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0 Till!: OMAHA DAILY ISEE: TV ESP AY, SEPTEMHEK n, 10.01. The umaiia Daily Bee. E. IlOSEWATEIt, EDITOll. 1't'ULlBHUD EVEKY MOIININO. . . TEItAIS OK SUHSCMI'TION. Dally Ueo (without Sunday) ,Ono le.ir.16.0) Dally Hoe und Suimny, Otic Year S 00 Jliiistl id Hcc, Olio Year 2 0) Sunday life. Onu V'our 2.0) Saturday Hev, otto Ytnr I-6' Twentieth Century Farmer, One Yiar. l.W OFFICE.-. Omaha: Tim Ui-e DulntlnR. South Omaha: City llun llulldlng, Twon-ty-lltth ami M Strict. Council Ulutti: io l'earl Street. Chicago. 1610 t'nity Hut ding. rw York! Teinpii) Cojrl. Wushiiigtou: Col Fourticnth Street. COKKESt'ONDENCE. Communications rulut ns to iicwb and till, torlal matter thoultl he iiddressuu: Omnh.t llee, Editorial Department. Ht'HLVESS LETTE113 Iluslnes letters and remittances should bo tiddrtsnLil; Tin Deo l'ub.ijhlng Com pany, Omaha. LEMITTANCE3. Itumlt hy draft. ixproas or postal order, payable to The Ike Publishing Company. Only i'-ctnt sumpH nicpted In payment u( mall .itcuiu:t. Personal i-Ikcam, except on Umalui or 1'iis.i'iii exeh.inuei', nut aiMcptcii. Till! liKI, PL'llLIHIllNC- COMPANY. statement" of cntccLATibN." State of Ninrnskn, Douglas County, ss.: George II. TzHi'huek, secretary of The llro Publishing Company. being July sworn, says that the actual number of full und coinpli'tu eople.s of Thi. Dally. Morning, KvenliiK and Sunday lieu printed durliiK tho month of August, I'M, was us follows 1... :.,::( l" 13 19 20 21 22 23 21 .jr;t7o 2... 3... 4... t. . 6... 7. . 8... 9... 10. . 11... 12... 13... It... IS.. 1C... i. ..-... i:io v.-,,(iio U.'.llltO 1!.,IH it.-.,!! in i!.-.,:i(in y.V-io i'.-.,:t.-.o im.:ini 10 :.'., i, -.i ...,.L'.,IUO jr., o,-,(( ,...,i:r.,::ii() r.i"or ur,,r,:nt .....un.iiiKi 'j.,itio '.Ti.lltO -'.1.NTO yr.sr,ii 1:0,0110 iiii,.-.in 28. 29. 30. SI. stvjio , U7.0IO UII.IIM) liT.Usil Totnl Less unsold and returned cuplcs. .70." ,1K10 ,sr,- Not total sales Net dally nvernge.... okokoi: , 7.SS.OII.T un.rji 11. T.SCUHCK. Subscribed lt my presence and sworn to beforu me this 31st day of AUKunt, A. V. 1901. JI. 11. HUNOATIC, Notary l'ubllc. PAUTICS i,havio " l'OII .sum .mi: It. I'nrtlm IrntliiK Ihn elty for tli it NiinuiH-r inn j- hnvo Thr lieu put Io llioni remilnrly liy nntlfyliiu Tho lice llnnlnr.in ulllrp. In prrsnn or hy. ninll. The nilclrfM will lio chniiKed n often an desired. Governor Shaw Is1 modest, would not decline. but he The annual rovlval of the project for n new beet sugar factory within hailing distance of Omaha In again due. Tho public schools reopen today. The educational mill Is the biggest mill that opens Us doors In this country. Thero Is no record of what the gov ernor of Iown said to the governor of Nebraska during his recent visit, but they both smiled when they parted. In sounding for n cable fro.m Australia n valley In thp ocean 2.S00 fathoms deep has been located. 1'osslbly, If It wcro searched, I'at Crowe might bo found. People of Omaha and South Omaha nro ready to push along the project for n military road to Kort Crook. This Improvement has been altogether too long delayed already. The tlrst stake on tho St. Louis expo nltlon grounds will be driven today. If tho Mtssourlans are to get their show ready on tlmo they will be forced to drive stakes lively from now on. A Philadelphia woman Is under ar rest In London, charged .with forging securities to the amount of .f.'OO.OOO. Philadelphia iicoplc may be slow, but this woman can prove nu alibi to tho charge. Tho Chinese envoys should not bo so particular about bumping their heads ou the tloor in front of Kmperor Wil liam. The Chinese have .received so many hard knocks of late that a few additional bumps will not count. Lord Salisbury Is slated to bo made a duke on the occasion .'of tho corona tion of King Kdwa'rd. It may bo neces nary to distribute several such honors before tho king can be otliclally as sured that his crown Is on straight. Tho sultan of Turkey appealed to the German emperor to help him in his dltllculty with France and received In return the sound advice to pay up. That Is always good policy when a man arrives with a distress warrant. Tho democrats of Douglas county pro pose to follow In the wake of the repub licans and havo a more equitable rep resentation In county conventions. The democrats always did follow the repub licans, but they never seem to catch up. A steamer captain al Duluth has been lined $1,000 for failure to stop his boat and assist In saving drowning people. That Is not a huge valuation to put on human lives, but a few lines of that kind would have n tendency to make men whose better Instincts do not act as a prompter to act in ore humanely, r Where Omaha surfers In comparison with other cities Is In the large area over which It Is spread. If It can only fill in tho vacant spaces In the central part of tho city to give a more compact business area, It will Impress observers much more favorably. Omaha's efforts to expand should bo directed to the In tcrlor lather than to tho outer edge. Medical, reports from Santiago, Cuba, show no yellow fever there since I)e comber. 1SW. For the last hundred yeurs previous tp this the city had never been free from tho yellow acourgc. Thin result has been ' no couipllshed by the enforcement of snnl tury regulations and an enforced clean ing up of fho city. Santiago has reason thankfully to remember the Ainerlcau Visit. FCHIItr.lt TAX 11KDVCT10X VHOUAIU.V. An effort will lie inatlu at thu coining session of coiiKross to further rcdticu In ternal revenue taxes ami It Ih thought probable tlmt It will In; sttcces sfnl. Thu commissioner of Internal revenue estl mates that Instead of .? 10,000,000 re duction In ruveiniu, which was estimated when the last coiikicsh cut oft a portion of the war taxes, thero will not ho more than $27,000,000 reduction, due to the Increase of business In all articles sub ject to Internal revenue taxes. The first two months or the current liscal year show an excess of receipts Over exnondltitres of about S.'.OW.OOO. This Is accounted for by the large re duction In expenditures as com pared with last year. The government has paid out In the two months of this liscal j car about .l.'l,ooo,ooO less than In the corresponding period a year ago. Thero Is .$178,000,000 In the treasury alter all the demand liabilities upon the treasurer have been met and In spite of the purcliiiJ-'e of bonds to keep down the accumulation of Idle money in the gov ernment values. The New York .Journal of Commerce remarks that very likely the surplus tor the current liscal year will not continue at the unprecedented rate at which It has begun, but that It will amount to a largo sum In tin; twelve mouths cannot bo doubted, while the enormous available cash balance would make It perfectly easy to run tho country') llnancca with a dellclt for two or three years. Hence that paper thinks It will be a great mistake If early In Its upproachltig session cohgrcss shall not make n large reduction In thu taxa- tion It may not be advisable to abolish all the war taxes, as some propose. 11 is j said that treasury olllclals aro inclined to recommend that some forms of these taxes be maintained permanently and perhaps It would bo wise to do this. Hut the present condition of the treasury certainly warrants the opinion that a considerable reduction In revenue can safely be madu and any further relief from luxation which congress may tln.l It expedient to give will be welcomed by thu country. It Is nut desirable that money shall continue to accumulate in the national treasury at the rate of the past two mouths. It Is not a good thing from any point of view to have In the treasury an amount of money very largely In excess of the requirements of the government. It Is apt to prove a detriment to business and It Is certain to Invite extravagauee In public expen ditures. A safe working balance In the treasury should always be maintained, J but whenever the revenues assure an accumulation beyond what Is necessary to the maintenance of such a balance there should be a reduction of taxation. That uppcars to be the present .situation and the public will expect cougie.-s to act accordingly. TUllKEi Al'l'BALU TU UEllMAXV. The Htiltau has asked Germany to uso Its good otltcea to settle the dispute with France and It Is said that Turkey will be adylscd to settle as soon, as posslblej ,'fho, German government has a great deal of lnlluonce with the Turkish gov ernment and It Is probable that If Gur- many cares to use Its good olllces any advice which It may give the sultan will bo heeded. If, however, Abdul IlamM expects that tho Gorman government will be In any way partial to him he Is certain to bo disappointed. Franco and Germany nro on very friendly terms at present and tho latter will do nothing In the Interest of Turkey that might to tho slightest extent unfavorably affect that good feeling. It Is of far more Impor tance to Germany to cultivate friend ship with France, whose ally Is ltussla, than with decadent Turkey, which Is without a sincere friend In Furopc. Doubtless the lntluenco of Germany would be exerted to prevent war, be cause u conflict between Franco .and Turkey might lead to a general Euro- pcau war, but If she acts at all in tho controversy there can bo no doubt that It will bo to urgo .Turkey to settle on the terms submitted by France, which the latter Is not at all likely to recede from. The fact Is that the French dcmnuA4 nre fait and Just and shu cnuuot now abandon any part of them without some sacrlllco of self-respect. Franco Is "well prepared to light If necessary and In a single-handed conflict with Turkey there can be no doubt what the result would be. .Meanwhile reported conditions In Turkey seem very threatening to the government. There are said to be disor ders and military uprisings in several parts of tho empire and once this sort of thing gets welf started It Is likely to make rapid headway and become ex ceedingly troublesome. Wo think It safe to .predict that there will not bo war between Franco and Turkey, but the conditions seem favorable to Internal dllllcultles In the latter which may have most Important and far-reaching conse quences. TUB I'AA-AMMIWAX CUXOHESS. Extensive arrangements nre being made for the reception and entertain ment of the delegates to thu Pau-Anier-twin congress which Is to meet in tho City of .Mexico next month. A dispatch from that city says that ftie huge hall of ambassadors lu the national palace, In which tho sessions of thu congress will be held, Is being practically rebuilt and work Is going on day and night to have everything lu readiness when It Is needed. When completed the room will be one of thu handsomest lu thu world. Some doubt has recently been ex pressed as to whether thu congress will be as largely attended as has been ex pected and also whether Its dellbera tloils are likely to have any practical results. It bus been suggested that ills trust of the United States Is likely to operate against thu success of tho con gress. The trouble between Venezuela and Colombia, which seems to be grow lug more serious and may Involvo other republics, will very likely prevent those countries from being represented lu the congress, while there aro one or two others that may not send delegates, though we believe all have promised to do so, but the Indications seem favorable to a good attendance. As to results, of .iiirii no ili'llnlle conclusion can bo j formed, but U seems hardly possible that the deliberations of such n body of Intelligent men should bo wholly tin productive. There Is no doubt some feeling of distrust In South America tic ward the Tutted States exists, but wi; think It has been much exaggerated and .the congress will afford an opportunity for showing that It Is groundless. a srw ttmn'Aiin. The .Douglas county republican com mittee has taken a step forward In ap put tinning the representation for the ucxt county convention. "Within the past twcjve years repeated but futile efforts had been made to re adjust the disproportionate distribution of delegates between the city wards and country picclncts. Notwithstanding the fact tluu the disparity was becoming more mari:t'd from year to year as new prcclntts Mere curved out by the county board, the successive committees lacked the nerve to right the wr.ong end re lieve the party lioin Its ridiculous pre dicament. Every time the ii.ck; n was brought up Its advocates were told that the demand for a change was Jmt, but untimely. "Not this time, but some other time," was the cry of the timid politicians who lack the courage to as sert the supremacy of principle, over ex pediency. The new apportionment ndopted by the committee Is by no means the full measure of Justice and equity, but It Is a long step in the right direction. While Omaha and South Omaha aie given In creased representation, the vote of the country precincts in the convention has also been Increased, although the pro rata of republican votes outsjdo of the two cities has not Increased. With sev enty out of the 22." delegates In the com ing convention the country precincts will cut if very respectable II sure and con tinue to be a force to be reckoned with by aspirants for nominations. The concession of live more delegates to each city ward and four moru to South Omaha is by no means In propor tion to the comparative voting strength. The smallest republican vote polled In any ward In Omaha is equal to one-half of the total- republican vote of all tho country precincts, and, while each ward in Omaha is to have lifleeu delegates, seven precincts that constitute half the country representation will have thirty live delegates. On the other hand, the largest ward In Omaha polls twelve times as many republican votes as are polled In tho largest country precinct, yet must bo content with only three times tho number of delegates in the convention. Willi these stubborn facts before them, the republicans outside of the two cities certainly have no Just ground for complaint or disaffection. Few people realize the extent to which skilled wage workers contribute to the population of a great city like Oinalia, for example, until the labor organiza tions are marshalled in Imposing array for a parade on some festal occaslou. Tho tendency of modern Industrial life W to Increase the relative proportions of skilled to unskilled labor, of specialized ability to ordinary muscle. Even the common labor Is of a higher grade of Intelligence than n few decades back. The progress of tho nation ia nowheru better shown than In the ranks of labor. The Omaha Typographical union do, cllnes to be a party to the proposed boy colt of Ak-Sar-Hen or any other 'public entertainment where the funds are raised by general subscription and the only returns expected must como through an increase of business. This is commendable, lloycotts of public en tertainments can accomplish no good purpose and should be discountenanced by all classes of the community. Tho launching of a now war vessel used to bo such a raro occurrence that people went great distances to witness It. Nowadays the performance Is be coming so common that It scarcely pro duces a ripple, of excitement on tho sea of public opinion. Hefore long wnr ships will bo more familiar llgures on the ocean than old-fashioned sailing Vessels. After thu czar has seen tho German naval maneuvers he will go on a visit tn France and that country will try to show him that the German navy Is not much after all. Among the nations of Europe thero Is as much effort to secure thu friendship of Hussla as Is made by the moneyless but titled gentle- nuiu to capture the visiting American heiress. Local populists propose to fuse with the democrats on the basts of keeping all the appointive Jobs they have and getting as many more as they can, leav ing thu democrats to monopolize the elective olllces. Itemeinber nil the tlmo that the Inspiring motive power of fu sion Is declared to be principles ami not spoils. Hryan's friends should see to It that every speaker who comes to thu Jack sonlun picnic Is searched before entering thu grounds. A well-founded suspicion Is abroad that some of them contem plate bringing a 11111 boom (or bomb) along with them. Teachers in Germany will not be al lowed to pull the ears of pupils here after on tho ground that It Injures tho hearing. If corporal punishment must be used lu tho schools nothing devised up to date can take the place of the shingle. The Mailer it Version. Saturday Evening Post. It is to bo remembered that Ilarkls gen erally Rota his plnce beenuso he Is willing, liven an otllco ltkes to bo Bought. A SltiiinliiK PonKllilllty. San Francisco Call. What will it profit the Iowa democrats to havo reaffirmed the Kansas City platform If IJryan should strike oil and ault politics? Tills Sinuclia of TrcriHOii. Chicago Chronicle. Mr. Warden, chairman of the democatlc state central committee of Wisconsin, (lies In the face of ordcru from Line In, Neb., by announcing that tho free silver sine is dead and hurled and by declaring la effect that tho party must movu forward out of tho popullstte rut In which It has been floundering for several yars. T) Is lika Is In harmony with domocradc thought, but It means death and destruc tion to the last ditch program of populism. Ilpinnnil lor I'u Idle l.niul. Indlamtpollx Journnt. To those who have been led to believe that the United Stat-s has no desirable land unsold, the report that more homestead eti- tries were made last year than any year since the passage of the act of that name Is a surprise. The sales amounted to 13.153, SS" acres, or an area equal to tbrce-flfths of Indiana. MrlkliiK the Colinumer. Philadelphia Record. Tho manufacturers of plows havo ar ranged to advance tho prlco of thtlr prol uct 10 per cent. The excuse made for tho ndvanco Is the Increased prlco of steel caused by the strike. The farmer who pays tr.oro for his utensils cannot get back hla money without advancing the prlco of bread and meat, and so In tho round of tho mar Lots the strikers find that the boomerang aimed at his employer finally comes back to hit himself. tjill I In tin- l.nlior Wnrlil. Itoston alobe. Tho factory operative of sixty years ago. with his long hours, servility and wrctchcJ pay, may havo had to be contented, but It argues nothing for the old Bystem. Shorter hours have been tho salvation of American worklngmen. They mean self-respect, In creased tlmo to study their rights ntid en larged manhood generally. The cont nlol 3lavo was never an argument for an out grown und outlawed system of Industry. Ilni-il I'uslieil for nn limir. Philadelphia Tress. The hunt for an issue on which tho dem ocrats can appeal to tho nation In 1901 has been solved by some of the frco trada nowspapors. Their proposed Issue Is tho abolition of tho laws against smuggling by steamship pnsscngers. So Important Ha they regard this Issuo that they make dally assaults on tho law and on Secretary (lag for enforcing It. Hut ns only about one- eighth of 1 per cent of our people go abroad In a year, It docs not promle to be a very popular issue, though It will b, en thusiastically supported by ths fordgn steamship owners, who have no ptrs nil Interest In tho welfare of the United States. licet .Simnr mid the Trust. Cleveland Leader. It Is quite probablo that the next session of tongress will witness a struggle for llfo by tho beot sugnr interests of the country against tho machinations of tho Sugar trust. It fc desirable that all neutral classes should understand In ndvanco what the agents of tho Sugar trust will mean when thoy propose the removal of all duties on raw sugar and tho retention of full protection for rcllners. They may talk of cheaper dugar, but they will bo aiming to smash and wipe out of existence tho only forco which now keeps down thts prlco of sugar and forces tho American Sugar Itctlnlng company to lower I's 1 market quotations at the beginning of the canning season. If tho American people can bo deluded by the special pleading of ouch nn organization as tho Sugar trust they will deserve no sympathy. Its true purpose is too apparent. It stands too clearly for monopoly and tho extortion which is the child of completo control of great Industries. MFK ov a locomotive:. ' Ita Value No.t lit (Atte, but tn the Serr Ice Performed. Chicago tribune. An English engine, built In 1870, has run 4,000,000 miles and Is still In service. Tbe managers of the' road to which It belongs aro proud of this record. In tho United States a first-class passenger engine makes from 100,000 to 110,000 miles a year, and at tho end of twenty yeurs is supposed to be ready for tho scrap heap. Seemingly iVmerlcans are moro extravagant than British railway managers, but tho former do not think thoy are." Thoy bollove their policy la tho more economical one. As soon as a locomotive Is put In service In this country it is pushed as hard as is possiblo In doing profitable- work on tho assumption that by tho time It has been driven to death thoro will bo bo many Im provements lu locomotives that it will bo uneconomical to keep tho old ono In service even If It can bo rebuilt. Thus when slaves were cheap a Cuban planter would -reason that It was moro economic to work a slave to death and buy a now one than to exact less labor from a slave and thus havo his services for a longer time. In England an cnglno is taken great caro of. It Is rested occasionally. Its lifo Is prolonged as much as possiblo. Hence It Is that an cnglno can bo kept In service for thirty years. Tho men nt tho head of Amer ican railways contend that so old an cn glno must bo an expensive one becauso it cannot do tho cheaper work a modern en gine Is capable of. Tho American policy Is vindicated by Its results. T1IH COKN OUTLOOK. KHtlmnte of the l'robnlile Yield nil thr Vnlue of the Crop, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. What appears to bo the most careful and Intelligent inquiry of the conditions In the corn crop yet made has just been completed by Hradstreet'a and it shows a probable ytold of at leant 1,400,000,000 bushels. This would be a decllno of about 700,000,000 bush els as compared with 1900, when the crop was 2,100,000,000 bushels, us estimated by tho Department of Agriculture In Washing ton in its final figures. It would, bo a ro ductton of about 600,000,000 from tho esti mates mado at the beginning of July, be fore the drouth had como In destructive shape and when rains were looked for at any day. As the Globe-Democrat has moro than once pointed out, a falling off In the yield of corn or wheat does not necefcsarlly mean a reduction In tho income of tho wheat and corn growers. In fact, the opposite la some times tho case. The l,21L',000,000-bUBhcl corn crop of 1891, for example, brought to the producers $10,000,000 more than did the 2,151,000,000 yield of the succeeding year. Thero had been a drop In price, as estimated on December 1 of each year, from 45.7 cents a bushel in 1894 to 25.3 cents in 1895. This moro than offset the Increase of over 900, 000,000 bushels In tho later year. In the present tnstanco there Is also an Increase In prices as compared with 1900, and this Is much more than tho decreaso In yield which Is Indicated at tho present time. It Is, of courso, the consumer and the railroad and general transportation Inter ests, and not usually tho producers, which suiter la a reduction of tho crops. Unlesi the fulling off amounts to about CO per cent tho grower commonly makes up In Increased prlco what ho loses In decreased product. The loss of tho railroads, steamboats and general public, however, may be serious In a shortage tn yield, In tho present case the loss will not be felt so severely as It would havo been in an ordinary year, bo cause tho wheat yield this year Is much greater than It ever was before and the level of general prosperity throughout the country Is higher than It has been at any tlmo In tho past. Hero aro allowances which have to bo mado In computing the effects of tho corn shortage Moreover, it will bo poialble, If the weather bo favorablo from this time onward, to havo a larger corn crop than tho 1,400,000,000 bushels which Is now Indicated. Campaign New York The Nebraska republicans in their stntn contention at Lincoln on Wednesday seem to have broken all recent party records for energy and harmony. At one brief sitting they adopted n platform, nominated can didates for three minor statu olllces, and disposed with skill and limitless of a troublesome incident lu local politics which threatened to prove a source of weakness In tho approaching campaign. A republican stale treasurer, whose embezzlements had discredited an earlier republican adminis tration, was released from prison on parole not long ago by Governor Savage, and the coavcntlon, though not assailing the gov ernor's motives In granting clemency, strongly protested against any condona tion of tho treasurer's orfenm and asked for an Immediate recall of the tlckct-of-leave given htm. This one cause of friction removed, tho delegates accomplished their work with altogether gratifying celerity and good feeling. As lu ecry other statn this year, the republican party in Nebraska Duds a plat form already written for It in the political policies overwhelmingly indorsed at two successive presidential elections nnd car ried Into fruitful elfect through repub lican legislation and republican administra tion. Facing nn opposition whosu solo stock in trade 1b captious denunciation of these policies, and whoso efforts to block their triumph have twice resulted in Ignominious failure. Tho Nebraska republicans arc Justified in again "commending' to th( Judgment of the people tho purposes ami achievements of tho national administra tion," and In asking popular approval of a program which they thus Indicate. The ro-csta'bltahment of prosperity through u return to tho policy of protection; adherence to n financial policy which has augmented national, municipal mid In dividual credit and reduced the rate of In tend to tho lowest point in our history; an rill-l I.MHSI'K.VSAlll.i: MAX. He Who Unduly ApprrelnteH III Own Iniliortiini'r. Success. Somo of the most successful business men In this country mako It a rulo to dls penso with the services of nny man In their employ, no matter how Important hla position may be, ns soon as he comes to regard himself as "Indispensable." This may seem harsh and even unbusi nesslike, but If we look Into It wo shall find that there Is wisdom In this practice. Experience proves that tho moment a man looks upon himself ns absolutely neces sary ho usually ceases to exercise to the fullest extent tho faculties which have helped him to rise to that indlspensahlo point. Ho becomes arrogant and dictatorial and his lntluenco In nn organization Is bound to bo more or less demoralizing. Many concerns have been seriously em barrassed by the conduct of managers, su perintendents or heads of departments after they had reached positions where they thought no one elso could tako their places. This undue appreciation of one's own Im portance Is ns disastrous In Its results as utter lack of self-esteem. It 1b really cvl denco of a narrow mind and Ignorance of general conditions, for tho man who Is up to the times, thoroughly posted In re gard to tho world-wide trend of the twen tieth century, will realize that there are very few people In the world, no matter what their talents or ability, who cannot be replaced. It Is a very rare character. Indeed, that is imperatively necessary and tho man who actually reachoB this point docs not brag of It, nor act as If he con sidered himself "Indlspensahlo." STEPriNG-STONES OP D13STINY. Helping: Cubans Alone the Pntb of Ed acatlonnl I'rojres. Brooklyn Eagle. Tho way wo tyrannlzo ovor the poor Cubans is truly reprehensible. Wo aro not contont to lot them run their schools In tholr own way, but Insist upon bring ing their teachers hero for Instruction in English nnd other things affecting their work. Fifty-four women and twenty-four men are In this city now on their way to Cuba. They havo been for two months In a summer school at Harvard learning how to teach and now they will go back and practlco upon their fellow Islanders. That Is, all but soven of them will go back now. Soven will bo a part of a colony of fifty Cuban teachers to tako a normal courso for a year In tho train ing school at New Pair In thU state. When wo rcallzo tho extent of tho social lntluenco of a teacher In a rural community, such as tho Cuban schools to which most of these teachers will go, tho far-reaching effect of this training upon tho civilization of Cuba can hardly bo overestimated. Tho public school la the cornerstone upon which in telligent and successful self-government rests. We havo dono moro to establish and maintain good public schools In Cuba than tho Spaniards did In tho Interval between Columbus and Lee. Wo did send to Cuba Neely and Thompson, who stolo from the Island postofflce, but wo did something In advance to offset that when wo sent A. E. Fryo thore and gave him a free hand dur ing tho American Interregnum to establish an cffcctlvo school system. Wo havo sup plemented that by tho education of Cuban teachers hero since, a policy which scorns likely to go on until tho Cubans havo suit able normal schools of their own. And thus we are preparing tho way for manifest destiny to work Itself out In Cuba by tho easiest and most natural stages. LAUOIl L'NIO.S INCOHIMinATini. 4 Future Anprct of the Steel Trdit Townril Orirnnlneil I.nbnr. Chlcngo News. In announcing that in futuro the Steel trust will enter Into no contracts with the Amalgamated association until that body has become Incorporated, J. I'lerpont Mor gan brings forward an issuo which may bo expected to figure largely in tho labor con troversies of tbo futuro. Tho nttltudo of tho Steel trust officials j simply this: The organization which they represent Is duly Incorporated and chartered and can bo held legally to account for tho keeping of Its contracts. If It Ignores Its contract obligations It can bo reached through tho courts nnd damages can be collected from It. While the trust Is thus bound to abide by any formal agreements Into which It may enter, tho other sig natories to tho contracts In the ense of labor disputes are not so bound, While labor unlonB gonerally keep to tho spirit and letter of their agreements, in this respect setting nn example which corpo rations do not always follow, thore Is noth ing to compel them to nblde by their con tracts. Tho leaders In an organization llko tho Amalgamated association may enter into nu agreement In good faith, but they cannot commit the organization as a wholn to tho undcvlntlng support of that agree ment. There may he a change of leaders or of conditions; or tho trust bodies them solves may bo guilty of aggressions which In tho belief of the union mon morally ah solvo them from their contracts, nut while hey are free to act upon tho assumption that there has been a moral abrogation of contract, tho corporation Is nono tho less boifnd legally to a literal fulfillment of Us agreement. Tho history of union labor In this country shows that Instances of contract-breakIu Well Begun Tribune. Incalculable Increase In tbe valuo of labor and property through au honest endeavor to give the peoplo a stable dollar and n chance to cam It; the building up of an enormous balance lu our favor In trade with foreign nations; tho suppression of unjustifiable Insurrection In tho Philippines, nnd tho establishment In that archipelago of the prlnclplse upon which popular government ami equality of rights depend. On such n platform and with united and harmonious effort the republican organiza tion should repeat this fall its notable and decisive victory of n year ago. Slnco 1890 republican successes In Nebraska havo been Infrequent and republican leadership has been distracted by' personal and fac tional quarrels. Under vigorous inanogo ment the opposition elements were fused Into a strong nnd disciplined party, which took and held control of tho state. Kf forts to break this control usually proved futile until 1S9S, when tho republicans re gained the legislature and recaptured the governorship, besides wresting the state's electoral voto from Colonel Ilryan. This year the defeated democratic presidential catidldato Is trying to rally the fusion forces for another contest nnd the indications are that an alllanc" will be effected between teh democratic and populist organizations, the so-cnllcd silver republican party having passed by its own confession through the last formal tlirorn of dissolution, Tho fusion managers cannot hope to maintain their coalition In the face of two. or threo successive defeats. Their fight this year will, therefore, bo a desperate one, for n victory now would go far toward restoring them to power at Lincoln In 1!02. The mornl advantage to tho republicans of n triumph In November is equally clear and the progress of this "off year" contest In Colonel Bryan's stnto will be followed with general nnd widespread Interest. on the part of the unions have been com part Ivcly rare. The unions havo shown usually a bcuso of mornl responsibility and a disinclination to ovado their rcsponsl blllty oven under provocation. Ilut, as tho recent strlko In somo of tho western stool mills has shown, the breaking of contract obligations Is not unknown. Tho South Chi cago wtccl workers, although enormous pressuro was brought to bear upon thorn, sturdily refused to break their contracts, but somo other unions, following President Shaffer's ill-considered advlco, set their agreements nslde. Morgan nnd his fellow magnntcs now declaro that they" will treat only with bucIi organizations as can bo held to account In tho courts nnd made to suffor pecuniary loss for violations of contract. If tho legal restrictions Involved In the Incorporation of labor organizations ham pcred the unions In certain controversies they would also tend to the excrclso of greater caro In the making of contracts. It Is a question, moreover, whether Incorpora tion would not give the industrial bodies a moro clearly defined and securer standing, STATISTICS OV FAltM I.AHOH. Iimtructlve Fneta Gleaned from Con ana nulletln. Chlcugo Post. According to statistics prepared by the Department of Agriculture thoro Is a groatcr number of persons engaged In somo form of farm work than In any other branch of labor. In 1890, out of 22,735,661 persons, 10 years of ago or over, having gainful occupa tions In tho United States, 8,395,634, or 36.1) per cent, wore engaged In agrlculturo: and of these, 3,004,061 wore agricultural labor ers. The main object of tho statistics Is a con sideration of tho wages paid this class of labor. It Is shown that those who work for hlro on tho farm aro a decreasing element as compared with tho cntlro farm labor of tho United States. Doubtless this la duo largely to Improved agricultural machinery and Its wider Introduction. Fnrm wngeB a month, by the year or sea Bon, without board and with board, were higher In 1899 than In 1898. Tho smallest changes In the rato of wages from 1898 to 1899 wore In Georgia, Texas and New Mex ico, each less than 1 per cont. Tho highest gala was In Minnesota, 10 per cent; followed by Wisconsin, 10 per cent; Washington and Michigan each 9 per cent; North Da kota, 8.G per cont; South Dakota, 7.5 per cent, and Wyoming, 7 per cent. Thero has been a gradual Increase in tho rato of farm wages In tho United States slnco 1879, when It reached tho minimum. As the demand for such labor, especially In tho harvest season, 1b still good, nnd the supply has decreased fully ono-tbird, tho tendency of wages would, naturally, bo up ward. Tho uncertain character of farm work, largely dependent as It ts on tho promise, of crops, and varying from a pressing de mand for help In summer to practically no demand at all In winter, makes It difficult to determine Just how many laborers gain a livelihood entirely from agriculture. Tho llgures given represent tho number em ployed during tho year, but It Is well known that n great many moro work on tho farms In summer than In winter, Theso statistics do not follow tho summer surplus In the period between harvests. IMCriSONAI, NOTES. The dowager empress of Germany left a fortuno of $2,200,000, or $200,000 apiece for each of her children. Senator Hawloy of Connecticut Is tho senior surviving officer of tho original or ganization of tho Grand Army of tho Ho public. A New York trust company proposes to float the stock of a now $50,000,000 plow combination, but perhaps It has water enough to float itself. Tha sultan of Turkey Is himself some thing of a theoretical soldier. His favorite rending 1b military history of tho most de tailed and technical sort. Sven Hedln, tho explorer, reached Chnrkhllk, In tbo heart of China, last April, without hearing of tho troubles In the eastern part of tho empire Hn found tho Chinese polite nnd obliging! Commissioner Kerr, head of tho City of London court, is retiring after a long Ifgal career. Ho Is a natlvo of Glasgow and at the ago of 80 ho Is entering upon tho enjoyment of a pension' of $15,000 n year. Governor Orman of Colorado Is credited with being ono at the host shots In that state and has a collection of trophies won on hunting trips Into tho Ilocklcs which can bo equalled by few sportsmen In this country. William Dean Howells, the novelist, writes very slowly and, although his hand fooks llko a hurrlod ono, It Is really almost laborious. At the same time ho finds dic tation Impossible, nnd, therefore, depends entirely upon his pen. When tho present emperor of Germany was born, January 27, 1859, the babe was doscribed to tho expectant crowd hefore the palaco by Field Marshal von Wrangel In theso wordB: "Ah sturdy a llttlo recruit as heart could wish to see," On Wednesday last there was a reunion near Akron, 0 of men who voted for Lin coln One of tho speakers was Judge U. D. Tlbbals, a republican war horse, who In the course of his remarks declared that if Lincoln were to run for congress in Ohio the republicans would not elect him hn would not have enough money to pay ordinary campaign aisuesmcnts and expenses. ItOt.MI AIIIIIT XKW YOlilC. ItnppritliiRK Here nnil Thrrr In ttm ntlnn' Mrtt-uiinll. There Is no lack of faith lu betting circles of the ability of the defender to beat Sham rock II In tho approaching contest for tho Atnerlcu's cup. Whether their faith la well founded remains to be Bceu. An ubundanco of money to hack tho American boat is ou call In New York, some at 5 to 3, but gen erally even money. A big pot of lirltlsh coin camu over last week with Skipper Jameson of the Shamrock and was Hashed about tn betting resorts, causing n sensa tion among tho fraternity. Tho bluff was soon called and Jlf0,000 taken la one bunch at odds of C to 3. Tho remainder of the pot was taken at llko odds. Since then backers of tho lirltlsh boat havo cabled homo for more money, conclusively show ing that they possess more confidence of "lifting the cup" this year thnn over be Plans for the erection of tho largest and most expensive hotel ever built, to cost not less than $4,500,000 and to be over 3S0 feet high, nro now contemplated by the Subway Kealty company of this city. It Is proposed that thu new hotel shall occupy the entlro block front on tha west side of Park uvcnua between Forty-Ilrst and Forty-second streets, and In every respect the new hoatclry Is to bu the equal, If not the su perior, of any hotel now lu existence. For nearly two montliH tho architects for the realty company have been preparing plans for tho eolossnl edifice, and It Is now ru mored that they will bo completed within tho next threo weeks. Thero will then remain only tho formal adoption of tho plan boforo tho beginning of the work. The plot upon which tho new structure Is to be located fronts 196 feet on Park nveuuo nnd runs back 105 feet, and the buildings upon tt are already being torn down. Jersey City, not to be outdono In ths matter of morals, and reform, tins armed Its chief of police, Murphy, with brown streamers, a pasto bucket nnd n brush, nnd the billboards are adorned ns they never were before. Entire bovios of chorus girls nnd terpslchorcnn luminosities, as well ns individual samples of stellar hlgh-klckcrs aro made to appear ns If they were gazing over a high board fence. This unlquo, not to say startling, effect has been produced by Chief Murphy's artistic combination of brown paper and a pasto brush. Tho brown paper Is pasted over tho pictured beau ties, covering them from tho wnlst earth ward. Even thn Jersey gents nro in re bellion nt this adulteration of their choic est edible. Ono of tho chief puzzler for tho ro.il retnte men of the mctropollB Is whether or not tho fashlonabln residential growth of r-irtt, nt'niiii,, win ftvtmnl biivfind One Hun dredth stroet. At that point tho lino of growth scenm to bo Interrupted by tho Hebrew hospltnl improvements, yet prac tically as Insuperable nn obstacle scorned tn nrorimin its oxteiiston beyond Ninetieth street. When tho Huppcrt ninnslon wnB built n Ninety-third street tncro were wry tow roil .vatnt.. men natiite enough to agree with Mr. Iluppert that ho was locating his dwelling In what would yet provn a high grade residence center, ana noi unui An drew Carncglo purchased the block and a half of avenuo front at Ninetieth and Ninety-first street nnd began tho erection of Ma ti.r,nn.finn renldencn was nil skepticism removed. Slnco then, however, not only havo private individuals been eager io pur hi., rnclrtnnrn nlnla In the nineties (18 well as tho eighties, but speculative builders, quick to rush ill. havo Bccureu prncicui y ....vihlns toff. Mnklnir canltnl of the ccr- rivi; kuiHQ talnty of futuro development, tho specu lators havo nlmost Invariably made lm n.nnn,rnt. nn ilm lniH.' ntirchascd. The result Is they havo been repaid "pramptl for their foresight, most oi ineir imprum ments having been sold nt handsome tlg ... rnniilirfiblv before completion. In fact, what 1b popularly known ns tho "wes- ern colony" in Millionaires- row is iocniu between Elghty-ecvcnth nnd Nlncty-tlflh streets. Of courso westerners, nnd fr tlmt. can bo fcund Bcnttcrod .ii n,i .lnu-n th avenue, but In no slnglo section aro they "hunched" together to such nn extent ns between mo airecn named. rnrv nmall hurclars of both sexes, who. ages range from 3 to 13 yenrH, lnvalcd a vacant houco nt 239 Grovo street. Jersey City, ono day lat week, nnd Btolo hundreds of dollars' worth of property. When tho children got to their bonus thoir mothois took from them pieces oi nno iuviuuu Inn TnnnnfMil Wnre. cut glass, lambs, bronze, ornaments, bric-a-brac, linen and other household articles. wosi oi w.u .nih.r. (nnk mens to return tho goods ns eoon as they found out whero thoy cams from, and for hours after tho robbery thero f rnllnm nt tho Grovo street house with their arms filled with goods. Tho robbers went to tnq nouso uy. iu" and threes until about 3 o'clock forty of them swarmed all over It. They raided bureau drawer?, brouo open uoxcb, n...... n nii.riitn tho contents of n china closet and then ran homo with their booty as fast ns they could, only to return . t. ia cnid that thero wero moro Bpanklngs In Jersey City tho following night 1 . . l V n tilatnrv nf Inn than ever ncioro m i i town. MOHT AM) HIUr.llT. . rAnta T Tn t vnil nn- .iSST ho'1 HtVkctad iir that flVinsley w-enrs?" . ,, "Yes, nnd I m arrniu in raicmm. ..M.'lyi.12. im, un rnmo to mv loom my umbrella was abstracted, too." Washington Star; "nMto. Mtfu SSoS er e do , Id In Imiicst man nctln nlgii as proud us do InlriultoiiH puNson dat stucK im wu u " - im. vnrit Times: "Just think what hap pened to me. Clnrn. I wn- oiUhuutlng ami "Oh you told mo that a week ago!" ..Vt"' "i. ifcinV whv. I didn't hear It myself until yesterdnv. T'lttsbunr Chronicle: Mrs. Snaggs-Haa 'rlnce Chun decided to prostrate himself lefore the Gertnun emperor Mr HnaKKS-Not yet. As I understand It. .Jlnr, Clmrt wilt bow only to tho In vttsiblc, Romervllln Journal: Feeling HiiAw cyuntue. ytil';?ZM o -I" meat, '"lint you ought to work very hard at anything." Chlcngo Post: "I'd hate to play poker jih the HUltun of Turkey." ''Weu'iniy man who enn put up so good . V '.i1' ".!.., o linn.l In llln l.nmn nf mternatlmiiil politics would l)fl a wonder at linTHIIIUTIO.V. T-l ...... V-n.- Autumn's coming on, Tgm, nnil I'll need u nui ill i;iuuti;a Thnt will shield mo from the shivers when ine iroHiy norm winu mown, I thought It well to toll you, slnco the snow Is not remote. That since you'vu worn my slilrtwnlBt I menu to wear your coat. Your rutawny will do, Tom, when unit autumn stylo prevails, Except to simply nmput.tto " portion of tho I've a letter from my mother, nnd this Is what she wrote; "Thomas wore your shirtwaist you've n right to wear hjB coat," Now don't flare up nnd fret. Tom,- nnd I !t mo that I shan't It will nut hurt the garment, you cun wohi It when I can't; You've monopolized my taffeta, thn Kwcllen thine float. And since you'vu worn that shlrtwalut I mran to wear your com,