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THE OMAnA DAILT. EEEi FltlDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1902. Tlfe Omaha Daily Bee E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. -PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), one Year. .14 00 Ilallv Mm an1 Miitulav. Due Year ' Illustrated lire, one fear Itumlav H.,v ttrie War ... 4-t Huturuav Hp. One Year.. Twentieth Century r armer. One Year...l DkXIVEKED HT CARRIER. ?aily Pee (without Sunday), per copy.... 8c illv Hf-e iwlihout Uunuuyl. uer eik...Uc taiiy be (including Bunuayn jier week..iici KnTOrwffi Uvenlng be (Including uunuay), per ! week Complaints of Irregularities in aeuvt-ry Should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building-' " South Omaha City Hall Building. Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Council HlufTn-"-W Pearl Street. Chicago 1hi Unity Uulkllng. New tork Temple Court Washington 601 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter mould he H,ldreaed: Omaha liee. Editorial Department. BLUINGS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, eh able to The Bee Publishing Company. y 2-cent stamps accepted in payment oi mall accounts. Personal chedts. except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not sccepted. THE BEE FUiiLlBmiSO 1 STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, s: George B. Tsuchuck, secretary of Tha Be Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of August, lata, was as ioiiows: I..; 28,TttO 16.. ..M,0M ....a,7TO ...,uH,ms ...,XM,10 ....2M.U0O ....2S.7UU ....28, TWO ....2M.760 17... 1,8... 19... 20... 21... 23... 23... ....28,820 ....X9,:iH ....21),T70 ....80,380 ....30,120 ....29,000 ... .80,510 a!! 28.UUO 10 2M,7SO 11 2S.760 12 2M.730 13 ,.H,820 1 14 SMMfltO ' 14 28,730 . , 24 28,733 25... 26... 27... 28... 69... SO... Si... ..80,830 ..29,800 ..21),030 ..29.000 ..8O.07O ..30,110 .20,120 Total (K0,440 Less unsold and returned copies..... 0,877 Net tota? sale'.' .'. ; .". .?. .. . . . .Bna.BtM Met dally average... . 28,021 . GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of September, A. D., im . . M. B. HUNOATE, (Seal.) , , Notary Public. - '!' . 1 1 ' ' . The paramount Issue In the Douglas county legislative campaign will be "home rule," ' Rotation In office Is as essential In the political field as Is the rotation of crops on the farm. Never mind, when President Roosevelt comes to town we will shut down the trolley cars altogether if necessary. That do settle It that Colonel William Jennings Bryan will not volunteer to open the democratic state campaign In Iowa. Omaha still retains second place among the pork packing cities of Amer ica with a comfortable margin ahead of Kansas City. It was not a duchess, after all, who held up tbe admiral's flagship at New port Perhaps the revelers mat be for given after a due siege of penance. Summed op In a nutshell, tbe demo cratic tug-of-war In Iowa simply proved that your Uncle Hod Boles has a longer pole than your Cousin Charley Walsh, The Nebraska State fair Is reporting record-breaking attendance. We will watch to see whether tbe financial ex blblt shows tip record-breaking receipts. Candidate Hitchcock still persists In booming John L. Webster for a lucrative federal appointment First it was the German embassy and now the Isthmian Canal commission. King Cotton Is a trifle under the weather according to latest crop reports King Corn, too, is a little bit slow, but will pick up his old form before the borne stretch" is reached. Those Iowa democrats are not at all neighborly to Mr. Bryan, notwlthstaud Ing their proxlwltX to Nebraska. They are bringing tbe repudiation of 10 to 1 altogether too near home; Plans and specifications for the new Mercer residence have been on the stocks for tbe last five years, and they are still preserved at 1 Architect Kim ball's office for public Inspection. ' President Baer declares that he did pot say. that the coal strike was a prl vate affair which did not concern the public . At any rate If he did say it be Is now convinced that he ought not to have done so. , Omaha appreciates the solicitude of John N. Baldwin for Its peace and well being, but It does not take kindly to the Intervention of a nonresident in Its local affairs, even though he has his bulr trimmed a la pompadour. .Lake Michigan has now produced tidal wave said to have swept the lake shore at Chicago, making the waters recede more than 1U0 feet. St Louis will have to wake Itself up with some sort of a nature cataclysm If it hopes to bold Its own. Wlflconsinj' democrat also forgot all About the Kansas City platform when formulating their declaration for the pending campaign. ' But whether the Bryanltea In Wisconsin will hveau qually couvcnleut and .forgetful . mn ory'when called on to vote at the polls remains to be titn-n. ' .' Alabama's negro-disfranchising consti tution has gotten Into the federal courts. Before it gets out it should have' the negro disfranchisement clauses elimi nated or the penalty enforced of re duced representation in congress in pro portion to the disfranchised voters. The enforreuieut of this joonsUtvtlonal p?n-. alt would aooa stop disfranchisement Governor Stone of Pennsylvania Is considering the question of calling a spe cial pension' of tbe legislature to adopt measures for terminating the anthracite cool strike. It appears that he hesitates because of a feeling of uncertainty as to whether a law could bo passed that would be constitutional and would settle the strike and prevent others. lie thinks the strike Is of sufficient public Interest to Justify an eitra session of the legislature, but U doubtful as to satisfactory being accom- Dllshed. This Implies a lack of confl- dence In the legislature which Is per ", . ... ...... haps unwarranted. What the governor should do Is to give the legislature an opportunity to consider the subject and the sooner be does this the better. Governor" Stone's proposition Is to have a compulsory arbitration law en acted and judging ,froru what Is said of hlit plan It Is not probable that tbe legis lature would adopt It. lie would allow either party to a dispute to propose to arbitrate it and forthwith to appoint Its own representatives. The other party must then do the same. If It fall to do so it Is to be adjudged In the wrong. If workmen refuse to submit to arbitration the governor Is to "apprehend riot" and send a sufficient force to preserve the peace and to protect men who wish to work. If the employers refuse to . ar bitrate, the governor Is to close the mine or factory until they submit The Phil adelphia Ledger expresses the opinion that "there la not the least danger that any measure so drastic as this will be enacted by , any reasonable legislature," because It could accomplish no useful purpose and would encourage strife. . Iu the Judgment of the Ledger not coal mining only but every Industry would be demoralized by such a statute. At all events the duty of Governor Stone Is clear. It Is In the power of the Penn sylvania legislature to do something to end the strike and It should be given an opportunity to act in the matter. Let the parties to this conflict be given to understand that there is an authority which they can be compelled to recog nize and respect OBIO DEMOCBATtC LEADKlL Tom L. Johnson has superseded John R. McLean as the leader of the Ohio democracy. The contest for leaaersnip was animated and the more astute and aggressive politician was successful. Johnson completely dominated the state convention and be will undoubtedly prosecute a most vigorous campaign, in which he proposes to take a conspicu ously active part Wealthy, ambitious, aggressive, Tom L. Johnson Is a poli tician who may be expected to take a prominent place, on the national stage. He is an avowed aspirant for the presi dential nomination In 1904 and in the improbable event of the democrats win ning in Ohio this year he will certainly be beard of in the next democratic na tional convention. The platform adopted by the Ohio democrats was framed by Mr. Johnson and. reaffirms and Indorses1 the prin ciples , laid down in tha Kansas .City platform. . This Is obviously a 'bid for the support of the former followers of Mr. Bryan, - who are said to be kindly disposed toward Johnson because he did nothing against silver in the campaign of 1890. In reference to this the Cleve land Leader says that Johnson was a dodger then, that be went to Chicago as a gold man and after the sliver plat form had been adopted declared to the convention that he could not Indorse it He said that free coinage of sliver was a bad thing from a business standpoint but added: "Inasmuch, however, as you are fighting for humanity, I am with you," which was the extent of Johnson's participation in the campaign of 1806. It is understood that Bryan feels very friendly toward Johnson and it is quite possible that the Influence of the Nebraskan will be given in behalf of the Ohio democratic leader two years hence. Meanwhile the republicans of the Buckeye state have an antagonist in Johnson who will keep them busy. DEMOCRATIC PAHT1 tVH TREK TKADt!, The campaign text book of the demo cratlc congressional committee clearly defines the attitude of the party r spectlng the tariff. It declares squarely and unequivocally In favor of free trade. The committee does not resort to the subterfuge of calling it tariff reform, but endorses without qualification the ruin' ous doctrine advocated by the men in power during the second Cleveland ad ministration and which produced an al most complete paralysis of the Indus tries of the country. Tbe democratic text book nays: "The theory of free trade is that both seller and buyer are benefited by an exebango of commodities and that, as all are con sumer, the greatest good to the great est number requires that there be no barriers to trade In order that goods may be as cheap as possible and tbe cost of living be reduced to a minimum. Free trade will open our markets to benefit our country. It Is hospitable and aeeks peace and good will with the na tlous. Reciprocity cares nothing for the consumer and hunts foreign markets with a club. Its stock in trade Is high tariff, favoritism, discrimination and re taliation. It Is based upon the same false theories as U protection, and, like protection, Is a sham and a humbug, urnl to most people has, been and will ever continue to oe a aeiusiou ana snare." This is the traditional democratic 1oc trine and it emanates from a ' source that 'fully commits the party to free tiude. The declarations .'of- state con ventlons In favor of a "tariff for revenue only" must be viewed in the light of the utterance of the' democratic congres slonal committee? which speaks' for the entire party. State declarations have no force or talue. whitis not ln.naruieny with those of the authorized repreaenta tives of tbe paity as a -whole. The unmistakable position of tbe democratic party, as disclosed by its campaign texjt book, 1 boeUUty to protection of Amer ican uduatiiea and labor 'It pronounces that policy, under which our Industrial I that the mere rumor of a new police ad supremacy has been attained, "a shnm I ministration has been accepted by tbe and a humbug." It proposes to strike down the protective system, the results I of which have been so beneficent and to open the great American market to the free admission of the products of the Ill-paid labor of Europe. A policy that builds up Industries conserves the Interests and welfare of labor. It bene fits the agricultural producers by giving them a profitable home market. Pro tection has done these things and now, when the country Is prosperous, when the industries are active, when labor Is well employed and Its average earn lags are larger . than .ever; before, the democratic party proposes the over throw of this policy and the Inaugura tion of free trade. The pm'nnnlcn text honk leaves ho doubt of this. It Is not simply a revl- slon of the tariff that is meed, not nierelv a modification of some of the schedules, but a sweeping away of all uiotectlon. This is the demand of tho democratic rjartr. as authoritatively de- clared by Its national congressional com- mlttee. There ought to be no doubt as to what tha resDonse of the country to this demand will be.' No man who de- aires-a continuance of prosperity can hesitate In regard to it It should In sure an Increased republican majority In the next congress. PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW. Congressman Mercer has spent six weeks in Omaha on his every-other-year handshaking vacation. He has favored his republican constituents with several speeches. He has enlightened them about the geography and topography of the Philippine Islands, as viewed by him self during his last tour around the world. He has talked about the lath- mian canal and about new federal build- inga ror wnicn congress nas appropn-1 a ted more tiari 15.000.000. But In all his talks . be has conscientiously re frained from answering the unanswered questions propounded to his chosen champion, William F. Gurley. .' While Mr. Mercer does not need to be a mind reader to read his own mind, he has as Vet failed to disclose his plans ! and intentions. Will Mr. Mercer tell us whether be will be satisfied with a sixth term in congress and quit there, or will he Insist on a seventh term, (an eighth term and a perpetual lien on the district until he get a a more lucrative I Job? . , I Mr. Mercer has not lived In Omaha A th. .1- - ti v.-.- i.i I no personal taxes In Omaha since 1895. HI be become a resiuent of uuiaua lu case he fails to secure renomlnatloin or will he continue to live In Washington and resume his old vocation as legisla tive lobbyist on a larger scale? - It la a matter of . notoriety that Mr. Mercer has treated cadetshlp appoint ments to West Point, and Annapolis as Vel"1" vemuimieB, w ms uuinuuieu 10 aons Of favored Politicians, instead Of throwing them open to competition, so I that every boy In the district the poor man's soon aa well as the rich tnan'a son should have an equal chance to se- cure a military , or naval education. Will Mr. Mercer pursue this policy in his sixth term, as he has In all bis pre vious terms? Every congressman is entitled to draw I $100 a month for cleric hire and every I bouse committee has a salaried secre- tary. The secretory of the committee . .... . . . . . .T I on pudhc Duucungs, or wnicn air. Mercer la chairman, receives 12,000 a year fori his services. Instead of giving employ- ment to some deserving Nebraska . niilkllpan an hla clprlr. rjnnfrreaaman t atn. I o-- cer haa pocketed the $1,200 a year clerk hire and made the secretary of his com-1 mlttee perform the duties of personal nrittw.., .ii.n iw, .,. work. Will Mr. Mercer continue to pocket tbe $1,200 besides bis ' regular salary of $5,000 a year and other per; qutsltea In case be secures a sixth term In congress? In tbe month of May; 1900, the senate passed a bill establishing a genera) Quartermaster's depot in Omaha, which would have given our merchants the , . , . , long-desired . army supply purchasing siauou instead oi a mere storage ware- bouse. This bill was referred by tbe speaker of the house to Congressman t v- i. -.a. i a. , . . Mercer, but he kept It In bis pocket until March 4, 1901, and deliberately killed it Tbe only explanation Mer- cer's chamnlona have seen fit to offer for. this betrayal of the interests, of n u .v . .i. win . , a.. Omaha is that the bill was designed to keep the army headquarters In the Bee building, which would have exposed Omaha to the risk of losing the army headquarters altogether. Inasmuch as the army headquarters were removed to the old poetofflce building in June, 1900, eight months before congress adjourned, Mr. Mercer must invent a more plausible story to satisfy intelligent voters. What Is the true story? Was it because the bill had been introduced by Senator Thurston or was lt because Mercer did not want the editor of The Bee to have credit for doing a good thing for Omaha? In the winter of 1M a draft for 19rtrt ... banded to Mr.. Mercer, to be used In promoting the Greater America ex- position. That draft now In possession of the Merchants' National bank. Is en - dorsed on the back by George Sabine, who holds a position at Washington as part of Mr. Mercer's patronage. Why . l """'"a- ""J did Mr. Mercer have to have a middle- man to cash that draft? Is that the way business is done at Washington? It seems to us all these questions should be answered by Mr. Mercer fairly and squarely before the republicans of this district vote to renew his comnils- slon for another term. Our amiable popocratlc contemporary makes a remarkable admission In the headlines placed over Its account of burglar activity in Omuba. It says, "Crooks heard that police were changed" and "supposing that no men on duty would Know mem, xnev nave come to town," After bowling for years for a rhanea In Dollce and arralirnlnir the force under the old board as lncoui- .wivuk wt ukuu uv, u www uuwveri professionals as an Invitation to drop In and make themselves at home. Tn" ,e" of the coal trust magnates tnat Increasing the price of anthracite ma ,orc People to become accustomed t0. usln" cheap bituminous stuff would be interesting If not so amusing. When has the price of anthracite ever been reduced to head off bituminous compe tition?, rros not the price of coal been kept at the very highest notch at which, the supply could be worked off on the helpless public? If the anthracite men are 80 anxious to drive out cheap bltu- mlnous coal why not put the price down for a while low enough to win all the traffic that Is worth having? Proposals have been Issued by the In d1an warehouse at St. Louis for the pur cnase of pounds of dried apples, la7., pounds of dried peaches; 175.000 Pu"ds of dried prunes and several c"8ks of dru88 and medicines. A rapid int-reB8e m e aeatn rate among the IP"auon on me Indian reservations maJ 00 confidently looked for within the next ninet3r Am Overdose -f Water. San Fran cJsco Chronicle. Tha bicycle trust seems to be badly burst. It presented a conspicuous In stance of overcapitalization. There are others. Feels that Way. Detroit Free Press. In view of the intimate relations which President Baer has found to exist be tween the Deity and the coal trust, won't it be reasonable to expeot an early winter? Fear Another Drsbblag, Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat. A distracted Briton predicts that the rlvalrv between RnvlanA anil Amavfoa will ultimately result in war. His present fear shows that he, knows which is going to Giving; the Natives a Show. Buffalo Express. The design for . one of the new silver coins for the Philippines which will be approved by Secretary Root represents "a brawny native, with a hammer at a forge. typifying the Filipino hammering out tbe destinies of tha islands." Thus far the American , government has done most of the hammering. . , Great Thirst Vnsatlaflea Chicago Chronicle. Citizens of the effete east orobablv will not understand why tha people of Naper, Neb.; fought all day a crowd of halfbreed Indlans who demanded whisky and pre uau money io pay ior iu mt explanation, however, undoubtedly Is simple enough. Tha hardy yeomanry of Naper bad ou!y uousu nhibkj tot iuBucli it Is 275 miles to the nearest distillery, Was the Army Beateat ' Indlanapolla Journal. . The army seems 'not to have been a match for' the navy In the mlmio war. Ia fact, it seemed easy for Olympla to effect a landing In Massachusetts bay, but it may tlA MM In ATtAnnatf Aft ffiat fllvrnvtla la most lucky ship. If our harbors were de- fended by torpedo boats and tha landsmen could have used their guns upon a real Bnemy' outcome would probably have bT Te? - "" ' ' "How Times Chance." Louisville Courier-Journal. How times' change! Forty years ago tha federal' and confederate armies were con fronting each other In deadly arrayy Gen eral Klrby Smith had lust fought the bat. tie of Richmond -and come into pos- session of all eastlern and central Ken- lucT. wmie aenerai uee was on bis tn- um, " Ti i .1 which culminated .later in tbe battle of Antletam. A new generation now controls, The scars of war are healed and peace ad prosperity reign ever a restored union. . A million still draw, federal pen- . ' ....... . urvlve. In their behalf the com mander-ln-chlef pf the Grand Army of the Republic has Issued an appeal for funds I to create a home . for them. It Is a graceiui act ana carries us own com- mentary. Hew Maine .Shy on Speed ; Philadelphia Record. The Cramps have built a powerful battle' ship in the. new Maine, but the vessel ap pears to have failed to make the contract speed of eighteen knots in Its recent offl elal trial off Cape "Ann, After making all possible allowances, the ship's speed aver aged.-according to rtport only 17.965 knots an hour. Maine ia one of the first war ,np. on wWch bullder, canvearB no bonuses for speed In excess of that stlp I ulated in the contract, and it may be that tb Cramps, lacking 'the old stimulus, made do Special euun to IHiu um m tcbsoi ,mymuiv of mor. thlB elgntMn .noti. lt )s claimed in its behalf that tha coal used tn the official trial was of an Inferior qual- Ity- A second trial will ba given tha ship na P J Vll u- i- 7 I to go the pace called for by law. Ia after however, it will seldom or never be able to go eighteen knots an hour. REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT. Philadelphia Ledger: The president said at Concord: ."About all we have a right to expect from the government ia that It will I see -that the cards-are not stacked." A stacked deck of carda! Somebody Is always nnIln,t new "ma lao Baltimore American: The president said roy4l ro.d ,00(1 g0Ternment. and to have good government we must have 'good citizens. That Is the solution of one vsry I important question of the day In a nutshell. New York Tribune! One of tha best hh'"f -' Tt ...,, 0f heart is a dreadful quality. but It Is doubtful whether in the long run 1 it works mora damage than softness of head." And he added: "At any rate, both ,r unae,r01"- Portlnd Oregonlan: It is certainly a ra- markable phenomenon to sea a president nn . .umoin tour cutting out a Una of thought that has been tabooed by his party I leaders both tn congress and In campaign committees. At tne same time, ne is strong r.lt. Uv. th7. fair mountain of elvlo righteousness to batten on the moor of corporate Influence I and millions In campaign contributions. Indianapolis Journal: If tha reports that " ' " X":" " to frtgh.en him Into alienee, arc true, and the maase so understand them, those Influences may ba sure that they could devise no mors co"40 niha to increaae nis popularity. blnatton. wlll no' b, h"armfuI properly conducted, there Is a feeling that hey must I be made responsible to the government In I some manner. Consequently any attitude whlc thejr 't StViXl I do not propose to tolerate such super vision I wU1 rMult u tftelf curtailment, , Size of the Boom New Tor Tha proverbial "prodigious!" of Dominie Sampson Is but a feeble word to describe the growth of the country in the last century and In the last half-doien years, A current publication of the Bureau of Bta- ttstlcs reminds us that our growth In ter- rltory which has or may become states they rose to $2,500,000,000. National bank that la, contiguous continental territory deposits In tha former rose from $1,400,000. has In a century been from 827,844 to 8.- 000 to $1,700,000,000. and In the latter to the 025,600 square miles, or more than 265 per cent. With all this vast Increase of area our density of population has Increased from S to 26.1 to the square mile, or 623 . per cent. In tha last fifty years only our national wealth has Increased from $7,000,. 000,000 to $94,000.000,000,, or 1.243 per cent and the per capita wealth from $30? to $1,235, or mors than 800 per cent. Tbe public debt has fallen In the century, through many fluctuations, from $16 to lees than $13 per capita and so on all along the Itne. It has often been said that the nine- teenth century was the most wonderful of our era. In few things was It more wonderful than In the unprecedented and unique development of the United States of America. But we have said our growth has been extraordinary In the last half-doien years. It has. There were those who doubted and scoffed when, tn 1896, tbe Tribune spoke of . William McKlnley as tha advanca agent of prosperity. The fact ts, as tbe record now shows, that his election marked tbe beginning ot one of the most remarkable "booms" ever known in our nistory u mat word oe applicable to a time of general and substantial pros perity. During the five years before there had been little growth In wealth or prog ress In prosperity. In some respects there had been loss and retrogression. Thus In 1890-'95 tbe money In circulation In- creased from $1,400,000,000 to $1,600,000,000, but In the years since from $1,600,000,000 to $2,200,000,000. In the former period ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Rlpplea on the Cnrrent of Ufa In the Metropolis. The gradual prying loose ef the Tam many grip on local offices and the Installa tion of new men Is bringing into public notice official talents much more admirable than the talent of graft which character ized the Van Wyck administration. A con spicuous Instance of an official possessed ot many talents Is the new commissioner of street cleaning, Major John McGraw Wood bury, who can spiel to the white wings In five languages, prescribe if they are 111, can tell a microbe on sight, and In addition has been a soldier in the civil war, sailed over many seaa and chased the merry steer on the Laramie plains. Major Woodbury has Instituted In the department a dis cipline that is showing good results. When any of those near him are taken sick he personally prescribes for them and those who are anxious for short vacations cannot deceive blm by pretending to be sliA. He sneaks French. Spanish.. German. Italian and English and becomes exasperated when ever lt occurs to blm that he cannot read and speak Hebrew, for the men under him are of all nationalities and creeda. His knowledge of bacteriology recently caused him to start a crusade against the gwms in the air on the east and west sldts, by means of which he may determine tl)e best method of cleaning these parts of tit city. Major Woodbury is worth, lt Is said, be tween $3,000,000 and $4,000,000, yet bo gives his services to the city at a salary of $7,600 a year,- He likes, work, and . la at fit from early In the morning until all coins of the night. He Is 48 years old and looks ten years younger. He goes upstatm three steps at a time and lt is amusing to watch any ordinary man trying to keep i.breast of him when he Is walking in tbe street That a man loves a "bargain" aa well as a woman Is demonstrated by tho rush ing business at certain hours in the stores in New York of the large cigar company that Is shortly to Invade Philadelphia, lb the first place, the methods of the company are very much like those of the enter prising dry goods merchant. Tha show windows of the tobacco people are luridly placarded with announcements that cer tain brands ot 10-cent cigars are "re duced to cents," and other card) have even more seductive offers. In atdltlon to the alleged cut prices the citopany gives premium coupons, which mty be exchanged '.for almost anything, from a 10-cent magazine up to a piano. At the Park Row branch store, when the trush to and from Brooklyn Is on, the scene Is much like that around a "dress goods" counter on bargain day only the purchas ers are men.- This store never clones. The case of Mr. and Mrs.' Albert Ei. Jull lerat of this town Is strange and sad, re lates the New York Sun. The woman ap plied for alimony and counsel fee in a suit for separation. The lord answered with an affidavit that may drip with truth, and cer talnly drips with tears. Here it Is: "This plaintiff la a hot-tempered woman of great pride,' who seems to have taken too much to heart the fact that she has married am an so much shorter than she Is. She has refused to walk with me in tha street and frequently when she has walked with me hid her wedding ring so that people would not know that she and I were married. I am ready and willing to give my wife the best home I can and it la ready and waiting for her. I cannot Increase my size nor otherwise change myself to suit the plain tiff tn this action." He cannot by taking thought, add to his stature. The woman should remember that, tall and justly proud as she is. Have not many great men had their coattalls near the ground? Tbe husband should have recited to the wife the affecting lines "How big was Alexander, paT" Also that short and sensi ble verse: My wife Is tall and I am short. And that's the long and short of It The average of nature and the equality of the sexes are maintained by the law which tha tall wife spurns. There Is an attraction between the long and the brief. The sky scraping man marries a dumpy little woman. She whose topnot grazes the stars mates 1th a little man. The folio and the dia mond edition are foreordained for one an other. We beg the divinely tall woman to be divinely fair to her shorter mate. During the last week John F. Schmadeke, a coal dealer In Brooklyn, bought a mag nificent country place near Sqmervllle, N. J. Though he was a rich man ha made enough In tbe advanca of coal to justify tha pur chase of a summer home at an expenditure of $50,000. At the beginning of the strike ba bad In stock, 25,000 tons of antbraclta. It cost him about $5 a ton In hla yard. It was all paid for, as the big companies were not stocking dealers and taking long-time notes. If any money was made they would make it. Of course, Mr. Bchmadeka did not hold on to all his stock. Hs had many cus tomers and tbey had to be supplied with regularity. In fact, he had soms future eon tracts at fixed prlcea. . But more than half his stock was not under contract. He held this as best be could, though ha kept selling at tha advances every month. He still has $.000 tons on hand, worth at least $30,000. On the balance of tha coal It Is said that hs mada more than $1 a ton. 8o that this one dealer won a handsome summer bam by ordinary shrewdness, Tribune- bank clearings actually declined from $58,000,000,000 to $50,000,000,000, while In tha latter they have risen to $114,000,000,000. In tha former sav- Inga bank deposits Increased from $1,600,- 000,000 to $1,800,000,000, and In the latter stupendous sum. of $3,100,000,000. The value of farm animals decreased In 1890-95 from $2,400,000,000 to $1,800,000,000, but has since risen to $2,900,000,000. In the former period the output ot coal. Increased from 140,000,000 to 172,000.000 tons, and In the latter to 261, 000,000. The product of steel rose In tbe one from 4,200,000 to 6,100,000 tons, and In tha latter to 18,400,000. The amount ot freight carried on railroads rose In the former period from 79,000,000,000 mils tons to 88,000.000,000, and In the latter to 141,- 000,000,000. . These figures Indicate In part the mscnltude of the prosperity of which. as the Tribune said, William McKlnley was the advance agent. It was a wondrous century's growth, that of tha nineteenth, . and It Is a wondrous "boom," that which we have bad for tha last half doten years and which we are still enjoying. The conservation of the one and tha prolongation and perpetuation of tha other are matters which lie, so tar as they are in any human control, within tha hands of this cation; and this nation will best serve itself In the administration of this unparalleled trust If it resists the temptatlon simply to exult in such material greatness and to be daztled by tbe splendor ot the figures we have quoted, and bears constantly In mind, for Its government and admonition, the. eternal verity expressed with homely but convincing eloquence by one of the clearest sighted of Its seers when ha said: "The truest test of civilization Is cot the census, cor the crops; no, but the kind of man the country turns out" CELIBACY AMD MARRIAGE. Chancellor Andrews' . Remarks Dle- eassed and Aaalysea. ' 'Portland Oregonlan. Dr. JC. B. Andrews, chancellor of the University of Nebraska, tn a recent address before the University of Chicago denounoes without exception and qualification the unmarried man or woman as a poor weak ling who amounts to almost nothing, has no place' In society. - He asks us to look at our great men- Washington, Lincoln Grant and so oh. ; This kind of reasoning Is worthy ot a mSn who was - shallow enough' to preach the-gospel of free stiver, for how easy it is to ask Dr. Andrews to look at Copernicus, Newton. Hume, Gib bon, Swift, Pope, William Pitt, Brougham, Cowper, Goldsmith, Gray, Charles Lamb, Macautay, Herbert Spencer, Lord Kitch ener, Pope Leo. Among notable Americans, Thoreau, Tilden, Phillips Brooks and Pres ident Buchanan were bachelors. Among English women who led single lives were Jane Austen. Queen Elizabeth. Harriet Martlneau, Joanna Batllle, Adelaide Proc tor. : Miss Mltford, Jean Ingelow, Miss Edgwortb. "Oulda," Frances Power Cobb, Jane Porter, Florence Nightingale, Emily Faithful, Sister Dora and Miss Gladstone Among American women we find the names of Dorothea Dlx, Susan B. Anthony and Maria Mitchell. It is fair to presume that these eminent persons abstained from marriage for respectable reasons, for none of them was deficient in energy of mind or body.) and nearly all of them led Uvea that, were consecrated to high public or private duty. ,It Is easy to understand how a man or woman of high intelligence and sensibility might decide to lead a single life. Feeble health, or a sense of duty to a dependent mother and younger children, disappoint (1 affection, enthusiastic devo tion to toilsome and all-engrossing scien tific or literary pursuits, deep devotion to some all-absorbing cause ot moral or so cial reform., would probably explain the decision ot most ot the persons whose names We have cited. It is fair to presume that if these mo tives have constrained these eminent per sons to refrain from matrimony there must be a very . large number of intelligent but comparatively obscure men and women who have been influenced by equally re spectable motives not to marry. From this point pf view the argument of Dr. An drews that the celibate is a weakling falls to the ground. On the contrary. It would be easy to show that It is the weak ling not seldom who marries In haste, ao reckless, of his responsibility that hs is really a breeder, of Immorality and the founder of a family pf wretched paupers. A writer in the London Mall says that there are in London 13,000 married persons who are 20 years of age ,or under.. There are 971 wives and widows aged 13, 2,713 aged 19 and (.672 wivea and widows at 20 years. There are 787 husbands from 16 to 19 years old and 2.022 just 20 years of age. The majority Pf such marriagea are contracted in absolute poverty. The girl-wife can neither cook nor sew. she will not sweep nor scrub. The boy husband wants a cook" and 'a "washerwoman, and he marries to find he has got neither. Tbe latest census of London showed 2.000 hus bands under age who were not living with tneir wives. Poverty and crime bad di vorced most of them. ' Among the inmates of London's' workhouses are husbands, wives, widowers and widows of IB and 1$ years of age. Out of a total ot 860 persons under age in London prisons, more than 200 are married, and out of 1,284 under 25 years of age, 676 are married. There are 66,898 married parsons under age In Eng land and Wales,' and lt Is the judgment ef English ' Observers that "beyond contro versy these early marriages straw social lite with wreckage, while tha doctors speak ominously of the new generation that these child marriages will produce." There Is no question but marriagea de crease. Maltnus held that as waaea ross and food grew cheaper tbe marriage rate would increase and births grow numerous, but the enumerators ot population during tha last 100 ysars have shown that the re verse takes place; that when wagea rise in any calling, trade er employment, tha mar riage rate ' tends to diminish and births tend te decrease. Marriage la almost uni versal among tbe young women at the bot tom of the laboring class, but aa the family wag Increases the number of unmarried women also Increasss, and when tha family Is able to educats its daughters to ths fullest extent, tha number of unmarried women in creases ss the advantages of lite Increase. Thla ' means that when women are tempted if not forced to marry for a home there will be fewer unmarried women than when women are not obliged to marry for a home or have been trained to earn a liv ing on easier terms than severe and Ill-paid manual toll. Within tbe last fifty years ths wealth of the United States has enor mously Increased, growing from three to four-fold but the marriage and tha birth rates havs ,as steadily decreased. Tbts da crease, exists among all classes. The only place where births ars numerous and mar riages constant Is among immigrant who are still struggling st tbs bottom to work their way to the top. Tbe testimony of history is that as na tions have grown in civilization and wealth they have deersaaed in marriage and tbe birth rats. Marriage is tha normal condi tion, but It has in a wide sense always been controlled by economic considerations jraUer tbaa by romantic (aaling. There was a Ume in the history ef all peoples wbea the military safety of the slat could not afford to tolerate celibacy, but with the in creaae of wealth and comfort- lb burdea of that obligation la ne longer felt. When marriagea were mora frequent there was less romanticism, perhaps, than there U today, becauae when a woman was tempted by hr necessities to marry for a home sh could not afford to be romantic, in hr choice, but today women are larger wage earners and not a few of thetn prefer a career and pursuits, of their own to mar rtage. The spectacle of. unhappy marriages and divorces aired I the courts is not with out some effeot, and sensible men and women have both discovered that marriage tnat ts not entered into on both sides from hlgn mo tives is sure to bread misery snd moral corrosion. PERSONAL NOTES. -President Baer has several sors fingers and when asked to say. things about the miners will do so under bis breath. The people ef Ernest Renan'a birthplace. Treguler, have decided to erect a status or the famous author. and to name a street after him. The Count and Countess Ron I de CasteN lane are on their way to this country- It ought to be cheaper for the Goulds to send the money than have ths CaeteJlanee come after It. , . A monument has been erected ever the graves of the twenty-one soldiers who- fell in the last battle with the Nes Perces In dians near the Bearpaw mountains,, Mont twenty-five years ago. . John W. Mackay, the Irish-Amerloaa multimillionaire, . who died recently la London, had a fine tribute said to htm once by a friend. "Mackay,"- said he, "'Is one of the few rich men I should like te know if he were poor." Though aa African, King Menelek of Abyssinia la a man of progressive Ideas and has transformed his mediaeval country al most Into a modern state. His military system still belongs to a past age In many respects, but he can put into the field a formidably equipped army of 300,000 men. The New York state assembly of Spanish war veterans will erect at the bass of the statu of Liberty on Bedloe's Island a me morial tablet to Captain Alexander Weth. erell, a veteran of both the civil aad the Spanish wars, who was killed on San Juaa hill. President Roosevelt la ' expected to attend the dedication. ' ' ' H. J. Courtney of Dublin Is to Sail early next month for this country, to make an "Irish" speaking tour through ths princi pal cities of the United States and Canada. Mr. Courtney ' has been promi nent in the Oaello speaking movement from' its beginning and has addressed in Gaelic open air meetings in various parts of Ireland and 'ban organized Gaelic crusadea in the counties of Dublin, Louth, Wlcklow, Limerick, Sligo and his native county of Kerry. 1 Secretary Shaw Is on the trail of the "two-hat" men in bis department.' ' These are the Individuals who find it necessary to go out for an occasional drink during office hours, wearing a soft felt bat and leaving their ordinary 'head enverfn; ' nn the usual pegs. If a chief of division' in quires after a clerk who ta absent on such an expedition he Is told: ' "Why, Soandso must be around somewhere. There's his hat on the peg." Mr. 8haw has de termined to put a stop to this practice. ' Rev. Mr. Barker, a preacher in Charl ton county, Missouri, learned that a Sum? ner saloonkeeper was violating the law by selling liquor to minors'. The reverend gentleman, having a slightly distorted sense of duty, Induced a boy to purchase some whisky, his intention being to prone cute the ' saloon man. 'The boy obtained tha liquor all right, but the dealer caused the preacher's arrest on the ' charge bf conspiracy and Mr. Barker's ' trial comes up shortly. Meanwhile the saloonkeeper is doing business as of yore. LAUGHING GAS. ' ' Chicago Tribune: "What Is the sense 'in calling a counterfeiter's outfit a planf?" "It's hla way of raising money, isn't it?" Brooklyn Life: Willie Pa. -what. is a "rubber at whist, anyway? Mr. Longsute Any woman who attempts to take a hand, usually. - Philadelphia Press: "He's . aa . unfor tunate man of letters." "Why, I never heard he was an author:" "Well, he was the author of aeveral let ters that lost him a breach of promise suit." - Cleveland Plain Dealer: "I sea that the shah of Persia insists upon traveling at a slow rate." "I wonder whyf "I dunno. Perhaps ha wants, to bear peo ple say: Oh, pshaw, late again. ! ',' t., , . , Chicago Post: "Ah," he sighed, "I1 was happier when I waa poor," . ' i. "Well," they answered coldly, fit I) al ways possible for a m&n to becoma 'poor again. But somehow the idea .did not. aeern, t impress him favorably. Somervllle Journal: It may b true that foreigners are alow, to ''take'1 aa American Joke, but Chauncey Depew said something funny In Paris a while ago and the very next week In Venlca tha Campanile tumbled. Washington Star: "Our son Josh don't seem to think much o' the way dreaa," said Farmer Corntosset. ' ,. "Nor of my grammar," answered hla wife. "It tloea imo that parents give their chil dren a heap o' trouble nowadays." Philadelphia Press: , Friend You.' didn't stay In that western town long. Young Doctor No, only six weeks, and' there was only one case in the whole town' during that time. Friend But you had that case, didn't you? Young Doctor Yea, I had It - good and hard. It waa a case of home-sicluuNis. . MISJUDGED. . Wa atood beside a gutter: In it lay A loatheeome human shell in which a eouL One Innocent and good, still lingered on. "The man," ha said, "has gone beyond re lief ; He's croHsed the dreaded bound'ry Una that leada .. ' To unwept desolation; naught could help,. For this man's soul la dead to all things pur. If wa should stoop to set him on hla fet Ha could no longer climb; the taa tea that one Had led him on to higher hopes are gone ' If we should touch his addled form We'd find Wa would be stunned by bis offenelvenn We'donly suffer from, not raiae, the And so be left the helpless human bulk' To scramble on his awaying feet or rest Upon the foul bed where we had found him. But I, because I've looked tn baby-eyea . And felt, reflected In their deptha. tha Glad aunrisa that their sweet soul looked upon ?!i W'f1 soausa I've seen the glow Of their last wondrous sunset er thav cam To arth and learned tha stern, hard lea- on that W' 1LWhi? br,athe- nut know, I woo- The spirit life that bad so araad V birth" In fairer worlda than this oulX all b By' bpdlly dlsAavrmnt:' wondered' If llv ng souls could a er be marred by their Unholy caatinas. Tli.n n,u .k..i. r.1! n, . w"a.anna Wilms th.t r. . ., r""T1 i turpuga Mr fear": nd m wUh woma They were the broodrng pinions of Uv'foro. cLre our,lve itom earthly ila a3 When death' great mystery had floated o" 1 "aer,edh".V"e"med ttm -Suci-Th tin.,"" "Urel thfM' but1 Wttb Un,Sed ,rm lii tM"i' ap Above its prison house in'inv.l v. WlthjradUut face and 5. an It swept into It native etheri its '" V Ted oj s sojourn In our world ita ended ' YUld, Nab, tiKIXB WlLLUy ouk '