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    THE OMAHA DAILY IUX: FKIDAY, NOVEMIlKIt 27, 100..
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Tiie Omaha Daily Bee.
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Publishing Company, being duly "worn,
ays that the actual number of full and
complete coplea of The Dally Morning,
Keening and Sunday Bee printed during
the month of October, 13, wu as follows:
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Net average sales stt,7Ba
GEORGE B. TZSCIIUCK.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before ma this 4iU Uay of October, A. JO.,
1803. M. B. li UNGATE.
It wits a sad and memorable Thanks
giving day 'of Omaha nre-flghters.
President Roosevelt supplied a very
good example by upending Thanksgiving
day with Mrs. Koosevelt.
The nearer General Reyes of Colombia
gets to Washington the more he won
tiers why tho deuve he is going there.
The whole city may well, be thankful
that the flames were not permitted to
reach the-cottonseed oil in the neighbor
ing basement
Governor Pea body of Colorado will re
tire at the end of his term, perfectly
confident that of trouble he got all that
was coming to him.
Mr. Melklejohtt will depart again for
Mexico In, the middle of December.- Mr.
Mercer departed for Minneapolis more
than two weeks ago. .
Experience is the best teacher, even
' if tho lessons taught are most costly.
It is to be hoped that Omaha will profit
by the lesson of its latest fire.
Tho success of its bloodless revolution
chows how thoroughly San Domingo
has mastered tho art of amusing Itself
without really hurting anybody.
Juht as further evidence of Interna
tlonal comity the Rnsslan government Is
about to build it railroad from Siberia
directly through to Peking.
Judging from tho testimony given In
lh Diamond IhmjI room case, Mr. Dunn's
efforts to suppress gambling in Omaha
do not seem to bo altogether impartial
or disinterested.'
Every littlo whllo something occurs to
remind us that courage approximating
heroism is not coullued to battlefields,
and that fidelity to duty is still a char
acteristic of tho American.
Tin empress dowBger promises much
to her gods if they will quiet trouble
some provinces. Unfortunately tho gods
appear as reluctant to accept this par
tlcular woman's pledges ns is mankind.
The gup between the market price of
ciil tin and hogs in the stock yards and
tho market piico of beef and pork at the
butcher shop is widening from day to
day and nobody can explain why or
wherefore.
Under the agreement entered Into be
tween the Chicago Street Railway mag'
nates and their striking operatives the
Chicago Ktrevt Railway force ia- to re
main vu a peace footing for the period
;of one year from Xoveinber 25, 1003.
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To a man up a tree it looks very much
us If the promoters of tho Ktoux City,
Homer &. Southern Railway company,
who propose to connect Sioux City and
Omaha by chi-trlc trolley, are chiefly
iK'iit on securing a valuable right-of-way
through the Wiunehago Indian reserva
tlon from congress with a view to mar
keting tho franchise.'.-'
The parental si-hoot recently ' estab
lished by the Chicago ltourd of Educa
tlon has sent In a requisition for a $J00
chicken coop. It 1 to ! presumed that
the next requisition will bo for an la
cubutor and teachers of chicken culture
will le reckoned among tho specialist
that go to make up the variegated corps
of twcutleth-century educators.
The golden spike In the last lin
of rail on the first transcontinental rail
way, d'tYfli by Inland Stanford, Ma
10, 1800, was a iiillcstono on the high
tay of national progress. The cuiupit
tlon of the cutoff across the tire.it Salt
lake, although of comparatively lebs mo-
h.eiit. accentuates the colotal stride lu
twentieth century railway engineering
that is balked by no ob.staclts whcthi
they be lu the shapo of graiitte-iibbcd
mountains, titanic ctuyons or even great
Inland lakes.
RVSStA'B rvWE.l IS THB OMKX1.
The reports regarding movement on
the part of both Japan and China which
ppear to threaten hostilities with Itti-
la make Interesting recent statement
regarding the Intter's military und naval
power in the Orient. This Is already
formidable and Itussla's preparations for
possible conflict are still going on. Ae-
ordlng to late advices Russia intends to
put into Manchuria WX),0tK) troops In ad-
itlofc to those, she now has there, a
force nearly or quite three times as
strong as the entire active army or
upau. the total strength of which, not
counting reserves, was three years ago
little over .H57.000. Fince then the Jap-
nese army has been somewhat Increased
nd at present numbers probably not
less than 200,000 men, with reserves that
would bring the total war fooling tip to
qliout tVK),000, Estimates of the force
that Russia proposes to have in Man-
hurta place it nt between 400,000 and
000,000. In addition to increasing her
military strength in Manchuria Russia
Is constantly strengthening the positions
that she has occupied in that region.
Itussla's naval power in Asiatic waters
s also somewhat formidable, consisting
at latest accounts of eight battleships,
four heavily armed cruisers and six fast
unarmored cruisers, with a number of
smaller craft of various classes. Japan
Is inferior to the Russian Asiatic fleet
in battleships, having but six first-class
vessels of this type, but .her individual
ships are believed to be somewhat su
perior to those of Russia; "In armored
cruisers Japan outclasses Russia, but
lias no vessels cldsely .corresponding
with the fast Russian cruisers, though
having a larger fleet of swift cruisers of
smaller tonnage, while far ahead in mis
celluneous craft. It thus appears that
t this time the two powers are pretty
evenly matched In military and naval
strength and if China should throw a
large force into Manchuria a very un
comfortable situation for Russia might
bo created. There is not much to be ex
pected, however from the reported Chi
nese movement, China being in no con
dition to carry on extensive military op
erations, having neither money nor a dis
ciplined army. The Chinese government
is really helpless, so far as the opera
tions of Russia in its territory are con
cerned, without foreign backing, and this
China is not likely to get.
What tho facts show is that In the
event of war between Russia and Japan
each is well prepared to strike heavy
blows and to make the conflict very, ac
tive and destructive while it lasts.
WILL VOSTIAVt JK SE3S lOX.
The decision of the leaders of the
bouse of representatives not to adjourn
the extra session unless the senate either
passes or rejects the' Cuban "bill will
doubtless have general public approval.
The senate plan was to bring the special
session to a close And let the Cuban
legislation go over to the regular ses
sion, a -vote to be taken in, the somite
December 10 on the bll passed, by the
house. In Insisting upon remaining in
session the leaders of the house urge
that they are simply emphasizing ' the
purpose for which congress was called
and they are well Justified lu taking this
position.
Although no burin would result from
deferring action until the middle of De
cember, still there is no good reason
why tlje -senate should delay until that
time. The matter Is fully understwsl
and there is no necessity for further
discussing it. If tho. democrats of the
senate desire to discuss the tariff, let
them wait until the regular ei-ssljm,
when they will undoubtedly hare nmplo
opportunity to gratify their desire. Tho
extra session of congress) was called for
the specific purpose of considering leg
islation to make effective the Cuban reci
procity treaty. The people want this
matter disposed of and the house has
performed Its duty. The senate should
act and the house leaders are right lu
determining that unless thero is action
by the senate there will be no adjourn
uient.
THE EDUCATIONAL TtST.
The relntroductlon by Senator Lodge
of his bill providing that no foreigner
above 15 yeurs of age who cannot read
and write shall be permitted to land in
this country promises a renewal of the
Immigration restriction agitation, and It
Is by no means Improbable that some
such measure as that of the Massachu
setts senator will bo .passed by the pres
ent congress. The fact is recalled that
a measure applying the educational test
was vetoed by President Cleveland, who
expressed the opinion that the ability
to read and write "In aud of Itself af
fords, a misleading test of contented In
dustry and supplies unsatisfactory evi
dence of desirable citizenship or a proiMr
uppreheusioii of the benefits of our in
stitutions." He further said that in his
Judgment It is safer to admit 100,000
immigrants who, though unable to read
and write, seek among us only a home
and opportunity Jo work, than to admit
tme.of those unruly agitators and ene
mies of governmental control who can
not ouly read and write, "but delights In
arousiug by Inflammatory speech 'the
illiterate and peacefully lucllued to dis
content find tumult."
'This view is not less wlfce und sound
today than when uttered seven years
ago. It remains true that the educa
tional test affords no proof of physical
or moral worth. ' The fact that a for
clgner, coming here Is ablo to read our
constitution afford no assurance that
he Is not in sympathy with anarchists.
Such person hava "mie to this country
for no other purpose than to preach tho
doctrines of auarcliy. TI.e simplest edu
cational' test, ou-the other hand, might
exclude an honest and industrious mau
who would aid in the development of
our resources aud make a laW'-abldliig
aud useful citizen.
As the Philadelphia Record remarks,
there N a class of most Important work
going on in this land that, native lalsir
will not perform. "If mills aud work
shops fchuuld limit production the idle
employes could not be persuaded to dig
great tunnels, to grade railroads 'and
perform other rudo labor now done by
Industrious immigrants." The statistics
of Immigration show that there Is not
so large n number of Illiterates from
abroad as Is commonly supposed, but
unfortunately many people accept state
ments of the antl-lmmlgratlonlsts with
out investigating the facts. Moreover,
those in authority are constantly labor
ing In behalf of restrictions, as the pres
ent general commissioner of immigra
tion appears to be1 doing. Tbe educa
tional test would keep out some immi
grants, but it would not sift the bad
from the "good. Under Its application
some of the best immigrants might be
excluded and the least desirable admitted.
rue lvssoxs or thi rmt.
The destructive conflagration through
which four gallant firemen lost their
lives and several hundred thousand dol
lars' worth of property was destroyed
teaches a most Impressive lesson. Plrst
and foremost, we are admonished that
Omaha needs more efficient flre-extin-gulshlug
machinery. No time should be
lost by the mayor and council In con
cluding negotiations for a first-class fire
engine and a modernized hose cart. It
goes without saying that the best ma
chinery is in the long run always the
cheapest and the fire apparatus that
has. stood the test of hard usage is the
safest as well as the best.
Another lesson taught by the Thanks
giving day fire is that we must linvo
safer construction and more rigid in
spection ot . worehouses and storage
buildings. Building Inspection should
not begin and end with new buildings.
All the old buildings whose construc
tion Is not known to be fireproof and
safe should be examined and Inspected
and such as are not safe condemned to
be pulled down, or ma.de safe by their
owners where reconstruction Is possible.
Last, but not least, the mayor and
council should lose. no. time In passing
the long-pending ordinance "providing
for the inspection ' of explosives and
their storage within the city limits. The
Imperative need of sucii supervision
was iKjlnted out by The Ree four years
ago, when two firemen lost their lives
by an explosion, that could doubtless
have been prevented by frequent in
spection of the premises where large
quantities of guniowder had been
stored.
The ordinance introduced four years
ago was defeated on account of the
differences that had arisen between the
mayor and council over , the provision
making former Chief Redell chief In
spector lu addition to the duties already
devolving on him. The ordinance more
recently introduced, creating the ottice
of inspector of explosives, was pigeon
holed because it increased the city pay
roll, and more particularly because cer
tain interested parties exerted their in
fluence with the council to prevent what
they formed "the needless interference"
with their business. ,
It was pointed out furthermore that
ample protection Is already provided for
against the storage of low grade pe
troleum and other explosive oils by the
state oil Inspectors, who are presumed
to test all explosive oils stored within
the clly or on the market in retail
houses. As a matter of fact, state oil
inspection has for the most part been
a farce, and at best it does not include
the most dangerous of explosives. State
oil inspectors have, moreover, no ait
thority to compel owners of warehouses
aud storehouses who handle explosives
to limit the quantity stored or to en-
Yorce regulations relative to tho
handling of explosives on the streets
while they aro in transit from one struc
ture to another. ,
While the calamity by which the four
brave fire-fighters lost their lives was
not caused by an explosion, the fact
that a considerable quantity of ex
plosive material was stored In the budd
ing naturally warrants the presumption
that other lives might have been lost If
these materials had been reached by
the fire.
Tho Omaha Real Estate exchange ex
hlbits good horse sense lu declining to
commit itself to Mr. Maxwell's organ
ized irrigation program before it has
fully investigated its scope aud aim.
Omaha and Nebraska are vitally inter
ested in the proposed extension of the
area of cultivable land by irrigation,
but no plan or scheme for the recluma
tlon of arid land should be endorsed
without sufficient proof that its design
Is for the promotion of the general wel
fare rather than for the promotion of
private or conorate Interests.
The Prise Kid.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
At the age of 13 days the Republic of
Panama signed the Isthmian treaty
Panuma Is entitled to a front seat at the
baby show.
Now Post liir Hets.
Indianapolis News.
With Clevelund as the regular democratic
candidate' and Uryan us a third party nom
iuej betting would be ltve'y a to whether
Cleveland or liryan would poll the most
Votes.
Force of Habit.
f Baltimore American.
No person except Roovclt could get the
presidency next year, and no republican la
sufficiently foolhardy to try to. beat him
to It. The democrats, of course, will pre
sent an opposition candidate, but It Ii
nitrely a matter of form.
, Gracious Condescension.
Indianapolis News.
The Northern Securities company an
nounces th it It will obey Us own interpre
tation of the court's decree concerning the
ill guilty t'f Its action In acquiring the stock
of competing railroads. For this concession
to the prejudices of the statutes Mr. J a meg
J. Hill should rre.'lve due credit.
Socialism aad ( heap Money.
Philadelphia Record.
The principal Interest that attaches to
the rrturns of the election In Ohio la the
exile ne they afford that democrats repu
diate socialism and the cheap money delu
sion. ' .Tom Johnson was fbe&ten by tlm
InrseMt plurality ever given agattiht a can
UlJate fur governor In that i ite because
he chose to endorse the Kansas City
platform and because he Invited Bryan to
come into the state and take the stump.
Tralalagr for a Thirst Kaa.
New York Tribune.
Bryan Is not so sura a quitter for the
third run as he thought he wss a while
ago. His visit to England and near pros
pect of seeing Croker seem to have put a
new splice In the main brace of his aspira
tions. Should he run again, lie -would
hare the great polltlcnl advantage of being
able to see the end from the beginning
tha bottom of tho same old ditch, growing
to look more and more like home to him
avery time he tumbles Into it.
Hea-olatlna; Coatiageat Fees.
New Tork Sun.
Senator Hale of Maine has Introduced a
bill In congress declaring void all contracts
heretofore made between claimants before
tho Spanish Claims commission and their
attorneys, and providing that the commis
sion shall fix the allowance of each attor
ney at not more than 15 per cent of the
award made to his client. Mr. Hale wants
to have the attorncy's fee in each case paid
direct from the treasury to him aod tho
awards of the claimants made payable only
to them or their legal heirs. The adoption
of such a system would protect unwary
claimants from dishonest attorneys and
agents and provide that, for a little time at
least, the money disbursed by the govern
ment would be In the hands of the persons
for whom It was intended.
WE KXOW HOW TO DO IT.
American F.nterprlse and Vim DrlTes
Ihe Business Band Wagon.
v Detroit Free Press.
American enterprise has encountered no
serious difficulty In capturing foreign busi
ness by going after it for keeps. Terkes
got the great underground contract In Lon
don In the face of opposing capital and
prejudice. An American contractor got the
enormous Wcstlnghotise contract over there
for the construction of the biggest plant
ot Us kind In the world after English con
tractors had thrown up their hands and
declared It a human Impossibility to do the
work within the time limit fixed by the
corporation. Young Americans were placed
In command In every department of the work
and It was completed before the stipulated
period expired. Our Steel rails, locomo
tives and agricultural Implements have
found a great market abroad, especially In
Russia. American shoes are popular in
London, American watches sell well all
over the continent and American stoves are
In demand wherever stoves are used In
Europe.
Within ,a brief time Spain, through her
young king, who Is a veritable business
plunger, has ordered from this country
gun lathes and electrical equipment, the
outfit for i the largest brick plant ever
erected In the world, and the machinery
for a huge cement plant. All this is the
more notable because we so recently had
occasion to whip Spain, and in doing so
destroyed her navy. We are shipping saw
mill machinery to Sweden1 and now the
Lorain Steel -company la to put In the en
tire electric trolley,, system for the city of
Wolverhampton, Jn. western England, ftir
nfshlng everjthltif'j Ven to American oper
ators.' This represents in itself a stupen
dous aggregate ot business and has added
importance In tttB'fact that It portends
a far more remunerative grasp upon foreign
trade. This nation did not have to sub
sidise ships In order to get the business
specified. Contractors and material men
have no trouble in shipping their goods,
and the profits become a part of our cir
culating medium. -1 When our trade and our
production demand! a larger outlet than is
furnished by Europe and Asia, to say noth
ing of an expanding field in South Africa,
our manufacturers and merchants will de
scend on South America. When they do
they will know how to get the market;
a far easier undertaking than to sell In
Germany and Kngland and Russia and
France and Spain and Sweden and in other
countries what they make respectively for
themselves or coujd buy nearer home. As
contended for In a recent article dealing
with foreign trade, the one problem Is to
get the business. Private enterprise can
be relied on to fufiliah transportation Just
as .fust as there Is a demand for It.
OPPOSITION TO SKWTOK SMOOT.
Case Against Him Sald-lo Have Fnllea
to Ihe Uroand.
Philadelphia. Public Ledger.
The opposition to Senator. Smoot of
Utah fancies Itself to bu a moral move
ment. In point of fact. It is an attack
on the best Interests alike of mortality
and of religion. It la the good fortune
of religion to be guaranteed freedom in
this country. The right to hold what
soever religious opinion his mind and
conHclenco recommend to him is assured
every cltlsen of this land lu the Bill of
Rights. The genius of the nation cannot
allow the prohibition of the holding or
practice of any form of faith, nor can it
tolerate discrimination between cltlsens
on the ground of religious opinion or
practice.
It Is true that if any detail of the prac
tlce of a particular form of religion is
deemed Inimical to public order or common
morality it may not rely upon the const!
tutinnal guaranteo for Immunity. Accord
Ingly, the federal government has found
means to force the abandonment of polyg
amy by Mormons. The admission of Utah
to statehood was made conditional upon
the giving up of a practice so repugnant
to the conscience of tho country and so op
posed to Its social order. But congress
did not dream of covenanting with 'the
disciples of Smith and Young that they
should relinquish their religion childish
as this may seem to those outside the fold
of "letter-Pay Saints." It was no,t sug
gested when Utah was admitted a state
that, aside from the matter of isilygamous
marrluges, there should be any dlscrlm
nation against them in tha couuclls of the
nation.
This Is what the enemies of Senator
Smoot are asking the senate to make. He
declares that he is not a polygamlst, and
no proof Is offered that he is. He affirms
clearly and in the most positive terms his
guiltlessness before tho law of the land
and his loyalty to It. As for religious oaths
alleged to be in contradiction of his al
legiance to the government, he denies ex
plicitly ever having made any; says
positively: "My first allegiance is to my
country."
The case seems perfectly clear. The
opposition to Senator Smoot can attack
him only on the ground thai he Is a
Mormon. Bjit. In a republic like ours,
whose citizens live in the enjoyment of
religious freedom, this does not and It
is a happy fact for every other form of
faith - that It does not constitute a mo
ment's objection to him.
Seuator Smoot can no more be excluded
from the senate op the ground that he
Is a Mormon than other senators could
be because they are Baptists or Presbyter
tans. A Mormon congressman from Utah
was expelled from the House of Represent
stives a few years ago. but not on the
ground of his religion; It was ascertained
that Mr. Roberts was a bigamist. The case
against Mr. Smoot falls to the ground In
the abaence of evidence that he haa been
a party to unlawful' marriages It would
be a deed hateful to the cause of religious
freedom and fatal to It to expel Reed Smoot
from the senate because of his religious
lem s.
BITS OF WASHISOTO 1.1 FK.
Mlaor Scenes and Ineldenta Sketched
Ihe Spot.
Another bunch of trouble has been handed
to the Postofflce department, a branch ot
the government already overstocked with
that annoying article. As Is said of the
oil magnate, "He as has, gets," so with a
department having a surplus on hand. Peo
ple delight in passing up that which Is not
convertible Into cash or utilized In a horse
traJe. Texas hns been somewhat back
ward in contributing to the postofflce pile,
but makes ample amends with a belated
Idyll of Lone Star life. It came In a letter
to Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Brlstow from the sheriff of the county
wherein the postmistress complained of Is
doing business, and reads:
"We don't set up any claim that our
manners are all they should be, but we'd
like to be reasoned with and helped along.
The postmistress here Is a worthy woman,
all right, and there ain't a thing against
her character, but she certainly Is rude
anj hasty. One day lust week the mayor,
being some flushed up and careless, re
fused to remove his hat and bow on asking
for the official mall, whereupon his hat was
shot off and plumb ruined, and he left the
postofflce so swiftly and undignified that it
told against the standing of the town.
"There's another thing we don't think is
fair. The postmistress won't let niggers
and greasers come in the office under anv
consideration. We ain't overfond of nig
gers and greasers ourselves, but it Is sure
discommoding for the leading cltlxens to
have to go to the postofflce personally to
get the mall, Just because this lady don't
like to see anything but a gentleman. W
don't like to appear fault-finding and
plcayunlsh where a lady is concerned, but
this one I'm telling about is aure arbitrary
and abrupt, and we'd like to have her toned
down some."
An Inspector has been ordered to Investi
gate the case and report upon It If after an
interview with tho lady his physical con
dition shall be such as to enable him to
communicate with the authorities at Wash
ington.
The Washington correspondent nf n,
Boston TranscriDt discourses nn th
blaod In the house of representatives in this
Wise. X ne neW hOl MA PnntU 1 .1 mrtt nnlu a
rge representation of new men. but n.mm.
them many young men who are apparently
beginning a political career of consldnrl.i
promise. This general youthfulness i
shown by the number of western states
wnicn are in considerable part repre
sented by native sons. Mr. Francis M.
Eddy, a member of the last congress, was
the first man Minnesota hnl ,.vP
congress who was born within the limits of
mai state.. . This time another r-t th.
representatives is a native Mlnncsotan.
having been born there In ism. of m,.
other representatives, two were born in
Pennsylvania, one each In Ontario, Illinois,
Massachusetts, Sweden, Ohio and Wiscon
sin. One of the senators was born In In
diana and the other In Norway.
t-anrornla for the first tlm h.
representatives born in that state, the old
est of whom is not yet 44, while the young
est IS 31. All the older mon lh. .1..,.
tlon came from the east. on fm ivi,..
sin, two from New York and a fourth from
Scotland. Senator Perk in.
Maine and Senator Bard In Pennsylvania.
Of the two senators and ihru ...
tives from Colorado, which has been a
state since 187H, none was born there. The
tnree Idaho "statesinen" were born lt Illi
nois, Pennsylvania nt inHi.n.
Uvely.
"It U a singular thlna- that in . i,i .
community as Iowa, of the eleven repre
sentatives and two senators but three were
born in that state, and one of them, Mr.
Hedge of Burlington, relates that ho was 1
bor.n in the Territory of Iowa. June 21, 1814
came irom Ohio and JDolllver from
eni Virginia. Hull Mil n..r,i......
also Ohloajis. The four renrnt -
and two senutors of Maine were all born
ui max state. In fact. In mn.t r i, u
states native sons seem to be preferred.
maHsacnusetts senators and ten of tho
...uncen representatives were born In
Massachusetts. Hut , r-PM.,lf.,- .
Nebraska was born In ti.-i ........
Hitchcock of Omaha, and he is but' 44
''" OIU. -ine Kevuiluna .11 i ...
there, and, according in ti,.
- - - - .rimus re
turns, they are among tho very few who
"' ,,0, N"-tu Dakota senator,
were lion, Illinois, and of the South
IJHkota senators one cam frm v. ir ..
and the other from New Hampshlro. Texas
exhibits among the southern states the
' B- evidence of being a new com
munity. Neither of it. sen.,.,.
In the state, and but halt of its representa-
young state of Utah has a
native ,on In the senate In the peraori of
Reed Smoot. None of the representatives
or senators of Wyoming or Washington
were born in the state they now represent.
sUuVew" mUCh f U,e cou,ltr"
"I may be wrong." said the woman with
the broom and pall to a Washington Poat
man, as she began her work in the corri
dor of the Treasury building, "but I fully
believe that some of these cigarette
smokers would strike a match on the
graves of their mothers. Some smokers
here can t get out of the building before
they begin to scratch matches, and they
don't care where the mark is left either,
nor does It give them any concern where
the burned end of the match falls."
Then, with snapping eyes and flushed
cheeks, the really hard-worked employe of
Undo Sum began her work of cleaning up,
and as the writer looked around lie could
see tho "blazed" way on every hand, evi
dence that the match striker had been there
before the caballHti-i hn.un t r , u u .........
.everywhere visible, on the side of the wal,
riiuanu-. wviimie ine marble
building the match-striking gud hutj
biased the way-on letter boxes, lamp
posts, sides of buildings, door Jims, tree
boxes everywhere the eye rested the
brown marks could be seen. Armed with
a cigarette and a match any old place la
good enough to make the necessary frlc'
tion. Even church edifices are not too sa
cred when the hurry-up call is Issued for a
light; in fact, there Is no place too sacroil
nor one too much out of the way for the
match-striking fiend. It is a curious fact,
however, that the habit once so exten
sively and universally Indulged ln-strlklng
a watch by drawing It ucross the gable
end of the pantaloons hus alyut gone Into
disuse. It Is the scldomejt thing tliut a
smoker is seen to get a light In this way.
Just as the house was- about to take a
vote on the Cuban reciprocity b!ll Congress,
mun Hlldebrant of Ohio rose to a queMton
of personal privilege. In answer to a ques
tion from the chair ho said: 'lt concerns
me as an individual and no gentleman who
wishes to keep the membership of thlM body
clean will object." Lead silence followed
and everybody felt sure that some story of
boodle or bribery was about to be sprung.
The Ohio member gravely sent a resolution
up to the clerk, who read In hi usual dreary
monotone: "Resolved, that one addUlunnl
laborer be employed in the bathroom of the
house during the Fiftyelghth congress."
Til ere was a sigh of relief on the rrpubllcau
ride, followed by a laugh all around.
A group of congressmen were talking
presidential poliilcs in a committee room
when one of the member said: "Here is
Haiiua ready to enter upon a new six-year
term March t, but be will never U-glu
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that terra. You remember Garfield, an
other Ohio man, had been elected to a sim
ilar term, but Instead of being sworn in as
senator he took the oath as president. Mark
me, history will repeat Itself." "But
Hanna Is for Roosevelt' was suggested.
"Yes, and Oarfleld was for Sherman," said
the first speaker significantly.
GROWTH OF TIIK FA It M.I.
Rapid Progress of the Agricultural
Population In Wealth.
' New York Tribune. ' '
Remark Is made, In a somewhat complain
ing tone, that, while forty years ago the
farmers owned 56 per cent of the wealth of
this country, now they own only m per
cent. The Idea seems to be that they are
thus unjustly dealt with, - Hnd aro
sacrificed to manufacturing and commer
cial Interests. We cannot see that the
point Is well made. Upon the face of the
cuse, It is natural and inevitable that as a
country of varied Industries grows in wealth
the proportion of wealth represented by
agriculture will decline. That does not
mean that tlie actual amount of such
wealth declines. It means simply that
oth ;r great industries aro being developed.
There was a tlmo when practically all the
wealth of this country was agricultural.
As soon as men started factories and built
ships those enterprises represented a part
of the country's weulth, and so thn per
centage of agricultural wealth declined,
although the uctual amount of agricultural
wealth greatly Increased. .
The question Is not, therefore, what pro
portion of the wealth of the nutlon Is held
by farmers, but rather whether the actual
amount of wealth held by them is lucre-using
at an appropriate ratio. To take l ho
period cf forty years already referred to. It
Is to be observed that in It the population
of the United States has increased by 110
per cent. At thn same time the number of
farms has Increased by iss per cent; the
value of farm property, Including buildings,
has Increased by 100 per cent, und the value
of farm Implements and machinery hus in
creased by 209 per cent. The first com
plete report ,of the total value of farm
products was made In 1870, so we con
reckon the Increase In that value for only
thirty years. In that tiino the lticiea.se
was 142 per cent.
These figures Indicate, therefore, that
agriculture Is making more rapid progress
than Is the populutlon of tho country. In
number of farms, in value of farms. In
value of Implements und machinery and In
value of total products this Is, In propor
tion to Its population,-, a greater f ilming
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country today than it was forty years ago.
In that fact there' should be ample en
couragement for farmers. If other In
dustries have grown still more rapidly,
that Is no ground for complaint by the
farmers. On the Contrary, It would have
been bad for the farmers If these other In
dustries hud not been developed, to make
markets for agricultural produce. If, after
that consideration, farmers still think man
ufacturers liavo an undue advantage over
them, the remedy Is In their own hands.
If they, will make the same use of the
powers of combination and of scientific ap
plication that other Industrialists have
made, they will have no ground for com
plaint of being outstripped.
PKRSOSAI, NOTES.
Philadelphia Is said to be about to spend
$1(10,000 In advertising itself.
Geroulmo, the vencrnble Indian chief. 1ih
embraced Christiuntly ami has Joined the
Dutch 'Reformed church at Fort 8111, Okla.
The New York Horse show receipts show
a falling off In tho collections in tho dress
making trade arc somewhat slacker than a
year ngo.
I.llluokulanl comes back every year to
get that I-'OO.IKjO for ' crown lands seised.
Perhaps a counter claim quite as old could
be put In ag.'ilnst the queen of the canni
bal Islands for missionaries made culinary
use of by her ancestors.
Amos Martin of . Princeton, Pa., Is the
oldest cltl n of the Keystone state. Within
a short time lie will "celebrate his 107th
birthday, lie ' Is a Scotchman by birth
and has lived In western-Pennsylvania for
more than seventy-five years. He Is a
shoemaker by occupation and up to a fe
months ago worked at his trade.
Ex-Senator Turpfo of Indiana, Is nearly 77
years of nge, and although somewhat of
an Invalid, lie loves work. IAst winter he
read Rlackstone entire, notwithstanding ha
had read it many times before. lie Is
fond of the old classics, and '1s always
ready with upj: quotations from his favorite
authors. He considers the lilble the best
Kngliivh classic. "
Squudron Sergeant Thomas O'Keefe lias
Just been honorably discharged from the
Fourth United States cavalry after being
twenty-nine years In the service. The offi
cers aud private of Troop ll presented him
with a watch as a token of their jegard.
Sergeunt O'Keefe has been honorably dis
charged six times, each time as a ser
geunt, but always came "hack to the urm.v
ugaln." This time he means to remain
out.
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