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TItE OMAIIA DATLT BEE: WEDNESDAT, JTTLT 1002. Tiie DMAJiA Daily Bee. E. ROSE WATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERT MORN1NO. TERMS Or SUBSCRIPTION, pally Be (without Sunday), One Year.lt Ot bally Bee and Bunds, Ur. leur to Illustrated Urr, un lear t Sunday Bee, One Year J-'J Saturday Bee, One Year 1-W Twentieth Centurr Farmer, Ona Year.. 1.00 DKUVEHED BY CARRIER, pally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... Jo pally Bee (without Sunday), per .... Lally Bee Onoiudtng Bunday), per week. .lie Bunday Bee, per copy V, Evening Be (Without Sunday), par week. We livening Bee (including uunuay). per week ..16c r Complaint of lrregularltlea In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation txpartm.nt. OFFICES. OmahaThe Bee Building. South Omaha City Hail Building, Twenty-filth and M Btreeta. ' Council BlulCa 10 Pearl Street. Chicago ltHo Unity Building. New York Temple Court. Washington &01 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE, t Comraunlcatlona relating to nwi and editorial matter should be addreaed: pmiba Bea, tentorial department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances ghould be addreaaed; The Bea Pubiuhlng Com pany, Omaha. , REMITTANCES. ..Remit by draft, expreaa or poatal order, pYyafel to Th Bea Publlahlng Company. Only 2-cent stamps accepted in payment o snail account, personal cnecaa, excw' pmaha or eaatern exchangee, not accepted. THE BEE PUBUUHlNO COMPANY. STATEMENT Or CIRCULATION. tt of Nebraska, Douglas County, aa.1 Duamng company,, being ouiy wui lays that the actual number oi run ana bomplet coplea of The Dally, Morning, Waning and Sunday Bee priuiea aunug t month of June, 1902, wu aa iouowb. 1, t ..2,410 ,.8,tJ30 ..KB.070 ..ll,6HO ..2.eio ..8,B70 1. .8V,0 17. IS. 19. 20. ....Stt.BoO ....Stt.TtW .... 20,740 I. . I. I. .2,SOU .20,070 .211,5(10 .28,010 .81.330 .SO.UOU .SU.BHO 21. u 4 1 t. ft: p.. ao.voo JW.B40 89.8 lO 29,500 80,S10 ae.fi so xo.eoo ..... JW.BSO .. 14.. tt.. 26.. 27 Z9.G80 28 2O.04O 2 20.BHO SO...., 89,610 Total sku.s;m t unsold and returned coplea.... 9.S82 Net totl sale. 878,088 Jt dally average 99,318 GEO. B. TZ8CHTJCK. Subscribed In my presenco and aworn to Before m thla Jlh day of June, A. D.. 1802. (Seal.) M. B. HUNQATE, Notary Public Down In New Jersey Is evidently the place where the need of primary re form cries loud?st. . Now that the deficiency In rainfall has bout been overcome, we will start In Inaklng up on the deficiency In tempera ture. , Whether the Antic fiasco at 'Frisco was a fake or not it b.aB been given alto getner more attention In the public prints than It deuerves. Isn't it about time for the sham re formers to import josian riynt once frnore to tell us again that Omaha is the (wickedest city in the world? If our conscientious county attorney Bnd his mountebank deputy were on the square iney wouia prosecute the gam biers in the courts instead of in the newspapers. . I No danger of the Union Pacific im porting mechanics from abroad. It takes trained American mechanics to operate the complicated machinery of modern American railway repair shops. If Congressman Mercer Vera gifted as b mind reader he would know by this lime that a very large majority of the people of the Second congressional dis trict think that he has had enough. To secure a revision of our charter pro visions relating to paring and other ctreet improvements will be one of the important duties devolving on the Doug- Has delegation to the coming legislature, Another expert declares that an all rail route from Paris to New York via (the Bering sea Is perfectly feasible. But (We may have an all-air route In opera tion before the all-rail route mate rializes. It is noticeable that Spain manifests no disposition to mix into the friar mat ter in the Philippines, although most of the objectionable friars are Spanish, Spain has had all the trouble it wants jwltli the United States. Congressman Mercer Is said to be in brown study over the tantalizing ques ftlons that ' were propounded in the de bate over his candidacy for a perpetual eat In congrees which Mr. Ourley, who (Is not a mind reader, found himself un ble to answer, It would have been extraordinary If Nebraska did not experience a few chocks while so many volcanoes are performing around the edge of the con ,Cnent. Nebraska always gets every thing that comes this way, from cloud bursts to smallpox. director or tne Mint Koberts is re puted to have written the platform resolutions of Iowa republicans for Tears In succession and that no devia tlon from precedent be committed, the resolutions committee this year will surely avail Itself of his services. Something surely should be done for (that nine-month Infant that la distress Jag the neighborhood by eating meat (With the price of beef at present high rwater mark the example Is likely to be altogether too expensive should it be emulated by the other children in arms In the vicinity. V Complaint is entered down east that the lobster has been following the cow that jumped over the moon so that lob ster cutlets, even in the home of the animal on the New England coast, com mand higher prices tban silvers off a side of beef. The western farmer who thought he was getting the edge on the meat packer by collecting top-notch fig ure on marketed live stock should start at one to raising lobsters. taxation tit Hamilton covstv. Bulletin No. 80. Issued under authority of the railroads of Nebraska, Is devoted to an exhibit of comparative taxation in Hamilton county. That county has been singled out by the railroad tax bureau to show the great wealth of Hamilton county and the small amount of prop erty returned for taxation, with the variations In value between the assess or's returns and the census returns. For the purpose of befogging the peo ple comparisons arc Instituted between the assessments for 1803 and 1900, with the stereotyped exhibit of the radical divergence between the estimated valua tions of the census enumerators and the real valuations of the assessors. These Invidious comparisons are intended to create the impression that the railroads have actually been overtaxed In Hamil ton county and are entitled to a large refund. Before this demand Is pre sented The Bee respectfully directs the attention of the tax bureau, to. a few figures that have been omitted from Bulletin-No. 30. According to the state auditor's report, the aggregate assessed valuation of all property in Hamilton county for 1891 was $1,988,977. This included sixty-six miles and a fraction of railroad assessed for $322,429. For the year 1902 the assessed valuation of all property In Hamilton county aggregate 12.294,997, and the same railroad mileage as In 1891 is returned for $289,667. . Now, mark the'strlking discrepancy. In 1891 all property in Hamilton county, exclusive of raiiroaas, paia taxes on $1,606,448. In 1902 all prop erty, exclusive of railroads, is assessed at $2,005,440, or an Increase of $338,992 over valuations for 1891. On the other hand, the railroad property in Hamilton county, assessed for $322,429 in 1891, has shrunk to- $289,567 in 1902. In other words, the assessment of railroad prop erty Is $32,872 less this year than it was eleven years ago. Reduced to percen tages, the comparative taxation of Ham ilton county shows that the assessment of all property In Hamilton county has appreciated 20 per cent since 1891, while the railroads have depreciated 10 per cent ' Granting that all property in Hamilton county has appreciated 20 per cent since 1891, does any one contend that the railroad property has depreciated 30 per cent since 1891, for that is precisely the divergence between the railroad assess ment of this year and the railroad as sessment of 1891. The railroad tax bureau will hardly contend that the rail roads that traverse Hamilton county have not Increased in value in full pro portion with the increased value oi all other classes of property. Estimates of census enumerators, per capita figures and mileage tax compar isons are simply designed to confuse and confound the paramount Issue, and that Is whether the railroads are paying their proportion of taxes according to the present market value of their prop erty and its enormously Increased earn ing capacity. . . DOMESTIC ASD iPORT PRICES. It Is not denied that certain American manufactures are sold in foreign mar kets at somewhat lower prices than are obtained for them in the home market, but the attempt to make political cap ital out of this is not likel' to be very fruitful. It is the testimony of ei' perienced trade authorities that where our manufactures have been sold abroad for less than they are here, it has been for the purpose of avoiding domestic over-production and the inevitable re action and depression In American In dustries that would have followed. "As a matter of fact." remarks the American Economist, "the granting of discounts to foreign purchasers has been grossly exaggerated for political effect American wage earners, who constitute the great bulk of domestic consumers, are not finding any fault on the score of discounts to the export trade. What they know is that there is abundant employment at good wages and they are not the ones who clamor for such a ripping open of the tariff as would close the mills and factories when the limit of. domestic consumption should be readhed." Those who make so great an ado about the difference be tween export and domestic prices choose to consider only one side ' of the ques tion. PROJECT CD BAILWAT COHSOLIDA TlOJtlU According to reports from New York which appear to have a substantial foundation, nothing but the law's delay interposes now between momentous changes in the corporate methods of the railroads of the country. Referring to the reported tentative plan for flnan clng the Rock Island system, the New York corresDondent of a Philadelphia paper says this is only one of several plans of magnitude'and of far-reaching consequence which are sura to oe oe veloped in the autumn in case the courts hold that there Is nothing illegal In the swuritlea nroDosltlon. He says that not only would the release of that company from the constraint now put upon It by the pending litigation tend enormously to stimulate railway activities in the northwest but It would certainly be followed speedily first by an attempt to bring under the patronage of a corooratlon of like character the I two railway systems in the south and southwest wherein Morgan Interests are now either wholly or partially dominant. There seems to be no doubt tbatai ready .the project of organising a se curities holding company that will be come the patron and protector of the Southern and the Louisville & ivasi vllle systems, with perhaps one other, is beiur formulated, both upon its flnan rial and its lecal side. It Is said that the financial question presents no diffl cultles. but the projectors are apprehen sive that there may be legal and pollt leal obstacles quite as troublesome as the Northern Securities company has met with in Minnesota. Reports are current regarding otner acaetnee oi ru way consolidation, or what amounts to practically the sauzte thine tha control of various railroad systems by corpora tions such as that against which Judicial proceedings are pending. The opinion is expressed that these various attempts to perfect community of Interest through the organization of a sponsoring and pro tecting company will, if they are made in the fall, as some of them will be con tingent upon the Northern Securities de cision, be sure to result in a season of unsurpassed railway activity, greater than, though of a different kind, that which followed the resumption of specie payments and continued for several years. Herein is suggested the great impor tance of the result of the Northern Se curities company case. If the decision should be against thai corporation it will check and perhaps put an end to attempts at railway consolidation, or the control of great systems by powerful financial organizations. Otherwise It ap pears to be certain that a tremendous effort will be made to put into general effect the community of Interest policy respecting the railroads, centralizing the railway systems of the country into four or five groups and establishing a mighty monopoly that would absolutely control transportation rates and despotically dominate the commerce of the country. POSISQ IS BOBHOWKD PLVMtS. Repreaentatlvs Mercer ot Nebraska rushed bill through congress In record time dur ing the last hours ot tbs session. The measure, which appropriated $75,000 for a quartermaster's warehouse at Omaha, was Introduced In the house at S p. m. and signed by the president at 4 p. m. Gretna Breeze. Mr. Mercer's spectacular performance during the last hours of congress as furnished his admirers with a good t al of borrowed capital. The true inward ness of the rapid transit of the quarter master's warehouse bill from the speak er's desk to the president's table has not been disclosed In the accounts printed fof home consumption. As a matter of fact, the bill was re ported from the military committee In May and could have been passed in the house without being held back until the laat moment for dramatic effect When It did pass the house, however, Mr. Mer cer had no desire or intention to have put through the senate during that session, and the credit for its prompt passage through the senate is due ex clusively to Senator Dietrich. Mercer Is posing in borrowed plumes. Senator Dietrich's version of the incident to a representative of The Bee is as follows: 'I knew nothing of the bill until the vice president sent a page to tell me that a bill carrying an appropriation for Ne braska had passed the house and had reached his desk. I looked the bill up and found that it had been Introduced by Mr. Mercer, and immediately sent for him. He came over and I told him that I thought I could pass the bill If I could get the committee to report on it, and that I could get the committee to report if I knew something about it "He replied that there was no use try- lnr to dbss it at all. That he had talked the matter over with Senator Millard, and that they had agreed that there was no chance for It to go through the senate at this session. Senator Millard bad left Washington for home, convinced that there was nothing of Importance to Ne braska coming up that need detain him Notwithstanding Mercer's protest tha the thing could not be done and there was no use trying, I sent for a copy of the house report on the bill, polled the senate military committee in executive session, and prevailed on the chairman of the committee to make a verbal re port in favor of the bill as soon as the senate reconvened in open session. By unanimous consent I got the bill up and bad It passed. 'Only a short time remained, however, before adjournment, and I knew that the bill had to be engrossed and en rolled and signed by the speaker and president of the senate, so that It could reach the president for his signature, By this time Mr. Mercer was awake to the necessities of the situation. He took the bill to the speaker and got It signed. I had it signed by the president of the senate and then turned It over to Mr. Mercer, who took it to the president, in the nresident's room, where the latter affixed his signature." Three questions naturally present themselves; 1. Why did Mercer hold the bill up In the house until the last day of the ses sion, although It had been reported by the committee on military affairs more than six weeks previously! 2. Why did Mercer agree and arrange that the bill should lay over In the sen ate until next December? 3. Did Mercer want the bill hung up as a plum to assist him in his campaign for a sixth term nomination? Twelve years ago an effort was made to inaugurate a tax reform movement. which was only partially successful, but nevertheless blazed the way for the more recent efforts to secure tax reduction. The original document in possession of The Bee reads as follows: The undersigned property owners and tax payers ot Omaha hereby associate them' selves for the purpose ot protecting their interests and co-operating to prevent ex travagani and unlawful expenditures of the publlo moneys by city and county author! ties snd the creation ot Illegal debt sod maintenance of agents snd officials not authorized by law, snd th unlawful lery ot taxes. In order to carry out th object ot this association w propose to employ competent attorneys to enforce our rights la the courts snd hereby sgree tp share th expense Incurred, which are to be limited to not exceeding $50 par annum, tor any member ot this aaaoclatlon. It will be noted that while the original tax reform association left out of Its program the revision of assessment rolls, it sought to accomplish what the Real Estate exchange has not yet even at tempted. The field is still open for co operation to prevent wasteful and un lawful expenditures of public moneys by city and county authorities, and that, of course, would also include the school board. Alleged differences between officials of the Agriculture department and the In- teiior department - over methods and plan of operations under the new irri gation law are denied. There Is no good reason why any of the government authorities should trouble themselves now as to the question between federal. state and private ownership of irrigation works. Congress baa settled that ques tion by the action It haa taken providing for national Initiation. All the depart ment officials have to do now Is to ex ecute the work which the law Imposes upon them. It would seem that now Is the time to renew the efforts made during the war to bring about the immigration to this country of considerable bodies of Boers. Boers likely to look favorably now on the suggestion of rebuilding their for tunes in this country instead of at their old home will not be so easily moved at a later period when again firmly rooted to South Africa. Can It be that all the talk emanating chiefly from railroad land agents about planting Boer colonies in the west was nothing but a bid for free advertising! It is given out seml-officlally that Gov ernor Odell of New York has decided to retire from politics to accept an im portant executive position in Union Pa cific headquarters at Omaha on a salary of $100,000 a year. Would it be con sidered Impertinent to ask whether Gov ernor Odell is to be Installed as editor of President Burt's railroad gazette, which is to eclipse and submerge the degenerate Omaha dallies? According to reports from Lincoln cer tain railroad managers are evincing a re markable interest In the personnel of Governor Savage's new police board for Omaha. But what special Interest have the railroads in the management of the Omaha police? - Are they figuring on contingencies of possible labor strikes? Wken Denoeravta All agree, Detroit Free Prea. A man would not be much of a democrat If he did net think Jt was Mr. Roosevelt's moral duty to disrupt the republican party, Inconvenience of Prosperity. Washington Post The Immense corn crop threaten to pro due a freight car famine. All our Incon venlences these days' seem to be produced by prosperity. In Good Industrial Health.. New York Mall and Express. Th people are no longer sick in heart and pocket as they were in 1896; they are not merely convalescent, as in 1900. They are clear-eyed and strong. In full finan cial snd Industrial health. And more plainly than ever before they see the worth lessness of the poisonous nostrums of Bryan and his fellow quacks. Mo Issue for Democrats. Philadelphia Press, Any revision ot the tariff must com from its friends, and th associated re publican policy of reciprocity, applied as it ought to be, will disarm any objection snd relieve any restlveness there may be in the west. Turn whieh way the will the democratic - leaders find no issue en which they can hopefully fight. Should Fento).Attoraera Be Barred t .. Buffalo Express. An Investigation made by Commissioner Evan before he retired from th pension bureau convinced him,-that practically every man who served in th Spanish war had been solicited by , pension attorney to ap ply for a pensioa. Perhaps th surest way to reduce th pension bill would be to re fuse every application with which a pension attorney Is connected. Bryan's Popnltatto Proeltvltlea. Philadelphia Record (detn.) If Mr. Bryan Is to have his way there will be no harmony with the aound money demo crats who opposed him and hi free silver humbugs in 1898. He regards thes demo crats as dangerous ballast -for the demo cratic ship, to be thrown overboard along with all others who decline his captaincy, On the other hand, the sound money demo crats offer no obstacle to harmony, inas much as they look upon tree silver as a dead issue beyond th power of restoration. Even In the sliver producing Rocky moun tain states democrats and republicans alike have abandoned the Issue and Its only sup porters aro a remnant ot th populists, at whose doctrines Mr. Bryan Is a true repr. sentativ and champion. PERSONAL ACT) GEJTEIIAU There are 257,001 names la th new city directory of Boston, an Increase of 4.733 over the number last year. Surprisingly, the John Bulllvsns this year outnumber the John Smiths three to on. One of the victims of th St. Pierre disas ter was a French painter, Paul Marwart, who was at Martinique on an artiatio mis slon from th government. He ascended to the crater of Mount Peleo as late as April 88. Mr. Adelaide Augusta Jones Dean of Boston, now nearly 84 years old. Is the only surviving member of a Juvenile chorus that gave th first famous "America" at patriotic celebration held in th Park Street church oa th evening of th Fourth of July, 1832. Ia Japan it is always th rule of polite ness to pay a trifle mora than th sum mentioned in your hotel bill. To settle the account net would be considered an insult or at least a mark of great dlasatls faction. People who hav traveled In Japan say that th Japanese always tip th waiter on entering a hotel. Th csar has a larger number of phy sician In attendance than any other sov ereign in th world. There ar twenty- four, and, needless to add, they ar se lected from among th most celebrated doctors of Russia. There Is first a physi cian ' in chief, then com ten honorary physicians and four honorary surgeons, two oculists, a chiropodist and an honorary chiropodist, two court physclans and three specialists for th czarina. Prof. Berthensohn ot St. Petersburg, who recently visited Count Tolstoi at Yalta, says that he is quit well again and, at th urgent solicitation of bis friends, s writing his autobiography. Th Russian painter Pasternak ot Odessa, who made tha illustrations for Tolstoi's "Resurrec tlon," has lately completed a painting rep resenting the novelist in th midst of his family. His wife is reading to him and tha others are listening, too. Mr. W. J. Plrrle. chairman of tb steam ship building flrsa of Harland Wolff, has had a wonderfully successful career. Born in Quebec of Irish parentage in 1847, he was educated in Belfsst and subs quently entered th aervlc ot Messrs Harland and Wolff, by whom bis talents were so much ' appreciated that within twelve years, and when he was still only 27, be was mad s partner In tb firm Mr. Plrrl spends most ot bis time la Bel fast, where as ex-lord mayor of tb city ha enjoys great respect and Influence, but be has a charming London realdano la Downshlr heu, Balgrav squax thahscowtiwestax. traffic. Th Pria for Wnlek All the Railway Maanntea Are atrwscllaar. Ban Francisco Chronicle. There seems reaon to belleva that rail road projects now proposed or In progress may result In a situation similar to that which brought on the great "merger" of the northern lines. What era known aa th "transcontinental lines" are not trans continental at all. but and at lha Ml. ourl river, or. In th case ot the Eanta r. at Chicago. Tne lines running from Chicago to th Atlantlo seaboard are known ss th "trunk lines," and the con nections between Chicago snd th Mis souri have snother designation. At first the distribution ot freight among thes lines was a simple matter, easily settled by lormai arrangement or otherwise. As traffic Increased, however, and with It number of new eaatern mnnartinna in the th a position to give and demand a share of business, the situation h aa hrnmi th Very complex. Aa the different rnata ha. came consolidated Into powerful systems in struggle tor shares In th trade be came very severe. Inriaail mil ta nv v. utmost difficulty prevented from degener- img into rata war. Th tendency of all thin l a ha tlon of really through transcontinental inea extending from th Atlantic Pacific, and each trunk line desire to be eom part of or control such a system. As th number of trunk line exceeds th uum of central transcontinental linaa m. ber likely to result In mora ruri, nni this city, of which on is now building, snd In a struggle of eaatern Interests to get con trol of the Santa F. th Southern and Union Paclflo being already tied up to th Vander bllt interest. It is said that sn active effort t aocoraplah this Is now In progress on the part ot those controlling th ,,) Island system, which just now seems rather out in the cold as regards transcontinental irarac. ui course, no uch project is pro claimed from the hnnaa tana hut a Kn h 1r I house whloh has heretofore represented the Rock Island people ha been for some time accumulating Santa Fe stock on a constantly rising market If those in control of the Santa F hare other views it is quite pos- sioi mat w may see a struggle similar to that some time sgo for the control of North. era Paclflo and which sent that stock up to 11,000 and would hav ruined many specu lators eXCODt for tho merer ot h Tlrtnra No great amount of stock is likely to be bought at figure much above the real value, but If at th end there should be a small block required to secure a controlling inter est a nveiy ngnt may develop for Its posses sion. If th stock takes a big Jump while considerable remains in the market the ef ort to secur It will naturally be postpaned till a more convenient season. But It will not be dropped. PUBLICITY FOR PRIVATE AFFAIRS, Abanrdltle to Which Growing; Oraae for Personal Notoriety Leada. Brooklyn Eagle. Tha Increasing publicity that is given to private affairs may betoken aa Increasing brotherhood tn the race, that Justifies every member of it In what would once have eemed Ilk impertinent inquiries into the finance, family relations, industries and fade of every other member; or it may be denoto an increasing willingness on th part of people- who do not see a clear way to fame in any other direction, to attain it by opening th) parlor windows that ths under world may see the doings of th over world on reception and dinner nights; or it may be merely a part of modern news. paper enterprise that conceives tha survival in cltle of th gossiping spirit of th cen tury. Anyhow, we have the publicity, and there. Is no doubt that It Is increasing, like the material fortunes that occasion, th most of it. In no, other thing do we find so remarkable an explanation of affairs that are none of the publio's business as in weddings. It cannot be alleged that there is anything uncommon about wedding, They are hap pening every hour, all over th world, and they involve tn happiness or trouble every sort and shade of people. They ar not quit so usual as births and deaths, but they are almost. One would think that they deserved no more advertising than does the conduct of a grocery or the taking of a va cation. Tet, If either party to the marriage contract ha a certain number of dollars, he sura that th outer world will know all about tha wadding. We shall have full re ports of what ,1s worn the food at tha break fast will be described, critical comment on tha frock-coat and coatless frocks of the invited will bs furnished by experts, there will be a complete list of that nobis army of standby known a "among those pres ent," bride and groom will be watched as they enter the diurch and If either of them flinches or repents or cuts a caper of Joy, the report will ba sent to a syndicate of newspaper all over tb land, and finally there will be pictures of tb brld. th groom, th parents of both, the house ot each family, the house or hotel of the young couple, th decerated dining room, tha church, th table covered with presents, and at least on enterprising paper has beaten various contemporaries by furnishing pic tures of tb bride's most Intimate raiment. Well, if the persons in Interest like this kind of thing they hav plenty of what they Ilk. Yet there Is a lingering and old fashioned sentiment that private affairs. Ilk funerals, wedding, christenings, re ceptions, balls and dinners concern only participants and relatives, snd as there Is a certain similarity in thes function, which enables th reader to draw infer ences from verbal outlines, there need be at least no extended description. Probably a few people employed in monotonous tasks at low wages ilk to read about th way people ot monotonous leisure make tasks for themselves by the distribution ot Vlgh Incomes. Just as it 1 said that tb asost confirmed readers of society news In London are th servants, but to th mass of Americans it can matter little whether Miss Smythe-Perklns goes to the altar to a whit organdie with mauve swlas biased on th etamln. or in a purple velour gar nished with percales snd foulards sewed la th gores. Nor can the parents of Miss Smytha-Perktna, nor th husband of her, conceive how the publlo can be lifted or educated or amuaed or lu anywise inter ested In th matter. Yet, for some reason ther Is an ever greater tendency to ex plolt tb private doing of private families and open th doors of privats houses to th gas of th unrelated multitude. Is it worth while, a a matter of news, and is the tendency commendable? Does not ths giving of national publicity to sf fairs that ar ot only personal or loctl consequence tend to Invasions of privacy that sometimes encroach on right and d coney, and also intensify that struggle for notice on th part of those who by en dowment, occupations, alms or charities have don nothing to deserv It T And, as rich families Increase and the papers ar more snd more filled with accounts of their eating, drinking, driving and giving ot par ties, will not th people who are busy about matters of mor consequence sicken of It and aak for a return to th publication of news? If so, th evil Is on that will cur Itself. People Pay th Freight. Chicago hew. Before engaging seats for th great rail road wax which Is being extenaively adver- ttaod tb publlo should lock It valuable ta th safo, a somebody will hav to pay th cost of th soactacl. AHXY VIEW OF HEW r.YlFORM. Rw Clothing? Rcajalotlona a They Ar tern Throngh Military Glaaaes. Army and Navy Register. Army officers hav hardly bad time to digest the provisions of the general order publishing th new clothing regulations. The change, however, seem to meet with approval. There ar minor detail, of course, upon which officers differ in opinio ss to the advisability of tb decision of the uniform board. On of th things criticized Is tb placing of th decoration on ths sleeve of the drees coat too near the bottom of th cuff. It is claimed that s better effect would have been obtained If the band of gold wlr braid had been placed at th Junction ot th cuff with th sleeve proper Instead ot two and one-halt Inches from th end of th sleeve. This would have brought ths rank Insignia, In dicated by flat gold braid, above tb elbow and would hav given a lea squatty ap pearance than Is now the case. It Is said. Ther continues, of course, to be criticism ot th frock coat which Is retained tor mounted and dismounted officers. Colonel D. Bingham proposed that th dress coat should be something on tn style of the colonial garment, without, of course, th buff facing. This, it will bs recalled, has a cutaway effect of th skirts. Tb belt could be worn underneath th coat, an arrangement which would enable th tailors to make a better Ot and on of greater convenience in tha case of officers who ar mounted. The frock coat, as haa been re peatedly stated, does not lend IUlf easily to th figure of a man who s not of normal proportions. Tb stout man snd th thin man hav about equal right to complain, as neither ot them appears to sartorial advantage in such a coat. Ot course. It was not to be expected that the. uniform regulations would meet with approval on every side snd it is some thing of an achievement tor the army board that th members have wrought so satisfactorily. Tha suggestion ha been mad that perhapa the board would hav found it useful to hav invited competitive designs from tailors and other experts in military spparel. This, to the minds of some people, seems to offer the hope that th board would hav been sided In its conclusions by original propositions which would hav resulted in the adoption of a uniform st once original and distinctive. Ther might hav been a temptation on the part of such advisers, however, to hav suggested, something so radical in tb re vision of uniform regulations as to have yielded the tailors the greatest pecuniary results. The board was guided In Its find ings apparently by th very commendable desire not to add more than was absolutely necessary to the expense ot individual offi cers, notably those ot ths Junior grades, sll of whom must be put to the personal cost of equipping themselves with th new service habiliment. One of the complaints mad by army officers sgalnst tb new uniform arises from the number of hats snd caps required. In tha case of general officers and officers of staff corps snd departments the head gear will comprise eight pieces ot different styles, snd In tha caee ot all other officers there will be seven pieces. They ar the chapeau, which will be worn only by general and staff officers, th full dress cap, the dress cap, the whit cap, the service cap, the white helmet, the service helmet snd the service hat. There has been some comment also mad on the us of the expression "service" in conjunc tion with, different articles of apparel. It Is pointed out that "servic" Is a very general term which might well apply to all , parts of the military habiliment snd that a more accurately descriptive adjec tive would have been "campaign," since it is evident that articles' described as "service" ar such as would be worn in th field snd on campaigns, and during opera tions. A provision of th new uniform regula tions which is meeting with a good deal of favor is that which substitutes German silver for steel and brass for th guard and scabbard of th saber of sll officers 'except chaplains." Th new metal will give the effect of nickel plating and will be lighter In weight and easier to keep clean than the material formerly em ployed. Ther seems to be a general misconcep tion among army officers respecting the employment of ths term "olive drab" in the uniform regulations a applied to th uniforms commonly known as khaki. The, term Is intended to apply to the present khaki suit worn in hot weather and at tropi cal stations ss well aa to th new woolen material which la bt slightly deeper shad than the tropical uniform and which Is now provided to meet the necessities Im posed by service in cold climates. Th blue uniform i not entirely abandoned, of course. It will still serve for garrison us and for those occasions when soldiers de sire to appesr "dressed up." It will be th dress substitutes tor tbs light and heavy weight khaki or th olive drab uniform of the regulations. The retention of th atgutlett as a part ot th uniform ot certain officer of th army recalls tha fact that much mystery has always surrounded th origin and significance of this elaborate device. It has commonly been accepted that tb algullett as originally a cord which supported a pencil used by aids snd adjutants In writing military orders and dispatches. Its utility, of course, has long since ceaaed and It has become only sn attractive ornamentation. Tb clothing experts of our army hav pos sibly discovered th origin of th algullett; at any rat they hav run across an ancient tradition which might be accepted as bear Ing with veracity upon th subject. It seems that the Spanish duk of Alva many years ago had cause to complain of th con duct of a body of Flemish troops. He Issued orders that in view of th misconduct n the part ot the troop th individual mem bers should be punished by hanging wher ever they were found, without regard to rank or grade. Tha. Flemish soldier re plied that to facilitate th execution of this order they would hereafter wear on tb shoulder a rop to which would b attached a nail. Thla convenient appliance they consequently adopted, but their subsequent conduct became so brilliant and exemplary, It 1 said, that this rop and its pendant nail wer transformed Into a braid of passemen terie and became a badge of boner to b worn by officer of princely households snd others who wer of notable and consplcu ous career. In our own srmy tb algutllett. which may r may not be th descendant ot th Alva decoration, will b worn by sdju- tanta general. Inspectors general, officer of th record and pension office, aides to gen eral officers, regimental adjutants and th sdlutanta of the artillery districts. Tb abandonment ot tb Oeneva cross as an emblem for :h army medical d partment la in reality a return to th Insignia, that of the caducous, worn prior to the Oeneva convention. Tb emblem has always bad a significance wbioh makes its adoption by our medlcsl department peculiarly fitting. Th new uniform regu lations provide that In time of war with a signatory of th Geneva convention all persona in the military servic uauiiaiitd by the term of that convention will wear a brassard of whit cloth with a Oeneva cross of red cloth la .tb center. Thl emblem will b worn oa tb left arm a bar th oibw wall so th field ef pr- SURGICAL JPERATIOHS llow Mrs. Brnf , a Tott4 Opora Bluffer, Escaped an Operation. Proof That Many Operations for Orarlan Troubles are Un necessary. M Dkab Mjm. PiSSJtAir i Travelling; for years on the road, with lrrefrular meals and sleep and damp beds, brok dowa my health so completely two years afro that the physician advised a oaaplsto rest, and when I had gained ft I MRS. Q. BRCCK. traffloient vitality, an operation for ovarian troubles. Not a very cheerful prospect, to be sure. I, however, was advised to try Lydla E. Plnkham's Veg-etable Compound and San stive AVash ; I did so, fortunately for me. 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When a man bets his money on the re sult of a horse race, Or of any other con test, he does It because he wishes to get soma other person's money through his own superior shrewdness or good fortune. The pies, that excitement Is th main consideration in making the bet falls to th ground when one considers the chagrin with which the loser views the outcome of his venture. Yet bookmakers snd gambling bouse proprietors amass fortunes, while their patrons In a vast majority of cases see the money they risk depart from them forever. The fascination of th thought of large winnings of other people' money la Irresistible to many thousands of persons. That the customary losses' lead to crippled fortunes and even to em bezzlement in many Instances, while less tragic injuries ar suffered In innumerable other Instances, 1 a matter, of . common knowledge. Tet tha betting fever grows space. . t To msny persons who do not appreciate th harmful nature of the vice, feeling secure in their own persons so far as bank ruptcy or fortune or morals Is concerned, th vulgarity of striving to get other peo ple's money should serve as a reason for giving up the practice. "What's mine is my own; what's yours is mine." There fore, why betT Culture Is an uncompro mising enemy of the betting vice. The dis tractions which attend the unlovely game of trying to get another man's money on a bet dissipate thought, which must be con centrated on some useful purposs to be of any value to Its possessor. As sn eco nomic wast of mental energy the betting vil -josts even more deadly than in actual cash squandered from private fortune, weekly (wages or employer's till. Th sooner the general publlo accepts this wholesalo view the better for honest Industry ot every sort SAID TO OB FlimY. Chicago News: Llttl Willie Pa, who waa It that said "Dead men tell no taleot" Pa Some automobila fluid, probably. New York Bun: Johnny Pa, whafs th difference between a fort and a fortreasT Henpekt I should think It would ba easier to silence a fort. Yonkers Statesman: "Do you know th amount of money that Is spent for rum each year?" asked tha prohibitionist. "No," replied the man addreaaed, 'Tn not Interested In the price whloh stagger humanity." Philadelphia Pre: "I don't suppoao It's very expensive .to kep a horse down In your country." "Sometimes," replied the Texan, "If s aa much aa your 11 f 1 wortn to van take one." Life: "Mother, can I go In swimmlngf "When, my son?" "Yesterday, if you pie Washington Star: "It soem to ma, said th man from th east, "that you stand a f;reat deal more from that man who Just eft you than you would from anybody, lse. "Ye," answered Plut Pete, "wa'v got to. He' one of our uaefuleat dtlsens, and It he get arrogant he knows he' In a place where we can't reaent It, 'causa It anybody got the drop on him it would stump us for shore." "Who Is he?" "The only undertaker In two hundred miles." TOO LATE!. Youth's Companion, Th summer wind blew softly; wld opa stood the door. To let th worn old body paas through, and out one mor; For the sou I had gon before It to find . that distant bourne From which the weary traveler need never more return. And th farmer-son stood gazing upon th placid face. Which nevermore would meat him from It accustomed place; And a tremor shook hi body, ss a tre hakea in a gale. And beneath the sunshine's bfonzlng his faco was deathly pale. "What ailed you, dear, to shake so, when you looked at father last?" Asked the good wife or her husband, when that day waa overpast; "His face waa aweet and peaceful, ha blessed us aa he died, And we'd don our beat" "No mora of .that!" tha farmer roughly cried. "I thought of all tha long day when w'd let him alt alone. Each of u silent to him, ye, silent a a stone I ' Or talking to each other, not earing if h heard. Or answering. If h spoke, with a shortly - spoken word. "Ar.5 I thcjght ef how he'd thsr.S us for very little thing. If I gave a hand to help hlta, how bt hand would clasp and cling. I'd glv th farm the orchard, th cows, th be tn th hive. Yes, everything, for on moos 4 with father her alive!" 4 t