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0 THE OMATTA DAILY . HEE: FRIDAY, 8EPTEMHER 12, 10012. 'niE Omaha Daily Bee E. ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PCBL18HIOJ EVERT MORNING. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Dally ltee (without Bunoayi, una Vear. .14.00 Ualiy tiee anu ounciay. uns leaf lliumraied bee. one lear '' biMiuav i-.ee. on e.ar Baluruay Uee, one leaf l.w iwtnueih century farmer, one xear...iw Dfc.LIVjbKfcD BY CAHKlfcU. Dally Hee (without Sunday;, per copy.... 2c Lauy iiee iwiuiout nun.1.iy(, per weea...l;tc Jjaiiy uee (iiiciuuiiiR Bunuay), pur week.. lie bunuay urv, per ciy 00 Evening lee wnh'in Hunday), per week c Evening iiee (including ounday), Per W)'K I"0 Complaints of Irrcgularltlca In delivery houia oe audressed to city Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. bouth Omaha City Hall Building, Twen-ty-nith and M Streets. Council HIufTs lu fear) Street. Chicago ijV) Unity bullulng. New lork 23yi lark How Building. Washington Ml Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial mutter mould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Bunlnesh letters and remittances should be addressed : The Bee Publishing Com pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps accented In payment of mall accounts, personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stats of Nebraska, Douglas County, as: Oeorgs B. Teschuck. secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, aya that tho actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during th month of August, 1W2, was aa follows: 1 H,720 It 2,!W4 SH.770 17 88,820 1 2M.U35 18 20,30 4 2s,10 ID 20,770 1 28,000 20 80,380 2S.700 21 30,120 7 28,7tK 22 2,900 28,760 23 80,810 28.O0O 21 28,785 10 28,780 26 80,3.'U 11 28,750 26 20,800 12 28,730 27 20,030 13 28,820 28 20.0(10 14 28,020 29 8O.070 15 28,730 SO ao,110 (1 20,120 Total 900,440 Lass unsold and returned copies'.... 0,877 Net total sales 800,503 Net dally average 28,021 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before roe this 1st day of September, A. D., I. M. B. HUNGATE, (Seal.) Notary Public. Any more final curtains to be dropped on the great Transrulsslssippl exposi tion? We are waiting for the school board to challenge the city council to a match game of ping pong. With fads running to the antiques, an old-fashioned wood pile Is likely to come Into great favor again. Omaha is soon to entertain thousands of visitors. First Impressions go the furthest Help make Omaha look at tractive. As a stopping place between trains Washington still manages to maintain Its place aa the official residence of the president It seems that there was something more than merely well-defined ramors In St Louis. That Is the strong con trast between St. Louis and Omaha. Fusion has gone a-gllmmering In Colo rado. That's always the way whenever the democrats reach the point that they believe they do not need the populists to win. Two thousand Mormon missionaries are said to be spreading the gospel of the Mormon church in continental Eu rope. Presumably this is part of the American peril. Omaha got $45,000 out of Our Dave's omnibus building bill, while the District of Columbia came in for $2,125,000. That's the way that wonderful chair manship works. Whatever else they may bring back, the American generals enjoying the hos pitality of Emperor William will bring home with them some tall stories about royal entertainment Italy now proposes to suppress dueling VI part of the code of honor of the army officer. It may take some time yet but eventually dueling will be found only on the code of dishonor. Total national bank circulation out standing at the present time exceeds that of any period in American history. Totals are just now at top notch In everything that goes to make up the sum of national prosperity. Governor Stone ' of Pennsylvania should not be discouraged lu bis efforts .to secure a settlement of the coal strike. It may turn out that the differences can be adjusted without waiting for the aid or consent of J. Pierpont Morgan. St Louis la simply indulging In a little municipal housecleaniug preparatory to its great Louisiana Purchase exposition that will hold the boards in 11)04. Every exposition city has a housecleaning party In anticipation of such un event Only fifty oersons will be invited to participate In the dinner given to Presi dent UooMvelt during his visit to Omaha. That means that several times fifty will be wanting to know who is responsible for the omission of their names from the chosen list. . Only six Nebraska cities will be favored with stops when President Roosevelt swings round the circle. But that will not prevent the entire popu lace along the' line from turning out at every station to speed the president on hit way as the train passes. Union ratine strikers say they are satisfied 'the ' way things are going. Now If Union Pacific official will say that they are also satisfied the way things are going, everybody ought to be satisfied except the general public a&d the patrons of the road.' ' HOW IT WOVLD OPtRATK. It cannot be too often pointed out that the Individual manufacturers of the country, who connate with the com binations, would In all probability suffer very much more than the trusts If the proposed policy of taking the tnrlft du ties off trust-made goods should be put Into effect. A paper that has strongly urged trust regulation and supervision and is not favorable to high protection, the New York Journal of Commerce, points out that the protective system is not the only, or the necessary, cause of industrial combinations and at tempted monopolies. Furthermore, it says, every article that Is produced by a trust Is also produced by outside par ties, some of them of comparatively small capital, and it Is impracticable to remove protection from the combinations It is desired to regulate without remov ing it from their Independent com petitors. "Besides." adds that paper, "price Is not the only element involved in the trust question, but it is the only point at which a reduction of duties would touch it The revision of the tariff, whenever it comes, must be to relieve our own customers and to open the way for a larger export trade, but not to punish trusts." The Boston Transcript remarks that the proposed "easy way" of reducing or abolishing the tariff on trust-made goods would land us In the quagmire of deeper business depression than that from which we emerged five years ago. "The trusta by no means make all the goods made in their line. The Indi vidual manufacturer would be the first to feel the blow. The trust, with its greater organization and capital, would have more time to protect Itself, but even If it were ultimately 'downed' it would pull down the business of the country with it In its falL To demolish the tariff protection utterly would be to throw our markets wide open to the manufacturers of Europe, to pay what prices they should see fit to dictate; that is, assuming that the business de pression left us with enough money to buy on any other scale than from band to mouth." The Individual manufacturers are numerous. They are doing business in most of the states, have in the aggregate hundreds of millions of capital Invested and employ an army of labor. They constitute a most important part of our industrial system and contribute very largely to the general prosperity. These Individual manufacturers are entitled to consideration. The country cannot af ford to adopt a policy that would seriously Injure stud possibly ruin tho enterprises they represent It cannot afford to take a course that would re sult in throwing hundreds of thousands of worklngmen out of employment de moralizing the business of the country and checking prosperity. The Important point to be kept in mind Is that while the Individual manufacturers could not survive the removal of protection, hav ing to contend against the competition of the home combinations and foreign manufacturers, that policy would not necessarily destroy the trusts and prob ably would increase their . opportunity for creating monopolies. A BTROHU tlSASCUL POSITION. For the last few years, under repub lican administration of. the government, the country has become so familiar with large treasury balances that little at tention is given to the regular reports of the condition of the financial depart ment of the government. Thus probably very few persons outside of banking circles gave even passing notice to the statement given out a few days ago showing the amount of gold In the na tional treasury. There was at the close of last week $573,036,104, exceeding that of any previous time In the history of the country and, with one possible exception, exceeding the gold holdings of any country at any time in the history of the world. The single reported -exception is that of Kussla about eight years ago, when that country waa pre paring to resume specie payments and is said to have accumulated $508,000,000 in gold. The stock of gold In the treasury is being added to at the rate of from $200, 000 to $300,000 a day, with no imme diate prospect of a cessation in the rate of deposits. This condition Is said to be eminently satisfactory to the treas ury officials, who regard it as the best possible evidence of prosperity and of confidence in the financial stability of the country. Thut Is the rational view to take of it In the last few years we have been selling so largely to the rest of the. world that gold has been coming In large volume to the United States. It Is necessary only to point to the enormous trade balance during the lust live years In order to explain why our stock of gold Is so great and is still growing. There was a different atate of affairs under the last demo cratic administration, when bouds were sold to get gold into the treasury. The situation la one that should command the attention of every citizen and sug gest tho wisdom of avoldiug policies that would produce a change. THS Sl'i VA TiOS A T PA KAMA. Our government has an Interest In the situation on the Isthmus of Panama, where the revolutionists appear to be practically In control, that does not grow entirely out of relations to the canal. It has a treaty obligation that requires It to prevent the isthmus being closed to traffic. As matters now look this may necessitate very vigorous ac tion regarding the revolutionists, but only so far as their course iu regard to the traffic on the Isthmus is concerned; that Is to say, there will be no inter ference with their operations against the Colomblau government that do not Interrupt the freedom of commerce. The state of affairs is regarded at Washington as sufficiently serious to warrant the sending of additional war ships to Panama and Colon and orders to this effect have already been made by the Navy department It does not appear from the dispatches that Amer ican' interests are being threatened by the revolutionists, but this Is a danger to be apprehended. The revolution ary party In Colombia has leen rejwrted to be rather adverse to the t'nlted States in regard to the canal and ns it Is mak ing a pretty formidable content against the government, with more than a pos sibility of being ultimately successful. It may prove a serious obstacle to canal negotiations. Meanwhile our govern ment Is taking all necessary precautions to protect American Interests at Panama and to fulfil its treaty obligations. THOSK PF.RTiyg.Sr QCtSTWHS. Although Congressman Mercer has been Invited to address nearly every ward meeting that has been held In Omaha since his return on his every-other-year visit, people are still waiting for replies to the very pertinent but uu answered questions originally pro pounded to bis champion, William F. Ourley, and repented again and again to our nonresident congressman himself. Mr. Ourley said he could not answer be cause he Is no mind-reader, but that ex cuse does not hold good for Mercer. Will Mr. Mercer tell us whether he will be satisfied with a sixth term lu congress and qulf there, or will he in sist on a seventh term, an eighth term and a perpetual lien on the district until he gets a more lucrative job? Mr. Mercer has not lived in Omaha during the last six years. He has paid no personal taxes in Omaha since 1805. Will he become a resident of Omaha in case be falls to secure renoinination or will he continue to live In Washington and resume his old vocation as legisla tive lobbyist on a larger scale? It is a matter of notoriety that Mr. Mercer has treated cadetship appoint ments to West Point and Annapolis as personal perquisites, to be distributed to sous of favored politicians, instead of throwing them open to competition, so that every boy in the district the poor man's son as well as the rich man's son should have an equal chance to secure a military or naval education. Will Mr. Mercer pursue this policy in his sixth term, as he has in all his previous terms? Every congressman is entitled to draw $100 a month for clerk hire and every house committee has a salaried secre tary. The secretary of the committee on public buildings, of which Mr. Mercer is chairman, receives $2,000 a year for his services. Instead of giving employ ment to some deserving Nebraska re publican as his clerk, Congressman Mer cer has pocketed the $1,200 a year clerk hire and made the secretary of his com mittee perform the duties of personal clerk without allowance for the extra work. Will Mr. Mercer continue to pocket the $1,200 besides his regular salary of $5,000 a year and other per quisites in case he secures a sixth term In congress? In the month of May, 1000, the senate passed a bill establishing a general quartermaster's depot In Omaha, which would have given our merchants the long-desired army supply purchasing station Instead of a mere storage ware house. ThlB bill was referred by the speaker of the boude'to Congressman Mercer, but he kept it in his pocket until March 4, 1001, and deliberately killed it The only explanation Mercer's cham pions have seen fit to offer for this be trayal of the interests of 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 alto gether. Inasmuch as the army head quarters were removed to the old post office building in June, 1000, 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 it because Mercer did not want the editor of The Bee to have credit for doing a good thing for Omaha? In the winter of 1800 a draft for $200 was handed 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 did Mr. Mercer have to have a middle man to cash that draft? Is that the way business is done at Washington? Proceeding on the brazen assumption that the people of Omaha need him more than he needs the people of Omaha,, our lordly nonresident congressman evinces a disposition to Ignore these pertinent questions. But the people will not be satisfied with contemptuous silence. It Is up to Mr. Mercer to answer. STKADFASTSt.su VF SEW ESGLAtiD. The elections in Vermont and Maine indicate no abatement In the steadfast- 1 ness of New England to the republican party and President Itoosevelt's admin istration. It was anticipated that the off-year vote would as usual fall off, but in Maine the republicans carried the four congressional districts by majori ties approaching the high water mark of presidential years, while the legis lature Is almost unanimous. In Ver mont It is true, the campaign was com plicated by the local liquor Issue, about one-half of the republicans supporting an antl-prohlbition ticket but the demo cratic party practically disappeared. The republicanism of Vermont and Maine is of the stalwart type. There is absolutely no sign of dissatisfaction among the masses of the party with the conduct and purposes of the administra tion, nor ground for hope for democratic propagandlsm. It has not been vigor ously attempted In these two states. President Roosevelt's courageous course has been a help to the party, and these election returns are the first fruits. The enthusiastic reception accorded the president during his recent tour through New England was a genuine expression, of public conviction, and the closely fol lowing elections are a good augury for the national campaign. There will not be room on the same platform this year for Colonel Bryan and Judge M. J. Wade of Iowa City, who has Just been nominated by the democrats for congress in the Second Iowa district. Judge Wade is an un compromising gold democrat and was nominated for that reason, and In his speech accepting nomination counseled democrats "to return to the teachings of Grover Cleveland." The Ninth congressional district in Iowa' is another district that now be longs to "the enemy's country." The democratic convention there dropped the Kansas City platform with a sick ening thud, and roughly refused to listen to a long-winded free silver tirade that a Bryanlte spellbinder undertook to per petrate. ThlB district too, borders on Nebraska. The railroad tax bureau Is taking a brief breathing spell by using a scissors on a few country papers that have pub lished articles of their own on the rail road Klde of the tax evasion question and paying other papers to reprint them. If they were not paid for originally, they ought to have been. Senator Teller will shed no more tears that the republican party has left him. Having espoused the democratic faith In full' without a whimper to make sure of democratic backing in his campaign for re-election to the senate, he baa nothing more to gain by masquerading In repub lican clothes. The Iowa State Weather bureau plays a sure game. It does not venture Into tho hazardous field of prophecy, but issues a monthly bulletin telling what the weather has been. The way for Dave Mercer to save the district is to stay out since he has moved out of it Take 'Em and Be Happy. Minneapolis Journal. We haven't figured Just what percentage of comfort the democrats are able to get out of the Maine election with a 25,000 re publican majority, but we are willing to throw in the fractions. Another Bnneh of Frost. Washington Post The Hon. David B. Hill has arranged to have a certain Nebraska gentleman com pletely ignored In the platform of the New York democrats. Are the New York democrats to follow their Iowa and Wis consin brethren? .. A Chronic Condition. Baltimore American. The democratic campaign book con demns the failure to give reciprocity to Cuba and then goes ahead In another para graph and condemns reciprocity. How ever, th! is 1 return to th true rao cratic principle of "condemning every thing." A Lesson Remembered. Boston Globe. There's a lesson In an incident of Presi dent Roosevelt's return from Chlckamauga. While he was driving along Missionary ridge Sunday afternoon there came a trolley car down the side of the mountain toward a crossing which his carriage had not reached. It was observed that the driver was stopped by the secret service men and the trolley car was respectfully allowed to go Its way before the carriage was taken across the tracks'. Reesdllnar aa Old Anecdote. Boston Herald. The resolution Just passed by a populist convention out west that reads, "While the republican party doea something and raises h 1, the democratic party raises h 1 and does nothing," recalls a veritable anecdote of the earlier days of politics. A whig and a democrat were disputing, and the whig challenged the democrat to show what the democrats as, a party had ever done. "Done!" says the democrat "Done!" we have done everything. We have killed the United States bank, passed the sub treasury bill, enacted the tariff of 1846, and we have we have' here the demo crat stopped and stuttered to think of something else, and Anally wound up by saying, "We've raised h 1 generally." The whig agreed that be waa right in the latter statement Gold In the Trenanry. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The breaking of a record in the gold hold ings of the treasury doea not attract the attention today which It would have done a few years ago, when the government was selling interest-bearing bonds to get gold enough to. protect its greenback redemption fund. The treasury's gold stock now is $574,000,000. which is by far the largest sum held in the depository of any government in the world. Of course, a large part of this is trust gold, held by the government for the redemption of notes outstanding. The existence of this vast hoard of gold, however, steadies the country' currency and gives it a strength not equaled by that of any other government in the world. In the country at large the gold stock must be in the nelghborhod of II, 100 ,000,000 now. It has been above the $1,000,000,000 mark for a year or more. The country which comes nearest to this total Is France, with $300,000,000. A MILITANT PRESIDENT. "His Advice Goes for the Making the Beat Cltlsenahtp." Detroit Free Press dem.). A good deal of concern has been expressed over the president of the United Statea be cause of the freedom with which he is speaking his miad before the people of the country. By these protestants his social philosophy is condemned as heretical and revolutionary. The offense of the president Is found in the fact that he has gone at the questiona of domestic relations, industrial ameliorations and educatlocal and political reforms aa one who la of and for the people. He enjoys the fresh and original results of personal observation, experienco and study. There was unconscious egoism expressed by Mr. Roosevelt when he said to tha Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen: "I want to aee the average American a game man. an honest man and a man who can handle himself and doea handle himself well under difficulties." This was the voicing of a personal aspiration that supplies In force and In the sympathy that It attracts far more than Is lost becauae of failure to fawn before the power of concentrated wealth that hat latterly essayed to hold the reins of government. Threat from that quarter becomes Impotent when tt Is real ized that the president Is bent upon serv ing the entire country In a way that will give to all the fruits of prosperity and keep open the avenues of competition. It is a crisis in which we need a fighting presi dent; a man who is not afraid to bid the encroachments of a favored class to cease and to advise the masses to proceed by legal process to regain tbelr own. W have in him a scholarly, able and combative re former. Taking Into consideration the forces with which he contends and the purposes he alma to attain, be shows as admirable conservatism. His entire advice goes for the making of the beet citizenship. MrSICIlMti GRAFT 171 ST. I.OVIS. St. Louis Republic: For many years the boodlers in the house of delegates have laughed at all suggestions of the likelihood of their being made to answer for their crimes. It now seems that the people's turn to laugh has come and he laughs best who laughs last. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: All the bood lers took an oath never to divulge any facts connected with their bribery operations and called upon "Almighty God" to witness their fidelity. After the scoundrels serve their terms in the penitentiary they should be taken to an asylum for moral idiots. Chicago Chronicle: ' There Is reason to believe that the BL Louis boodlers were doing a more lucrative business than some others of their kind in other cities. The statement that the average price of an al derman -who la disposing of a franchise worth a million Is $2,600 may not be tar from the mark, but the small fry probably get no more than $500 each, while the gen tlemen of "Influence" get $10,000 or more. Aldermen come pretty cheap on the whole. Chicago Inter Ocean: St. Louis Is en titled to the hearty congratulations of every community in this country that Is cursed by a Doodling combine. The prospect ahead of the world's fair city Is certainly bright. It has seldom fallen to the lot of an Ameri can municipality to be burdened as BL Louis has been with such a powerful gang of conscienceless thieves, but, on the other hand, it has seldom fallen to the lot of an American municipality to be presented with such a splendid opportunity of sending so many of them In a batch to state's prison. Detroit Free Press: There are two things In connection with the expose that are sur prising even In these days of official corruption. One Is that nineteen delegates, a large proportion of whom were rated as responsible and honorable citizens, should combine for a purpose that is criminally fraudulent and should boldly meet In the city hall to perfect their schemes of black mall and robbery. The other is that the people generally of the afflicted city have known the character of the men who were serving them in public office and the meth ods by which they were enriching them selves. Tolerance had gone so far that the boodlers felt comparatively aafe and made little effort to conceal their doings. Another effect of popular Indifference was to produce moral stupefaction on the part of the offenders. The fact that they were doing wrong ceased to impress them. They sold what they had pledged to the people and did not regard it as a crime. This is positively startling, and yet It Is the danger threatening every large city In the coun try. The people have been hammered and looted so long that they promise to grow complacent under the treatment. STRANGE CAREER OF ROACH. Paaalnar of Former United States Senator from North Dakota. Buffalo Express. William N. Roach, former United Statea senator from North Dakota, died In New York on Sunday. Roach had one of the moat remarkable careers of any man who ever figured in American public lite. He was born in Virginia In 1840 and begaa his business life In Washington, first as an em ploye of the government and later as cashier of the Citizens' National bank. In 1879 Roach suddenly left Washington under a cloud. It was alleged that he bad been using the funds of the bank for his own purposes and that! the shortage amounted to $64,000. For some reason no attempt was made to follow and arrest him. He disap peared from sight and was forgotten. Much to the amazement of the people of Washington who remembered him, h re turned to the capital In 1893 an accredited United States senator, having been elected as a democrat after a prolonged deadlock. It was learned that for the preceding tuelve years he had been one of tha most emi nently respectable and highly esteemed citizens of North Dakota; that he had ac cumulated there a comfortable property and that he had been a candidate on the demo cratic ticket for congress and twice for governor without a suspicion having been entertained by the men who trusted him that his record was anything but clear. There was a nine-day session over the revelations. Senator Hoar proposed aa In vestigation with a view to the expulsion of Roach from the senate. Roach sail he would welcome Investigation and some of his friends alleged that there were other men In the senate whose early careers would not bear the light any better than Roach's. Perhaps because of this the mat ter was allowed to drop and Roach served out his term. He beaded a Bryan dele gation from North Dakota to the demo cratic national convention of 1896 and after the expiration of his term he engagnd la business in New York. A! EBB IX PENSIONS. Footprints of Time Visible on the Roll of Honor. New York Tribune. Abundant evidence can be found In the re port of the auditor for the Interior depart ment. Issued a few days ago, to sustain the' contention that the nation's expenditures for pensions are certain to show from now on a more and more material shrinkage. So much loose talk la afloat about "high water marks" In the pension Hat and "high tides" in pension payments that the real ebb to ward a more moderate average of disburse ments is too commonly lost sight of. Great stress was laid this year by critics who chronically assail the open-handed liberality of our pension system on the fact that the total number of pensioners on the rolls bad mounted a little nearer than ever to the million mark. On July 1, according to the calculations of the commissioner of pen sions, there were 999,446 names in all on the agency Hats. But little or no attention wns given to the fact that for four years past. In spite of the adjudication of between 200,000 and 300,000 new claims, there has been prac tically no expansion whatever of the pen sion roll. On July 1, 1901, the number of persons entitled to draw pensions was 997, 735; on July 1, 1900, tt was 993,525. Nine years ago, long before the rush of applica tions under the dependent pension act of 1899 had apent Itself, the total was 966,012. The slight Increases made since 1897 have plainly testified, In fact, to the gradual ex haustion o( the extraordinary pressure for enrollment created by that most lavish and all-embracing statute. It would not be sur prising if, with a continuance of the bureau's present policy of pushing the ad Jus, ment of outstanding claims, the pension list should next year pass the million mark. But Indications point decidedly to a reaction thereafter a drop which will carry the total gradually back to where it stood soma ten or even fifteen yeara ago. In reality, although tbs pension list grew a little In the last twelvemonth, disburse ments through the agencies actually de creased. The auditor for the Interior de partment reports that the sum actually spent for pensions waa $137,400,741. This Is a mlHlcn less than the total for 1900-'01 and Is the smallest amount disbursed In any year since 1892. Five years ago, when but 993, 714 names were on tbs rolls, the payments made aggregated $144,500,000. In 1892-'93. when there were but 966,012 pensioners, the sum paid out reached the record-breaking figure of $156,806,537. In ten years, there fore, the annual pension charge has fallen over $19,000,000, and it la fair to presume that the Influences which have contributed to this decline will continue to opera la dur ing tbs next decade. BITS OF WASHINGTON MFK. Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched en the Spot. An uncommonly dull summer at the ns tlonal capital Is drawing to a close. ThJ feeling of languor which spreads over the town when, congress closes shop grow aa the season advances and vacations multiply. The closing of the White House for repairs this summer materially increased the dull ness, which reached high water mark with the opening of September. The coming national encampment of the Grand Army Is expected to signalize the return of normal conditions, arousing the natives from their slumbers and banishing the tired feeling In countless pockets. Some of the townspeople already awake and on the jump are banking on an un usually gay social aeason during the com ing winter. By November nearly half a million dollars will be apent on the White House. There will be no air of shop about the new home building for the president of the United States. There have beeu presidents who used the conservatory to grow cucumbers In and another kept his saddles In the east wing, but President Roosevelt has no such ideas. There are to be drawing rooms and verandas, ban quet rooms and rooms red, green and blue, where social functions can be given In keeping with the dignity of the office. The president does nothing by halves, and he has left no room for speculation about the coming White Houae season. The president likes work, but he likes to play equally as well. Until Mr. Roosevelt, with the exception of Arthur, there has not been a president In the White House since the war who knew much about the art of entertaining. Mrs. Roosevelt Is still young and Miss Roosevelt Is going through an experience this summer which will give her the repose and confidence required from a hostess who must meet the best society of the world. It Is also certain that the Hays, socially conspicuous sloce John Hay became secre tary of state, will be prominent in society circles. The marriage of Miss Helen Hay to Harry Payne Whitney was an elaborate affair. Soon the wedding of Miss Alice Hay and "Jimmy" Wadeworth will take place In the New Hampshire hills. It will be a different affair from the Hay-Whitney wedding. Of courae the Wadsworths as well as the Whltneys are coming to Wash ington and besides them there will be Mr. and Mrs. Michael Herbert. Mrs. Herbert was a Wilson of the New York set. Mr. Herbert, as ambassador from the court of St. James, unites the diplomatic corps with the New York ,,400." Mr. Herbert was the former chum of Mr. Roosevelt. The superstitious may prepare for another shock. A thlrteen-cent postage stamp Is about to be Issued by the govern ment. The phiz of Benjamin Harrison will ocoupy the center of the Held. This will be the first thirteen-cent stamp ever issued by the United States; up to 1879 a stamp of the value of seven cents had been in use ten years, but was discontinued when the rate of foreign postage was reduced to 6 cents. The new Harrison stamp will be lit tle used In domestic malls. Its Issuance is the outgrowth of the increased foreign registration service; covering as tt will the postage and registration fee upon a letter weighing one-half ounce anywhere within the limits of the postal union, which now includes practically ail the organized na tions of the world. Stamp experts who have examined the drawing for the new stamp say it will be one of the finest specimens of a postage stamp ever produced, not excepting the famous Columbian series, the Transmis stsslppi and the Pan-American sets. In ad dition to the usual "United States of Amer ica" and "Postage, Thirteen Cents" . the Inscription,' "Series of 1902," together with "Harrison" and figures giving the date of birth and death appear upon the design. The portrait was selected by Mrs. Harrison and Is said to have been the late president's favorite. A novelty In national coin, typical of na tional expansion, and Intended for circula tion In the Philippine islands only, will be produced at the mints and shipped to the islands at the rate of $250,000 a month. Designs prepared by native artists have been accepted for use in the dollar and half-dollar sliver pieces, and others are under consideration. One Is a very orna mental figure of a Filipino woman, attired In graceful flowing robes. The other repre sents a brawny native, with a hammer at a forge, typifying the Filipino hammering out the destinies of the Islands. The law requires that each coin shall bear a device and Inscription to express the sovereignty of the United States, although In other re spects they may be as strongly pro-Philippine as the designers can make them. The idea of the Washington authorities Is to saturate the islands with the new money, co as to dn away with the use of the Mexi can dollar as much as possible. PERSONAL, MOTES. If Boris, the Russian, doesn't watch out the W. C. T. U. will catch him. Now that Colonel Waiterson has de molished Newport society he ought to turn his rapid-Are vocabulary on the atrikes. Secretary Wilson aays he haa not been tendered the presidency of the Iowa Agri cultural college and would not accept It If be was ao honored. SamueV Hawkins Napier, who haa Just been burled In Upper Ottawa, was the dis coverer of the largest nugget of pure gold which the world has ever known. William H. Moody, secretary of the navy,1 acted as umpire in a base ball game played . . tiav.rhin Mus.. several days ago be tween the lawyers and city officials of that city. Slxktller, the aed ex-chief of the Chero kees, has Just died at hla home In the onavinaw Hills. Indian Territory. His death witnesses the passing of one of the most picturesque figures of the southwest. dv 1 AltUn' deslrn has been ac- " cepted by the McKlnley Memorial Monu- mt committee of San Franclaco. On tha monument Is a colossal figure of the re public, with a bust of McKlnley in has relief of stons. Mrs. Carrie Nation Is perambulating about the east, and receives so little at tention that she might as well have been a defeated vice presidential candidate of some distant campaign. She la seeking money for her home for tha wives of drunkards In Kansas City. Her hatchet has been replaced altogether by her elocu tion; ahe amasbes no more and merely talk. The Are department at Larchmont, New York's well suburb, had Its annual turn out a few daya ago, most of Its million aire member being present In uniform. And they are not an ornamental lot, either. Everyone of them almost I an en thusiastic and well drilled fireman and a brave show they made on parade, with their white duck trouser. red shirts and red helmet topped with email lanterns. Agent Craig, who was killed In th Pitta Held accident, one gave fencing lesson In Chlcopee, according to th Springfield Republican, and exhibited a aword of clmeter shape that be took from a dervish In the Boudan. It was an excellent weapon and he had supposed It of true Oriental make. The nam "Chlcopee" on the blade was Oriental for anything he knew. He learned tha facta, of course, when be came to Chlccpee. Tb aword wa on of th lot the Ames people bad made for th Turkish government sixty yar ago. t!IO! OF THE SECTIONS. Manifestation of Popnlnr Sentiment on President' Southern Trip. Kansas City Star (Ind.) . . The large gatherings and marked en thusiasm that have characterized Presi dent Roisevelt's tour through West Vir gins, Kenturky, Tennessee and North Carolina are new and gratifying evidences of the patriotic union of the United States. It was not essential for the .president to make this visit to the (onthern states In order to demonstrate popular feeling toward him In that aectlon. His former visit, when he went to South Carolina In connection with the opening of the Charles ton exposition served the purpose at an earlier date and at a time when there was an attempt to set sectional feeling against him because of bis attitude toward th obstreperous and disorderly Senator Tillman. That visit was replete with evidences- of patriotism and admiration end the present tour has been attended with every kind of recognition that could be desired. It Is trite and often out of place to reiterate the oneness of the union, but it ta still appropriate to comment on the fact that while the presidents for many years have been chosen from the north, the south has been conspicuously loyal, generous and hospitable toward th chief magistrates who have visited that section. Even now, when there is a good deal of agitation as to the advisability of selecting th next democratic nominee for the presidency from among th outhern statesmen, the Idea has more en couragement In the north than It haa re ceived in the south. Tb desire to have the southern states participate more largely in national affair Is very general. The progress of the south In all directions, es pecially along industrial lines, la welcomed everywhere a a sign of the equable broad ening and solidifying of the nation. President Roosevelt's addresses have been instinct with the strong regard he has al ways evinced for tho spirit of national Ism and such references as he haa made to sections have been In good taste and helpfull to the happy current of feeling. THERE ARB OTHERS. ' Lea Than Half the Steel Ontpnt Con trolled by the Trust. Buffalo Express. Eo much has been said by the so-called trust hunters about the United 8tates Steel corporation and Its alleged control of the Iron and steel business In this coun try that some figures on this point fur nished in the latest bulletin of the Ameri can Iron and Steel association posses unusual interest. No one who has at all studied the Industry in the United Slate has taken any stock In the severe criticism of this great organization, for it has been strong from the time the combine was formed and has been growing ever since. When the trust was incorporated it was generally believed that the constituent companies controlled about 80 per cent of the American output. Later reports placed the percentage much lower. The bulletin which has Just been Issued gives rata on the various prnrinrta. Of total production of 28,887.479 tons of ore in 1S01 the United States Steel corporation con trolled 43.9 per cent, while the plants In the trust produced 6,803,988 tons of. pig Iron, or 42 per cent of the total. The trust out put of Bessemer and open hearth steel In gots and castings was 8,860,584 tons, which was 66.3 per cent of the production In 1901. Of a total of 12,849.327 tons of rolled product, the Steel trust manufactured 60.1 per cent, while it manufactured 65.8 per cent of the wire nails. . It is thus apparent that the-. United States Steel corporation Is : much - less formidable than some of Ita. critics , would have the public believe. It is true that the Iron and steel business Is more actlv than at any former time . in the history of tha country and that the .real test of strength between the big corporation and the Inde pendent organizations cannot be felt until a period of depression set in. But I it not reasonable to expect that the outside companies, with their more modern plants, will be thoroughly able to hold their own In competition with the United Statea Steel corporation If it la ever necessary to start a fierce fights? It is worth bearing In mind that the Steel trust is doing all It can through holding down prices to prevent such a struggle. SMILING LINKS. Philadelphia Press: "You officeholders." sneered the man who was vainly trying to be one, "don't die very often, do you?'r "No," replied the man who was one, aa he smiled benignly, "only once." Chicago Post: "Haa your husband any literary ability?" "Haa he! Well, you Just ought to hear the fairy stories he tells me the nights when I ask him what kept him out o late." Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Is this the managing editor?." -Yea." "Well, I wish you'd kindly add my name to .the list of those who cannot settle the coal strike." Boston Transcript: Foozle Didn't know I played golf? That's funny. Why, you've seen me In town many a time with a bag of sticks. Niblick Yes, but I thought, perhaps, you were a caddie, you know. Washington Star: "Remember," said the earnest man, "that wisdom I mora to ue prized than rlcheB." "Maybe It Is," answered the skeptic "but I can't help wondering why It Is, If that Is the case, a man can go and buy a book; full of proverba for bp cents." Cleveland Plain Dealer:' "Tea, I always do my thinking: when I walk." "It a a pity you gave It up." "Gave up wnatT" Walking." Washington Star: "Which do you pre fer, horses or automobiles?" "Horses. With them .you lose your money, but with the automobiles you're liable to lose your life." Chicago Tribune: "What la that saying about a fool for a client?' " "I give It up," said the man who had been In law. "but I fancy It's to the effect that every client Is a fool because 'a fool and hla money are soon parted.' " Somervtlle Journal: Wiggles It that the suit that you got made to order for $15? Waggles Yes. How do yoa like It? Wiggles Well. It Is a great advertise ment for some other firm. . BOBBY SHAFTOK. Esmeralda Boyle in United States Magaglne, In daya of yore, In Baby lore (The lore of A, B, C, There runs a tale of Shaftoe's voyage Acroas the boundless sea. His love was true. His eyea were blue Like gold that's finely spun. Beneath hla brave tarpaulin shone Hla bright lock In the sua. He sailed away one summer day; Hla heart was light and free. He wore a seaman's blouse, 'tis said. And buckles at tha knee. The waters laughed about the craft That bore this aallor lad. . . . And ran and danced, and upward sprain A though they might be glad. . They leaped In sport toward the port Whereat he atood full fair Then, hastening to the sandy shore They kissed two white fet there.' With upraised hand, feet tn the tend.' Blythe Bobby Bhaftoe a sweetheart tooA .. ..... j ..... .-ttmnvun And watched him sail from sight. Yet never more. In early ri. f ind w that Bailor Hoy; Nor know we aught of what lia'dld ' Ilia iflrrna r.r hi 1.. 1 ...... . .' VJ, t Hla ship, on day, sailed far away --- . . ...... s v vuv uciii, A airl believed ha would return. This only history telle. J