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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1002.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.:
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OEO. B. TZSCHUCK,
Subscribed tn my presence and sworn to
before me this 81st day of May, A. D. 1901.
tSeal.) m. B. H UNGATE,
Notary Public.
There Is no telling what a day may
bring forth.
The agony of the Omaha sohoolma'ani
over. Now for the summer vacation.
From now on It la to be a race be
tween the market house and the audi
torium. Omaha's future growth depends upon
Its ability to establish new factories and
enlarge the old ones.
Trofesslonnl mind readers will be In
Teat demand at the state capital for the
next twenty-four hours.
The expenditure for light and water
on the county poor farm for last year
was $2,685.50; the expenditure for milk
was $123.90. There must hare been a
good deal of water In that milk.
You can't make a silk purse out of
a sow's ear. You can't make a good
chief executive out of a man who has
not made a mark In bis own profession
or proved a success In his own business.
It took a long pull to land the con
gressional candidate in the Beatrice con
vention. The struggle would not have
.been so protracted If the candidates
were not convinced that the nomination
this time means an election In Novem
ber. With an assessed valuation of $79,000,
000 Kansas City has a tax rate of 11
mills. AVlth an assessment of more
than $36,000,006 Omaha has a tax rate
of 30 mills. This explains why real
estate is in greater demand In Kansas
City than in Omaha.
If the corporation managers keep
their hands off the republican state con
vention they will get fair treatment
If they force candidates on the party
whom the people have reason to distrust
the republican rank and file will revolt
and undo their work at the polls.
The men that marched with Sherman,
and the men that fought with Urant,
will soon have their last Innings In po
litical conventions. The man who
ailed with Dewey and the man who
rode with Roosevelt Is pressing to the
front for political honors and glory.
The Bee cheerfully records Its apology
to the railroad tax bureau, which doubt
less feels highly Indignant over the as
sertion made by this paper that the
Union Pacific bridge, assessed at mileage
rate for 1902, would pay taxes in Doug
las county and Omaha on a valuation of
$1,630. The correct figure for the
Union Pacific bridge assessment is six
teen hundredths of a mile at $9,800 per
;CiUe, and the total assessment for city
taxation and county taxation alike will
be $1,568 Instead of $1,630. In 1891 the
bridge was assessed at $125,000.
The chapter of Irrigation history con
tributed by an Omaha fiction artist to
the Lincoln Journal credits George II.
Maxwell with the discovery of Irrigation
from the time of Barneses to Roosevelt
and minutely describes all of the Insur
mountable obstacles and Jumping off
places whlcU Mr. Maxwell had to
encounter in securing the passage of the
national Irrigation act It goes with
out saying that it was Maxwell that in
spired President Roosevelt with that
portion of his message relating to Irrt
g atton, although Roosevelt possibly may
have bad a slight sniatteriug of Sierra
Nevada and Arizona desert vocabulary
before he enlisted as a rough rider. It
will also go down Into history that the
senators and congressmen who digested,
debated and engineered the Irrigation
scheme through congress were simply
Jumplng-Jarks carrying out the dlrec
tlons of the Irrepressible water-spouter
ad raaervolrisf, . ..
COUNTER BVLLETIX XO. f.
In its screed of falsification and ex
aggeration the railroad tax bureau has
sought to startle the people of Omaha
and Nebraska by an alleged exposure
of the systematic tax shirking on the
part of The Bee Building and The Bee
Publishing companies. In this delecta
ble work they Indulged in their pro
pensity for juggling with figures and
dust-throwing.
Although the records of the county
and city tax departments are open to
everybody It was given out cold that
The Bee Building only paid taxes on a
valuation of fUO.OOO and The Publishing
company on a valuation of $tJ,D00. An
Inspection of the county treasurer's books
will show that at no time since 1890 has
The Bee Building been assessed for less
than $to,000. while other property, and
notably railroad property, was shrink
ing and shrinking In its valuation, The
Bee Building was kept up from year to
year at that figure, and while The Bee
Publishing company incurred heavy de
ficits in the years 1890 and 1807 iU
tax assessments were kept up during
those years and then gradually raised.
Comparisons may sometimes be odious,
but at other times they are very In
structive. For the information of the
mendacious tax bureau let me cite a
few figures that sjieak for themselves.
In 1891 the Union Pacific bridge was
assessed for $125,000 and the tax paid
thereon was $2,500. By the year 19O0
the bridge assessment had shrunk to
$00,000, and the tax thereon was $1,482.
In the year 1902 the Union Pacific bridge
was absorbed In railroad mileage and re
turned by the company as slxteen-one-hundredths
of a mile assessable at $9,800
per mile, or $1,580.
In 1891 the county tax on The Bee
Building was $1,300, in the year 1900 it
was $1,005.50, while the Union Pacific
bridge tax was $123 less. In the year
1901 the Union Pacific bridge was re
turned to the city at a valuation of
$00,000, while The Bee Building was
assessed at $165,000 for city taxes and
paid a tax of $5,120 as against $2,040
for the Union Pacific bridge. In the
year 1902 the taxes assessed against
The Bee Building aggregated $4,500 and
the taxes assessed against the Union
Pacific bridge was $47.04!
The Bee Publishing company Instead
of being assessed $0,900, as was charged
by the railroad prevaricators, was $24,
000 for the year 1901 and the aggregate
taxes $816.00. For the year 1902 The
Bee Publishing company's taxes will
amount to $720 and the railroad com
pany's bridge tax $47.04. So much for
the Union Pacific bridge part.
The Burlington passenger depot,
freight depot, all other trackage and
transfer facilities, and right-of-way is
assessed at a valuation of a fraction over
$17,000 for city purposes as against The
Bee Publishing company's plant at $24,
000. The Fremont & Elkhorn assess
ment of Its depot, depot grounds, right-of-way,
and other Improvements within
the city limits are assessed for county
and city purposes at $12,000. The Pundt
residence, corner of Douglas and Seven
teenth streets, now owned by The Bee
Building company is assessed at $12,500
for city purposes and $5,000 for county
purposes. The city tax on the Pundt
residence, 60x132 feet, which rents for
$100 per month, is only $12 less this year
than Is taxed against the entire Fremont
& Elkhorn terminal facilities, depot
grounds, right-of-way, etc., worth at
least a million.
Perhaps the railroad computation bu
reau can explain why these discrepan
cies. For myself and for other tax
payers, the mystery is as yet un-
fathomed. E. ROSEWATER.
THE HOUSE PHILIPPINE BILL.
The house of representatives will sub
stitute the Philippine bill framed by its
committee on Insular affairs for the bill
passed by the senate. There are Im
portant difference between the two
measures.
The senate bill provides that when
ever the existing Insurrection shall have
ceased and a condition of general and
complete peace shall have been estab
lished, the commission shall certify the
fact to the president who shall then in
stitute a census. After such a census
the commission shall report to the presi
dent "whether or not all or certain of the
Philippine Islands are capable, fit and
ready for the establishment of a perma
nent popular representative govern
ment." Meanwhile, in the discretion of
the commission, additional municipal and
provincial governments are to be estab
lished "with popular representative gov
ernment" so far and as rapidly as com
munities in such divisions are capable,
fit and ready for the same. Provision
Is made for the appointment by the pres
ident by and with the advice and con
sent of the senate, of a governor, vice
governor and other officials.
The house bill goea further. It pro-J
vldes that whenever insurrection shall
have ceased and a condition of general
and complete peace shall have been es
tablished and certified by the commis
sion, that body shall call a general elec
tlon for the choice of delegates to a
popular assembly of the people of the
islands, which shall be known as the
Philippine assembly. After such elec
tlon all the legislative power heretofore
conferred on the Philippine commission
shall be vested in a legislature consist
ing of two bouses the Philippine com
mission and the Philippine assembly.
There would thus be an upper bouse
appointed by the president and a lower
house chosen by the natives. Provision
is of course made as to the duties and
functions of the assembly.- The house
bill is more liberal in this direction than
the senate measure, but whether better
results would, come from It is a ques
tlon.
Another important difference be
tween the two bills Is in the currency
provisions. The coinage clause of the
senate measure would perpetuate the
silver standard in the Philippines and
continue existing currency conditions
there, which are now causing no little
disturbance to the business of the In
lands. The house bill, on the other
hand, provides for putting the currency
In the Philippines on a gold basis and
thereby remedying the now troulile-
Roine and disturbing conditions. Un
doubtedly the house will firmly Insist
upon this feature of Its bill, whatever
concessions It may be Induced to mti
in regard to the legislative provisions
and some others that differ from the
senate measure.
Consideration of this subject in the
house will occupy ten days and probably
the matter will be disposed of by cou
gress by the beginning of July.
TISIE-HUXORIU CUSTOM.
It has been the time-honored custom
for all parties to endorse capable and
faithful public o Ulcers for a second
term, but it has also been the time
honored custom to turn clown public
officers who have made a discreditable
record or who have failed to carry out
the platform pledges of their respective
parties.
In 1875 a republican governor who
had used the, pardoning power indis
creetly and Incurred popular displeas
ure was not renominated for a second
term. lie foresaw the coming storm
that was to break loose in the conven
tion and prudently decided not to avail
himself of the time-honored custom.
In 1890 two republican state officers,
namely, the secretary of state and the
land commissioner, were unceremoni
ously turned down for renomlnation by
the republican state convention In spite
of time-honored custom because they
had failed to carry out the pledges made
by the party on the question of railway
regulation as members of the State
Board of Transportation. Tom Ben
ton, the auditor, who was equally dere
lict In his duty, came within a few
votes of being knocked out by the same
convention.
This was before the popular upheaval
that followed in the wake of the prohibi
tion campaign and the populist uprising.
In 1888, only two years previously, Ben
jamin Harrison carried Nebraska by
more than 25,000 majority, and the
party bad no apprehension of disaster,
and yet the men of 1890 courageously
refused to commit the party to the en
dorsement of candidates whose conduct
had created popular resentment and
had to be explained away.
AX OVER WORKED MONARCH.
It appears evident that King Edward
Is over-working himself and that he may
be compelled to forego some of the coro
nation functions in order to be In con
dition for the final event. He Is un
doubtedly, say the correspondents, one
of the hardest worked men in his realm.
with every hour of every day until the
end of the season filled by some function
more or less exacting. The king is
not in the best of health. He is not
as physically vigorous as he appears to
be, as his succumbing to the exposure
at Aldershot showed. As everybody
knows he led, while Prince of ' Wales,
a pretty strenuous life of a kind that
does not conduce to the best physical
condition and the demand now being
made upon his vital forces subject them
to a severe strain. It would not be
surprising if he should give out before
the day of crowning comes.
King Edward, however, by his faith
ful efforts to fulfill his obligations, is
strengthening himself In the respect of
his countrymen. The British people ad
mire the pluck and persistence of their
sovereign In carrying out the elaborate
coronation program and there Is no doubt
that he Is stronger today in the popular
esteem than ever before. He is also, by
his uniformly gracious course, commend
ing himself to the regard of the foreign
element In London, toward which be
has been most cordial and considerate.
One London correspondent remarked
that circumstances have made this the
hour when the English king, if he chose,
might make himself really a king with
less opposition than such an attempt
would have been sure of having for
many years. But Edward 11 is aou un
less well satisfied with the prerogatives
he possesses and at any rate is not the
sort of man to attempt to enlarge bis
powers.
RCSHIXO REXUU1XAT1UXS.
The suggestion that the republican
state convention should reverse the regu
lar order of business, which requires
and contemplates the nomination of
governor, lieutenant governor and other
officers in the order in which they are
named In the call of the state com
mittee, should not be seriously consid
ered. There is no good reason why the
convention should rush the renomlna
tion of state officers who are entitled to
a second term In conformity with time
honored custom, and no good reason
can be 'advanced why state officers
whose conduct has merited severe criti
cism and brought the party into dis
repute should be acclaimed with a rush
and a hurrah.
On the contrary, the republican con
vention should put on its thinking cap
and not be carried off of its legs by
corporate pressure. They shoud re
member that the republican party of Ne
braska Is not a pawnshop for the re
demption of the pledges of railroad
managers and railroad attorneys. These
influences have wrecked the republican
party several times within the past fif
teen years and should not be allowed to
overawe and hypnotize a great body of
representative republicans. The con
ventlon had better remain in session
three days than to rush through candi
dates who forfeited popular confidence
by their Indefensible conduct
Colonel William Jennings Bryan Is be
coming more cautious with his political
prophecies as he grows older. His
latest forecast by the Associated Tress
is, "It Is too early yet to say what the
Issues will be In the next presidential
campaign." Colonel Bryan Is evidently
short of paramount Issues.
When It comes to tax paying the rail
road attorneys complain that the corpo
rations they represent have to pay 15
per cent of all of the taxes. When
It comes to state conventions and leg
islatures the same attorneys Insist that
the corporations have a right to do 85
per cent of the voting.
Aa UrratlTr to Thrift.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Garibaldi led 1,000 men In the war for
Italian independence. There are of this
number now surviving 1,200, all drawing
pensions. Same here.
No Pent tp I'tlra In Hls'n.
Washington Post.
Mr. Rrysn feels that the Nebraska sphere
Is much too narrow for him. Yet the na
tional democracy made a much better show
ing when he confined himself to that state.
Malicious Clonal p Refuted.
Indianapolis Journal.
Those people who have been sympathiz-
Ing with Admiral Dewey because he has,
as they declare, been Ignored by the ad
ministration will not be pleased to learn
that upon the urgent personal request ot
the president the admiral will take su
preme charge ot the large fleet which will
maneuver In the West Indies next winter.
Thrills of Tanglefoot.
Chicago Chronicle.
Orown .eloquent upon the forestry bill,
Congressman Lacey declares that "there
Is a spot where the hand of man has never
set foot." The figure Is reminiscent of
the Warsaw (Ind.) correspondent who, de
scribing a shooting soiree at a society
function in that metropolis, stated that
"While the violins were throbbing out a
passionate waits the band of death stalked
into the room."
History's Lesson Heeded.
Boston Transcript
Ths Boer leaders are taking a leaf from
the history of the late southern confeder
acy. Having surrendered on honorable
terms they mean to stay surrendered.
They and their men, like the confederates,
will devote the same energy they displayed
in war to building up their country. It Is
a country or great possibilities which will
be developed to their utmost under the
sway of Great Britain and in that devel
opment the Boer leaders, manfully accept
ing the situation, will be conspicuously
useful.
Get Ip and Hnstle.
Buffalo Express.
Eastern farmers will look with envy
upon their western brethren. The owners
of rocky, infertile New England farms will
have to go without help, although they
are entitled to it as fairly as the possess
ors of arid lands in the west, but they are
not so fortunate In getting help from the
public treasury. They bear some proportion
of the cost of this diversion of public
land moneys, but they get no benefit from
it. A benevolent congress will give them
no help in making a livelihood from their
poor lands.
Harmony with a C'lob.
Indianapolis Journal.
Mr. W. J. Bryan, peerless leader to de
feat, cannot get over the idea that he Is
still a political boss. He finds the demo
ratlc platform recently adopted In this
state good in spots, but says it will alien
ate more democrats than it will draw back
to the party, because of Its failure to re
affirm the Kansas City platform. He says
the present reorganize of the party will
never Institute any reform nor redress any
grievance, and he urges 16-to-l democrats
to "organize to prevent another evasion."
Mr. Bryan would promote harmony with a
club.
What av Poem Would Have Done.
New 'York Sun.
It la a pretty good joke on our rampant
anti-Boer friend, Mr. Rudyard Kipling,
that the pro-Boer sympathies of his aunt.
Lady Bume-Jones, should bring around her
bouse a crowd of angry villagers, whom
the nephew had to charm from their rage
by a soothing speech. His eloquence car
ried the day, but bis aunt's offending flag,
with the inscription, "You have killed, you
have conquered," had to come down. If
Mr. Kipling has had the presence of mind
to read Sir Lewis Morris' peace poem to
the visitors, the flag might have stayed up,
for the mob would have dropped dead be
fore the end ot the second stanza.
Strain of II I an Speed.
Philadelphia Record.
The question has been raised whether.
if it should be practicable to attain to a
speed of 100 miles or more an hour by
rail, the engineer could stand the strain.
It has been affirmed by a physician that
such fearful going would wear out his
nerves In a little while. The question has
been answered already by one experienced
engineer before a meeting of scientists.
Asked as to the probable effects, In case
of a common accident, of a speed of more
than sixty miles an hour, he said: "A
smash-up at sixty miles would make splin
ters of everything; at 100 miles the splinters
might be finer, but the destruction could
not be more complete." That Is to say,
when an engineer runs his engine at sixty
miles he Is under as severe a strain aa
he would be at any other speed.
WHY THE WEST REJOICES.
Irrigation of Arid Lands Under
Federal Supervision.
Chicago Tribune.
Ths states of the far west, which have
within their limits vast areas of arid land,
are about to secure legislation which they
have been after for many years. The house
has passed the senate Irrigation bill. The
president will sign It gladly, for the sub
ject Is one which he has pressed upon the
consideration of congress.
The bill Is not open to some objections
which have been urged against previous
propositions. It provides that the pro
ceeds of the sales ot the public lands in
the arid regions shall be expended by the
secretary of the Interior In the construc
tion of storage and Irrigation works. After
the secretary has become convinced that a
particular Irrigation project Is feasible he
will set aside the lands to be Irrigated and
make arrangements with the settlers for
the . payment of their proportion of the
cost of the construction of the works.
Ths great objection raised to the recla
mation of the arid lands by the govern
ment has been that it would be unjust to
eastern farmers that they would be taxed
to make cultivable lands to be given away
and that the value ot their lands would be
reduced by adding to the supply of tillable
lands. Under the present plan the govern
ment will get back all It expends on Irri
gation works and the reclamation of arid
lands will go on so slowly that no effect
ran be produced upon land values. The
ratio of Increaae In the area of tillable
land will not exceed one-tenth ot 1 per
cent annually, while population will In
crease twenty times as fast.
TlrS states and territories in which the
arid lands He naturally are most anxious
for their improvement. It will add to
their population and wealth. The reclama
tion of the lands will also add to ths
wealth of the whole country. Not all the
arid lands can be mads cultivable, for there
Is not water enough, but homes can be
provided for tens of thousands of farmers
on lands which are now a worthless asset
of the government.
It Is not impossible that when the plan
set forth In the Irrigation bill Is put to
the test defects will be discovered. If so
the work is to be carried on so slowly that
the defects can be remedied before they
have serleus consequeaces.
Federal Irrigation Law
Chicago I
The Irrigation bill passed by the house
on Friday, and already parsed by the senate.
Is an attempt to solve what Secretary Wil
son has well called "our greatest domestic
problem."
This problem concerns the reclamation
of the great arid and setnl-arld region
which stretches from the 100th meridian
ot longitude westward to the Sierra Nevada
and at Its southwestern corner reaches
the Pacific ocean.
This region Is by no means all desert,
though In Nevada, Utah, California, Arizona
and New Mexico It contains real deserts.
But Its rainfall as a whole la far below
the average required by agriculture as car
ried on In the Mississippi valley and on ths
Atlantic slope. Yet great areas of its lands
are astonishingly fertile It only wster can be
brought to them. And the water is there
to fertilize these lands, but so unequally
distributed that it goes largely to waste.
This region contains about 600,000,000
acres of the public domain. Much ot this
is rugged mountain. Some of It Is Irre
claimable desert, valuable only for Its min
eral deposits. But st least 60,000,000 acres.
It Is believed, can be converted Into farms
If the water supply be scientifically dis
tributed and economically used. Then
there are perhaps 120,000.000 seres of graz
ing lands that will be useful if water is
brought near them.
Systematic Improvement of these lands by
Irrigation will provide homes for 25,000,000
people, at the lowest estimate, and prob
ably for twice as many. Successful Irriga
tion farming both requires snd sttracts
close cultivation and a dense population.
This great Improvement of the national
domain congress has decreed shall now
begin. That Is the purpose ot the law Just
enacted, and the method adopted is both
simple and practicable. Hereafter all money
received from sales of public lands In this
region will go Into a special trust fund
for the building of irrigation works.
The lands to be benefited by such works
"THOSE IGXORAXT BOERS."
Shallow Slanders I'ttered Asralnst the
Bsrgheri of Soath Africa.
Denver Post.
Whenever a nation seeks to scqulre the
territory of sn alien government it excuses
the act upon the ground that the people
whom it would subjugate and rob are wholly
unworthy and not capable of looking after
their own affairs.
Thus, when the South African company,
representing the British government, began
to feel that It should own and control ab
solutely the gold and diamond wealth of the
Transvaal it discovered that the Boers were
a savage and morally irresponsible people.
It found them Ignorant, dense of intellect
snd totally incapable of comprehending the
ethics of modern civilization.
Such was the justification for the South
African war.
Many things have since occurred to dem
onstrate the Injustice of these claims, but
If anything were lacking It might be found
in the farewell address of the Boer leaders
st Vereenlglng to the burghers In the field
which had just been surrendered to an
overwhelming superior foe.
This, for Instance:
"Follow brethren and countrymen, we
heartily thank you for your heroism, for
your sacrifice of so much that was dear
and beloved by you, for your obedience and
for your faithful discharge of duty, all of
which serves the honor and glory of the
Afrikander people. We counsel you all to
acquiesce In this peace, to conduct your
selves quietly snd peacefully and to obey
snd respect the new government."
Who but savages could have expressed
such sentences sa thosel
Who but morally Irresponsible people
could have given such advice!
And then again:
"Now there is peace, snd, although not
the peace such ss we longed for, yet let
us abide where God has led us. We can
with clear conscience declare that for two
and a half years our people carried on the
struggle In a manner almost unknown iu
history. Let us now grasp each other's
hand's for another great struggle lies be
fore us for the spiritual and social pros
perity snd welfare of our people. Casting
aside all feeling ot bitterness, let us learn
to forget and forgive so that the deep
wounds caused by this war may be healed."
Such ignorance! Such barrenness of the
nobler sentiments! 8uch lack of the higher
perception of life's duties and obligations!
Such dearth of comprehension of the de
mands ot the broader alms ot humanity!
No wonder the civilized world hangs its
head In contemplation of It all.
PERSONAL NOTES.
General Wood appears to be letting others
do the worrying.
The New York courts are giving notice
that the effective smoke consumer must be
used by those who burn soft cosl or else
hard coal must be Imported if it cannot be
obtained In this country.
While addressing the senate a day or two
ago Mr. Bailey of Texas said: "Indian
agents may be divided into two classes
the smart and the good. The trouble is
that the good agents are never smart and
the smart agents are never good."
Edward Ten Eyck, champion oarsman of
the world, comes by his ability quite, nat
urally. Members of his family have been
noted oarsmen for four generations. His
grandfather, now 78 years old, Is a ferry
man at reeksklll. up the Hudson, and Is
willing to meet any man of his age.
The United States senate is not the
only deliberative body in the world where
physical arguments are sometimes resorted
to. In the Reichsratb at Vienna a pair of
rival leaders boxed one another's ears.
It was necessary for their friends to drag
them apart, amid cheers and Jeers from the
galleries.
Congressman Lacey of Iowa has contrib
uted to the Congressional Record an essay
in which he says: "The buffalo was the
noblest of all the wild animals that In
habited this country when America was
discovered. He was a gentleman among
beasts. Just as the game hog is a beast
among gentlemen."
Senator Klttredge of South Dakota saw
two street urchins quarreling in Washing
ton and said to them: "Come, now, boys,
try to get along without fighting." We
ain't fighting," said one of the urchins,
"we're only playing senators." Mr. Klt
tredge walked away muttering: "Confound
Ben Tillman and McLaurln, too."
The general belief that a title ought to
be earned before It Is bestowed is held by
the auctioneers of Iowa. In their state
convention held last week they lamented
ths looseness of the application of the pre
fix "colonel" to members of their calling
and formally decided that no auctioneer
was entitled to It until he had cried 1.000
sales.
About once In so often there bobs up a
rumor that Russell Sage has made a will
in which the bequests to charity and phil
anthropy are so great as to place ths name
of Sage in the same gallsry of fame with
thoss ot Peter Cooper, George Pea body and
other great benefactors ot the human race.
The rumor was on duty again last week in
New York, but the aged capitalist refused
to discuss It. Mrs. Sage, however, was Isss
reticent snd said: "There Is absolutely no
truth la the report"
nter Ocean.
are to be assessed for their cost snd sold In
parcels not exceeding 1(0 acres at the
prices so determined. The money received,
which may be paid in ten annual Install
ments, goes Into the trust fund, which Is
thus constantly replenished. These Irriga
tion works will be no burden on the public
treasury. They will be paid for by those
benefited, much as pavements and sewers
are paid for In Chicago.
As was Imperative In a region where the
first necessity of life Is not land, but
water, the law decrees that the beneficial
use of water shall be the basis of rights to
It. In other words, it will not be possible
hereafter for speculators to buy up vaet
areas of the public domain and wait for
the work of others to make them valuable.
Irrigated or Irrigable lands will be sold
only to those who will use them. As far
as possible the opportunity for men to profit
by the unearned Increment of their neigh
bors' toll has been cut off.
The law might have been Improved by
denying Its benefits to states which neg
lect to modify their land laws to conform
to the doctrine of beneficial use of water.
Only Wyoming, among the many states af
fected, has a really scientific and equitable
Irrigation code. The laws of aoms of the
other states are a positive impediment to
home making and an encoursgement to
speculation. It would seem advisable for
congreas at the beginning to have Instated
upon the change of such laws.
But with all Its defects the Irrigation act
Is a distinct step forward and a good be
ginning. Its operations will necessarily be
slow. It may be half a century before
water Is brought to all the Irrigtble lands.
Btft the results will be of ever-increasing
beneficence.
Irrigation of these arid lands will not
only provide homes for millions, but will
largely protect the region eastward agstnat
drouth. On the whole, the Irrigation law
Is likely to pass into history as the wisest
legislation of the present congress.
HOl'SD ABOUT HEW YORK.
Ripples On the Current of Life In the
Metropolis.
Dancing masters of the United States snd
Canada have Just concluded a solemn con
vention In New York City and announced
with appropriate sostacy the birth of three
new dances, christened "The Antlers Ga
votte," "The Olympla," and "The Military
Dip Waltz." The first named la said to be
a very Intricate combination of pedal move
ments, which experienced elks only can
execute gracefully. The other dances,
though warlike in title, are decidedly
peaceful, though capable of producing en
tangling alliances.' Two-steps were not
shelved entirely, but three-steps are to be
given a more effective boost by the light
foot gentry. The popular one-step move
men for wallflowers seems to have met
with little favor, and the floral decorations
of ballrooms will continue to "shed their
fragrance of the desert air" as formerly.
New York City and Its environs still
maintains Its clutch on the championship
for the Indulgence of Its young persons in
that Imbecile species of "fun" which con
sists In the contraction of mock marriages
at parties, picnics snd other little social
blowouts. About forty young couples were
Inadvertently but solidly riveted together
for life at a plcnlo over on Long Island
last summer. The ubiquitous Idiot who,
had he not been attending the picnic, would
probably have been Joyously rocking a
boat containing s couple of screaming
young women In the stern sheets, riding his
baby on a seat In front of ' his bicycle
or yelling "Are" In a theater, was, of
course, the individual who made the sug
gestion that s few mock marriages would
liven up things. The Idiot's mental vac
uity, however, was not sufficient reason why
the forty young couples should fall to his
proposition. They did, nevertheless, with
great enthusiasm, and a young fellow who
was attending the picnic from a neighbor
ing village, known to be a lawyer, and
therefore familiar with the civil contrac
tion of marriages, was chosen to tie the
picnic knots. The forty ceremonies were
gone through with with great blitheness
and Joviality, rings being employed and
everything done according to the regular
canons.
The young lawyer who officiated at the
mock marriages, aa they were, of course,
thought to be, wss such a fool that he
had quite forgotten before entering upon
his funny task that he had taken the oath
as Justice of the peace of bis little Long
Island village only two days before. He
became suddenly pale with the recollection
when, of course, It was too late, and men
tioned the matter to some of the mock
married. They were enraged. He had to
run, and he had to know how to run. The
victims couldn't be convinced that he
wasn't aware all ths time that he was tying
perfectly legal matrimonial knots. They
were all legal, as a matter of fact, snd
the picnic broke up In an uproar, and a
few days later some thirty-two applications
for divorce were entered In a bunch la
a Brooklyn court.
Every policeman of the Central park
squad whose post is near the square, old
brown blockhouse on the hilltop at One
Hundred and Seventh street, goes out these
hot nights, reports the New York World,
prepared to "fan" a full-fledged and elo
quent ghost who haunts that neighborhood.
An anonymous Individual first reported the
spook some nights sgo to Roundsman
Frank Orlpper.
The citizen came running down the rocky
hill from ths blockhouse at midnight. He
wore his hat about three Inches above his
head. He panted. He seized Orlpper by
the hand.
"Gosh!" be said. "You're a liys man,
ain't you? Say, you ain't no ghost T Hoo
ray I Say. Captain, I saw something Just
now uaderstsnd and I hope to the Lord
I'll never see It sgala. Me cutting across
the top o' the hill on a quick trip home
understand? Well, yes. to be sure, I go
by the blockhouse. Everything quiet. I
hear 12 o'clock striking from three or four
steeples. Just as I come past the little old
Iron door at the bottom of the blockhouse
out walks a smooth-faced fellow la old
continental togs and presents srma with s
rifle about eight feet long.
" 'Seventy-six!' he aays to me. 'Seventy
six!' Me doing a tremble all over.
"Then the continental fellow looks off
to the south towsrd the reservoir snd he
say's: "They are coming! The British!
The British are coming!' Then down he
flops like a dead man. And ma? Well,
say. Cap, me running like a cat shot with
a paper o' tacks."
"Rlckeys or high balls?" asked Rounds
man Orlpper.
'Nothing all day but tea," said the citi
zen. And, really, there wasn't a whiff ot
alcohol on the m,n."
What worries the park policemen Is ths
fact that on the night before the battle
of Harlem plains a squad of Connecticut
soldiers was encsmped nsar the stone
blockhouse. Lord, Hows sent a regiment of
redcoats te surprise the Ysnkee camp. A
sentinel saw them coming, fired bis flint
lock and yelled: "They are coming! The
British! The British ars coming!" Then
he fell mortally wounded by a British vol
ley. Ten thousand troops, regulars and mil
itia, and the vessels of the Nortk AtlaatU
squadron, will participate In a joint war
game on Long Island sound the last week
In August The object ot the mimic mar la
the defense of the approaches to New
York from a supposed hostile fleet It
Is the Intention of the army and navy au
thorities not to have the exercises begin
until farmers la those parts of Connecticut,
Long Island and Rhode Island where land
operations will occur have gathered their
crops, as It will be nereosary for the lscl
forces to cover considerable territory, and
take advantage of the situation ot the coun
try without reference to damnge to prlvats
property.
The naval program for the Long Island
sound exercises Is being srrsnged by tbo
general or strategy board of the navy, and
Colonel Wsllsce F. Randolph chief of ar
tillery United States army, is in charge
of ths military end ot the war game.
The North Atlantic naval force will b
Increased greatly and orders sent out by
the department contemplate having a num
ber ot additional vessels plsced In com
mission by August 1, so that they may be
sble to participate In the Joint army and
navy war games to be plsyed on snd oft
the shores of Connecticut, Rhode Island
and Long Island.
The cruiser Montgomery is now ready,
having received an extensive overhauling
at the Brooklyn navy yard. Many other
cruisers and battleships are getting Into
shape for the interesting event. Orders
have been Issued also for placing in com
mission the entire torpedo boat flotilla, con
sisting of twelve destroyers snd fifteen tor
pedo bests.
COAL BARONS' CISCIL
How Consumers of Anthracite Were
Squeesed Last Winter.
Chics go Tribune.
When the anthracite coal operators raised
the wages of miners two years ago they
raised the price ot coal to consumers. Ac
cording to Carroll D. Wright, commissioner
ot labor, the miners' estimate of their gain
last year by reason of the wage Increaae Is
$4,000,000, while the operators put the galu
at $6,000,000. Probably It an average Is
struck and the gain called $5,000,000 the
figures will not be far out of the way,
The gain of the operators due to the in
creased price of coal is set down by Mr.
Wright st $10,000,000. If his data are trust
worthy the operators collected from the
consumers the $5,000,000 of additional wages
for the miners and also collected from the
consumers a commission ot 100 per cent for
attending to the matter.
The commission was too large. If the
operators could not pay the advance out of
their profits it wss tn accordance with
business rules to make the consumer foot
the bill If possible. It la customary to
charge him a little more than the Increase
in wages comes to, because wages are psld
before the product Is marketed. There
would not have been much grumbling If the
operators had charged a small commission
for their services. They went too far whea
they exacted $5,000,000 to pay them for
collecting from the consumers $5,000,000 and
distributing it among the miners.
The operators could not hsve done this
if they had not got rid of competition by
combination. They have formed a trust
snd, as they control the limited supply ot
anthracite, they can make what prices they
please for their product as long aa they
do not make prices so high ss to drlvs
consumers to the use of soft coal.
If the figures of the. commissioner of
labor are correct the operators can raise
the miners' wages 5 per cent snd pay ths
Increase out of the $5,000,000 commission
collected from consumers. It will not be
necessary to raise the price of cosl.
POINTED REMARKS.
Chicago Post: . "Do you believe. In her-)
edity?"
"Certainly; I know a barber who has
three little shavers."
The Widow: "Why. Willie," said his
teacher, "what makes your hair so red?"
"Aw, I just had scarlet fever and it set
tled In me head."
New York Sun: Little Olrl-Ma!
Her Mother Don't say "ma," my dear,
say "mama." What do you want?
Little Olrl Did you see uncle's new
Panumama?
Washington Star: "Why don't that ro
mantic star and that emotional actresa
get a divorce, If they can't become recon
ciled ?"
"They have discussed the Idea. But each
Is afraid the other might get the beat of
the advertisement."
Philadelphia Press: Raynor This for
tune telling business Is all humbug. One
of these professors of palmistry told me
a little while ago to look out for a 'short,
blond man.'
Bhyne I don t know about Its being all
humbug. I'm blond, and I'm short. Lend
me a ten, old fellow, will you?
Cleveland Plain Dealer: "There's a couple
o' big coal soots on your face. Weary."
"Don't mind 'em. They're th' badgea of
a great Industry, Umpy. I tell you, me
boy. there's nothln' like soft coal for put
tin' th' human family on an equality. '
Chicago Post: "Tou had some trouble,
I believe," remarked the neighbor.
"Niver a bit," retorted Mrs. Clancy, who
had proved victor in a disagreement with
her husband. " "Twae Clancy had all th
throuble."
AFTER A SUMMER SHOWER.
Andrews Norton.
The rain Is o'er how dense and bright
Yon pearly clouds reposing lie!
Cloud above cloud, a glorious sight
Contrasting with the dark blue skyt
In grateful silence earth receives
Ths general blessing: fresh and fair.
Each flower expands Its little leaves.
As glad the common Joy to share.
The softened sunbeams pour around
A fairy light, uncertain, pale;
The wind flows cool; the scented ground
Is breathing odors on the gale.
'Mid yon rich clouds' voluptuous pile,
Methlnks some spirit of the air.
Might rest to gase below awhile.
Then turn to bathe and revel there.
The sun breaks forth; from off the scene
Its floating veil of mist Is flung;
And all the wilderness of green
With trembling drops of light Is hung.
Now gaze on nature yet the same.
Glowing with life, by breezes fanned.
Luxuriant, lovely, as she came,
Fresh tn her youth from God s own hand)
Hear the rich muslo of that voice,
Which sounds from sll below, above;
She calls her children to rejoice,
And round them throws her arms of love.
Drink In her Influence low-born care
And all the train of mean desire
Refuse to breathe this holy air.
And In the living light expire.
Torpid Liver
When your complexion is
sallow, and you are troubled
with Constipation, Malaria,
Sick Headache and other Liv
er Complaints, take
Horsfbrd9
Acid '
Phosphate
It stimulates heaJtbr liver
activity, increases the now of
bile, improves appetite, pro
motes digestion, enriches the
blood, and Improves the whole
system.
Mhit's esssiss iHti,