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AIM nni2: FKIDAY, JULY 1, 1C3.
Ti::: Omaha Daily En
B, KOKCWATKR, EDITOR.
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r niptete copies of The f HiTy, Morning.
Evening nnoVBunday He p-tnt.-d during the
rmmuijf June, liei, waa aa follows;
1 ,i.StJI,W , . 15 v.2,43
I...!. ;n,Tin , 17 jrn.KNO
3 2i,T20 IS 21.K.-1
4 ,..2U,TZ 19. 2S.120
6 .S,yBO ' 20 2HMI7
..2W.TTCO ' 21..; sr,740
7 2,71K 22 ;..X1,TOO
e a,To 23 r..7seo
t.i 21,00 24 .jO,lM0
10 ...JHI.400 ' 25...., ,.25,74M
11 30,033 Vt..., 7,7t
13 aa.sso Z7.t ....ho.iio
13 ,..8J00O ' ' 28....... ,m
14 ....20,030 29 5M-.fi SO
lu 30,110 : to.. a,7o
Total.
.. ...... ...... St'3teft
L unsold and returned coplea..'.. ,71
Net total aajea....:. 87.VJT
!bal!y average 2,1JJI
GEO. fe. TZSCHUCK.
Bubeiriljed In'niy preBtica and sworn to
before ma thla SW.h Uuy or June, A. 1). 1904,
iF,-al . M. B. HUNGATE, .
Notary public
- Anotlicr installment bf Nebraska's fat
famed corn-growing weather la about
duo. , - :
On second sober thouglit a campaign
on thh water wagon was too much for
Ceneral Miles. .
If the grown-upa 'will provide th$ safe
I'ourth of July tle children will provide
the sound part thereof.
All Omaha, excepting 'possibly the
V: 'ulers In fireworks and toy pistols,
wuts a sane Fourth of July.
ItUHslan newspapers announce the In
tention of Russia to seize Corea. Dis
tance In this case, must lend enchant
ment to th4 view, . : ' r
With tfie filing contests the demo
cratic love feast has already begun at
bt Louis, and the Kilkenny cats will
have to look to their record. . . ' .
fcwn tary Hay's style of diplomatic
dt'iillns in the case of Morocco Is said to
have startled Europe,, but as It produced
ilo dcbireJ results emulation may fol
low surprise. ' " .
r-ji.ker Washington's rewponsa'to the
attack by Governor Vardaman of Mls-t'v.--'iTt
v;-ca iiei'i'0 ecluen,fIoa comes a
Kttle lntr- but it Lns the merit of being
yke-l by r-roof., ' ;
T- (loniK.Tatic organ grinders appear
f -, ' j i.iore Interested in the selection of
:' ) chairman of the republican state
committee than the republican news
i apcra and. loaders. ' : . ' . '
If the forctiibte of the discord at St.
Ixni?8 is an lmb? to the aftermath, the
coluiiitsM of tho local press will have
aplenty of contributions over the names
of tiiotlnguliihetf democrats. ' '
Tlia Junior yellow has already nom
iittttrd T " Cui'oy for cw.grc."3 ' fcy
cnaB!:'!ou9 vote. The same veracious
Bhei-t had Governor Mickey turned down
the day tho convention nominated him.
' How much of the enthusiasm was due
to the picttt-uce of the prophet and what
was duo io the presence of the alleged
inilMoti-dollar bride will be left to the
r-ni-J;iata of Dowie'a ZIon to decide.
The stand imttrs and the democrats
In Iowa eppenr to have agreed as to the
meaning of the tariff plank, of the repub
lican platform, but they will disagree on
eno'.iKh -points that the fur will fly hone
t' less.
It's an etiy thing for the railroads to
t'jlse rates ' under pretenae.of revlnlng
tarii? classification. What Omaha mu!t
hK)k out for Is that when revlttious are
made they do not discriminate agalnnt
Omaha Industries. 1
If tb(sa experts who are telling all
about the prolmbie effect of the present
uiovcmt'uts of the armies in the Orient
J. uve the Interests of their readers at
If.. rt they will explain some of their
recent cipht nations.
il ap tl.e reason the prominent
.loin tire apparently paying so little
,t oli to BelliTig In the public
'. at this time is bs-cauwe they hope
ire the pupils for the phonetic
0 i t fin 'liu now mi. Lt coiiwUh-ra-
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,: 1 ly i!! (ttv.a tit.ttti.u of eiii(i!oj'
i (i- (, ;.!. ex, 't!ier cf thh'h. In
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at i f 1 i t l-ar'.!- , tl-i.M (.i.-.iiiia-i
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X'F.wktiatk cau i;i.Arvys.
Some of the estimates nui'lo by the
democrats In their efforts to C?ro out
a victory In this year's cie-Uoii are en
tertaining and rn aiuuHlnjr. .There are
47tt electoral votes find -"'J aw neces
sary to a choice. Of these tin? deni'V
crata can count safely upon IT.!), -which
Is elKhty short of Uie numl er rcpslred
to elect. If tht democratic hope of car
rying New Yorlv, Illinois and Indiana
should be. realized that would be nu!h
cient, but It Is hardly within the possi
bilities that they can win In. all these
three states. Without the Empif state
die democratic campaign - Is Of course
hopeless and existing condition In that
state afe such as td warrant the belief
that it rannot be carried by the democ
racy this year. ' . ' - '
As to 'Illinois, '-4:1,000 Is the smallest
republican margin In That state in ten
years. The average, has been more than
R0,(KV It was nearly 90,000 In the last
election two years sico. .Indiana hna not
gone dento,crstIc since, is's. jt K-ive
McKinley a plurality of Kii.470 in IfKM),
when both tho republicans and demo
crats had the largest k-'tal vote In their
h'story, and two years es, n ta exer
tion for secretary of state, tho repub
licans had a plurality of 355i. It Is
therefore apparent that the democratic
chn'ncts oft carrying either of these
states next November are extremely
slim. Decause there Is a republican fac
tional quarrel. In Wisconsin some of the
democratic calculations Include- that
state, but Wisconsin Is not to be rer
garded as even doubtful. , In recent
years 47,000 - Is the low. Water mark
republican plurality In that state and;
50,000 is only normal. In-lftOO the Mc
Kinley plurality In Wisconsin was 10fl,
rSl. The factional trouble there Is not
likely to affect mnterielly If at all the
republican vote on presidential electors.
O-ne of the calculations .Includes Idahd
Montana and Nevada, bn there Is very
good reason vto believe tfiat these, states
are as secure for- the republican ticket
tjs Is Iowa. Of course the democrats fig
ure on New Jersey and Connecticut, bnt
ii Is hardly possible that either of those
states can be won by that party, with
its free trade tendency. '
There is ' really' no basis in, present
conditions, for democratic dreams of suc
cess and the professed belief of the lead
ers of that party that there is to be a
great popular change In its behalf, that
will carry the party into power is pred
icated upon tio evidence and If sincerely
entertained show's an utter misapprehen
sion of the popular Intelligence and dis
cernment. The thoughtful people of the
country are not complaining of repub
lican policies or republican administra
tion and there Is no substantial ground
for compnlnt They do not. want a
change .that would very certainly Impair
bulness confidence and produce Indus-,
trial and commercial depression. . Ttyey
have no reason for confidence Mn the
democracy, Vnt very clear , and strong
reasons for distrusting that party. There
Is most favorable promised of revival
of business and a mtlnuance of oros-'
pertt and this will contribute greatly
to republican success, .... -.. v ;.
... . OBJECT TO OVlt METHODS.
The mcmrlal of German manufactur
ers t the government,' in - which they
object to certain features of American
customs administration, j will ddubtless
! d to n effort on tlie part Of the Ger
man government to have the matter
considered at Washington. There 1 is
probably some merit la the complaint of
the Gorman manufacturers and it ought
to have the effect to '-direct the atten
tion of congress to "the points contained
In the memorial, but of course there
will be., no change applying solely to
German manufacturers.: If there is
modification on the lines suggested In
the memorial it must apply generally
and it is doubtful whether congress will
be disposed to do this. . - - r . ' v
Our customs administration Is the, re
sult of long experience and a most
careful study of . what i, essential, but
It Is by no means to be concluded that
it Is free from defects. At almost every
ftnn Of ooneTei change, tnethodg I3
siif,'!.''steti, due o complainf from Amer
ican lniiMrters, but the disposition has
been not to disturb what experience has'
demonstrated to be on the. 'whole a good
system. In the event, however, of the
German memorial bringing out a sim
ilar coirp'.slnt from ether fw!jn manu
facturers, which it Is quite likely to do,
a modification of the customs admin
istration may be found expedient That
can of course be done without touch
ing the tariff schedules. ' , '- '
A NEW, riSC 41. YE AO. ' ' .
A new fiscal year at the federal gor
erumeut bifgins today, when the ap
proprlntlons nisda at the last tension of
congrtisa, for the -expes! of-the gov
ernment from now imtll June BO, l'Jlij,
become 'avallaj.)le. During te year
Just closed there was a small excess of
receipts over expenditures, but the sur
plus Is smaller than for several years
and less than had been estimated by the
secretary ' of .-the . treasury. The total
receipt's of the year Ml BbuutfiO.OtKXOOO
below tho preceding year, while the
totul expenditures Increased to the same
amount, rractli-ally "the entire decline
In gross receipts was due to the falling off
lo customs returns, tlie receipts from lu
torriul revenue taxis and niscellaneous
suurves being a fiV liilliioris in excexs
of -the pretlous year. Virtually the
whole inert aeie In t-xperi.liiun'B was ou
account of the navy.
The Pa: iiua pnyiuvnt and the loan
to tho I.ov u.a I'D n liKKrt expotiitlon
mat.-. i.,!ly
u- Uii-i-l t
MUtUahltt cash
tu the tr. .i-'.'ry, ! ot it
li;.,0ci),i.ii. u-.ir mill nbov
( H 11 ).(. J,. .hi r- . ? V
tuy hhow lo' at th.e
t!M!;l ji 1 1 Is (hen i ...f. - -
tin re U l . -it b xj-' t t:..
till ClHUlt
the Jfir.i),
'1 ho reas-
1 f a new
r..t 1.1 y and
t th!.- couiil
ti.ui ir! - lift -1 m- t i.rou, hoot th.i year,
lllilesi th. (.' hhooM t.O f.li ll lloei.e.i fof
f.,!.;: 1 t T 1. 1 te., l in. U U r-t biiprob-
,' j ',' ' ! n,!:-.if -..( . .t;.i. W ill
be Jcfis during the current yeir than they
were last year, so that a surplus at the
close of the yef,r cannot bo confidently
counted on. Indeed it is quite possible
that there will lie a deficit, but this
would cause no trouble, ss shown by
the available cash balance. The govern
ment lias never been financially sounder
than It i at present and It would cer
tainly be a very grest mistake to depart
from the policy which bas produced this
condition, ' . ,
UXCALI.KD FOH ASft r,Y W4HRAXTED.
The chairman of the republican com
mittee of th Second congressional dis
trict has once, more rushed into' print
with an ;en letter addressed to Mr.
P.obert Cowell, chairman of the repub
lican jbounty committee, formally re
questing a conference with a Mew to
fixing a date for "calling the primary
election that isto- nominate delegates to
the congressional convention, candidates
for the legislature and candidates for
the county ot!)ces to be- filled -at the
coming election. Incidentally Chairman
Cowell is also requested to arrange for
Joint regulation "end control of the pro
posed primaries by th'ecounty and con.
grcsslonal committees.
Yv Tiy a letter addressed by one chair
man representing the congressional com
mittee, addressed to the chairman repre
senting the county committee of tbs
same party should be given publicity
can only b explained on the presump
tion that the chairman of tho congres
sional coramlttee craves nqfortety rather
than party t success. ' Such correspond
ence' Is always presumed to be confiden
tial and lo very rarely given out unless
a controversy arises that compels one or
tie other of the, contracting parties , in
Belf justification tp apprise the public of
his position. - . - ': .-,
Tlxe situation In this district is, how
ever, exceptional. The. chairman of the
congressional committee always ' bag
claimed to act and epeaft for the -whole
committee) which In reality he carries
in his pocket. The , chairman of the
Douglas county committee, on the con
trary, while possessing ample power for
conducting campaigns la nojVln position
to arrogate to himself authority to speatc
and act for the whole committee without
at least conferring with its members.
' It goes' without saying that the 'prop
osHlon to hold Joint primaries for the
nomination 'of delegates to the congres
sional convention and delegates to the
county convention, or 'candidates for the
legislature and other offices, to be filled
In Douglas county will meet with no
opposition from any quarter. The prop
osition to allow the congressional . com
mittee to exercise Joint control over the
primaries la , Douglas county beyond
joint agreement as to the data of these
primaries will Justly be resenbjd end
denounced; as' unwarranted and Intoler
able Interference ialth the county com
mittee. ' '- ,
The function and duty of the congres
sional committee is to fix the apportiqn
ment of delegates to which each of the
respective counties In the district shall
be entitled in the congressional convenr
tion, to set the "time for holding the con
vention and name the place where' it Is
to be heJd. This Is as far as the con
gressional committee Aas a right o go.
It Is" for the. county committee In each
of the three counties 'In this district to
locate the. voting places and conduct the
primary election under Its own rules and
to Issue certificates to the delegates duly
elected to represent the county In the
congressional convention. ' '' ;
The congressional committee has no
more rlht to " designate : the.' voting
phizes, came the election oflleers or su
pervise the primary election Sn the vari
ous . wards and precincts of Douglas
county than the'state committee hnS to
do the same thing when delegates are
chosen to represent this county; in the
state convention. .Even if the congres
sional committee should arrogate to it
self the supervision Of the primary elec
tions the conditions under which the pri
maries are conducted must be uniform
In each of the three counties that make
up the district In other words, if there
la tO'be congressional committee super
vision in Don gin county the Mm conrse
must also be pursued In Barny and
Washington counties. Any attempt to
Impeach the integrity of Douglas county
republicans by discriminating rules Blm
ply ' means the disruption of the party
and disaster at the pd's In November.
Tlie New York steamboat disaster has
brought out an order from Secretary of
Commerce Oortelyou for the rigid In-;
spection of all passenger carrying steam
ers in New York harbor. But'New York
is not the only place w here the rigid in
spection of passenger carrying ' vessels
Is important, and the rigid Inspection of
passenger carrying vessels ia not tho
only safeguard that the tjovernment end
the municipalities ehotildjirovlde for th
protection of hudian life. f The periodic
relnfpection of theaters, public halls,
storehouses, hotels and tenements to pre
vent conflagrations and the loss of pre
cious lives should be made a regular
business in every population renter In
Omaha, in Chicago and in San Francisco
as well as In New York., Periodic
spasms like those that followed the Iro
quois holocaust and the General Slocnm
disaster do not count for much.
The manager of the Auditorium says
that the regular charges for the use of
that building are 00 per cent of the
gross receipts where the lessee pays for
the advertising and f0 per cent where
the Auditorium management defrays the
advertising en'nses. , The figure are
hlo given out to show that for the
recent band concert festival over f 18,000
was taken iu and over ftl.OOO paid the
bandmaster. This would indicate that
10 per cent, or fl.Kix), was held out for
advertising expenses. We would like to
know bow much of it wus really spent
for KvJiliiu'te "advertising purposes,
l'.n on-r county is the second to file a
n i' s of p.- t.sM xsineiit "Willi the Plate
l'..,ard if 1 ; t:.:.i.'.tluu, but the rvturiis
Justify .the prediction that it will be the
banner county In its exhibit of decreased
valuations. This fact does not, how
ever, by any means constitute an 1m
penchment of tho-county assessor, but
simply shows what has been asserted
time and again, that most of the counties
In thfe extreme westcra portion of Ne
braska Were retnrned heretofore at ex
cessively high valuations as compared
with counties In tho central and eastern
portions of the state chiefly because they
wanted to make a fpspeetable showing.
Break It Getly, Flae.
Chiraa-o Record-Herald.
Iet tha committee that Is to notify the
president of his nomination remem,ber that
sudden, joy aa well as audden sorrow la
often dangerous.
'
Work, for Vtilllan; Ilaada.
New York Tribune. '
The wheat fields 'of the west are waiting
for harvesters. . in this , broad land thsra
are work and opitTrrtunitloii foV all, but the
workers niunt jo'to the work; It will pdt
come to them. . . ' ' ' "
,One Way Get Ahead. . . .
, " ' ! ' . - Baltimore American. , , -The
report that Dr. Powle's son Is to
marry a' BwUa "mtllloniilress, 'a a remit
Cf tils trtp abroad, would make It r.r
that the tour has been a rood deal more
of a. ucre? than a prejucileed press la
Ttllllng; to admit. ' . "
A Slaht for OalLfry Ooda. '
Mlnnespolls Timea.
Mr. Fckeli la a Clsreland delrgate of the
tnoet pronounced 'typo. He Is going- to St,
Louis aa a member f t the Illinois delnra
tlon. Under the unit rule It will be hia
rreat privilege to, Ypte' fcjr' Pllly Hearat.
You can lmaglna how ha enjoys it. ' '
CVvelanA le!lTa. '
. (Springfleid Republican (Ind.).' v "
There will b one Interesting national
convention this year,' and It will meet at
Si. Ixiula.' In considering It, have .n ere
out for the orator who may get up and
nominate Orover Cleveland The attempt
la scarcely likely th succeed, but that. the
attempt will be made' Is not at ail beyond
the range of, probability.'. .
fhe Swift Pnee la fcermany.
Kansas -City Star. , . ' '
The attention of good. Americans might
ba directed to the .fact that tha two chief
elecUIcalJInus of Germany are ottering to
construct a high speed line from Berlin to
Hamburg, 180 nil lee. .One offers to guar
antee a speed of 100 mllea an hour and the)
other holds out the Inducement of IS miles.
The United States has no line that attempts
to approach this speed. America has al
ways, prided Itself on Its pre-eminence In
electrical matters. j.'Buf thougll? Us great
distances make high speed .transportation
of first importance, the country aeema likely
to -be. outdone In the proneer work In this
field by the .plodding but thorough Ger
mans, ... J ",f '';..' . V
' tllaek'a Nonilnattna- Speeek .
Portland Oregonlan. . '
Governor Black'a nominating speech Will
make plendld campaign materia j and the
voters should not be permitted, to , forget
the eloquent words of .his faithful' charac
terisation.. In that speech and hose, which
followed It were summed up the argu
ments upon which this campaign will be
fought, and every 'republican who Intends
to do- fffectlve work for his party should
become familiar telth .those clearly ex
preesed Toason why Theodore' Roosevelt
should be 'ejected, v , The addresses were
not shallow Impromptu talks.' They were
Btudled productions- from the minds cf
America's greatest public men, and every
one of them H 'WTff thy if . more than a.
temporary place Jn'lhe records of Ameri
can oratory.;-. ,. ;. . '-,, '..-, . .' .
-V -. 'ii .rOCR YEARS, AGQ. '' ',"
Itaeolleetioaa, ot the lnat Republleaa
v v National Convention. : , , .
. v Baltimore American.! ( 1 ,
The close approach .of the republican
national convention " must Inevttably , re
call In vivid speotjicl the convention of
four years ago at Philadelphia which
renominated President McKinley and In
advertantly, by Inexplicable destiny, doomed
him to death by asatfnatlon. No one
of (he thousands who Jalned entrance td
the great hail of the Museums 'building
and none of tho millions who ren4 of the
proceedlnga could ever forget the' enthusi
asm with, which wns mef every mention
of the name of McKinley. .Ha was serving
the last year of his term, 'which hud been
an era of almost unparalleled prosperity
to the entire country. The Spanish war had
been fought. Cuba, had -been surrendered
to the Uqlted State for the Cubans, Porto
Rico and the Philippines' had been acquired,
the Hawaiian .group had been annexed.
Following this prosperity and these trfl
hunt achievements this Hirst national con
vention of the. dominant party was natur
ally one of almost unexampled enthusiasm.
In the light of the last three years it
must seem that, President McKinley re
moved by as vile a tragedy aa ever black
ened the pages of history, something more
than human forettlgut directed the nomina
tion of Governor Roosevelt for tha vice
presidency. Representative, now Senator
Dolliver, of Iowa, was -the leading candi
date for that oitloe, and his battle was ably
generated by Governor, now 'Secretary
Shaw. Lieutenant-Governor Woodruff, of
New York, had the great delegation cf hi
state behind him. Other less conspicuous
candidate were In tha field, all well un
derstanding that the success of any one
depended upon the resolution, which was
apparently Inexorable, of Governor Roose
velt not to accept the vice presidential
nomination. But, -leading the New York
delegation, cheered at every appearance as
a great figure of the tr, remembered for
hi vaat energy and thoroughness in the
several important offices he had held, the
convention, delegate and apeotator, de
manded'trmt he be nominated regardless of
hi own wishes, and through the pies the
whole country echoed the demaint
It w as written that President McKinley,
gentle, lovable, a pure a man aa ever
lived, should go to Buffalo to perform an
Important function and there to die. That
being the Inevitable It was matter for uni
versal congratulation that a man with the
grasp upon public affairs, such as President
Roosevelt, bad been elected to take up the
work of th ehlef executive. Without In
the least beclouding the ability of any of
the candidates for .the vice presidential
oftice, it la poeKlble that not one would
have proved like President Roosevelt equal
In a prompt and masterly way to every
emergency. Probably not another publlo
man In th whole land would have had the
alertness and the courage to deal with
th Panama question in the manner which
thrilled the world with admlration-for It
audacity, for a little while excited the
alarm of the tlndd and (snorant, and then
wu given the verdict by nu n xI all par
tics and countries tluit his jiiKimr of grap
pling with the delhate conditions was a
stroke of sublime genius.
Not only, therefore, are the enthusiaatk!
r.oiiiinatlon of President McKinley and Ms
lameutable d.ath. recalled vividly at this
time, but nUi) the dramatic, providential
nomliuitlon of Governor Roosevelt for the
second i'lac will have a new meaning
sad vitality In emphaM of tlie wisdom of
hit policy in a trlumph'tnt nomination -fur
the high office which be hold only t.y vir
tue of a su' cnnaioi) about wLileh there u,ut
Uucr tuv!tuM an atinoithei uf trst'2'.
GOSSIP OF TUB WAR.
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Tare Coaamandera f th Japanese
Army 1 tha Fteld.-
. A nstlv of Japan with an unpronounce
able nam contribute to the New York
Independent a akotch of the career of
the commander of th three army corp
of the Island empire now moving against
th main army of Russia In Manchuria.
Taking them In th order ot their rank th
writer say: .
, Ueneral It el KuroVl, tha commander In
chief of the First Japanese grmy corps In
the field, wu born la th "year 1846 In
Satauma (thV province ot Batsuma Is In
the southern extremity of Klushlu and
may be called the Bparta of Japan). Th
hero of the recent battle of Talu ia a
typical soldier ot Batsuma character. - In
htm there ia - no dement of - cowardice.
He 1 courage personified. ' II lived th
life of a o4dtr from boyhood, gradually
rising from a low rank in the army until
ha waa promoted to a generalship: .
In the war of restoration In lSea he
served at the head of a detachment ot
the Imperial army.' In 1871 he waa pro
moted to tbe rank of a captain In the
Imperial Guard division.. In th south
western war of 1877 he, fought - for th
mikado continually . for IS days against
Takamorl Salgo, a man from hi own
province, who rebelled against the mi
kado's government because - it had not
taken hi counsel to reprimand Corea' for
it misdemeanor In 1875. Among th
Satsumans there wa ' a division of opin
ion. Borne sympathized with Salgo, oth
er rebuked Mm for hi error. In 188t
when a prince of Sweden visited Japan,
Kurokl, I as a staff officer, surprised th
visitor with hi show of military tactics.
Ia 18H3 ha was a lieutenant general and
th commander of tho Bixth division at
Kumamoto. ' Two years later war was
declared between China and Japan. The
order for th. movement ot the troop
were issued. After th regulars and tha
first reserve of th Sixth, division de
parted, KarokT nerve wo severely taxed
whil he was replacing the vacancy with
the second . reserves partly because at
times he neglected meals and shortened
hours of sleep, Zmt chiefly became ha
wa anxlou to go to th front rather than
tay at home. Later,. when h waa In th
storms of battle fields, he ald to some
on, fl feel very much relieved now that
I am In the field."' 1 - !
In the capture of. Wei Jlai Wet Which
wa achieved, on th land atack by th
combination of. force from the Second
and. the JJfxth divisions, Kurokl had done
all in bla power to assist Lieutenant Gen
eral 8akuma, who wa In command of th
Second division, in the Joint attack of th
stronghold. , .1
Soma year after th war, when Generals
Yamagata and Oyama were made field
marshes, Kurokl, together with Oku and
Noxu, was pronioted to the rank ot a gen
eral., ' s ; '
General Hokyo Oktl, 'the .oommander-ln
ehlef of the Second Japanese army corps In
the jleld, first made himself prominent In
1S77, when, as a, major colonel In the Im
perial army, he defended th castle of
Kumamoto, under the command- of Major
General - Kanjo Tanl, against the firm In
vestment of the castle by the southwest
ern rebels under Tukamorl Salgo, Japan's
Jefferson Davis. This war, It must be ex
plained, was, Ilk the civil war of th
United States, the war that might . hav
torn Japan, asunder. The castle of Ku
mamoto, once taken by th rebels. It wa
apparent "that ' there wa no -checking of
their advance toward- the 'capital 'city of
Tokio,. where they would force th gov
ern men t official to do the pleasure of
the ringleader. It waa Major' Colonel Qku
who boldly, lwd . the sortie, broke through
the besiegers and 'established communica
tion with: the Imperial reinforcement out
sld. Thus, he knows what it' la to ba be
sieged, and consequently know how to
deal with th besieged In the Port Arthur
fortress. - - - ..; ' ,- '. ' 1-
Imring the Chinese-Japanese . war he
stayed at home a tha commander of ' th
Sixth division aft Kumamoto, td succeed
Lieutenant General Kurokl, who went ..to.
the front . After the war, when Japan wa
divided tito three different sections of
milliary administration the eastern, . the
middle arid the western Lieutenant Gen
era! Oku was made the head of the east
ern. At " the coronation,. of Edward VII
of Eheland as the eirtperor of India, Oku
represented .Japan' In the Indian part of
the ceremony. In October, 1803, he was
promoted to the rank of, a general and
made a permanent member of th council
of war. ' . '
Although he is not a Satsuroan, but a
Bungoan (th province of Bungo Is on
the Pacific' coast pf Klushlu end may be
called the Corinth of Japan), yet,' as the
commander-in-chief of tha . Second ' Japa
nese army corps he ha already performed '
an epoch-making feat at Kin .Chou and
at the Nanshan hill. It is but a. question
of a week or two before he wil reach to
the climax of tha Russo-Japanese war
namely, the fall of Port; Arthur, which
even a, -year-old child know by Instinct
will happen. . '
.' - - . . . ( ' .
n.r,l Vflehltsura Nodsu. . th pi'obaU
ooramander-in-chief of th Third Japanes
Army corps, wa born In Satsutna, ilk
Geueral Kurokl. with alt th characUruitic
of a Sataumanv He is a iff yn' the
senior of his fellow provincial oldir. The
rii ar-.n WnV he was not placed In com
mand of the First army ar many1. Among
other, the fact that n. naa aireaajr n
i ih, .imiiAr position In time of th
Chinese-Japanese war stands pre-eminent,
because, when there are omer oirci,
though younger, yet just a bcav a
hiOT.oir thrra waa no reason wny in
younger men hould not he given a chance.
In hi younger day h served aa a
major colonel In the Imperial army, In
the southwestern1 civil war. In tho Chinese-Japanese
war, however, h had eon
centrated liU energy. Which wa Inspired
in him by year of experience of aoldler life,
and won hlrn faro. v
In the beginning of the' war, then lieu
tenant general. Nodiiu went to th front as
the commander of th Fifth division of
Hiroshima. , At Ping Yang, pareetvlng th
weakness of the Chines In th battle In a
plafn, h attached the enemy In a "plain
around th city before the enemy was
able to defend the stronghold. Thl wa
effectlv,-nd the Chinese fled pell-mell to
ward Yalu. Driving the fugitive "On the
pur" of the moment, he forced hi march
to 'Wlju, where, under the direction of
the commander-in-chief. General Yamagata,
he. In conjunction wluh Lieutenant General
Katsur (the present premier of Japan),
the commander of the Third division of
Nagoya, led hi men across th Yalu.
Wtill yet th army wa marchjng on, th
commander-in-chief wa recalled by th
mikado himself, partly on account of hi
dtwobedlence, but chiefly on account of his
111 health- And hi duties wers transferred
to Nodsu.
After the war Nodtu wa promoted to th
rank of a general, waa mad th head of
the niiddl section of the military adminis
tration and a permanent member of the
council ct war. HI generalnhlp, however.
Is looked upon as somewhat superior to th
other two. Although the coinmander-ln-i-l.lef
of th Third army is t!U a thing of
mystery to the public, yet if General N..i!u
atmuld be obliged to assume the position it
is iparent that he will be a sort of a field
murchal, decolte the r.-irt that Field Mur
shal. Yniimata will go to the fr.,i.t and
duect th ariiil..- In th field.
' THH LAW'S DELAY,
rrer-ratl. f l'saeMrr Sers s
.( Obslrnet Jaattea.
I Philadelphia Record,
The war burning word utter by
Judge Cox of th United State) circuit
court In his address to th graduating class
of Columbia university th other day. "W
ar suffering in thl eeuntry," h said,
"from an over production ot law
there are H.ooo statute mad annually In
th United State. w legislate to
ur all evils, to remedy pant ones, to pre
vent new ona, to top Immorality, and yet
every day w ae crime go unpunished and
murderer go f r. Th mob, tlrd of th
law'a delay, drag out Iu victims to death
In th light of flaming jails 'and court
house." Th poor suitor I worn out by
weary waiting .for hi turn to be heard In
courts, th docket of some of whloh tri
bunals ar crowded With case three veara
old. and th end of Justice ar defeated by
ouatory appeal. Th evil ha grown to
an. enormity. aPD)ngth foundations af
ocUty.
It might be taken as presumption on the
part of mere laymen to say that h bench
and bar of this country bar too long re
mained wedded to- practice hoary with
age, which In England, whence they were
Inherited, have Ion a- since been CoiuIaneA
to th juristical garret. Some of our most
eminent lawyers and Judge. however,
nv .recently expressed themselves ex.
aotly to th above afreet' although a corn-
mitte or the new. Yot-tr tin
after a long period of Incubation, could
find no better eura for tha law'a itia t
suggest In It report to tha legislature than
in creation of tnora enurta. mora trial
Judge and mora anDollata divlalona. wi.v.
In England on Judge conduct th lltlga-
uu ior x,uw,twu people; In New York ther
on Jung ror avery 100,00a Th trial of
a caso is suii regarded by too mint mem.
bers of th bar aa a suns In vhih tha
lawyer ar tha player and th judge Is
th umpire A former Secretary Root re
marked a JJttl whlla ago at a' meeting
of hi legal brethren: "W do not address
ourselves to th main laauaa: thera in a
hundred objection and a acor of obstruc-
uon wnere in ta Esguau, court ther 1
one." - .
Judg Cox and .JusUo Brewer of tha
supreme court eolncld In th . view' that
th most fertil ourc of delay I th abuse
ot th miscalled right of appeal. A resort
to a higher court of appeal is iiot a right
at all; It la a privilege to be granted not
beeajjn of an erroneous rulino- whih aa
not affect th result but because th In-
teraata a 4 . . j.. . .
mw require. a,-vry man
Is entitled to a loir trial to ans dav ia
court, not to two day or thre or ten.
1 ne cur of this alms U Imperatively de
manded, but many other rhnr. i k.
direction of simplicity Of nur nrnnM
-will b needed to. free us of th reproach
m cumoersome, antiquated and, m It
effect, unjust system of Jutic. . ,
1 : x
, . llK8TIOJr AND AHSWER.
f eeret of President Rooaevelt' Popn.
xartty and Snceess. .
Collleo weeklar. -
Wby 1 Mr. Roosevelt not nnlv ana r.t
moat useful statesmen but ,1m Mr mn.
popular and successful pollUclanT Fw men
la American publlo Ufa who ara mn. ,ni
In thoir political methods succeed o bril
liantly in in gam of politic. Th ex
planation is to be found lars-eJv in 'h.
preSdenfa, humanity. Ha, Is th acUve.
l.l,V,.. V . . ' '
auiiurmuu American on an en
larged seal. Ho I not dlfforenfc II 1
only larger. Therefor what-he doe 1 In
stinctively understood! and smimvat i thl.
average honest American, Th president
doe not need to put his ear to'the ground
very often, because by merely following
hi own nature he follow and lead th
country. The Gorman emperor Is a twelfth
rate poet It ba been :ald, "but5 becaua
ne 1 a poet at all h knock to piece all
th first-rat politician 1n th war of
potltlcs." POet. In th sense of thu n,mta-
tlon, moan little more than .a man with &
run aioc or emotion wnicn tnable blra to
comprehend without effort th emotions f
Other mn. 'There I one Greek word for
'I do' from which we not the word nractt.
cat and another Greek word for 'I do from
which w get. the word poot , Th
two words practical and poetical may mean
two subtly different thing In that old and
subtle l&niraaa-fl. hut thv InAan 4Ti, it. mm.
In English and the same In the Jon's run."
10 respond to general passion and aspira
tion, in have th feelings of humanity In
all your nerve., a help and not a hin
drance to being praotlcal. We sometime
speak as if a cold, . calculating gamester
were most Jlkely to succeed In tho Intrica
cies 01 political - warfare. It 1 not true.
Nothing help the president more in. popu
larity than the dash ind Ini.ariiv it hia
Impulse. lie Write a book, read a book,
runa a rancn, work a deputy sheriff, box-in
hi ToelitlcAl record in tha (' VnrV
Assembly, goes to Cuba, or tills tho preol-
aenoy wun lie same ardent reality,, and,
therefore, primarily, do th people love htm.
, , risusoa ai jsotks. ,
'Perdloaria has thanked Secretary Hay
for securing hi release, and Secretary Jfay
ha thanked France for aiding In th mat
ter, but r.o one eeems to think 1( worth
whlla to thank RalsoulL
F. luipklnson Cmith recently remarked:
"If I con tell the who story cf my novl
in flv minutes at a dinner table and se
cure the undivided attention of my listeners
I know that it is good. If I fail to do this
my work will ba In vain."
General von Trot?-, commander of tho
Sixteenth Infantry division of th German
army, whq ha Just sailed for German
South Africa to take a;harg of th cam
paign against the kaiser' rebellious sub
jects, th Hereras, Is M year old. 1
Mr. Fairbanks never drank whisky but
once, that being when he was thrown from
a carriage, and he say. h can tact the
tuff yet Ther ore many men who would
give a great deal If they could mak on
drink of whisky last a long aa that
A monument to James Reynolds, who wa
better known to pant generations a "Ca-
talpa Jim," will be unveiled In- the St,
Lawreno cemetery at New Haven, Conn.,
on July t. Reynold wa th man who
principally engineered the expedition in th
calling vessel Ca talpa, which released from
an Australian penitentiary some thirty and
odd year ago a. number. of Irish political,
prisoner. Th monument, which will be
In the form of a Celtic cross of Barr
granite, will bear on It 'fac a likeness
of th Cu talpa and a bust of Reynolds, and
shamrock will fill In the design.
Tlaerc arc Many
table waters, but only one
t? .
4-V- t -
Always the same. ,
Pure, fparkling, and delicious.
ti: p.:caA?.:5Ci c:'J3 C3 .
va JAt'iv b. )N STKIJKT, '
y iuii etim 1 ! ii At-i.rv is.
tJUTB AK AJiCirc.fT ART. .
Shorthand Wrttls Hsrh Older TH
I , It Present Votaries.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Shorthand writing aji w now know li
the verbtlm record of human pch Is
generally supposed to be quit a modern
art. Tho ordinary book of reference con
firm thl Impression.' . They noto th ex
istence of system of. abbreviated writing
In antiquity, but giv th Inference that
thes wer Incapabl of doing what- I
now done by anortnana. '
Leon Goudaliier. writing "in Pari Cos
mo,' produce evidence that thl Inference
la erroneous. Apparently, ho ha tnad a
thorough search of ancient literature for
allusion to shorthand, and h produces
such fact a these:
' At th"church council ot Carthago, A. D.
lit eight horthand reporter wr ragu
Inriy employed. 6t Augustin nay hi
hearer took down hia discoureo In short
hand. Bocratea, th church ; historian of
th fourth century, say th ajrmom of
St. John Chrysostom wer so preserved,
Euaebiu. wrlUng a century rUor, iy a
theological debat between Molchion and
Paul of eomosata wo so recorded. Plu
tarch accounu for tha prrvation of an
extempore speech by Cato UUoensi In th
sain way.
But th moat renowned shorthand writer
nf ancient time waa Marcus Tulliua Tiro,
th slave, freed man and secretary of Cloro
th orator. Undoubtedly to hi effort w
ow th preservation of tho rhetorical
effort which not only drov Catalln Into
open rebellion, but which till Insplr In
cendiary thought In th mind ot Ameri
can schoolboy, especially during tho bas
ball season.
Henc It would appear that lif In ancient
Rom might hav been, about aa strenuous
a It 1 now. For, of course, Cicero wa
not th only statesman attended by a
stenographer, and It .cannot b supposed
that the business men Of tha tlm would
omit to supply themselves with this assist
ance to rapid work,' Thori was, however,
an Important difference In social condition
then and now which prevent us from at
tributing to tho times tha strenuosltjof
the. - - ". . ."
' Doyhtles stenographer made mont ex
asperating blunder" then as now, pom in
taking and In transcribing dictation, j But
stenographer then were .chiefly slave. The
Roman politician who wished to repudlat
an Indiscreet utterance, or tho Roman mer
chant who wished to cancel a diatrou
price quotation, could imply hav hi
stenographer thrown Into th most . f c
oeasibl eel pond, and that wa th end ot
th matter. '
Furthermore, th social situation does not
seem to hav been complicated with fe
male sienoarapnnra ana ijycw,4k... .
CninOa. WOU". Ituunwiwa. -
. , .(..-..iMt' mum dallv la well
. Wliat oolal havoo th typewriter
girl create, with or without her machine.
the, court records of Chicago pear constant,
witness. . - , -
t.tfa in ajinient Rome, oven in tne.aay
of Catolino and Caesar and C3oro, was
.n.ntiiiv Vnsnli. .": Rome had st-
VUUtyM-H . w - -
nographers, hut no female, stenographer
and no typewriting machine. ,iwm nao.
girls, but no. typewriter girls, 1
: ' " ' riJisnES of run.
1 ... .. . , , nun.Mnn (list out
'SLB.te M1V . . , C
of Idle curiosity, don't you tnlnk? ,
Laura Ino, pusy cun-jpuj. "w
1 never Idle. tumerviu u"c"
rha investigation Into th Slooum dl-
aster "Was on. .... '' ' . ,. . ;
"The hoso, efua ine niuwrn, ww
It was a regular sieve." '
. 7 Tt . . .... ji Ar,Anwnrtr tnf,aaf
yvnut you m.n ? iilL.
asked tho coroner.) .-imaueis'""
'.FAVj,?iL,lu.'v.ValrHat nf-
nibntti so you, wer coinpAaliOu; of. th
'-n ar n atitan. sir. 1 m in ics cum
buslne.M." Cieve.ac Plain jueaier.
.1 -, l a 1. a. fntintaP- . tnvl
she only W," remarked tho first sales
lady. - . ' - .. . . ,,''.,.. ,.
'Well,' repnea tno otnsr, .-tTeryuuns
been marked down at that counter, ,you
know." Philadelphia Record, .
- iiti n in kins mn aarajn I will call
thought yo-J said oiir father wa In
California?" ''
"He is." Houston Poet .
I ll P ! It
Hogan (calling on next door neighbor)!
Ui.iH.no ye've heaJd th' llliKmt, clijleal
muBla that' bin 1,-nynatln' fmm nm rlsl
donce for th' pasht wake or sot Vv e got
wan av thlm mechanical planny players on
thClaney (fiercely) On 'thrile, I It Glory
bel I only wleht I wor th' Judge! Puck.
"K w h?s first trip to ea, said th
first sailor, "and when we Were goln' down
the bay w worked' off a lot of old yarn
on him." : ' ' ' , ,
"He swallowed them, o' course," ald th
te.r- . . . ' ' . - ' .,-
yes, dui omy wrayorarjY, n bhuc
rough water pretty oon " Phiiaaeipnia
Press. j - - - .
Patereon Pete I dreamt lost night dat I
bad a million dollar. . .
r-tacked Gates LMd yer enjoy ltT
Paterson Pete Nitl I UJ ued for
breach of promise, operated on fur ew-
Sendlcltls an' tnenuoned fer do vice r
uncy "for I'd even got It counted. Juu,
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A CASS) FOH ARBITRATIOX. .
The Old Jaekoiilii Hwar-frajncd craft,,
All scarred by many a hurtling- ehot,
Wltk. sails full set tor Waahlnguin,
Has turned her prow ami lonien not.
Tha sea is boisterous; fierce drive- the win
in spiteful jnood on, c.p and shout;
While thunder voiced, the crfmhing tvav.'
Against hor sides in fury roll.
Two pilot would her course direct
'Twixti Bcylla and Charybdis grim)
larn. cmu-i iu hajutl, ha bcaiiiioj .'-A
And tiia pned- course oult vlor t tiro.
"Ity tho gold ttfrn-.ard route we lt fs .
I'll tuke the wbetl " said Grover t'C.l, '
"Slrtenu-to-oRo sIibII be our courvo, '
yuoth William, "1 the wheel will hold."
"Unhand that Wheel," puffed th Jersey
man, -
Thou strenuou footer of the Pl&tte,
Th pruliie .schooners on tlie plain
And other-schooner a for that,
AH amber filled, you may iSlrect; '
But boisterous billows such sn thes
Require hands replete with skill; ,
I'll take th wheel, sir, If you plea."
"Beside, iear Bili, you may recall,
I have already twice Lcfui,
With steady- hand quite oaiw.y .noored
The old ship at the White Hoose door;
While you, alaokl twice Orove ihe crstt.
Unheeding shoals and reira end buoys,
To wreck and dnrnsKS past repair;
Avast! thou ever strident nolne,
And thu while trivlng might snd main, .
Heedless alike of friend or brother.
Each rain swift blows full hard upon
The solar, plexus of the other.
Mesnwhlle the sphinx, the smiling sphinx,
Client as sprlnKitme verdure btoah.
With artful fingers swipes the wheel;
but where he'll take the hip who
knows?
Omaha, CON GARVIN.
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