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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TIILIISDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1901. The omaha Daily Bee U. I10HKWATKH, KDITOIt. vuuumitii) Kvniiy morning-. TKKM8 or Ht'HSCMUPTlON, Dally Her (without Sunday), Ono Yenr.$6.00 Dally Hoc and Hunday, Ono Year S.ro Illustrated Her, one Year . . .. 2.) Hundav Bee, One Year , 2.00 Hnturdny Bee, One Year 1.5") Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. l.W DMLIVKHL'D HY CAHHIKH. Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy... 2c Daily 'Hep (without Sunday), per week... He Dally Beo. (Including S-indiiy), per week. 17c Kutidny Hip, per "opy... bo Kvenlng Hen (without Sunday), per wcck.lOo Hvrnlng Ileo (Including Hunday), per week .' lfie u..i.iii)unt of Irregularities In delivery should" be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OKFICKS. Om.iha The Dec Building. Bouth Omaha City Hall Hulldlng, Twenty-fifth nnd M streets. Council Hluffs-ln l'earl Street. Chicago 1610 I'nlty Hulldlng. New York Temple Court. ashlngton 601 Fourteenth Strret. COIUU-ISPONDKNCK. Communications relating to nows nnd edi torial mutter ahould bo addressed; Omuha Wee, Editorial Department. business lettkiih. Business letters and remittances should ho addressed; Tho Uco Publishing Compuny, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Ilcmlt by draft, express or postal order, payable to This lice Publishing Company. Only 2-cent atampa accepted In payment of moll account. Personal checka, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted, THUS HUH PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION. Btato of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.: Oeorge H. Tsschuck, aecretnry of The lice. Publishing Company, being duly swprn. says that thn actual number ot'fiill ana complete copies of The Daily, Morning, Kvenlng and Hunday Heo printed during the month of November, 1001, was as fol lows: 1 no,H2o 2 :to,tio 3 :io,iio 4 :i",77ll r :io,hno 6 :itl,NIIO 16 HI. OOO 17 no,it.io is ,:io,bho 19 :to,:i7o so ao.itio 21 IW.'MU 22 :io,io 2J :to,;t:it 21 ao.ur,.-, 25 ;to,i w : :o,io 27 :to,ono 28, no,iuo 2? :io,i 10 co....... :kv-h :u,:tuo no," to ilO.UOO :to,:tr.o ao,7no ........'10,7110 .'10, MOO s..., o.... 10.... 11.... 12..,. 12.. i. II.... ...no.no 15 ,.;to,:i:to Total Leas unsold nnd returned coplra. . IO,!l" i Net total sales 01 l,nl Not dally Average Iio.asi QUO. U. T.HC1IUCK. Subscribed In my precenco and awom to befoni mo this Sflth day of November, A. D. 1901. M. n. iiunoaTk. (Beat.) Notary l'ubllc. Tho liillntlon of tlio census of 1800 has done Omnliii mi liiculeulahlo amount of Injury with foreign Investors, but high taxes havo boon much more dam aging. Over .?1,000,0)0 Is hii Id to have been lost In tho "blind pool" recently operated In lloston. It It not expected tliut the management will over bu nblo to see where It went. Tho flood of bills linn already .swamped tlu clerks of both houses of eonnross. Tllti clerks lutvo the consolation of know ing t lut fc tnoHt of the bllln will be swamped later. .lust at this nionient Omaha does not wnnt(a first-clnss hotel nearly an lmieh jis It does capacious modern warehouse bulldliiKH t lip t will accommodate large jobbing concerns. Hoss Croker again announces that he will retire from Tammany leadership, lie should stay until after tho spring roundup, as the herd has evidently drifted badly and the services of an ex perienced hand are needed. Iowa's prison census shows a marked decrease iu population during .the past year. Perhaps the resident population Df the penitentiaries could be profitably brought up to the normal by rounding up tho bank robbers so active of late. Tho National I.lvo Stock association has exhibited good, practical sense In ordering the printing of all undelivered speeches In .It 9 future record. Iu this It only follows tho example of tho bucket shop men who record all options for future delivery. Selling galvanised brass watches for solid gold Is an Imposture Hint lays tho denier llnble to sev.ero penalties, liut the paper that buncoes advertising patrons by bogus circulation claims goes right on preaching business morality whllo getting mouoy under fnlsefpretenses. Order having been restored there, tho United States marines have been with drawn from tho Isthmus of Panama. Dther nations which pretended to be Hove the landing was only the prelude lo a permanent occupancy can now re Ilro to their nightly rest with no specter to harass them. The National Live Stock association ivnuts Unclu Sam to go out of the land business Jijst as soon as it Is prau tlcnblo to do so. Hut who is to .take L'nclo Sam's place and who Is toown tho land? The policy has been to re ervo tho public domain as homes for tho homeless and not as preserves for Ilia cat tie kings, An ordinance to protoet patrons of bar ber shops from tho barbers' itch is perni os In tho city council. If tho ordinnnco Is' passed iu ftlmo it will afford an op portunity to tho eminent Jurist now oc Mipylug tho police bench to pass upon Iho Inherent rights of men to expose themselves to anything that Is catching without restraint or hindrance from the ilty council.. Sonio of the delegates .to the Pan kraerienn congress appear to be deter mined upou having arbitration of Inter tatlonal differences oven If they arc con polled to light for It. Tho delegates r-ho favor the old method of settling Uffereucos.hnvo tho better of ouo argu ment It U chenper to carr on a war m tho South American plan than It Js to co lawyers. Tho milk dealers have appealed to tho ilty council for protection against the Invnslon of their domain by tho owners )f slnglo cows, who ,aro specially fa fored by n lower license than Is exacted jrom.the dealers. If this ordinance goes through wo may look for a combination )mong the owners of private cows nnd in Issue of watered stock that will diluto Jit luctonl fluid beyond tho chalk Hue. SKCUETAUV OAGrS HKlH)nT. There Is a great deal of useful Infor mation for the tlnanclal nnd business In terests of the country Iu tho annual re port of the secretary of the treasury. The genernl public will be chiefly In terested In the recommendation that revenue be reduced. The Indications are that at the-nd of the current llscal year, June HO,' 1IKK!, tho surplus will reach $ KH.i.OOO.lHK) and Secretary (Inge Is of the opinion that It will be safe to reduce revenue to the extent of $r0,000, 000. He recommends tho repeal of all tho miscellaneous taxes known ns wnr taxes, saying of them that "they are in their .nature vexatious, In some Instances op pressive and, separately ' considered, yield but small revenue." Pcrhnps con gross will not be djsposod to cut off so much revenue as the secretary of the treasury suggests, though there Is no doubt It could be donu with entire safety, but It must make some .reduction, or the party in power will certainly suffer In tho congressional elections next year To continue tuxes that lire vexatious and oppressive when tho national treas ury Is accumulating money at tho pres cut rate cannot be Justified. It Is true there will bo heavy expenditures by tho government In new enterprises, but these should not be so large as to re tpilre tho revenue the gov ernment Is now getting. The people should be relieved of unnecessary .taxation and iu the In terest of tho business of the country the great Mow of money Into the nntlonal treasury should bo chocked as soon as It Is practicable to do so, which will be at the beginning of tho next llscal yenr. Secretary Gage urges modlllcatlons of thu national banking law, . with a view to enabling th'e banks to Increase their note circulation, It Is the asset cur rency plan and Iho secretary of the treasury thinks It would result In a large addition to the bank note currency, at the .same time relieving the govern ment of the necessity of carrying so largo an amount or gold as at present for redemption of legal tender notes, the plan contemplating the .impounding of greenbacks. The asset currency Idea has been pretty fully discussed ami does not appear to have made a generally favorable Impression. Mr. Dau'os, the former comptroller of the currency, ex pressed tho opinion that asset currency such as Is proposed In current plans Is unsafe and that the need of an asset currency In tho transaction of current business Is not great enough to Justify any radical change In oftr .system of bank note issue. It Is very probable that tills view will bo found to prevail among a majority In coiigivs. The matter may receive consideration, but It Is safe lo say that the recommendation or Secretary Gage will not.be acted upou. Tho secretary submits argument Tor an American merchant marine, recom mending legislation providing for the carrying of ocean .malls lu American steamships, Tor which he says the time Is opportune and the conditions propi tious. "There Is 110 longer any reason," says Mr. Gage, "why we should bo de pendent on the auxiliary navies of Kuropeau fpovers for our ocean mall service." He argues that the establish niifnt of a complete American ocean mall service to lOurope, Asia, South America and Australia will in Itself furnish the backbone for an American system of communication by sea. It Is very prob able that congress will take favorable action upon this recommendation of tho secretary of the. treasury, which Is en tirely sound and practicable. I.MPOUTAKCK OK llllttGATIUX. It Is a inost. encouraging fact lu con nection with the Irrigation question that today there Is a great deal of eastern sentiment In favor of the reclamation of tho arid regions. Wo referred only a few days ago to the expressions of one of the leading dally papers of the east to this subject. In which It eloquently and .forcibly urged the duty of the govern ment to do something for reclaiming the arid lands, most conclusively show ing that In doing that It would be con tributing lu an Inestimable way to tho building up of tho national welfare. Another eastern paper, the Haltlmoro News, iu discussing this subject, says: "There Is an empire In the west which for years to como will serve as a home for the overllow for the teeming popula tion of the east, provided pains are taken lo make ayallablo tho natural re sources of Hint empire. While Ameri cans are talking reciprocity and seek ing foreign trade, they should not over look the fact that a market may bo developed at home through the reclaim ing of the arid west which would de mand more manufactured goods prob ably than all of the foreigners with which we do business." There Is cert 11 Inly a very practical Idea In this that Is worthy of most, seri ous consideration. This great arid re gion of our own country, the reclama tion of which Is unquestionably feasi ble,, ami which Is capable of supporting when reclaimed a population almost If not equal to tho present population of the country, presents a proposition that ought to command attention second to none other with which congress has to deal.. THE ISTUMUX CASALIWPMIT. The report of the Isthmian Canal com mission, now before congress, discloses nothing the public was not already In formed f. U iiuqualltlcdly favors tho Nicaragua route ns being In nil respects preferable to Panama. A canal through Nicaragua, according to the .commis sion, can bo constructed In less time than would be required to complete tho Panama canal and will cost consid erably less, taking Into account what would havo to be paid tho Pannnm compnny, which Is a very much larger sum than It has been supposed Unit company would ask. Tho estimated cost of completing the Panama canal Is also much larger than any hereto foro made, but It must be assumed that In this matter tho commission was care ful not to overestimate, It Is safe to predict, however, thnt Its llgurcs will bo challenged as too high. .The esti mated cost of the Nicaragua canal Is considerably In excess of thnt of tho previous commlsslou and undoubtedly Is u more trustworthy estimate, though very likely several million below what the canal will cost. 'I he report of the conimIslon will doubtless put nu end to discussion In regard to routes, since further contro versy N manifestly useless. There Is no doubt that a large majority In con gross favor the Nicaragua route and when the bill for the construction of a canal Is Introduced there will be llttlo delay In passing- It. The commission recommends that thn government nc quire control of territory ten miles wide from sea to sen and expresses the opln Ion thnt there will bo no dlltlculty lu arranging terms with Nicaragua nnd Costa Ulea. We shnll doubtless hnvc to pay handsomely, however, for so much territory. There seems to bo noth ing now lu the way of carrying out this great enterprise. The trenty with (heat Itrltaln concedes everything our government has asked, the protocols with Nicaragua and Costa Hlca assure a satisfactory arrangement with those countries, which It Is presumed are anxious to havo the canal built, and we have the money to carry on tho work Such being the situation there Is no np parent reason why tho enterprise should not take practical form early In the coming year. A'ECBS.S'Tl or HUTUKNCUMCST. The paramount question thnt Inter csts tho taxpayers of Omalin and Uoug Ins county Is tnx reduction. The bur den of tnxntlon M'lilch has been grow ing heavier from ycnr to ycnr must be lightened lu some way before any con sldernblo rlso lu the market value of real estate can bo hoped for. There are only two ways by which this relief enn be had. One Is by grcntcr economy nnd retrenchment In the management of county, city nnd school affairs the other by a more equitable distribution of tho tnx burdens through the assessment of corporate property ami ffranchlses and personal property that have heretofore been undervalued or escaped taxation altogether. Y Itli the new year the llrst step should be taken by city, county and school governments by the Abolition of sinecures and the application of busi ness methods In all departments. While none of the local authorities can change the law creating permanent olllcers and Ilxlng their salaries, there Is a largo Held where the pruning knife can be applied with good effect without Im pairing tho elllclency of the service. In due time the largest saving can be effected by the school board through a thorough rearrangement of the system, which Is top-heavy and needs readjust ment at tho base. ( The more serious dlllleulty will be oiuountered In the effort to equalize tho tax assessments so that the consti tutional provision requiring every cor poration and Individual to pay .taxes In proportion to both properly and fran chises shall be enforced without favorit ism or discrimination. With reasonable retrenchment a reduction of from $30, 1)0(1 to ? 100,000 can be made for the coming year .In the total of city, county anil school taxes. An Impartial as sessment would without question add several million dojlars to the grand as sessment roll, with a corresponding re duction of the tax rate. If the property owners of Omaha and its business organizations can get. to gether to work out a plan designed .with this end In view, they can accomplish n great deal without waiting for tho aid or consent of any legislature or consti tutional convention. The report of the state auditor shows that the Indebtedness of the slate is and has been for n number of years Increas ing at the rate of $100,000 per yenr. So far as the ultimate result lo the state Is concerned, it Is Immaterial whether this represent) regular or extraordinary ex penses. Such a condition may bo good business, but in private affairs It would soon lead to the bankruptcy court." If there were no other reason than this condition, It would be a good Investment to have a special session of the legisla ture, which could devise means to .re establish the state's llnanccs on a solvent basis. If the friends of Irrigation could per suade Commissioner .Maxwell not to project himself too far Into tho front In the discussion of tho Irrigation problem before congress they would materially Improve the chances for the pnssngo of a ratlonnl bill. It Is as well .known In Washington ns It Is In Omaha that Mux- well Is not agitating this subject for his health, but that he Is the hired repre sentative of heavy Interests, and ,such men seldom wield much Influence. London papers comment upon the fact that every nation In Europe envies tho United States Its treasury surplus and each ono rejoices thnt no other country possesses It A treasury surplus of that size to back up some of the ambitions of Kurope would be an endless fiourco of trouble for other nations. Tho United States Is content, however, to put up a "Keep off tho grass" sign nnd allow Kurope to worry along with Its own troubles. The Heal Kstate exchange hns suc ceeded In unloading tho Grcntcr Omaha consolidation scheme on n committee of fifteen .citizens and that committee hns turned over the tnsk to a sub-committee of live dlstlnguMied gentlemen qualified In legal lore, but thnt fact should not deter the members of the exchongo from devising some plan thnt will bring about a reduction of .taxes under the existing county, city and school hoard manage ments. A certain class of Cubans seek for n pretext for believing the United States Intends to obtrude Itself Into purely Cuban affairs with the persistency of a woman who has looked for a man under the bed every night of her life. Tho authorities at Washington might bo ex cused for showing Impntlenco with this constant Impugning of their motives, and that they hnvc not done so Is nn added credit mark. A I'rnfltnble (Sanir. Ronton Qlobe. Yala'a gat receipts for the foot ball sea- ion will reach a total of about 175,000. Too. lato gatno with Harvard netted (33,000. Is It not more profitable to educate the feet man tne Dead 7 Murk, tlm Dole-fxil Cry. Haltlmoro American. Hawaii wants an appropriation of $10, 000,000, There Is no doubt of tbo Island's quick assimilation Jt American principles. Whore the Order la Xreileit. Springfield Republican. There was organized In Anderson, S. C., at. tho time of tho assassination of Presi dent McKlnley nn order for the suppression of anarchy. It, has been followed tuero this week by a lynching, tho first time In tho state for a year or two. Soma 200 men took pnrt and they doubtlcs Included ninny members of tho order for the suppression of anarchy. I-'oIIimtIiIk Xotilblp I'xiinililea, Detroit Krce Press. We let a ulngle company control tho sugar business of tho country, a single company runs the Illuminating oil busi ness and two companies do all the tele graph business of tho country. Aro the railway magnate much to be blamed If they suppose that they will be permitted to combine the railroad lines Into n half dozen or so creat systems? IIimt War l'lncliPN Vnlora. Springfield Hcpubllcau. The depreciation In stocks on the London market since the beginning of tho lloer war 19 of astonishing extent. Taking 325 representative stocks itraded In there, In cluding American rails, the English Hank ers' Magazlno finds that tho depreciation In two yenrs amounts to 750,000,O00t Hut as there has been a very large advance In American securities listed on tho London exchange, tho depreciation In Drltlsh se curities must have been much greater than Is represented. Nor does tho worst ap pear to havo been passed. TIIK HAKKOFK IX IMIMTIVH. Knlc or Oklnhotnn'n (inheritor n '1'lmrly AVnrnlnir, Haltlmoro American (rep,). President Iloosevelt removed William At. Jenkins, governor of Oklnhoma, becauso It was shown by his own statement that Jen kins hnd made an arrangement by which ho would reap a benefit amounting to $10, 000 or more front a contract between tho territory- nnd a sanitarium company which was to care for tho Insane of tho territory. Mr. Iloosevelt lu his letter saya: "A chancellor would not for a moment retain n trusteo who, In dealings for tho trust, re served an advantage for himself. The thought Is not to be tolerated thnt the president can be leas vigilant and exacting In the public's Interest." This Is tho wholo case In a nutshell, nnd Is Just what was expected of tho president. Mr. HooHcvelt has often in public speeches declared thnt the samo rules of honesty and fair dealing should prevail In transacting thn business of the people that aro ob served In tho dealings of one man with an other Hnd his actions In public offlco have been squared Btrlctly In accordance with this principle. The politicians' are finding out that thor havo In tho president, a man to donl with who la courageous and who will go to tho root of any mnttcr whenho glvea his de cision. One of the great curses of American poli tics, especially' in cities, Is tho "rnkeoff." The chief aim some politicians havo In securing office ts to get n much ns pos. stbie out of every contract for work done for tho people and for which the people pay In taxes. It has como to pass In some localities hnt a man's worth to his party Is valued' by his shrewdness In robhlntr a city of all ho can without being discovered and his supporters strive to keep him In office, having nn eye to mutual profit. It Is not to bo wpndered at that those, who profit by tho rakcoff die hard in politics. The astounding pnrt of tho business Is thnt people anywhere In tho country unbuilt to being held up and robbed by thoso they would decllno to trust In nny ordinary transaction of prlvnto business. ' r. O V K It M B XT o w. 11 n M 1 1 P. Trend nf (.'oiniuiinKr . of - inlrm.i l)rnl In llallrnmln. United Htates Investor. A great deal might be said regarding the future of transportation facilities as a re sult or the "community of Interest" deals. Tho question resolves itself Into two parts; first, will tho public Interests bo served as well ns at present If a number of great sys tems nre united and kept under private management; and, second, will the public Interests bo served as well as at present If a number of great systems aro united and placed under the control of tho govern ment? On tho first point wo have our doubts. Past experience has shown that when a number of roadB traversing the same section of country havo been welded together Under ono management, the public havo speedily begun to complain of n cur tailment of privileges. Human nature be ing what It is, wo Incline to the opinion that the northwest In particular and the country In general have more to be afraid of than to rejoice over, In connection with the transportation situation, ns a result of such deals as the ono Just consummated by Messrs. Morgan, Hill and Hnrrlman. The cose becomes different, however, when we look nt tho transportation problem In the light of government ownership. We do not attach much Importance to the argument, so commonly advanced, that the railroads would be less efficiently managed under government control than tinder private con trol. It amounts to a certainty In our mind that tbo railroads would be as effectively handled by the government as tho Post- office department now Is, and that Is saying a good deal. Government will give the people all that the people Insist upon It giving them. In tomo things the people are tolerant and al low the government to pursue a shiftless course, but not In matters which they know for a certainty affect their pocketbooks. Tho people of the United Stales allow the government to draw from them every year an extravagant amount of money to be spent In usolebB ways, but they do not eon- sqlously permit tho authorities at Wash ington to do anything that will impede the operation of their various Industrial pur suits. They think they know what they need and they make the sovemment give them exactly what they think they want. Now, In the matter of railroad privileges the public know what they need and under government control of the railroads they would unquestionably get what they wanted, The government could not tam per with tho rnllroadj, even If It wanted to; Its shortcomings would bo too easily detected and too quickly denounced to ad mit of tho supposition that the roads would be managed In other than a most efficient manner. Consequently, we do not believe that the public would bo losers, from the point of view of transportation facilities, if the outcomes of tbe Northern Securities company deal should be to turn the rail roads Ib question over to the government of the United States. Whether the gov ernment would be Justified In taking them at the prices which the present owners would be likely to Insist on, Is quite an other question. No doubt a moat audn clous attempt will be made "to stick the government," It; over tho question of state ownership of the railroads comes actively to tbe. frost. Reclaiming" the West Hrooklyn America high destiny Justifies the exten- sion 01 us principles over new lands; 11 Justifies tho accessions of nllcn territory and tho preachment to atrango peoples of doctrines which will lift them out of bar- bnrlsm and Idleness, but, surely, It calls for tho redemption of its own territory before nny other thing. Of our country but n smq.ll part Is Inhabited. Nearly a third of 11 on ino mrtner smo or tno .Missouri Is so thinly settled thnt wholo atntcs do not com- paro In population with slnglo cities In the .now it.iu U!5i Hii-iiB ino not imuiiuimi unuer present conditions, Wo can add hundreds of thousands of squaro miles to our hnb- liable domain by converting tho nrld region to fertility. And, nlbclt thero was a tlmo wnen a proposition of that sort would havo been as nwo-lnsplring as the turning of tho Atlantic Into tho Sahara, the experiences of tno past score of years have shown It to ho entirely feasible. in tne east we are sweeping away our forests, mile on mile, exterminating' thu spruce, tho pine and poplar, to feed tho sawa and pulp mills, and aro thereby ex- posing the soli to tho blare, of the sun, destroying tho vegetablo mold, converting me nuis to eminences or rock that nre this great conversion of the American dc.1 washed baro by rains Instead of storlug f t, tho gain, that Is. to settlers and to tho tnem and causing tho country to suffer from extremes or urouta in summer and from noous in spring, nut It Is hopeful of tho tuiuro or tno country that, whllo this do- vnstatlon goes on In tho older states, the newer ones are applying tho scientific cor- rocuon ror these evils nnd are even aiding naturo In planting. Eastern rivers nre siinnKing and western ones will gain, I'nrts of Now England aro threatened with desertion, whllo tho west grows. Tho men of the west hnd to confront tho conditions that wo arc slowly creating In the east and they proved themselves equal to tho taak. In overcoming tho difficulties they developed a splendid race. It has been n matter of surprise to tho Investigators to find thnt arid land wna tho best land, Tho desert has not partgd with Its atores of nutritious mat ter, augmented as they have been by the vast herds of animals that hnvc traversed them, nnd they nwalt only tho mnglc of mols- turo to burst Joyously Into bloom. In Egypt and other countries, where Irrigation Is necessary to producn crops, the yield Is more abundant than In areas of correspond- Ing size that depend on rnlns. Organic matter Is apparently stored In tho earth and conclusions based on something over a thou- sand analyses ore that the desert soil, west of mlil-Kunsns, Is Hcher than tho country east of the Mississippi by an avor ago of three times as much potash, six times ns much magnesia and' fourteen times as much lime. Tho settler has often to contend with salt, but that Is readily soluble and easily washed out of the ground. Hero then Is raw material of fertility abounding. It would bo absurd lu this people not lo use them. It does not Imply expenditures for manures In order to obtain n yield of crops. Every river that 'courses through the country Is turbid with mineral riches. In nnd nbout Tucson it hns been found that the actual market value of the .plant foods carried to nn aero In an ordinary Irrigation system Is over ! a senson more than the average farmer thinks of spending for fertilizing material In almost any part of the world. There aro In our west BOO.OOO.OOO nrres of arid lnnd which nro yet In tho public gift. Wonderful results hnvo been obtained through Individual efforts to reclaim tho ri-:mso.Ai. notks. A woman. Mrs. Maria Ferguson, of Los Angeles, has Issued the first directory of Dawson City. Yukou nnd Alaska, It li a book of 900 pages. Jnn Kubellk, the new violinist. Is a good looking fellow and can piny, they say, but his hair Is a couple of Inches short of the proper length for an artist. Dr. William Harper of tho University ot Chicago has ncreptcd the offer to become director of universal educational congresses nt the world's fair In St. Louis. Hon. Terrenco Mcflovern, -who was de feated at Hartford, Conn., on Inst Thursday, has been starring this season In "Tho Road to Ruin." No comment Is necessary. Herbert C. Hoover 1b ono of the highest salaried men of his years In tbo Industrial world. At the age ot 29 ho Is In receipt of (33,000 annually for his sorvlces as a mining expert. A party of small boys with a Run fired Into a powder house near Utlca, N. Y and effected a scattering. Unlike n similar Incident near Omaha years ago, the Utlca kids escaped with their lives. (Jovernor Stanley of KanBas objects to the settling In that Btato of a llttlo company or waifs from 'a New York foundling hospital on tho ground that It would bo Introducing hii Ignoraut nnd vicious element. "More than ono community," says tho Hostnn Transcript, "will watch with Inter est Omaha's attempt to ordinance barking dogs Into good behavior or utit of the world. Notwithstanding tho truth there is In tho adage nbout tho safety of a barking dog, a dog who persists In barking unlntolllgcntly ts a noisome nuisance." J. N. Adam, who has presented to the city of Buffalo tho aplendld organ built for tho Templo of Music at the l'an-Amerlcnn ox position nt a cost of $18,000, Is n woll known merchant nnd municipal reformer. Ho was for some years n member of tho Hoard of Councllmen of Buffalo nnd In tho recont campaign was elected a member of the Board of Aldermen. Masculine modesty respecting mortuary display receives a sovere Jolt by tho action of a Virginian who bequeathed $1 each to his wife and nlno chlldron and tho rest of bis cash assets, about $10,000, for ho erec Hon of a watertight vault, "commodious and beautiful," to enclose his remains. The family contribution should be devoted to curving an appropriate epitapu on ino vault. (JIlir.NTH OF THIS SPOILSMAN. I'lr Pifttrllitilor Think the President Una tli- "Hltf lleud." Philadelphia Bulletin (rep.). There Is n good deal of growing and grumbling reported from Washington to bo on private tap among the republican leaders over the way in wnicn ino presiucui nan declined to honor the recommendations of not fewer than four mombers of the na tional committee, each of them having been turned down Individually, one after an other. The members who represent Delaware, Louisiana and Toxas and Kentucky have been thus disposed of, and now the veteran from Missouri, "Dick" Kerens, with Marcus A. Hnnnn and Stephen B. Klklns bohtnd him, finds himself halted, with moro than a llkellhogd thnt his voire In tho bestowal of patronago of thnt Btale will hereaftor cease to be potential, But In all the whlsporings and inutterings which have beon coming from them to the effect thnt tho president Is troubled with "tho big head," they havo failed to produce any reason which shows that In each and every Instance he has not done his full duty to his office and to the country. It looks ns If the old hunkers and shady bosses In the national committee nro going to have a hard Job on tholr hands this winter If they attempt to "work" Iloosevelt along the regulation lines. , Kuglc, desert and when one considers what might bo dono by federal management Imaglna Hon Is startled and eladdenpd bv the nn slbllltles. It Is an ttnntrn that lies fallow beyond the mountains, nn empire wherein millions Who now overcrowd cities may llvo In the comfort and freedom that are denied In stony towns. To make homes for these millions It will be necesjary that the government prepare tho way. Tho coat and tho labor are too vast for personal undertaking. Koresta must n plnntcd io insure constancy in water supply, reser volrs must bo created bv damming vallev lu order thnt the supply may be ample In volume; caiinls and drains must be dug ncross tho country for milts, with gates nnd dikes nnd other such appliances, and thero must be uulformltv In lows rosnecl. Ing rights to use of water. Most of th8 nrld hind Is lu what have recently becom states, but by the same authority or co operation whereby forest reserves nn nntlonnl parks, Indian and-mllltarv reset- vatlons and experimental stations 'have been secured for public uses, the nreded ponds and canals could be crented. And, apart from the Immediate gain of Industries which they will create. Is th profit of the whole country by the Incrensc In Its output and the gunrantv of uerma nenre In Improved climatic conditions. For water haa n tendency to recrentc Its sunnh- Irrigation In tho west has made tree plant Ing feasible: treo planting. In turn, haa In creased tho Bnrtnirs. decnened thn hrnnie and Increased the rain nnd ilowfall. Lnnd haa risen tenfold In vnluo under these eon dltlous, In the desert It must rise nn hun dred. Wrong, partial and arbitrary oxer else of power respecting water rights and ratea have mndo Irrigation In some states difficult nnd have given risen to legal and even physical contests, hut thnt Is largely becauso no general attempt has been mndo to secure a Inrge and permanent supply Exactly how comity between states In to be secured will depend on congress. It may be needful to revise the constitution before we can reclaim tho desert. Then let It be revised. No issue before the nation Is so Important. Wo cannot say In our easy, scornful fashion that these are matters that concern only posterity. I'oisterlly Is our own flesh and blood and he thnt would consign that to any disadvantage Is a barbarian. The moral nnd material prosperity and political power of the American people depend on Its displacement from foul, donso centers of population nnd Its easier diffusion over healthful spnees of country. With tho arid regions of the west under control nnd In process of reclamation, we shall bo nblo to offer n homo to every lacking citizen and add Immensely to our human resources Wo shnll, moreover, be doing that which It Is a provldenco of thla republic to do, nnd thnt lis to show to other nntlons tho way to larger wealth, a larger health and a man Her stnto. A patriot, a man of genius, a man of sanely audacious prevision, a man of east- crn culture nnd of western experience Is president of the United States. Ho could signalize his administration In no grander nnd In no more excellent way than by Identifying It with tho beginnings of the great work nnd of the great duty of re claiming tho west on the lines tho Eaglo Bets forth today, HITS Ol' AVASlll.NRTON LIFE. 1 Ktchln of Men and Kvrnta 1 the XntlmiRl CnpKnl. Much adverse comment has been pro voked by the unusual display of flowers on the desks of members nt the opening of congress. In quality, variety nnd quantity of floral offerings the display surpassed that of former years. Senators were particu larly favored, some members being hidden behind banks of blossoms, The Chicago Tribune correspondent says the display was "especially distasteful to alt tho older mem bers, particularly In view of the fact that this wbb the first time they had como to gcther officially since the terrtblo tragedy at Buffalo. Hundreds and probably thou sands of dollars wero. wasted on flowers for hard-headed statesmen, moat of them men beyond middle age, and all ot them looking exceedingly foolish as they peeped out from behind their floral Intrenchmcnts. "Tho result was a vast amount of talk among the senators themselves looking to ward thn adoption of a rule forbidding the display of floral gifts within tho senate chamber. Many of tho most elaborate pieces, ns Is well known, como from needy sycophants In the departments, who hope In this way to curry favor with their sena tors." The guides who steer tourists about Washington to tho various places of Inter est havo a new attraction to offer to their patrons now. When they spy a party of sightseers nnd havo failed to Bccure en gagements by offering tho usual Induce ments they ask; "Would not you like to see tho Roosevelt children?" Most of tho tourists 'admit that they would, and tho guide, starts off as though ho were leading tho way to a cngo in which tho children were kept for exhibition pur poses. Tho tourists aro tnken to tho White House nnd Into Iho east room, tho southern windows of which look out on tho prlvnte lawn of tho While Houso. Pulling aside tho curtains the guide peers out and ns genorally there aro several of the presi dent's numorous family out In tho yard, he will say; "There, Indies nud gentlemen, Is little Kermlt, the president's son," or "little Ethel, the president's dnughtcr," as tho case may bo, Tho presidential children have become used to this scrutiny. They pay no attention to tho visitors, and If they aro digging In nn old flower bed they keep right on turning up the earth as though the east room windows were not filled with Interested spectators. Visitors to the capltol last week saw a novel sight, which at first caused some alarm from Its resemblance to a fire. A fire onglno was at work out In the plaza sending a st remit of water on the marble walls of tho splendid building. The dust, the Eng lish sparrow, and his more agreeable con gener, the common homo pigeon, In the course ot tho year, manage to soil the whllo walls, and nothing short of tbe power ful pumps of one of the best engines In tho city will wash the grime and filth away. A force of firemen clad In rubber boots nnd coats were kept at work sending the water Into tbo nooks and crannies of tho Grecian capitals on the massive pillar's and Into tho recesses of the sculptured figures of tbo ornaments In the tympanum of the house and, senate gables. Even the heights of tho groat Iron dome were splnshed and flooded, and hardly nny part of the Im mense structure escaped a relentless bath. In addition to tho work of tbe engine .1 large force of capltol employos, with scrub bing brushes and plenty of soap, attacked tho worst placos which did hot yield to the washing given by the engine. A correspondent of tho Chicago Post fur nishes tho following Illustration of tho manner la which tho president disposes of offlceholdlng double-dealers: A federal of ficeholder from a western state whoso term 1 nearly up was at tbe White House tbs other day, Ho was nchlng to get a reap pointment and thought he could Insure I nnd nt tho samo tlmo please the preslden by tendering his resignation on the theorr that ho would thereby leavp him free to net. So tho fedeml Job-holder walked in to President Hoojevelt nnd nfter n few pre liminary remarks added Hint he had his resignation In his pocket. "I wnnt you to feel free to-net, Mr. I'resl dent," said he, feeling that 'ho wns doing a very clever thing, ' nnd whllo I hope to bv reappointed there la my resignation nt your fcrvlee." , If the caller thought the president would eagerly tell him to keep his resignation or say, "Well done, good and faithful servant; go buck and hold your offlco threo years longer," ho wns disappointed, for, quick as n flash. Mr. Roosevelt took the resignation from his unwilling hand and, turning to a stenographer, briskly said! "Notify Secretary Ongo that Mr. has resigned and there Is a acaucy In th so-and-so office." Before tho officeholder could collect hl scattered wits ho was In tho nnte-room vaguely wondering what had happenod to his clever scheme to "get solid" with the chief Job dispenser. Ho then broke nil speed records gutting to his congressman, whom ho told of the result of his visit and begged to go at otico and try to repair the damago ho had done. Tho congressman lost no tlmo In calling on tho president and, as tactfully ns possible, told him thnt hln constituent had not meant to resign nt all, but merely Intended to place his position at tho dis posal of tho now administration. "nidlculoui," tho president exclaimed It his rapid manner. "If ho didn't mean tt resign why did ho come here with hii resignation? There is no sense In suoh ac tions. It's ridiculous." Tho officeholder will probably be reap, pointed, as It Is not unllkoly President Roosevelt saw through his little feint nn mischievously decided to teach him a lei. son nnd discourage "grnndatand plays." SAFF.TY OF HAII.UOAI1 TttAVRI,. I.ras l.ns of l.lfr nnd Injnry Than on CHy Streets.' St. Paul Pioneer Press. Such nn awful disaster as thst which oc curred on the Wsbash railroad near Beneca, .Mien., on Thursday, when two passenget trains running at the rate of between lift and alxty miles nn hour collided, amashlni both trains and causing a terrible loss of life, Is calculated to mako nervous peooli shudder at the perils Involved In Journeyt by rati. Of the 600 persons on board, at least seventy-flvo wero killed and many moro Injured. No other railroad casualty Is recorded In thla country which Involved so great a loss ot life not even tho memor able dlsaatcr of Abfetabuln, for only sev enty were killed in that accident. It will not diminish the nervousness of the timid traveler that this dtsastor was due to au erroneous reading of nn order by tho engi neer of ono of the trains. It was ono of thoso mistakes to which fallible human be ings nre llnble; and It Is this uncertainty In tho operation of tho human machinery that directs tho movements of trains which furnishes nn element of peril greater than nny defects In tho physical machinery which is directed by the more, fallible man. Hut although railroad dsastors from both causes are not Infrequent, Inking tho vast opera tions ot all the railroads In tho country Into view, yet, as n mntter of fact, statistics show that upon tbo average n man ts about as safo upon a railroad train ns In tho streets of tho city whero ho lives, or even safer; that is to say, taking the whole num ber of passengers traveling on railroads during nuy given ycnr, thero In much less losa of life than' occurs ns tho. result of ac cidents In city streets, oven after eliminat ing all thoso duo to the movements of street cars. Moreover, It hnB been demonstrated that tho ratio of casualties to travolors by railroad Is far lees than thoso to travelers by other modes of convoynncc Iobs than thoso caused by runaway horse alone, ho that really such occasional disasters afford no cause for tho slightest degroo of ner vousness about trnvollng by rail. LAUGHING CiAS. Phllnrtnlnhln Press: Junior Partner By thn wsy. tnlklng of unexpected windfalls, Horroughs tells me ho has como In for some money. Ronlnr Pnrtnpr That's so. Just tell lilm ho can go"out ngnln without It New York Sun: Grandma I'm worried nbout Sally's baby. uranapa bo am 1. wun iwo granamom n an' thn rlnntnr nil warktn oft'ln each other, as you sny, you enn't tell what'll happen. Cblcaco Tribune: "My friend." inquired the man In search of Information, "would you mind telling me tho exact Ulfferenro between a shine and n polish?" "Ft' centn." responded the child of sunny Italy, who owned tho boot-blacking cstnb- usnmcni. riiipncn Post- "You havo stolen tny Ideas," asserted the struggling author. "Trim." admitted thn Huccessful plagiar ist, "but the knowledge that you have been of assistance to so great n man ought to satisfy your ahbltlon." 1 Washington Star: "Does your son know much about farming?" mi aiiniilH ufii hn rlnen " iinswered Former Corntossel. "lie sa-H ho reckons he'll go to town nn' mnko nbout a million dollars an' then cum buck nn' run this farm proper." Rnmervllln Journal: "Why do you wan der aimlessly from place to pluco?" asked tho good woman of the tramp. "Uecauso 1 110111 Know uny omnr way o wander," said tho unimaginative roamer. t Ran Francisco H-.illstln: HIrch Buffering Aesopl Look nt muggers! Did you ever see nuch seedy-looKlng emtnear uuggs uiey nre eureiy n inne nn.n, inmrs true. 1 niiBH Hut when 1 knew him he used to wear expensive aim wen inung ciomes. 'Yes," nut no h ncn now. 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