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1(9 TITE OMATIA DATIiY BEE: SUNT) AY, SEPTJTMH.KIt 1, 100Z. Tie Omaiia Sunday Be& E. ROdEWATER. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUHSCKII'TION. pally Bee (without ouii-a), onj ear..Hi Jjaliy Bee anu Sunnay, One ltar U" Illustrated e, on tear bunday Bee, One :ar "W baturaay Bee, one xr Twentieth Century fanner, One V ear. . .i.tv DELIVERED BY CArtrtie-H. Pally Bee (without Sunday, per copy.... ic Uetly Bee (wilnout ttunilayj, prr ..lie Jjally Bee (including HulKiay), per Week.. lie bunnay B e, per i uy tie Kvenlng Bee twiinoiit Hunuuyl. per weeK Ik: Kvenlng Bee (including bunduyj, per week 10c Complaint of Irregularities In delivery Mould be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Buiiuing. South Omahn-CUy Hall Building, Twsn-ty-tltth and M Btreeis. Council BlulTs-u t'earl 8treet. Chicago ltxto Unity Building. New ifork 23:' Turk Row Building. Washington 6ul Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new a and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha bee. Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Buslnest, letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com pany, Omaiia. REMITTANCES. Remit by drail, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only il-oent stamps acxept-a In payment of mail account. Personal chei-kH, except on Omaha or eastern exchangee, not accepted. X11U BEU PUBLldHlNti COMPAN X. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Etate of Nebraska, Douglas County, sal Oeorge B. Taschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, cays that tho actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the mouth of August, Muz, waa as follows: 1 a,Tt 16 ilM.tMW t iij,T70 it jm.buio t its,uits is ai.Hi 4 2O..U10 111 a,T7tl t KH.UtiO 20 J0.30 t 8S,7UU U8.7UO a an,7Bo JCS.WJO 10 u,7ro 11 8S.TSO 12 N,730 13 S8,t:iO 14 litt,U2 It Kts,7UO 21 80. IUO 22 it!,U0O 23 30,5 1 24 28, ":tf5 26 o,;:(o 26 ai,too 27 ao,3 ts ao.utin 29 SHI.WTU HO 80,110 1 21MK0 Total D0H.44O Im unsold and returned copies.... u,sT7 Net total tales. MOti.DH.I as.oai Net dally average. GEO. B. TZ9CHUOK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of September. A. D. 1D02. M. B. HliNGATC. (Seat) Notary Publlo. In the music of the cornslieller will be found the popular ulr for Nebraska. rrcstiuiulily tho annual stuuslilDg of "the machine" has agulu boon duly effected. Anil society at Newtjort goes rlsht along as oblivious us If It never read u uewspaper. ', No one seems to have suggested to (Speaker Henderson and his constituents to arbitrate their differences. An effort is on to get Coin Harvey and General Coxey together in Arkansas 'and the effort is universally endorsed. . ! Already tho friends of ex-Governor Boles are planning a presidential boom for him. This is a little sooner than was expected, but it was sure to come. With tho colleges and universities I again open for business at full blast, the problem what to do with the young man has at least temporary solution. Manufacturers of fine paper are tak ing steps to tighten up their trust. The demand for new bonds, stocks, de bentures, etc., has doubtless encouraged them. Although those new McKlnley postal cards have not yet been called in, they ought to be. A more ungainly product of postal art was never Inflicted on the public. President Roosevelt says be believes emphatically In organized labor. That is another reason why the great corpora tions do not believe implicitly in Presi dent Roosevelt Not only is the cost of living higher than in democratic days, but living itself is higher a fact not mentioned in the democratic campaign book, but none the less appreciated by the American people. No tariff tinkering is needed to re form the bicycle trust. Although or ganized only two years ago, the mills of the gods have already ground it up Ivery fine, and a receiver has been ap pointed to do the rest. Colonel Bryan had hardly got out of Missouri before Senator Cockrell, in language similar to that of ex-Governor Boles, characterized free silver as "a dead issue." If this sort of thing goes CU the Commoner will have to keep Its epithets standing In type. The building rule In Loudon is that no Structure shall rise above the pavement higher than the street In front of It Is wide. Skyscraper tower buildings are therefore unknown in lxindou. A bulldlug rule like this lu our American cities would, we believe, be useful with out imposing any uudue restriction on proiierty owners. It will not hurt legitimate business seriously if some of the speculative bub bles Wall street has been blowing should burst Such fakes are really det rimental to the legitimate evneerns of business. If some of the Inflated specu lative enterprises should now collapse It will prevent more people from putting their good money Into them. Attention of readers Is called to the advertising columns of this number of The lice, which eoutulu announcements of a more than usuul number of repre sentative business houses and proprie tary articles. The pressure upou our advertising space affords best evi dence of the high standing of The Bee as a medium of publicity, and lu turn we can testify to the reputsblu and responsible character of our advertising patrons. Read the udveitlaemeuU it jvlli pa J'OU. , x ti MKPItH RMXOMINATIOX. The silled corporations have lrnuizbt alKut the renoinlnHlion of Iavld II. Mercer for congress for a sixth term throuzU the mat lilnery of the reiuilillcan patty. It Is au open secret that the triumph of Mercer In the primaries was accomplished by the coercion of repub lican wage workers by the railroads and by employers who depend uiou the railroads for forbidden favors, as well as the lavlHh use of a large corruption fund and hundreds of perjured affidavits Issued promiscuously flow the city cleik's office. A nomination secured by such meth ods would not be binding, even If Mer cer had not forfeited the support of honest Hiid self-respecting republicans by his Indefensible treachery to the party two years ago when the supreme struggle involved the election of two United .States senators. With full com pit hensioii of all the conseijuences, Mercer tirst eouuteuunced and encour aged an organized effort to kuii'e and de feat the republican legislative ticket In Douglas county, which, if success ful, would have sent two democrat from Nebraska to the United States senate, and when the legislature was in session deserted his seat In congress to importune republican members to vio late their pledges to the people and their obligations to the party to adjourn without electing any senators unless he was one of them. To ask the republicans of this district te condone and reward such disloyalty by a re-election caps the climax of audacity. Conceding Mercer's efficiency as an npp. 'oprioUuu lotrroller and legislative tiuder.The Bee cunnot and will not stultify itself' by recommending Uni to tint republicans of this district Mr. Mercer hits long since forfeited his right to represent this district by ceas ing to reside here. Although elected and re-elected for live successive terms, he has taken no other Interest In the re publican party of Nebraska and repub lican candidates of city uud county than the periodic effort he was obliged to ninke to retain his own Beat in con gross. His defensive and offensive alii uuce with the railroad corporations makes hiiu simply the candidate of those corporations rather than of the repub lican partv, and tho stolen republican label gives him no claim upon the sup- lsjrt of auy self-respecting republican. PATIKO 1UF, PENALTY. Some of the combinations that were overcapitalized and were organized ; without much regard to sound economic principles have recently been paying the penalty, suggesting that drastic experi ences may be in store for others of like character. The bicycle corporation made a great error when it was organ ized and is now paying the penalty. A tobacco trust organized in defiance of sound economic law Is experiencing the consequence of admitting an evil of the kind into its primary organization. It is bankrupt and a few days ago a re ceiver was applied for. Not long ago promoters established what was culled a bread trust claiming that it had ma chinery which would accomplish better things In the way of bread making than the most powerful and thorough knead ing by human energy hud ever done. Its promoters overcapitalized it and when it was found thut the corporation could not command the whole or even any great share of the market, tho so called trust went to pieces. Many other Instances could be cited of corporations, organized on the trust plan, that have collapsed because they violated sound economic principles, and undoubtedly there are more to come. Combinations that are greatly over capitalized and which otherwise violate Immutable financial and commercial laws may go on for a time with appar ent success and prosperity, but inevi tably those laws sooner or later assert themselves and the organization that disregards or defies them pays the penalty. The experience already hud should at leant serve the purpose of warning the public against investing in the securities of corporations that are known to .be overcapitalized, or as to the organization of which there is not full and satlaiaclory information. me ROUMANIAN AOTf. The appeal of our government to the European powers for Just and humano treatment of the Jews lu Roumania is not without precedent. As stated in the note, the United States in 187 J re monstrated against the persecution of the Jews under Turkish rule, a condi tion which the Berlin treaty of 1878 was expected to remedy and to an ex tent did remedy. Ten years ago Presi dent Harrison drew the attention of the Russian government to the effect on our immigration of the persecution of the Jews lu Ruhbia, it being then pointed out that auy internal policy which drove subjects abroad necessarily af fected the countries these subjects sought, however little desire the land receiving these lmmiiiunts might have to interfere in the domestic affairs of another sovereignty. . Ihe note or Secretary Hay takes a like position in regard to the persecu tion of the Jews in Roumania, ex. pressed in somewhat stronger and more direct terms. This appeal of our gov erMuent which is in the interest of humanity, will be very generally ap proved by Americans. The facts in regard to the persecution of the Roumanian Jews show a most cruel and Inhuman state of affairs. It is in the power of the European governments that are pottles to the Berlin treaty, which gave Independence to Roumuulu, to put au entt to the deplorable situation by requiring the Roumaulau government to respect the provision of the treaty which says that the "difference of reli gious creeds and confessions shall not be alleged against any pcrsou" with refer ence to civil and political rights," aud there is reason to hope thut the ap-ul of the Uulted States will Induce them to take the neeeassry steps to have this treaty provision regarded. . It is not the policy of this government to Interfere in European affairs, btif its light In this Instance to remonstrate is strongly set forth by Secretary Hay. After reciting the treatment to which the Jews are subjected by the Rouman ian government the note says: "Whether cousclously and of purpose or not, these helpless people, spurned by their native laud, are forced by the sovereign power of Itoumania upon the charity of the United States. This government cannot lie u tacit party to such an International wrong. It Is constrained to protest against the treatment to which the Jews of RoumaniA are subjected, not alone because it has unimpeachable ground to remonstrate against the re sultant iujury to Itself, but in the name of humanity." The European response to this appeal will be aw ated with much interest and there can be no doubt that It will at least recognize the sincerity and the justice of its purpose. UAILHOAU TAXATION A CAMPAMA The people of Nebraska who hud looked to the supreme court for relief from rullroud tax shirking have reason to feel sadly disappointed over the re fusal of thut tribunal to issue its man date to conitiel the reassessment of the railroad property by the state board. To men not yersed in legal hair splitting the conclusions of the court are unin telligible and inexplicable. In grunting the prayer of the Omaha Real Estate exchange to compel the Board of Equalization to reassess the properties of the local frauchised cor porations on the basis of their value measured by the market price of their stocks and bonds and proportionate to the assessment ratio of other taxable city property, tho court established a precedent in line with decisions rendered by supreme courts of other states and by the United states supreme court It was natural to presume that the priucl pies laid down in the decision in the Uniuha tax cuses would apply in all es sential respects to the railroad tax case instituted by the editor of The Bee. How the same court could consistently hold against the Umaha street railway and Omaha water, gas and electric light ing companies in the month of April and hold lu favor of the railroads in a case Involving identically the same issue in September is a mystery we confess we cannot fathom. In the Omaha tax case the court over ruled the findings of a referee who had taken testimony on the facts. In the railroad tax case the judges of the su preme court heard the testimony In pep son, but Ignored it although in the higher court of public opinion that tes timony conclusively established the fact thut the rullroud franchises had not been assessed and that even the tangible property of the railroads had been grossly undervalued. " Two of the three members of the state board admitted on the stand that they had made no effort co appraise the road way, improvements or rolling stock separately or that they had made any rational inquiry into the value of these assets or sought to arrive at any ra tlonal basis of assessment by the earn lugs of each system, as is done in every other state. They admitted that they arrived at their conclusion concerning the value of the roads by the assess ments of previous years and utterly regardless of tho new improvements, additions to rolling stock and enormous Increase in earnings and market value of their securities. Evep If the tangi ble property had been assessed cor rectly, the admission of Auditor Weston and Treasurer Stuefer thut they did not attempt to assess franchises beca-use they believed they, had no legal light to do so Is brushed aside in the ruling of the court which says in so many words that in its judgment the members of the boardr did assess the franchises, although they did not know they were assessing them and thought they had no right to do so, and made no effort to ascertain what the franchises were worth. Advocates and friends of tax reform will not be content to drop the issue be cause the court has refused to come to their assistance. The taxpuylug citi zens of Nebraska will not tamely submit to in Uu ted tax rates on their properly for the benefit of the railroads, whose property is assessed this year at $V 5lX,000, when it should by rights be as sessed at uiofe than o0,00U,000 and was assessed at nearly $30,000,000 ten years ago with a mileage 000 miles less than now. Having relegated the whole question of railroad taxation to the people, the issue must be met squarely at the bal lot box, not on party lines but on broud lines of justice and equity. AUKRICAS HAVAL POSITION. American pride In our navy will not be affected by the official stutemeut that It ranks fifth in the number of ships, though doubtless much stronger lu the mutter of efficiency. Great Britain is still mistress of the seas, France is a poor second and Germany aud Russia are about on even terms. The United States is behind these na tions in naval strength, but a com parison of work being done shows that this nation will be at least on even terms with Oermany and Russia six years hence. All the naval powers are energetically adding to their sea power and in this we are not much behind any other country. What appears to be the greatest need of the American navy is more officers. This matter, manifestly of great lui portauce, is discussed In a magazine article by Lieutenant Commander Smith, who points out (hut even with the iucrease in the uumber of midship men at Annapolis due to conferring ap pointments ou senators, the naval academy does not annually graduate enough men to make good the natural decrease lu the commissioned ranks of the service. lie suggests a large in crease in the number of midshipmen, for the increase of appointments due to the larger membership of the house of rep resentatives, which does not go into effect until next year, will, with five additional allowed the president, carry the Annapolis battalion tip to only 405, reckoning the contributions of the sens tors. Commander Smith would have for ten years every senator and repre sentative make an appointment to An napolis every year or even oftener, in stead of as now every four years. Such a system would mean a battalion at the Naval academy of about 2.000, but Com mander Smith can see no other way of providing the more than 3,000 graduates the navy will need In the next eleven years, assuming that merely the present rate of Increase in ships Is maintained. Commander Smith considers the prob lem of officers as far more serious than the question of men. The latter may be secured at short notice, If It be Im possible to secure them otherwise, and they may be sent to sea with a minimum of training, but It takes time to make a capable officer. The remedy for the situation pointed out by Comma uder Smith must of course come from con gress and that liody has been slow to li'iiiu that ships alone do not make a navy. The attention of congress has been repeatedly called to the need of making provision for an adequate num ber of officers aud meu. This was urged by President Roosevelt in his first message, which said: "To provide battleships and cruisers and then lay them up, with the expectation of leaving them unmanned until they are needed in actual war, would be worse than folly; It would be a crime against the nation." He stated that 4,000 adul- tional seamen aud 1,000 additional mur ines should be provided, uud an increase in the officers should be provided by making a large addition to the classes at Annapolis. let congress but par tially met this recommendation. Per haps It will make the needed provision at the next session. IMC BOARD OF THAD OKCiSIOX The decision of the Illinois district court In the Chicago Board of Trade case, wherein It is held that neither that body nor any other set of arbitrators representing it can fix a settliug price In speculative operations materially above the legitimate figure, strikes a blow at schemes for running speculative "cor ners." If the decision shall be upheld by the supreme court, It will be prac tically impossible to squeeze the losing side In such operations as has been the immemorial practice. There has been all the time abundant remedy at law against such arbitrary confiscations, If the subject could have been got Into the courts, but the Board of Trade, which is an exclusive and close corporation, bus heretofore contrived to cut its members off from legal remedy. By an elaborate and cunning system of regulations, ruthlessly enforced, the victims of cor ners who were Injured aud undertook to protest were cut off from the priv ileges of the board. The lower court at one stroke goes to the heart of the question by declaring that such regula tions, although they may be buttressed by contracts, are against public policy, It holds that the only basis of settle ments which such an organization as the Board of Trade may lawfully enforce is the normal value of grain or other sub Ject of speculation as indicated by the various markets of the country, the fair average level of prices, and not the artificial price arbitrarily dictated by overreaching and unscrupulous specu tutors in a local market such a price, in short as a court of luw would sanction in a dispute submitted to its adjudl cation. The decision is sweeping and far-reaching. . if nothing more were involved than the wrangles of two sets of mere gambling Board of Trade oper ators, there would be less occasion for public interest in the case, but many of tiie recurrent corners involve operations of gigantic magnitude and profoundly disturb general business. If the props are to be effectually knocked from undor the fictitious superstructure which the Chicago Board of Trade has built up, a lou btep will be taken toward keeping the operations of the general business public within normal bounds aud on a healthy toundutiou. But It will ma teriully reuuee the sphere and the profits of the Board of Trade clique and will be resisted uy them to the uttermost The necessity for an elastic currency Is not to be compared with the necessity for au elastic banquet table to accom modate the lengthening list of guests for the dinner to be tendered 1 'resident vclt by Ak-Sar-Beu. Utah Moor ot ltHTA. St. Louis Globe-Democrat Anetber year of unexampled prosperity is faat drawing to a close, i The only things that have not soored distinct suooesses are luu airauios aud tue strike conferences. Hkna late Shu Flnoauss. i Phllatlolphla Record. The mine owners declare that they are certain to win, and with equal emphasis the striking miners assert that their winning is Just as certain, la this conflict of opinion nothing ia more certain than that the con suming public has been tho loser from the outs tart. "Trath Straaaer 1'haa Klelios." Chicago Chronicle. The Ingenious Mr. Zola has written many stories dealing with the secret life some times led by eminent respectability, but be has never portrayed anything mors strange and shocking than the spectacle of a man ot advanced years, a man of eminence, tb Inheritor ot a great name, the recipient of trust and honor at the hands of his coun try, slain In a low saloon quarrel over woman. Imagination never has been able to rival the queer turn of facts. Choice f Life toaltloae. Boston Qlobe. Mas O'Rell. who has been asking ques tlons of everyone he meets, re-ports that be has found an enormous majority of women whfr would elect to be men and only a very small minority of men who would elect to be women. Conclusion: Mm reople would elect to be men. He adds however: "I would elect to be a beautiful woman from 20 to 30, a brilliant officer from SO to 40, a celebrated painter from 40 to 60, a famous poet or novelist from 60 to tO. prime minister of England or presl dent of the L'Bitarf Btalee from 64 to 70 and a cardinal for the rest ot my life Who wouldn't! . . HI.AftTS FROM HAM'S HORM. Fashion may hide the scars, but tt cannot heal the disease of sin. The wolves always applaud whea the shepherd whips the ahep. Whea preacher tries to be pops bs is more dangerous than the priest. A man's thinking powers will be ia in verse ratio to hla drinking powers. The delights of heaven nay be fashioned out of the disappointments of earth. They who will not be their brothers' keepers are willing to be their executors. The men who skim the milk of human kindness curdle the cream with their hands. It Is easier to be eloquent over the faults ot others than to be penitent over our own. The devil is willing that you should be called the driver so long as he holds the reins. The warmth of the winter's revival does not depend on the frigidity of the summer church. One difference between the true preacher and the talking machine is that the lat ter can be purchasd. It is safer to trust your eyes than your ears when a man argues religion while his wife carries In the water. I'KHSOSiAl, A.D OTtlEHWISU. President Baer of tbr coal combine reso lutely refuses to Join a "Don't Worry club. Colonel Watterson would never do as a reporter of Newport functions. He talks too much. Truly the people of St. Louis are entitled to large gobs of sympathy. Besides being looted at the city hall they have been given handout of painted ssusae. After solemnly deliberating for several months tho naval medical board intimates thai Captain Hobsen Is not sick enough to quit the navy and enter politics. High class music is not as popular with Us backers In Chicago since they were obliged to go down into their jeans for $30,000 to make up the last season's deficit. President Koosevelt s pump handle mo tion was not seriously disarranged by shak ing the digits of 8,000 neighbors. This puts him In prime condition for the western Shake, pard." J. Pierpont Morgan gave $1 to a newsboy the other day and the Incident was con sidered worthy of a spneiat dispatch. Per haps the incident is an incipient symptom of heart enlargement. Hustling women of a Michigan town got busy one day rccertly. They built a mile of sidewalk, cut all the weeds and tidied up the alleys. While all this waa going j on the men folks kept In the shade and looked wise. A Sioux City woman asks for a divorce on the ground that her husband wears the same shirt three weeks and goes to bed with his socks on The shirt proposition Is a pretty strong one in itself. As to the socks the most humane of men are often obliged to protect themselves against coid feet. Sentiment and romance take wings when the cold pedal Is worked on neigh boring shins. Another telephone girl has won a prize In the matrimonial lottery, this time at Muscatine, Ia. The prlze.ls a rich banker. who was so charmed by the musical voice, the merry laughs which tickled his ear, that he sought out and' won the owner. Bachelor bankers are very susceptible to sweet telephone voices which reach recep tive ears In tones entrancing. This is no tably true ot Omaha telephone voices. The only reason they do not win a like prize is that Omaha's bachelor bankers are tin able to choose one flower from the bunch. vo5r balanced are their vocal charms. INFANTS IN SCHOOL. Protest Aaatnst Forced Mental Ef. forts In Primary Grades. Philadelphia Record. A superintendent of schools Is quoted to the effect that four hours In school a day la enough for children 6 years of age and un der. Four hours a day In school Is a great deal more than Is good for children of that age. In the primary departments of (he publlo schools the Instruction Is not alter the manner, of the kindergartens. "ine children are required to make a distinct mental effort in circumstances which are unfavorable to their mental growth. Dln- clDline even in the primary department con tlnues to be a fetich, and the Ideal teacner Is one who can prevent the restless little ones from moving in their seats, whisper ing and allowing their attention to wander. A child ot 6 is still a good deal oi an in fant, and has the Infant's impatience ot restraint. Even when the primary pupil is Inter ested in the Instruction (which is rarely the case In the public schools) four hours of confinement, including the brie! and too infrequent recesses, is enough to dwarf it intellect. When it la necessary to force Its attention to the lessons, which are forbidden In the manner of teaching, the four-hour session is equal to eight boors of severe mental application by an adult. That is, it is exnausung. rersons who have made a stuay oi cunarai ieu w i Idea that their tender crams are ui served by very brief perioas ot mnrucno. with Ions intervals ot piay. ids little brain Is usually busy enough in acquiring the education of circumstances or in ap- nroDrlating the Information which it meets In Its every waking moment. Many of the children of ( years are sent to school slm- nly to be 'got rid of snd since the state permits this the teacher would best servs humanity by assuming the rols of nurse rather than that of a teacher oi certain aerloua studies. Kunerintendent Skinner of New Tora state, has affirmed that the young sre con stantly overtaxed in the schools, and that the uaual course of study is enough to ac count for the cases of ill health and of mental debility. It is the declaration or Prof. Bain, who speaks with authority snd after practical experiment, that every minute spent In study beyond a certain limit is worse than wasted; that for a time the fresh brain is In a receptive mndltlon. but when the child ceases to take a lively pleasure In study it is mis chievous to sttempt to teach It further. Superintendent Skinner has said that much of what is included in the present exacting courses of study "Is In no wsy essential to a thorough groundwork tor a child's education," and that in every grade, from the lowest to the highest, there sre too many studies. It Is espec ially dangerous to the future of mere ba bies of years to force their attention to text book matters and to compel them to silence during four consecutive hours each school day. Unfortunately, the protests of srhool superintendents, which are Ignored by school boards, do not fall into the hands of parents. It is strange that the mem bers of school boards usually believe that the only limit to the acquisition of knowl edge by the child Is the time habit that It can learn things as long as It may be compelled to atudy. Therefore their op position to fewer school hours a day and to further holidays. Every brain worker knows that by frequent rests he can ac complish more than by an uninterrupted aDDllcatlon of his mlod to sny work. It Is only by arousing parents to the dan gers of over-study that the Intelligent teachers can bring s wholeaome influence to bear on the school board. WAKE OK THR NATIVE BOB. Slrwtflpawre er the Dlastalshe Birth Rate la the Vwlte-a fttatee. Boston Transcript The general decline of the birth rate dur ing the last half cestury has often been ! commented uoon. The nhenomenon Is , most noticeable In the case of the peoples that stand highest In the scale ef clvlllra tlon. The perslatence of this tendency Is a matter of grave concern, for It raises the question whether the most highly de- ' reloped nationalities will be able to hold 1 their own against the more rapidly Increas- I lng Inferior stocks. To be sure, the effect of the falling birth rate has been largely offset hitherto by the reduction of the' death rate. But if the ratio of births con tinues to drop a point will be reached sooner or later when the native popula tion In the great civilized states will be come stationary or retrogressive. Indeed, this condition has already arrived In France, as the death rate In that country .. . ,. ,, .. . . ,V . land and the I nlted States It seems to be not far distant. The recent census returns for England show a birth rate of only 31.57 per thou sand, as compared with 28 per thousand thirty years sro. Another noteworthy fact In the population statistics of England h.ts been the decline of Immigration during the last decade. The excess of emigration over immigration amounted to only 70.000 In the ten years, 1890 to 1900, wheress dur ing the preceding decade tt bad been 600. 000. Instead of aVnding large numbers of native Immigrants to other countries Eng land ts now receiving large annual addi tions to Its population from southern and eastern Europe. The birth rate In the- United States la lower than that of England. In 1900, ac cording to the census report on vital sta- tistlcs. it was 27.2 per thousand. This was slightly higher than the rate for 1890. which was 2t.9 The death rate fell mean- while from 19.8 in 1890 to 17.8 In 1900. It should be observed, however, that the fig- j are unduly monopolized and that the All ures for births given In the census returns i clpline to sternly maintained Is not quite are baaed on very imperfect data and are not to be regarded as trustworthy. The actual birth rate In the United States Is doubtless considerably higher than the figure given In the census volume. But, while the birth rate for the country at large has probably not declined during re cent years and the death rate has bees lowered several points, the growth of pop- ulation has been much greater In the for elgn than In the native stock. The census tatlstlcs show that the average annual Increase of population through excess ot births over deaths In the decade, 1890-1900. was 34.5 per thousand for the clsss born of j foreign white parents and only 19.5 per thousand for the class born of native white parents. In the northeasters group ot states the disproportion between the two classes was even more striking; the rate of Increase for the foreign class was 89. and that of the native class 8 8. In the New England states It appears that the native stock Is actually declining. Its death rate exceeding its birth rate by 1.6 per tfcot!- while In the fnrelrn population the .i rate exceeded the death rate by 44.5 per thousand. The situation revealed by these figures Is truly alarming. The old New England stock is rapidly being sup planted by a polyethnlc amalgam ot as sorted foreign elements. It is generally recognized that the cause of the decline of the. .birth rate Is more psychological than physiological that is, It results rather from a growing disinclina tion to raise large families than from sn increasing incapacity for child-bearing on the part of the modern woman. The rise in the standard of living which has taken place during the last , half century has operated to check the growth of population. to an extent never dreamed of by Malthua The lncrea8lng coet of Bupporting a family has developed a high degree ot prudence in regard to the marriage relation. Within reasonable limits this tendency Is a desir able one, but it has been carried too far. Aside from the advance In the standard of living there are other powerful factors that have combined to diminish the birth rate by absorbing the energies of women in various activities outside the home. On the one hand social ambitions and on the other hand intellectual or phllanthroplo in terests fill the lives of many women to such an extent that little strength, time or Inclination la left for the rearing of chil dren. The club movement among w'bmen is undoubtedly responsible In no small meas ure for the diminution In the size of the average family. The "emancipation" ot woman, beneficent as It is In the main, seems to have been somewhat overdone in this country. There is need at the present time of a reaction against the ultra-strenu ous feminine life and a revival of the old fashioned domestio ideal. Cost of Lrvtna. Portland Oregonlan. Hers is a little calculation said to have been made la Commissioner Wright's re port on the eoal strike: "A bill ot gro ceries and provisions which cost $13.12 in 1895 could not be bought la ltoO for less K.n t1R ftS TTia Punnsvlvlnla worklnv maB ,B lg98 WM re,urei to work nine and tnPee.tenths dsys to pay this little grocery b,Ui wn,u ,n im h, nad to work ten and nve-tenthB days to pay the same bill. ,f a part of th, jnformal comments' of tn0 nvortm Here Is Your Chance To get an open canopy or extension top Barry at abso lute cost. We have Columbus Buggy Co., Watertown Car riage Co., Racine Wagon and Carriage Co., Moon Bros, and the best "B" special made. We also have three fine jobs uwed less than one year. We also have three good second hand Concord buggies, one Columbus, one Troy and one Moyer, all full leather tops and bargains. Everything elso in the vehicle list will be cut loose from now on. Bemem ber there is three of the pleasantest months in the year yet for driving to come. Get a carriage now and save money. We have just received a full stock of September records and have always on hand all the leading phonographs and talking machines. We are the leaders in bicycles and headquarters for gasoline, steam and electric automobiles. We carry the largest stock in the middle west in all the above lines. II. E. FREDMOKSOfUStliani Capitol A Omaha. Nebraska. SECVUAR SHOTS AT THE Pt WIT. Chicago Record-Herald: That Oyster Par preacher reemt to be very much In need ot the srrvloes of a blue pencil expert. Brooklyn Eagle: Those who talk of th waning Influence of churches should ponder the fact that In Shamokln the pastor asked for coal and the miners Immediately went to work and put eighteen tone of anthracite in the church cellar. Morgan could do no more. Boston Transcript: Some of the devices resorted to by pastors who wish to increase the attendance at their churches remind one of the story ot the preacher who In a ' similar effort- When, all Ms prayers were said 8 1 Id aentlv down the pulpit stairs And stood upon bis head. Kanssa City Star: Some allowance must be made for Rev. Dr. Waahburn, who made ' such a bad break in the sermon which he delivered yesterdsy at Oyster Bay In the . u OmhmawaI alnn If mav hjk " . .v.l .'. .1Z11.. Z'V.m . ...r-h lapses of discretion they would not be per i . ., petually guilty ot them. Chicago Chronicle: The worshipers ia a church at Auburn, N. T., found It diffi cult to extricate themselves from the newly varnished pews. It is not an uncommon thing. If we may believe the veracious re porters, for people to be glued to their seats by the eloquence of the person ad dressing them, but In the present Instance the controlling cause appears to have been a case of matter rather than of mind. New York Times: That the Salvation army has been and still Uf properly de scribed as a "great institution" and that it has dene and Is still capable of doing a vast amount of practical good will not bo denied, even by those to whom its peculiar form of emotionality is most offensive, but there is a general impression that, however : disinterested its privates and inferior ol- fleers mar be. the highest ranss or tne army have come to be almost as business. like as pious, that both money and glory always exercised for ends wholly admirable, even whea matters of taste are left aside. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. Detroit Free Press: Summer Girl The man 1 marry must be handsome and clever. Summer Man How fortunate we have met. Brooklyn life.: He-I think that In order to make a good husband a man should practice self-donlal. She Yes, but not preach It. Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Yes. she threw away the sugar because one of her guests picked up a lump with her lingers." "Dear me, 1 wonder what she docs with the dour knobs?" Philadelphia Press: "I should be ashamed, said mamma, severely, "to be caught by your own mother kissing a young man." , ,, ... "But It wasn't my fault at all, sobbed ! the culprit, "1 told Willi to hurry, out no IS BO IOW. Chicago News: Me The prettiest girls always marry tho blugest fools, you know. Eho Am I to cont'ier thut in the nature ot a proposal? Philadelphia Record: Gabble I tell you a fellow's got to be mighty brave to be a fireman. , Henpeck Oh, I don't know. The bravest man f ever saw wa an Iceman. Gabble That so? What did he do? Henpeck He sassed my wife. Philadelphia Catholic Standard: Tom How are yoj and Mabel getting along? Dick Oh, I don't see her as much as I did. Tom Really? I heard you wero engaged. Dick That's Just it. The light's turned out In the parlor when I call now. Washington Star: "If you please, ma'am," exclaimed the nusemaid in great excite ment, "I can't keep the baby from going to the scuttle. and trying to eat coal." "Dear me1." exclaimed Mrs. LangulJ. "That child is going to take- after his father for extravagance. Detroit Free Press: "Helen has improved her game wonderfully since she has been playing with Jack." "How do you know?" "Why, she's gotten so now that she plays entirely without a caddie." Chicago Poet: The maiden was more than ordinarily wise and cautious. "But are you sure you can support a wife?" she asked when he proposed. "Oh, well," he answered in an offhand way, "I don't Imagine your father would be mean and stingy enough to stand by and see his daughter suffer." AK-SAR-BEN. (Written for The Bee.) Enthroned In majesty, he sits 'Neath braided corn husk canopy, Serenely munching hom'ny grits. And gently stroking beard of hay. The rich, white blood of Indian maize Majestic coursed through his veins; . Alfalfa crowns the prairie's -bays-Benign and cloudlnsa brow; and strains Of huskers' merry songs vibrate The cool September air and cheer. Ills promise to anticipate. When deigns in state be to appear. Hla countless subjects bow to him. When enters his metropolis Our gracious, well beloved king In loyalty not one remiss. From nation's thief to workingman, All hither haste our king to greet His progress In, 'mid brilliant van Ana following, on Farnam street. The close observer then will note Th tnorrv wlnlc he alves some man. Now right, now left, each knowing goat Interprets: Mv how drv I am. -ALFRED MARSCHNER.
