed his political enemies by mick lug tho third term bubble, on which they were Just beginning to play for capital. Presldeut McKlnley can bo depended on almost Invorinbly to say xno rigur. thing at tho right time. Tho proposition Is made to hold the militia encampment In the comnnra. tlvely unsettled portion of tho state at a considerable dtstaneo from the railroad Tho necessity for going to the sandhills is not apparent, as the Nebraska sol dlors have never beeu found luckiug In snmi. 1 .1.., . n mi: ri-niutiiiiiia 10 Kurrruge pro poseu ny ono or tno members of tho Alabama constitutional convention uro adopted the number of voters In thu state will bo decidedly small. About the only offcuso It allows, u man to commit and retain his voto Is to bum a uecro and this Is looked upon as an excusable violation of the statutes In that bectlou of tho country, Work on the now colls at tho pen! tentlary Is progressing slowly. It Is one or tno mysteries of life why people who secure public coutructs seem to think It Incumbeut upon them to tako two or threo times as long to do tho work ns would bo required If for private party. Enforcing the penalty clause In such contracts would have a tendency to keep contractors awake. STEADILY GAlSISn ttfOL'.VD. From present Indications, by the time congress meets there will be few re publican senators in opposition to trade reciprocity. Wo hnvc heretofore noted the friendly attitude of Senators Cill Idin and Fairbanks toword that, policy nnd now it Is niiito'unvod 'Hint. Senators I'rye and Allison will take nii active part In support 'of reciprocity. It Is stated that the Iowa senator has found that In the Mississippi vajley ns well ns In other parts of hd west ,tt strong feeling has been developed, not parti san, and yet most conspicuous In the republican party, Hi favor of the prin ciple declared by that patty to bo the "twin" of protection. Tho position taken on the subject by the Association of American .Manufac turing Interests Is already exerting an Influence. 'The president of the asso ciation pronounced unnallllcdly for commercial reciprocity, aim wmie tnere wns some opposition mnnlfested by the epresentatlves of the textile Industries a majority approved tho position of the president. The executive committee of the association was Instructed to call a convention of manufacturers to coll ider this question and this will be doue before the meeting of congress. There is no risk In predicting what thu result f the deliberations of such a convention will be. Reciprocity will be opposed by ertnln Interests, but the principle will be endorsed nnd the senate of the United States will be nuketV to ratify those treaties already negotiated which promise to promote our foreign trade anil to put a check upon the demand abroad for discriminating tariffs against inerlcan products. It Is not necessary and probably would not lie expedient to atlfy all the treaties that liavo been negotiated. It may be admitted that some of them would be of no value or benellt to us. Hut others would be a llrect advantage to our foreign trade and would operate to abate If not alto gether remove tho commercial antago nism abroad that now threatens that trade. President McKlnley said In his last annual message: "The policy of reci procity so manifestly rests upon tho principles of International equity ami has beeu so repeatedly approved by tho people of the United States that there ought to be no hesitation In either branch of tho congress In giving to It full effect." In his later references to the subject Mr. McKlnley has spoken of It In Its practlcul or commercial bear- lugs and has made plain his belief that the policy may be made to contribute very materially to the extension and on largenient of our foreign trade. He ex pressed this clearly in his Memphis speech and fortllled it in subsequent nt tcrauces. American manufacturers are seekiug foreign markets. They are producing fur lu excess of the demands of the home market and unless they can sell more abroad production must necessarily bo reduced. This would mean loss to both capital uud labor. It Is coulldently believed by the most earnest friends of American industries that they would be generally benefited through u Judiciously applied rcclproc Ity policy, that while a few of them would gal 14 nothing it w.ould prove a very material advantage to most of them, and this view appears to be steadily gaining ground, IS IT A PEACE UIBSJOXI The arrival in Loudon of Mrs. Louis Botha, wife of the Boer commander, naturally causes coujecture us to tho purpose of the visit. It has been re ported that Mrs. Botha wus very strongly in favor of peace and had urged General Botha to make terms with the British and the conference some time ago between the Boer com mander and General Kitchener was as sinned to have been largely Instigated by her, Hence her leaving South Af rlca was readily thought to mean that she was on a peace mission and would first endenvor to Induce the British gov eminent to modify, its conditions and failing in that would urge Krugcr to ac cept the terms as they are and end the war. If such is her mission It is qulto safe to predict that It will fall. It Is ab solutely certain that she could not In duce the British government, even If she should be given a hearing, which is most Improbable, to change In the slightest degree the policy it has de elded upon regarding the Boers, and It can be asserted with ajmost equal con tldenco that she can make no impression on Kruger, who has shown slnco he went to Europe not the least dlsposl tlon to accept tho British terms. More over, It Is most unlikely that the Brit lsh government would give any recog nltlon or have any dealing with Kruger, who Is fairly to be regarded as having practically relinquished all right to speak for the Boers. As to General Botha, tho most he could do in behalf of peace would be the surrender of his own command, having no authority to mako terms for tho Boers. Indeed, It Is doubtful If he could surrender anybody but himself. The visit of Mrs. Botha to Europe therefore, Is doubtless for personal tea sons entirely and will have no effect whatever on the South African war. oaon Tii of south ehx poms. An Interesting act In connection with the export trade of the country Is tho Increase of such trade at southern ports, involving a nearly corresponding los to tho northern ports. According to tho statistics just maile public, New Or leans has taken second rank as an ox porting point, having displaced Boston It is shown that during the nine months of the current llscal year the value of the exports from the former exceeded that of the latter by more than $41,000,000 and while there wns n shrlnkago In the fore.lgn commerce o Boston for that period of nearly ?5,000, 000 the value of tho exports from Now Orleans for the nlno months 'was greater by about $7,000,000 than In the entire preceding fiscal year. Baltimore, also, lias been gaining In both exports and imports, while Phil adelphla's percentage of the total for elgn commerce of tho country has re niiuucu nimost stationary for the past THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TIintSDAY, four years, being for Inst year fi.so per cent ngnlnst 8.28 per cent for Balti more. Another Interesting fact Is that New York has been losing lu exports for several years. An explanation of the huge gain nt New Orleans Is found In tho ery heavy exportatlons of cot ton nnd the high price of that product, lint this will not apply to Baltimore. It Is apparent that there must be Induce ments offered to exporters by these southern ports that are not to be had In tho northern ports. The Gulf ports, for Instance, have Increased their ex portatlons materially In wheat and llonr. u considerable part of which has been shipped there from the west. The further development of the southern ports. as exporting points Is to be ex pected as the south makes Industrial nnd commercial progress, but what they have already accomplished at the ex pense of New York, Philadelphia and Boston ought to arouse those ports to an effort to nt least retain the export trade they now have. AO MOllK OVMILAPS. One of the greatest drawbacks to Omnhn's progress is the high rate of taxation and the unequal distribution of the lax burdens. Wltliln five years taxes on Omaha city realty, especially lu the business center, have Increased 40 per cent. The tax rate for 1001 for city purposes alone Is 34 mills, on n valuation presumed to be 40 per cent of mnxlinum value When to this ore added the county and state taxes the tax rate aggregates very nearly 2 per cent on market value. This does not Include special assessments, which In some In stances are from JO to 20 per cent of the vniuo of the property. It is needless to point out tho cuuse of this excessive tax rate. We do not ex aggerate when wo assert that an honest return of all taxable property, Including realty, personalty and franchises, would reduce tho rate fully one-third. That no relief can be looked for so long ns the present system of tax evasion ami favoritism Is tamely submitted to and tolerated, goes without saying. While this is true, the city should under no circumstances undertuke any thing that will overdraw tiny of tho city funds. While there Is no doubt some sections of tho town nro In need of better water uud lighting facilities, the mayor and council would not be Justified In ordering more new hydrants and street lamps than there Is money to pay for lu the water and lighting funds. In vetoing resolutions calling for ex pendltures that would create overlaps, Mayor Mootes Is only discharging his sworn duty. The enormous tax levy has been forced upon the city by overlups inherited from year to year, chiefly ere ated by the Board of Education, which seems to have had the faculty of using up the Income of one year twelvo mouths lieforo it reaches tho city treua ury. These pernicious practices must be stopped If we arc ever to have a lower tax rate. The plow manufacturers have organ Ized their trust with the assurance that there will be no raise in prices, but, If anything, a reduction, because co-openitlon will enable tho trust to manufacture at greatly reduced ex pense. This assurance may be taken for what It is worth. The manifest object of the promoters of tho plow trust does not differ materially from that of all the other trusts. Its prlnct pul design is to capitalize the plow manufacturing plants at very much higher figures than they could possibly be sold separately or duplicated. The cabinet members were not snr prised nt the announcement of the presl dent that he would not be a candidate for a third term. The only ones who prejond to be surprised ure the oppo nents of the administration. They wero not surprised, but rather pained, for they hoped to nurse a third term boom, hop lug that prejudice against it would ena ble them to laud nearer the presidency next time. Statistics of coni production In the United States show that for the year 1000 the output was the largest In the history of this country and also greater than ever mined In any country in the same length of time. The United States ranks first lu agriculture, first lu coal output nud first lu lrou and steel pro ductlon, along with Its many other nc compllshmeuts. The British commission has decided that concessions granted by the Trans' vaal and Orange Free State lor rail roads and other corporations nre not binding upon Great Britain. Countries whose citizens own stock In these en terprlses nro likely to file a decided pro test against a course which deprives them of their property without recom peuse. If It Is simply a question which set of promoters Is to throw a suburban railway franchise Into a consolidation scheme to help Inflate the capitalization by a mllltou or so, Douglas county might as well put tho frunehlso In In Its own name and take out for Itself the stocks and bonds by which tho subur ban franchise Is to be represented. The mayor of Emporia has forbidden the papers to publish the accounts of sul cldes In that city, which havo become so numerous of late that he holds the pub llcatlons likely to spread tho epidemic, Better print the story and hurry up getting rid of people who have no moro sense than to kill themselves because someone else did. The St. Paul Board of Trade has de nled membership to n woman, As the brokers have no objection to taking th money of women of high and low degree who want to speculato In grain, there does not appear to be any good reason for excluding her from the privilege of trading on her own account. Up to tha Caart. Philadelphia. Uecord, Thtt stamp tax on foreign bills of lading has been declared unconstitutional by th luprome court on the ground thtt it Is equivalent to an export duty which eon cress his uo cower to Impose, la the Itftht of this decision how will It be posl- Me e to validate the imposition ot duties on tides exported from tho 1'nltcd States nr to Porto itico or tho Philippines? A l'ly ii ! tlit Oliitnirul, Minneapolis Journal, Thn nnlv lMnr fhnt ln1wlH thrt Irflfll nsrtleln nt fflnnm Intn Mm trlumnhnnt ranks of the meat trust Is tho smllo on tho face of the vegetarian. I. In I'U'klp. Brooklyn Eagle. The New Hampshire award of $2,000 lo druggist who preserved nn amputated leg In alcohol will bo a warning to all persons who havo been accustomed to play ing about railroad trains cither to keep or pickle their own legs. I0I11I Control lniiiisllilc. Kansas City Star. Tho United States cannot enter Into n Joint gunranteo for the payment of tho Chi nese Indemnity. This attitude Is not only nforced by tho restrictions of the constitu tion, but Is dictated by public sentiment nd found diplomacy. It Is to be hoped, however, that It may not lessen the Ipflu ence of this country In Its endeavor lo have the whole subject of the Indemnity reviewed by the arbitration court of The Haifue. nt If Thpy Knoiv It. New York Press. Tho appointment of "Switchman" New man to the $50,000 presidency of the New lork Central Is not causing any extraor dinary stampede of our young men from Ity monotony and honclcsancss to tho trenuous, exciting nnd promising occupa- Ion of holding trains down to the main lino or throwing them Into a siding. Tho rmiblo Is there aro 100,000 switchmen to ono Newman. Hoys aro not trying to begin at tho bottom theso days. The top Is good enough for them. A Trluiitfih of Civilization. New York Tribune. How many cycles of Cathay would havo passed before tho Chlncso would have cleaned the streets of Pekln? In a few months of occupation of tho chlof city of tho yellow kingdom the "foreign devils," as tho follower of Confucius delight to call them, havo cleared away so much disease laden offal that tho death rato of that cap ital has been reduced to a striking extent. And since tho Americans disinfected and purged Havana tho yellow fever In that town, which was constantly choked with refuse In tho years of Spanish dominion, has almost disappeared. Olvo civilization half a chanco and It will purify oven the worst of tho Augean stables of China and Cuba. Itelluf for Tired People. Chicago Chronicle. Thero Is a new revelation of faith science. It cornea from a Donver prophet of occult Influences. He brings a gospel for tho lazy. He has a now' plan of physical culture. Ho calls It "mental gymnastics." He exer cises his subjects by telepathy, or sugges tion. He says: "They don't have to exer cise at all simply to think and by the power of my mind I develop their muscles. I follow the same plan with women as with men." Nothing could be more simple. Ample physical exercise enn bo taken by simply thinking that you are walking a long distance or Tunning a foot race or turning double somersaults. All that you have to do is to "think" the professor of mental gymnastics does the rest. It Is a big thing. Concerning quail tin Toast. New -York Tribune. Enterprising gamo dealers In the west are said to be arranging a storage trust of quail Several states, have adopted laws forbidding the slaughter of. Bob Whlto for two years and these forehanded nnd sharp-sighted men of affairs aro preparing to accumulate big stocks of these delicate birds before the protective laws go into effect. They expect to control tho prices of quail in tho prlncl pal cities of the country for a considerable period. This la a shrewd plan and It seems likely to be gainful to the promoters. A corner in quail will be a novelty, but It may work less harm than some other cor ners havo done, After all, quail Is not In dispensable to sustain life. States havo been saved without quail. MONEY GOING DOWN. Falling On in Its learning Capacity In Four lean. Indianapolis Journal. It is a curlouB fact that while the pur chasing power of money la greater than It was a dozen or fifteen years ago, Its earn ing capacity has fallen off in a marked manner In that period. In recent years, particularly slnco 1S96, values on most prop erty, real and personal, have advanced, but the earning power of money decreases with the passing years. Since the good times came rates of interest have fallen. Savings banks in tho cast and trust companies la this city and elsewhere have reduced tho rates of interest within two years. The much denounced money power, as a thing of itself to earn money, has lost halt its efficacy In fifteen years. Not long ago an eastern man who had charge of a number of estates said that the decline In the rato of Interest upon safe Investments since 1SS0 had taken half tho real value from the estates of people who were not In active business. Tho resumption of specie pay ments January 1, 1S79, was preceded by the refunding of United States 6 per cent bonds In 4 per rents. Since that time all tho bonds of railroads and like corporations bearing 7 per cent interest have been re funded at less than 4 per cent. In respect to farm mortgages the decline has been more rcc-nt, but even greater. For a time after 1S80 farm mortgages In the newer states bore 10 per cent Interest, and In Indiana 8 per cent. The londer had so much tho advantage because of tho scarcity of money that the borrower paid rather more than the rates above named Now the lenders are fortunate who can got 5 ner cent on farm mortgages. A few years ago building and loan associations Dald shareholders from iu to w per cent, Today such associations are getting out of business because they canot pay even half these rates, The associations which recehe doposlts of a dollar and pay 3 or 3 per cent Interest aro getting tno savings or tne people who do not put them Into nro in surance, Two classes of people suffer by the fall In the earning power of money those who make small savings from wages which they cannot Invest, and thoso whose property Is In estates which cannot be used In business by tho owners. It is safe to say that such estates havo lost half their value since the resumption of specie payments, measured by the Interest thoy earn. Thousands o families that had abundance In 1880 are obliged to economlzo now. Tho person o small savings does not deposit now for profit, but mainly for security. Rut tbos who have gained by the decline of rates of money hire are more numerous. Every manufacturer, buelness man and corpora tlon, who constitute the bulk of borrowers get money from the hanks for one-half th discount of fifteen years ago, which greatly to their advantage The real estato ownor, farmer or householder who Is bor rowing money on a mortgage saves half th Intereat paid years ago. As the returns from thn farm are worth as much in tho market as In 1880, and as wages are as high, and In many oocupatlon higher, It la much easier to pay off mortgages now than when menay was worm twice as much as It now i, The difference In th rate of Interest In five nr six years would make a ub:Unt!M ffiymenl en ft si?rttts JUKE in, 1001. Economy Detroit 1- City Engineer Uoseuater of Omaha, In his annual report, refers to the tendency to minimize the paved width of streets b- ween curbs, "resulting In not only econo mizing In the cost of paving, but In the lm- roved appearance of narrow residence streets." Prior to Mr. Itosewoter's term It was usual In Omaha to pave residence trects a width of forty, feet between curbs, but In 1S92-3 there was much discussion In regard to tho necessities of purely resi dence streets in tho matter of width of pavement. Detroit was no exception, The ate Henry D. Ludden, so many years city engineer of Detroit, opposed paved road ways narrower than twenty-six feet, on ths round that such width was necessary In order to safely turn a wagon. No general hango was mado in Detroit, though sev- ral streets wero paved at less width, viz: wenty-four feet and twenty-two feet, nnd n ono caso of a short nnd narrow down town street only fifteen feet wide. In Omaha tho forty-feet requirement on resi dence streets gavo way to thirty feet for new pavements, and to a reduction to that width in cases of rcpnvlng, this reducing tho mllcago cost of paving 25 per cent, on Engineer Itoscwatcr's recommendation. In his last annual report ho says: "Public ontlracnt has gradually developed a tend ency to still narrower pavements, nnd, In my Judgment, a large portion of future rosldcnco streets will bo reduced to twenty two feet between curbs. This will so re duce the cost that nearly every section of tho city will have within reach a paved roadway from lUo central portion of the city." Tho objection that twenty-two feet s too narrow for turning a wagon Is met by Mr. Hosowater thus: "It is but little trouble to drive to nn Intersection for the purpose of turning; besides, the necessity for turning is not of sufficiently frequent nature to justify n' largo oxtra outlay for that purpose." Thero nro many other advantages to ho gained in the narrowing of the paved width on our ordinary residence streets, that nro worthy of consideration, In addition to HITS OF WASHINGTON 1,1 FE. Men nnd Rvcntn Olimrrvri! nt the Nntlnnnl Cnultnl. Candidates for promotion from tho vol unteer to tho regular nrmy must pass a pretty severe examination to land a com mission. Candidates who receive appoint ment from civil life must submit to an examination even more exacting, for In tho caso of the former their array record is helpful. Out of twenty-one aspirants ex amined at San Francisco for promotion to regular army nineteen wero rejected re cently. Young men must first show thnt their military record, If they havo ofie, Is good; that Is the first consideration. If In this tho man can pass muster, is "all right" In mathematics nnd makes a decent average In army nnd drill regulations, ho may de pend upon getting bis commission. Then thoro Is n very rigorous physical examina tion, as thorough and exacting as that to which recruits nro subjocted. The examina tion to ascertain the educational qualifica tions of the candidate Include English grammar, mathematics with algebra, the solution of equations of the first degree con taining ono unknown quantity; the use of logarithms, the eloments of plane geometry, plane trigonometry nnd survoylng. Added to this tho candidate must tell what he knows In nnswer .to questions In geography, outlines of general history and history of the United States; the constitution and the elements of International law. Physical Vptltude' and moral character 'aroV consid ered. No candidate will be passed who shall not have attained an average of 65 per cent In each subject of examination and a general average of at least 70 per cent. "The array Is slowly accustoming Itself to Its new master," writes Correspondent Carmlohaol In tho Detroit Journal. "For nearly two years Ellhu Root has been secretary of war. The advent of a new secretary was not a particularly great event In tho War office. It was to be ex pected that the same old bureaucratic- In fluences would rule. He made no rush to dispel this Illusion. But It is gone. Now the military establishment knows that Hoot is Its head and master. The president rarely Interferes. General Corbln finds that his elaborate system of espionage counts for nothing. Ho sees in the 'front office' a man who knows as much about the de partment as bo docs and has Infinitely creator executive power. Secretory Root's rule Is not harsh but exacting. 'Show me,' ho says to every one. There are few ex ceptions. He docs not conceal his anger when 'higher powers' Insist upon things which are slightly Irregular. In political trickery be is a master. When he was 'running with the machine' be could do things to suit tho most ambitious. Now he Is running a war establishment. Pollttos are entirely out of place In tho proper management and control ot this. He takes great pride In bis work. Ho likes to do things In shipshape fashion. Thernforo ho turns down the politicians. Thoy inter fere with the severe military discipline which he is establishing. He does not en thuse. Ho Is simply a relentless driver. In the big affairs of state for tho present he Is hnvlng his way moro than even tho president himself." The new attorney general, Mr. Knox, Is going in for society strong, having pur chased Mrs. George W. Chllds' house In Washington for $160,000. It Is the custom of cabinet ministers to rent houqes. Mr. Knox is another who believes In doing things right. Ho learned that as employe of the Carnegie company. His domestic nnd business establishments are organized for business. Deforo he came to Washington he bad three private secre taries with their business clarslflcd, Now ho has another. He reads papers rapidly and dictates easily and swiftly. He Is an adept at using assistance and Is able to master complicated cases quickly. Ha is a good deal such of a man as Root and tho two will doubtless do a lot of team work. They aro both at tho right age for the transaction of builnest. ThU fine engine ot work Is a bright and coropanlonablo ' tort. Root Is apt to be surly. Knox Is as merry as though every thing suited him to a T. He is chipper with his subordinates, Jovial to callers and accommodating to a degree. Dut bo Is bard to keep up with. Stcrotary Rcot has adopted a certain cipher knock, without which magic tesamo, the doors of his office In the War depart ment remain closed to visitors after 2 o'clock each day. The new schemo worked like a charm, and senators, representatives, tourists and other unwelcome callers havo gone up aealntt the door and knocked till thtlr knuckles were sore, without result, becauso they did not know the secret code. Slnco the lock out has been placed at 2 o'clock Instead of 3, the casualties have been even greater, nlthough r.o cabinet officer has fallen n victim since the memorable occasion when Secretary Hay tried all the knockB be knew. The other day, however, Senator Foraker triumphed over the door without tho faint est knowledge of tho optn setnmc, and he has ben chuekllns over his victory ever Blnee. Ho tried tho usual courteous taps, but wra'ut respene. Then Mr. FornkT stepped any and thoueht for a moment Ills auccr overcame him, and ho decided to in Paving rco rrcis. those enumerated by Mr. Kosenter. First, there would be more paving done, thus re ducing the number of dirt streets from which to drag mud upon contiguous pave- IHAIlt. lA.BAnlni. lliA nnll nt .(.iia( .1 i, i t n cr to quite ail extent; second, tho ndvantngo to the fire department, especially In spring and fall, In Retting engines, etc., to fires; third, the beautifying of the streets by leaving wider spaces of green In summer! between curbs Hnd sidewalks; fourth, the curtailing of the necessity of digging up pavements for pipes or conduits, confining' these as far ns practicable to the spaces outside of curbs; fifth, the enhanced value I of property located on n street already j paved as against that on nn unpaved 1 street; nnd, last, though not least, tho ssv- Ing In cost. Some comparisons In this latter respect nre Interesting In connection. For the purposo let us nssumo that new pavements cost $l.f3 per square yard for cedar on concrete, $1.S5 for brick, nnd J2.G2 for asphnlt. This given us, respectively, 17 cents, 21 cents nnd 28 cents per square foot, so ttiRt n street twenty six feet wide would cost 14.42 per linear foot In cedar, 5.45 in brick nnd $7.28 In asphalt. If tho width should be mado twenty feet between curbs, which might answer ns well ns twenty-two, prac tically, tho saving as compared with our twenty-six foot width would be i5,3?S,60 per milo on cedar, $6,'i52.80 on brick and $3, 870.40 on asphalt. With an nvcrngo of first pavements laid of twelve miles per year, giving six to ccdnr, four to brick and two to nsphalt, thn saving to taxpayers would bo $76,666.60 qulto nn object, It will he conceded. Dut It might do tnoro In se curing better first paving as brick instead of cedar, for Instnncc with full concurrence of the property ownors who pay for It. Tho committee on strocts and common council would do well to consider this mat ter In thn general publlu Interest, ns It Is wholly within tho councll's'power to de cldo upon widths nnd prescribe tho loca tions where the narrower pavoments would meet nil needed requirements. roturn and give a few hammers on tho door Just to express his opinion of it. Accord ingly, ho raised his list and gavo it It would never do to tell how mony knocks ho gave, or in what way ho gave them, but ho knocked In an unusual way. This wob simply because ho was angry. As tho Inst knock rnng out nn nnswer Ing knucklo sounded on the Inside. Mr. Forakor, deeming this mere sarcasm, hit tho door again. To his Intense astonish ment It flew open and a bowing attendant stood before hlra, Inviting him to the sec retary's presence. Ho hnd accidentally bit on the right knock. As for tho attendant, who had supposed It to bo n W'nr depart ment clerk, he was dumfounded. "Walk right In, senator," he gasped. And as tho senator vanished In tho secretary's room ho caught tho words: "How did ho ever learn that knock?" PEnSONAI, NOTES. Tennessee has a sort of record In living ex-governors. Six former executives of the stato are still among its citizens. Ono of them, William tt. Bate, Is now a United States senator. Arrangements have been completed tor the Canadian trip of tho duke nnd duchess of Cornwall and York and their party. They will be officially welcomed at Quebec, the place of landing, on September 16. A lawyer named Patterson died a few days ago In Brooklyn, leaving nbout $1,000, 000, nearly all made by conducting damage suits In cases of accidents nnd personal In juries, tho defendants being chiefly street railroad and similar corporations. In a fortnight Denis Joseph Swenlc, who has served In the Chicago Are department slnco December 3, 1849, and as chief mar shal since 1879, will havo put out his last fire. Chief Swenlo tendered Mayor Harri son his resignation as flro marshal last Tuosday. Mrs. Marcus Daly explains the recent marriage of her daughter by an Episcopal bishop by saying that nlthough Mr. Daly was himself a Catholic he was liberal and allowed his children to be brought up In their mother's faith. He gave, eayB Mrs. Daly, to all denominations. Wlntleld S. Stratton, tho millionaire mine owner of Cripple Creek, has redeemed the Matchless mine in Lcadvlllo for tho widow of the late Senator Tabor. Years ago Sen ator Tnbor advanced some money to Strnt ton when Stratton was a poor, struggling miner and he never forgot It. President James J. Hill of the Great Northern Railroad company owns a model farm at Ploasant lke, Minn., about eight miles from St. Paul. Ho exhibits keen in terest In tho development of ngrlculture and stock raising on hlB farm and has fre quently gtvn lectures nt the agricultural experiment form in Minnesota, lying mid way between St, Paul and Minneapolis. Mr. Hill's farm contains n buffalo and doer park. Dr. Victor C. Vaughan, tho now president ot the American Medical association, wob graduated from tho University of Mlchlean in 1878. In 1884 ho became professor of hygiene In that Institution and in 1890 bo was elected dean of tho nedlcal school of the university. He has published several standard scientific works, among them "Physiological Chemistry" and "Ptomaines nnd Loucomalnos." His contributions to periodical medical literature are regarded by the profession as being of tho highest value. The Faithful Serge. Notwithstanding the great popularity of the new Outing Flannels, which wo are showing in a very at tractive variety, there is no rival to a good Serge Suit. Our Serges will wear well and the fit will wear well too. The seams are taped to hold and the collars are properly "shaped," $10, $12.50, $15, $18, $20 and $25. The Roy's sizes cost a dollar or so a unit 'loss. The coats may be lined, half-lined or wholly un lined. Some are silk lined and faced. They are perfect in fit and style. Browning, King & Co. Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R. S. Wilcox, Manager. CHAVlN'ff 'FOB BtCITBttENT. Iti'llrrllntiK nn tin: Hlffh Preasnrs of .Modern l.lfe. Haltlnioro American, Ono of tho most remarkable cases of tho day Is that of n young worojn In Massa chusetts who has Just confessed a scries ot robberies committed In n girl's college, tho victims being her own friends, Her social stnndlng nt first put hor beyond suspicion, but when professional detective work was brought Into play the guilt wns fastened upon her with proof too strong to doubt and sho confessed. Hut the execuso sho put forward for her moral delinquency In tho matter Is tho most rcmarkablo pnrt of the ensc. She declares thnt her persistence In tho thefts was because of tho excitement and cxhllnrntlng) Influence of dodging de tection. Whntover degree of truth may be In this excuse thero Is no doubt that In theso days n most unhealthy craving for excitement nnd notoriety is threatening society, par ticularly among the young, Tho high pres sure of modern llfo may be to some degree accountoblo for this morbid craving, but this effect might bo counteracted If tho young wero trained to more hard, healthy work. Tho tendency now In to tnnke every thing easy, to smooth tho rough paths nnd to find out tho royal road to succeis of all kinds. Tho young mind Is not suffic iently strengthened to nvold nn Inlluonco which Is In tho ntmosphcre, and so falls n. prey to this morbid love of exciting expe riences. Tho young naturally deslro ehango and activity, but like nil naturnl appetites, thess should bo Indulged to n reasonable extent only, and not suffered to grow Into morbid proportions. Thero Is npparently nn epi demic of youthful morbidity seeking Us ex treme grqtlflcatlon In crime, A boy of 16, the other day, killed his sister and brother and then committed suicide, his brntn be ing unhinged by tho constant rending of trashy lltcrnturo nnd talcs of crime. Sim ilar cases of youthful criminals nre by no menns so rnro ns to constitute solitary ex nmples. Whethor the grentcr refinement of our civilization nnd Its high culture Is In- duclng n corresponding degrco of weak moral fiber, or whether young brnlns have too nttlo healthy exerclso nnd remain too long shut up In a rnrlnod hothouso atmos phere, Is n subject open to question, nut ono thing is certain tho craving for excite ment Is seizing upon the land like a crav ing for strong drink. Simplicity Is nt the root of everything renlly strong and great, nnd thero Is, per haps, a lack of renlly slmplo living in our high strung, up-to-date exlstonce, with Us constnnt strain on nerve nnd brnln and Its deadening of moraOpercoptlons. Tho men tal as well as physical food of the ago Is too highly seasoned and too stimulating; It wears out tho vitality In unhealthy de sires, and nil moral proportions aro lost sight of In the endeavor to gratify theso appetites. A return to simpler conditions and slmplor methods, with n flavor of gen uine work, would perhaps solve tho problem, and with this solution tho modern spectacle of young boys turning murderers from lust of advonturo nnd young women turning burglars from ennuf might no longer shock and startle tho public eye. LAUGHING GAS. Chicago Trlbuno: "Been buying nnothcr calfskin razor strop, hnvo you? That's n wnste of money. All I over uso for sharp- cn.'."5 n,y.rflzor 13 tno Pa,m ' my hnnd." "Well. Isn't thnt the namo thing?" Puck: First Bunco MAn What Is tha mntter? Something on your mind? Second Bunco Mnn I wnB Just thinking what a pity it ts that nil the fools nro not rich. Detroit Freo Press: Pastor I nm pained to see, dear brother, that you will sleep In church on Sunday. Parlshloncr-Of courno. Why not? Isn't Sunday a day of rest? Chicago Post: Cltlzen-Madnme, why do you persist In punching ime .with your um brella? . Slddnmc I want to make you look round jo I can thank you for giving me your seat, Tow, sir. don't you go off and say that women haven't nny mjnners. Philadelphia Press: "My, what nn un tidy man." exclaimed the fair visitor to our sanctum. "Who Is tho one with his desk In such n litter?' And then sho was nuro shs wns being Jollied when her guldo sold It wns tho llt ternry editor. Pittsburg Chronicle: "Father." nsked 12 ?.?aruJd. Mablc- looking up from her book. "What Is repnrtee7" "Back tnlk," nnswered fntber, "but so smnrt that you wish you'd said It yourself." Wnshlngton Btnr: "I Insist that my daughter shnll play nothing but classical music." said Mr. Blrlous Barker. "For what reason?" "None of the neighbors know a thlnt about It and she can murder n ploco all sh wants to without their daring to say a word. ' Cleveland Plnin Dealer: "Ono of tho lat. ,.4,0VV.B ' founded on an automobile," "Qnsollno or electric?" "Why do you ask thnt?" t. ,.CaUB I want to know before I read It, ir It la one of tho gasoline sort ft will bt wa?y.io,.f?,l0y tho scent to the Innt chapter, but If ft la olectrfc I might bo shocked." SUMMBR HOARDERS. Brooklyn Life. "?.h.'.Jna.mmn' mamma!" bawled tho calf, ..nW.R,VB coming through the yard?" 5.? B.t.l"'..my h!ld: yo mako me laugh. That's Mm. Boulevard." "And docs she bite?" "Hush. little cow. There'H nothing you ehould fear. Of course sho dons or cine, I vow. She wouldn't now be hero." "Oh. mamma, mamrnul" neighed the colt, 1 "Do tell me. if you can, That a Mr. Cltyman." "A4?d.!f ?ko7V "Perhaps not yet. Twill doubtless tako soma days. But you can rest assured, my net. He will be, when he pays." P i ".ti,rim?mma'.Jn?mm''l!" Peepel the chick. "What alls that creature's leu? Uo acts ko funny! With a stick Ho tries to hit an egg." "Ue.ware 1t Is a solriuo!" Tho anxlouu hen replied. "HIh hoso ts turned this way alack! We'd better run and hide!'