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-G THE OMAHA DAILY BEEt TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1902. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee E. R08EWATER, EDITOR. I PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF (SUBSCRIPTION, pally Bob (without Sunday). One Year.H W pally Bee and Sunday, One tear ." Illustrated Bee, On Vear Sunday Be. One Vear J.'O Saturday Bee. One Year 1.50 twentieth Century Farmer. One Year.. 1.00 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Ta!ly Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... Jc Lally Bee (without Sunday), per week. ...12c Pally Bee (Including Sunday), per week. .17c Sunday Bee, per copy v." JCvnlng Bee (without Sunday), per week.!' Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per week ' 150 Complaint ot Irregularities In delivery Should be addressed to City Circulation Department. . OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building, Twen-ty-nrth and M Streets. Council Bluffs 10 pearl Street. Chicago IS) Unity Building, hiew York Temple Court. Washington &1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. 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Evening and Sunday Bee printed during (the month of June, iwi, waa as louowa 1 SMMIO t 18 2t,4rtO 17 2,B40 18 ao,To 19 28,740 20 2O.B0O 21 20.B70 22 ...21,B0 23 SO.BHO 24 aiao 25 ao,oo 28 21,BHO 27 20.AB0 28 2D.B40 29 ZO.BttO SO 20.U10 1KMUMI 4' JW.5TO - U,fttM 2,B10 I 20,fi7O g 1,1HM .29,540 jo .....aw.eio jl 2A.6RO 13 219,610 13 an, 15 SO i m.H'to is r:...2o.sso Total 8Ht,2W X-ess unsold and returned copies.... 9.1UV2 Net total sales..... 870,50 Jet dally average 28,318 OEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 30th day of June, A. D., 1902. (Seal.) M. B. H UNGATE. Notary Public. The name congress will reconvene for second Innings next December. Adjournment of house and senate adds another reason for jubilating on the Fourth. Haytl's election broils indicate that Its people are taking their lessons In self government In dead earnest. , If the Plngree potato patches and posy gardens are not a success this year It will not be for lack of the watering can. K - The Isthmian canal bill Is now a law fcut excursion parties via the Isthmian canal will not be organized for a little iwhlle yet . ., ' 'apan'i imports from the United States are increasing every year. The Jap knows where to get the beat goods for the least money. We know several business establish ments that would envy City Treasurer Bennlngs his long line of people wait ing to pay him what they owe the city treasury. ' King Edward's recuperative powers astonish the physicians. The physi cians must be disappointed at prospects that promise to make their work a shorter Job than they expected. Senator Elklns thinks our war with Spain delayed the annexation of Cuba, which otherwise would already have been accomplished . It Is a question, bowever, which would have been least expensive. : One thing at a time In the tax reform program. The first point of attack was the city assessment and the next the county assessment The state equaliza tion, however, is also on the list and Is not to be overlooked. It is suggested that Trust Smasher Smyth should have a consolation prize. If the ;iittle giant" had the proper sense of self-sacrifice he would get off the ticket and make way for Smyth to gratify his ambition to lead the forlorn Dope forces. ' One would Imagine that It would be easier for the populists and democrats to fuse en platforms than on tickets, but the reverse appears to be the case. It 'is one ticket on two platforms not two tickets on one platform. A Joint plat form committee for the two fusion con ventions will be in order next time. ; The people of Seattle will take due notice that Governor Savage and a com plete staff of gold-laced colonels will be on band to superintend the laying of the f keel of the battleship Nebraska, in 1 Jcourse of construction there. Informa tion as to tl)e preferences of the guests can be had of the head of the co 111 oils vary department The campaign for more equitable taxa tlon or railroads is not confined to any one state it' presents an Issue sure to 'be raised in every American common wealth where these great corporations nave been evading their just shares of the burdens of taxation. That Is why Hhe railroads are so strenuous In their efforts to head off-the fight In Nebraska, so they may use their success here as a lever in other states. ' Mr. Bryan's statement that no invita tion to the Tilde n club banquet ever reached him is met with the production of postofflce receipts for the registered letter containing the invitation.. The question, however, U not important . Mr, Bryan, even bad be received the invita tion In due time, would not have at tended any meeting at which Grover Cleveland and David B, Hill were ad .tertlaed to be the star performers. THKXCfV FISCAL TSAR. Todsy begins the new fiscal year of the government and the notable fact In con nection with it is the abolition of the war taxes of 1808. After today the taxes which were levied to carry on the war with Spain will end and the prom ise given by the republican party that these taxes should be abolished as soon as It was practicable to do so will go Into effect. It Is another illustration of the good faith of the party In power In carrying out its assurances to the peo ple. The abolition of what Is known as the war taxes will take a considerable sum out of the annual revenues of the gov ernment Those taxes yielded a large sum, but they are no longer necessary, and the republican party, following Its uniform policy of relieving the people of unnecessary tax burdens, has ordered the relinquishment of this taxation, which amounted to many millions an nually. While It is true that these taxes were not felt to be particularly burden some, because of the general prosperity of the country, there will be a general feeling of satisfaction that they are re pealed. As to the effect upon the rev enues of the government the reduction will amount to a larg sum, put accord ing to official estimates there Is no danger of a deficit resulting, unless con gress should be more extravagant In the matter of appropriations at the next ses sion than It has been in the present one. It is not probable that It will be. On the contrary, It Is reasonably to be ex pected that the disposition will be to curtail appropriations for the next fiscal year to what is absolutely necessary to the public service. The appropriations at the present session have been on a pretty liberal scale and It may fairly be assumed that the limit has almost been reached. At all events the cutting off of taxes, which will reduce the Income of the government many millions annually, must compel congress to pursue a con servative and prudent course in expendi tures. The national treasury Is well pro vided with money and the revenue out look Is satisfactory, but the situation does not warrant uudue extravagance in public expenditure. ova uHowiao kxpomts. Evidence of the magnificent expansion of the business of the United States is seen in the statistics of the exports for the eleven months of the fiscal year ending with May. They show a volume of exports almost) unprecedented and which attest particularly with reference to the agricultural products, something absolutely out of the ordinary. - For ex ample, the statistics show that the ex ports of agricultural products last year were greater than ever before for any single year, and this notwithstanding the fact that in the same period we will also send abroad a greater amount of manufactured products than ever be fore in our history. These facts are particularly Impres sive. They demonstrate a commercial power on the part of the United States that is infinitely greater than any politi cal Influence which It can possibly exert The real power which this country Is ex ercising today and will exert In the future is absolutely financial and com mercial. The productive energy and power of the United States, the Indus trial expansion and growth of this na tion, will have more to do with the spread of its influence and authority than even Its political and diplomatic power. That our trade will continue to expand seems to be an absolute certainty. All the conditions favor this proposition and especially the fact that we are able to surpass every other country in both the quality and the quantity of our labor. The fact is universally recog nized that American labor is the best and most productive and effi cient in the world, and It is largely due to this that we are able to outbid and outvie the world In all the contests In which labor is the chief ele ment What has already been accom plished In the extension of our manu factures to foreign .markets suggests that greater achievement lies In the fu ture. The superiority of American labor that has won so much In the past can reasonably be depended upon to win more In the future. We are today stronger than ever before In all our his tory In those conditions which make for material progress and there is every reason to expect that in the years to come our advance In the markets of the world wlll.be more rapid than in the past ' WUT HOT ABOLISH TBK SVPBBIX TCKDIMTI The dominant majority of the Board of Education makes no bones of it that it has no confidence In the ability of Super intendent Pearse to give efficient direc tion to the teachers of the public schools. This lack of confidence is exhibited at every turn, not only in the selection, promotion and assignment of teachers, but also in the regular disregard of the superintendent's recommendations with reference to the subdivision of the school work, the choice of textbooks. etc. As a natural consequence of this de plorable condition, the board has virtu ally taken to Itself the performance of duties' that should devolve upon the superintendent and relieved him not only of the functions, but also of the responal blllty of his position. To all intent and purposes, therefore, Superintendent Pearse is treated as a figurehead rather than as the general manager of the public school system. The upshot is that for all practical purposes his serv ices might as well be dispensed with. In other words, with a superintendent who lacks the essential qualification and does not enjoy the full confidence of. the board, the office becomes a sine- cute that might as well be abolished. The damaging effect of this state of affairs upon the educational system can be scarcely overestimated. Imagine, if such a thing could be, a general man ager of a railroad who did not enjoy the confidence of his board of directors, who felt forced to exercise his functions themselves through committees or Indi vidual members. Imagine any other big institution under like conditions whose general manager because of his Incom petency bad to be shorn of authority, without which discipline is impossible. Would not a change In manager be Im perative as soon as his contract should expire? Would the stockholders of any large concern allow the directors to Jeopardize its success by retaining a general superintendent or manager who lacked the necessary executive ability and was unable to command the respect of subordinates or superiors? , This Is precisely the handicap under which the public schools of Omaha have been administered for several years past and under which they will con tinue to be weighted down until a com petent educator Is placed at the helm as superintendent. The attorneys of the Burlington road have filed a labored plea in support of the action of the state board of rail road assessors with the supreme court as friends of the court A few weeks ago the attorneys of the same road made a labored plea before the state board against an Increase of its assessment as friends of the board, and after the board had acceded to their request not to as sess the franchises and sought to Justify their action in its answer in the tax case, the attorneys who appeared in be half of the Burlington prevailed on the board to contradict itself in an amended answer. It would seem that these at torneys can play friends of the board one week and friends of the pourt the next week without winking an eye, but the people who see through this game of shuttlecock and battledore are not so easily humbugged. The next house of representatives will Include twenty-nine more members than the present house as the result of the new apportionment bill passed In con formity with the census of 1000, and in this additional representation republi cans are expected to get the bigger share. If the representation were strictly ac cording to the constitutional provision, that reduces the number of congressmen wherever a state discriminates ou race or color lines, the southern representa tion would be greatly reduced aud the republican preponderance Increased. The only hope of democratic control rests on fraudulent representation for the dis franchised negroes of the south. The most serious grievance growing out of the action of the county board raising the assessments of the South Omaha stock yards and packing houses belongs to the assessor of the packing house district If this keeps up, the position of assessor will no longer be deemed more Important in the election there than the presidency, as was the case in the election of 1900. According to State Superintendent Fowler, the demand for experienced school teachers In Nebraska is greater than the supply. That may be ac counted for by the surplus of ste nographers graduated by commercial col leges which award diplomas in three months while normal schools require three years training. Elements of a (Much. Washington Post. With a Mickey in Nebraska and a Mc- Jlmsey in Missouri It does look as if the re publican bold on the Irish vote Is as secure as ever. Affliction Doubled Vp. Baltimore American. Unfortunately the canceling of the corona tion preparations cannot reach the corona tion poetry or the anxious British publlo might have been spared one pang the more. A One-Slded Affair. Chicago News. According to Admiral Dewey the capture of Manila must have been something fierce, since the Spaniards were not permitted to Ore on the Americans under the rules ot the gam. The Man the People Like. New York Commercial Advertiser. The American people like the Roosevelt way of doing things, however much pain that way may give to that indomitable little band of critics who fear that he will go wrong unless they chide htm from time to time. The people like a man with blood and human sympathy in him, who stands by bis friends and hits back vigorously when they are unjustly assailed. Conselentlons Mr. Bryan. Portland Oregonlan. A characteristic bit of Bryanlsm is the latter's recent reference to the trusts. Cleveland did less, he says, than Knox has done. But why Knox? Why not aay Roose velt T Why, that would recognize some good In the man who may be running for presi dent In 1904! Cleveland is to be condemned for his administration's Inaction, but any good this administration has done must be credited to Knox. Oreat man, this Bryan! 80 Just, so careful, so conscientious! Federal Raids on Grafting;. New Tork Tribune. "Endless chain" frauds are missing links In various parts of the country, as the Postofflce department In Washington has been taking vigorous action against the boldest of- these audacious swindles. In cities and towns not a few prosecutions of dishonest bucket shops have been carried on effectively. All these efforts to protect the unwary and simple-minded are com mendable and ought to be encouraged by every honest citizen. The Good nnd th Bnd. Baltimore American. The accusation that there were politics and bad management In the distribution of the Martinique relief funds was to be ex pected. With the generous showing made by human nature on occasions of great disasters there Is generally mors or less of Its worse phase also. The story Is a familiar one, and as long as human naturs Is mixed In its good and evil Impulses It will be repeated. Th good In the end. however, generally outweighs th bad. Dot In the Manner Policy. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Bryan, of course, waa wis In refusing th Nebraska fusion nomination for gov ernor. He knew his party would be da tested In any ess and a defeat tor him at th head of the state ticket would tit his prestlg pretty hard. Th fact, however, that both elements of ths coalition wanted Bryan to accept and th further fact that th conventions of the democracy and the populist la Kansas wr vcrvbslmlBfl 1 Bryanlte In sentiment show a situation which will give some trouble to the re- organiser. Bryan will never be president but be can and will throw obstacles In the wsy of any anti-Bryan democrat wh at tempts to reach that office In th next few years. I'rabrellas ns I.lsrhtntasr Rods. Philadelphia Ledger. The steel frame umbrella Is light, con venient and much less clumsy than Its pred ecessor with a wooden shaft; but there Is an element of danger In It. A woman at Atlantlo City, a day or two ago, waa struck by a bolt ot lightning attracted by the metalllo frame of her umbrella, and men have been killed by Inadvertently letting the steel points of their umbrellas com In contact with low-hanging electrlo light. Such cases are not numerous, but they have occurred and as the season of thunder storms has now begun. It Is well to exer cise some car In carrying umbrellas epuip ped with steel rods. Prodnct of Small Collesres. United States Investor. Ootng back Into past times In our own country, and reverting to colleges not Cath olic, when the old manly training yet swayed the minds of all good educators, we know well that modest college of mean exterior and scanty means sent forth the men who made the nation what It la, and it may be said here, too, that the land would not be what It Is today if these men had been moulded on some groping elec tive system. They would not have had th clear rang of Intellectual vision, th com prehensive grasp to do what they did, and it is due to the old-time system now so much maligned as antique that we owe the best elements of our citizenship. CIRIOC9 "SEJtSE OF HOJfOR." How the Spanish Commander nt Manila Arranged the Surrender. Chicago Chronicle. In Admiral Dewey's testimony before th senate Philippine committee he exposed a peculiar view ot the Spanish "sens of honor." His description of the circum stances under which he occupied th city and forts of Manila 1 picturesque. He said that the Spaniards wer afraid of surrendering to the Filipino forces under Agulnaldo's command. They anticipated that such a surrender would lead to a gen eral massacre. They arranged deliberately to deliver the city, fortifications and forces, numbering about 16,000 men, directly to Dewey, whose fleet commanded the entire water front. But the Spanish commander had a "sense of honor" in the matter which he demanded should receive consideration. Speaking of the surrender, Admiral Dewey said: "That was all arranged and there was no need for the loss of a man In the capture of the city. It was to have been done at a signal and no gun need have been fired by us but for the desire of the governor gen eral, who said that his honor demanded that a few shots should be fired. So I had to Are and kill a few people." To manufacture some spectral evidence that he had not surrendered without re ceiving a shot, the Spanish commander de manded that Admiral Dewey should fire at him a few times. Dewey consented, but stipulated that the Spaniard should not fire back, which might have endangered soma American lives. This "sense of honor" In the Spaniard the notion that he could honorably sur render without firing a gun after a few of his men had been killed Is like the French sense of honor which is satisfied In a duel when "swords are crossed," though .with out causing bloodshed. Such a "sense of honor" Is a very inoffensive national or personal characteristic. This Is the "sens .of honor" which Fal- staff ridiculed. He says: "Honor pricks me on. Tea, but what if honor pricks me off when' I com on bow then? Can honor set a leg? no; or an arm? no; or take away the grief of a wound? no. Honor hath no. skill In surgery, then? no. What Is honor? a word. What Is the word honor? air." On this line of thought Falstaff's view of honor proceeds. It is evidently the kind of honor which the Spaniard desired to protect In his negotiation with Admiral Dewey .for the surrender of Manila, TREATMENT OF JURORS. Novel Salt for Dinifti Instltated In New York City. New Tork Commercial Advertiser. The case of Mr. Manhelm Brown, on ot the Jurors In th Mollneux trial two years ago, will deservedly receive a very large share of public sympathy. Mr. Brown Is suing the city for the sum of $50,000 be cause of the injury which he is alleged to have sustained during the progress of that famous trial. He asserts that bis health has been permanently shattered by reason of gross neglect on th part of the court officials to provld him with reasonable conveniences and proper car while he was serving as a juror, and that, although his physician certified to his condition, he was compelled to walk In the pouring rain and to suffer other exposures, as the result of Which he Is now permanently unfitted tor engaging in business or any other occupa tion. He therefor demands such pecuniary compensation from the city as shall In demnify him for the Injury said to have been done him by the negligence of th officials who wer in charge of th Jury of which Mr. Brown was a member. ' Against this claim it Is argued that Mr. Brown's Jury service was a publlo duty, to which he, in common with all other citizens, was liable; that th state cannot be sued for damages because of Injuries received while in Its service, and that If such suits ven possible there would be endless HUrr- tlon upon ail sorts of pretexts, so that th whole Jury system would fall Into dis repute. No doubt from a strictly legal point of view, this argument la a very strong one, and yet It doe not wholly satisfy th die- ,te of common sense, nor indeed tu time-honored legal maxim that for every wrong there exists a remedy. It Is true that every citizen Is bound to serv th stat in th capacity of a Juror when legally Impanelled, but, on th other hand, there are some very special reasons why this service should not entail more physical and mental discomfort than Is absolutely unavoidable from th nature ot the service Itself. Th orderly and efficient adminis tration of Justice 'Is promoted by the co operation ot responsible and Intelligent men in the Jury box, and how can responsi ble and Intelligent met be otherwise than anxious to evade their duty when they know that they are likely to be treated al most as though they wer criminals, to have the most necessary conveniences de nied them, and to be subjected to such ex posure as msy shatter their health and permanently Incapacitate them for work? It Is hard enough to have one s business Interrupted for weeks and possibly months, to clt dsy after day ia a stifling court room and to b practically a prisoner at all other times, yet thee things are Inevitable What Is not inevitable or la any way ex cusable Is th neglect of sanitary condi tions or brutal Indifference to physical suf fering. Tsk a case such, as th Mollneux trial, where the ordeal was on which lasted nine long weeks and where a human life was at stsks how can a Juror who Is suffering from Illness, Intensified by ill treatment, b expected to follow with a clear mind th progress ot ths evidence and to glv a verdict lotelllgsatly sad without LABOR IN THE MINEf. Some of the Condition Prevalent In tho Anthraelte Resloo. R. D. Rhon In Review of Reviews. The employes In the S6S collieries of the anthracite coal region In th year 1900 num bered 143,824. This is according to the latest report of the Bureau of Mines, The newspaper figures are somewhat In excess. A breast Is generally worked by four men two miners and two laborers; each miner' call his partner Ms "butty;" th laborer are also "butties" to each ether. The miners have a contract with the operator to work the breast at a certain price per car, the miners to furnish tools snd powder and to pay the laborers. It is their business to cut the coal, to direct the opening and advance of th breast and to prop th roof. No .miner can be em ployed who has not a certificate. In order to obtain which be must have had two years' experience as a laborer In the mines cf the state and must be able to answer, before the mine examining board, at least twelve questions In the English language pertain ing to the requirement of a practical miner. A miner's day's work Is done when ha has cut enough coal to fill the cars as signed him by the mine boss. He may do this In three or four hours, when he goes home to smoke his pip and talk politics, leaving the laborers to load the cars and clean up the breast ready for th next day's work. The miner likes his job his place la cool In summer and warm In winter, th hours are short, th labor light and th ele ment of danger Is never calculated upon. It is upon the mine laborer that the hardest work falls, and he receives little more than half as much aa the miner. Of the employes about one-fourth are boys. The law forbids the employment of boys under the age of 14 Inside or under 12 outside a mine. The boys Inside drive and tend the mule which -pull the coal cars and open and shut the many doors in the dark labyrinth. Outside they work In the breaker as elate pickers. A person of humane Instincts cannot contemplate with calmness these children kept out of school and forced to such grim and tedious work. In the great labor parade of 1900 large companies of these children marched through the streets; It was a holiday for them, and with the exuberance of child hood, which even the hard conditions of their lives could not crush, they were shouting and whistling. They carried ban ners, on which wer Inscribed sentiments like these: 'What our fathers were we will he also." Give our fathers justice and we can go to school." "We need schooling but must work." "Abolishment of the young slaves." "Our mothers are up at 6 p. m. (sic) to get our scanty meals." Those poor little banners, with their badly-spelled legends, were not ridiculous but touching, for they revealed a state of affairs that even dwellers in the coal re gions are not accustomed to consider. The miner Is the unit of the mine-labor question. The wage scale, fixed by the car, Is the basis of payment. The other labor of a mine the opening and timber ing of gangways, the laying of tracks, the cutting of tunnels through rock is known as "dead work," and is paid for on a dif ferent basis by the day or by the yard. It is not considered mining at all. PERSONAL. NOTES. Dewey still Insists that he won the battle of Manila and successful dispute of his claim seems hopeless. The way the young king of Spain is be having toward his mother seems to show that the maternal slipper was not properly exercised In his earlier years. ' Harlan P. Hall, a candidate for governor on the democratic ticket of Minnesota, started five newspapers at St. Paul, four of which survived and are prosperous. A Brooklyn automobile carrying a party of merrymakers who were singing, "Good Morning, Carrie, balked and tucked and finally blew up, spilling the occupants In the gutter. They ought to know It was loaded. The population of Philadelphia has in creased 60 per cent In the last twenty years and the cost of municipal govern ment 300 per cent, though the citizens do not seem to be getting any more for their money. A Massachusetts nurse claims to have disposed of thirty-one sickly men, to whom she administered copius doses of poison. Thus the proportion of males to females, already grleviously low, suffers a severe shrinkage. Stockholders of the world's fair, 1,000 In number are promised a final dividend next fall. There is $480,000 in the treasury ready for distribution, but th managers ot the fund, having held on for eight years, hate awfully to let go. A. Elzry Waters of Baltimore, who re cently visited the king of Slam at Bangkok, has sent an Invitation, through Dr. T. Heywood Hays, physician to th royal fam ily, to have the crown prince ot Slam pay him a visit during his American tour. The season's novelty In the story line comes from Texas, where the sun was so hot last week that it boiled the water melons on the vines. This seems to con firm General Sheridan's Impression of Texas, that be would rather live In "the other place. Former Lieutenant Governor Jones of New York, long known as "Jones, he pays the freight," has Just finished a novel of country life In New Hampshire. For sev eral years he has beea practically blind, but has worked faithfully on his book, dic tating to a stenographer. Boston will tolerate a great deal, but rigorously draws the line against reflec tions on the dignity of its policemen. A Harvard student with money to burn called one ot the guardians a "Cop" and pushed in th crown of his dolicboc phallo helmet. That was too much. It cost the student $50 to square himself. Senator Mason met Postmaster General Payne the other day and th latter said: "Mr. Mason, I hear you have a presidential boom." "I am now engaged la running down a rumor to that effect," said the senator, "and if there's anything In it I shall know how to conduct myself. My wife and th cook have declared for me, I know, and there may be others." A short time ago a representative of a temperance paper went to Washington snd sought aa interview with Speaker Hen derson. He was In th chair at the time and could not see th caller, who sent In an inquiry as to who was responsible for the house restaurant. This reply was sent out: "I gave the permit. David B. Henderson." And bow temperance papers are attacking the speaker on the ground that be runs a saloon la th capitol. Ths not be sent out has been lithographed, too. and Is being circulated to enlarge this particular phase of the Iowa man's infamy. Among those who shook hands with Crover Cleveland at the Tllden club dinner la New York waa Frank H. Brooks, long a newspsper worker In this city. In ths court of their brief chat Mr. Brooks said: "Mr. Cleveland, I owe to you the only political' honor ever conferred upon me. You appointed me consul to Trlests, but I did not car for that position at the salary attached. Then you changed the appointment to consul general at St. Petersburg, but family reasons compelled m to decline again." "Let me shake your hand one more." said th ex-prealdent. "Never before bar I bad tb distinguished honor of shaking hands with a democrat who refused two offices." ROUND ABOUT NEW TORK. Ripples on the Carrent of Llf In th Metropolis. Occasionally there come to th average American citizen, who has no combine of bis own, a bunch of news which lends vitality to ths belief that greed works out Its own destruction. The greediest of modern combines, the American Ic com pany, which doubled prices In New York Isst year, has overreached Itself and begins to feel the pinch of poverty. Those rare June days, so cool, mclst and depressing, played havoc with the Income of the Ice truat. and for the first time in Its odious career it was obliged to pass the usual dividend on preferred stock. This Is takea to mean that ths trust Is on Its last legs. "Ex-Senator Hill, in his Tllden club d dress, spoks ot political conditions this year as resembling those of 1883, when the democrats swept the stste," says the cor respondent of the Philadelphia Ledger. "There are. Indeed, certain points of re semblance. The year preceding President Garfield was assassinated, and waa suc ceeded In the presidency by a New York man, Chester A. Arthur, Just a another New York man succeeded another Ohio president last year. Then, as now, there was a republican governor and a repub lican congress. Th democratle party had long been out of power. Three years be fore Tammany hall had bolted the state ticket and John Kelly ran as an Independ ent for coventor. Ha was near th end of hla leadership ot Tammany. In Ilk manner Richard Croker has retired rrom in and Tammany Is in a stat of disorganization. But her the similarity ends. In 1882 the republican governor was defeated for renomlnatlon, under circum stances which created a profound dissatis faction among republican voters. This year Governor Odell is to be renominated without! opposition. In 1882 the star of Grover Cleveland rose in Buffalo. Just at the time that that of Samuel J. Tllden was gradually declining. Today no suc cessor of Cleveland appears. No new star in the democratic firmament is ascending. There are dissensions In th republican party now, but not such deep a cnastn as separated the stslwart and half-breed fac tions in last. Then Cleveland wa elected governor by nearly 200,000 plurality, but nnhndv believes that it is possible lor any such political revolution to take place this year." ' The rnnt of covernment In the city of New York as compared with that of other American cities has been very clearly shown In diagrams prepared by the Merchants' as sociation. The outlay for maintenance and operation In 1900 of Chicago, rnnaaeipnia, St. Louis, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, nnffaln. San Francisco. Cincinnati. Pitts burg, New Orleans, Detroit and Milwaukee was $115,838,846, an average of $18 per capita ot population. The outlay in New York wa tins 73 277 an averaxe of $31.62 per capita. Only one other city Boston cost per capita more than New York, me aiagrams snow that thirteen other cities maintain their police, their parks, their sewers, their streets, their lighting and their Ore depart ments at a far less cost than New iora docs. Another Astor hotel, to be named the St. Regis, Is rising at Fifty-flnst street and Fifth avenue and Is te outshine any hotel yet built In a city ot palatial hotels. Th furniture alone will cost $700,000 and the furnishings of a French chateau valued at $200,000 is Included In the bill. Through out the house the main trim and furniture will be In Circassian walnut, together with vermilllon and rosewoods and white and red mahogany and satinwood. This item Is $100,000 more. The trim of tb rooms ana the furniture will be of the same woods. Every room in the building will be harmon ized In color, In style, In ton and in gen eral effect. On the second floor th stat apartments, as they are called, will b furnished equal to any palace in Europe as far as rare woods are concerned. Th style chosen is that of the period of Louis XV. The five rooms in the suite will cost for furnltur alone $26,000 and the cost of furnishing the bedroom is $8,000. On the first floor, where the restaurant, csfes, palm garden and office are to be, the ornamentation Is In caen stone, in Intricate patterns of high class carving. The palm garden will be furnished in Persian style and the hangings will be se lected In Constantinople. Throughout the hotel the corridors will be finished in white marble, costing $260,000. Elevator ehafts and the entire basement and sub-basement occupied by the kitchens and the machine rooms are covered, In cluding ceilings, with whit ttling, the cost of which enters Into the thousanda of dol lars. In Belfast, Me., the linens for the St. Regis will be made according to special de sign. This item causes an expenditure of $60,000 and the sliver, of American manufac ture, near equals that sum. Royal Worcester crockery, also made of s special design In England, will be used. Th bedding, exclusive of the linens, has been selected In th United States and Is th finest manufactured. For the single expense of plumbing all the baths are rooms de luxe, with large window the amount of $200,000 has been set aside. From the wine vaults and machinery room in th sub-basement to th seventeenth story th entire building will be an exhibi tion structure as regards It magnificence. THE MODERN MILLIONAIRE. Genlas of the Newer Edacatton Hypnotising! the Wealthy. Detroit Free Press. "Wisdom hath her excesses which de mand restraint, no less than folly," said wise old Montaigne. Education, too, has Its excesses, ns less than Ignorance, and It was these excesses which President Angell selected as the theme for hi baccalau reate sermon to the graduating class of the University .of Michigan. Tb excess of overspeclaltzatton, th excess of commer cialism, th excess of political Brahmln lsm, th excess ot social Brahmlnslm, the excess of materialism. They are real excesses, to be .insisted on ss such, and all the more because of the different relation that th higher educa tion bad come to assume to society. There wa never another time, at least sine ths dsys of Athens, when tb educated man touched the life of his community at so many polnta. He Is no longer a rseluss, content to be merely a scholar, satisfied with his tub If the Alexanders will only keep out of bis light. Hs is everywhere that men go; in ths mines, in th facto ries. In the counting rooms. In the labora tories, on tne larm, ana at me caucuses, as well as In ths pulpit and on th bench. and in th professor's chair. Instead of being a man who holds himself beyond the daily life of bis fellow men, he Is an integral part of the herd, whether It be vulgar or exalted. A few decades ago the college man was th exception. Now he snd his fellows are to b counted by th tens of thousands. His numbers ar In creasing .Ilk Jacob's flocks. Hs is doing th world's work, and doing It as It was never don before, and It is evident that his Ideals and his aspirations and hs am bitions ars to exercise a greater influence than ever before In shaping the existence of society. They are already having their effect. Tb magnificent endowments that ar being mad annually for purposes of edu cation ar not the result of a suddenly conceived spirit of philanthropy ea th part ef millionaire that hav mors money than they know what te do with. Th 1 fact of the matter is that th genius ot ; th newer education has beams to influ- i enr even tb millionaire, who had few I chances for education himself and mad his way up from poverty by sheer brut fere. HI endowments sre his tribute to ! th gods of bis lost opportunities which are present before him th more clearly In the light of his great financial success. In the broadening life of th .community the rran who hs mad a speslalty of business has come te appreciate th great truth that money aa aa end la Itself I not worth th effort, while aa a means to an nd It Is worth anything th end Itself Is werth, It Is net th mlllinnair who Is making the new education, In spit ef his lavish endowments. It Is th new adueatlea and th new educators who havs beea making a newer type of the millionaire. What they will do during the next fifty years no man can say; but there I little that Is reasonable which they may not legitimately hope to do, if they will but cling to their Ideals. PLAIN-SPEAKING PRESIDENT. Mr. Roosevelt's Frankness Commend Itself to Americans. Chicago News. Probably If President Roosevelt had been trained In the school of practical politics he would hesitate long before defending himself and his administration as frankly as he doe in his publlo speeches. Other presidents have spoken publicly In defense of their party policies. Under personal criticism either of themselves or of sub ordinate administration officials they usu ally have deemed It wise to smart In si lence. But If It is the part of good politics to Ig nore criticism it -Is not la Mr. Roosevelt's temperament or character to do so. His Memorial day address resolved Itself into a stirring defense of the army. In his ad dress to the Harvard alumni the other day he took up the cudgel on behalf of General Wood, Secretary Root and Governor Taft and lustily belabored the critics who have passed censure upon those officials. In cidentally he did not hesitate to imply that this nation has shown the traditional in gratitude of republics. Oreat Britain's pub lic servants, its Cromer snd Kitcheners, when they return from foreign service well performed receive large and tangible re wards. Our men of that stamp, said the president "come back to the country and If they can find of the strings left loose when they sundered their old connections and if they are unfortunate they are accused of maladverslon in office." This Is a kind of plain speaking which the American publlo has not been trained to expect from its presidents. In the oppor tunity it affords for criticism from oppos ing partisans it Is In the last degree im politic. Yet It is certain that the average American will approve of the president's vigorous defense of the men who have served with him snd whom he likes. . WHITTLED TO A POINT. TV' ..l4n.(nn fit.-. UTTk. . . L - M T. UB...,ib..,,. 7.ai. IV link BIUIICU inO awful row In that group of politicians?" "I don't know. But I should surmtse that one of them had gotten up and sug- Bcsiea a suneme lor narmony. Philadelphia Press: "What we need most In this country," said the political re former, "Is an honest count." "They ain't no such thing," declared Mr. Nurltch. "I know all about 'em, tor my daughter married one." New York Sun: Wife Well, the cook has gone and It's your fault. Hunband Mine! Why? "She said you didn't treat her any bet ter than you treated me." Cleveland Plain Dealer: "i sea it' Is re ported that Mr. Bryan has a large block of stock In a new airbrake company." "I suppose he thinks It's going to make back platforms safer." Ohio ta.te Journal: "How does It com you resigned your position as office boy?" Inquired the gentleman ot little Jimmle, "didn't you like your employer?" Yes.'r replied Jimmle. "I liked him well enuf, but I didn't like th' brand uv eeegars he smokes." Detroit Free Press: "A couple were mar ried In Bt. Louis the other dav who couldn't understand each others' language," said Mrs. uiuey. "And I suppose that they are unspeak ably happy," commented Mr. Gilley. Puck.: When th good old man saw six large . boys hammering one small boy within an Inch of his life his curiosity was piqued. "Why do you do this?" he asked. "Because he takes medicine for 10 cents when the union scale is 16 cents," ex plained the large boys courteously. Chicago Post: "Is this where you make trouble?" asked the little man at whose elbow stood an aggressive looking woman. "This is the marriage license bureau," answered the man behind the desk. "That's what I meant," said th little man, as he signed ana reacnea into ms pocket for $2. A PATERNAL CAROL. J. J. Montagus In Portland Oregonlan. I know a sour feller who says life Is full a' wronss: That happiness ain't found outald o' senti mental songs; That all the world's a wilderness, in' shlnln' through the gloom. Is nothln' but tne feeble lamps that lights us to the tomb; That only fools is cheerful, an' th plague o human Kina Is smllln', iokln' tellers, that la light o' heart snT mind. He says in all his dreary life he never found no 1ov. An' he don't think that none exists but he aln t got no Doyl I know another feller who saya 11 f ain't worth the while: The game ain't worth the candle, an' th lamp ain't worth the He; That men just tolls an' worries on, till by-and-by they dies, An' only one In thousands draws a half way decent prize. He's worked, he says, for years an' years. an sun is wnrain more, An' all the things he ever se ain't half worth workln for. He saya that we're just gropln' In a blindln', rourln' whirl. Without a hop of Just reward but h ain't got no giri. An' still another feller says that married life's a snare, A drlvln' manly men to drink, an' cowards to despair That all It means Is doublin' up already heavy loads, An' startln' out for heaven on two widely forkln' roads. That no two people ever could go yoked fur years and years Without the man a cussln' an' th woman bathed In tears. He says that when a man la wed th worst o' life begins. An' youngsters only make It wort but h ain 1 got no twins: Turning Gray? Why not have the early, dark, rich color restored? It's easily done with Ayer's Hair Vigor. Nearly every body uses It. Ask your own friends. Probably they know how it always restores color, checks falling, and keeps the hair rich and glossy. . ' I have used Ayer's Hair Vlror and have found it a great remedy. It checked tho falling of mjr hair when all other remedies bad ailed."' Airs. C. A. Morrison, Mlnfnociet, Ms. , tit. AflsrsgrlsU. J.C irerfCOiwstClsna,