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Tiie DMAJiA Daily Bee.
E. ROSE WATER, EDITOR
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Jt dally average 99,318
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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-
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attons. Of course In a conflict wlthl th
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tal, the Geneva cross would not b worn
Then will be worn only th csduceus.
EVIL OP BETTI1SQ.
Deajanerste Practice, that Appears to
Be Maktnai Nw Headway.
Chicago New.
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!"
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