THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY. DECEMBER 1. 100.1.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCt'LATION.
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Oenrge B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
says that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally Morning,
Evening nnd Sunday Bee printed during
the month of November, 19o3, was as fol
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26 ,10,MH
28 .11,1.10
27 .11,020
28 .10,100
29 27.0S.1
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Les unsold and returned copies.... 10,WA
Net total sales tt!tlt,M7:i
Net average sales ao,755
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l 1 M. B. HCNUATE,
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London und Omaha nave put on a
mantle of tlie betiutlfu: on the same
duy.
Kor a trpiitiHP so Jurpoly statistical Mr.
Salsnury's history of (iriuid It aphis in a
remarkably entertaining one.
In Mr. Ignatius Dunn after a retainer
from Tom Dennlson, or Is be jv.st work
lug the papers for free advertising?
For the benefit of a perplexed police
force It may be suggested that the best
thing to do with a tramp Is Just to keep
lilni tramping.
Cock fighting has become altogether
too monotonous In Havana, so the Cu
ban congress prODoses to re-establish
the government lottery.
King Ak-Sur-Ben, hesitates to move
Into the Auditorium, realizing bow
deucedly awkward It seems for a sov
ereign to carry an umbrella.
The present epidemic of matrimony
among Omaha's school teachers suggests
the necessity for either a new kind of
quarantine or a new kind of virus.
The special session of congress is on
the point of fading out Most of the
members bave slipped away quietly
without saying, By your leave, sir.
We shall presently see with which
end of the supreme court commission
the members of the supreme court agree
la their diagnosis of the ailments of the
new revenue law.
This season foot ball has caused nine
teen deaths and driven one person in
sane, avers the Chicugo Tribune. We
accept the death total, but bave our own
Idea as to the number who bave gone in
sane.
The military board of strategy at
Washington has worked out a plan for
transferring the advance guard of regit
lars to the Isthmus of Panama before
the shovel brigade drives Its spades Into
the big ditch.
The Cuban patriots Insist that they
are only imitating George Washington
and the patriots of the American revo
lutionary, war In chartering a lottery
out of the profits of which they expect
to pay off the Cuban army of liberation.
The harvester combine has decided to
lay off 7,500 employes to effect a saving
of $5,000,000. The money so saved will
be used to relieve the destitution of the
starving stockholders with the purchase
of food, clothing and street car tickets.
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To make the puulshment fit the crime
Police Judge Berka might commit that
"false alarm" Joker to ninety days' serv
ice In the department he seeks to annoy
There never was a time In Omaha wh'n
a false alurui of fire seemed iess a Joke.
While the price of cotton has gone up
to high-water mark, the wages of cotton
mill operatives have been cut down
The Interests of the southern planters
M.ud New England factory workers seem
to be growing farther apart rather than
coming together.
If Bryan can bring back from Europe
a new paramount issue, the democrats
who have been pustllng their brains in
trying to concoct a platform on which
all democrats can stand without Jostling
each other Into the unknowable, we
will forgive him.
The Imperialist losue Is a Unit to be
revived in Missouri. Contracts bav
been let by the luiril Transit cum
pany of St. Louis for an equipment o
thirty Imperial automobile busses
which are to traimimrt passengers to
and from the World's fair grounds. I
republic Ilk obit the line ought to
Ixi drawn at Imperial automobiles. ,
rjRKc;t as a rossmiLiir.
The elimination of Mr. Cleveland
from the list of presidential possibilities
nnturully directs .ittention to othtrs
who have been talked of and among
these Judge TarWer of New York is
perhaps as likely as anyone to take a
prominent place in the consideration of
the democratic party. The Brooklyn
Kngle Is urging hlui as now the most
available man to lead the democracy
In next year's campaign and It Is by
no means unlikely that other demo
cratic papers In the east will fall
into
that
thnos
with
line, chiefly for the reason
Judge Parker has several
demonstrated his popularity
the voters of the Empire
state and hns a good record as a Jurist.
The fact, however, that be has mingled
but little In politics will not commend
hi in to the favor of the professional
politicians of his own or other states,
so that the chances of working up a
rnrker lwom do not seem to be very
promising. Referring to him the New
York Tribune remarks that Judge Par
ker's strength Is entirely negative "a
dignified, respected Juilot, who hns
kept out of democratic factional fight,
and at the same time hns had flexible
enough convictions to be at once con
servative and regular."
The friends of the Judge, who think
thnt because he carried New York as
a Judicial candidate he would certainly
do so as a presidential nominee evidently
do not properly consider the dlfferencs
in the conditions applying to the two
positions. A man who has won pres
tige as a Jurist may command the sup
port of voters for that jositloti who
would not think of voting for hltu for
an executive position and particularly
for the presidency of the United States,
for which most men feel that some
training and experience in statesman
ship are essential. Unquestionably
Judge Tarker Is an able Jurist, but tnis
Is not In Itself sulHclent equipment for
the chief executive of the nation, and
such men as Gorman, Olney and a few
others who have bad political experi
ence would appeal much more strongly
to the party than Parker, whose oniy
recommendation Is his record as a Ju
rlst.
At any rate the leading democrats of
New York, so far as now appears, do
not favor Parker, and it seems safe to
say that the efforts of the Brooklyn
Kngle In bis behalf will not be cordially
seconded by the democratic politicians
of the Empire state whose influence Is
essential to the selection of a dclga
tlon from that state to the democratic
national convention next year. Forrnr
Senator II11I Is said not to be friendly
to Tarker and it Is more than probable
that the new Tammany leader, Ed
ward Murphy, will prefer more of a
politician than the Judge as a presi
dential candidate a man more likely
than Parker to regard the demands of
Tammany and care for the Interests of
that political organisation. It is -not an
unreasonable expectation that Tain
many influence will be In favor of
George B. McClellan In the next demo
cratlc national convention.
W do not believe, however, that the
democratic candidate for president next
year will be a New York man. The
factional differences In the democracy
of that state seem to fully warrant this
view, since there seems to be no pros
pect of these differences being settled.
Tfl POSTAL 1XVKSTIOATIUX.
The public is already pretty familiar
with the general facts in connection
with the postal investigation and proba
bly will not take the trouble to look Into
the details as presented in the report
of the fourth assistant postmaster gen
eral, but the public will be very greatly
Interested In what President Roosevelt
has to say in regard to that report. In
this the public will Bee the unmistakable
evidence that the president has taken
the most intense interest in the postal
investigation, baa followed it carefully
at every step, has approved of all that
has been done by the postal authorities
aud fully endorses the action taken In
regard to the officials whom the evl
dence has shown to be culpable.
Perhaps there are very few who will
care to go through all the voluminous
details of the investigation, which cover
several years and present a vast array
of facts, but nobody should fall to care
fully read what the president has to say
regarding the results of the lnvestlga
tlon. If anything were needed to show
beyond question the purpose of the
president to bave the postal scandqls
probed to the bottom and of his no less
earnest determination that evtry man
found to be In any respect connected
with the alleged wrong-doing exposed
and punished, the memorandum upon
the report of the fourth assistant post
master general should be conclusive.
There is no mincing of words In the
president's comment ujhjh the report. It
Is an unqaullfled approval of the Investi
gation and an explicit statement that
those who are Implicated In the alleged
misconduct and corruption shall be held.
so far as possible, to a proper accounta
bl I It y. The president declares that
"every effort must be made to see that
Isjth the delinquent official and the out
aider who sbares bis guilt are punished
to the limit of the law." He says
further that "no crime calls for sterner
reprolwtton than the crime of the cor
ruptionlst In public life, and of the man
who seeks to corrupt him. The bribe
giver and the brllie taker are equally
guilty. Both alike sin against the pri
niiiry law of the state's safety. All
questions of dlffereuce in party policy
sink into InHlguificauce when the people
of this country are brought face to face
with a question like this, which lies at
the 'root of honest and decent govern
incut. On this question, and on all
others like It, we can afford to have no
division among good cttlxens. In the
last resort good laws and good admluls
trstiou alike must rest ujkii the broad
basis of Houmi public opinion. Kelf-
goverunient run-oiuea a force If ,-
restulatlves of the people corrupt other
or are themselves corrupted." In these
utterances the American people will see
renewed assurance of the earnest pur
pose of President Roosevelt to make
and maintain an honest and incorrupti
ble public service.
HAKl THLM tAR.X TH K III VA T.
Local taxation is the burden that lies
heaviest upon the shoulders of Uinaha
property owners. Every dollar drawn
out of the city or county treasury that
docs not represent a dollar honestly
earned Is a dollar filched from the pock
ets of the taxpayers. There Is no more
excuse why the city, county or school
board should keep on their pay rolls men
or women whose services could be dis
pensed with, or whose services do not
represent at least eight hours' work for
a day's wages, than there would be for
voting away money for materials not
furnished, or for materials Inferior In
quality or quantity from the commodi
ties purchased.
A moderate estimate of the amount
squandered by the city, county and
school board upon supernumeraries and
persons who do not render value re
ceived for their pay Is $20,000 per
annum. A rigid application of the prun
ing knife would, we confidently assert,
reduce the puy rolls by f:Xi,0UO a year.
The proper time for making a begin
ning In retrenchment is at the beginning
of the year, and from now until New
Year's will be the proper time for a
careful revision of the lists in each of
the branches of local government, whose
annual expenditure approximates $2,
000,000 per annum, of which $1,000,000
is paid out by the city, $:00,000 by the
county and another $500,000 by the
school board.
In advocating retrenchment The Bee
does not mean the adoption of a policy
of promiscuous wage cutting. Every
person employed in the public service
should receive liberal pay for services
rendered, but It Is Just as indefensible
to pay $2,000 a year to a $1,000 man as
It is to pay $1,000 a year to a man who
can be dispensed with altogether, or who
draws full pay for little or no service.
There are also altogether too many well
paid officials doing their work by proxy.
The Jubilee year, 1004, should set tree
all the barnacles and supernumeraries
that have been foisted upon the public
pay roll either as a reward, for political
activity or because they have a pull with
relatives or friends wtio occupy public
office. The weedlng-out process should
not be confined to one branch of gov
ernment. Overpaid incompetents and
underworked pie biters may be found
in every' department of local govern
ment. It Is not too early to begin the
agitation for a new departure with the
new year.
John L. Webster of Nebraska still re
mains the only eminent republican
booked as candidate for vice president
in the national race of 1004. Speaker
Cannon positively declines to allow his
name to be mentioned In that connec
tion and Governor-Elect Herrlclf will
be chained down to bis post of duty by
a lieutenant governor whom Senator
Ilanna would prefer not to see In the
governor's chair. Other notabilities east
and west would rather not get out from
under cover before the band begins to
play.
From Ogden to Omaha in twenty-four
hours Is a record breaker for the Union
Pacific, but five years hence it will not
be regarded aa a wonderful achieve
ment. There is no valid reason why
passenger trains as well equipped as
the New York Central Twentieth Cen
tury Limited should not make the reg
ular trips between Omaha and Ogden
at a speed of fifty miles an hour, In
cluding stops, as Is now made between
New York and Chicago.
The resolutions adopted by tbe Omaha
Typographical union
efficient Inspection of
demanding more
storehouses and
factories-to prevent fatal accidents due
to faulty construction or overloaded
floors is timely and to the point. The
only omission is a demand for the
municipal regulation of the handling,
storage and transportation of explosives
and tbe inspection of the premises
where such materials are kept.
The lowest estimate of the aggregate
expenditure for the new Jackson street
fire engine house, equipped with com
plete modern apparatus, Is $75,000, and
the salurles of additional firemen will
exceed $15,000 a year. The question
that naturally suggests Itself is, will the
fire Insurance companies reciprocate for
the Increased fire protection and de
creased risks by a corresponding reduc
tion of tbe Insurance rates?
The most profitable industry in this
country Just now Is tbe administrator
ship of the estates of deceased million
aires. The estate of the late Collls I
Iluntlngtou, the Pacific railroad mag
nate, for example, is charged up with
$l,0tl8,407, payable for services of the
three executors who have been charged
with the distribution of tbe Huntington
assets.
In confirming the constitutionality of
Kansas' eight-hour law Justice Harlan
remarks that If it is mischievous the re
sponsibility must rest with the legisla
ture, not the courts. If that Is the worst
the Kansas legislature bus to answer for
It Is considerably above pur.
Tbe Marylaud coal mine owners bav
decreed a reduction of 10 cents a day in
the wages of the miners, beginning with
December 1, but we shall probably
have to watt until next spring before
they will make a corresponding reduc
tion In the price of coal.
Boston t'onarat slates Itself.
Boston Transcript.
Not only has the bottomless alnk In
I'tah been filled in, but trains at last are
running over It, and so well has the work
been done that rot even the most tlmor
oua passenger nerd experience any alnk
Ins: feeling as he rolls over the great pit.
j i ht Impossible in this case, as In so many
other cases, wss overcome primarily In
the laboratories of the Massachusetts In
titule of Technology.
A Shade Too Swift Xovr.
St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Street Railway Journal says we are
Ilk
Fly to be traveling at the rate of V0
les an hour pretty soon. If the rate of
tighter Increases with the speed, the
sent speed will do.
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Advantages of Foot Ball.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Only fourteen football players were killed
on the gridiron during; the season that has
Just ended, whereas twenty people have
been slain by hunters. Advocates of foot
ball should not overlook the strong argu
ment In their favor.
Might)- Rood Pretext.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
With regard to the last contemplated
dvance In anthracite coal the pretext of
year ago Is lacking, since the miners
ave been forced to stand Idle in order to
create the artificial scarcity. But the
fundamental reason Is the same In both
cases. The coal men want the money.
Crooked Work In lllah Places.
Cleveland Leader.
The more the Shipbuilding trust's af
fairs are probed In court the worse they
look. It Is a serious misfortune that nn
Industry which needs all possible public
favor and good will should be connected
n any sense with one of the dirtiest
schemes of "finance" ever known In the
checkered career of American speculation.
Tension Commissioner Ware.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican,
Pension Commissioner Ware will arouse a
feeling of regret among many people If lie
persists In his determination to resign
within the coming year. Doubtless he
nds the pension office anything but a
bower of lilacs and roses; and that It Is
asy to understand that the powerlessness
of a commissioner to Institute reforms In
the bureau, whether In administration or In
the pension system as a whole, must weary
n able and conscientious Incumbent. Mr.
Ware, however, has made a good Impres
sion upon the country. The rout of Evans
did not Involve the complete triumph of
the pension attorneys during the regime
of Ware. It Is to be hoped that he will
stick to Ms post at least to the end of the
present term of the chief executive who
discovered and appointed him.
ALCOHOL, AUD THE DEATH RATES.
What Swltserland la Doing to Check
Drunkenness.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Switzerland Is a country in which very
ttle drunkenness Is to be observed, for
he good and sufficient reason that the
police arrest on the spot every person who
shows the least sign of Intoxication. There
s nevertheless a large amount of secret
drinking, and especially In French Bwltzer-
and absinthe has of late Increased In use
till Ita ravagea are very noticeable.
The government recognizes the drink
problem as a most serious one, and Is doing
all It can to find means for Its control. One
of Its recent investigations concerns the
death rate from alcoholism. Statistics of this
nature are usually Inaccurate, for the
reason that It Is often impossible to find
out Just to what extent a deceased person
has been given to the use of liquors, Rela
tives and even physicians conceal the facts
out of the natural desire tp protect the
dead man's good name. Two years ago
the Swiss government established, however,
ft system under which the facts can be se
cured without " revealing the Identity of
Individual drunkards. Doctors are required
to make full reports, but on blanks that
bear numbers Instead of names. Only by
a circuitous method involving application
to the central government at Berne can
names ever be connected with the reports.
The facts thus. collected show that among
males over 20 years of age the deaths from
delirium tremens average one-half of 1 per
cent. This Is ten times the rate officially
recorded in France by the old and Imper
fect statiatlcal methods.
For males over 70 years of age alcohol Is
given as the principal or concomitant cause
of death In 10 per rant of the cases.
The general death rate directly referable
to acute or chronic alcoholism, without In
eluding hepatlo , cirrhosis or other sub
sidiary conditions, is 8 per cent.
This showing must admittedly be re
garded as an alarming one and as sufficient
Justification for -the most strenuous ef
forts in the cause of temperance. The
worst of It la that there Is no reason to
believe that the Switzerland death rate
would appear exceptionally high If the
real facta for other nations were known.
SHORTENING RAILROAD TIME.
Stitnlflcanre of the Recent Epoch In
Tnlon 1'aclflc Progress.
St Louis Globe-Democrat
The ceremonies at the completion of the
Ogden-Lucln cutoff across the northern end
of Great Salt lake the other day were In
teresting as a spectacle and were Important
as an evidence of the spirit which la bring
ing the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the
United States closer and closer to each
other every year. The road affected is part
of the Harrlman system, and the new track
In the cutoff comprises seventy-two miles
on land and thirty miles over the waters
of the lake. The cost of this work to the
Southern Pacific railway company will be
a little in excess of 14,200,000, hut It will
result In a saving In operating expenses of
about 1500.000 a year and will shorten the
running time between Ogden and the Pa
cific coast by about two hours.
Of course, there was far less of pride,
pomp- and circumstance at the Southern
Pacific ceremonies a few days ago than
there was when the rails of the Union
Pacific and the Central Pacific met In
1869 at Promontory Point, very near
where the recent affair took place. Kor
waa there anything like the popular In
terest manifested throughout the country
that there was at the completion of the
Northern Pacific in 1S83. At the 18K$ cere
monies Iceland Stanford and Thomas Du-
rant held the center of the world's stage.
lfonry VUlard was the biggest figure In the
universe on the later occasion. K. H. liar-
rlman the other day waa a personage of
less colossal proportions. But Harrlman's
work represents a part of the great scheme,
In operation on all the transcontinental
lines, which tunnels mountains Instead of
crossing them, fill up or bridges lakes,
trestles swamps and shortens the running
time between the four corners of the
country.
Lewis and Clark, a century ago, were a
year and a half in traveling from St. Louts
and the mouth of the Miesjurl to the mouth
of the Columbia. By stages the time from
the Missouri to the Pacific waa shortened
to about three weeks by 1MX. The first of
the transcontinental railway lines cut
down the time to seven days from the
mouth of the Hudson to the Golden Gate.
Today the distance ran be made In abou
four days. How Wyeth, the Les, Marcu
Whitman and the rest of the pioneers of
Oregon, who were three months In
crossing from Independence, Mo., to the
lower end of the Columbia valley, would
have marveled at the speed at which the
Journey Is made In these days! And the
frequent cut-offs In distance and time
which are being made, like that by Hart
man the ether day, show that a speed will
yet b attained which is far grsater than
any dreamed of at present.
nOISKS I THE JtHML
Trend of I arrrnt Kvents t.lenned from
Army and Navy Realstrr.
The vacancies In the army staff corrs at
present Include one In the Inspector gen
eral's department, one In the Judge advo
cate general's department, one In the pay
department, the usual seven In the corps
of engineers, the enduring seventeen In
thj ordnance department, two In the slgnnl
corps and nineteen In the medical depart
ment. Those In the last named depart
ment, of course, can not be filled save
after examination of candidates and the
next examination will not be held until
May. The vacancies In the slgnnl corps
may be filled by an arbitrary detail of
officers who are considered available for
that duty, although the ten officers re
cently designated, with one exception, had
no special experience or qualification for
the duty. They are able officers, however,
who will do their duty as they find It.
This, however, does not relieve the situa
tion In the signal corps where It is de-
Ired by the chief signal officer there shall
be a permanent personnel. Of the ten
officers recently detailed two are sick In
the hospital, so that that branch of the
taff Is four short In Its commissioned
personnel. The vacancy in the Judge advo
cate general's department is that caused
by the retirement of Colonel Edward Hun
ter. There ar aome fifty candidates from
the army to which Judge Advocate General
Davla is In favor of limiting the selection.
The quartermaster general's office Is re
ining the specifications relatlna to ravnlrv
and artillery horses, draft animals and
mules. The specifications under which the
government has been purchasing these ani
ma
ls are very old and It Is deemed nrtvU.
a
ble that the provisions shall be brought
up to date.
The War department Is In receipt of a
report of the Army bonrd detailed to ln-
estlgate the claims arising from the al
leged damages wrought by our troop on
he agriculture of the country In and nenr
tho maneuvering ground In Kentucky and
Kansas. It Is understood that the claims
filed were far In excess of the amounts
wh'.ch are likely to be finally awarded. At
West Point the damages estimated by the
people who are Interested In the calculation
amount to 10,ono and It is possible that half
of this sum will bo reported upon as con
stituting a reasonable payment, although
It would not be surprising if the board cut
the claims still more and reported a sum
of not more than. $3,000 as covering the le
gitimate charges. One of the farmers In
the neighborhood was heard to remark
that for every apple which was tHken from
his orchards he proposed to nsk the gov
ernment to reimburse htm at the rate of tl
for each apple for the depredation. This
seemed to have been the percentage of
estimated loss sustained by cornfields and
fruit trees, but, of course, any such ri
diculous valuation is promptly rejected by
the authorities.
Announcement la made from tbe War de-
pertinent that no additional designations
will be made of candidates from civil life
destined to be examined for appointment
as second lieutenant In the army. The list
of candidates, thirty in number, published
n these columns last week, constitutes.
therefore, the only names which are likely
to be considered by the examining board in
filling the fifteen vacancies which existed
on July 1 and which are considered availa
ble for filling from that source. It Is pos
sible that influence will be Introduced In
behalf of some of the other candidates
whose names are on file In the adjutant
general's office, but as the matter now
stands the lift as published Is supposed to
be final; at least. If there Is any virtue
In official announcement such exclnslveness
attaches to the published list. The namea
on that list Included several relatives of
service people: H. G. Sharpe Is the son
of Major A. C. Sharpe, IT. 8. A.; E. Z.
Steever Is the son of Major E. Z. Stoever,
U. S. A.; Frederic Thies Is the son of the
late Lieutenant Frederic Thies, Third in
fantry, who died In 1888; William H. Bucker
is the son of General Louis H. Rucker, U.
S. A., retired; David H. Scott Is the son
of Major H. L. Scott, Fourteenth cavalry,
who was wounded In. the recent attack on
the Moros under General Wood; Charles A.
Dravo is the son of Colonel E. E. Dravo of
the subsistence department, on duty at
Governor's Island; Hornshy Evans Is the
son of Major R. K. Evans of the Infantry,
who is adjutant general of the Department
of the Columbia; Richard La Garde la the
son of Major L. A. La Garde of the med
ical department; Walton Goodwin Is the
son of Captain Walton Geodwln, U. S. K,
retired, and Sidney L. Ward well Is a grand
nephew of General Chaffee.
The general staff 6f the army has had
under consideration certain changes In re
gard to army bands, some of which were
suggested by band members in letters
filed at the War department, and a report
embodying the conclusions reached has
been made up. It had been proposed tha
aome arrangement be made whereby mu
sical compositions by members of army
bands might be submitted to some author
ity competent to pass upon them, end
that the merltorloua ones be printed at
publlo expenne at the government printing
office. The general staff recommends tna'.
no action ha taken at present In regard
to this suggestion, and remark Is made
In the report that private concerns are al
ways ready to undertake tho puor.oitlon
of musical compositions of value. Recom
mendation is also made that no one be On
tailed or appointed for duty as chief bands
man at army headquarters; that chief mu
slctans be not commissioned, but that they
retain their present rank; and that the
position of chief trumpeter In cavalry and
artillery bands be abolished. Recommenda
tlon was further made that the strength
of the banda be Increased from twenty
eight to thirty-five, by providing fifteen
privates instead of eight, but this
was not favored by Major General
Chaffee and waa accordingly negatived. The
general staff did not favor an Increase of
pay of all members of the bands, but ad
vised that the pay of certain members be
Increased. As result of the consideration of
the matter of bands by the general staff
a bill has been drafted and submitted to
the secretary of war for Introduction In
congress. The bill provides that the bands
of the engineers, cavalry, artillery and In
fantry shall be constituted as follows with
the rates of pay as Indicated: One chief
musician, at tS per month; one principal
musician, at $36; one drum major, with
rank, pay and allowances of a first ser
geant of infantry; two sergeants, at t-'A
and allowances fixed by law; four corporals
at $-5 and allowances fixed by law; one
cook, with pay and allowances fixed by
law: ten privates, first class, at $?0 and
allowances fixed by law, and eight privates.
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second class, at $17 .and allowances fixed
by law; total, IS members. The monthly
pay of the band as provided by this bill
will be $i0. If the suggestion had been
adopted to increase the size of the band
to thirty-five, the monthly pay would have
been $771. The present yearly pay of the
fifty-six bands In service is $320,550, and by
the proposed bill $136,800.
PISIIKS THK TRIIPTRR ASIDK.
New York Times (Ind. dom.): We are
sorry that ho (Cleveland) refuses.
Kansas City Journal (rep.): Perhaps Mr.
Cleveland put a quietus on his boom In
order that Colonel Bryan might not feel
any necessity for hurrying home.
Detroit Free Press (dem.): Mr. Cleveland
has amply vindicated the respect In which
he Is held by the American people as the
foremost private citizen in the United
States.
Chicago Post (rep.): Mr. Cleveland, It la
hardly necessary to state, gives no reasons
for the position he has taken. Some will
say that he foresees and anticipates dem
ocratic defeat, and does not care to lead
foredoomed campaign. Such conjecture
Is as idle as It is easy. It Is the fact of
Mr. Cleveland's absolute and final with
drawal of his name that Interests every
politician and every thoughtful citizen.
The democratic situation is hardly simpli
fied thereby.
Indianapolis News (ind.): People will
think even more of him for refusing to al
low hl. friends to enter Into a struggle for
the nomination. He has had all the politi
cal honors which he can possibly covet, and
in his retirement he knows that he has
the friendship snd regard of his fellow- cit
izens without distinction of party. He Is
the first citizen of the republic, nd he has
shown that, even out of office and with
no expectation or desire of ever again oc
cupying official position, his Influence In
politics is more weighty and potent than
that of many men active In politics who
are supposed to possess great Influence,
New York Tribune (rep): All that the
presidency has to give Mr. Cleveland has
had. To a' man past middle life, happily
situated In dignified retirement, after hav
ing held twice the most exalted station, a
new plunge Into the turmoil of active po
litical leadership can have no attractions.
Nothing but a national crista could make
the sacrifice seem necessary, and there is
no national crisis. The country has got on
happily In spite of dlsreputed democracy,
and, while a strong and respectable oppo
sition party is highly desirable, Its crea
tion Is hardly the duty of Mr. Cleveland.
He has a right to be proud of the manifes
tations of confidence which the talk of
his possible candidacy has evoked, and to
rest on the work that he has already done.
PERSONAL NOTES.
It is announced that the czarina is deaf
In one ear. Japan Is beginning to think the
czar is deaf In both.
General Manning has defeated the der
vishes In Somallland and captured 1500
goats. He may find It's a serious business
to "kid" the Mad Mullah.
The University of Wales has conferred
the honorary degree of Doctor of Science
upon Lord Kelvin in consideration of his
eminent service to science.
John Dwlght, the pioneer manufacturer
of bicarbonate of soda In this country, has
Just died In New York. He founded the
Dwlght school at Erwln, Tenn., for moun
tain whites of that state.
Commander Peary, the arctic explorer,
was asked recently how he accounted for
the enduring enthusiasm for pole-chasing.
"Because," he remarked sententiously, "It
Is full cf the pleasures of anticipation un
mavred by the disappointments of realisa
tion." i
Prof. Theodor Mommsen, the great Ger
man historian and philosopher who died
recently, was remarkably absent-minded.
It is said to be a fact that he met one
of his children weeping in the street and
topped to console the little one without
in the least recognizing It as his own. On
another occasion a friend met him In the
Linden walking with one foot In the gutter
and the other on the sidewalk. The friend
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The latest thing In Germany Is the new
voice, modeled alter that of Kmpernr Wil
liam, which Is produced by expelling the
air againat the vocal chords so that there
shall be a laryngeal counter-pressure pro
dured by a rebound from the resonntlng
cavities. Simple, Isn't It?
Mark Twain long ago arrived st the con
clusion that It Is a very serious thing to
be a professional humorist. Recently a so
ciety youth of the "Wlllle-off-the-yacht"
sort was introduced to the author. "Aw. I
sny, Mr. Clemens, I think It must be aw
fully easy to be funny, don't you know."
"it Is, for you unless you try to be,"
grimly replied the man who has made mil
lions lough.
LAtOHIKO LIKES.
"Pome men." said Uncle Eben, "manages
to be mos' as comf'abie as a man wlf a
good conscience by not havln' any at all."
"Don't you sometimes feel that you owe
your country more than you can ever
repay?"
' Why should I worry about that," asld
Senator Sorghum. "My country Isn't send
ing any collectors around." Washington
Star.
'It is usual,"
ssld the landlady, with
great delicacy, "for my lodgers to par as
they go."
"Oh, that's all right." replied the boarder,
affahjy, "I'm not going for a long time."
Philadelphia Ledger.
"Why is his daughter so Interested In
family trees?"
"He's an ex-lumberman, you know."
Detroit Free Press.
"I wish I were about three alzes smaller,"
elrhed the tall, atately girl.
"Why?"
"Well, I notice that the petite damsel Is
the popular one with the men when It
comes to teaching her to skate." Chicago
Post.
I found the motorman an Intelligent and
courteous fellow.
"Would you like to drive a car at the
rate of a hundred miles an hour?" I asked.
"Not unless I were passing people who
were signalling me to stop," he replied.
New York Sun.
Mtss Marv Mallnda McVeagh,
Who still had a sweet, girlish weagh,
Wept rivers when she
(At fifty and three)
Found out that they called her passeagM
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
A TALE WITH A MURAL.
B urges Johnson In Harper's Magazine.
'Twas a gloomy glads 'mid the lowering
shade
Of a forest dank and dark;
And every decent creature slept,
For the gray of dawn had scarcely crept
O'er the morning sky. But hark
Amid the silence there may be heard
The drowsy chirp of the Early Bird.
Lo, a twig that lies beneath his eyes
Of a sudden appears to squirm!
And there comes from under his very feet
A faint fine sound that I can't repeat
Trie voice of the Early Worm!
And the glade Is stiller than still can be.
At thought of the coming tragedy.
"It Is up to me," sobbed the worm, "to
flee
Were I not such a sleepy thing."
But the bird was wobbly on his feet
"I'm far too drowsy," he sighed, "t eat,"
And his head fell under his wing.
And sweetly mingled, there soon were
heard
The snores of the worm and the early bird.
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