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THE OMAHA' DAILY REE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, ir03.
Tim Omaha Daily Bee.
K. ROSEVVATEIt, editor.
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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
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3 so,ooo
4 87,400
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Lee unsold and returned copies.
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r.'et average sales 80,706
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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.
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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.
Book en nerve sent fr.
PR. MILES MEDICAL: CO, Elkhart, Ind.
th lynching of th Italians a few year
ago. It would appear that this tenderness
of consclene was temporary and only
lasted as long a ther was danger of
being called from business to do Jury duty.
POINTED REMARKS. '
"Who gets your divorcee for youT
"Why. our business In sattine se lsrsa
now that we think it cheaper 4o have ..
divorce lawyer In the family and a dlvoroy
court Just across the lawn." Cleveland
'lain Dealer.
Dver Mis TT-r-ta I- SS M . WmtM
you think ltT
uueu isot out loud. Town Topics.
tnrv- ' - . m .., - . .
yourself as one of the notable men of your
time?"
'That' a mnA Mo. " atnaa -M.n.fn.
Sorghum. 'Ill write to some manufacturer
this afternoon and find out what It will
cost to have a brand of cigars named after
me. Washington Star.
The party then passed on to the naxt
cage.
lnI..I th hippopotamus, " said on of
the children.
, "No," said the high school girl rebuk
Ingly. '"The attendant says It Is a female.
It a hlppopotama. They ought to Chang
that sign.1' Chicago Tribune. , ,
Professor Thai th,- - .. -
water and sir. Each la separate and dis
tinct from the other.-
Va 1 . - . . .
- - - uub urn-ifainr una DPI uir
u?"ttlly po together.-PhlladUhl. CatnoUo
Mr. Henpeck Ton seem to be dust all
the time thee days.
Mr. Marryat Yes, Tm getting ready for
my wedding.
Mr. It en neck Ah! That' a, reminder of
what Washington said.
Mr, Marryat What waa thatT ''
Mr. Henpeck "In time of peace prepare
for war."-PhUadeiphla Pr., , .
"Tnn T ' nr tvna p4t a-a-1 -
strong perfume.1'
"i man t notloe it. You see rm smoking
rtr. r9 tkm. K I . , .
rn on my birthday last week. Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
BrlggsDo you have the courage to take
a cold bath on these winter mornings?
Griggs Indeed I do. But I missed It this
morning.
Brlggs What was the trouble
Grlggs-There was no hot water. Twn
Topics. .
"My huband has Strange ideas of econ
omy." "How is thatr
"Why, he seems to think he saves money
by drinking so much at the club that h
has no appetite for breakfast" Chloaga
Pest.
'Tls the- last sorap of turkey
Left lying alone;
All it toothsome companions - -Are
acraped to tha bona,
No bit of It kindred,
No morsel doth Btay, . !
To tell Just how Iowly
It dwindled away,
Cleveland Plalndealer.
HEARTS TO MEND.
Isaao Anderson in Town Topios.
"Hearts to mendl Hearts to mend I
Broken hearts made whole and sound!
My salve will heal Love' deepest wound
Heart to mendl Hearts to mendl" '
.' .
As thus the wand'rlng charlatan
Loud hawked his wares through street
and lane,
From house and shop th people ran
To hear again end yet again;
"Heart to mendl
Bring out your
tAa r?a
Hearts to mendl
crushed and bleeding
I'll make them whole by magio arte.
Heart to mendl Hearts to mendl'"
A maiden called the man aside, .
Where none might hear, and whispered
low:
"My sweetheart's love for me hath died;
Canst help me? Tell ma, yea or no?" .
"Hearts to mendl Hearts to mend! 1
Aye. that I can. My salve hath power
To heal thy hurt within tho hour
Hearts to mend! .Hearts to mend!"
"But I am poor," the maid replied.
. ."Nor gold nor silver, coin i, hpye,,,,. ,,;
I'd give thS world, and more beside,
- If it were mine to' buy thy salve."
"Hearts to mend! Hearts to mend!
It coats a tear no more, no less
To buy my salve. "Forgetfulne." '
Heart to mendl Heart to mendl" ...
Then none of It, I pray, for me.
Though love be lost me, I prefer
Tn lrAn at loan tha, mMnnrv"
"Heart to mend! Hearts to mendl
These mortals all bs fool indeed.
To acorn my aid In time of need.
Heart to mendl Hearts to mendl''. -
I Mrs. Welsslitz, Buffalo. N. Y.
cured of kidney trouble by LydiaB.
Pinkbam's Vegetable Compound.
Of all the diseases known with which
the female organism is afflicted, kidney
disease is the moet fatal. In fact, un
less prompt and correct treatment is ap
plied , the weary patient seldom survi ves.
Being fully aware of thia, Mrs. Pink
ham, early in her career, gave careful
study to the sublect, and in producing
her trreat remedy for woman's Ills
Lydia E. Pinkham's Veetabl
Compound made sure that it con
tained the correct combination of
herba which waa certain to control
that dreaded disease, woman's kidney
troubles.
Read What Mrs. Weissllta Says,
miab Mas. IUikbam: For two
years my life was simply a burden,!
suffered "so with female troubles, and
pains across my back and loins. - Tha
doctor told me that I had kidney
troubles and prescribed for me. For
three months I took his medicine, but
grew steadily worse. Mv husband then
advised me to try Lydia JH. Pink"
ham's Vegetable Compound, and
brought home a bottle. It is the great
est blessing ever brought to our home.
Within three months I was a -changed
woman. My pain had disappeared, my
complexion became clear, my eyes
bright, and my entire system in good
ahapa." Mas. Paula. Weiasijti, 170
Seneca St., Buffalo, N.Y. $SooO frflt
"Tear we out"
"I am good for 10 cents'
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