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G THE OMAHA' DAILY REE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, ir03. Tim Omaha Daily Bee. K. ROSEVVATEIt, editor. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pally He (without Pundsy). On Year.. 14. 00 llly iiee and Sunday. Uni Year 00 Illustrated Hee, One Year 00 Punday Bee, One Year -00 RAtilf-rfav I4-- On VMf 1.60 Taentieth Century Farmer, On Year.. l.OOj DELIVERED BY CAifKItort. Dally Bp (without Sunday), per copy.... So Dally Bee fwltiioui. Sunday, per wee... Dally Bee (Including- Sunday), per wee17o Sunday Bee, per copy 60 Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week 60 Evening Be (Including Sunday), per week 10o Complaint "of 'irrVgWlarittes In delivery should he addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha Th Be Building. South Omnha-Clty Hall Building, Twen Bfth and M Street. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street. ( h lea go 140 Unity Building. New York S7 Park Row Building. Washington D01 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to new and edi torial matter should he addressed: Omahr, Xiee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal ord payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamp accepted In payment of mall account, personal check, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stat of Nebraska, DOugla County, ! George B. Trschuck, secretary of Th Be Publishing Company, being duly sworn, say that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally Morning, Evening nnd Sunday Be printed during the month of November, 1903, Wa as fol lows; 1 90,0x0 2sea SO04O 3 so,ooo 4 87,400 80,030 41.10O 7 81,7BO I. 1, se.woo . so.iao 10.. 80,200 II. , KO.OOO 12 20,040 U 40,055 M 20.8 lO U. ....ifo.oao 1 .20.T40 IT.... 18.... .... .... 21.... 22.... 13.... r.0,160 ....2O.04O ,....80,2.10 ,....4O,0SB ,....30,080 ST.ITO 30,0.10 24 30,120 26 80,000 26 31,130 27 31,020 28 80,100 it.. .. ...87,023 ... 80,300 . .932,03.1 ' Total Lee unsold and returned copies. Net total sales ,l2a,67: r.'et average sales 80,706 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 30th day of November, A. I). M.' B. HUNOATE. (Seal.) Notary Public. The Nebraska state game warden in tends to do ft little gunning himself. President Roosevelt as usual, hews to the line, let the chips fall where they may. A foreign court without a scandal now nd then might hare difficulty in ex cusing Its own existence. At last Omaha has an official paper and the blockade of city ordinances nd paving contracts is raised. When It comes to lassoing Nebraska steers Governor Mickey does not take back seat with his bullfighting prede cessor. 1 The Unemployed Men's union, Just or ganised in 8t Louis, affords fine oppor tunity for Tom Johnson to begin alt over again. .......... If anybody has any more brickbats and black balls to throw at General Wood, ha will have ample time and op portunlty for that kind of sport 'Dowle gives his resources at $18,845, 200 and his liabilities as $4,508,300. We would not question his veracity, but we do wonder If he hasn't forgotten some thing. The new Republic of Panama has been recognized by so many nations that there will be no chance for Colom bia to submit its claims of sovereignty to arbitration. Presidential messages are usually heavily loaded and about as Indigestible as cannon ball soup, but President Roosevelt knows bow to put spice into the soup tureen.' With the committees of both houses all organized and the machinery of leg Islatlon fairly lubricated congress can do a great deal of work before the boll day recess if it wants to. Attorney General Knox asks for a drastic new law that shall discourage more naturalisation frauds. Very well. but In the meantime Jet the old one be used tor all there Is in it The recent government report show ing too little cotton for current needs, nd no surplus upon which to draw, suggests the compensating possibility of silk umbrellas that shall really be Ilk. to Louisiana Purchase exposition receives another send-off In the presl tJnfa message. This Is virtually say tog to , the . St Louis expo managers. "It you don't see what you want lust ask for if Tha subatanc of President Roose velt's reply to the request of the West ern Federation of Miners is that Uncle . Cam does not Interfere in neighborhood . quarrels until they cease to be neigh borhood affairs. It is quite safe to predict that should the Lincoln Post be made distinctly and aggressively an anti-Bryan daily, the Commoner will enlarge its proportions to accommodate a refutation depart ment about the size of the present pub lication. The soiled linen of the adjutant gen eral's office Is to be aired before the federal grand jury and it is to be hoped that personal malice and political spite will be passed through the clothes wringer before the military laundry is bung on the clothes line. Bouxn umau nnsnces are holding out well, we are told. 80 long as South Omaha can run up big overlaps and nave mem convenea into Donas South Omaha finances will bold out well, but day of reckoning is sure to come, when the burden created by those involun tary mortgages will be too burdensome iff a rntxiDtxra mkssaok. The third annual message of Presi dent Roosevelt in a thoroughly practi cal document which every citizen can read with advantages to his knowledge of the material and political conditions of the nation. The president has pur sued the course with which he started out in his first message of giving the country his views In regard to existing conditions and omitting the elaborate statistics of the several deportments of the government It is not to be doubted that this plan of discussing public ques tions by the chief executive of the na tion is the proper one and meets with the popular approval. What the people want to know of their president is his opinion in regard to the questions in which the" people are especially con cerned and not a lot of statistical in formation ns to which they have gen erally very little interest. This is what President Roosevelt evi dently had in mtrld in writing his an nua! message and the result Is that every citizen will find It a state paper not r sentence of which is unnecessary or which he would desire to omit From beginning to end the message possesses an interest and makes an appeal to the thought of the American people which all of them should regard. It Is not too much to say that this state paper takes rank among the most powerful and Im portant executive documents that have ever been issued, especially with re gard to what it says in respect to our domestic interests. It will be seen for one thing to bo magnificently favor able to the principle of protection to American Industries and American la bor. On this proposition there is no doubt as to the position of President Roosevelt The ve.y first sentence of the message is pregnant with signifi cance. "With a nation ns with a man the most important things are those of the "household." While he refers par ticularly to what has been done for the control of corporations, the remark ap plies equally to the policy of the re publican party, with which the presi dent is in full accord, in respect to the upholding of American industries and American labor. Not the least important part of the message la that relating to capital and labor, In regard to which the views of the president conceived without preju dice and expressed with absolute fair ness, ought to receive the most thought ful consideration of those who are in terested. No fair-minded man con have doubt respecting the absolute Impar tiality of President Roosevelt respecting the relations of capital and labor. lie has demonstrated unmistakably his de sire to Justly conserve the interests and welfare of both and in what he says in his message there is renewed evidence of his earnest wish to do whatever he can to Improve the relations between tho great forces upon which the prog ress and prosperity of the nRtlon de- pond. No man sees more clearly than President Roosevelt that the necessity to national progress is Industrie peace and he proposes to do whatever he can to promote that condition. What he says in regard to this should be read by every citizen. The message gives extended atten tlon to the subject of frauds in the pub lic service and it is safe to say that the views expressed by the president in this regard will receive universal en dorsement Whatever difference of opin ion may exist as to the general opinions of President Roosevelt it is safe to say that no one will question his ab solute desire for an honest and Incor ruptible public service. It is impossible to conceive of Mr. Roosevelt excusing or condoning anyone who should be charged with fraud or corruption in the public service, and what he has to aay in respect to this will be accepted by the country with absolute conn dence. Perhaps the most interesting portion of the message and certainly the part which will be subjected to the great est criticism. Is that relating to the cre ation of the new republic of Panama and its recognition by our government This occupies a large part of the mes sage and the discussion of it is thor ough and comprehensive. The prescnta tlon of the matter by the president seems to us to be so absolutely sound and conclusive, as a defense of the ac tion of the government of the United States, that we cannot conceive how anyone can have a reasonable doubt of the complete Justification of our course in the matter. No fair-minded man who reads the facts as presented by' the president can have any doubt that the course taken by our government was absolutely Justified by the clrcuin stances and defensible upon every prin ciple of international law and Justice lAa portion of the president's message ought to command and undoubtedly will command the most careful and thoughtful public attention, because it involves a question of the very highest Importance to the American people, upon which the senate of the United States has yet to render its verdict There are other matters in the mes sage which merit the careful consldera tlon of the American people, all of which receive from the president in telligent and careful attention, and in regard to which we shall hereafter have something to say. The message is thoroughly practical and admirable state paper in all respects and should be carefully read by all who wish to be well informed upon public affairs. It may be remarked that President Roosevelt has adhered to the plan of his first message in excluding the statis tics of the various departments a plan which has received general public ap proval. Senator Lodge has reintroduced i his bill to bar all immigrants above the age of 15 years who cannot read some lan guage. If the senator would apply his educational test to naturalized foreign ers who want to vote there would be nq objection. The demand of the hour Is a radical revision of the laws con ferring c1Uzennb.lp and the right of suf frage upon aliens. The immigration laws are already sufficiently drastic if Impartially and fearlessly enforced. XOT BAAKMO OA MOUlSSHtXr. Grave charges have been preferred against The Bee by a Fremont con temporary of its alleged hostility to the electric power cannl. The indictment goes so far as to charge that The Bee has never had any encouraging words for the great project "tlfut would mean much for Omaha and nil eastern Nebraska." This Is tantamount to the charge that The Bee, out of pure cussedness, is working against its own interests and willing to sacrifice its future Just to spite somebody. The Bee has Just ns large an inter est In the prosperity and future growth of Omaha and Nebraska as any other individual or concern in tho state, and, what Is more, everybody knows that The Bee has never yet knowingly or wittingly sought' to defeat any project that Would materially benefit Omaha. It never, however, has believed that Omaha can be built up by building air castles or banking on streaks of moon shine. In the matter of the power canal it has notably been foremost in its ad vocacy when the project was first mooted, and it is a matter of notoriety that It urged the mayor and council to grant conduit privileges to the electric light company because, and only be cause, the assurance had been given that the passage of the ordinance was all that was needed to Insure the con struction of the power canal. When The Bee discovered that It had been confldenced it naturally began to doubt the sincerity of the promoters, and this doubt has been strengthened by the periodic blasts of hot air from New York, Omaha and Fremont A few months ago It was announced with a yrnnd flourish of trumpets that company with ample means, and backed by the Armours, had been or ganized and would proceed with the Work of construction at an early day. Four weeks ago Mr. J. Ogden Armour assured the editor of The Bee that he had never discussed the scheme beyond the general proposition to patronize it if cheaper power can be had than is now procurable by the use of steam. An interview with Mr. Halsey, the New York banker who was expected to financier the project, elicited the in formation that It had not reached the stage where capitalists could be induced to venture into an investment of two or three million dollars, and under the existing conditions of the money market negotiations for raising the necessary capital would have to be deferred. With this knowledge in lta possession The Bee has not been willing to stimu late false hopes by deceptive and un reliable reports concerning the prospects of the canal project Whenever tangible proof is afforded that its promoters have met with success in ' raising the necessary capital The Bee will cheer fully exert its influence, if any is needed, to expedite the enterprise. President Roosevelt' appointment of a special commission of qualified experts to examine the public land laws and Investi gate the fraud perpetrated under them 1 another evidence of his intention to do what he can to remedy abuse and expos evil-doers. Th trouble In this case grow largely out of the loose land law. Con gress should revise them, but so far tho interested In preventing revision have met with success. Philadelphia Press. The trouble in this case is not with the law, but' with the men who are expected to execute the law. The re vision of the land laws will not keep land grabbers from appropriating the public domain through fraudulent home stead entries so long as venal public officers can be found to assist them in perpetrating the frauds and crooked prosecuting attorneys manipulate fed eral grand Juries to prevent their in dlctment What is wanted for the pro tection of the public domain is not new law, but better enforcement of the laws we already have on the statute books. In Louisiana, for example, the federal grand Jury baa brought in 220 indict ments for stealing public lands by fraud ulent entries. While fraudulent tres passes upon the public domain are Just as frequent and Just as flagrant in Nebraska, there haa been practically no attempt made to vindicate 'the law. The cruise of W. K. Vanderbilt Jr., over the Chicago street trolley lines is a notable event Young Vanderbilt made hla voyage on board the private trolley car "Sunbeam," which was pro visioned with six pint bottles of mineral water and eighteen ham sandwiches. With such a modus Vivendi Vanderbilt had no difficulty in taking a very sober view of the Chicago traction lines. Secretary Root's proposition for the construction of a military railroad in the Philippines is worthy of serious con sideratlon. Uncle Sara operated several hundred miles of military railroad dur ing the civil war and there la no good reason why a military railroad could not be operated successfully and to advan- tage In the Philippines. Captain Pershing enjoys the high dis tinction of being complimented in Presl dent Roosevelt's message, but fine words butter no parsnips. What Cap tain Pershing wants is promotion to tho rank to which he is entitled by the force of achievement without the aid or consent of any army officers of higher rank. Ta Csss aad tb Care. Milwaukee Bentinel. Dr. E. Ben Andrews opines that th moral prospect of th country are bad. Dr. Andrew should tak on pellet every night be for bedtime until th feeling I relieved. Baadlar Bill IfHipr." Philadelphia Record (data.) Perhaps "th Bounding Springer" could not b placed in the him rank a th great democratic peakr of hi time (Krr, Randall a-iil Carlisle), but h would hay stood head and shoulder above th men who appeared on the democratlo aid of the bouse during th Bryan era. an Political Kaaerals. Provtdnnc . Journal. Somehow a considerable portion of the general public doe not seem to be over confident that Boss Piatt know that he has been deposed. On th other hand, there I not yet entire forgetfulness that not long ago he announced his expectation of living to attend several political fu neral. I'aele Joe I , Loaded. Louisville Courier-Journal. Th Insolent lobbyist who tried to relieve Speaker Cannon of his duties in forming one of th house committee and, falling. Insulted the speaker by charging him with packing tha committee, was summarily fired from tha room by th old gentleman. No one should ever mistake Unci Joe for an unloaded Cannon. light Tesnble la Necessaries. Boston Transcript. Apparently the price of th necessities of Ufa are coming down to accord with tha general falling oft in Incomes. Radium, for instance, which a few day ago was selling at $1,000,000, ha now been marked down to $900,000 a pound, and may go lower yet, if th Tala professor who ar trying to ex tract it from th Boll of th Nutmeg stats meet with success. On HI Good Behavior. ' Baltimore American. Mr. Bryan I behaving beautifully in England, and is, apparently, forgetting himself entirely so far a his grievance are concerned. lie seem not to car even If tha people of Great Britain should couple his enthuslastlo praise of th people of his own country with th fact that those people with great unanimity threw Mr. Bryan down on two occasions. Great Hen a They Are. New York Sun. The story that Bismarck was dropped be cause he threatened to throw an inkpot at his august master Is so good that It ought to be true. One likes a great man all the more when on find that he Is human. Ilka those of us who are not great. Many per son never knew anything about th tru Oeorg Washington until they found out that he one kicked a house painter out of his front door for making too free with a housemaid. Carlyle said that he would rather read a good description of George standing before the fir with his hands under his coat tails than the best ac count of any battle that was ever printed. FLOWERS OF" FAKC1 FROM BENCH, Missouri Jadgre Gild the Dry Rot of Judicial Verbiage. New York Sun. The supreme court of Missouri ha been stern to editors that have dared to criticise it; but there Is at least on tender and poet ical soul on it, A St. Louis man was fined In a police court for permitting weeds to grow on a lot owned by him. Ha appealed to the state supreme court to test the valid ity of the city ordinance under which he had been fined. He also set up th defense that one-third of the so-called weeds were sunflowers, an ornament to the city. The court upheld the ordinance. Judge W. C. Marshall, who wrote th opinion, wove into it these flowers of fancy: ' "With truly rural Instinct and with a commendable and lively recollection of hi boyhood days and testes, .the defendant eloquently objects to the sufficiency of th evidence to convict him of wrongdoing, because, he says, the evidence shows that one-third " of th "weens 'Were sunflowers. th emblematic flow,w,,pf our sister state, Kansas, th queen of our mother' garden, the flower that has been Imortalized by Moore In the following line:' " The heart that truly love never forgets, But as truly love on to the close. Aa th sunflower turns to her god when n set The same look that sh turned when, he rose.' " Apparently the defendant would have been protected by the court If he had cov ered the whole lot with sunflower. Judge Marchall held that If "the city wa offended against the poetic, the aesthetic or th rus tlo taste of tho defendant, or ha blurred In ever tha slightest degree the memory of hi happy boyhood days, then the court should closely scrutinise the act of th city and protect the right of the defendant. Evidently the defendant should have shown that a field two-thirds weeds and one-third sunflowers were esasentlai to th proper en joyment of his poetic, aeathetle and rustic tastes and to keep unblurred the memory of hi happy boyhood. MR. BRYA1' TRIUMPH. Trlbaae of the Plata People Doe a Few Tirai Abroad. New York Sun. Th Hon. William Jennings Bryan I now enlarging his experience and collecting material for hi futur work a a journal 1st, publicist, orator and politician, a work which he ha vowed to stick to for the rest of his life. Th Hon.-Joseph Hodges Choat ha entertained hlra graciously, chaffed him only mildly and given him ex ceptional opportunities of meeting th no bility and gentry. He ha been received with an unusual warmth of welcome and seems to have won what It 1 only superflcally Impolite to him to call golden opinion. H ha unction, everlasting readiness, a good temper, seldom ruffled sav by th thought of Grover Cleveland and th curs of gold. HI exuberance, fluency and Innocent delight in himself ting pleasantly the English reserve. There Is something In him of the undeveloped Garrlck, of Whltefleld turned politician. Finally, there attaches to him the Interest It 1 impossible not to feel in a man who twice hypnotised and eloped with a great political party. Bom hasty and Inaccurate observers at tribute part of his present social success In a city notorious for putting the dollar above th man to th sympathy naturally felt for a twice defeated candidate for president. The theory 1 absurd. To de feat ' Mr. Bryan owes all hi aucceaa From an obscure newspaper hack and un distinguished member of th great mob of "ex-congressmen." he has beoom fa mous, well-to-do, th proprietor of a pro perous weekly paper, a lecturer, a highly paid contributor, a national and Interna tional figure. H I 'Xucky Luck." Like the walnut tree, th mora he I beaten th better he'll be. No man ia In less need of sympathy. Th sympathy i.ould b hown to hi repentant enthusiast and vlo tlm, the democratlo party. Th cold and narrow view of court may make Ineffectual th noble ardor with which he provided a channel ' for th extra-testamentary Intention of on admirer, but If he ha not caught a legacy ha has left one. Her I wher our English friend may need Illumination. They should Be In Mr. Bryan "th most remarkabl man our country ha ever produced." For Mr. Bryan was victorious when he waa de feated. HI Inheritance did another take. Barring hi opinion in regard to Imper ialists and silver, hts stock of theories ha been taken up by another, and taken up not merely with th harmless volubility of tha rhetorician and th doctrinaire, but with th authority of th executive. This 1 th greatest prosperity of thej prosneroua Mr. Bryan. Our English friend will remember th epigram about Peel: "Ha found th whig In bathing and stole their clothe.' MAKE THE INDIA WORK. Proposition Calculated te Spoil the Romance of the Tepee. Portland Oregonlan. At last the report has been Issued from the Indian bureau at Washington In which plain and practical solution of th In dian question la suggested. "Let th In dian be taught th rudiment of the Eng lish language." say Commissioner of In dian Affair Jones; "protect htm only to th extent that he may gain confidence In him self, and leave nature and civilisation to do the rest." Thus equipped for self-help, It Is further urged that the Indian be given to understand that he "must work or atarve." Discarding sentiment, yet Instinct with the principles of justice and th logic of kindness which seeks to equip th Individ ual for lire' battle, leave him to fight it and Insist that he must fight It or perish. Is this tardy official presentment of a so lution of th Indian question. By con trast with the policy so long pursued by the government toward it Indian wards, It I startling. It discards as useless In dian education that runs Into th sciences, places a sharp and speedy limitation upon th practice of Issuing rations to Indian who occupy fertile lands, have been up plled with agricultural Implement and seed and Instructed In th element of industry, and decree that the Indian must make us of the knowledge of farming or other handicraft that he has gained for his own preservation, or drop out of existence. There is real humanity In this plain and simple proposition, though at first It may seem harsh. It Is clearly no kindness to the Indian, as a rac or an Individual, to keep him or permit him to hang upon the outskirts of civilisation a strong, able bodied vagabond satisfied with the assur ance, drawn from the past, that if he doe not feed, house and clothe himself the government will, when a tlm of stress comes, supply hiru with food, shelter and apparel. A fair sample of th lives that reserva tion Indian live, and of the death that they not Infrequently die, under the mis taken policy that the government has long pursued toward them, has been presented to the publlo before the United States court in this city within the week. The thrift less, vicious; without thought of the mor row except to wonder whether they can manage to elude the law and procure whisky; nursing bitter fueds and laying plans for vengeance and plots for murder; filthy beyond description in their homes and live, the mas of reservation Indians mock by their dally existence the methods that hav long been pursued for their civilisation. Against the methods and ut terly discarding them as inefficient and pernicious come at last a voice from th Indian bureau eaying: "Let the Indian be taught that he must work or tarve." Supplementing this, Commissioner Jones expresses the opinion that this policy would in a generation or more work the regenera tion of the race. It would certainly regen erate th race or cause It to become ex tinct. In either event th requirements of humanity would be met by th policy recommended. LIBRARY AD SCHOOL. Clrculatlnar the World' Beat Litera ture In Country District. Saturday Evening Post A way of bringing th public library and th publlo school Into harmonious relations is to be tried this winter In Oregon. Fifteen hundred volumes have been selected from the Portland publlo library and these are to be boxed and sent the rounds of all the publlo school In Multnomah county. This means that In every isolated farmhouse throughout the region, if th dwellers there so will, some of th world's best literature Is to find a lodging. ' The books will not lie unopened on shelve and table. They will ba read, and read thoroughly. The winter tasks and privations of the dweller In the wild will be lightened and made profitable by companionship with great minds. The Oregon plan of circulating good books In the farming districts is only one of sev eral Ideas for giving people In the country the benefit of city advantage. In Illinois the advisability of having county schools Is under discussion, with the prospect that the experiment will be tried before long on an extensive scale. Instead of the little dis trict school scattered over the prairies, there Is to be on large graded school for each county, built In accordance with the latest Improvements In school architecture, and provided with corps of well-trained and competent teachers, who will be paid salaries that under the district system would be out of the question. Pupil are in be transported to and fro at the expense of the county, and It is contended that the en tire cost when equitably divided among the districts, will not be much, if any greater, for each district than th maintenance of separata schools. With trolley cars, th telephone, rural free delivery, big public libraries to draw upon, and county schools for th children, life in the country Is going to he a very dlfferunt thing in the twentieth century from fc.t It has been In the past. In fact It begin to look a If th country people would have the benefit of city Ufa without It distraction snd dissipations. Jf their intellectual advancement shall ba propor tionate to their opportunities, they will de velop a standard of civilisation that dwell ers In the cities may regard with envy. PERSONAL ROTES. B. W. Flndon, a nephew of the composer. Is writing a new biography of Sir Arthur Sullivan. An attempt I being mad to hav Dr. Slguard Ibsen, son of the Norwegian, come to this country next year and lecture on hi father' plays. Th crown prince of China will com to th United States next summer and will witness th annual Yale-Harvard boat rac under ' escort of Wong Kal Kah, a Yale graduate, who is Chinese commissioner to th St. Lou la exposition. Chicago courts are getting mighty par ticular about granting divorces. On Judi cial tyrant refused relief to a woman whose stepchildren 'played ragtime on mouth organ and piano to th patter of her scald ing team. No wonder so many people Jump into th lake. Sixty-two years ago a man named Jones moved from Kentucky to Dad county, Missouri, taking him and hi family of tan children. At a reunion recently held at Evertun 1,011 of hi descendants war pres ent ar i there ar a few who were unable to Utend. Almost all hla descendants hav married and Battled In th am neigh borhood in southwestern Misaourl. Chicago waxe eloquent about th fat stock show, whereat Nebraska captured the prise. "Th Behemoth of shows," exclaims on circus poster scribe, "it sprang full orbed Into dazzling existence, and, unllk some event which shrink and shrivel with multiplying year, this exposition will ever loom ilk a mountain peak, perpetually sunkiased." Just then a eowpuncher broke In upon th scribe and invited him to take something for hi nerve. Th pathos of th career of th Chicago bandit lie In talent wofully misdirected. The energy and courag displayed was but poorly recompensed. Had It been applied along promotion lines. In mergers or In stock watering, or had they broken Into th municipal machine of Bt. Louis, Grand Rapid or Philadelphia, they would be classed aa exemplar of high finance and hav money to burn. It make a great difference which way you reach the loot. ...-.-. DOIGS 15 THE ARMY. Matter of Mouieat Gleaned from the Army aad Kuvy Register. Much difficulty Is being experienced in th artillery corps In obtaining suitable candidate to fill the position of master electrician In that branch. So far only six hav been appointed, two of thsm being from civil life. This Is one of the most attractive of the subordinate place in th army, and to thos who are qualified to discharge th duties the positions should not go begging. The law provides for twenty flve master electrician and effort are being made now to fill the nineteen Va cancies. Th general staff of th army will here after consider all proposed amendments of the army regulation. This work ha hitherto been performed by a board of officers which, until recently, was com posed of the assistant ecretary of war, Judge Advocate General Davis, Colonel George Andrews, adjutant general's depart ment; Major A. C. Sharps of the ndjutant general's department. Colonel W. S. Pattan of the quartermaster's department nnd Major I I Bruff of the ordnance depart ment. Of these member only General Davis and Major Bruff remain on duty In Washington. A committee of the general staff will take up the various questions and will, of course, consult th ludg ad vocate ireneral whenever a legal point Is Involved, r , Some of the ex-volunteer officers whe served In the war with Spain are con siderably wrought up over the publica tion In various newspapers throughout the country to the effect that the general staff of the army had prepared a list of officers of volunteer organizations In the country who distinguished themselves in the dis charge of their duties. The same para graph stated that among the state which failed to make a creditable showing wa Massachusetts, and this has led to nn in quiry from the state authorities. No such list has been prepared by the general staff and no such comparison of the services rendered by officers from different states was ever attempted. If It had been, of course, Massachusetts would not have been found lacking in the demonstration of efficiency. The War department 1 in receipt of four or five requests from the governors of states who desire th ervicea, as Instruc tors of militia, of that number of retired officers of the army. Details of this kind are permitted under the militia law and six assignments to duty of this character have been made already. Each state which by virtue of the strength of organised mil itia Is entitled to one of th fourteen re maining details has been advised that the period, during which a request for an officer may be filed, will expire on January 1. New York stands at the head of the list, but it Is not expected that a request will come from Albany. After January 1, if all tha states which ar regarded as entitled to first choice do not take action, other tate will be asked to file these requests. Among th projects which are likely to be pre sented to congress during the present session Is on which will Increase th num hp nf retired officers who may be detailed to duty with the militia In the capacity of instructor. Much interest attaches to that passage in the annual report of the quartermaster general of the army which treats, with great candor and with some spirit, of the army transport service. There were refer ence in the remarks of the quartermaster general on that subject which Indicated the comment waa Inspired by,, and intended as a reply to, certain criticisms, the source of which was not more specifically disclosed by General Humphrey than the reference to "an official report" in which, says the quartermaster general, "it was thought proper to refer to the army transport serv ice as a most costly luxury." This was a great opening for the quartermaster gen eral and he was able to take advantage of It to defend the public expenditure In the direction of decent comfort for officers and enlisted men who are obliged to make, un der the new condition of military service, a long trip 'on shipboard, and his defens of th charge of the extravagance was pithy and convincing. It now turn out that the official report to which General Humphrey made uch adequate rejoinder was th annual report of General George W. Davi as commanding general of th division of the Philippines, the content of which document were not known to the publlo when the quartermaster general's annual report waa given out to the press. This fact gives added Interest to the com ment of General Humphrey. . The quartermaster general of the army ha rendered an Important decision which destroy a practice of making contract In hla department, which custom, while advantageous enough for tha government, was very unjust to bidders. Th other day a recommendation came from one of the quartermaster's depot in favor of award ing a contract to a bidder whose proposal was not represented in th formal opening of bids. Tha lowest bid on that occasion was evidently mad th basis of obtaining a (till lower bid in open market. In other words, the bids formally presented were used to drive a better bargain so far a the government was . concerned. This method of obtaining satisfactory bid Is regarded by the quartermaster general of the army a "Irregular and improper." He admits tha right of the government to reject any or all bids, but the reasons for rejection, he Insists, must ba businesslike and. fair to the reputable people who submit pro posals. When there is no objection to the lowest bid received after due advertise ment. General Humphrey ha decided that th contract must ba thereupon awarded and that ther 1 no authority for, and no Justice In, rejecting such a bid and going out Into th market to obtain better prices. The fact that this has been a practice more or less permitted by th War department officials Is not regarded by General Humph rey as a precedent which should not b Ignored. The decision I entirely In the interest of th government, since It Is a protection to reputable bidder who expect fair and decent treatment at the hands of th authorities. If such sharp practice were permitted It would not be long before people who might bid would not care to hav their price exposed for no better reason than the employment of them a an Inducement to tha Irregular and Informal bidder. . Objections to Jury Daty. New York Independent . Th other day a man wa to be tried in New Orleans for the murder of a district attorney. Ther wer ill talesmen sum monad for Jury duty. Of these 110 declared under oath that they would rot condemn a man to death for any crime, and flfty stx other that they would not convict on circumstantial evidence. That U, 16 out of 111, mor than half th number, declared themselves unfitted to erv on a Jury. They wer asked If they would desire th death by law of en who murdered or lav ished on nearest to them, and they snld no. But soma of the men took p&rt In Not Hungry rou should be means disordered nerves, wbicr will lead to nervous pros tration. Dr. Miles' Nervine is guaran teed to benefit you or mousy refunded. 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