0 THE OMAHA DATTV BEE: MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, "1901. The Omaha Daily Bee. D. nOBEWATEtt, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVEHY MOHNING. TEBM3 OK SUBSCRIPTION! Dally Boo (without Bundny), Ono Yor..$.00 JHUly Hen and Sunday, One Tear 8.C0 Uustratcd Hoc, Ono Year ......... 2.W Sunday Bee, One Yeor ......... 2.00 Haturday Bee, Ono Year l.W (twentieth Century Farmer, Ono lear.. l.W DELIVERED BY CAIUUEH. Dally Bee, without Sunday, per copy.... 2c Sally Bee without Sunday per week. ....12a ally Bee, Including Sunday, per wwlc.lia Sunday Bee, per copy..... ,,5 Evening Bee, without Sunday, per wpek..l0o Evening Hoe, Incluil ng Stindny, per week. lie Complaints of Irregularities In delivery Should ho uddresnt-d to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha: The Bno Building. South Omaha: City Hull Building, Twen-ty-nfth and M Street. Council Blurts: 10 Pearl Street. Chicago: 1640 ITrilty Building. Now York: Temple. Court. "Washington. 301 Fourteenth Strcot. COIUtESPONDENCK. 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Tzsehuck, secretary of The Bco Publishing Company, being duty sworn, kays that the actual number ot full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bco printed during the month of September, lOwl. woh as fol lows; J 2(1,1(15 10 28,7110 2 27,i:iO 17 UIMMKI S 27,270 18 2t,:i80 4 27,150 19 2S.O0O 6 27, 1IO 20 SII.BMl 6 -It, tOO 21 27,070 7 -J7.7IO 22 IW.OIIO S l,77r, 23 28,770 9 S,IHM 21 28,080 10 28.I.-.0 25 28,ri80 11 28,180 20 28,.HO 12 27,800 27 28,010 M.... -10,210 23 28,700 14 .15,7:10 1TJ 28,lt!t0 15 :i2,ll0 20 28,870 Total 0111,710 Less unsold and returned copies,... 12,:M7 Net total sales OlO.ittKI Net dully average 110,010 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK, Bubsorlbetl In my presenco and sworn to before me thin 30th day of Soptomber. A. D. 1W1. M. B. H UNGATE. Notary Public Who finld Interest In foot ball was dying out? (Jovornor Snvage'H tlrst Thanksgiving proclamation will soon bo tine. Front reports front the gridiron foot ball seems to be degenerating luto n kicking game oneo more. The first day for the registration of voters for the coming election Is next Thursday, October 17. Mark It down on your calendar. That open air consumption cure can bo regarded only with suspicion. It Is too chonp for the discoverer to make any prollt out of It. General Prosperity Is sure to win an other victory In Nebraska tills fall un less General Apathy keeps Ills troops from reinforcing hint. An historical drama, woven about the Schley naval hoard of Inquiry, may be expected to make Its appearance on tho theatrical boards In due time. Tat Crowe wants It distinctly under stood that he lias had nothing to do with the kidnaping of Miss Stone. Kuoh Imputations on ids reputation must be resented. Nobody has yet satisfactorily ex plained that $17,000 Increase In the county payroll slnco the management of county nffalrs was taken over hy tho present democratic majority of thu county board. TIip contribution brought by tho popu lists to the local fusion comhlno docs not 6ceni to do properly appreciated by the democrats. There Is au old Gcrmau adage that you should not look n gift horse in the mouth. The life Insurance companies nre said to have raised the rates ou Klug Kd ward's risk to an almost prohlbltlvo point. King Kdwnrd ought to retaliate by persuading Parliament to ralso tho taxes on the Insurance companies to niako It tin offset. Tho local tax rati! can be raised or lowered ns much by the school board and Hoard of County Commissioners as it can be by the city council. Kvery tnxpayor should keep this In mind when called ou to make a choice for member ship of those bodies. It wns In accord with the eternal lit ness of things for tho only democratic wuinilior of tho school board who lives in tho Ninth wurd to exert his personal activity at tho Fourth ward republican primaries hi tho Interest of the school book trust man's ticket. Omaha's school board deserves one credit mark for endeavoring gnulually to replace tho wooden sidewalks around school buildings with permanent ma terial. The scljool sites and buildings should lie examples for the owners of private premises to emulate. At least one member of the executive committee of the Commercial club feels euro that no reorganization of the club In nny shape or form Is needed at this time. This only emphasizes the fact that there are business Bourbons as well as political Bourbons, who never learn jiiul never forget. Those all-wise Washington corn vpoudeuts ought to commence right ttwuy to give us President ltooovolt's forthcoming message to eongress ou tho Installment plan. The Washington correspondents always know what tho ptessage Is to contain before (lie presl flent starts to work ou it. In the last tlvevears the railroads en tering Omaha have invested several mil lion dollars In the Improvement of their properties. Hut tho taxes paid to elty Hiid county are absolutely less than they woro five years nun. Is It any wonder tho tax bunions upon other property wuuro have ucurly doubled? tuk scnooL'noAiiUTifKKT, v The republicans of Omnlia hnvo nomi nated live candidates for tho school board to 1111 the places of members whose terms expire next .lununry. With ouo exception the candidates named are men who have not held otllce In nny capacity. They are nil, however, men who hnvo been Identified with Omnha nnd ate directly Interested in the olll- clency of our public school system. What Is most Important to the .tax- paying citizens ofipmiilia is that they stand on a platform that pledges them to certain defined policies demanded by public school patrons nnd friends of tho public schools generally. They are pledged to. do away with .tho secret ballot, by wfrtrh chltals and im blues have been able In the past to hldu their work and shirk responsibility for their acts. Tho secret ballot has no place In representative bodies and should long ago have been discarded by the Hoard of Education. The candidates stand pledged to a more elllcleut and economic administra tion of the affairs ,of the schools and tin; maintenance and extension of the civil service rules, under which teachers and other employes iiyu protected against summary dlschargo under frivo lous pretexts. Last, but not least, tho convention Jins declared against the, pernicious. practice too often' Indulged by board members, of using tho inlluenco of their posi tions to foist relatives on the school pay roll who would not otherwise have been chosen on their own merits. This is a new departure that should commend tho republican school board ticket to tho support of voters of all parties and all classes. punrosu of the sua ah trust. Thu Philadelphia I ! coord remarks that there Is no mystery ns to the intent of Hie Sugar trust's campaign against tho bout sugar industry of the country. Thu trust sees In the rapid development of this industry a competitor which must l)e destroyed if possible. Absolute con trol of the American market is what thu trust seeks and if Its warfaru on tho beet sugar Industry should prove successful, as the Itceord says, tho price of every ounce of sugar that sweetens tho poor man's tea would bu at thu ab solute dictation of monopoly. Tho purpose of the trust being per fectly obvious, there can lie no doubt, we think, that congress will refuse to play luto Its hands by making such tariff concessions ou Cuban raw sugar as would operate to thu Injury and per haps ultimately destroy thu domestic iudustry. The bout sugar Interest will doubtless bu nble to successfully com bat tho kind of cnmiinigu thu trust Is now making. It will not, It is safe to say, bu driven out by such tactics. But should the trust succeed In having Cu ban sugar placed on the free list or thu duty reduced to n mere nominal rate, tho beet sugar industry would Inevitably be destroyed and American consumers would thou be completely at thu mercy of a mouopoly which,, lias given abun dant evidence of its greed and rapacity. Some concession, It is probable, will be made to Cuban sugar, but it must not go to the extent of withdrawing from tho doihestlc industry tho protection that Is necessary to Its further develop ment. There Is no doubt that with proper encouragement the production of beet sugar in thu United States will In the near future supply the homo do maud. It Is Inconceivable, therefore, that u republican congress will do any thing likely to destroy so Important and promising au iudustry. SOUTH AMEltlCAX THA DJ. While the attention of American man ufacturers and merchants is chiefly di rected to the possibilities of future commerce with the Orient, our trade with the countries south of us continues unsatisfactory, the efforts that have been made to Improve it having been far less fruitful than was reasonably hoped for. This subject receives con sideration In the monthly' summary of commerce and finance just Issued by the treasury bureau of statistics and thu leading causes for tho slow progress of our commerce with South America are pointed out. It Is shown that while the United States supplies tV' per cent of the total Imports of British North America, 40 per cent of those of Mexico and IKi per cent of thosu of tho Central American states, to the South American countries fronting on tho Caribbean sea, which Import goods to thu amount of .ltl,(KK),(K)0 annually, we supply only '. per cent, while to tho South Amer ican countries fronting On tins 'Atlantic, which Import annually goods to thu value of 75,000,000, wu supply only 10 per cent. There Is a similar percentage of the Imports of the countries fronting on thu Pacllle, which amount annually to soo.ooo.ooo. The small share of the United States in South Anierlenn trade Is not because this country has tiot tho goods to sup ply the market. The chief of the bu reau points out that wo produce every thing which the people of South America want, as shown In the details of tho Imports of the southern countries. What, then, Is the explanation of our slow progress In securing this trade? In tho Ill's! place, says Chief Austin, tho markets of Kuropo are practically as near to South America as are thoso of the United States. The distance to tho great commercial cities of IJugland ami t!er4iiany, the chief rivals of this country, Is slightly' greater than to Now York, which ought to give tills country some advantage, but the physical advan tage Ik not ImprovMl1 M' Austin notes the important fact llu.t nearly all the steamship Hues entering the ports of South America are controlled by Ku ropean capital and Kuropeaii Interests and naturally they divert thu trade of South American countries to their own land. In order to-get our share of tho South American trade It Is manifestly necessary that thoro be steamship lines running directly between our ports nnd the South American ports. As to this Mr. Austin says: "That closer, moro fretpient and dlret steamship coinmunl cation Is an Important factor fit obtain lug the commerce of countries which cniwho reached only by steamship. Hues lis ovidcucud by thu moro ruuld growth of our exports to the countries fronting upon the Caribbean sen, with which fairly satisfactory steamship connec tions now exist," This will apply also to the development of our Asiatic trade, which will grow slowly If we do not have steamship lines to compete for business with those of our commercial rivals. Other reason for our slow progress In gaining Soltth American trade are lack of banking and business facilities for direct Inter-conimunlcatlou with the United States, neglect of American mer chants to study the trade methods and requirements of the southern countries and the absence of direct solicitation of trade In the language of the country where business Is soticht. These are obstacles which will be overcome In time, but in tho meanwhile our commer cial rivals are becoming more firmly Intrenched. It Is well to give attention to trade in the far east, but tho fact should not be lost sight, of that there Is a great market to the south which ought to be carefully cultivated. irii it siiom.n in: iu'Mwav.eo. A member of a large Jobbing house recently located In Omaha Is quoted as saying with referenco to the proposed Reorganization of tho Commercial club: So far as I can soo tho club Is doing fill right as It Is, but thoro Is ono thing I would like to say and that Is that tho newspapers of tho town scorn to opposo overythlne thn club suggests. I do not llkn to see this spirit; in fact, I do not understand It. This gentleman evidently labors under a misapprehension of the situation. No newspaper In Omaha has opposed the Commercial club Indiscriminately in everything It has suggested or at tempted. On the contrary, tho club has been commended whenever It has ac complished anything worthy of com mendation. Tho opposition to the poli cies and methods of the club lias not been Inspired by malice or Ill-feeling, but by u desire to extend the sphere of Its usefulness. As originally organized, the scope of the club was to be confined to the pro motion of the commercial Interests of Omaha, primarily by directing Its in fluence In channels that would enlarge its mercantile area and maintain and improve its trade relations: second, to counteract every effort made by rival trade centers to check Omaha's growth as u distributing center through dis criminating railroad rales; third, to stimulate and encourage the patronage of home Industry and the Investment of capital In Industrial concerns giving steady employment to labor. These objects are attainable only through a compact, harmonious and vigorous organization of tho merchants and manufacturers who are directly In terested In Omaha's commercial supremacy and In a policy thnt would avoid contention from subjects and Issues entirely outside of thu scope of tho club as a commercial body. Instead of limiting Its membership to those directly interested In tho main tenance nnd extension of commerce, the clui) has opened wide its doors to men of all callings and men of no callings. Instead of making Itself thoroughly In dependent of the transportation inter estswhich Its members have fre quently to combat In order to secure fair treatment for Oniahn the club has made itself a mere annex to those In terests and has thus handicapped Itself In nny effort to obtain concessions to which Omaha shippers are entitled. Worst of nil, the club has, through its promiscuous membership, opened wide the door to Intrigue and influences entirely subversive to Its original scopu and purpose. It has inserted Its oar Into local politics and local controversies and through such Interference has created antagonisms that have seriously crippled its Inllueuce and usefulness. And this is the ro.ek upon which it must go to pieces unless It Is reorganized. Nobody couteiids that members of the club are to be ostracized from poli tics or from participation in public dis cussions affecting their Interests as taxpayers or citizens. Hut men who aspire to public oflice should not bu allowed to use the Commercial club for tho promotion of their ambitions nny more than members of a benevolent or charitable association or church organi zation should be allo.ved to air their political grievances or prod or attack their political opponents under cloak of benevolence or religion. So long as tho Commercial club per mits Itself to bu used ns a club In thu hands of cunning politicians It cannot hope to escapu criticism and disagree able contention with the press. Treasurer llerrlott and Governor Shnw appear to have divergent views as to whether the railroads of lowu aru bearing their Just sharo of the statu and local taxation. Mr. llerrlott takes decided exception to tho idea that lown railroads aro overtaxed. The net reve nues of tho roads hnvo Increased won derfully, but thu tax valuation his not been changed materially. If the prop erly of Uio lines in Iowa Is worth moro on the market today than ever before, why should It not bo worth moro nlso on tho assessor's books? And what ap plies to Iowa railroads applies equally to Nebraska railroads. An Anierlenn professor lias for tho first time been Invited to occupy it chair In the faculty of one of the Ger man universities. American universi ties have drawn freely upon Germany for Instructors In the higher brunches, but the tide seems to bo turning, at least In certain departments of learning. It Is only fair for us to reclprocato fa vors now that as pupils we have pushed past thi! tdd masters. .Mr. Bryan makes aun'ouueemunt that ho will spend two weeks In active cam paigning in Nebraska for the fusion state ticket. The fusion managers evi dently realize' the big Job In front of them and the necessity of calling tho big guns Into play to make an Impres sion on the entrenchments of repub licanism. The possibility of tho absence of Kd wnrd Hosewater from the stnto during any part of the campaign seems to bo giving the tmokesmeu of the new gouuty mnchluu great nnxiety. Tho porslstent nbsenco of Mr. Mcrcor, reputed to bo the patron snlnt of tho new machine, not only In this cnmpalgn, but In every other where his own imtuedlntu tenure of otlico Is not nt stnke, docs not disturb them In the least. A Klyliiff Wcdne. Chicago Post. Nebraska foot ball players havo tackled tho railway "community of Interests" and have downed It. Duties of Cltlirnhli. Minneapolis Journal. It is not a good thing to mako politics a business, but a great many moro good men should mako It their business to take an uc tlvo part in politics. Ilnpr ItniiKS Dixit. Washington Post. It Is believed that Nikola Tcsla will so euro tho contract for tho electrical work when Now Orleans decides to erect nn Illuminated statuo of Ben Butler. Miirklnur Vi Dlvlilt-tuls. Philadelphia Press. Industrial dividends for tho currant year have nlready amounted to J20O.O00.O0O. This Is twlco tho stun distributed In dividends by tho railroads of tho United States up to two or tirce years ago. WnslilnKton for Ofllca Only. Kansas City Star. Not a slnglo president Is burled at Wash ington. It i significant that nono ot theso men lies At the placo of his greatest po litical triumph. With tho approach of death earthly greatness fades and thoro comes a longing for home. So Washington lies at Mount Vernon, Jefferson at Montlccllo and McKlntey at Canton. Short Corn, lint Retail Prlcen. Bcatrlco Express. Many furracrs aro beginning to say that they will havo more corn than thoy dared to hopo for. Thoro aro many fields In the vicinity of Beatrlco which will produce two-thirds of a crop, and that much corn will represent a far greater value than would' a full crop In ordinary years. The price of corn Is away up, and will probably remain there, as there Is a scarcity throughout the great corn producing states, It 13 rather hard on tho consumer, but tho farmers havo no reason to complain. Ilf-rnc of I'rncc. Philadelphia. Ledger. Tho heroes of pence, aro quite 83 nu merous and quite as heroic as thoso of war. At least two Instances of great heroism woro recorded In yesterday's nows. At Mauch Chunk a party of railroad men ventured Into a blazing freight wreck and pulled out a car loaded with dynamlto, and In New York firemen and policemen wont Into tho hold of a burning vessel, partly loaded with petroleum and carried out 250 cases of gunpowder. Both woro romarkablo exhibitions of that deliberate, courogo which Is now popularly called "nerve," lllg; l'ront on Four Acres. Columbus Telegram. Tho moat ardent advocate of Irrigation In Nebraska would hardly claim moro extrava gant returns from irrigated soil than tho products derived this year by Olln Cox from a four-acre garden patch on his placo two and one-halt miles cast of Columbus. Tho figures are more. remarkable than the state ment. Tho record reads that Mr. Cox ob talpcd from one and,a half acres of straw berries $414 and from two and a half acres of watermelons $373, a total ot $787 from four acres of land, which would probably havo been practically barren In a season like tho last summer. The application of fundamental arithmetic will determine tho average returns to bo $196.75 per aero. A ftrent StroUo of Enterprise. Louisville Courier. Tho Omaha World-IIcrnld sends out a "magazine" as x supplement to Its Sunday issue, tbo first Issuo appearing last Sunday. It Is worked In colors and contains aotuo very unicpte pictorial designs, but unlike tho World-Herald In othor branches it Is several months behind tho times. For In stance, there In a sccno of a base ball game that might havo been used with pro priety In Juno. Its fashion plates are so utalo that they would glvo ono a chill and then under tho head of "Hints for IIouso wlvca" Is shown a very useful and Inex pensive device for stoning cherries. In an other paragraph we find that "the season for small fruit In hero" and n simple and very useful instrument (at this season of the year) is shown for hulling strawberries. Tho colored illustrated supplement may bo metropolitan, but the attempt of tho World Herald in this lino docs not add to Us reputation as an up-to-date newspaper. No DmiKer from Filipino. Manila American. Tho Idea of an Invasion of Filipino labor clthor Into Hawaii or tho United States proper Is tho Bublhncst absurdity. Tho idea that tho Filipino will work anywhore can be engendered only In tho minds of people who havo no conception whatever of tho Filipino's characteristics and physical capacity. The Filipino will not work. Their own country will never bo doveloped unless labor can ho brought from China or else where to reclaim tho sugar lands, to seed nnd gather homp and to foil nnd work up the very valuable timber lands. The Fili pino is uot a worker, as tho Americans hero havo learned quit too often In road build ing and on other public cntorprlsos. Havo no fear of tho Filipino "laboring man." Ho doesn't exist; ho Is a myth. In addition to his disinclination to work tho Filipino will not leave his home his family, his fighting rocks, his lazy and happy-go-lucky life. Few will consent to go from one provlnco to unother, nnd It is very rnrely that a Filipino woman can be induced to leave her nattvo village, oven to nccompany her husband. Ili-fore Sliirllnir ll' Furnace. Chicago Tribune. People who llvo In furnaco-hented houses may have noticed the prevalence of sup posed colds, coughs and throat ailments immediately after tho furnaco has been started In tho fall. As a matter of fact exports declare that theso epidemics aro largely caused by tho dust nud gonna which gather In tho registers and hot air pipes during the summer nnd are blown out Into tho air of tho housa when tho furnaco Is stnrted. As a proventlvo it Is suggested that not only tho registers but also tho hot nlr pipes he thoroughly cleaned. This may be dono first by removing tho registers nnd giving them careful dusting nnd wiping. Cleaning the pipes Is morn difficult, but quite as necessary. It may bo dono by at taching a bunch of feathers to a wlro and pulling It through tho pipes. In addition to the ordinary dust which Is certain to sottlo In such places during tho summer months thoro is nlso danger that it may become Im pregnated with poisonous vapors from tho cellar, which may bo released by the cur rent of hot air rising from tho cellar. In view of the large number of houses which are Seated by furnaces the question of properly cleaning the pipes may havo an Important Influence on tho public health. Tho question Is certainly one which de serves tho attention of every householder who wishes to avoid tho usual fall eptdemlo j of bad coughs Ud golds World's Wheat Crop, Springfield (Mass.) Bcpubllcau. Tho conclusion Is being reached In tho wheat markets that tho year, tho world over, has been one of fair avorago produc tion. There havo been an unusual number of damage scares paraded throughout the summer, and affecting especially Germany, Franco anil Kussla. And tho failure of the United States corn and potato crops has ma do certain an Increased per capita con sumption of wheat In this country. Thus n very strong position for tho wheat market appeared to be assured, as well as a very largo surplus for export at handsome prices. Wo have tho largo wheat surplus. Thero Is no question about that. And exports havo so far during tho now crop year been extraordinarily largo. But prices havo ruled comparatively weak being about 68 cents nt Chicago, against an average of nbout 74 cents a year ago, 72 cents two years ago, CG cents throe years ago and 03 cents four years ago. There can bo hut one explana tion of theso lo.v prices, nnd that Is thnt the reported heavy shortage.1) abroad do not exist. The nftcr-harrst reports In Kuropo all go to show that tho bad features there have been exaggerated. Franco has raised a crop of probably 600,000,000 bushels, this being next to tho highest of llvo expert es timates, but tho ono accepted us nenreet right by tho Onzctte Comraorclalo and by tho Bulletin des Holies. This Is closo to an avcrago French crop and calls for tho Im portation of not much more than from 10, 000,000 to 20,000,000 bushels. Tho German harvest shows that tho damngo wrought by a cold, wet spring was exaggerated. Official Ilusslan estimates placo tho crop of that country at 400,000.000 bushels, against 425, 000,000 bushels last year. Tho Austrian I.ITTI.K HITS OF STATU POLITICS. York Times (rep.): When you hear a politician talking nbout "tmashlug tho ma chlno" you can bet your toothbrush ho has a little, weazen, half-llodgcd machine that ho wants to act up In tho placo of tho big one. Thero can bo no campaign without a machltie, and tho talk about running poli tics without organization and leaders Is tommy-rot. Norfolk Nows (rep.): If tho World-Herald Is making all this talk about State Treasurer Stnufcr ns an argument for tho election of Conrad Hollcnbcck to tho su preme bench It Is likely to meet with dis appointment. Tho nvcrago voter will fall to understand how tho election of a fusion supreme Judge can Influence tho actions ot tho stnto treasurer. Tho people aro nt present concerned in tho selection of n worthy man for the supremo Judgeship and will cast their votes accordingly. McCook Tribune (rep.): Thu American Sugar Ueflnlng company is evidently aim ing a Jealous, selfish blow nt tho American Beet Sugar company aud tho west by mak ing a ct;t of over 1 cent a pound on re fined sugar, tho cut bolng In force only In the section of country which produces beet sugar thus disclosing tho animus of their philanthropy. Nebraska and tho west aro deeply concerned In tho culture of sugar beets and tho increased pioductlon of beet sugar, nnd nny effort to crush out this promising enterprise should receive prompt and ndequato attention by western congressmen. Hastings Tribune (rep.): Tho republican of Nebraska canuot afford to lose interest In tho present cnmpalgn Just because they won such a glorious victory last fall. It Is tho lack of Interest that causes a party to loso votes in a campaign of this kind with but a few names on the state ticket. It ii Just ns Important now that every man fuvorlng republicanism as practiced by Me Klnley lend u helping hand as It was when thoy voted for McKlulcy. If the repub licans should loso strength In Nebraska Bryanlsm will tnko on a now lease of llfo and It will mako the battle much harder to fight In 1001. The republican party standn as a unit in Nebraska today nnd ns such it should remain. Fremont Tribune (rep.): Tho World IIcrnld publishes a sensational story pur porting to como from Joo Bartley. stating that II. U. Goold, republican nominee! for regent of tho university, has $1,000 of tho money belonging to tho stnto nnd borrowed of Hartley, treasurer, in 1893. and that this constitutes n part of tho shortage for which Hartley is now suffering Imprisonment. Tho statement must ns yet be taken with sev eral grains of allowance. It mny or it may not be true. If the chargo ngalnst Mr. Goold Is true then thero Is no alternative but for the state central eommltteo to forn him off tho ticket nnd fill the vacancy with tho name of somo reputable citizen against whom no scandalous charsn will lie. The rank nnd file of tho rcpuhllcan party Is terribly In earnest In its dcslro to rid thn party of tho Bartley incubus. It Is In no mood to trlflo with the serious buslnesn. The temper of It was clearly shown nt tho state convention with referenco to tho Hartley parole. Tho sentiment that pro vailed thero took shapo back in tho rural precincts and nt tho town primaries whero tho masses spoke. It did not grow out of the fear of tho fow who mny havo been Bartloy's beneficiaries that his liberty would expose their collusion In crime. If tho convention was duped by Goold ho should be Instantly removed from tho ticket. Any man who would allow himself to bo placed liy his party, unwittingly, in such n position that tho party would bo brought into dlsrcputo through his skulduggery Is not entitled to tho decent regard of honest men. IT.IISONAT. OTKS. It is said that M. I.aborl, who dofended Dreyfus, hns boon offered $150,000 to do liver 100 lectures In this country. Tho Vandcrbllts paid $818,000 In taxes Into tho New York City treasury ono day last week. William Wnldorf Astor wns a good second with $377,000, At tho Columbia university meeting to receive President Low's resignation tho ex ercises opened with tho hymn, "Fight the Good Fight with All Thy Might." Shooting holes In tho ceilings of irriga tion Joints has becomo a stirring featuro of carnival days In Kansas City. It ts dim cult for tho old town to forego frontier habits. Tho political oil Inspectors of Chicago, recently Indicted for pocketing tho foos of their offices, havo been asked to pay Into thn city treasury $103,693.20. Tho 20 cents will bo dropped If the cash is tendered promptly. A "Harrison day" has been appointed for all tho public schools In Indiana, whon every teacher will be asked to contribute 10 cents and overy pupil fi cents to tho fund for a monument to the memory of tho lato ex-Presldcnt Harrison. Mayor Bookwaltor of Indianapolis taken hold of his now responsibilities with the confidence nnd skill of a seasoned execu tive. Tho fnct that Mr. Bookwnltcr ma nipulated tho types on Tho Bco some twenty yearB ago accounts In somo mensure for his celerity In reaching a "phat take." Samuel It. Callaway, president of the American Locomotive company, was moro than thirty years ago at the head of the shorthand writers of this continent, Hn kept up his practice, and today could Uke a trick at. an Important assignment with the best stenographers. He won his spur nt this clerical work In tho offices of thn Grand Trunk railway of Canada, and hlh skill at pothooks and hangors had much to 4v with bis subscu,uvut advsucomoaU crop Is below that of last yc.tr, but the Hungarlnu and Italian harvests aru larger Altogether the Gazetto CommcrcUlo esti mates tho world's wheat crop of 1001 nt 140,000.000 bushels hi excess of that of n year ngo, nnd tho surpluses of exporting countries aro reckoned as being 13,000.000 bushels larger than the deficiencies of Im porting cotiutrlcs. Such a situation would Inevitably muko for a sagging and heavy wheat market, but It Is to bo noted that in this estimate tho United States harvest Is placed at clusu to 740,000,000 bushels, which Is at least 00,000.000 bushels above the In dications reported by the United States De partment of Agriculture. If the depart ment is right, then tho surplus of tho ox porting countries falls below the require ments ot the Importing countries, nnd we should look for a stronger wheat market than has prevailed. Nevertheless, the Huropcan grain centers plainly view tho situation with cntlro equanimity. Thoro is no pressure of de mand, and tho large exports of tho United States move out rather In response to rulu otisly low ocean grain rates and tho pres sure of a very largo surplus at home, than to strong bidding for wheat from tho Im porting countries. It is thus evidently n fairly normal wheat year for tho world as a whole, In spito ot on unusual volumo of crop scaros, and In tho naturnl order of things this Is what was to havo been ex pected. Naturo so far as known does not work according to fixed rule In tho matter, but it la raro that calamitously short har vests aro Inflicted upon nny part of tho world ns frequently as would bo tho casa woro tho 1897 damage to European crops to be repeated In 1001. noirxn about jtnw youk. F.tclilliKR of .Men nnil Kenli In tin Bin: City. Tho Brooklyn Rapid Transit company, which operates tho trolley lines In that bor ough, has acquired a reputation ns a killer nnd maimer of people. In the enrllor yenrs of eloctrlo motor Uio Brooklyn lino struck a gait that was breath-taking. Pedestrlnnt scnrcely dared cross a street, nnd ambu lances were overworked In gathering up victims of the trolley rush. The speed hns modified somowhat since, but thoro Is vis ible diminution of tho speed with which tho company's prollts nro swnllowod up In Judgments nnd claims for dnmnges. Last year tho company paid $990,000 In settle ment of damage suits nud Judgments. "It Is a staggering statement," says tho Now York Sun, "in view of the really few seri ous accidents on tho great ystem of sur face nnd elevated railroads operated by this company, nnd yet it docs uot represent the total loss to the company by litigation of this character by almost $300,000. Tho ex penses of thu claim department of tho rend, to which nil damngo suits nro referred, bring tho totnl up to nbout $1,250,000. This claim department hns to keep a lnrgo stnff of men who nro exports In tho collection of ovldenco and dotectlvo work to bundle s great many hundred greedy witnesses nnd to pay tho fees of tho small army of law yers mnklng up tho legal department of the system, all of which oxponsoB with other IteniB tco numerous to mention mako up this tremendous totnl." Now York Is going ahead with the laying of asphalt, using tho block stono pavement as a foundation for tho layer of aupbalt. Tho (doner portions of Broadway nnd Sixth avenuo nro now being treated In this man ner, aud from nil outwnrd appearances It is tho ono way In which asphalt should be laid whero thero is trufllc in tho least degree heavy. Tho work of preparing tho stono for tho asphalt 1b uot an expensive undertaking and It Is remarkablo the progress a gang of men enn make in n day. Tho stones nro taken up and nbout threo inches of tho Inyer of gravel tnken out. Then the stones nro rclald In n solid manner, tho Interstices being tilled with fine gravel and sand, nnd tho street rnnuned as n finishing touch. Within a few dnys it Is In almost ns good condition nH before being torn up, for tho orlglnnl foundation of concrete has not been touched and the llfo of It is In no degree Impaired. After nbout a week's trafllu haB gone over tho street It Is swept ns clean as posBiblo of dirt nnd the spaces bctwocn tho stones cleaned out to thu depth of nn inch or more. Then tho nsphnlt-contcd granite chips nro spread over thn block stones and tho layer of asphalt laid. It is rolled Just tho snmo. ns when laid on n con crete foundation nud to the ordlnury ob server tho pavement looks llko nny other asphalt ono. Thn department of hlghwnys hns found this method of treating streets a good one. In tho first placo it gives tho smooth nnd noiseless surfneo so much de sired these dny3 whon an effort is being made to got rid of street noises, nnd In tho second thoro Is not tho llnblllty ot the pavement getting full of holes. Tho stones form a foundation not othorwlso obtain able, aud nt tho samo time the stono for which tho city originally paid a good fig nro is not taken out by somo favored con tractor and used for other city work for which ho Is paid. Iona Island la tho Hudson rlvor. and old picnic ground for Now Yorkers, Is now a powdor reserve. Tho llttlo island has re cently token on a smart military nlr. Long rows of severe looking buildings can bo seen from tho old landing wharf, with hero nnd thoro n low structure of brick and Htouo, relieved by only nn occoslonnl win dow, lonn island Is now thn chlof storing place for ammunition owned by tho navy. Practically all the shell houses nnd powdor houses havo been completed, nnd tho com prcssod nlr railway Is In good running or der. Wherever It Is necessary to gonorato power compressed air Is employed in ordor to do nway with tho dungor of nn explosion resulting from flying spnrks. Tho only Ir ritating featuro about tho placo Is a neigh bor by thn namo or Donovan, who owns a small Island Just south of tho ono occupied hy tho navy. Ho doos u grcnt amount ot blasting, nnd seems to bo especially busy nlong tho shore noxt to tho government reservation. Thero In a strong suHplrloa at tho department that Donovan Is doing his best to compel the government to buy him out, but thn department proposes to cheek his llttlo game by getting an Injunc tion out requiring him to stop blasting at that particular spot. "The thing that has Impressed mo most during my two weeks' stay In tHls town," remarked n man from Cincinnati to a Nuw York Sun reporter, "Is tho crooked faces of New York people. By crooked, 1 mean a faco whoso two sides aro not mat&B. Itcally, tho man whose faco looks tho samo on tho right and tho left side Is a rarity, nnd when I run across ono I set him down as a stranger In town. "I supposo this facial peculiarity is moro or less prevalent nvcrywhoro, for It is said thnt thu people whose faces aro exactly allko on lth sides nro fow, but In Now York it Is unduly pronouueed. Women nro afflicted as well ns thn men, nnd I havo root scores of women who would be very pretty wero It not for thnt Inevitable disarrange ment of features that characterizes one side o thn face, "In the majority of coses It In the loft aide that is out of whack, Kithor tho mouth Is screwed up at cue corner or Mis nose tlpnj to one side or the eye Is drawn up Into a reprehensible squint. Sometimes all threo of thoso Imperfections are combined m ono face with a few other little contortions thrown in for good measure. Actually I havo met people here whoso faces hnd so many different cxpreMlnno nccotdlng to the point of view, that It was w Ith- illfllculty I could persuado myself that the right side wns nny blood relation to the left side "I asked n physician for an fxplnnatlitn of this disfigurement and hn assured mo It was nil duo to high nervous tension, llo also went on to say that ir my own stay here should bp prolonged much beyond two weeks I might ns well resign myself to bidding good-by to my own mobile expres sion, for n mobile expression Is not i-om-pallblo with presuut urban condition!! "To pick one's way through crowded streets, looking seventeen wnys for Sunday at one time lest ona's llfo bo forfeited at tho noxt step ns tho prlco of negligence, Is not, ho explained, conducive to a classlu cast of couutcunttca. This la probably the causo of Now York's myriads of crooked faces, but It really does seem a great pity that tho good looks of 4,000,000 of people should bo offered up ns a saurlfico on the ohrmu of public Improvements." nniToittAi, i.noi'.s. Chicago Chronlclo: It Is becoming moro apparent that Bohley's victory nt Santiago was as brilliant over his enemies In tho American fleet as over tho enemy In tho Spanish ships, Chicago Tribune: Concerning that re mnrk sutd to havo been made by Schley us to tho Texas, It muy ho romombored that Fnrrngut said substantially tho samo thlug about tho torpedoes In .Mobile bay, Washington Post! Lieutenant Dyson snvs tho Brooklyn wns unprepared for bnttlo on tho dny of tho Santiago fight. Wo shudder to think of whnt would h.ivo happened to tho Spaniards hail tho llngshtp not been Incapacitated. Baltlmoro American: If. iti the fnco of tho evidence developed, Admiral Schley wns a coward, as his enemies declare, tho na tion nt largo would not object to tho whole navy's bolng Inoculuted with his peculiar brand of timidity. Chicago Nows: Lieutenant Conimandor Potts is suro that Schley was seared the tlmo thoy went in to shoot nt tho Colon nud nothing happened. Probably Schley had Jut realized that nil lil ships wero miuuied exclusively by nnvnl critics. Indianapolis News: Commander Potts s.avs that Schley was excited at Santiago. Whnt a clear head Potts mtiBt havo kopt to mako note of such a fact! Perhaps iho excite ment was In tho oyo of him that saw. Per haps ho wns walking up nnd down nnd chewing toothpicks himself. Chicago Post: Thn court of Inquiry has developed tho stnrtllng fuel thnt Admlrnt Schley wns oxcitod whilo ho wiis bombard ing tho Colon. A wooden Indian from In front of n cigar store might havo been Impassive In such circumstances, but flesh nnd blood wns bound to exhibit moro or less enthusiasm. Wo can overlook eotclto mcnt that produces such results as thoso credited to tho Brooklyn. Philadelphia Ilccord: Bear Admlrnl Schley's ncttvo enroer in tho federal navv, extending over nn ovcutful period of fortv ono years, ended Wednesday, when hn reached tho ago limit for compulsory rotlro mont. Although 02 yenrs of nge. tho vet eran sea llghtor Is still In excellent physi cal trim, with many years of public Use fulness In prospent. His record of honor nblo service Is pnrt of tho republic's his tory, known nnd read of all men. It would be strnngo. Indeed, if a naval court of In quiry should undortako ot tho eleventh hour to reverso tho Judgment of "well done, good nnd fnlthful servant," which the American peopjo long since pronounced upon this die tlnsulshed nnvnl oftlcor. Toirciiiivn Tin; fiinnviioxf.. Philadelphia. Press: "Aftnr all. vou'll anil tin mnn wlm utu-iivu i.,iiu Un ,.. the most successful In business." "Mull! I Ihm'i In li ..in. . i, i. Is bclloved in everything ho says." Boston Transctlpt: .Mlstress-ilnry. vou hnil a man in the kitchen lust evening. Was bo n relative of youis or u friend? Maid-Neither, lmirin: hn u-nu mii- l..o. my husband. Washington Star: Somo folk"," said I UClO Ebon. "Is Mil fri'i, mi' mmipr,iiU delr iidvlco dat dey iloesn' seem to hah no commonsonso lef for delr own use." .Smart Set: "I'm so worried about Brother Henry, wild Oluni to imr inii- r hoiio he'll roino out nil right." How inntr WIIM lm u,.nt m. fno" ...I....1 !ui Hunker, sympathetically. ' ' Chlcnirn Trlhonn! Th,. r",.in..iT.-.. ..-I.. hnvo to preach one sermon nn Sunday, uncle Mlcojah? 1 whould think your rou gregutlon would luslHt on nn evening cor inoii, too." Pnrcon Mienjnh-I)nt' 'coz do coiig'gn tloa hcz heern wo preach, Cunncl, un7 jo' hain't. ' Phlladelohlrt Press- "Snv." ,.vrlnim.,.i tv, old offender, when the "pmlu-rlnthcH man" KMiviit'u nun nn me Biiiiiiiuer, i uion t tiava no hand In that." "No?" replied the "plnln-clothns mnn," as lie snapped tho brncolot on his wrist, "but I waul you to buvo u hand In this." iwiutuiiii i-usi; -ny no you spnnic or him as IncoiiHlderato. ungallant and disap pointing?" nsked her dearest frlnuil. "I In deliberately and persistently re frains from giving mo nil opportunity to re fuso him," answered the sweet young thing. Phtlmlclnhlu Press: TossDid he really actually made mo propose to you? Joss Yi-a. mid it pniver. 'J ess Why so7 Jess Ho asked me If I "would caro to share his lot," nud ho looked so funereal I thought he referred to ono In a ceme tery. Philadelphia Press: Bungle Jeuklni seeuiH sore at mo about something. MangleOf course. You nsked him if the few Woman wasn't beginning to mako him tired. Bungle-Well? Muugle Well, he's Just married his third who after divorcing the oilier two. Boston Trantvrrlpt: Harris If yoi know lie was lying, why didn't you tell him so? Buck What would have been the uso He knew lie whs lying, fust enough, and ho would not hnve fell so plensnnt toward me ir I hnd let him know I know It, too. Washington Star; "Whnt urn you going to do with that vacant lot?" Well," answered tho capitalist. "I did think of putting up nn Immense ofllcn build inrr. But if vngetnbles continue to go up In prlco I shouldn't be surprised if I could de rive moro revonuo from It by turning It into a potato patch," I.OXO AGO. Ifugono Ffeld. I onco know all thu birds that enrnn And nested In our orrhnrri trees: For every (lower I had n namo My friends wero woodehuck, tods nnd bees; I knew what thrived in yonder glent What plants would soothe a. stone-brutacd toe Oh. 1 was very lrnrned then But that was very long ago. I know- tho snot upon thu hill Whero tho eherkurborrlcn could fin found I know thn ruslo-H near tbo mill . Whero pickerel lay that weighed a pound) I knew tho wood thn vory troo Whuro lived tho poaching, naucy crow', And nil tho woods and crows know mo And that wruM very long ago. , And plnlnir for thn Joys of youth, I tread the old familiar apot Only to learn this solemn truth: I havo forgotten, nm forgot. Yet them's thlH youngster ut my kneo Knows nil tho thlngM 1 used to know, To think I oneo wns wlso :ih ho! But that wiui very long ago, I know 'tlH folly to romplutn Of what so'nr tho fntea decree, Yet were not -wishes all In vain, I tell you what my wish would he: I'd wlMh to b it boy ugatn. Back with the friends I used to know For A was, oh I so huppy then But that was very long ul'J.