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THE OtfAIIA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1904, 4 The Omaiia Daily Dee. IX ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Putty P (without Sunday). On Tear.. M .00 laJly Bee and Sunday, One Tear 8 00 Illustrated Be. On year W Sunday Ben, On Year t MO Saturday Be, one Year .' Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. 1.91 DEUVERED BT "CARRIER. Daily Bee (without Sunday), per copy Ic jDally Dee (without Sunday;, per week. ...12c lmlly Bee (Including Sunday), per week.,.17 Sunday Uee. rr conr to Evening Urn without Sunday), per week. Ic evening wee . (including eunuuy;, per week , lOo . Complaints of Irregularity In delivery Should be addressed to City Circulation Ltepurtment , OFFICES. OmahaThe Dee. Building. South Omaha :lty 11a. 1 ilulldlng, Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Council Bluffe It) Pearl Street. Chicago 1M) Unity Building. few loTHuii l arK how iitiuning. Washington tot Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to new and odl. toruti matter should be addressed: Omaha liee. Editorial' Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payiile to Tha Dee Publishing Company. Only 1-cent stamps received In payment of mall account. Personal ohecks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEb) PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County,!. : George B. Tischuck, secretary ot The Bee Publishing Company, bolng duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Kvenlng and Sunday Bee printed during the month of Mny, 1IKM. was ns follows: I ,...aMNjo i7 sn.o.to . 8W,t80 it so.ooo S SO, 7 40 19 2,B10 4 S,fm 20 20,480 1 8,TO 21 HO,3BO 9U.MO 22 8,1fM T au.OMO 23 20,070 SM.700 24 29,700 1 84,lNO 25 21,840 10 841,1 no t 2,SOO II .....9,M0 27 20,710 12 UO.TiKI 28 . 30,040 II ,.W),MOO 29 S7.1U0 14 BO,40 10 JtO,880 15 91,020 si ao.rao w uo.oio Total mt.KAO Less uueolij and returned copies.... 10,0x0 Net total sales OOl.KKl , 2f,0tl Net average . t : GEO, B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this tlst day of May, A. D. 3904. (Seal) . , M. B. f 1UNGATE, . 1 . . ' . Notary Publlo. - Poker and politics form-an alliterative combination but they do not always mix well. Japan la tald to be looking for a new religion and Doctor Dowle la In Switz erland. L 1 China ahould . not dispair. The bri gands of today may be the patriots of tomorrow. Mr. Bryan will present his own case at 8t Louis having seen the futility of hired attorneys in Connecticut The Colorado woman indicted for Il legal voting may now admit that there are two sldea to the equal suffrage ques tion, j 4f Morocco 1b sincere In its desire to have the warships withdrawn it might produce Ferdlcarls ' as an evidence of good faith. ThV: assessment of railroad property In N4bsks, la due this, wop k Popular spprcftrj) or disapproval lP Tie due lm medl4tfly after. .. Thonedlum" which has "been eritor talitf rVj'the czar would injikej a' bit with the world by materializing he" spirit of toleration in Russia. i j '. Having smashed the republican ma chine over in Illinois, the victors will proceed to build a now machine of their own bigger, if not better, than the old one. V ; " ' ' ,:. ' The platform prepared for the demo cratic legislative nominees to run on in Douglas county is more significant for what it does not promise than for what It does promise. , The ghost of the Bartley bond case is Still walking in the supreme court. An other proposition from the bondsmen to compromise for the costs may be ex pected before the year is up. Taxpaylng citizens of Nebraska are not so particular by What method of computation the state board reaches the value of the railroads, provided only they finally arrive at the correct figures. If our old friend the Big Muddy should .disport himself with a Tune rise this year, we might put it down that he was out for a high old time In celebration of our Nebraska semi-centennial anniver sary. According to Btate Auditor Weston tbo stats debt has been- reduced within the past year from 12.205,177.21 to $1,082, 437.43, which still leavea the state debt f 1.8&2.457.45 4n excess of the constitu tional limit 1 Now that the father of the compulsory water worka purchase bill has become a member of the Water Works board he will doubtless be able to disprove the charge that his bill la as full of boles as a skimmer. John L Webster wants it distinctly Understood that he is still willing to ta"ko the vice presidential place on the repub lican national ticket and baa not been scared off the track by any of the more recent entries In the race. 4 Edgar Howard admits in pretended alarm that "not all the railroad tools are within the republican ranks" and that It w'euld not take & microscope to discover some who "have crept into tha democratic fold." lie might have added that none of them feel lonesome there either. In the annuul allotment of army ap proprlatlona Fort Crook cornea in for 114.000 and Fort Des Moines for 1251. OOOt The striking discrepancy repre sents the hypnotic influence ot Con gresiumn Hull, chairman of, the bouse military committee. Why Uncle Sam should have plauted nearly a million dollars in a : fort at lcs Moines the board of strategy at Washington alone iaay bo able W exvlau" SttCAAO tlliwSTAl, TttADt. How much of the trade of China this country will be able to secure In the future may depend to a very consider able extent upon the nature of our treat ment of the Clrlnese, who are at pres ent very much dissatisfied with tUe way In which we discriminate against them. The most recent expression of this lins come from the representative; of the Chinese government to the Loulnlana Purchase exposition, who was enter tained a fewkdays ago by the American Asiatic association of New York. In the course of his remarks Prince Pu Lun predicted that In the near fut ure there would come an expansion of foreign trade with China, due to the construction of railways and swift in terior transportation, which will aggre gate annually $ lOO.ono.Oix) or $500,ooo, OOO and may be Increased to an almost Inconceivable aggregate. He referred to the friendly relations between the two countries and China's high appreciation of what the United States had done to preserve the integrity of the empire, but he pointed out that our policy of discrimination against his countrymen must have ultimate effects, so far as trade is concerned, unfavorable to this country. Excluding coolies, he said, is not a matter of much concern to China., What the government of that nation objects to is the application of the law to educated Chinese who come here to Investigate and Inform themselves re garding conditions In this country. The result Is that the educated Chi nese and especially the young men who are seeking to be well Informed as to vodern flnnficlat ond industrial niethodt are compelled to seek that information In Great Britain and In the countries of Europe, where they , encounter no re strictions. Where the intelligent young Chinese are from this time on educated to modern methods there undoubtedly, a large proportion of the trade of China will ultimately go. v It would seem that argument of this kind must make an Impression upon those who are looking for. oriental trade and induce them to make an earnest and persistent effort to have the Chinese exclusion law so modi fied that the better" class of Chinese could come here without having to be subjected to what they reasonably re gard as humiliating conditions. It is certainly practicable to do this without opening the way to the admission of the coolie class and there can bo no doubt that the effect would be of very great benefit to our commercial dealings with the Chinese empire. PARKCH BUPPURTKUH t!C0VRA0tt) The action of the Georgia democratic convention in Instructing the delegation to St Louis to "vote as a unit for Judge Parker "as long as in the opinion of the majority of the delegation there is a possibility of nominating him," has very greatly" encouraged the supporters of the New York candidate. . Georgia has 20 votes, making the whole number now instructed for Parker 178, ..while the un- instructed who have expressed" a prefer ence for the Judge makes a total of 220 delegates who are confidently counted on to vote for Parker on the first ballot. The New York Times, a,, Parker sup porter,- remarks that his strength "is now so far predominant over that of any other candidate mentioned that large additions to the column of dele gates instructed for him are likely to be made by the conventions to be held dur ing the next three weeks, until the series Is concluded by that of Missouri, held on June 20, one week before the as sembling of the national convention." That paper adds, however, that while the nomination of Parker is extremely probable,- it cannot be said to be as sured. The Philadelphia Record, which is very friendly to the .Empire state Jurist also sees in the action of the Georgia democrats absolute assurance that the conservative element will con trol the St Louts convention and con cludes -that this means Parker .will be the nominee. It thinks there Is no doubt that the lead of Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia will be followed by the rest of the states of the south and tells the radicals that they must clear the track. In the view of the Record, the senti ment has crystallised in the mind ot the democracy that the choice of New York, Connecticut and Indiana ought to be the candidate. This ignores the fact that a great many New York democrats do not favor Parker and that the in structions of the Indiana delegation do not extend beyond the first ballot Meanwhile there Is said to be some uneasiness felt by the- conservative democrats at Washington In regard to the attitude of Mr. Bryan. They view the Nebraska democratic platform as showing the determination f the Bryan wing of the party to make a fight at St. Louis for the prlnflple declared by the last democratic national convention. "The action Indicates to the conserva tive managers-here," says a Washing ton dispatch, "that the Bryanttes are as Irreconcilable as they were at Kansas City four years ago and there Is every indication that they will bolt the na tional ticket if they do not have their own way In the national convention. The question which la agitating the man agers in Washington Is how they can keep Bryan down at St. Louis and yet keep him and bis faction to the ticket and In the party." It can be said with the utmost confidence that Mr. Brvan will not be kept down at St. Louis. Whether or not he will bolt If ho can not have his way must be left V con jecture, but it seema quite safe to say that if Parker is the nominee be will not get the support of the Nebraska democratic leader and most of bis ad herents. J South Omaha's tux commissioner has completed the a swessiueut roll for 1004 and his work is to bs submitted for re vision to a board of review. Whether the next board of review will repeat the scandalous performance cf last year of threatening to raise the asHessment of the South Omaha stock yards and pack lug houses 1 inuii millions and then dropping them down below the tax com mlssionefs figures Just before Its re vision Is corhpletd remains to be seen. To the general public these annual re vision pullups and letdowns look very much like holdups and shakedowns. ORtATKtt OMAHA Alt IXrtRATlVC StCKSStTT. The trend of twentieth century mu nicipal development is toward expan sion and centralized government The British metropolis, the largest popula tion center In the world, which less than a hundred years ago covered an area no larger than Omaha does today, now has a diameter of thirty miles and a population of over 0,000,000. Greater New York, with a population of more than 3,000.000, has been created within the past five years by the annexation of the city of Brooklyn and half a dozen other Incorporated towns, ranging In population from 2o,000 to 200,000. As the natural sequence of the World'B Columbian exposition Chicago enlarged Its boundaries by annexing nearly 100 square miles of territory within Its ra dius. San Franclseo, St. Louis. Indi anapolis, Denver, Minneapolis and, in fact, every important population center In the country extended their bounda ries by annexation of territory before the last census so as to make the most attractive showing commercially. The governments of most of the large cities have either already been consoli dated with county governments or are now striving to consolidate the govern ing bodies and taxing bodies of city and county as measures of economy, con venience and public necessity. Modern municipal government costs dear be cause the Inhabitants of modern cities demand conveniences and facilities never dreamed of before. Cobblestone pavements were good enough for New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore up to within the last thirty years. The jinrk systems of the large cities have nearly all grown up within the same period. Street cleaning brigades, sanitary in spectors, public baths, electric lighting and other expensive adjuncts of a mod ern city have only been Introduced within a very recent period. Palatial school buildings, free text books, gym nasiums, kindergartens, and the fads that now constitute branches of public school education tend to make the mod ern municipal school system extremely expensive. The burdens Imposed upon the taxpayers of Omaha constitute a great drawback to its growth and pros perity. The aggregate expense of mu nicipal government in Omaha, including interest, upon municipal debt exceeds $1,000,000 a year and the taxes imposed by the county, and school district gov ernments aggregate very nearly, another million dollars a year. The taxes, of South Omaha are even more burden some than those of Omaha and the treble government of the two cities and the county involves . an enormous and Inexcusable waste of money, that keeps down property values in both towns and makes our government more costly than it need be. ' Omaha and South Omaha: need more pavements and sewers. Douglas county needs - more paved roads. Annexation and consolidation of the city andWunty governments will enable us to provide these improvements without material increase of the tax burdens. Greater Omaha will be in condition to command reduced prices for public necessities; such as gas, water, electric' lights and power either from the public utility corporations that now hold fran chises or by direct municipal ownership. Greater Omaha will place Omaha on more equal . footing with other cities i that compete for prestige in the race for supremacy. It has become an lm peratlv.e necessity. Nebraska has for the third time won the magnificent Texas steer horns an nually awarded to the state making the largest increase in membership in the Commercial Travelers' Protective asso ciation. But the Increase in member ship is not to' be ascribed to the methods pursued by the popular Texas steer con gressman who came by his election hon estly because be paid for every vote he got. The representative of the Armour Car company who threatened to "make it hot" for witnesses before the Interstate Conjmerce commission may have meant that the company would fall to put ice In the cars conveying the goods of the men who testify and this would be "making it hot" with a vengeance. The London Spectator's fear that King Edward will compromise Great Britain In its foreign relations on his visit to Emperor William shows that even in the most enlightened monarchy the ruler still has too much power, If he is inclined to use it ' The Nebraska delegation to the Chi cago convention have Issued an address to their fellow delegates in behalf of the Nebraska candidate for vice presi dent but for some unexplained reason have neglected to affix to it their names. Wonder why. Char ml a gr Oatlmlsm. Philadelphia North American. "The general health of tha Inhabitants of Port Arthur Is good." we are told, except that some of them "are dying of starvation." When It comes to Russian optimism there Is nothing else "squally as good." Kow tot tha Itest Cara. Philadelphia Ledger. Eminent clergymen and Members ot learned societies who have recently de livered addresses on tho stats of tbs na tion seem to think that Americans are be coming sadly degenersu. We're glad the vacation season Is at hand. It's Business, Yon Know. . Cincinnati Enquirer. Mr. Paer Is In the coal business. II has coal to sell. How many are there in business of any kind who are not trying to keep the price of their goods at the highest notch T Mr. Baer may be a bad man. but we have long been of tbs opin ion that a fair averag ot those engaged In buying and selling would run close long his lines. What, Oar Oaly Olaeyt St. Paul Pioneer Press. "Ood forbid!" exclaimed Richsrd Olney when asked If he had ever taken a trip in the west "God forbid-' that the men of the went should ever lend themselves to promote the political asplra.t,on of a man thus narrowly provincial. riaytna; in Hard I. nek. Brooklyn Eagle. Tha Russians are certainly having a turt of very bad luck. Their timber rights along the Talu have now been annulled by the Corean government and Just at the time, too, when they have most need of taking to the tall timber. Revoke the I, leeo.ee. Louisville Courier Journal. . We complain about being taxed to death and yet there Is no charge for the poetlo license that enables a man to mske "bloom In" rhyme with "woman." That Is the kind of license under which James Whltcomb Rllcy Is operating at present. Something- More Important Row. Cleveland rialn Dealer. When the Japanese-RusMan war began eight out of ten men on the morning down town cars could be seen poring over the war maps of the dally newspapers. Now few look at them and the majority of the readers gldnce only at the war news head lines. Two reasons: The American people soon grow tired of a thing and the base ball season has opened. STATES POLITICAL PERSONALITIES Scyler Free Lance: If a democrat heads the fusion ticket for governor let It be C. J. Smythe, and if a populist let It be M. P. Harrington. We want to know where we are at In this campaign and with either man voters know what they are voting for. Howells Journal: A few Omaha demo crats are endeavoring to work up a boom for James E. Boyd as the democratlo nomi nee for governor. It wpn't work. The peo ple Of this state hod one dose of Boyd and they haven't yet got the bad taste out of their mouths. If the party wishes to court defeat let It name Boyd, but If success Is desired some other man must lead the democratlo hosts. Beatrice Sun: The Omaha Examiner sug gests that the best thing that the demo crats of Nebraska can do is to nominate Hon. James E. Boyd, for governor. Mr. Boyd has served the state In that capacity, and Is the only democrat ever elected and seated as governor of the state. Oovernor Boyd would need no defenders, nor would It be necessary for the people of this state to be Introduced to him. ' Howells Journal: P. B. McKilllp is as well as nominated for congress In this district All that remains Is for the con vention to meet (the date has been set for the 28th of the present month at Fremont), and go through the usual formula. Mc Killlp by acclamation Is the program. Then look for the warmest fight ever put up In the Third district. The McCarthy men are beginning to look white around the gills this early In the game. - Nellgh Leader: The selection of H. T. Lehr of Albion as chairman of the repub lican state central committee Is K source of deep gratification to the party In thts section of the state, and especially In Ante lope county, where he Is well known and his ability as an organiser and director are appreciated. Btllf further, It is a satisfac tion In the fact that his election was a recognition of the North Platte section and an indication that It can no longer be ignored In the councils of the party. Howells Journal idem.): Congressman KJnkoid la said to ' have queered himself with the cattle interests in his district by securing the passage of the homestead bill, which provides for homesteads of 840 acres in the sandhill districts. The bill Is a god one and Klnkaid Is deserving of praise for his efforts In Its behalf. If they have noth ing worse than that homestead bill against Klnkaid he ought to have clear .sailing for re-election. Aurora Register (pop.): If Peter Morten- sen holds his grip and votes as Hamilton county people think be will on the Board of Equalisation there will be populists and democrats who will favor his nomination on the fusion ticket. We recognised Bryan democracy when it adopted tight principles and If we had a couple of Just tha right sort of republicans on our state ticket this fall it might help them to think we mean what we say. Leigh World: It begins to look as though the democrats are going to nominate P. B. McKilllp of Humphrey for congress in the Third district If they do there will be a pretty race between him and J. J. . Mc Carthy. Mr. McCarthy has held the office for one term and has made a record, which fact, together with the popularity of the man, will make it a' long-uphtil pull for McKilllp. They are both hustlers, and It Mr. McKilllp Is nomibated there will be something doing in this dlstrlot on, the con sjgesaional ticket this fall. BRTANISM in NEBRASKA. New York Tribune: Colonel Bryan Is still a "paramount" statesman out In Ne braska. St. Louis GInbe-Democrat: Mr. Bryan has at least shown that the reorganises Lare a row of goose eggs In Nebraska. Chicago News: There were two or three "reorganlzers in the Nebraska convention, but they seem to have been discreet enough to crawl under the seats when the proceed ings began. Chicago Post: Nil will be the Influence of the Omaha convention. Tha Bryan dele gation will not be muph of a factor at St Louts. It will be there to witness Its own overthrow. Kansas City Journal: Mr. Bryan's ex planation that he stands Just where he did In 1900 Is a little obscure. In the latter part of 1900 he was on all fours trying to crawl out of the debris. Indianapolis Journal: Tha spirit of the convention was shown by the fact that a resolution offered by a delegate pledging the Nebraska democracy to the national ticket selected at St, Louis, regardless of whom they might be, was declared out of order by the chairman, who refused to put the moilon, although It was seconded. No doubt the chairman acted under the direction of Mr. Bryan. Chicago Chronicle: If Mr. Bryan were less presumptuous ha would have contented himself with a platform embodying the views of the people for whom he Is en titled to speak, the Nebraska populists. His views and their views might then have been treated with respect. Assuming to voice the Ideas of a democracy which has twice repudiated him at the polls and which now regards him as a mere mischief maker, he is merely doing what he can to make bis repudiation at St. Louis con temptuous es well as emphatic. . Minneapolis Journal: The Nebraska dem ocratic platform Is a warning to tha re organisers. A resolution pledging the Ne braska democracy to the national ticket regardless of the candidates named upon It was ruled out of order by the chairman. If the reorganises do not see fit to ac quiesce In the Imperious demands of the Nebraska statesman, ha has already given a vagua Intimation that, sines he cannot keep company with persons who have made a wide dKpurture from what be conceives to be "Jeffersnnlan principles," be will. In order to keep pure the sacred Jeffer soniun faith, retire with tha clioeen remnant GOSSIP OP THE WAR. People Earnaed la It. Correspondents at the front Indulge In superlatives In describing tha battle of Kin Chou and the capture of Nanshan heights. "Greatest" "bloodiest" "most desperata" of battles are some of tho expressions em ployed. Estimates of the loeses of the Japanese range from 1.500 to 1500 at Kin Chou and from 1,000 to 7,000 at Nanshan. Russian lowes at Kin Chou are placed at 800 and 400 at Nanshan. How Insignificant these "greatest" and "bloodiest" engage ments are when compared with some of the world's really great battles! The fol lowing are the losses In famous battles: Sedan Germ an s, S.OOO; French, 18,000. Plevna Russians, 40,000; Turks, 65.000. Lelpslc French, 65,000; allies, 63,000. Sado wo Prussians, 9.000; Austrlans, 44,000, Shlloh Federals, 13,573; confederates, 10,- 609. Bull Run Federals, 2,961; confederates. I, 751 Borodino French, 30,000; Russian, 40,000. Waterloo French, 31,000; allies, 22,000. Wagram French, 30,000; Austrian, 35.000. AnUetam Federal, U,4$B; confederate, 25,899. Blenheim French, 40,000; allies, 13,000. Wilderness Federal, 87,737; confederate, II, 400. Gettysburg Federal, 23,186; confederal, 31.62L Stone River Federal, 1L678; confederate, 25,660. ' Chlckamauga Federal, . 15,861; confeder ate, 17,804. Hohenllnden French 6,000; Austrian, 20,- 000. Solferlno French-Sardinian, 13,000; Aus trian, 20,000. Chancellorsvllle Federal, 16,030; confed erate, 12,281. The . bloodiest ten minutes of the civil war was the first rush of the union army against Lea's impregnable works at Cold Harbor. In half an hour the federal loss was about 7,000 and probably 1,500 fell In ten minutes. Ito Illmateu, a Japanese merchant who made a fortune In business at Forty-seo- ond street and Fifth avenue. New York, arrived In Chicago last week with a com mon split leather valise containing 31,120,- 000 In United States money, which he wilt give to the mikado to help defeat Russia. The cash Is all In United States gold notes and bank bills. At the Japanese consulate, 705 Chamber of Commerce building, surprise was ex pressed that . so large a sum ot money should be carried overland in a crowded train, with no recourse In ense of rob bery and with .no safeguard in tha event of a wreck or Are enroute. The money was deposited In Chicago with a trust company on the advice of the local Japanese consul. "I have done pretty well In America," said Ito Hlmatsu. "I am going back to Toklo and will give my money to tha cause. What is the cause? It is, as 1 under stand, to keep Russia out of Manchuria. We Japanese are not given to expansion. But, as I understand, we cannot permit Russia to overspread tha seaports of tha eastern seas. "I shall place It at the disposal of the mikado for what you Americans call 'the sinews of war.' No, I have no plans for tho recoup. I shall do well, thank you. All of us Japanese Jo well In America, No, we do not wish to take our money home to Japan. But this Is an unusual time. Our country la not so rich aa Russia and so we who love the mikado will go home with our money so that It may be used early In the war." General Weston, chief of subsistence of the American army, has solved what he believes, to be the great secret ot the Won derful mobility of the Japanese army. It lies in the field ration, a sample of which he has received from Major W. B. Barker at Nagasaki, one of tho American officers who are watching the war. Tha ration shows that the Japanese soldier can live and fight for a month on a food supply that weighs less than the dally ration of tho American soldier In the field. The fish received by General Weston la about seven lnchea long and an Inch and a half thick in the middle, and is dried until it resembles petrified wood. It weighs only twelve ounces, but Major Parker says It will sustain a Japanese soldier for seven days. When soldiers are on the march they eat the fish Just as it is, biting oft smalt pieces, which are thoroughly masticated, but when they are In camp the fish Is shaved oft in small slices and cooked with rice. Tne fish resembles a mackerel, but lta Japanese name la "mamtbuahl." The fish Is about two feet long and thick and solid before preparation for the army ration. In preparing it for army use it la eut In two and steamed and dried alter nately until It Is reduced to about one eighth of lta original size, with a corre sponding reduction In weight Each Japanese soldier can carry enough fish and rice to lost him three or four weeks, and a whole army can bo made absolutely Independent of the commissary trains that are Indispensible In other arm ies. If the Russian soldiers could live On as little aa the Japanese require tba Si berian railroad would have little to do but haul troops, for one train load of dried flsta and rica would sustain General Kouropat kln's army for weeks. Dried fish IS used only as a field ration. Tha regular dally ration In tha Japanese army consists of one and a half pounds of rice and half a pound of canned meat. The dally ration In the United States army weighs about four pounds, and the emerg ency ration Is not a great deal lighter. After the battle of the Talu, during the war between China and Japan, Admiral Ito, who, as will be remembered, covered himself with glory on that occasion, had granted a young officer a few days' leave of absence. When the time cams for the absentee to rejoin his hlp the admiral reoelved the following laconlo telegram: "Owing to unforeseen circumstances I can not, as expected, return to duty." Tha ad miral replied: "Either give reason or re turn." Shortly after a message reached him from a hospital at Iokosuta: "Train lost cannot travel; leg lost cannot run. Will return If you Insist" Admiral Ito did not Insist. Secretary Hay baa great respect for any one who has tackled and mastered tha Rus sian language, and this is the reason for his admiration: Many years ago ha de cided to take up 'the study of Russian, thinking It could ba acquired aa readily as other European languages. He engaged a Russian priest In New Tork to Instruct him and worked faithfully for several months, lie planned to visit RuBsla and expected to spend a winter In the southern part of the empire. But after devoting more time and study to Russian than be had ever given to any other language Mr. Hay found he had mode no headway, and tha visit to Rusula was abandoned. t Plata Wards Plainly Snakes. Chicago Post Another bank teller has confesed that a large shortage In bis accounts Is due to speculation. And It Is encouraging to note that tha newspapers refer to him as a thief Instead of an embesxler. I'aaeeatlr Levity at a Wake. Chicago Post perhaps tha Nebraska democrats saw no harm In allowing a maa lo dance oa bis own political coma, Fifty Years Improves tho flavor and adds to - tho hcalthfulnoss of tho food. PRICK BAKINQ POWDER CO OHIOAQO. TUB BOY WHO KJtEW HOW. Incident Teaches a Lesson Valuable In Everyday Life. Chicago Inter Ocean, The other day Katie Tremble, aged 12, took her little brother, Just recovering from an attack of typhoid, to play on the dock at the foot of East Thirty-third street, New Tork City. She forgot the child for a few minutes and he tummea into tne river. There was not a man In sight but Katie remembered that Jlmmle Courtney, aged 14, who has some reputation aa a swimmer, was playing baaa ball half a block away, and to him she ran for help. By this time the tide had oerrle& the child out some distance. Young Courtney plunged In, brought the unconscious child ashore, and immediately put Into practice bis school lessons In re viving tha drowned. By the time the po liceman on the beat came up there really was nothing for him to do. The boy who knew how had dealt successfully with the whole emergency. By his chums In that part of tho city Jlmmle Courtney waa admired as a good swimm&r. Now he haa not only the ad miration of children, but also that of many grown persona. Ha has got his name into tha newspapers In tha only desirable way. He has obtained a reputation of real value to him now and In after life. He was able to do this because ha had taken the trouble to know how to know how to swim and to know how to deal with coses of drowning. And he has proved that ho possesses tha wit and wilt to use his knowledge promptly and efficiently. He has proved himself tha kind of boy that the world needs, and of which It Cart never have too many.. Boys and grown men aa well who are alwaya complaining that they have "no chance," may profitably reflect upon the case ef Jlmmle Courtney, No boy and no man who knows how to do something really useful to others and who Is prompt to use his knowledge When tho need comes will ever lack a "chance" for distinction and Its rewards. Chances are everywhere. The trouble Is that so many people do not know bow to take them, or lack the prompt courage to use them without which the largest opportunities leave men aa poor and ob scure as they were before. THE GERMANS AND ItOOSEVELT. Aa Organised Movement of Deep Political Significance. Leslie's Weekly. The National Roosevelt league. Just or ganised In Washington, has a significance which haa not been grasped by the press thus far. It Is composed of American cltisens of German birth or descent, has Congressman Richard Bartholdt of Mis souri for president, Its other officers repre sent many states, and It is' to extend all over tha country and to take a prominent part In the canvass of 1904. Numerically and Socially the Germans are the most Important foreign element of tha American cltisens. Originally democrats by a large majority, they Joined tho repub lican party, especially In the west, on the issue of hostility to slavery, on which the party was founded in 1854. Vast numbers of them were In the armies of the union. After slavery was abolished and the union saved, tha tariff kept them In the repub lican party. Prohibition sent many of them over to the democrats a dosen years ago or more, and by this means the democrats Carried Illinois and Wisconsin In 1892, re duced tha republican lead so much In Ohio that one democratlo elector squeesed In, and gave Cleveland his large majority. It was the loss of a large part of the German vote In that year which gave Cleveland his lead In New York and Indiana. Then came the honest money Issue, which brought tha Germans back to tha republican party, and gave MoKlnley his vlotories In 1896 and 1900. President Roosevelt's personality makes an especial appeal to tha American citizens of German birth and parentage. They like Mm for his courage, clearheadedness and democracy. All elements, colors and creeds of American cltlsena are on an equality In President Roosevelt's favor. There are no hyphens In tha president's Americanism. Nor are there In that of the National Roosevelt league. Its -members, by more than a two-thirds majority, voted down a propostion to call themselves the German-American National Roosevelt league. They declared themselves to be plain Americans, without prefix or qualifi cation. . , WHAT IS A "FELLOW SERVANT?' Points la tha Raaaat Decision of tha Federal Baprema' Court. Chicago Tribune. IC Is a settled rule of law that when oue employe Is Injured through tha neglect or blunder of a fellow servant the employer is not liable In damages. The courts have held that where on employe is neoessarlly exposed to b a sard by tha carelessness of a coamploya he must be supposed to haye voluntarily taken the risk of that carelgsu ness. If he notices that one of his fullow workers Is negligent or unskillful, and hence a dangerous man to work with, It is his duty for his own protection to notify the employer. Tha law may seem plain enough, but there are continual disputes over what a la a fellow servant. If a dosen men are lifting a beam and ona Is careless and an other Is Injured, clearly the employer Is not liable.1 If the men obey the blundering order of a foreman and on la hurt, the the Standard fen foreman Is not a fellow servant but a rep resentative of tha employer, who Is liable. There are more complicated cases than this. There Is, for instance, the one passed on by tho supreme court of the United States this week and determined by a vota of five to four. A fireman on the Northern Paciflo was killed in a collision caused by tha negli gence of, a telegraph operator and station agent working for the road. Tha operator gave the train dispatcher Incorrect In formation about the movements of tralhs which caused him to give an order which resulted in the collision. The circuit court of appeals was uncertain whether tba operator was a "fellow servant" of the fireman or a "vice principal" of the com pany, and asked the supremo court to de termine the point. Justice Brewer and four others say he was a "fellow servant" and Justice Whlta and three others that he was not Tha majority governs. Railroad officials will agree with Justice Brewer and railroad employee with Justice White. Those who belong to neither class will be divided In their opinions, but the majority of them will think that the oper ator was not a "fellow servant" about whose lack of competency and liability to be dangerously negligent the. fireman had sufficient means of getting Information; that it was the duty of the company to have a competent man in his place, and that If It put an Incompetent man there It ought to pay for his blunders. But the supreme court has decided otherwise. . WHITTLED TO A POINT. Mrs. Henpeck I don't think ohe'll ever marry him. Mr. Henpeck Why notT Mrs. Henpeck Oh, she. quarrels with him ao and is so domineering. Mr. Henpeck Indeed? I'll bet they've been secretly married already-Philadelphia Press. ,'T sholl make you love me yet," declared Mr. Stlnjay, determinedly. I shall leave no stone unturned." '"Ah I that sounds something Hke!" ex claimed the fair fclrl, "If the stone weighs not less than a carat and Is pure white you may interest me." Chicago Tribune. ' i Splnkster Johnny, your mother tells me you were playing ball yesterday. Don't you know It Is very, very wrong to play base ball on Sunday? Johnny But, I say, pa, we whitewashed the Bouncers. Bplnkster Did you? Your mother didn't tell me of that. Boston Transcript She (pettishly) I don't see why It Is you find poker so fascins'tlng. Her Husband It's the queens In the deck, my dear. They remind me ao much of you. Philadelphia Press. "That was a brUIlant defense you made of that criminal. You deserve credit for his acquittal." - . "Well," answered the young lawyer, "I worked hard. But it wain t as much of a victory as I might have wished for. Since the case was tried I have secured information that loads me to believe that he was actually innocent." Wasbligtou Star. HER MISSION. Woman's Life. She was only a little woman, 'tis true, And hers was a common story; She never had dreamed of a thing to do That would lead her to fame or glory. She could not paint, and oho could not slog, And sho could not wiite a sonnjet; She had not a face that could lend a grace To a stylish love of u bonnet She hod not the wealth, and she knew not ease; She never hod traveled for pleasure; She knew not the art to churm and pleasa In the realm of nodal leisure. And yot she dreamed that her life waa blest In Its humble sphere of duty. Though only those who knew l.er best Guessed halt of lis hidden-beauty. For hers was a genius for little things, The realm of home to brighten, And she scorned not the humblest work that brings Some forire to cheer and lighten. For comfort and order were tiers to com mand, And the ioys of Ufa seemed longer, While childhood clung to her loving linnrt. And manhood, through her, grew , stronger. And some who loved her were hnlf afraid That her sphere was far too small; But, oh, the happy home she mads Was a great thing after all! i And when her beauteous spirit shall flee From Its realms of loving rind rt'ing, Her stnlnlen m-nument hnll h The live hnt were tiloeil by Iir living. Pale. Thin Pale cheeks, white lips, and languid step tell the story of thin blood, impure blood. Doctors call it "anemia. They recommend Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Ask them and they will tell you Just why it makes the blood so rich and red. AiuV.Jt Anerrilc people are almost always constipated. Their liver Is sluggish. Thev have frequent attacks of jck hcadsche, nausea, biliousness. Just one of Ayer's Pills each nig.ht wlu cor rsct these troubles. Mcesla. i. C ATEt CO.. UsU. Staav