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THE OMAHA DAILY . BEE: MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1903. The Omaha Daily Bee. E. ftOSEWATER. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF- SUBSCRIPTION. Pally pee (without Sunday), One Twr.JlW Istly Bee ami Sunday, One Year M Illuntrated bee, One Year j W Sunday Bee. Onn Year JW Saturday Bee, One Year J-J Twentieth Century Farmer. One Year. 1.W) DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Pally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.. Jo Ially Hee (without Sunday , per week..l2o Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week.l7c Sunday Hee, .er copy o Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week 60 Evening Wee (Including Sunday), per week 10o Complaints of Irregularities In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De partment OFFICES Omaha The Bee Bull'llng. South Omuha City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M street. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street. Chicago 1610 Unity BulldlnR. . New York 232H Park How Building. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. - . REMITTANCES. ' ' Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Comp.nv. Only 2-cent stamps accepted In payment of mail account, personal oheckn. except on Omaha or enstern exchanxes, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.: George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of September, !Su3, wag as fol- 1 SIMM I 20.2T0 2O.3T0 4 O.STO S 20,550 241,705 I J 20.820 t 20.370 . f 20.200 10 20,150 II . 20.220 12 20,310 13 1.. 241,435 14 20,020 15 24, BOO ' Total 16 SS.O.IO it sh.bio . 1 jg 2H.S70 I ..2,8o 20 20,44 I 2!1!!!!!!!!!!1'.2(,ho 23 2H.B80 24 IB,lilv 26 26 27 sgn JXt I , ,20,20a ..27,240 1 ft " I to 20,040 I ..802,230 Less unsold and returned copies.... ,40 Net total sale 852,744 Met average sales 2M,424 GEORQEt B. TZSCHUCK. . Subscribed In my presence and sworn to Before ma this Svtb day of September, A. D. 1901 M. B. H UNGATE. (SeaL) Notary Public. - Those war clouds have evidently taken a permanent - lease on the northwest corner of the oriental horizon. In tho matter of attracting public at- tentlon and public interest foot ball comes In ahead of politics this year. Where Omaha can advertise Itself to best advantage is by having ita streets and thoroughfares put In good condition ana Kept in repair. Only 1,500 votes cast in the republican school board primaries. Plainly there must be an Issue before the people will take a lively .Interest In a political con test The democratic candidate for indicial position never make any pledges ot political apnolntmentg because nobodv uspecU that they will have anv tsolltl- cal appointments at their disposal The Ohio situation cannot be so pre-1 carious from the republican standpoint government has at all times and under When Senator Ilanna takes' a lay off in all circumstances shown a most cora the midst of the campaign to attend the mendable desire to settle these matters Civle federation meeting in Chicago.' . I wuai a leiung demonstration of tho efficacy of prayer Chicago would ha vo if Dowio and his Zioa host should sud- denly make up their minds to locate in Rew yrk and relinquish all thought of returning to the World's fair city; Omaha wants a grain market where the corn and weat and, oats raised in the surrounding states . can be stored and exchanged. If it goes about it the . right way the local grain market can be established and built up just as was the live stock market A surplus of $7,000 is reported out of receipts of some $43,000 at the state fair at Lincoln. This is a good showing. When the fair was at Omaha the re- celpts went much higher, but the man. agement managed Jo eat them all up in xnenses ana sometimes mnro tnn . If Lincoln has given up its opposition to an electric trolley line between the state capital and Omaha there is noth' ing longer to prevent- the capitalists who have been Drofesalnz to be so eager to launch the project from Koine ahead. Whv wt ti.pr Tr ten balnea. without further delay? I L I J ' Colonel Bryan declares emphatically In bis paper that he never advised the ttomlnatlon for the presidency of Olney or any other democrat who failed to support the ticket actively in 1SD6 and 1000. Colonel Bryan, however, has been supporting gold democrats for all sorts of other offices aud only recently en dorsed a bolter as democratic nominee for United States senator from Ohio. The difference is in degree rather than in kind. The whole question of reform in rail- road taxation in Nebraska could have been settled in favor of the people if the supreme court had decided the rail- mall fraction. As we have said here road tax cases a year ago along lines of tofore, it is not to be doubted that the, equity and Justice, instead of giving the railroads the decision on technicalities of pleading. With that record before them how can the overhnrdenl tax. payers expect to improve conditions by re-electing Judge Sullivan, who helped the railroads get J nut what they wanted The Nebraska Independent files up at The Bee's statement that the populist vote iu this county has dwindled down to a mere corporul' guard. That Is the natural cue for a populist paper whose life depends upon the rescue of the! party from complete disintegration. But how does it explain the fact that the 100 votes allotted to Douglas county in the last populist state convention were cast by Just two delegates on the ground. IIer is a poser that fails te jibe with its claim of double the number of populist voters in Omaha than ever be fore. v JllXiK BAKlftS AtlD JVOOt SVLLIVAll. BERTRAM, Neb., Oct. 14. Ifi3. To the Editor of The Bee: As 1 have thought of the mm ark a of Judge Sullivan at the Columbus democratic convention about Judge Barnes, who hns become practically an nssoclnte Justice there by the approval of the Hon. Judge Sullivan, that he knew him to be Arc able man, an honorable man and a gentleman, and worthy of being his oppo nent, disqualifies all of the accusations of the democratic press-. Either the Judge or the preps has misrepresented the man. If the press charge are true. Judge Sul livan ts as favorable toward the railroads aa Mr. Barnes, and I would prefer the statements of Sullivan to the democratic press on a question of politics for the reason that he could not speak any way disparagingly of a man with whom he has been personally associated for four years, where so many others, who know Judge Barnes outside of politics, speak of him the same aa Mr. fin 1 Ivan does. I find no one finding fault with him only a few democratic lawyers and none even of his democratic opponents who are not political wire-pullers and I find that the accusation that are hurled against Mr. Barnes are more Injurious to Mr. Sul llviri than anything they can say for Mr. Barnes. For the words of Mr. Sullivan disprove all of the statements we find In the democratic- rress; knowing. Judge Barnes to be worthy therefore, he advised his adherents to wage nothing but an hon est and clean campaign. . These are my views of the two candi date who I think are honorable and able men. . GEORGE FARNER. This Is a fair tsnniple of the letters so far received with reference to the state campaign In Nebraska 'and a fair illustration of how the two opposing . . . . . . , .Ti ... cauuiuuiei xor nupieme juuge BiriKO iue general public. Judae Sullivan- has en Jnruvl Tn,t(TA Rornoi 11 urnrthw if confidence and support of bis party and no one has said anything bo far to dis- va(a, k'uiiKHU 11U luliOU t UV profess the same party allegiance. There ccrtaiuly is no more reason for mnV rfirMltlltaa tl V.lf A .rratnuf T.iitrrA came than there is for any democrat to vote against Judge Sullivan. With the 'election ' simply a test of party strength between the standard bearers, tho success of Judge Barnes as. the nominee of the majority party is as sured. TUB BOUNDARY DCCIHtOir. Will the decision in the Alaskan boundary case, In which the Canadian government obtains a certain concession from the United States, be satisfactory to our people? It is perhaps absolutely unnecessary to go into all the details of the issue between the two govern ments. They have been gone over so repeatedly that it seems quite unneces- sary to go over them again. We take H for granted that the average American will assume in advance that every ver dict of his country in the case will be absolutely correct and straightforward. It is wholly useless to discuss the question in view of the decision of the court favorable to the American conten tlon. Nothing more could be required to Pr0Te thftt the attitude of our govern ment has always been absolutely correct aDU ProI)er "Whatever may have taken place la lne pa81 ro against our rair ana nonoraDie piay in respect to . tnis con- troversy, the admission must be that our by way of honorable arbitration. While this Dresent commission la not . board of arbitration, but simhlv body clothed with authorlty-to deter mine certain controverted oolnts in con nection with the claims of Canada and the United States in regard to boundary rights in a designated territory, it is still a body whose judgment will have a very great bearing upon the ultimate settlement of the issue. The Importance of this issue is fully recognized by both countries and -cow that it is practically adjusted it is a reasonable expectation that other questions between the two countries will be amicably settled within the near future. The real obstacle to the settlement of these questions was in the boundary dispute and that matter having been practically disposed of there is no further excuse on the part of Cunada 'or- prolonging controversy in 'r""' v" ' " " u"n:cl1 we two countries It is therefore reasonably to be hoped that the decision of the Alaskan bound ary commission will be immediately fol lowed by action, possibly in the recon venlng of the high Joint commission, r8Ult ,a a complete and perm nent settlement of all issues between the United States and the Dominion. DOAO T US Hi OVTT. Every good citizen, whatever his poll- tics, roust regret the fact that there has been wrongdoing in some of the departments of the government. It should be, aud we are inclined to be lieve it Is, the sentiment of, all good citizens that every person in the service of the government should under all clr cumtttances observe absolute integrity in all relations and be unqualifiedly honest iu their duty to the public, whose servants they are. We believe that the very great ma Jr'ty I" the public service do this and that those who do not constitute a very skater number or our public servants, whatever capacity employed, are ab "olutely honest aud upright in the dis- tharge or their autles. We believe that the public service of the United States U as a whole administered as honestly as the public service of any country In the world. We think that facts will show this beyond controversy, in spite I oX recent developments which It must I be admitted are a reproach to the coun I try What we desire to emphasize is that the men in the various department of I the administration are dolug their full duty in connection with whatever faults aud abuses may. exist in their respective departments and are manifesting a most I earnest purpose to correct and prevent 1 any and all improper actions or unlaw ful conduct No reasonable man will - 1 be surprised at the fact that in a public J service embracing hundreds of thou sands of person there should be a few dishonest and untrustworthy. It is aim ply inevitable. But tho adnilnlstratlou is using every practicable effort to rid the public service of unreliable persons and in this the president and the vari ous heads of the departments are en titled to the confidence of the country. that Hunanr wolf. "Children, go to bed, or the wolf will eat you," is the usuul way by which the nurHe puis the Juveniles to sleep. "Slip under our bed quilt or the machine will eat you up," is the admonition of the combine of which Secretary Burgess and Superintendent Tearse are the wet nurses. The credulous Juveniles who hnve been buncoed so many times by the cry of "wolf will doubtless im agine that they have had a narrow es cape from being eaten up, but it strikes us that the last performance ought to be an eye opener to the lnmbs of both sexes that have been repeatedly fright ened out of their wits by tire false alarm. For months the combine that ex tended the term of Politician Tearee for three years arid raised the salary of Politician Burgess, who had never earned more than $80 a month in his life, to $2,100 a year was plotting and scheming to re-elect a few friendly In dians and inject several friendly tender- feet into the board upon whom they could rely implicitly in milking the tax payers to their hearts' content Forty-eight hours before the repub lican school board primary the alarm of "(Jet under cover, or the wolf will eat you," was sounded for the benefit of the unsuspecting political infants by the juvenile yellow, whose proprietor transplanted a near relative, from one of the graded schools of Kansas City, paying $40 a month salary, to a post tlon in the Omaha High school at $80 month. "The friends of the public schools must be on guard," cried the sensational bunco steerer. "The ma chine is lubricating its running gear and will swoop down upon the school board primaries with a elate. The only way to beat the machine is to vote the following five names: Theodore II, Johnson, Howard L. Krelder, James W. Maynard, John II. Vance and Ellsworth A. Willis." The day after the primary the senior morning yellow announced in big headlines, "The machine slipped some cogs. The machine was given somewhat of a Jolt at the republican primaries held for the purpose of nomi nating candidates for the Board of Edu cation. ' But one of the candidates in dorsed by the machine won out John L. McCague." Now, everybody familiar with Omaha politics knows that John L. McCague has never been directly or indirectly identified with the dreadful machine. Everybody who attended the school board primaries knows that the horrible machine put no ticket in the field and that the only sample ballots in circula tlon were printed on the colored slips of paper peddled by the school janitors, schoolma'ams and the candidates put up by Burgess' and Pearse. The so-called machine, had. pot even thought of inak ing a contest There has not been for years any attempt at political manipu lation of members or employes of the school board, except by the combine on the inside, which wants to perpetuate itself in power for the benefit of rela fives who are foisted upon the public schools regardless of merit or quallflca tions. And yet there are hundreds, if not thousands, of people in Omaha who allow themselves to be treated as chll dren and frightened by these political nurses into slipping under cover by the mere threat that a hungry wolf has his nozzle at the bedroom door ready to eat them. Booker T. Washington explains the general migration of negroes from coun try to city, a migration that according to census statistics is more .marked proportionately with them than with the whites, by two reasons, first the bet ter schooling facilities for negro chll dren, and, second, the batter police pro tection. But those two factors are just as sharply drawn between whites in city and country as between negroes in aud out of the cities and their in fluence should work uniformly without respect to color or race. Vhese expla nations may hold partly good in the south, where the color discrimination is unchecked, but they do pot hold good in the north, where colored children attend the same schools as the white children and police protection is not needed. The suggestion that a more potent reason is the better wages ob tainable in the cities may be pertinent, as also the greater variety of diversion, because the negro must have recrea tion and amusement At all events, Mr. Washington's explanation does not cover tli who'e ground. A convention of representative cattle men from eighteen states is to be held at Denver during the present .week to discuss the independent packing bouse project as a competitor to the Packing House trust. The plan of organization contemplates the raising of more than ten millions of capital by stock sub scription at the rate of $1 for every bead of cattle owned by the ranchman. If all cattle owners could be enlisted Texas alone would contribute $9,000, 0U0 to the fund aud Kansas and Nebraska would drop in several mil lions more. The promoters of this scheme evidently believe that lndepend ent packing plants will increase the value of each head of cattle at least $2, but we apprehend that all would de pend upon the management of the inde pendent packing bouses and their abil ity to secure stock yard facilities and transportation on the same terms at are now enjoyed by the packers' combine. The way to take the public schools out of politics is to enact a law forbid ding candidates for the school board from having their names filed tinder ny party designation and divorce all school board elections from political elections. When that is done we may have nonpartisan school boards. The awful condition of the streets of Chi cago which haVe not been recenOy re- paved Is accounted for rty President Lynch f the Board of Public Improvement, Who say that the early cedar pavement rotted out from the bottom In a few years and that the blocks were torn out of place and stolen by people of various neighborhoods. who used the lumber supply for firewood. The fact Is that the cedar block pavements were laid under a rascally system of graft" Chicago Chronicle. Misery loves company." Omaha will have reason to congratulate itself that Its experience with bad pavements is only a repetition of what Chicago has ndergone and is still undergoing. Both cities have been taught a costly lesson that should not be forgotten at least for one or two generations. ( Three weeks ago President Johnson assured the patrons of tho public schools that the school board was out of poli ties4. But with the school house Janitors and other school board employes under orders to hustle at the republican pri maries it would indicate that the school board is still in politics up to its neck. Hot Spots on the Sam. Detroit Free Press If Sreel common drops much lower during the Roosevelt administration, it will require force to keep the New York Sun from se ceding from the union. Punishment Kiln the Crime. Washington Post. ' An Ohio negro has been sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary for steal ing 40 cent. Serves him right for stealing that much real money Instead of swiping a few minions' worth of Steel stock. Aad the Vail Tumbled. Philadelphia Inquirer. The latest story about Admiral Cotton is that, when he arrived at Beyroot and the vail sent to ask hi intentions, he replied that he had no Intentions, no policy and no blank cartridges." The last clause struck the vail a peculiarly significant and order was restored at once. Sapply of Backers Exhausted. Pittsburg Dispatch. Wall street financiers depended on the rule that suckers fcre being constantly brought Into the world. But they slipped up by forgetting that the supply of one generation may be exhausted before the next crop get into the market. . A Dlar for the DlgglaKS. Springfield Republican. It has not yet been learned who fired the shot that did not hit Magelssen of Beyroot, nor does anyone now care to know. Our navy has got In its work, however. Min ister LeUhman, w'th two war ships at hi back, has forced the sultan to grant per mission to a certain Dr. Banks to excavate ruin In Mesopotamia. , This I another great diplomatic triumph, and, besides, It proves the inestimable value of a navy wnen dealing with the Turk. VALIB OP VOTING MACHINES. Time and Mosey Saved by' Their Cse la Indtataapoll. Quickness, accuracy and almost instan taneous return were Impressive results of the use of -voting" Wchlnes In the mu nlcipal election at .Indianapolis last Tues day. Ten machines were used In a many ward districts, but sq distributed as to teat their operation among different classes of the voting population. How well the ma chines performed their work Is related by the Indianapolis Journal: "When the polls closed Tuesday evening," say the Journal, "the manager of the press bureau had a messenger stationed at the third precinct of the Thirteenth ward and within sixteen minute after the close the messenger rod up to the bureau on Illlno's treet with the result of the vote from this particular precinct. "In the sixth precinct of the Twelfth ward sixty vote were oast In the first fifty-two minute after tho poll opened. One voter who could not .read or write voted in eight seconds. Several voters oast their ballots in three second each. "In the eighth precinct of the Thirteenth ward eighty vote were cast In one hour, FrediStolts, 82 year old, voted In ten sec onds. . "In another precinct sixty-eight vote were cast In forty minutes. In this pre cinct the average time consumed by each voter while enough were waiting to keep the machine busy was twenty second. "In the eleventh precinct of the Sixth ward the average time of each voter wa one to one and one-half minute. "In the thirteenth precinct of the Third ward the average time wa five to thirty seconds. "In the seventh precinct of the First ward thirty-two votes were cast. In the first hour sixty-nine were cast. "In the twelfth precinct of the Thlr teenth ward fifty-seven vote were cast the first half hour and 104 In the first hour, "The longest time consumed in furnish Ing returns from voting machines after the close of the polls was forty-five minutes and thirty seconds. This was the time con sumed in the Third, Tenth and Twelfth ward. 'In the eighth precinct of the Thirteenth ward the result of the vote was known in twenty, second after the poll closed at p. m. "The election officers appeared to think the machine were a eucccess and were well satisfied with ' them. One special feature noted by the officer wa that the machines tended to "straight" voting instead of scratched tickets. It wa also noted that in many instances where special lnstruc tlon were not given the voter forgot the school commissioner. Sometimes, it was observed, a voter would manipulate the machine for a straight rather than try to vote a scratched ticket, fearing he would become confused and vote wrong. 'Where voters could not read they were required to make affidavit to the fact, and the clerk would thn help them out." Editorially, the Journal say: "There havci been numerous elections, city"7 county and township, in Indiana since the adoption of the Australian law, In which there have been enough mutilated ballots to have changed the result, had they been counted and In all of theae case It ha been a que tlon If the will of the majority ha not been defeated through Ignorance or carelessness. With the machine there can be no ballot vl tlated by distinguishing marks, and it mechanically Impossible for the voter to vote for two Candida tu for the same office. The very worst he can do I to neglect to vote for some candidate he had intended to vote for. "Another advantage lies in a considerable saving of expense. Not only can the duo bar of officers required to condupt a pre clnct polling place, be reduced, but they will draw pay for but one day, Instead of for two or three days, a under the old y tem. The expense of an election are re duced more than half, and In most case a much a two-tbirda. The machine will pay for themselves In a very few elections, and afterwards result In at great saving to the people, for they should Wat many decades with, proper care.' JtDCiB JOHS H. . BAHMCS. Madison Chronicle: Judge Barnes baa made an ideal supreme commissioner, and has been voted for that position twlcs by Judge Sullivan. Such being the case he Is in every way qualified to occupy with credit to himself and the party the office of Judge of the supreme court, and you should see to It that your ballot reads for him on election day, November 3. Leigh World: Everything seems to be coming right for Judge John B. Bitrnes, the republican candidate for supreme Judge. The democratic press Is calling him a corporation tool and a rogue, and yet he Is gaining strength In the popularity of the people every day. We would not be sur prised If that democratic mud slinging would help him to gather a few more votes. Wayne Republican: The lion. ' J. B. Barnes of Norfolk, the republican nom inee for the supreme Judgeship, hns found a staunch friendship In the old timers of the state, who, for the first time, per haps, have met him, although their ac quaintance has been forming for thirty years. Select from those who have lived In the state any great length of time all the prominent Jurists and Judges, sift them again through your memory and se lect those whose every impulse was for the welfare of the state and the vicinity of his home, for the welfare of every nan and the correct training and education of his own family. Judge Barnes 1 still among the uppermost. By these tests of cltiienshlp we must select our public men. What are their personal InfluencesT What Is their home life? Is their public career gauged by anything leas than their pri vate life? In Judge Barnes, who has twice been appointed to the supreme court com mission, has held untarnished through these years his good name In the discharge of public trusts, we have a candidate who is entitled toVvery vote of loyal cltlsens regardless of party. It takes more than sneers of fuslonlsts that he Is a railroad man to convince those who know him well that he Is not a man endowed by his Creator with capabilities to treat all men fairly, and a judge must on oath treat rail roads as fairly as other litigants. We would disdain to vote for a man so biased that he could not accord Impartial Judgment to all, even If one of the litigants were the most oppressive to mankind. Pender Republio: The talk of certain of tho fusion pap.!rs that Jude Borne is disqualified from serving upon the su preme court because he had served faith fully and well certain monled interests as their attorney, Is a little out of Joint, So far as fuslonlsts are concerned. It Is, as the lawyers say. "stare decisis" or "res Judicata," and the judgment Is against the position taken by these papers. Judges Sullivan; and Holcomb eHtled the question against them when they" twice appointed Judge Barnes as their associate upon the supreme bench. If they had appointed him but once there might have been the excuse f lack of Information, but this Is entirely removed by their reappointing him after he had already served one term with them, The supposed objection now raised existed at the time of his appointment and If there wa nothing in them then, there ts nothing In them now. Furthermore, he Is better qualified now than when first ap pointed. Hi experience upon the supreme bench ha better fitted him for the duties of the office. The argument against Judge Barnes stultifies Judge Sullivan. Judge Sullivan knew Judge Barnes had been railroad attorney and he knew whether or not .that fact was an objection to him as supreme Judge, and he decided that it was not. When Judge Sullivan ha given Judge Barnes so distinctive a certificate of his qualification in all respects for service upon the highest tribunal in the state, why should republican waver, in the least, in their support of their candl date, or why should they be deceived by partisan "nonpartisan Judlolary" talk? Syracuse Journal: Judge Barnes had tne qualification to make a good supreme court commissioner, or Judge Sullivan would not have voted for him. The same qualifica tions are required for judge of the supreme court. , , ' . GOBBLING UP TIMBER L.AXDS. Valuable Portion of the Publlo Do mala doing- te Speculators. V Chicago Record-Herald. The federal timber lands law provides for the sale to pioneers of government forest lands In quarter sections at 12 50 an acre. In the twenty-five years that this law has been on the abitute book the total sale of timber land have amounted to less than 7,000,000 acre. In the fiscal year 1303 alone the sales were 1,706,618 acres, or over a quarter of the total twenty-five years' sale. These figure tell a startling story of the rapidity with which some of the most valu able portions of the public domain 'are being gobbled up," and they furnish at the same time a most eloquent argument for Imme diate amendment of the timber land law. If the land were passing Into the hands of actual settlers, or if the government were being paid a reasonable price for them, all would be well, but such Is not the case. The sand are going to speculators for a song. Commissioner Richards of the general land office takes occasion In his forthcom ing anniml report to discus the situation and to lament hi helplessness under the existing law. "There la no doubt," he I quoted a saying, "that the law I being taken advantage of by (peculator, who are getting rich at the expense of the govern ment and of the men for whose benefit the law wa primarily passed." He describe how a carload of people will leave Michigan for Oregon. Shortly there after the land office receives claims for quarter section In number exactly corr ponding to the number of paasengei' on the car. Each claim 1 accompanler1. by a $400 check. Investigation show that none of the claimant was ever known In hi home town to have ivA at any one time In his life. Nevertheless the patents must be Issued, for the law only requires that the claimant must have seen the land and pos ess the price. Before long all the claims are transferred to some one syndicate or corporation. One remedy that has been suggested Is to apply to the timber claims -the features of the homestead law, which make actual residence a requirement. But the commuta tion clause of the homestead law is Itself proving too liberal, and the whole subject of ths land law la In great need of Inves tlgation and practical reform. PERSONAL KOTKS. The higher Booker Washington c'lmbs the more bHckbat are aimed at him by his own race. Grover Cleveland lain exce'lent form. He can run In and out of Chicago without crossing the Harrison wires. ' ' Senator Allison may not be skilled In ths science of music,' but none of the band masters can excel hin In sounding a key note. There Is no end to objection. Some farmer are against the free rural mall delivery because they have to Invent ex cuses every time they want in go to town and loaf at the store. The Ame. lean minister to Sweden is given credit for being the beat shot ia that coun try. H can hit ths fleetest bird on the wing and his office In Stockholm has many trophies of his prowess as a hunter. The arbitrator in the Alaskan boundary dUput meet at 11 o'clock and adjourn at 1 for lunch; then reassemble at I and ad journ at 4 for lunch. The mornings and evanlngif soeia t fcs rsaenred for steal. ROlD ABOl'T KW YORK. Ripple ea the C'arrenfof I. If la the Metropolis. Faith curlsts In New York are much perturbed over the decision of the state court of appeals, which penalises failure to call regular medical practitioners In alt cases of illness of minors. Believers the power of prayer over disease are J In bitterly denouncing the decision and say they will raise a fund to get the best possible counsel to carry the case to the federal supreme court. Nearly three year ago one J. Luther l'lerson, av resident of White riains, was fined IbCO, with the alternative of 500 day In Jail, for criminal neglect. He had re fused to furnish medical attendance In the case of hi Infant child, who was gravely 111 of pneumonia. Being a Christian Scientist, or Faith Curer, he did not be lieve In doctors. He trusted entirely to the efficacy of prayer. The child died. Plerson was prosecuted under that section of the penal code which say that a charge of criminal neglect may be sustained against any person "who omits without lawful excuse to perform a duty by law Imposed upon him, to furnish food, cloth ing, shelter or medical attendance to a minor." The Jury returned a verdict of guilty. This verdict was reversed by the appellate division, which stretched the term "medical attendance" to cover more than the framera of the statute Intended that it should. In other words, the ap pellate division held as guilt lee those par ent who permit sick children to battle gainst disease unaided by the resources of medical science. The court of appeals has now In turn reversed the appellate division and Plerson roust either pay his fine or go to Jail. There was to be a wedding rehearsal at the home of Sarah Golsler In Jersey City Tuesday night, and the young woman was radiantly happy In anticipation of her mar riage to Walter Odell next Wednesday. She worked hard all the morning putting the finishing touches to -her wedding gown, When she finished she exclaimed with Joy: "Oh, mamma, won't Walter feel proud ! of me for this?" and she held the gown out at arm's length. v , But Mrs. Gelsler made no reply. She smiled feebly and turned away. Her heart was breaking with grief, for she had been told half an hour before that Odell was dead. She feared the shock would kill her daughter. The sight of the wedding gown juct finished, only intensified her grief and she strove In vain to hide her tears. The young woman embraced her mother tenderly as she tried to make her feet happy. "You shouldn't cry, mother. You know we'll never leave you after we're married. We'll be here every day," and she tried to laugh the tears away. Mrs. Oelsler strove to keep them back, but the girl could see that there was some thing wrong. She begged her mother to tell her what it was. Mrs. Oelsler hinted that Walter might not come that evening. She said he was ill and that she had Just received word. She gently stroked her daughter's hair as she let out the fatal secret, and when the- girl was told the worst both mother and daughter were overcome. Walter Odell had committed suicide at his home, 887 Union avenue, Bronx. He Vas found dead early Tues day morning with a gas tube in hi mouth. The shock wa too great for the young woman to bear. For three year ah had been the promised bride of Odell. She would not believe that he was dead. She decided to find out for herself. Mrs. Oelsler and her son accompanied the girl to the home of her dead flanoe. When she saw the coffin the young woman collapsed and It was feared her heart might give way. There are now about sixty.'- first-class hotels in New -York. The addition of the fifteen new ones will increase the number to seventy-five. If these seventy-five hotels were piled on top of one another they would make a structure 750 stories high taller than the Tower of Babel. Or, to look at it in another way, if they could be conglomerated into one huge composite hotel It would be twenty-seven stories high and cccupy a ground space of seventeen acres, more than four city blocks, includ ing the intersecting streets. This great building would cost $78,000,000, have 22,500 bedrooms and accommodate 60,000 gussts daily. I James Henry Smith, formerly of this city, but now of New York and known among his friends as "Silent Smith," I planning to have a novel house party when his new Fifth avenue mansion Is completed next winter. Every man who turned a spadeful of earth, laid a brick, drove a nail or daubed a brush on the house Is to have an invitation. Even the bricklayers' clerks, the hodcarriers, will be cordially Invited to come and bring their wives. It will not be an exclusive affair at all. Mr. Smith' other friend will have invitation and there will be quite a coming together of air kinds of society. Mr. Smith has no notion of patronizing the worklngmen by giving this party. He thinks the men who build houses have some equity In the com fort to be derived from them. . For the use of the underground rapid transit railroad 00 more car have ar rived In New York. They are more roomy and lighter than those In use on the ele vated roads, . and different from them In other respects. The woodwork of the In terior is of a lighter shade. The windows are much larger; the entire upper sides of the cars, In fact, are of glass, except the parrow framework. There are no mirrors. The cars are forty-two feet long, about two fe longer that those In the elevated. The door are much larger than any seen now on city rairoad. The seating capacity Waltham Watches The observed of all observers. e "The Perfected Amerlcjui Witch' n. ittostratcd book of interesting information about wkhes, nulll, .he tent, free upon request. ' " American Wattfum Watch Company1 Waltham, Mass " ' f 1-3221 FARWAM The great variety of style In Decatur shoes enables the sportsman to satisfy his longing for the real thing as well as the devotee of the ball room. ' Direct from the maker to wearer. $3.50 to 5.00. ' ) 2 'freitw.leoa J Is fifty-two passenger te the car, against forty-eight in tho "L" cars. The advan ttiKo of tho subwsy car la in their greater width, depth and the comfortable arrange ment of tho seat. Aluminum rooking utensils are being pushed by many of tha big shop In New York. They are brought out In shape as attractive as the finer silver, copper and gold lined cooking vessel used In wealthy households. The stew pans, terrapin dishes, coffee urns and teakettles of aluminum have now such beauty of contour and fin ish that they seem almost more appropriate to the dining room table than to the kit chen. And particularly I thla true of the Individual omelet pans and holders for delicacies that require to be served In tin dish In which they are cooked if their ex cellence Is to be preserved. Half the bat tle In winter-time cookery Is to have things served hot. The new aluminum conveniences provide this advantage for housekeeper who rannot afford ths ex pensive silver utensil. A new thing in the way of apartment house leases has made it appearanoe. It author Is a patriot and a Christian gentle man who take all the measures within his power for the protection of hi tenant. ; A lady connected with the operatlo stag desired a suite of . apartments. . He ac cepted her as a tenant, but Inserted a clause in the lease to the effect that as soon as one of the other tenant recorded a complaint of her vocal gymnastic, she wa to take up her muslo roll and de part. i lacle Sam Strnaar Box. New York Tribune. Uncle Sam's cash balance In the treasury at the end of September touched the high water mark in that repository, being IJIO. 370,699, largely ' loaned out to banks, thus continuing Its activity, but good On call whenever wanted.. So long as Dame Co lumbia Is able to keep the aforesaid uncle out of Wall street hi financial condition promises to continue prosperous, with no need to borrow money for housekeeping, unless a new democratic administration were to come In and make necessary the expedients of the last one. , rOI.HTBD PLEASANTRIES. "There Is no such thing as luck," said the sturdy, self-reliant person. "I can't contradict you," answered the patient sufferer. "Ail I can say I that If there is I haven't seen it. "-.Washington Star. -...',. Fweddy I got an Insulting note' from Rup-glen this mawnlng. He says I'm a dahned fool. . Cholly Nw mind Ruggles. He's one of those deucedly frank fellows, don't you know. Philadelphia Press. "I could die waltslng," remarked the awkward young ' man Just because bo thought that the proper thing to say. "I wish you would," returned the girl, who wa having a difficult time keeping her toes out of his way. Chicago Post. "I asked Titewadd to lend me a five yes terday." "Did he faint?" "No. but I did." "How was that?" "He lent me the five." Cincinnati Trib une. Friend How did you get your first case? Doctor Why, I think the man didn't know it. New York Times. -. , An the musician's cy there wa a gleam of Joy. I"ls it possible," asked one of the by standers, "you can take any pleasure in hearing a girl play 'Hiawatha'? "Yes," he answered .through his set teeth. 'She ' Is murdering It!" Chicago Tribune. Bride (disconsolately) Half my wedding presents are cheap plated things. Mother Never mind, my dear;- no one will suspect it. I have hired two detectives to mako themselves conspicuous watohlng them, Newprk Weekly. . . i, ; (. f-. ri-,, i ,; j "What? You -married!" exclaimed the girl who had just returned from a six months' soiourn at , the summer resorts. "Why, you said one time that you would never be any man's slave." "True," replied the newly made bride, "but what has that got to do with my get ting married?" Chicago New. . THE BIRIAL OF FREE SILVER. ' W. D. Nesblt in Chicago Tribuns. ("I think that free sliver will not be con sidered at the nationul democratic conven tion in 1904." Reported utterances of W. J. Uryan.) Not a speech was heard, not a funeral word, , , As the corse to the ramparts were hur ried; Not even a cheer the grim stillness stirred O'er the grave where free silver was burled, i W burled It darkly no one -know when And nobody looked at the casket. But there U a hint It was bundled again Into the familiar wast basket. No useless coffin inclosed Its breast, ' Nor bier did the mourner fix, But they laid it away to It long, long rest On the platform of Nmeieen-Six. Few and short were the prayer w said. And we spoke not a word of sorrow. But we steadfastly gased on the face of the dead And bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought of the fellow who'd fix the plank On which we should do our campaigning And the golden cross, with a muttering clank, - Lent emphasis to eur complaining. Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, .. . i And press down the thorns en our forehead-Still, you were great, good old Sixteen-!"-One: Those who dispute this are horrid. Now It's at rest, In the peace of the tomb Safe from all quibbling and Jibing; We may but say, through the rifts In ths gloom: That "now Is fc)e time for subscribing." Slowly nd sadly w laid it down And we wept aa we gated upon that form And thought of the beautiful thorny crown That had pierced the Chicago platform. sssaassssssssss. i I! n ti I 1 t i i i I t