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(8eU M B.. HUNG ATE,
. Notary Publie.
. The controversy over home show sent
rat en ban heroim auclent history and
mny as well be considered closet'..
Now that tlip ' contract for rojmvlnfr
Sixteenth street, lias been let, It Is to
b honed no f urtbw- obstacles to tbe
speedy completion of the work will be
lnterpofccd by the flgbtlnf: coiitrnctors.
Thnt Nebraska City party which hns
started to St. Louis by way of the Mis
souri river ..may not have the most en
joyable trip possible between the points,
but It will demonstrate thnt the stream
Is still navigable.. V
A scarcity of money Is reported In
Germany, while business In New York
Is normal an unprecedented condition
for a presidential campaign year In tho
United Statss,,-, when money generally
moves to Europe
Those European papers which have
been so fierce in their comment on tho
lynching of ritjgroes in the United States
may let-thl8,-otmtry alone for a while
until condition:) are improved In the
Congo Freo State.
. Governor Cummins has promised
Senator Fairbanks n greater per 'cent of
the popular vote In Iowa than he will
receive, I u any other state In the union.
This Iowu idea Is one upon which the
whole party car. unite.
Thursday Is the Inst day that certifi
cates of nomination can be filed with
the secretary of state In Nebraska. A
good way to decline a nomination is to
bave the convention officer forget this
necessary preliminary.
If It Is impractical to carry an elec
tric lighting current from Florenco to
Omaha, why is it practical to supply
Florence with, electric lights from cur
rent geiienitedJii Omaha? There are
some tlilngt, nuXellow can find out
The Ak-Kar-Ben carnival hns demon
strated that the Omaha High school
boys need better discipline. It will be
time enough for them to indulge In
turbulent demonstrations after they
have passed Into the colleges and uni
versities. Former Senator Allen want it dis
tinctly understood that he Is still a pop
ulist. Those really Interested in the
campaign of Watson and Tibbies have
noticed that he has latelbeen a till,"
populist, so far a promoting their cam
paign is concerned. -
Candidate Iavls hns started to make
seventy-five speeches on a 1,100-mile
tur of Marylaud. , Senator Gorman
WM to have accompanied him, but
changed his mind at the last moment.
Someone evidently has to stay at home
to watch the barrel.
By Bending Toni Tnggart to Indiana
tbe democratic national committee evi
dently purposes to see If he can deliver
a fraction of the goods that he has prom
ised. He said be could carry the
United fitatea for Parker, and now the
committee Insists that be carry Indiana.
The anti-Mormon party of, Utah de
DiaJida the resignation of Senator Smoot
from the apostle-ship of the Mormon
church. ' If the charges they have
made can be sustained he should give up
bis federal posit loa, while if they are
wrong bis church offices should bave no
bearing on the case.
. . a
IonJ M liner has resigned the office of
high commissioner of South Africa be
cause of the strain of official duties. As
he Is as much responsible for the pres
ent situation as any other person, be
should not be permitted to lay aside the
burden when it become too heavy for
comfort, but he is not tbe first man to
find that he had taken a, bigger contract
than he could fulfill.
the civil stance record.
President Roosevelt is known as one
of the most earnest and persistent
champions of the merit system in the
civil service of the government. He
baa for years advocated this policy and
in every public position be bos Ifeld has
spared no effort to make it effective,
As a member of the Civil Service com
mission he did more than any other one
to promote the reform. As governor of
New York he was loyal to that cause.
As president he has kept In the same
course. Id respect to this he has, ac
cording to the testimony of the most
confirmed friends of civil service reform,
always been faithful and consistent
Mr. Richard II. Dnnn, member of the
executive committee of the National and
the Massachusetts Civil Service Reform
league, haa been devoted to the cause
from its very Inception and when it had
few supporters. He has known lis
progress from personal observation and
persona! participation from year to year.
He can therefore speak of the present
status of the merit system from the
standpoint of an expert In the tme
aense of that term. In a comprehensive
review of the civil service record of the
present administration Mr. Dnna pays it
the highest commendation. He details
what hns been done by President Roose
velt In advancing the reform and says:
"Since Mr. Roosevelt hns been presi
dent he has punished conspicuous of
fender. by removal, has dismissed per
rons improperly In the service, hns put
back many of the positions tnken ont of
the rules, and hns Included 1U,1."0 more
never before nnder the law. He has
amended the rules so as to close the
back door entrance Into the service, to
strengthen the powers of the commis
sion and to make the law self-enforcing.
j In short, more than any other president.
ne nns perfected the system and mnde
extensions early In his administration."
This ardent friend of civil service re
form endorses the statement of the
council of the league of which he is a
member that "President Roosevelt hns
done more for the practical enforcement
of the civil service law, the elevation of
the moral tone of the public service and
the general fidvnneeinent In the methods
of government than it has ever fallen
to the lot of any other president to do so
soon nfter assuming office."
What was the record mad? by the
last democratic administration In this
regnrd? If It cannot fairly be snid
thnt Mr. Cleveland wholly disregarded
the civil service law, It Is still n fact
thnt his administration did not closely
and carefully observe it. There were
mnny deviations from the merit system
under both of the Clevelnnd administra
tions, notwithstanding the fact that the
president was a professed friend of the
policy. He found the pressure for the
spoils so great that he wns unable to re
sist it and consequently civil service re
form made no renl progress under demo
cratic rule. There would be a repeti
tion of this experience In the event of
the election of Parkei. The hungry
democracy would be even more, im
portunate thnn under Cleveland and
whHt tie found almost irreklstmlo would
overwhelm the Esopua candidate. The
democratic national platform makes a
perfunctory declaration In fnvor of civil
service reform, but everybody knows
that the party as a whole is opposed to
that policy.
EFFECT OF THE BIO GRAIN CROP.
During the summer months Nebraska
railroad managers were directed by the
rallroa-! magnates of tho east to curtail
operating expenses in order to prevent a
slump in dividends. More than two
thousand mechanics and section hands
were discharged and moat of thesa left
the state In que of employment in
other parts of the country.
Now' the Nebraska railroad managers
find themselves short of skilled labor in
tho shops and efficient mer. in th train
service. Carpenters, bridge builders,
iron workers and even common laborers
on the railroads are scarce right now
and every available mechanic that can
be Induced to leave Colorado Is being
brought into Nebraska to re-enforce the
operating departments of tbe various
roads.
This extraordinary demand for rail
way trainmen, mechanics and section
hands Is due chiefly to the enormous
grain crops that will have to be moved
to eastern markets and southern mar
kets in the near future. Uulesa there
is a very material drop In the prices of
grain all the available rolling stock of
the Nebraska railroads will be in full
requisition for months to come and the
money realized will lie pouring back Into
the laps of the farmers and grain deal
ers and through them will be distributed
among the merchants and manufactur
ing concerns of Nebraska.
While the Ilou's shnre of this Increased
wealth will go to the farmer, a very con
siderable portion will go into the coffers
of the railroad magnates.
A YKTEHAtTS opisioy.
General Daniel E. Sickles has spoken
unreservedly In commendation of the
pension order which Judge Parker says
he will revoke if elected, and that dis
tinguished union soldier's opinion will
be very generally recognised by bis
comrades as worthy of respectful con
sideration. General Sickles Is a lawyer
and when he says that order No. 78 is
"the law of the land, having the au
thority of the executive, legislative and
judicial departments of the government,
he knows of what be is talking. Con
gress, he says, has uniformly appro
priated the money necessary t pay
these old age pensions and these appro
priations are all recognitions and ap
provals of the executive action, granting
old age pensions. Tbe courts bold that
such sanction by congress Is conclusive
on judlcjal tribunals.
General Sickles concludes a letter to
General O. O. Howard as follows: "The
courts of the United Btatea will snstaln
order No. 78 whenever one of the critics
of the prealdeut will venture to go Into
court to challenge its legality. Tbe ar
row! Uf bl aaaellf tjja, Wlii dlLJrn;.
less at his feet. The living veterans
of the civil war, their children and
kindred, the descendants of the million
who have died and all of our people who
cherish a manly sympathy for the needs
of thiWr defenders, now tottering townrd
their graves, will bless Roosevelt for
his kindly and Just action."
The democrats are not pushing this
matter upon public attention, doubt
less the party managers would like to
have it forgotten. Rut the standard
benrer of the democracy Is on record in
regard to It and It will be prominent
In the thought of more than n million
voters on election day. who will record
their protest agninst the pledge of tins
democratic candidate for president to
revoke, if elected, the just order In be
half of the union soldiers.
SOVTHERy FEELING.
According to Senator Rncon of Geor
gia, If President Roosevelt is elected the
people of the south will be In a state
of dejection amounting almost to de
spair. Republican shcccss will cause
thousands of southern men, democrats
of course, to feel like resigning them
selves to their fate, regarding the south
ns forever ostracised so far as domi
nating Influence In the affairs of the
government Is concerned. "We are out
casts," said the Georgia senator. "Po
litically, the north would have us of the
soutk,men without a country."
This Is sheer nonsense. There Is no
such feeling In the north.' On the con
trary northern statesmen have for years
been most earnest' endeavoring to In
duce the people of the south to ally
themselves with the party of national
development and progress nud thus be
come to a greater extent participants In
the affairs of government Republican
policy has been very largely Instru
mental In building up the south, yet
that section has been for years solidly
arrayed agalnot the republican party
nnd is today the bulwark of democracy.
Whatever Is reactionary, ov even revo
lutionary. In the democrati.' creed finds
hearty support In the south nnd the ex
cuse for this, ns stated by Mr. Bncon,
Is the presence of the rnce problem.
Io the white people of the south expect
the people of the north to abandon their
sense of Justice to the colored citizen
by acquiescing in th- policy of depriving
him of his constitutional rights? Must
this be don In order to assure the people
of the south thnt they nre not regarded
ns outcasts? It would seem thnt this Is
their view nnd that they expect such
acquiescence In the event of the election
of Pnrker. Thnt Is the obvious Infer
ence from Senntor Bacon's observations
and renders them worthy of more than
passing attention Democratic success
in November evidently would mean an
extension in the south of the policy of
negro disfranchisement.
The revised charter for Omaha should
make It Impossible for a city council to
suspend any section of the Are ordinance
by resolution, even by unanimous vote.
It should, moreover.-make the construc
tion of brick bulldinsa in cities, of th'j
metropolitan class mandatory within a
radius of one mile frojv the city hall
nnd strictly fireproof buildings within a
radius of five blocks from tho city hall.
Had such a provision been In the char
ter today the Chicago Great Western
could not have built a huge wooden shed
for its freight depot near the Sixteenth
street viaduct under any pretext It
may safely be predicted thnt that struc
ture will not. be remove ! or demolished
within the next twenty yours, unless it
Is destroyed by lire, but in the mean
time it will endanger the safety of many
good buildings in the vicinity should a
fire brea'd out during stormy wentlie,'.
The assessors are now out making up
tho appraisement of property for city
purposes. The difference between the
city and county assessment rolls, how
ever, should now disappear, except that
the former Is listed at full value while
the latter goes nt 20 per cent. If tho
two assessments are alike, however, tho
necessity for two separate assessing
officers will no longer remain. The
consolidation of the offices of city tax
commissioner for both Omahn nnd South
Omaha and county assessor for Douglas
county should receivu the earnest atten
tion of our lawmakers when they come
to meet nt Lincoln next winter.
The ordinance submitting to the peo
ple of Omahn a proposition to establish
a municipal electric lighting plant should
by all means be passed without further
parleying If the proposition submitted
by the electric lighting company is at
tractive, let it also be submitted to a
vote of the people. Give them a chance
to decide for themselves ot the coming
election. Let the people who want a
municipal lighting plant established
vote "yes" and those who want the
council to extend the electric lighting
contract for Ave years cau also vote
yes" on that proposition.
As usual, the Lincoln Journal Is In
dulging in uncomplimentary remarks
about Omaha's Ak-Sar-Ben carnival.
The work of Ak-Sar-Heu la, of course,
subject to criticism In several features
and can and will be Improved, but It Is
the petty meanness which crops out in
the Lincoln roasts that exposes the
malice that Inspires it The Llucolu
Star, on the other hand, has only good
wards to say about Omaha's enterprise,
and it no doubt reflects more accurately
the real ntlments of tbe substantial
people ot the capital city.
A Quaker firm in Philadelphia, whose
members are opposed to war, have de
clined to bid on supplies to be used by
the Army and Navy departments. Their
action, if followed by nil who want
peace rather than war, would work In
ternational disarmament sooner thnn all
of the resolutions of all of the peace
congresses ever held.
The Omnha firemen's association hns
extended Its limits and taken In tho
members of the Sottth Omaha depart
meuV time, (yjd at Xin d lata at
day, both of the departments will lie
consolidated and mnde more efficient.
As a matter of fact, the 8011th Omaha
department Is utterly inadequate to com
bnt any extensive conflagration, and
Omaha fire fighters and Omaha fire
fighting apparatus would have to be
called Into requisition to handle a big
fire at South Omaha.
A complete rural free delivery service
Is to be established in Douglas county
by November 1, and the World Herald
very modestly claims the credit for
G. M. Hitchcock, although Senator Fair
banks declared In his speech at tho
Auditorium thnt the Improvement In the.
service was brought about by Senator
Millard.
Dlaappolnllns the Prophet.
Chicago Newa.
Notwithstanding the grave alarm of the
able democratic edirora of Nw York, up
to the hour of going to preaa President
Roosevelt had not declared himself emperor
of the I'nlted States.
The Chronic Kicker.
Bnltlmore American.
People' who are not satlafltd with the
present October Ideal weather would find
fault If they were presented with the
Tullerles for a town residence, St. Peter's
for a private chapel and the Garden of
Eden for their persona! pleaaure grounds.
Forecasting the General Ranlt.
San Kranclsci Chronicle.
Bryan ha formal;- abandoned Nebraaka
to the republicans. They had the state
all right, anyhow, but Mr. Bryan's opinion
on the subject la Interesting, ns It fore
shadows the Indifference of a lnrge section
of his followera to the result of the flec
tion ot November 8.
Where Dor I nele Sam Come Int
Pittsburg Dispatch.
United States Minister John Barrett an
nounces that "there la an exact and cor
dial understanding between the Panama
government and me." Yet the Panamans
aeem a little uneasy lent that portion of
the United Stntea that does not live under
John Barrett's hat may not be quite in
on the understanding.
Talklngr Oat In Meeting;,
Cleveland Leader.
Vice Presidential Candidate Fairbanks
may be long and semi-bald, but he la not
a coward. Speaking In Utah the other day
he criticised polygamy and kindred sins
of Mormonlsm In terms that left no ques
tion of the abhorrence he felt for them
In his mind, or as to how he would act
In his senatorial capacity were opportunity
given to vote on representatlvi legislation.
Preparing; for a Loag Straggle.
Springfield Republican.
Whatever hopes the Japanese originally
had of a short war, they are now preparing
for a long and exhausting struggle. Count
Okuma Is' free to tell his countrymen that
they must expect to spend at least 11,000,.
000,000. The taxes will be plied on the
people, Internal Improvements will be
stopped, even popular education Is to be
curtailed. In Russia, the same procedure
will take place, caualng even greater dis
tress to the nation. ' And this Is glorious
war.
Will Women Decide the Klectlonf
Leslie's Weekly.
Of the forty-Ays atatea of the union there
are four Colorado. Idaho, Utah and Wy
omingin which -.women have tire ballot
ou a precise equality with men. Those
states cast 397,vUO.typtes In the aggregate
In .1900. They will,4rohably cast 426,000 In
1W4. It must nof be Inferred, however,
that half the 'aggregate vote la that of
women. In thosb four states, aa In all
other young communities, the males are
largely In the preponderar.ee. Probably at
least 125,000, though, of those 425,000 votes
of 1904 will be cart by women. Those four
states will have ' fourteen electoral votei
this year. What will bs the attitude of
those 1,000 women voters In 1904? It haa
btcn noticed that, beginning with Wyom
ing, which has had equal suffrage ever
kIiioi It was organize! Into a territory
In 18flS, the effect of women's voting la
only to ttidko the prevaillnK drift of senti
ment, whatever It chances to be, take a
llttlw more decided form than It would
othci wlao assume. That la, the worn.'"
ually go with the men of their own ho j
hold or circle.
IMPt'DGXT TOBACCO TRUST.
Treasury Department Declines to Ad
vertise Its Wares.
'Chicago Chronicle.
The American Tobacco company Is not
one of the great combines s measured by
the amount of Its capital, but It stands in
the front rank Jn point of meanness, vl
clousnesa and impudence. It haa recently
been making an extaordinary display of
its specialties, its impudence more particu
larly. The practice has been to affix big green
government stamps to the faces of boxes
of Imported cigars, the stamps having tha
effect to advertise the fact of the foreign
origin of the cigars. It was a good thin
for the Importers.
It was not ao good a thing for the do
mestic manufacturers. They therefor
made complaint to tha Treasury depart
ment that the stamp was used to promote
the business of the importers that tha gov
ernment was. In effect, aiding the Importers
In their competition with the home manu
facturers. It was decided at the department that the
complaint was Just and an order was Issued
for the substitution of a brown stamp for a
green one and directing that It be pasted
on the bottoms of the boxes.
Then arose the importers, the American
Tobacco company at the front, and made
loud pi o test. They claimed that the gov.
ernment would Injurs their business, by
ceasing to advertise It conspicuously. It
would still serve them Incidentally, because
It would still require a distinctive stamp to
be placed on boxes of Tmported cigars and
purchasers could see It If they took tha
trouble to look for it, and It would aerva
as a certificate of genuineness aa much aa
ever, excepting that It would not be In
plain sight.
The department was obliging enough to
take the matter up again, Teatlmony was
taken by Acting Secretary Taylor, in tha
absence of Secretary Shaw, and the latter,
after reading a report of the proceedings,
waa satisfied that the Importers were using
the government stamp as a trade-mark and
that they were thua deriving an advantage
not enjoyed by any other Importers. He
therefore concluded that the new order
was proper and should stand and haa given
orders for tha preparation and use of the
new stampa accordingly.
The American Tobacco company and tha
other smaller Importers, though left In tha
enjoyment of an advantage necessarily In
cident to the affixing of a distinctive stamp
required by law, were Impudent enough to
demand that this stamp should continue to
be uf a style calculated to arrest attention
and that It be affixed to the boxea In such
a way aa to be in plain sight.
The Treasury department has properly
declined to be used any longer aa partner
in charge of the advertising and of a con
cern which not only resort to all manner
of fake device for Increasing l.ts sulci,
but makes a practice of destroying the
business of Independent dealers who happen
to ba In locations which art covstad by It
BACK DRAtOHT
Mr.
Bryan In the Role f
Harblnarer of Harmony
New York Tribune.
Mr. Bryan la setting out upon what th
Parker and Darla managers fondly hope
will be a "whirlwind campaign" In behalf
of their candidates. There can be no
doubt the need Is father to the hope. Never
did a campaign more sorely stand In need
of an Infusion of ginger, of turpentine I
the boots, or of something to give It life
Nor la It tc be supposed that such service
could he rendered to It by any one so ef
fcctlvely as by Mr. Bryan. He was the
one conspicuous leader who with all hi
theories from which we dissent stood loy
ally by his principles at St. lyouls, an
who. In the hour of defeat, could truly
say that, though all else was lost, honor
and consistency were not. There Is n
man In all the party whose eloquence I
more persuasive. There Is no one whose
support of the St. Louts ticket and plat
form would be so strong a proof of party
reunion, or would so strongly conduce to
ward making that reunion complete.
We prefer to Imagine, therefore, rathe
than to attempt to describe, the emotion
with which the wistful boomers of "safe.
and snne" democracy, of the non-commlt
tal Woolfert's Roost and Esopus brand
have heard the Initial uterance of th!
'whirlwind campaign." How grateful to
their ears must have been Mr. Bryan's
cheerful and Insouciant remark that
course Parker Is going to lose Nebraska
the whirlwind campaigner's own state The
result out there Is a foregone conclusion
It really Isn't worth while to discuss it
he says, "because a Roosevelt victory In
Nebraska is certain." Moreover, he con
tlnues, with that frankness which Is his not
least engaging characteristic. "I won't tell
you I am delighted with the nominations
at St. Louis. I fought Parker's nntnlna
tlon and I have neither recanted nor re
ceded from my position." So he contents
himself with working for a democratic ma
jority In the legislature, and therefore for
a democratic senator.
Sweet harbinger of. harmony! What
whirlwind campaign this Is going to be, to
be sure! It will be not merely a whirl
wind, but hIxo a cyclone, a hurricane,
tornado, a blizzard, a Chinook, a typhoon, a
simoon, a levanter, a sirocco, a mistral, a
monsoon, a hnrniattan and a white squall
all In one Indeed, we shouldn't wonder
a bit If It should prove to be a back
draught!
GRAFT IX BlSINF.SS.
The Itchlnar Palm la Xot Monopolised
by OfHreholdera.
Kansas City Star.
So much attention has been given to
graft In politics of late that most persona
are Inclined to regard political life as alone
affected by this particular species of dis
honesty. Mr. Lincoln Steffena. Indeed, haa
pointed out that all trails lead hack to the
captain of Industry. But the field of busi
ness graft haa not yet been thoroughly In
vestigated, and few persons know Its ex
tent.
In the New Yorklndependent an anon
ymous writer, vouched for as the presl
dent of an "Important manufacturing con
poratlon," cites a number of Instances of
dlahonesty on the part of corporation em
pldyea that might have aroused the envy
of the members of the St. Louis assem
bly's famous "combine."
For Instance, the purchasing agent of one
of the largest railroad system offered to
do business with the firm on one occasion
provided he could be "helped out" on
"little payaient" of $;00 that was due the
next day. Another purchasing agent wanted
to see the books and divide the profits on
the contracts "It's all right," he said;
"a part goes to the president of the road."
A travelings salesman for 'a cloak factory
admitted to the author of the article that
ht could draw, up to 12S.000 a year on the
house for presents and commissions to
buyers. ' "They all do It," he sal. "You
can't do business any other way." Somo
buyer3, he explalnc.1, were squeamish and
wouldn't take money. With them he usu
ally arranged poker games, at which he
lost heavily.
An adjuster for an Insurance company
told him of bribing with S15.00Q the agent
for the owner of a burned ' building In
order to Induce the man to settle for $280,
000 Instead of for the f!50,0fl0 that was at
first desired. Later the adjuster discovered
that the agent had collected $10,000 from
the owner to use as a bribe.
It must be remembered that when In
stances of business graft are dlscoverel no
publicity attends them, whereas when pub
lie officials are caught In corrupt practlcea
the facts are published fully. Wera al!
the truth known about dishonesty In big
corporations It might be found that there
Is no more corruption In public than In
private affairs.' The need Is not merely
for honest politicians. It is much more
general than that.
PERSONAL XOTRS.
A lieutenant In the Russian army la paid.
about $200 a year, a captain about $300 and
a major $450. Kouropatkln la getting
$100,000.
The refusal of a Philadelphia firm to bid
on a big contract for the navy because,
being Quakers, Its members are opposed to
war, Is a pleasant reminder that commer
cialism does not alter some people's princi
ples. A Connecticut man who robbed a bank
of $70,000 waa sent to the penitentiary for
five yeara. It Is hoped the Connecticut
penalty will not becorno popular. Surely
an enterprising embezzler should not be
reduced to the level of a common sneak.
E. H. Harrlman, the railroad magnate,
has begun the erection of a splendid resi
dence at Arden, near Mlddletown, N. Y.
The house Is to be solid granite, 350 feet
long and 180 feet wide, two stories In
height and having fifty rooma. The struc
ture and terraces will occupy three acres.
Yoshlo Kinoshita, general passenger
agent of the Imperial government railways
of Japan, has arrived at San Francisco.
He will make a thorough atudy of Amer
ican railroad methods In so far as they ap
ply to passenger department affairs, and
expecta to spend two yeara In this country
and Europe.
The Ancient Artillery company of Boaton
haa received from its namesake in London
an elaborate silver tankard two feet In
height and eighteen Inches in diameter.
The London Ancients visited Boston several
months ago and took an accurate measure
of the warriors of the Hub. The tankard
la not a water wagon.
Alexander Parker Wilcox of Parla, 111.,
tha eccentrio first cousin of Candidate Al
ton B. Parker, still refuses to return to
Oneida, N. Y., to claim a fortune which
has been left him by a relative. He says
he has plenty to life on for the remainder
of his days and does not care to have any
more money. He haa been to hla native
state but once since he moved to Illinois,
In 1861. . ,
All KulJ Khan, a Persian nobleman, who
haa given up lands, title, family and posi
tion, la now living In Boston In obscurity
because he regarda his religion aa mope- Im
portant thsn any of the temporalities ha
Is relinquishing. His father waa ordered
executed for becoming a Bahist, than which
no religion la more feared by the Moham
medan clergy of Persia, but owing to tha
Influence of hla tir.rle, who waa prime min
ister of tha lata than, tha order waa com
muted. All la at work translating Into
English tha works of the Bablst writers
at the raquest ef American converts Co the
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Varlna Incidents Sketched ly Corre-
aponaenfs at me iron.
In a letter describing a battle between
the Russians and Japanese near Hal Cheng
July JO. and the retreat following, the New
York Herald-Bee correspondent, with the
Russian forces, details a number of In
cidents Illustrating the characteristics of
the opposing armies. "The Japanese," he
says, "are, like the Chinese, the Indians
and other Oriental peoples, extremely ad
dicted to enfly rising, and in the course of
the present war they seem to Invariably
begin battles at an unearthly hour. On
July 30 I heard their cannon about 4
o'clock In the morning and Immediately
prepared to leave for tho 'position' or
place where the principal battery was lo
cated and where the general would remain
throughout the battle.
'Before the battle began, the Russian
soldiers snatched a moment to turn toward
the rising sun In order to cross them
selves repeatedly and say their morning
prayers, first standing and then kneeling,
after the Mussulman custom. They did
not pray simultaneously, but at odd mo
ments; they were therefore, It was plain,
not praying to order. I also noticed a
gunner cross himself reverently before
loading his gun for the first time that day.
It la strange, when one reflects on it. to
find the cross of Christ behind a field
piece, but somehow or other we find that
Incongruity almost since the establishment
of Christianity.
I do not think that there Is a Christian
army In the world which makes more open
profession of Its Christianity than the
army of Russia. An Irish or French or
even Spanish soldier, who wore the num
ber of religious emblems which the Rus- I
slan soldier wears and said his prayers
with such a Mohammedan disregard of
onlookers would be teased to death by hla
comrades. The officers, too, are as pro
fuse In their use of religious emblems as
the men, and. If the Japanese collect all
the crucifixes and religious medals which
they find on the .bodies of dead Russians,
they must by this time have accumulated
a large stock. It Is painful to think of tha
bad effect all this Is sure to have on the
nascent Christianity of eastern Asia.
Almost as unbearable as the whistle of
the sheila waa the overpowering heat. I
have lived In India and Slam, and I had
thought, when I came to Manchuria, that
I would have nothing new to learn about
heat, but thirteen .hours on that bare hill
side have Indefinitely extended my knowl
edge of It. The sun beat down on us re
lentlessly and there waa not a leaf to
shade us.
Some Ingenious person put two stretch
ers on end, bound them together and thus
formed a sort of shade for the general. A
Cossack officer formed a second shade out
of three lances and some canvas. But
the total amount of shade thus produced
would not shelter morq than a few persons
t most, and though I waa for a time one
of tha privileged few I do not know that I
found the shade much of a protection.
"Gorgeous uniforms became as wet aa If
bucket of water had been thrown over
their wearers, nnd the thirst everybody
suddenly developed and kept up for the
rest of the day would have done credit to
wanderers In the Sahara. I'nfortunately, '
there was no way of satisfying this thirst
save by drinking of the well water that
fhlnHA nnnltefl efli-rted tin the hill n t Innir '
Intervals In wooden buckets, which were
emptied before they had gone very far.
These Chinese coolies may have been Jap-
nese, or Chinamen disguised as Japanese,
but nobody paid any attention to them,
they only wanted the water they carried.
"We are in the heart of a mountainous,
but beautiful country, well cultivated and
vldently supporting a large population.
Boon after daybreak we passed through a
village whose early rising Inhabitants were
speechless with wonder at the passage of
such a large body of horsemen. There
were in this village and In tho others we
afterward visited plenty of women and
children, who were not molested by the
Cossacks and who did not seem to fear tha
Ruaslans.
I am told that the women and children
II y before the Japanese and I have myself
seen some half dozen Chinamen do so. The
Ulagers seem to regnrd us simply with
looks of blank astonishment and probably
the children who taw us paaa will often
tell their grandchildren of this night
march of the Cossacka, possibly the last
march white soldiers will make in these
Hinges.
The village of Tsenylng Lunshan Is a
beautiful and prosperous little village with
big wooded peak rising precipitously be
hind It and making It look like a Japanese
lllage In the Nlkko or Hakone district
the resemblance being still further In
creased by the little Buddhist shrines at
the foot of the mountain.
'Our colonel Immediately ordered the
head man of the village to be brought be
fore him and that worthy gentleman, who
probably expected to have his head taken
off, was agreeably surprised to hear that
the visitors did not Intend to molest womon
or to trouble tha tnpie In any way, but
ould pay for everything they took.
'I may here mention tha fact that, so far
aa I can see, theae Cossacks pay for every
thing with th scrupulousness of tourists.
At Taee Lao Gau I aaw our Intendant give
tha Chinaman In whone house we stayed a
sheaf of bank notes, and the mere fact that
the Chinaman haggled avid tried to get
mora proved to ma conclusively that he
waa getting too much.
I have never known of a case In which
thla Cosaack general did not pay In this
manner, and I believe that all hla officers
do likewise. In spite of thla, the China-
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man aometlmea gets kicks Instead of half
pence, especially when he has to deal with
noncommissioned officers or with privates,
but until armlea consist of saints Instead of
soldiers this sort of thing is bound to
occur.
"A wounded Infantryman was carried by
two Chinese coolies, and the story he told
was peculiar. He said that he had been
shot In the leg While crossing the malt
fields with somo comrades, who ran for
their Uvea and reported him as dead. Ha
lay where he fell for three or four days,
being fed In the meantime by Chinese,
whom he finally persuaded to put him Into
one of- their large baskets and csrry him
Inside the Russian llnea. A similar Inci
dent occurred the previous day, and In that
case the general gave the Chinese Good
Samaritans a reward of 100 ruhles.
"From this It can be seen that the Rus
sians who are wounded prefer to die of
starvation than to fall Into the hands of
the Japanese, who, they believe, first tor
ture and finally murder their prisoners.
This belief Is fostered by the officers and
by the tales ' of eye witnesses. One
wounded soldier now In Mukden tells a
dreadful story In this connection. He says
that he was one of a number of prisoners
whom the Japanese took somewhere near
the Yalu, nnd confined In a Chinese house.
While their own officers were about tha
Japanese did not molest these prisoners,
but when the officers went to sleep at night
the privates entered the place where tha
Russians were confined and murdered them
with knives, bayonets and swords.
"These Japanese had been evidently mad
dened by some tales of real or alleged
Russian cruelty that they had heard, and
they did their work with such thorough
ness that only one Russian escaped the
man who tells the tale.
"With regard to the Japanese soldiers fre
quently attacking and generally fighting
In a state of nudity, It may be remarked
that tha Russians might take a lesson
from this and send their soldiers Into ac
tion with less Impedimenta, especially as
the Russian soldier Is not accustomed to
such heat as now prevails In Manchuria
and aa the Japanese soldier Is quite habit
uated to even greater heat In his own
country.
"At present Russian troops march to the
attack with an' enormous overcoat strapped
to their backs, a large quantity of ammu
"nltlon . and an unnecessaray amount of
spare clothing and sukhareo or hard
tack. In other words, the Japanese sol
dier, who Is accustomed to heat, does not
even wear a shirt, while the Russian sol
dier, who Is not accustomed to heat,; not
only wears a shirt and coat, but carries
In addition three spare shirts and a heavy
overcoat." POIXTED PLEASANTRIES.
Mr. Llngerlong How do you like the
looks of this hat of mine. Miss de MulrT
Miss de Mulr I like the style of It ex
ceedingly. I've been wondering for tha last 1
half hour how you would look with it on.
Philadelphia Press.
Penelope In Boston we saw tha nicest
thing.
Pauline What was It?
Penelope Oh, a slot machine. Tou think
of a word, put In a penny and out dropa
the correct pronunciation. Puck.
"She claims she's a fin singer. Do you
think she ought to sea a vocal teacher?"
"No."
"Who then?"
"A claim adjuster." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
She Don't you think the majority of a
man's daya nre happy ones?
He Oh, yes: If he doesn't marry until
late In life. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Spnrtby That's a bum cigar you MMSs
me.
Den fley Hey ?
Sporthy Smokes like It, yes. Pittsburg
Dispatch.
"Ego always monopolizes the conversa
tion talking about himself."
"Yes, but he Isn't so bad as his wife; aha
always monopolizes the conversation talk
ing about other people." Detroit Fre
Press.
Mrs. Waggles If you can't sleep, why
don't you see the doctor?
Wagglea Don't you think I have enough
to worry over without hla bill to think
about? Town Topics.
"Of course Charles," aald the wife, -I
thank you for this money, but It Isn't
enough to buy a real fur coat.
"Well," replied the great- brute, "you'll
have to make It go aa fur aa you can."
Philadelphia Ledger.
LIMITED WEDLOCK.
John Montague In Baltimore Herald.
Won't you ba my darling wife and sharx
my home and heart?
I sigh for you, I die for you; we must nov
live apart;
Let me laugh and smile with you. or kiss
away your tears;
Let our two hearts beat as one for
Just
Ten
Years?
I do "ot ask for all your time. When
sliver streaka your hair,
When vi-ars hxve ilimrnend your 'ustrous
yes, and you're no longer fair.
Some other fellow may come round to soars
your hopes and fears.
But be my angel, won't you dear, for
Just
Ten
, YearsT
If Incompatibility of temperament arise
We naed not rend oi'r hnlr and spend our
time in tears ant sighs
For every day we live the time for separa
tion nearv.
We cannot ba at odds at most hfrt
Jui
Ten
Years?
So won't you ba my darling wife, and shar
my home a while.
Until I'm ready to go forth and win an
other's smile?
Those awful words, "Till death do part,"
need not arouse your fears.
I only ask ou, my pet, for
Just
Ten
Yrirs?
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