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Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. lliialneab letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Fuhllnhing Com pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, enpress or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Compauy. Only 2-ccnt stamps accepfd In payment or mall accounts. Personal ciiecks. except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County ss: George B. Tsuchuck, secretary of The Bee rublishlng Company, being duly sworn, says that tho actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during tha month of August, lwi, was as follows: 1 ,.H,TJM 1 ItM.OOO 17 28,820 18 20,380 19 20,770 20 RO,30 21 80,120 22 2IMIUO 13 80.B1O 24... 28,7:13 26 3o,a;o 26 20MH) 27 20.H3O 28 29.IMH 21) 30,070 30 30,110 II 20,120 2 ;.SH,770 3 SN,4J.-t3 4 SS, (1 10 6 K,0O t 8S,70 7 28,700 H St,7SO t 28, 0IO 10 JSN.T&O 11 88,750 12 l.8,730 13 a,sao 14 38,020 16 38,730 Total 06,440 Less unsold and returned copies.... 0377 Net total sales 800.B03 Net dally average 28,021 GEO. B. TZSUHUCK. Subscribed In Jcny presence and sworn to before me thla 1st day of September, A. Dv 1W2. M. B. HUNGATE, (Seal.) Notary Publlo. That packers' combine bad better not bo too hoggish. The corn crop sometimes has a nine lived career, too. Mercer may be able to buy off some candidates, but ho cannot buy off all the lepubiiouu voters. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson takes It all back, and admits that Nebraska Is In the corn belt. Mercer has worked the business Inter CHt racket for five terms In congress, but It won't work any more. The annual by-play over the proposal to purchase guns for the High school cadet battalion is about due. The advance agent of the meat-pack ers' combine seems to have gotten quite a distance ahead of the show. If many more democratic state con ventions "stake down silver," Colonel llryan will begin referring to "the crime of 1002." Prices of bottles have been put up 10 per cent by tho Indiana factories. Prices of bottled goods, however, remain as yet unchanged. Those business men's juries are still on the tapis, but the business man with' out an excuse to offer to get out of serv lug will be a rarity. Wonder If a member of the Commoner staff was put on the democratic ticket In Lancaster county to hold that paper In line for the nominees. Unless a brake is put on the deadly automobile we are likely to be disap pointed over the figures of population growth disclosed by the next census, It Is announced that Prince Henry may return to the United States next spring. Speak early, for front places at the free distribution of decorative souve nirs. .'. y , j "Oolonlst excursions' is now the polite term for what were ' formerly called homescekers' tours. The name makes no difference so long ajs they bring set tleri to the west ' A Chicago woman proclaims her abil lty to cure dogs by .Christian science treatment. If the system can be extend ed to quieting cats on their midnight peregrinations, Its efficacy will be be yond dispute. Pennsylvania people appear to be un able to make up their minds whether convening their legislatures In extra ses sion to tackle the coal strike problem would relieve them of their troubles or simply add to them. Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, but It takes something more sub stantial to soothe the civilized man. That explain why the auditorium directory proposes to merge a dinner with their meetings to make sure of the attendance of a quorum. Council Bluffs is doubtless disappoint ed over Its failure to prevail on Presi dent Roosevelt to stop off In that city but there is nothing to prevent Council Bluffs people coming over to Omaha and Joining In the reception to the preslden on this lde of the river. Paving work that should hav been competed, much less started, by this time Is still engaging the attention of the council. One of the crying needs of Omaha, which the coming legislature should heed la the demand for a revision of the laws relating to paviug petitions, Msesemcuts and contract. TIMK FOR PLAty TALK. j Labor strikes are nothing more nor i less thnn Industrial wars, which carry in tliclr train nil the horror of a des- perate life and denth struggle. In this I'sppvt the strike of the Union Pacific hop men does not differ materially from II similar conflicts between working icii and their employers. Nearly every trlke in which large number of work- Inpmen are engaged is accompanied by turbulence and bloody encounters be- neen the strikers and the men who have taken their places, and frequently between sympathizing union workmen nd nonunion workmen. The fray In hlch a nonunion machinist Imported by the Union Pacific from Chi cago lost his life in a shocking and de plorable but by no means an exceptional Incident. Up to thl time The I'.ee has re- f rained from discussing the merits of the Union Pacific strike, but the time has now arrived for a little plain talk. With the Internal management of the (Talis of the Union Pacific the publlo has no concern, and nobody lu the com munity has a right to Interfere. It Is only when the ponce and public safety re menaced, or endangered, or when the lives and property of the patrons of he great railroad are put In jeopardy that the state and the community would be justified In entering a remonstrance, or calling a halt. Ordinarily, strikes are precipitated by demand for higher wages, resistance to wage reduction or a demand for re' dress of grievances, real or Imaginary, but lu this instance no such condi tion existed. In reality, the so-called strike of the Union Pacific machinists nd boiler makers is not a strike, but lockout. Up to the time when Presi dent Burt Issued his mandate, substi tuting piece work for day work, there was not the slightest disposition on the part of the men to quit their Jobs. Mr. Burt's piece work edict was practically an order for every member of the ma- hinlsts' and boiler makers' union to cut loose from the union or leave the com pany's employ. In other words, It was a declaration of war against the ma chinists' and blacksmiths' union. , . Mr. Burt knew that under the rules of the international union its members are prohibited from doing piece work, and his order was nothing more nor less than a deliberate effort to break up the machinists' and boiler makers' union. Mr. Burt certainly must have known that the motto of trades unions Is "An Injury to one is an injury to all." ' In attempting to destroy the blacksmiths and machinists' unions at one blow Mr. Burt also struck a blow at every trades union In the land and assumed respon sibility for all the natural consequences, including destitution by starvation, as saults and bloody riots just the same as the ruler of any country who de clares war against another country as sumes the responsibilities of all its ter rible consequences. Whether Mr. Burt is acting on his own motion or under orders from higher authority is problematic, as Is also the generally accepted opinion that the lock out of the machinists and boiler mak ers was part of a plan to get rid of all the old men In the shops without any apparent design for such cruelty. Pub lic opinion in this regard may be ground less, but It is nevertheless supported by the fact that the men locked out by Mr. Burt's edict were paid off with checks that canceled all obligations of every nature the company may have assumed to each Individual. Men who had been maimed in the company's service, men who had lost an eye, a foot, or part of their hand, were compelled to sign away all the privileges that had been granted them or claims they might have had by reason of Injuries, and all the obli gations the company may have assumed toward them. Mr. Burt insists that the change from day's work to piece woric is in the inter est of the worklngmen, but It Is pass lng strange that he has not been able to convince the worklngmen that It is their Interest rather than the company's interest. People who are not familiar with the intricate questions Involved would naturally ask themselves how me chanics who have had an experience of more than thirty yeara with day work should be so oblivious to their own In terests If by changing to piece work they could better their condition. To the community at large the priva tlon to which several hundred old cltl sens, who have erected homes In this city, who have raised families In this city, and who have contributed to the upbuilding of this city, have been sub jected without provocation, Mr. Burt's policy certainly cannot commend Itself. It is equivalent almost to an order of expulsion and extermination since Mr, Burt has declared positively that he will not recede nor arbitrate, not accept any suggestions that would lead to a bar monlous settlement of the difficulty be tweeu himself and the company's em ployes who are locked out. ' PLtDUCD TO ItWSKVtLT.' Not only has every republican state convention endorsed the administration in stroug and unqualified terms, but number of them have declared in favor of the nomination of President Roose velt In 1904. The conventions that have done this are those of Kansas, Iowa. Minnesota, Missouri. Pennsylvania, Del aware, California, Idaho, Washington Colorado and Utah. The latest of these conventions, that of Utah, thus refers to the president In Its platform: "In Theodore Roosevelt we recognize his worthy successor. We do declare our loyalty tt him and our unqualified approval of tils adiululstra tlon. He has met the many problems that have confronted the country with splendid courage and statesmanship. He has, by his generous and fearless advo cacy and support of western Interests and measures, justly earned the gratl tune or toe great west, lie possesses that rare combination of qualities, cour age, tact, scholarship, loyalty to princl pie, civic and personal honesty, uulted with profound statesmanship, thst inakca hint tha ideal American president THE OMAHA DAILY 1IEK: MONDAY, KEt'TEMItEU 15, 1M)2. We pledge him our personal devotion." This voices the general sentiment of western republicans toward Mr. Roose velt. At a conference of leading New York republicans on Saturday It was decided unanimously that it was not only wise to endorse the administration, but to en dorse Mr. Roosevelt for l'MU. While there is en Id to 1)0 no precedent for such course In that state, It Is yet highly probable thnt the convention will nccept the decision of the leaders who were present at the conference and declare In favor of tho nomination of the presi dent two years hence. In that event there will be vey little doubt as to who will be the republican candidate for president two years hence, If Indeed there Is any at present. Nothing ap pears to be more certain than that the west will be solid for Roosevelt In the next national convention, and It is not apparent that he is likely to meet with opposition anywhere. He is at this time xceedingly strong with the republicans of the entire country, who not only ad mire his sterling qualities and great abil ities, but regard him as the logical can didate for 1004. LfTKRXA TIONA U CUMB1XA TluX. In his speech before the Utah repub lican convention, Senator Beveridge of Indiana urged that removal of the tariff would ndt destroy trusts, but would merely create International trusts. He held that American, English and Ger man trusts would combine instead of compete, and said that "until American Industries shall dominate the Industries of the rest of the world; until the Uni ted Stutes becomes the permanent bank ing house of nations; until we have grown so great that we are the con trolling Influence In International com mercial policy, American trusts are bet ter for us than International trusts." It should be borne in mind that there are industrial combinations In Germany and England and that the tendency abroad In this direction Is very strong. Recently there has been organized In Germany a trust which includes all of the coal, iron, steel, wire, sheet metal, girders and structural iron manufactur ers and interests In the empire a trust compared with which the United States steel corporation is a cheap affair. This German combination Is based upon an agreement that its members shall con tribute to, pay to such members as ex port their products a bonus equal to the difference between the current price of the merchandise in the German mar kets and the price actually obtained for It abroad. The organization of this trust was largely with a view of meeting the encroachments of American manufactur ers. In England the tendency toward combination was never so strong as at present. The report of Mr. Bell, a Brit ish commercial agent, on industrial con ditions In this country, has aroused the Interest of English manufacturers to an extraordinary degree. British newspa pers urge that England must completely modernize, upon American models so far as these are applicable, her whole Industrial system, so that she can be In position to meet the tremendous com petition which is surely to come from America for the command of the for eign markets. This means that there must be industrial combination there as here and In spite of the conservative character of British manufacturers they will undoubtedly come to this. The removal of the tariff would open our market to the foreign combinations, with certain disaster to Individual manu facturers, and there would come a bat tle between the American and thevfor eign trusts. There cannot be a reason able doubt that this would result, at least in many cases, in international combinations and the creation of abso lute monopolies. We should then have presented a far more difficult problem than at present, for not only would com petition be completely throttled and ren dered practically impossible, but we could not deal with international trusts as we may do with those exclusively domestic. Under existing conditions there Is competition, and It Is largely successful. Nearly 00 per cent of the Iron and steel manufactures of the coun try, for example, are by individual or independent companies. The democratic proposition would destroy most or all of these companies and open the way to International combinations and world wide monopoly. UERCMRAND Hit WUKKiyUidtK. David II. Mercer pretends to be a friend of the worklngmen and looks to them for assistance in his quest for a sixth term in congress. But how has Mercer ever shown his friendship for the worklngman? As chairman of the public buildings committee, our nou resident congressman claims special ownership in all measures appropriat lng money for the erection of public buildings. He poses as the inventor of the omnibus bill, as applied to the dls tributlon of public building pork, and boasts that his position as chief dis tributer of this patronage enables him to get anything in congress that he chooses to go after. When has he used this powerful lever to go after anything for the worklngman? Has be not, on the contrary, ignored the Interests of labor where he might have promoted them most? , The principal point In the labor pro gram in this country Is the adoption of a uniform eight-hour working day. Mr. Mercer's omnibus bill carried appro prlatlons of $17,000,000, of which two thirds, or nearly $12,000,000, is to be spent in the erection of public buildings. How easy It would have been for con gress, if Mr. Mercer had insisted upon it, to have inserted a provision In this bill stipulating fur the eight-hour work lng day in all public building contracts A few Hues added would have done, but the worklngman will sack in vain for anything in Mercer's omnibus bill re quiring an eight hour day, or, for thut matter, safeguarding the interests of labor in any manner. It is true that a separate bill is pond ing In congress establishing the eight i Lvur da Xvr all .woik vn fuvtuiuueut contracts, but there has been opposition to it, particularly from the shipyards. who argue that they must compete with foreign shipyards and would be at a disadvantage If limited to eight hours a day. But there Is no foreign competi tion in the construction of public build ings and no reason whatever to prevent the enforcement of the eight-hour day on public building contractors. Inspection of Mr. Mercer's omnibus till discloses the fact, however, that he has carefully safeguarded the real es tate dealers and agents of public build ing sites In their real estate deals with the government; that he has carefully stipulated for the remission of liqui dated damages for delay when the con tractors full to come under their time limits, but not a word for the benefit of the workinguian. With Mr. Mercer It Is everything for the real estate specu lator and the building contractor, but nothing for the worklngman. Is this the kind of friend worklngmen of this district want to keep In congress? What good can come to them in holding him iu a committee chairmanship to be used In logrolling railroad rights-of-way, fat mall contracts and big bills for transporting troops for the railroad cor porations, but nothing for the working- man? Why should the worklngmen of this district send a man to congress to pull chestnuts out of the fire for District of Columbia real estate speculators and turn a deaf ear to their just demands? Does Mercer take the worklngmen for chumps, or does he think he can keep on buncoing them forever? An attempt will be made by the police to repress all sorts of uncouth behavior at the coming Ak-Sar-Ben carnival. The chief Incentive to ruffianism unquestion ably lies In the throwing of confetti, against which The Bee has repeatedly entered protest as a dangerous and un necessary form of hilarity. It Is given out that confetti-throwing will be per mitted only inside the street air grounds, but it is just as dangerous and objectionable there as it would be out side of those limits. A year ago the plea for just once more was made on the ground that money had already been In vested in a supply of colored paper and that to forbid Its sale would entail hard ship on the dealers and the burs were let down with the express promise that that should be the last of it. It ought to be the last of it. Now that there is a somewhat pan icky feeling in financial circles, the value of a treasury surplus can be appreciated. The secretary of the treasury has am ple currency resources which can be used In a variety of ways to relieve the situation. If there were now a deficit instead of a surplus, and if the treasury were hard put to it to meet its own obligations, as It was in Cleveland's days, there would be real peril. An ex cessive treasury surplus is of course an evil, but It is not so great an evil as a treasury deficit Only a little more- than half of the leg islative candidates nave been nominated In Nebraska by the respective political parties, leaving the others to be named within the next three weeks. The Bee wants to reiterate its words of caution to republicans throughout the state to look well to the qualifications of their legislative nominees. The coming legis lature will be expected to grapple with measures of vital concern to Nebraska's future welfare and progress and safe, honest and far-seeing law-makers will be in demand. Do the republicans of the Second Ne braska district want to be represented in congress by a paid commercial agent who is Identified by residence and by property interests with the district of Co lumbia, or do they want to be repre sented in congress by a man who makes his home in Omaha and intends to live In Omaha and share its fortunes, come what may? If the value of that chairmanship were so great and Mercer so indispensable in It as Mercer's champions would have us believe,, how is It Mercer was so anxious to throw it aside when he Imagined two years ago that he saw a chance to jump into the United States senate? V.'aa the chairmanship less valuable then or Is Mercer more Indispensable now? No danger that we will not have our full quota of foreign prodigies tour ing the United States this winter on concert stage and lecture platform. Our reputation for being easy money is too well established abroad. There'll Be at Hot Time. Philadelphia Record. There will be some tun in the Orient soon. Fighting Bob Evans will assume command of the Asiatic squadron soma tlma In Oc tober. Sos Effort in that Line. Baltimore American. Mr. Bryan wants to know if It would not stop horse stealing to Imprison all the borsatblcves. Wa believe sucb an effort is constantly being mad. Sure Roonuh Ken. Atlanta Conatltutton. There is something sure enough new un der the aun. Senator Teller now says he al ways has been a democrat, except on the slavery Usue and, perhaps, tha Jonah and whale puzzle. Hard Coal Substitute. Chicago Chronicle. It is to bo hoped that soma of the ex periments upon substitutes for hard coal- soft coal and coke, Texaa oil. Admiral Some body's coal dust bricks or something else will prove successful. If the anthracite output should be reduced 60 per cent or more In consequence no great harm would be dona except to monopolists upon whom wa need not squander sympathy. t'radljaa; Infaat Movement. Boston Tranacrlpt. Faneutl bait was the cradle of liberty some century and a quarter ago and it has been the cradle of a good many Infant movements since. Fortunately for the country, most of thesa children have not aurvlved long after being forced Into the protecting walls of the cradle. It takes more than bigh-soundtog rhetoric and a biatorle ball to make a proposition practical. V AOF9 LAST KICK. Hll'ireth Telescope: Rosewater and Sav age should be suppressed. There is work enough ahead fighting the common enemy without scrapping within our own ranks. Fremont Tribune: Mr. Rosewater prom ises another reply to Governor Bavage's latest. Isn't it about time for the Humane society to butt In and put an end to this brutal business? Hardy Herald: Governor Savage and the wily editor of The Omaha Bee are hav ing a war of words that will hardly repay the effort. People over tha atate expect The Bee's apology In campaigns and pay little or do heed to It. Calaway Tribune: Governor Savage calls Roiwy a d n fool, Roaey rails Savage a liar, thief and a general all around scoun drel. Wa for one would like to know how Ezra got possession of that treas urer's note. Who stole It? Beatrice Run: In closing his letter to Mr. Rosewater Governor Savage says that he Is dona with letter-writing, and that if Roney bothers him any more he will almply take It out of bis hide. There la nothing diplomatic about that sort of language. Norfolk New: Governor Savage has taken another slash at hla antagonlat and the return maneuver from the editor of The nee in anxiously awaited by a reading publlo that delighta in the polite billings gate being employed on both aides. North Dntte Tribune: Governor Savage has Indicted another letter to Editor Rose water, and tha latter promises to make one of hia characteristic replies. The gov ernor and the editor have evidently a long letter-writing campaign ahead of them. Dakota City Eagle: Governor Savage has told how he was offered money to name certain men to the Omaha police commis sion. He says the bid was Jv.bOO, but that $20 gold pieces could not be piled up high enough to do the business. Strange, but how high was the pile offered on the Bart- ley pardon? York Times: Governor Savage intimates that when he Is out of office he will adjust hla differences with Editor Rosewater. It would have been just as well if he had thought of that before be entered the arena with the elusive bull of Bashan. A governor must necessarily forego some of his dignity when he goes Into a bullfight. Dakota City Eagle: Strange as It may appear that every time Governor Savage opens his mouth he gets his foot In It. Hia reign In office baa been one continuous blunder. By the time his term expires and The Omaha Bee gets through showing him up In hia true light there will not be enough left of his political corpse to skin. South Omaha Independent: Governor Sav age has partly opened that "mysterious" cigar box formerly owned by Defaulter Bart- ley. Judging from the artistic manner in which Editor Rosewater handled the exposed portion of that cigar box In The Bee laat Sunday leads us to believe that the governor will withhold what other "myaterious" con tents that wonderful box may contain. North Platte Tribune: If the hiatorlc and frequwui.lv referred io "cigar box'' at Lincoln contains such great secrets that It can be used to huBh up the mouths of certain ones, it Is time that Governor Sav age turn the box open to the public gazo, let tbe result be what it may. If there is a skeleton in the closet It might be beat for tbe party and the state that It be exposed. Blue Springs Sentinel: That was a bril liant closing sentence of the governor's in his Sunday's letter Informing Mr. Rosewater that it there was any mrrs of It he would settle with him after stepping out of tbe governor's chair. Say, Savage. Draw a mental picture of how your long, bony, six feet ot stature will loo It when you go after RoBewater. People once in a while make mighty big mistakes. Sidney Republican: Governor Savage has busied himself recently making some in sinuations about Rosewater's connection with some shady deals, and now the little editor of Tbe Bee gets after his excellency in real style. He has no terrors for Mr. Rosewater and every time he monkeys with the buzzsaw he will get worsted. The gov ernor is small potatoes, few In a hill, and has got discounted by hia party and the people In general. Nobody pays any atten tion to what he says and cares less. Scotts Bluff Republican: As we predicted a couple of weeks ago, Savage has let his mouth run around loose, until Rosewater has him just where he wanta him. Laat Sunday's Bee went after Savage In a man ner that must make him feel like 30 cents on circus day. If the, governor has any thing to prove that Rosewater has In any way defrauded tbe state, he la guilty of gross negligence In office In not having him prosecuted. On the other band if ha has not got the evidence, be has made a "damfool" of himself. Columbus Telegram: After the threats made by Governor Savage as to what he would do in the matter of exposing Edward Rosewater, the publlo bad a right to believe that Ezra would fish up something astound ing out of that famous cigar box. But he didn't. Hla promised sensation was no sen sation at all. He simply made an asa of himself and gave Rosewater new opportun ity to hurl his harpoon Into the Savage belly. The result of tho Savage-Rosewater controversy, summed up, does no harm to Rosewater, but firmly establishes Savage In the ranks of the nincompoops. ' Syracuse Journal: The Rosewater-Savage controversy continues. Governor Savage cloaea his last loving epistle with the state ment that when be retiree from official life he will "balance differences fully" with Mr. Roaewater. Tha Bee still lnsista that the governor should open that cigar box ltd and expose the contenta to the public gaze. "Lay on, McDuff, and damned be be who nrat cries hold: enough," about voices the sentiment of the people of the state. There la a large-sized nigger In some body's wood pile, and whether Rosey'a or the governor's, the people want him routed out. Kearney Hub: Governor Savage has re plied to Edward Rosewater's open letter and baa produced a very warm roaat, but that Is all that cn be said of It. Ha re Iterates some charges against tha Omaha editor and makes some new ones, but does not offer any of the proof that he was going to produce, or In other words to flash those cards that be had "up his sleeve." The letter concludes with the statement that he will pay no further at tention to Rosewater, but will attend strictly to' tbe business of hla office, but If further attacked he will find a way to settle all scores after his term as a public official has expired. This may be con strued as a threat, but threats don't go, or It may be a bluff, or It may not mean any thing at all. Grand Island Independent: A week ago yesterday Editor Rosewater made a stren uous denial, and supported It by the evi dence of General McBrlds that be had naver borrowed a dollar of the stats fuuds, aa Governor Ravage had charged. Yester day Governor Savage, through the State Journal Issued another letter, in which be fails to disprove that evidence, but cbarges that Rosewater borrowed from a bank years ago and has failed to pay. Mr. Rosewater announces that he will answer this charge In due time. Governor Savage has so far failed to make any ahowing whatever as to tha man who attempted to bribe bim In the matter of the Omaha Kir and Po lice commissioners, and likewtae as te tb i great sacrsts Us hiaUrlO clr but U said to contain and which ha said he would ex pose. It would perhaps be well for the future of the republican party, were Sav age te close his administration with a cleansing up ot the whole stink, so that It coold be permanently disposed ot and burled beyond reach. St Paul Republican: Whether (he note which Governor Savage holds Is genuine or not, Ita hlatory certainly la not such as to make it a very reliable plero of evidence. It seems that It has been held for years by men who feared an attack from Roaewater as a club to be used in self-defense. It has not been presented for payment and one of the men who held It stated that he would not part with It for several times Ita fare value. It la for a small sum, only ir0, and It does not appear probable tbnt such a debt could have been outstanding against a man of Rosewater's prominence for twenty-five years without some effort being made to col lect It. Savage stands self-convicted of an attempt to alienee criticism by threats that this note would be produced, until Roae water gamely called the bluff. Hence the governor Is In a bad hole to start with, hav ing forfeited publlo respect by attempting to bribe a newspaper. He adds no dignity to his position by bringing several foreign matters into the discussion, such aa loans Rosewater negotiated with banks and liti gation in which he has been Involved over their payment. He fails dismally to redeem bis promise of taking the lid off the Bart ley cigar bex, although defied by Rosewater to do so, thus confessing himself to be a bluffer as well aa a bully. Savage has gone the full length In disgracing the office to which he was elevated by a political acci dent. No matter how irregular any of Rose water's transactions may have been, the manner In which this little McBrlde note has been suppressed for years only to be ex posed now as a punishment for legitimate newspaper criticism of official proceedings is contemptible, cowardly and reprehensible. If It Is the most conclusive evidence that can be produced against the man It were better to file it away carefully once more In that "mooted" cigar box, along with the other skeletons of former days. Roscy has shown himself able to take care of himself In a set-to of this nature on former occa sions and we lock for him to come out on top this time. If he neglects not only to clear himself of any wrong doing but falls to reach a vulnerable point In Ezra's ele phantine hide we stall be convinced that the old man's hand has lost its cunning and that hla brain no longer perforata Its ac customed work. ROI'ND ABOUT NEW YOBK. Hippies on the Current of Life la the Metropolis. A great many boys are fairly happy and manage to thrive If, they are favored with pocket money for Fourth of July and Chrlst nas time. Still others require and secure all kinds of money at any old time. It all de pends on the size of the family purse or whether tho youth was born with a golden spoon or none at all. Francis Marlon Whaley la a New York kid of 14, unusually advanced, physically and mentally, for hla years, being six feet toll "d In HrrM' preparatory school. A fortune of $500,000 is held in trust for him. For some time past his allowance has been $7,000 a year, but It was Insufficient to meet his wanta and the courts advanced hia stipend to $10, 000 a year. Beside he was allowed to blow $100 for a watch and $350 for a horse. Mr. Whaley knows a good thing and is not slow In pushing It. The real estate men of New York an nounce a surprising state of things, and that Is a scarcity of tbe very best apart ments for families of large means. Nothing could more thoroughly show the recent In creaae In a certain class of population than this statement of fact. The formation of so many great combina tions with their headquarters In New York has called here a large number ot rich men and others who are ,ln possession of big salaries. Many of these men are not ready to buy homes, while some, like Mr. Schwab, must wait to build. As a result, apart ments that rent up into the thousands are in demand. One Immense building on the upper West Side, containing over fifty apartments and occupying one frontage of an entire block, disposed of three-quarters of Its space on lease long before the building was com pleted. It has, you may be sure, all the usual modern luxuries and has also in addi tion a large automobile storage and charg ing room In the basement - Tbe landlord does his share ot charging on the rent. When one enters the station at Oyster Bay, relates the New York Sun, he always notices the old hack and Ita veteran driver, "Jake White." The rig la an old, dilapidated surrey which even J. Plerpont Morgan or any other great man couldn't buy. The owner of the ancient vehicle has con stituted himself President Roosevelt's "backman." For the past forty years Oyster Bay haa known these two almost Inseparable fig ures. They are the first objects that meet the eye of the visitor upon arriving at the bay and the laat things aeen on departing. And this veteran jehu's vehicle la the one always chosen by the president to take him to Sagamore Hill when bta own pri vate carriage falls to meet him. A story is now going tbe rounds of how a self-sufficient city chap, Ignorant of "Jake's" local Importance, ventured to criticise bis rig and as it turned out to bis ultimate discomfort. When ' he entered the carriage and was about to be seated, he jumped up and ex claimed in a dleguated tone: "Say, old man, do you ever dust this ark?" Jake grew very angry, jumped up and pointed Impressively to the dusty seat. "Do you see that air seat?" he asked. "Well, you feller, the president of these United States haa sot dah time and time again. "Seems to me If It's good enough for him It might be good enough for sich as you. "Then be jumps in back there an' aays to me: " 'Jake, day ain't no one ran drive a back like you. Just take roe up the hill.' "An' be don't call It an ark, neither, but whan he gets up dah he says to me: , "'How much Is It, Jake?"' "Of course I allers say 'one and a half, Mr. President.' " 'That's not near enough,' saya ha. 'You'll never get rich, Jake,' and be allers gives me a $1 bill. "By the wa7 It'll cost you $' to ride around tbe corner in the president's back." Miranda, a timorous splnsier. who has reached a "certain age," has neither broth ers nor beaus, reports the Evening Post. In lieu of more capable and competent protection, when she goes abroad In the evening it is under tbe convoy of n messenger boy. She has complained that by some inexplicable law or chance, when ever the haa flowers or notes to be de livered, her call la invariably answered by husky youths strong enough !o handle a trunk, but when she desire an escort or some one to carry a heavy bag to the rail road station a tiny scrap of an nrchia pre sents himself at her door. Returning from a theater one algbt ula week with a diminutive specimen, the was compelled to stand no a street corner wait ing for a rar. The hour waa Ule, and Miranda ass aervwus aud bail afraid. Sou said as much. Her hired champion rM sured her: "It's all right, lady. Nobody over speaks to anybody when anybody sees anybody Is with a messenger boy." Official statistics of school registration et Greater New York, given out by the Board of Education, ahow $.14,000 pupils in Man hattan, 162,000 in Rrooklyn and $0,000 Is Bronx, a total of 432.000 In three of thi five boroughs of the city. Thla Is an In crease of 3,000 over laat year. The num ber of children on part time, a coadltloa dun to overcrowding, la g'ven as $0,000. as Increase of 16,000 over last year. Th number actually refused admission Is, however, very small. The number ad mitted to halt day classes is, however, M Urge aa to constitute a very grave cause ol public distress. rEltSOSAI. NOTK9. General Coxey of ragged army fame Is no longer chasing the octopus; he la busy tratntng one, A Massachusetts man sent the king ot England some verses on appendicitis, and the king has sent him a letter of thanks for them. That Is carrying kindness too far. Hon. John D Henderson of New York will deliver the address at tho dedication of tbe Thirty-fourth New York regiment mon ument on the Antletam battlefield on Sep tember 1". Captain James R. Mulllns of Detroit makes a good living capturing sea lions. He gets most of thern on the coast ot Mex ico and Southern California. He haa just returned from Europe, where be disposed ot forty. A recently published pamphlet recalls the old dispute of two friends as to whether the word "news" was singular or plural. They telegraphed to Mr. Greeley the question: "Are there any news?" and he promptly flashed back the answer: "Not a new." Captain John R. M. Taylor, Fourteenth In fantry, now attached to the bureau of In sular affairs of the War department, baa been detailed to writ the military history of the United Statea for the last six yeara. Including an account of the Cuban insurrec tion ot 189$. A man In public lite noted for his brusque ness of speech waa under informal discus sion in cabinet circles. "There's one thing to be said in his favor, however," said Sec retary Wilson, "and that is he never Im portunes the department to get promotlona or positions for hU friends." "That's read ily explained," commented Secretary Root, "He hasn't any." After his retirement from tbe post of am bassador at Berlin Andrew D. White will settle in Ithaca, N. Y. He is now at work on a book of reminiscences at Berlin In 1879-81, as minister at St. Petersburg In 1892-94 and as ambassador to Germany from 1897 to his retirement in November next. He Is also at work on a volume describing the new Germany of the last decade, which has grown from an agricultural to a big industrial power. His personal remin iscences will also contain much interesting biographical and anecdotal material relat ing to Mr. White's pereone! relation w! Emporor William. Hlackbnrn'a finld Brick. South Omaha Independent. Tho mercerized goode so popular with the fastidious woman of today should not be confounded with the Imitation that Tout Blackburn Is trying to make popular with tho voters of the Second congressional dis trict. I.AI'GHING OA. Detroit Free Press: "You. said he. was professional musician?' ,, .h.f "Oh, no! 1 endeavored to Intimate that he prolessea to oe a mumcmn. Yonkere Herald: Brown-I understand the German emperor says he will nevet cor,, eent to hi son entering into a morganatlo "jaoneaslreat Scott, man! Has Morgan got a corner on royal engagements, too; Philadelphia Press: "These shoes," she said, with unusual candor for a woman, "lire Rwfully tight." No woncler, p he replied gallantly. ' If I were in their place I'd be intoxicated, too. Chicago Tribune: "The kind of work you have been doing lately." said the doctor, severely, "threatens to overtax your heart. To overtax it?" grinned the professor. "Well, I suppose you II 'tlx It for me lor a little money, won't you?" Washington Star: "So you regard trusds as positively beneficial?" , "1 do," answered Senator Sorghum, ' I speak with positive knowledge on the sub ject. They have benefited me Immensely. Baltimore American; "Have you any articles of value with you?" asked the cus toms Inspector. "Nothing," answered the returning traveler, "except a wealthy grass widow, whom I expect to marry as soon aa I land. "Well," mused the Inspector, rubbing his chin thoughtfully, "I guess you can taka her through. Seems to me she will coma under the classification of baled hay, and that Is free." Detroit Free Press: "You believe in rhort engagements, don't you. ilearV" aaked the happy and accepted lover. "Short engagements have always been, my rule, darling," replied she. And even then he did not seem nappy. Chicago Posti "Alas, alas," he cried, "it only my three girls had been boys." In truth, he was in sore trouble, with three young men thrumming three banjoa and sinking three different love songs under three windows at one and the same ''Trnlght as well be a victim of Insomnia," he wailed. Pl.OWBOY OK THE WESI. Charles M. Harger in Leslie s Weekly. Across far-reaching, level fields 'Neuil: early autumn s sun. Changing a stubble of gold to brown. The plow boy's course Is run. Chocolate ribbons of earth behind, Long miles of lull before; WhtstlliiK to rival the morn's clear call Of larks that skyward soar; Panting lit noontide's fervid heat) Facing the evening freeze Every round of his shining share Means more than the plowboy aces. Beyond the greening days to come, Heynnd the rippling wheat. Fair harvi s of a world's delight . Walt on n sturdy faut. Bread and rest and happiness, Fond aspirations guinea, Comforts sweet ana trranres dear By longing hands attained AH these, and more, are the wendreu gifts That roll from the shining share ' In ribbons brown where the plowboy toll O'er the reaching acres bare. RepairsHair Nature always tries to repair damaged hair. Some times she succeeds, very often she doesn't. She needs a little help AyerV Hair Vigor. It repairs the hair, touches it up, gives it new life, brings back the old dark, color, and makes It soft and glossy. Cures dandruff, too. "I used only one sortie- of AVer's Hiir Vigor and ii complete ly stopped rtiv hair from f.1i:iif out."-- Mrs. C. l.easenfe'd, Nc- Vo"t City. Uiaraniaia. J. C aVEJt CO Uveli. ataaa
